The gongs and drums outside the carriage are getting closer and closer, and Dian Cui has no intention of asking who this year's champion will be.

"Oh, don't you ask, I almost forgot, why don't you guess which one is the new champion?" Wu Shi smiled, looking very good.

Seeing the happy demeanor of his mother, Diancui was also happy in his heart, and he heard that the last time he was mourned at home, Senior Brother Gu missed the scientific examination, and three years have passed, is it ......

Wu knew that she had guessed it, and said happily that your brother didn't come to pick you up today, but he was picked up by Gu Gongzi early in the morning, saying that he would take him on a horseback ride today.

After Yuan Zhiheng ordered Cui and they left the capital, the Wu family took pity on Gu Guangyao who was young and unaccompanied in the capital, so he took him back to the house, and he went to the Guozijian to study during the day, and he returned to the west courtyard of the house at night and when he was resting. In the past, returning to the mansion was the most lively, but in those days, it was deserted and tight, only a little Huai Ge'er ran around the house, and Gu Guangyao was naturally together every day.

"Even if these two have been friends for five or six years, it's no wonder that Senior Brother Gu won the top prize, and they all want to ride a horse on the street with Brother Huai'er." Diancui pursed her lips and smiled.

Listening to Diancui also calling Gu Gongzi as a senior brother, Wu is angry and funny, Gu Gongzi has often put his teacher on his lips over the years, and every time he mentions it, he is full of respect and dependence. And Diancui is now his master's wife, but he calls people a senior brother......

"This generation is also out of order." Wu Shi rubbed his brows.

As he was talking, the sound of the horse's hooves on the opposite side was getting closer, and the sound of drums became more and more deafening. But I heard a very young voice say in a voice that is not big or small, and the drum music stops.

Diancui opened the curtain of the carriage and saw that at this time, layers of ordinary people had gathered here, especially some young girls and young ladies, all of whom were shy but warm and bold, looking at a tall, thin and tall figure wearing an ochre robe on a tall horse in front of him.

Looking at this scene, Diancui smiled again, the women in the capital are bold and confident, love and hate are clear, and the most uninteresting thing is to hide and twist and turn...... Now that I've seen it again, I'm really nostalgic and very cordial.

But when he saw the ochre-colored figure, he suddenly jumped down from the horse, and then he found that there was a small figure in front of him, and his eyes were red just by looking at the back of the green color, this is Brother Huai'er, who has grown so big.

"Teacher, you're back......"

Everyone saw that the new champion got off his horse and bowed to a young man with a very good appearance and a bit of dignity.

"Who is this person, our champion Lang actually got off the horse and worshipped in person?"

"Could it be the Imperial Master of the Ministry of Rites, otherwise how would Zhuang Yuanlang call him a teacher."

"That's not right, Zigu Zhuangyuanlang is called the protégé of the Son of Heaven, how did he become the Ministry of Rites......"

"Also, what is the origin of this young man, looking at it, he is only three or five years older than our champion."

……

Just when the people were disagreeing, Yuan Zhiheng also got off the horse and helped Gu Guangyao up with his own hands, seeing that he was as tall as himself.

"You shouldn't salute me on the street, you know that the champion is a protégé of the Son of Heaven." Yuan Zhiheng reproached softly.

Gu Guangyao didn't expect that he would be able to meet the teacher on the most important day, and he was excited in his heart, and he bowed down and said that the teacher doesn't have to worry about me, and when the temple exam was held, the saint asked me about my family history, and I said the life of the deceased husband and widow, and also said the teacher's name. When the saint heard this, he also specifically mentioned the sensational conversation of the teacher six years ago, as well as the commendable political deeds after taking office in Hangzhou, and said that I should learn more from the teacher in the future.

Yuan Zhiheng smiled and nodded, patted him on the shoulder and said, get on the horse quickly, go back in the evening and let your master prepare a celebration banquet for you.

Be! Gu Guangyao looks like a young man and an old man, and now he is more and more respectful when he sees his teacher.

"You are Brother Gu's teacher?" The child who was still in the carriage looked sideways at Yuan Zhiheng and asked, Brother Gu mentioned him eight hundred times a day, saying that his literary and martial arts went to heaven and earth, so Gui Shuhuai thought that he had three heads and six arms and wings on his back.

Gu Guangyao's face was slightly red, and he whispered to Yuan Zhiheng's side to explain the identity of this child.

When Yuan Zhiheng heard this, he laughed and said loudly: "I am your brother-in-law." ”

"Brother-in-law?" Gui Shuhuai was stunned, and quickly looked back at the carriage, and the sister was also back!

"Brother Huai'er, nonsense!" Wu Shi and Diancui got out of the carriage.

Diancui walked over step by step, Gui Shuhuai stretched out his arms, and Yuan Zhiheng hurriedly stepped forward to hug the brother-in-law down. He ran over and stood still in front of Diancui, looked at his sister carefully, and then politely saluted, Sister Dao is back, mother and father often talk about you, and said that you used to love your brother the most, and when Brother Huai'er saw her sister, she felt very kind and liked it.

The brother-in-law looked a little scared...... I forgot that it was his brother-in-law who carried him out of the carriage.

Diancui stepped forward and touched Brother Huai'er's hair, Sister Dao also likes Brother Huai'er.

looked at Gu Guangyao again, in the past, Gu Guangyao's impression in her heart had always been an old-fashioned but cute little brother, but now he looks really fast, and his appearance is even more outstanding, it seems that her cousin's title of the most beautiful man in the capital is about to be lost.

"Senior Brother...... "Sanjiu Chinese Net."

"Master!"

Qing Yun, who was standing next to Yuan Zhiheng, snorted and laughed, Xue Dachuan touched the top of his head, but he didn't react for a long time, others didn't know the relationship between the two, Qing Yun knew.

The corners of Yuan Zhiheng's mouth twitched, and he looked at Dian Cui helplessly, and Dian Cui also felt a little embarrassed.

"My sister has worked hard all the way, please hurry up and get into the carriage." Gu Guangyao is really still that little old-fashioned, in the past, Diancui used to preach when he was still a junior sister, but now the title is changed quickly and resolutely.

Shi Niang, Shi Niang, anyway, she is older than you, Diancui twisted it, and asked Dao Dao to come back as soon as the street was over, and invited your teacher and a few righteous brothers to celebrate for you.

This look and tone are like a teacher's wife, Gu Guangyao smiled and nodded.

Yuan Zhiheng sent Diancui and his party into the homecoming mansion, returned to the champion mansion by himself, changed into court clothes and entered the palace to meet him.

Wu didn't have time to explain to Yuan Zhiheng that although the saint gave them the champion mansion back then, but three years ago, because of the examination, there was another champion, and she discussed with Dian Cui's father that it would be inappropriate to call the mansion the champion mansion again. So the father of Diancui made an excerpt and asked the Zhuangyuan Mansion to be renamed the Yuan Mansion.

There is Li Sang in the Ministry of Officials, and in recent years, he has also been promoted from the history of the book order to the head of the first division, and now he is the Lang Zhong of the Examination Division. It was passed smoothly with this recital.

The Zhuangyuan Mansion was renamed the Yuan Mansion, and the third master took people in to take a look, although it was also three in and three out, but the whole house was not big. At that time, Hangzhou wrote again that his daughter was pregnant, so he discussed with Wu to expand one or two. The house is well situated, and next door is a natural lake.

The lake is not big or small, and the surrounding houses are very small and exquisite, and they are all ownerless. I think it was the courtyard built by those rich and noble families here to maintain the outer room.

The Wu family wanted to buy all these small courtyards, and Qin Ruofu, who was doing a promotion in the household department, helped a lot, and he might not be able to buy it with 10,000 taels of silver, but he only bought 7,800 taels, and this matter was done.

"I bought two thousand taels of silver, along with half of the surface of the lake." Wu Shi only talked carefully and listened to Diancui now, and said: "You have always loved to tidy up some flowers and plants in the courtyard Langfang or something, so I didn't touch them, thinking that I would leave them for you to come back and place them in person." ”

"Mother firmly believes that we can go back to the capital?" Diancui's heart was moved and warm: "If we are in Hangzhou all our lives, my father and mother will do this, wouldn't it be in vain to work hard." ”

Wu Shi smiled and said with a smile I don't understand the things in the court, but I have always believed that Brother Heng is not a thing in the pool, and it is a matter of time before he comes back. Besides, he made such a big decision for your second brother, and your father and I should also be in the house in the capital for him.

The mother and daughter talked about the banquet for the champion tonight.

"You have been running around all the way and are pregnant, tonight's banquet will be handled by your mother and your aunt, you go to the bath to rest and relax." Wu said: "The yard where you lived in the past has been cleaned up, and your family of three will live there first." ”

Diancui listened to her mother's words and went back to the yard when she was a girl, but she saw that everything had not changed at all, the begonia flowers in the yard were blooming, the swing shelf was clean, and Sister Ci played on the swing for a while, and was picked up by her grandmother.

Grandmother didn't like her very much, but when she saw Sister Ci, she couldn't hide her liking in her heart.

After Dongxue Xin'er waited for her to bathe, Diancui buried her head in the warm and soft brocade quilt with the smell of rosin. Xin'er chuckled, and when Madame came back, she still looked like she had when she was a young lady.

Dian Cuilai didn't want to get up between the quilts on the bed, and lazily sent them to the front yard to rest, she didn't need to wait here.

Everyone has worked hard along the way, and the elderly Aunt Xing and her sisters have already been ordered to go back to rest, and Dongxue Xin'er did not shirk, and closed the door softly and went to the front yard.

In the front yard, Grandma Lu was ordering to move a few empty rooms, and Dongxue Xin'er hurriedly stepped forward to salute when she saw it.

Grandma Lu added gray hair to her head, and she was still the same unsmiling look. Standing next to her was Miss Yurou, who was beside the second young master in the past, Yurou was older than Dongxue, and I heard that she had rejected the old lady's marriage two years ago, so she was so empty in the courtyard of the second young master in the West Courtyard.

"Yurou ......" Dongxue stepped forward, and the relationship between them was good back then. Now that I see that there is a deep sadness between Yurou's eyebrows, this complexion is not very good, and I can't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

"I've seen Sister Yurou." Although Xin'er is also the big girl next to Diancui now, she should be a sister when she sees Yu Roucheng.

"Dongxue, Miss Xin'er, you're back." Yurou looked at the two of them carefully, Dongxue was already dressed as a woman, it seemed that she was married, she looked more and more calm and relaxed, and the injuries on her face were almost invisible, it seemed that she had a good time over the years. Miss Xin'er was still so lively at first, which made Yurou sigh when she remembered the past.

"Let's go, I'll take you two to your house and have a look." Yu Rou said softly.

After she went out, Xin'er couldn't help but ask Xiang Dongxue, Miss Yurou's spirit was very bad, and her face was white and bloodless.

Dong Xue sighed, thinking that Yu Rou was the most powerful big girl in the second son's courtyard back then, and she was envied by the maids in the whole house. Who knew that in just a few years, life experiences have changed so much.

"Back then, Han Lian followed the eldest young master to Xuzhou without hesitation, and I heard that she had been carried out of the concubine room last year, and the second young master also had Aunt Yun by her side all the year round, leaving only Miss Yurou in the house for many years." Winter snow is rare to talk to people about this.

Xin'er was curious and heard that Aunt Yun had been gone for two or three years, why didn't this Yurou girl learn Hanlian......

Unexpectedly, Dong Xue sneered and said, "You say that everyone seems to be rude to Han Lian, and you insist on staying with the young master." She is loyal, but where is the young grandmother in the house! ”

Xin'er saw that Dongxue was angry, so she didn't dare to ask again, and the two of them rested for a while, so they changed their clothes, washed their faces, and went to the upper courtyard to help buy a banquet.