The first day is the first lunar day, called New Year's Day, commonly known as the New Year, and the last day of December, the day when the common cloud moon is exhausted, is called New Year's Eve, also known as Chinese New Year's Eve or New Year's Eve, on Chinese New Year's Eve, it is also an important activity to welcome the New Year, and the welcome activity begins on this day.

At this time, close to the first day, the subjects of Kaifeng Fucheng in Tokyo are cleaning the courtyard households, changing the door god, hanging the clock Kui, nailing the peach charm, driving the house, setting off firecrackers, bathing fragrant soup, putting lanterns, drinking Tusu wine, worshipping ancestors and so on, every household is preparing to welcome the New Year, Kaifeng Palace is no exception, inside and outside the palace are full of lights, a festive atmosphere.

The people on Kaifeng Street are also crowded, shoulder to shoulder, Kaifeng's major restaurants, wine shops, tea shops, Goolan and so on are also overcrowded, lively and extraordinary.

At this time, Tokyo Kaifeng Mansion also gathered countless scholars from all over the country to take the exam, all the scholars called friends, gathered in restaurants, wine shops, tea shops, inns and other places, commented on the affairs of the DPRK and China, guessed the examination questions, and discussed knowledge, in order to prepare for the triennial spring competition.

Ye Mengde, Li Sanjian, Ran Yunbiao, and Zeng Gongming discussed the government and politics, attracting the attention of many scholars around, and as time went by, they gathered around Ye Mengde, Li Sanjian and others, knocking melon seeds, peanuts, drinking hot wine, expressing their opinions, and talking more and more lively.

"Boiling beans burns beans, and beans cry in the kettle, which is born from the same root. Why is he too anxious to fry each other. Ye Mengde this guy is crazy, and the more people there are, the more excited they are: "They are all Yuanfeng people, why can't they be compatible?" Fighting back and forth, what is lost is my Great Song Dynasty national strength. ”

"What Brother Tai said is very true." A man from Xiuzhou said: "But there is something wrong with Brother Tai's words, the people of Yuanfeng can't fry each other, can the people of Yuanyou be?" Yuanfeng and Yuanyou are both people of our dynasty, and they are not foreign captives, they are both courtiers of the Great Song Dynasty, so how can they distinguish each other? Do you have to live and die? ”

"The people of Yuanyou are all conservative people, how can they be allowed to live above the temple?" A man from Wenzhou retorted: "Today, there are Beiyu in the north and Xirong in the west, and there are bandits in the south. ”

"Can the people of Yuanfeng enrich the country and strengthen the army?" Xiuzhou Juzi said angrily when he heard this: "The name is to love the people, but in fact, the sick people are called to benefit the country, but in fact, they are hurting the country, but they are just giving up right and wrong, and promoting harm and eliminating benefits." ”

"Brother Tai's statement is absurd, the key to reform the old and the new is to employ people, improper employment, that is, a fall short, proper employment, will be twice the result with half the effort. . . ." Another retorted.

"You're all wrong...

The crowd was gossiping, they were arguing, and they were blushing and their necks were thick, and they couldn't wait to fight each other.

The more Li Sanjian listened, the more excited he became, and at the same time he was extremely surprised by Song's freedom of speech.

Li Sanjian didn't know that the Song Dynasty did not have a "Jinyi Guard", if he wanted to say that there was, it was a yamen equivalent to the Ming "Jinyi Guard", the Song Imperial City Division.

Previously, Li Sanjian should have heard a little about the dispute between the old and new parties in the imperial court, and at this time Li Sanjian is becoming more and more aware of this, at present, the imperial court is the new party, that is, the Yuanfeng party is in power, and the old party, that is, many people in the Yuanyou party have been deposed and deposed from the center of the imperial court.

At this time, Su Shi was relegated to Danzhou, Qiongtai, so there is no doubt that Su Shi is a member of the Yuanyou Party, at least in the eyes of the people currently in power in the imperial court.

Well? Wrong? Li Sanjian thought about it and suddenly remembered something, and suddenly remembered that Su Shi expelled himself from the division, and to this day Li Sanjian still can't figure out why Su Shi expelled himself from the division?

At present, the New Party is in power, so if he is still Su Shi's protégé at this time, wouldn't it be a big deal?

The great cause of the imperial examination may die halfway?

Could it be that Su Shi deliberately expelled Li Sanjian from the division in order not to delay Li Sanjian's future?

Did he really mean that? The more Li Sanjian thought about it, the more he felt that he had guessed eight or nine.

When Li Sanjian thought of this, he was like sitting on pins and needles, and he really wanted to leave and run back to Danzhou to ask Su Shi in person.

"What do you think?" Ye Meng saw Li Sanjian looking restless, so he asked.

"None of them are advisable!" Li Sanjian thought about Su Shi's affairs and what happened to Su Shi, so he blurted out.

Li Sanjian's words were loud, and immediately caused the surrounding scholars to turn their heads to each other, and they all looked at Li Sanjian suspiciously.

"This..." Li Sanjian was a little embarrassed by everyone, his face was a little red, and he didn't know if it was because of drinking or other reasons.

"Han Ren, have something to say." Ye Mengde then said.

"Yes, Brother Han Ren, your opinion must be unique." Zeng Gongming also said to Li Sanjian.

Ran Yunbiao also looked at Li Sanjian and nodded.

Li Sanjian is young and knows nothing about the affairs of the DPRK and China, and in front of many scholars who are much older than him, he didn't want to say anything, but he couldn't stand the eyes of everyone and the expectations of his friends.

In addition, Li Sanjian drank a lot of wine, and the wine was already half-drunk, so he said: "Infighting is the beginning of chaos!" This has been the case since ancient times. As Brother Shaoyun said, fighting back and forth, it costs me the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty. At the end of the Han Dynasty, the dispute between the hook party and the eunuch party caused the disaster of the party and hurt the Han Dynasty; The Empress Dowager Party and the Later Party of the Western Jin Dynasty induced the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, which led to the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty; Tianbao Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong fought for power, which induced the Anshi Rebellion, and Li Tang was greatly injured since then, and he did not recover until his demise; The dispute between the Southern and Northern Divisions induced the incident of the two kings and eight Sima and the change of manna.

There are countless precedents for this, and we are caught up in party disputes at this time, and we are not far from the disaster of party power. ”

Although Li Sanjian lacked knowledge of history, he also read a lot of historical books during his study under Su Shi and Lingshan County, so he was still able to tell some historical events, but these history books only recorded the events before the current dynasty.

Li Sanjian's words were not shocking, and the words he said immediately stunned everyone, and they all looked at Li Sanjian blankly, and no one spoke for a long time.

"Han Ren ... Han tenacity, caution, caution... After Ye Mengde came to his senses, he exclaimed again and again.

Li Sanjian also woke up at this time, and suddenly felt extremely timid, hurriedly stood up, said goodbye to everyone, and left Zhaixinju as if he had fled...

No matter how much freedom of speech the Song Song had, it was also a shocking thing to compare this time to the end of the Han Dynasty, the end of the Tang Dynasty, and the end of the Jin Dynasty.

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"Bang... Boom... Boom... "The New Year's fireworks bloomed on the majestic city of Kaifeng Mansion in Song Tokyo at this time, blooming in the night sky, colorful, colorful, dazzling fireworks flickering in the air, like a fairy descending to earth, dancing; Carry a basket of flowers and pick flowers; Holding the pipa in his arms, the sound of silver-stringed firecrackers broke the silence of the night and lined the night sky of Kaifeng Mansion with great dazzling.

This day is New Year's Eve, and every household is busy preparing everything for the New Year, and they are all busy celebrating the New Year.

Li Sanjian's family is no exception, and they all gather in the small dilapidated house where Li Sanjian temporarily lives.

This is the first New Year spent by Li Sanjian's family in Kaifeng Mansion in Song Tokyo, so although Li Sanjian's family is poor and the supplies for the New Year are extremely scarce, everyone is still elated and happy, ready to spend this New Year different from Qiongtai Danzhou, and the Han New Year is different from the Li New Year, so everyone also feels very novel and excited.

"Saburo, are you tired? You can rest for a while, it's the New Year, and wait for the corner of the mother's bun. Fu Erniang, who was busy chopping vegetables, said to Li Sanjian, who was gluing the window.

Although Fu Erniang is a Li person, Li Sanjian's father Li Qing is an authentic Han Chinese, so Fu Erniang will also cook some Han dishes.

"Mother, the child is fine, it will be fine soon." Li Sanjian knelt on the pit and pasted pieces of coarse paper with paste on the leaky holes in the wooden windows.

The earthen house rented by Li Sanjian was the house of a military man, and the military man got some rewards, so he changed to a spacious house, so he rented two earthen houses to Li Sanjian, and the rent was relatively low because the earthen houses were dilapidated.

The earthen houses were low, dilapidated, and leaking everywhere, and the cold north wind mixed with snowflakes poured into the house through the holes in the windows, making it extremely cold inside.

Shan Kui is strong, although Li Sanjian was weak in the past, but after several years of continuous physical fitness, his body is stronger day by day, and he is young, so Li Sanjian and Shan Kui can barely resist.

But Fu Erniang and Xiaodou Sprouts are different, after all, they are both women, especially Xiao Dou Sprouts, the illness in Lingshan County, Qinzhou almost caused Xiao Dou Sprouts to die, which made Li Sanjian worried.

So in addition to lighting a fire in the house, Li Sanjian wanted to glue the holes in the windows to block the invasion of the north wind.

"Brother, brother, paper... Here you go... "Little Bean Sprouts is wearing a coarse cloth jacket, the little face is not known to be blown by the cold wind, or roasted by the stove in the house, the little face is red and fluttering, and the spirit is also very excited, so excited that he will give Fu Erniang a hand, hold the paste bowl for a while, and hold the paper for a while, helping Li Sanjian to frame and break the window.

Li Sanjian stretched out his hand and gently pinched the pink face of the little bean sprouts, smiled and took the coarse paper, stuck a little paste, and wanted to paste it to the window.

But before Li Sanjian could paste the window, the dilapidated wooden door opened to both sides with a pop, and Shan Kui walked in with a bag of white noodles on his back.

The wooden door opened, and the cold wind mixed with snowflakes swished into the house, blowing the flames above the stove flickering and dimming.

The coarse paper that Li Sanjian had just pasted was also blown off a few sheets.

Li Sanjian glared at Shan Kui.

Shankui didn't pay attention to Li Sanjian's expression, put down his white face, patted the snowflakes on his body, and said to Fu Erniang with a smile: "Erniang, I'm back." ”

Seeing that his family was poor, Shan Kui wanted to go out to do odd jobs to earn some loose silver taels to supplement the family, but was stopped by Li Sanjian.

The reason is that he is not familiar with the place, and Shankui does not understand the world, so he goes out to work for a short time, and he doesn't know what is going on when he is cheated, and the second is that although Shankui has a redemption deed, he is already a free body, but the deed has been destroyed by Li Sanjian in front of Shankui.

Li Sanjian's move was to show that he had no intention of treating Shankui as a slave, but Li Sanjian never expected that there would be a troublesome thing, that is, the slave tattoo on Shankui's face had not been removed, and if he went out to do short-term work like this, he would be misunderstood as a fugitive slave, and he would be sent to the government.

Li Sanjian can't go with the deed every time, right? Li Sanjian was also not worried that Shan Kui would go alone.

In the future, find an opportunity to remove the tattoo on Shan Kui's face, and then do what he thinks.

"It's hard, tired, aren't you? Take a sip of hot soup and rest. Fu Erniang helped pat the snow on Shankui's body, and said while patting.

"Erniang, Shankui is not tired." Shan Kui laughed.

However, Shan Kui still held a bowl of broth, drank it in a hurry, and after a few mouthfuls of hot soup, he suddenly felt warm on his body.

Li Sanjian regards Shankui as his brother and Xiaodou Sprouts as his little sister, Fu Erniang also regards the two poor people as his relatives, and the two also regard Fu Erniang as their mother.

After Li Sanjian pasted the window, washed his hands, helped Fu Erniang and noodles, and asked Shankui while talking: "When you bought noodles, you didn't encounter any trouble, right?" ”

"Nothing was too much trouble, master, everything went well." Shan Kui replied as he drank the soup.

Li Sanjian nodded and kneaded the dough vigorously.

Shankui is like this, he has always called Li Sanjian the master, and Li Sanjian has corrected it countless times, but Shankui is bent on going his own way and does not change his words at all, making Li Sanjian helpless.

He can call it whatever he likes, anyway, Li Sanjian didn't regard Shankui as a slave, Li Sanjian said secretly in his heart.

After everyone was busy for a while, Fu Erniang finally cooked the dumplings, so she happily beckoned Li Sanjian and others to gather around a shabby wooden table, and everyone happily prepared to spend the first New Year in Kaifeng Mansion in Song Tokyo.

"Jian'er, come, eat more horns." Fu Erniang put a piece of dumplings into Li Sanjian's bowl and said: "I often hear your father say, the big cold and the small cold, eat horns for the New Year, eat horns for the New Year, not only auspicious, but also turn evil into good fortune, eat more horns, and my Jian'er will be smooth and obedient in the future." ”

Fu Erniang put another dumpling in the small bean sprouts bowl and said with a smile: "Bean sprouts, you also eat more, you will definitely grow into a beautiful little lady after eating, and when you grow up, you can marry into a good person's family." ”

"Erniang, beans... Bud, don't get married... As for people, bean sprouts should always be by Erniang's side. The bean sprouts gobbled up, ate a mouth full of oil, and replied vaguely with a dumpling in his mouth.

"Silly girl." Fu Erniang touched the little head of the bean sprouts and said with a smile: "How can there be a woman who doesn't marry?" When a girl grows up, she always has to find a mother-in-law. ”

"I don't want to..." Bean sprouts said while eating: "Even if I want to marry, I want to marry my brother... ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment when they heard this, and then they all laughed.

Li Sanjian bit a dumpling and was immediately embarrassed.

"Is Saburo at home?" Just when Li Sanjian was embarrassed, there was a sudden knock on the door.