Beijing Chenggong Courtyard was built in Yongle 13 years, the former site of the Yamen of the Yuan Dynasty Rite Department, sitting in the north and facing south, the gate is 5 wings, there are two doors and five wings, Longmen, Mingyuan Building, Zhigong Hall, Inner Dragon Gate, Jukui Hall, Huijing Hall, 18 rooms and other places, east from Gongyuan East Street, west to Gongyuan West Street, south from Jiannei Street, north to East Zongbu Hutong, covers a large area.

Yuelai Inn seems to be an ordinary inn, but in fact it is a world-famous, unparalleled inn in the world, its name comes from a sentence of Confucius: there are friends from afar, not also happy, with a kind of pride and mind of brothers all over the world, so it should make people flock to it. It's just that the Yuelai Inn in front of Zhao Yan looks quite depressed on the outside, far from being compared with the legendary Yuelai Inn.

Whether it is in the past or present life, Zhao Yan has never studied the streets of Beijing, so he does not know the name of the street where he and others are located for the time being, but after going around the Gongyuan, the inns around the Gongyuan are already full, and even if there are vacant rooms, there are already people who have booked in advance, so they can only choose this small inn that is only two stories high and covers an area of about one acre to settle down.

The street where the inn is located is not lively, you can walk for a quarter of an hour to reach the Gongyuan, the traffic is quite convenient, and the most important thing is that the inn has enough empty rooms, enough to settle Zhao Yan and his party of five people.

Although the inn is small, the food cooked in the back kitchen is quite delicious, everyone finished eating and drinking, and went to take a bath one by one, and then went back to their rooms to rest.

There are only three spare rooms left in the inn, just one each for Zhao Yan, Zhang Wenyuan and Wang Lin, as for Li Er and Zhang Wenyuan's entourage Zhang Shun, the two consciously asked for a shop.

The next day, Zhao Yan slept until three o'clock in the morning before waking up, and after sitting up from the couch, he only felt tired and didn't want to move.

Wang Lin's loud voice came from outside the door at this time: "Senior brother, are you up?" Let's go outside. ”

Zhao Yan responded angrily, then dressed and washed, and after pushing the door open, he saw that Zhang Wenyuan was already sitting in the lobby, with a few meals on the table, as if he was waiting for himself to eat, Zhao Yan confessed to him, and then sat down and began to eat.

After eating, Wang Lin said next to him: "I heard that Jingshi is lively, we came late yesterday, and we have to go out to see what we say today, right?" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Wenyuan glanced at Zhao Yan and asked, "What does Brother Zhao think?" ”

Zhao Yan calculated the time, today is the tenth day of the seventh month, there is less than a month before the township test, the industry is good at diligence and frolic, although Beijing City is prosperous, his purpose is not to play, although he also wants to see the customs of Beijing hundreds of years ago, but he still shook his head and said: "Now it is less than a month away from the township test, I want to stay in the inn to review it, if Brother Zhang wants to go, go to it, my junior brother is stubborn by nature, Brother Zhang can also help me watch him and prevent him from causing any trouble." ”

Zhang Wenyuan originally intended to see the prosperity of the Jingshi, but after listening to Zhao Yan's words, he was secretly ashamed in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Like Brother Zhang, I also want to stay in the inn to review the scriptures. It's better to let the second son and Li Erzhang go with them, although the second son seems to have no city, in fact, he should be measured in his heart, Brother Zhao doesn't have to worry too much. ”

Li Er and Zhang Shun are both steady, and it is more reassuring to have the two of them accompany Zhao Yan, so he nodded and said to Li Er, who had just put down his rice bowl at the table next to him: "You go upstairs to get some silver in your bag, and accompany Zhang Shun and Brother Zhang to go out for a walk with Wang Ergongzi, you can buy whatever you want, as long as you don't let him get into trouble." ”

In the second half of the morning, Yuelai Inn came to several waves of students from various prefectures who participated in the township test, and the noisy shouting in the lobby was really not clean, coupled with the hot weather, Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan could not do the realm of calm and natural coolness, the two discussed it, and decided to take a book to find a place outside that could be cool and quiet.

Gongyuan in the southeast corner of Beijing city, surrounded by Mingshifang, Mingzhaofang, Sichengfang and Huanghuafang several square cities, among which Sichengfang and Huanghuafang were merged at the beginning of the country, collectively referred to as Huanghuafang, and the famous Jiaofang Division is located in Huanghuafang, not far from Gongyuan.

Yuelai Inn is located in the sesame lane in the twenty-one shops of Huanghuafang, in the southeast direction of the Gongyuan, in Zhao Yan's impression, since the Gongyuan is the 'holy place' of the imperial examination, the surrounding area should naturally be quieter, at least when he came yesterday evening, the surrounding area of the Gongyuan was indeed quieter, so he and Zhang Wenyuan walked along the street in the direction of the Gongyuan.

Imagination is beautiful, but the reality is a little skinny, two people have a feeling along the way, it seems that the closer to the Gongyuan the street will be, the more prosperous, restaurants, green buildings, tea houses, bookstores and other commercial shops are lined up one after another, but there are a few alleys in the middle of the people are very few, compared with the surroundings it seems very deserted, two people asked someone, only to know that these alleys are called the division of the alley, the performance alley, the goulan alley, the fan alley, all related to the teaching department, the day seems quiet, a night will be crowded with people, can be called the most lively area of the Beijing Division.

The two people went around the Gongyuan, but they did not find a quiet place suitable for reading, seeing that it was not early, they had to reluctantly go back, and stopped for a while in several bookstores on the way, and the two of them saw the art Cheng Wen that they had never seen before and each bought a few copies, and the sky was already dark after returning to the inn.

Wang Lin and the others had just come back at this time, and they were sitting in the lobby drinking tea to quench their thirst, and there was some food on the table, which they must have bought by the way on the way back.

Wang Lin held the teacup, and when he saw Zhao Yan, he said excitedly: "Senior brother, Jingshi is really lively, it's the first time I've seen so many people." ”

Zhao Yan was noncommittal, just looked at Li Er and asked, "You didn't have anything to do on the street, right?" ”

Li Er shook his head, glanced at Zhang Shun, and replied, "It's nothing, it's just that Zhang Shun lost the sachet that his mother-in-law sewed for him." ”

Zhang Shun's face flushed, and he hurriedly said: "That sachet is not worth a few pennies, if you lose it, you will lose it, and the small one will go back and let the mother-in-law sew another one." ”

When I was on the street, I passed by a fat powder shop, several beautiful women with makeup stood at the door of the store to solicit customers, Zhang Shun only cared about looking at the beauty, and he didn't even know when he lost the sachet on his waist.

A few people sat in the lobby while eating and chatting, it was the time of the meal, the people who lived in this inn walked out of their respective rooms in twos and threes, some walked alone, some ordered some of the inn's own food, and some went out to eat by themselves, and the lobby that was originally quiet suddenly became a little noisy.

Zhao Yan looked left and right for a moment, and found that most of the twenty or so people present were scholars, mixed with three or four businessmen-looking people, and the scholars who had not yet become famous talked about nothing more than those few things, wind and snow, and imperial examinations, Zhao Yan lost interest after listening to a few words.

At this moment, a slightly shrill voice suddenly came from outside the inn door: "Childe, it will take half an hour for us to open the door, and I am in a hurry to come out today, but I haven't caught up with the meal at home, so it's better to find a restaurant near the left to eat first." ”

A gentle voice responded, "It's okay, Mr. is old, and he needs to be light at night." ”

The shrill voice chuckled, "Thank you for your thoughtfulness." Fugui, let's come all the way, there are mostly inns and bookstores along the street, you often come out to buy, do you know if there is a restaurant on this street? ”

The third voice was also a little shrill and thin, but it looked young and respectful: "Sir, this street is a little remote, there is a stall selling pasta at the corner of the street when I came, it is quite dirty, but the three inns on this street all serve food, the little slave has eaten once in this Yuelai inn, there are two dishes that are not comparable to the dishes made by our chef at home, if the son and Mr. do not dislike it, it is better to enter something in this Yuelai inn." ”

The three of them discussed outside the door, and then walked into the inn lobby one after the other.

Zhao Yan glanced at it and saw that the three of them were all white-faced and beardless, led by a handsome and noble man about twenty years old wearing a blue silk robe, followed by an old man dressed as a scholar in his fifties, and a delicate young man in his twenties dressed as a long-term follower.

The name of the rather delicate elder was Fugui, and he didn't wait for the little second who came up to open his mouth, so he preemptively asked, "Do you have a private room here?" ”

Xiao Er also heard the conversation between the three people outside the door, and was puzzled when he heard the words: "This inn is mainly for accommodation, but there is no private room, if the three of you want to eat, you can sit in the lobby." ”

Xiuqi Changsui turned his head to look at the old man, the old man's eyes were slightly closed, but he didn't pay attention to it, the Changsui seemed to be a little stunned, and then looked at your son, and asked, "Childe, look?" Otherwise, let's walk a little further down the street, where there is a restaurant with a good reputation. ”

Your son glanced around, and said with a gentle smile: "It's okay, the lobby is the lobby, Mr. has accompanied this son for a long time, he must be tired, so let's do it." ”

Xiao Er wiped the table next to Zhao Yan and the others with a towel, led the three of them to sit down, and then asked with a smile, "What do the three of you want to eat?" Although this inn is an inn, the craftsmanship of the kitchen is not inferior to those restaurant chefs. ”

Fugui subconsciously glanced at the noble son and the old man, and saw that neither of them spoke, but after thinking about it, he thought about it and said: "Ordinary chicken, duck and fish meat are tired of our son, you can pick up the good ones, it is best to match meat and vegetables, we will not shorten your meal." ”

"Okay." Xiao Er agreed, and then ran to the kitchen to pass the food.

Four big men in strong suits walked in at this time, the leading big man looked in his thirties, the beard on his face was trimmed very neatly, he entered the lobby and glanced left and right, and when he saw the noble son and the old man, the pupils in his eyes shrank slightly, and then pretended to be indifferent, and led the other three people to find an empty table and sit around.

PS: I'm sick, I may only be able to do one shift these days, please understand.