Zhu Youzhu looked at Zhang Yue's helpless expression, the corners of his lips rose, and he took out a token from his arms,

"You take this token, and you will be free to enter and exit the palace with it in the future."

Zhang Yue's eyes lit up, and he quickly took the token, held it firmly in his arms, and said with a smile, "Thank you for the token given by Master Rumo!" ”

Zhu Youzhu stretched out his finger and tapped lightly between Zhang Yue's eyebrows, and said dotingly,

"Naughty!"

Zhang Yue touched his forehead and lowered his head shyly.

At this moment, a few more people came up from the restaurant, and the first person was Wen Zhengming, he saw Zhang Yue at the window, and immediately ran over happily.

"Zhang Gongzi, it turns out that you are here, I just looked for you for a long time. Who is this? ”

He looked at the noble white-clothed man who was at the same table with Zhang Yue suspiciously,

Zhang Yue hurriedly said, "This is Ji Rumo Ji Gongzi, I am a little tired, Ji Gongzi accompanied me to the teahouse for a short rest." This is Wen Zheng Mingwen's son. ”

"Oh! Xiaosheng is not talented Wen Zhengming, and he has seen Ji Gongzi. Ji Gongzi is a friend of Zhang Gongzi? ”

Zhu Youzhu smiled silently, looking at Zhang Yue playfully, Zhang Yue said vaguely, "Yes, friends, everyone is a friend." Brother Wen, let's sit down and have some tea together? ”

"You're welcome to be down there."

Wen Zhengming sat down next to Zhang Yue, and suddenly grabbed Zhang Yue's arm very excitedly and said,

"Brother Zhang, it's a pity that you didn't go to see Li Dongyang Li's Mobao just now! Master Li is not a high apprentice of Mr. Huanchu, he is only eight buckets high, and his calligraphy attainments are extremely high! I heard that his work won the gold pen at the last conference, but unfortunately this time he was one of the judges, and his work was only used for appreciation, not for the competition. ”

Zhu Youzhang's gaze skimmed to Wen Zhengming's hand holding Zhang Yue's arm, and his face was slightly gloomy.

Zhang Yue hurriedly broke away from Wen Zhengming's grasp,

"Brother Wen, don't get too excited! Although Master Li's level is superb, you are not bad, and in time, you will also have some achievements. ”

Wen Zhengming's gaze was a little gloomy, "Alas! My talent is limited, and I'm afraid that even if I practice hard for a lifetime, I won't catch up with half of Master Li. ”

"You don't have to be presumptuous, in fact, your calligraphy specialty is gentle and beautiful, which is related to your character, impassioned, large-scale calligraphy works are not suitable for you, you can work the small Kai, the small Kai pays attention to the tactful strokes, the rhythm is slow. Fits your style very well. If you work hard, you will definitely achieve something! ”

Wen Zhengming's eyes lit up, "Brother Zhang, your words are like a spring breeze, which makes me refreshed, I know the direction of my efforts in the future, thank you Brother Zhang, knowing you is really the happiest thing in my life." ”

"Brother Wen, you are too modest."

One of the scholars who went upstairs with Wen Zhengming just now called,

"Zhengming, your work was just taken into the inner courtyard and entered the second round of appreciation, and Lord Li Dongyang is also here, come with us."

Wen Zhengming stood up excitedly when he heard this, "Brother Zhang, then I'll go down first." He had just walked a few steps when he suddenly turned around, "Brother Zhang, you have such a deep understanding of calligraphy, let's write a work for the competition." ”

Zhang Yue was stunned.

Wen Zhengming smiled, turned around and went downstairs.

Zhang Yue was a little depressed, she couldn't show her calligraphy skills! Not before, and even more so now.

Zhu Youzhu said softly, "Yue'er, if you look at another man's back like this, I will think about it a lot!" ”

Zhang Yue said, "Rumo, don't be joking. As he spoke, he sat down and drank his tea sullenly.

Zhu Youzhu looked at Zhang Yue's dejected appearance, tilted his head slightly, Xiao Jing next to him quickly lowered his head, Zhu Youzhu whispered in his ear for a moment, Xiao Jing nodded and went out.

After a while, Xiao Jing came back and nodded at Zhu Youjiao.

Zhu Youzhu said softly to Zhang Yue,

"Yue'er, do you want to participate in the calligraphy appreciation conference?"

Zhang Yue said with annoyance, "It's useless to think about it!" I can't participate! The master has orders, and the apprentices obey them. ”

"Zhang Yue really can't participate, and Zhang Xiaowu can't participate either! Others can, though! ”

Zhang Yue raised his head, his eyes flashed with light, "Rumo, you mean?" ”

Zhu Youzhu nodded, "Xiao Jing has already prepared paper and ink, let's go over." ”

Zhang Yue nodded vigorously, dragged Zhu Youjiao's arm, and entered the closed private room prepared by Xiao Jing for the restaurant, and on the table in the private room, pen, ink, paper and inkstone had been prepared.

Zhu Youzhu made a gesture of please and looked at Zhang Yue with a smile.

Zhang Yue walked generously behind the desk, took the pen in his left hand and dipped it in ink, groaned slightly, and wrote a word with a pen.

The whole work is done in one go. After writing, Zhang Yue threw the pen away and stepped aside to admire his work.

Zhu Youzhu walked over and took a look, Zhang Yue wrote a Tang Dynasty Han Yu's "Shi Shuo", with a line of letters, the backbone is strong, the law is strict, and the danger is seen in the peace, and the elegance is seen in the rules. A "good" word blurted out.

"Yue'er's calligraphy realm is getting higher and higher."

Zhang Yue smiled proudly, "I have won awards, and my son will praise me again, Xiaosheng is going to be proud!" ”

Zhu Youzhu looked at the corners of her mouth unconsciously raised, and Xiao Jing next to her opened his mouth at this time, "Master, what is the name of the lady?" ”

Zhang Yue also thought of this question, "Yes, yes, yes." ”

Zhu Youzhu groaned slightly, "Let's call Zhen Zhiqi!" ”

Zhang Yue didn't think about it, and then wrote Zhen Zhiqi's name on the inscription.

The work was then rolled up by Xiao Jing and sent to the academy for evaluation.

Zhang Yue rubbed his palms, "I don't know if I can advance to the final round of evaluation." ”

Zhu Youzhu smiled silently.

The two of them got out of the teahouse and continued to walk around the academy.

When I arrived at Shen, I heard someone at the gate of the academy announcing loudly,

"This year's calligraphy appreciation conference has entered the final round of appreciation, and the dean of the college has invited all the literati and elegant guests to enter the inner courtyard to watch."

The crowd moved towards the academy in an instant, and Zhu Youzhu carefully protected Zhang Yue in front of him, for fear that she would be hit by pedestrians.

Zhang Yue and a few people also followed the flow of people into the inner courtyard, only to see a platform more than five meters high set up in front of the wide courtyard of the inner courtyard, and ten ink treasures were hung on the platform.

Zhang Yue saw his own teacher at a glance and said that among the ten works, he was very excited, and turned his head to look at Zhu Youjiao. Zhu Youzheng looked at her with burning eyes, and nodded with a smile.

At this time, a middle-aged man in his forties came to the stage, "Ladies and gentlemen, please be quiet." The crowd fell silent for a moment.

"This calligraphy appreciation conference has entered the final round of evaluation of the ten works, just here, the following are invited to the judges of this conference, the last golden pen leader, the Ministry of Rites left waiter Lang Li, the current calligraphy master Wei Huanshan, the national prince priest Jiu Guo and the deans of the four major academies in Beijing came to the stage to make the final evaluation, and selected the "golden pen leader" of this conference! ”