Chapter 77
77, seven nights drunk
The aftertaste of seven nights of drunkenness does not seem to have dissipated, and Li Mingwen only feels that there is still a mellow smell of wine in his mind, as if he has returned to the world after traveling too empty, and he still has the feeling of soaring clouds and fog. He barely sat up, his feet unsteady, and his body staggered.
Where is this? What happened after yesterday's feast? How could he fall asleep?
Can't think of anything.
Li Mingwen shook his head, supported his head with his palms and thought for a long time, but he really couldn't pick up scattered memories. He looked around and found that this was supposed to be the inner courtyard of a large family, quiet and quiet, and occasionally heard the birdsong, but there was no sound other than that, so he tried to call people.
"Come on...... People, come on......"
As soon as he opened his mouth, Li Mingwen realized that something was wrong, his throat was dry and difficult to speak, and it seemed that he had a hangover. He saw that there was a teapot on the table, touched the body of the pot to warm it, so he poured a cup of tea to moisten his throat, and then walked out of the wall with his hands.
As soon as he stepped out of the door, a person dressed as a small servant came forward, squinting a pair of slender eyes, and asked earnestly: "Li Gongzi, are you awake?" โ
"Hmm." Li Mingwen still felt dizzy, rubbed his temples and said, "What kind of place is this?" How do I ...... Shhh โ
The little servant replied: "Our young master invites you to eat and drink, and you will rest here when you are drunk." โ
When Li Ming heard this, he suddenly realized: "Gongzi Zhou." โ
The little guy didn't deny it, but reached out to help Li Mingwen, and said respectfully: "Son, be careful, the little one will help you go to the flower hall to use some porridge and rice, you should have no strength after sleeping for so long." โ
Li Mingwen waved his hand: "No, it's just that I've been drunk all night, and I'm just a little tired." โ
"Childe slept all night." The little guy was surprised, stared at him and said seriously, "You have been drunk for half a month." โ
Li Mingwen was shocked: "What? Half a month! โ
The little guy nodded: "On the first day of the first month of March, you and the young master were drinking, and today is March 15, you see that peach blossom has bloomed, and half a month ago there were not even flower bones." โ
"I, I'm ......" Li Mingwen couldn't believe it, "I really slept for half a month?" How could it be ......"
The little guy laughed and said, "Because you've been drunk for seven nights." One cup for seven nights, two cups for fourteen nights, and today it has been exactly half a month. โ
Seven nights drunk. Li Mingwen remembered the strange aroma and wine when the Qushui was flowing, and at that time it was just a nonsense rumor, but at this moment he realized that it was true!
Xiao Wu continued: "The young master told the villain an allusion to a thousand days of drunkenness, saying that in ancient times, a man named Di Xi brewed a kind of wine, which was drunk by another person named Liu Xuanshi, and when he returned home, he was drunk and unconscious, and the Liu family thought he was dead, so they buried him. Three years later, Di Xi went to Liu Xuanshi's house to see if he had woken up, and when he learned about it, he opened the coffin with Liu's family for an autopsy. I heard the young master say that this altar of seven nights drunk is brewed by a person surnamed Di, and I want to have some relationship with a thousand days of drunkenness. โ
Li Mingwen is a scholar, so he naturally heard the allusion of "a thousand days of drunkenness", and after such a "point" from the little guy, he immediately believed seven or eight points. He frowned silently, and asked in a moment, "What about your young master?" โ
"The young master left last night, and when he left, he came to wake up the son, but unfortunately this wine is really powerful, and you have been sleeping deeply." The little guy is not tall, the body is thin, the eyes are slender, and the appearance is ordinary, but he has always smiled and looks quite reliable. He said: "By the way, the young master has entered the palace, it seems that there is some imperial front today...... Try something. โ
Royal Test!
Li Mingwen was like a bucket of ice water poured down from his head, and his internal organs were cold: "What day is today...... You say it again......"
Listening to his trembling voice, the little servant patiently said word by word: "Back to Gongzi's words, today is March 15th." โ
Li Mingwen was like being struck by lightning, and he was stunned for a moment and slapped his head.
"Oops! Gozenden test! โ
March 15 was the day when the tributes entered the palace to participate in the palace examination, and he actually missed it!
Seeing his expression, the little guy said with concern: "Li Gongzi, you have nothing to do, right?" โ
Li Mingwen was dumbfounded: "What time is it......?"
The little guy looked at the sky: "It's three quarters of the hour." โ
"Hurry!" Li Mingwen grabbed the collar of the little girl, his eyes were round and bruised, and he shouted: "Hurry up and lead a horse!" โ
The little guy was so frightened that his legs were weak, and it took a long time to react: "...... Yes, yes, the villain will go right away! โ
The horse was ready, Li Mingwen put on his clothes, shoes and socks indiscriminately, followed the little maid out of the house, and came to the corner gate.
The little servant handed him the reins of the horse and pointed the way: "You walk along this road, and you see a fork in the road to the left, and the next fork in the road goes to the left, and then you go half a mile to the right, and then you cross a bridge, and walk along the embankment for two miles, and you can see the official road, and you will see the palace gate straight through." โ
The little guy said it quickly and quickly, and I don't know if Li Mingwen heard it. He hurriedly got on his horse, flicked his whip and shouted at the horse, and rushed out of the horse, like an arrow off the string.
The little guy waved his hand behind him: "Li Gongzi, go slowly!" โ
Li Mingwen rode a horse and soon disappeared, and then the little guy withdrew his smile, walked back to the house slowly, locked the corner door, pulled out a straw pole from behind his ear, and held it in his mouth.
"Come out."
The door creaked, and I saw two people walking out of the room next to Li Mingwen, it was Qianqian and Zhou Tao.
Qianqian walked over happily, her watery eyes blinking: "Brother Piao, sister, I will definitely repay you well." โ
Ah Piao glanced at her angrily: "Come on, I'm not helping you, I'm helping the monk." A good person deserves a good reward, and he is just a good person. โ
Qianqian turned him with her elbow and said with a smile: "Brother Piao, don't be modest, you are also a good person." โ
Ah Piao looked taboo, and waved his hand again and again: "Eh! Don't say I'm good, I didn't stay with the monk's great compassion, and I actually accepted you to eliminate harm for the people, Amitabha! โ
Qianqian stomped her feet: "What's wrong with me!" Just know that the way to bury me! โ
Compared with their confidence, Zhou Tao was uneasy, touched his chest and asked Qianqian: "Can it be done?" What if Li Mingwen figured it out halfway and gave up the exam? โ
I don't know when Qianqian came out with the teapot, opened the lid of the tea and poured the water into a daze, and the corners of his lips raised: "He is in a hurry now, eating this pot of tea is like adding fuel to the fire, it's too late to be in a hurry, where is there still time to think about this, you just wait and see." โ
After pouring the tea, she tilted her head and smiled at Zhou Tao: "It's you, don't forget to go to the Ministry of Rites to say hello, once Li Mingwen is dismissed, he will be replaced by my father-in-law." โ
There are a lot of things to do in the court today, and the palace examination on March 15 is also to be set, so I will not go down until the time has passed. Zhan Liantai didn't have much important things to do recently, he walked out of the main hall and slowly walked to the palace gate, and when he walked to the place where he was in a sedan chair, he suddenly saw a lot of officials in front of him, as if something had happened.
He wasn't a person who liked to join in the fun, but today, somehow, he was curious, so he paced over and stood at the edge of the crowd to find out.
I saw a young man in disheveled clothes and a disheveled hair making noise at the gate of the palace, probably trying to break into the palace, and he kept muttering the words "palace test", "late", and "go in", crazy and crazy.
The palace guards stopped this man and thought he was a madman, so they tied him up directly, intending to beat him and let him go. But this man is not like an ordinary madman, he was tied up and struggled, desperately rushed to the palace gate, and then he was caught again, and his head was broken and bleeding.
He kept shouting: "I am Gongshi Li Mingwen!" I'm here to take the temple exam! Let me in, I want to see the emperor! Your Majestyโ"
Seeing this, several officials shook their heads and said, "I probably didn't pass the exam, so I'm crazy." โ
Seeing that all the adults had come out, the head of the guard felt embarrassed, so he slapped Li Mingwen on the back of the neck, knocked him unconscious, and then ordered someone to drag him back to the prison and serve the punishment.
Now it's quiet, you should go back to the yamen, Zhan Liantai also got on the sedan chair.
"Ruan Qi." After getting off the sedan chair in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Zhan Liantai suddenly called out to Ruan Qi, "You go to check what happened at the gate of the palace today, I think it's a little strange, that person is crazy, as if he has eaten five stones." โ
Miao Fan found that Qianqian had been in a good mood lately...... It's just abnormal.
She bought the best materials, and invited the best tailor to tailor for Miaofan, and when she sent the tailor away, Miaofan wondered and asked, "Lady, why do you make me new clothes?" โ
He still couldn't get the jade buckle on the neckline, she stood on tiptoe to help him, and smiled mysteriously: "If you want to do it, you can do it." โ
"But I still have a lot of new ones." Miao Fan admonished her in a serious manner, "If you do too much, it will be wasted, which is not good." โ
Qianqian shook her head and was sure: "Absolutely no waste, you can rest assured." After speaking, she suddenly asked, "Xianggong, based on your understanding of Ah Jiu, what questions do you think he will ask during the palace examination?" โ
Miao Fan was stunned: "Why do you ask this?" โ
"Just ask, what are you so nervous about?" Qianqian didn't plan to tell him the "surprise" in advance, but just smiled blindly, "Aren't you brothers in the same sect, I want to see if you two have a tacit understanding." โ
Miao Fan thought about it seriously and shook his head: "I don't know what to do." โ
Qianqian was frustrated: "I don't know what to do!" โ
"Ah Jiu doesn't like to talk, I don't know what Lu Dao thinks, so I can't guess." He admits that he doesn't know anything about this junior brother.
"That's right, he's a stuffy gourd." Qianqian pouted, sullen for a while, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "Xianggong, you said that Ah Jiu and Xiao Qi are so good, will Xiao Qi know Lu Dao?" Why don't I write to Xiao Qi? โ
Miao Fan recognized: "The princess really knows Ah Jiu very well. โ
"Then I'll write to you!" Qianqian was overjoyed, jumped and ran back to the room to write a letter, Miao Fan looked at her back and shook her head, but smiled to herself.
As soon as Qianqian's front foot returned to the room, Zhou Tao's back foot came, and Miao Fan opened the door and saw him, and was slightly stunned.
"Tan Gongzi." Zhou Tao bowed his hand and smiled with a spring breeze, "I'm here to say hello to you." โ
Miao Fan didn't invite him in, and blocked the door with a light face: "What joy?" โ
As soon as he got the news from the Ministry of Rites, Zhou Tao couldn't wait to rush over, thinking that he would definitely please Miao Fan as soon as he opened his mouth, so he said: "One of the tributes selected this time was dismissed, and then the Ministry of Rites chose Tan Gongzi to make up for it." In other words, isn't it a happy event that you are eligible to take the temple examination? โ
Who knew that Miao Fan was not only not happy when he heard this, but after thinking about it, his face sank, and he closed the door heavily after saying "I have to tell you", directly blocking Zhou Tao from the door.
Qianqian was grinding ink, and suddenly the door was pushed open by Miao Fan, only to see him close the door with his face stiff and backhand, and then walked straight to Qianqian's side and grabbed the inkstone.
She looked up inexplicably: "What are you doing?" โ
He didn't say a word, pulled his belt casually, tied her backhand with three strikes and five divisions, picked her up and threw it on the bed.
The author has something to say: the prototype of this scam is called "delay scam", it was originally about betting on horses and football, a group of scammers teamed up to deceive a person, so that he thought that this group of people could predict the outcome of the game, in fact, the fake scene was not a live game, but a delay for a period of time, the scammers had already known the results, and only the victims thought they were watching the live broadcast.
Of course, this is a variant scam, should it be called an "early scam"? Li Gongzi thought he had missed the exam, but in fact he didn't, he got the timing wrong!
The kids will be graduating next week! I'm so happy! Uncle Wine can finally find time to pamper the little goblin to a great extent! โญ(โฏ3โฐ)โฎ