Because the road was unfamiliar, Miss Shen arranged for Ning'er and a family member to accompany her, and today Jueding Ning'er came with her. Ning'er accompanied her to the place where the invitation was, as the morning sun rose. The place where everyone gathered was called Li's Renfeng Garden, which was the capital of Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty, so the aristocracy and bureaucrats built many gardens in Luoyang. In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Gefei's "Luoyang Famous Gardens" introduced nineteen Luoyang famous gardens, most of which were developed on the basis of the Tang Dynasty manor villa gardens, but the layout has changed. It differs from the previous gardens in that the landscape is separated from the residence, and the garden exists separately for the purpose of resting, enjoying or entertaining the bureaucrats. This kind of well-off private garden is just a private tour. Among the 19 famous gardens, there are both gardens and recreation and residential gardens, each with its own characteristics. The Li Renfeng Garden is now owned by the local Li family merchants, and it is a veritable garden type of garden, not only the famous flowers of Luoyang are all available in the Li Renfeng Garden, but also the flowers transplanted from afar are also planted, totaling more than 1,000 species. What's more noteworthy is that from the records of the garden, we can conclude that at least in the Song Dynasty, the technology of grafting has been used to create new varieties of flowers and trees, which is a great achievement in the history of gardening in China. Li's Renfeng Garden not only raises flowers and trees, but also has garden buildings such as Siju, Yingcui, Shrub, Guande, and Transcendent Five Pavilions, which are used for people to enjoy flowers and rest when visiting the garden during the flowering period; Everyone entered the garden with the invitation card, and found that there were already students inside, and they all began to talk in groups. So he and Ning Er walked around the courtyard, and after a while, they came to a pavilion under the small square in the center of the garden, in which a middle-aged man with a good appearance and an elegant atmosphere sat down. Playing chess alone. Because I liked Go in my previous life, I did it and watched it, Go is easy to indulge in, and the people of the Tang Dynasty have long understood this, so they call the Go board "Muye Fox", thinking that it will be as seductive as a fox. Among the literati of the Song Dynasty, there were many people who were confused by the "Muye Fox" and liked to play Go. Probably a person was annoyed, and the young man looked up at him and spoke: "Look at this boy watching chess, I want to have a lot of experience in this way, would you like to talk to me about a game?" "There's no opponent, just grab someone.

"Uh......" Ye Sheng was stunned and looked at the sky, "It's average...... All right. ”

He sat down opposite the middle-aged scribe, and when he helped collect the chess, there were naturally things like "who is the childe", Ye Sheng replied casually, after collecting the chess, guess the piece, Ning Yi took the white first, he was not polite, and put the chess pieces on the spot. "Well, that's ......," the man looked at him, then just frowned and followed.

In this way, you and I have probably made more than a dozen moves, and the middle-aged scribe frowned even deeper, and said suspiciously: "Childe's chess skills, dare to ask who you learned from?" ”

"Look at the chess game and figure it out for yourself."

"Oh, no wonder ......"

After this sentence, the man didn't say much, the two of them played silently under the tree by the river, Ning Er sat on the side, occasionally looked up at the sky, she really didn't understand Go, she just felt that the more the middle-aged literati thought about it, the deeper the wrinkles on his head, from time to time to look up at Ning Yi, or occasionally shook his head, the white son on the chessboard was huge, and the black child was gradually killed.

About an hour later, the middle-aged man conceded defeat, raised his head and looked at Ye Sheng seriously for a moment, Ning Yi still had a faint look that seemed to think everything was interesting: "Childe's chess strength ...... Superb, is there a bit of ...... in the means of playing chess?" The middle-aged man considered the words, Ye Sheng packed up the chess pieces, and smiled: "Playing chess to win, it's like two armies facing each other, how can there be a difference in means?" ”

"Playing chess is a gentleman's ......"

"Sir thinks that playing chess can show a person's heart." Ye Sheng said casually, taking back the chess pieces one by one, "Is it accurate?" ”

The middle-aged man was stunned, groaned slightly, and then shook his head and smiled, and stretched out his hand to pack up the chess pieces: "It's not very accurate." ”

At this time, Bao Zhixian stopped accompanied by everyone, and watched the two of them bow deeply to the old man, and the teachers and everyone had already arrived. Seeing that everyone was coming, Sima Guang stood up and said that there are many flowers in this garden, and you can write an article or poem on the topic of flowers, or you can also write about the moon, but it will be night. The old man who writes well can recommend him to the old man's library in the capital to have a look.

A boy had already prepared pens, ink, paper, inkstones, and tables and chairs. Ye Sheng glanced at the middle-aged man in surprise and sat down at the waterhole next to the pavilion, the waterhole was planted with lotus flowers, it was summer and it was blooming just right, and the lotus leaves were very beautiful, like a big green disc, and like a small green umbrella. They are crowded next to each other, making a "rustling" sound and seeming to whisper. After the rain, the lotus leaves are covered with water droplets, like pearls crystal clear, a gust of wind blows, water droplets roll back and forth on the lotus leaves, like naughty children skating on the ice rink. There is a willow tree planted on the side of Tan, and just after a summer rain, a layer of new green appeared on the slender branches of the willow tree. The little fluffy buds that popped up yawned a lot, looked around, and stretched out. Its graceful trunk reflects the soft branches, and the lovely leaves of the tree, at first glance, it looks like a delicate and moving woman, slim and elegant. He sat down under the table under the tree, raised his eyes to look at the lotus leaves and lotus, and shook his head helplessly, remembering that although it was the Song Dynasty here, it was a parallel time and space after all, and there had been a lack of famous poems and texts.

At that time, there were several leaders of the students, and the same characters saw that Ye Sheng had thought about it for so long and still hadn't written, so he came to Ye Sheng's side and gave a deep salute, and said: "What happened last time offended Ye Jun, I wrote a few poems, can you send them to Mr. Sima with us and let him taste them" The voice was very loud, and it suddenly became the focus here, Sima Guangyi frowned, and was about to speak, Bao Zhixian whispered a few words in his ear, the middle-aged man raised his head and smiled, and did not speak again. Ye Sheng listened, a few of them first asked the great master to taste, and I will brew it. How do you know that the student surnamed Li said loudly: "Brother Ye wrote poems and articles during the exam, where do you need to brew." This is not authentic, and many people shook their heads dissatisfiedly with the two.

Ye Sheng unhurriedly spread the paper and said, "Brother Li said that he laughed", picked up the pen and wrote the articles of several people in the boy bar here and sent them to Sima Guang, and Sima Guang read it.