Chapter 797: Visions of the Past Dynasties
One moment he shouted, "My dear nephew, pour me a glass of wine."
Then he shouted again, "Jin'er, take a look at this temporary painting of the Moon Palace Fairy by my dear master."
On the slightly yellowed rice paper, there was a circle and a human figure.
Wang Jin's forehead twitched fiercely, and he looked at Yin Le for help: Save me! Save me!
Yin Le smiled secretly for a while, then stood up and gave him a sample.
Yin Le: "Although my dear master's painting is only a few strokes, it has drawn the characters vividly. Whether it is the charm or the eyes, it is expressed very accurately, which makes people unforgettable at first sight. Such a profound skill must be the level of the world's first painter!"
Wang Jin was dumbfounded. Can he still talk nonsense like this?
Liu Ji looked at Wang Jin, "My dear nephew, what do you think?"
Wang Jin thought to himself, it's hard for me to comment on you like this.
But under Yin Le's encouraging gaze, he still said a lot of compliments against his conscience.
Liu Ji laughed and patted Wang Jin's shoulder with satisfaction: "Okay, okay, I knew you had good vision!"
Wang Jin: "."
Today, he finally understood why Liu Ji was always so confident.
It turned out that his family made him inflated.
After the banquet, Yin Le got a signal from his master to send Wang Jin out.
Seeing that Qin Yao and her husband were gone, Wang Jin immediately asked worriedly:
"A Le, you always talk nonsense like this, causing your master to misunderstand, is there really no problem?"
Yin Le waved his hand, "Don't worry, the master is a very self-aware person."
If not, the master will use actions to make the master sober.
So don't worry at all, you can talk nonsense~
Wang Jin: I don't understand, but I was shocked.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wang Jin's frequency of coming to Qin Yao's house increased significantly.
Sometimes he came to pick up Yin Le early in the morning to go out together, he went to court, and she opened the store.
Sometimes he sent Yin Le home in the evening and stayed at Qin Yao's house for a meal.
Wang Jin praised Awang's cooking skills.
It was also fortunate that the capital city was open-minded and there was no great separation between men and women.
Otherwise, the two had just been engaged and had been stuck together all day, and who knows what would have happened.
Every time at this time, Qin Yao would read ancient books and have a more intuitive comparison between the past and the present.
His favorability towards Xu Wenqing increased a little bit.
In early September, the mausoleum of the Grand Emperor was finally built.
On the 11th, the spirit of the Grand Emperor, which had been parked in the Daxingguo Temple for seven months, was finally buried under the auspices of the new emperor.
In early winter, October, the national mourning was really over.
However, the people of Quansheng were looking forward to the new emperor's ascension to the throne and regaining control of the entire country.
In the hall, in front of all the civil and military officials, the emperor asked the queen mother to resign the title of emperor and become a wise king.
And in front of all the officials, he wanted to pass the throne to the queen mother.
Baili Qingyang's actions had no signs at all.
The incident happened suddenly, and all the officials knelt down and asked the emperor to think twice.
The Empress Dowager also refused repeatedly, with a firm attitude, and asked the emperor to continue to serve.
The emperor's abdication was left unresolved.
But the emperor's move frightened many people.
It caused a lot of discussion among the people in Kyoto.
In the Imperial Academy.
Liu Ji took a nap in the library under the pretext of helping the doctor to guard the library.
It was early winter, and the cold wind was blowing outside.
In order to preserve the books and avoid moisture, the doors and windows of the library were closed tightly, and no wind could leak in.
Liu Ji made a bed on the floor behind the tall bookshelf and lay there for the whole afternoon.
If he hadn't heard someone talking outside the library, he wouldn't have wanted to wake up at all.
He just woke up and was still a little dazed.
He vaguely heard two people at the door saying something like the emperor and the empress dowager.
"This is the first time in my life that His Majesty has abdicated to the Queen Mother. This morning in the palace, all the officials were stunned."
"Fortunately, the Queen Mother did not agree, otherwise our Sheng Dynasty would have an empress?"
This voice was very familiar to Liu Ji. It was Lord Wu, the second-in-command of the Imperial Academy.
Another voice sounded, sounding younger than Lord Wu.
Liu Ji had never heard of it.
But as soon as this person spoke, his heart surged.
"Your Majesty's behavior today is really abnormal. Does Lord Wu really think that it is His Majesty's own intention?"
Lord Wu was shocked when he heard this: "What does Lord Mei mean? Could it be that the Queen Mother forced His Majesty?"
Seeing Lord Mei silent.
Lord Wu exclaimed in a low voice, saying that this is impossible.
"If it was really the Queen Mother's coercion, the Queen Mother would have just agreed to it in the palace today. Why would she refuse and act angry?"
Lord Mei shook his head and didn't want to say more.
He waved his hand, signaling Lord Wu not to ask any more questions.
The two of them only had a thin friendship of being three-class Jinshi of the same period.
Lord Mei felt that he had done a good job, and whether he could understand it or not depended on Lord Wu's own understanding.
"I came to borrow a book, so I can't wait any longer. I'll take the book and leave. The Imperial Master is still waiting for it."
Lord Wu also knew that he had gone too far and might lose his head if he continued.
He turned around and pushed open the door of the library, leading Lord Mei in to get the book.
"That student, this is Lord Mei from the Imperial Observatory, why don't you come up and meet him."
Lord Wu pointed at Liu Ji, who was already dressed neatly and pretending to be sitting at the desk copying books, and asked him to find a book for Lord Mei.
Liu Ji hurriedly stood up to meet Lord Mei and asked what book he wanted to borrow.
He had been in this library for more than a month, and had already memorized all kinds of lists, so he could find books very quickly.
Lord Mei looked at Liu Ji twice more, and he didn't expect that the students here were more handsome than the third place winner of this year's imperial examination.
People are always unconsciously more tolerant of good-looking people.
Lord Mei, who seemed not easy to mess with, rarely spoke in a gentle tone, and asked Liu Ji to take him to find ancient books related to astronomy and history.
It would be best if it was the kind of ancient books that recorded astronomical phenomena related to the emperors of all dynasties.
For example, the mother of Emperor Wu of Han dreamed that the sun entered her womb and gave birth, and the day before the Emperor Yun of the previous dynasty ascended the throne, five-colored auspicious clouds covered his head, and it took more than a month to disperse.
Liu Ji thought to himself, this is all nonsense, and it's forced to fit the name.
What do the Imperial Astronomical Observatory and the Imperial Master need such books for?
Liu Ji led people to find books.
While thinking about the conversation between Wu and Mei just now outside the door.
Then he saw Lord Mei took down a book "Illustrated Maps of Strange Phenomena in All Dynasties" from the bookshelf.
Suddenly, a bold idea came to his mind - could this be to build momentum for the Queen Mother's ascension to the throne?
Liu Ji's breathing was abrupt because of his own thoughts, and he took a deep breath to suppress it.
After watching Lord Mei leave with the book, and there was no one else in the library, Liu Ji hurried back to the desk.
Unfortunately, he had just copied the "Pictures of Strange Phenomena in the Past Dynasties" the day before.
He took it out and opened it to check. It recorded famous strange phenomena from three thousand years ago to the present.
There were a total of 128, most of which were related to astronomical phenomena, and a few involved hydrology and mountain terrain.
But Liu Ji, who had seen the basic scientific theories with Qin Yao, only felt that the ancients' explanations of these strange phenomena were very fantastic.
Either a saint was about to be born, or the dynasty was about to fall.
Anyway, it all depends on one mouth, and you can say whatever you want.