Master Li left the Metropolitan Procuratorate and went home, but saw someone waiting in the gatehouse. asked, it turned out that it was sent by Zhu Fanghe to invite him to the banquet tonight.

Such a hasty invitation is very unsolemn, but Li You and Zhu Fanghe have a close relationship, so there is no need to pay attention to these customs etiquette, and the etiquette is more casual. After taking a break at home, Li You went out at dusk and went out at the Jinxiu Building near Qipan Street.

In the old Yuan Dynasty, the most dense place of commercial shops in Beijing was the area of the bell and drum tower in the north of the city, and at that time, the canal could enter the city directly from the north. In the national dynasty, after several reconstructions, the trade route was transferred to the Nancheng Zhumen represented by Chongwenmen, and the commercial area also moved south.

Among them, the Qipan Street area, which is located outside the Daming Gate, in the Zhengyang Gate, and only two or three miles away from the Chongwen Gate, has become the most prosperous commercial area in the inner city, and this piece of shop is known as thousands. The location indicated on Zhu Fanghe's post, Jinxiu Building, is nearby.

Jinxiu Building is worthy of its name, but this kind of rich scene of "sheng song returns to the courtyard, and the lights go down the stairs" falls in Li You's eyes, and it can't be touched much.

The shopkeeper who guarded the door and attracted customers brought Li You into a pavilion on the second floor of the East Building, where there were already four or five people seated, all officials, some who knew and some who didn't.

Zhu Fanghe raised his eyes and saw Li You, stood up and greeted: "I was invited in a hurry, but I was rude, don't blame it." ”

Li You said a few words modestly, and Zhu Fanghe introduced him to Li You. are all officials such as Lang Zhong of the Ministry of Rites, Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, and Qing of Hongsan Temple, plus Zhu Fanghe, a member of the Ministry of Rites and Ceremonies, all of them are officials of the Ministry of Rites.

After admiring each other for a long time, Li You took a seat. Zhu Fanghe explained the situation and said: "The Son of Heaven is about to return to Beijing, and today we will discuss the etiquette of the pro-government court meeting, and we will take the opportunity to have a public banquet in the evening." I also remembered that you were honored in the four Qings, so I borrowed flowers to offer Buddha and congratulate my virtuous brother. ”

It turns out that the Son of Heaven must have a symbolic beginning, and this great court meeting destined to be held in the Huangji Hall instead of the Huangji Gate is. But what are the four clears? Li You was very puzzled, and after watching the Romance of the Gods, he said that he had only heard of Sanqing.

Master Chen said with a smile: "Master Li is not in Beijing, this is a new word that appeared this year, and the four clear streams of the word forest, the Ministry of Officials, the Branch, and the Tao are called the four Qingye, and they are the most Tsinghua choice."

Li You could only be humble again and again, and his eyes turned, but he found that Lord Qingtian of the Fourth Rank Hongswelling Temple was staring directly at him. My heart suddenly chuckled, and I remembered that some scholars and doctors were good men in recent years, could it be that they had encountered such a thing?

Tian Hongdonkey suddenly slapped the case and shouted at Li You: "Good character! ”

Li You's fingers trembled, and he couldn't help but be stunned, anxious to think about how to phrase it to refuse tactfully.

Zhu Fanghe said strangely: "Why did the virtuous brother fall into trouble? ”

"I don't deserve a thunderous praise from Lord Tian." Li You said bitterly.

I also heard Tian Hongfang say to Chen Bulang: "At that time, there were envoys from the Korean and Annam vassal states in the Great Dynasty to congratulate him, and I saw that Master Li was like a mountain, with a dignified appearance, a good momentum, and a loud voice. ”

Li You breathed a sigh of relief, originally planning to ask him to read the edict to the envoys of the vassal state at the great court meeting, which is easy to say, and it is a very face-revealing and majestic errand to talk about.

After drinking and chatting, someone said about the matter in Beijing, "The day before yesterday, there was a rich man in the south who earned a lot of silver taels in Beijing and was about to return home." When he was carrying his family wealth to Tongzhou in a horse-drawn carriage, he accidentally overturned the car on the road, and a box full of silver was spilled out and was seen. Trouble arose, and robbers looted it. ”

Hearing this news, others casually sighed a few words, but Li You's heart moved, as if some inspiration came to his heart. …,

At this kind of gathering, Li You always tries his best to talk about everything, from the past to the present, from the south to the north, because he knows that once he lets others talk about the Four Books and the Five Classics, he will pretend to be dumb.

Fortunately, he has a good reputation, and others only say that Li You is a real celebrity and free-spirited. Besides, Li You's depth of knowledge in terms of scripture and righteousness is far worse than that of these officialdom elites, but the knowledge of the two lives is definitely more extensive, listening to his high-minded talk, everyone finds it fresh and interesting, and will not be disgusted because of boredom.

In the middle of the night, they dispersed and said goodbye. Among these people, Li You was the youngest, so he sent people to the sedan chair one by one, and he was the last to leave.

When Master Li turned around at the door, intending to look for his sedan chair, a group of people came out of the building and took a close picture with him.

Li You found on the spot that there were two acquaintances in this group of people, one was actually the prince of Wei who impressed him in Yangzhou, and he also arrived in Beijing at some point.

Another acquaintance is Huang Jian, the son-in-law of Duke An Guo and the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, that is, the candidate of Empress Dowager Qian's intention when he was the imperial envoy of the right envoy of the Imperial Court and the commander of the soldiers and horses of the five cities. It's a pity that he was stirred up by him Li You, and he was sneered at when he pretended to be sad and angry.

Xu Shizi, who was at the head, obviously recognized Li You as well, and stopped, and the crowd also stopped moving. Huang Shaoqing, who was on the side, looked up and found Li You, and couldn't help but exclaim.

Li You guessed that this group of people must be the sons of Xungui, but he didn't think much of them because of his own self-control, so he only nodded to Xu Shizi and was about to leave.

"Stop!" Someone in the crowd shouted and came out.

Li You frowned and looked at it, he was a person he had never met, he was too lazy to take care of it, so he turned around and walked towards the place where the sedan car was parked.

"Grandpa told you to stop!" The man suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Li You's shoulder. When he approached, Li You felt a smell of alcohol coming to his face, and it turned out to be a half-drunk person.

Li You was secretly angry in his heart, his face was silent, and he said to Xu Shizi from a distance: "This official and the prince have also had a relationship, is the prince out of the matter like this?" He could see that Xu Shizi was the highest in this group.

Xu Shizi said with a blank face: "This is the elder brother of Zhongcheng Soldiers and Horses, he is not strong enough to drink, and Lord Li has to take care of one." "One by one.

Thinking of his humble appearance when he was in Yangzhou, and then looking at his current pretense, Li You scolded in his heart, a snobbish! Sure enough, it was as he had concluded!

However, from Xu Shizi's words, he knew that this rude drunk man turned out to be Xun Fei, the commander of the Zhongcheng Soldiers and Horses Division who treated him slowly.

Xu Shizi came to Beijing to fight for his father. Tonight's time, Xu Shizi is the east, and the invitees are all the characters who are officials in Beijing and the city.

During the banquet, he talked about the competition for the position of governor of the five cities, and Huang Jian gritted his teeth at Li You. And Xun Fei greatly publicized his glorious deeds of treating Li You slowly, and revealed that Li You's dismissal was the result of the suppression of the eldest princess of Guide.

At the beginning, Xu Shizi was humble to Li You, but it was the Jin family's choice of concubine that sounded the alarm for him, and he didn't know how powerful Li You was in the palace.

The prince of Wei has been a prince for generations, and he is not too afraid of civil officials, but he is afraid of the royal family. Li Youneng successfully elected the woman of the Jin family as the imperial concubine, no matter what means he relied on, this is the embodiment of the backstage in the palace.

It's just that Xu Shizi doesn't know how hard this backstage is, but after testing it with Uncle Qian, he decided that Li You and Jin Million are still very confident. Wu Guangen is just the person floating on the water, and behind Wu Guangen is the powerful eldest princess of Guide.

But just after hearing that the eldest princess of Guide began to suppress Li You, and heard that Xu Cifu Ding was worried about returning to his hometown, Li You's weight in Xu Shizi's heart fell to the bottom. The backer in the palace turned his face, and the backer left Beijing in the court, what else is there to pay attention to Li You? …,

Without the support of the forces in the palace, Li You and the Jin family are not worth mentioning, and it can be said that they have lost the ability to take private salt to climb the Xu family. Even if the evidence is greater than heaven, it can't match the words of the queen mother or the son of heaven in the palace, and judicial rulings can only take effect by relying on Zhu Zhu's approval.

Tonight, he is here to mingle with the noble children who have a position in the capital, there is really no need to speak for Li You, who has lost power, if it is not cost-effective to displease his fellow seats.

Xu Shizi didn't move, but Xun Fei, who was holding down Li You's shoulder, became more and more arrogant, and even reached out to pat Li You's face, which was half a head higher than him, and his mouth was still insulting.

Some of the nobles' children laughed and some coaxed, all of them had the mentality of watching a good show.

Li You, who is becoming more and more arrogant, where can he endure this, he suddenly changed color, and at the same time he has already made a judgment in his heart, things gather people in groups, judging from the status of Huang Jian, the young secretary of Guanglu Temple, and Xun Fei, the commander of the Zhongcheng Soldiers and Horses Division, this group of people is eighty percent of the sons of honors and nobles who have official positions...

Immediately, he shook Xun Fei away with all his might. Although Master Li is known as a talent, he is tall and strong, and he has served as a servant, and he fights a lot when he is young. Generally, the noble children who have been respected since childhood are really not his opponents in this regard.

Commander Gou was already in a half-drunk state, and now he was dizzy by Li You, and he couldn't distinguish between the southeast and the northwest, but he was caught by Li You again, and a pain came from the scalp. Before he could shout, he felt dizzy again, and then his whole face seemed to hit a wall, and the waves of severe pain could no longer bear it, and he couldn't help but shout.

It turned out that there was a big tree next to it, Li You pressed Xun Commander's head, and smashed it on the big tree with all his might, and immediately Xun Fei was bleeding all over his face, and he was unrecognizable.

Li You knew that he had been humiliated by Xun Fei's unscrupulous hands and feet for a while, it was useless to play tricks, Xiucai met a soldier, and he couldn't explain it clearly, and he was a little tolerant of it, but he was afraid that he would make the gentlemen a laughing stock. If you don't be ruthless today, you won't be able to save this face, and he is still a twenty-year-old young man in this regard.

And since he entered Beijing, there have always been all kinds of troubles, and Lord Li has also held back the evil fire in his heart, so he took this opportunity to vent his scarlet in one go.

said that it was too late and that it was fast, and the onlookers just waited to see how the two of them made trouble, but they didn't expect Li You to suddenly poison him, and he smashed Xun Fei's head on the big tree without his life, and he was stunned for a while and didn't have time to stop it. Everyone didn't expect that this Li You, who has always been famous for his poetry talent, would actually use force first?

Taking advantage of the moment when others were stuck, Li You shouted to his entourage Han Zong, "The knife is coming!" ”

Han Zong immediately took out the ox ear knife he was carrying with him and quickly handed it to Li You.

Another smash, Xun Fei had already fainted. Master Li threw Commander Xun to the ground, holding a sharp knife, and shouted at all the nobles and nobles and the house slaves who were about to move: "This official has the golden book and iron coupon given by the emperor, and killing people is not worth his life, who dares to step forward!" Don't you know what the crime of officials beating each other is! "PS: First Update!! Ask for a monthly ticket to stab the second change!. ）