Yan House.

The boudoir was filled with the smell of medicinal herbs.

"Lady, Ah Lang is back and goes directly to the study."

"It's back." Wei Yun hurriedly stood up, instructed someone to take care of Yan Yan, and rushed to the study.

The people in the house were very restrained, because the mistress had given a strict order forbidding them to talk nonsense, especially the things of the night before.

Pushing the door and seeing Yan Zhenqing, Wei Yun's erratic heart settled down, and said with a crying voice: "Lang Jun, Sanniang almost had an accident......

Yan Zhenqing's face was originally solemn, and when he heard this, his hand shook and he wrote a bad word.

"What's wrong?"

"On the spring day, the concubine was busy with housework, which made Sanniang panic...... If it weren't for Xue Bai's hand, Sanniang would be gone. ”

Yan Zhenqing breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that her daughter was in danger.

This spring season, all kinds of things happened frequently, and he couldn't breathe.

"The refiner believes that the root of Sanniang's illness lies in the lack of blood in the heart, and says that her master Qixuan Zhenren is the holy hand of the world, or he can cure Sanniang."

Wei Yun then said the good news, and asked with a look of anticipation: "Did Lang Jun go to ask for Qixuan Zhenren?" ”

Yan Zhenqing had heard of the name of Wang Bing, the son of Qixuan, but Wang Bing traveled all over the world, and he had never seen such a noble princess as Princess Yuzhen.

At this time, I can only nod and do my best.

Wei Yun also knew that it was embarrassing for the Captain of Bapin County to ask such a master to make a move, so he thought about it and reminded: "If Lang Jun is empty, he should also go and thank the refiner." And Xue Bai, why don't you just accept this student? ”

Yan Zhenqing was distracted and asked rhetorically, "That kid...... He's been at home these days, and he's not causing trouble, has he? ”

"He's been trying his best to help us, so what's the matter? Lang Jun always thinks of him too naughtily. ”

"Ugh."

Wei Yun looked at it and saw that Yan Zhenqing hadn't changed her clothes at all for the past three days and two nights, she hadn't even taken care of her beard, and her eye sockets were much deeper.

"Something's wrong?"

"Well, I saw Dr. Zhen in Gongyuan that night...... At that time, there was a death in the Gongin. ”

"It's Gongyuan again." Wei Yun was really panicked by this spring festival, "Jinke is really a ghost. ”

Yan Zhenqing took his wife's hand and patted it gently, the more thoughtful her eyes grew.

He just came back from the Gongyuan and heard a lot of news, and then thought that Xue Bai had visited Li Shizhi with Du Fu not long ago, and it was precisely the day when the song "Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking" was born, and he was worried.

"As soon as the first month passed, the slave began again. Tell someone to remind that kid not to go anywhere in the near future, be honest. ”

"The concubine is going now."

Wei Yun knew that her husband said this, that is, he kept Xue Bai's kindness in mind, and was willing to take shelter, and hurriedly sent someone to Xue's house.

Yan Zhenqing let out a breath of turbidity, picked up the pen again, and continued to write the unfinished judgment.

Duanli's eight-point italics were a little hurried, and the word "leaking" fell behind "Li Yan, the servant of the Ministry of Suspicion and Etiquette".

~~

In a house in Tongyifang, Du Wulang was pressed and drank a few glasses of wine, slightly drunk.

He shook his head and looked sideways, and a chubby little lady peeked at her behind the screen, which was a little cute.

"Your wine is too strong, isn't it?"

"Although Lang Jun has won the list, if he wants to be an official, he can't be a minister without hundreds of runs, and he happens to have a lot of family resources."

When an old man in brocade said this, a servant came to him and whispered: "Ah Lang, the villain asked repeatedly, but he really didn't make the list......

When the twilight drum sounded, Togoro was finally released.

He breathed a sigh of joy and walked through Suzaku Street, where he met a few scholars in green shirts, who were looking at him.

"Du Langjun?"

"Huh, do you recognize me?"

"Brother Du is polite, and he pays tribute to Zhang Tongru in Xiahebei Township." An old scholar with a depressed look and a stiff figure stepped forward and saluted and said respectfully: "I am fortunate to have seen Brother Du drinking with Zheng Taixue and Su Siye. ”

"I can't do it, I can't help it, Brother Zhang can call me 'Wulang'."

Zhang Tongru still looked respectful and asked with concern: "I don't know why Brother Du is like this...... Disheveled? ”

"Alas, Mo Ti, I wanted to go to see the list for Brother Zimei and Brother Cishan, but I was misunderstood and was arrested by the list, and I finally got out."

"Brother Du is a famous person in all walks of life, and he is really beautiful." Zhang Tongru smiled and said: "I waited for the first, and I ran out of entanglements, so I planned to return to my hometown." But I heard that there will be a retest, I don't know if it's true or not? ”

"Huh? I don't know. ”

Zhang Tongru bent over, snorted his lips a little nervously, and asked, "Then can you ask Brother Du to take us to see Brother Cishan?" ”

Du Wulang was still in a daze, but he couldn't resist the pleas of these poor villagers, and scratched his head and agreed.

When they arrived at the gate of the Guozijian, many of the people gathered there had already heard that Yuanjishan lived in Du Wulang's house, and they surrounded them one after another, talking about it.

"Du Cheng is here!"

"Gorou, I heard that Brother Jishan has gone with Zuo Xiang to contact Zhugong to apply for a retest, but is it true?"

"I went to Changle Fang, and they were all dispersed by Jin Wuwei, and the brother slave ordered the villagers to return to their hometowns."

“……”

The lifters talked to themselves, Du Wulang stood there stunned, looking up, the night was falling, the twilight drum was over, and it must be too late to go home.

He sighed and asked, "Have you all eaten?" ”

Although Zhang Tongru was shabby, his eyes were very powerful, and he hurriedly said in a loud voice: "Gentlemen, please listen to Brother Du's arrangement, and only when you are full will you have the strength to discuss." ”

Du Wulang had no choice but to take out his purse and ask people to go to the restaurant across the street to buy Hu cakes that could feed sixteen people.

Seeing that most of these were cloth cloth village tributes, he had no choice but to discuss with the disciples, take out the futon from the house, and lay it out in the hall to rest for the night. He doesn't know anything else, but it's okay to take care of people.

When the hot Hu cakes arrived, the villagers were already hungry and devoured.

Zhang Tongru chewed the Hu cake, and a few crumbs fell to the ground, and he immediately wiped it with his hand, dipped it and stuffed it in his mouth to eat.

Du Wulang then handed over another piece of his Hu Cake, and Zhang Tongru hurriedly took it with a smile.

Brother Du smiled. The cost of the imperial examination is too great, I copied the scriptures for people in Shengyefang, barely making ends meet, it is difficult to buy paper and ink, and the old mother, wife and children at home have not written for many years, and I don't know if they are starving to death. Alas, this branch fell again, so I had to beg along the road to return home......"

Some students sneered: "Even if you are the first, what can you do? Do you still have to do a little bit of the selection of officials, can you get it? Why don't you return home earlier and hope for a retest? ”

Zhang Tongru looked cowardly, but he was a little stubborn in his bones, otherwise he would not have been ten years in the first exam, let alone arguing with Yan Zhuang in the restaurant, and said with a smile: "If the skills are not as good as others, it is fine, but there must be something to say in this department...... I heard that someone leaked the question, so Yang Hu was able to write such an article. ”

"Really?"

"Really." A township tribute responded: "There is a person who wrote a "Two Fu" for others before, but as soon as the question came out, he shouted that it was wrong and was dragged out. ”

"I heard that the man was dragged out because of cheating, and I was so excited that I died of exhaustion."

"I heard him shout, 'I've written this fu, I've leaked it!' ”

"If it were me, I wouldn't shout, wouldn't it be good to write another article to get the first place?"

"What a fuss you guys are about, are you missing the question? Not to mention, Tianbao was in the spring of the second year, because Li Linfu relied on Zhang Yi at that time, the examiner pointed Zhang Yi's son Zhang Zheng as the head, the world was in an uproar, and the saint had to retake the test in the calyx building. Guess what, Zhang Zheng is illiterate, holding a blank paper to hand in the paper, and people at the time called 'dragging the white champion'. ”

"Yes, at least the saint will try again!"

The anger of the lifters was kindled again, once or twice they could bear it, but they had endured it for too long.

"Yes, I want to see the saint." A thin young man in his twenties stood up, bowed his hands, and said, "Gentlemen, I am Gong Hao Changyuan of Jianghuai Township. I came to Chang'an, not to reach the first, but to redress the grievances of the villagers. ”

Du Wulang was stunned for a moment, raised his head to look, and saw that Hao Changyuan's temperament was different from other townsmen, so he immediately listened to him carefully.

"At the beginning of Tianbao, Wei Jian served as the Huainan rent transfer and disposal envoy, and asked all prefectures and counties to levy three years of rent and transfer, dredge the Yellow River, and rebuild the Cao Canal, and finally the Cao Canal was opened, and the Cao Grain was more than ten times that of previous years, but the villagers did not have time to cheer, Wei Jian rebelled and fell into the crime, and the rent that should be exempted was not exempted, but Wei Jian's comrades were investigated."

"We paid our hard-earned money, served in forced labor for five months every year, and dug canals for the imperial court, but what we were waiting for was not rent-free, but the imperial history of the imperial court. Before the arrival of the imperial history, he first sent a deacon to send an order to prepare the horse, and that night, the county magistrate was so frightened that he committed suicide by taking poison, but he was still accused of being in the same party as Wei Jian. ”

"Nearly half of the villagers died, and the new county commander did not dare to be our master, and the imperial court set up an interview envoy and an envoy to collect grain and collect color, and everyone really had no choice, so they made up money by money to let me enter Beijing to report."

"I don't want to be able to be the first, I just want to be able to meet the saints. I don't dare to have other requirements, just declare one thing - Sizhou Suining really doesn't have Wei Jian's comrades, this case has been investigated for a whole year, can you stop investigating it again? ! ”

Hao Changyuan said that in the end, he cried out.

He reached into his arms and pulled out a white silk cloth with blood letters all over it.

Du Wulang looked at it by the candlelight, and the column that caught his eye was "Since Tianbao for five years, the officials have been imprisoned, the prison is overflowing, the levy is stripped of the burden, the neighbors are extended, the naked corpse is in the mansion, endlessly!" ”

Hao Changyuan kept rolling back, showing blood-colored fingerprints one by one, I am afraid there are hundreds.

Du Wulang exclaimed in surprise and took two steps back.

What came to his mind was the scenes of the Du family during the Liu Tao case, imprisonment, torture, cane killing, and exile, that is, in the end, the Du family was in no danger, and he scolded "Being targeted by the rope fighting is really the blood mold that has fallen for eight lifetimes" and thought it was over.

But everywhere in the world, there are still countless people who have been implicated in the Wei Jian case and their families have been ruined.

At this moment, Du Wulang made up his mind in his heart, he must help Hao Changyuan.

He rolled his eyes, but didn't speak immediately.

It wasn't until dawn the next day that he pulled Hao Changyuan and said in a low voice: "I have a powerful friend......"

~~

"Brother Du, take us to Brother Cishan."

"Don't be in a hurry, wait for me here, don't be impulsive."

Before the morning drum sounded, Du Wulang left the Guozijian alone and drove his horse to Changshoufang.

Xue Xian was going out with his two younger brothers, wearing a green shirt and carrying a book basket, his face full of sorrow.

"Where's your sixth brother?"

"Didn't the sixth brother go to see the list with Brother Dua?"

"It's too crowded, and he's lost...... Don't ask, that's not what children should know. ”

"Has the sixth brother been caught under the list? But he didn't take the exam either. ”

Du Wulang scratched his head and pulled the horse away, thinking that Xue Bai was not bad, and he might have been arrested because of his style, but at such a critical time...... Alas, Chang'an really has too many bad habits like this.

Riding a horse rushed to Du's house, he didn't dare to go in, so as not to be locked up in the house by Grandpa. Then he probed at the side door and beckoned Quanfu.

"Has Xue Bai come over?"

"Nope."

"I didn't come back last night, did my grandmother ask me?"

"Isn't Gorou in the Kuniko Prison House?"

Du Wulang shook his head.

He was almost forced to get married, but the reaction at home was really disappointing.

Further to Fengwei Building, he rushed to the backyard and saw Du Yan coming in from the backyard.

"Second sister, something happened, I lost Xue Bai."

"Really?"

"Why aren't you in a hurry?"

"Busy, don't bother me."

"No, I have something very important to find Xue Bai." Du Wulang hurriedly followed Du Yan's footsteps, "Second sister, look." ”

"Follow me."

Out of the back door, turn the alley, and there is a small courtyard not far away, but it is very quiet.

The two guards of the courtyard, Du Wulang, also knew that it was He Mao and Zhuo Guang who were sent to Xue Bai by Mrs. Qiuguo.

"Why are you here?"

"This is the Lady of the Kingdom's residence."

Du Wulang looked into the main room and saw that Xue Bai was sleeping in it, and immediately understood, and said, "It turns out that Mrs. Qiu Guo has rescued Xue Bai." ”

……

Noon.

In Changle Fang, a small mansion not far from Li Shizhi's house heard a knock on the door.

"Is Brother Jishan here? Xue Bai visited. ”

"Come in and talk about it."

Xue Bai and Du Wulang walked into the lobby and saw Yuan Jie, Du Fu, and a few young scholars discussing something.

"Brother Zimei doesn't want to think about his wife and children? If you believe me, you should know that I am sure that I will save my life. ”

"Needless to say, I'm ...... with Jishan"

Xue Bai entered the hall and saluted: "Brother Zimei, I believe that Cishan is not impulsive. ”

Yuan Jie turned his head and smiled knowingly when he saw Xue Bai.

They all understand the truth...... If Yuan Jie wrote a poem and only scolded Li Linfu, he would definitely die. But scolding the saints, on the contrary, can live.

Because this saint today is not narrow-minded, and although he does not listen to advice, he does not kill because of advice. Yuan Jie scolded the sage in front of countless people, the poem spread, the matter has become a big trouble, the sage in order to show his mind and highlight the atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but will protect the Yuan knot.

Of course, it's okay for an ignorant young man to scold, but you can't let everyone else follow suit, then it's not a warning, but a threat. In the face of threats, the saint can even kill his son.

"Look, Xue Bai also said so, Brother Zimei, don't worry." Yuan Jie took two steps forward, greeted Xue Bai, and said, "You too, you don't have to mix this matter, you can prepare for the exam with peace of mind." ”

"I can't hide."

Yuan Jie was puzzled and asked, "Why?" ”

"It turned out to be Xue Bai who was 'messing together'." Before Xue Bai could answer, a man about thirty years old on the side had stepped forward and introduced himself: "Emperor Fu Ran, the word Maozheng, I have heard your name for a long time. ”

"Brother Mao Zheng is polite."

Xue Bai returned the salute, looking at it, Huangfu Ran's smile was a little close.

Obviously, Zheng Qian told Huangfu Ran his identity, but not Yuan Jie.

Because Huangfu Ran is a student of Zhang Jiuling, he naturally has the same position as Xue Pingzhao. Li Linfu didn't care what they thought, Zhang Jiuling's students and Xue Rust's son were all enemies.

Xue Bai didn't care if he was Xue Pingzhao or not, the important thing was that he needed these connections.

"Brother Jishan, is there a driving force behind this incident?"

"Nope." Yuan Jiedao: "At the moment, many people say that I am the leader, but in fact, after the list is released, the lifters want to make trouble with the Ministry of Etiquette, I don't see the situation right, so I have to take the lead and ask the left minister to come forward." ”

That's where the meta-knot comes in.

He seems to be acting impulsively, but in fact he is stabilizing the situation.

"The big trouble will not end well, my plan is to spread the poems and texts that satirize the saints, and let the saints know that the world has been complaining about the slaves for a long time without violating the ban. The saint will summon the left minister, and then the left minister will resign and depose Li Linfu. ”

"Okay." Xue Bai didn't say what he thought of this plan, nor did he say what he did, and said bluntly: "Count me in, I have offended my brother and slave, and I can't avoid it." ”

"Okay." Yuan Jie also said simply: "Right now, there is no need to let the township tributes gather, so as not to fall into the truth and be driven and beaten by Jin Wuwei, and they cannot be allowed to leave Chang'an, and they should be scattered everywhere and continue to create momentum." ”

Xue Bai said: "Brother Nu will react soon and ask Jin Wuwei to go to the hostel to drive people." ”

Yuan Jie said: "Not bad. Therefore, the left minister is contacting the princes and settling down the township tribute. ”

"Yes." Du Wulang said: "That's what I did, and I placed more than ten township tributes in the country. ”

This is like a tough battle against Li Linfu, and Yuan Jie is completely done according to the dignified art of war, collecting the troops, improving morale, sending documents, and forming a hard village.

Xue Bai was like a strange soldier, and said: "I have to let the princes of the court face the saint and drag the slave." The saint was not in Xingqing Palace and went to the Forbidden Garden. ”

"What?" Yuan Jie is young and humble after all, "I don't even know ...... Zuo Xiang"

The next moment, loud cheers came from outside the hospital.

When everyone came out of the hall, they saw that Jin Wuwei had pounced into this small courtyard like a wolf.

"You're so bold!" Yuan Jie immediately raised his hand and shouted: "Dare to arrest the township tribute students in the courtyard of the Li Gong Mansion?!" ”

He is well-founded and righteous.

However, Jin Wuwei didn't talk to him about any rules at all.

"Wei Jian's fellow party Li Shizhi vainly claimed to be a prophecy, constructed the East Palace, and reprimanded the public opinion! Take them all! ”