The rain is still falling, Zhou Ning stands at the head of the bridge, looking around, the long wind gusts of the Luohe River in the distance, the tourists in the south and north of the bridge are blazing, and the south side of the bridge is the most lively market in Luoyang. Pen "fun" pavilion www.biquge.info the city looms pavilions, green buildings stand in a forest, colorful flags swaying, silk and bamboo everywhere, than Yangzhou is still slightly better.

Seeing Zhou Ning looking at the bridge, Li Shimin said with a smile: "Over there is the famous Qinglou Manqing Courtyard in Luoyang, and recently invited Shang Xiufang, a beautiful woman from Jinghua, to sit in the limelight. On another street, there is Luoyang's premier Qinglou Fanghua Pavilion, the head card is the world's first trick Li Shishi, the boss Nie Fanghua was a smash hit, and later married the boss of the Luoyang Gang, ten years ago, the two envoys of Xia Ke Island rewarded the good and punished the evil and killed the boss of the Luoyang Gang, so she re-emerged from the Qinglou, otherwise today there would be one less gold cave. ”

Zhou Ning was a little stunned, in this plane, the chivalrous line was written by him, is there still a Taixuan Sutra on the chivalrous island?

Li Shimin didn't know what Zhou Ning was thinking, glanced at him, and said with a smile: "I want to stay in Luoyang City for a while this time, in recent days, the imperial examination has just been held in Luoyang City, and literati and ink writers abound. It's just the right thing to kill this group of talented people. ”

Li Shimin said that he was full of intentions, although Zhou Ning was destined to become friends with him, but he understood it in his heart, so he agreed with a smile.

Li Shimin touched his stomach and said, "I've been walking for so long, I'm a little hungry, I know there's a restaurant nearby, let's go and eat." ”

While talking and laughing, the two walked across the long street and walked towards the restaurant opposite.

In this era, Luoyang has a characteristic of multiple buildings, the restaurant opposite is a very grand pattern of the triple building, Zhou Ning and Li Shimin found an empty table in the corner, asked for pastries and snacks, and drank according to the table.

Li Shimin personally sandwiched a pastry for Zhou Ning, and said with a smile: "This is the famous pea cake in this restaurant, the color is orange and yellow, the sand is sweet and soft, and the bean fragrance is clear, which is very delicious." ”

Zhou Ning nodded and said, "Thank you, Brother Li." "Eat it with relish.

The two chatted for a few words, and a middle-aged man stood up in the box next door, and said with a smile: "Isn't this Li Shi's nephew...... When did you come to the Eastern Capital? ”

"It turned out to be Uncle Yu Shi, today Fang Zhi ......" Li Shimin said politely, first introducing the middle-aged man: "This is Mr. Yu Shiji, who is a great Confucian today, can write calligraphy, and is especially good at grass, which can be called today's Pan Lu." ”

"Oh...... Look up for a long time. ”

Yu Shiji glanced at Zhou Ning and said lightly: "Li Shi's nephew is too famous, Yu is a shallow learner, how can he dare to be called Pan Lu today, but Li Shi's nephew's literary and martial arts are all a momentary choice, which can be called the dragon and phoenix among people." ”

Yu Shiji obviously only regarded him as a scholar who entered Beijing to take the exam. After sitting down, he only cared about talking to Li Shimin and no longer paid attention to Zhou Ning.

In Li Shimin's eyes, Yu Shiji is obviously more important than Zhou Ning, but he is still polite and courteous to Zhou Ning for dinner.

Zhou Ning didn't care at all, concentrating on dealing with the delicacies on the table.

The two whispered for a while, and after a while, Yu Shiji said goodbye and left, Li Shimin sighed, glanced at Zhou Ning, and said: "Finally send this person away, this person's current internal history squire, and Niu Hong, Su Wei, Yu Wenshu and other six people participated in the election of officials, and the people of the time called "choose Cao Qigui", as long as you send him money, it is not a problem to be promoted to become rich, and you can't afford to offend him, if you offend him, it will be difficult to move an inch in Luoyang City." ”

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves came from the window, Zhou Ning raised his eyes to look at the Tianjin Bridge outside, only to see seven or eight horsemen appear on the Tianjin Bridge, urging the horse to gallop, and the first horse in the lead was a girl in Tsing Yi, who looked quite beautiful, chasing behind her horse, it was six or seven young handsome people who were the children of the gate valve at a glance, and the horses in fresh clothes galloped across the bridge.

Li Shimin said with a smile: "This is the young daughter of Pei Yun, a member of the current imperial court, who is as glamorous as Dong Shuni, and loves to find someone to compete, there are many people who are really defeated in her hands, but the fake defeat must account for eight or nine out of ten, ha, don't hide it from Brother Zhou, Li was defeated in her hands a year ago." ”

Zhou Ning smiled and said, "Brother Li pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade." ”

Li Shimin smiled dumbly and said: "It's a pity, it's still difficult to get this woman's blue eyes." In my opinion, Brother Zhou is very promising, I saw you fight with Xiang Yu that day, usually Brother Zhou seems to be gentle and elegant, but when it comes to the critical moment of life and death, he can make strange moves and get out of the siege of Xiang Yu and others, in my opinion, over time, Brother Zhou's achievements will definitely not be under Xiang Yu. ”

Receiving the extremely high praise of this emperor through the ages, Zhou Ning was a little flattered, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Li really won the award." ”

After chatting leisurely with Li Shimin for a while, the two walked down the restaurant and stepped on the Tianjin Bridge again, Li Shimin received a letter from Hongyan, at this time, they went back to their respective homes to find their mothers, Li Shimin was leaving, by the way, he inquired about Zhou Ning's residence, and learned that he had not yet found a good inn, handed over a name, and said with a smile: "These days coincide with the imperial examination, the inn may not have a vacant room, if you can't live at that time, the son may wish to go to the Chongwen Building in the East City, that inn, and the major families have something to do with the door valves." ”

Chongwen Building...... Song Shidao seemed to be talking about this inn at the beginning.

After Li Shimin finished speaking, he arched his hand and turned to leave, with an extremely chic posture.

Seeing Li Shimin's figure disappear at the bridge, Zhou Ning stepped off the Tianjin Bridge and returned to the south of the city, and the whole person became relaxed.

Although he and Li Shimin are destined to become friends, this person's demeanor is indeed heartbreaking.

At this time, the rain was still falling, and Luoyang City seemed to wake up suddenly, and the sedan car was flowing endlessly, and it was very lively. Many of the pedestrians were dressed in hufu, apparently from the Western Regions.

Just looking at the prosperity in front of them, no one can feel the continuous world war outside the city, and the lives are devastated.

It is even more unthinkable that Luoyang is falling into a situation of internal and external strife, and has become the axis of wrestling between major forces.

Under the drizzle, Zhou Ning left the crowded Tianjie, and walked westward along the Luoshui, the river surface is more than ten zhang wide, and the giant boats are side by side, and the boats are connected by large cables and iron locks, which become a wonder. At the ferry, several giant ships flying the big flag of "Ying" slowly approached the west bank.

The "Ying" word flag, could it be that Yingzheng has also arrived in Luoyang? It seems that the information I got before was not wrong, Qin Chuan, who was pseudonymous by Concubine Xuan, was indeed to choose the monarch in Luoyang, heh, Li Shimin, Xiang Yu, Ying Zheng, this is a bit interesting.

Before, Kou Zhong, Xu Ziling, Liu Yu and others persuaded themselves to divide a place in the land of Jianghuai, but now it seems that the road to hegemony is by no means a broad road.

Not only is the future unpredictable and rugged, but there is also the disaster of being broken at any time.

Those who can go to the end in history are all amazing and brilliant real heroes, Li Shimin and Ying Zheng are such people. Li valve is located in Taiyuan, as long as the rod is revealed, it will soon be able to take the western capital Chang'an. And Yingzheng is in Bashu, you can see the heroes chasing the deer from afar, riding the snipe and clam to compete with each other, and enjoy the benefits of the fisherman.

And he is still not getting started.

Looking back at Tianjin Bridge, Li Shimin was gone.

Shaking his head, he walked along the market in the south of the bridge towards the front, there is an extremely gorgeous and beautiful building on the side of the street in front of him, stretching into a piece, it looks quite majestic, the buildings here and there are probably some years old, they are all wooden structures, the sound of silk and bamboo comes from time to time in the air, elegant and fresh, it is early in the morning at this moment, and from time to time I see someone pushing open the door and coming out, with the tiredness after a hangover.

This must be the two big green buildings that Li Shimin said, Zhou Ning walked all the way over, walked to the street opposite the main entrance, and looked at the big signboard over there, and sure enough, it said "Manqing Courtyard", which was exactly where Shang Xiufang mentioned when he invited him over that day, Zhou Ning thought so.

Walk back to the royal road along the south of the bridge, find many inns along the way, and find that all the inns are full when you want to stay, and then Zhou Ning turned to the east market, and found the Chongwen Building that Li Shimin and Song Shidao said, there are really a lot of rooms left, Zhou Ning thought about it, and chose to take out the name that Song Shidao sent that day, and rented a courtyard here to live, the time has reached the afternoon, the rain has not stopped, Zhou Ning walked to the inn lobby and ordered some food to eat lunch. At this time, many people were talking loudly in the hall, and a few literati and writers who were close to him talked about several excellent works that have been widely circulated in the Eastern Capital recently, the most famous of which is a poem by Wang Wei: The empty mountain does not see people, but people hear people's voices. Return to the deep forest, and revisit the moss.