Chapter 30 Reaction of all parties Chinese New Year playing cards
"Wuji, what do you think of Bai Fan?" Li Shimin summoned Changsun Wuji alone and asked in the Qin Palace.
Changsun Wuji was so smart. Although he didn't know why the King of Qin asked this, he knew something must have happened. He replied with his beard: "Your Highness, this person is not very good at comment. He gives people the feeling that it is strange, as if he is so strange. Although he is only fourteen years old, his wisdom is extraordinary. You will never know what this person's next thought is, because his thinking is too flexible and difficult to figure out! I wonder why Your Highness asked?"
After hearing this silently, Li Shimin sighed and said, "Yesterday, he was alone in Wangjing Tower for a banquet. It is said that the two of them had a great time talking, and they were also attracted to each other as confidants in the cup!"
This! Is there such a thing?
"Maybe Bai Fan doesn't know the other party's identity! With his wisdom, he wouldn't have no idea that it would easily cause trouble for himself!"
Li Shimin looked at Changsun Wuji's eyes, "Don't you really know?"
"It is difficult for the minister to judge, but after all, he has promised to belong to our Qin Prince's Mansion. If he really has two intentions, he will not go in public to make friends with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
Nodding, Li Shimin said, "Well, that's true, but for Bai Fan, we still have to take the exam again. After all, he is a person who appears out of thin air. You probably don't know that his father Bai Da was once the chief guard of Li Yaoshi, and Li Yaoshi's position has never been obvious, so we have to be careful!"
"Yes, the ministers know, and they will send people to pay close attention to Bai Fan's."
Similarly, in the prince's mansion, Li Jiancheng also summoned his confidant adviser Wei Zheng.
"Xuancheng, do you know this person Bai Fan?"
The two sat opposite each other, and Wei Zheng was quite casual and answered: "Well, Bai Fan has been a talented man in Chang'an in recent days. How can the subordinates not know?
Not to mention the three-character classics in the court, the white-style characters that Mr. Yu Shinan wants to treasure, Chang'an has already spread the name of Baima. Some people even commented that Bai Fan can be compared with the Book Saint King Youjun in the future!
Yesterday, in Wangjing Tower, Bai Fan became famous with a poem. The poem "Drunk Immortal" and the unique calligraphy of the world, and the name of the best in poetry and calligraphy is already well-known in Chang'an. I am afraid that it will spread throughout the Tang Dynasty in a short time!
Why did your highness suddenly mention this person? Could it be that he wants to recruit him?
You and I know that Bai Fan was recommended by His Highness the King of Qin. He was nominally recruiting talents for the country, but in fact he was from the King of Qin. It would be difficult for us to recruit him!"
Of course Li Jiancheng knew this, "No, Xuancheng misunderstood! Yesterday, in Wangjing Tower, Gu accidentally met this person and had a great conversation with him, and thought he was a friend in the cup!
During this period, I mentioned the trouble of brothers' misfortune due to property disputes at home, which led to the trouble of fratricide. Do you know how Bai Fan answered?"
"Oh? Did he know your identity? He avoided talking about it?"
"With his talent, maybe he didn't know it at first, but he could definitely guess later, but it wasn't a little broken!
But Qi Qi is here. Since he knew Gu’s identity, he did not avoid it and gave Gu a suggestion for him.”
Wei Zheng said in confusion: "How is this possible? Aren't he afraid of the King of Qin's suspicion? Could it be that he wants to serve Your Highness?"
"Hahahaha! Xuancheng is wrong. Don't make random guesses. This person is smart and has wild ideas. He cannot judge it by ordinary people.
He said that my father left a fortune for us three brothers, and the original intention was to use this wealth to create glory and gain greater wealth, rather than letting us protect the remaining shade of our predecessors and fight to ruin our family business!”
Wei Zheng nodded, "Yes, this is indeed the case. I think if I look at the saints today from the perspective of a father, he would definitely think so! This son is indeed strange, can he explain the dispute over the throne like this?
However, this view is feasible for ordinary people, but it is inappropriate to put it on the battle for the throne. After all, there is only one throne in the world!"
Li Jiancheng said, "Yes, I thought so too, but Bai Fan finally sent me a sentence, and he said, 'What restricts us will always be vision'. I have been thinking hard until today, but I still can't understand this sentence thoroughly. I just think that this sentence is extraordinary. Maybe the height of this sentence has surpassed our vision!"
After listening quietly, Wei Zheng fell into deep thought!
This statement is indeed a high-level theory, and it seems that the idea is extremely clever!
Our vision is that we have experienced the world of competition and are now trapped in internal struggles and party struggles. Does it mean that our vision has become shorter? Or is there a broader world in the world that we need to open up?
In this era when only knowing the East Yi, the South Barbarians, the Western Rong, the Northern Di, and the Central Plains, if you want these ancients to know the vastness of the world, unless Bai Fan takes out a globe, these two people will never understand it. At most, they can think of the glorious hegemony of Emperor Wu of Han, which is the limit!
After learning that Bai Fan was praised as a master of poetry and books, Yu Shinan, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others who knew each other were compliments and kept praising this fourteen-year-old boy, which made the descendants of these people suffer. None of them escaped the claws of being pointed at the nose and educated by the elders!
As time passes day by day, it is already the end of the year, which is the New Year. Since it is late winter, Bai Fan’s new house has not been built yet. According to Fang Xuanling, it will take one month at the earliest!
Bai Fan, an outsider, was heartless. On the first New Year of the Tang Dynasty, he went back to burn paper money in front of his father Bai Da Tomb and worshiped him. After worshiping his ancestors in the Bai Clan Ancestral Hall and giving some money to his neighbors, he kept staying in Laojun Temple. In his words, there is no worries about food and drink here, and the most important thing is warmth!
Several apprentices also went home for the New Year. Bai Fan was bored and thought, how could he have no entertainment during the New Year? Laojun was not busy at all when he was deserted and had to bring joy to this place, so he would make a magic weapon for the New Year - playing cards!
"Junior brother, this card is really extraordinary. Fifty-four cards are numbers of six or nine. Six is yin number nine is yang number, which is deeply in line with the way of yin and yang!
Two aces represent the two poles of yin and yang. The colors are divided into four types, representing the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Each style has thirteen cards, implying the principle of the five elements producing the eight trigrams! How wonderful!
It is just for gambling and entertainment games, but it is a bit inferior. This thing should be of great use!" Yuan Tiangang spoke with twenty cards in his hand.
Bai Fan smiled and said, "Senior brother is very talented, you can see through the mystery at a glance. I admire you! However, in this fashion, senior brother should concentrate on playing cards, otherwise you should pay back the fifty taels of gambling money you owe before!
No matter how much you say, you can't avoid this gambling debt. You have to be a landlord even if you are not lucky enough. You can't win cards and you are not more attentive. I have to say that your brand is not as good as your character!"
Yuan Tiangang's face turned awkwardly, "Seeing what my junior brother said, I know I owe a lot of debts. Isn't this thinking of making a few more money to pay off the gambling debts?"
Li Chunfeng laughed out loud. His master was the kind of addiction that his uncle said was a kind of poor skill, but he had to talk about some fallacies!
"Hmph! I dare to laugh at my master. I will punish you for copying the Tao Te Ching ten times tomorrow. It just so happened that after the beginning of spring, the Taoist temple will accept disciples. I can take out the books you copied over the past year to use!" Yuan Tiangang scolded.
Li Chunfeng's face turned bitter, and it was really a disaster!
Then he remembered something and said in a crying voice: "Master, I have copied about fifty Taoist scriptures in a year, but I suddenly disappeared a few days ago. I don't know who stole it. You always want a book, but my disciple can't take it out!"
There is still such a thing? Yuan Tiangang frowned!
Bai Fan's face turned slightly red, and he said in his heart that it was Wei's hand. If it weren't for the scriptures copied by his junior nephew, where would he go to find good toilet paper? The bamboo toilet chips from the Tang Dynasty would not be used!
Yuan Tiangang had long noticed Bai Fan's abnormality, and he realized it. He coughed slightly, "Since that's the case, then you can copy some more together, don't worry about those, they are all hand-written versions, nothing is precious, it's gone!"
Chapter completed!