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Pei Min led Pei's mother to see Xue Ne, and on the way, Pei Min had already told Pei's mother about his relationship with Xue Ne. She has not been cared for by Xue Ne along the way, and she is deeply grateful for her kindness.

Xue Ne, as a general who killed and was resolute, didn't care much about this kind of red tape, and asked Pei Min to take Pei Min's mother to the house to rest.

Pei's mother has been tired all the way, and she really needs to have a good rest. Pei Min helped Pei's mother to the room that had been prepared for her, and a clever and beautiful girl in the house, Hongqu, had already prepared hot water. Pei Min smiled and said: "Mother, this is the maid who the child invited to take care of you, called Hongqu, if there is anything, you just tell her......"

Without waiting for Pei Min's introduction, Hongqu had already come to meet him smartly.

"Hongqu has seen the old lady!"

Feudal society has always had a market for buying and selling maids, and Hongqu was specially bought by Pei Min from the market by the housekeeper Ning Ze. If it weren't for the Tang Dynasty's Yulu being settled once a year, Pei Min's monthly salary would not be able to buy Hongqu.

Pei's mother has been lonely for half her life, and she has never thought of the days when she has been served by a maid, but she has also lived in a large family, and knows that a well-cultivated girl is not ordinary expensive, and she said distressedly: "My mother has hands and feet, where do I need someone to serve." ”

Pei Min smiled: "Don't wait for someone to talk to you!" After all, the child is now serving in the court, and it is also temporary to take leave to accompany his mother. With Hongqu at home, the child is also relieved when he is outside, and the child knows that his mother is soft-hearted, even if he is raised as a daughter, it depends on you, as long as you are always happy. ”

Hongqu also pretended to look pitiful in a timely manner, and Pei's mother, who saw it, was distressed, and said: "The mother has become a wicked person, okay, just stay, my mother is tired, remember to prepare a gift, and don't forget to visit Xin'er's parents tomorrow." ”

"The child knows! Boy, go prepare a present! Pei Min said goodbye to Pei's mother, and immediately went down to prepare, he attached great importance to this relationship with Yan Gaoqing, and the gifts were also prepared, so he casually asked Ning Ze to send someone to inquire about Yan's residence. Yan Gaoqing is the great-grandson of Yan Shigu, and Yan Shigu is the most famous Confucian in the Tang Dynasty, and it is not difficult to inquire about his residence.

After arranging all this, Pei Min thought about what he thought of on the road, how to play his unparalleled signboard in the world, so as to attract strong people to come to challenge, so that he could improve his swordsmanship in actual combat.

"Ning Ze!" Pei Min found his capable housekeeper.

"What do you command?" Ning Ze greeted politely, Pei Min was not used to being called Master Cheng at a young age, and almost everyone in the house was commensurate with him.

"Do you know who has the best carving skills in Chang'an?" Pei Min didn't intend to get an answer directly from Ning Ze, but just took the opportunity to let people inquire, but he didn't want to be surprised by Ning Ze's answer without hesitation.

"Of course, it's Zheng Yongtai, the master craftsman of the Peace Square in the southwest of the city!"

"Who is Zheng Yongtai?" Pei Min asked with great joy, the more famous this carver is, the better the effect of his idea.

Ning Ze said with a smile: "Zheng Yongtaizu has been a carver for generations, and all the plaques in the palace, as well as the big seals of the prime ministers of Shangshu Province, Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, etc., are all carved by the Zheng family, and the inscription of Di Guolao is even more single-handedly arranged by him, and the ancestral craftsmanship is recognized as the first." Childe, is this looking for him to engrave a plaque? It's just that Zheng Lao has sealed the knife five years ago, and he has only made an exception for one person in five years. If Gongzi really wants to find an engraver, he can find his apprentices, although his apprentices are not as good as their masters, they also have a seventy percent level. However, there is a rule in the craftsmanship of the Zheng family, and the handwriting of non-famous artists is not engraved. They stubbornly believe that only the characters that are truly worthy of carving can live up to the ancestral craftsmanship of the Zheng family. ”

Pei Min's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "Tell me, who did he make an exception for?" ”

Ning Zeying said: "It was Xue Ji, who used his teacher Yu Shinan's Mobao 'self-denial and revenge' to ask Zheng Yongtai to make an exception and carve a plaque for him to warn future generations." ”

Pei Min hesitated for a moment, Yu Shinan was the head of the four famous calligraphers in the early Tang Dynasty, and Zheng Yongtai made an exception for it. Li Longji's calligraphy is not bad, but compared with a calligraphy master like Yu Shinan, there is still a big gap, but I don't know if the emperor's characters are added today. Whether it succeeds or not, try it and talk about it.

Pei Min said again: "There are a lot of spare rooms in this house, I plan to renovate the guest room near the martial arts arena and change it into my separate martial arts training ground, and I will give you the design drawings when I go back, and you are responsible for finding the craftsman to decorate it well." ”

Ning Ze answered the order.

Of course, he didn't want to get a martial arts training ground for himself, but to design a venue similar to a Taoist temple for martial arts competition with the Jianghu people. It's just that now he is in a high position and power, and he is a celebrity in front of Li Longji, he doesn't dare to offend him in the open, and there must be people who count him secretly. If you get a martial arts hall to entertain the high-rollers who come to challenge you or something, you may be inexplicably given a copy. Now that he has no foundation in the court, he doesn't want to cause unnecessary trouble, so he has changed his method. The purpose is the same, but the words are different.

The design was drawn overnight, and the structure of the martial arts arena was extremely simple, just empty, and the biggest feature was that it was paved with wooden boards, which was full of ancient style.

Early the next morning, after Pei Min greeted Pei's mother, under her urging, he brought gifts to Yan's house to say hello.

At this time, the Yan family was a little depressed, Yan Gaoqing's father Yan Yuansun was brilliant since he was a child, good at writing and writing, and he was admitted to the Jinshi in the early years of the vertical arch. This promotion has brought disaster to the promotion. His promotion aroused Lu Li's jealousy. Lu Li also took a fancy to the position of Zhongshusheren, so he specially worshiped Wang Ju's disciple, but he didn't want Yan Yuansun to win the first prize.

Wang Ju, like Pei Min, is also Li Longji's Conglong hero, and after the congenital coup, he entered the household department. The family committee is special, participates in the great politics of Henan, seals Ziwei Shilang, Zhao Guogong, is very valued by Li Longji, and now he has a name called "Prime Minister", saying that although he does not have the power of the prime minister, he is the prime minister next to Li Longji. Wang Ju is only one step away from being prime minister, so he is building his own party and cultivating his own power.

Lu Li is a member of the Lu family in Fanyang, as one of the five surnamed families, although the Lu family has suffered a great loss of power because of Wu Zetian's malicious targeting, but it is like a hundred-legged insect that dies without stiffening. The Lu family still has a good heritage and has a large talent base.

In order to win over the Lu family behind Lu Li, Wang Ju used his power to disgust Yan Yuansun, troubled him everywhere, and wanted to drive him out. It's just that Yan Yuansun was born in a Confucian family, and his ancestor was Yan Hui, the most talented and learned protégé under Confucius. may not be as good as his son Yan Gaoqing in governing the world, but as a Chinese scholar, he is good at playing words and chapters, but he is handsome, and he can't find faults, and he can't do what Wang Ju wants.

Yan Yuansun was wary of Wang Ju day and night, and he became ill and had to recuperate at home. Thinking of the sinister situation in the court, Yan Yuansun couldn't help but sigh for a long time, and his wife Yuanshi also secretly wept on the side.

Yuanshi said: "It's really not good, it's better to abandon the official and go to Weizhou and live happily with Xin'er." ”

Yan Yuansun snorted: "No, my father passed on the Yan family's family business to me, how can I abandon the ancestral business like this?" I don't believe it, as long as I abide by the law, what can Wang Ju do with me? He didn't even have the confidence to say this.

At this moment, Yan Yuansun and Yuanshi suddenly got the news that Pei Min wanted to see.

Yan Yuansun, Yuan's family, you look at me.

Yuanshi said: "Which Pei Min?" ”

Yan Yuansun was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he said in a trembling voice: "In Chang'an today, how can there be a second Pei Min?" This Wang Ju has good means, and Yu Shi Zhongcheng came directly to the door. ”

Yuan's frowned and said: "I don't think so, do you remember that Xin'er came to a letter the year before last, saying that he had met a close friend in Youzhou and was about to enter Beijing to take the exam, let us take care of it?" ”

Yan Yuansun suddenly said: "You don't say that I forgot, but now Pei Min thinks he is the pride of the sky, and his identity and status are very different, will he remember a little affection?" ”

Yuan Shi pushed him and said, "No matter what, I'll talk about it when I see him." ”

"It's good!" Yan Yuansun tidied up his clothes and walked with the Yuan family to see Pei Min, on the way they met the housekeeper with the gift list in his hand, and after careful questioning, they learned that Pei Min had come to visit the church.

Visiting the church is a kind of elegant custom of the ancients, especially referring to the young generation with deep affection, so that they regard each other's parents as their own parents, the Eastern Han Dynasty paradigm Zhang Shao concluded a life and death relationship, and visited the family in the hall, Sun Ce of the Three Kingdoms, Zhou Yu visited the temple to worship his mother is this kind of allusion.

Yan Yuansun and Yuan's couldn't imagine that Yan Gaoqing and Pei Min had such a close relationship, and they couldn't imagine that Pei Min was now in a high position but did not change his original intention, so they were greatly moved, and hurriedly ordered to go down and receive them ceremoniously.

"The younger Pei Min and Brother Yan are like-minded and confidant of each other! After entering Beijing for many days, he visited the two elders of Brother Yan from the Yan Mansion in the future, and he was rude and ashamed! Today, I have come to ask for a visit to the two elders and hope that the two elders will forgive their sins. Pei Min made a salute and gave Yan Yuansun and the Yuan clan the most solemn etiquette in the ancient nine worships.

Yan Yuansun and Yuanshi were flattered and hurriedly stepped forward to help Pei Min up.

"Pei Zhongcheng don't want to be like this, he doesn't dare to be ashamed, he doesn't dare to be ashamed!"

Pei Min said: "Uncle Yan and Aunt Yan are Brother Yan's parents, just like my parents, how can there be any reason why I can't stand it." The second elder is so polite, it will only hurt my friendship with Brother Yan, and I will not be embarrassed to see him in the future. ”

Yan Yuansun sighed: "With a close friend like you, Xin'er is fortunate to have three lives." ”

Pei Min saw that Yan Yuansun's face was not very good, and asked with concern: "Uncle Yan is not feeling well?" I know Doctor Liu, so I can ask him to heal Uncle Yan. ”

Yan Yuansun shook his head and sighed.

Yuan took the opportunity to explain the situation in detail.

Pei Min was furious when he heard this: "How can this be true, Uncle Yan can rest assured, this matter is on his nephew." The nephew served in the Imperial Historical Tower, and he dealt with this kind of villain who used his power to do mischief for his own selfish interests. Before he could speak, a little boy carved in pink walked into the hall with brisk steps.