Liu Chenxing rode out of Yongchongfang, and before returning to Daozheng Fang, he first went to Dongshi.

In spring and summer, the produce is abundant and the fruits are abundant.

The melon is chilled in the well water and eaten, it is crisp and delicious, and it is very refreshing to eat.

There are many people in the family, and they all eat a lot of food, and they can also put melons, so they bought six in one go and tied them with ropes, and put them on horseback.

The uncooked meat on the road and the meat prepared by Uncle Liu are all cured meats, but there is no fresh meat, but the leftover meat sold in the afternoon is not as fresh as the opening of the market, especially when the white sun shines, it looks really wilted.

Liu Chenxing shook his head, led the horse out of the butcher shop, went to a restaurant, and bought a roast duck and a roast goose, both ready-made, and they could be eaten when they were taken back.

I still had the heart to go to the East Market again, but the sun was getting more and more westerly, and the drums of the curfew sounded, so Liu Chenxing had to turn over and go home.

The Daozheng Fang is on the east side of the East Market, and after riding a horse for less than a quarter of an hour, you enter the North Gate of the Daozheng Fang.

When you enter the workshop, you don't have to worry.

During the curfew, residents of the neighborhood are still free to come and go.

The residents in the Daozheng Square are mostly officials, and at this time, before Chang'an City is about to enter the curfew, the residents in the living houses have begun to return one after another like Liu Chenxing.

The crossroads and winding roads in the square were full of officials returning on horseback, and the servants who followed them, and of course, a few delicate young ladies dressed as men also rode back.

The officials are well-informed, knowing that the empress gave the female champion of the current branch a house in this workshop, and how many have a relationship with Liu Chenxing, although there are also men's beauties on the road in the workshop, but the little ladies of the official family can dress up, how gorgeous the men's clothes on their bodies are, and they have to apply fat powder thinly, how can there be Liu Chenxing who is plain and clothed?

Therefore, it looks like they are all little ladies in men's clothes riding horses, but there is a difference at a closer look.

Besides, they are officials in the same dynasty as each other, they don't see each other when they look up, they all know where they live, and they all know what they look like, and they are just a fresh face like Liu Chenxing.

If so, he vaguely recognized Liu Chenxing.

Don't talk about high-ranking officials, of course, there are not many high-ranking officials in this place, most of them are middle-level and below officials with solid family backgrounds, and the latest decree and martial arts are proposed by Liu Chenxing, and he will be on an errand with the empress in the near future.

When will you stay if you don't make friends at the end of your life?

At the crossroads of the square, there was a young official in a turquoise robe, calling on horseback: "But the top of this year's palace examination, the top of the Liu list?" ”

Liu Chenxing stopped his horse, crossed his hands on the horse, and said, "You're polite, it's exact." ”

The blue-robed official's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he also crossed his hands, and he also saluted, and said: "It is better to see than to hear, the martial arts proposed by Liu Bangshou have been widely praised, and the articles you wrote in the palace examination are also quite respected by the literati, which can be said to point out a clear way for the examiners to read the papers in the future." ”

It's okay to listen to the scene, but the latter sentence is a bit too much.

Liu Chenxing shook his head and said: "Lang Jun praised it falsely, the palace test is just his own words, and there are still many shortcomings." Whether it is the state examination, the county examination, or the provincial examination, the examiners have rich experience in marking papers, and they can discern and select the talents needed by the imperial court, which is very admirable. ”

Hearing Liu Chenxing's compliments pushed to the examiners again, he didn't drift away because of his own words, the smile of the green-robed official eased, and he knew a little bit about Liu Chenxing in his heart, and saw Liu Chenxing carrying a lot of food on his horse, the curfew fell more and more intensively, so he didn't say anything more, reported his family and official position, and left with his fists.

There was the first one who came up to say hello, and there was the second one who rode up to say hello.

Of course, there are only three or four people who take the initiative to come and go, after all, there are still different things between men and women, and then there is also the idea of wait-and-see, either as if they did not recognize it, or they just nodded from afar, and even saw Liu Chenxing immediately hang up six big melons, and then remembered his origin, his heart was somewhat contemptuous, and he walked away directly.

But even so, Liu Chenxing greeted him one by one, and when he walked to his door, the drumming of the curfew stopped.

It was different in a house with a family, so I stopped the horse and pushed the door of my house open from the inside.

"Didn't you say it's not far, you'll be back in a while, you've been gone for an hour or two. But your uncle is here, but you are not there. Liu Shi kept chattering as he spoke, "Chang'an has a strict curfew, listening to this sound of rapid drums, I'm really afraid that you won't be able to come back in time, what should I do?" Well, there's no one on the road here, so let's hurry into the house! ”

When I returned to the workshop, the sky in the west was still a red cloud, but now it was purple red.

Looking at the gray-blue sky that was about to get dark, Liu's face was anxious, Liu Chenxing led the horse with his left hand, took Liu's hand with his right hand, and entered the courtyard together, and then tied the courtyard door from the inside, calming Liu's heart, and then said sweetly: "Uncle is here, that's just right!" I bought a roast duck and roast goose in Dongshi, just to add vegetables! So when I came back late, I was also thinking about my uncle and aunt, so I wandered around for a while. ”

picked up his daughter, and closed the empty road outside the door, his heart was steady, and the Liu family also had the heart to say something else.

When it came to his brother Liu Wensu, Liu's face was full of smiles, and his mother and aunt's smile couldn't be hidden, and he said with a smile: "You bought more roast duck and roast goose, and not long after you left, the lady of the Li family, who was married to your uncle, asked her to send a table of food over, saying that we were tired of traveling all week, and this table of food should be used as a breeze and dust for us." ”

"Don't say it, everyone's lady is different, the dishes prepared are exquisite, and there are carvings on each dish, which is as vivid as the real thing."

When he said that, he walked through the front yard with a unique scenery, came to the backyard, and saw his brother Liu Wensu with Liu Qingshan and Liu Qinghai hanging lanterns under the corridor with bamboo poles, and the oil-paper lanterns were also painted with simple patterns of birds, and I couldn't help but think that there was a wooden stick written by myself on the vegetable box sent by Mrs. Li, and the handwriting on it was beautiful, so she was full of praise and said: "Mrs. Li is not only careful and thoughtful, because of your uncle, put us in her heart, and she is also a learned person, I will show you the words she wrote later, the so-called words are like their people, and her words are beautiful, In the future, after marrying your uncle, I will definitely become a good couple. ”