After a while, they came to the small round gate of a small garden. "This small garden is the back garden of the Four Princesses' dormitory. Go straight inside, turn right corner, there is a century-old ancient plum, it is said that it was planted by Princess Yingyu, the wife of Shangjun. Go in and enjoy it yourself! We are waiting for you at the door! Xiao Shunzi said.

Montenegro actually walked straight into the garden, it was early winter, and everywhere was bare, although there was a light snow last night, it could not reach the snow scene. The whole garden was quiet except for a few bird chirps. Montenegro followed the path pointed by Xiao Shunzi, and sure enough, in the corner of the wall, he saw an ancient plum tree, a tree pole as thick as iron, the middle was empty, and the tree was full of white buds, only a few of them had opened. It also attracted a few colorful butterflies to dance among the flowers, which was very interesting!

Montenegro still doesn't know why the fourth princess took a fancy to her, maybe it was the poems she wrote in front of King Qin! Because of the people in the harem, I didn't have a chance to see it at all. Seeing that there was no one else here, he picked up a branch and wrote a poem "Plum Blossom" by Wang Anshi of the Northern Song Dynasty on the snow:

"There are a few plums in the corner, and Ling Han opens it alone.

I know that it is not snow, but there is a dark fragrance. ”

As soon as I finished writing, I heard someone hiding behind a rockery. Montenegro turned his back to the rockery and sat on a wooden railing on the side of the road. I thought in my heart, what if the fourth princess saw that her face was not as white as the four horses of Xianyang, and regretted it? Just thinking about it, he heard the sound of gentle footsteps slowly walking towards him, Montenegro has practiced martial arts for many years, and his ears are excellent. It seems that the other party is trying to scare himself! Although Montenegro did not look back, he listened carefully with his ears, and could already hear the sound of the long placket mopping the floor. Suddenly, footsteps staggered behind him, and a female voice screamed. Montenegro hurriedly turned around and stretched out his hands, and a girl in a long white dress fell into her arms, because Montenegro's body was half-leaning, barely holding each other, the tips of the noses of the two almost touched each other!

"This girl is so beautiful!" Montenegro sighs from the heart! Long eyelashes, big eyes, delicate noses, cherry mouths! The white and flawless skin is like a jade figure carefully carved by an artist. The two of them face to face, and they can clearly see themselves in each other's eyes. Montenegro couldn't help but kiss the cherry in the small mouth. The other party's face immediately turned red, like a ripe apple, with the morning dewdrops, and everyone who saw it wanted to take a bite.

"Did you fall on purpose?" Montenegro didn't know what to say, so he asked casually.

"My skirt seems to be hooked by something, I wanted to scare you!" The fourth princess said.

"Do you know who I am?" Montenegro asked.

"Do you know who I am?" The fourth princess asked rhetorically.

"Such a beautiful and wearing such a long skirt, who else can there be if it is not the fourth princess? Montenegro replied.

"You're exactly the same as you were more than two years ago! It's still so dark! The fourth princess touched Montenegro's face with her warm little hands.

Montenegro gently lowered the princess, and when she was on her feet, he helped her pull the hem of her skirt, which was a kind mopping ruler, out of the crack in the stone. The skirt was already soaked with snow. Montenegro asked again: "Fourth princess, you knew me two years ago?" ”

The fourth princess thought for a while and replied, "I'll tell you later!" But you, you don't know me, you kiss randomly, what if the kiss is wrong? ”

"If the kiss is wrong, I will marry you by mistake,

Anyway, I don't know who the fourth princess is! Montenegro replied casually.

"More than two years ago, you praised me! Forgot about me so quickly! The fourth princess muttered to herself, and asked, "Is the date of marriage set?" What day? ”

"Lord Li, the Qin Heavenly Supervisor, has some opinions about me, so the date has not been set yet!" Montenegro replied.

"Then you go to the Taimiao Order! It's okay to ask our ancestors to help us choose a day! In this way, Qin Tianjian would not dare to have anything to say! My father once said, 'If the will of heaven is different from the will of the widow, it means that Qin Tianjian has a lack of communication with heaven', and Qin Tianjian does not dare to go against the ancestors and ancestors in the temple! The fourth princess said.

"Good! I didn't even know it could be like this! In the afternoon, I will go to find the Taimiao Order! Then I'll go back and arrange it first! "Montenegro is about to leave.

The fourth princess hugged Montenegro's arm tightly and said, "The plum blossoms haven't been appreciated yet?" What's the hurry? ”

"From today on, you are the most beautiful flower in my heart!" Montenegro said.

"Will you be nice to me for the rest of your life?" The fourth princess asked.

"I will, only good to you for the rest of my life!" Montenegro replied.

The two walked in the garden for a while, and Montenegro reluctantly left! The fourth princess watched her sweetheart out of the back garden, and two beautiful maids immediately came out behind her, it was the spring in pink clothes and the autumn in yellow clothes. Chun said: "The princess is still in a daze! People are gone! ”

Qiu said, "The princess fell on purpose just now, right?" I also deceived the colt with a kiss! ”

"Make fun of me again, this princess is going to change the dowry girl!" After the fourth princess finished speaking, the three of them fought together again.

"Come and see, what is written on the ground?" Haru shouted.

The fourth princess remembered what Montenegro seemed to have written on the ground just now, and hurriedly came over to take a look, it turned out to be a poem, read it again, admired it in her heart, and said: "You asked Shaofu to send a masonry to come and engrave this poem on the stone next to the tree." ”

"This word is so ugly, it is not as beautiful as the slave maid's writing, why do you carve it on the stone?" Autumn asked puzzled.

"Zhao Gao's handwriting is the most beautiful, his father often praises him, this princess is in charge, and she will marry you to him, okay?" The princess teased with a smile. The three of them got together again.

After leaving the palace, Montenegro went straight to the Shaofu Yamen. Shaofu is in charge of all the imperial projects of the empire, with tens of thousands of craftsmen and more than 100,000 prisoners in his hands, and is one of the high-ranking Nine Emperors. Seeing the arrival of Montenegro, he was very respectful to this future horse master.

Montenegro didn't dare to hold it up, and the title and official position of the Shaofu were higher than his own, so he saluted everyone and told everyone about the maintenance plan of the Marquis of Wenxin. Together with Shaofu, he brought craftsmen to the scene to discuss. He also explained to the people the book chairs, blackboards, and chalk made of plaster, which were only available in later generations, and asked them to bring them into the classroom.

In the afternoon, Montenegro prepared two sets of tea sets and wine sets to visit Taimiaoling. Although the power of the Taimiao Order is not large, its status is very high, ranking fourth among the officials of the Qin State, in front of which are the prime minister, the national lieutenant, and the imperial historian. The old lady temple ordered that he was over the age of six, and a few teeth were lost.

Taimiao Ling listened to Montenegro's request and agreed. I personally opened the birthdays and sacrifice days of the successive monarchs of the Qin State, found a few days that did not conflict, and asked for the birthdays and death sacrifices of Montenegro and the ancestors of the three generations. After some deduction, three days were finally set! He took Montenegro to the gate of the tall and majestic Taimiao, and said to Montenegro: "You are not a horse yet, you can't enter the Taimiao, wait at the door first, and wait until I go in to pray to the ancestors and ancestors, and choose the day of marriage." ”

"There is a Laotai Temple Order!" Montenegro saluted the Taimiao Order.

After a while, the eunuchs carried in the three sacrifices, and the sacrificial music sounded in the temple. After waiting for two hours, Taimiao Ling came out, solemnly handed over a wooden plaque wrapped in red silk to Black Mountain, and said, "Congratulations!" March 3, Daji. ”

Montenegro took the wooden sign with both hands and saluted: "Thank you for the completion of the Taimiao Order." ”

"You can now go to Lord Zongzheng, make your birthday eight characters into a jade plate, and then come to Taimiao to enter the family tree of the Gong family, and then you can enter the Taimiao to worship, so that you can be regarded as a real Great Qin Horse!" Taimiao Ling said.

Montenegro only knew at this time that the procedure for marrying a princess was really cumbersome!

On the second day of the year, the Tongbai County government received a document that the King of Qin would send the prime minister to Tongbai County to welcome the Confucian master Meng Zhao into Xianyang, and the government must make preparations to ensure that Meng Zhao entered Xianyang smoothly.

When he received the book order, it immediately caused a sensation. Shangqing is treated like a prime minister in this era! The Tongbai County Government immediately sent officers and soldiers to protect Meng Zhao's safety day and night, and Ling, Wei, and Cheng personally came to the door to ask for warmth! Nanyang County Shou and other officials also gave up the rest of the year and went to Tongbai County to visit Meng Zhao. Many literati and artists who had only one side of the relationship also visited, which annoyed Meng Zhao, who originally loved quiet.

When Montenegro learned that King Qin was going to invite Meng Zhao to Xianyang, he happened to be suspended at home, and immediately sent a letter to the teacher to tell the teacher that King Qin called him not recommended by a student, but someone else, and at the same time hoped that the teacher would enter Xianyang as soon as possible, and had prepared a house in the mansion.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in order to show respect for talents, the monarchs of various countries would give corresponding levels of treatment according to the reputation of talents. Anyone who is treated with the courtesy of the above is famous. Such as Laozi, Confucius, Mencius, Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Lin Xiangru, Le Yi, Shen Dao and so on. The king of Qin sent the prime minister and the eldest son to Nanyang to meet Meng Zhao this time, and he also told the whole world with an edict that the Qin State respected the virtuous and loved the virtuous. There were more than 2,000 guards in the vast team. When Meng Zhao arrived at the outskirts of Xianyang on the carriage of the King of Qin, along with his servants and tens of thousands of books, it was already October 16.

Li Si was in the suburbs to welcome the team, and when he saw this mighty team and the noisy palace music, he had mixed feelings in his heart. remembered that when he entered Xianyang, he was carrying a few changes of old clothes on his back, and it was not easy to get to his current high position. He boasted that he was already the right-hand man of the King of Qin. There have long been rumors in Xianyang that the King of Qin asked Li Si if he was indecisive in political affairs, and the army was indecisive and asked Wei Yu. Wang Juan is already old, and his once heroic back has begun to rickets! Among the ministers summoned by the King of Qin every day, the number of times he himself was much higher than that of others. Just when he thought that he was only half a step away from the position below that person and above the ten thousand people, the King of Qin greeted Meng Zhao into Xianyang with the courtesy of Shangqing, and he obviously felt a trace of loss. remembered that the last time King Qin held a grand welcome ceremony, it was his junior brother Han Fei who greeted him. And the last one to get the suburbs to welcome into Xianyang is the Zhaoxiang King when Lü Buwei led the horse team, will win the stranger to rescue Xianyang, himself was seriously injured, Zhaoxiang King Shangqing to welcome him into Xianyang, praise his other country warriors. Although he didn't see the grand occasion of the suburbs at that time, it should be similar to now, and he suddenly remembered that Lu Buwei and Han Fei both drank and died in front of him, and there was a smile on his face.

The complicated etiquette and music finally ended, because of his special status, Montenegro was arranged by the ceremonial official after Jiuqing, and the position of Shiqing, he did not go up to meet the teacher in public, if he did that, his worth could be doubled immediately. The master and apprentice just silently made eye contact.

Feng Quji, the chief official of the suburbs, invited Shangqing's official residence to rest for a while, and announced that the king of Qin would hold a banquet in Zhangtai Palace in the evening.

After everyone dispersed, Montenegro asked his subordinates to welcome Chen Bo and others and more than a dozen carts of luggage and books into his mansion.

In the past few days, the weather has warmed up, and the moon is in the sky, and there is a large open space in the garden of Zhangtai Palace, where the King of Qin set up a banquet for Meng Zhao to catch the wind. On the right of King Qin is Meng Zhao, who is wearing a brand-new official uniform, and on the left is Prime Minister Wang Xuan. In addition to the princes and nobles and the ministers of Jiuqing, there were also literati who were well-known in Xianyang. The Confucian talents in Xianyang are all headed by Wang Juan, and when they saw that the prime minister was on the left, they were all indignant in their hearts.

Many people still don't know that Montenegro is Meng Zhao's disciple, and they all believe that Montenegro was able to participate in the banquet only because of his future status as a concubine. However, the seat of Montenegro was arranged after Jiuqing, on the right side of Feng Tang's horse. This provoked many literati to scoff.