Wang Ping'an was also taken aback, how could he reprimand cry so quickly, it turned out to be the one who was introduced. In terms of distance, it was Li Zhi's recital that was sent to Chang'an quickly, and the emperor immediately made a reply, and then asked people to send it back, without even a little delay!

Feeling his scalp numb, Wang Ping'an thought: "This disaster is really shocking, let me be the deputy examiner, this is simply a big joke, the emperor will be furious when he sees the chapter, otherwise how could he have made an approval so quickly." Maybe this matter has already spread in the court, and it will spread to the people. Wait for the people of the next generation, and then give "not self-measured." When this idiom is annotated, it must be written like this: A long, long time ago, there was a man named Wang Ping'an"

Li Zhi's body shook for a while, and he fell on the bed suddenly, shouting: "Lonely headache, lonely headache!" There is no disease, and there is no way to answer the order. It's up to you to pick it up on your behalf! ”

Wang Ping'an is in a hurry, is there any mistake, can someone else do it for such a major matter as receiving the holy decree? Don't say you have a headache, even if you're going to die now, I have to carry you there!

He said: "Your Highness, don't be like this, even if the emperor wants to punish him, he will also punish the ministers, what does it have to do with you, the emperor will not reprimand you, let's go and receive the order together!" ”

Li Zhi rolled around on the bed, and he said: "How can my father punish you, this matter has nothing to do with you, haven't you shirked it several times, didn't you say that everyone else saw it." Then it's none of your business! ”

Suddenly, he stopped rolling and sat up straight again. Said strangely: "No disease, last time my father named you the county uncle, you immediately agreed, and what did you say Thank you Lord Longen, you promised so quickly last time, why did you have to push back this time?" ”

Wang Ping'an grinned, scratched his head, and said: "This, this" people, always have to grow up, the minister didn't know the rules last time, so he agreed quickly, and now he knows, of course, he has to excuse himself again and again! ”

Li Zhi fell on the bed again, and continued to say half-dead: "So, my father will not punish you, but he will punish Gu, and the ministers will also watch jokes and say that Gu likes what is in the cup."

As he was talking, he heard Li Ji shouting outside the door: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the emperor's holy decree has arrived, and it was sent by Chief Shi Da, you hurry up and come out to receive the decree!" ”

Li Zhi sighed, sat up, and said, "It turned out to be sent by a loyal minister, it seems that my father is really angry!" I, I'm in a hurry. He didn't call me alone, so he called me directly.

Wang Ping'an said: "It's better for His Royal Highness to hide in the house, hide for a few days, it is estimated that you can avoid the emperor's punishment, maybe the emperor will forget about this matter!" ”

What he said was sarcastic, the dignified prince, if he did something wrong, he was afraid of his father's punishment, could it be that he was still a child?

Li Zhi didn't hear this sarcasm, and actually said: "How can hiding be a way." How could my father forget such a momentous event! He jumped off the bed, put on his shoes, dressed neatly, waved his hand at Wang Ping'an, and said, "Go, go with Gu to receive the holy decree!" ”

Wang Ping'an thought to himself: "Okay, there is still a little net!" He followed behind and went out of the house with Li Zhi. When Li Ji saw them come out, he hurriedly flashed to the side, revealing Shi Zhongchen behind him. Shi Zhongchen was covered in sweat, but his face was serious, and from the expression on his face, he couldn't guess the content of the holy decree, whether it was good or bad.

Li Zhi came to the patio, knelt down in the direction of Chang'an, and said, "Minister Li Zhi takes the order!" ”

Shi Zhongchen unfolded the holy decree and read it. The holy decree is quite long, and as soon as he hears it, he walks out of Chu Suiliang's hand, and he writes how it is, no matter how difficult it is to understand.

When Li Zhi heard half of it, a smile appeared on his face, and he was not afraid, because this holy decree was all about praising himself and saying how he had vision. How can Wang Ping'an be in the vast sea of people, and how Wang Ping'an is so young and promising, he can be a model for the Tang Dynasty scholars!

It's not to punish me, it's to praise me. Say I'm doing the right thing!

The most crucial words are always left at the end. When Shi Zhongchen read out the last sentence, Li Zhi was overjoyed, he never expected that what he said after he was drunk would be rated as a wise move by the ministers, and he would also want future generations to be politicians. Follow suit!

Wang Ping'an was dumbfounded when he heard this, he knelt next to Li Zhi, his body was stiff, and he couldn't even move! It's impossible, Li Zhi drank too much when he presented the recital, could it be that when the ministers listened to the recital in the court, they all drank too much, and Li Shimin even approved the recital when he was drunk?

I was really made the deputy examiner!

"Chin this!" Shi Zhongchen finished reading the chapter, and then a smile appeared on his face, and said, "His Royal Highness the Prince, don't hurry up and receive the decree!" ”

Li Zhi was even more full of smiles, and said: "Minister Li Zhi, thank you for the order!" "Take the decree. He stood up and said with a smile: "Loyal minister." How could my father agree to let Wang Ping'an be the deputy examiner? ”

Shi Zhongchen said with a smile: "The prince is far-sighted, for the sake of my Tang Dynasty's century-old plan, of course the emperor will support it, how can he not agree!" ”

He looked at Wang Ping'an, and saw that Lord Wang was still kneeling upright, and he didn't even react at all! He hurriedly said: "No disease, it's time to receive thanks!" ”

Wang Ping'an sighed, came back to his senses, and said, "Thank you? But how can the minister be the deputy examiner? This, this, absolutely not! ”

Shi Zhongchen stepped forward and pulled him up, and said with a smile: "Didn't the holy decree say that the prince wants to set an example for future generations, and the emperor agrees very much, so you must set a good example for the scholars of the world, and you must not live up to the emperor and the prince, and have expectations for you!" ”

Wang Ping'an slowly stood up and thought, "Have I become a role model for the world's scholars?" How did I do it, how did I not know it? Chi Xin was at a loss, and he really couldn't say anything!

Shi Zhongchen knew in his heart that no matter who it was. Suddenly suffering such a great glory, or rather a blow, no one can hold back, think about it, it is impossible!

looked at Wang Ping'an, although he was polite. But he has no hair on his mouth, and he is not even twenty years old. How can he be the examiner? Alas, it's really "say you can do it, you can do it, if you don't accept it, you can't accept it!"

Shi Zhongchen turned his head to Li Zhi and said, "Dianping, under your guidance, the big problem of smallpox has been solved, right?" ”

Li Zhi nodded hurriedly. Said: "It's easy to solve, effortlessly!" "When it's time to blow, you have to blow, blowing ash is boring, you have to brag!

Shi Zhongchen said: "That's good, the grand ceremony has been prepared in Beijing, just wait for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to return to Beijing." Let's stay for another day, and we will leave for Beijing the day after tomorrow! ”

Li Zhi sighed and said, "Go back to Beijing so soon!" ”… And Huang is unwilling, he is only drunk, and it doesn't matter if he gets into trouble, as long as his father is there and his uncle is there, everything can be solved for him, and bad things can become good, he doesn't want to go back to Beijing so early, how good it is to stay outside, how free, and play as much as he wants!

Shi Zhongchen said: "The court can't be without the prince for a day, how many political affairs, still waiting for the prince to go back to deal with it!" ”

"Well, then!" Li Zhi reluctantly agreed.

Li Ji brought Shi Zhongchen a house, arranged accommodation for him, and everyone went back to the house to rest.

The next day, the news spread out, the emperor personally appointed Wang Ping'an as the deputy chief examiner, and the scholars were ecstatic and ran to Wang Ping'an to say hello, but Wang Ping'an told them that from today until the end of next year's scientific examination, he will not collect the papers, let alone be anyone's confidant!

But the scholars didn't care at all, they had already "worshiped within the gable wall of the teacher" and became Wang Ping'an's disciples, and they still needed to invest in what papers, what confidants to ask, we are all the disciples of your old man, deputy chief examiner, a family, regardless of each other!

After a busy day, I packed my luggage and just after midnight that night. The crowd immediately went out and left Shek Keng Village. The soldiers raised torches. The burning of the village began. Smallpox patients have been admitted here. Dialectics was carried out again, and although the results were good, they were not promoted to the world. It was still necessary to burn the village, so that no unsuspecting people would come in and be infected with smallpox. Smallpox can only be prevented, but it cannot be cured!

When he left the village, Wang Ping'an glanced back, and the firelight and candlelight illuminated the valley. He lived in this small village for half a summer and half a autumn, and he had some feelings, and now he is leaving, but the small village is going to turn into ashes, and it is inevitable that he will gasp in his heart and sigh with emotion!

Outside the valley, there were already armies waiting, and there were countless carriages, all of which came to pick up the people in the valley, and all those who participated in the dialectic had to enter Beijing to worship the emperor and accept the cheers of the people!

got on the car, all the way to Chang'an, in the middle of the night, the soldiers lit torches, nearly a thousand people, stretched out more than two miles, the long line meandered, like a long dragon, slowly swimming!

They set out in the middle of the night just before dawn. Rushed to a place thirty miles away from Chang'an, it will be a parade for the people of Chang'an to welcome Li Zhi and others back, and the end point is in Chengtianmen, it is estimated that the whole city may celebrate after that, and make it a grand ceremony like the Shangyuan Festival!

The brigade traveled extremely fast, and hurried all the way, although the people in the cart were extremely uncomfortable with the bumps, but there was not half of them. People complain loudly, they all know that the important moment is coming! In one breath, he hurried out for more than sixty miles, and before he arrived at the designated place, in the night, the people who rushed to greet Li Zhi and Wang Ping'an began to gradually increase.

The people, each with torches in their hands, cheered by the roadside, and when the convoy passed, they followed. Let's go to Chang'an City together! There are more and more people. The queue is getting longer and longer, and within ten miles, tens of thousands of people have followed behind the team. The night sky was lit up with torches, and cheers rang out!

The twilight receded, and the fish belly white appeared in the east. The brigade came to a place thirty miles away from the city, where a high platform was erected early, and on the high platform, there were two military generals, both of whom were wearing golden helmets and golden armor, and their backs were covered with red cloaks, and these two military generals were none other than others. It is Yu Chigong and Cheng Zhijie!

And around the platform, gathered twenty or thirty thousand people, all of whom were people from villages and towns outside Chang'an, they came early, not to welcome the prince Li Zhi, but to welcome Wang Ping'an, no matter how important the prince is, it is not as important as Wang Ping'an, who can prevent smallpox and eliminate the threat of distemper!

Seeing the arrival of the brigade from a distance, Wei Chigong said: "Good guy, there are so many people, it seems that the parade has begun!" ”

Cheng Zhijie said: "They are all people from villages and towns outside the city. It's not much, wait until the city gate, you can look at it, I estimate that it will be at least 100,000 upwards! ”

The two smiled together, walked off the high platform, and came to the side of the road to greet Li Zhi.

Li Zhi got out of the car, followed Li Shimin's usual appearance when he went out on patrol, and held the rails with both hands. The expression is serious. But the excitement in his heart was indescribable, and it was a good feeling that he was about to be cheered by all the people again. It's better than listening to songs and watching dances. It's better than drinking and having fun, and it's better than playing with the concubines in the East Palace" In short, this is the most intoxicating thing in the world!

Wang Ping'an stood behind Li Zhi's side, leaning on the car door, holding his shoulders with both hands, looking at Li Zhi's expression.

I was funny and excited in my heart, this Tang prince was a very emotional person, happy and fast, sad and not slow, and as soon as he scared him, he could be afraid, and if he said a few words to him, he would immediately be happy again, like a child.

Li Zhi turned around and said, "No disease, you see, Wei Chigong and they are here, this is the first batch." There are two more batches to come! ”

Wang Ping'an hummed and thought, "The emperor won't go out of the city to greet him in person, right?" ”

When he arrived at the high platform, Li Jizong immediately stepped forward and greeted Wei Chigong and Cheng Zhijie on the horse. After seeing the salute, the two generals strode forward, knelt down in front of the frame, and said in unison: "Welcome the prince back to Beijing!" ”

Li Zhi raised his hand triumphantly and said, "The two Aiqing are exempt from courtesy, and they will return to Beijing with Gu!" ”

"Obey the order!" Wei Chigong and Cheng Zhijie stood up, turned over on their horses, and protected the side of the prince's car.

Wei Chigong squeezed his eyes at Wang Ping'an, Wang Ping'an smiled back at him, and he could be regarded as saying hello!

The people beside the high platform cheered together: "Welcome the prince back to Beijing, welcome the prince to return to Beijing!" After shouting, he followed the back of the brigade and walked towards Chang'an together.

Knock knock, knock knock, some people with drums began to knock, and some people who looked good in the middle actually took out the gong and banged it up, as if they were opening the way for Li Zhi's gong.

After walking out for ten miles, I saw another high platform in front of me, on which stood three ministers, who were the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling and Chu Suiliang, and behind them. There are forty or fifty thousand people standing, and all the black people are people!

After the three old ministers stepped forward to greet Li Zhi, they did not take the car, but also got on the war horses and protected Li Zhi's back, and the people behind the high platform also joined the team.

Walk out of nearly ten miles, the Chang'an city wall is in front of you, and you can see countless people standing in front of the moat, the number of people is so large that it is impossible to estimate the specific number, all people, crowds of people!

Wang Ping'an looked up at the city gate, and saw the Huangluo umbrella cover standing in the city tower, and flags of various patterns were lined up from the city wall. I can't count them.

Suddenly, Li Zhi said: "Ah, my father is here!" ”