“…… Uncle He Shi, you have a seven-pronged exquisite heart, and you think ...... How is Li Shimin? ”

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The voice in the restaurant was noisy, and the two of them spoke in a very low voice, but they didn't expect that after Zhou Ning cultivated the "Recipe for Longevity", his ears were very strong and he could hear what they said clearly.

After a few clueless words, Zhou Ning's heart sank slightly, he already had seven or eight points to guess the identity of this green-shirted scribe, most of whom was the descendant of Cihang Jingzhai, the pseudonym Qin Chuan's concubine Xuan.

"It's a bit annoying......

Zhou Ning sighed slightly, seeing that people were in trouble and didn't save them, but they wanted to choose the true son of heaven for the people, who gave them the power?

And he also has a ninety percent chance that Li Shimin is just a play, he has excellent eyesight, and he saw Li Shimin coming from the direction where Gao Yuankang left for the first time, if he didn't meet Gao Yuankang, it was really unlikely. If you encounter it, but let him leave easily after hurting people, this is intriguing.

It's really interesting.

He exhaled a breath and walked out towards the bottom of the restaurant.

met Li Shimin on the road, he walked towards the restaurant at this time, saw Zhou Ning, and was slightly stunned: "It turned out to be Brother Zhou." ”

"Brother Li, it's early."

After a few simple words of greeting, Zhou Ning didn't stay here for too long, and walked towards Zhou Yue's official residence.

When he passed through half of the city and came to the vicinity of the north-south royal road, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and it began to rain, and the nearby streets were full of pedestrians who had become hurried because of the heavy rain, and the shops had erected tarpaulins, and the scholars had taken refuge from the eaves.

Zhou Ning held up the umbrella and quickened his pace.

Approaching the imperial examination, the nearby official residence is actually quite lively. The comings and goings were crowded with scholars who came to visit with their scrolls. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the examination was not vague, and the names of the candidates were all clear to the officers who marked the papers, and the examination was more about whether the students were famous outside the examination room and whether they had the ability to operate. In a sense, this is also a test of the other party's interpersonal relationship and background. Thus. In order to increase the possibility of artificially increasing the rank and striving for the ranking, the candidates edited their daily poems and texts, wrote them into scrolls, and submitted them to those with status before the examination for recommendation, and then formed a fashion, which is called "line scrolls". In the original time and space, Zhou Ning's friend Du 13 sent a scroll of his own poems, a total of 150 articles.

When Zhou Ning came to Zhou Yue's mansion, the mansion of this great Confucian was a little deserted. An extraordinary-looking middle-aged official was being sent out by the steward, Zhou Ning stood under the eaves and waited for the other party to pass, the official also glanced at Zhou Ning, smiled slightly, and boarded the carriage and left.

After Zhou Ning called someone to spread the word, he immediately found an unexpected acquaintance at the door of the Zhou Mansion Hall.

It was a rather handsome young man, standing near the door and watching the rain. I have to say, it's quite a scribe. After seeing each other, Zhou Ning went over and said hello.

"Brother Qian."

"Ah, it turned out to be Brother Zhou."

Seeing that it was Zhou Ning, Qian Qianyi, who was standing there, turned pale, and hurriedly bowed. In fact, there is no deep grudge between the two sides, and even if there is, it has already been cleared, but Zhou Ning still doesn't know about the fact that he wants to hand over the scroll.

The two said a few words, and Zhou Ning smiled: "Since it is such a coincidence, and it is raining again, Brother Qian might as well stay and drink tea and chat together?" ”

As soon as he said this, Qian Qianyi was slightly shocked, glanced at Zhou Ning, smiled and waved his hand: "No, there are still some things to do when I go back, and I will go to Lord Yuwen's side to invest in the bank later." ”

At this time, the subordinate had already come over with an umbrella, he was leaving, Zhou Ning got up and sent him to the door, the two exchanged a few words, he looked at Zhou Ning, he wanted to speak and stopped, and then said in a low voice: "Brother Zhou, I know that you have a good relationship with Zhou Xiang, this time the matter is ......"

"I know what you mean." Zhou Ning nodded, "Don't worry, I won't say anything, that's the end of the matter." ”

Qian Qianyi became happy at this time: "So thank you Zhou Gongzi." ”

Looking at his departing back, Zhou Ning shook his head. The world is crowded for profit, the imperial examination is approaching, various literary meetings are frequent, scholars participate in gatherings, seek opportunities to emerge, and strive to manage their own fame, strictly speaking, Qian Qianyi is not wrong, and there is no need to deliberately dismantle his platform.

Under the guidance of the steward, Zhou Ning walked towards the courtyard inside.

Zhou Yue sat cross-legged there, under the eaves of the courtyard, a chessboard had been set up, and on one side of the chessboard, there was also a teapot, steaming up, and a puff of smoke and rain between heaven and earth, knocking on the flowers, stones, plants and trees in the yard in a low voice.

"Uncle, this is the tea I bought in Nanshi......"

"Nephew Ning is here, what kind of gifts do you bring?" Seeing Zhou Ning coming, Zhou Yue beckoned and said.

Zhou Ning smiled and said, "It's just a gesture." ”

"You've just arrived just in time to send off a guest. Come and talk to me for a game. It could be heard that Zhou Yue was not respectful to the guest's tone.

Zhou Ning was slightly stunned, unable to touch Zhou Yue's mind, but still sat down at the chess table and watched Zhou Yue pick up the sunspot.

Zhou Ning took the lead in white, but he was not polite, and put the chess pieces on it.

In this way, you and I probably put more than fifty hands, Zhou Ning didn't care much at first, just regarded it as an ordinary hand talk, but after a while, his expression became slightly serious. Zhou Yue's chess thinking is precise, and these chess moves have reached an extremely high level, and he has been forced into a disadvantage in a short time.

About an hour later, Zhou Ning could only admit defeat, Zhou Yue raised his head and looked at Zhou Ning for a moment, and said lightly: "The person who came just now is Wang Shichong, the garrison of Luoyang, according to him, Zhai Rang has captured Xingluo Cang, opened the warehouse to release grain, and relieved the people." Oh, the current world is like a chessboard, in which people seem to have fallen into a stereotype, and what they can do often has no choice at every step. ”

Zhou Yue's words seemed to mean something, Zhou Ning pondered slightly, knowing the general meaning of what Zhou Yue said, he wanted to use his own strength to save the Great Sui Dynasty that was already in crisis. But that's easier said than done.

For a while, I felt in my heart and blurted out: "People are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves." ”

"Yes, people are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves." Zhou Yue was stunned, groaned slightly, and then shook his head and smiled, "It's just a moment of emotion, this year's rain is getting heavier and heavier, I heard that there is a danger of bursting the embankment in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, I hope there will be no more floods......

Speaking of this, Zhou Yue's words changed, "Yes, nephew Ning, after you have built the Wen Palace, you have to improve in the chess path, the literati have four arts, qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and literature can enter the Tao, can't it be qin, chess, calligraphy and painting?" ”

Zhou Ning nodded, keeping it in mind. After a while, a trace of heat came out of the tea tray, Zhou Yue took out an iron box, took out a ball of tea cakes, and after passing "Luo", carefully put it into the teapot, added salt, green onions, ginger, orange peel, mint, and closed the lid again.

The corners of Zhou Ning's mouth twitched slightly, and he added green onion and ginger, that is, Zhou Yue, a Confucian who follows the rules, likes to add orange peel and mint, which is no different from the spicy soup he drank yesterday.

After taking a shallow sip of tea, Zhou Ning's face was strange, feeling the strange taste on his taste buds, and he said in a condensed voice: "Uncle is really good at tea, but ...... My nephew has learned a new way of drinking tea a few days ago, which is quite interesting, and when I am ready, I will bring some new tea for my uncle to taste. ”

"New tea?" Zhou Yue glanced at Zhou Ning with interest, and bowed slightly, "But forget it today, get ready, come with me into the imperial city, the emperor wants to see you." ”

"Go today?" Zhou Ning was really a little shocked now, he wanted to see this famous Emperor Yang of Sui, but it was not now.

"Yes, the emperor likes to move or not, no matter where he is, he has never stayed for a long time. After the autumn season, the emperor will leave for Xijing, and I will go there at that time. Zhou Yue straightened his clothes for him, and said lightly: "Huai'an, prepare the car." ”

"Yes, sir." A heroic young man arched his hand and said respectfully.

Zhou Yue turned to Zhou Ning and said: "This is Huai'an, the son of Zhou Jin, the steward of my house, who is young and promising, quite brave, after I go to Xijing, I will let him follow you for easy contact." ”

"Huai'an...... Zhou Huai'an? ”

Another celebrity? With Zhou Huai'an, is it possible that there are still Qiu Moyan and gold inlaid jade?

Zhou Ning smiled bitterly, he had long been accustomed to it.

After a while, the carriage had been set, Zhou Ning smiled at Zhou Huai'an, helped Zhou Yue into the carriage, and bowed down to sit in. After a while, the carriage slowly moved along the path on both sides of the royal road and headed ahead.

From this section of the road, the buildings on both sides of the street are very different, all the buildings on the main road are all heavy eaves pattern, even the restaurant is the same, and decorated with Dan powder, showing a luxurious atmosphere.

According to what Zhou Yue said, this was all ordered by Yang Guang, just to let foreign envoys see the prosperity of our great country.

Along the royal road all the way to the north, there are already columns of soldiers stationed along both sides of the road on the wide streets of the south, all of them are cold and majestic.

Not far ahead, there is the magnificent and majestic palace city, which is also Yang Guang's new palace, the sacred Ziwei city in the hearts of the people.

When Yuwen Kai of Yuwen was responsible for the construction of the Eastern Capital, he used Zou Yan's concept of the unity of heaven and man. When the capital was built, Luo water was introduced through the capital, like the Tianhan, and the bridge was crossed to the south, and the law was carried out. Of course, Luoshui means the Tianhan Milky Way, and the horizontal bridge refers to the Tianjin Bridge.

However, in Zhou Ning's view, when Yu Wenkai built the eastern capital, he had no selfish intentions, and the Sui room was a fire virtue, leading Luo water through the capital, and taking water and fire to help him. In Zhou Yizhong, both Ji is Hengtong, Heng, Xiao Lizhen, and the beginning of the auspicious end of chaos. It means auspicious at the beginning and turbulent at the end.

After a while, the carriage stopped at the gate of the inner city, and Zhou Ning and the others got out of the car and were interrogated.