The moonlit night passed quietly in this silence.

Early the next morning, Zhu Zhiqing came to Ning Zuer and pestered him to go out with him, but Ning Zuer couldn't resist it, so she went with him. Yang Muyun used the medicine and felt bored in the room, so he came to the courtyard for a walk. Zhu Zi went to work with his second brother Zhu Zi on his birthday, and he didn't have time to come to him, and Leng Yifei sat quietly in the room and entered a petrified state, and it was impossible to accompany him to relieve his boredom.

Yang Muyun paced around the courtyard a few times, then walked out of the Hanging Flower Gate and walked south along the vermilion wall with the bottom of the blue and white stone. He came here yesterday with his father-in-law in a carriage, and he didn't see the situation all the way, but he felt that the carriage came here all the way north, so it should be right to go out and go south now. But the palace of the king of Zhou covers an extremely wide area, the palace courtyard is deep, and the roads inside are as intricate as a labyrinth. He walked and lost his way.

Along the way, he met some maids and servants in the palace, and wanted to come forward to ask about the road, but they all hurried by, and they didn't even look at him.

Just as he was at a loss, he suddenly saw a familiar figure coming out of a palace gate. He looked intently, the girl's eyes were cool, her posture was extremely beautiful, and she was so familiar in a light yellow palace dress.

"Minyu?" Yang Muyun's eyes lit up and he walked forward quickly. "Minyu Girl"

"Young Master Yang?" Minyu swung like the wind and turned around, and a pair of water-cutting eyes aimed at Yang Muyun, who was walking quickly.

"Miss Minyu, I really didn't expect to see you here." Yang Muyun's face was happy.

"Young Master Yang, why are you here?" Minyu blinked her eyes like water.

"I want to go outside, but I don't know how to get out," Yang Muyun smiled and waved his hand, "I don't know if the girl can show Yang the way out." ”

Min Yuyan smiled and said to the two maids in Tsing Yi who followed behind: "You guys go over first, and tell Cheng Siyi to confess for me, saying that I will go over later." ”

"Yes, girl." The two maids in Tsing Yi bowed to her and bowed their heads with small steps.

"Miss Minyu, I didn't expect your status in the palace to be low?" Yang Muyun was amazed.

"Young Master Yang, please," Minyu smiled, "I'll take you out of the mansion." ”

"There's Miss Lao Minyu," Yang Muyun said with some uneasiness: "The girl still has important matters, just give Yang some guidance." ”

"It's okay," Minyu said lightly, "It's just some practice of birthday etiquette, and it's okay for Minyu to go a little late." ”

......

The two walked in the deep palace alley one after the other, Yang Muyun followed her, looking at her graceful and slender figure, she couldn't help but be moved in her heart, "I only met her yesterday, she was able to leave the affairs of the house to help me, I really don't know how to thank her." ”

At this time, I saw a group of maids from a distance clustering around a large red sedan chair decorated with pheasant feathers.

"This is the princess's palanquin," Minyu's delicate body trembled slightly, and her eyes swept towards a corner door on her side.

"Young Master Yang," Minyu's shadow quickly flashed into the corner door and beckoned to Yang Muyun, "Come over here." ”

"Hmm......" Yang Muyun replied in a trance, and also dodged and quickly stepped into the corner door.

The two of them walked through the pillars and over a flowerbed, and then their pace slowed down.

"This girl reacts so fast." Yang Muyun glanced at her with admiration.

"Young Master Yang, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that his eyes couldn't help but look at him, Minyu couldn't help but ask.

"Hmm...... It's nothing," Yang Muyun said hesitantly: "Miss Minyu is so smart and handsome, she is only a subordinate in the palace, Yang feels a pity." ”

Two blushes faintly rose on Minyu's crystal clear cheeks, and the corners of her lips hooked up a shallow pear vortex, "Minyu is a hard-working person, Yang Gongzi said with a smile." ”

After passing through a moon gate, I came to a garden.

Minyu was very familiar with the grass and trees in the entire palace, turned left and right, and didn't even meet anyone.

While walking, Minyu's eyes froze, paused, pulled Yang Muyun's sleeve, and quickly turned behind a rockery.

"What's wrong?" Yang Muyun asked puzzled.

"Shhhh

There was a slight sound of footsteps, and a red-robed boy came to stand in front of the rockery, only to see that his cheeks were thin and his nose was straight

His lips were thin, and a pair of shining eyes looked around, and when he saw that there was nothing unusual, he coughed slightly.

A masked man in black dodged out of the bushes next to him.

"How's it going?" The man in black said coldly.

"All the best." The red-robed boy stood with his hands down and replied slowly.

"Very well," the man in black looked up at the sky, "his birthday is in a few days, you must be quiet, arrange everything, and don't show your feet." ”

"Yes" The red-robed boy raised his head, the muscles on his face kept shaking, as if he wanted to say something, but he wanted to stop talking.

"What? Are you scared? The man in black seemed to see what he was thinking, and a hint of mockery appeared in the corner of his eyes, "If you want to stop now, it's too late." ”

The red-robed boy's body began to tremble, his lips twitched but he couldn't say a word.

"There are two kinds of people in this world," said the man in black, "and one takes everyone under his feet and takes them from them." One kind of person is the one who is trampled on, and no matter what he does, he can't help himself. Eyes fixed on him, "What kind of person do you want to be?" ”

"Do I have any options?" The trembling voice of the red-robed boy revealed a hint of resentment.

"At least you can choose to die," the man in black smiled, "but I promise you'll die an ugly and ruined death." ”

The eyes of the red-robed boy seemed to be about to erupt with fire, and his hands were clenched, as if he was going to choose someone to devour.

The man in black admired his expression.

"You hate me? Want to kill me? The man in black's eyes narrowed slightly, "When you sit in a high position and get everything you want." Do you think I'm still going to have that expression? "Don't forget, where is the person you love the most...... "Remember," his voice became sharper, "Remember, if you don't have a heart, you are nothing, and you don't even have the right to love someone." As he spoke, he moved and disappeared into the bushes.

The red-robed boy stood for a long time before he let out a long sigh and walked forward with heavy steps.

All is silent again. There was a look of horror in Minyu's eyes, and it was obvious that she knew who the red-robed boy was.

But Yang Muyun was very indifferent to what was happening in front of him, he had experienced enough things, and any one of them was enough to change the color of the situation.

"You haven't seen anything, you've heard nothing, and you've never been here." Yang Muyun stared at her frightened face, and said in a calm tone: "Don't tell anyone what happened just now, you should try to forget it yourself," paused, "If you want to live well, just do what I say." ”

"But he ...... He is ......" Minyu glanced at the direction where the red-robed boy had gone, and wanted to continue.

"You're wrong, that's not him." Yang Muyun interrupted her.

Minyu let out a coquettish cry and threw herself into Yang Muyun's arms, "Young Master Yang, I'm ...... I'm so scared! ”

The warm fragrant nephrite was full of arms, but Yang Muyun was not ** interested, he gently patted her fragrant shoulder, "Don't be afraid, you just remember what I said to you, and you will be fine." ”

"Really?" Minyu raised her snow-white cheeks and asked timidly.

"Well, you can do what I say now," Yang Muyun encouraged her, "just like usual, you can't have the slightest discoloration on your face, you can't walk fast or slow, and your eyes are level ......."

Yang Muyun walked out of a side door of King Zhou's mansion, and comforted Minyu again before coming out until she calmed down. He didn't ask who the red-robed boy was, and he didn't want to know because he didn't want to get involved in this trouble. He was already a passerby, if he hadn't fallen ill here, he might not have entered Kaifeng City.

When he went out, he reported his identity, and the guards guarding the door immediately let him go, and it seemed that they knew that he was a guest invited by the prince.

There are more than 100 large and small streets and alleys and alleys in Kaifeng City, and the market is prosperous and there are many people. Yang Muyun walked in it, he had a different feeling, he was from Jiangnan, he came to the north for the first time, and he felt very novel about the language and style here.

Kaifeng is the thoroughfare of eight provinces, merchants from all over the Ming Dynasty come and go here, and the goods from all over the place gather here. Shanxi Lu silk, Linqing Shoupa, Jiyang Xiabu, Lu'an bud tea, Sichuan boxwood

Combs, etc., as well as Beijing, Hangzhou, Qing, Yang and other places to transport thick and thin summer fans, monk hats, head grates, scarves, ash and other goods.

What interests Yang Muyun even more is the food here, he is a native of Huzhou, and his daily meals are mainly rice. But the staple food noodles of the northerners, all kinds of cut noodles, plain noodles, skin vinegar, fire, baked cakes, coarse food and other shops are continuous, the most surprising thing for him is that according to the Ma Ji mutton noodle shop in the west of the Prosecutor's Office, the thin noodles pulled out are like silver threads, and then poured mutton soup, put on shredded green onion sesame oil, the taste, just looking at it makes people want to slander.

Yang Muyun immediately entered, sat down at a window-side dining table, asked for a large bowl of mutton noodles, picked up chopsticks and snorted like those northern diners.

"Fifth master, let's ask for a bowl of noodles to eat here." At this time, a few people came into the store, and a man in a short shirt said.

Yang Muyun felt hot in his heart when he heard it, what the person who came said was actually the native voice of Huzhou, and the land of Zhongzhou, which was thousands of miles away, could actually hear the hometown dialect, which made him feel very cordial. He couldn't help but raise his head and swept his gaze towards those people, he couldn't help but be stunned, and the chopsticks in his hand also fell into the bowl. One of them was wearing a gray lake silk robe, a flat head, and two mouse whiskers on his lips, wasn't this the housekeeper in Lu Yi Zhonglu Mansion in the south of Huzhou City?

Seeing him, Yang Muyun's thoughts went back to a few months ago, when the list was released in front of the Yamen of Huzhou Mansion in the spring, and he won the top talent. But he was deceived by the people of the Lu Mansion to the Lu Yi Zhong Mansion in the south of the city, and forced him to marry the Miss Lu who was as tall as a walrus, fortunately he managed to escape that day, otherwise he ...... He now pinched a cold sweat for himself when he thought about it.

"How did they get back here?" Yang Muyun said secretly in his heart.

"Fifth master, you said that it is such a hot day, such a long way," the man in the short shirt sat on the bench, lifted the teapot and poured a bowl of tea for Steward Lu, "This body is covered in sweat, but the big guy is tired, where is this thing not sold, why did the owner take us to such a far place?" ”

"Look at your cowardice, your head is on your ass," Steward Lu glared at him contemptuously and pouted, "Business opportunities, business opportunities, do you understand?" Kaifeng is a cultural resort in the Central Plains and a place where literati and scholars gather. There are many people who read, and there are many people who come to take the exam. This literati and scholars, all like elegant objects, our Huzhou Shanlian Lake pen, silk, rice paper, inkstone, here is very popular, did not see our goods arrived, Kaifeng shop owners are vying to invite our master to dinner? ”

"Also, our lord is now invited to eat everywhere, sit in this restaurant, drink a little wine, and hug the little lady who doesn't slip into the autumn...... If I want to be a master, just give me a fairy, and I won't do it! Several people around laughed lewdly when they heard this.

"You think it's beautiful," Steward Lu glanced at him, "You just cast a seventeen or eighteen rebirth, and this master can't do it for you." ”

"By the way, Steward Lu," another man said to him, "As soon as you said that you should take the exam, I remembered our aunt, he is now going to Hangzhou to take the township exam, and he should be done now, right?" ”

"How can it be so fast," Steward Lu muttered and took a big sip of tea, "Didn't you see a long queue of people from the government and yamen who came to apply for the exam?" Today is the last day to sign up for the township examination, after registering, you can go to the Gongyuan to participate in the scientific examination in a few days, and the list will be released next month after the examination. ”

"Then if my uncle is admitted, can I be an official?" The man then asked.

"This is not good," Steward Lu pondered for a while, and said: "If you pass the township exam, you are just a lifter, and you only have the qualifications to be an official, but it is difficult to say whether you can be an official." I heard that after winning the lift, I will have to go to Beijing to take the exam again next spring to the emperor, and this time if I win, I will be called a jinshi, and after I win the jinshi, it will be stable to be an official. ”

"Do you have to go to the emperor to take the exam again?" The man stuck out his tongue, "It's really not easy to be a scholar, you have to take the exam here and there, my Xing Liu will be big at a glance when I look at the books, let alone be locked up in the examination room for a few days." ”

The crowd burst into laughter.

Yang Muyun's heart moved when he heard this, he knew who the uncle they were talking about was, it was his classmate friend Peng Liang, who had now gone to Hangzhou to participate in the township examination and worked hard for his career.

Compared with many of his classmates in Huzhou, he already has an official body, and he is also an official position of the fifth grade, so he no longer has to squeeze the single-plank bridge of the imperial examination, but he is just a talent after all, and as a scholar, he has not obtained the background of lifting people and jinshi, which is not a big regret!