This year's Jiangning Qinglou Oiran Contest is naturally a few happy and a few sad, and the biggest winner is not only the eight leaders and the last Oiran, but also one person, that is, Cao Yi. With the battle with Shen Xing's first talent to the interpretation of the last five words, Cao Yi's name was once again promoted in the entire Jiangning City, this time in addition to the title of "Jiangning's first talent", there were two more titles.

One is a "merry talent", because among the eight leaders, there are four who are directly or indirectly related to him, which shows that Cao Yi must have a good relationship with the various red cards of the major green buildings, plus it is rumored that Cao Yi also has eight young and beautiful maids, who often follow him, which further confirms the fact that Cao Yi is romantic.

In this regard, Cao Yi can only be helpless in addition to helplessness, and his heart is also aggrieved, you must know that in this life, although there are always many women around him, but he is only sixteen years old after the New Year, according to later generations, even the first kiss is still there, and where did it come from.

Another title is "madman", and the name of madman Cao Yi is also recognized by many people. This is mainly because Cao Yi has always liked to do things with swords, from a series of stupid things before he became famous, to the blockbuster of the Mid-Autumn Festival Poetry Club, and then to the peak momentum of the first talent in Jiangning of the Chongyang Poetry Club, just when everyone thought that he was about to display his talent to the fullest, he suddenly became so low-key that he almost disappeared. Not only did all kinds of celebrities get together, but all kinds of student gatherings didn't come, and there was not a single poem for several months. That's why there were rumors a few days ago that he was exhausted. It turned out that Cao Yi's talent was still amazing, but he was indifferent in the face of Shen Xing's provocation, and even said "As Brother Ling said, my four songs are not as good as you", which seemed to be weak at the time, and now I know that Cao Yi is not interested in vain name and "he is strong, the breeze blows the hills, he is crossed, and the bright moon shines on the river".

In addition, Yu Xuanji's last performance of "Crane Soaring to the Sky", which begins with "On the gold list, occasionally lose the dragon's hope", and then to "Why talk about mourning" and "Talented lyricists, they are white-clothed prime ministers", "Endure the floating name, and change it to a shallow low singing!" ”。 If Cao Yi had already participated in the imperial examination, he would have no choice but to fall off the list, and others would be able to understand the word, and resort to the helplessness of falling off the list. But Cao Yi didn't even participate, and he had already expressed his contempt for fame and fortune, his contempt for the powerful, and his disdain for entering the office.

For this title, many elders naturally have their own prejudices, and the madman is naturally very happy, thinking that this is the only way to have the Wei and Jin dynasties. The prefect Yang Gong felt that the Cao family was a general, and each of the seven elder brothers in front of Cao Yi was an official, and the youngest son would not hurt even if he was a little deviant or unscrupulous, not to mention that Cao Yi was now talented, but his ideas were a little out of line, but this was more genuine. However, in Lu Lao's area, Cao Yi was scolded bitterly, saying that Cao Yi really had no hair in his mouth and was not able to handle things well. At this Jiangning event, if you really participate in the imperial examination in the future, the chief examiner or the emperor happens to hear this song "Crane Rushing to the Sky" when he takes the palace examination, then even if Cao Yi does well in the exam, his name may be directly crossed out.

Cao Yi is naturally noncommittal about this, he is not interested in taking the examination for fame, and now he is so free and comfortable how comfortable, when the time comes, he really gets the fame of the examination, becomes an official, and sees the emperor every day to kneel, and when he meets an official, he has to bow down, and he has to deal with all kinds of deceitful party disputes, why bother. Lu Lao was heartbroken by Cao Yi's idea of not seeking progress, and he was so angry that he brushed his sleeves away on the spot, and even Cao Yi didn't let him in the door with a gift the next day, and finally Cao Yi had no choice but to put down the gift and retire first, planning to wait for Lu Lao's anger to disappear at the door.

In the past few days, there has also been one thing that has caused Cao Yi's unhappiness, that is, Shen Yan, who testified with his real name in the Oiran competition before, did spend money to hire talents to build momentum for Shen Xing and smear Cao Yi, Liu Wenle, who was found fainting in the alley one morning, was found with both legs broken by someone, and was later rushed to the hospital. Later, Cao Yi also went to visit him with red sleeves, no matter what, it was because of the report of the Shen family that caused the pain of the broken leg, and it was also related to Cao Yi to a certain extent, Cao Yi later paid to send him to Dr. Zhou for careful treatment and recuperation, and gave ten times of money to Sun Wenle, asking him to buy some hooves and other things to replenish his body.

Of course, both the government and Cao Yi asked Sun Wenle who hurt him, but Sun Wenle was walking in the alley at the time, and suddenly someone put a sack on him, and then he fainted with a stick on the back of his head, until he was discovered, and he didn't even know how his leg was broken. But although I didn't see who did it, everyone knew that it must have nothing to do with the Shen family, I just reported your family here, and I was put on a sack and broke my leg in less than two days, such an obvious motive for the crime is here, and a discerning person can know it by investigating the cause and effect a little, but there is no evidence.

However, even if there is no evidence to prove that it is the Shen family, the prefect Yang Jue still knocked the Shen family openly and secretly through other channels to make them more restrained, after all, the Oiran Contest is officially held by Jiangning City, and the prefect of Jiangning City is a grand event for notaries, and he does not want anyone to be persecuted because of what happened in the Oiran Competition.

It is said that it was Shen Yan's personal behavior to hire ruffians to beat Liu Wenle, and only he would do this kind of stupid thing that a normal person can see at a glance, for which Shen Yan was also taught a lesson by his Lao Tzu and his brother respectively, as for this, it is said that it is a friend of the second aunt's husband's third daughter husband of a brother-in-law in Shen Yan's courtyard, and he said it when he was happy when he drank in the restaurant the next day.

As the days passed, three more days will be Chinese New Year's Eve, the smell of the New Year in Jiangning City is getting stronger and stronger, thousands of households have hung red lanterns for the New Year, and they have also pasted the New Year's Spring Festival, and the Drunken Immortal Building has also been thoroughly cleaned from the inside out, and the festive decorations have all been pasted.

And in the Cao Mansion, it was supposed that Wang Zhiyuan, the steward of the Cao Mansion, came forward to let the servants under him clean and renew, but because he was not there at this time, the red sleeves had to organize the cleaning on his behalf.

"Red sleeves, when will Uncle Wang and Tangtai Mingde come back, this is about to be the New Year." Cao Yi looked at the busy figure of the red-sleeved commander coming and going, and asked with a smile.

"Gongzi, the slave doesn't know, the teacher just said when he left that he would definitely come back before Chinese New Year's Eve. According to their distance to Yangzhou, it should only be a few days away. Redsleeves shook his head, wiped the fine sweat on his forehead from the constant busyness, and replied softly.

"Well......" Cao Yi responded, "It's almost enough to clean, anyway, that's all we use, you just have to let Uncle Wang's yard, our Qingyun Pavilion, and my mother's Wenshu Garden be carefully cleaned." Cao Yi looked around and said to the red sleeves who were following him, and then his mind moved, and he asked: "Are the red envelopes and New Year benefits for everyone in our mansion, Zuixian Building, wine shop and secret camp ready?" ”

"Back to Gongzi, everything is ready, just wait for the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve to distribute it, but Gongzi, where did you eat dinner that day?"

"Chinese New Year's Eve dinner...... You let everyone in the Cao Mansion go to the Drunken Immortal Building to eat together, when the time comes, the Cao Mansion and the Drunken Immortal Building will spend Chinese New Year's Eve together, as for the secret camp, you let Yuan Qing and Liu Baiqing make their own tinkering, but you also keep an eye on the point, several of them are vulgar men, maybe there are many things that are not in place, you will prepare them in advance according to the number of people according to the standards in our Drunken Immortal Building. Cao Yi stopped and said.

"Understood, Childe. I'll arrange it when I'm done here. ”

"The secret camp likes to eat meat, so let's Red Sleeves, you prepare four sheep, a cow, and two pigs for them before the Chinese New Year's Eve, so that they can eat enough, maybe they will have heavy work to do at the beginning of the first month......," Cao Yi said meaningfully.

"Okay, Childe!" The red sleeves bent slightly.

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