Chapter 11
For Xue Shao, who has been on the verge of life and death for many years and has crossed a thousand-year gap in a flash, he has seen through life and death. The so-called "the arrangement of fate cannot be changed" is even more of a waste of time. My destiny is my own way, and this is the inscription of blessing that he has always believed in.
"Xiaoshou went to take a shower and change his clothes first. Shao Shi...oh!"
With a scream, Li Xianyuan kicked the threshold in panic and threw herself to the ground. Her forehead hit a high point where the flower pot was placed. When he landed on the ground, the flower pot fell down and hit the back of his head.
"The secret of heaven... cannot be leaked!"
Li Xianyuan fainted.
Xue Shao couldn't help but be stunned for a moment: Is it so evil?
"Young Master, don't listen to his nonsense. How could there be so many hardships!" Yue Nu said angrily, "No matter who dares to make things difficult for the young master, Yue Nu must take the head of his neck!"
Xue Shao shook his head and smiled, "Let's lift up the half-toned charlatan that has been punished by God first and throw it onto the bed!"
After the cooking was done, Yuenu stood aside with her hands crampedly, lowering her head, and looking ready to be scolded.
Xue Shao said lightly: "Is it fun in the palace?"
Yuenu suddenly fell to the ground on one knee, "Yuenu is reckless, please punish the young master!"
Xue Shao held her soft shoulders with both hands and helped her up. Yue Nu was tall and only slightly shorter than Xue Shao. The two of them formed an ambiguous veneer embracing posture facing each other.
Yuenu's cheeks were flushed and lowered her head, and she didn't dare to breathe, let alone look at Xue Shao in front of her eyes.
"Yuenu, I know you are loyal and dedicated to me." Xue Shao said, "But have you ever heard a saying that the eagle stands like a sleeping sleep, and the tiger walks like a disease?"
"The eagle stands like sleeping, and the tiger walks like a disease..." Yue Nu raised his head and blinked her deep and beautiful eyes of a mixed-race boy like a gem, with a radiant spirit in his eyes. "Yue Nu understands! The young master is teaching Yue Nu that everything should be low-key and cautious, and not domineering!"
"The boy is teachable." Xue Shao smiled slightly and nodded in praise, "The deadly eagle and the human-eating tiger never show off their might. Only the rats and rabbits who are waiting for death like to jump up and down."
"Yuenu is ashamed! He will be cautious in hiding his weaknesses in the future!" Yuenu blushed in shame and lowered his head.
"Smart." Xue Shao nodded with a smile and sighed softly, "Yuenu, now you are the person I trust and capable around me. Don't let me down!"
"Young Master, I!..." Yue Nu looked at Xue Shao with a gaze, and for a moment he was speechless and didn't know what to say. He seemed to have meaning in his eyes but didn't know how to express it.
"No need to say it." Xue Shao smiled slightly, "I understand."
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In the second half of the night, Li Xianyuan woke up leisurely, and Xue Shao and Yue Nu both stayed in his barrister's room to take care of him.
"Awaken?" Xue Shao smiled and said, "Are you hungry? Let's drink some meat porridge?"
"No appetite..." Li Xianyuan lay down with a humming huff, weak.
"Why eat some fresh fruits to moisten your stomach?"
"I can't eat..."
Xue Shao sat next to him, "How about I arrange two beautiful girls to warm the bed for you?"
"Help me first."
Xue Shao grabbed his clothes with both hands and lifted him up, then stuffed a big pillow into his back, "Okay, don't be dead. The doctor has shown you it's okay! - I'll tell you something, you can give me some advice."
"Say, tell me." Li Xianyuan looked pitiful, "I want to drink porridge."
"Bitch!" Xue Shao stuffed a bowl of porridge into his hands and said, "I want to find a ministry to do it, and I don't want to be idle all day long."
"Ministry?" Li Xianyuan was surprised to hold the porridge bowl, "Brother Xue is living a good life, why did he suddenly have such an idea?"
Xue Shao stood up and took two steps, saying, "Anyway, this is what I think after thinking carefully. I don't want to spend my whole life waiting for me to do nothing."
"No!" Li Xianyuan said hurriedly, "Does Brother Xue have a supreme duty waiting to do? Why do you have to do something else?"
"What ministry?"
"Be the prince consort!"
Xue Shao spread his hands, "Then I might as well wait for me to do nothing."
Li Xianyuan took a few rounds of eyes and was speechless. In fact, he knew that marrying a princess as a princess is not necessarily a glamorous and worth showing off in this era. Especially for some people with a noble family and a famous family, they have a more "stay away from each other" mentality when it comes to marrying the royal family in Li.
It is said that the emperor's daughter has no worries about marrying, but the princess of the Tang Dynasty is definitely not easy to marry. Therefore, Li Xianyuan is not surprised that the young master of Lantian Xue Shao has this mentality.
"What are your plans in Brother Xue?" Li Xianyuan asked naturally.
Xue Shao replied: "I want to join the army."
"Ah?" Li Xianyuan laughed as if she had heard the heavenly book, "Brother Xue, are you okay?"
"What's the meaning?"
Li Xianyuan put down the porridge bowl and said seriously: "It is not difficult for Brother Xue to enter the official career. But officials are also divided into 'clear and turbid' - you are born in the blood of the royal family, and you are also from the Xue clan of Hedong and the Western Ancestor. How can you be as noble as you, fall into the army and fall into the inferiority of the 'turbid current'?"
Xue Shao suddenly realized.
That's right, in the eyes of the current gentry and nobles, even if they are officials, they will be divided into "clear and turbid". Clear officials probably refer to civil officials. Turbid officials are naturally military generals. Although the social atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty was martial, the social status of military generals was not low. However, in the eyes of the circle of officials, especially the old nobles with prominent social status, being a turbid official is quite embarrassing - good iron does not make nails, and good men do not serve as soldiers. This common saying (general meaning) has been circulated from now on.
Xue Shao was born in the Xue clan in Hedong, and the Xue clan has two main branches, namely the Xizu and the Nanzu.
Among them, the Nanzu lineage was the descendant of the famous general Xue Andu, and many generals were produced in his descendants. The most representative of them is Xue Rengui, the famous war god in the Tang Dynasty today!
But then again, before Xue Rengui became successful, he was so poor that he couldn't afford to eat. At that time, what else could he have to do with the nobles except for his surname?
Although the surname is among the same surname, the height is suspended.
If he had a choice, I believe Xue Rengui would not have been willing to join the army back then, at least not as a small man in white.
Nowadays, the Western Ancestral lineage is the most prosperous and has many honest officials. There are more than one rank of officials like Xue Shao's elder brother Xue Yi, and there are many officials in the center of the court. The most famous one is Xue Yuanchao, the Minister of the Central Secretariat, and the prime minister of the dynasty.
Seeing that Xue Shao had no words, Li Xianyuan quickly advised: "Xiaosheng thought that Brother Xue might as well discuss this with the elders of the clan and the elders of the clan."
Xue Shao nodded without answering, but this did not mean that he recognized Li Xianyuan's opinion. In his opinion, all bloodlines, clear and turbid officials are all over the world. He only wants to take a path that belongs to his own, rather than determining his future based on secular values and the eyes of others.
On the other hand, Li Xianyuan's fortune-telling words about "marriage in the past" were very suspicious of fueling the marriage. It seems that he, the "marriage introducer", was likely to have received Wu Zetian's face-to-face teaching opportunity, and could be regarded as a "snooping liner" placed beside me.
So some words should not be said in front of Li Xianyuan. Some things should be hidden from him. After all, you must be guarded against others.
After nightfall, Xue Shao lay on the bed and held the statue of Xiang'an Xiaorou, with a lot of thoughts in his heart. Originally, Xue Shao thought that this trip to Chang'an was just a boring mob, and what happened could be said to be just a farce. However, the appearance of Princess Taiping had invisibly affected him, and it was more than a little bit.
At least now, his once confused state of mind is no longer peaceful!
The night is in full swing and silence.
Xue Shao vaguely noticed someone in the yard, and then heard a subtle sound, "gudong".
It seemed like something fell into the water.
Xue Shao turned over and got out of bed lightly and walked to the window to see Yue Nu was walking away from the wellbore in the yard.
"Yuenu, come to my room." Xue Shao called out through the window.
Yue Nu was slightly surprised, "Yes!..."
Xue Shao lit the oil lamp, Yuenu pushed the door and stood beside him, "What are the instructions for the young master?"
Xue Shaoshen looked at her. This 18-year-old woman had a super first-class figure. If she could easily join the ranks of supermodels in the 21st century, her beautiful peak was the most prominent. Her beautiful legs were long, straight and round without any extra fat. It would be no exaggeration to be a leg model. Perhaps because she is a mixed-blood of Han and Hu and has been practicing martial arts since childhood, her beauty and charm are a bit natural wild and cold, and her temperament is cold and gorgeous, which is different from most Tang Dynasty women, and has a silence and stability far better than her actual age.
But at this moment, her expression was a little panicked.
Perhaps in front of anyone, Yue Nu would be as calm as if everything in the world had nothing to do with her. Only when facing Xue Shao, she could not hide any secrets.
Or, she is unwilling to hide.
"What did you throw into the well just now?" Xue Shao asked.
"..." Yue Nu bit her lip, lowered her head, and remained silent.
Xue Shao frowned slightly. His years of special operations military career have long been able to develop a pair of golden eyes, and any subtle expression changes on the faces of others can hardly escape his eyes. The observation of "micro-expression" that has become popular in Western psychology in recent years has also been a compulsory course for him, and he has already practiced it to the point of being proficient.
The micro-expression on Yuenu's face told Xue Shao that she had just done something that should be considered "earth-shaking".
Xue Shao stood up, walked to Yue Nu, and whispered in her ear: "Can't you tell me?"
"Young Master...you can give me a death!" Yue Nu said suddenly. Don't look down on her face and dare not look at Xue Shao in the face.
"Look at me."
"Yes..." Yue Nu raised the courage to look at Xue Shao.
With eyes facing each other, Yuenu suddenly felt as if her face was red and her eyes became vague.
"Listen, Yuenu." Xue Shao said lightly, "No matter what you did, I won't blame you. It's even more impossible to kill you."
"Young Master, I..." Yue Nu's heart swayed, and her eyes suddenly turned red, and she wanted to speak but stopped.
"Tell me!"
"I, I just threw the golden hairpin on Princess Taiping's head into the well!" Yue Nu said with courage.
After saying that, she closed her eyes, tense her face and bit her lips.
Xue Shao took a deep breath. This girl is indeed bold!
He walked to the palace alone and took out the golden hairpin on Princess Taiping's head!
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Chapter completed!