Leisure Garden.

Lotus flower pond, stone rockery, mossy earthen wall, under the willow tree hanging down tens of millions of silk silk under the pond side wall, is a grass pavilion that does not see any rich atmosphere at all, even the stone table and stone bench are large pieces of original stone, almost no traces of carving. At this moment, a scholar in his thirties and forties was sitting in the shade of a tree in front of the lotus pond fishing, and six or seven people were writing poems there. I don't know how long it took for the fishing scholar to look back at the scholars who had started the poetry club in the name of this victory, and chanted a few words slowly.

"Chivalry is famous, please recruit in the northwest. Accustomed to fighting with a bow and a horse, he knows that his surname is light. Meng Gong was so frightened, and Guo Neng was rampant. General Li Duwei went out of Pingcheng overnight. ”

Aware of a whispering sound behind him, he lifted the bamboo basket that was only one or two small fish, and poured it into the lotus pond, and when he saw the two fish falling into the water, he swung their tails, and suddenly dived into those lotus leaves, so he put the fishing rod on his shoulder, and walked unhurriedly with the empty bamboo basket, but he still chanted poetry in his mouth.

"If you don't alchemy pills, you don't sit in meditation, you don't plough the fields for businessmen. If you are idle, you will sell it in the green mountains, and you will not make evil money in the world. ”

Seeing him go straight to the depths of the path, several scholars looked at each other, and they couldn't help but be asked if they knew this person, but they didn't know one by one. At this time, a person finally stood up angrily and said: "It's just that we can make a few crooked poems, and the art of making it will definitely not be as good as ours, so why do you do such crazy things!" I think how conceited the four great talents of Wuzhong were, but only one Xu Zhenqing was frustrated for many years before he won a second-class inheritance, which shows that the name of a talented man is useless! ”

It was useless to say in his mouth, but the poetry club was up, and he still had to do it again, and the wine and vegetables and all kinds of candied fruits were indispensable, and they were sent in like water after a while. Between the staggering, the depression that had just given others the limelight naturally disappeared with the breeze of Xia Yue.

And the scholar with the fishing rod just now walked all the way inside for a while, but ran into a person who was pacing and looking there. If it weren't for the fact that this man was in his early fifties and looked personable in plain clothes, he would almost think that this was a beauty hunter somewhere. Therefore, when he saw that the people were making way out, he did not pass by sideways, but asked bluntly: "Further inside is the residence of the owner of the idle garden, and the old gentleman is wandering here to find someone?" ”

Although the little emperor asked him to come back as soon as possible, but these days the imperial history is swarming to catch him for impeachment, Zhang Cai's heart is full of energy, and the surname Suo plans to resign if he can't get through, and immediately continue to stay at home, but simply recuperating behind closed doors will inevitably weaken his voice, and he often comes to the leisure garden to stroll, and from time to time he will meet Li Mengyang and others to open a poetry club again, and he will participate in one or two times with interest from time to time. One of them also met Zhan Ruoshui to give a lecture, he was not interested in listening to it, but he couldn't help but participate in the debate with Zhan Ruoshui, half a month later, his name Xilu actually had some fame in this leisure garden. Although Li Mengyang and others did not reveal his identity, most people would call Xilu Gong when they saw him, which made him feel another way.

"You don't recognize me?" As soon as Zhang Cai's words came out, he saw that the scholar was surprised, and immediately regretted that he had been messing around in the past few days, and he had really forgotten that he was still a court official, so he coughed dryly and smiled, "It's not looking for someone, it's just a little curious about the owner of the idle garden, plus a little itchy, I want to know the follow-up of that poem." ”

"If life is only as first seen, what is the autumn wind and sad fan?" The scholar asked rhetorically, and when he saw Zhang Cai nodding, he smiled and said, "It's strange that there are so many people who come here to chant poems and fight against them, it turns out that it is all because of the elegance of the owner of Xianyuan, even I, who has just arrived in the capital, can't help but join in the fun, let alone the old gentleman." ”

Zhang Cai's age is here, and Li Mengyang and these people have to call him a Xilu duke, although he never says his name and surname, but he is also quite respected in the idle garden, and few people talk to him like this. Therefore, for such a scholar who had just come to the capital since Chen, he couldn't help but be a little interested, and immediately smiled: "Oh, there is a poetry club outside again?" ”

"It's just to learn from others to be elegant here, where can I talk about any poetry club." Although he has been declining for many years, he can't change his arrogant surname, so the scholar laughed and casually retold the poems written by the previous scholars, and remembered six or seven poems in one breath. Seeing that Zhang Cai was frowning when he heard this, he said with a smile, "Li Xiya Gong in the current cabinet is a giant in the literary world, and everyone has to learn the tune of the Chaling School, but he doesn't learn the four things, isn't it ridiculous and generous?" ”

Zhang Cai is not good at poetry, and when he heard this scholar's harsh comments at this time, it seemed that even Li Dongyang didn't pay much attention to it, and he couldn't help but take a few more looks. Seeing that he spoke leisurely, but Meiyu was a little entangled, and he had already concluded in his heart that he had fallen from the past, and was about to say a few words of encouragement like a senior, when he suddenly heard a voice from behind him.

"Brother Bohu, you ran out again without saying a word, let me find it!"

After more than a month of recuperation, Xu Jing's body has fully recovered. At this time, he hurriedly stepped forward, and saw that Tang Bohu was talking to someone, he couldn't help but glance twice, and recognized that it was the Xilu Gong who was quite famous during the Xianyuan period, so he smiled and said hello, and immediately pulled Tang Yin away.

"It is said that Lord Xu has been back for several days, but he didn't see you because he didn't have time, so let you prepare, you still have time to come here to fish! Who do you think this Xilu Gong is? That's Zhang Cai, the secretary of the Ministry of Literature, how many officials have mastered! I said Bohu, you have already come to the capital, why don't you go to Xing'an Bofu, you have to nest in the outer city, are you really willing to carry the reputation of cheating in the imperial examination for the rest of your life? ”

Seeing that Zhang Cai had already gone out with his hands behind his back, Tang Yin was silent for a long time, and then smiled bitterly: "Willing, how can you be willing!" I didn't go to Xing'anbofu, because I was afraid that I would go with hope, but people thought I was an advocate of excellence, and I kept writing those poems, and I was idle to accompany the scholars everywhere, and to be an elegant Qingke. ”

"Then you're going to go to Xianyuan and kick people around?" Xu Jing wanted to have the same smell as Tang Yin back then, precisely because both of them were unruly surnames with eyes above the top, this sentence came out, seeing that Tang Yin was silent, it was obvious that he was acquiescing, he couldn't help but be angry and funny, "Do you think that there are so many court officials and even scholars here, as long as you call over like this, it is best to even pick Li Mengyang and these people one by one, and you can regain your reputation?" Bohu, Bohu, so many years have passed, you still don't know that you are sober and sober, do you think this is Wuzhong, and this is Jiangnan? ”

"This is the capital, Li Mengyang and the others are very angry, and they are all Li Ge's old disciples, you beat the small ones, be careful to provoke the old ones!" Speaking of this, seeing that Tang Yin's face was not so comfortable, he said in an accentuated tone, "Besides, why do you think the scene in this idle garden can be so big, and why are there so many literati and artists coming here again and again?" The lecture was led by Wang Shouren, and the poetry club was led by Li Mengyang, but the reason why they came here was because of Lord Xu. I'll just tell you directly, the industry of Xianyuan is actually all owned by Lord Xu! ”

Tang Yin has only been here for three days, and he has already lost his armor to dozens of groups of people who started the poetry club here, and he didn't take anyone in his eyes, he only hated Li Mengyang and others for not coming, and he didn't have the opportunity to fight heartily. And subconsciously, he also wanted to take advantage of the widely spread sentence of the owner of the idle garden these days, "If life is only as first seen", but he never thought that what Xu Jing poked out would be such a result.

"Are you serious?"

"How can't you be real!" Xu Jing snorted angrily, and then said lightly, "You came late, you didn't notice what the situation was before Xianyuan, just one month, the change from the inside to the outside is not an exaggeration to describe it as a miracle." I don't have any other talents, I only helped people design three or four gardens when I was in Jiangyin, so the lotus pond in front of me, the grass pavilion or even the earthen wall, all of them are my handiwork. As for the rest, it's too late in just a month. ”

"How ...... it is"

Seeing Tang Yin standing there in a daze, Xu Jing thought of Xu Xun's bold designs, as well as the plays that flowed out of his pen and Xu Xun polished and modified, and finally smiled at his best friend considerately: "So, let go of your unrealistic and ridiculous ideas." Lord Xu is young, but just looking at how he can push Xu Zhenqing to the top two is enough to see that he will never treat you as an advocate of excellence. Since it was already desperate, and now that there is hope, you still have to pick and choose, do you think it is very rare to be called a genius in the world? ”

Full of ambition, Xu Jing poured a bucket of cold water on his head, and out of the idle garden, Tang Yin threw all the fishing rods and bamboo baskets to the side of the road, and returned to the inn empty-handed. However, he had just spread out his pen and paper in the room and rolled up his sleeves, when there was a banging knock on the door, and as soon as he opened the door, he was stunned. It was none other than Xu Zhenqing and Zhu Zhishan Wen Zhengming standing outside!

"Bohu, you really entered Beijing!" Zhu Zhishan and Tang Yin had the most friendship, and he didn't care about anything else at the moment, he stepped forward and held Tang Yin's hand tightly, and when he saw that the paper and pen were spread out on the desk, he asked angrily, "Before Xiao Xu entered Beijing, we invited you to come, after the palace test, Xiao Xu Jinbang titled, we wrote to you and you didn't have a reply, if Xu Jing hadn't given us a letter, we didn't know that you actually entered the capital!" You're going to be quick this time! ”

This time, he enjoyed the escort treatment of Jinyiwei sending a letter to Jinyiwei, can he not be happy?

Tang Yin smiled bitterly, seeing that Xu Zhenqing was full of energy, he was more confident than when he became famous in Suzhou in one fell swoop, knowing that this was the result of being selected as a Hanlin Shuji after the title of the gold list, he immediately threw away the confusion he had just had. Letting the three friends into the house, as soon as he closed the door, he found the three of them gathered around his table to look at the blank note, and he couldn't help coughing: "Isn't it just white paper, what's so beautiful!" ”

"I see that you have an inn to live in, you don't have to worry about food and clothing, and you don't have the leisure to write elegantly, so I wonder a lot." Wen Zhengming did not shy away from poking a sentence, and seeing that although Tang Yin was dumb, he was not annoyed, so he stepped forward and asked, "Bohu, Xu Jing is now living in Xing'an Bofu, did he invite you this time?" ”

"So what?"

"If so, congratulations. Lord Xu not only has hands and eyes, but as long as he values the person, he will definitely try his best to carry it, and there are two Xiao Xu you know nearby. As for the rest...... Have you heard that after this great victory, he transported all the bones of the fallen soldiers back to Datong for burial, and the list of meritorious soldiers who were retained, from the Xuanfu avant-garde Datong Left Guard to the Guoyong Battalion to his own government army avant-garde, there are 10,000 hanging zeros? One of them is called Qian Ning, originally just a thousand households, he actually directly promoted his commander, before this, he had a good tongue battle in the court, the scene was spectacular, when he walked out of the Wenhua Palace, the faces of several old adults were blue! ”

(To be continued)