"The way of Confucianism, in order to seek the world's Confucian students to achieve the highest goodness, the most benevolent, the most sincere, the most Tao, the most virtuous, the most holy, and the way of harmony between the outside and the inside, to create a realm of 'harmony and harmony in heaven' and 'peace and harmony'. Easy to read on your phone: α. Organize \ bubble _ book _ () update super fast /"

Xiao Mo whispered the paragraph he had just written, muttering to himself, constantly scrutinizing this passage and sorting out his thoughts.

At this moment, Wang Jirui's voice suddenly came from his ears.

"Young master, a person who calls himself Guo Ping is visiting. He said he was your old man. ”

Xiao Mo was slightly stunned, then nodded and said, "Please let him in." ”

Since Guo Ping did not reveal the identity of his single county master, he must have come to visit secretly and didn't want others to know, so Xiao Mo did not personally greet him outside the hospital.

When Wang Jirui turned around, Xiao Mo seemed to think of something, and said to Wang Jirui: "Ji Rui, although you are still living in the Xiao family now, you are also a person with a meritorious reputation, so don't treat me as a master and servant in the future." ”

Wang Jirui's footsteps as he left paused slightly, and faintly, Xiao Mo seemed to hear him say "Young master will always be young master", and then without waiting for Xiao Mo to refute, he went to greet Guo Ping.

Xiao Mo shook his head, cleaned up the books on the desk, and then got up and went outside the study to greet him.

"Congratulations to Xiao Xiucai for Xie Yuan from high school."

Guo Ping smiled earnestly and said to Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo politely returned the salute: "Lord Bookkeeper was born in Songshan Academy and has a sensitive identity, so I don't dare to greet him in person, and I hope your lordship will forgive me." ”

After the guest and host sat down, Wang Jirui retreated, leaving Deng Shangquan alone to wait.

Guo Ping shook his head with a smile and said: "If I took the liberty to come to you before, it would certainly attract the suspicion of people with intentions, but now Xiao Xiucai's name of Xie Yuan in high school is different, and if you and I still never interact in the future, it will make others suspicious." But this time, Xiao Xiucai, you didn't show up, it's right, since you got the fame of Xie Yuan, there have been a lot of idle people around to spy on each other, I shouldn't have come to you at this time, but because there are secret letters, I can only hide my identity and have to do it. ”

Xiao Mo nodded and asked, "But I don't know what secret letter it is, but I want the master to send it in person?" ”

Guo Ping took out a personal letter from his arms, handed it to Xiao Mo, and shook his head at the same time: "I don't know the content of the letter, Xiao Xiucai, you can open it yourself." ”

After Xiao Mo accepted the secret letter, he did not open it on the spot, but exchanged polite words with Guo Ping, and only after Guo Ping left did he open the secret letter.

Looking at the content of the letter, Xiao Mo gradually frowned, and after reading all the secret letters, Xiao Mo sighed slightly and handed it to Deng Shangquan on the side.

After Deng Shangquan received the secret letter, he took out a fire fold, lit the letter, and burned it to ashes, without looking at the letter from beginning to end.

This secret letter was written by Tian Maolin, to the effect that Xiao Mo was informed that ten days ago, a major event had occurred in the capital. Under the auspices of Prime Minister Zhang Qian, the Ministry of Rites was found to have several fraud cases one after another. Emperor Chu Ling was furious, and the Shangshu and the two waiters of the Ministry of Rites were all belittled, and Zhang Qian took this opportunity to expel all the protégés of Songshan Academy who served in the Ministry of Rites.

At this point, the power of Songshan Academy within the imperial court was only a few scholars of the Hanlin Academy and the imperial history, and these people had no power in their hands, and they could not touch the affairs of the imperial court at all, and the shape of the school became more and more unfavorable to the Songshan Academy.

It can be said that the forces representing Songshan Academy in the capital have been driven clean by Zhang Qian since then.

Of course, these things are not directly related to Xiao Mo.

It's just that the state examinations over the years have been presided over by the Ministry of Rites in various states. And Tian Maolin originally figured out the power of Guò Songshan Academy in the Ministry of Rites, helping Xiao Mo to obtain the fame of Huiyuan in the state examination in the next year, and to participate in the Beijing Palace Examination with the glory of dual coherence.

But the plan can't catch up with the changes, and the next year's state test can only rely on Xiao Mo's own efforts. And Songshan Academy, at most, can only provide Xiao Mo with some support in terms of public opinion, strategy, and news.

However, in the letter, Tian Maolin still asked Xiao Mo to try his best to get a good ranking in the state examination, after all, only Xiao Mo himself can be outstanding, and he can arouse the interest of Emperor Chu Ling to the greatest extent.

However, compared with these news, what made Xiao Mo more concerned was that at the end of this secret letter, under Tian Maolin's signature, another paragraph was added.

"From ancient times to the present, countless people have competed for each other, and the winners are all those who have won the general trend, and those who can control the general trend are invincible if they force each other with the momentum."

The handwriting is obviously different from Tian Maolin's calligraphy, ancient and introverted, and it seems to be extremely ordinary at a glance, and it can't say any shortcomings, but it can't find any advantages, but it seems to have some kind of inexplicable charm, which makes people unforgettable.

According to Xiao Mo's guess, the person who wrote this paragraph should be the dean of Songshan Academy, a generation of great people.

"Using the general trend to achieve your own ends? What kind of general trend is he talking about? ”

Xiao Mo muttered to himself, he didn't understand Niu Yuxian's words a little, if the princes were fighting for hegemony and competing for the Central Plains, then the people's hearts would be regarded as the general trend, but he was just a candidate who participated in the imperial examination, what kind of general trend could he take advantage of?

"In any case, next year's state exam shouldn't be so boring."

Xiao Mo shook his head, didn't think about it anymore, just kept this sentence firmly in his heart.

And just as Xiao Mo was thinking in secret, a knock sounded outside the courtyard again.

waved his hand to let Deng Shangquan open the door, while Xiao Mo was secretly thinking about what he should do next.

At the same time, Xiao Shenyan also finished writing the letter home, came to the guest hall with a smile, and was just about to say something to Xiao Mo, but saw Deng Shangquan's face was strange, and led a middle-aged strange woman who was a little too brightly dressed into the guest hall.

I saw that after this woman entered the guest hall, after looking around, she stared at Xiao Mo's eyes, and said familiarly: "This is Xie Yuanlang?" Sure enough, as the legend says, he is young and promising, handsome and chic, I don't know if Xie Yuanlang can have a marriage match? I was entrusted by the royal family in the west of the city to ask Xie Yuanlang for a marriage......"

Matchmaker......

Listening to these words, Xiao Mo finally knew the identity of this strange woman.

Seeing that there would be a legendary matchmaker to be a matchmaker for him at this time, Xiao Mo couldn't cry or laugh for a while, and at the same time turned his head to look at Deng Shangquan, in his opinion, with Deng Shangquan's personality and prudence, he shouldn't just bring this matchmaker in.

But seeing that Deng Shangquan's face was full of wry smiles-this is the second time Xiao Mo has seen Deng Shangquan show his true feelings--he explained in a somewhat embarrassed whisper: "She said that she is a distant relative of the young master, I thought she came from Huanzhou, and before she could respond to the young master, she forced her in, and I didn't dare to force myself to stop ......"

At this moment, another middle-aged man's voice came from outside the hospital.

"Is Xie Yuanlang at home? My county commander has asked Xie Yuanlang to go and talk about it......"

……

Xie Yuanlang's great glory, but for Xiao Mo, it was a kind of torment.

The stinking environment of the county test, trapped in a few feet and unable to move, was terrifying, but the qiē that needed to be faced after obtaining the name of Xie Yuan was even more terrifying.

In the next ten days, Xiao Mo followed Xiao Shenyan to deal with a total of nine waves of matchmakers, eleven banquets from wealthy families in Shanxian County, hundreds of scholars who came to visit, and neighbors who had never interacted with each other before, but now had a close relationship with Xiao Mola......

Everyone had a good reason, so that Xiao Mo couldn't refuse at all.

In addition, according to the customs of the Chu Dynasty, Xiao Shenyan also held a banquet outside the courtyard for three days to reward neighbors, relatives and friends, and even passers-by.

What made Xiao Mo unbearable the most was that Liu Zongsheng, the county commander of Shanxian County, had decided that Xiao Mo would become a great weapon in the future since that time, so he sent people to send Xiao Mo to the yamen to chat for three days, and the chat was at least an hour's time, during which the righteousness continued, and he always regarded himself as the division commander, which made Xiao Mo overwhelmed, but he was helpless.

In this way, in the next ten days, Xiao Mo continued to socialize, with a smile on his face, and talked to everyone who came to visit, from morning to night, one after another, and was miserable.

At the beginning, Xiao Shenyan was still happy to deal with it, but he only felt extremely glorious, but later, even he couldn't stand it.

On this day, after entertaining the last visiting Confucian student, it was already dark, Xiao Mo turned his head to look at Xiao Shenyan next to him, and said very seriously: "Fourth grandfather, let's move." ”

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