The deliberate flattery of the staff failed to fill the vanity of Prime Minister Nangong Xi as usual.

Several of his proud protégés only won the top three, and they were given the same jinshi background, but they didn't even get into the second class. Although the champion and the list eye have already handed over the worship post, saying that they want to worship under their own door, but the Qi country has always had an unwritten convention, and the champion and the list eye usually do not get any real power, and they just have a resounding name.

What made him angry was that the nerds of the 'Yuzhou Gang' who were in the limelight in the palace examination were drunk in the inn one by one, and no one came to visit him, the first prime minister of the court!

Nangong Xi's staff observed the words and looks, and dug out the connections of the Yuzhou Gang as soon as possible.

This group of poor sours went to Beijing to take the exam, and it was a little-known small teahouse that was funded, and the owner of the small teahouse was called Xia Qingyun, who was once arrested by one of his protégés and put in prison, and then rescued by General Zhenyuan.

And this little girl came to the capital at some point, turned into a righteous daughter of Zhenguo Gong, and was canonized as the lord of Taiping!

The emperor has always valued military force over literature, and as the prime minister, he should have been under one person and above ten thousand, but he was coerced by the two princes everywhere.

Finally seized the opportunity of the prince's regency and pressed them down, but I didn't expect the emperor to ease up and regain power, and the prestige of the Zhenguo Gong and the Huguo Gong in the government and the opposition skyrocketed.

Nangong Xi picked up the tea cup, wanting to drink hot tea, but when he remembered that this tea was produced by Qingyun Tea Garden, he was angry. There was a thud on the table.

The staff member said: "My lord, isn't there still a court exam for the eighth day of junior high school?" Although it was hand-picked by the emperor, but the official is not fiefdomed, where to take office, it is not you and the officials who have the final say? ”

The corners of Nangong Xi's mouth moved, waved his hand, and said righteously: "The court examination is to choose the talents of the pillars of the country, how can it be mixed with personal feelings!" Those who have the ability will naturally be reused, where they are needed. Send it wherever it goes! ”

Obedient and obedient. Listening to the sound of gongs and drums, the staff who were as slippery as mercury properly understood the instructions of the prime minister, like a swarm of worker bees. Fly into the mansions of various officials.

This New Year. Someone has an easy life. Some people are confused, and some people are racking their brains.

Zhenguo Mansion, early in the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve. Xia Qingyun took out three cream cakes from the treasure pavilion, one was sent to the county lord of Anping in the eldest princess's mansion, and the other two were sent to the palace to be presented to the queen mother and queen.

The sound of crackling firecrackers has not stopped from morning to night, simmering, stewing and steaming, all kinds of delicacies are served one plate after another, from the subordinate to the master, everyone is wearing brand new winter clothes, beaming with joy. Even the horses in the stables were tied with a big red flower, snorting their noses, and eating the 'treasure pavilion forage' specially provided by Xia Qingyun.

In an inn next to Hanlin Yuan, more than a dozen 'nerds' drank from Chinese New Year's Eve to the first day of the new year, and spent their first New Year in the capital in a daze.

On the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, Shangshu, Yushi and other senior members of the imperial court, the six departments invariably received several groups of the prime minister's staff, politely said official words, and sent people away, leaving only the tooth Hanako worried.

On the one hand, he is the red man of the prince and the prime minister, and on the other hand, he is the emperor's important minister, and the two princes who hold the military power can't afford to offend anyone! Thinking of the pilgrimage examination on the eighth day of the first year, even the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was eaten with the same taste as chewing wax, and I didn't know the taste.

Early in the morning of the first day of the new year, the people who went to the Guogong Mansion to pay New Year's greetings were empty, and the two Guogong rushed to the Jietai Temple with their families before dawn to worship and pray for blessings.

Xia Qingyun still had a thought, that is, he wanted to find Master Xianyun and ask himself if it was possible to return to his previous life. When I think of my parents over there, I only have such a daughter. She was reborn, and she had two pairs of parents who loved her, but how sad the parents over there must be!

However, the abbot of Jietai Temple told her that Master Xianyun was in retreat. This retreat, which lasted as little as three months, was also a year and a half of deep meditation.

Xia Qingyun had no choice but to leave in a huff, accompanied the two mothers to burn incense and kowtow, and gave a large amount of incense money.

After staying in Jietai Temple for three days, I returned to the capital. Qi has always had the custom of not going out on the fourth day of the new year and not paying New Year's greetings on the fifth day of the new year, and this year passed quietly.

Yao Xili and Qinglian and others returned to Hejian on the fifth day of the new year, because of this year's palace examination and court examination, many people came to Hejian a year ago, waiting to walk around to give gifts, activities, and donate a good place of fat. Therefore, the large and small shops and restaurants in the river also opened on the sixth day of the new year.

However, after all, most people are still immersed in the New Year, and there are not many local guests. On the sixth day of the new year, the city was opened, and people met and said some happy words, and they didn't have much heart to work, so Yao Xili made people close early.

The opposite side of the cloud building is more than the usual people, people are used to eating home-cooked food, and get some silver money for the New Year, so they come out to fight tooth sacrifices, until midnight, there are still a few tables of guests did not leave.

The shopkeeper was already sleepy, lying on the counter and napping, the guy yawned, carried the pot to the private room upstairs and sent water again, scolding in his heart, these foodies, why don't they leave!

The guests of this private room came in after dinner, they originally wanted to go to Qingyunxuan, but it was already closed, so they entered the Tayun Building nearby.

The leader was a tall and thin man, with a woman and three men, the woman seemed to be a maid, and the man seemed to be a housekeeper, and asked for some ordinary wine and food, a few pots of old wine, all of which were only three taels of silver, but stayed for two hours!

Finally, when they called for the bill, the man waited for the silver, and when a family member got up, he accidentally dropped a set of cups and saucers, and fell to the ground and shattered.

Childe said apologetically: "How much is it, pay according to the price." ”

The guy glanced at them lazily, the wind and dust were served, the style of clothes was also outdated in the capital, and the speech was not a Beijing accent, thinking that it must be a relative from another province, so he drooped his face, "Not much, ten taels!" ”

"What!" The man shouted, "It's just a set of old cups and saucers, you dare to ask for ten taels!" ”

The guy smiled, "The cups and saucers are worthless, but they haven't been out of the New Year yet, and breaking things will attract bad luck, ten taels, or less!" ”

"How can this be true! Call your shopkeepers! ”

"You don't need to call, it's useless to call, I advise you to hurry up and give the silver and leave." The guy looked disdainful.

When the family heard this, they were even more angry, and they quarreled with the guy, and they couldn't help but push a little, the table lifted the chair and overturned, and the plate was shattered again.

The boy didn't care, standing by the window and watching the scenery coldly.

There was a big movement, which alarmed the shopkeeper downstairs, and he hurriedly sent someone to see it. Knowing the reason, the shopkeeper sneered, "For the New Year, come here to spread wild, and tell them, if you don't take out a hundred taels of silver, don't go out of this door today!" (To be continued......)