In the afternoon, the willows of the Guozijian fluttered like a girl's bare hand, the cicadas and insects made tireless noise in the treetops, and several green frogs squatted on the lotus leaves and croaked, a beautiful summer scenery.

When Sima Tang hurriedly came to the courtyard where Mr. Chen lived, he heard a sound of dingdong piano floating leisurely, which only made people feel refreshed.

He stopped and looked, only to see that in the water pavilion near the water, Bachelor Chen's white-clothed Shengxue sat in it, with long cloud-like hair tied with a snow-white silk scarf, no pearl and jade, no hairpin rings, her face was stunning, beautiful and natural, just like the Nine Heavens Xuannu who came to the world, and between the flicking of her hands, the elegant piano sound spread out a quiet and peaceful.

Standing still and watching leisurely for a long time, Sima Tang couldn't help but feel a sense of self-shame in his heart, and he couldn't believe that God had gathered so many advantages in the woman in front of him, so that people couldn't stop looking up and worshiping her.

Chen's maiden name is Chen Ningmo, who is the pearl of the Eight Sages King, the younger brother of Taizong, and is the lord of Luoyan County.

Because of the perennial wars of the Eight Sages in the past, coupled with the early death of his mother, Chen Ningmo was raised in the deep palace by the Empress Dowager Xie since he was a child, and became friends with the current official Chen Hong and Chen Xuan, the king of Qi, and his status is the same as that of the real emperor.

However, the young Chen Ningmo's behavior was very strange.

She doesn't like beautiful flowers and plants like other princesses of the same age, she likes beautiful clothes, but she has a great interest in books, and she hides in the Jiying Hall almost every day to watch the vast number of books in it.

Whether it is astronomy and geography, politics and military, hundreds of books, or poetry and songs, folk legends, famous essays and other books, there is nothing she doesn't like to read.

And what is even more admirable is that Chen Ningmo has the ability to read books at a glance and ten lines, and he can never forget it, and it only takes half an hour to read a book at most, so within a few years, the tens of thousands of books in the Jiying Hall have almost been read by her.

After learning of this, Empress Dowager Xie, who was in charge of the dynasty at that time, was greatly surprised, but she couldn't believe that a mere ten-year-old child could read all the books in Jixian Palace.

Under the influence of curiosity, Empress Dowager Xie summoned Chen Ningmo to take the school examination in person, but she didn't expect Chen Ningmo to really answer the question fluently, and there was no mistake, which made Empress Dowager Xie shocked, and she couldn't stop laughing and exclaiming on the spot: "Genius and genius, it seems that I am going to have a female bachelor!" ”

It seems to verify Empress Dowager Xie's words.

Chen Ningmo became a teacher in Guozijian at the age of fifteen, gave lectures, preached the righteousness of Confucianism, his views were novel and accurate, his words were strict and cautious, and his demeanor was magnanimous, so that many white-haired Confucians in Guozijian were shocked, and many Confucians with a strong desire for knowledge even ignored the age of the ancients, and actually wanted to worship under the door of Chen Ningmo, a young girl, so as to pass on the good stories that everyone in the literary world talked about.

Because of this, Empress Dowager Xie awarded Chen Ningmo the position of scholar of Jixian Palace, and selected a young handsome man among the children of the princes of the Manchu Dynasty as Chen Ningmo's husband.

This lucky person is the youngest son of the privy envoy Yang Wenguang - Yang Huaijin.

At that time, Yang Huaijin was only twenty years old, and he became the youngest general in Daqi with his outstanding military strategy and martial arts, and was active in the war against the Liao State.

This marriage is also considered to be a perfect match.

However, it is a pity that this Yang Huaijin is a short-lived ghost, and Chen Ningmo died in the war with the Liao State before he passed the door.

And because the two of them had passed the three books and six ceremonies at that time, they were already nominally husband and wife, and Chen Ningmo, the lord of Luoyan County, became a widow like this, which made people sigh and sigh.

Seven or eight years passed slowly, during this period, the Empress Dowager Xie, who was unlucky and old, felt guilty, not that she didn't want Chen Ningmo to remarry, but Chen Ningmo refused to remarry many times, so she guarded the dead Yang Huaijin like jade, and treated Yang Huaijin's father Yang Wenguang as a daughter-in-law, and treated the Yang family more like his own family.

Take Zhe Zhao as an example, originally with her naughty and mischievous temperament, it is absolutely impossible for Bachelor Chen to accept her as a student.

However, just because she is Yang Wenguang's granddaughter and Yang Huaijin's niece, Chen Ningmo accepted her as a student without hesitation.

Love the house and Wu, maybe all these things are Chen Ningmo's nostalgia for the deceased Yang Huaijin.

Thinking of this, Sima Tang couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, and walked towards the water pavilion.

Footsteps were heard, and the sound of the piano stopped abruptly.

Seeing that it was Sima Tang coming, Chen Ningmo's slender eyebrows raised slightly, and asked with a faint smile, "Why did you come back so soon?" Have you seen Cui Wenqing? ”

"Teacher!" Sima Tang raised his hand and arched, and then he knelt solemnly on the grass facing the case, "The student is fortunate to have fulfilled his life and has completed the trust of his teacher." ”

"Oh? The result? Chen Ningmo picked up the purple sand teacup on the desk and took a sip gently, like a thrush, the sky was full of clouds and light breeze.

Sima Tang was silent for a while, took out the envelope that Chen Ningmo handed him before leaving, and put it on the case without saying a word.

Seeing this, Chen Ningmo frowned slightly, and his expression also flashed a trace of solemnity, and asked lightly: "Did you give the letter to Xiao Zhao'er?" In this way, Cui Wenqing's character is a little unbearable? ”

Sima Tang bowed slightly, and said with a straight face: "Back to the teacher's words, the student went to Fuzhou according to your instructions to get to know Cui Wenqing carefully, although this person has a very good literary talent, and even in the poetry collection held in Fuzhou, he beat the student once with a couplet, but as far as the truth is concerned, his character is very unbearable, to the student, should be perverse, frivolous, narrow-minded, this matter with the student on the same road Xie Assistant can also testify, the student knows that the teacher is very strict with the apprentice, Cui Wenqing naturally couldn't meet your teacher's requirements, so he didn't give this letter to Ah Zhao. ”

Hearing Sima Tang's judgments, Chen Ningmo's distant mountain eyebrows furrowed even deeper, and she groaned for a while, and then she asked softly, "...... this person Is it really so unbearable? ”

Sima Tang nodded without changing his face and said: "Yes, as the student said, this person is unbearable, and in his body, the atmosphere of the market is particularly strong, he even runs a clothing store with perverse clothes and deviant clothes, if the teacher takes it under his door, I am afraid that it will cause a lot of trouble in the future, and it will have a certain impact on the reputation of the teacher." ”

Chen Ningmo bowed his head slightly, then sighed abruptly, and muttered: "Poor literary talent can still be cultivated, but unfortunately it is a poor character, as the saying goes, the country is easy to change and the nature is difficult to change, such a person is really difficult to cultivate, it seems that this time I am afraid that there will be a negative trust from Mr. Xiwen!" ”

Hearing the gentle words in Sima Tang's ears, it was like a heavy thunder, so startled that his eyes widened when he landed, and he asked in surprise: "What, Mr. Xiwen's trust?" Dare to ask what the teacher means by this? ”

Chen Ningmo let out a deep breath of turbidity, and said: "Not long ago, Mr. Xiwen met Cui Wenqing in the mountains of Hedong, and after a conversation, Cui Wenqing left a very deep impression on Mr. Xiwen, and Mr. Xiwen felt that this person had a very good political talent, so he personally wrote a letter to me, asking me to accept Cui Wenqing as a student, so that he could enter the ranks and serve the country in the future, but I didn't expect that his character was so ......unbearable" At this point, I couldn't help but shake my head and sigh.

"Then Cui Wenqing can be personally recommended by Mr. Xiwen?" Sima Tang secretly shouted in his heart, and the flames of incomparable jealousy suddenly churned in his heart.

Who is Mr. Severn? That is Fan Zhongyan, the famous minister of Taizong who saved the country from the fall and saved the society from the turmoil, even if it is his teacher Chen Ningmo, he is also a student of Fan Zhongyan.

I didn't expect Cui Wenqing to be able to get Fan Zhongyan's recommendation, it's really incredible, what kind of good luck did he have to win the favor of Fan Zhongyan, who has always been above the top?

(End of chapter)