Today is the last day of April, and it is also the day of the recess, Li Qing has been extremely busy every day since he became the secretary of the Taifu Temple, almost going home and falling asleep, and then it is rare to have such a day of leisure, early in the morning, the inner house will release words, today the lord will not see guests, it is no wonder, since the officialdom of the popular 'one clear, two Yang, three Zhang, four Pei, five Li' said that after the release, Li Qing's house is crowded almost every day, and the flow of people who recognize protégés, marry relatives, and worship godfathers is endless, and they are also surrounded by people to flatter, and there are not a few people who stuff money and stuffed things, Trying to get a post in from them.

Contrary to the bustle and chaos outside the house, the house is very quiet, mid-spring is the season of purple and red, warblers and swallows, peonies are gradually ending, hibiscus flowers are in full bloom, Li Qing and his wife and daughter stay in the garden together, enjoying a rare leisure time, his daughter Li Tingyue is half a year old, just able to climb, at this moment she is like a little monkey in Li Qing's body drilled around, very lively.

"You little! How old he was, he climbed on his father's head. ”

The curtain laughed while carefully hugging her daughter who was easy to climb on Li Qing's neck, but the little lady grabbed her father's ear, refused to let go, babbling and screaming, and suddenly sobbed and cried, Li Qing suddenly panicked, carried her daughter around her neck twice, supported her with one hand, and compared the other hand to a wing, 'Woo! ~' screamed, "Daddy will give you a plane, fly!" ”

Li Tingyue screamed with excitement. Two small hands slapped vigorously on the top of Daddy's head.

Li Jingyan next to him was a little surprised, turned around and quietly asked Jie'er: "Sister, can chickens fly?" ”

Without waiting for the curtain to answer, Xiaoyu said cleverly on the side: "I know, what the public said must be a pheasant!" ”

At this time, the second housekeeper Qian Fu came quietly and reported to Li Qingyu in a low voice: "Master, Brother Wu is here." Waiting in the small guest room? ”

Although his voice was small, it was still heard by the curtain, and she frowned and said, "Li Lang, didn't you say that you won't be a guest today?" Why did you make another appointment? ”

Li Qing took her daughter off her neck, handed it to Li Jingyan, and pinched her little face. Only then did he turn around and smile: "It's Wu Xingsu's regular debriefing, not a guest." ”

Li Jingyan took the child, but after listening to Li Qing's words, she was a little worried, "Li Lang, you have to be careful, if this kind of thing is stabbed, the emperor will not be able to protect you." ”

Li Qing patted her hand gently, smiled slightly, turned around and strode towards the front yard.

The small reception room is next door to Li Qingwai's study, and there are no windows around. The walls were re-built with bluestone, and it was usually a place to discuss confidential matters. A few personal guards stood guard at the door.

Li Qing pushed the door and entered the house, and Wu Xingsu, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately stood up. There was also a tall and tall young man beside him, who didn't seem to have seen it, seeing Li Qing's eyes fall on that young man, Wu Xingsu smiled embarrassedly at one of Yu Linjun's brothers, now the palace is the third guard, and the Wei family in Chang'an. is called Yingwu, and it turns out that it is also a lawless Chang'an evil youth. Now change the evil and return to the right, willing to vote

The young man hurriedly stepped forward to give Li Qing a kneeling salute, "Wei Yingwu is willing to be loyal to the governor!" ”

"Wei Yingwu?"

Li Qing read this familiar name, and suddenly smiled: "Can you write poetry?" ”

Wei Yingwu was stunned for a moment, and didn't understand why Li Qing suddenly asked this question, but he still replied seriously: "I studied for a few years when I was young, but I hated reading, and I entered the palace as a guard at the age of fifteen, and I can't write poetry at my humble position!" ”

As he grew older, Wei Yingwu's bad heart gradually disappeared, and being a guard was not a long-term way, so he wanted to find a future for himself, so he found his former subway buddy Wu Xingsu and begged him to introduce Li Qing for him.

At this time, Wu Xingsu next to him said with a smile: "Although Xiao Wei can't write poetry, he is the most knowledgeable one in our group, and he writes well. The implication was to tell Li Qing that he had joined his own organization.

Li Qing nodded lightly, Wei Yingwu was also a figure after the Anshi Rebellion, but he knew that Wu Xingsu brought Wei Yingwu here today, in fact, he wanted to introduce the eyeliner of this palace to him.

"Come on! Sit down and talk. Li Qing smiled and sat down, but he hesitated, his legs were straight, and he refused to sit down.

Li Qing smiled, and didn't force him, he sat down first, and asked Wei Yingwu again: "Duke Wei is in the palace~"

Wei Yingwu immediately interrupted him, "Just call me Xiao Wei!" ”

Li Qing waved his hand, smiled slightly, and continued: "What is Xiao Wei's duty in the palace?" ”

"Back to the governor, the humble position was originally the court escort guard, after the emperor moved to Xingqing Palace, I became the inner palace guard, mainly responsible for the safety of the concubine."

Li Qing casually picked up a hollow white jade ball from the table, stared at it for a long time, and then said with a faint smile: "Then let me ask you something, ten days ago, that is, the day when the emperor summoned the relevant ministers of the imperial examination case, did Yang Guozhong go to ask to see the concubine?" ”

Wei Yingwu thought about it contemplatively, slowly shook his head and said: "There are rules in the palace, the harem is not allowed to see relatives without permission, I happened to be on duty that day, and I didn't see Yang Guozhong, but the sister of the concubine Niangniang, that is, now Mrs. Diguo came in the afternoon, and met the emperor with the concubine, and she stayed in the palace that night." ”

"Sure enough, as I expected, the Yang family is advancing by retreating!" Li Qing secretly sneered, it seems that Li Longji really intends to reuse Yang Guozhong in the future, otherwise he would not protect him like this now.

"Follow me well in the future, and if you have time to read more books, you will have a day of getting ahead in the future."

Li Qing patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said in a slightly commanding tone: "You have to pay special attention to the movements of the Yang family for me in the palace, and as long as there is news, you must report Wu Xingsu in time." ”

Wei Yingwu was overjoyed, Li Qing meant to officially accept him, and he immediately knelt down and responded loudly: "Obey orders!" ”

At this time, a guard's voice came from the door, "Dudu, Steward Qian has something to see." ”

"Let him in!"

Li Qing turned around and said to Wu Xingsu: "Now is a period of calm, you might as well look farther, there are many talented people in the world, don't just stare at Chang'an, you know?" ”

Wu Xingsu immediately bowed and saluted, "Subordinates obey!" He immediately gave Wei Yingwu a look, took him to say goodbye to Li Qing, and quickly left the mansion through the side door.

Then

He came to the door and said in a low voice: "Master, the porter has come to report, and you specially asked Fu to ask to see you outside." ”

"Oh! Du Fu is here. ”

Li Qing, who was bowing his head and pondering, turned around, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and hurriedly said, "Quickly bring him in!" ”

After a pause, Li Qing stopped Steward Qian again, "Take him to my study." ”

In a moment, Du Fu hurriedly walked into Li Qing's mansion under the leadership of the housekeeper, his eyes were full of flowers, blue water and fish fat, but Du Fu turned a blind eye to all this, on the contrary, his eyes were full of worry.

Yesterday he visited the new waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Fang Xuan, and wanted to beg him to intercede for Li Bai and release him as a magistrate, but Fang Xuan was silent for a long time but suddenly said, "Send off!" 'Almost out of his heart, he came to look for Li Qing early in the morning, trying to find a way out for his old friend from him, if it still didn't work, he had to go to Li Lin, the king of Sining.

As soon as Du Fu arrived at the door of the study with the housekeeper, Li Qing greeted him, held his hand and comforted him repeatedly: "Brother Shaoling, I already know about the imperial examination, and I hope that the festival will change smoothly, don't be discouraged because of this." ”

Du Fu smiled bitterly, he had been busy with Li Bai's affairs in the past two days, he had already left his misfortune behind, and when he heard Li Qing mention it, he couldn't help but be stunned for a while, and a sense of loss suddenly welled up in his heart.

"It's normal for people to lose their knowledge and lose their name to Sun Shan, but the unfairness of the imperial examination really chills me. I have decided not to take the exam anymore and go back to my hometown to farm. ”

Li Qing saw that he was angry in the scholarly business, and his heart couldn't help but be secretly funny, so he hurriedly invited him into the house first, and ordered someone to serve tea, so he smiled and said: "Actually, the imperial examination is just a background, you see that Li Xiangguo is a minister, what kind of fame does he have?" _ Isn't it stealing from a high position to lift people, isn't it the same promotion and getting rich? The key is ability, not only to be competent for a position, but also to far surpass it, so that there will be a higher position waiting for you, so if Brother Shaoling then take the road of recommending officials. ”

Speaking of this, Li Qing stopped talking and peeked at Du Fu's facial expression, since he said this, he had actually expressed his willingness to be Du Fu's recommender and send him to the official career, as long as he showed a little joy or yearning on his face, he would speak directly, not to embarrass this future poet, but Du Fu's expression was a little heavy. The words that Li Qinggang was about to say swallowed back again.

"Let mine go beforehand!" Du Fu sighed, and Li Qing's implicit expression that he understood. Why doesn't he want to put on a black veil and step into the official career? But when his friend is in trouble, how can he ignore it halfway.

Yang Ming must have known it. Qinglian's position in Hanlin was lost, it was really unfair, he had earth-shattering, weeping ghosts and gods, but the huge court could not tolerate his seven-foot body, I came to the door today to ask Yang Ming to do a favor, and then intercede with the emperor or let him be a magistrate, so that he can display his talents. ”

After Du Fu finished speaking, he looked at Li Qing with a blank eye. If he also sends away guests like Fang Xuan, he will swear never to set foot in this door. But Li Qing didn't drive him away, but stared at a hibiscus tree outside the window, and after a while, he smiled softly, turned around and said sincerely: "Brother Shaoling, it's not that I don't want to take care of it, do you know what the reason for Li Taibai's dethronement is?" ”

Du Fu shook his head, "I don't know, please Yang Ming has something to say." ”

Li Qing slowly stood up and walked to the window, he stared at the flame-like hibiscus flowers, and said slowly in a low voice: "Taibai was deposed, on the surface, he offended the concubine Zhang Yan, and was impeached by him by gathering most of the Hanlin collectively, on the surface, it was his contempt for Gao Lishi to make the emperor dissatisfied, but these are not the root causes. ”

"What's the root cause?" Du Fu blurted out and asked, he didn't know anything about Gao Lishi that Li Qing said just now, he only knew that it was the concubine Zhang Yan who framed him, but he never thought that even offending Gao Lishi was not the main reason.

Li Qing Huoran turned his head and stared at Du Fu and said: "The fundamental reason is that he shouldn't have visited King Yong, and said those bastard words that support King Yong, how could the emperor have no eyes and ears, as soon as he left on the front foot, Queen Yong ran to the emperor and sued him, if he wasn't a little famous, so that the emperor would have become a ghost under the knife, can he still be allowed to drink and go wild?" ”

Li Qing's words made Du Fu feel extremely shocked, and he stammered: "Are you saying that Qinglian participated in the competition for the position of Taizhi?" ”

"Yes!" Li Qing said categorically: "Taizhi's position is so sensitive, he doesn't have the slightest power to protect himself, so he runs to talk nonsense, so of course he will be dethroned, I think he should feel lucky, after all, the neck is still on the head, give the gold back to the hometown, this is already a light punishment, if he still doesn't know what to do, and he still has to blindly seek an official job, causing the emperor to be angry, then at least it will be a prison sentence." ”

Speaking of this, Li Qing took out a 3,000 yuan counter ticket from his bosom and handed it to Du Fu and said: "Acquaintance, this money is even a little bit of my heart, at least let Brother Taibai drink without worry, if you have any troubles, please come to me." ”

Li Qing's words made Du Fu's heart condense to the freezing point, he knew that what Li Qing said was true, and he also understood that Li Bai had no hope, his heart was gloomy, and he sighed non-stop, he took the bill of exchange in Li Qing's hand blankly, stopped talking, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he turned around to leave.

Li Qing stopped him and said with a smile: "Brother Shaoling, doesn't he have any plans at all?" ”

Du Fu stopped, and he suddenly woke up, "Li Qing gave comfort to Li Bai, but didn't give it to himself, does he still have the idea of recommending himself?" ’

Li Bai's matter has just been put aside, and Du Fudi's mind has quietly returned to himself, can he take this step into his career and give full play to his ambitions? The years have passed, seeing that the imperial examination is slim, and Du Fu, who has experienced a setback, has slowly become realistic, and returning to the mountains and forests is just his momentary anger, if he has the opportunity to enter the office, how can he give up lightly.

Li Qingxiang saw through Du Fu's thoughts, he slowly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Brother Shaoling will go home first and wait, within ten days, someone from the Ministry will come to look for you." ”

"Thank you so much!"

Du Fu gave Li Qing a deep salute, tried his best to hide his gratitude, and only murmured: "I have received Yang Ming's wishes, and I will be careful to be an official in the future, and I will never let people catch the handle." ”