But said that Qiao'er followed Zhou Fuxiang into the garden, Zhou Lao Ye is taking the three or five Qing guests to sit in the pavilion built by the pond to rest, the next color of Tsing Yi entourage, out is the lotus pond that is chiseled into a crescent shape, the water in the pool is drawn from the moat in the suburbs of Beijing, the pool wall is carved with the head of the stone pan outlet, the hibiscus in the pool is out of the water, the swimming fish wears the swimming, quite a summer taste. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Seeing them coming, the entourage reported that the brother had arrived, and the Qingke ministers got up from the pavilion and said with a smile: "Brother Xiao Shi hasn't seen him for many days, how is his body?" ”

Zhou Fuxiang smiled and said that it was very good, and asked the Qingke a few words, Qiao'er followed behind, raised his eyes and looked at Master Zhou, and saw that he had a majestic face, wide eyebrows and wide eyes, he was an open-minded appearance, and he was very kind to others, and when he saw him, he smiled and asked Zhou Fuxiang: "This is the new invitation you said that day, right?" Look at the age, but younger than you, we don't know how to read, today you come together, while the ministers are here, I will take a test for you, I don't know if you can make it? ”

Zhou Fuxiang knew that Qiao'er was arrogant and unruly, and admired his erudition and knowledge, so he smiled and said: "There is nothing to do, my father just needs to take the test." ”

Master Zhou and the ministers all laughed, and said: "You are becoming more and more bold this time, I usually hear that I want to test you, and I am always scared to avoid cats and mice, so I can see that I have read some truth these days, so I am not afraid." ”

Zhou Fuxiang smiled silently, and Master Zhou called a Qingke named Meng Tingfang to come out, and ordered him to limit the rhyme, only test five words and seven words, and the dream sweet fragrance burned out. Meng Tingfang saw the full pond Shu green, and the goose yellow and delicate, so he took the lotus as the theme and limited the rhyme of the door. The topic is not difficult, but the difficult thing is that the lotus poem has already been written by the ancients, and it takes a lot of effort to come up with a new one.

Qiao'er is clumsy, neither too prominent, but also not too shallow, only scribbled a perfunctory poem, Zhou Fuxiang acted respectfully, but wrote a poem as his duty. When the ministers saw that they had finished it, they all took it to see it, praising Qiao'er for being young but proficient in rhyme, but the artistic conception was inevitably a little lacking. withdrew his hand and looked at Zhou Fuxiang again, whether he was sincere or not, he praised it greatly.

Master Zhou listened to the joy in his heart, and said: "Brother Qiao'er is also down, after all, he is young, and it is already rare to be able to say the sentence that Taiye Hibiscus entered the Jade Gate." Yanqing, you are not, it seems that it is about to be the day of autumn, and it seems that this kind of poetry is difficult to get out even if you do a hundred more poems. ”

Zhou Fuxiang had long been accustomed to hearing this kind of words, and he didn't care about it in his heart, only when he heard Master Zhou praise Qiao'er, he was really happy in his heart, so he only looked at Qiao'er and laughed. Seeing that he didn't speak, the Qingke on the side thought that he had frightened Master Zhou, and hurriedly said: "Brother is only fifteen years old, and it is not easy to have such skills." Besides, when it comes to Qiuqiu, I think it's the best policy to fail the exam this time. ”

Everyone was amazed and hurriedly asked why.

The man sighed and said, "It's a long story, have you ever heard of the Qingyu case?" ”

One person said: "But the Qingyu case that implicated the fall of Jia Shiwang and Xue last year? ”

The man nodded, "Exactly." This matter has to start with the previous year, when Fang Zhengqing, a cabinet scholar, went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces to preside over the township test, just because he committed a poem in the Book of Songs, committed a crime, was arrested for the crime of great disrespect, and died in prison soon after, even his relatives. Zhejiang candidates went to mourn because they followed the righteousness of being a teacher for one day and a father for life, and let the imperial court find out that they would use this as an excuse to suspend the examination of the scribe township in Zhejiang. At that time, it was the prince Tengwang of the family of Jia Shiwang Xue Si who was the inspector of the nine provinces, because of this case, it was widely implicated and the momentum was huge, so much so that it shocked the imperial court. Thanks to the pressure of Lord Wang, the rebellion of the literati in Zhejiang was wiped out invisibly, and later he rose all the way to the rank of cabinet scholar. Who knew that in this year, Lord Wei, who served as the governor and governor of Zhejiang, was sent by the imperial court to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces to observe customs and customs, observe public opinion, and see that many Zhejiang scribes repented, so he said many good things for Zhejiang scribes. Today, when he saw the setback, he soon ordered the resumption of the township examination of the Zhejiang scribes, and because of the anger of the people, he thought that Wang Ziteng was ineffective in doing things back then, deposed his position, and entered Beijing for examination, which was one of them. Second, the concubine Niangniang, who was born in Jiafu in the palace, died of illness first, and now feels that she is virtuous and virtuous, and has never forgotten it, only hating that the concubine has never conceived a dragon heir, and cannot move into the temple after a hundred years, so she wants to record the eighth son of the emperor into the name of Jia Guifei to show her favor. Unexpectedly, the mother of the eighth son of the emperor heard about this, and actually had an unpleasant quarrel with the Jia family outside the city, and even set off the old things of the Jia Mansion, the original relatives were arrogant and knew to the government and the opposition, but because of the endless quarrel between the two mansions, the eighth son of the emperor died suddenly for no reason, and now he lost his beloved son, and in his anger, he ordered to raid the two mansions and deal with them according to the law. ”

Everyone sighed, and another person wondered: "But what does this have to do with rushing to take the exam?" ”

The man sneered: "How can it not be implicated, although the imperial court has repeatedly ordered not to discuss state affairs, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that today because of everything, everything is hard, the body is not as good as before, and there are many princes under the knees, and the East Palace is empty. If you don't plan well, won't the day when the lord of others ascend the throne be your own life? ”

At this time, everyone was vaguely abrupt, Qiao'er followed from the side, and naturally heard clearly, but sighed that he was young at the time, and he lived in the boudoir, but he didn't know that there was such a story behind the fall of Jiafu, and he was sad for a while, and he stood in place and was silent.

Master Zhou is accustomed to loving Mingzhe to protect himself, and has never been an official in Beijing, and he is not very well-versed in state affairs. Looking back at Zhou Fuxiang and Qiao'er standing there with their heads down, he smiled and said, "Presumably the two of you are tired after coming out for a while, and the heat outside has not subsided, so I won't leave you to hang out with our old guys." After that, he called the entourage in the audience and said, "Dafu, send my brother to my wife's place to play for a while." Tell my wife, I have already taken the test of my brother's homework, and I will give him half a day off today. ”

Dafu hurriedly bowed down and agreed, waiting for Master Zhou and the ministers to get up and go to the study, only then did he enter the pavilion, hugged Zhou Fuxiang and said: "Brother let's go, I sunburned you carefully under the sun." ”

Zhou Fuxiang also felt that his brain hurt when he was tired of reading the poems, but he didn't argue with him at this time, and let the little guys come up and hug their legs, hug their waists, and send them to Mrs. Zhou in the east. Lu'er followed behind him with Qiao'er, and also came to Mrs. Zhou.

Qiao'er was sullen all the way, full of the mistakes of Prince Teng and Jia Yuanchun's death. She is no longer Miss Jiafu who came to reach out for food and open her mouth when she was a child, since she raided her home, she has tasted a lot of warmth and warmth in the world, and when she heard the past of Jiafu, she naturally had some thoughts. When Wang Ziteng was promoted to a cabinet scholar, his aunt Yuan Chun chose Fengzao Palace not long after, and then Yuan Chunxian died, and the Wang family was in trouble, and his mother said that his uncle and grandfather died of illness due to accidental ingestion of drugs on the way to Beijing, and now I see that it is not as simple as it seems.

Just thinking about it, there is already Mrs. Zhou's wing in front, the summer is hot, the maids have nothing to do and have already found a cool place to hide, only a few big girls such as apples, pears and red cherries are in the house, and there are two little girls holding fans, and there is no match for Mrs. Zhou.

Outside, it is rumored that Uncle Fu is here, and Mrs. Zhou is sleeping in a daze, and she never opens her eyes, and only asks Qingping to wait for him to come in.