Chapter two hundred and eighty fifth grab the handle
In front of Liang Shicheng's mansion, Li Yanqing handed the invitation to the guards guarding the gate.
The guards did not dare to be negligent and immediately turned around and entered the mansion. Soon, a court manager came out and smiled with a fist, "The Grand Tutor, please invite Li Tanhua!"
Li Yanqing nodded and followed the courtyard to the mansion. Soon, the two of them came to Liang Shicheng's outer study room. The courtyard bowed and smiled, "Please sit for a while, and I will inform the Grand Tutor now!"
Li Yanqing once again walked into Liang Shicheng's outer study room, and there was basically no change from what he saw last time. The wall was full of authentic works of Su Shi's calligraphy. A maid gave him tea. In just a moment, footsteps sounded outside. Liang Shicheng, wearing a loose deep clothes, walked into the study room with his hands behind his back.
Li Yanqing quickly got up and saluted, "Students meet the Grand Tutor!"
"Haha! Li Tanhua surprised me so much."
Liang Shicheng smiled all over his face, "This is the first time I have seen a great talent like Li Tanhua."
"The tutor is too much, and the students really don't dare to be the one!"
"It's not a reward at all. You deserve it. Please sit down!"
Liang Shicheng asked Li Yanqing to sit down with a smile, and then asked the maid to have tea again. Liang Shicheng smiled and said, "Last time in the Bow and Horse Competition, Li Tanhua won the championship, which made many people miss it. Yesterday, His Highness, Prince Guangping, asked me about you, and I told him that you passed the exam, and he was so surprised that he couldn't stop talking. He wanted to learn riding and shooting from you. I wonder if Li Tanhua has time to teach him?"
It turned out that Liang Shicheng came to him for this matter. Li Yanqing felt relieved and hurriedly bowed and smiled, "It's okay to give a little advice."
"It's not that Li Tanhua taught him specifically. He just gave a little advice. He just admired Li Tanhua. What's this afternoon?"
Li Yanqing found that Liang Shicheng was quite anxious and invited him in the morning and wanted to see him at noon. He just mentioned that Zhao Gou wanted to learn riding and shooting, so he immediately arranged it in the afternoon. Can't he wait for a day?
Helplessly, Li Yanqing had to agree: "Just just follow the arrangements of the Grand Tutor."
Liang Shicheng laughed, "Actually, I am very patient, but His Highness, Prince Guangping, is too anxious and wants to see you today, so I have no choice but to agree to him."
"It's okay, I have time these three days anyway."
"I know too!"
Liang Shicheng took a sip of tea and smiled faintly, "During the interview in Daqing Palace, Li Tanhua said she wanted to participate in the Battle of Xixia. I wonder how you know that the court was going to launch a war against Xixia?"
Li Yanqing could find countless reasons, such as his own analysis, but he knew what Liang Shicheng was asking? He had to be careful when dealing with this person. Li Yanqing was silent for a moment and said, "I heard Taiwei Tong mentioned this."
Liang Shicheng narrowed his eyes and smiled: "It's really comfortable to talk to Li Tanhua. I just like to be honest."
Li Yanqing didn't say anything, and he secretly scolded Liang Shicheng for being sinister and vicious. The last assassination of Yang Jian has always made him feel resentful.
Liang Shicheng looked at him for a moment and said, "If I guessed correctly, Taiwei Tong hopes you can enter the Ministry of Revenue. His weakest link is financial power. He has always wanted to install people into the Ministry of Revenue. Am I right?"
Although Liang Shicheng was sinister and vicious, Li Yanqing had to admire this person for being extremely smart and seeing Tong Guan very thoroughly.
Li Yanqing nodded, "That's true!"
Liang Shicheng's smile became a little meaningful, "But Li Tanhua seemed to want to go his own way, and did not want to obey Taiwei Tong's arrangements."
Li Yanqing was silent, he could not answer this question.
Although Liang Shicheng did not participate in the interview yesterday, someone immediately reported to him in detail after the interview. Like Cai Jing, Liang Shicheng discovered something strange. Li Yanqing did not intend to be Tong Guan's chess piece, which made Liang Shicheng also develop a desire to win over.
Liang Shicheng knew very well the value of Li Yanqing. He actually killed Yang Jian alone and provoked a confrontation between Liangshan Army and Yang Jian. This is not something that ordinary people can do.
A very capable person, and a high school student in the high school, is really rare to be talented, but Tong Guan did not realize the true value of Li Yanqing.
Liang Shicheng took a sip of tea and said calmly: "I am frank, since Tong Guan wants to arrange for you to enter the Ministry of Revenue, he should have made arrangements from the beginning of the imperial examination, but until today, he has not made any arrangements. I feel that he actually doesn't value you. Perhaps, he also found that Li Tanhua is not easy to control, so he hesitated. Am I right?"
Li Yanqing smiled, "Maybe Tong and Taiwei were inconsistent on some major issues. He hoped to join the Jin Dynasty to destroy Liao, but I thought it was to lead a wolf into the house. It should join the Liao Dynasty to fight against Jin. As a result, we had a conflict. I firmly refused to admit my mistake. He drove me off the carriage in anger. However, this happened in the twelfth month of the previous year, and then we never contacted each other again."
"Have you not been in contact with you for more than a year?"
Li Yanqing shook his head, "No!"
"That's right. I heard that this year's imperial examination, the deputy chief examiner Zhang Wenxuan arranged three places to be admitted to Zhang Wenxuan, and all three of them passed the exam, but you were not included in it. I feel strange. How could he forget you? What if you didn't pass the exam? Now I understand the reason. I think Li Tanhua should know it in my heart!"
Li Yanqing immediately understood that Tong Guan ignored him and ignored the imperial examination for more than a year. It turned out that he had given up on himself.
Li Yanqing couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "I think the tutor is right. He actually doesn't value me. Maybe I am a man who is born not suitable for being a chess piece."
Liang Shicheng smiled and said, "It's really interesting. The official wanted to call you the top scorer, but Cai Xiangguo thought you were Tong Guanzhi and firmly opposed it. In the end, you felt wronged as the third. If he knew that you were not Tong Guanzhi, he would likely marry his granddaughter to you."
"The tutor was joking, and the students don't want to consider marriage now."
"Yeah?"
Liang Shicheng looked at Li Yanqing with a smile, "You may make Miss Shishi sad."
Li Yanqing's face suddenly changed drastically and he looked at Liang Shicheng in surprise.
Liang Shicheng drank tea and said lightly: "Even I admire Li Tanhua's courage. Miss Shishi is a woman from the official family. Everyone knows about Bianjing. No one dares to make any decisions about so many royal relatives. Only Li Tanhua actually stayed in Shishi Embroidery Tower last night. Li Tanhua is really a very human being!"
Speaking of this, Liang Shicheng looked at Li Yanqing with sharp and gloomy eyes.
Li Yanqing's back suddenly burst into cold sweat. Someone in Shishi's mansion must be secretly monitoring her, otherwise how could Liang Shicheng know? This is the real reason why Liang Shicheng came to him.
At this time, Liang Shicheng narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Li Tanhua, we used to cooperate very happily. I don't like to use others as chess pieces. I prefer to make transactions. Why don't we do another transaction?"
No wonder Liang Shicheng was called the Hidden Plan at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. This person's scheming and wrist skills are indeed beyond the reach of ordinary people. He can pinch his neck just right every time.
Li Yanqing smiled bitterly, "No matter what, I want to thank the Taifu for his hard work."
"Haha! It's just a little effort. Zhou Bangyan and Miss Shishi are too close, so the government is not at ease! Let me tell you this way, all the people I arranged in Li Shishi's mansion to monitor her every move. In fact, I would have known about you and Li Shishi for a long time. If you hadn't crossed the bottom line last night, I might have continued to remain silent."
"Does the official know?"
"If the official family knows, will you still sit here? If I don't say it, the official family will never know."
Li Yanqing was silent for a moment, "What do the Grand Tutor wants me to do?"
Liang Shicheng shook his head, "Li Tanhua, you underestimate yourself too much. Don't treat yourself as an assassin. You don't need to do such vulgar things. I think you can do something big."
Liang Shicheng walked to the window with his hands behind his back, looked out the window coldly and said, "Since Yang Jian's death, the official family has doubted me and started to be indifferent to me. He even helped Li Yan to fight me. What's ridiculous is that Li Yan is the successor I personally liked. He killed Yang Jian, and he became the chief supervisor of the inner palace. Now he is going to become my opponent. Am I stupid to shoot myself in the foot?"
"Did the tutor ask me to kill Li Yan?"
Liang Shicheng shook his head, "I just said that you don't need to do assassin. Killing Li Yan will only cause me to be completely killed in the cold palace, although I wish I could tear that bastard to pieces."
After pausing, Liang Shicheng looked at Li Yanqing and said, "I know very well what you want? I will make your wish come true, let you become the right-hand man of Zhong Shidao, and protect you from Tong Guan's revenge, but I hope that one day you can repay me. One day when I need military protection, you and your army will appear in time."
Li Yanqing was silent for a moment and said calmly: "If the Taifu needs an army now, someone should have stepped forward!"
"Someone will stand up, but as long as the official says something, this person will chop my head upside down."
Liang Shicheng sneered coldly, "But you won't. You don't understand what it means to take away the woman from the official family. Even if you save your life, he will kill you without hesitation. The reason why I made this deal with you is because you have no way out."
Li Yanqing nodded silently and asked again: "When will the Grand Tutor need me to help?"
"I don't know either. Maybe one day when the prince and the official family meet, I will need your help."
"What about now? How did the Grand Tutor plan to help me?"
Liang Shicheng looked at Li Yanqing and said slowly: "Let me tell you this! In three days, Miss Shishi will be eighteen years old. The official family has been waiting for a long time this day. Once he finds that Shishi is no longer the perfect body, neither of you can survive, so you only have three days. You take her away and I will deal with the rest of the funeral. How about it? I didn't treat you as a pawn!"
Li Yanqing sighed softly, "We each get what we need!"
"That's right. This is what people do. To put it nicely, it's called helping each other. To put it bluntly, it's a pity! Tong Guan missed it. If you lose your talent, he will regret it one day."
Liang Shicheng walked up and patted Li Yanqing on the shoulder, "Follow me to enter the palace! Go and guide His Highness Guangping County Prince to practice arrows."
Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and said, "Can I let me go back first? I want to arrange it. When I look back, I will go directly to the palace."
"What are you going to arrange?" Liang Shicheng asked in confusion.
"Arrange Shishi to leave the capital immediately."
Chapter completed!