Tang Bohu made a gambling contract, wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth with his sleeve, and said: "Everyone here is a witness, don't lose and admit it!" ”

Su Xueyun snorted coldly, "You should say this to yourself, Zhishan, let's go." ”

Chen Xiaosheng glanced at Tang Bohu and left with Su Xueyun. Tang Bohu was unwilling to be left behind, and walked side by side with them, and everyone walked towards the only way for Hua Taishi to go home. It has been a few days in the capital, and they have already figured out the location of the palace and the residences of important officials, and they will not be unclear about the direction at this time.

The closer you get to the street that Hua Taishi must pass through, the more people there are on the street, and the streets are crowded with down-and-out scholars with wooden signs, and there are all kinds of written on them, but at a glance, you can see that they are all for one thing - to record the heritage.

Tang Bohu was already a little apprehensive in his heart, and he felt very incredible, so he couldn't help but whisper to Lu Zhaorong: "This is too exaggerated!" Are so many people squatting here just to ask for a product to do a record? ”

Lu Zhaorong sighed and said worriedly: "Bohu, you were really impulsive just now, what kind of bet are you making?" Isn't it good for everyone to be happy together? Why do you want to do this? No matter who wins, you or Qiuyue, everyone will not be able to be friends in the future. ”

Tang Bohu had a stump in his heart, and his eyes subconsciously fell on Su Xueyun, but he saw that Su Xueyun and Chen Xiaosheng were talking and laughing, as if they didn't take the bet to heart at all, and were just hanging out. The kind of intimate smile on Su Xueyun's face was something he had never seen before, he always thought that the autumn moon in Changle Fang was like the bright moon high above, it couldn't be reached, it couldn't be touched, it was because he Tang Bohu was the first talent in Jiangnan that he had the opportunity to capture the heart. But now, Su Xueyun belittled him for nothing, but instead regarded Chen Xiaosheng as the best man in the world, washed his hands and made soup for him, put away his indifference and smiled. Why? Why can't he even get a look from Su Xueyun, but Chen Xiaosheng can get everything from Su Xueyun?

Tang Bohu retracted his gaze, clutched the fan tightly, and was in no mood to speak, only felt that his heart seemed to be blocked by something, and even gasping for breath became unsmooth.

Zhu Xiaolian walked behind, looked at Su Xueyun and Chen Xiaosheng, and then looked at Tang Bohu, bumped Zhou Wenbin with her elbow with some concern, and whispered: "Do you think my sister-in-law can win?" ”

Zhou Wenbin looked at both sides of the street and replied: "It should be able to win, so many people want to ask for a record, it is definitely not a wise move to stop the sedan chair, and Qiuyue never does anything that is not sure, don't worry." It's all bad to blame me, if it weren't for me, they wouldn't have bet, I'm sorry. ”

Zhu Xiaolian looked at him speechlessly, "What's the matter with you?" Why do you want to apologize? It's basically Tang Bohu's bastard who has nothing to do, I think he has a grudge against my sister-in-law for teaching him that day, so he deliberately provoked trouble today. My sister-in-law's slap just now was so good, I wanted to hit him for a long time, he just deserved it! ”

After Zhou Wenbin became familiar with them, he also knew about her marriage contract with Tang Bohu, and seeing Zhu Xiaolian's angry look at this time, he couldn't help asking, "Are you still angry?" If you want to hit him, I can help you. ”

Zhu Xiaolian blinked, and said inexplicably: "What are you helping me do with this kind of thing?" ”

Zhou Wenbin said: "Oh, because you helped me treat my arm, I have always wanted to repay you, but there is no chance, so if you have anything you want to do but it is inconvenient to do, you can ask me to do it." ”

Zhu Xiaolian thought about it, nodded and said, "It's okay, you and I will call you if we have something in the future, you are not allowed to shirk." ”

Zhou Wenbin hurriedly waved his hand, "No, I won't shirk it." Well, actually, ......"

Zhou Wenbin wanted to say something, but Zhu Xiaolian suddenly pulled his sleeve, stared at the front and said, "Hey, do you see if that's Hua Taishi's sedan chair?" What a majestic look! ”

Zhou Wenbin looked forward and nodded, "Yes, it's Hua Taishi's sedan chair, someone really went to stop the sedan chair, that person looks so pitiful, much worse than me." ”

Several people saw Hua Taishi's sedan chair, and Su Xueyun asked them to stand on the side of the road so as not to collide with Hua Taishi. The down-and-out students on both sides of the street were very excited to see the sedan chair, and one of the students, who was injured in the leg and was on crutches, rushed to the sedan chair and stopped the sedan chair, making the others suffocated.

The student on crutches shouted miserably: "Hua Taishi, ask Hua Taishi to record the students, the students are dedicated to serving the country, only because of an accident did not pass the examination, if the students come to Japan High School, they must serve the court with all their hearts, Taishi......"

Hua Taishi walked out of the sedan chair, Tang Bohu glanced at Su Xueyun when he saw this, and said with a smile: "Hua Taishi is highly respected, and he has always valued talents the most. Look, isn't Hua Taishi coming out? ”

Su Xueyun said lightly: "It's too early to say. ”

Tang Bohu shook his head and smiled, shook off the folding fan and fanned it lightly in front of him, "Don't be hard-mouthed, if you admit defeat now, I can be a bet that doesn't exist." ”

Su Xueyun frowned slightly, if they were unmarried and unmarried, she would suspect that Tang Bohu was flirting with her, and the merry and talented man really lived up to his reputation and was annoying. Su Xueyun ignored him anymore, and walked directly to the other side of Chen Xiaosheng to distance himself from him.

Tang Bohu put away the fan, and the joy of winning the bet disappeared instantly.

At this moment, Hua Taishi stroked his beard and said: "It is good for the imperial court to open Enke in order to recruit talents, but the state has national laws and family rules, and Enke naturally has Enke's rules." You are not qualified to have a reason why you do not match, the record is to take the meaning of "the pearl of the sea", the opportunity is extremely rare, if everyone comes to the old man, the old man is for him to record the legacy, then what is the use of the rules? The old man is most unaccustomed to people who do not obey the rules and go crookedly, and if you want to serve the court, this time you will hit the thirty boards as a lesson, and remember to be honest and well-behaved in the future. Come on, bring it down. ”

The crutches student's face changed greatly, and he shouted in panic: "The master spares his life!" Taishi, the student just wants to serve the country, Taishi, Taishi! ”

Without saying anything, the two family members dragged the student on crutches to the side of the street and began to beat him in public, regardless of whether he was disabled or unbearable. And Hua Taishi has already entered the sedan chair and got up the sedan chair to go home.

Tang Bohu was stunned to watch the student on crutches being beaten, and heard someone talking that this student was already very good, and the healthy student who blocked the road last time was almost broken leg, because Master Hu said that he was sound in his hands and feet but did not think about the right way, and he was very angry, and ordered someone to be heavy-handed. He glanced at Zhou Wenbin, if he really asked Zhou Wenbin to stop the sedan chair directly as he said before, now Zhou Wenbin may have broken his leg!

Lu Zhaorong grabbed his sleeve, "Bohu, are you okay?" ”

Tang Bohu couldn't understand it: "What's wrong with that student?" Even if Hua Taishi doesn't want to help, just ignore him? Why hit him on the board? is still fighting so hard, doesn't the dignified master even have a little compassion? ”

Lu Zhaorong looked around nervously, grabbed him hard and said, "Bohu, be careful when you speak!" In case it reaches the ears of Hua Taishi, no one can protect you, this is the capital, it is better to be careful in everything. ”

Zhu Xiaolian snorted proudly and said, "I am willing to lose the bet, don't say something useless here, someone just seemed to call us all witnesses, didn't he forget what the bet was so quickly, right?" ”

Tang Bohu thought of the bet, his face was blue and white, and he said stubbornly: "I am willing to lose the bet!" I, Tang Bohu, can do what I say, Qiuyue, I am willing to pour tea and apologize to you. ”

Su Xueyun didn't look at him, and said lightly: "I'm not interested in drinking your tea, I just want you to remember what the stakes are, and from now on, don't let me see you again." ”

Tang Bohu's mind buzzed, and he looked at Su Xueyun in disbelief, "You really want to do such a great job?" Unwilling to ease at all? ”

Su Xueyun said: "You are the one who said that I was in trouble, and you were the one who proposed the gambling contract, don't go back on your word now." For me, it doesn't matter what the bets are, it's just that I don't want to see you. ”

Tang Bohu was devastated, he remembered the appearance of Su Xueyun vomiting blood for him during the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, and compared to the appearance of Su Xueyun in front of him who was extremely disgusted with him, it was simply two extremes. It's all his own doing, and by the time he wants to redeem it, she's already someone else's wife!

Tang Bohu had nothing to say, a painful look appeared on his face, and he said while retreating: "Okay, I will do what I say, I will not appear in front of you again in the future, and I will avoid all the places you are." ”

After Tang Bohu finished speaking, he felt that his heart was empty, and he turned around and left in despair. Lu Zhaorong hurriedly chased after him worriedly, and the two quickly disappeared around the corner.

Wen Zhengming hesitated: "Isn't this not good?" Bohu ...... Actually, there is nothing bad about it. ”

Su Xueyun let out a sigh of relaxation and said: "Good intentions may not necessarily be able to do good things, and this is actually not a mistake, but if you refuse to change your life and die, you will do bad things with good intentions all your life, which is more terrible than bad intentions." ”

Wen Zhengming nodded as if he didn't understand, "What you said seems to be very reasonable, but everyone has been brothers for so many years, you can't really ignore him, right?" It's better to let him change the bad places, I believe his father and mother also hope that he can grow up, Qiuyue, you are so smart, is there any way to help Bohu? If he gets better, you won't be so annoyed when you see him in the future, right? And Lao Zhu, you have always had a lot of ideas, you can also help think of a way, if it goes on like this, everyone really can't be brothers. After more than ten years of relationship, I don't want to see everyone go their separate ways! ”

Zhu Xiaolian said unhappily: "You also saw what he looked like just now, obviously he was unreasonable and had to make a bet with my sister-in-law, and it was he who first proposed to pour tea to apologize, and also clamored for us to be a witness for him, didn't he just think he had won?" He looked down on women at all, and decided that my sister-in-law didn't know as much as he did. Do you see how proud he was when he saw Hua Taishi get off the sedan chair? He also told my sister-in-law to admit defeat, saying that he didn't care, didn't he just want to win the bet to prove that he was right? As a result, he lost and said that my sister-in-law did a terrible job, as if everyone was bullying him, Zhengming, once or twice can be ignorant of him, three or four times, is he still reasonable? Do we all owe him? ”

Wen Zhengming insisted: "Xiaolian, I know that he is indeed wrong, but we grew up together, and we should always face difficulties together, right?" ”

Zhu Xiaolian's eyes turned red all of a sudden, tears swirled in her eyes, and she said in a choked voice: "You mean that I can't share hardships because I'm not close to people?" We grew up together, Tang Bohu kept saying that he treated me like a sister, but did he care about my feelings? Although my story didn't get out, but Master Tang and Mrs. Tang had already told their acquaintances, but Tang Bohu threw me aside with a word, and he didn't have a half explanation until now, do you know how strange those people's eyes were when they saw me? Did Tang Bohu consider me as a friend who grew up together? Who is the one who cares about friendship? It's him, not me! ”

Zhu Xiaolian turned around and ran after speaking, Su Xueyun was just about to move, and found that Zhou Wenbin had caught up. She hesitated for a moment but decided not to chase after her, with Zhou Wenbin here, she believed that Zhu Xiaolian would be fine.

Wen Zhengming looked at Zhu Xiaolian's back at a loss, and said incoherently: "I didn't mean to accuse her, she misunderstood me." Lao Zhu, Qiuyue, you believe me, how can I miss her so much? I know Bohu is wrong, I just want to help my brother, I ...... What should I do, Xiaolian must be very sad," he slapped his head vigorously and said in annoyance, "It's all my fault!" I really can't speak, how can I make Xiaolian cry? ”

Chen Xiaosheng shook his head and sighed, "Zhengming, to be honest, it's not that I don't care about more than ten years of brotherhood. In order to persuade his father to let him participate in the scientific examination, Bohu casually found out about the concubine, and once hurt Qiuyue and Xiaolian, one of them is my mother, and the other is my sister, you know how important they are to me. If Bohu knows that he is wrong and corrects himself, forget it, everyone doesn't mention the past, and life will continue to pass. But he didn't apologize to my sister, and always wanted Qiu Yue to give him a good face, and others didn't follow him, so he said that others didn't care about friendship, is there such a thing in the world? Is he the only Tang Bohu who is the smartest person in the world? Only what he did was right? ”

Chen Xiaosheng was silent for a moment and continued: "Zhengming, you said that you would try your best to help Bohu get rid of his bad problems, I really tried my best, and Qiuyue and Xiaolian have already given him many chances. From the Mid-Autumn Festival to the present, it has been a long time, but he has been angry with us again and again, and even introspection seems to be doing it. We still have our own life to live, he does this because he doesn't treat us as friends, we can't always follow him to make ourselves unhappy, I think that's it, today's bet was put forward by Tang Bohu, willing to gamble and lose, don't get too close in the future, naturally there will be no more contradictions. We will move out in two days, so that Tang Bohu will not have any place where he cannot enter and exit freely in the Six Arts Hall, so as not to be embarrassed when everyone meets. ”

Wen Zhengming was surprised: "You want to move out?" Is it because I just said the wrong thing? I'm not forcing you to tolerate him, I'm ...... I don't know how to explain it, I really didn't mean it that way! ”

Su Xueyun smiled at him and said comfortingly: "Zhengming, don't blame yourself so much, it has nothing to do with you." There is a conflict between us and Tang Bohu, I know that it has been difficult for you to do it in the middle, you have not done anything wrong, after all, Tang Bohu is your brother, and he has not hurt you, you want to help him as a matter of course, you don't need to blame yourself. It's good for everyone that we moved out, and I finally reunited with my sister, and I also want to have a place of my own, redeem my sister and take her to live with me as soon as possible, plus there is Xiaolian, it is very inconvenient for so many of us to live in the Six Arts Hall. Originally, Tang Bohu and I didn't talk for more than half a sentence, there was no contradiction if we didn't meet, everyone was safe, and it was about to take the Enke exam, try not to affect everyone's emotions, right? ”

Wen Zhengming couldn't hide his blame and lowered his head and said, "Then you choose a good place to call me, and I will help you move things." ”

Chen Xiaosheng patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Zhengming, don't think so much, we are always good brothers." After taking the Enke exam, if you have good grades, you will become an official in the court, and it is not up to you to decide where to be assigned at that time, and you don't want to separate? It's good to start their respective lives as soon as possible, for Tang Bohu, we just need to be worthy of our hearts, after all, no one can be responsible for his life. ”

Su Xueyun glanced at the direction Tang Bohu left, and said lightly: "Actually, he already has someone who can accompany him for a lifetime, but it's a pity that he can't see it and doesn't cherish it, and he has ruined other people's sincerity in vain." ”

Wen Zhengming looked at her line of sight with understanding, "You mean Zhaorong?" ”

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Su Xueyun's mouth, "Who else is there besides her?" Since she married Tang Bohu, she has taken care of her father-in-law wholeheartedly and been filial to her in-laws, but Tang Bohu has a 'name but no reality', when did he consider Zhaorong's feelings? It's rare to show that he doesn't care, and he is still sincere to him, but it's a pity that he meets this kind of person who doesn't know how to cherish it, and he doesn't know how much he will suffer. ”