After the next dynasty, Zhu Qizhen returned to the dormitory accompanied by Wang Zhen, and then said that he was tired, and after sending Wang Zhen away, Zhu Qizhen called the little eunuch Xining from outside the palace.

"What does Your Majesty command?" Xining lowered her head, looked at Zhu Qizhen's dragon boots out of the corner of her eyes, and asked cautiously.

Zhu Qizhen stretched his waist and said lightly: "You go outside the palace to buy a few fashionable scripts for me, and you are not allowed to let others know, even Mr. Wang." ”

"Yes." After Xi Ning responded, he bowed down and slowly retreated, and Zhu Qizhen said coldly: "Today, Mr. Wang in the court suggested that I release that Shu Jishi, although it is not a big deal, but the words written by that Shu Ji Shi I still have to see it in person to feel at ease, do you know the name of the book?" ”

Xining replied: "The slave maid was serving by His Majesty's side at that time, and I heard it clearly, the words were originally called "The Legend of the White Snake". ”

"Go ahead." Zhu Qizhen waved his hand, and then didn't look at Xining, who was slowly retreating, turned around and sat in front of the desk, picked up a book and read it with relish, the title of the book was "Taizong Records".

Xining's efficiency was very fast, and he bought a few of the most popular stories in less than an hour, and he completely followed Zhu Qizhen's instructions and did not leak this matter, and he was the only one who knew about it from beginning to end.

Xi Ning entered the hall to salute, and then carefully put the burden on the dragon case and opened it, and said with a sneer: "Your Majesty, the slave maid has transferred several bookstores in the market, and these books are the most fashionable now. This is the "Legend of the White Snake" written by Zhao Yan, the bookstore shopkeeper said that this book is only half written, and there are many readers, and many people go to his bookstore every day to ask if the next half has been written. ”

"Well, let's go down." Zhu Qizhen waved his hand, picked up the "Legend of the White Snake" with interest, and slowly read it after opening the title page.

"Please let it go, it's so pathetic." Eighteen hundred years ago, a kind-hearted little shepherd boy rescued a little white snake from a snake catcher. 1,800 years later, on Mount Emei, a white python broke out of the mountain, was enlightened by the Bodhisattva, and came to the world, she is Bai Suzhen......

It was getting dark outside, and when Xining entered the hall to take charge of the lamp, Zhu Qizhen suddenly realized that he had spent most of the day reading this script, and he hadn't even eaten lunch in the middle.

"Your Majesty, dinner has already been prepared, and you haven't eaten at noon, so let's eat first." Xining cautiously persuaded.

Zhu Qizhen really felt hungry, nodded when he heard this, and just put down the "Legend of the White Snake" in his hand, but immediately picked it up, and then raised his legs and walked outside the hall.

While eating the meals carefully prepared by the imperial chefs, while looking at the last few pages of "The Legend of the White Snake", the meal was finished, and the script was finished, but the book was only half of the book, and the interruption was the wonderful time, but there was no follow-up later, Zhu Qizhen suddenly felt that the meal he had just eaten in his stomach had changed its taste, which made him quite depressed in his stomach.

"Xining, you go to that Shujishi and ask him if he has written the second half." Zhu Qizhen commanded, thought about it and felt that it was inappropriate, and then called Xining to stop, and said in a deep voice: "Tomorrow, you go to his residence to read my message, and say that I know that he has been wronged, and I have applied for the command of Jinyiwei in person, Ma Shun, and there is nothing forbidden in his script, so you can continue to finish writing, and then give him fifty catties of gold and ten ingots of silver, no, it is still five ingots of silver." ”

Xining obediently responded, serving Zhu Qizhen for a long time, he also has some understanding of the character of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, his treatment is gentle, if it is an ordinary person, it is bound to get a good person's comments, but it is easy to hesitate in case of trouble, to put it bluntly, it is indecisive, the most important thing is that His Majesty the Emperor is still very picky, to put it nicely, it is called thrift, but such a person is the supreme emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Xining occasionally thinks in the dead of night, if he comes to be the emperor, maybe he can do better.

Zhao Yan was released from the edict prison in a daze, and then was taken to the rented inn by the cheap father, and when he finished freshening up and listening to Zhao Xin tell what happened, he knew who rescued him from the edict prison.

"Xiaolang, Steward Li told me that now that this matter is still in turmoil, let you and I not associate with Li Tongzhi for the time being, so as not to be caught. I don't understand the affairs of the court, but since Li Tongzhi asked Steward Li to tell me about it, it must be useful. I thought about it, Li Tongzhi won't go there to thank you for the time being, but your Fang Shi Yao must go to the door to thank you here. Zhao Xin was carefully bandaging Zhao Yan's injured leg with a white cloth, and said while bandaging.

Zhao Yan nodded, although he didn't see Li Jian's performance in the court with his own eyes, but he also knew that he was able to get out of prison this time Li Jian did his best, if it wasn't for his guidance, his cheap dad was helpless in the capital, and he didn't know how much effort it would take to save himself, since he didn't want people to know his relationship with him at this time, then he would do what he wanted, but he had to write down this kindness, and he would have to pay it back if he had the opportunity in the future.

As for Yao Kui, Zhao Yan rubbed the whisker on his lips, he had been to the house of this house master to 'thank the teacher', but unfortunately he had a closed door, at that time I thought that this house master was either upright and selfless, or pretended to be a gesture, and now it should be the former in terms of his actions, and he is indeed worthy of his respect, whether it is sincere or for others to see, he should come to thank him in public and private.

This matter should not be delayed, Zhao Yan went to Yao Kui's mansion in the evening of the day he came out of the edict, but this time he did not eat the closed door, and a middle-aged woman with a soft posture welcomed him in.

This is the first time Zhao Yan has seen his room master Yao Kui, who is of medium stature, slightly thin, and the most striking thing on his angular face is the small but unusually bright eyes.

"Student Zhao Yan, I have seen my teacher." Zhao Yan limped to Yao Kui and bowed sincerely.

It can be seen that Yao Kui's family has just had dinner, because there are still vegetable stains and rice grains on the table in front of them that have not been wiped clean.

Yao Kui sat in the middle of the hall with a blank face, but when he saw Zhao Yan's strange posture walking, he asked with a slight anger: "Zhao Shu is often in the edict prison, but he was tortured?" ”

Zhao Yan hurriedly said: "No, although the student suffered some hardships in prison, he was not tortured, this was caused by the student's poor equestrian skills on the way from Shenzhou to the capital that day. ”

"I see." Hearing this, Yao Kui responded lightly, and then asked Zhao Yan to sit down, and later a young man brought tea from outside, Yao Kui introduced: "This is Yao's eldest son, Yao Bi." Bi'er, this is the second-class jinshi of today's department, Zhao Shuchang of the Hanlin Academy. ”

Zhao Yan got up and greeted Yao Bi to greet each other, and after re-seating, without waiting for Yao Kui to speak, Zhao Yan said: "This time the student was able to get out of the edict, all because of the teacher's righteous and straightforward words. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Yan signaled to Li Er outside the hall, and Li Er walked into the hall with a few gifts, including bacon, preserved fruits, soap, and soap, among which the most valuable ones are probably those pieces of osmanthus soap, and the value of all the gifts adds up to only a few taels of silver, and they are all ordinary objects, extremely ordinary.

Yao Kui frowned and wanted to excuse himself, but he was stunned when he saw the few gifts Li Er was holding, and then said cheerfully: "Since this is the case, then Yao will accept it." ”

Yao Bi took the gift from Li Shuangzhong on the side, and then stood beside his father and looked at Zhao Yan curiously, he clearly remembered that this was the first time his father received gifts from others, in the past, someone came to visit, and the gifts brought were more expensive than the other, but his father let the people bring them back without blinking, and even got angry a few times, in the past, those expensive gifts were not accepted, but this time these gifts that were not worth a few dollars were accepted by his father, which is really strange.

"Zhao Shu often has a table word?" Yao Kui looked at Zhao Yan more and more pleasing to the eye, and gradually had a smile on his face.

Zhao Yan replied: "The student's expression of the national beauty is given by the Han Mansion of Zhending Mansion. ”

"This person has heard of it, and it seems that he has something to do with the late cabinet scholar and the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites." Yao Kui does not regard himself as Zhao Yan's master, and he must call him so, but he does not explicitly say that he can't call Zhao Yan his teacher.

Ma and Ma Yu is Ma Yu, Zhao Yan has heard people say, this person is the first champion of Jiangbei in the Ming Dynasty, orthodox five years into the cabinet to participate in the preparatory service, orthodox died at the beginning of the twelfth year, because he is the emperor, Zhu Qizhen special purpose both to give officials and posts, together with the gift of rank, later became a rule, the later generations of official part-time is from Ma Yu, which can also be seen Zhu Qizhen's special feelings for Ma Yu.

"Teacher......" Zhao Yan was about to open his mouth to inquire about the affairs of the court, but Yao Kui waved his hand to stop him this time: "In the end, you are not my student, I am not your teacher, you just happened to be in the room where Yao belonged when you took the exam, and I didn't dare to be called a teacher." ”

Zhao Yan was speechless, this kind of relationship between the seat teacher and the house master is the unspoken rule of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Yan did not have the strength to break this unspoken rule for the time being, but he met a room master who did not take this unspoken rule to heart, which made Zhao Yan feel like no one wanted to post it upside down.

Sensing Zhao Yan's embarrassment, Yao Kui, who had originally returned to a poker face, was also a little embarrassed, so he said: "Master, preaching and teaching to solve doubts, Yao and Gome just met for the first time, neither preached for you, nor did they solve your doubts, Gome called a certain teacher, so that Yao is really ashamed, if Gome does not give up, a certain table word big chapter, you and I can be commensurate with the table word." ”

Not to mention the time to enter the officialdom, just say that Yao Kui is almost the same as his cheap dad in terms of age, if he really calls Yao Kui's cousin directly, Zhao Yan is really not so cheeky, and after thinking about it, he can only temporarily call him an official title.

Not long after the two talked in the hall, they probably got to know each other to a certain extent, and at this time it was already pitch black outside the hall, Zhao Yan got up and said goodbye: "It's not early, the student will leave, Yao will leave the matter." ”