After the sword dance performed at Anguo Temple on February 27, Aunt Gongsun performed three more performances there, followed by two performances in the largest liquor store in Nanshi, and two more performances in front of the Hu Zheng Temple. Because Anguo Temple gradually let more people come in after the next two scenes, the first four are thousands of empty alleys, the first two rì Son of Heaven summoned Gongsun Auntie's palace performance news spread all over the city, and learned that Gongsun Auntie set off today, for a time the people of Luoyang City were actually helping the old and the young, and they all went to Changxia Gate to send each other.

Although Aunt Gongsun is not from Luoyang, and her fame is not in Luoyang, but now that she was summoned by the Son of Heaven from Luoyang to Daming Palace, people naturally regard her as their own. Among the crowd of onlookers, some people shouted and begged Gongsun Auntie to take their daughter as an apprentice, some people gave their own newly brewed and mature chūn wine, all kinds of homemade Hu cakes and pasta, and some literati and scholars gave poems, and there were not a few who gave musical instruments such as the transverse flute and huqin.

Faced with the grand occasion that the entire Changxia Gate was almost blocked, Du Shiyi, who was far behind the crowd, looked far away, and saw a woman suddenly leaning out in an ox cart surrounded by a group of soldiers, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and when the tsunami-like cheers of the mountain suddenly sounded, he immediately understood that it was Gongsun Auntie herself who came out!

"Slave a Wandering Dancer, thank you fathers for your love, this goes to Chang'an, I don't know the year of return, although I know that the city gate is the main road of Guanjin, please dare to dance a song, I don't know if the angel may allow?"

Aunt Gongsun is just a people's daughter, and the young official who came to meet for the edict of the Son of Heaven is from the Jiupin Taile Department Le Zheng, who is wearing a green robe at the moment, and originally frowned slightly when he heard this, but when he saw the people cheering and shouting, even the city gate guards were excited, he thought about it and immediately decided to obey the will of the people, and readily accepted it. For a while, I only heard the sound of pipa in the back carriage, and Gongsun Auntie took a pair of swords handed by Yue Wuniang in the ox cart, and immediately fluttered her sleeves and danced.

Compared with the music used in the previous sword dances, this song was still mournful, and Du Shiyi, who was at the back of the crowd, listened to this song, staring at the white-clothed sword shadow, and had mixed feelings in his heart. He could tell that although the music was casual, it was born from the heart, and it was obvious that the musician who played it was full of sorrow and parting. It can be said that as soon as he entered the Hou Gate, it was as deep as the sea, and Xiao Lang was a passerby from then on. Houmen is like this, let alone the palace gate? Seeing that the set of sharp sword posture was completely different from the routine he had seen Aunt Gongsun perform before, it was a little more soft and graceful, and it was actually an improvised dance with the improvised song, he couldn't help but think of the scene that night when he first saw only the sound and no one was seen.

But Wang Wei watched the dance while being distracted and pressed the strings that did not exist in the void as if he was plucking a pipa, until the silver light in the distance vaguely saw the shadow of the sword and no one was visible. At the end of the song, when Aunt Gongsun slowly gathered her momentum, bowed deeply and turned back to the ox cart, and after a long while, the crowd erupted in thunderous cheers.

After the sword dance was over, the green-clothed official naturally immediately ordered to set off, and as the city gate guards immediately let them go, although the people were reluctant, they were still scattered, and the once blocked Changxiamen Street gradually resumed traffic. Du Shiyi's group gradually walked to the city gate with the flow of people in front, and a guard checked the public inspection and immediately let them go without saying a word. At this time, Du Shiyi suddenly heard an exclamation from the side, turned his head to look, but saw a team leader who was vaguely acquainted. The team was still admonishing the two soldiers who were still indulging in the sword dance of Gongsun Auntie, but as soon as he looked sideways at Du Shiyi, he left them and stepped forward.

"But Du Langjun from Duke Lu to the Eastern Capital last year?"

"Yes...... Kang team is positive? ”

"I haven't seen me for more than a year, I almost didn't dare to admit it, but I didn't expect Du Langjun to remember me." Kang Tinglan smiled heartily, then glanced at the note on the carriage and oxcart behind him that recognized it as the Cui family, while ordering people to make way to pass, and on the other hand, he took Du Shiyi's reins to the side of the door, but he asked, "Du Langjun is going to Chang'an?" ”

Seeing Du Shiyi nodded, Kang Tinglan pondered for a moment, and then said: "From Luoyang to Chang'an via Tongguan, the road is more than 800 miles, but it is not too far. However, there are huge thieves near the peach forest, and a business trip has been robbed, and Guo Yuanjun of Shaanzhou has sent someone to round up him, and he asked Du Langjun to be careful, after all, there should be female dependents with him. ”

With such kindness, Du Shiyi naturally thanked him quickly. When he left the city, he had to step forward and tell Wang Wei and Wang Jin's brothers about it. Without waiting for Wang Wei to speak, Wang Jin smiled and patted the sword hanging on his waist and said, "Not to mention that we have a group of twenty guards, even I have been a swordsman since I was a child." If someone really doesn't know the depth of the idea, he will naturally be unable to come and go! ”

As soon as the words fell, a big grinning voice came from behind: "That's right, at most, it's just a few little thieves, how dare you beat our idea?" Grandpa left me a master, what is there to be afraid of! ”

Du Shiyi looked back and saw the lively Cui Xiaofat man walking behind him

Yi Tended to follow a tall burly man, who didn't know that this was the master in his mouth. He wasn't interested in raising a bar with this little fellow, so he slapped his horse straight to the front. And Wang Wei has been circling between dignitaries and dignitaries for many years, and he has seen a lot of noble children like Cui Twenty-five Lang, who think highly of themselves, and seeing that he was very annoyed by Du Shiyi's ignorance, he coaxed him happily with a sentence or two, and only when people returned to the car triumphantly did he fall silent thoughtfully. Wang Jin, who was on the side, saw that his brother was suddenly in a daze, and after a moment of silence, he rode his horse to catch up with Du Shiyi in front.

He is two years older than Du Shiyi, he has never suffered any changes since he was a child, he is hearty and active, and he is actually more talkative than Wang Wei. Therefore, at this time, he intended to make friends and talk because of his brother, and after a while, he was already warm up with Du Shiyi. After a while, he tentatively asked while the iron was hot: "Du Jiulang, when you go back to Chang'an this time, do you plan to take the test in Jingzhao Mansion this year?" ”

"Well, that's the case."

"Really?"

Wang Jin couldn't help but be taken aback, and inquired a few more words, and then there was another round of back-and-forth, and Zuihou returned to his brother's side under the pretext of an excuse. Taking advantage of Du Shiyi's visit to Du Shisanniang in the ox cart, he whispered to Wang Wei: "Brother, Du Jiulang said that he went back to Chang'an to solve the test in Jingzhao Mansion this year. ”

"Expected." Wang Wei was not much moved, and found that Wang Jin was silent, he looked sideways, and then found that his younger brother was full of embarrassment, and immediately smiled, "Why, there are many people who are qualified to participate in the test in this world, could it be that if I want to go to the test, I have to stop everyone else one by one?" ”

Wang Jin was shocked by Wang Wei's cross-examination, and then said: "But since Brother is good friends with Du Jiulang, and it is imperative to solve the problem, why not ask him to suspend it for a year?" The elder brother is older, but he is several years younger; He is from Jingzhao Mansion, but it was not easy for his brother to be able to send his home to Jingzhao Mansion to take the exam; Du's Guanzhong clan, although the elder brother is the Taiyuan Wang family, he has moved out of Taiyuan since his ancestors ......"

Seeing that Wang Weishen suddenly cooled down, he immediately understood that he had said the wrong thing. He has known his brother's arrogance since he was a child, and just now he blurted out words that he had barely thought about, didn't he mean that if Du Shiyi participated in the Jingzhao Mansion exam, he might be able to lower his brother's ranking? However, before he could swallow a mouthful of saliva and try his best to make up for the loss of words just now, he only heard Wang Wei say lightly: "You only see that he is now famous, the Cui family favors him, and the wealthy family is a good guest, but how do you know that people have not experienced hardships?" Just like Brother I am in Liangjing, I am the Minister of Justice, but only I know the pain in my heart. ”

"Brother......

"Before the government test, there was also the county test of Chang'an Wannian County, and the solution test of Jingzhao Mansion and Tonghua Erzhou has always been the world's famous people, and Du Jiulang is not the only one! If you say this kind of thing again, then you don't have to go to Chang'an! ”

On the next road, a group of people stayed overnight, and each rì traveled only seventy or eighty miles, and they walked slowly. This journey is a smooth official road, the best to go, however, because there is a little fat man in the team who can't endure hardship, he often stops to rest for an excuse, and when he arrives at the hostel, he has to pick rooms and wine and food, and even sometimes beats and scolds the servant and scolds Huai, Du Shiyi is annoyed for a while.

In the evening, the group finally entered Taolin County. This county occupies an area that is not large, but the reputation in Shaanzhou is not small, because there is the ancient Hangu Pass in the south, and there is the Taoyuan Palace placed in the Wude period outside the city, and it is located in the main road from Chang'an to Luoyang, and there are many literati and ink writers who come and go here. Therefore, when Du Shiyi and his entourage searched for three hostels in a row but got a full reply, Cui Xiaofatzi, who was already exhausted, finally burst into a rage.

"Du Jiulang, what are you doing here! Even if there really isn't an empty house, give them more money and let them vacate the house! I don't believe that no one will move even if I throw the money! ”

This little guy always had a few such trouble-finding actions along the way, Du Shiyi finally only felt that his patience was exhausted, and he glanced at him coldly and said in a deep voice: "If you are not afraid of losing the reputation of the Cui family and your grandfather, you can let people carry a few dollars to those hostels and smash the door with money, and let people make room for you!" ”

"You ......"

Cui Xiaofatzi has admired Cui Jianxuan's brother the most since he was a child, and when he came to Dengfeng County, he still felt very happy, but he didn't want Cui Jianxuan to be abducted by Du Shiyi to Hang Lian Feng Lu's Thatched Cottage, he rarely saw him once in a month or two. This time, his father Cui Yunzhi left him and Cui Qiniang in Cui Mansion in Yongfeng before he went to work, although it was because of the death of his uncle and grandmother, Cui Jianxuan did not return to Songshan, but he was still secretly a little lucky, and he was able to follow this brother, but who knew that his uncle didn't say anything when he asked his cousin to mourn before, but after a year, he actually wrote to take him to Chang'an, and he still asked Du Shiyi to send it!

The bruised-skinned Cui Xiaochubby finally became ruthless, and said angrily: "Okay, good, that's right, I'll smash people with money!" You go yours, I'll go mine, and if you can't find a place to stay tonight, don't come to me again! Come on, let's go! ”