I don't know how Xue Tong squeezed to the side of Zhaobi to hear the singing list and squeezed back to report the news, at this time, the twelve-year-old boy standing in front of Zhang Yuan had his hair scattered, and his cloud shoes were also squeezed out, barefoot, panting, sweating profusely, his eyes flashed with excitement, and he called "Jiezi Xianggong Xie Yuan No. 1", looked back again, and said: "Brother Xiaowu doesn't know where to squeeze into." ”

Zhang Yuanqiang was ecstatic in his heart, bent down and asked, "Xue Tong, how did you hear the roll call?" ”

Xue Tong said: "It's just shouting that the first place in the Zhejiang exam Xie Yuan Shanyin Zhang Yuan - Jie Zi Xianggong, it will never be wrong, I heard the people on the side are all coaxing, and they all said that it is really Shanyin Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan is Xie Yuan, Zhang Yuan Zhang Shetou ——"

Wang Wei was so happy that his heart was "pounding", and he hurriedly asked Hui Xiang to take two tangerines for Xue Tong to eat, lest he keep saying "Zhang Yuan Zhang Yuan" in front of Zhang Yuan——

Zhang Ruoxi's eyebrows fluttered, her hand tightly grasped the edge of the small window of the sedan chair, and shouted: "Xiao Yuan-" was so happy that she didn't know what to say, she was also very nervous when she sang the list, for fear that her younger brother would lose her name to Sun Shan, her husband Lu Tao had participated in the township test twice, and every time she returned to her hometown, she had to be depressed for several months to calm down-

At the end of the fifth watch, the sky was slightly bright, but the sea of light formed by countless tall lanterns on the square made the morning light unbearable, and after singing "Yimao Branch Zhejiang Township Test No. 120 Cixi Complete City", the singing list was over, and some people dispersed, but the vast majority of people still gathered here to crowd, inquire, celebrate or be depressed-

Wuling came back, followed by a large group of people, but it was Zhang Dai, Zhou Menong, Ni Yuanlu, Qi Biaojia, Huang Zunsu, Wang Binglin, and Nengzhuneng more than a dozen healthy servants-

Wu Ling didn't know that Xue Tong had rushed back to report the news, his eyes lit up and he shouted loudly: "Young Master, Xie Yuan, Xie Yuan, Young Master-" pushed passers-by all the way and rushed over, the person who was pushed was annoyed at first, and was about to scold and scold, when he heard that it was Xinke Xie Yuan's family, he suddenly lost his temper, and turned around and looked at Zhang Yuan with envy-

Zhang Dai, Zhou Menong and his entourage came over later, and when they saw Zhang Yuan, Zhang Dai didn't speak, so he laughed out loud first, laughed enough, and then said: "Three of the seven of us in the Five Classics, one hundred and twenty people, all seven of us are on the list, and Jie Zi is Xie Yuan, life is happy, so why not." ”

Among these seven people, except for Zhang Yuan and Qi Biaojia, who participated in the township examination for the first time, the other five people have experienced the pain and torture of falling behind the township list.

Zhang Dai saw the two female sedan chairs beside Zhang Yuan, and said: "Jiezi, you left Hewan alone yesterday morning to meet Wang Wei, this gentle township, dragon and tiger list, you are the leader, it is really enviable." ”

Wang Wei showed half of his face in the sedan window and looked at Zhang Yuan and his friends beaming, and when he heard Zhang Dai say this, he immediately blushed, put down the sedan curtains, and said in his heart: "The dragon and tiger list of the prince is the leader, and the gentle township ......"

Zhang Yuan hurriedly said: "Big brother, my sister is here, and she arrived yesterday." ”

Zhang Dai said "ah", hurriedly waved at the small sedan chair, and shouted: "Sister Ruoxi, happy to have a grand event." ”

There are too many people here, it's not easy to talk, Zhang Ruoxi beckoned Zhang Yuan to get closer, and said, "Xiao Yuan, go back to the Wanxianqiao store, let people prepare a banquet, you have a good celebration." ”

Zhang Yuanxi said: "Very good. Then he beckoned Zhang Dai, Huang Zunsu and others to come to the Shengmei branch on the side of Wanxian Bridge, at this time it was already dawn, and the two shop guys were sweeping in front of the door, and the rest of the servants Zhang Ruoxi brought from Qingpu this time heard that Master Jie Zi was back, and they all rushed out to ask Young Master Jie Zi if he was in high school?

Wu Ling said loudly: "These seven are all masters of the new imperial examination, and the young master Jie Zi is even more amazing, it is Xie Yuan, the first place." ”

"Seven lifters, Xie Yuan?"

Those servants didn't believe it, and they all looked at Zhang Ruoxi.

Zhang Ruoxi said with a smile: "Today is a big joy, everyone has a reward." ”

These servants and shopkeepers suddenly boiled, and some of them went to buy firecrackers and put them up, and the shopkeepers next door came to inquire, thinking that the Shengmei was opened, and when they learned that the shopkeeper's brother was a high school undergraduate, Xie Yuan, they were all in awe-

While waiting for the banquet, the seven new imperial examination people want to write a letter to their families, and the new imperial examination people will participate in the Luming banquet, and they will worship the seat teacher and the house master, and they will have to stay in Hangzhou for a few days in the same year, so they will send the servants back to report the good news first.

After breakfast, Laifu and the other seven servants set off in a hurry, what a festive errand, sitting on the night sailing boat, all of them attracted the admiration of the passengers on the same ship—

Zhang Yuan's seven people drank and celebrated in the second hall of the store, Zhang Ruoxi asked someone to call Zhang Yuan the small hall of the inner courtyard, Wang Wei and Mu Zhenzhen had already polished the ink and laid the paper to wait, Zhang Ruoxi smiled and said: "Zhang Jieyuan, borrow your Mobao and write the name of the store, so that the small store will be stained." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled: "I'm not good at writing big characters, my sister knows, I asked Ni Ruyu to write it." ”

Zhang Ruoxi said: "I want to borrow your festive energy from Xinke Jieyuan, and it doesn't depend on the quality of the words." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Okay, okay, then I'll be ugly, and let me practice for a while, well, it's not fast to grind the gun—"

Wang Wei and Mu Zhenzhen both laughed.

Zhang Ruoxi couldn't help but laugh and said: "Hurry up and write, I'll go out first to have something, I'll go to make a plaque in the afternoon, and the day after tomorrow Jiachen will open it." ”

Wang Wei has prepared a wolf pen to write in large letters, Mu Zhenzhen grinded a thick inkstone Xuanxiang ink, Zhang Yuan stood in eight steps, held the pen and stared at the three-foot bamboo paper, hesitated for a moment, hung his wrist and waved, and wrote down the five big characters of "Shengmei Cloth Village" -

Wang Wei praised: "The center is like a cone, straight and strong, beautiful and spiritual, and this picture is very good." ”

Mu Zhenzhen on the side only thinks that the young master's big characters are good-looking, where can he say Wang Wei's truths, and he admires Wang Wei very much-

Zhang Yuan smiled: "Yes, I'll write two more to see." I wrote two more paintings, admired them for a moment, shook my head and said: "One is not as good as the other, it is still better than the first one, and the short man is taller." As he spoke, there was a single paragraph on the left side of the first word - "Shanyin Zhangyuan".

Out of the front yard, continue to drink, during the banquet Huang Zunsu said to Zhang Yuan: "I just looked at the list, pay attention to it, there are one hundred and twenty people on the Dragon and Tiger list, and twenty-eight people are members of my Han Society." ”

"Really!" Zhang Dai and Zhou Menong shouted in surprise, there were 9,000 candidates who participated in the Zhejiang Township Examination, competing for 120 places, while only 120 or 30 members of the Han Society went to the examination, and 28 people were on the list, this kind of admission rate is too amazing!

Wang Binglin said to Zhang Yuan: "Jie Zi, I also officially asked to join the Han Society, well, then twenty-nine people will be on the list." ”

Zhang Dai said with a smile: "If all those newcomers come to participate in the Han Society, then wouldn't my Han Society have taken all the Zhejiang Township Examinations of Yimao Branch." ”

The crowd laughed.

Zhang Yuan frowned slightly, and said: "Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, and the Han Society is so powerful that it is easy to be taboo." ”

Huang Zunsu also nodded and said: "What Jie Zi is very worried about is that Dong Zuyuan and Wang Ruqian have been secretly spreading rumors, and the members of my Han Society have won the township test this time, and they are falling into their mouths, and the rumors will definitely rise again." ”

Zhou Menong said angrily: "We are all based on the book in the belly, the pen in the hand, and the three hardships of the test, the members of the Han Society are the elite of scholars, and it is common sense to do well in the exam, and there is no hidden 'once a flat step to the sky', why not be afraid of rumors!" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Nine thousand candidates, eight thousand eight hundred, these people must have grievances, and rumors have a breeding ground, although we are not afraid of rumors, but it is not wrong to be cautious." When he said this, he already had a plan in his heart, in order to deal with Dong Zuyuan and Wang Ruqian, Huang Zunsu and Wang Binglin's two servants had already visited and found out that Dong Zuyuan lived in Wang Ruqian's villa by the West Lake, Huang Zunsu's servant was very shrewd, and he also made friends with a Wang slave who was not tied to the garden, and heard a lot of secrets, that Dong Zuyuan and Wang Ruqian thought that they were secretly in the open, but they didn't know that all this had been quietly reversed-

The feast was dispersed until the afternoon, everyone was half drunk, Zhang Dai and Zhou Menong said goodbye and returned to the canal boat, Zhang Yuan staggered to the inner courtyard, and asked Wang Wei to cook tea to sober him up, and when Wang Wei cooked the tea and brought it over, Zhang Yuan had fallen asleep on the Yan Ji, and after a night of waiting, he drank half a day of wine, and he was really thirsty and asleep-

……

Zhang Yuan felt a little pain in his head when he woke up, and couldn't help but let out a soft "ah", with a slight pain in his voice.

"You're awake—"

After a little bit of the red Luo gauze tent, Wang Wei poked his head in, his eyes were as bright as water, and he was a little shy, and asked, "Where is the discomfort, is there a headache?" ”

The red candlelight penetrated the red gauze tent, reflecting the girl's face like a peach blossom, Zhang Yuan woke up from a hangover, his eyes were a little dull, and he looked at Wang Wei in a daze, Wang Wei was looked down by him, Zhang Yuanfang smiled: "I thought I dreamed of a police fairy." ”

"What did the minister say?" Wang Weixin's heart was pounding, and he didn't hear what Zhang Yuan said.

Zhang Yuan sat up and said, "I mean you are as beautiful as a fairy." "Look left and right, the body is covered with a silk quilt, through the thin red tent can be seen in the room, small painted screens, makeup tables, rhombic glasses......

"Xiuwei, this is your bedroom?" Zhang Yuan asked with wide eyes.

Wang Wei had already hooked the red Luo gauze tent to both sides, and said, "Xianggong Jie Zi can take a look now, what else is missing in my bedroom?" "Talking and laughing.

Zhang Yuan patted his forehead and said, "Drinking is a mistake, I won't drink like this in the future." Asked: "Xiuwei, what time is it?" ”

Wang Wei knew Zhang Yuan's intentions, couldn't help but smile, and said, "It's almost the fourth watch—will the prince have a headache?" ”

Zhang Yuan shook his head, it was a little painful-

Wang Wei said: "Xianggong wait a minute-" He went out of the room lightly, and came back after about half a tea time, holding a small lacquer plate in his hand, and a small celadon bowl on the lacquer plate, the bowl was full of hot fragrance-

"Jie Zi Xianggong, this is Bazhen decanting soup, there are lotus seeds, lilies, orange peels, ginkgo seeds, red dates, green plums, walnuts, hawthorn, the best decanting wine - well, Xianggong rinse his mouth first."

The girl Wang smiled and said, and held the celadon bowl in front of Zhang Yuan with both hands.

(To be continued)