Chapter 41 Exploring Flowers

The biggest thing in Chang'an City this time is that the palace has been tried, and the storyteller in the streets and alleys has a new book.

Both of them are young talents, and He Lan's illness and weakness, and Wei Heming's prodigy name have cast a bit of legend over these rumors. In comparison, the list of people in their thirties is not so conspicuous.

"On the day of the parade, He Zhuangyuan held the holy edict in his hand, wore a straight jacket with purple and gold, and stepped on a gold-saddle and red-maned horse under his feet. Nawei Xiaotanhua followed behind, wearing a red jacquard robe, straddling a silver saddle and a white horse, young and romantic, looking forward to brilliance. In response to that sentence, the spring breeze is proud, and once you can see all the Chang'an flowers!"

As soon as the storyteller's wake fell, the people listening to the book began to talk again.

After a while, the talkative one asked, "Storyteller, do you know that these two scholars have married wives?"

The storyteller spread out the folding fan and narrowed his eyes with a smile: "As far as Xiao Lao'er knows, these two young talents have no wives and dependents in their families, if you are the daughters of the official's family to be married, you might as well follow the example of a list to catch a son-in-law——"

"Don't bluff me," the listener took a sip, "these two are children of the family, where can we people look down on?"

Everyone nodded one after another, the Wei family is a scholarly family, and the He family's strict door is even a little heard of by these people.

Someone said: "The main room can't be done, and the partial room can't be done?"

Everyone was disgusted: "How can there be a good serious daughter, and there is a reason to send someone to be a concubine?"

There was a young man in black in the compartment, who put down the tea and sank his face when he heard this.

The entourage on the side lowered their heads and whispered, "Your Highness?"

The young man in black raised his hand slightly to stop the movements of his entourage, and continued to drink tea with his head down, obviously his expression was plain and his clothes were not very gorgeous, but he had an inexplicable momentum, as if he was out of place with the world outside the compartment.

The storyteller saw all the ways of all beings, then closed the fan, took a sip of tea, and said: "This is not accurate, without these strange things, where can these books of the little old man say?"

As he spoke, he told another story.

The young man in the cubicle lowered his eyelids slightly, and with two attendants, he quietly left the teahouse through the side door.

And the two Wei He, who were regarded as talking points, faced the first banquet after the Jinshi was released - the Flower Exploration Banquet.

The flower exploration banquet was set up near the Qujiang River and was presided over by the Son of Heaven, but the Son of Heaven did not arrive at this time. Everyone sat in the order of the palace examination, and the champion sat at the front of the list on the left and right.

The new branch jinshi toasted each other, and some jinshi from a small place in the countryside didn't know much about the situation, and said in a daze: "If it's really a hero out of a teenager, there are still such young jinshi in this department?"

It refers to Wei Heming.

There was someone on the side who was willing to point him out, and he smiled and gestured to the two in front of him: "They are not ordinary Jinshi, the youngest one is Tanhua, and the older one is He Lan, the champion of this department." ”

The man smacked his tongue: "It's really amazing, a child of such a big age in my family may not even memorize all four books." ”

The other smiled and shook his head: "You don't know, that He Lan is a descendant of the He family, and ordinary people can't compare." As for that Wei Tanhua, he is a well-known prodigy in Beijing, Xie Yuan in the middle of the nine-year-old, and he only came to the Jinshi after all these years of accumulation - it's just a pity that this year's list, it is said that the article is also quite amazing, and he is still from a poor family, and he is also a champion in previous years. ”

This year, he was robbed of his reputation by He Lan in terms of learning, and he was suppressed by Wei Heming in terms of legend, which is really a bit of a bad fate.

The two jinshi sighed and amazed for a while, so they didn't mention it again.

Wei Heming's seat was next to He Lan, and the two of them were drinking wine and whispering.

"What's the matter with you?" He Lan supported his head with one hand, squinted his eyes and asked lazily: "How many catties and taels you have, others don't know it, but I know it very well, how could I only come back with a flower exploration?"

Wei Heming laughed and said, "Saint hand-picked, what can I do? Maybe I saw that I looked younger and more beautiful than you, so he specially appointed me to be a Tanhualang?"

This also makes sense, the emperors of all dynasties like to order a young and romantic Tanhua to achieve a good story, not to mention that Wei Heming's father was also a young Tanhua, a father and son double Tanhua, it is also a good story.

A gleam flashed in He Lan's eyes: "There's no truth, you haven't read your scroll?"

Wei Heming was dumbfounded.

It is true that he did not write articles normally in this imperial examination, but according to the strategy and ideas of his previous life's memory, he almost copied it, and the result was really the same as in his previous life.

The way of thinking back then, compared to now, is obviously a little lacking in heat, and it is no wonder that He Lan saw it.

It's not that Wei Heming deliberately released the water, it's just that he knew about this year's test questions early on, and he relived it again.

Although no one knows, Wei Heming is somewhat arrogant as a literati, and he would rather use the strategy of his previous life, but he is categorically unwilling to deceive.

"Drink and drink," Wei Heming prevaricated with a grin, and used the wine to plug He Lan's mouth.

He Lan snorted lightly, took his drink, pressed it and didn't mention it at this time, but complained to him in his mouth: "You dragged me into the water and came to fool me, what kind of truth is this." ”

Wei Heming didn't expect that he was still a flower explorer in this life, He Lan had never participated in this imperial examination in his previous life, the champion was the leader in this life, but the list was someone else.

In this life, He Lan was instigated by him to participate in the scientific expedition, but he didn't want to be still a flower explorer, Wei Heming knew that his two lifetimes of flower exploration were a little watery, and a large part of it was the emperor who remembered the old love, and also wanted to make a good story about a double flower exploration, so he deliberately ordered it.

He Lan and Wei Heming have been in and out together for many years, and when the results of the palace examination came out, many people speculated whether the two would turn against each other because of their rankings, but they didn't want these two people to take it to heart, and they were still like brothers and sisters, which disappointed those spectators.

The two gossiped for a while, and the emperor's holy car arrived with several princes, and the flower exploration banquet officially began.

Wei Heming and He Lan glanced at each other, and they both saw each other's lamentations.

The Flower Exploration Banquet is one of the earliest in a series of banquets after the Jinshi released the list, and it is also a ladder to connect the feelings of these Jinshi in the same year.

And the reason why this banquet has become a flower exploration banquet is that the biggest feature is that it is a flower exploration banquet.

It is not the Tanhualang in Wei Heming, but to select the two youngest and handsome Jinshi named Tanhua, and order them to ride horses to visit the Chang'an Famous Garden, pick precious flowers and come back, and everyone enjoys it together.

The rest of the jinshi followed, galloping on horseback, and if anyone found the flower before the flower tan, the flower tanner would be punished.

And the Tanhualang of this department, except for Wei Heming and He Lan, has no other choice.

The emperor said some verbal words, and deliberately recounted some words separately with the first three people.

Those who came from other places did not know much about the situation, and they were a little flustered to admire the majesty of the Son of Heaven.

But these Jinshi of Jingshi are not only students, but also reserve officials with some sense of political and smell, not to mention those who are from powerful families and even the prisoners of the country.

Since he saw that the emperor was not sitting next to the crown prince, but the most favored fourth prince Chu Hong, all the jinshi had a different meaning in their hearts.

"Tanhualang, what do you think?" He Lan drooped his eyelids, and asked in a low voice as if he was whispering in a dream, but his eyes were very clear and sharp, "Look at this shape now, everyone is busy betting on the treasure and standing in line, where is Tanhualang going to stand?"

Wei Heming smiled: "Under this mud bodhisattva, don't dare to wade in this muddy water." ”

He Lan narrowed her eyes and didn't continue to answer.

After going through the process before the banquet, it was time for Wei Heming and He Lan to come on the stage.

The two were coaxed by everyone to board the horse, Wei Heming wore a red arrow sleeve shirt when he went out, the tail was extremely elegant, uncrowned, the long hair was tied high behind the head, with a golden moire wipe forehead, riding on the horse looked even more heroic. looks more eye-catching than He Lan, and scores three points.

Then there was a jinshi who coaxed: "Little Tanhua is so handsome and handsome!"

Even He Lan followed suit.

Wei Heming smiled, this body was made by Wei Yuyuan himself after studying, and he was given to him by people from afar, saying that when he was named on the gold list, he would be given a congratulatory gift.

Seeing everyone's praise, he felt some inexplicable joy in his heart, and said with a smile: "If you have a good sister, you will also be handsome!"

The jinshi laughed: "What is there to show off if you have a good sister, if you ask for a good daughter-in-law in the future, we will really convince you!"

Wei Heming joked a few words with them, and when the time came, the issuing officer gave an order, and Wei Heming and He Lan, one red and one blue, shot out like arrows.

The Jinshi saw that they were gone, so they tidied up their clothes and got on their horses, and a group of people also galloped out on horseback.

A young man in dark clothes came out of the garden wall of the Qujiang River.

The young man wore a dark golden hair crown, and a jade pendant of a carved crane hung from his waist, leaning against the bluestone wall, watching the back of the red-clothed young man in the distance, and there was a little warmth in his cold eyes.

"Your Highness, this place should not stay for long. The attendant reminded in a low voice.

"Go and prepare the horses. The youth said.