In the afternoon, Bai Juyi came to the newspaper as usual, he wrote an article about the civil bellows last night, and prepared to hand it over to the chief judge Du Chong today, Du Chong is not only the chief judge of the newspaper, but also responsible for the people's livelihood column, the reason is also very simple, the king of Jin and the court attach great importance to this column.

Du Chong had a separate room, and Bai Juyi knocked on the door, "Presiding judge, it's me!" ”

"Come in!"

Bai Juyi pushed the door in, and Du Chongzheng was busy reading the manuscript in a pile of manuscripts, "What's the matter?" Du Chong asked without raising his head.

"I have a manuscript, about the bellows, His Royal Highness King Jin hopes to promote it in the newspaper as soon as possible."

Hearing that it was the meaning of His Royal Highness the King of Jin, Du Chong raised his head, stretched out his hand and said, "Show me the draft!" ”

Bai Juyi hurriedly handed him the manuscript, "This is yesterday when I went to visit the Taixue Hydraulic Institute, and I happened to meet His Royal Highness the King of Jin, and he hopes that the bellows will be promoted as soon as possible." ”

Du Chong took a serious look at it, he twisted his beard and thought for a while: "Let's have a picture!" ”

Of course, the accompanying pictures are simple woodcuts, which cannot be reused and cost a lot of money, and are generally decided by the chief judge.

Of course, Bai Juyi also wants to be accompanied by pictures, otherwise everyone will not be able to understand it just by saying it in words, and everyone will understand it at once with a picture.

"This kind of new thing really needs to be illustrated, otherwise it will be difficult for everyone to understand."

"Hmmm! You can put the manuscript with me first! I'll go back and take a closer look, Lao Sun will talk to you about how to portray it, and strive to be in the newspaper the day after tomorrow. ”

Bai Juyi withdrew from the room with a salute, he returned to his seat, and a colleague smiled: "Xiao Xue was looking for you just now!" The look of impatience. ”

Bai Juyi was stunned, Xue Qing was in a hurry to find himself for what to do?

As he was talking, he saw Xue Qing running in a gust of wind, "I'm looking for you everywhere!" ”

"What's the matter?" Bai Juyi was stunned.

"What's the matter, my God, you come with me."

Xue Qing dragged Bai Juyi out of the lobby, stared at Bai Juyi with a suspicious face and asked, "You really forgot?" ”

"Forget what?"

Xue Qing lightly slapped Bai Juyi's shoulder socket with his fist, "You kid didn't go to Tianlai Music Place?" ”

Bai Juyi opened his mouth wide, he wrote the manuscript all night last night, and he had forgotten about it all day ago.

Xue Qing said jealously: "It's really unfair, I ran away with my heart, but there was no my name, you kid forgot, but the name is in the first place, it's unreasonable." ”

Bai Juyi blinked and smiled: "Otherwise, I will sell you this place!" Five-run money. ”

"Go! Is Miss Shi's invitation worth five dollars? I'll tell her when I have the chance, and see how she teaches you! ”

"What to teach me, I don't know her, and it has nothing to do with her, what reason does she have to teach me?"

"Don't be hypocritical, she sang yesterday, your soulless appearance, and now you are still pretending to be high, can you kid hide it from others, from me?"

Bai Juyi's face flushed slightly, "Thank you for telling me, there is nothing else, I will go back." ”

"Nonsense! Hurry up and go shopping for clothes with me, you can't wear this to the poetry party! ”

Bai Juyi looked at his green cloth cotton robe, "This one is still my new purchase, fine linen cotton core robe, so thick, it costs consistently!" Isn't that possible? ”

"I'm really convinced of you, your cotton robe is too fat...... Ay! Look at what Wang Zhubi is wearing? ”

Wang is in charge of the beauty column, all kinds of makeup, clothing or something, his pen name is Wan Niang, many female readers think he is a soft and delicate woman, but in fact he is a dry old man in his fifties.

Bai Juyi glanced through the crack in the door, Wang Zhubi was talking impassionedly, waving his arms, feeling that he was deliberately showing off the newly bought fox fur coat on his body.

"You're not going to tell me to wear that, are you? Like a weasel. ”

Xue Qing'poof! Laughing out loud, the skinny Wang Zhubi put on a fox fur coat, and really looked like a weasel.

"Don't underestimate other people's fox skins, you don't want to wear such an exaggerated one, but at least wear a satin-covered thin cotton robe! Why don't I lend you one? ”

"Forget it, I'll wear this, I don't necessarily have time to go tomorrow!"

Xue Qing saw that Bai Juyi refused to change into new clothes, so he had no choice but to give up.

..........

The poetry and music meeting is actually a small gathering between circles, and there are many small gatherings like this in Chang'an, but it is presided over by the beautiful woman Shi Hongsleeve, and it is infinitely expanded by the good deeds.

Of course, this is also related to the draft, there are too many people who want to participate, so they can only choose, which attracts the attention of the city's readers.

The poetry meeting was still held in Tingqin Xiaozhu, but Bai Juyi was very unlucky today, he happened to be stopped by Gu Zheng, and helped him review the paper together, and finally finished the paper, and he didn't even have time to eat lunch, and when he came in a hurry, the poetry meeting was almost over.

Guarding the door was the round-faced girl the day before yesterday, she shook her head and said: "My girl has rules, and half of them will be regarded as automatically giving up when they are outdated, and I can't help you." ”

Bai Juyi ran sweating profusely, he wiped the sweat on his forehead and said: "Today is really unfortunate, in the morning Hongwen Pavilion monthly exam, I am responsible for marking the papers, the owner of the museum will come back in the afternoon to see the results, I didn't mean to be late, tell me about it!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, his stomach rumbled and chirped, and the round-faced girl covered her mouth and laughed, and after a while, she couldn't help but smile and nodded: "I'll go tell you, see if the girl is willing to make an exception." ”

"Thank you, little lady!"

The girl went in with a smile, and after a while, she came out and said, "You are lucky, the girl is in a good mood, please go in!" ”

Bai Juyi hurriedly tidied up his robe and followed the girl in, although he was very hypocritical and refused to change into new clothes yesterday, but he regretted it for a while, the robe he was wearing was indeed a little shabby, and what was worse was that he trotted all the way over, sweating, and he could feel that the back of the cotton robe was soaked with sweat.

In a large hall, two long rows of low tables with thick mattresses on the wooden floor, and on each side sat three young scribes, all admirers of Shi Redsleeve.

The owner Shi Hongsleeves sat in the middle of the head, she did not apply Fan Dai today, but she was beautiful, her skin was crystal like jade, her hair was combed in a high bun, her eyebrows were picturesque, her eyes were like autumn waves, her lips were a little cherry blossoms, she was extremely dignified and beautiful, wearing a light yellow undergarment, a lambskin jacket, a collar of white fox fur around her neck, and a silver clay skirt around her waist.

They had finished their poems, and there was a piano next to them, and it seemed that the piano had been played, and the poetry meeting had come to an end, and everyone was drinking tea and chatting.

Bai Juyi walked up to the lobby and saluted: "I'm really sorry for the delay in the next place!" ”

Someone next to him snorted coldly, "I just came at this time, why don't you come?" ”

The one who spoke was a young man sitting at the top, his name was Wei Min, the third son of Wei Lian, the head of the Wei family, he was the leader of today's scribes, and his poems and writings were highly praised by Shi Hongsleeve, which can be said to be out of the limelight.

Wei Min saw that Bai Juyi's clothes were shabby, and his clothes were worse than their servants, and he really despised them in his heart, and all the dogs and cats came.

Wei Min wore a slender robe made of Shu brocade fabric, a silver deerskin men's jacket, a leather belt around his waist, a handsome face, elegant and outstanding, quite a bit of Yushu in the wind, and the temperament of the other five people was obviously inferior to him, and they all became his foil.

The other five young scholars were either rich or expensive, and they were all dressed very well, and Bai Juyi's fine linen blue-gray thick cotton robe was indeed a bit out of place with them.

Shi Hongsleeve's expression was calm, she couldn't see her joy or anger, she said lightly: "Bai Gongzi, please sit down!" ”

The bottom seat on the left was vacant, Bai Juyi sat down silently below, but the round-faced maid served him a hot tea, and Bai Juyi bowed slightly to thank him.

Shi Hongsleeve didn't look at Bai Juyi, she smiled lightly: "Just now we read today's "Chang'an Express", the people's livelihood column actually recommended a bellows, and it was accompanied by a picture, the newspaper said that this kind of bellows is very practical, I don't know what you think?" ”

Bai Juyi raised his head in surprise, didn't the chief judge say that he would report it tomorrow? Why did you report it early today? I haven't reviewed that picture yet!

Wei Min coughed lightly, "That kind of bellows is mainly used for smelting!" I think it should be placed in the new things column, but I don't know why it should be placed in the people's livelihood column? Maybe the newspaper made a mistake, and they made this mistake often, not once or twice. ”

Wei Min's father, Wei Lian, despised the "Chang'an Express" very much, and found fault all day long, and under the influence of his father, Wei Min also agreed to be full of contempt for the "Chang'an Express".

The other five also knew the use of the bellows, but for the sake of Wei Min's face, they stopped talking.

Seeing that everyone didn't react, Shi Hongsleeve saw that everyone didn't react, a pair of wonderful eyes fell on Bai Juyi, and Ying Ying smiled: "Bai Gongzi seems to have a high opinion, why don't you tell me about it?" ”