Li Shiyao resigned from the compound of the Criminal Department with Yu Minzhong, Ji Yun, Guo Zhiqiang and others, and said goodbye under the big lamp at the entrance of the ceremony. He stood and hesitated for a moment, wanting to ask everyone to go to his house to chat, but Yu Minzhong was lonely, and said to Ji Yun: "Tomorrow, I will report the affairs of the women and martyrs in various places, and the list drawn up by Ji Gong seems to be too indiscriminate. An archway is counted as two hundred and fifty taels, plus the safflower propaganda for a total of 150,000 taels of silver, please go back and reduce it a little. "I want Guo Zhiqiang to follow him to the military aircraft, and there are still things to ask about the military quartermaster. Ji Yun also seemed a little excited, and said perfunctorily, "Please make a ruling" and said that he would go to Fu Heng's Mansion again...... Seeing that the interview was inappropriate at this moment, he moved his lips and closed his mouth, and only raised his hand and said: "Goodbye Ming'er......" I wanted to say a few more words, but I didn't bother to rap. Li's house is on the North Street of the East Exit of the Ropesmith Hutong, and the sedan chair has arrived at home in a moment. Xiao Wuzi was already guarding the door, and hurriedly greeted him with a curtain to help him get off the sedan chair, and said with a smile: "Will the military gate come down this morning or later?" I know you're not going to be able to eat well, so the guy in our house has made something light. There is a big drama in Luqing Temple, the newly compiled "Evil Tiger Village", after dinner, the brother will accompany you to watch the play......"

"Eighty-five and forever receive them?" Li Chuanyao ignored Xiao Wuzi's words, entered the door, and asked, "Haven't you come back yet?" Before he finished speaking, he stopped talking, he had seen Zhang Yongshou and Li Eighty-five come out of the west chamber of the patio with the curtain lifted, but they didn't speak, and they stood under the yarn lamp hanging at the door and lowered their hands to greet them.

Sometimes a person's face is a book, a look and a trivial movement, a frown or a smile is an article, Li Shiyao only glanced at them, and knew that he didn't bring back any good news, and suddenly an ominous premonition hit, and he was about to tremble. He paused for a moment and commanded loudly: "Brew the tea, you have to make it!" ”

"Dong Weng, we just came back too." After sitting down, Zhang Yongshou couldn't take care of sipping tea, and immediately cut to the topic, "Today, I have a dozen strings with Eighty-five, Gao Yonggui, Fang Enxiao, Luo Benji, and Ma Xiaoyuan...... These confidants and friends' houses have gone. In accordance with your order, each family will send two catties of tea, and the guests will knock on the side to chat, and the guests will not leave the tea leaves. The gifts given back by each family are thicker than ours, and there are no guests, so I don't see any clues. Prince Gong's Mansion, Zhuang Wang's Mansion, Yiwang's Mansion, and Wangfu...... They all went, and what we gave was the hibiscus paste and Western glasses we brought, and they were all rewarded, and there was no refusal, and the first few acquaintances of the eunuch were twenty taels of warm silver per person......"

"Don't talk about that," Li Shiyao interrupted him, "pick what matters." ”

"These rumors, the roots came from where Gao Yun came from." Zhang Yongshou glanced at Li Eighty-five, who was standing beside him, and said, "We met Xiao Dezhang from the Military Aircraft Department, and we looked for Xiao Wuzi to see Gao Yuncong. He took the money, and said that he couldn't help much in this kind of thing - he said that someone wrote a secret fold to Wan Sui Ye, saying that your hands and feet were not clean in Guizhou and Guangdong, not only sold and corrupted, won the lawsuit, but also accepted Xie Yi from other people's winners...... He couldn't say anything else. ”

Li Shiyao's face flushed, the governor did not care about the criminal lawsuit, he asked the governor to explain the favor privately, "impartially", after winning the lawsuit, the beneficiary sent some local products to pay respect, and he still received it, but he never received a large amount of silver. As for selling shortages, the same is true. The personnel introduced by the friends of the six departments of the DPRK and the Central Committee of the Jiuqing were handed over to the feudal department and the yamen to fill the vacancy, and the thank-you gift was also accepted afterwards. Compared with the governors of various provinces, he actually feels that he is "too hypocritical" to be honest! - Pointing to these two "smashing black bricks"? There are really people who dare to hit stones with eggs! Li Shuyao was annoyed for a while, then relieved, sneered, and said, "Let him sue me!" This may not be a filthy pickle to stuff the silver into the domain, there is no shortage, there is nowhere to be deflated by the fart, and secretly play a little trick to provoke - why haven't I heard of Gao Yuncong's role? Bu Ren Bu Yi Bu Li Bu Zhi Bu Xin, I know from Wang Xiao to Wang Ba Yan, you didn't ask these big eunuchs? ”

"The lord has seen the surname Gao." Li Eighty-five said on the side, "He often goes to the Sixth Master Fu's mansion. It's the tall and pockmarked face, bee-eyed grandma's mouth, a little hunchbacked. Don't look at the inconspicuous, don't hum or ha, wait for the long live lord to hand the folds back and forth, and send the scroll to the emperor's palace. Among the eunuchs, the popularity is the best, and they can go up and down, left and right. One mile and one mile will show its head, and it will be counted on to cover the king's shame in the future. Li Shiyao said with a smile. He is a bit like the former Ming Si Rite Eunuch, Wei Zhongxian relied on this position to make his fortune. However, the emperor has the strictest control over eunuchs, and once he is found to be a traffic officer, there is only one word for 'death'. This kind of person can't be messed with. We don't have to ask him about anything. He glanced at Zhang Yongshou: "Huh? Zhang Yongshou and Li Eighty-five hurriedly said: "Yes! ”

Li Shuyao stood up and breathed a sigh of relief silently, once the matter was known, it was not as suspenseful as just hearing "smashing black bricks" and "someone complaining". Ten years ago, when he first became the governor of Guangzhou, Qianlong repeatedly instructed him to "be strict with Huayi's distinction, beware of the spread of foreign religions, and there must be no negligence and leniency in the slightest when it comes to national politics and politics." Therefore, as soon as he took office, he acted vigorously and resolutely, ordered the removal of these foreign companies, and investigated and prosecuted the translators and compradors who "colluded with foreigners to spread Catholicism in vain." But he soon understood that the British, Portugal, France, and Italians were both in Guangzhou, and they were all about buying and selling, and it was really difficult to suppress the Chinese from "colluding" with them! What is not allowed to come from the light comes to the dark, and the thirteen elements have never been "revoked" at all...... From strict prohibition to relaxation, from relaxation to opening one eye and closing one eye, to put it bluntly, it has never been "banned" at all! If you don't ask for a "restoration" and the new governor goes, everything will be revealed, even if your close friends take over the seal, it will be difficult to continue. In order to thank him for "asking for his life for the people in front of the long-lived lord and running to say things", he sent 100,000 taels of silver tickets to him as a "Rong Itinerary" - his real heart disease is on this silver ticket. So when I heard "smashing black bricks", it was like a little daughter-in-law who was cheating for the first time when she heard the word "wild man", and she immediately panicked. Since it was a false alarm, Li Shiyao felt that he was too unsteady at first glance, laughed self-deprecatingly, and just said "Grasshoppers and insects are not to worry about" and suddenly stopped-Is the only word that Gao Yun heard from him reliable anymore? He frowned, and said: "My family members are all in Guangzhou, and when I come to Beijing, I will become a rootless person, and I must guard against others." You must also be careful to listen, first, not to show that I care about this matter; The second is to give up the silver, and to get out of the water. ”

"That's what Dong Weng said." Zhang Yongshou said, "We can't compare to Gui Zhongtang and Ji Zhongtang, there is a little matter, and immediately many people will pass the news to offer ideas and courteous people." Dong Weng's roots are not in Beijing, and he has to use them in front of Long Live Lord, and it is easy to attract jealousy. People are in the dark, I am in the light, and if I am not careful, I will fall into other people's traps. Li Eighty-five said: "It's not that I said the master, it's very meaningless for the master to have trouble with the master." But didn't he offend the foreign official and use the master as a gunman? Otherwise, if these things come out, ask and ask the master, and the bottom will be clear immediately, and our lord will suffer from being too straight and too rigid. ”

"Alright, alright...... Let's not talk about it. The more Li Shiyao listened, the more upset he became, and put a lynx monkey skin on the outside of his robe, and said with a smile while buttoning the buttons, "Even if I know, can't I do it?" I'll go out for a few steps and slowly disperse, and the two of you will discuss a safe way to make sure that the ins and outs of the matter are cleared up - someone is coming, and there is no urgency to ask him to meet at the military plane tomorrow. With that, he walked out with his hands behind his back.

At this moment, it is the beginning of the end of the unitary period, it is the time when the wind is urgent and the sky is dark, the thin clouds seem to be dipped in light ink by a beginner painting child, and the graffiti are dyed through, the light yellow and dark purple light Chu slightly brown are mixed and blended, the moon is like the face of a person with yellow disease, peeking at the world through the flowing clouds that appear from time to time, and the roof of the street is dim with residual snow, like a street full of bells and whistles monsters are scurrying and jumping, giving people a strange and desolate feeling. Li Shiyao stood at the door, chilled by the cold wind wrapped in fine snow in the dark, and his chaotic and irritable mood seemed to expel a lot. From here from west to east, a misty night in the distance is the new big opera garden of the Hui class in Beijing, the palace lamp, the hydrangea lamp, the gauze watermelon lamp, the string lamp are colorful, the bright light is intertwined, the garden takeaway soup cake snack of the horn lamp, the gas death wind lamp, the Kong Ming lantern is like being covered by a layer of fog, if the light is dark and faint faint flickering, it also seems to be a little jumpy, the sound of the strings and the orchestra is not very clear from afar, only faintly intermittently listen to a woman's voice singing with the verse:

The thin sleeves are wet and peachy, and the clouds and rain tide are shocked at first glance...... The clouds are across the trees, and the grass is fragrant after the rain. The Thrush Man went to walk the Zhangtai Road. Looking at the distance, the golden whip cherishes the public opinion, who is proud of the jade......

Li Shiyao walked aimlessly along the song to the theater park, and suddenly heard someone beside the road sigh "sigh......", because it was very close, and the sighing sound was very similar to a muffled sound that was so easy to reveal **, gloomy, and suddenly scared him to tremble, and the roots of his hair stood upside down. When he turned his face to look at it a little, he arrived in front of the door of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Hall Building, and the black door was unobstructed, and it seemed that there was a fluffy thing moving inside. He looked closer, only to see that it was a pair of begging mother and daughter curled up at the base of the wall, secretly unable to see clearly, the woman seemed to be middle-aged, the little girl was about twelve or thirteen years old, all of them were blurred, leaning against the wall in a broken quilt, they seemed to be trembling, Li Shiyao asked: "It's a cold day, why are you hiding here?" ”

"Ahh The girl was also afraid that at this time, a man would quietly approach and ask, she was so frightened that she tightened, choked on the cold air and exclaimed, and asked, "You, who are you?" ”

Li Shiyao smiled silently and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm not a villain." Passing by here, I thought you were monsters! There is a Mawang Temple in the north, and it is not better to build a fire there to warm up than here? Is this your mother? Is she sick? ”

"Several ruined temples here are full of ......" The girl didn't know if she was cold or frightened, and said tremblingly, "It's all men...... My mother had a high fever again, and people were afraid that they would get sick, so they would get rid of us everywhere ......."

Li Shiyao's heart sank when he heard this, he glanced at the unconscious woman, and sighed: "What kind of men and women do you pay attention to begging?" It's all here, no matter which temple the god library is better than here! He touched his waist, which contained a silver ticket, and took it out of his sleeve, about three or four pieces of broken silver, took it out and said: "Take this money for some medicine, regardless of which dry store places your mother to eat some hot food, I am afraid that I will be fine if I am sick with a cold, and it is not a matter of being next to each other like this." The little girl stretched out a pair of warm and moist hands to take the silver, sobbed and said, "Thank you...... Xie Ye's reward ......" struggled to get up and knelt down: "I'll kowtow to Ye...... We are not begging for food, we are not here to join our relatives in Beijing, and we have spent a lot of ......."

Li Shiyao's heart trembled, in the eleventh year of Qianlong, he went to Beijing by bus to take the exam, ran out of money, and was depressed to eat in the temple, and he also had the experience of "not being able to join his relatives" for several months. He is still a lifter, he has fellow villagers and friends in the same year in Beijing, and when he says the word "borrow", all of them are miserable and frowning, his tone is stubborn, his words are shy, and his demeanor is so far, his voice is like that, in short, it is just a "embarrassment". Now seeing that this mother and daughter are hungry and cold and embarrassed, I can't help but feel compassion. He bit his lower lip and pondered for a moment, then asked, "What relatives do you have in Beijing?" Did he leave the house or did he move his family away? The girl couldn't answer this question, shook her mother, and called softly: "Mother, this grandfather asks us ......."

"Oh......" The woman agreed, her eyes flickered in the dark, and she said with difficulty, "This grandfather is really kind-hearted...... Thank you very much...... Our business...... Difficult...... It is said to be a relative, but in fact it is not a relative...... He is now a big official...... It's not in the capital...... Just don't be an official...... We are also running to other people's houses to beg for food......" Li Shiyao listened, smiled and said: "This is really 'I understand if you don't say it, the more you say it, the more confused I become'." I'm an official myself, who are you talking about? ”

"He Shen and the old man......" said the woman leisurely, "he has helped me in Yangzhou, what a good man...... If it weren't for him, this kid would ...... The child was born and froze to death in the Wutong Temple...... I owe love to my master, and I can't go on and come to run to someone's house, so I don't know if I can take us in or not......"

When Li Shiyao heard that he had come to join Heshen, he couldn't help but be stunned, Heshen still has this kindness? frowned and thought about it, turned around and saw Li Eighty-five standing in the black field from afar, shouted "You come here", and said to the woman: "Master Heshen is not what it used to be, he has already let Qin send out, you are like this, and the family doesn't know you, so he may not take you in." I am also friends with the master, to be trustworthy, I will first ask someone to place your mother and daughter to find a store to live in, grab the medicine to eat, and then think about seeing the master and the master when the illness is cured, so good? Then he stared at the woman and waited for her to reply. But she didn't say anything, she hung her head against the wall and didn't move, only slightly smelling her breathing a little rapid and heavy, Li Shiyao tentatively touched her forehead, felt a burning hand like coals, hurriedly retracted his hand, and said to Li Eighty-five: "Quick!" Call a few people, and do as I say—she's dizzy! Li Eighty-five still said to himself: "This is taboo...... The old man will have everything for the silver...... the girl has cried loudly "wow", shaking her mother and shouting:

"Mother! Mother...... Mother...... Wake up, what's wrong with you? Yes...... You can't die...... Xiao San leper wants to sell me, what should I do if you die...... Ah......h

In the dark moon alley, listening to her hissing and desolate crying in the cold air, Li Shiyao shuddered all over his body, and his heart was mad. At this time, several elders of the Li family had already arrived, busy Zhang Luo with rattan spring stools to carry people, Li Shiyao was full of depression, seeing that this miserable situation was not a taste, he said, "Send someone to invite Langzhong." Just as he was leaving, he saw a person in the west carrying a white gauze lamp swaying over, shouting and drinking, and said vaguely: "Are you dead?" Headache and brain fever...... Belch! Where are the dead? Kissing ...... What can I do with my money if you die......" As he spoke, he was already approaching, staggering under his feet, full of the smell of wine and fart, with a big tongue, and asked with stunned eyes: "You guys...... Belch! Be...... Be...... Is it a shift? This...... Belch! What about this woman! You guys...... She's dead...... Carry away...... Belch! I've got to keep this girl...... Ugh! Who are they...... It's mine...... Uh-man! ”

"Who are you?" Li Shiyao asked coldly.

"Xiao ...... Resemble...... Xiao ......"

"Xiao San Leper?"

"Ugh! - How do you know? ”

"Since it's your man." Li Shuyao said: "She is not dead now, you ask Lang Zhong to treat her." ”

Xiao San was stunned by him coldly, he had a drunken person, his head shook and shook like a rattle, he couldn't think of how to reply, he looked at the dark ground, and couldn't see Li Shiyao's face and clothes clearly, and muttered for a long time: "Do you meddle in the way?" It's mine...... Belch! It's not my business to do with you...... You...... Bring you money, man...... People will belong to you......" Li Eighty-five said: "What kind of person is the master, fighting with this kind of person?" You only ask for a walk, and the slave will take care of this king's eight heads! Li Shuyao stretched out his hand to block him and said, "-How much silver does she owe you?" I gave! ”

"Three-" Although Xiao San was drunk, when it came to silver, he was clear in his heart, blurted out half of it, and added ten taels to Shengsheng: "Oh thirteen taels!" Li Eighty-five was furious and shouted: "Fuck your cunt! Is it slanderous? She was about to go up and fight, and the girl also cried: "Where did you come from?" We owe the Hu Family Inn 224 yuan for the house, 20 for medicine, and the luggage cover is on top, and you take it to yourself and say that you owe it! Beijing is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, how can you bully us foreigners like this? I'm not afraid of lightning striking you...... God...... "Xiao San's leper has been tossed like this, but even his speech has become sharp, and he sneered and said: "The Hu family inn owes me, you owe the Hu family inn, the account is the account that came in circles, do you dare to rely on it?" Little Nizi, dare to slam me again, sell you in the next three halls! The mentougou coal blacks tore you apart—"

He was still scolding with filth in his mouth, and Li Eighty-five stepped forward and slapped him with a "snap". Xiao San's leper woke up from this slap, Ling Ding took a step back and screamed, "Aren't you just a stinky beater?" Looking for the third master's business - is the tiger picking thorns in his palm! Seeing that there were many people on the other side, he stamped his foot and said, "Okay - you dogs are waiting!" ”

"Forget it." Li Shiyao frowned and waved his hand. He understands in his heart that he is fighting with this kind of ruffian, he is not victorious, he is entangled endlessly, and his reputation is not good, because he said, "Give him thirteen taels and tell him to go, and the two will have nothing to do with each other from now on-now it is important to treat the disease, what are you entangled with him?" Li Eighty-five scolded and took out the bag from his waist for a long time, smashed a handful of broken silver on the ground, took a sip of "bah", and said: "This is fourteen taels and two dollars - buy you a filial piety hat!" When Xiao Sanyi crawled on the ground and hurriedly paddled to pick up the silver, Li Shiyao had already gone.

He was originally depressed and came out to relax, but after such a period of noisy and disturbed, he was much more relaxed, and his heart was no longer as chaotic and sticky as soaked in turbid oil, and he couldn't think of things crookedly, and walked through the vegetable garden mixed with low houses and thatched huts, and the lights in front of him were getting more and more lights, and he had reached Gongyuan Street. I saw that the black crow and crow in the north of the Gongyuan were quiet and quiet, and the boss was a high-rise tile house sitting on the ground, and the outer courtyard wall was more than twice as high as the ordinary house, and the wall was full of sour jujube trees, densely turned, and it looked like there was a layer of purple-brown haze and mist on the wall at night, until the end of the invisible outburst, and the middle to the public hall, Minglun Hall, and the Yumen of the "World Civilization" workshop...... Standing high in the dark night, the remnants of snow on the wings of the eaves can be seen dimly, and the iron unicorn in front of the Dragon Gate can be distinguished. Looking at the dense lights here from a distance, I only knew when I got closer at this moment, but the area around the big theater of Bolun Building was more lively, and the soup and cake stalls on the streets and alleys, fried dough, twisted flowers, tofu, brains, and burdens, these small vendors were all lit with small gauze oil lamps that were as bright as beans, and there were not many diners, and the shouting was not lively, but there was a play in the garden, and the sound of gongs and drums was ringing in unison, and I couldn't hear what was singing. Zhengguan was bored playing, and a few Qingyue pipa sounds suddenly sounded outside the east wall of the Gongyuan, as if he was trying the strings. After a while, the music started again, between the hook and the slippery, but I heard the sound of the pipa cut and noisy, or like rain falling on the autumn pond, or like hail hitting the summer lotus, sometimes the torrent is turbulent, and then it turns to the throat, like a cold spring dripping water, Cao Xi tactfully undercurrent, fine broken like spring ice breaking...... When the hairspring was almost inaudible, the ground suddenly rose sharply, and the glacier burst and the ocean was bubbling and the huge tide was falling...... Li Shiyao seemed to feel that all his sorrows melted into it, and he couldn't help but sigh with the music, but he heard a woman singing:

The willow is straight, and the smoke is blue. On the Sui embankment, I have seen it a few times, and the water is floating to see off the color. Coming to look at the homeland, who knows the old guests of Jinghua? Changting Road, the year has come, and the soft strip should be folded more than 1,000 feet...... Idle looking for old traces, and drinking while mourning, the lights reflect and leave the table. Pear blossom elm fire to promote cold food. Worry about an arrow and the wind is fast, half a penny wave is warm, and you can turn around and pass a few posts. Looking at people in the north of the sky...... Sadness, hatred piles up. Gradually farewell to Pu Xiao, Jin Yan is lonely, and the slanting sun is rising in spring. Remember the moon pavilion hand in hand, and listen to the flute on the open bridge. Contemplating the past, like in a dream, tears dripping ......

Li Shiyao didn't realize that he was already stupid, he felt that his cheeks were cold and wet, and wiped it, only to realize that he was crying. When looking for the sound to look at it, the sound of music came from an inn, but it was three facades, leading to the courtyard behind, and there were two beige watermelon lamps hanging at the door, one of which was written "Hu Ji Lao Zhan", and the other was written "tea and rice and two pennies", which had been on the door panel, and he knew that it was the inn where Xiao Sanzi said "transfer". When I got closer at this moment, I heard the noisy voices inside, some of them talking, some of them talking casually, as if they were commenting on music, and as if they were in a thesis, but they couldn't hear clearly. When he pushed the door in to see, Li Shiyao couldn't help but be stunned, there were more than a dozen people sitting in the store, and most of them had met, and five or six of them were the people who went back and forth to the store outside Chongwenmen, or that group of people, except for Wu Xingqin and Cao Xibao, they couldn't name them. There are also two pen posts of the Ministry of Rites, who met when they went to the military aircraft to send Ji Yun a scroll, and they also sat at the same table to listen to music and eat wine, and when they saw Li Shuyao coming in, the two seemed to be stunned for a moment, and immediately became a little cramped and uneasy, Li Shuyao knew that they recognized him, and said with a smile: "This is Mr. Ding Boxi, you are Mr. Jing Chaoge, right?" The vacancy in the Ministry of Rites should be due to the spring of next year? Oh, I'm Mu Ziyao from the household department, I met at the military plane, and I know the two of them. ”

"Muzi-Yao?" Ding Boxi was still stunned by himself, Jing Chaoge had already recognized Li Shiyao, seeing that he was dressed like an old filial piety who had repeatedly failed to do anything, and he didn't bring his entourage, obviously he came from Weifu You, and turned his mind in his heart, secretly twisted a handful of Ding Boxi, got up and smiled and gave Li Shiyao a seat, and said, "It's Mr. Mu!" Please sit down together...... Brother Ding Nian and I have left the game this year and have already taken off the seal. A few friends here will write for a while, and invited the Shanshan girl from Jiaxing Building, who is also the confidant of our brother Fang Lingcheng, to sing the song to help the fun. You've come just in time, so please give us a tasting. Speaking of introducing them one by one, speaking of Ma Xiangzu, he pointed and smiled: "Our benevolent house brother, with loyalty and righteousness, is still Cheng Zhu's learning, the book does not read the Qin and Han dynasties, and the eight-ratio system does not add points to the pen, and in the future, he will be famous and drooping, and he will reflect before and after Cao Mang!" Li Shiyao nodded in response, and couldn't help but be surprised at the last sentence. Suspicious, Ding Boxi told the interesting story of Ma Xiangzu's "to learn from Cao to operate loyal ministers". Li Shuyao couldn't help laughing out loud and said, "In the same year of your government test, there was no one who was loyal—they wanted to make you foolish until the palace test!" Everyone also laughed, Ma Xiangzu also laughed and ridiculed, and said: "We don't read any ancient books, only say that it is the Son of Heaven who is important to articles, don't talk about the Han and Tang Dynasties, I am the first in the government test, and the township test is Xie Yuan - they have a heart that is not conducive to the children, and they make me ...... so good" While speaking, Shanshan, who played the pipa, got up to toast, holding a pot in one hand, and the red silk handkerchief held the wine and sent it to Li Shiyao. Li Shiyao carefully avoided her fingers and drank it, and said with a smile: "The girl plays a good song, I came here when I heard it!" The singing is also round and jade, which is ecstatic! I haven't heard anything like this in 20 years...... Can you play another song for us? Shanshan smiled: "The master praises him so much, it's embarrassing to teach people...... I don't know much about words, so I thought pipa was the loquat fruit tree! Uncle Fang taught me Su Zizhan's "He Bridegroom" again, and sang indiscriminately to relieve the boredom of the gentlemen. ”

"Wonderful!" Hui Tongji applauded and smiled, "Fang Lingcheng happened to meet a fireworks confidant in Beijing, Cao Xibao grabbed a knife and ghostwrote to ask Mrs. Fang for permission to marry, and today I came to congratulate the groom, and raised my eyebrows for my sour Ding Cuo, which is a great story!" Fang Lingcheng said with a smile: "That's why I'm the east - Shanshan is really illiterate, and I still have a dozen limerick poems for the 'loquat'!" He coughed lightly and groaned:

How to pipa mistaken loquat? Now the teacher beats the baby.

If the pipa can bear fruit, the sheng flute in the field will bloom!

So the crowd burst into applause. Li Shiyao looked at Shanshan carefully, only to see that she was wearing a high-necked egg-blue plum jacket, obliquely draped in a jujube nectar color Shu brocade Zhaojun set, and a water red silk skirt covering her half-sized feet, standing at the table under the east wall and gazing at the strings. A green silk pine pulled a Suzhou peg half-hung down on the shoulder, the white melon seed face was bent with two eyebrows and smoke, the corners of the mouth seemed to be smiling, and a halo on the left cheek loomed. Li Shiyao couldn't help but secretly praise: This face is just that, this body is so beautiful, it is really a stunner in the world! is thinking about it in a disorderly way, Shanshan has already fiddled with the tune, Dafang smiled and saluted everyone with a smile, a shaking hand waved the five-string eyes to return to Hong, the sound of the pipa has pierced the clouds and cracked stones, and the man sang:

Milk swallow Feihua house, quietly unmanned, Tongyin turned to noon...... Cool new bath in the evening. The hand makes the white fan, and the fan hand is like jade for a while. Gradually sleepy, lonely and ripe. Who will push the embroidery household outside the curtain, and teach people to dream of Yaotai Qu. But again, the wind knocks on the bamboo...... Pomegranate half-spit red scarf frowning...... When the floating flowers and waves are exhausted, the companion is lonely. A bright branch is carefully taken and the fragrance is like a bundle. and fear of being frightened by the west wind. If you wait for you to come here, you can't bear to touch the wine before the flower - a total of tears, two ......

The quiet and tactful singing voice was scattered in all directions, and everyone in the audience listened attentively - Cao Xibao sat next to Wu Shengqin in the east on the south side of the table, listening to the sound of Qingling's pipa, and closed his eyes and beat his knees according to the rhythm of the song, and his eyes were already filled with tears. Wu Xingqin opened his mouth wide and watched Shanshan sing and dance, looking dumbfounded. Fang Lingcheng clasped his hands together and shook his knees, Ma Xiangzu and Ding Boxi followed Shanshan dumbfoundedly, and the rest of the people were serving tea and listening quietly, but Li Shiyao was sitting with his hands on his knees, he was originally a man who was ambitious and proud of the world, and he was the governor of the world outside, and he was deeply favored by Qianlong. This time he was transferred to Beijing, full of the ambition of the Holy Lord of the Xuan Shu Society, and put the world on the throne. Unexpectedly, within a few days, I felt that I had repeatedly fallen, step by step, step by step, and there was nothing satisfactory, thinking about the risks of the journey, the world is impermanent, listening to this crying song, I can't help but feel emotional, but I can't taste it, is it spicy? Is it sour? Is it frustration? Be...... Even he couldn't tell. When he was full of heart, he heard Hui Tongji ask Ma Xiangzu: "Ren Zhai, who wrote this song?" ”

"It's Su Zizhan." Ma Xiangzu said, "Didn't Miss Shanshan say it just now?" Hui Tongji squeezed his eyes and smiled, and then asked, "What about the song ahead?" Ma Xiangzu turned his face to look at him, saw him with an ill-intentioned smile, and knew that he was going to entertain himself again, so he had a wooden face, but he didn't have a seizure, and said: "Shanshan also said that his name is Zhou Bangyan." ”

Hui Tongji saw that Ma Xiangzu was already annoyed, so he smiled and stopped ridiculing, but Wu Xingqin asked on the side: "Which dynasty is Zhou Bangyan?" With a biased face, he seemed to ask Cao Xibao and Ding Boxi, and then smiled at Jing Chaoge, Jing Chaoge smiled: "This naturally has to ask our brother Ma." Ma Xiangzu felt that he was being teased like a clown, and he couldn't hang it on his face anymore, but he was very self-contained, he tapped twice on the table with a white face, stood up and said: "Ma Mou is not talented, he is out of company - some things are really only understood by prostitutes, otherwise even the big teapot knows - you should ask them to go." "As he spoke, he was going to pull out.

"Hey, hey-" Fang Ling Chengyuan was also laughing, and when he saw that he recognized the truth, he hurriedly dragged it and said with a smile, "Why bother? Everyone is a fellow villager, you and Lao Hui are still in the same year, and you may still be peers in the future! If you weren't close to your heart, you should be your own brothers and friends, who would want to joke and have fun? Lao Hui, why don't you hurry up and pay a compensation? Hui Tongji hurriedly smiled: "Don't be serious, old horse, I don't have the intention of disrespecting you, there are several articles of craftsmanship that I have to ask you to criticize and criticize!" Won't your trip delay my bright future? I wanted to tease Miss Shanshan to tell us the story of Master Li, but I annoyed you. Don't go, foolish brother is so polite! As he spoke, he learned from the little students in the play, and bowed as soon as he showed his robe. Everyone laughed when they saw it, and they all kept Ma Xiangzu in a chaotic manner. Ma Xiangzu was amused by Hui Tongji's strange appearance, and returned to his seat with a helpless smile, and asked, "Who is Master Li, and what dynasty is he?" ”

One sentence made everyone laugh again. Cao Xibao was kind-hearted, and did not wait for everyone to ridicule him, and explained on the side: "Master Li was a famous prostitute in the Song Dynasty, and Zhou Bangyan was a famous man at that time, and the two of them got along for a while. Once, when he was flirting with Wen Cun, Emperor Huizong arrived, and Bangyan panicked and hid under the teacher's bed. Huizong and his master laughed and frolicked, and listened to it happily. As a result, he also filled in a poem of "Youth Tour", which was contained in "Word Garden", which everyone knows. This word reached Huizong's ears, causing Long Yan to be furious - "Don't be busy, don't be busy! Jing Chaoge stopped without waiting for him to finish speaking, and said with a smile: "I'm not afraid of people saying that I'm lonely and unheard of--I can't ignore wonderful words." Sir, give us a chant. Whew, chant chanting. And they all clamored to hear. Cao Xibao said with a smile: "Because of this word, Huizong issued an order to dismiss Bangyan's officials and expel him from the country. For he recited softly:

And the knife is like water, Wu salt wins the snow, and the fingers break the new orange. At the beginning of the brocade temperature, the beast fragrance continues, and the relative sitting is ...... Whisper and ask, "To whom do you stay?" There have been three shifts in the city. The horse is slippery and frosty, so it is better to take a break, as if there are few people.

While everyone was still savoring themselves, Li Shiyao caught a glimpse of Li Eighty-five standing outside the door, took advantage of no one to pay attention, pulled out, looked outside, and asked, "What's wrong?" How did you bring so many people? Li Eighty-five smiled and said: "It's nothing, the family heard that the ruffian surnamed Xiao was drunk and crazy, and they were afraid of coming to find the master, so I brought them here - the woman's name is Liu Xiangxiu, and the girl's name is Gexia, and it has been settled, don't worry." But it's going to be sooner or later—" Before he finished speaking, Li Shuyao had already turned around and returned to the house, listening to Cao Xibao still talking: "...... What Fang Cai Shanshan sang was left to Master Li when Zhou Bangyan went to the country, and Master Li forwarded it to Huizong, who was moved, and ordered Bangyan to be the ...... of Dasheng Lezheng" Li Shiyao listened, and whispered to Jing Chaoge beside him: "This Brother Cao is erudite and talented!" ”

"That's nature." Jing Chaoge said with a smile, neither humble nor arrogant, "The last time I went back to the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Guild Hall, I won the top spot-" He suddenly turned his face away, and the other party Ling Cheng said: "Mr. Mu wants to read the letter written by Brother Cao on behalf of his brother." Let's eat your wine, first, to look up to the talent of Shanshan girl, and secondly, this is really a good story of our Wenlin - Mr. Mu, it is said that in the 39th year of Qianlong, Jiang Youxiao Fang Lingcheng should try to enter Beijing, sick and lying in the Big Buddha Temple, there is a woman in Beijing Xiangyan Country who came to the temple to enter the incense, and met and gave money to extend the medicine for Fang Xiaolian to relieve the siege and dispel misfortune, so the reason for the fall in love, because of love, the two of them made a private appointment with a white head......" Everyone saw him suddenly change his tone, and a teahouse storytelling incision, stunned for a moment, They all applauded: "Good——! Jing Chao Pavilion was serious, and slapped the table with his right hand virtual Tangmu, and said: "I can only sigh that I am in the Qinglou, and I want Chengjiang to be a family of literature from the right family, and the children of famous families are qualified to defend the etiquette and religion, how can he be allowed to fall in love with the fireworks woman?" So the eldest brother repaired the book again and again, and strictly scolded Fang Gongzi for thinking about his fame, don't look for flowers and ask willows, and Ning Su San is infatuated, and don't be a down-and-out master for the third prince of Wang. Fang Gongzi is embarrassed and entangled in gold, and the eldest brother is forced to be strict, Shanshannu is afraid of the tireless request of the bustard's mother on the left, and the Fang family is strict on the right, and the two are actually in love with each other. One washed his face with tears in a high-rise building, one hesitated in the wind in the detention brigade, one was haggard, one was sad, one was a country and a city, and one was sentimental and sick. Oops...... If it goes on like this, wouldn't it be like 'I have no chance under the screen window, and I can't live in the loess ridge'? Besides—"

He was about to go on, Shanshan had already brought the wine, slapped the back of his hand with a smile, and said: "In the past, I often went to the Twenty-fourth Master's Mansion to sing in the hall, and when I saw Jingye there, how could I see that he was a gentleman, how could he still be like a child?" I'm not afraid of jokes! Ding Boxi and everyone laughed, handed a stack of papers to Li Shiyao, and said, "I don't need him to confess with his teeth and claws!" ——This is Mr. Cao's brother on behalf of 'Fang Gongzi', please see, it is really talented! When Li Shiyao took it, it was a long letter of thousands of words, and he was a little impatient, but after only reading a few lines, he was attracted to be unstoppable, and everyone gossiped and laughed, and read the letter and wrote:

When you believe it, you have to be strictly taught, and you are grateful and indescribable. Since the ancestors are gone, I have to be supported by my brother to have today. Although the younger brother is not talented, he is moistened by the rain and dew, and the benefits of the court are also years. Although there is a childlike heart, rough and well-known teaching, if the husband chases the mandarin duck in the wild water, forgets the wild goose in the hall, the song of the idle flower, and the Yun after the frost, that is, death is not for it. But for a moment of confusion, flickering like a dream, this matter is determined to be involved, and there are those who cannot be dispatched, I would like to tell you sincerely.

Yuansi people left Jiaxing Restaurant for three years, that is, they lived in Hufang Bridge Lane, and did not intend to enter the willow leaves, so they became the peach blossoms of the knots. Brother and brother are all struggling to rest, without a son, steaming and tasting have a trust, such as Mo Chou's production Ahou, Hu Wan's life is far away. Recently, there are people who have been raised by the red pink demon queen, and my brother is well known that things in the world are incalculable, and the mud produces lotus flowers, and the dung produces mushrooms.

This means that Shanshan is already pregnant and cannot be abandoned at will, and this first reason is very good. Li Shiyao glanced at Shanshan, and saw that her lower abdomen was slightly bulging, and he couldn't help but smile. Looking further down, one said that Shanshan had already offended the bustard's mother because of herself, and now she is desperate, and if she is driven away, she is actually forcing herself to commit suicide; One said that Shanshan did her best from the good woman's way, and the night diligent knife and ruler were accompanied by the anointing fire, "Every time my brother sits dry, Wen Si does not belong, smells the fragrance, leans on Ma Wanyan, out of the ghost and into the gods, earth-shattering." The two instruments shine in the rows, and the stars burst down on the paper. Jiangzuo Yanyue is prosperous, and the old land of gold powder in the Six Dynasties. The Xie family transferred the horses, and there was still fragrant grass; Wang's drum and the like, there is still Wenbo. Once Huaijiao changes, it will become a green cloud, how can it stay for even the smoke and moon, that is, it is a corporal in the dust? "So all the way to reason, earnestly recount the feelings and nostalgia, the good and virtuous, the helplessness of the love, the ambition of their own body, the past compared to the present, the feelings of the discussion, gurgling, gushing, sprinkling and profligacy. In addition to the turbulent flow, and saw the small bridge and stream, Li Shiyao looked straight at the emotion and the heart, and saw that the place where the evil was closed, densely re-added the circle, which was obviously added by the people in front of him when they were circulating.

Since ancient times, heroes cannot but be proud of the curtain. When Su Wu was chewing snow and swallowing felt, there was still a Hu woman to marry, and the Jin soldiers broke the bamboo to the south, and they could be on the yellow sky, and the few vultures were killed by the death, and they were married to the prostitute Han Jin Wang of the Liang family. and Zhang Deyuan's generation, he is cautious, Wang Anshi's generation, and he is silent all his life. What is beneficial to the country's livelihood and the rise and fall of society.

However, the brother forgives the sins of the younger brother, and the feeling that he cannot be sent can be relieved, and the three-sided net is unraveled, so that the younger brother can fulfill his private wish. The collection of the two unites, the secret of the three remains, see the intestines of Zixue, and reflect on the stomach of the king. If you don't take big things for a family, you may abandon it and think it is the ring of the prodigal son. The Emperor and the Queen of Heaven are in the language...... People go in a hurry, words are not spoken, fortunately forgive!

Li Shiyao couldn't help but see it, and patted his thigh and said, "Okay!" But I saw that there was a letter from his brother's family attached to the back, which was also quite funny, but it was a short letter:

The book learned that the original intention of my brother was just the leap of the dragon gate, the green light and yellow scroll, and the iron inkstone grinding through the time of empathy, but the tour of the green building, the golden lamp was grinding, and the thought of the disciple was in vain, so as to make the book thin. Now I see the word very surprised, and the brother has not counted the time, the pen has been like this, the younger brother does not fall into the ambition of reading and progressing, the bride has the virtue of a husband and a man, and the brother also wants to blame the younger brother? That is, at the moment, study hard and study hard, try to finish the first and not the first, and return to her hometown quickly, your sister-in-law also thinks of seeing her younger sister-in-law Yarong.

He smiled and handed the letter back to Ding Boxi, and said, "Brother Fang, after reading Brother Ling's letter, I just landed on the ground with a stone, it turns out that I really sweated for you!" Fang Lingcheng was laughing with Wu Xingqin beside him, and when he saw Li Shiyao talking to him, he hurriedly turned around and asked, "What's the matter?" Li Shiyao said: "Cao Sheng has set up a military order for you inside, and the name of Sun Shan will return to his hometown, and the bride will sweep the floor and go out!" ”

"Mr. Mu is also drumming." Cao Xibao held a cup in one hand and sipped with a smile, "The so-called one time is also another, at that time, my nephew also gave birth to him, can you really have that ruthless son and mother?" Fang Lingcheng said: "It's okay, my brother is a kind person, but I hope I will fight for him, he is also an old talent in the autumn wind who has repeatedly failed to do so." Wu Xingqin said: "It is a good omen to have this imperial giant book, and Brother Fang will definitely soar this time." ”

Fang Lingcheng seemed a little deflated, and said with a self-deprecating smile: "How can there be certain rules for this kind of thing? Take one step at a time, the first Taizu Fang Linggao has been in charge of the world's altar for more than 20 years, and the Kangxi Dynasty has been the white-clothed prime minister in the study, but he has not been able to cross the dragon gate after all. My eldest brother has been admitted to the exam thirteen times, and the old man is about to be unable to enter the deer feast. Like Dou Lanqing, Wang Wenshao, and You Mingtang, who have been in the top three all the way, they are all outliers after all. How can my generation expect such a fluke? ”

Li Shiyao listened attentively at first, but then suddenly his heart moved: Qianlong has ordered his main exam, what is the matter with this group of students who are taking the exam today? Thinking about the suspicion of the melon field and Li Xia, he was panicked, smiled reluctantly, and said: "Not everyone is like this." How many people have I seen complain for a few days after the first place, scolding the examiner for being blind, and then tearing up the article and burning the ink scroll, vowing to be a Feng woman again. After a while, the itch of Qi Ping technique is still a so, looking for friends to buy sermons in the same year than the article and then fight Longmen. When you are on the list, the complaints are gone, and the blind have become discerning, where can you still remember the situation when the sun is down? Ahh Lost - see you back! As he spoke, he got up hurriedly and nodded to everyone. Ding Boxi and Jing Chaoge blinked and looked at him with a blank look.