After learning that the handsome young man with red lips and white teeth in front of him was actually sent to Xu Jin by order, Tang Bohu's friends suddenly became restrained and cautiously stepped forward to salute.

is the name of the so-called shadow man of the tree, although Xu Jin is young, his reputation in recent years is too loud. In terms of fame, Xu Jin even won the five-yuan tanhua and the first, and cleared the imperial examination in one breath, which is staggering. In terms of literary titles, Xu Jin's poems can be called superb, and a poem "Linjiang Immortal" has overshadowed all talents. In terms of martial arts, at the age of twenty, he has already experienced a hundred battles and won the title of earl, and he may be crowned when he returns to Beijing this time.

Therefore, Xu Jin can be regarded as an all-round talent in civil and military affairs, and his aura is shining, which makes it difficult for ordinary people to look at him directly.

Tang Bohu thinks that he has been friends with Xu Jin for many years, so although Xu Jin has now soared and is not what it used to be, he still calls Xu Jin Ziqian "cordially", and he is even more cheerful in front of many friends at the moment, probably to show the friendship between him and Lord Qincha.

"Brother Ziqian, let me introduce you, this is Brother Seagate Zhu Yunming, and this is Brother Zizhong Chen Chun......" Tang Bohu stroked his beard and proudly introduced his talented friends to Xu Jin.

Zhu Yunming is Zhu Zhishan, the word Seagate, Xu Jin naturally knows one of the four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River, and he also saw it once at the Oiran Competition in Yangzhou last time, and he is an old man in his sixties.

As for Chen Chun and Tang Zhen, although Cai Yu is not as famous as the four great talents, Xu Jin, as a calligraphy lover, has naturally heard of them, and has also copied their calligraphy.

According to historical records, Wen Zhengming once took the lead in forming a poetry club, named "Dongzhuang Ten Friends", and Chen Chun, Tang Zhen and others are one of the ten friends of Dongzhuang. This group of talented people from Suzhou often get together to recite poems and write texts, and travel to various places of interest and historic sites in the south of the Yangtze River together, which has become a good story.

Xu Jin has always scoffed at the so-called "Huai Cai is not met", and the reason why these people cannot be officials and display their ambitions is generally due to only two reasons, the first is that they did not pass the imperial examination; The second is not the material of being an official, and he was kicked out by the opponent.

For example, Zhu Yunming, who was born ugly, also had a little finger (deformed) on the thumb of his right hand, so he gave himself the nickname "Zhishan", which is self-deprecating. In ancient times, great attention was paid to appearance, so people like Zhu Zhishan, even if they passed the imperial examination, could not be a big official, at most any small official. The key is that Zhu Zhishan couldn't pass the test, and finally won the lift, but he didn't win the exam seven times in a row, and finally even his son was hit, he still didn't win, and he was even more unlucky than Zhang Zhang, who passed the exam at least for the eighth time.

Wen Zhengming is even more miserable, he is still a talented man after most of his life, he hasn't even mixed up with a lifter, and he doesn't have the qualifications to go to the Ministry of Officials to be a candidate, and he is still a fart official.

Therefore, the so-called "talented people who do not meet" are actually losers in the examination room and officialdom. A group of disheartened losers get together, and they can only place their affection on the mountains and rivers, play with the pen, and bubble girls, but they have become famous in literature, and some bubble girls have achieved outstanding results, and even won the name of romantic talents, such as Tang Bohu and Liu Yongzhi.

It is obviously a boring thing to talk about current affairs with such a group of cynical losers, but when you talk about poetry and songs, it is very pleasant to talk about qin, chess, calligraphy and painting.

At this moment, Xu Jin was very unscrupulous in the midst of a group of old talents, standing behind the case, watching Tang Bohu's portrait of early spring and early summer. A group of talented people talked and laughed, witty words, and the atmosphere was relaxed and cheerful.

Tang Bohu's fine brush paintings, since Xu Jin learned sketching, Tang Laocai's attainments in painting are even more exquisite, the pen power is more and more refined, and the speed is also much faster.

About an hour or so, in the early spring and early summer, these two pretty maids jumped on the paper, two pretty faces with the same face, different attitudes, different temperaments, extremely delicate and moving, making people happy.

"Tang Ziwei, this painting belongs to me, how about I go back and invite you to drink three meals?"

"Brother Ziwei, I will use the autumn twilight picture of the mountain residence last time to exchange it with you."

"Brother Ziwei, you can take away the spring (palace) map in the next house, but this picture of the lady belongs to me."

Before Tang Bohu finished painting, the group of friends scrambled to ask for this painting, Xu Jin looked at the two lifelike maids in the painting, and his heart was also very fond of it, and he hurriedly raised his hand and said: "Everyone, the gentleman does not take the favor of others, this painting was painted by the official at the request of Brother Ziwei, and the maid is also the maid of the official, and the painting is naturally owned by the official." ”

A group of old talents suddenly burst into laughter, but no one asked for it anymore, who would dare to rob Lord Qincha's things?

Tang Bohu is obviously also a competitive guy, the more people watch, the more excited they become, today is an extraordinary performance, this painting is obviously his pinnacle in recent times.

After Tang Bohu finished painting, he stroked his beard and admired himself proudly for a while, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, and he was a little reluctant to give it to Jin. What kind of character Xu Jin is, seeing this, he immediately swooped the painting over, and said with a smile: "Brother Ziwei, the gentleman is hard to chase after him, but he can't break his word and fatten himself, don't be slow, hurry up and use the seal, or the inscription." ”

The old geniuses laughed again, and felt more and more that this Lord Qincha was looking at each other.

Tang Bohu did not bring ink, and was very reluctant to take up the pen and sign the name and date in the blank space, and also wrote a short preface to describe what happened today.

Xu Jin couldn't help but be happy, and at the same time felt strange in his heart, at the auction five hundred years later, I don't know how many billions this painting can be auctioned, when the auctioneer introduces the origin of this painting, will he mention himself?

Xu Jin dried his handwriting, then handed the scroll to Chu Chun and told her to put it away. The two pretty maids were already itching, but it was just not easy to get up, and after receiving the scroll handed by Xu Jin, they immediately opened it excitedly to watch.

When they saw themselves in the painting, the two pretty maids couldn't help but cover their mouths, and were amazed by their beauty, and even Wang Cuiqiao next to them showed a touch of envy.

But see the painting of two identical girls standing next to the railing, the background is the lotus leaves filled with fields of Taihu Lake, the girl is like two lotus flowers blooming side by side, the early spring is gentle and shy, the early summer is bright and smiling, people are excited to see it.

Tang Bohu said triumphantly: "Brother Ziqian, these are two, and the other eight will be given to you tomorrow, and our old accounts will be cleared!" ”

Xu Jin arched his hand and said with a smile: "Brother Ziwei is really a believer!" ”

Chen Chun laughed and said: "It is rumored that Tang Ziwei was detained by King Ning in Hongzhou (Nanchang), Jiangxi, and finally had to be guided by Lord Xu to rush into King Ning's car with his bare butt, so he was able to get out of the city, but this ass was beaten to the point that the skin was rotten and it took several months to heal. Now it seems that the rumors are not false, otherwise why would I owe Lord Xu ten pictures of ladies. ”

mentioned Tang Bohu's troubles back then, and all the friends laughed, but Wang Cuiqiao and others made a big red face, and hurriedly walked out of the pavilion and got into the carriage, lest a group of old shameless people tell some meat jokes again.

Xu Jin asked Jinyiwei to send Wang Cuiqiao's daughters back to Qincha Xingyuan first, and then went to the restaurant with the old talents for a banquet. This banquet took two hours to end, and it cost Lord Xu fifty taels of silver.

At the banquet, all the old talents were working hard, expressing their political opinions in a high-minded manner, obviously trying to win the appreciation of Xu Jin, the Lord of the Qincha. It's a pity that Xu Jin didn't plan to use these cynical guys at all, so let them continue to be talented people who "don't meet talents", they are obviously better at this.

However, there is one exception, that is Wen Zhengming, when others are eager to pour out the goods in their stomachs in front of Xu Jin, Wen Zhengming is always neither humble nor arrogant, advancing and retreating calmly and without losing etiquette.

It happened that Xu Jin lacked a document by his side, so he moved Zhaowen Zhengming to be a staff member, so after the banquet, he privately asked him to meet alone.

Wen Zhengming has been a talent for most of his life, and he has long given up the idea of becoming a talent, but Xu Jin met in private, and he was still pleasantly surprised, even if he agreed to visit tomorrow.