When Shen Xi arrived at the Shouning Marquis's Mansion, it was not yet night.

The outside of Shouning Hou's Mansion was already full of traffic, and the official sedan chairs were lined up to the end of the street one by one, and the sedan chair drivers and servants waiting outside were clustered into a pile of people, making Shen Xi, who was dressed in ordinary scholar's clothes and came on foot, look a little cold.

But fortunately, Shen Xi has a personal attendant, Yu Niang, strictly speaking, because Yu Niang was only ordered to spy on him.

"Go early and come back early."

When she was about to arrive at the door of the Hou Shouning Mansion, Yu Niang reminded her that she had no intention of entering the mansion with her.

Shen Xi looked at Yu Niang, feeling helpless.

Everyone knows that the masterminds behind the grain theft case in the treasury are Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling, and now that I have arrived at the Longtan Tiger's Den, it is when I need your protection that you don't help me and push me into the fire pit?

Shen Xi asked: "If there is something in the lower part and you can't get out, Yu Niang is ready to try to rescue her?" ”

Yu Niang smiled and replied, "The slave family will inform Lord Liu of this matter......"

Shen Xi nodded, slightly moved, I had an accident, you go and tell Liu Daxia, this is to let Liu Daxia send someone to rescue? But after thinking about it, rescuing a fart is at most to report the funeral, or even the corpse can't be received, and the full emotion suddenly comes to naught.

Entered the Shouning Marquis Mansion, took care of life and death, and could only consider himself unlucky if he accidentally hung up.

With an unhappy mood, Shen Xi finally arrived in front of the Hou Mansion and handed over the invitation.

Zhike glanced at Shen Xi carefully, and saw that he was dressed ordinarily, and he didn't sit in a sedan chair, so he looked a little contemptuous, and immediately stretched out his hand...... The meaning is obvious, to be respectful.

Shen Xi touched it in his arms, forgot to bring silver when changing clothes, only took out a few copper plates, and handed them over, with a little disdain in his expression.

"The next six seats, go in and find it yourself!"

As he spoke, he threw a small wooden sign to Shen Xi and let Shen Xi pass the door.

When encountering that kind of official with good rank, there will be acquaintances to greet and send off, and those who have no official quality can only be satisfied with the door respect, Shen Xi, who has neither official character nor door respect, can only go in to find a seat by himself.

The second six seats, at a glance, you can see that it is a place that is very dependent on the horns.

As he walked inside, Shen Xi thought to himself: "With so many people coming today, am I not coming, and the Zhang brothers won't know?" ”

Shen Xi was thinking about what was on his mind, and a man in his thirties with a smile on his face came over, and saluted Shen Xi: "Isn't this the new champion of the new department?" Long admiration, long admiration. ”

Shen Xi didn't recognize this person, but he expected to have seen it at the previous Enrong Banquet or today's Thanksgiving Day. But no matter what, Shen Xi respectfully returned the salute.

The further he walked inside, the more people greeted Shen Xi, and he was a new champion at such a banquet, which could be regarded as the focus of attention.

Just when Shen Xi was looking for the "second sixth seat" everywhere, an official who came over to talk to him said in surprise: "The champion is a guest of honor today, and he should be at the top seat, how can he arrange it at the second sixth seat?" There must be a mistake. ”

Only then did Shen Xi know that he had been tricked by Menzi, the nature of today's banquet was actually to celebrate the new branch jinshi, although there were not many jinshi invited, but at least the champion and the list were here, and there were some jinshi in the second class, maybe among these people there were cronies of the Zhang brothers.

It seems that the Zhang brothers are "busy with official business", and they have not seen the main owner come out for a long time, and there are already many guests who have come, but few of them have entered the table, and this kind of occasion is a good place for officials to talk and make friends with each other.

At the beginning, there were many people who greeted Shen Xi, but most of them were courteous, and then the officials of the six ministries and the temples of the imperial court came one after another, and became the object of everyone's pursuit.

Although Shen Xi was left out in the cold, it was appropriate.

When it was time to start the banquet, the Zhang brothers still did not appear, as if they were entangled by something.

Soon news came that Shou Ning Hou and Jian Changbo had entered the palace to visit the sick prince, and they might have to delay a little time before they could come back.

The prince's illness is a top priority for the imperial court, and it is also related to the future rise and fall of the Zhang family.

To say that Zhu Youzhu is not infertile, it's just that he is too affectionate to Empress Zhang, and let him take a few more concubines and give birth to a few children, so that the incense will not be cut off, and the emperor will be left behind.

The Zhang brothers didn't come, but Shen Xi was more comfortable, he tried to stand in a less obtrusive place, and didn't take the initiative to greet people.

I don't know how long it took, a person came over and saluted Shen Xi from afar: "Shen Zhuangyuan, it's polite." ”

Shen Xi looked at this person, wearing a jinshi shirt should have participated in the daytime thanksgiving, but he was only a little kind, and he did not communicate and communicate with each other, but Shen Xi pondered for a while, and vaguely recognized from that face, this was Wang Shouren, who he had paid attention to before the Ministry of Rites exam.

Shen Xi almost blurted out: "Yang Mingjun...... Courteous. ”

Wang Shouren heard Shen Xi's title, he couldn't help but be stunned, his name was Wang Yun when he was young, and he changed his name to Wang Shouren when he was older, taken from "knowing it, Ren can't keep it", the word Bo'an, so far no one has ever called him "Mr. Yangming", this "Yangmingjun" shouted so that he was a little confused.

Wang Shouren was stunned for a moment, and then asked with a little surprise: "What did Shen Zhuangyuan say?" ”

Only then did Shen Xi remember that he had lost his words, even if Wang Shouren was really called "Mr. Yangming" in the future, he would not be able to match "Yangmingjun".

Shen Xi hurriedly saluted and said with a sneer: "When I saw Your Excellency by chance, I couldn't help but have such a title in my heart, and blurted it out, which is really offensive...... Please forgive me! ”

Wang Shouren's face froze.

It is also common for classmates to nickname each other, but he is now twenty-seven years old, more than a round older than Shen Xi, and Shen Xi gave him the nickname "Yang Mingjun" so grandiosely, which is obviously a bit abrupt and rude.

However, Wang Shouren did not get angry, thought about the title of "Yang Mingjun", it seemed to be good, he always wanted to give himself a name, but failed to find a suitable one, but the word "Yang Ming" made him feel that it was tailor-made for him.

Wang Shouren nodded, accepting Shen Xi's words.

The two found a chair and sat down, and after a pleasant greeting, Shen Xi realized that Wang Shouren actually came to ask him some questions about "Xinxue".

“…… I read the article written by Shen Zhuangyuan in the children's examination, and I felt a lot of emotion, I don't know who Shen Zhuangyuan was taught by, and who taught him this insight? ”

Wang Shouren had a little expectation on his face, and it was obvious that the four-book essay "Stopping at the Highest Perfection" written by Shen Xi during the Tingzhou Mansion Examination was read by Wang Shouren, and he felt that it was very in line with his philosophy, so he specially asked Shen Xi for advice.

A generation of psychic scholars came to me to inquire about the theoretical basis of psychics, and Shen Xi felt very honored.

Some of the ideas mentioned by Shen Xi in that article are just quotations from Wang Shouren's work "Biography", just like his use of Tang Yin's "Peach Blossom Nunnery Poems", which are just one step ahead of others and not from his own originality.

In the face of Wang Shouren's question, Shen Xi is not easy to answer, he can no longer say that his knowledge is inherited from "Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng", if so, with Wang Shouren's determination to seek knowledge, he must go to Tingzhou in person to find out this "master" who "lives in seclusion in the mountains and forests".

Shen Xi thought for a while and said, "I just read ancient books occasionally, and I felt it in my heart. ”

When Wang Shouren heard Shen Xi's words, he couldn't help but sigh, obviously taking Shen Xi's words as prevarication and perfunctory. He asked about Shen Xi's teacher, and he wanted to visit Shen Xi's teacher in person and ask about some knowledge about the study of mind.

While talking, the Zhang brothers finally appeared, but they did not come out of the main hall, but just came back from outside, only to see two young men in gorgeous clothes, one tall and one short, with a few Taoist people coming in behind them, almost all the people who were with the banquet came forward to greet them, but the Zhang brothers were obviously not interested.

Shen Xi judged from this point that the crown prince Zhu Houzhao was not lightly ill.

The Zhang brothers directly led people into the main hall, and they heard the shouts of reprimands coming from inside: "You usually boast that you can talk to ghosts, but now that the prince is haunted by demons, you are helpless?" ”

There was another voice of resignation admitting mistakes, and there were others who defended themselves, but since they couldn't cure the prince's illness, it would be useless for these people to say anything.

Shen Xi didn't want to listen to it in an idle and unreasonable manner, but the voice still reached his ears clearly. Shen Xi thought to himself: "At most, the prince has a strange illness, and now he doesn't ask for a doctor but asks ghosts and gods, no wonder the prince's illness is getting better slowly." But the prince shouldn't die, otherwise wouldn't history be a mess? ”

The biggest variable in this world is actually the appearance of Shen Xi, with him becoming the champion, although the wind fanned by the butterfly did not evolve into a hurricane, it was almost a violent wind, at least Lun Wenxu's title of champion was blown away by him. If there is a deviation in the direction of history, Zhu Houzhao's life can only be thought to be caused by this storm.

Shen Xi didn't want to see this result, because if the crown prince Zhu Houzhao died of illness, and Emperor Hongzhi had no heir, political turmoil would begin in the last years of Hongzhi.

Now Zhu Youzhi's health is deteriorating, and it is estimated that he will not last for a few years.

When Shen Xi was thinking that the impact of the "butterfly effect" was really so great, someone from the door hurriedly came in.

Judging from the clothes, it should be the eunuch who came from the palace to deliver the message, and the current one of the five should be the leader. Because of the distance, Shen Xi couldn't see the specific faces of these five people clearly, but he was thinking in his heart that if these eunuchs came from the East Palace, then it was very likely that there would be Liu Jin, the future great eunuch.

The remaining few are most likely from the "Eight Tigers".

The originally noisy courtyard suddenly became silent, everyone looked at the main hall, and as the five eunuchs entered to spread the word, a little trivial sound came out, all related to the prince's condition.

Shen Xi expected that Empress Zhang was worried about her son's condition, and she was bewitched by some people to be "haunted by demons", so she had to ask Taoist priests for help, which required the Zhang brothers to look for people outside.

When the five eunuchs came out of the hall, because the location was slightly brighter, Shen Xi could probably see the faces of these people clearly.

To say that the eunuch who walked in the front looked like he was in his early forties, with a shiny face, and he couldn't see anything special, Shen Xi couldn't judge from his appearance whether this was Liu Jin, the great eunuch who was powerful in the early years of Zhengde. However, among the four people behind him, one of them had a slender figure and was described as a slightly obscene person, Shen Xi glanced at it, and couldn't help but feel a little shocked in his heart, because this face was not unfamiliar to him.

It's just that he couldn't figure out why this person was here.

Is it just that people have similarities and similarities?

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