Chang'an City mansion

At three o'clock, in the flickering study room, the figure who had been sitting at the desk for nearly two hours finally put the brush aside, stretched his arms, and shouted to the door: "Ah Fu, come to some supper." ”

Someone outside the door answered, and the person in the room got up again and slowly paced to the low desk with a plush blanket on the other side of the study, sat down, reached out and fished out a copy of the document submitted on the case today, and after only looking at it twice, he locked his brows.

"Bullshit!"

After a sentence of scolding, he thought of the person sent to inquire in the afternoon to come back to report the matter, and then he showed a shallow smile on his face, and took another volume of articles and opened them to read, but this time he did not scold them with only two glances like just now, but looked more and more carefully, after reading the whole article, he hurriedly got up and took a volume of articles with red knots tied on the bookshelf on the side and unfolded them, and put the two volumes of articles on the case to compare them back and forth.

"Knock knock", it wasn't until there was a knock on the door that he came back to his senses, and when he looked up, he saw a pair of thick eyebrows, eyes full of surprise.

Under the candlelight, I saw that there were two documents on the case, there was no difference between the left and right, only at the end, the one on the right had a few more sentences:

Therefore, at the same time, two copies of the book, one handed over to the Chongxue Division, if one day does not see the news, it must not be tolerated by the recommender, the Tao is not the same as the conspiracy, the person who has heard of Huaihuai's loyalty to the righteous should be one person, then the two parties will be handed over to Mr. the next day, if Mr. has a heart, you can find the first volume of the Chongxue Division, and there are ink marks on the back of the two volumes, which are broken.

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The backyard of Hongfuji Temple

Lu Zhi sat leisurely in front of the window flipping through a history book, ignoring Lu Jun, who was already sighing for half the day.

"Alas, big brother, why aren't you in a hurry at all, the volume sent three days ago has no news now, and Brother Ji has already taken the paper to the household department to sign in, do you still have the heart to read here?"

Lu Jun looked at Lu Zhi with a bitter face who didn't even raise his head, and finally couldn't help but reach out and snatch the book from his hand so that he could listen to him carefully.

"Big brother, we still have some silver, didn't Brother Ji say yesterday that there are some ways, why don't we also send some silver money over to dredge up?" Lu Zhishu was taken away, and he only frowned slightly, then stood up, ignored Lu Jun, who was shouting behind him, and walked out of the room leisurely.

The courtyard faintly penetrated the front hall of the Buddha's voice, at this time it was the morning, and it was the time of the slight spring color, the south wall was a bush to welcome spring, secretly spitting tender yellow, just looking at the expression could not guess whether Lu Zhi was anxious in his heart, if he could not wait for the news of Chongxue Division tomorrow, it would be a missed spring.

"The red gold is bright and colorful, just when the spring is thick, it is not as elegant as Lanxiang, and it is later than Lamei." After chanting softly, Lu Zhi smiled a little self-deprecatingly, and was just about to turn around and go in, when he heard a hearty laugh.

"A small cluster of spring greetings can also cause such emotion, but the son has a grudge in his heart."

Lu Zhi turned around to look, and saw a middle-aged man in a dark black robe standing under an old tree in the west.

"This, sir, I don't know how you heard that I have a grudge in my heart?"

The black-clothed man didn't answer him, but asked, "Why do you call me Lord?" ”

"Look at the shape, look at the color." In one place, Lu Zhi did not miss the look of appreciation in the man's eyes.

"Good, good, good." After three good words in a row, the middle-aged man's face softened, "Let's go in and talk, okay?" ”

After speaking, Lu Zhi stretched out his hand and led the man into the guest room where he temporarily lived in the temple, in the room, Lu Jun saw that he brought someone in, and he was stunned for a moment and went to serve tea and pour water.

"What is this?"

"Brother, my mother didn't worry that I would enter Beijing alone, so she walked with him."

After the middle-aged man nodded, he stared at Lu Zhi's slightly immature face, and waited for Lu Jun to put the teacup on it, and then he opened his mouth to explain his intention: "I'm here for your rolls." ”

Lu Zhi smiled: "I don't know which one?" ”

"What do you say?" After the two looked at each other and smiled, they began a long conversation,

"Do you know that the books in your books are not tolerated by many?" The middle-aged man looked at Lu Zhi with a curious look and asked.

"If you don't know, you won't write two volumes at night and throw them to adults." Lu Zhi replied lightly, and the expression on his face did not move slightly.

The middle-aged man said again: "Then do you know, which volume I got first?" ”

Lu Zhiben knew the bottom in his heart, but he was surprised when he asked this, and secretly guessed a possibility, and said softly: "No matter which volume it is, it has already reached the hands of adults." ”

The middle-aged man's smile turned thicker, "Okay, such a temperament, I misunderstood it before, because I first got the scroll you threw into the Chongxue Division, only when you are a soldier on paper, the person I sent to inquire about your daily behavior is not exaggerated......" After that, he explained how he got Lu Zhi's scroll, how to send someone to inquire about his words and deeds, etc., and then said: "But I am not here today to recommend you." ”

Lu Zhi's eyelids jumped suddenly, and when he was about to speak, he heard the middle-aged man continue: "As an official, there are still three, six, nine, and so on, although you know that there are many inappropriate rules in this court, but you don't know that this is the momentum of the whole body, do you know, even if I appreciate you, even if you enter the spring season, the day of your emergence is far away?" ”

Lu Zhi was silent, waiting for the middle-aged man to continue, "You look at the officials in the court, but those who were born in a poor family, except for those who followed life and death in the East Palace back then, there are a few who can really do great things and admonish holy words. With your ambitions, it is not the best way to get into the ranks. I still have power in my hands, so I will send you to the pile of officials and grandchildren, and try again after four years, although it is a poor family, no one dares to peep into it, or you may get acquainted with the descendants of the king, and you will no longer be alone. ”

After saying this, the middle-aged man silently drank the tea, Lu Zhi turned dozens of corners in his heart at the moment, and when he drank all the cups, he stood up and bowed respectfully to the man.

The middle-aged man laughed, stretched out his hand and tore off a piece of purple jade from his waist, handed it into Lu Zhi's hand, and said, "You can come to the house to find me in the near future." After speaking, he turned around and walked away.

Lu Jun, who was sitting not far away, pricked up his ears to listen to their conversation. It's just that these two people are like playing dumb riddles, and their words are indistinct, and they are alluding to allusions and metaphors everywhere, and they finally understand the last few sentences, but the middle-aged man got up and said goodbye.

"Big brother, what's going on? Do you know the man? After the brothers stood in front of the door and watched the middle-aged man walk away, Lu Juncai hurriedly pulled Lu Zhi into the room and asked curiously.

"He is the secretary of the court, Du Ruhui, and Lord Du." The corner of Lu Zhi's mouth put away the tiger-shaped jade pendant.

"Ahh Lu Jun's eyes widened and his mouth widened, "Just, just, that's the Du Xuan?" ”

Lu Zhi walked to the low desk and sat down, picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea and drank it all, and waited for Lu Jun to put away his shocked look before he opened his mouth unhurriedly.

It turned out that after Lu Jun settled down in Hongfu Temple on the evening of the 11th, he carefully inquired about some officials of the DPRK and China who had returned from visiting friends, and then copied two documents prepared in advance overnight, but the contents of the volumes were exactly the same, both pointed out the shortcomings of the selection of officials in the current dynasty, and the drawbacks of the student recommendation system, and explained that the learning environment and treatment of the descendants of the Han family and the descendants of the scholar clan are very different, and the eleven hazards were listed.

After the two papers were written, he knew that the articles he wrote might be too radical and the content was too unconventional, but he still submitted one of them to the Chongxue Division, but this test paper was just to test the reflection of today's recommendation department, if most of the Si Gong Shang were not conformists, Bi Ding found him on the first day because of what his article said, if he did not come to him on the first day, then he would send the second paper he had written the next day to the powerful sage Du Ruhui Mansion of the current dynasty, The bet is that the famous sages of the government and the opposition can agree with his ideas and discover his intelligence.

The one who voted for the Chongxue Division was rejected on the same day, but he didn't expect to be taken by one of the Si Gong and handed it to a powerful high-ranking official of his classmates to read, and recommended him, although the powerful high-ranking official liked Lu Zhi's article, but because he only handed the paper to the rigid Chongxue Division, and was a little dissatisfied with him, only when he was a person who did not understand affairs and talked on paper, he agreed to the Sigong on the surface, but privately found someone to inquire about his character in the temple where he lived.

It was only yesterday that the inquirer reciprocated the high-ranking official, and only after learning that he was of good character, and that he had not shown any arrogance or impatience for several days, did he look at him differently. But last night, when the high-ranking official read the scroll that was thrown into the house every day, he found a volume that was exactly the same as the previous one, which was the second scroll thrown by Lu Zhi, and this high-ranking official was Du Ruhui himself, he compared the two volumes that flowed into his hands before and after Lu Zhi, and thought about it all night before he made up his mind, so he came to see Lu Zhi today, and Lu Zhi also learned from him that the other party actually saw his first scroll.

"Ah, this twist and turn, I get dizzy when I hear it, big brother, then Lord Du is here to inform you today that you can participate in the Spring Festival?"

"No, I'm not going to participate in the Spring Festival anymore." Lu Zhi's voice was rare and brisk today.

"Huh?" Lu Jun was suddenly startled by him and jumped up, and shouted loudly: "You said that you don't participate in the Spring Festival!" So what are you going to do! ”

"Keep studying."

"Huh?" Lu Jun suspected that something was wrong with his ears, how did he hear his eldest brother say that he wanted to continue studying?

"Guozijian, I want to go to Guozijian and continue to study." Lu Zhi poured another cup of tea and drank it down, and put the cup heavily on the low table.

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Drawing on Opinions, (Minor Repairs)