It is always difficult for the head of the house and the mother of the house to stay outside all the time.

Wu smiled and took the lead in coming in: "Some time ago, the list was released, and Twelve Lang had already passed the government test. Seeing that it has entered November, it is time to go to the household department to read it, and the formalities and documents after arriving in the province have been completed? ”

Pei Zhen's high hall appeared, and Li Bai naturally wanted to carry Qi Niang and stand up to salute. He pulled it, and the pastries that poor Qi Niang had just arrived were crumbled into slags, half of them hung around his lips, and half of them were stuck everywhere in the palms of his hands.

Li Bai didn't notice it, and only replied: "Yes, the selection of the Gongyuan has already hung the edition list outside the Southern Courtyard, and I only need to prepare the documents according to the template." It's all meticulous work according to the gourd painting, and it doesn't get in the way. ”①

Wu smiled disapprovingly, stepped forward and took Qi Niang over affectionately, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve pocket and wiped the poor little girl's mouth and hands.

"In my opinion, you Li Shishilang is very rough. Such a delicate little lady has called you rough, so don't make mistakes in your writing. ”

Everyone laughed, Wu pulled Qi Niang to sit down, and asked softly, "What's your name?" ”

Qi Niang blinked, but she didn't forget the thrilling excitement of the Pei family a few days ago, and said slyly: "The lady calls me Qi Niang, I'm Aya and Pei Sanlang both call me that." ”

Wu Shi was surprised: "Aya? I haven't heard Saburo mention it, you still have such a clever daughter? ”

Pei Zhi was clear about Qi Niang's life experience, but he was tight-mouthed, and when he saw this, he said: "There are many things I haven't mentioned, Ah Niang, don't interrogate, be careful to scare us Qi Niang." ”

When Qi Niang heard this, she hurriedly made a pitiful appearance.

Wu responded with a smile, looked at Qi Niang quietly, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar he felt this face.

She turned her head to look at Pei Guangting, and got the other party to nod in response, and she felt a little more confident in her heart.

Compared with Li Bai and Pei Zhi, she and Pei Guangting are both elderly people, who have experienced the emperor's coming to the court, Ruizong let the world, and even His Majesty give death to Princess Taiping.

It's all a thing of the past.

However, as soon as they saw Qi Niang today, their husband and wife remembered at the same time the appearance of His Majesty and their two sisters, Princess Jinxian and Princess Yuzhen, when they were young.

These three are all brothers and sisters born of the same mother.

And Qi Niang's eyes, with a smile and a smile, really look like Princess Yuzhen when she was a child.

Wu pretended to be unaffected, cleaned up Qi Niang, and ordered the maid to replace it with newly made tea for her to use.

Qi Niang was still a little embarrassed, her eyes glanced at Li Bai smartly, and she was seen by the Wu family, and said with a joke: "How to eat a cake and bait fruit, you have to look at the eyes of Twelve Lang, this is pitiful." ”

Li Bai hurriedly denied it, knowing that Qi Niang was deliberately pretending to be pitiful, so he could only let her eat it open.

Wu stared at it for a while, and saw the little girl swallowing mountains and rivers with pastries, and he was a little puzzled for a while.

In terms of the nobility between her eyes and demeanor, Qi Niang really reminds people of Princess Yuzhen at first glance; But looking at the overall outline and demeanor, there are some contradictions.

And this sense of contradiction, Wu Shi didn't feel strange.

Wu is a noble lady from a high family, and she has seen a lot of tricks for nobles to play behind closed doors, so her brain is very active.

Princess Yuzhen entered the Tao at the age of eighteen and went to the bottom of Wangwu Mountain to establish the Lingdu Temple. Wu scoffed at this.

That year, His Majesty loved his young sister and forced Princess Zhang Guoshang, who was in the Dandao lineage, to resist the will and not run away, which led to Princess Yuzhen's entry into the Tao.

asked her to say that the princess chased Zhang Guo out of Chang'an, and according to the temper of the Li family's brothers and sisters, maybe she also used a strong ...... on Zhang Guo

Wu Shi turned his gaze back to Qi Niang and shook his head.

Although Qi Niang is like Princess Yuzhen, the other part of the place she feels familiar with is not because of Zhang Guo.

Who could that be?

When the Wu family pondered this, Pei Guangting and Li Bai chatted idly: "In this year's tribute, the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites almost didn't fight, and in the end, Your Majesty let the Ministry of Rites take over the Ministry of Officials." Not only that, but he will also be promoted from the sixth-rank ceremonial waiter to the fourth-grade. In the future, everyone in the examination room has to be called Zhigongju. ”

Li Bai was extremely surprised, isn't that the waiter of the Ministry of Rites He Zhizhang! Brother He has been promoted, I have to congratulate him.

Pei Guangting didn't know that the two knew each other, and said after a while: "I am in the Ministry of War, and I have recently had some mistakes that have made Your Majesty cold, I'm afraid it won't be good to help you, can Twelve Lang have a favorite public recommendation and trustee?" ”

Li Bai shook his head: "Don't hide it from my uncle, Li Twelve has no intention of looking for someone to ask for help and open up the joints, so as to influence the hearing and hearing of the left and right masters." ”

Pei Guangting was slightly stunned, and asked for a while: "Then you went like this?" ”

Li Bai smiled: "Exactly, just participate in next year's Spring Festival." ”

Pei Guangting glanced at Li Bai disapprovingly, and gave Pei Zhi a look again, signaling him to persuade this friend as well. Pei Zhi waved his hand: "Don't look at me, I have already made it clear to Twelve Lang." If he doesn't obey, what can I do. ”

Pei Guangting sighed: "I'm still too young." ”

It's not that the Pei family is exaggerating.

Every year before the exam, the door of Chang'an dignitaries is about to be broken. As long as the powerful Han Shi can get the support of the high-ranking people and turn around and go out, it is the benefit of being famous in Chang'an.

In the non-obscure tribute examination field, this fame has already seized the opportunity.

The Wu clan was attracted by their conversation, and couldn't help but interject: "Your uncle is right, this year, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites Zhigong is in charge of one person, and he has to seek this false name." ”

She glanced at Qi Niang as if she didn't have any, and proposed: "Isn't that noble person from Wangwu Mountain Lingduguan recalled to Chang'an?" His Majesty loves her in every way, and if she can get this fate, she will also be stained with the light of the Dao Ancestor. ”

Pei Guangting saw the Wu family's thoughts at a glance, and silently let her dig a pit to test it.

Li Bai listened to the clouds, and it was not clear which one he was referring to, Pei Zhi whispered in his ear: "It's Princess Yuzhen." His Majesty is probably worried about his younger sister, and he found a fairy name to pray for in advance and recalled it in advance, and he will not leave until the New Year in Beijing. The two princesses Yuzhen and Jin Xian have different weights in His Majesty's heart, so maybe they can give it a try. ”

After speaking, he seemed to be afraid that Li Bai would refuse, so he hurriedly said: "He Shilang is on the cusp of the storm this time, and the Ministry of Officials is always keeping an eye on his mistakes and omissions, so it's better for us to distance ourselves from him first." Don't worry about this, I have some ways, I'll help you deliver a message first. ”

Li Bai: "......"

Okay, for the sake of He Zhizhang, I barely endured it.

*

When Yuzhen returned to Chang'an, he lived in the princess's mansion in Anxingfang.

She had always disliked this place, because there was a group of noisy nephews living in Yongxing Fang next door.

Since the thirteenth year of Kaiyuan, after His Majesty sealed Mount Tai in the east, the system of kings and princesses out of the cabinet was canceled.

Xu is the emperor is suspicious of illness, and the princes except for the crown prince Li Ying moved from Taiji Palace to Yongxingfang, and one person issued a set of palaces, which is called "Ten Princes' Mansions"; And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was also taken out of the East Palace, eating and living with His Majesty, monitored by eunuchs, without any freedom.

Today's Ten Kings' Mansion has added several brothers of King Shou, which is already full, but listen to His Majesty's meaning, what "Baisun Courtyard" will be built next.

Go to his immortal Banban's Baisun Courtyard, the old lady doesn't want to stay here for a day!

Princess Yuzhen is not in a good temper.

Perhaps it was because of the confidence that she was spoiled by Li Longji and Jin Xian, so that after she was tired of the life in Chang'an, she could unscrupulously ask to enter the Taoist cultivation of immortals, and use this to live in Wangwu Mountain and the royal Taoist temples all over the Tang Dynasty all the year round.

Her favorite is the Changdao Temple (Tianshi Cave) in Qingcheng Mountain in Jiannan.

Yu Zhen thought about it, but he didn't know what old things he remembered, and his brows furrowed again, as if he was a little sad and self-blaming.

The sky is clear, and the doors and windows are wide and breathable.

The envoy quietly handed a message to the maid in green clothes beside Yu Zhen: "The scholars that the princess promised to meet before have arrived, did you call them in?" ”

The maid in Tsing Yi couldn't make up her mind, and Yuzhen had already come back to her senses: "Scholar? Which one is recommended? ”

"It is the words of Pei Guangting, the son of Pei Guangting, the squire of the military department. The princess said that day that the Pei family's lady, the Wu family, and Concubine Wu Hui got close, so they should go down. ”

Yu Zhen remembered that she did take the post in the face of the Wu family.

So lazily ordered: "Take him to the west garden and wait." ”

The envoy hurriedly retreated, and soon, he introduced Li Bai and Pei Zhen, who were waiting under the porch, into the mansion, and led the way to the west garden, while saying, "A few please, the princess will be here later." ”

Qi Niang wore a pomegranate-colored round-necked robe today, her hair was combed into a bun and hidden in the soft foot, leaving only two black bags hanging down behind her head.

The envoy took a few more looks, and only thought that this child was really good-looking.

After entering the West Garden, Li Bai and Pei Zhi were invited to sit down, and after the tea fruit was served, the envoy stood aside and remained silent.

It was the first time for Qi Niang to enter such a large mansion, her buttocks seemed to have thorns, and she turned around on the stone bench, looking curiously at the furnishings here. After a long time, she didn't see Princess Yuzhen coming, so she pulled Li Bai's sleeve and whispered, "Ah Lang, can I get up and go around?" I don't go far, it's in this garden, and I don't touch anything. ”

Li Bai had a headache: "No, this is the princess's mansion." ”

Qi Niang wilted: "Oh. Shall I stand up and stretch? ”

“……”

The envoy couldn't help but chuckle, and then said gently: "There are people guarding all over the West Garden, and the little lady can only walk around this pavilion." ”

Qi Niang was rejuvenated when she boarded, got up and moved her muscles and bones, and ran out of the pavilion to enjoy the autumn scenery.

Princess Yuzhen was late to clean up, and through the flower wall on the corridor, she just saw Qi Niang's smiling face.

With pink walls and tiles, and the shadows of the trees, she pretended to be a little Langjun and stood among the green fields and laughed, which was five points similar to that person when he was a teenager.

Yu Zhen couldn't help but cover her lips, and her voice trembled and instructed her personal maid: "Go and see, what is the red rope around the child's neck?" ”