Chapter 45: The Highest Level of Bribery

After Guo Jia returned home, he asked the scholar to send a greeting to Song Xuezheng and invited him to gather at the lake restaurant in Lin'an. Guo Jia is very cunning, he plans to wait for the three of them to meet, and he will leave, and the place of the appointment, the lake restaurant is also very remote, so it is not easy to be seen.

The next day, Guo Jia came to see Li Yibai. 'Li Gongzi, Song Xuezheng has already made an appointment for you, tomorrow at noon, we will meet at the lake restaurant by the West Lake." ’

Li Yibai said, "Thank you so much for Elder Guo." ’

After Li Yibai sent Guo Jia away, he came to the lake restaurant alone, Li Yibai gave Xiao Er a silver bar, wrapped a private room on the second floor, and asked Xiao Er to take Song Xuezheng to the private room when he arrived.

Li Yibai came to the private room, unfolded the "Spring and Autumn" article he brought on his body and put it flat on the table, then returned to the front desk, and repeatedly told Xiao Er, "When you see Song Xuezheng, you must let him sit down and wait, Guo Lao and I have important things to deal with but will arrive soon." ’

The next day. After Song Xuezheng received the post, he was excited.

'Guo Jia. Literary idols, what an honor it is to see me. Song Xuezheng walked around talking to himself. 'Madame, bring me my best clothes, and I will go to him in the best of my clothes.' ’

'I'm so happy. This time, let him know the ink in my stomach, and I will also make two poems for him to judge. It is usually difficult for a person like Song Xuezheng to meet Guo Jia who is not of high grade and not outstanding in writing, and he has to be excited about this meeting.

After Song Xuezheng was dressed neatly, he went to the lake restaurant with excitement

Li Yibai came to see Guo Jia in a carriage early in the morning.

After Guo Jia saw Li Yibai, "Li Gongzi, it's still early until noon, why did you come so early." ’

'I'm here to pick up Guo Lao, and this matter has made Guo Lao tired. Li Yibai said modestly.

It's just a little thing. Don't be too polite. Although Guo Jia said so, his face was still not good, and until now he still didn't want to get involved in this matter.

The two chatted for a while, and it felt like the time was almost up. Guo Jia got into Li Yibai's carriage. The dog left the car to the West Lake.

It didn't take long for the carriage to arrive at the shore of the West Lake, but it was not a restaurant on the lake. Li Yibai and Guo Jia got out of the car.

"Li Gongzi, aren't we going to the Lake Restaurant?" How did you get here? ’

It is also on the shore of the West Lake, but it is close to the south shore, and there are several large pleasure boats on the lake.

'Old Guo, you get on the boat. We are going to take a boat to the restaurant on the lake. Li Yibai invited Guo Jia to cruise.

Seeing this, Guo Lao got on the cruise.

There was wine, food, and singers singing little songs on this cruise. The two of them sat on the boat, drinking wine, listening to songs, and looking at the beautiful scenery of the West Lake.

But the boat is going very slowly, and it doesn't seem to be going in the direction of the restaurant on the lake.

"Li Gongzi, you said that we were going to take a boat to the restaurant on the lake, but this boat didn't seem to be going in that direction. Guo Jia wondered, because it was about to be a quarter past noon.

Li Yibai took a sip of wine and pretended to be sad. 'Alas. I was wrong. ’

Guo Jia was taken aback, "Why did Gongzi Li say this." ’

Li Yibai sighed and said, "I shouldn't have gone to see Song Xuezheng, let alone let Guo Lao help me invite." Come to think of it, although I didn't see him for cheating, he should always avoid suspicion. Husband, the most important thing is the honor, how can you not want anything for the sake of fame. ’

Well said. Guo Jia gave a thumbs up, "I really didn't misread Li Gongzi." I think how could such a talented person as Li Gongzi do such a thing. Li Gongzi, you're right, it's a good thing that you change your mind now. ’

'Come on. Li Gongzi, the old man is toasting you. Saying that, Guo Jia picked up a glass of wine and drank it all. Li Yibai also drank a glass of wine.

At this time, Song Xuezheng hurriedly came to the lake restaurant, although Song Xuezheng was the chief examiner, and the imperial examination was also an ancient event, but Song Xuezheng's grade was very low, and there were very few people, and life was not superior, even the lake restaurant was such a medium-grade restaurant and rarely came.

After Song Xuezheng entered the door, Xiao Er saw him dressed as an official and asked, "Is it Song Xuezheng?" ’

Song Xuezheng said, 'It is exactly under it. ’

'It's the distinguished guests of Guo Lao and Li Yibai's son, you come with me. Saying that, the shopkeeper took Song Xuezheng to the private room.

When the shopkeeper left, he said, "Please Song Xuezheng wait here quietly, Guo Lao and Li Gongzi still have important things to deal with today, but they will definitely arrive." ’

Song Xuezheng has free time today, as long as he can meet Guo Jia, it is no problem to wait here for three days and three nights. But who is this Li Yibai? How come I've never heard of it? But the person who can be with Guo Jia is at least a celebrity.

Waiting for others is a boring thing, although this private room can overlook the beautiful scenery of the West Lake, but this room is empty, no one can speak, a person sits in the room and is bored, Song Xuezheng urgently needs to find something to kill time.

He didn't have a mobile phone like modern people, and no one played chess with him. He was bored when suddenly a piece of paper appeared on the table. There are still words on this paper. This is actually an article.

Song Xuezheng picked up the article and looked at it. This article is Li Yibai's "Spring and Autumn". This article is an article by Li Chaoyang in the Ming Dynasty, and in Li Chaoyang's examination, only fifty or sixty people were admitted in the country. In the Song Dynasty, as many as three or five hundred people were admitted at one time. It's ten times that of the Ming Dynasty.

So the standard of this article is very high.

'Good article. Good. Well written. Song Xuezheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart after reading it.

After reading it, Guo Jia and Li Yibai still didn't arrive. Song Xuezheng has to continue to wait. At the same time, he couldn't leave this house, because he was worried that if he left, if Guo Jia came and didn't see him, it would be disrespectful to Guo Jia, and he couldn't afford to offend.

Still bored and bored, Song Xuezheng picked up this article again and looked at it.

I watched it once, twice, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and fifteen.

still didn't wait for Guo Jia's arrival. Song Xuezheng can memorize this article. This article left a deep impression on Song Xuezheng's mind. I didn't do anything in the afternoon, so I just watched it.

And Guo Jia and Li Yibai were drinking on the cruise ship this afternoon.

The student was so ashamed that he would think of doing such an opportunistic thing. Li Yibai said and covered his face sadly.

'Alas, Li Gongzi don't blame himself so much, you don't necessarily cheat when you see Song Xuezheng. I took the imperial examination of the Great Song Dynasty, and there were vague names and transcriptions. Even if we meet, it doesn't really matter. Guo Jia comforted again.

Guo Jia is right. Obscurity in the imperial examination is to cover the candidate's name, so that the examiner cannot know who the article is, and therefore cannot deliberately give him a high score. Transcription is to find someone to copy the exam paper so that the examiner cannot read the candidate's handwriting.

Of course, with these two methods of prevention, there are still people who can cheat, and some people will hint to the examiner that there will be three rankings of 'woohoo, woohoo, woohoo' at the end of his essay, so that you can still cheat successfully.

Li Yibai pretended to be sad and kept saying bad things about himself, Guo Jia kept admiring Li Yibai's talent to comfort Li Yibai, and at the same time toasted Li Yibai a lot of wine, Li Yibai drank very little, but Guo Jia was drunk.

Guo Jia finally got drunk and completely forgot that Song Xuezheng was still waiting for him.

Li Yibai saw that Guo Jia was drunk, and asked the boatman to send Guo Jia home. He hurried to the restaurant on the lake.

Li Yibai came to the restaurant on the lake, and it was already dark at this time. Song Xuezheng couldn't wait, so he came to the door to check to see if Guo Jia was here.

Li Yibai happened to meet someone looking at the door, and he guessed that this was Song Xuezheng.

Is it Song Xuezheng? ’

'In the next exactly. Song Xuezheng arched his hand.

'I'm really sorry, something happened to me and Guo Lao today, so I'm late. Guo Lao can't come today. I'll be with you first. Please go upstairs. Li Yibai arched his hand.

Come to the private room on the second floor. At this time, Xiao Er also served the wine and food.

'What's wrong with Guo Lao, then will I have a chance to see him in the future?' Song Xuezheng still wants to see Guo Jia.

'Yes. Guo Lao, I can easily make an appointment. On the third day of the next month, I'll help you make an appointment with Guo Lao, how about it. Li Yibai patted his chest and said.

Song Xuezheng saw Li Yibai packing the ticket like this, and Guo Jia took him alone to meet him. Then this person must have a very high status by Guo Jia's side. If you can get to know this person, it will definitely be good for you, at least it will be much easier to see Guo Jia in the future, what a beautiful thing.

Thank you Mr. Li for your support. ’

Li Yibai said, "You're polite, you're polite." We will be friends from now on. Isn't this a very simple thing to see Guo Lao? By the way, did Song Xuezheng study calligraphy? ’

Song Xuezheng took a sip of wine and said, "Oops. Li Gongzi also likes calligraphy. I've studied calligraphy quite a bit. I learned the saint, copying Mi Fu's penmanship, a small achievement. ’

'Really? Li Yibai deliberately opened his eyes wide, "I also like Mi Fu's calligraphy." Mi Fu Yan Zhenqing, oops, we are really confidants. ’

'yes. Oh, yes. Song Xuezheng raised his glass and said, "Wine is a thousand cups of confidants, come." Li Gongzi touched a cup. ’

Li Yibai raised his glass and took a sip and said, "Does Song Xuezheng have a hobby of collecting famous paintings?" ’

Song Xuezheng was embarrassed for a moment and said, "The collection of famous paintings is too expensive, and my income is too low." Although I thought to myself, I didn't have much in the collection, only one painting. ’

Li Yibai said lightly, "Song Xuezheng, with this hobby, we are confidants, no matter how little you collect, it is also a preference." As the saying goes, if the mountain is not high, there are immortals, and if the water is not deep, there are dragons. No matter how little you collect, you are very tasteful. I don't know what kind of painting Song Xuezheng collects. ’

Song Xuezheng said, 'There is no contemporary master. I only have a collection of "Spring Flowers" by an unknown painter named Li Yan in the Tang Dynasty five generations later. I bought this painting for only 1o taels of silver. It's probably not worth much now. ’

'Spring Flowers.' Li Yan. Li Yibai deliberately opened his eyes wide, pretending to be surprised. 'Oops. I've been looking for this painting, it's not simple. This kind of talent is rare. The painting is good and valuable. I think Song Xuezheng's collection is of high taste. The value of this picture alone is enough to be proud of. ’

Song Xuezheng was stunned by what Li Yibai said. Of course, Li Yibai is all bragging. He knew who Li Yan was, and this "Spring Flower Picture" sounded like a vulgar work, how could it be a rare good thing. But he just wants to blow "Spring Flowers" very well and very valuable.

(Ask for a recommendation ticket + collection.) The plots are really complicated and written very slowly. Ask for support)

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