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A month and a half passed, and soon it was the ninth day of the new year, and the flower viewing party held by the prince began under the expectation of many officials and celebrities. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The reason why the flower viewing party is so valued by everyone is not only that the organizer is the future prince of the country, but also because it is a place for literati and scholars to gather. If you write your poems well, you are likely to gain the respect of the prince, and the prince will recommend it to the emperor in the name of promoting talents, bypassing the cruel competition of the imperial examination and becoming an official easily. Therefore, many talented people who are quite famous among the people, but the imperial examination is always the first talent, can be said to be eager to enjoy the flowers, and they want to enter but cannot get it.
The cherry blossom viewing party was held in Yihong Garden, a suburb of the capital. Yihongyuan was the courtyard of an official in the former dynasty, and was later bought by the prince with a lot of money. The garden is planted with rare flowers from all over the country, from the ordinary orchid lotus chrysanthemum plum, to the precious phalaenopsis, Wenxin orchid, wild goose red and so on, the autumn high festival, the garden is fragrant with cinnamon and orchid, the scenery is charming.
Outside the gate of the garden, there are guards from the Prince's Mansion guarding them layer by layer, and those who do not have invitations are not allowed to enter.
Early in the morning, the invited people came in groups, and the luxurious and noble carriages slowly entered the garden with the fragrance of flowers on the ground. Everyone laughed and talked, courteous and graceful. There are also ladies and ladies from large official eunuchs, taking advantage of this rare opportunity to go out, they gathered in an unnoticeable corner, whispering, and laughing coquettishly.
Everything looks so relaxed and pleasant, like a painting.
Not far from the garden gate, there is a discordant scene.
A young man in fancy clothes with a thief head and a bad smile on his face was shuttling back and forth among the crowd of people going to the meeting.
"Oops! Isn't this the shopkeeper's? Are you really here? Alas, in fact, this flower viewing will be quite boring, or you can go back and transfer the invitation to me? ”
"Why? Didn't you sell it to me for five thousand taels of silver? "Shopkeeper Zhang is not happy.
"It's full of some gentlemen, we are all businessmen, do you think it's interesting to get together in that bunch of people?"
"I don't care if it's interesting or not, I'm here to talk about business, maybe some rich boy thinks that my shop in the south of the city has a future, and is willing to give money to do business in partnership."
"Gotta get in......
"Oops! Isn't this Boss Zhou? Why are you here in person? Little brother advises you to say a word, hurry back and get it, this flower viewing will be boring, little brother invites you to go up to Yicui Lou to drink flower wine tonight,—— can you send me an invitation? ”
"Why? Isn't that what you sold me? It cost me 5,000 taels. ”
"Can you buy it back again?"
"Okay, you pay 10,000 taels, and I'll sell it to you again."
The young man was taken aback: "Why don't you go and grab it?" It's only been a few days and it's doubled, and you're crazy about money, right? ”
"This time, that time. Do you want it? I don't want to go in. After speaking, Boss Zhou shook his sleeves and left without looking back.
"Profiteers! Shameless! The young man scolded fiercely behind his back.
There is no doubt that this young man is the eldest young master of Ren Xiaoyao.
As for why he jumped up and down the world outside the garden gate to buy invitations, the reason was very simple, the sequelae left by selling invitations that day ,—— sold, and he sold the invitations that belonged to him. He himself is just a five-grade idle official, and he has not been arrogant enough to dare to release the pigeons of His Royal Highness the Prince, so there is this dilemma of looking at his door but not entering.
When he was lamenting why there were more profiteers than good people in this world, a familiar figure came into his eyes.
Xiao Huaiyuan!
Why is this kid here too? Later, when I thought about it, I was relieved, this kid himself worked in the Prince's Mansion, and it was very reasonable and logical to appear here.
"Hey! Brother Xiao! Long time no see, how are you? Ignoring the sideways glances of the literati beside him, Ren Xiaoyao happily waved his hand and shouted.
Xiao Huaiyuan stood at the door to greet the guests, and couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the shouting. The voice was so familiar, so familiar that he couldn't forget it.
But he still pretended not to hear, and did not even look back.
However, he still underestimated Ren Xiaoyao's determination to make friends with acquaintances.
Ren Xiaoyao still shouted regardless of it: "Brother Xiao! Xiao Huaiyuan! It's me, your closest friend, your good brother, let me go! Why don't you ignore me? ”
Xiao Huaiyuan heard that his teeth were sour, and he was about to walk into the garden as if nothing had happened, avoiding the prison harassment of this plague god. The guard standing at the gate of the garden couldn't stand it anymore, and couldn't help but persuade: "Mr. Xiao, that friend of yours has been calling for a long time, why don't you go up and recognize him, this is ...... The people who come and go are all literati and scholars, and the shouting and shouting are too unorthodox, and the little ones are afraid that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will blame them......"
Xiao Huaiyuan tilted his head, sighed heavily, walked slowly in front of Ren Xiaoyao with a straight face, and said coldly: "Okay, don't scream." ”
Ren Xiaoyao saw that he was finally willing to come out to recognize him, and said dissatisfiedly: "Why is it so young that you have your ears behind it?" Don't you hear me calling you so much? ”
“…… What the hell do you want to do? "Xiao Huaiyuan really can't do anything about him.
"Nonsense, I'm going in."
"Don't you have an invitation? It's hard to go in directly, why are you yelling outside? ”
"Hehe, there was originally an invitation, but I'm too responsible, send one in the east and one in the west, it's gone."
"That's nice, it's sold, right?" Xiao Huaiyuan snorted dissatisfiedly, thinking that Ren Xiaoyao snatched his invitation, he was angry in his heart, originally he wanted to sell a few by himself, but he was robbed by Ren Xiaoyao.
"Hehe, it's all the same, I just saw you, good brother! There is this life, there is no afterlife, quick, take me in. ”
"No! Find your own way to go. Xiao Huaiyuan turned his head and left.
"If you don't take me in, I'll go home, and when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asks, I'll tell him that no one has ever invited me at all, and I don't even know there's such a thing as a flower viewing party......
Xiao Huaiyuan stopped, looked up to the sky and sighed, "...... How could I know you! ”
In this way, Ren Xiaoyao was smoothly brought into the garden gate by Xiao Huaiyuan.
"Don't keep your face strained, how ugly it is, your image represents the prince's mansion, come, smile......" Ren Xiaoyao enlightened him along the way.
When passing by the gate of the garden, Ren Xiaoyao heard the conversation of the guards guarding the door.
“…… It's strange that there are so many new faces today. ”
"What face?"
"It seems that there are many shopkeepers of big businesses in the capital, strange, how could His Royal Highness the Crown Prince invite them? This is the place where the literati gather. ”
"Have you checked their invitations carefully?"
"I've checked, the invitation is real."
"That's it, whatever, as long as the invitation is genuine, there is no responsibility for us."
Ren Xiaoyao smiled secretly after hearing this, and when he looked up, he saw Xiao Huaiyuan glaring at him fiercely.
Slapping a silver ticket in Xiao Huaiyuan's hand, Ren Xiaoyao smiled and said, "Okay, don't look at me with that kind of look, it's weird and awkward." This is a dividend for you, let's clear this matter, you go and get busy, you don't need to call me......"
Ren Xiaoyao waved his sleeves and walked away in style.
Xiao Huaiyuan opened it and looked at it, and couldn't help but be angry: "One hundred taels? This bastard! What about sending Hanako? ”
The flowers of Yihong Garden are the most famous in the capital, because there are guards of the prince's mansion all the year round, ordinary people have no chance to see these various precious flowers, today the prince invites guests, but it makes those ladies and ladies surprised, so the garden is full of women's figures, smiling and playing, admiring and amazed, warblers and swallows, ring fat swallows and thin, adding a little refreshing fat powder fragrance to the already flowery garden.
As soon as Ren Xiaoyao stepped into the garden, he saw an unusually bloated and obese figure, like an overnourished flower butterfly, struggling to shuttle among a bunch of young ladies.
"Ah, this young lady, this flower is called Lily, take a hundred years of good harmony, planted at home, auspicious omen, Miss may soon meet a suave Ruyi Langjun like me......"
"Yikes! Are you sure? Slave ...... The slave family hasn't come out of the cabinet yet...... "Miss is infinitely shy."
"Really? It's good to be out of the pavilion, hehe, I'm not talented, I'm willing to find a secluded place, and talk to the young lady about the trick of planting this lily......"
Ren Xiaoyao snorted and laughed, this dead fat man, his skills in picking up girls are so inferior, and he is also a romantic character who lingers in the brothel of Qinglou every day, why hasn't he grown up at all?
Quietly walked behind the fat man and patted him on the shoulder, Ren Xiaoyao deliberately lowered his voice and said, "Boy, don't you want to die?" Dare to seduce my wife? ”
The fat man was startled, he didn't turn his head, subconsciously held his head with both hands, and said in a trembling voice: "...... This brother, misunderstanding, misunderstanding! ”
Ho! The action is quite skillful, it seems that this dead fat man has hooked up with married women, and he must have eaten a lot of deflated.
The young lady who was molested actually looked very ordinary, and her face was dotted with some freckles and pockmarks, and when she heard Ren Xiaoyao say this, she couldn't help but blush with shame, stomped her feet fiercely, and said, "Phew! Who is your wife? Shameless! After saying that, he covered his face and ran away quickly.
The fat man hurriedly turned around, and when he saw that it was Ren Yao, he couldn't help but be angry: "I said that there is something wrong with your kid?" I haven't seen you for so long, and I didn't say that I came to see me, and as soon as I met, I was scared away by the beauty I finally fell in love with......"
After speaking, the fat man looked at the young lady who flew away with a reluctant face, and smacked his lips unsatisfied.
Ren Xiaoyao pouted and said, "Come on, what kind of vision do you have, just like that, can you be called a beauty?" The face of the beauty mole, the body full of sand guarding the palace, potholes, bumps and bumps, a basin of water splashed on the face without dripping,—— I said fat, you are also a prince, why are you not picky? ”
The fat man was suffocated when he heard this, then straightened his chest and said with a hard mouth: "I just like pockmarks, I like women who look very layered, what's the matter?" Isn't it possible? ”
Ren Xiaoyao persuaded bitterly: "Don't get along with yourself, there is something wrong with your heart, if you wake up in the middle of the night, and when you open your eyes, you find a numb face lying next to you as if you have been kissed by a pig, what if you can't bear the stimulation, you are scared of the blood and qi and kick your legs?" Go back to the government and sue other girls for murder, aren't you hurting other girls? ”
The fat man smiled bitterly: "You...... Your mouth is too poisonous......"
Ren Xiaoyao patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I have to cultivate your aesthetics well, if this continues, in the future, your son and your grandson will only be more and more ugly from generation to generation, and it will be sad to think about it." ”
The fat man joked with him for a few words, then pulled Ren Xiaoyao to a no-man's corner, looked around, and said in a low voice: "Hey, Brother Ren, I don't know if it's my delusion, I always feel that the atmosphere in the capital is a little wrong in the past few days......"
Ren Xiaoyao blinked: "What's wrong?" ”
"I can't say, but everything is the same as usual, and I don't see any changes. But I always felt like I was panicking, like the stuffy feeling before the rainstorm, and I was a little overwhelmed...... You are an official in the court, tell me, is there something big going to happen recently? The fat man's face was a little ugly.
Ren Xiaoyao looked at the fat man with a smile, he was his friend in distress, he had been through the window together, he had carried a gun together, he had visited the Qinglou together, and he and the fat man seemed to have all the big irons of the man. Fortunately, the fat man was just an idle prince who couldn't meddle in political affairs, so he was excluded from the treacherous court. But if one day, the emperor dies of old age and the crown prince ascends the throne, can the fat man, an idle prince, still be so free? You know, he has always had a bad relationship with the prince, with the prince's personality, can he tolerate this half-brother?
It would be nice if the fat man became the crown prince.
Ren Xiaoyao was shocked, how could he think so? Is it a bit of a rebellion? But then again, as the emperor's biological son, did the fat man really never think of competing with the prince? Could it be that he is willing to be a free prince for the rest of his life? People have no foresight, there must be near-term worries, hasn't he thought about himself, in case the prince ascends the throne, what awaits him?
"Fat man, have you ever thought about it......" Ren Xiaoyao just opened his mouth and changed his mind, now is not a good time to talk about this topic, at least he has to wait for Pan Shangshu to fall.
The fat man looked at him with a question mark on his face: "What have you thought about?" ”
Ren Xiaoyao changed the subject and said, "...... In fact, the emperor is not in a good mood these days, if you are fine, go into the palace to talk to him, don't be afraid, what is there to be afraid of your father, in addition to being the co-owner of the world, he is actually a lonely old man who needs his children to accompany him......"
The fat man looked at him with a solemn face, nodded vigorously, and a little understanding flashed in his eyes.
Smiled and patted the fat man on the shoulder, Ren Xiaoyao said: "Don't make it so heavy, let's play today, don't waste the good time of picking up girls......"
The fat man smiled: "Yes, yes, yes, I still want to see Brother Ren perform the trick of picking up girls, I'll learn a few tricks ......"
So among the ladies and ladies with red and willow green, there are two more flower butterflies that are constantly shuttling and busy.
"Oh, this sister is so beautiful, how can she come out to enjoy the flowers, as soon as my sister appears, the flowers in the whole garden are eclipsed, this is my sister's sin......"
"Huh? This sister's slender hands are so delicate and slender, it's really the only time I've ever seen a little brother in my life. The younger brother has a little study of the I Ching hexagram, and I don't know if my sister is willing to let the younger brother show you palmistry...... Wow! My sister's little hands are so soft! The younger brother can touch it, it is really a blessing for three lives, I don't know how old my sister is, where does she live? Let's leave a contact with Renshi......"
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The fat man watched Ren Xiaoyao play the pickle girl ** in a daze, and admired in his heart, Brother Ren is worthy of being the pioneer in the merry array, and he really deserves his reputation, if he can have his three successes, why can't he even soak a pockmarked girl? (To be continued.) )