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Chapter 3 Who Is Connecting

"Have you seen Prince Zhong and live in the attic, your highness is still used to it?"

A young eunuch wearing a dark red round necklace and holding a whisk walked into the bookhouse. When he saw Jiang Zhong, he sang loudly. His expression and manners were not at all respectful, and his words were ridiculed.

Jiang Zhong glanced at the eunuch, recognized his identity, and knew that he was the confidant of the prince of Yutang, named Gao An. Because he relied on the power of the Eastern Palace and the favor of the prince, he was a straitor in the eunuch circle of King Jiang's Palace. When Jiang Zhong was in Tongyu Palace, he was bullied a lot by this guy.

If it was the past, Jiang Zhong would inevitably respond and ask, "What's the matter with Eunuch Gao?" and so on. If there is something, if you can do it now, you can do it now. If you can't do it, you can politely refuse it. In short, try to be kind enough to avoid villains, making trouble behind the scenes, and causing unnecessary trouble.

However, Prince Zhong has now reborn his soul, his vision, mind and talents are completely renewed, and his methods of dealing with things will naturally be different.

Jiang Zhong looked up at a bookshelf, frowned, as if he was pondering an extremely important thing, and ignored Gao An's words.

"Prince Zhong!" Gao An used to seeing Prince Zhong's weak and cautious appearance. At this time, he saw him standing with his hands behind his back, showing a deep thoughtful look. The situation was quite different from the past. He was curious and had to raise his voice and shout again.

Jiang Zhong sighed, shook his head and asked to himself: "Is it true that a villain is like a ghost, and a fox is pretending to be a tiger's power?"

When Gao An heard something in this, his expression changed slightly. He served the prince all year round, how could he not have heard of this short story from "The Strategies of the Warring States"?

"Is Prince Zhong teaching a lesson for his slaves?" Gao An asked coldly, but Jiang Zhong ignored him. He walked into the bookshelf and took a book from it. He smiled and said, "It's this one!"

Gao An's face became more and more unpleasant. He walked to Jiang Zhong and reached out to pull his sleeve, and said loudly: "Prince Zhong, our family is here on the order of the prince to ask you for an important couplet."

Jiang Zhong was living in Chunqiu Pavilion, not knowing that in the Jiang State Hall, his father, Emperor Jiang, was having a banquet for the envoys of the Nine Kingdoms and the Prime Minister of the Eight Kingdoms. He would not know that after half of the banquet, Su Jin actually stood up with a cup and gave a couplet to the civil and military officials of the Jiang State.

"Eunuch Gao?" Jiang Zhong seemed to have just struggled out of the devil's obstacle and suddenly woke up: "What's wrong with you here?"

Gao An had already hated her teeth, but because of the urgent order, she could not have an attack, so she had to say from beginning to end: "Today, Your Majesty held a banquet in the main hall to entertain the envoys of the nine countries. She did not want Su Jin, who was the prime minister of the eight countries, to give His Majesty and all the adults a tricky couple, and promised a stick of incense to make us meet. Now no one can match the situation for a while. His Highness the Crown Prince sent a slave to ask Prince Zhong."

Jiang Zhong lowered his head and flipped through the book in his hand, as if he had not heard Gao An speak.

"Prince Zhong?" Gao An shouted again with a patient attitude.

"You said it's important, but you're so long-winded. After missing the time, you replied that I was deliberately delaying it, right?" Jiang Zhong said coldly without raising his head.

Gao An saw that Prince Zhong in front of him seemed to have changed his personality, and his temperament was close to the second prince who was not as happy and angry as he was shocked and suspicious. He vaguely thought of the rumors about "Awakening of Literary and Cultural Braves". His expression became solemn, and he hurriedly said, "The first couplet from Su Jin was 'Riding a strange horse, Zhang Changgong, zither and pipa, the eight kings and kings were on the top, fighting alone'. After this couplet was released, all the ministers and all the princes were at a loss, leaving the eight envoys and Su Jin satisfied."

As soon as Jiang Zhonggang heard this first couplet, he began to tear it off in his heart. He didn't know if his brain was broken open by the library book. As long as he concentrates on meditation, the words and sentences he wants will jump out clearly. Moreover, Jiang Zhong always has an impression of the main sentence in this couplet.

Therefore, as soon as Gao An finished speaking, Jiang Zhong had already published the second couplet.

Jiang Zhong put the book in his hand aside and asked Gao An: "Can you bring paper and pen?"

Gao Ande said, "Your Highness just say that your servant has a good memory and must remember not to say a word."

Jiang Zhong sneered: "A good memory is not as good as a bad pen. This is a big deal. If you make a mistake, you may insult the national system. Do you think you can afford it?"

When Gao An thought that this was reasonable, he hurriedly said, "Please give it to Prince Zhong."

Jiang Zhong put the book aside, walked to the desk, rolled up his sleeves, and told Gao An: "What are you doing while standing there? Grind the ink."

Gao Anwei was stunned, said "Yes", and reluctantly walked over to grind the ink, muttering in his heart: "I think our family has only grind the ink for the prince. What qualifications do you have to let me grind the ink for you, a down-and-out prince? If it weren't for the prince's order, I wouldn't look at you in the eye."

Although I thought so, I didn't dare to say anything on my face. I carefully grind the ink ingot in my hand with heavy press and light rotation method.

Jiang Zhong reached out and pulled out a bamboo brush and was about to dip ink to write when a woman's voice came from the door: "Is Your Highness Prince Zhong here? I'm asking for a meeting with me."

"Lufu?" Jiang Zhong looked at Gao An and asked.

"Go back to Your Highness, Lu Fu is the maid next to the Third Princess." Gao An responded, his eyes turned, and said again: "She should have come to the court to ask for a couplet on behalf of the prince."

Jiang Zhong nodded and said, "Let her come in."

Gao An said in a clear voice: "Come in!"

Lu Fu walked into the house and saw Gao An who was grinding the ink and Jiang Zhong who was holding a pen in his hand. She immediately understood the meaning of this situation. She first looked at Jiang Zhongfu for a blessed moment, then looked at Gao An with a smile, and said, "Eunuch Gao is here too?"

Gao An smiled and said slowly, "Our family has come to ask Prince Zhong for the couplets in the hall after receiving the order of the prince. I wonder what Miss Lu Fu has to ask the prince for? "

Lu Fu smiled sweetly and said, "Come on, I also came to ask for couplets on the order of my princess. However, since the prince's prince has sent his father-in-law to come first, my princess doesn't have to do this anymore. I will go back and talk. Prince Zhong, I will take my leave."

Jiang Zhong nodded, secretly praising him in his heart, "What a girl who is quick to respond." Although the open and secret struggles among the princes in the palace are becoming increasingly fierce, it would be very unwise to openly challenge the prince.

"Please, Your Highness." Gao An urged him without wanting to cause any more trouble.

Jiang Zhong dipped his pen and dipped it ink, pondered for a while, and wrote the lower couplet on the paper. Fortunately, he had copied the European style copybook before, so the brush calligraphy he wrote was not hindering.

Gao An folded the paper, said, "The slave took his leave", and hurriedly turned around and left. Jiang Zhong did not look up at him, put the brush back to his original place, and continued to find books related to the imperial examination.

Gao An walked straight to the hall with his couplet in his arms. When he returned to the hall, most of the incense had burned, and the atmosphere during the table became more and more serious. Gao An quietly stuffed the paper to the prince while no one was paying attention and whispered in his ear.

At this moment, a tall man with a wide face and a square mouth stood up at the guest seat, bowed to Emperor Jiang, and said, "If you really have no one here, your Majesty might as well invite everyone to come, right?"

As soon as this said, the hall suddenly became an uproar. A grand scholar slapped the table and blew his beard and glared at him, "Su Jin, you a slave of the eight surnames, who thinks you are, and you dare to mention Master Fang with dirty teeth and mouths?"

Master Fang is Fang Xu, one of the three great masters of the human race, Jiang Guozhen Guo Hongru, and also the father-in-law of His Majesty the Demon Clan Xihuang. Now he is in seclusion and does not care about common things.

Su Jin smiled slightly and bowed to sit down. Emperor Jiang Longyan was displeased and said lightly: "A stick of incense has not been burned yet, so Su Qing is too hasty."

As soon as Emperor Jiang finished speaking, Prince Yutang stood up and said loudly: "Father, my son's minister has just obtained a couplet. Please ask my father to be kind to me and I will ask my son's minister to come and answer."

When Emperor Jiang saw that the prince was standing up, he couldn't help but be suspicious. He knew that the prince was a genius of martial arts. When he was ten years old, he condensed a silver martial spirit and shocked the royal city. He then refined his body and gathered his energy for a year. Now he is at the peak of Tongyou and can be meticulous at any time. But he is a literary master...

"Since the prince of Yutang has already had a second couplet, please give him advice," said an envoy.

Emperor Jiang was hesitating, but saw that the prince looked confident and had a jade-hearted look. He knew that someone had already posted this couplet for him and nodded, "Accurate."

Jiang Yutang turned around and faced the envoys of the Nine Kingdoms and Su Jin, sneered, and said, "It's really a laughing moment for mere couplets to alarm Mr. Fang."

Su Jin smiled and said, "Please please."

"Read your first line."

Su Jin said calmly: "Riding a strange horse, hanging a long bow, zither and pipa, the eight kings and kings are on the top, fighting alone."

Jiang Yutang snorted and said, "Talk crazy! Listen carefully, the second couplet I am right is 'Pretty as a human being, attacking the dragon's clothes, demons and monsters, four little ghosts and ghosts attack the edge, hold it together and hold it'!"

When he finally recited the four words "hold with your hands together", Jiang Yutang secretly circulated his true energy, and his tongue was like thunder. All the envoys from the Nine Kingdoms could hear palpitations and their ears were hurting. Even Su Jin, who was blessed with the blessing of the Dacheng Wengui, had a trembling heart and a trembling heart because the couplet was broken.

"Okay! Good! Word by word, no flaw! Su Jin, what else do you have to say?" The Grand Secretary who scolded Su Jin just now applauded, and there was a lot of discussion in the audience, and all the civil and military officials of the Jiang Kingdom were cheering up.

The first couplet of Su and Jin compared the other eight countries except Jiang and Liang to the "Eight Kings", which means very straightforward and arrogant. Jiang Yutang faced the "Four Little Devils" out of the way, and made a powerful counterattack against Su and Jin's provocation, making a loud and powerful response!

Emperor Jiang on the dragon throne showed a look of praise, and the other princes were all happy, but they didn't know what everyone was thinking.

"Crown Prince Gao Cai, huh..." Su Jin was about to admit defeat calmly, but suddenly found something and exclaimed in surprise: "Why don't you see the prince's literary spirit fluctuations? Is there someone else in the couplet?"
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