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Auspicious three years, late autumn. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The army of the royal tent that participated in the annual autumn hunting and hunting, instead of going south to Liangzhou Pass, rushed north and returned straight to the capital of Beiting.

During the autumn hunt, His Majesty the Emperor did not show up except for appearing at the ash painting meeting one night, and was accompanied by the Taiping Order and the Minister of the Three Dynasties, Yelu Chucai.

In the night, the palace is heavy, and in a hut that is far from being magnificent, the candle flame flickers gently, not only does it shine brightly as day, but it adds a bit of gloom and darkness, which is probably the so-called cicada noise forest is more quiet.

An old woman with a serene face lay quietly on the sickbed, as if reminiscing about the past eventful years, and as if reminiscing about the youthful days when she was in her prime.

At the bedside, Taiping Ling, who was the master of Emperor Beimang, sat on a small bench and stared down at the old woman with bulging cheeks, her white hair like frost.

Li Mibi, who single-handedly created the Beimang cobweb, behaved even more strangely, just sitting on the threshold of the house, at this moment, the shadow prime minister who made countless Beimang magnates feel creepy, was really like an old man in the twilight, lonely and lonely.

"Your Majesty, have you ever felt uncomfortable?"

Taiping Ling's words were calm, and he could not hear the slightest apprehension or sorrow, but there was a bit of untimely rare tenderness.

The old woman replied softly, "Aren't you surprised why I am unwilling to accept gifts from heaven and man, and unwilling to live for four or five years?"

Taiping Ling nodded, then quickly shook his head again, still said softly: "It doesn't matter. ”

The old woman laughed and asked, "Do you think that my stupid son, whose heart is higher than heaven and whose life is thinner than paper, can lead an army of 400,000 to finally defeat the northern city?"

Taiping Ling cautiously replied: "As long as Tuoba Bodhisattva is better than Xu Fengnian, the overall situation has been decided, not to mention a dozen or so Central Plains Martial Arts Masters, and ten more people will not help." Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if Tuoba Bodhisattva loses, we may not lose, Your Majesty doesn't have to worry too much about the war. ”

The old woman gently folded her hands on her abdomen and pulled the corners of her mouth slightly, "Worried? I don't worry about the war outside the Liangzhou Pass at all, and after handing over the military power to Yelu Hongcai, I let it go." This child has been a wronged prince for more than 30 years, and let him be high-spirited once, the love between mother and son, and the righteousness of monarchs and ministers, are not owed to each other. As for whether the war there burned to the Liangzhou Pass or spread to the territory of the Southern Dynasties, what am I worried about as a dying person? What can I worry about? In this life, I think I am the best at the word "relieved". The guilt of others does not last long, and the remorse of oneself can also be let go. In this life, the first half of my life was like walking on thin ice, but the second half of my life was comfortable and comfortable, which is good. What's more, as a woman wearing a dragon robe and sitting on a dragon chair, the first person in the ages, whether it is a hundred years of history or a stench of ten thousand years, the history of all dynasties and dynasties in later generations is destined to be unable to bypass my name, what are the big regrets in this life? ”

It is rare for an old woman to be so chattering, and even more rare to be so light-hearted.

The old man snorted.

This Taiping Ling, the chess and sword Yuefu, left the grassland angrily and went to Liyang Central Plains incognito for 20 years, changed more than a dozen identities, traveled north and south of the river, saw all the world, and enjoyed the mountains and rivers in the spring and autumn.

There are thousands of people who read in the world, and perhaps only Huang Sanjia, the big devil who caused trouble in the Spring and Autumn Period, is more "reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles" than this Beimang Emperor whose real name has long been forgotten.

The old woman took a breath and asked, "Zhao Bing and Chen Zhibao have joined forces, can they go all the way north to fight outside Tai'an City?"

The old man nodded and said: "Surely, if nothing else, the two rebellious vassal kings will deliberately hold their troops still, just wait for us to divide the victory and defeat in this battle with the Beiliang border army, otherwise we will take the Liyang capital too early, and we will be worried that we will return to the grassland, and I am even more afraid that we will simply abandon the territory of the Southern Dynasty and decisively retreat to the North Court, then it will be the embarrassing pattern of the Liyang Zhao family to unify the Central Plains, with the temperament of Zhao Bing, the king of Yan, he will never let himself fall short, and then Xu Fengnian will really be the next Xu Xiao, Beiliang is still the Beiliang with a big tail, it is not cost-effective." The only variable on the Central Plains side is only in Gu Jiantang's two Liao border armies, openly and secretly, with 300,000 elite soldiers in hand, seize the opportunity, it is impossible to say that it will become Xu Xiao after the Battle of Xileibi, and Gu Jiantang will never miss the opportunity, after all, Liyang has lost the majestic old emperor Zhao Li, and the world today is no longer the world of the year. ”

The old man saw that the old woman's spirit was still good, so he continued as concisely as possible: "In the Central Plains, in this troubled era, among the military generals, there are only a few people in Liyang Lu Shengxiang Xu Gong. As for those temple ministers, the short-lived emperor Zhao Xun didn't say much, Zhao Bing and Zhao Zhu, father and son, no matter who usurped the throne, were willing to treat those reading seeds well, but Chen Wang, the permanent servant of Zuo Sancai, the future is unpredictable, the key depends on whether the new emperor is really generous or fake and elegant. ”

The old woman laughed at herself: "Is it wrong for me to give up the opportunity to live four or five years longer, so that I will not be able to see that magnificent scenery?"

Taiping Ling said softly: "If Your Majesty ......"

The old woman seemed to know what the emperor was going to say, and said with an open-minded smile: "Forget it, the regret medicine in the world is the most tasteless." I'm not uncommon. ”

Taiping Ling smiled and said, "Your Majesty is a true hero. ”

The old woman suddenly said a digression softly, "Li Mibi, that woman can not die, but she must never see the light of day again." ”

Li Mibi, who was sitting on the threshold, was stunned, and said in a voice that His Majesty the Emperor could hear clearly: "I know." ”

The old woman seemed to remember something again, and asked, "That Wang Du of the Southern Dynasty, who likes to plant plum blossoms, is he really a chess piece?"

Li Mibi raised his voice slightly and said, "Although there is no conclusive evidence, I can still conclude that Wang Du is Bei Liang's secret chess. ”

The old woman sighed: "Listening to Li Yishan of Chaoge, it is really powerful. ”

Taiping Ling showed a look of sincere admiration, and nodded, "Indeed." ”

Li Mibi asked, "What should I do with that Winter Bowl King Jingchong?"

Taiping Ling replied: "His 10,000 family private cavalry must have converged with the Youzhou light cavalry of the Yuluan Knife Department, and now the Southern Dynasty is weak, just like a house with leaky air on all sides, unless you send a master dead soldier to secretly attack, there is no way to take him." However, this trip to borrow a knife to kill people, and the addition of this winter bowl is nothing more than to make the knife faster and harmless. ”

Li Mibi said indifferently: "Your Majesty really wants him to die, I can go out in person." ”

The old woman smiled and said: "That's it, the Southern Dynasty is such a big place, even if I offer it with both hands, just with the cavalry of Bei Liang, I have to be able to eat, and they will make trouble." ”

Speaking of this kind of militaristic event involving the direction of the reckless war, the old woman was obviously a little tired, and she couldn't hide her upset, she slowly closed her eyes.

It seems to want an out-of-sight and mind-bothered.

She didn't want to come to the end of the path in the yang world in this life, and she still couldn't get rid of those intrigues and deceits.

The old woman took a strong breath, her tone suddenly became firm, and her thin face no longer had the casual look she had when she was chatting before, "I only have three things to explain, Dong Zhuo must take Huaiyang Pass! Yelu Hongcai must die before me! The Murong clan must leave a bloodline, both men and women!"

At the last sentence, the old woman burst out laughing for no reason, and was so merry that she said, "That's one more thing! ”

The old woman turned her head for the first time tonight, looked at the Taiping Decree who had diligently and diligently devoted herself to the government of a country, and asked with a smile: "You can be regarded as a pedantic celestial, then you should tell me, is it that man is not as good as heaven, or is heaven not as good as man?"

Taiping Ling said calmly: "It varies from time to time and place, and from person to person. ”

The old woman withdrew her gaze, noncommittal, and said to herself, "A foolish account!"

There was a long silence, and the candles in the room were still dim.

The old woman whispered, "It's cold...... Let's go, I'm going to get some rest. ”

Balmy autumn day.

If you don't die now, you will wait for when.

Taiping Ling got up slightly, and then bent down, but the old man refused to straighten up for a long time.

Turning around and walking outside, Li Mibi stood on the steps of the small courtyard, as if waiting for the Taiping Order.

After the Taiping Order closed the door, the two old men stood side by side.

Li Mibi sighed softly: "There are still too many things that have not been explained clearly." ”

The order declined to comment.

Li Mibi suddenly sneered: "If there is more blank space, the greater the authority of you, the emperor, and in the end, Your Majesty will not even leave a list of ministers who care for your life, which is indeed exactly what you want." ”

Regarding the aftermath of the Empress Beimang, it is destined to be a secret mourning, the old woman clearly refused to "add oil" to the heavens when the oil ran out of lamps, and she knew that her time was short, so she greeted the Taiping Ling Li Mibi early, once she could not survive the end of the Beicheng Campaign, then on the grounds of occasional autumn cold, all the government affairs of the Beiting Capital were handed over to the Taiping Order to act cheaply, and she had already replaced the relevant personnel in charge of the large and small seals with the confidants of the Taiping Order. The three dynasties Gu ordered the old minister Yelu Hongcai to die, so that if it weren't for Li Mibi who could barely restrain this big master of chess and sword music, no one in the entire grassland would be able to argue with it, and it was very likely that the next candidate for the lord of the grassland would be in charge, after all, His Majesty the Emperor never mentioned who she wanted to inherit the throne, and in the last words, he was still very cold to his son Yelu Hongcai, "My son, I am not Xiao I" , This sentence has been widely spread in the grassland, fortunately the word Xiao was not replaced with filial piety, otherwise Yelu Hongcai may be really restless, after all, the descendants of Yonglu are not similar to the ancestors of Xiongjie, one generation is not as good as one generation, which can be explained by providence. To a certain extent, Yeluhong was able to live to this day, and even be able to control 400,000 soldiers, isn't it due to the "weak prince is not an iron-blooded emperor", otherwise the two tigers compete, how can the young tiger live?

Li Mibi's heart-wrenching words did not make Taiping Ling's face change in the slightest.

This old man, who once threatened to buy Tai'an in black and white, is thinking about the weight of some chess pieces in his heart.

The crown prince Yelu Hongcai is naturally not as mediocre and useless as the world mistakenly believes, but the private meeting with Wang Du made His Royal Highness the prince completely lose the favor of His Majesty the Emperor.

Dong Zhuo, the youngest and lightest general in the grassland, His Majesty the Emperor has always been quite important, but he has a male temperament and is difficult to control. Even the best person in the world, as long as he becomes the emperor, may do the worst thing in the world. In fact, the world can also be divided into two kinds of people, the emperor, and all other people.

Yelu East Bed, without the protection of his grandfather Yelu Hongcai, will it collapse?

Murong Baoding, is it possible to become a lifesaver for the entire Murong family?

Could Tuoba Bodhisattva, the loyal guardian saint of the grassland, ever think about adding a yellow robe? After all, the presence or absence of His Majesty the Emperor is a world of difference for Tuoba Bodhisattva.

......

Taiping Ling finally came back to his senses, turned his head and smiled: "I, you, Xu Huainan, seem to have lost." ”

Li Mibi, who didn't expect the Taiping Order to say this, was stunned, and then put his hands behind his back, and sneered: "Each has its own way of living, Xu Huainan has the deepest thoughts, so he lives the most tired." You're not much better, and people who can play chess tend to be more likely to win. Only I think the least, and live the most relaxed. ”

Taiping Ling laughed softly: "You don't think the least, but admit defeat the earliest." ”

The big spy with a blank face neither admitted nor denied it.

Taiping Ling sighed, "I'm going to work hard for you next." ”

Li Mibi said angrily: "Where the responsibility is, why do you have to say it." ”

Taiping Ling stretched out his hand and patted Li Mibi's shoulder, and joked with a smile: "That's right, you are the kind of gloomy person who likes to hide and calculate, and you can enjoy it." ”

The shadow prime minister of Beimang, who is accustomed to being alone, is obviously not suitable for the actions shown by the other party, and frowned, but there is some depression in his heart, but it is a little lighter.

The night was dark.

Outside the house, the two old men with the greatest power in the grassland walked down the steps one after another and parted ways at the gate of the small courtyard.

After Taiping Ling walked far away, he suddenly looked back, his old tears were rampant, and he said in pieces: "Miss Murong, Miss Murong ......"

On the sickbed in the house, the old woman gently grabbed an old mink fur on her side, covered her body, and slowly fell asleep.

Her withered fingers brushed lightly over the mink.

Like the little girl with a peach blossom face, she was in a foreign country, and when she saw the young man from Liaodong for the first time, she was like a spring breeze.

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Three years of auspicious charms, winter.

The Central Plains was unstable, and the balance of power in the north and south of the Guangling River was originally in a hurry, but the situation took a sharp turn for the worse in an instant, because Chen Zhibao, the king of Shu, and Zhao Zhu, the prince of Yanyi, were just two people and two horses, without any escort, and went to Wu Chongxuan's army commander tent to persuade the general of Zhengnan, who led the army with the rank of Shangshu, to defect again.

The rebels marched north, and Lu Shengxiang, whose army was stationed in the southern part of Gyeonggi, was in a predicament in the blink of an eye.

Huang Zi Gongqing of the temple in Tai'an City, after hearing this terrifying news, everyone was like ants in a hot pot.

Thanthanon, who had already resigned due to illness, had to reparticipate in the big and small court meetings, and only then did he settle down.

In the middle of winter, the weather is cold and the hearts are cold.

A carriage slowly drove out of Huan's Mansion and came to a dilapidated mansion just across the street, the plaque had long been removed and had become a borderless place.

The old man stepped out of the carriage with two jugs of wine, climbed the stairs, and reached for the seal that had been affixed to the door.

Several Zhao Gou spies hidden in the shadows, although they were of extremely high rank, they all turned a blind eye to them with interest.

The old man held two jugs of wine to his chest, and pushed open the door with great difficulty with one hand.

The old man walked around the corridor and came directly to the study, some of the books had been moved, some of the books were still left, and those who moved away were actually just eating dust, nothing more than changing places.

There was still only one chair in the study.

Back then, the government and the opposition, except for Zhao Li and Zhao Dan, the two kings of Liyang, I am afraid that only he Huan Wen could sit here with a big grin, and occupy the magpie's nest with peace of mind.

Huan Wen bypassed the empty bookcase, put the two jugs of wine on the table, wiped off the heavy dust with his sleeve, and then slowly sat down, if it was in previous years, the purple-haired and blue-eyed man would have stood at the window.

Tantanong looked at the window and said softly: "Biyan'er, you see, you picked on your son and left, and you didn't get the peace and prosperity in your mind, but only in exchange for such a smoky and miasma bullshit situation, don't you feel guilty? You, too, will die early, otherwise you will regret and die!"

The old man snorted coldly, "That is, you are not here, otherwise I really want to slap you on the head, I really fight, I am not to scare you." ”

The old man fell silent.

Guangling Daojie made Lu Baijie not know whether he was alive or dead, but Wang Xionggui was deported for some reason, whether it was his life or reputation, he escaped, and finally under the escort of Lu Shengxiang's troops, he was about to return to the capital.

In the matter of welcoming back Wang Xionggui into Beijing, the Tai'an City Dynasty will still have the leisure of disputes, originally as Wang Xionggui's heir to Zhang Lu, the former Hubu Shangshu and the current triple identity of a strategic envoy,

The Ministry of Rites Shangshu Sima Puhua went out of the city to greet him, of course, but Guangling Road fell, resulting in half of the country being eroded, Wang Xionggui was extremely downtrodden, even if he returned to Tai'an City alive, what a bleak situation in the future, it is conceivable that the status of the Ministry of Rites Yamen in the Liyang Imperial Court is getting higher and higher, and now it is second only to the Ministry of Heavenly Official Yin Maochun, Sima Puhua is worried that the reputation of the capital will be damaged, and he is more afraid of being angry by Wang Xionggui for the young son of heaven, so he is naturally not willing to take over Wang Xionggui's hot taro in person, and the second in command of the Ministry of Rites, Jin Lanting, has been in the Shilin Poetry Meeting many times, openly scolding Wang Xionggui for delaying the court, and he will never go out of the city to greet himIn fact, the Liaodong Shizi Group, which has recently risen in the temple, has made up its mind to beat the water dogs and publicize Wang Xionggui's unbearable responsibility in Tai'an City. If it weren't for Qi Yanglong's final decision to stop the intensifying crusade, I am afraid that it would not be the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites who greeted Wang Xionggui, but the officials of the Criminal Department who carried shackles.

Huan Wen is used to seeing the ebb and flow of the Huan Sea, so he doesn't have much feeling about it, but he is just a little discouraged.

In the peaceful and prosperous era, Wenchen's words were excessive, just like the comments on Xu Xiao during the Yonghui period, which was harmless, and the lame Xu who was far away in the northwest was too lazy to care.

But now it's not the same as it was back then.

Huan Wen thought of that young man for no reason, Zhang Bianguan, the youngest son of the blue-eyed child, who was said to be the most noble but tasteless official son in the capital, was said to be a wreck who didn't even dare to bully men and women.

Among the blue-eyed children, only Zhang Bianguan likes him the most, and he is not afraid to see him, and he dares to make any jokes.

Huan Wen heard that after Zhang Bianguan left Zhang's mansion that year, he married a woman from a small family, and lived an ordinary life in the streets and alleys, and his favorite thing to do was to wander around and watch those pigeons fly in the sky of Tai'an City, day after day, year after year.

It's a pity that in the end, such a young man who had no quarrel with the world also died.

The old man opened a jug of wine, tilted his head and took a sip, suddenly feeling a little sad.

The old man carried the jug of wine, got up and went to the window, and pushed the window to look at the gray sky.

If you want snow in the evening, can you drink a glass of nothing?

A pot is so-so.

The old man took a sip of wine, wiped the corners of his mouth, and said with a smile: "Hey, you can't drink this kind of alcohol, I'll kill you." ”

The Tantanon, who had always stood tall and tall after three dynasties, sighed and whispered, "I almost forgot, you are a person who doesn't like to drink." ”

The old man looked like a child and said indignantly: "There are people in the world who don't like to drink!

Tantanon leaned his back against the window, looked at the bookcase, and took small sips of wine, and soon drank most of it, a little drunk.

Small but not drunk, life to the state.

The old man seemed to see a purple-haired and blue-eyed scholar, sitting behind the bookcase, smiling at him.

Tan Tanong remembered that when he and that guy were young, they studied the sage books together in their classmates, slowly lifted the wine jug, and laughed softly: "Mo Daoru is wrong, and his reading is not worth it." ”

The man seemed to answer, "The court is Tian Shelang, and the twilight is in the Tianzi Hall." ”

Tantanong continued to recite, "Zhu Zigui of the Manchu Dynasty is full of scholars." ”

In the end, the two read together: "The Son of Heaven is a hero!"

Tantanon laughed, not daring to look there again, for fear that he would never see the figure again in the next moment.

The old man drank the last sip of the jug, rested the jug on the window railing, and staggered out of the study.

Only my generation has failed to live up to the sage books, and the sage books since ancient times have failed me.

On the bookcase, there is a pot of fine wine that no one drinks.

Since ancient times, the sages have been lonely.

Only the drinker keeps his name.

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Surprisingly, after Wang Xionggui returned to the capital, His Majesty the Emperor was not only angry, but comforted the Guangling Taoist envoy at the court meeting, but learned that the life and death of the Tangxi Sword Immortal Lu Baijie was unknown, and he had not been attached to Zhao Bing, the king of the rebellion, the young emperor's expression seemed to be a little touched.

After hearing the news, not only the emperor Zhao Zhan breathed a sigh of relief, in fact, all the court officials from Jiangnan Province were relieved, the four major tycoons in Jiangnan, after Lu Daolin and Lu Baijie successively served as a Shangshu in Liyang, the Lu family has been regarded as a latecomer, and has become the leader of the Jiangnan officials, once Lu Baijie, the leader of the Southern Party on the stage, betrays the Liyang Zhao room, it will inevitably be an officialdom disaster that affects the center of Liyang, I am afraid that the three high gates of Jiangnan Road, which are the same as the Lu family, in the depths of their hearts, more or less hope that Lu Baijie will commit suicide and die for the country instead of living a rich life, and take a step back and say, as long as Lu Baijie does not have any news, it is definitely a blessing in misfortune.

In fact, after the Chunxuelou accident, the performance of the generals was too disappointing.

Yuan Tingshan, the general of Jizhou, rebelled.

The old general of Chunxuelou, Song Li, who originally became the upstart of the Liyang Dynasty by virtue of pacifying the remnants of Western Chu, the real power general with the prefix of the dignified town, rebelled.

The son of the wealthy lord of Guangling Dao, Qi Shence, the first-class handsome man of the Shangyin School Palace, has just emerged, and he has also rebelled.

Moreover, it is said that the three of them led a cavalry army as the vanguard, and were about to enter the army of Lu Shengxiang in the south of Gyeonggi, which had not yet formed a tight defensive line.

The encouraging good news is not without it, the new Jiedu of Lianghuai Province has made Xu Gong transfer troops to the south, preparing to form a north-south defense line, and has already held several major passes and military towns in advance, so that the western gateway of Gyeonggi is temporarily worry-free.

The two Jizhou deputy generals, Han Fang and Yang Huchen, each personally led the elite cavalry to gallop south, echoing with the new Jing'an Daojie envoy Ma Zhongxian from north to south, so that the hinterland of the Central Plains north of the Guangling River would not be turbulent.

Cai Bai, the son of Cai Nan, the original Jiedu envoy, was promoted to the general of Hezhou under the strong recommendation of Han Lin, the envoy of the Economic Strategy, and quickly led his troops to Jizhou to reinforce Xu Gong, without any prevarication.

is also a local military general who holds military power, and on one side is a rebellious minister and thief, hoping to establish the work of supporting the dragon. On one side, the wind knows the strength of the grass, and the board knows the loyal ministers.

After Wang Xionggui, who was still a strategic envoy of Guangling Dao for the time being, returned to the mansion safely, he did not accept his wife's suggestion, and did not immediately bathe and change clothes to wash away the bad luck, but recruited two stewards in the mansion to invite two people who had not been in contact for many years, one was the Zhongshu Shilang who was second only to Qi Yanglong, the first assistant of the current dynasty, Zhao Youling. One is Yin Maochun, who is qualified to serve as the secretary of the Hanlin Academy. Wang Xionggui's two confidants and stewards were surprised, you must know that not only the master and the two adults had made it clear that they would not get along with each other before, but in fact, although Yin Maochun and Zhao Youling, the prince of Yonghui, were in-laws, they had always had a shallow relationship, and after the marriage, they were even more selfless.

Therefore, after the two of them left the mansion, they both felt that they had to be busy in vain, but neither of them expected that there would be a person from the front and back feet to visit, and the identity was prominent, Yuan Yu!

is also from the "Yonghui Spring", and he was also an official who was shining in Zhang Lu and had a bright future, and Yuan Yu was so talented in his early years, and even surpassed Zhao Youling Yin Maochun, who was the top three in the imperial examination, has always been the youngest of Tan Tanweng's most youthful juniors. It's just that because Yuan Yu's temperament is too loose, his knowledge is too high, and his edge is too strong, he was soon surpassed by Zhao Yin and the two in the officialdom, and finally even Wang Xionggui and Han Lin left him far behind, and finally made a comeback in the alternation of Yonghui auspicious charms, and successively served as two Shangshu, but then because he did not conform to the emperor's heart, he quickly left Tai'an City, and was degraded to Liangliao Road as a deputy envoy, and did nothing, whether it was Gu Jiantang or Jiaodong King Zhao Sui, they were not very concerned about Yuan Yu, and even the two Liao scholars did not treat this older and less assertive person"Mr. Yes", so Yuan Yu's entry into Beijing this time did not make any waves, but the group of juniors who had been deceived by Yuan Yu's unscrupulous predecessors to drink since they were children had a good gathering in Yuan Yu's mansion.

Wang Xionggui's youngest son, Wang Yuanran, the most famous son-in-law in the capital, drank flower wine for the first time in his early years, and he was abducted by Yuan Yu. For the sake of such trivial and shabby things, Han Lin, the former servant of the Criminal Department, who has always been known for his gentleness and frugality, completely broke off his friendship with Yuan Yu, an old and disrespectful guy. However, after so many years, whether it is Wang Yuanran, a group of idle gentlemen, or Yin Maochun's eldest son, Yin Changgeng, and other ambitious young people, they are all very compatible with Yuan Yu, who has the least elders.

When Zhao Youling and Yin Maochun, the two central bosses, came to Wang Xionggui's study before and after, the five most brilliant young people in Zhang Lu that year, except for Han Lin, who served as an envoy in the northwest, were all together.

After the four of them gathered and sat down, they were silent for a while.

As the host, Wang Xionggui raised the teacup and laughed softly: "I replace wine with tea, and Zisi will take care of you in the future." ”

Zisi is Wang Yuanran's cousin, which was given by Tantan Weng Huanwen. However, the four people here all know that there is a secret matter, at the beginning, Wang Xionggui was hoping that the four of them would be given the word by Zhang Julu, but Zhang Shoufu has never been interested in this kind of icing on the cake, and he has never opened Chrysostom with anyone, but he is a knowledgeable Tan Tanweng, who has always been a comer, whether it is a colleague in the officialdom or a friend of Shilin, he has always responded. Tantanon's officialdom is not down, probably because of this accumulation of bits and pieces. In fact, Wang Xionggui mentioned it casually at that time, how dare he expect Lord Shoufu to make an exception for himself, after all, what was the reputation of the young Wang Yuanran among the children of the family at that time, he knew it as a father, I am afraid that Lord Shoufu was not willing to look at Wang Yuanran with a straight eye, every year in the first month of the New Year, Wang Yuanran and several brothers followed Wang Xionggui to the Shoufu Mansion, and every time they were like mice entering the cat's nest, they definitely didn't dare to say a word. No wonder Wang Yuanran is timid, just imagine that even the sons of Shoufu are like facing a great enemy when they see Zhang Julu, and they don't dare to breathe, how dare Wang Yuanran make a mistake.

It's just that for some reason, Wang Yuanran's words are indeed from Zhang Julu's handwriting, but he just found an opportunity to relay Huan Wen and didn't want to make it public.

Wang Xionggui was overjoyed at that time, and it was not an exaggeration to cry with joy. It's just that Hubu Shangshu, who is well versed in the rules of officialdom, does not dare to publicize it to the outside world, and even on the side of his wife and son, he has never revealed the truth.

Yuan Yu was the first to speak, "What's wrong with this, Zisi is now a prodigal son, and he is no longer living in a mess like he was back then, it's a good thing, I, as an elder, of course have no reason to shirk." ”

Then Yuan Yu smiled and turned his head to look at Zhao Youling, and deliberately asked, "Lord Zhao, right?"

Zhao Youling glared at this guy, but in the face of Wang Xionggui's almost pitiful eyes, he nodded and smiled: "No problem." ”

Only Yin Maochun was left without speaking.

In the spring of Yonghui, Yin Maochun is extremely outstanding, otherwise he would not have been cultivated as a reserve by Yuan Benxi, the emperor of the previous dynasty of Liyang, and he was more important than the other person Song Dongming.

Yin Maochun, who has been in charge of the Hanlin Academy for more than ten years, is also the most worthy of the reputation of "peach and plum all over the world" today.

Wang Xionggui saw that Yin Maochun did not speak, nor did he force it, nor did he dare to force it.

Unexpectedly, after Yin Maochun put down the teacup, he said like gold: "Okay." ”

Wang Xionggui said suddenly: "The teacher once said that it is the duty of scholars to govern the country, and scholars to save the country are within their ability, but they must not be scholars to disrupt the country." ”

Yuan Yu snorted, "If I'm not mistaken, I said it." ”

Wang Xionggui was silent for a moment, "At that time, the rebellion in Western Chu was put down, and the chaos in the Jiang temple in Guangling Road, the three of you have never seen it with your own eyes, and you probably won't know that kind of scholar is only willing to show the various states of the world when life and death are at a moment. ”

Wang Xionggui laughed at himself: "After I pacified the Spring and Autumn Period and unified the Central Plains, I revised the history books of the previous dynasties, and I can always see some jokes, what water is too cool and the well is too small, what my house has four walls, no beams and no white silk." I didn't want to believe it before, but this time, I saw it with my own eyes and heard it, so I had to believe it. ”

Wang Xionggui stood up and came to the window where the snow was falling, "The celebration banquet of Chunxue Building, Chen Zhibao, Zhao Bing and Nalan Youci came together, and the momentum was violent, and downstairs were thousands of rebel iron armor, only Mr. Tangxi was the only one who stepped forward and questioned Zhao Bing on the spot. And I, Wang Xionggui, and Lu Baijie are also the feudal officials of the second grade, although they are angry, they dare not speak. ”

Wang Xionggui turned his head and asked with a smile: "I have always wondered, if the teacher was present at that time, what would he say and do?"

Yin Maochun fell into deep thought, and Zhao Youling smiled and said nothing.

Yuan Yu twisted his beard and said: "I guess I guess that Mr. who has never touched anyone in his life will be full of old punches against Zhao Bing for the first time." ”

Yin Maochun burst out laughing for the first time, without any scruples.

Similarly, Zhao Youling, who has cultivated officialdom to be called a great grandmaster, also let out a knowing laugh.

Wang Xionggui was dressed, turned to the window, and solemnly bowed.

Yuan Yu sighed, got up slowly, and also straightened his clothes.

Zhao Youling and Yin Maochun looked at each other and smiled, and got up at the same time.

Something to read a book.

No matter what other scholars in the world think and do, I, Zhang Lu, a scholar, cultivate myself, Qi family, govern the country, and level the world!

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In a marginal area of the imperial city of Tai'an City, the door of the small courtyard is half hidden, and the blind young man and the maid who depend on each other for their lives cook wine around the stove on a snowy night.

The maidservant girl named Xinghua said worriedly: "Childe, it seems that the world outside is getting more and more peaceful, when I went to buy vegetables, I heard that the three rebel vassal kings came all the way, but they didn't collide with Lu Shilang's army, and the price of rice in the capital has risen a lot, let's not hurry up and stock up on it, it will be troublesome." ”

Now the young man who is proud of the prince and proud of his white clothes said softly: "Don't worry, you can't starve us." However, the family has surplus food and does not panic, after all, it is good. ”

She wanted to speak again and again, and finally couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Childe, can we hold it?" Is it that as long as Gu Dazhuguo's two Liao border armies rush south to help, they will definitely be able to successfully quell the chaos? But even I know that Chen Zhibao, the king of Shu, is very powerful in using troops, and he helps King Yan and them to fight for the tiger, how is it good?"

Lu Xu, who was in charge of Liyang Zhao Gou, said softly: "That white-clothed soldier saint chose to accept Wu Chongxuan's army, not only because he wanted a quick victory, but also because it meant that the scenery in his farthest sight was not in this Tai'an City, but Gu Jiantang's Liangliao border town. ”

Xinghua looked dazed, "Huh? What does he think?"

Lu Xu joked: "Then only God knows." ”

She carefully handed Lu Xu a glass of hot wine, in the past few years of getting along day and night, the two have already had a good heart, although blind but naturally took the wine glass, when Lu Xu bowed his head to drink, she sighed: "Alas, it has only been more than 20 years of peace, and it will be chaotic again." ”

The corners of Lu Xu's mouth curled, "The two of us can probably be regarded as lucky, we just happened to have just lived in the past twenty years." In the early stage of Yonghui, and the people of the Central Plains after the summer of the third year of this year's auspicious symbol, the old people before and the children now, all have to live in fear. ”

She smiled, "That's what Childe said. ”

Lu Xu turned his head to "look" at the half-hidden and half-open door, his lips pursed, and his expression was quiet.

She looked at Childe's side face, her eyes were confused.

She didn't have any extravagant hopes, she just hoped that she could be by his side until she saw Childe's head slowly white, and Childe would never see her gray hair and unbearable old age.

Lu Xu slowly turned his head and broke the tranquility, "I have dismissed Zhao Gou's spy today, and I can say anything." ”

Xinghua hesitated: "Childe, do you feel lonely occasionally?"

The blind young man shook his head with a smile, "I, the chicken urn, am at ease." ”

Xinghua stuck out her tongue, "Childe is quiet and indifferent, it's really amazing." ”

He laughed at himself: "The well frog talks about the sea, and the summer insect speaks the ice, which is powerful." ”

She didn't understand well, so she didn't speak.

Lu Xu said suddenly: "I remember that there is a spring in my hometown, which is known as the ninth spring in the world by the Dafeng Chaocha Sage. ”

Xinghua stared at those autumn eyes, "It's really so magical?"

Lu Xu laughed, "The water floating copper coin must be fake, but it is like a glass of alcohol, it is a real thing." If we have the chance, we will use the spring water there to make sake in the future. ”

Xinghua nodded vigorously.

Lu Xu raised his head slightly and whispered: "This spring is the most lovely, and the spring breeze is eighteen times." ”

She asked curiously, "Childe, who wrote the poem, it's good." ”

Lu Xu stretched out his finger and pointed at himself, smiling gently.

Xinghua immediately said seriously: "What a good poem!"

Lu Xu pointed at her, "You don't shoot very well." ”

The apricot blossoms are a little embarrassed.

Lu Xu gently spread out a palm to the woman beside him.

She was like a lightning strike, timid and soft, and finally mustered up the courage to stretch out her somewhat cold slender and soft wattle and put it on the palm of his hand.

Lu Xu clasped her hand and said, "Xinghua, I'm blind, in the future, you can help me see those great rivers and mountains, if you see it, I will see it." ”

She choked up and said, "Childe, don't dislike me for being stupid. ”

Lu Xu shook his head and said softly: "Husband doesn't dare." ”

Outside the house, heavy snow fell on the world, and the hearts of the people inside the house were as warm as spring.

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Four years of auspicious charm, early spring.

The last heavy snow at the end of last year has not yet melted away.

Zhao Sui, the king of Jiaodong, swung his elite army southward, and at the same time, the elite cavalry of the Hezhou general Cai Bai and the cavalry of Yang Huchen and Han Fang successfully merged, and Ma Zhongxian, the envoy of Jing'an Daojiedu, declared that he had gathered 100,000 elites under his command and was about to break through to the east.

These good news made this year's first pilgrimage meeting add a lot of festive atmosphere that even the New Year has never had.

After retiring from the dynasty, after Sun Yin found Fan Chang in the crowd, he said that he had recently missed a remnant book, which was really a miracle, and his chess power skyrocketed, and he would definitely be able to make this ten-dan chess saint look good on the chessboard.

Fan Changhou originally walked side by side with Song Kaili, who also served in the Hanlin Academy, the two were like-minded and had a good relationship.

After hearing Sun Yin's provocation, Fan Changhou smiled and agreed, and agreed to compete in Sun Yin's house tonight, Sun Yin repeatedly reminded the big man that before coming to the door, remember not to forget to piggyback on the Liu Ji mutton that stopped the horse shop, Fan Changhou had to promise that even if no one arrived, he would never let the mutton miss the appointment, and Sun Yin gave up.

Li Jifu, the champion of the last imperial examination, trotted all the way, and when he came to the madman Sun Yin, he was a little panting, and after being blinded by Sun Yin, Li Jifu smiled shyly.

Li Jifu, who has a mediocre appearance and a wooden temperament, has always been ridiculed as the bottom of the first and third places in the Liyang Imperial Examination, neither a celebrity nor a meritorious person, not to mention that compared with Yin Maochun, who led the Yonghui famous minister, compared with the peerless leader of Yonghui Famous Ministers, it is far inferior to the same imperial examination. Li Jifu has been inactive for three years, and his reputation is not obvious. Now the next palace test is about to be ushered in, although there is no result yet, but last autumn's autumn meeting Yuan Qin Guanhai, no matter the style or bearing, is already a step ahead of Li Jifu, the son of the family Qin Guanhai is already famous in Tai'an City, and there are Jin Lanting Gao Tingshu and others to help advocate and build momentum, Li Jifu will naturally become a green leaf, and will be brought out from time to time to sneer.

The only thing that catches the eye of Li Jifu, an honest man, is probably that he is willing to be the follower of Sun Yin, a madman in Beiliang, and if he has nothing to do, he will go to Sun Yin, who has just been transferred to the Ministry of Rites, and every time he retreats from the court, he will follow Sun Yin's buttocks, as if he will not feel at ease if he does not do this, and the temple and civil and military have long been surprised by this. On the other hand, Sun Yin, who is really a non-stop master, quickly lost his official position after the debate and war of Confucianism in the Guozijian became famous, and within a year he was transferred from the Ministry of War to the Ministry of Rites, and it didn't take long for him to scold one after another, and the only one left who escaped the catastrophe was chased and questioned by other bigwigs almost every time he went to court, such as "Ma Langzhong, was he scolded by that one who blocked the door yesterday?" "May he continue to survive today?" Master Ma must hold on, I bet that you will be safe and sound this month! Whether or not next month's Yulu can be left in the bag depends on you!"

Soon, this horse squire inexplicably became a well-known figure in both the government and the opposition, which shows the arrogance of Sun Yin, a "petty official of the Ministry of Rites".

In the twilight, in the small rented house of Sun Madman, the two sides of the game were not Sun Yin and Fan Changhou, who boasted of their chess power, but a foreigner who did not look amazing, and the auspicious chess saint who had already moved the world was caught and killed on the chessboard, and after more than 60 hands, the former still did not fall behind. When Fan Changhou, who is recognized as "Fanzi" in the world chess world, has surpassed Li Mi, the national teacher of Western Chu, and is very likely to catch up with Huang Sanjia and Cao Changqing, the victory or defeat is between five and five, so there is a funny saying that "Xu Weixiong does not go to the capital, and Fan is invincible within one arm".

Several national players in Liyang chess were convinced, among which Yuan Yu, a famous chess player who wrote "Taoquan Yipu", said frankly that Fan Changhou was invincible, which was a misunderstanding, just because no one in the Beijing division could really drag the chess game into the middle game.

In addition to Sun Yin and the two of them, there are also Li Jifu and Song Kaili in the house, Sun Yin squatted on a small bench, carrying a large plate of peanuts, the gentleman is watching chess and is silent, and Sun Yin, who is not good at chess, is watching chess and talking nonsense, fortunately, the young scholar did not listen to his advice at all. Song Kaili did not watch the battle, and when he was flipping through a Fengban ancient book that Sun Yin had picked up and got out of nowhere, Li Jifu, who had no chair or stool to sit on, squatted directly beside Sun Yin, occasionally picked up a peanut from the plate, chewed it slowly, and if he took it quickly, he would be slapped off by Sun Yin, and Li Jifu could only look stupid.

After more than 80 hands, the young scholar threw himself in defeat, although this person's strength has been extremely shocking, the fly in the ointment is that the son is good, the fall is not enough, the posture is too on the table, and the chic freehand has no relationship with half a copper coin.

Fan Changhou raised his head, looked at the peer who was staring down at the chess game, and asked gently, "Brother Liu, dare to ask how many years you have been learning chess?"

The young man surnamed Liu raised his head and said with a smile: "Less than three years, I only went to Beijing to catch the exam, and I didn't play much, and after several friends left the capital last year, no one was willing to play chess with me." ”

Fan Changhou smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Liu is like a god on the chessboard, which is amazing. ”

Sun Yin laughed happily, feeling even happier than after winning Fan Chang, this candidate surnamed Liu was the one who even abducted and deceived the external reinforcement, so he finally tossed into this house, even so, if it weren't for Sun Yin's Beiliang identity, this guy probably wouldn't have come here to borrow. The young man's surname is Liu Minghuai, and he is also a native of Beiliang, and he is the only scholar who participated in the Autumn Examination last year, but his ranking is extremely low, and he can barely participate in the palace examination. It's just that Liu Huai can't be regarded as nameless, because there is a middle-aged Confucian surnamed Zhang who has no fame, and he helped Liu Huai copy the scriptures at the gate of Guozijian. After Liu Huai settled here, he lived in a simple place and devoted himself to learning, and the madman Sun Yin studied in his hometown of Beiliang Road, he was known for his "excellent craftsmanship", and at that time, even Yao Baifeng, who served as the left sacrificial wine in the Guozijian, was willing to make a name for himself in the premier literary world, and then sat firmly in the first place in Zhongshu Province, Tantan Weng Huan Wen, who also personally verified the matter, and had to teach Sun Yin to be a low-key person, while pinching his nose and humming and saying, "This son won the imperial examination, and he took things."

Liu Huai is here to prepare for this spring's palace examination, naturally benefited a lot, and although Liu Huai has a rigorous personality, but there is no arrogance, ask for teaching, spare no effort, several times to read the night to the incomprehension, must be written down one by one, and then only in the early morning, wait until Sun Yin, who needs to participate in the morning dynasty, get up and open the door, and then ask one by one, but although Sun Yin has to answer questions, Sun Maniac, who is quite angry when he gets up, still scolds Liu Huai a few words, "More than diligence, a little lack of qualifications", "Even Li Jifu's stupid is not as good" Something like that, if you don't get up and are not angry, you will pat Liu Huai on the shoulder and encourage a few words, "It's okay, the article is written like Li Jifu, it's not too embarrassing, after all, you are not my Sun Yin, Liu Huai Li Jifu and the like, once every ten years, but my Sun Yin is rare in a hundred years", "Brother Liu Huai, the ability of a scholar, not to see the skill in the palace examination, Yin Maochun has been the champion, but his teacher, our Zhang Shoufu was only the first in the palace examination?" Look at Li Jifu again, hasn't he also won the top prize, can he compare with me, a person who has never even participated in the palace exam?"

Li Jifu, who often lives here, always smiles and doesn't speak at this time.

Damn, you must know that although Li Jifu's career is not smooth, his imperial examination article is really a champion article that no one can find the slightest flaw!

In his Jingyi article three years ago, a certain senior champion bowed down and laughed in public, "How fortunate I am to be able to take the palace test in the same year as Li Jifu!

It's also a shame that Li Jifu never refutes half a sentence.

Liu Huai was only the gentle-tempered Brother Li at first, just with the same name and surname as Li Jifu, the champion of the first year of Xiangfu, and when he learned the truth, he had to persuade Sun Yin bluntly in private, at least don't laugh at Brother Li so much in front of him, but Sun Yin waved his sleeves and put down a sentence, "There are countless people who have been scolded and humiliated by my Sun Yin, and there are very few people who have been reluctantly recognized by my Sun Yin, Li Jifu is too late to be happy, where will he be angry!"

Liu Huai, who was quite close to Li Jifu after getting acquainted, was furious, and almost moved out of the house, but Li Jifu tried his best to stop it, and after the two exchanged heart-to-heart words outside the door, Liu Huai returned to the house, and after half a decade, Sun Yin finally resisted his impulse, but he was obviously suffocated.

In the end, Li Jifu scratched his head and smiled after Sun Yin forcibly swallowed the words that came to his mouth back into his stomach: "Brother Sun, if you want to say it, just say it." If you're not comfortable, I'm even more uncomfortable. ”

Sun Yin pointed at Li Jifu, looked at Liu Huai with a helpless face, and said proudly: "Did you hear that?!"

After getting along with Sun Yin for a long time, Liu Huai, who has learned a lot of unpopular mantras, couldn't help muttering: "His mother has no reason, and he has no god's law!"

Therefore, the three of them get along and get along quite well.

Liu Huai also knows that Li Jifu has a lot of real talent and learning, and the most important thing is that there is a more rare "Zhongzheng and peaceful", without arrogance and arrogance, and he is by no means the kind of person who "seems to be loyal and good, but in fact is treacherous".

Today, Liu Huai only knew that Sun Yin had chess friends to play chess at home, and after the two guests arrived, Sun Yin did not introduce his identity, only said that if he won that guy, he would take him and Li Jifu to the restaurant at the end of the street.

So Liu Huai only knows that the two of them have one surname Song and the other surname Fan.

At this time, when I heard the young man surnamed Fan praise himself as "like a divine helper" and said "amazing", Liu Huai looked a little strange, just me, a layman who learned to play chess by accident, you praise me so much, it's not appropriate, right?

Keenly aware of Liu Huai's gaze, Fan Changhou was also very helpless, he was not Sun Yin, and he didn't have the cheekiness to sign up for his name.

Sun Yin became more and more happy, grabbed the last handful of peanuts on the plate, gave half of it to Li Jifu, shook his robe after getting up, and then smiled evilly: "Liu Huai, do you know who this guy is?"

Fan short-first?

The bamboo tube poured beans, and such a large number of nicknames were shouted out to Sun Yin, and even Song Kaili, who was reading a book in the distance, couldn't help but laugh and shook his head gently.

Fan Changhou stretched out his hand to support his forehead.

Liu Huai was not stupid, he quickly woke up, got up and said, "Liu Huai thanked Mr. Fan for his advice." ”

Fan Changhou hurriedly got up and returned the salute, "It's just a discussion, I don't dare to advise." ”

Sun Yin rolled his eyes, turned his head to Li Jifu and said, "See, sour Confucian!

Without waiting for Li Jifu to speak, Sun Yin sighed and said, "Plus you, three!"

Just didn't wait for Sun Yin to continue speaking, Song Kaili had already said: "Don't work Brother Sun's praise, add me, four!"

Sun Yin came up with a sentence for no reason, and it was extremely straightforward, "Song Kaili, I didn't say you, since you are familiar with Yan Chiji, the uncle of the small country, and you can be regarded as a gentleman's friend, why bother with those gossips, alas, in the end, after cheapening Fan Short, you will intervene between the two of you." ”

Song Kaili, who was holding the book, took a deep breath and did not speak.

Sun Yin still didn't want to give up, and muttered: "Song Kaili, you must know that it will fade when it is thick, and you will be a good match, but don't be blind to the red line of the old moon just because you are angry." ”

Liu Huai and Li Jifu looked at each other, could it be that there is really a mystery here?

Fan Changhou, who roughly knew the inside story, couldn't help but smile.

Song Kaili raised the rather rare ancient book in his hand, "Three hundred taels of silver! Don't accidentally burn it, it's not even worth thirty taels!"

Sun Yin hurriedly stretched out his thumb and praised him: "Straight to the Yellow Dragon, use the soldiers like a god!

Song Kaili snorted coldly and continued to read.

Liu Huai asked tentatively, "Mr. Fan, can you play another game?"

Fan Changhou smiled and nodded, "Just call my name." ”

The two sat back on their stools and continued to fight.

Sun Yin, who was bored, lost his interest in watching chess, so he had to be in a daze.

Li Jifu doesn't have much interest in playing chess, and his chess strength is average, but he still enjoys watching the game between the two masters, and as for the chess products, he is naturally more than ten floors higher than Sun Yin.

Sun Yin said to himself: "It's a pity that Chen Shaobao and Yan Chiji are not here, otherwise the guys I can see will be in one nest." ”

Liu Huai is extremely focused on playing chess, in fact, Liu Huai is so distracted whether he reads or does things.

Of course, Fan Changhou, who doesn't know how many times he has played the score, can be said to be thunderous when he falls.

Song Kaili thought a little when he heard this.

Only Li Jifu smiled, just happy.

It's very strange, although he has known Sun Yin for a long time, but between the two, there is never any heartfelt words, Sun Yin always likes to think about things in a daze, and often wanders outside things. Li Jifu is by Sun Yin's side, and he rarely takes the initiative to speak, often just quietly reading books, thinking about the big and small things in the officialdom, and the high and low people in the yamen.

Sun Yin said to himself: "Actually, Fan Short is a big loser first, and he can afford to put it down, he is really suitable for being an official, not suitable for playing chess, first wandering around the places of the Hanlin Academy, Guozijian Chongwen Hall, not afraid of slow, afraid of fast." Song Chicks...... Oh no, what about Song Xiaofeng, but you are brave and diligent, three years as a waiter, five years as a scholar, ten years as the first assistant, oh no, the first assistant has to be my Sun Yin to be the first assistant, only then can it be regarded as deserved, Song Kaili, you still obediently be your one of the books, the big deal is that I will let you choose six books with you. Liu Huai, don't get out of the pile of books, be a teacher, there is no big deal, after you die, you will be a fart, and you will be given a medium nickname that is not up or down, what is Wenjie, Wenyi, Wenda, where is the beauty, isn't it scolding...... As for Li Jifu, you, make do with the practice in the public gate, remember to burn more incense and worship the Buddha if you have nothing to do, and if you are lucky, you can get a three-grade waiter, or a state assassin or something, but if you are unlucky, alas, you can only borrow money from Lao Tzu to survive, and it is estimated that marrying a passable little daughter-in-law is hanging ......"

Li Jifu nodded solemnly.

Yes, it seems that this champion is still serious.

Song Kaili shook his head again.

Before the night ban in the capital, Fan Changhou Song Kaili said goodbye and left, and Liu Huai got up and sent it to the door. Li Jifu left the house later, and Liu Huai helped carry the lantern to the corner of the alley, and then handed out the lantern.

Liu Huai clearly saw that when this champion Lang was gradually moving away, he was holding a lantern in one hand and blocking his vision with his horizontal arm in the other, and his shoulders trembled slightly.

Before going out, Sun Yin picked up the Fengban book that Song Kaili put on the table, and threw it to Li Jifu who was about to leave, and said angrily: "The book is borrowed from you, and the friendship is the friendship, and you have to pay it back! If you dare not return it, I will carry the dung bucket to your door and splash it at that time. Believe it or not!"

"Don't mother-in-law, get out of here!"

In the night, Li Jifu gradually moved away, and then walked faster and faster, striding forward.

In fact, for some reason, this champion of the rough officialdom has been borrowing money from his colleagues for some reason, but he has never gritted his teeth and never opened his mouth to Sun Yin, it is said that his family sent a letter to the capital, and he urgently needs a large amount of money to tide over the difficulties. It's just that Li Jifu's family, most of them naively think that Li Jifu, who is glorious and glorious to his ancestors, is destined to soar in the capital, who knows that it is not easy to climb in the officialdom of Tai'an City, if Li Jifu is not the first place that makes people red, but only a high-ranking Jinshi and the first, maybe life will be much better than now, and the worst will be much more abundant and have more friends. Taking a step back, even if it is an inferior jinshi who can be released to the outside place, or a fellow jinshi who can be lucky enough to fill the vacancy immediately, yes, it is the parent official of the shepherd, and if it is bad, it is difficult to have a clean breeze on both sleeves. It's just that he is the champion, and he has no family roots to add to the icing on the cake, and the predecessors of officialdom have no charcoal in the snow, how can Li Jifu turn into a dragon when he encounters a storm? He has already bent over the snakes of the predecessors in the capital, so Sun Yin may have said unintentionally before, the word "boil" is really in the same sentence.

No matter how difficult it is, in the end, it is the champion background, Li Jifu's future career, as long as there are not too many twists and turns, after all, it will go more and more smoothly, not to mention the extremely popular ministers, with the strength of the previous emperors of the Liyang Dynasty, there is really no champion who died halfway, and the worst is also bumped into becoming an official from the fourth grade.

Then three or five years later, Li Jifu can certainly afford the money for a book.

So Li Jifu is now secretly selling the book, even if it is cheap, there are two hundred taels of silver, for Li Jifu's family, a big hurdle, as long as there is this silver to open the way, it will definitely be able to step through.

The madman Sun Yin, since he is able to crown the scholar of Liyang in the imperial examination system, how can he be a dead scholar? Is it really ignorant of the world and unhumane?

Impossible.

Liu Huai returned to the house with mixed feelings, looked at Sun Yin, who was turning the book with Erlang's legs crossed, and said softly: "Even if I know that this is too much, I want to say thank you for Brother Li." ”

Sun Yin didn't turn his head, and said indifferently: "You thank me for him?" Hey, be careful that the elm pimple surnamed Li will be in the officialdom in the future, and he won't miss your love,"

Liu Huai said calmly: "Brother Li and I are a gentleman's friendship, as light as water, although the taste is not as good as wine, wine can quench cravings, but water can quench thirst." I never wanted any interest in dealing with Brother Li, since that is the case......"

Sun Yin interrupted Liu Huai's words, "Wrong, big mistake, do you know why looking at history, it seems that the fierce party struggles of all dynasties and dynasties are all true gentlemen who have lost to the ground, but hypocrites can be successful again and again?"

Liu Huai was about to speak, but was interrupted by Sun Yin, the madman stared at the oil lamp and said: "You don't know, even if you think you know now, it's wrong." The gentleman likes to call himself a friend but not a party, and the true gentleman is stupid to take it as a guideline, and he really does it, you must know that on the way to the top of the officialdom, the most taboo seems to be full of friends, but in fact he is isolated and helpless, and when he is in trouble, especially when the emperor and monarch are bored, the gentleman's help next to him will only backfire in many cases, why? Because they don't know who the biggest donkey in the world is. It is the hypocrites who are open-minded, and those who have the courage to bet all their belongings on the gambling table to make a big difference, that it is possible to help save the day. Having said that, don't think that hypocrites and real villains are empty stomachs of readers, let me tell you, whether the character of a scholar is high or not, and how many books they have read and how much fame and prestige they have obtained, has a certain relationship, but it has no necessary relationship, let me ask you, Song Kaili's father and grandfather, the 'two masters of the Song family' who were famous overseas during the Yonghui period, how well did the old master of Song write his handwriting? Of course, it couldn't be better, poetry and poetry are all refined, only prose, I guess after a thousand years, what are the top ten prose masters and the like, Song Kaili's father will still have a place. But this father and son, if they say that they will not be able to protect the late season, they will eventually be ruined, but the old head assistant Zhang Julu is dissatisfied with their hegemony in the literary world, and they want to add to the crime. This matter has to be said deeply, broken and said clearly, you have to listen to me until dawn, because there are too many secrets of the court and politics, the trend of the imperial examination in Liyang, the rise and fall of the world, the trend of public opinion in the south of the Yangtze River, the sinking of the two ministries of officials, etc., etc., I guess you have to listen to it loudly. ”

Liu Huai stood in place, stunned.

Sun Yin still crossed Erlang's legs, shook and shook, and said with a smile: "As long as you are among the temples, there will definitely not be many people who are truly like-minded, right? But you have to remember one thing, whether you are an official in Beijing or in a local government, there is a fixed number of chairs in the officialdom, and as soon as you sit down, there will definitely be fewer people." Officialdom feuds are far greater than the rivers and lakes, this wise saying is a certain great writer...... Well, that's what I, Sun Yin, said. When your position is high enough, there are fewer and fewer chairs, even more so, ambitious readers, if you don't lose your original intention in the ups and downs of officialdom, it will only become more and more painful, because if you want to let go of your hands and feet to display your ambitions, the more you need to hold the authority, and naturally you need a large group of colleagues and subordinates to do their best together, and you have to take care of all aspects of the interests one by one. To give you a simple example, if an official opponent throws dirty water on you, even if the emperor doesn't care, but half of the capital will follow you and say bad things about you? Or will half of the Shilin be blindly obedient? What's even more terrible is that even the common people will scold you when the time comes. What should you do? Scold back? You are a gentleman who has read the books of sages and sages, and you are all Huang Zi Gongqing, and you scold people to your face, and you sweep the floor, it is not like a word, right? Moreover, it also spoils the impression in the emperor's heart. What do you need to do? Do you want to be a friend? Do you want to build a Zhang Lu, do you want to be the leader of the Youth Party? Liu Huai, ask yourself, I can't give you an answer. I just want to tell you that if we want to keep state affairs smooth and politically clear, we will inevitably touch on all kinds of shortcomings that will eventually block the road of the government and the opposition, and the shortcomings come from bad governance, and it may be that good governance is being ignored by corrupt officials and wicked people, and it is more likely that officials who do not do things will be cold-eyed and indifferent. The one who talks is the most chic. Those who do things are the most scolded. The world is bustling, and it is nothing more than profit. I will finally tell you a sad fact, the reason why Zhang Julu committed suicide is that he saw that the children of the family control the court, in the end, they are used to being rich and noble, and no matter how important they are to money, the same temperament and behavior, the former is definitely not as good as the noble son who rises from the cold door, I don't mean that everyone is like this, but there must be not a few. After the latter suddenly became rich and rich, even if he could clean himself up, would there be people in his family who demanded excessively? Will they bully others in the local area? Will they become a wealthy and inferior gentry who run rampant in the land? After taking good and filial piety first and becoming an official, how many people dare to deny their unkind and righteous parents? Brother and brother Gong, my brother will help you study hard all the way to become a talent, if he says that I want to marry a wife and take a concubine, and I want thousands of acres of fertile land, will you agree? The husband and wife respect each other like guests, the wife has someone who has done evil, the east window incident, do you dare to let his head roll to the ground, would you like to see the wife who shares the same bed, washing her face with tears every day? If you join hands with wealth and wealth, and your children are married, but in the future, he is greedy and misleading the country, and he comes to beg you to open up the net, and make dozens of friends up and down the door, there are readers who you give the words, and there are yellow-mouthed children who recognize you as a godfather, but their lives are hanging by a thread, what should you do?"

Sun Yin finally stopped talking, probably because his mouth was dry, and he began to get up and rummage through the cabinets to find wine to drink.

Liu Huai was stunned and sweating.

Sun Yin finally found a pot of green ant wine, raised his head and drank it, then glanced at Liu Huai, and said with a smile: "For the sake of being rich and unkind, I'm not too afraid, those guys will die when they die, and the high-rise building will collapse, so I can't say that I, Sun Yin, will take the initiative to find trouble with them." But the four words are extremely vicious, and the people are poor and short-minded, are you afraid? I, Sun Yin, am afraid! He Zhang Julu is even more afraid!"

Liu Huai never moved, did not make a sound.

Sun Yin walked up to him and shook his arm in front of Liu Huai's eyes, "What's the matter, you're scared silly?"

Liu Huai's eyes were red, and there were faint tears.

Sun Yin handed the wine jug to the Beiliang scholar and quipped: "Don't be afraid, drink to suppress the shock." ”

Liu Huai shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I still don't drink it, I haven't drunk it." ”

Sun Yin rolled his eyes, withdrew his hand, went to sit on the threshold, and said with a hippie smile: "Well, then I will be blessed and have it alone." ”

Liu Huai sat beside him silently.

In early spring, when the spring cold and snow melt, the bones are the most frozen.

Sun Yin said to himself: "Take 10,000 steps back and say, people who have no relatives and no reason, no worries, one day finally in a high position, are you willing to do small good things, and are you afraid of doing small evil things? Anyway, these two things, I, Sun Yin, am neither willing to do nor afraid to do." ”

Liu Huai sighed.

Sun Yin has always drunk cattle and fast, swaying the small half pot of green ant wine that is expensive, and sighed: "Alas, I have a headache! In the future, I will never talk this nonsense to you, a fellow from Beiliang, and waste Lao Tzu's green ant wine. ”

Liu Huai said softly: "I have thought about it, I still want to be an official." ”

Sun Yin immediately laughed and scolded: "Dog, you are more elm pimple than Li Jifeng's elm pimple, when did Lao Tzu not let you be an official! If you kid don't want to be an official, how can you give me Sun Yin to be that officialdom helper in the future?"

Liu Huai said sullenly: "But I only serve as an official for myself and do something for Beiliang." ”

This time it was Sun Yin's turn to be stunned on the spot.

After a long silence, Sun Yin stood up, put down the wine jug, walked to his room, and said to himself: "It seems that I really figured it out, then I didn't drink in vain, and my words were not in vain." ”

Liu Huai hesitated, lifted the wine jug, sniffed it, turned his head and asked, "Did I drink it?"

Sun Yin, who had his back to Liu Huai, stretched out a hand and only bent his thumb, "There are about three sips of wine left, so you should owe me three taels of silver, for the sake of Beiliang fellow villagers, only you will be accepted...... Six taels of silver!"

Liu Huai asked, "How do you calculate the account?!"

Sun Yin walked into the room, closed the door suddenly, and said loudly: "My Sun Yin's ability to make art is the first in the world!

Liu Huai turned around, took a sip of green ant wine, and snorted.

Since then, there has been another drunkard in Tai'an City.

It's just that many years later, the young drunkard did not become an old drunkard, but became a peach and plum all over the world...... Brewmaster.

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Four years of auspicious charms, spring flowers.

Beiliang Huaiyang Pass has been to the north of the border area of Longjiao Prefecture.

A little girl with a mink forehead and a jade buckle around her waist, leading the red foal like a flame, walked slowly on the vast grassland.

Behind her, she followed closely three guards with old-fashioned expressions, one in the Xuan Realm, one in the Vajra Realm, and one in the second-grade junior grandmaster.

In this quiet grassland where there is no destined for war, just these three-person lineup is enough to make people staggered, you must know that now that the reckless war is in full swing, the master grandmaster has already set out, crossed the river dragon and the head snake, and the thousand-year-old Wang Ba under the pond have all followed the 400,000 army to the side of the North City. So a teenager can have these three servants, and the illustrious status can be seen. In fact, not only the three top masters, but also the six or seven hundred armored elite horsemen hanging from afar, there are also dozens of dead soldiers who are good at assassination lurking in the dark, and finally there are a total of sixty horse pens, wandering around in an orderly manner.

They are the crow lan, before the battle of the Longyaner Plain, they were once the only scouts in the world that could compete with the Liangzhou white horse crossbowmen! It was the elite that Dong Zhuo had spent countless efforts to train, and these sixty riding Dong family horse pens were the last seeds, but they were all used to ensure the safety of a little girl at this time.

But up and down the Dong family's army, no one dared to question half a sentence.

Because everyone knows that in the mind of General Dong Zhuo, this little niece who is orphaned by Pao Ze is more precious than all the county lords of the Northern and Southern Dynasties combined.

The little girl doesn't like to talk, but she has no arrogance and temperament, and she is naturally close, even the three master servants who escorted her aimlessly all the way like this innocent girl.

The Martial Arts Master of the Xuanjing Realm suddenly turned his head to look north, and in the farthest distance as far as his line of sight, several horsemen were confronting a grassland cavalry army of unknown origin, and soon half of the Dong family's private horsemen galloped over, quickly surrounding the four of them, and the remaining more than three hundred horsemen were heading north.

The haggard cavalry seemed to be exhausted, and the formation was stretched intermittently, and there were at least seven hundred horsemen in the field of vision of the six crow columns, and according to the news that had been transmitted from two of the horsemen, this cavalry numbered at least about a thousand horsemen.

The knight in the commander's costume raised his horsewhip high and shouted angrily: "Get out of the way quickly! Lao Tzu is chasing and killing the fugitives, it is the military order of the two people in Yuchan Prefecture and General Huyan!

The six riding crows turned a deaf ear and were completely indifferent, neither forward nor backward.

The angry commander of Beimang squinted his eyes and gritted his teeth, if he hadn't seen the more than three hundred horsemen who were even more obstructive to the eyes and more obstructive, he would have led his troops to rush over, six horsemen, no matter what you have the ability, it will also be a death!

After the young Dong family rider stopped his horse, he asked in a deep voice, "Who?"

Beimang Qianfu nodded sideways and spat fiercely, "Lao Tzu is the chief general of the Yuchanzhou Military Town, Yelu Xuanping! Don't you get out of the way?!

The Dong family cavalry general said expressionlessly: "I am under the command of General Dong, and the commander of the cavalry is Yelu obliquely. It doesn't matter who you are, just charge. ”

The commander lost his arrogance in an instant, as if his whole person was shorter, his lips moved slightly, but he couldn't say half a word.

In the entire thirteen states of the grassland, there are countless generals of all sizes and military towns, but there are only thirteen generals in the past twenty years, until Dong Fatzi, who was the king of the Southern Courtyard, became the fourteenth.

The same commander of a thousand horses, the same surname Yelu, the one who came from the north hated itchy, glanced at the six riding rails, and then looked at the more than three hundred horsemen, and confirmed in his heart that it was really Dong Zhuo's private horseman! Didn't you General Dong fight to the death in Huaiyang Pass and Beiliang to protect Chu Lushan? How could there still be cavalry soldiers who had the leisure to wander around the border of Longjiao Prefecture? and finally collided with Lao Tzu?!

His face was full of bitterness, and he said helplessly: "This Yelu general, I can't hide it, the last general is being ordered to hunt down and kill a master of the rivers and lakes who escaped from Dunhuang City, not only me, but also the other three cavalry armies marched south together, not to mention that we suffered heavy casualties, it was the spider web spy who died, and dozens of people died along the way." ”

The general of the Dong family frowned, and after thinking for a while, he said: "My little master is behind you, you can go around a mile away when you go south." ”

The commander of the thousand soldiers said with a sad face: "General Yelu, we are going south this time, I really want to lift up every inch of land to take a few looks, for fear of missing that master." Now that man is seriously wounded, he will definitely not be able to escape far, at most ten miles in front of us, there are people in my cavalry team who are good at pursuit, if you are worried that we will disturb your nobles, then I will only follow you with a hundred horses, what's the matter? General Yelu, you have a lot, don't embarrass me, okay? Just let me Yelu Xuanping beg you!"

Dong Jiaqi will hesitate.

The commander put away his previous slightly flattering look, and said in a deep voice: "I, Yelu Xuanping, have killed two hundred and twenty-three brothers, and they can't die in vain!"

The cavalry general of the Dong family raised his head and saw that the cavalry behind this person, with a small group of seven or eight cavalry and more than ten cavalry, were gathered together, most of them were led by a knight who was not wearing iron armor, like opening a big net, galloping southward in a dense and orderly manner.

He finally nodded, and said slowly: "I can make a claim and allow you to go south with a small number of cavalry, a hundred cavalry." One more, I'll kill one. ”

Although the cavalry general of the Jade Toad Prefecture Military Town was a little regretful, he was more happy.

This man was also a resolute man, and with a wave of his hand, only more than ninety horsemen were left to follow him straight south, and the rest of the cavalry continued to gallop forward on both sides of the strip a mile away.

Beside the little girl with a mink forehead, the encirclement of three hundred horsemen somehow expanded outward fifty paces at some point, and three personal servants stood side by side behind the girl.

Seeing this scene, the Dong family's cavalry Yelu squinted his eyes and remained silent.

In the hundred-strong team of chasing the cavalry, three knights who seemed to be riding their horses indiscriminately would occasionally dismount and carefully observe the grass, and would pull up a grass and put it on the tip of their noses to sniff, gradually moving south along the edge of the circular cavalry formation, and finally turned over on their horses, and after the three of them met their eyes, one of them shook his head at the military town horseman.

Yelu Xuanping's expression was complicated, he didn't know whether he was disappointed or relaxed, and after carefully glancing at the little girl from the corner of his eye several times, he hugged his fists and thanked the Dong family rider not far away: "No matter what, the last general has thanked General Yelu!"

The two horsemen have the same surname and the same official position, but the one who calls himself the last general knows that he has nothing to do with the other party.

Yelu said calmly: "Thank you for your hard work. ”

The cavalry, like the autumn hunt of the steppe, continued to pursue its prey south.

After the cavalry disappeared from view, Yelu, who rode his horse to the little girl, sat on his horseback, and he had already reached out and pressed the hilt of his sword, staring at the grass not far to the south.

At the same time, the three martial arts masters all turned around, pointing to the Xuan Realm to completely block the little girl's figure, and the other two were more than ten steps apart.

It was Tao Manwu's little girl who poked out her little head and shouted softly, "Come out." ”

There was not the slightest movement.

She raised her voice and kindly reminded, "It's useless for you to hide any longer." ”

Finally, the grass loosened slightly, and then exploded with a bang, and an unusually burly figure slammed into Tao Manwu's side, and the rainbow light drawn out by the two thick chains stabbed the little girl's left and right chests respectively.

The little girl hurriedly shouted, "Don't kill!"

Even if it was a little later, I was afraid that the assassin would be accused of breaking his neck.

The servant had already arrived in front of the Assassin, his left fingers on the man's neck, and his right hand clenched into a fist, just inches from the Assassin's heart.

Tao Manwu's two servants, each clutching a chain that protruded from the Assassin's shoulders, and at the end of the chain hung two large short knives.

The little girl wanted to step forward, but Yelu showed an anxious look for the first time, turned over and dismounted, squatted down in front of her, and said in a firm but gentle voice: "Little princess, don't approach!"

Tao Manwu snorted, and then shouted to the old man: "White-haired grandpa, my name is Tao Manwu, I won't hurt you, and, moreover, ...... You're going to die soon. ”

The white-haired old man's eyes lit up, "Little girl, what do you say your name is?!"

Tao Manwu shouted loudly: "My name is Tao Manwu!"

Then she said something that no one understood, including Jerod, "I know that man!"

The old man laughed hoarsely and in a low voice, without the slightest sorrow of dying at all, only inexplicable pleasure, "Okay, good! What an endless road! God, I owe you my surname Chu once!"

Tao Manwu tugged at Yelu's cuffs and said seriously: "Brother Xuan, can I say a few words to the white-haired grandfather?" Don't worry, I know he won't hurt me, don't lie to you!"

Yelu was the only one who knew the little girl's talent, and touched her little head affectionately, "But I and the three elders have to follow you, okay?"

The innocent little girl nodded vigorously, and the chick pecked at the rice, which was cute.

She hurried forward, followed by Jerod and two servants.

Tao Manwu was five or six steps away from the burly old man and the Finger Xuan Realm, she suddenly sat on the ground, sat cross-legged, and then raised her head and said: "What's the matter, old man, you say, if I can help, I will definitely help you!"

Yelu, who couldn't cry or laugh, slanted his eyes and motioned for the grandmaster to let go of his five fingers, and the latter wanted to speak again and again, but finally let go of his fist and moved three steps sideways, giving the little master enough vision, even if he knew that the assassin had reached the miserable point of running out of oil and drying up his qi, the master of the Finger Xuan Realm still didn't dare to take anything lightly.

The old man with his hair scattered also sat cross-legged with the little girl, squinted at the master of the Finger Xuan Realm, and snorted coldly: "In normal times, Lao Tzu will kill you with one hand!"

In fact, the old man had already given up his plan to escape, and the reason why he used his last spirit to hide here was nothing more than to leave himself a relatively decent way to die.

The world is big, and I was able to meet this little girl named Tao Manwu, I am afraid that it can only be explained by the will of heaven.

The old man lowered his head and gasped, his broad chest rose and fell violently, and after his qi was a little calmer, he looked at the little girl and said slowly: "Little girl, I heard that person talk about you, but I am very strange how do you recognize me?"

Tao Manwu didn't hide anything, and said in a crisp voice: "Before, I only knew that I should go this way, but I didn't know what I would encounter. I only know that you won't hurt me, old man...... And I can see things that others can't......"

The little girl thought about it, and quickly stretched out her hands and drew in seemingly random circles in the air, which was very sloppy and messy.

The old man was amazed and said: "Such a talented person is really unheard of! Before parting with him, I heard him inadvertently mention you, and I know that there is a little girl named Tao Manwu in Beimang......

Tao Manwu blinked his aura-filled eyes, radiant with brilliance.

In the deepest part of her eyes, there was some joy and some sadness.

The old man coughed, put his hands in fists on his knees, and said in a deep voice: "I was originally a princess...... In short, I was thinking about going to the Central Plains before leaving Beiliang, but I got a secret letter from another old man, saying that there was a mystery in Dunhuang City, hoping that I could do something in the end, but unfortunately I only did half of it...... Tao Manwu, you remember, let that person know as soon as possible, the sooner the better! Let him know that he has more than just a woman in the north, and more importantly, that woman has given birth to a child for him!"

Tao Manwu opened his mouth slightly, obviously a little overwhelmed.

The old man smiled bitterly: "I don't care if your girl will help, to say a word of conscience, it is reasonable not to help, no matter what, I finally die at ease." ”

After saying this, the old man reached into his sleeve with difficulty, and this action frightened Yelu and the three servants as if they were facing a great enemy.

However, the old man just took out a yellowed book that was not thick, gently threw it to the little girl, and laughed at himself: "He gave me a knife book, and later he added some moves himself, I can roughly understand it, but unfortunately I can't learn it all, little girl, I'll give it to you." ”

Tao Manwu took the knife book with both hands and held it in his arms, his eyes moist.

She knew that the old man was really leaving.

The old man stretched out his thumb, pointed at himself, and said with a smile: "Little girl, remember, the white-haired old man and I, my name is Chu Crazy Slave." He was the first peerless master he had ever seen in that person's life!"

The old man tugged at the corners of his mouth, closed his eyes, and said to himself, "Give the chicken leg soaked in the lake water, dog's day...... It's so delicious......"

Tao Manwu wiped his tears and promised loudly to the dead old man: "I promise you! I will definitely tell him!"

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Following Tantan Weng Huanwen, the master of science Yao Baifeng and the three, Liu Huai served as the left sacrificial wine of the Guozi Jian in the year of not being confused, and then for thirty years, for a full thirty years, he did not transfer to other pavilions and yamen, and finally died in the left sacrificial wine of the Guozi Jian.

During this period, the youngest left sacrificial wine in the history of Liyang refused the invitation of the new emperor of Liyang again and again, and did not go to be a scholar of the Ministry of Rites or a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.

The old man in his old age gave a lecture in Guozijian for the last time, and it was unreasonable to give a lecture specifically to a full hall of Beiliang readers.

The old man carried a pot of green ant wine in his hand, and before the class began for those well-dressed scholars who were sitting in danger, he raised his arm, shook the wine jug gently, and said with a smile: "Do you know how much silver this pot of wine sells for in the fourth year of Xiangfu? You will definitely not guess that even if this pot of wine is the best green ant now, it is only sixty yuan." I remember that in the early spring evening of the fourth year of Xiangfu, I drank wine for the first time, that is, the green ant wine in our Beiliang Road, which is called an expensive one, and someone only gave me a small half pot of three sips of wine, and he received me a full six taels of silver! At that time, I really didn't think it was delicious, I only felt that my throat was hot, if it wasn't for the penniless at the time, plus the wine I drank on credit in a daze, I would have spit out that sip of green ant wine. And what about this person, he is not ashamed to say that for the sake of his fellow villagers in Beiliang, the wine of three taels of silver sold me for six taels, do you say that this guy is not black-hearted?"

The young scholars who were studying in Guozijian burst into laughter.

The old man smiled and said: "It's really black-hearted, isn't it? Well, this guy is actually no stranger to you, he once served as the right priest of our country for a short time, but fortunately, he quickly rolled up and got out." His surname is Sun Mingyin, you guessed correctly, it is the 'Sun Lao Wu' of our Tai'an City, who has served as the master of Sun Yin Sun who has served as the five Shangshu of the six yamen of Shangshu Province in addition to the military department!"

The Beiliang scholars were subconsciously silent at first, but soon laughed again.

If you talk about other officials, let alone any of the second-grade Shangshu who is ranked in the center, even if you are a squire, you will never dare to laugh so openly.

But Sun Lao Shangshu is different, in his old man's words, it is, "You juniors, as long as you don't bully me and beat me on the spot because of my lack of strength, then it's all right, it's okay to scold me in secret, since I became a big official, I, Sun Yin, have never scolded people who are younger than my own officials, why? Anyway, if you don't like it, you just let him get out, and scold him for what he does? Only when the official is bigger than me and has a thicker voice than me, can I only scold and get over the addiction." ”

Sun Yin is not good-tempered, but has a very bad temper, but he is such a guy, either he hates and fears him to the extreme, or admires him so much, and there are few neutral people.

You must know that even His Majesty the Emperor once said with a smile: "Every time Sun Lao'er points his nose and jumps to scold people at the court meeting, no matter whether I feel reasonable or unreasonable at the moment, I will never be busy making up my mind, and every time I put it in my ears first, and then I will decide whether to scold him back or reward him with a few pots of good wine." ”

Sun Yin, who successively traveled to five yamen in Shangshu Province and became a Shangshu, seems to be very similar to Tan Tanweng, an important minister of the previous dynasty, but it is very different.

Probably the only guy in the world who can steadily overpower Sun Yin in the matter of scolding people is the old envoy of Beiliang Province who has only entered Beijing three times in his life, and the longest-serving feudal official in the world, Chen Xiliang!

Half a lifetime of scripture and a little envoy, half of the left sacrificial wine.

Nowadays, the Liyang Imperial Court is specially used to describe someone in the officialdom who has not moved for a long time.

The former refers to Chen Xiliang, and the latter refers to Liu Huai.

The old man waited until everyone regained calm, and said in a deep voice: "Your generation of Beiliang scholars, probably can't imagine the scene of the year, I still remember it vividly, in the year I left for Beijing to catch the exam, it was the last year of Yonghui, and it was the first year of Xiangfu to enter Beijing. Well, you seem to be pretty much the same now...... At that time, after two people knew that I was from Beiliang, they asked and answered in a weird way, one asked, 'Liyang Ke is heavy on scriptures and righteousness, light on poetry.' It stands to reason that the poor scholars of Beiliang have taken advantage of the sky, why are they still trying to get nothing every year?

The old man looked at those young faces, most of them looked indignant, and there were also calmness and irony after the turn of feng shui, and naturally some were completely indifferent and stayed out of the matter, and it was not surprising that the old man had seen a lot of ups and downs.

The old man just said indifferently: "I couldn't blurt out the sentence 'I'm going to fuck you!' It's not that I don't dare, but I'm afraid that it will further confirm the vulgar impression of our Beiliang scholars in the eyes of outsiders." You don't have that opportunity now. It's almost the same as you mocking other scholars like this, such as the Nanjiang Dao scholar who has been a street rat for many years. ”

The old man did not speak generously and bluntly about the fate of the scholars of Nanjiang Dao, and the old man had long understood that justice was only in his heart, never in the mouths of others.

Liu Huai just returned to the topic and said slowly: "I, Liu Huai, admit that I am the first to drink, the second to teach, the third to play chess, the fourth to write, the fifth to be cheeky, the sixth to quarrel, and the last to be an official." The world laughed and scolded Liu Lao'er, the eunuch of the country, for his ill-intentioned intentions, because he wanted to be the overlord of the literary world, Grandmaster Shilin, holding the handle of a country, and finally being full of Huang Zi, isn't it just my Liu Huai's protégé disciple?"

The hall was full of Beiliang scholars, and there was silence.

The old man laughed and said, "Ridiculous!"

The old man suddenly looked resolute and very majestic, not inferior to those central bosses with higher rank and heavier authority, and in a deep voice, they were all the heartfelt words that the old man had accumulated for most of his life.

"When I entered the capital in the year of the crown, I had a wish, that is, if I can enter the temple one day, I will not let Liu Huai's predicament of studying in Beijing be embarrassed, and repeat the mistakes of the past in the younger generation of Beiliang scholars!"

"When Liu Huai will not let Beiliang Shizi buy books and pens, the money will be even more!"

"Liu Huai will not let Beiliang Shizi talk to people, because of the local accent and make people white!"

"Liu Huai will not let the temple be above the temple, and there will be no Beiliang scholars to speak for the country and ask for the people's lives!"

This Guozi Eunuch Zuo Sacrificial Wine's face turned red, he paused for a long time, and sneered: "Now the world is afraid of my Liang Party, and they scold me for being domineering, especially hate me for having the hardest bones in the Liang Party!"

The statement of the Liang Party, in the Liyang Imperial Court, has always been unspeakable, no one dares to directly provoke, never thought that Liu Huai, who is regarded as one of the backbone bosses of the Liang Party, will personally appeal to it today!

"In my Liu Huai's heart, there is a Liang Party, among the older generation, only say that they are about the same age as me, some have left, and some are still alive, such as the old Shoufu Chen Wang, the old Shangshu Province Sun Yin, and the old Hanlin Yan Chiji, all of them!

The old man laughed and asked himself: "So many big people who will go down in history in the future are all members of our Liang Party, are you afraid?

The old man raised his eyebrows, and said with disdain on his face: "What? You say that I seem to have forgotten that old squire and old bachelor who hid in Jiangnan Province for a long time? Because he is not a thing at all, of course, I have been scolding him for many years. But you may not know one thing, this old thing also tried to claim himself as the Northern Liangren clan in his later years, but it's a pity that he Jin Lanting wants to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, but we are old ancestors, and we are not happy to recognize this grandson at all. ”

The old sacrificial wine claimed to be the sixth in the quarrel before, only before he became an official, he just listened to these swearing words without dirty words, this so-called sixth is full of weight.

The old man suddenly said in a loud voice: "In the Liyang Military Department, there have been three Shangshu Seven Waiters, Kou Jianghuai, Cao Wei, Yu Luan Dao, and the other seven Zhengsanpin Waiters, all of whom came from the Beiliang Border Army back then!"

"Forty years, the military generals are beautiful, half out of Beiliang!"

"How magnificent!"

"I'm Beiliang!

"Don't forget, your clothes and sleeves today, your waist jade, and your high-minded talk are the four years of the first year of Xiangfu, and the Beiliang Iron Cavalry has been exchanged for the cost of 320,000 people killed in battle!

"I don't care what other people think, and I don't bother to care. But you scholars from Beiliang, as long as I, Liu Huai, am alive for one day, I hope you can remember one day!"

"Finally, I would like to conclude by saying that you remember that man. ”

"His surname is Xu!"

He was already an extremely open-mouthed old man, and to the end of today, the old man had not taken a sip of green ant wine, and there was only one sentence left, and he never said it.

This sentence is too taboo and too heavy.

There is no Central Plains without him.

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Late spring of the fourth year of auspicious symbols.

The rain is as moist as a crisp.

The university scholar's mansion, a small pavilion near the lake, hangs exquisitely under the eaves.

Two peers stood side by side, one was the young uncle Yan Chiji, and the other was Kong Zhenrong, who served in the Yamen of the Ministry of War.

Kong Zhenrong said in a deep voice: "The military department has just received news that the Beimang army has suffered serious losses outside the northern city, but the reinforcement of grain and grass troops in Longjiao Prefecture has never been interrupted. The battle in Beicheng was miserable, and the Huaiyang Pass side was even more tragic, and the battle of Liang Mang had to drag on for at least two or three months. ”

Yan Chiji leaned on the window railing and said with a smile: "Our capital is now too busy to take care of itself, and it is estimated that you are concerned about these news." ”

Kong Zhenrong crossed his arms around his chest and grinned: " Li Hanlin, this guy is really amazing, the more he fights, the more brave he becomes, after becoming the only remaining white horse captain outside Beiliang Pass, especially after the end of the battle of Lao Yushan last year, he and Yu Luandao Cao Wei and Wang Jingchong three cavalry troops, with Kou Jianghuai Xie Xichen two Liuzhou main and deputy generals, beat the soldiers and horses of the Southern Dynasty including Beimang Gusaizhou crying dad and shouting mother, I heard that they are elusive, completely involved the only two remaining field forces in Beimang, three of which swaggered around the southern and western capitals, just like walking a dog. As a result, the entire Northern Mang and Southern Dynasties, except for the northern line of Longjiao Prefecture, have been beaten into a sieve leaking from all sides. ”

Yan Chiji subconsciously rubbed the stubble on his chin, and it seemed that his hands were getting more and more prickly. Back then, among the four people, Kong Wuzhi was the oldest and had a beard first, and Li Hanlin often laughed at him Yan Chiji was a little white face, but unfortunately he was ugly, 108,000 miles worse than Brother Nian, so even if he went to sell his buttocks, he couldn't sell a few copper plates.

Yan Chiji asked, "What do you say will happen if we stay in Beiliang?"

Kong Zhenrong had obviously thought about this kind of problem for a long time, and said without hesitation: "How can you not say, either you will be a sword and pen officer under Song Dongming in Qingliang Mountain, or you will be the military aircraft staff in white in Beicheng, but I am different, and I can be a white horse captain like Li Hanlin!"

Yan Chiji scolded with a smile: "Virtue! That is, the two of them are not here, so you can be so arrogant." In the early years, when they were present, you Kong Wuzhi didn't you obediently be a stuffy gourd. ”

Kong Zhenrong rolled his eyes.

In Beiliang Road back then, in addition to the nickname of martial idiot, Kong Zhenrong also had a well-known nickname in the Qinglou Goolan because every time the four of them drank flower wine together, only this stupid big man was a maverick, and he would never shout any beautiful Oiran Qing'er, and he would go straight to the point and say to the old bustard, "Call out the girl who hasn't picked up customers in your building for the longest time to accompany the wine." Kong Dashan not only named those women with good looks and tricky tastes every time, and the reward was definitely a lot every time, but also called to sit down next to him, although he didn't move his hands and feet, it is estimated that he couldn't get that hand, but he never snubbed them, Kong Zhenrong, a living Bodhisattva who rescued the suffering, had a reputation that resounded in the flowers and flowers of Beiliang Road back then, and was not much inferior to the reputation of His Royal Highness the Prince who liked to spend a lot of money. So much so that Kong Zhenrong and his father panicked at that time, for fear that this lone seedling in the family would marry a girl who could ward off evil spirits in the future, and wouldn't it become a joke in the entire Beiliang Road officialdom at that time?

So back then, the fathers of the four evils of Beiliang had different mentalities, and Xu Xiao, the king of the old Liang, had a big heart and didn't care at all. The old scholar Yan Jiexi is distressed about his son's reputation, the iron rooster Li Gongde is distressed about the silver of Bai Huahua, Kong Zhenrong and his father are the worst, I am afraid that the future daughter-in-law is a girl who can't walk at night, otherwise it will scare people to death.

Yan Chiji said with emotion: "Li Hanlin's sister seems to have never been married. ”

Kong Zhenrong pouted angrily and said: "Li Yingzhen, this girl has eyes on her head since she was a child, and she doesn't have a good face for anyone, anyway, I don't like her the most." I remember that she likes to scold me the most, and she dares to scold Brother Nian for being a pervert, Li Hanlin is her younger brother, Li Yingzhen is not willing to scold, and you are the most read among us, and you are less scolded...... As for your sister, well, it's really better than Li Ying. ”

Yan Chiji was a little helpless.

Xu Fengnian, Li Hanlin, Yan Chiji, Kong Zhenrong. Li Zhizhen, Yan Dongwu.

Six people that year.

Three people are in Beiliang, and three people are in Tai'an.

Three stayed in their hometown, and three went to another country.

The spring rain is continuous, and the lake is rippling.

Kong Zhenrong remembered something and said slowly: "I heard that the Han Shi from Rouge County, Youzhou, who was supposed to win the championship in the spring, was deliberately targeted by a certain big man, and found a reason that could not withstand scrutiny and pressed down. Especially in this palace test, after he was appointed by His Majesty the Emperor as Tanhualang, he was turned out of the old accounts, and the capital was boiling, some people said that he was the right attendant Lang Jin Lanting who served as one of the masters of the imperial examination, and some people said that it was Sima Puhua who made a hindrance from it, and intended to promote and later win the title of Huiyuan. But in the palace examination, he only got Qin Guanhai, who was the last equivalent to the Jinshi background, and now even my father is upset with it, saying that if Liu Huai didn't put on small shoes in the spring house, maybe he would have to take off the first place this time, plus Liu Huai was the first name of the Beiliang Dao Township test Xie Yuan, that is the Lianzhong Sanyuan that I have no predecessors in the imperial examination! As far as my father's good temper of a few sticks can't beat half a fart, these days I have been chattering countless times, and the wine in the house is almost not enough to drink. ”

Liyang Imperial Examination, Autumn is the local township test, and Spring is the Beijing Divisional Examination, so there is a saying in the officialdom that "the small autumn is then the big spring, and the carp jumps the dragon gate". Liu Huai, a scholar of the Northern Liang Han, actually became famous before the Spring Festival, when this person copied the inscription outside the gate of the Guozi Prison, and was able to let the contemporary Zhang family sage of the Yansheng Mansion help him copy the book, at that time, thousands of students of the Guozijian flocked to hear the news, and in the end Liu Huai was the last to know the identity of the middle-aged Confucian scholar, which caused a sensation in the capital! It's just that Liu Huai, who was so shy that he borrowed a small Taoist temple at that time, refused the daughters of countless dignitaries and dignitaries to buy scriptures, and also refused the invitation of some people to change their addresses. At that time, there were many voices in the capital who said that this person was nothing more than selling his reputation and reputation, waiting for the price to sell, and everything was only in the word "raising hope". As Liu Huai won the Tanhua in one fell swoop, the articles of the palace test gradually circulated in the government and the opposition, and these yin and yang strange words quietly disappeared.

As Liu Huai jumped into the court's field of vision, the good deeds of Tai'an City knew some inside stories, there were actually five Beiliang scholars who participated in the Autumn Meeting, but the other four gave up their qualifications and returned to their hometowns together, only giving all the remaining silver money to Liu Huai, who stayed in Beijing.

And Kong Zhenrong's father, Kong Dashan, was "recruited" by the Liyang Imperial Court and chose to leave Beiliang Dao, mainly because his brother and two daughters, who have been in business for many years, all married into Jiangnan Dao tyrants by mistake. And the two Jiangnan clans were quite popular in the officialdom of Tai'an City, and he himself disagreed with Zhong Hongwu, the commander of the cavalry at the time, and the general of Huaihua, so he came to Tai'an City, and only got a small official rank in the military department, and he was only four grades, and he was just promoted at the end of last year, and it is estimated that he will be caught up by his son in a few years. After Kong Dashan moved his family to Beijing, he was not less squeezed out by the white eyes, but although Kong Dashan was born in an authentic Beiliang general, his personality was quite open-minded, otherwise with the relationship between his son Kong Zhenrong and His Royal Highness the Prince, he would not have fallen to the point of leaving Beiliang. And Kong Dashan himself is a big old man, but he is one of the few military generals in Beiliang who openly admires scholars, not to mention that he looked down on Li Hanlin in his early years, and even he was lukewarm to His Royal Highness Xu Fengnian, who was cynical and disrespectful.

Therefore, the situation of Liu Huai, the son of Beiliang in Tai'an City, how can Kong Dashan not be full of indignation.

Yan Chiji, who was originally lying lazily on the fence, stood up and said in a deep voice: "Chunyu does have some insiders, but Sima Puhua, as a teacher, intends to bring up the younger generation of his fellow villager Qin Guanhai, which is true, but he did not suppress Liu Huai. As Liu Huai's master, Jin Lanting, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, when he read the papers, instead of belittling Liu Huai's articles, he greatly appreciated them, and the examination papers were full of beauty. ”

Kong Zhenrong was a little confused, he was confused, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the two of them served as the president and vice president respectively, could anyone still confront him?

Kong Zhenrong suddenly woke up, his face full of disbelief.

Yan Chiji nodded, "It was Chen Shaobao, who had previously refused to serve as a teacher, who shook his head at Liu Huai's article and said a few comments with little praise and more disparagement. ”

Kong Zhenrong shook his head vigorously and said: "I don't believe it! Although I have not really come into contact with Chen Shaobao's character, I can absolutely trust it! Chen Shaobao is by no means such a person, and he disdains such a villainous act! There is no need!"

That Chen Shaobao's prestige in the court, only from Kong Zhenrong's words, you need to know how best it is in the capital.

Yan Chiji smiled bitterly: "I didn't believe it at first, but this was said by His Majesty the Emperor himself, and Chen Shaobao was also present at that time." ”

Kong Zhenrong was stunned, stretched out his hand and patted his forehead, "No wonder Brother Nian talked about the things of scholars back then, and he couldn't figure it out!"

Yan Chiji's eyes were deep, and he said softly: "In short, Your Majesty appointed Liu Huai as a tanhua, and did not give him the top spot, it is not a kind of 'best of both worlds'." ”

Kong Zhenrong sighed, "Don't think about things that you can't figure out, and bypass the road that doesn't work, this is what Brother Nian taught me, I think it makes sense." ”

Yan Chiji said with a smile: "Brother Nian also said, when we meet a grandfather who can't be beaten, let's be a grandson first, and there will always be a day when grandpa teaches grandchildren a lesson." ”

Kong Zhenrong grinned and smiled for a long time.

Yan Chiji was silent for a long time, and waited until Kong Zhenrong finally stopped laughing, leaned on the railing again, and said softly: "You and Li Hanlin both think that I read the most, but Brother Nian is naturally smart, so he is more reasonable than me, but it's not right." I only figured it out later, in fact, at that time, our family secretly left Beiliang, in fact, Brother Nian knew about it very early, so the last time we got together, he would talk to me alone about that drunken talk, he said that the book said that there is no banquet in the world. Don't be afraid, the book also says that where you don't meet in life, when a table of banquets is removed, there is always an opportunity to set up another table of banquets. ”

Kong Zhenrong was speechless.

I want to say something, but I can't say it.

If you want to drink, you can't drink it.

Yan Chiji turned his head, his face full of tears, and looked at Kong Wuzhi, "I know, the four of us, plus my sister and Li Yingzhen, the six of us, will never have the opportunity to get together again in this life." ”

Kong Zhenrong nodded.

Yan Chiji sobbed like a child who made a mistake: "Brother Nian, he lied to me!"

Kong Zhenrong still didn't speak, just slowly raised his arm, pressed it on the young man's head, and rubbed it gently.

Just like Xu Fengnian treated Yan Chiji back then.

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Many, many years later, not only did the auspicious year name become a thing of the past, but even the new year name was changed to two.

The new Emperor Liyang had just ascended the throne.

It's still in this waterfront pavilion, and it's still the dusk rain of spring.

The old man who just refused to be retained by the new monarch and stepped down as the left servant of the province under the door, came here alone after teasing his grandson, and was a powerful minister in his career in the sea and an elderly scholar who will be a famous minister in the history of the future for some reason, for some reason, silently wept, and the white-haired old man looked very sad, but he couldn't stop his tears.

The old man, who was praised as the second in Tantanon by the government and the opposition, did not wipe it.

It's like a child who accidentally loses something cute, first howls and cries, and then after a few days, the sadness is not so heavy, but when he remembers it, he still snorts.

Three bowls of dry intestines are poured, and the breeze gives birth to two armpits.

The spring breeze blows the frosty sideburns, and the old man remembers the youth.

Many, many years ago, Lingzhou in the south of the Yangtze River outside the Saiwai River, the last king of Beiliang that no one has mentioned now, is still the absurd and carefree His Royal Highness. In those years, it was often possible to see the four young men walking out of the Qinglou in the middle of the night drunk, full of fat and powder, Li Hanlin, who had not yet joined the army to kill the enemy, and Li Hanlin, who had not become the captain of the White Horse, that is, Li Hanlin, who did not become the general of the expedition to the West, at that time, it must have been full of rouge lip prints. It's just that this guy is the most cunning, the amount of alcohol is not good, and the wine is even worse, and he secretly asked Oiran Qing'er to help him mix the water without saying anything, and while he seemed to be drinking heroically, he secretly dropped the wine out of the glass, and covered it up seamlessly, so every time he went home, he could still laugh with the Oiran bustards, and never delay the oil afterwards, and he should charge some interest. And Kong Wu, who is a great and kind man, can't bear the good wine, not to mention the two or three girls who have not opened a business for a long time and are especially grateful to the tears, where are they willing to promise this burly and kind young man not to drink? So he is far less sober than the bastard surnamed Li every time. However, good is rewarded with good and evil is rewarded with evil, Kong Wu is intoxicated, Li Hanlin is awake, of course he has to carry the latter. In the words of His Royal Highness the Prince of the World, is it the Kong Wu idiot who weighs two hundred pounds on my back? Are you Li Hanlin His Royal Highness the Prince of the World, or am I? And the young scholar who was still nicknamed Yan Eat Chicken back then was no longer afraid of anything and was scolded by his father after returning home, and often every time before entering the Qinglou, he secretly cheered himself up, and tonight this time he must touch the chest of a certain little lady, or else he would have the courage to kiss a little mouth? In short, he couldn't let the three brothers laugh at him for having a thief's heart or not a thief's guts! It's just that every time I leave the gentle township of Yingge Yanyu, the young reader will be drunk and unconscious, telling himself, it's okay, try it next time, it's really a real man!

Li Hanlin, a slender teenager, staggered with a sturdy teenager Kong Wuzhi on his back.

And His Royal Highness the Young Prince, carrying the young Yan Chiji, who is not heavy, is of course more relaxed.

At the earliest, Li Hanlin didn't have no doubts, why didn't he just let Hu Cong go back to the carriage with Kong Wuzhi eating chicken on his back?

His Royal Highness said that we are brothers.

The four young men all felt that there seemed to be nothing more reasonable in the world at that time.

At that moment, the old man choked up and said, "Brother Nian, you are a liar." ”

That person promised the Liyang Dynasty, or the people of the world, that he would never enter Tai'an City again in this life.

But at this moment, a warm palm rested gently on the old man's head.

No matter how many years have passed, there is still such a familiar ridicule and laughter, "Yo, eat chicken strictly, crying nose! Is your father not allowing you to play with me, or is your sister talking bad about me again? What a big deal, Brother Nian, I'll take you to drink flower wine! The old rules, Li Hanlin pays the money, Kong Wu is stupid and leads the horse! Walk!"

The old man did not look up, lest it was a dream.

Press and hold the palm of Yan Chiji's head, lift it slightly, and then gently pat it down.

The man laughed and said, "Yan eats chicken, it's stupid to read?!"

Yan Chiji turned around slowly, his eyes widening with all his might, his lips trembling.

This scholar of Wuyingdian, who ranked first among the twelve palace scholars of the Liyang New Dynasty, this very old man who was known as "every major event, with the most calm spirits of the strict bachelor", tears flowed through the criss-crossing furrows on his thin cheeks, he wiped his face indiscriminately, cried and laughed, and said softly: "Brother Nian, I miss you very much." ”

The guy opposite him, who only had slightly frosty white temples, showed a bright smile that was still like a teenager back then, raised his sleeves, helped Yan Chiji wipe his tears, and said, "I know, I know." ”

Not far away, there were two people who seemed to be whispering, but their voices were not small.

"Look, Kong Wu, I said a long time ago, this guy who eats chicken likes our young brother, but he just couldn't take that step back then. ”

"Huh, it's really true, I didn't realize it before, but I believe it this time!"

"Kong Wu idiot, you said that Yan eats chicken at this age, is it late?"

"Alas, there is no big problem with Yan eating chicken, but he is thin-skinned, and if he wants to replace me, he will tell Brother Nian directly sixty or seventy years earlier. ”

"Get out, then your surname Kong has already crawled out of your mother's womb?"

Now Yan Chiji, who has some ears but is absolutely not deaf, was suddenly furious, and he didn't have the demeanor of a scholar anymore, "Li Hanlin, Kong Zhenrong!

Li Hanlin looked up at the moon, and Kong Zhenrong looked left and right, extremely skillful and perfect.

No matter what, Yan Chiji always held the hand of the person in front of him tightly, unwilling to let go.

Xu Fengnian looked at Yan Chiji, then turned his head to look at the grinning Li Hanlin and Kong Zhenrong, and said softly: "It's still there, it hasn't changed." That's nice. ”

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