Yang Zheng was not disgusted, and asked the shopkeeper in charge of buying grain to go directly to Yunchun Building to find Lao Cao, although the Cao family does not buy and sell grain, but the Cao family's brewery consumes a lot of grain every day, so naturally there are channels to buy grain.

After this incident, Yang Zheng's status in the Yang family rose sharply, not only because he bought back the title deed with 200,000 taels, but also because he didn't let the Shi family rub the Yang family's face on the ground.

Yang Zheng still lives in his own small courtyard to compete with the subset of scripture and history, and occasionally secretly goes to have a tryst with Cao Min, but Fu'er and Jianrou have not come to his small courtyard for more than a month, which makes him miss it a little.

It is not a simple matter to make the emperor change his mind, Yang Zheng's plan is to first take the Jinshi examination, and it has been more than three years since he came to this world, and he really feels how high the status of the literati in this world is, and how high the status of the scholars and doctors is in the literati circle, how much power to speak.

Kaifeng in May has begun to become warm, flowers are blooming outside the city, and the literati and ladies who are waiting for a winter have organized various garden parties and flower viewing parties.

And the most relished by the people of Kaifeng is that the annual Oiran Contest has once again kicked off, the cruise ships of the major Qinglou compete for beauty, shuttling back and forth on the Bianhe River, each cruise ship has each Qinglou carefully prepared programs, and the skilled geisha have done their best to attract the attention of the literati.

In the evening, there are carefully trained Oiran performances on stage, and this time is also the most lively time in Kaifeng Mansion.

The fame of each green house is often reflected in the popularity of the oiran, so every year in the painting competition, each green house will carefully prepare an oiran to participate, and there are also previous years of the oiran is still popular, continue to participate.

If you can get the top three or even the first place in the Oiran Competition, the Oiran will immediately become a cash cow, not to mention the doubling of the value, and you can also get more preferential treatment in the Qinglou, so the Oiran also use various means to gather popularity.

And the most common and useful means is to ask those talented scholars for poems, compose songs, the famous Qinglou to earn money is never from those ordinary people, small merchants and hawkers, they are all from those dignitaries, wealthy businessmen and rich pockets to earn money, and these people have a certain status, the pursuit is not only the figure of the Oiran, talent is often more favored by them.

And this is also what many poor scholars like, they have talent but are shy in their pockets, and give poems to Oiran, not only can they get the favor of Oiran, but also talk about life with Oiran, if the poems enter the eyes of any celebrity, fame will be there, and the future will become bright.

The Oiran Contest is not only a stage for those Oiran to show their talents, but also a stage for literati to show what they have learned.

So during this time, the students of Taixue racked their brains to write a poem that would shock the four seats and shine in the Oiran Contest.

Although Yang Zheng has the heart to see the draft competition of this era, firstly, he has a beauty like Cao Min in his arms, and secondly, he is only a few months away from the exam, and he does not want to waste time.

On the day of May 15th, the first round of the Oiran Contest was held on the Fan Tower, the Oiran Contest was not only the most famous few Qinglou to participate, so there were a lot of procedures to evaluate the final Oiran, the first round of the selection of twelve Oiran, the second round of the twelve Oiran to select six, the third round of the selection of three, the final round to determine the ranking, the process is simple, the voting is also very simple, who receives the most flowers, who wins, these flowers are not ordinary flowers, is a silver flower made by a craftsman, each cost ten taels of silver.

After reading a book for an afternoon, it was estimated that Cao Min was also busy, Yang Zheng cleaned up and walked towards Yuchun Tower as usual.

"Yang Lang, I heard that this Oiran Contest has already begun, why don't you go and take a look, but come to me instead?"

Seeing Yang Zheng, Cao Min was naturally happy, obediently poured hot tea for Yang Zheng, and asked curiously.

Yang Zheng has slowly become accustomed to ordering tea in this generation, and he was just about to drink the tea, when he heard Cao Min's words, he almost fed the tea to his nose, listening to Cao Min's tone, it seemed that he should go to see which Oiran should be.

Seeing a lot of male compatriots' desire to survive on the Internet in later generations, Yang Zheng put down the teacup and said to Cao Min sincerely:

"How can this Oiran have Min'er, you look good..."

The effect is perfect, the love that Cao Min's eyes can't hide has explained everything, and he rarely took the initiative to take Yang Zheng's hand and said gently: "The slave family knows Yang Lang's intentions, but since Yang Lang has the heart to conduct scientific research, it is still necessary to see and understand, and it is also good for Yang Lang to know more like-minded readers. ”

Gentle and considerate, Yang Zheng felt the charm of feudal society for the first time, in this patriarchal society, excellent as Cao Min since he was committed to him, he completely regarded him as a day, because he was many years older than him, and he was usually more obedient to him, without any trace of a strong woman in a shopping mall.

Don't let her down!

In order to reward Cao Min's enlightenment, Yang Zheng worked hard at night and tossed Cao Min until midnight, making Cao Min love and fear.

In the evening of the next day, Yang Zheng came to Fan Lou, where he reported the Oiran Competition, with the 10,000 taels of silver tickets given to him by Cao Minsai.

The building is three floors high, the fifth floor is facing each other, each has a flying bridge to communicate, gorgeous and magnificent, the red lantern has been hung on the Fan Tower in the evening, reflecting the sunset on the horizon, adding a bit of gorgeousness.

Walking into the Fan Building, what comes into view is the gorgeous stage in front of the main building, the whole main building has been full of people, looking around, there are no less than thousands of people, lively and extraordinary, the main building is already overcrowded, Yang Zheng looked for a long time to find a position on the third floor to see the whole stage clearly.

I didn't have to wait long, and after the sky was completely dark, and the stage was lit with arm-thick butter candles, the second round of the Oiran Contest officially began.

A capable middle-aged man walked onto the stage, arched his hand towards the crowd, and said in a loud voice:

"Thank you for your love, the second round of the Oiran Contest will start immediately, the rules are still the same as the first round, the ranking is determined by the number of flowers, and the order of appearance is determined by on-site lottery, and the draw will start below, see which Oiran is the first to play!"

After the man finished speaking, a few good looks and figures came to the stage with a red box, the man folded the note with the number written, and then the twelve Qinglou Oiran who had won the victory came to the stage to draw lots.

When looking at the beautiful women who were either innocent or cold and glamorous, dressed up on stage to draw lots, Yang Zheng felt that his eyes were a little insufficient.

Oiran, the first factor is the appearance and figure, without these two, can only be a general prostitute, these Oiran are carefully selected and cultivated by each Qinglou, although the appearance is not a country and a city, but in modern times, it is more than enough to be a school flower.

When the twelve Oiran stood on the stage in turn, there were bursts of wolf crying and howling on the Fan Tower.

"The first one to appear is the little girl from the Emerald Red Mansion!"

"The second one to appear is Miss Ruyi from Yanlailou!"

"The third..."