The back garden of the political envoy is naturally a quiet place, and after Yue Su was led in by the little servant, he couldn't help but feel refreshed. I saw that the building was tall and the courtyard was quiet. The mountains are stacked with strange stones, and the flowers are planted in Langyuan. The water pavilion is remote through the bamboo dock, and the wind is oblique through the pine liao. Back to the pond curved threshold, layers of blue waves rippling glass; Stacked mountains, a little moss paved with jade.

Coming to the pavilion, Zou Jiaren was wearing civilian clothes and sitting on a bench, Yue Su had seen this adult at the gate of the Gongyuan, and he was busy bowing and saluting, "Student Yue Su gave a salute to the teacher." ”

Zou Jiaren also felt that Yue Su's face was familiar, but he was so rational that he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

"Excuse me." Zou Jiaren said, stood up, and did not look at Yue Su again, but looked at the lotus pond. Talking about it again: "Yue Su, I don't know what you mean?" ”

Yue Su hurriedly replied: "The student is strict in cursive words. ”

"Bingyan, very good." Zou Jiaren nodded, "Only by being strict in everything can we be impartial." ”

"Thank you for the compliment."

"By the way, Bingyan, for the teacher to visit Huangshan a few years ago, even a pair of upper couplets, so far I have not thought of the lower couplet. You can get the middle solution, think about it, I don't know if you can find a link for the old man. ”

Yue Su knew that Zou Jiaren wanted to test him, but he couldn't admit it, so he had to bite the bullet and say, "Please give the teacher a union." ”

Zou Jiaren coughed dryly and said: "Then it is autumn to go to Huangshan, and it is the time when the leaves of larch trees are falling, which is a beautiful scenery." Where the prosperity comes, it has to connect the yellow mountain larch leaves and fall the mountain yellow. After speaking, Zou Jiaren turned his head to look at Yue Su.

If you talk about other couplets, Yue Su is afraid that it really doesn't match, this couplet, when he was on the Internet in modern times, but he saw it many times, but he vaguely remembered that this was a lower couplet, and the upper couplet was called Shanghai tap water from the sea.

At the moment, I didn't consider whether there was a place name in Shanghai in the Ming Dynasty, let alone that there was no running water in this era, so I opened my mouth and came, "The students are interested in Shanghai's tap water coming from the sea." ”

Shanghai tap water!

When Zou Jiaren heard this answer, his mind was full of confusion, and he secretly said in his heart: "It's really nonsense." ”

He was unhappy in his heart, but his face did not show it, and Yue Su's suspicion of cheating was a little bigger in his heart.

"It's neat." Zou Jiaren said lightly, and then said: "The rockery is a real deer." ”

I really haven't heard of this Shanglian Yue Su, so I dug out my mind and thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with one, and said: "Dead vegetables and live people fry." ”

Hearing this, Zou Jiaren almost died of anger, and it was completely certain that Yue Su, the Xie Yuan ninety-nine, was cheating. However, after all, there was no definite evidence at hand, and he couldn't be too arbitrary, so after thinking about it, he thought about it and shouted loudly: "Come on, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are waiting." ”

As soon as the servant standing not far away heard this, he immediately took pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and spread it on the stone table in the long pavilion. Zou Jiaren glanced at Yue Su and said, "Bingyan, the article of your township test is atmospheric, and the old man is very convinced, I want you to write another article on the spot, and leave it for the children in the family to study, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

"This ......" Yue Su couldn't help but gasp, and immediately realized that it was not good, this was obviously Zou Jiaren testing himself again, whether he cheated when he took the township test, if he could write it silently, it would be fine, if he couldn't write it, he would be unlucky.

Now Yue Su's heart was pounding, and he said nervously: "Teacher...... The article was inspired by a moment...... Improvisational ...... Out of the examination room...... I've forgotten a little ......."

Zou Jiaren looked cold and said: "Even if it is improvised, it will not be forgotten completely. A dignified list of Xie Yuan, pen power, fire is always there, just ask for a large section is good, and it doesn't hurt to have a slight reduction in color. ”

"I ......" Yue Su was speechless, that article was plagiarized by himself, how could he never forget it. In my previous life, it took half a day to memorize a "Story of Yueyang Tower", let alone such a literary essay of thousands of words.

At the moment when there was nothing to be done, Yue Su suddenly had an idea, remembering an allusion in the TV series that year. He said calmly: "Teacher, don't hide it, the student had a dream in front of me, and dreamed of an old man surnamed Guo who asked me for a pen, and I inexplicably took out a five-color pen from my arms and gave it to him, and there was no literary thought again." ”

This allusion comes from the Southern Dynasty, and it is about a talented man named Jiang Yan, who is known for his outstanding literary talents. In his later years, he met a man named Guo Pu in a dream. He said to Jiang Yan: "My pen has been with you for many years, please return it to me now." So Jiang Yan took out a five-color pen from his arms and gave it to him, and he himself woke up at the same time as handing over the pen. Later, Jiang Yan found that he could no longer compose poetry. The idiom "Jiang Lang is exhausted" also comes from this.

Zou Jiaren is also a knowledgeable and knowledgeable figure, and this allusion is self-heard. He turned around suddenly, his eyes were fixed on Yue Su, and he said angrily: "It's a good Jiang Lang, you ...... nonsense."

As soon as the words were said here, the words "who are you trying to deceive" below had not yet come out, and suddenly a little girl said in the distance: "My lord, Master Li and the daughter of the Li Mansion came to ask for a meeting." ”

"Which Master Li?" Zou Jiaren was angry, and the tone of the question was really not good.

The little guy heard the smell of gunpowder, shuddered, and hurriedly said, "It's Master Li Wenzhang." ”

Of course, Zou Jiaren, the name of Li Wenzhang, knows that everyone still has a lot of contacts in Wuchang. This Zou Jiaren is a native of Shandong and belongs to the Qi Party, because of the alliance of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang, the relationship between the two is not bad.

"Invite the guests to the study to serve tea." When the distinguished guest came to the door, Zou Jiaren couldn't slack off, brushed his sleeves and left, wiped Yue Su's side, and threw down a sentence, "Think about it yourself, it's best to borrow Guo Pu's five-color pen back, otherwise the official will make you look good." ”

Yue Su Mu was in place, and he really didn't know what to do.

Besides, Zou Jiaren, hurried to the study, at this moment Li Wenzhang and Li Qiongying were already waiting in the flower hall, Li Wenzhang was over fifty years old, thin, wearing a red satin robe, his eyes were sharp, and his spirit was flying. As soon as he saw Zou Jiaren coming in, he immediately stood up and said politely: "Lord Zou is busy with official business, and the old man takes the liberty to disturb him, please forgive me." ”

Li Qiongying resumed her daughter's dress today, wearing a pink dress, stood up and saluted, "Say hello to Uncle Zou." ”

Zou Jiaren hurriedly said: "No courtesy, no courtesy......" and said to Li Wenzhang: "Brother Li's arrival has really made the cold house shine, why bother, please sit down." ”

After that, the three of them sat down and said a few polite words, and Zou Jiaren said: "I don't know what happened to Brother Li's visit?" ”

Li Wenzhang said with a smile: "Today, I heard that the little girl said that Brother Li had a treasure in his house, and I came to watch it, and I hope that Brother Li will not be stingy." ”

"Treasures?" Zou Jiaren couldn't help but be stunned, and said with a smile: "Where are the treasures in my mansion, if you say where there are the most treasures in the world, it is Brother Li's mansion." ”

"The old man sweats, and he is ashamed." Li Wenzhang said with a smile: "The little girl said that the new treasure in the house is called the sofa, which was given by Xinke Xie Yuan Yuesu, and Lord Zou will not be reluctant to take it out for the old man to see." ”

"Where is this, Li Gong said with a smile. Yue Su did send a gift, but it was just a set of tables and chairs, not a sofa......"

"yes, that's it." Before Zou Jiaren finished speaking, Li Qiongying hurriedly said: "The chair called the sofa is comfortable to sit on, I have never seen such a chair when I am so big." Uncle Zou is really blessed to have such a protégé. ”

What a blessing! Zou Jiaren was almost killed by Yue Su, this is the first time he has been appointed by the imperial court as the chief examiner of the township examination, the grace of the boss, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen, Xinke Xie Yuan didn't make sense, and he didn't find out in advance, he was awarded a meritorious name, and now he is still worried, and he doesn't know what to do.

Now I heard Li Qiongying say that she was so blessed, and said that the tables and chairs sent by Yue Su were treasures, she muttered in her heart, but her face was silent, and she said loudly: "Someone!" Take the tables and chairs sent by Yue Su to the study and ask Li Gong to watch them. ”

After a short time, the servant carried the sofa and the coffee table to the study, and bowed down after setting them up. Li Qiongying was not polite, and immediately ran to a single sofa and sat down, and said with a smile: "Dad, come and sit down, it's comfortable." ”

Li Wenzhang nodded with a smile and said, "Lord Zou, I don't know if you have ever tried to sit down." ”

"Haven't tried to sit yet." Zou Jiaren has really never seen such a "chair", it is much shorter than the usual chair, but Li Qiongying seems to be really comfortable sitting on it.

"Then you and I will try it together." After all, Li Wenzhang can't be too casual like his daughter, even if he is a little anxious, but after all, he has to respect his identity.

"That's just right, Li Gongplease!"

At that moment, Zou Jiaren got up from his seat and came to the sofa with Li Wenzhang. Zou Jiaren was the master, and Li Wenzhang was inconvenient to grab the big two-seater sofa, so he sat on another single sofa. As soon as I sat down, I was shocked, this feeling had never been felt before, the buttocks were extremely soft, very elastic, and the body leaned back, which was particularly comfortable.

"Okay, that's a good baby."

Zou Jiaren was even more curious when he saw Li Wenzhang's praise, and after sitting down, he understood why this boss Li, who has a big family, praised him, which was indeed comfortable.

"Lord Zou has this treasure, and he has such an outstanding protégé, which really makes my brother jealous." Li Wenzhang said enviously.

"Yes, yes......" Zou Jiaren was very embarrassed, the sofa was really good, but his protégé really couldn't be called extraordinary.

Li Wenzhang is a delicate person, and he can see that Zou Jiaren's expression is different, but he doesn't ask more, because he has another purpose for coming today. "Lord Zou, I heard that Yue Su is in the house, and the old man has always admired celebrities and talents, I don't know if I can invite him to come over and talk a few words."