Li Rui waited in the front yard for his uncle to come back, so that he could forward the letter that Qi Shao had given him.

But he didn't expect Li Mao to come back very late, and he came back drunk.

"Rui'er, you haven't slept so late, what are you waiting for me in the front hall?"

As soon as Li Mao got off the horse, he heard Menzi say that Li Rui had been waiting for him in the front hall, and his heart was full of doubts.

Li Rui took out the letter and handed it to Li Mao.

"This was given to me by Qi Shao before the palace exam, and I was waiting for you for this."

After speaking, he said a little about Qi Shao looking for him before the palace examination, and then emphasized that Qi Shao said that if he won the champion, let him give him this letter.

"Your friend is quite confident. However, this son of Lord Qi's family is indeed a young talent. Li Mao nodded slightly after listening. I know, you can go back. ”

Li Mao returned to the East Garden with the letter, and did not go to the advanced lady's room, but went to "Jixian Yaxu" to sober up for a while.

He and his brother drank a lot of alcohol that his father forced him to practice, and he was more restrained, always not letting himself get drunk. But after all, he drank wine instead of water, and sometimes he felt slightly drunk, and his thoughts could not be concentrated.

When he felt that he was almost finished, he opened the letter and read it carefully.

The more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that the words in this letter would simply turn Da Chu upside down.

After seeing the worst, Li Mao directly put the letter in his arms and confirmed that he would not give it to anyone else, and then left the study.

According to Qi Shao's letter, the royal family of the Yin Dynasty before the Hu people ravaged the Central Plains was not extinct, and from the time the Hu people were in power to the time when the first emperor ascended the throne, they had contacted various clans, hoping to gain support.

However, because the head of the clan at that time was Zhang Yun of the Zhang clan in Jinyang, he thought that with the strength and determination of the descendants of the Yin surname, it was simply a fool's dream to win the war to overthrow the Hu people, so he categorically rejected them and turned to support the former emperor who had always had an in-law relationship with the Zhang family.

It was precisely because the clans all fell to the Chu clan in Jingnan that the soldiers and horses that revolted in the north in the name of "descendants surnamed Yin" quickly disappeared again, and did not return to Great Chu like other civil forces who revolted in various states.

The emperor also knew about this, and he sent people to investigate several times later, but he did not find anything more useful.

However, in the past few years, the attitude of the Holy Lord towards the world clan has become more and more obvious, and even the manor and hidden households, which are the foundation of the clan's survival, have to be cleaned up, which makes many clans, especially the weaker clans, feel the crisis.

At this time, the descendants of the surname Yin appeared again, and they sent envoys to find the families of the previous generations who had served as officials in the court to lobby, and promised that if they could succeed, they would share the world with the world, just as they did in the Wei and Jin dynasties.

These people didn't find the Qi family at first, because the Qi family's position was relatively detached, but because the current saint forced him to come out, these people saw the opportunity to take advantage of it and actually found him.

Qi Shao does not trust the current saints, but he will not trust these orphans of the previous generation. They didn't stand up when it was the best time to fight for hegemony, but now that the world is stable, they want to make a mess to get things done, unless it's big enough.

But he didn't want to see a big mess.

So Qi Shao wrote this letter while perfunctory these people and asked Li Rui to hand it over to Li Mao.

He feared that he was being targeted.

It is much better to hand it over to Li Rui than for him to go directly to the royalists or the saints. First, he has a wide range of contacts and contacts with various sons, and it is normal for him to find Li Rui to drink alcohol; Second, the Li family is the courtier of Da Chu who stands closest to the emperor, and it is much more convenient for Li Mao to meet the emperor and remind the emperor of this matter.

What's more, he doesn't want the Qi family to be involved in this matter. He didn't want to be involved in this matter, and he had nothing to do with this broken royal family.

The best way to get rid of them is for the emperor to get rid of this group of people quickly.

Therefore, this is not Qi Shao's letter of surrender to Li Mao, but the letter of surrender of the Qi family to the emperor.

Li Mao returned to the room with a smell of wine, and after washing up a little, the girls and mothers-in-law all retreated and prepared to go to bed.

What to do with this letter, he hasn't figured it out yet.

"Dad, you have too much alcohol on you, can you go take a shower first!" Li Ming stuck out his head unhappily.

"I can't." Li Mao lightly dismissed his son's suggestion. He still had the letter in his arms. "You can sleep with your mother tonight."

Fang has always been worried that Zhang Jing's yin qi is not good for his son's health, where dare he let his son go to bed.

"It's better not to, I'm easy to wake up in the middle of the night, and my son can't sleep well with me."

Li Ming saw that his father and mother disliked him, so he ran out of bed angrily, found a piece of paper and tore it off, kneaded it into two balls, and stuffed it into his nose.

"Alright, I'll sleep like this tonight!"

Li Mao slapped his son on the head.

"My son dislikes Lao Tzu and turns against the sky!"

Li Ming stuffed his nose and said sullenly: "My son doesn't dislike you, it's my son's nose that dislikes you!" ”

Li Mao shook his head and kicked him.

"Go down, just went to find the paper, I don't know if you put out the lights by the way?"

"You know that the Tao has called me!" Li Ming pouted and got out of bed.

"Master, I want my mother to come here these days." Fang's voice rang out in the dark room.

"Mother-in-law?"

"Grandmother?"

"Yes. I want to ask how Mama Liu got into my house back then. And the witch's thing. ”

Fang Shi thought for a while, and then said: "Also, back then, I mixed copper scraps into the gold sore medicine, and that small copper tripod was also found for me by Mama Liu at home. But now that I think about it, it's really suspicious. When I was at home, I had seen all the ritual utensils at home, and there was no small copper tripod, and judging from the patina, I don't know how many years it has been. I can't keep such a standard ritual in my house. Unless it's my father's baby in the past few years. If this is the case, I have to advise him not to keep such things in the future, for if he is impeached, he will be in trouble. ”

Although there are many people in the world who collect rare books and paintings and calligraphy of previous celebrities, if they are courtiers, if they collect antiques such as the jade seal of the seal or the ritual vessel of the Son of Heaven, if they are impeached, it is also a great culpability.

This is also the reason why some tomb robbers stole the emperor's tomb and stole things out, even if anyone got it, they didn't dare to stay and enjoy it, but paid tribute to the emperor.

"Na Ding, where is it now?" Li Mao asked his wife.

"I sank it into the lake over there." The Fang clan originally wanted to bury it, but she always felt uneasy about burying it, so she sank the ding in the lake in her own home.

"Don't bother yourself at this time, I'll take care of it." Li Mao pondered for a while, and then said: "Ming'er hasn't been to Yue's house for a long time, so let's do it, Ming'er will go to her grandmother's house tomorrow, and by the way, invite your grandmother to stay for a few days." ”

The old lady of the Fang family has been a housekeeper for so many years, even if the two daughters-in-law come in, they don't have the right to let go of the housekeeper, if you ask her, you will definitely know what to do.

It's really good that my wife is willing to open this mouth.

On the second day, Li Jun was summoned by officials of the Ministry of Rites early in the morning. He will go to the Zichen Hall in a few days to participate in the "Golden Palace", and their group of Jinshi who have not been out of office will be given Jinshi robes and jinshi scarves, and they will also learn some basic etiquette with special officials in the Ministry of Rites, so as not to lose their manners in the palace and become the laughing stock of the courtiers.

Wait until noon, go out of the garden to "explore the flowers" of the Tanhualang is also coming back, they also have to hold a "flower exploration banquet" in the "Qingyun Pavilion" of the Ministry of Rites, each Jinshi has to take a flower to bring back the flowers to write poems, and then stay in the pavilion, become the "flower exploration poems" of the Jinshi.

said that he was holding a flower and writing a poem, but in fact, where there are so many urgent talents, they are all prepared in advance. Li Jun's original specialty is not poetry, and he is not proficient in rhetoric, after returning to the room last night, he took a few poems that he had done before and read them for a long time, and he always felt that if he took them out, he would definitely be laughed to death.

Fortunately, the flowers that bloom in spring are nothing more than peach blossoms, azaleas, spring greetings, apricot blossoms, peonies and other flowers.

Li Jun stayed up all night, thought of a few poems about peach blossoms and spring, and felt that it was not too embarrassing to take it out, and recited it repeatedly, for fear that he would forget, so he fell asleep with his head tilted.

When he was woken up by the little guys in the morning, he sat up, and the little guy who was waiting for him couldn't help laughing.

"My young master, you don't look like you're going to the Flower Exploration Banquet, but like you're going to participate in a white affair!"

"Don't talk nonsense! You are so open-mouthed, be careful to bring trouble to the young master! The other little guy frowned and scolded him, and then looked at Li Jun carefully, "Young master, your eyelids are swollen, and there are many bloodshots in your eyes, it does look like you have cried, otherwise, go get two hard-boiled eggs for the little one, and you apply the eyedress?" ”

Li Jun was embarrassed to say that his eyes were sour when he stayed up late to write poems, so he kneaded himself like this, so he nodded embarrassedly, and asked the little servants to show him the bronze mirror.

When he saw his hair in the mirror with messy hair (he grabbed it) and his eyes were red and swollen, he quickly jumped up in shock, "Why is this happening?" ”

Oh, my God! He also wants to go to the banquet calmly and without being shocked by honor and disgrace!

In this way, everyone knows that he didn't sleep last night!

After a field of chickens, flying dogs jumped all over the courtyard, a Li Jun who could barely see people was finally baked.

The clothes on his body were specially made for him by Gu Qing in the needlework room, both the material and the style are the kind that will never fall behind among the children of the official eunuchs, and then wear the jade pendant that Li Mao gave him after he became a jinshi, although his face is a little darker and his body is a little burly, but he finally looks like a scribe rather than a child of a military general.

Li Jun looked at himself stupidly, and followed the junior official who came to greet him from the Ministry of Rites out of the door.

When I got to the place, I didn't know how many Jinshi in the road were like him, and their eyes were red and swollen, and their eyes were bloodshot; There are even those who are overindulgent and nihilistic. Compared to these people, his dark-skinned self looks like a more energetic one.

At this time, Li Jun smiled slightly, and the spirit he deliberately put on was relaxed.

Also, the two happy events in life, the candle night in the cave room, and the title of the gold list, who can get their wish to sleep peacefully? If you have family and friends to congratulate, □□ drinks are available.

There are also some young and affectionate, and there are many who have been to the candle night after the title of the gold list. Thinking about it, I don't know how many good stories there were in Pingkangli last night.

People like him who write poetry all night are afraid that they are all outliers. After all, they have all become Jinshi, and they are afraid that writing poetry is so spiritual, I am afraid that it is also a minority.

After a while, Qi Shao, who was refreshed, entered the house. For this young champion, all the jinshi naturally made a way and let him stand in front of everyone.

The waiter of the Ministry of Rites came from the back office with a group of small officials holding the crown of the Jinshi robe, and the Jinshi of this session have worshiped the examiner of the original Chunqiu, and now they are all protégés of the Son of Heaven, and they can no longer visit the master, but in terms of etiquette, this person is the grace of knowing them.

The chamberlain accepted their salute calmly, and began to teach them in detail how to see the emperor and receive the reward. He spoke carefully and taught slowly, but it still gave Li Jun a headache.

He began to feel that if he stayed as a Beijing official in the future, he was afraid that he would lose his official position and go home in a few days because of the "loss of honor in front of the emperor".

All the jinshi learned the etiquette of being an official in the Ministry of Rites for more than an hour, and learned how to distinguish the rank and position of officials by robes and attire, and when it finally came to an end, someone outside the gate of the Ministry of Rites came to call.

"The flower explorers have picked all kinds of flowers in Beijing and started to rush back!"

"Ahem." The waiter of the Ministry of Rites is also a person who likes to be lively. "In that case, let's go to Qingyun Pavilion and take a seat. The Holy One has given a feast. Later, the eldest prince will also come. “

"The Emperor's grace is immense!" What a group of Jinshi had just learned, they immediately put it into practice.

The waiter of the Ministry of Rites showed an expression of "the son can be taught", took the lead, and led everyone to the Qingyun Pavilion of the Ministry of Rites.

After entering the cabinet, the eldest prince also came down to the Ministry of Rites surrounded by the palace people, and after accepting the worship of the scholars, he sat down in the chairman's position and waited for Tanhualang to come back with flowers.

After a while, the sound of gongs and drums was heard at the door, and Zhao Dan, who was rushed to the garden full of flowers by the women who heard the news, and another young jinshi walked in in a mess. There are all kinds of petals on their bodies and necks, which shows that the process of finding flowers in various homes is by no means smooth.

The eldest prince smiled and looked at the two flower envoys who were holding the flower basket, and ordered:

"Since the Tanhua envoys are back, let the two Tanhualang send flowers to all the Jinshi, but if you can't make poems, according to the rules, you can't be seated!"

As soon as the eldest prince said this, many Jinshi chuckled in their hearts.

also includes Li Jun, who wrote poems last night.

…… Say that you can pick flowers and compose poems by yourself?

Say it's good to pick a peach blossom peony to welcome spring?

This...... That's not the right way!

Many people looked at the two Tanhualang with frightened expressions, and the two Tanhualang were very young boys, and immediately showed a strange smile of "hey, hey, hey".

Haha

Everyone went to get the flowers one by one according to the ranking. First of all, Qi Shao, Zhao Dan sent him a peony, Qi Shao smiled and stuffed the peony into the collar, and sang a poem about peony, which caused a round of applause. When the eldest prince heard this poem, he also felt very good, nodded and stretched out his hand to let him sit down.

Chen Xiu took a peach blossom from another teenager, sang a song, and successfully entered the table.

There is an official next to him who holds a notebook and records them one by one, and he will seal them in Qingyun Pavilion when the time comes.

Tanhua is Tanhua makes Zhao Dan himself, he said with a smile: "I still have to send flowers, when everyone is done, I will pick up a poem and then enter the table." ”

As soon as he said this, he was obviously very confident in his talent for poetry. The eldest prince also agreed.

After Tanhua, there is Li Jun, the first place in the second class. He walked in front of the two, Zhao Dan was about to find a good flower for this friend, but the other flower tanner immediately took out a morning glory from the basket and handed it to Li Jun.

He is the second place in the second class, and he thinks very highly of himself since he was a child, and he is the first in the provincial test all the way, and when he arrives in Beijing, he can't learn Qi Shao and Chen Xiu, even if he doesn't have Zhao Dan and is handsome, he can't get Tanhua and he is convinced, but he didn't even get the first place in the second class, but he was pressed under this black-faced man, and he had a breath in his heart. He felt that Li Jun had climbed up by his relatives, and he must have looked at his uncle's face, just now he heard the eldest prince say that the flowers were made by Tanhua, and somehow he wanted to make things difficult for him.

This morning glory should have bloomed in May, and when he picked the other flowers, he found that this branch had bloomed early without knowing what the road was for, and he was a little admired in his heart, so he picked this miscellaneous flower that did not belong to the famous flower and threw it into the basket.

Now take this morning glory to this herald, look at his black face and thick appearance, morning glory is suitable for him!

This tanhua envoy took the morning glory to Li Jun, and Zhao Dan on the side did not look good at that time. Exploring flowers and trees from each garden to select famous flowers and trees, put them in the basket for the Jinshi to choose, originally it was "to the flower metaphor", to leave the beauty of the good story for future generations, where to put weeds and flowers in the basket insulting people!

Not to mention taking it out to disgust people.

At this moment, Qi Shao, Zhao Dan and others regarded this tanhua envoy as a blind and brainless guy, and Zhao Dan even felt that it was really embarrassing for him to be a tanhua envoy with this person.

Zhao Dan couldn't look at it, and said coldly to the young man: "What kind of famous flower is this morning glory?" You took the morning glory out to Li Chuanyu, it's really ......"

"It doesn't matter." Li Jun lightly interrupted Zhao Dan's words and took the morning glory. "Flowers are not divided into upper and lower grades, they are all grades given to them by people. In the same year, he felt that the morning glory should be given a poem for him, so Li gave it a poem, and it was not in vain that it opened early in the famous garden before the flowering period, waiting for you to pick it. ”

Li Jun is just straightforward, not a fool, and naturally knows that this is the second place in the second class that is making things difficult.

He took the flower and thought for a moment......

East Garden, Splendid Courtyard.

Fang Shi looked at the mother who was picked up by her son in surprise, gasped and said:

"What did my mother say? There is no thousand-year-old Gu Ding at home? Didn't you ask Mama Liu to bring it over? ”

The author has something to say: Want to know how Li Jun dealt with the difficulties of the same year? Listen to the next breakdown.

Poor Li Jun, I can't use it all night.

Small Theatre:

The eldest prince smiled and looked at the two flower envoys who were holding the flower basket, and ordered:

"Since the Tanhua envoys are back, let the two Tanhualang send flowers to all the Jinshi, but if you can't make poems, according to the rules, you can't be seated!"

The students wailed.

The eldest prince: Hehehehe, I know that you are all prepared in advance. I'll let you prepare!