Although it was the winter season, a group of old nobles in the imperial city walked out of their homes one after another. beheaded Uncle Yang, and they celebrated each other.

It was the New Year immediately after the closure of the mansion, and it should have been the time to prepare for the opening of the government in the coming year, but these days, the Huangfu is full of people. The old butler urged dozens of servants to keep clearing the snow from the courtyard, courtyard and other places, so that these visitors who came one after another had a place to turn around.

Everyone sat around the brazier in the main hall, chatting about the world, talking about the land from Mianzhou customs to Pingzhou water and soil, and then from Jiaozhou to Shunzhou, and sighed at this heavy snowfall, saying inconsequential words such as Ruixue Zhaofeng Year, but no one talked about state affairs, and everyone seemed to deliberately avoid this topic.

From morning to afternoon, suddenly, someone said, "There are so many people here, why don't you see Lord Huang?" ”

"Yes, yes, I'll wait at Lord Huang's mansion, so I should invite Lord Huang to come out and say a few words." The crowd chimed in.

There was a coughing sound in front of the door, and the two maids supported Huang Gongfu left and right, and Huang Gongfu's fat body almost pressed on them. Finally, Huang Gongfu came in and sat on the chairman's seat, and the two maids secretly breathed a sigh of relief, raised their hands and wiped the crystal sweat beads oozing from their smooth foreheads.

Yan Yifan leaned in front of Huang Gongfu, "My lord, let's say a few words, everyone wants to hear your high opinion on state affairs." ”

Huang Gongfu frowned, glanced at Yan Yifan, and then looked around at the courtiers in the hall who were looking at him, and said solemnly: "What do I have to say?" Naturally, whatever the emperor says, I will always support all the emperor's decisions. ”

Yan Yifan felt a little embarrassed when he heard this, coughed violently, and then said in a loud voice: "Yes, yes, we will naturally listen to all the emperor's orders." Let all the adults disperse. It's freezing on this day, and my body bones are a little unbearable. Go back, go back. After saying that, he took the lead and got up and walked out of the hall.

"Yes, yes, let's go, Lord Huang have a good rest, don't take care of yourself. I'll take my leave. ”

After a while, everyone left, the hall returned to calm, and the luxurious cars outside the gate of the Huangfu also disappeared in a sound of "driving, driving".

Huang Gongfu coughed twice, lifted the lid on the brazier, added some charcoal, turned to the maid on the side and said, "Go, bring me San'er." ”

The third son in Huang Gongfu's mouth is named Huang Chuan, and he is the adopted son he received. Huang Gongfu has a daughter and a son, his daughter Fang Jin is seventeen, and he is waiting for the boudoir, and his son Huang Xu was driven out of the mansion by him, and now he doesn't know where to go. The only thing that can really be used around is this righteous son.

Except for the people of the Huang Mansion, I am afraid that no one knows that the Huang family has a third son, but Huang Gongfu will hand over all the affairs to him to do, and Huang Gongfu can know what is happening outside without leaving home during that time, thanks to this person, including the news that the Marquis Mengying of Yinping and Yan Huan, the assassin of Hezhou, privately withheld taxes and grain, which caused Emperor Xuanzong and Uncle Yang to have to be forced to execute them publicly.

The reason why Huang Gongfu chose to accept Huang Chuan as his righteous son was because he saw that his own son Huang Xu was not a person who could really stand in the court, Huang Xu was a capable person, but he was by no means a person who could be permanent in the ups and downs of the Huan Sea.

But Huang Chuan is different, this person has a deep heart, and he is most suitable to do some things behind the scenes. But Huang Gongfu also knows that this person is a lot smarter, but he lacks the means to really do big things. It was precisely because of this that he originally wanted to marry Huang Chuan with the pearl in his palm, but after thinking about it carefully, he gave up.

Footsteps sounded in the courtyard, "Father-in-law, are you looking for me?" "The people haven't come in yet, but the voices have come in. This is also what Huang Gongfu doesn't like about Huang Chuan, he is unstable and thinks about preemptive strikes everywhere, but he doesn't know that this will only expose his shortcomings to his opponent earlier.

A tall, thin, slightly hunched young man walked in, dressed in a sackcloth robe, not like a noble man, but a little like a farmer.

Huang Gongfu frowned, pointed to a crystal clear jade pendant on his waist and said, "Nonsense, I told you a long time ago that you are not allowed to wear any jewelry, don't you know?" ”

Huang Chuan put away the smile on his face and knelt in front of Huang Gongfu: "Father-in-law, I was wrong, I won't dare next time." ”

Huang Gongfu snorted, "Next time, I'll go to the housekeeper and get twenty whips myself!" ”

"Yes, father-in-law, I see." Huang Chuan lowered his head, unable to see the expression on his face clearly.

Huang Gongfu turned his head and continued to fiddle with the brazier, "Xu'er, do you have any news?" ”

"The young master teaches in a private school in Dongzhou."

Huang Chuan's heart was very unconvinced, why did he do a lot of things, he still had to wear linen clothes every day, not even a piece of jade pendant, but his son and daughter could wear brocade clothes and jade belts, he was like a dog, and he had to listen to his reprimand.

"Okay, send him some more silver taels, don't let him starve and freeze." Huang Gongfu breathed a sigh of relief, if this son could have some scheming, he could rest assured.

Although Huang Chuan was not convinced, he didn't dare to show it on his face, and he responded again and again with a resigned expression.

"If you post the list again, you will say that I want to recruit a son-in-law, your sister is not too young now, it's time to find a good husband to marry."

Huang Chuan was slightly stunned, he has coveted this Yan Mei's appearance for a long time, since he first met in Huangfu, he was completely attracted by her beauty, the reason why he has worked hard to help the Huang family in recent years is largely because of her, he thought that as long as he worked hard enough and did everything with all his heart, he would definitely be treated differently by Huang Gongfu, and even marry his daughter to himself. Now everything seems to be in vain, which is a little difficult for him to accept.

Huang Gongfu didn't get Huang Chuan's reply for a long time, and slowly raised his head to stare at Huang Chuan. Huang Chuan was startled, and hurriedly said, "Yes, father-in-law, I'll do it." After saying that, he went out as if he was running away.

Huang Gongfu stared at the back of Huang Chuan going out, he knew that Huang Chuan had some thoughts about his daughter, Huang Chuan often stared at his daughter, his eyes were obsessed, but he was at most a dog he raised, and he wanted to eat at the table, but it was still far away.

Huang Gongfu called the butler again and whispered something in his ear, and the butler answered yes and hurried out. Huang Gongfu got up and went back to the back hall.

Outside the door, the mountains in the distance glistened in the sun.

On this day, Su Ang finally arrived at the boundary of Zizhou, and there was a white expanse everywhere between heaven and earth, and that heavy snow enveloped everything.

Along the way, I never thought that many people had sacrificial objects in front of their homes, and oil lamps were hung next to them.

When Su Ang arrived at the foot of Guanghua Mountain, he reined in his horse and jumped down, patted the horse, and told it to go over and find some hay to eat, while he sat down in the nest where the snow melted, took out a piece of bread, and ate it with cold water.

Looking up, the mountainside of Guanghua Mountain was still covered with thick fog, which never seemed to dissipate, which made Su Ang very curious, and it was reasonable that it would not dissipate when the summer rain was strong, but it was also true on dry winter days. You can never see the mountain from the bottom of the mountain.

After resting for a while, Suang led the horse up the mountain, and through the mist on the mountainside, a familiar scene emerged, still green grass, birds flying, and there was no trace of snow at all.

After nearly two hours, Su Ang could finally see the familiar thatched huts on the mountain.

An old man with a white beard sat on the bluestone, and at a glance he knew that it was the teacher Wang Yizi, and there was a person in a green robe sitting next to him.

Su Ang was puzzled, who was this who could come here and sit with the teacher? Su Ang finally climbed the mountain, and only then did he see clearly that the person in the green robe was Qi Sheng, a native of Fulin County, Dongzhou.

Su Ang tied the horse to the open space in front of the thatched house, came to the bluestone, knelt down and bowed to the teacher, suddenly felt a little sad, choked up, and said, "Teacher, I'm back." Senior brother, he ......"

Wang Yizi raised his hand and interrupted Su Ang's words: "I already know, Shi Ye, life also, I can't complain about others." Uncle, this kid, is always disobedient, and I said when he was about to go down the mountain that there are some things that should not be rushed and disobedient. ”

"Teacher......" Su Ang wanted to say something, Wang Yizi said directly: "Go, you have been all the way, and you are a little tired, go and rest first, and come back when you wake up." ”

Su Ang had to get up and walk towards the thatched hut where he used to live, pushed open the door, everything inside had not changed, a small desk, and there was an oil lamp on the desk, and the oil in the oil lamp was still fine, exactly the same as when he left. Su Ang lay on the bed, closed his eyes, and his mind was full of scenes of being on the mountain with his senior brother, everything seemed to be yesterday, and time had passed in the blink of an eye.

Suang fell asleep in a daze. He had never had a good rest along the way, half a month had passed, and five days would be the day of the opening of the government.

I don't know how long it took, Su Ang faintly heard someone coming in, quickly opened his eyes and sat up, it turned out to be Qi Sheng. Qi Sheng was also startled when he saw Su Ang, who sat up suddenly.

Qi Sheng patted his chest, relieved the fright, and said, "I didn't expect us to meet again, aren't you curious why I'm here?" ”

Su Ang clasped his fists and saluted: "I'm curious why Sir is here, but I know that if I don't ask, Sir will say, since Sir will say I, why bother to do this?" In fact, I was more curious than why my husband was here, and what did he want to teach me when he suddenly came into my room? ”

Qi Sheng shook his head, sat down on the side of the desk, poured a cup of cold water, and took a sip, "I don't know why you think I want to teach you something?" ”

"If the gentleman didn't have anything to teach me, he wouldn't have come in."

"Oh, your teacher is right, his two students are not simple. Well, I'd like to ask, what's next for you? ”

Su Ang knew that Qi Sheng would definitely plan for himself next, so he said directly: "I want to enter the imperial city to get an official and a half position, but the affairs left to me by my senior brother." Sir, do you think there is any good way for me to do it? Now that the court is controlled by the nobles of the family, it is difficult to climb to the sky if you want to gain a foothold in the court like me. ”

"Yes, but the great husband can bend and stretch, and if he wants to achieve great things, it is natural to occasionally do whatever he wants, and history has always been written by the victors. Your teacher has just made a divination that there will be a good time for you to go down the mountain in two days, but it's up to you to take it. ”

Su Ang was overjoyed, "Did the teacher say when was the opportunity?" ”

Qi Sheng shook his head, "No, and your teacher said that you don't need to visit him in the next two days, you can go down the mountain directly in two days." By the way, I'll accompany you down the mountain. ”

After Qi Sheng finished speaking, he got up and went out. Su Ang sighed, the teacher is like this, when he went down the mountain, he said that his students should not go up the mountain again as long as they enter the WTO, and now he has made an exception, and it is reasonable that the teacher is not seen.