Yizhi slept hazy, and his ears were filled with the sound of Xing'er rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find things from time to time, and muttering for a while not knowing what to say. She has always been a careless person, and she has long been accustomed to it, and she feels harmless, and she is not bound to ask her to correct it.

I fell asleep for a while, Yizhi opened his eyes, felt that his eyes were dry and painful, closed them again, covered his eyes with the palms of both hands, and covered them for a while, and then got up, and screamed several times in a row, Xing'er hurriedly ran in and said, "Do you want to get up?" ”

Yizhi nodded, lifted the embroidery, and asked, "Is Daddy back?" ”

"Well, I'm back, Big Brother Bi is also here, as well as Fan Daguan and the three girls of the Fan family."

"Oh, what time is it?"

"It's almost noon, the girl is hungry or not, do you want to have a snack?"

"No, freshen up for me, I'm going to the front yard."

Xing'er was busy combing Yizhi's hair, and rummaging through the cabinets to find clothes, after dressing Yizhi. took out all the old and new sets of jewelry, and compared them to her bun. I felt that this was not a shirt, that was not a shirt, and I took off the hairpin, changed it and put it on. After grinding like this for a long time, I simply said that the clothes were not good, and I had to remember to change my clothes.

Yi Zhizao was impatient, and urged: "Just choose one at random, as for such grandeur?" ”

Xing'er gasped a lot, opened her eyes and said: "My girl, that's Big Brother Bi, the upstart officials of the imperial court, how many girls who have not left the cabinet in Tongbian Capital are worried about it, you are good, you don't care at all." ”

Yizhi smiled and said: "With his current status, when you see us getting along, it is still the same as before, what is the difference, just let it be, but you are always jumping to your feet in a hurry, as if I have to slap him." ”

Xing'er said angrily: "Girl, you are lazy." ”

Yizhi smiled: "I'm really lazy, but a few people in the front yard are all the age of the chief horn to enter the hospital, and how old am I at that time, and I was playing all over the yard." Just like Shi Jie's fourth brother said, that is, I am bright when I land, and in his mind, I am still the yellow-haired girl with two strings of big snot.

No matter how I dress, they won't notice. So, simply, you can do whatever you want at home, you won't go wrong, and you can leave some decency. ”

Xing'er listened, felt very reasonable, and hurriedly nodded: "It's still a girl who is smart, those little girls outside have riveted their strength to compete for beauty in order to win the favor of our brothers, and they all take everything red and green, we have unique resources, where do we need to be so pretentious, the more simple it is, but it is different from them!" ”

Remembering helplessly: "Where do I mean this." ”

Apricot nodded again and again, making a stack of sounds I understand. Yizhi knew that she didn't understand what she meant, so she could only smile wryly and shake her head, no longer arguing.

After applying powder powder, Yan Yizhi hurried to the Qingming Courtyard, and through the courtyard gate, he saw Fu Liangbi standing under the pear blossom tree with his hands and looking at the branches, she smiled and said loudly: "This pear blossom has not bloomed yet, what is there to see on the bare branches, so that you can see God." As he spoke, he walked up to Fu Liangbi and said a blessing.

Fu Liang was stunned and explained with a smile: "But looking at this branch, I remembered the past. When I took the scientific examination in March of that year, this branch was also like this, every few days to put the list, next to the palace test, at the end of the month to pass the roll call, my high school list, by Jin Wuwei seven good horses, the guards lined up to raise the flag, sound the gong to open the way, cross the horse to travel all over the Bianjing City, the next day the Great Xiangguo Temple book wall inscription, think about how high-spirited, and then at the end of April into the pavilion to continue to study.

When I moved out of the Qingming Temple, the pear blossoms on this branch were beginning to bloom, and the dark fragrance was pleasant...... When I think about it, I just feel like a world away. ”

Yizhi recalled his appearance when he first entered the Qingming Courtyard, he was thin and thin, and his demeanor was timid, as if he could fly away with a wind roll. Compared with him now, I can't help but feel it, and I want to remember, just open my mouth and listen to Xing'er interject, saying: "Big brother didn't mention that in late October, this pear tree is full of pear fruits, Miss cut pear flesh under the pear tree on a whim to make pear paste, big brother comes back, you want to taste it back, and the big brother doesn't dare to come for more than a month." The other brothers all accused the eldest brother of being unkind, and they didn't know that they were in trouble. ”

Yan Yizhi and Fu Liangbi laughed together, the two laughed for a while, Yizhi felt unfair, frowned and said angrily: "As long as you have a good memory, you remember everything." ”

Apricot smirked.

Talking and laughing, the three of them walked towards the main room.

Fan Wanniang listened to the voice, poked her head out, and when she saw the two of them, she stood still under the porch, and said in a coquettish voice: "I said that it was cold outside, and I asked Brother Liangbi to go into the house to roast the fire, but he refused, and said that the courtyard was snowy and very good-looking, but I didn't believe it, and I was really waiting for you." ”

Yi Zhi cross-examined: "You can't envy this brother and sister relationship." ”

Fan Wanniang pursed her lips and said unevenly: "I have a lot of brothers, all of them only know how to study in the room, or go out to party by themselves, although the fourth brother Jie is a student of his father and lives here, but it is a pity that he is an emotionless wooden fish head." ”

Yan Yizhihu leaned in with a bluan and said softly: "It would be good if he was just as solemn and silent as Brother Yuqi, but he has a poisonous tongue and often says a sentence or two, which can make me choke to death." ”

Wan Niang nodded one after another, and agreed: "Isn't it." ”

Yizhi and Wan Niang talked and laughed and walked in front, Fu Liangbi kept a smile and followed behind the two, Xing'er lifted the curtain cage for the three of them, and when the three of them entered the house one by one, they made a thick curtain and waited outside the house without entering.

The three of them entered the study and saw Yan Shu and Yu Shi Zhongcheng, Yan Shu's nominal protégé Fan Zhongyan was sitting opposite each other and playing on the kang. The two of them didn't say a word, and their whole energy was concentrated on the chessboard.

Yan Shu was frowning and thinking, and heard Yizhi and Wan Niang chattering all the way in, and when she walked up, he said, "Yizhi, go and order tea to eat." ”

Fu Liangbi waved at the two, and Yizhi followed the two to say ten thousand blessings, and responded: "Okay, Daddy." Then, I went to take the cloud leaf tea with a length of one inch and five minutes, and sat down on the tea table, first put the tea bricks into the roasting basket to dry the moisture, and took advantage of this empty time, lifted the iron kettle with a handle from the tea stove, poured the boiling water that was old into the rabbit cup, and washed it one by one.

Wan Niang, Fu Liangbi and Yi Zhi sat down next to the case, Wan Niang teased: "The pear soup of Yi Zhi is unpalatable, but the skill of ordering tea is excellent." Saying that, he pinched his eyes towards Fuliangbi, and the two laughed.

Yizhi wrinkled his nose and pouted slightly, glanced at Wan Niang, smiled again, used iron tweezers to clip the tea bricks from the roaster cage, and put them into the stone mortar, when she pounded the tea bricks with the tea pestle, Fu Liangbi had already filled the iron kettle with bamboo drainage, and when Yi Zhi poured the broken tea into the Jin Fa Cao, Fu Liangbi had already placed the iron kettle on the tea stove, took it again, and quickly and forcefully pushed the grinding wheel until the tea bricks were crushed into powder. At this time, he held up the tea mill with one hand and picked up the brown brush with the other, sweeping the broken tea into the grinding hole of the tea mill. Memories rotate the tea mill, round after round, until the broken tea is ground into tea powder. Fu Liangbi uncovered the grinding fan above, Yizhi swept the tea powder into the tea Luo with a brown brush, and placed the tea Luo on the tea bowl handed by Fu Liangbi, and when she sifted the finest tea powder into the bottom of the bowl, the bamboo drain in the iron kettle was not yet boiling.

Yizhi and Fu Liangbi tilted their heads together, looked at the iron pot with the handle for a while, but saw no movement, and raised their heads to look at each other. Hearing Wan Niang's laughter, the two looked at Wan Niang together.

Memories asked, "What's so funny?" ”

Wan Niang watched it a few times between the two, and said with a meaningful smile: "It's nothing, I just remembered something funny." ”

Yan Yizhi and Fu Liangbi understood in their hearts, and the two looked at each other and smiled, but they didn't take it to heart, and only continued to stare at the iron kettle.

After a while, the bamboo drain water boiled, and let it cool for a while, and then the long spout was aimed at the bottom of the bowl of the rabbit hao, first poured a little hot water on the tea powder, and stirred into a thick tea paste with a tea whisk. Fill it with water and stir it with a whisk.

The speed of the water is slow and then fast, and the strength of the stirring is first light and then heavy, skillfully stirring in the same direction, stirring on one side, and tapping up and down on the other, and after a while, a layer of milky white, thick and long-lasting tea foam is produced. In this way, a bowl of tea was ready, she ordered another bowl of tea, and together with Fu Liangbi, she first served it to the two elders, and then turned around, and ordered three more in a row, and ate it for a few of herself.

Wan Niang ate the tea soup and felt delicious, sighed, and said, "Ordering tea is so cumbersome, I don't have the patience to learn." ”

Remembering to eat tea, he said: "I heard that the tea doctor in the Beishanzi Tea Workshop in Fanlou East Street and Lane has excellent skills in ordering tea, I can only make tea foam, but they can draw tea operas, with the change of technique, the previous pattern disappears, and the next pattern emerges, swirling and extinguishing, I have always wanted to see it." ”

Wan Niang said: "What is this difficult thing, it will take about a day." She looked sideways, but saw that Fu Liangbi was distracted, so she said, "Do you say it's good, Brother Liangbi?" ”

Fu Liangbi heard Wan Niang's words, came back to his senses, he looked at Wan Niang on the one hand, opened his mouth on the other hand, and was about to speak.

Yizhi noticed that the index finger of his left hand was tapping lightly, and she knew that he would make such a movement when he was nervous, so she hurriedly replied: "What is his status now, even if he wants to go, he may not have time." Where is it as loose as us, you can't go with me alone, what do you have to do with this busy person. ”

Wan Niang couldn't help laughing, and suddenly wondered: "Doesn't a person as big as him have a mouth, whether he goes or doesn't go, he won't say, who are you, I want you to answer for him." ”

Seeing a sly smile on the corner of her mouth, she knew that she wanted to make it bad, so she took a full breath and was about to cross-examine.

Fu Liangbi hurriedly interrupted and said: "The two younger sisters are both long-term temperaments, but when I see those counselors, they usually don't stop arguing about winning or losing, and they often forget their original intentions. No one wants to be soft, so they are annoyed with each other, and the estrangement is getting deeper and deeper.

Sister Wan Niang has no malice, and Sister Yizhi is also considerate of me, if you two of you come and go to argue and refute, and you are not happy, then I am not a great crime, in the end, it is all my fault, I will make amends first. As he spoke, he raised his forehead with his hand.

Yizhi and Wan Niang laughed together, Wan Niang laughed and said angrily: "Sister Yizhi can say, what is your status now, you apologize to me, ordinary people like me can't afford it, and they want to die." ”

Fu Liangbi was helpless for a while, so he could only smile and apologize.

Yizhi slanted at Wan Niang slightly, and said to Fu Liangbi: "Have you grown up to see, such a Diao Min, the more you show weakness, the more she will be on the face." ”

Wan Niang looked at the two of them with a pair of bright eyes and said, "Don't ask me to say anything." ”

Yizhi smiled and said: "No matter how yin and yang you are, I will leak your secret." As he spoke, he raised his chin and nodded at the one who was playing against his father on the kang, just as the two fathers let out a burst of laughter at the same time, and Wan Niang pinched the palm of the handkerchief and pressed it lightly on the tea table, she straightened her back, turned her head to examine it, and turned back, biting her lower lip, and endured a smile to remember the way: "You are ......" Before the words came out, her face turned red first.

Li Ping reminded outside the house that it was time to go to the Gongyuan to pick up people.

Fu Liangbi immediately got up and went out, Yan Yizhi and Fan Wanniang, you look at me, I look at you, and they all became nervous.

The two little ladies waited absentmindedly for a long time, and finally looked forward to the sound, 'Come back, buddies are back.' Then I heard the laughter of the crowd in the distance. Yan Yizhi and Fan Wanniang were pardoned, and the two of them swished and stood up almost at the same time.

Yizhi greeted him without any scruples, just opened the curtain, a cold wind blew in her face, and her enthusiasm was also washed away, she hesitated and took a step or two forward, tiptoe to look, and suddenly, he saw Shi Jie at the gate of Qingming Courtyard, he took the lead in walking in front, smiling heartily, turning back to talk from time to time, behind him were Ouyang Xu and Fu Liangbi, the two of them came side by side, Han Yuqi was only one step away from the two, still with a solemn and solemn attitude, and even the smile was restrained.

These four people are all young and heroic, walking all the way in the snowy scene, talking and laughing, just like the fairy officials in the picture scroll.

Yizhi breathed a sigh of relief slightly, and patiently waited for the four of them to approach.

Shi Jie saw Yizhi first, raised his hand and waved at her, and shouted: "Sister Yizhi, I haven't seen you for three days, I can miss your stewed gourd soup!" ”

Everyone looked at her together, smiling one by one.

Yizhi took two more steps forward and shouted to him: "That's all you need, I plan to invite your brothers to enjoy the Yuan lanterns and taste the Lantern Festival food!" ”

Shi Jie raised his voice and said, "That's a good feeling!" ”

While speaking, the four of them have already walked in front of them, and they led everyone to the main room, while shouting and asking for warmth, the three of them answered with a word, and walked into the side hall, Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan played in front of the kang, and they greeted each other.

Yan Shu raised his head, his eyes stayed on several protégés one by one, and said with a smile: "It seems that they all did well in the exam, good, good, good." Saying that he was about to get up, Yan Yizhi hurriedly went to help.

Wan Niang will stand under Fan Zhongyan, her white and tender face puffed, revealing a shy appearance. Her eyes were sharp, and she saw a large ink stain on the big sleeve of Han Yuqi's right hand, and hurriedly asked the reason.

Han Yuqi has always been calm and relaxed, and he is not in a hurry when he speaks. He first looked at his clothes, then smiled, clasped his hands together, and was about to speak, Shi Jie couldn't bear it, and hurriedly said: "He, when he was about to hand in the paper, he spilled the ink, not only the clothes, but even the paper was dirty." ”

Everyone who didn't know the details focused their eyes on Han Yuqi's body with concern.

Yizhi's heart jumped, and he hurriedly said: "Wouldn't that ......" The words behind him didn't dare to go on.

But seeing that the smiles on the faces of Han Yuqi, Shi Jie, and Ouyang Xu bloomed at the same time, Shi Jie hurriedly said: "He is extremely calm, he took the paper and ink, closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, picked up the pen and waved it, and rewrote it again at the moment before handing in the paper, but asked us onlookers to break out in a cold sweat in a panic for him, and his teeth were almost crushed." ”

Yizhi breathed a sigh of relief and teased: "The second brother is too strict, and the fourth brother is too free, how good it would be to be able to blend the personalities of the two of you." ”

Everyone laughed, Wan Niang also laughed, and Ouyang Xu glanced at each other, and hung their heads again.

Yan Shu smiled with satisfaction, nodded again and again, took a long breath, and said: "Okay, good, the cold window has been reading hard, and success or failure is only waiting to be released." ”

When Yizhi heard this, he set his eyes on the three of them, only to see that they were holding their chests up, and each of them had a look of great ambition, and their hearts were mixed.

Fan Zhongyan stood up with Wan Niang's support and said: "Master Yan's words are wrong, how can you equate success or failure with fame." ”

Yan Yizhi saw that his father lowered his eyelids quietly, so he kept his eyes open to listen.

Han Yuqi, Shi Jie, and Ouyang Xu clasped their hands together, and said in unison: "Please also ask Master Fan for advice." ”

Fan Zhongyan said: "What are you taking the imperial examination for? ”

Han Yuqi said first: "Since the beginning of the Great Song Dynasty, it is the scholars and the Son of Heaven who rule the world together. ”

Fan Zhongyan bowed his head and said to Ouyang Xu: "What do you think? ”

Ouyang Xu was silent for a moment and said: "Students have ambitions in their hearts, and gaining fame is the only way for students to realize their ideals. ”

Fan Zhongyan bowed his head and asked Shi Jie again.

Shi Jie was unusual, hesitated for a moment, and finally mustered up the courage to say: "I come from the countryside, my family is poor, and my deceased mother eats bran and swallows vegetables for me to study, and once warned that I was fortunate to be born in an excellent era. ”

"Not bad." Fan Zhongyan raised his voice a little, and his eyes caught the attention of Han, Shi, and Ouyang, but he saw that Fu Liangbi was pondering, his gaze stayed on Fu Liangbi's body for a moment, and then he said: "Before the Sui Dynasty, being an official was a gatekeeper, and after the Tang Dynasty, being an official relied on relationships, and only I, the Great Song Dynasty, was really implementing the imperial examination system. 'Chao is Tian Shelang, and the twilight is Tianzi Hall' comes from this, and it is also the biggest gospel for our poor students. ”

Shi Jie and Ouyang Xu were holding back their strength, and when they heard this, they suddenly laughed. Han Yuqi's face was also much more ruddy than usual.

Fan Zhongyan said again: "It's just ......"

Shi Jie and Ouyang Xu smiled, and stared at Han Yuqi together.

"Since the beginning of this dynasty, the poems and essays have been beautiful and beautiful, and most candidates prefer to use the words that are difficult to understand, and they think that they are brilliant. In fact, there is nothing to say throughout the article, just blindly showing off and showing off. His Majesty's use of poetry and books to discuss the example is to find the talent to stabilize the country, so that the poems and texts should be more important, so as to educate the herdsmen.

It's sad and lamentable, but he doesn't order to curb it, and he prefers the flowery articles, so that many people with lofty ideals don't meet their talents, which is really sad and lamentable. ”

Fan Zhongyan's remarks are not unrelated to his experience. He tried and failed repeatedly, until he was not confused when he was mourning for his mother before giving up completely, because he was full of poetry and books, he was famous, and he was appreciated by Yan Shu, and hired him to teach in his own school, and his moral conduct made the school atmosphere look new. After being recommended by Yan Shu, he participated in the imperial examination again, and then entered the official career. Therefore, although the two are of the same age, they call each other teachers and students.

Fu Liangbi was in the officialdom, and it was easiest to understand Fan Zhongyan's deep meaning, and he agreed with his opinion very much, so he raised his forehead with his hand and said: "What Master Fan said is very true. Seeing him like this, he couldn't help but look at him more.

Ouyang Xu's expression was much more solemn, he regarded Han Yu as his teacher, and his style was simple and simple. Yan Shu mentioned it several times, and he also tried to correct it, but the article he wrote was not even half of the usual one, and he didn't gain anything no matter how he tempered it, so he simply ignored it and let it play. At this time, I couldn't help but feel worried, so I pursed my mouth, followed Fu Liangbi's head, and deeply shook my forehead with my hand.

Shi Jie and Han Yuqi didn't know the details, and they both thought that Fan Zhongyan's implication was that they didn't want everyone to report too high expectations, so as not to be difficult to accept when their wishes were shattered. When they saw Fu and Ouyang saluting, they were vague and made a fuss at Fan Zhongyan.

Although Yan Shu agreed with Fan Zhongyan's remarks, he could not express his position at this moment. His unintentional jokes were originally just the depth of love and the eagerness of expectation. didn't want to attract Fan Zhongyan's words, which seemed to warn the students, but in fact, nearly half of the ministers in the three pavilions and one cabinet were secretly involved, he did not agree with Fan Zhongyan's black-and-white attitude, and always admonished in private, but Fan Zhongyan got the attention of the official family with his outspokenness, and when the tide rose, he was even more unscrupulous.

Yan Shu didn't want to continue this conversation, so he said to Yizhi: "I just heard from you that I want to invite them to see the lanterns of the Shangyuan Festival. ”

Yizhi noticed the difference in his father, nodded, and said in a coquettish voice: "I have such a plan in my heart, I haven't asked my mother yet, and I don't know if the kitchen has arranged food for a few brothers. ”

Yan Shu looked out at the sky through the window, only to see that the clouds in the sky, most of them were crimson, and soon after, the lanterns would start one by one, and then he said to the way of memory: "Your mother's side I will go and say, you brought Yan Rong with you, tonight's expenses, call him responsible, you don't have to worry about the people next to you, just have fun." ”

The young people in the room suddenly burst into joy.

Fan Zhongyan turned his head to look at Wan Niang, only to see her squirming and pinching, so he asked with a smile, "Are you going or not?" ”

Wan Niang supported her father and arched her body towards him, a gesture that she wanted to go with him, but she didn't say anything, just blushed and looked at him earnestly.

The eyes of memory brightened, and Wan Niang was brought over, and said to Fan Zhongyan: "Wan Niang is naturally going too." ”

Fan Zhongyan knew his daughter's thoughts, and deliberately made trouble: "She didn't say anything, it can be seen that she didn't want to go." ”

Wan Niang raised her head suddenly, shouted out to her father in disgust, and stomped her feet softly.

Yizhi felt funny and said: "Uncle Fan, don't blame Yizhi for having no rules, even if she doesn't want to go, I have to force her to accompany me." ”

Fan Zhongyan smiled and asked, "Why is this?" ”

The way of remembrance: "Although Yizhi and several brothers have a very close relationship, but in the end there is a difference between men and women, and there are some interesting things, share them with them, they don't understand." It's not as good as Wan Niang's body. ”

"You should be more careful, what is interesting, they don't understand."

Yizhi thought for a while and said: "If I see any petty officials on the street who are handsome, I can't pull them to see them." What if it ......" Yi Zhixian laughed out loud, and then said: "In case, which petty official I admire each other, he doesn't dare to come close to me when he sees so many brothers standing next to me. ”

The crowd laughed again.

Yan Shu laughed the loudest, laughing, shaking his head, pointing again, and saying: "No shame, no shame!" Then he said to the four: "The girl is big, and her mind is wild, you brothers can be imprisoned, and no matter how handsome the official is, he is not allowed to come close." ”

The four young men laughed and replied yes.

Yan Shu said two more solemn words, and then waved them to go.

Yizhi took Wan Niang's hand and walked ahead. Fu Liangbi, Han Yuqi, Shi Jie, and Ouyang Xu followed, and everyone laughed and walked out of the main room.