Along the way to the fourth floor, Jin Hong, who pretended to be silent, suddenly felt a chill down his spine, and he didn't need to look to know that there were three pairs of cold eyes staring at him now, and he was so nervous that he forgot where to continue, and at this time, Yan Changfeng, who felt that he couldn't bear it anymore, pulled Jinhong's ears with one paw:

"You go on!"

"Hey, hey, I'll recruit me, you look at the fourth floor, it's the same as the third floor, except for the dragon pillar in the middle and the same as the first floor, those small pillars are replaced with sandalwood, the poems and lyrics written on it are all from the hands of the world-famous people, each pillar is next to a room, compared to the first and second floors, here is more elegant, and those new works, the restaurant will have someone to send a copy to the guests in each room."

Jinhong, whose ears were liberated, no longer sold Guanzi, and shook out the information he knew about Guanwenlou like pouring beans from a bamboo tube.

"The reason why I just said that the distinguished guests recognized by the restaurant are not those dignitaries and dignitaries is here, Guanwenlou only recognizes literary attainments and moral cultivation, if these two points do not meet the standards of the restaurant, even if it is Changfeng you...... (Feeling the murderous aura in the other party's eyes, he hurriedly added) and I, too, can't come up. ”

went up to the first floor again, and there was also a person dressed as a waiter at the door, Yan Changfeng took the lead and handed over the folding fan that he had snatched from Jinhong's hand, the attendant opened it and glanced at it, closed it again, respectfully handed it back to Yan Changfeng, and let the door open.

Jin Hong pinched his nose helplessly, and stretched out his hand to Changfeng to make a gesture of invitation: "This is our destination today." ”

"Isn't this Guanwen Building eight floors in total, why don't you keep going up?" Yan Changfeng was a little puzzled.

Jin Hong smiled, took the folding fan in Yan Changfeng's hand and unfolded it, pointed to the eight plum blossoms on the folding fan and said: "With the strength of our husband, it is naturally not a problem to climb to the top of the eighth floor, but we are here today to participate in the flower night party as a talented and beautiful woman, and the flower night party of this Guanwen Building is on the fifth floor." ”

"Then Childe, what is it like to go up to the top three floors?" Xiang'er and Ling'er looked curiously at the five-story decoration, there was no sense of grandeur, no bells and whistles, there was a faint sandalwood fragrance floating in the air, it was emitted by those rosewood pillars, the pillars and walls were engraved with poems and lyrics, and occasionally there were some famous sayings and aphorisms of the sages.

Jin Hong lowered his voice and whispered, "This...... I don't know, because I used to borrow Mr.'s folding fan to come up, but at most I can only go to these five floors, unless Mr. himself comes, otherwise even if there is this fan, we can't go up. ”

Then he pointed to the place in the left corner of the lobby and said, "There's still a place there, let's go and sit over there." ”

After a few people sat down, a waiter came up and asked what he needed, Jinhong wanted to order a pot of wine, but was stopped by Yan Changfeng and changed the pot of tea, for which Jinhong shook his head and whispered:

"The beauty beside the genius since ancient times, Du Kang in the literati cup, is a perfect match, at this time, tea instead of wine, how vulgar...... Also. ”

Jin Hong, who wants to continue talking, only needs Yan Changfeng's eyes to become a good baby, and a few people are eating tea and eating food bought on the street, so that they have time to take a closer look at this group of talented and beautiful people.

Among these people are rich children who are gorgeously dressed, and there are ordinary literati who are plainly dressed, but most of them have a common identity, that is, to participate in this year's spring trial.

At the front of the hall, there was an old man in white with white hair, who was sitting on a Taishi chair at this time with his eyes closed, and there was no look between his eyebrows.

After a while, a young man stood up and saluted to the position of the old man in white and said: "Students are not talented, with the theme of today's flower night meeting, I will compose a poem, hoping to throw bricks and lead to jade, and learn from you." ”

When the old man in white heard someone speak, he had already opened his eyes and cast his gaze over, and the waiter had already taken away the paper with the poem written by the scholar and handed it to the old man in white, the old man in white got up, took the paper with both hands, and then slowly sat back, savoring the poems on the paper.

Yan Changfeng and Jin Hong were very curious about the identity of the old man in white, so they asked Jin Hong to ask a man who was drinking comfortably next to him: "This brother is disturbed, he is from Yanzhou. ”

The man had already noticed them when a few people were seated, in fact, people came up from time to time on the fifth floor, and there was nothing unusual for the people in the hall, only to blame Jinhong and his party of four, the three women were all stunning, especially Yan Changfeng, who belonged to the kind of woman who made the men unable to remove their eyes when they saw it, if they were not all immersed in creation at this time, I don't know how many pairs of eyes would be attached to her body, the man saw that they took the initiative to talk to him, and he did not make a sluggish attitude, and bowed his hand and said: "In the lower hook Yuezhi, Jing Yue people. “

Jin Hong and Yan Changfeng glanced at each other, there are not many people with the surname Gou Yue, the most famous is the King of Jingyue, and this person happens to be from Jingyue, is it the Jingyue royal family?

Gou Yuezhi naturally saw the doubts in their hearts, and said with a smile: "This family does have some relationship with King Jingyue, but it is very indifferent, maybe five hundred years ago, King Jingyue's ancestors and my ancestors were brothers, otherwise I would not have gone to Beijing to participate in the Spring Festival." “

A half-joking remark brought the relationship between the two sides closer, provoking Yan Changfeng and Xiang'er Ling'er to laugh, Jin Hong asked softly: "Brother Tai, I know who the white-clothed old man sitting in front of me is, and according to what I can see below, this hall may be his highest status." “

Gou Yuezhi nodded, expressed his agreement with what Jin Hong said, turned his head to look at the old man in white who was reading poems, and then turned around and said: "I also heard before, that old man is the tribute student of Yanjing Academy, everyone calls him Lu Fuzi, and he is fully responsible for all enrollment matters in the academy." “

It seemed that he was talking a little fast, and Gou Yuezhi felt a little angry, so he paused, and continued: "I don't know if you know, anyway, everyone here knows that Yanjing Academy has ten nominations every spring. “

As he spoke, he glanced at Yan Changfeng and Xiang'er Ling'er with his eyes again, and was about to continue, but Yan Changfeng suddenly said loudly:

"I've heard of this, the imperial court will allocate ten independent nomination quotas to Yanjing Academy every Spring Festival, in fact, it is to let the Academy take these ten quotas to warm up for the Spring Festival, as long as they get the nomination of the Academy, then their answer sheet will be directly submitted to His Majesty the Emperor's imperial case, and His Majesty the Emperor will personally approve it, of course, the Academy is also responsible for this quota, not just anyone can get it."

"This girl is right, such a direct opportunity to listen to the heavens, you can avoid how many 'complicated situations' in the process of reviewing the answer sheet, and how much can leave a little impression on the emperor, so to speak, as long as your answer sheet is not the kind of unsightly pile of dog feces, being on the list is basically ironclad."

Gou Yuezhi took over Yan Changfeng's words, the so-called 'complicated situation' is actually well known to everyone, so they don't directly pick it out, they can talk to the beauty in front of them, and Gou Yuezhi's current psychology is also beautiful.

"In that case, who will give the ten places in the academy to this old man in white has the final say?"

"That's natural, so you don't see how arrogant and arrogant the test students are on weekdays, they all look like humble and polite good students in front of this old man." As he spoke, Gou Yuezhi's nose snorted slightly, thinking that he was not struck by the performance of these people.

At this time, a burst of exclamation interrupted the communication of several people, and the scholar who had presented the work was still smiling in front of his seat at this time, but his face had some more unconcealable pride and pride, and the origin of that exclamation was the poetry written by the scholar.

"Spring is not with autumn,"

"The moon does not give up the year;"

"Today's ink is a thousand buckets,"

"Dye the night all day."

There was an old scholar on the side who read the poem out loud, shook his head, his face was slightly amazed, and after reading and sat down, another old scholar stood up again, first looked at Lu Fuzi who was sitting in the middle, and saw him nod, the old scholar bowed to him, and then turned to the crowd: "The trial student can report his name." “

There was another burst of exclamations, not for anything else, just because the academy took the initiative to ask the name of the test student, which meant that this test student was very likely to become one of the ten test students nominated by the college, and most of the people present showed envy for a while.

At this time, the scholar was not so much proud as excited, and he was a little incoherent with excitement, and he forced himself to calmly bow his hand and said: "Learn...... Student Chu Weiliang, a native of Shanghai. “

"Are there any officials in the clan?"

"The students' families have been in business for generations, and there is no one who has become a prominent person."

The old scholar nodded again, glanced at Lu Fuzi again, and said:

"Trial student Chu Weiliang, we have a few problems here, I wonder if you can help the old man solve one or two?"

"Sure enough! It's coming, it's coming! Not only Chu Weiliang, but almost all the people present who knew the admission process of the academy for ten places were screaming in their hearts, because the next time is the time to really take the school examination, as long as they can overcome this difficulty, they can basically be determined to become one of the ten places.

"Students would like to give it a try."

"Good!" A good word, loud and clear, "This first problem is a pair, the old man has been thinking hard for many days, and he has never been able to get a satisfactory link, you can listen well." “

Chu Weiliang waved his hand, indicating that he was ready.

"The day before yesterday, yesterday, today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, three days of fishing, two days of drying nets."

After speaking, the old pedant of Shanglian was not in a hurry to urge, picked up the teacup in front of him and took a sip slowly, but his eyes looked bright.

Chu Weiliang stood in place with a calm expression, his tightly knit eyebrows told everyone that he was thinking hard, of course, everyone in the hall was also trying to think about the next link, but if the people around him looked closely, they would find that there were already fine beads of sweat on his forehead, which was enough to reveal his nervous heart.

"Brother Jin can have a link?" Gou Yuezhi had the communication with the four of Jinhong just now, and at this time he no longer seemed angry, so he leaned over and asked softly.