It was set in the spring of the sixteenth year of the first month of the first month. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The New Year has just passed, and there is still the joy of the New Year everywhere.

Dingxi is known as the spice capital of Yang. Chengxian County, on the first day of the new year, ushered in two major events.

One of them is a sudden heavy snowfall, which made the original lights colorful and jubilant. The city and county became a cold beauty wrapped in silver overnight.

And the second thing is highly anticipated by everyone, the imperial list posted outside the yamen every three years.

A piece of edict, almost at the same time spread throughout the north and south of the river, the first incense shop in the west of the country, Kyoto Yipin Xiangge, the order was ordered to recruit incense disciples.

At this moment, the notice of recruiting apprentices must be about to be posted, which is a happy event, especially the most important yang for the craft of perfumery. Cities and counties.

If someone in the family can go to Beijing to be an apprentice of Yipin Xiangge, and after three years of study, he will enter the palace to get an errand, or stay in the capital, it will be a great honor, even if the craftsmanship is not perfect, and he will return to the city after the three-year semester, it will also make the ancestors shine.

Gu Jiaoxiang thought sarcastically, no matter when or where she went, the name of that Yipin Xiang Pavilion was an excellent brand.

At this time, she stood in the yard, looking at the peach tree full of snowflakes in front of her.

With jet-black hair, only a simple bamboo hairpin is loosely tied, and the slightly immature face is extremely pale.

She was dressed in a white dark stripe with a light purple edge, and a worn wool collar cloak was casually draped over her shoulders, the fur collar was not good hair, and the material of the cloak was not good material, although it was wrapped around her body, it couldn't stop the cold at all.

The slightest cold wind passed through her clothes to her limbs, and it was clear that her slender fingers had frozen purple, but she didn't seem to feel cold.

Reaching out and gently plucking the peach branch, the snow on the branch fell one after another, and finally only a bare branch remained, swaying back and forth with the wind, just like her mood at the moment, swaying.

Since that day, he was assigned by the Zhang family to go out with Gu Jingxiang and accompany Xiao Zhang's shopping, it has been four days, and today is the first day of the new year, Gu Jiaoxiang looked at the sky where there was still a light snow, and often sighed.

In the past few days, probably because Zhang's purpose has not succeeded, and he is busy with the distribution of gifts for the New Year, Gu Jiaoxiang has rarely spent the past few days quietly in her yard.

It's hard to get out of the house once, but she didn't achieve her goal, none of the things around her were prepared, after Gu Jiaoxiang came back from the street, she was not in a good mood, especially when Xianglan gave her the news last night that she hadn't found Xiang Lang at all, which made her feel irritable inexplicably.

"Miss, it's still snowing, it's cold, you better go back to the house." Donghua came out of the house, and saw Gu Jiaoxiang standing in the courtyard, walked over and looked at the sky like her, the snowflakes hit her face and were very cold, she shook her head to scatter the thoughts in her head, and said to Gu Jiaoxiang.

Gu Jiaoxiang looked up at the sky as if she hadn't heard it.

"Miss! Miss! ”

At this moment, Dongyue suddenly hurried in from outside the courtyard, still holding a steaming bowl in her hand, shouting as she ran, and carefully not letting the contents of the bowl spill out.

"Miss, it's so cold, your body is not neat, why did you run out again."

Dongyue walked up to her, her mouth was counting, but she raised the bowl in her hand in front of her: "Miss, I just went to the kitchen and found Aunt Sun cooking ginger, this thing is cold to ward off the cold, I finally begged for this bowl, you can drink it while it's hot." ”

A spicy smell of ginger drilled into her nose, and Gu Jiaoxiang's nose itched, and she suddenly sneezed.

"Look, look, Miss Tian has to come out in such a cold day, she must be frozen." Dong Yue glanced at Dong Hua with a displeased face: "I don't know how to persuade Miss, I really don't know what you will do?" ”

"Okay, be quiet, I'm going to come out by myself, what do you blame her for?" Gu Jiaoxiang glanced at Dongyue, took the ginger juice in her hand, pinched her nose and drank it in one gulp.

A spicy smell ran down her throat and into her stomach, making her back hot and about to sweat.

"Miss is so good to her, she took her to the street and spoke for her, Dongyue began to be jealous." Dongyue took the empty bowl and pursed her lips and complained.

"Am I treating you badly? I'm going to prepare to go out of the house in a while, you follow me, last time it was Donghua, this time it's your turn. Gu Jiaoxiang's face was a little cold, and she didn't know if she was freezing or angry.

"What, Miss, you're going to leave the house?" As soon as Dongyue heard that Gu Jiaoxiang was going out of the house, she was not surprised at all, but shouted in shock, as if she was afraid that others would not hear her.

Gu Jiaoxiang looked around, in this cold weather, the subordinates had already cleaned the yard and returned to their respective houses. He glanced at Dongyue strangely, and said angrily, "Why are you so surprised? I'm not afraid of being listened to, I won't be able to get out of the house when the time comes, but you ask! ”

"But Miss, there are rules in the house, and when you go out of the house, you have to ask Mrs. for instructions, but Mrs. ...... "Mrs. didn't like the eldest lady in the first place, and now it has just finished the New Year.

"I didn't say that I was going to ask for instructions, and you will go out from the northwest gate with me in a while, and quietly keep quiet!" Gu Jiaoxiang asked for instructions, left the courtyard to Donghua to take care of, and with a panicked and restless face, Dongyue quietly slipped out of the West Corner Gate while the gatekeeper was not paying attention.

Even if the cold winter is steep and the snow is falling, it can't stop the people from gathering at the gate of the yamen early, just to see the majesty of the emperor's list.

In the eyes of the people, posting the imperial list is a very grand event, and it is naturally much more important than visiting relatives and friends during the New Year's holidays, so it is obviously icy and snowy, but there are many people in the streets and alleys.

When Gu Jiaoxiang came to the yamen with Dongyue, there were already many people gathered outside the yamen, they were standing outside the crowd, except for the people inside and outside, they couldn't see the scene inside at all, but they could hear the sound of talking.

"Hey, this talented brother, I didn't hear it when the official read it just now, what was written this time, read it out for us to listen to." In the crowd, a big man in a coarse cotton coat put his hands in his sleeves, stomped his feet, and poked the weak scholar standing beside him with his elbow, with a sneer.

"Hey, I said Lao Lintou, you are a cookcake seller, why are you asking about this? I don't know a single character in Dou Da, let alone the ability to learn incense, and you can't go if you ask about it. The man on the other side laughed teasingly.

"What's the matter, isn't it just for people to see that the emperor list is posted, although I don't have that ability, but I can let my baby go to Xianglu to learn art." The rough-dressed man was very dissatisfied.

"Haha, as far as your little girl, I think it's better to learn from you - it's only suitable for selling cooking cakes, haha!"

"You ......"

"Fengtian carries the emperor, the edict said, when the three years of spring, the talent to compete for the palace brocade to return to glory, this dedication to the move, is the people's blessing of the comfort of the heavens, and I feel very happy, but regret that he is hidden in the world and chilling, my country's medicine fragrant embroidery kitchen is very deep, its plan starts from the people, Yang in the four seas, I want to win the world's talented people, into the palace division, now there are four pavilions in the capital, the emperor gave the reputation of a product, the successive cabinet masters, all for the high morality, the skills of the heroes, so the special order of the world's four pavilions, in the same year and the same day in the examination, the examination to recruit pious disciples, I hope that all the pavilion masters will not hesitate to plan and pour out what they have learned. The people of the same world, regardless of age, men and women, rich and poor, except for the talents of the Zhishi, are not allowed to participate, they are all regarded as equal, and they are inclined to study, glorify their family and country, and hereby announce to the world. Chin this! ”

But when he heard that the scholar suddenly spoke, he read out the edict word by word, interrupting the idle conversation between the two.