After bowing, chairs are set up on the left and right, and then they sit down in order according to the elders and youngest. Male and female servants and maids also salute according to the servants in the middle and down, and scatter the New Year's money, purses, gold and silver bills, and finally put on a feast.

Only then did the men and women sit in the west, offering Tusu wine, Hehuan soup, auspicious fruit, and Ruyi cake, Lin Mu got up and went into the inner room to change clothes, and everyone dispersed.

There are also big bright corner lamps on the main gate of the Lin Mansion, and there are street lamps everywhere. People up and down, all dressed up and dressed in flowers, noisy voices all night, noisy laughter, firecrackers on fire, endless.

All the relatives and friends who came to celebrate the festival, taken care of by the eldest wife and the eldest and youngest grandmothers, were busy inviting people to eat New Year's wine every day.

Lin Yuzhi is even more busy, apprentices and friends, and socializes a lot.

The New Year has passed, the Lantern Festival is approaching, and the Lin Mansion is full of lights. On the eve of the 15th, Lin's mother ordered a few tables of wine in the big flower hall, set a small play, hung all kinds of lights, and led the children and grandchildren of the Lin Mansion to hold a family banquet.

However, Lin Yuzhi had already started to go back to the academy early, and the time was pressing, even more so than the college entrance examination that year.

Out of the first month, the weather begins to warm up, and the most beautiful time of the year is coming again.

On the streets of the capital, the number of scholars gradually increased after the year, and the lifters from all over the country who went to Beijing to take the exam began to gather in the capital.

All kinds of people with local accents are in two, gatherings to visit friends, and poetry clubs and literary meetings are gradually increasing.

In addition to inns and restaurants, bookstores and teahouses in the capital, other businesses are also lively, and even the business of the brothels in Qinglou is three points more lively than usual.

Liang Sisi, the top brand in the "Erotic Pavilion", is not lacking in people. The building is operating well, and Liang Sisi's reputation is now far away, and there are many people who come to see him by name every day, but people are more low-key in the past, and it is easy to see.

And Ning Lu, the young owner of the Yanqing Pavilion, is naturally very busy now, and he has too late to run the connections in Beijing, so he naturally has no time to take care of him.

Now Ning Lu has really tasted the benefits of being well-connected, and he has a meritorious officer on him, so he has a lot of confidence to go out to socialize. In the business circle, there is a superior state, and the end is proud.

Therefore, the erotic pavilion is only managed by the following henchmen.

Liang Sisi can be said to have long since stopped the idea of being competitive that day, and his mind has faded, but he has become more otherworldly, has collected his sharp spirit, and is even more calm and introverted.

I have to say that the invisible change in temperament has made the literati and gentlemen in Beijing flock to it. Naturally, it has attracted the attention of many children who have entered Beijing to take the examination.

Romantic talents, delicate and beautiful women, complement each other.

In the north and south, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Huguang and other places, most of the powerful scholars came from these places. And now these talented people are all gathered in Beijing.

Well-informed, there are naturally many people who want to see it.

Suzhou Juzi, Jiangsu Xie Yuan Shi Zongming, and Jiangsu Juzi Liu Shiyu, Sun Xian, and Li Taifu, who went to the examination in the same year, came here.

And the commendable 12 lantern riddles of the Erotic Pavilion and the masterpieces of the geniuses in the capital have long been known by these talents from afar, and it is inevitable to find out.

It was sung again in Beijing after a few months of silence "If life is only as first seen", and various rumors gradually increased.

Shi Zongming, Liu Shiyu, Sun Xian, and Li Taifu returned to the Zhenan Hall in Beijing.

"Brother Zongming, when I saw this Oiran in Beijing today, I didn't live up to my reputation, I have good looks and temperament, and I don't lose to my famous prostitute in Jiangnan!" Sun Xian couldn't help but sigh.

"But this Oiran is too good for Qiao, if it weren't for the name of Brother Zong Ming's Jiangsu Xie Yuan, he wouldn't have seen it! Really, what's the big deal, in Jiangnan, I've seen a lot of young people like her! Liu Shiyu was very disapproving.

"It seems that there are a lot of amazing and brilliant characters among the students of today's Zhili! It's really hard to win the championship today! I have to say that Shi Zongming also admires this talented man in Beijing, and his words can be estimated and his deeds should not be underestimated.

Li Taifu is one of several people with a relatively flat level of Chinese, but he is on the side door and Zuo Road, and now he looks like a thief laughing, hehe Zhile, "Brothers, don't disturb, I spent a lot of money here to collect the sample of their article during the township test, let's go back and refer to it together, if we want to win them, it's not a problem!" ”

While laughing funny, he patted the manuscript in his arms, and looked proud.

Referring to the examination manuscripts of other scholars, you can grasp the style and homework level of the relevant people, and you can also learn from each other's strengths.

Liu Shiyu turned his head to look at his smug appearance, shook his head, rolled up his sleeves, revealed the gorgeous bead string on his wrist, and approached a few people to take a closer look.

Seven beads of different colors and sizes are clustered together, with bright colors, delicate textures, and moist and thick appearances. The Seven Treasures have their own charm and brilliance, and they have their own extraordinary charm.

Seeing that this object attracted the attention of his friends, Liu Shiyu couldn't help but laugh, "This Seven Treasures Buddha Bead is composed of gold, silver, glass, coral, clams, red beads, and agate. ”

Everyone thought he had some magic method, but they didn't want to hear such nonsense, and they were very unimpressed. "Shi Yu is afraid that he has been deceived! Can this thing keep you in high school? Why should I wait for ten years of hard work! It is still important to study and study this manuscript. ”

"Brother Li, I paid a high price to get it from someone else, and it cost me eight hundred taels of silver! If it doesn't work? Who would dare to sell it for such an expensive price! Sincerity is spirit, I don't listen to you! ”

Liu Shiyu's words caused everyone to laugh again.

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Lin Yuzhi could think of the shop he had set up a year ago, and the Buddha treasure and jade ware he sold after the year was gradually understood beyond recognition.

When Lin Yuzhi heard these rumors, he only explained that when the store was sold, he had to make it clear that it did not have the effect of guaranteeing high school, but there were still many people who rushed to buy them.

In the end, this is also an auspicious, good color head, since the joints have been explained clearly, it will also be passed on by them.

However, through this incident, I also indirectly experienced the consumption level of the lifters in various places.

With the increase of the number of sergeants in Beijing, the examination is getting closer and closer, and the surrounding environment and atmosphere are changing, there is tension and depression, and Lin Yuzhi is rarely nervous.

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