"Tell the person who posted the message that I'll be at the appointment."

Shen Yichen said to his entourage, regardless of Ma Yu's status as the current head of the cabinet, just the title of a former examiner, this face cannot be denied.

You must know that the Ming Dynasty's seat division ranked first among the three divisions, and once there was any rumor of "bullying the teacher and destroying the ancestors", it would be pointed out by thousands of people, and at worst, it would be spurned by thousands of people.

Respecting teachers and placing them in officialdom has also become a double-edged sword in a sense.

"Yes, proprietor."

Watching his entourage retreat, Chen Qingtong asked curiously: "Husband, Ma Yuanfu is in such a hurry to pick up the wind and wash the dust for you, what do you want to do?" ”

"I guess I'll have to go to find out."

Shen Yichen smiled, not to mention that Chen Qingtong was curious, even he was a little puzzled, what Ma Yu wanted to do.

"That husband will take a bath and change his clothes after eating, don't let Ma Yuanfu wait for a long time."

"Don't mind going to the Qinglou?"

Shen Yichen quipped, but he could hear Chen Qingtong's jar of vinegar in front of him.

"Don't be cheap, if the other party wasn't Ma Yuanfu, I wouldn't be so good at talking."

Chen Qingtong said with disgust, in fact, she knew in her heart that Shen Yichen was not that kind of person, and her husband should focus on his career and achievements, how could he be obsessed with his children's private affairs.

"Madame is right!"

Shen Yichen hurriedly nodded and admitted, and after taking two bites of food, he asked his entourage to prepare hot water to bathe and change clothes.

After all, after most of the month's sailing, wanting to take a bath or something in peace is almost a luxury, and there is a faint smell on the body.

When night fell, Shen Yichen changed into a green robe and rushed towards the "Agarwood Building" agreed by Ma Yu.

Originally, Shen Yichen was not very familiar with the land of wind and moon in Jingshi, not to mention that he had been away for more than a year, so it was more similar to Tubaozi entering the city. So sitting in the carriage, he lifted the corner of the door curtain, and asked the coachman of the public mansion: "Little Liu, do you know about the Agarwood Building?" ”

"Returning to Gongzi, the Agarwood Building is a newly opened green building in the Jingshi a year ago, and in the Oiran selection, it defeated the Xueling Pavilion in one fell swoop and became the first floor of the current Jingshi."

Is it?

Hearing this, Shen Yichen was a little interested, he had seen the Oiran Qin Liushuang of the Snow Pavilion, he had seen it several times, and that pure temperament that was charming but not demonic had indeed reached the standard of sinking fish and geese.

Even Qin Liushuang was defeated, and Xue Ling Pavilion also lost the name of the No. 1 Qinglou in Beijing, it seems that there is something in this Agarwood Building.

"And what's the name of the new Oiran?"

"It seems to be called a dream."

Dream clouds?

Hearing this flower name, Shen Yichen's first reaction was to think of a sentence by Li Qi in the Song Dynasty.

Dream clouds and smoke trees, according to the appointment of Jiangnan Road.

If nothing else, the name of this Oiran should also be taken from here.

It didn't take long for the carriage to wobbly and stop in a lively street. Compared with the desertion of the canal wharf, the land of fireworks has not been affected by the approaching New Year, but is more lively than usual, quite a taste of the city that never sleeps in the future.

At this moment, it was already a busy traffic here, and the literati who came and went looking for flowers and asking willows were shoulder to shoulder, Shen Yichen finally squeezed to the door of the Agarwood Building, and the turtle and the old bustard, who were busy greeting the guests, glanced at him and did not come forward to receive him, but continued to attract other guests.

In the face of this cold reception, the expression on Shen Yichen's face was a little subtle. After all, he has also been praised for being a talent in Yushu Linfeng and a talent, but now it has only been more than a year since he left the town of Shandong to control the water, is it so unappreciated?

What Shen Yichen didn't know was that he had been patrolling the river embankment for a long time, and his skin was rough and dark, and he was no longer the gentleman he was at the beginning. In addition, he was dressed in a very ordinary robe, and in the eyes of the turtle and the bustard, he was more like a poor scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam from a ravine.

Now that the business of Agarwood Pavilion is booming, it is natural that they have to give priority to taking care of the rich owners, if these turtle bustards have the ability to know people, they will not be reduced to being turtle bustards.

No one cared about it, Shen Yichen had to walk in by himself, compared to the pure and elegant style of Xueling Pavilion, Agarwood Building is more similar to a kind of euphemism and tenderness of a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

Especially the curtains of various calligraphy and painting light yarns, Shen Yichen once wondered if he had walked into the painting boat on the Qinhuai River.

There was laughter and laughter in the hall, and Yingying Yanyan probably found Shen Yichen alone looking curiously, at this time, a young maid came to Shen Yichen's side and asked him: "Does this son have a table reservation?" ”

Hearing the greeting, Shen Yichen looked at the servant, wearing a maid's costume and holding a tea and wine jug, but her appearance was at the middle and upper level. It can also be seen from this point that the "hard power" of Agarwood Building is not low, and even the maidservants have been carefully selected.

"Sort of."

"I don't know which room Childe booked, the little girl can lead you over."

"The old wing of the Horse Pavilion."

Hearing Shen Yichen say the words "Ma Ge Lao", the expression on the maid's face was very exciting.

She originally thought that this was just a poor scholar who came to Qinglou for the first time and was not very familiar with the rules and processes, but she didn't expect that she was still a madman!

Can the word "Ma Ge Lao" be said so openly? Not to mention the respect of the elder of the pavilion, meeting this young poor scholar?

After all, during the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, although it was not uncommon for literati and ministers to linger in the pink land. However, compared with the late Ming Dynasty and the Qinhuai Bayan period, it is far from the point where you can unscrupulously look for flowers and willows, let alone be called a romantic and elegant thing by the world.

When officials who have reached the level of scarlet robes come to the Qinglou, they usually have a special bustard to dock, and then enter the wing room in a low-key manner, and will not appear in public during the whole process. Even if there are some more flamboyant ones, it is impossible to directly say all the official titles like Shen Yichen.

The crazy students may have looked up to it, Shen Yichen's move is no different from the second fool......

Looking at the expression on the handmaid in front of him, it was Shen Yichen's turn to be full of puzzlement, could it be that he said something wrong?

To be honest, although Shen Yichen is nominally in a high position, he really doesn't participate in many officialdom interactions, let alone interact with officials at the level of the Jingshi Pavilion.

The reason is that before leaving Shandong, his identity camp was relatively special.

In the eyes of the civil clique, he is a eunuch, in the eyes of the eunuch party, he is a relative, and in the eyes of the eunuchs, he is a civil official.

The three forces all have a little relationship, but they are not their own people.

Even in a place like Qinglou, he has not been to it a few times since he talked about it seriously, so naturally he doesn't understand many rules.

Just when the atmosphere was gradually becoming a little awkward, a middle-aged brocade-clothed literati appeared at the staircase and shouted to Shen Yichen: "Young Master Shen, I've been waiting for a long time, please go upstairs." ”

This maid didn't know Shen Yichen, but she knew very well the middle-aged brocade-clothed literati who appeared.

This is the person next to Ma Ge Lao, in the past, even the old mother with the highest status came to the Agarwood Building, and she had to be respectful before and after the saddle, and she didn't dare to slack off in the slightest.

But he said to the young man in front of him, "How long have you been waiting"?

Shen Yichen didn't know this middle-aged brocade-clothed literati, but he probably guessed that the other party should be a staff master or something. As the saying goes, the prime minister's door is a seven-rank official, and with the current status of the first assistant of Ma Yu's cabinet, the staff can barely reach the status of a third- or fourth-rank official, and there is still room for follow-up development.

The upper limit depends on Ma Yu's power.

"Okay, please lead the way."

Shen Yichen replied with his hand, and in the extremely shocked eyes of the maidservant, he walked up the stairs leading to the second floor.

Compared with the hustle and bustle of the hall on the first floor, the second floor is obviously much quieter, and at both ends of the stairs and at the door of the wings, there are strong guards.

Following behind the middle-aged scribe, Shen Yichen walked to the innermost box. When I opened the door, there were six or seven people sitting inside, and the leader above was Ma Yu.

Seeing Shen Yichen appear at the door, everyone in the room stopped talking and stood up, and Ma Yu, the leader, said with a smile: "To the north, I haven't seen it for a long time, and now there is already the wind of a countryman." ”

"Students meet their teachers."

No matter what the relationship is, Shen Yichen has always been in place in terms of etiquette, he bowed to Ma Yu and called him a teacher.

"Mother needs to be polite, come and sit down first."

It may be that he heard this teacher, or maybe it was something else, anyway, the smile on Ma Yu's face became brighter and brighter, and he beckoned Shen Yichen to sit under his left hand.

After entering the house, Shen Yichen saw the appearance of the guests clearly, and sure enough, they were not ordinary people who could participate in a drinking party of this level.

Present are Zhao Xin, the right waiter of the Ministry of Officials, Zhao Lun, the left waiter of the Ministry of Households, and Zhou Chen, the right waiter of the Ministry of Works. and He Pingyan, Yang Hongze, Yang Shou and others, who can be called Shen Yichen's "old acquaintances".

Putting aside He Pingyan and other young juniors, Zhao Xin, the six servants, they actually have one thing in common, that is, they are all civil officials who were promoted by the "Three Yangs" back then.

And it's not just a few of them, including Yu Qian, the squire of the military department, and Cao Hong, the squire of the criminal department, all of whom were raised to the top in Xuande about five years.

Coupled with Ma Yu, Chen Xun, Cao Nai and others in the cabinet, it can be said that "Sanyang" has arranged the follow-up personnel of officialdom in the next few decades in place, and I really have to admire the strategy and layout of these people, and they are worthy of the title of the strongest cabinet team in the Ming Dynasty.

Beep Pavilion

It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, and "Sanyang" didn't calculate that Wang Zhen, an outlier, could really be a eunuch in power, and these civil official forces promoted were broken by each other, and eventually became a generation of eunuchs.

After Shen Yichen took his seat, Ma Yu introduced him to a few escorts as usual, so he exchanged a few polite greetings.

Among the several "old acquaintances" of the same year, He Pingyan was as calm and sleek as ever, and his politeness did not leak.

Yang Shou, the grandson of Yang Shiqi, inherited his father Yang Ji's arrogant and arrogant character, and looked like he ignored Shen Yichen, not realizing the current identity gap between the two parties.

At that time, the "Sanyang" cabinet headed by Yang Shiqi was able to be defeated instantly by Wang Zhen, resulting in many backup checks and balances not being used, and the fundamental reason was that his son cheated his father!

Yang Ji used his power to do evil and ran rampant in the township, and was accused of implicating dozens of lives, which triggered the impeachment of the imperial history one after another, and there was a shadow of Wang Zhen's manipulation behind him.

In order to avoid suspicion, Yang Shiqi chose to resign with his old illness, which led to the collapse of Optimus Prime of the civilian group. Yang Pu's personality has always been cautious, far less tough and decisive than Yang Shiqi, and in the face of Wang Zhen's step-by-step pressing, he can only continue to appease.

If there is no accident with Yang Ji, Yang Shiqi can live in the court for a few more years, and then let the reserve force enter a higher decision-making power, maybe the trend of history will be rewritten.

Who would have thought that the pit dad could achieve this effect?

However, what surprised Shen Yichen the most was that Yang Hongze, who was full of "angry youth" posture in the past, rarely did not have a false color, and was polite to himself.

It seems that his two-year career in officialdom has also polished some of his edges and corners.

After the greetings, Ma Yu did not get straight to the point, on the contrary, as if they met at home, they chatted with Shen Yichen about some past events.

If he hadn't seen Zhao Xin and the other six servants present, Shen Yichen might have really thought that Ma Yu was catching up on the dust for himself, or strengthening the teacher-student relationship in the officialdom in the future.

But with these people present, it was obvious that things would never be so simple, since the other party didn't plan to say it directly, Shen Yichen had no choice but to go down.

This is different from the officialdom of Shandong, where high-ranking officials in the land of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon are everywhere, and a small imperial history of the capital has no way to solve the problem in a simple and rude way, so it can only return to that kind of intrigue environment.

After talking about the past and talking about the political affairs of Shandong's water control, Ma Yu seemed to remember something, patted his head and said: "Look at the memory of the teacher, I have traveled thousands of miles to the north to return to the Beijing Division, and I must not have seen the new Oiran of the Beijing Division." ”

After saying that, Ma Yu clapped his palms, and the guards outside the house opened the door.

"Call a few of you over to accompany you."

"Yes, sir."

After the brocade-clothed literati outside the house received the order, it didn't take long for a faint fragrance to come, and several bewitching and stunning beauties appeared in front of everyone.

Shen Yichen is not interested in the woman in the Qinglou, even if the other party is in his eyes, he is just appreciating the beauty.

So he casually glanced up, but it was this glance that made Shen Yichen stunned as he held his wine glass.

The leader of the Oiran Mengyunyan is none other than Liu Wan'er, the daughter of Liu Qiu, a Hanlin scholar!

To be honest, Shen Yichen really never expected to see Liu Wan'er in such a place, and she also changed her name to Meng Yunyan and became the Oiran of the Jingshi.

Before he left Beijing, Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, didn't arrange him to play music in the Beijing Normal Teaching Workshop, why did he still appear in the Qinglou?

It stands to reason that with Hu Huituo's status as the fifth minister, it is impossible to rehabilitate, and it is not much of a problem to let Liu Wan'er spend her life in peace, what is the difference?

What Shen Yichen didn't expect was that he not only saw Liu Wan'er in Agarwood Building today, but also saw an "old man" of Ying Tianfu, that is, Dong Yujing, who is known as "Qu Jue" on the bank of the Qinhuai River.

From the joyful smile that suddenly bloomed on Dong Yujing's face, it was obvious that she also recognized Shen Yichen.

"Yunyan girl, please entertain this Shen Gongzi well today."

Ma Yu commanded, and also motioned for her to sit next to Shen Yichen.

"The concubine will definitely serve Shen Gongzi well."

Liu Wan'er tapped her forehead, and then walked towards Shen Yichen, her expression was not much different.

"To the north, Yunyan girl is the Oiran of the Beijing Division's draft, in addition to her appearance, she is even more proficient in poetry and songs, and she is not inferior to the general show talent, which can be described as the champion of the female middle school."

Ma Yu introduced Liu Wan'er to Shen Yichen, with a touch of praise in her words.

You must know that in the orthodox eleventh year of the Jingshi Oiran selection, Mengyunyan can defeat Qin Liushuang and other veteran Oiran, and the appearance is not the decisive factor, it depends on the literary style!

The poetry and songs are excellent, and the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are even more handy, if it is not for the daughter's body, it is really possible to participate in the imperial examination or something. And the identity is mysterious, ordinary princes and nobles can't get to see each other, and being able to invite her to accompany her today can be regarded as giving Shen Yichen enough face and pomp.

Shen Yichen didn't listen to Ma Yu's introduction, his eyes were always fixed on Liu Wan'er, he still couldn't understand where the problem was, why did she still fall into the dust?

But Shen Yichen's appearance, in the eyes of the guests present, became a "anxious" pig brother, which was simply straight-eyed.

Several old fritters in the officialdom still looked natural, only a little disdain in their hearts, after all, they were still a little younger, and they were a little uncontrollable when they saw the stunning color.

And Yang Hongze and Yang Shou almost didn't write contempt on their faces. Especially Yang Hongze felt extremely unconvinced, why can a person like Shen Yichen sit in a high position in a scarlet robe, he is not a good woman, jealous and hateful, but he can only accompany him here.

More than a year has passed, and nothing seems to have changed in the slightest!

Liu Wan'er sat next to Shen Yichen, and Dong Yujing, who was "unique", naturally sat next to the chief Ma Yu.

"By the way, to the north, I will introduce you to this Dong family, but he came to Jingshi from the bank of the Qinhuai River, and he is known as a must for singing!"

"Shen Gongzi, it's been a long time."

As soon as Ma Yu's words fell, Dong Yujing bowed to Shen Yichen, her eyes full of tenderness.

Long time gone?

Hearing this kind of greeting word, it made the others present a little surprised, could it be that Dong and Shen Yichen know each other?

"Dong, everyone, long time no see."

Shen Yichen smiled and nodded, he was also from Ying Tianfu, so he had a little bit of a foreign acquaintance.

"To the north, you guys?"

Zhao Xin, the right attendant of the ministry, first asked the doubts in his heart, Shen Yichen went out of the town to control the water in Shandong, how did he know the Dong family?

"Shaozuka Zai didn't know that he had a relationship with Dong and everyone in the next year."

"Champion Gong, we have more than one side relationship, your song "Jin Mingchi" was sung from the concubine."

Dong Yujing's ability to come to Beijing is not unrelated to the first singing of Shen Yichen's "Jin Mingchi".

It was precisely by relying on this song and song, as well as Shen Yichen's follow-up three yuan and the first, that Dong Yujing became famous and came to Beijing to run for the Oiran.

After all, no matter how Fengyue women are sought after by the world, their ultimate goal is to find a good home, where is the Ming Dynasty with the most officials and nobles, and where can they compare to Jingshi?

"It turns out that there is such a relationship, what a coincidence."

Ma Yu echoed, he didn't expect Shen Yichen to be able to meet Dong Yujing, and the "Jin Ming Pool" that spread all over the Qinglou Painting Boat was originally spread like this.

"The coincidence is not only this, in a sense, "Jin Mingchi" was written by the champion to Sister Yunyan."

If it was said that Shen Yichen and Dong Yujing knew each other, which made everyone present feel a little surprised, then when this sentence came out, everyone's faces were a little different.

It's really a coincidence that there is no book, and the Jingshi Oiran turned out to be Shen Yichen's old friend. I really didn't see that this kid Jingshi was honest and clean for himself, but Ying Tianfu was so unruly.

After He Pingyan, who was sitting on the side, heard this, his face was gloomy and about to drip water. You must know that he admires Liu Wan'er very much, and his talent and appearance all touch his heart.

Why is such a strange woman and Shen Yichen old friends?

At the beginning, Qin Liushuang, the flower of Xueling Pavilion, secretly sent Qiu Bo to Shen Yichen, and He Pingyan could still endure it at that time.

Today's "old relationship" between Liu Wan'er and Shen Yichen, he really can't bear it, is Shen Yichen the pride of the sky, any good thing can be touched by him, it's really an unfair fate!!

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Thanks to the big brother for the reward, although the cycle has not been updated, the number of words has actually been lengthened during this time, and the cycle will try its best to write more......