The two sides of the East Palace and Princess Shengping's Mansion began to discuss the marriage of their children, and Nianyun also began to prepare dowries and congratulatory gifts in full swing.

Her identity is unusual, she is both an eldest sister-in-law and a younger sister, so she would naturally rather pay her own money to subsidize it, and she must let Chang'er's dowry be rich and beautiful. Anyway, these properties were brought back to the Guo family in the end, and they could be regarded as subsidizing the emptiness caused by the princess's mansion for her own beautiful marriage at that time.

On this day, Nian Yun was checking the accounts with the account book, but he heard someone laugh and said: "Shopkeeper, why don't you see the plan to settle the accounts?" ”

Nian Yun looked up and saw that it was Li Chun, but he didn't get up, and replied with a smile: "These people in your family are very shrewd, and there will naturally be no mistakes in the accounts that can be calculated by the abacus, I just want to see if there are any omissions, and see if every account is reasonable, where do I need to do this kind of work as a bookkeeper?" ”

Li Chun bowed his head: "Madame is right, our Madam is naturally Lan Xinhui and amazingly talented." ”

Nian Yun felt that he seemed to have something to say, but he didn't know what he wanted to say, so he had to sit and wait for his next words with a smile. Sure enough, Li Chun took out a post from his arms and threw it in front of her: "Mid-Autumn Festival, those scholars are going to hold a poetry and wine party, and we warmly invite you!" ”

Nianyun opened the post and saw that the names written on it were "Guo Sanlang" and "Guo Xiaowu", and when he saw the jealousy on his face, he knew that he and Chang'er were not invited, so he quipped: "Look, or our county king has vision, if the class knows that the amazing and beautiful Guo Xiaowu is your wife, can you beat your chest?" ”

Li Chun pursed his lips and said proudly: "Isn't that it, it's too late to know that you are a woman!" ”

Nianyun read the post again, and said, "I don't know how to compose poetry, what do you ask me to do?" ”

She was shocked when she was in Qiyue Tower that day, and they probably saw that she had some insight when she spoke, so they thought that she was also a fellow practitioner, and she would naturally compose poetry.

Li Chun said: "Since it is a poetry reception, you can't compose poetry, the wine will always drink, you might as well bring a few jars of good wine and be half a host to make a face." As for the poems, just comment on a few sentences, they don't want to force it. ”

This is a good idea, Nianyun said: "Although I can't drink a thousand cups without getting drunk, but in Yangzhou in the past, Aunt Wei taught me a lot of knowledge about winemaking and wine tasting, and I may be able to use it." ”

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Nianyun was still dressed as a teenager, and he put a little effort into dressing. The fabric doesn't have to be too luxurious, but the cut must be delicate. The pattern should not be too complicated, but the color should be elegant and generous.

Wearing a noble and dusty plain Wei and Jin style large-sleeved robe, stepping on a pair of black Liuhe boots, it seemed very casual, riding a newly tamed horse "Snow", and taking fennel and two small servants who picked up wine jars to go to the poetry wine party.

Nianyun went no sooner or later, a little earlier than the time booked on the post, showing respect for the master. At this time, most of the guests had already arrived, and Nianyun walked in slowly, attracting everyone's attention just right.

It's still that Qiyue Tower, and there are many women in the seat to accompany the wine, but I don't see that Xue Chu'er.

Nianyun bowed his hand to greet everyone, and his posture was extraordinary, which made many people present ashamed of themselves, but the etiquette was very thoughtful, and the smile passed over everyone's face, which made people feel seven or eight points of closeness when they saw it, and they just wanted to run to tell each other "Guo Xiaowu smiled at me".

At this time, I saw a person walking out of the crowd, clasping his fists and laughing: "Brother Guo Xian, I thought you wouldn't come!" ”

That person's surname is Wei Zongren, and Liu Zihou is a jinshi in the same year, and he often mixes with them, and he is quite famous, and he has seen him when he was Nian Yun.

Nian Yun hurriedly replied: "Brother's invitation, how dare you not come?" ”

Wei Zongren smiled and introduced Nianyun to other scholars one by one, Nianyun noticed a little, most of them were new scholars in the past few years and some scholars who had failed the list and were ready to continue the exam, and they should all be like-minded people with them.

Nianyun looked around, but didn't see Liu Zihou, but asked, "Didn't you invite Brother Zihou today?" ”

That Wei Zongren smiled: "Zihou is the leader among us, how can you not call him?" It's just that he is unfortunate now, and it coincides with Ding Wei, so he has to take leave from the saint and go back to guard for a year and a half. ”

The money I owed him to buy a tortoiseshell comb last time had not been given to him, and I always thought that I would see it soon, but I didn't expect that it would be a few months, and he had returned to his hometown in Hedong.

Nian Yun was a little disappointed, but since he had already come, the scene was naturally indispensable, so he smiled: "I see." The younger brother is a layman, he can't write poems, and he is afraid of being laughed at and generous, so he specially brought a few jars of good wine, which is not a foolish person to eat and drink. ”

As he spoke, he greeted the little guy who followed behind, and put five or six jars of wine on the table in front of him.

Zong Ren pointed to the ground behind him and said, "I bought a few jars of good wine with a few friends, and I'm afraid I won't drink enough." It's still Brother Guo Xian's generous move, it seems that he can not get drunk and return today. ”

Nian Yun turned his head and saw that there were indeed more than a dozen wine jars in the corner, and the yellow paper seals didn't seem to be quite the same, as if there were three or four different categories.

Nian Yun said with a smile: "It's a poetry party, and it's not interesting to just write poetry." Why don't we try to compete now, let's guess what kind of wine each brings each other, and tell us all about the origin and the special features of the brewing? ”

Zong Ren just smiled: "I am naturally respectful rather than obedient." However, since we have invited so many people, if there is a gentleman who understands wine, we also hope to give advice. Why don't you do this, I'll ask Dr. Liquor from the wine shop opposite to be a judge, and everyone who is willing to participate will taste the wine together, and then write down the answer on a piece of paper to ensure fairness and justice. ”

Everyone applauded, and Nianyun laughed.

The wine doctor on the other side heard that there was a person who knew how to drink to compete, and he was happy to hear it, and he ran over happily. For a time, Xuanzhou paper, Huizhou ink, and sheep's hair pens were all ready, and three or five scholars who loved to join in the fun came to participate together.

Dr. Jiu drew three or four kinds of wine for them to taste, but those scholars had all been defeated one after another, and Zong Ren and Nian Yun both wrote the answers without thinking, and the two did not distinguish between victory and defeat.

Dr. Wine narrowed his eyes, smiled narrowly, made a "shhhh

Nian Yunchu frowned slightly when he received the wine, smelled the wine first, and then took a small sip, as if he was a little unsure, took the wine glass again, and tasted it lightly.

After a little groaning, he untied the blindfolded cloth, took a pen and wrote the names of the two wines on the paper, and wrote down the characteristics and origins of the winemaking in detail, and handed them over to the shopkeeper for judgment.

For a while, everyone came over to see, and they didn't see whether the answer was correct or not, and the seer Nianyun wrote a neat hairpin flower letter, which was quite charming, and they all cheered together.

The first two don't matter, only the last one can be seen. And when they looked at her, they saw that she had written:

Pi tube, produced in Pi County, Chengdu Prefecture, Jiannan Province. The natives store sake in a green bamboo tube, seal it with lotus silk, banana leaves and wet mud, and extract the aroma, so it is called Pi tube wine.

Bai fell, Yang Xuanzhi of the Northern Wei Dynasty "Luoyang Jialan Ji" said: "Liu Bai, a native of Hedong, is good at making wine. In the summer and June, the summer is in the middle of the day. After ten years, his wine does not move, the fragrance of drinking is beautiful and drunk, and he does not wake up after menstruation. "And during the Yongxi period of the Wei Dynasty in Yunbei, there was Mao Hongbin, who took this wine on the road and encountered thieves. The thief drank his wine, got drunk, and was captured, so it is also called "rape wine". The people of the time said, "I am not afraid of the bow and the knife, but I am afraid of the white fall spring mash."

Looking at Zongren's again, he is writing a high-spirited chapter grass, and the dot painting has its own merits, and he only feels that a mountain is higher than a mountain.

Dr. Jiu compared the answers of the two, and they all answered very well, only the last one, Nian Yun accurately said the two kinds of wine, and Zihou wrote the same, but the latter sentence was missing, and the alias of Bai Fallen Wine was not written, and he fell slightly behind.

Zong Ren was convinced, and hugged his fist at him: "The virtuous brother is also an immortal in real wine, and he is willing to bow down!" ”

The crowd laughed and pulled them to drink wine together and compose poems as they could. Zongren's poems are naturally the best, Nianyun is not good at writing poems, but he will evaluate them, and he will evaluate each poem just right and hit the nail on the head.

Wei Zongren said: "The evaluation of the virtuous brother is extremely good, why not make a few songs?" ”

There was a bit of provocation in his words. Nian Yun said frankly: "I won't. ”

Nianyun really won't. Tao Zhuo taught her to read, from the sage books of Confucius and Mencius to the history books on the merits of the thousand years, to the poems of the hermit doctors, but she was not required to learn to compose poems, and she was not even asked to practice the most basic lessons.

Tao Zhuo only hopes that she will become a woman with a mind and knowledge, but she does not intend to make her a talented woman, let alone ask her to do articles and disciplines.

Nian Yun had no choice but to laugh dryly: "I read a lot of idle books, and my father and mother are not strict, and my studies are not good, and my studies are not good." ”

Who is a young man with a little ambition in this world who doesn't want to be famous through the imperial examination and poetry? Seeing that he has an extraordinary temperament, Zihou guessed in his heart that he was about a child of a family and did not need to seek a way out through the imperial examination, after all, there were quite a lot of rich children with family backgrounds in Chang'an City.

But Wei Zongren still felt very sorry in his heart, and persuaded: "The virtuous brother has such insight and mind, he really shouldn't stick to the arrangement of the family, if he can pass the imperial examination to become an official and a half-post, it is really the creation of the people in the world!" ”

Nianyun had no choice but to laugh.

Nianyun boldly accompanied them to eat and drink, and after three rounds of drinking, it was easiest to get drunk because of the mixture of several different wines, and gradually became overwhelmed, and only felt top-heavy.

Fennel saw the clue, afraid that her woman disguised as a man would be exposed for a while, and was about to retire, but heard someone ask: "I remember that there seems to be a San Lang in the Guo family, and he is also a good person, why didn't he come together?" ”

Nian Yun was so drunk that he couldn't tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest, and said with a grin: "My third brother? He's going to get married! ”

When the woman who was drinking with him heard this, she said, "Didn't he have a concubine with our sister Chu'er before, and he didn't say a word about getting married!" ”

Nian Yun covered his mouth and smiled: "When will the Jiaofang Division be married by Ming Media, you should also be serious!" Hurry up and ask that Xue Chu'er to find another golden beetle son-in-law, it's not my brother who mistook someone's youth! Haha......"

Fennel saw that the more she talked, the more outrageous it became, she hurriedly confessed and took her back, and the carriage sent by Li Chun to pick her up had stopped outside the gate of Qiyue Tower, and Fennel helped her to get into the car.