The two went to the back mountain house where the masters lived with the scholars, and in the face of the spring color of the garden that could not be closed, Cheng Nuanxin's mood stretched a lot, shaking the folding fan behind his back with one hand and the other hand, enjoying the flowers and singing, so comfortable.

When I went to the living courtyard of the Master, the place was not large, but the Master's teachings and living places were arranged in an orderly manner. Entering the front yard is a spacious study room similar to a hall, and further into the back yard is the main room of the inner courtyard where the master lives, and there is also a room in the east and west wings for the master's children to live in.

The scholar bowed into the study, and Mo Yan and the two sat on the bamboo chairs in the courtyard and waited, and there were bursts of conversation and laughter in the room from time to time. Cheng Nuanxin walked to the door and listened, eager to go in immediately to see what was going on, for fear of missing any excitement, his little troubles had already been thrown out of the clouds, but the house was a different scene.

"I heard that Linglang High School Tanhua, congratulations to the banquet master, it's really a tiger father without a dog!"

It was a middle-aged man with a big belly who spoke, and the horizontal flesh on his face was about to overflow with laughter, and everyone also congratulated him, all of them smiling.

"It's not easy, seventeen-year-old Tanhualang!"

"What a gratifying congratulations!"

"Congratulations, congratulations!"

Cheng Nuanxin smiled when he heard this, this new science detective Hualang is his good brother. The two are of the same age and have been classmates for many years, and they often skip school together to catch fish in the back mountain, because of this matter, the two of them have been punished by the banquet master.

Last year, because Mrs. Yan was seriously ill, the two did not participate in the imperial examination together, and Cheng Nuanxin was very sorry at that time. Now Yanqing is a new science detective appointed by the saint, and has become an upstart in the court, a close minister around the saint, and was appointed to Youzhou a few days ago to be a five-grade Zhizhou, Cheng Nuanxin is really happy for him.

On the day he left Beijing, he also followed the family of Yanfuzi to send Yanqing outside the city gate, and Yanfuzi also said a touching word to Yanqing, he was almost moved to tears, and it was really a shame to think about it.

"Children are young, it's just a fluke."

Master Yan smiled bitterly and waved his hand, and suddenly so many people greeted him, and he was a little uncomfortable for a while.

"I heard that this year's chief examiner is the prime minister of the dynasty, Lord Wang. Ling Lang is not only the protégé of Prime Minister Wang, but also the love of His Majesty and the promotion of Wupin Zhizhou, and his future career will be smooth! ”

"yes, yes!"

The banquet master instructed the servants to fill the tea for the guests, and kept a faint smile on his face. The hometown of the banquet master is in Youzhou, and the banquet family is also considered to be a generation of scholars in the local area, and now he has finally come out of a big official, which is really a great joy for the glorious lintel in the eyes of outsiders, but he is more worried than happy about the matter of Xiao'er being an official.

"Oh, what else is it called, master, it should be called the chief of Yanshan."

When everyone heard him say this, they once again stepped forward to congratulate them, which was the real purpose of their visit. On weekdays, I see that this banquet is not obvious, but recently, he relied on the lintel of Linglang who explored flowers in high school, and was promoted to the head of the White Horse Academy by the saint, which is really not beautiful.

"Thank you for your love."

Master Yan responded modestly, but he knew in his heart that there were few people here who sincerely congratulated him, and I heard that there were several masters in the academy who thought highly of themselves when they heard this, and they were so jealous that they wanted to resign and return to their hometown.

"That's not right! Why did Master Yan accept the position of mountain chief? ”

Cheng Nuanxin, who was outside the house, frowned slightly, and his pale little face made him red, but he still couldn't figure it out, so he had to turn his head and ask Mo Yan for help.

"Brother Mo, hasn't the master always turned a deaf ear to the affairs of the court? If you become a mountain chief, you can't deal with the powerful, how can you concentrate on teaching and educating people? ”

"Now that he is an official, the master can no longer ignore what is going on outside the window. How can life be more satisfying, everything is only half satisfied. ”

Mo Yan's faint words made Cheng Nuanxin suddenly brighten, it seems that not only he has unsatisfactory things in this world, but most people will hold it in their hearts and not talk to outsiders.

"Brother Mo, your last sentence is wonderful!"

"It's just a matter of borrowing flowers and offering Buddha."

Mo Yan raised his hand and pointed to the door of the room, Cheng Nuanxin suddenly realized that it was actually the pair that the banquet master pasted on the door frame, it turned out that the banquet master had already seen through everything, but fate still made him fall into it.

"The two sons will follow me to the inner courtyard at the back."

The two followed the scholar into the inner courtyard, Mo Yan carefully stuffed all the white hair into the head, and Cheng Nuanxin found out that he entered the academy with a soft foot. Not to mention, this head on his head looks much more mature and stable, and he will also get a one to wear another day, so as not to let others always say that he is a boy and a girl.

"Mo Yan, Nuan Xin, you're here!"

Master Yan came from the outer courtyard and smiled faintly, and warmly welcomed the two into the main room, he was stiff with laughter just now, but he couldn't laugh at this time. Master Yan is usually casual and gentle, and only when he is teaching, he will be a little strict with his students, so if the students he has taught have the opportunity to return to the academy, they will definitely visit him for a chat, and the most frequent of them is Cheng Nuanxin.

"I heard that Qingxian High School Tanhua, congratulations to the master."

Mo Yan bowed, the banquet master nodded with satisfaction, beckoned him to sit down beside him, the two talked about the world one by one, and others couldn't interject at all. Cheng Nuanxin raised his head and looked at Mo Yan who was full of energy in front of him, as if he saw the polite son three years ago again, but three years was really like a world away for Mo Yan.

At that time, the two of them were in the eyes of the masters, but the gap between heaven and earth, and now they have become the two of them in the capital. If Master Yan knew about this, he would definitely say that he had brought Mo Yan badly, but it should be difficult for Master Yan to hear about it, after all, no one wanted to go against Yu Shitai.

"Hey, Yanqing and I are both Tanhualang, it's really providence."

The banquet master sighed deeply, rubbed his tightly locked eyebrows, and the old things came to his heart again. Back then, the banquet master was also a high school jinshi Tanhualang, but he refused the good thing of "catching a son-in-law under the list" of the powerful people of various families, and insisted on marrying a restaurant merchant girl in his hometown as his wife, which made them lose face, and the Beijing officials were almost offended, of course, there was no errand to do. I could only write a calligraphy and painting, make an article to support my family, and later got the help of my classmates to enter the White Horse Academy and became a master.

"Don't worry too much about the banquet master, although the current saint is young, he is a benevolent and virtuous king, and the current prime minister, Lord Wang, is a person who uses his power impartially and conscientiously fulfills his duties, and sometimes uses some extraordinary means, but he is a talent of auxiliary countries."

Mo Yan's words were amazing, and he said the situation in the current dynasty in just a few sentences, and the banquet master was very relieved and a little regretful.

"Well said! I didn't expect Zicheng to see the affairs of the court so thoroughly, and it was a pity not to be an official in the court. ”

Cheng Nuanxin was startled when she heard this, clenched the folding fan in her hand, looked at Mo Yan's gradually cold face, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute the banquet master and ask for advice.

"The banquet is polite! The disciple had doubts and came to solve his doubts. ”

Seeing Cheng Nuanxin's humble salute, it is really rare for him to be so disciplined today.

"Xinzheng has been singing all the way, but he hasn't seen his depression for the teacher?"

After the banquet master finished speaking, he grinned, and the scholar beside him lowered his head embarrassedly and retreated. The White Horse Academy is the highest institution of learning in Wu Yueguo, and Cheng Nuanxin's singing all the way to the flowers really disturbed the elegance of the academy, and he knew that he was in the wrong place to make amends again.

The student made the master smile.

The banquet master waved his hand, Cheng Nuanxin's father and he were the same Jinshi, he was a flower explorer and Cheng Yushi was the champion of the people's attention, he and Cheng did not have a deep friendship but had a kind of sympathy for each other.

"Xinzheng, please get up, Lingzun named the word 'Xinzheng' for you, because I want you to face everything in this world again. Your heart is pure and frank, and you will be a righteous person in the future, impartial and worthy of your heart, so why bother with a momentary frustration. ”

Cheng Nuanxin's eyes lit up, this table was supposed to wait for another four years, he called it after the crown ceremony at the age of twenty, but his father suddenly took the table word for him last year, it turned out to have another deep meaning.

"The disciple has been taught."

Cheng Nuanxin stood up solemnly and bowed and thanked him.

"Ling Zun loves you very deeply, yes."

The banquet master nodded with satisfaction, and he naturally understood more deeply as a father.

The clear sky at the city gate had been waiting for a long time, and he was obviously a little anxious and uneasy when he held the reins tightly, and the city gate would be closed in half an hour, and if he could not get out of the city on time, he would have to delay the journey.

After another tea time, Wen Ye went out of the city gate with the evening light, they were afraid of attracting the attention of the officers and soldiers and did not blatantly take the main road, the evening light was familiar with the city path, although it was not too far away, but it also delayed some hours.

Seeing that the two of them went out of the city and tightened the reins, the three of them tacitly didn't say much, and rushed all the way north to meet Bixiao.

The horse ran for half an hour, and the three of them arrived at a post station outside the city, Bi Xiao led the personal guard Xiaochun and the four elite guards to prepare for their arrival, just waiting for Wen Ye and them to arrive.

"What happened in Cangzhou?"

"We found someone in the suburbs of Cangzhou privately stationing troops, and I will tell Miss in detail on the way."

Bi Xiao led Wen Ye to a clean room, and Wanzhao helped her take off her skirt and change into a plum-colored underwear, with a white gauze lining, her hair was high and heroic.

"It's so good-looking, this is the real beauty of the master!"

"Flim Flam."

Wen Ye lowered his head, the corners of his mouth hooked up to reveal a hint of shyness, and then raised his head and his expression returned to normal. She reached out and removed the veil from her face, and Wanzhao opened a wooden box on the table, which contained a half-concealed golddee dark-patterned gilt mask.

Wen Ye took out the mask and put it on his face, the mask skillfully covered his eyebrows, eyes and nose, and his slightly upturned lips were also coated with plum-colored lip grease, which was extremely bright and moving, compared to the previous gentle and beautiful people, it was like two people.

"Let's go, everyone is waiting for that!"

The two got on their horses again, and a group of ten people galloped in the direction of Youzhou, there were faint figures flickering in the woods, and more than ten secret guards hid their bodies and waited for the signal of support, and there was a team of secret guards in each post place, escorting them all the way to arrive safely.

Youzhou City is located in the north of Wuyue Kingdom, and it is the farthest place from the capital among the main cities of the four prefectures and counties. Because the surface of Youzhou is swallowed by the surrounding desert, it is disturbed by wind and sand all year round, and there is drought and little rain for many years. The population of Youzhou is less than 200,000, which is not half a point compared to the million people of other states and counties.

The fields were barren and there were not enough people to cultivate the land, and the land was sparsely populated since the beginning of the previous dynasty. Three years ago, there was turmoil in the royal family, and the new emperor succeeded to the throne, and the court turmoil was even more timeless to take care of, and in the past three years, there has been almost no attitude to Youzhou. Now that there is a problem in Youzhou, Wen Ye has no clue about it.

The group galloped out of the suburbs of the capital, and everyone stopped at the post station on the official road to replenish dry food and water. The bustling capital has been left far behind, and the quiet night is full of starlight and dappled tree shadows.

"Bixiao, what's going on in Youzhou?"

Wen Ye was worried all the way, and now he finally had the opportunity to ask clearly. It's not that she doesn't believe in Bixiao's ability, it's just that she doesn't know anything about the place in Youzhou, and she doesn't like this feeling of being caught off guard.

"The secret guards of Youzhou found a privately forged weapon in a grange in the suburbs, and we suspect that someone is stationing troops with the intention of rebelling. Miss don't worry, the situation of the whole thing is not very clear, you know, there are not many secret guards we have installed in Youzhou. ”

Bixiao jumped off his horse and handed the reins to Clear Sky. For the past three years, she has dealt with various court affairs as the leader of the "Banshan Pavilion", and the person behind the creation and management of the "Banshan Pavilion" is Wen Ye.