。 Mouth. The news of Shen Liushou's arrival in Qionglin Tower was soon spread throughout the front street of Gongyuan. Many scholars flocked from all directions, vying to catch a glimpse of the superhuman demeanor of the exam. For a while, the water in front of Qionglin Building was impassable, and the threshold was about to be broken. In fact, many people wanted to visit him before, but they went to the homes of senior officials to meet him before the exam, which inevitably led to the suspicion of interference, which was useless to their own personal evaluation, and would cause the other party to be unhappy, so everyone endured it and didn't go. But this Xuan saw that he had a private visit to this point. Naturally, he had no worries, and immediately jumped up in groups, all wanting to touch him with some immortal energy.

Shen Mo saw that if he continued like this, he would have to squeeze out his life, so he would look good, so he made an appointment with a group of scholars to set up a banquet for them after the Spring Festival, and then under the cover of the students, he went out from the doorway in the backyard of the restaurant.

As soon as he entered the alley, he finally quieted down, Xu Wei looked at Shen Mo and smiled: "I think of a way to make money, just put you on the street of Gongyuan, and then put an incense case in front of you, and insert one on the side." The brand, which reads "two taels of silver for burning incense, two taels of silver for kowtowing and wishing, and fifty taels of silver for the immortal gas pattern" to ensure that business is prosperous! ”

"What do you mean by being dipped in immortal energy?" Silently rolled his eyes

"Just touch your head." Xu Wei smiled and reached out to touch Shen Mo's forehead, but he opened it and said viciously: "I won't help you find Miss Lu."

"Don't mind" Xu Wei was hit in the soft underbelly, pretended to slap himself, and said with a smile on his face: "Look at my mouth, it's really a mouthful of Hu Chai, don't take it seriously, I'm talking about playing." ”

At this time, Sanchi behind Shen Mo suddenly said loudly: "There are people at the mouth of the alley." ”

"What's so strange about that?" Xu Weiman didn't care and said: "Where is there no one in Beijing?" ”

Shen Mo waved his hand, signaling him to stop the noise, and sure enough, he heard two people talking vaguely, both with Suzhou accents, and only one said: "Ru Mo." Let's hurry over. ”

Then another person said: "Brother Yuanyu, let's not join in that fun." ”

"What do you mean by joining in the fun? Brother Yuan Zhu disagreed: "Let's go to see our own teacher, it's a matter of course."

Alas, forget it, Ru Mo said: "There are so many people, and they may not be able to squeeze in." ”

"What are you talking about?" Brother Yuan Zhu said: "Even if you don't squeeze in, you don't see your teacher, it's not the same thing as not even going." ”

"Why isn't it the same thing?" Ru Mo said: "Brother Yuanzhu, just listen to me, the teacher said that we are likely to be among the best this time, and we are about to take the exam, so we can't make any extraneous branches at this time!" After a pause, he added, "I believe the teacher will understand us." ”

"I don't understand!" Brother Na Yuan was obviously angry, and said in a forced tone: "As soon as I enter Beijing, I want to visit the teacher, but you will push back and say something." Ah, you're causing trouble for the teacher or something, and you've been holding me back! I just said that you were too careful, so I never objected. But this time, the teachers are all here, and the big guys are gone, but you are still holding back, what are you thinking? ”。

"What's in your mind? Ru Mo also raised his voice and said, "Of course it's a good heart. You're a person who always doesn't care, and you don't want to think about how difficult it is for us now."

"How hard is it?"

"Didn't you listen to the local juzi say that the chief examiner of this exam must be the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Sister Yuan!" Ru Mo said: "The reason why he was able to become this Shangshu is all due to the Yan Party, they have long agreed that most of the places in this imperial examination will be used to report on the Yan Party!" ”

"Nonsense," Brother Yuan Zhu said, "Could it be that he has a sharp eye and can find out which one is Yan Dang and which one is not, from the files that have been transcribed by his name?!" ”

"Why are you so realistic?" Ru Mo said helplessly: "Although the transcription of names can prevent fraud, it is impossible to completely eliminate it." You can also buy words." Seeing that the other party still didn't understand, he had to patiently explain: "Just make an appointment with the examiner in advance." Use a few special words in a certain place in the test paper, and you can distinguish them at once when marking the paper, and take care of them

Brother Yuan finally stopped squeaking, and after a long while, he said, "What does this have to do with not seeing the teacher?" ”

"Of course it does.

Ru Mo lowered his voice and said, "Do you know why I've been so close to Tang Song recently? ”

"Why?" Brother Yuan Zhu said: "I'm really a little strange, you and that gentleman are not at all together, why have you been in and out of the pair recently?" ”

"Alas, Brother Yuanzhu. Why are you so careless?

"Isn't it the current Tang Governor of Yanzhou, Xijiang. Was it the younger brother of the one who served as the county commander in Wujiang, Suzhou? ”

"You only know one thing, but you don't know the other." Na Rumo said: "Our Su Song Governor Tang Zhongcheng is his own uncle

"Really?" Brother Yuan Zhu said: "So what?."

"Alas, I have inquired clearly, Tang Zhongcheng went out from King Jing's mansion, and he is the same teacher as King Jing with Yuan Butang! Got it now, right? ”

"You mean, Tang Song will also know the word "joint". Brother Yuan said softly.

"Well, he must know." Ru Mo was very sure: "This kid is a straw bag at all, if it weren't for his uncle, how could he be admitted to the juren?" This time I came to the capital, but I still didn't hurry to visit the kiln all day long, and boasted to those ** that he would be able to make gold

Brother Yuan Zhu was silent for a long time before he said softly: "So, you want to find out the word "joint" from him. Here it comes? ”

"Hmm." Ru Mo said softly: "My hard work has not been in vain these days, and I am already seventy or eighty percent sure." When the time is right, I will have a showdown with him. ”

"But what does this have to do with today?" Brother Yuan Zhu said.

"It's related." Ru Mo said: "The Tang family has a deep relationship with the Yan family, it is said that Tang Zhong was able to win the champion back then, thanks to the care of the old pavilion, so as soon as he came to Beijing, Tang Song went to the Yan family first, and heard him say that he and Yan Song's grandson are friends who wear open crotch pants, and if it weren't for the Yan family doing a funeral this time, he would have stayed in their house." After a pause, he lowered his voice and said to Brother Yuanyu: "Actually" I went out with him a few times, and they were all greeted by Yan Que, the second son of Yan Mansion, and their relationship was indeed very good. ”

"And then?" Brother Yuan Dang heard some doorways.

That Yan Yu seemed to hate the teacher very much, and often put curses on his lips, and asked Tang Song to come back and tell his classmates more bad things about the teacher. Tang Song seemed to think so. Ru Mo sighed and said: "If I hadn't told him that the teacher has a very high status in the hearts of his classmates, and if he doesn't do it, he will provoke the anger of the public, no matter what he does, he will wait for the imperial examination and then talk about it." ”

"Good thing you're not completely dizzy." Brother Yuan Zhu said in a muffled voice.

"Well, I had to do it as a last resort." Ru Mo said: "That Tang Song has a very bad impression of the teacher because of the Yan family, and often speaks ill of the teacher behind my back. Right now, he is sitting in the Qionglin Building, if we also go to see the teacher, let him see it, and be sure to be anxious with me, the joint word is designated to be in the soup, and I will give up all my efforts and be wronged in vain. ”

Brother Yuanyu sighed and said, "I can't think of it." You have taken such painstaking efforts, but have you ever thought about it, is it the importance of this imperial examination, or the importance of the teacher? ”

"It's all important, oh no, of course it's the teacher." Ru Mo said: "But the two can't be compared at all, the teacher is an official in Beijing, and he will be long in the future, when we get into the Jinshi, we will go to see the teacher in a beautiful way, and fight for the teacher's face more?" Even if the teacher wants to fight with them in the future, I will not be ambiguous! He sighed and said, "Why rush at this time? If there is a mistake at this time, we will have to wait another three years, even if we want to help the teacher. I have to wait another three years before I have a chance to have one or three years and one month, which is better and which is shorter, Brother Yuanyu, do you understand me now? ”

"Well, I don't agree with your way, though." Brother Yuanyu said: "But I can't say that you are wrong. It can only be said that the Tao is different"

"Not complicit?" Ru Mo's voice became urgent, "You want to part ways with me?"

"How so? How many years of brotherhood. Brother Yuan Zhu smiled: "I mean this matter, this time's spring."

You go back, I'll go and see the teacher myself, and in the future you will poke out the word", come, don't tell me, tell me I won't use it! ”

"Why?" Rumo asked in a deep voice

"No why, I'm leaving." Brother Yuan Zhu said: "Alas, what are you pulling my sleeves for?" ”

"If you don't say it today, I won't let you go." Ru Mo said strongly.

"Well, why bother?" Brother Yuan Zhu said: "Ru Mo, you think that as long as the result is good, it doesn't matter what the process is; But what I like is this process and this content, even if I don't have any savings. said with a smile: "I'm still young. Isn't it three years to wait? I don't believe that this world will be so dark forever."

"I know what you mean". Ru Mo said in a depressed mood: "You don't belong, you don't belong to using this means to gain fame, you want to win the dignity, why don't I want to do this, but I'm really not equal, and I can't wait, in case it's still like this in three years, I really want to,"

"Needless to say," Brother Yuan Zhu said in a low voice: "Ru Mo, don't I know you yet?" If we were to switch places, I would definitely make the same choice as you. I am making this choice now because my family conditions are good, and I don't have to get ahead, so I can afford to wait and say emotionally: "No matter how we go, how we choose." As long as you haven't forgotten the teacher's teachings, you have a clear conscience! We will always be good brothers! ”

"Brother Yuanzhu, Ru Mo can't cry anymore. For a long time, he also departed gloomily.

Only then did Shen Mo and the others show their figures.

"Hehe, you two students are so interesting." Xu Wei said with a smile: "Which one do you like more?" ”

Huan Mo sighed and asked rhetorically, "What about you?" ”

"Of course I like that," said Brother Yuan. Finish. Xu Wei said with a smile: "Rather take it in the straight, don't ask in the song, the pure masters, can still understand others." Respect for others, such an afterlife is too rare. Like me, like me. He pouted and said, "As for that Ru Mo, alas, it's just a two-word comment." ”

"What two words?" Shen Mo asked lightly.

"Like you," Xu Wei said with a smile: "You deserve to be your student." ”

"You're going to the extremes again." Shen Mo shook his head. He said softly: "You forgot Yuan Zhu's words? If he were Ru Mo, he would do the same? ”

"Why is that?" Xu Wei said.

"He" has a poor family, and in order to make a living, he lives in his nose house, and his family name is also silent

Road.

Xu Wei silently said, "You must know that in this generation, passing on the family and continuing the incense is the first thing for the children and grandchildren.

Changing your surname is equivalent to abandoning your ancestors. cut off his own incense and became the offspring of someone else's family. No matter what reason you have, you will be spurned by the people of the time.

In fact, in Shen Mo's view, this is a very normal choice. If the whole family is in danger of starving to death, but he can save them by changing his surname, then he will not hesitate to change it, "After all, the ancestors are all dead, compared with living relatives." Light as a feather.

But people didn't see it that way at the time, at least when disaster happened to someone else. As a result, Ru Mo's grandfather was stripped of his reputation as a living member and died of depression; His father, for the same reason, could not get the moose as a guarantor, and did not enter the door of the field for the rest of his life, so he regretted it for the rest of his life; To the third generation, he still faced the same mountain, but fortunately, Shen Mo came to Suzhou, and was extremely concerned about education" He held the last trace of luck, knelt in front of the prefect's yamen, wept blood and expressed his feelings, and finally obtained the letter of guarantee issued by Shen Mo himself, which passed the exams at all levels smoothly all the way to Beijing.

It is conceivable that Ru Mo, who has been blinded and ridiculed since he was a child, in order to end the shame of three generations. What will be the price of restoring the reputation of the whole family,,

Xu Wei was silent all of a sudden, he remembered that more than ten years ago, his life was unsustainable and he had to live in the Yue family, although no one asked him to change his surname, but he was deeply impressed by that kind of shame, so he understood the kid, and sighed: "I am indeed extreme, no one can accuse him." ”

"But" Shen Mo shook his head and said: "He did something wrong, if he used this method to achieve fame, it would be a stain on his life, and once this incident happened, he would be laughed at forever", which is exactly the opposite of his original intention. ”

"Alas, yes, if you want to hurry, you don't" Xu Wei nodded and said: "How can there be an impermeable wall in the world?" Sooner or later, someone will know, but I don't know if it's before or after death. ”

"Whatever it is, avoid it." He said silently: "He is a rare genius, and his mind is not bad, and he can't ruin his life just because of a thought." ”

"You're talking to him?" Xu Wei said.

Not silently shook his fork and said, "I won't come forward." ”

"Ha, I see" Xu Wei looked at his expression. He smiled and said, "You have to calculate people again." ”

He said silently: "I have so many students who want to participate in the Spring Festival, if I say that I have real skills to take the test, I won't say anything if I brush them all down, I can only scold them for a bunch of straw bales!" As he spoke, a cold glint flashed in his eyes and said, "But if you want to rely on these ghost town tricks to trick people, you have to ask me, who is a teacher." Say yes or no! ”

"What are you going to do?" Xu Weida was interested: "Do you need me to be busy?" ”

"Let's get the situation straight." Shen Mo glanced at him, walked out of the alley, and walked in the opposite direction of Qionglin Tower. Hearing a cooing sound, Xu Wei touched his abdomen and said, "I didn't eat anything just now, but I was so hungry that my stomach growled." ”

Silent and depressed: "That's a pigeon raised by someone"

As soon as Xu Wei looked up, he saw that there was a pigeon coop on the roof of the house on the left, so he laughed and scolded: "Stinky pigeons, it really sounds like a drum in the Five Organs Temple." ”

Shen Mo also laughed and said, "Last year, there was a toad that screamed, and you also said that it was a belly ringing. ”

"Did I say that?" Xu Wei smiled embarrassedly: "But aren't you hungry?" ”

"If you want me to have a treat, just say it." Shen Mo rolled his eyes and asked, "What's delicious nearby?" ”

Three-foot shape: "The next street is the Shaanxi Guild Hall, where the noodles and mutton steamed buns are delicious." ”

"Then what's delicious Xu Wei didn't want to be so cheap Shen Mo. But Shen Mo was suddenly aroused, and waved his hand and said, "Just go there!" Xu Wei's protest was ineffective, muttering "for the rich, not benevolent", "the richer you are, the more you pick, or something." Lethargy followed.

The group followed three feet through several alleys. Sure enough, I saw a guild hall with a very generous face. It was the "Shaanxi Hall" funded by the Qin merchants that built more than 100 rooms in order to accommodate the candidates. But except for the triennial big competition, it is usually used by Shaanxi people who come to the capital to do business and run business, and they really don't need so many rooms. So in order to maintain the operation of the hall. The room is also rented out as an inn, and a restaurant is also opened in the front yard, specializing in Shaanxi-style food, which is all told by the old Beijing of Sanchi, to Shen Mo.

Who knew that he had just seen the guild hall from a distance, and he stood silently again, Xu Wei followed his gaze, and saw a person, and sighed secretly: "The capital is really small" How can there be acquaintances everywhere? ，

Divide one by one..."Chuan

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