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In winter, there is a weak hanging in the sky, the ice and snow in Chang'an City, in such weather, began to gradually melt, on the Suzaku Street, the ox carts coming and going, loaded with a full cart of snow, little by little to the outside of the city.

This heavy snow in the ninth year of Wude has besieged Chang'an for a whole month, and now it has finally begun to melt, but in a blink of an eye, there is a big problem, if you don't clean up all the snow before the ice and snow completely melt, then when the ice and snow completely melt, Chang'an City should become a large mud swamp.

Zhuque Street is busy, and the various squares are also busy clearing the snow, and the Fang Zheng of Xinghua Fang, where Zhao Chen is located, went door-to-door early in the morning to notify him, begging his grandfather to tell his grandmother, and accompanied by a smiling face to let those big families send more people out, but unfortunately no one was willing to take care of it.

When it was Zhao's turn to go to the mansion, I thought that it would be a closed meal as before, but what was unexpected was that the little grandfather, who had recently settled in Xinghuafang, agreed very happily, and as soon as he heard that the snow in the workshop was going to be cleared, he immediately asked the housekeeper to take all the family members out.

With a little grandfather with a military background like Zhao Chen taking the lead, other big families who were originally disdainful of Fang Zheng immediately sent all the family members, and they were mobilized by Fang Zheng and cleaned up in full swing.

When other workshops are still begging grandpa to tell grandma to look for people, the snow on the side of Xinghuafang is being cleared out little by little at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in less than a day, the snow in the entire workshop has been cleared out.

"I can't figure out those people!" In a wing room of the Zhao Mansion, Ma Zhou sat comfortably by the blazing fire, holding a cup of hot tea in his hand, drinking it leisurely while talking about this morning's events.

"There are many selfish desires in the world!" Zhao Chen was standing behind a desk at this time, with a solemn expression, and was copying an inscription with a pen, and after hearing Ma Zhou's words, he said without raising his head: "I am always calculating, and I refuse to pay a little more than others, thinking that this is unfair!" As far as this morning happened, I knew what the consequences would be once this heavy snow melted! It's a pity that I just don't want to do more! ”

As he spoke, Zhao Chen straightened up and took a step back, looked at the inscription he had just copied, shook his head in disappointment, put down his pen, picked up a cup of tea on the table and sat down on the chair next to Ma Zhou, looked at Ma Zhou and said, "Why?" Isn't it just that I feel that I have contributed more than others, and I feel unfair! ”

"Selfishness!" Ma Zhou listened to Zhao Chen's words, raised his head and sighed, looked at Zhao Chen and said with a wry smile.

Zhao Chen heard this, but he just chuckled! Everyone has selfishness, and if everyone in this world has no selfishness, then the world should be different!

For example, between him, Yinmen and Li Er!

The group of people in the hidden door stayed in Zhao Chen's house for nearly half a month, and Zhao Chen served good wine and food every day, and sat with the old man and a few people to discuss the arithmetic of things in his spare time, which can be regarded as the real situation of Zhao Chen's implementation of the hidden door from the side.

Then, in the process, Zhao Chen was surprised to find that Old Man Ji, who was the Great Elder of the Hidden Sect, was a real academic master. This old man seems to have been involved in everything, the subset of scripture and history, medical divination astrology, Qimen Dunjia, etc., speaking of the head is the Tao, listening to Zhao Chen, an idiot in scripture and history, he was stunned for a moment.

However, when Zhao Chen talked about Gewu and arithmetic, the old man and the others immediately became Zhao Chen's previous appearance, and they only listened to it, and there was no chance to interject at all.

For half a month, when he was finally about to leave, the old man finally had an open and honest conversation with Zhao Chen, of course, this conversation was only between Zhao Chen and the old man, not to mention that Li Er knew, even the muscular man Jiang Chao next to the old man was also excluded.

And after this conversation, Zhao Chen got a swarthy wooden card, although he didn't understand what this wooden card represented in the hidden door, but Zhao Chen could see from the expression on his face when the old man gave him the wooden card that the weight of this wooden card should not be light.

After the beginning of spring, Yinmen will send some people to Chang'an in advance, and after the school palace in Chang'an is established, then send some people over, this is Zhao Chen's reply to Li Er.

Li Er finally agreed to settle in Chang'an, but the premise is that the school palace established by Yinmen must be government-run, that is to say, the doctors and teaching assistants in it must have a notice issued by the Tang Dynasty before they can take office.

No problem! Zhao Chen went back and summed up with the old man, and immediately agreed, but on the condition that the appointed doctor and teaching assistant were first recognized by them.

Li Er thought about it and actually agreed. As a result, this Chang'an School Palace, which was jointly organized by the official and the hidden gate, was decided, and Zhao Chen, as a person trusted by both sides, changed from a non-mainstream Gewu Academy judge to the first doctor of wine sacrifice in Chang'an School Palace!

The matter was solved perfectly, all parties got what they wanted, just after the beginning of spring, the people of the hidden door arrived, and they could build a Datang institution of higher learning like the Jixia School Palace in Chang'an.

When the old man and his party came, there was only a ragged climbing plough that looked like it was going to fall apart anytime and anywhere.

However, when leaving, the old man and his party were carrying two carts full of things, and it looked like they had come to Chang'an to rob Zhao Chen.

It's just that when the people sent by Li Er tracked them to Luoyang, the old man and his party disappeared mysteriously, and the two carts of things were left intact.

When Zhao Chen heard the news, he couldn't help but smile, those things were originally meant to confuse Li Er's sight, and when everyone's eyes were attracted by the two big carts of things, the old man and his party had already left when they crossed the Yellow River.

The gentleman is unpredictable, especially someone like Li Er, who has a particularly strong desire to control, so Zhao Chen would rather believe the old man of the hidden door than Li Er, which is why he has been cautious since he came to Datang!

As soon as the people from the hidden door left, Zhao Chen's whole person was idle, playing chess with Ma Zhou every day, or under Ma Zhou's systematic teaching, he began to practice calligraphy, which was very difficult! This is tantamount to a difficult time for Zhao Chen, who has been accustomed to holding a fountain pen since he was a child.

Every time Zhao Chen finished writing a piece of paper and showed it to Ma Zhou, Zhao Chen obviously noticed the corners of Ma Zhou's mouth twitching vigorously!

Today is the small year, that is, the traditional day of worshipping the god of the stove, and after the small year, it is the big year, that is, a new page of the Tang Dynasty has begun.

The year of Wude will be turned over like a calendar, and it will usher in a new era, and it will also belong to the Zhenguan rule that Li Er left to the world.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, every household has to make hemp candy, make dumplings, and set off firecrackers, which is very lively. Zhang Lu beckoned the people at home to clean the house early in the morning, before and after, inside and out, all of them were cleaned.

The Lord of the Stove is going to go to the sky to report today, he has to clean it up early, and he has to smear the hemp candy on the mouth of the Grandfather of the Stove, so as not to smear the face of the head of the family when he gets it, this matter can't be sloppy!

Zhao Chen saw that Zhang Lu and the others were so active, and as soon as he was happy, he rolled up his sleeves on the spot and went to the kitchen to make dumplings in person. The dumplings are still delicious by themselves, but Ma Zhou, who was on the side, looked pale when he saw Zhao Chen's move.

The gentleman is far away from cooking, and Zhao Chen is now the sacrificial wine of the Chang'an School Palace, how can he cook easily, but seeing that Zhao Chen is busy there, he has to swallow the words again.

During this time, he got along with Zhao Chen, and he was already a little numb to what Zhao Chen did, he could see how Zhao Chen was outside, and he was a little acceptable, but as soon as he returned to the house, he immediately became a different person.

Those etiquette laws that need to be observed in his opinion, when they arrive at Zhao Chen's mansion, they are just like now, whose head of the family still runs to the kitchen to teach people to make dumplings?

"Whoever wraps the dumplings at night will eat them, and if they don't wrap them, watch others eat them!" Zhao Chen stood in front of the panel, wrapping dumplings with his hands, and noticed Ma Zhou next to him out of the corner of his eye, and when he saw Ma Zhou turn around and prepare to leave, he immediately amplified his voice and deliberately said to the people around him.

Ma Zhou was about to turn around and leave, but when he heard Zhao Chen's words, he stopped abruptly, the muscles in his cheeks twitched fiercely, and finally he had to take a deep breath, and said in a somewhat stiff tone: "This Ma won't!" ”

"You can learn it!" Zhao Chen wrapped a straw hat dumpling, and under the praise of a group of people around him, he turned around and looked at Ma Zhou with a smile, and said, "Brother Ma can't, I can teach Brother Ma!" ”

Then you can't hide, Ma Zhou gritted his teeth, sighed, showed a sad look on his face, washed his hands, and joined the army of dumplings.

Flat dumplings, straw hat dumplings, boat dumplings, Zhao Chen changed the bag with patterns, and the eyes of the people around him were straight, all of them were exquisite, full of tricks, just looking at it, it made people appetite.

Ma Zhou originally made dumplings with a negative attitude, but naturally the dumplings were miserable, not to mention getting out of the pot, just by putting them on the panel for a while, they could immediately open their stomachs.

But later, when I saw Zhao Chen separating everyone's bags separately, it was clear that they wanted to eat their own, and no one could be confused, and Ma Zhou was still a little sloppy!

Before the dumplings were wrapped, Cheng Chumo broke in, and as soon as he came in, he shouted, the cook at home was not as delicious as Zhao Chen, and he couldn't lose his stomach on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Zhao Chen was quite speechless when he heard it, the cooks of Cheng Chumo's family were all taught by him, although the craftsmanship has not yet reached the point of perfection, but compared to before, it is a world of difference!

But my own brother! Knowing that he came to trick him into drinking Zhao Chen's wine, you can't expose it to your face.

After Ma Zhou Zicheng Chumo entered the door, his eyes kept staring at Zhao Chen's face, and the meaning was very clear, since whoever made the dumplings would eat them, then since Cheng Chumo wanted to eat them, let Cheng Chumo make them!

"Chu Mo is a rough man!" Zhao Chen looked at Ma Zhou and explained.

When Ma Zhou heard Zhao Chen's words, he immediately retracted his gaze sadly and angrily, and silently wrapped the dumplings.