Chapter Seventy-Seven

When Yu Liang saw the woman, he couldn't help frowning, "Who should I be, isn't this the chick in the Imperial Library? My life is not important, is it possible that your life is important?"

He snorted coldly, and his tone was frivolous, "You are such a thing, Lao Tzu has played not fifty but thirty in a year in Hanyue Tower, what are you pretending?"

When the woman heard Yu Liang's words, she raised her eyebrows in surprise.

"Oh, is Yu Gongzi so powerful? My son-in-law said that when Mr. Yu went to Hanyue Tower once, he had to recuperate at home for most of the year. ”

When the group heard the woman's words, they glanced at each other, and they all held back their laughter.

Yu Liang Zhengse said: "Who is your son-in-law?"

The woman walked up to Le Xiyan, bowed to him slightly, and said respectfully: "Little girl Zizhu, the maid of the Lin Mansion, my young lady wants to invite the son to the courtyard to talk about it." ”

Hearing the woman's self-reported door, everyone except Le Xiyan was shocked.

Only Le Xiyan was still confused, and asked puzzledly: "Who is your young lady? I still have classes tomorrow, I'm afraid it's inconvenient today." ”

Zizhu shook his head and said: "My young lady is the leader of this year's entrance exam, Lin Jinmo, the second daughter of the Lin family in Jingbei City, her small courtyard is in this academy. ”

As he spoke, Zizhu grabbed Le Xiyan's sleeve and turned around to leave.

Yu Liang shouted sharply: "Zizhu, although my personal relationship with your son-in-law is not good, but the well water never interferes with the river water, is it a bit too shameful for me to do this today?"

Zizhu looked at Yu Liang coldly and said, "Didn't you hear what I said just now? You have stopped me so many times, are you too bad to give my son-in-law and young lady face?"

Yu Liang secretly turned his head to look at the group of brothers behind him, who was rescued by a maid in front of so many people, even if she was Lin Anyan's maid, Yu Liang was unwilling to swallow this breath easily.

Suddenly, he seemed to remember something, and asked pretending to be concerned: "Zizhu, it seems that your son-in-law hasn't appeared in Jingbei City for half a year, I don't know how he is?"

Of course, Zizhu knew Yu Liang's thoughts, she smiled lightly and said: "Yu Gongzi is bothered, it's okay for my son-in-law to die if you die, he just went out to study, and he will come back in a few days." When the time comes, my son-in-law will come to visit the young lady, and if Mr. Yu is willing, I can help you inform you. ”

Hearing this, Yu Liang subconsciously waved his hand and said, "No need, no need." ”

Zizhu stood in place, looking at Yu Liang coldly.

Yu Liang was furious, cold sweat broke out, he thought about what Lin Anyan had done in the past, and decided that it was not too late for the gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and he would retreat for the time being.

He turned around and waved his hand at the crowd and said softly, "Let's go." ”

That group of people is Yu Liang's brother, but in fact, they are just a group of his followers and lackeys, and most of the family are just four or five "petty officials".

At this moment, seeing that Yu Liang did not offend Lin Anyan's maid with any will, the group of people breathed a sigh of relief and fled away from this quiet path.

Le Xiyan finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the group of people walking away.

He turned around and bowed to Zizhu, and said with concern, "Thank you Miss Zizhu for helping." But I remind you, that Yu Liang is the son of the household servant, will you get caught on fire if you do this? ”

Zizhu smiled slightly and said: "Young Master Le, please rest assured, just this kind of gentleman who does evil because of some forces in the family, my son-in-law can't count the two hands that have taught him, and the little household servant is nothing." ”

Le Xiyan was really uncomfortable as if he was roasted on the fire at the moment, he knew that this Yingtian Academy was full of dragons and tigers, hiding all kinds of immortals, but he never expected that even the household servant, a big official of the imperial court, was "small" in this woman's mouth.

He still asked uneasily, "Who is Miss Dare to ask?"

Zizhu looked at the young man in front of him with some doubts, "You are so strange, I said it, I am the maid of the Lin family." ”

Le Xiyan thought about it carefully, Zizhu had been mentioning the "Lin family" since just now, and he really felt that this surname was very familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

Zizhu seemed to see through his thoughts, so he opened his mouth to explain: "You are not from Jingbei, you may not be familiar with it, the Lin family is a merchant family, not an official eunuch of the imperial court. ”

When Le Xiyan heard this, he suddenly seemed to have opened up the second vein of Ren Du, and all the rumors about the Lin family appeared in his mind.

"The first merchant Lin family of Daliang?"

Zizhu nodded and said, "Exactly." Let's go quickly, it's too late to go back, Miss should be in a hurry. ”

Le Xiyan followed behind Zizhu, crossed the stone path, and detoured to a bamboo forest.

Along the way, he kept thinking about everything about the Lin family in his mind.

It is said that Lin Anyan, the son of the Lin family, has money in his family, and is a sworn brother with the son of Zhennan, which can be said to have both wealth and power, and because of this, he is arrogant and domineering, and he is nicknamed "King Lin Yan".

He knew that the second place in this exam was a woman named Lin Jinmo, but he never expected that this person would be Lin Anyan's own sister, and he would actually want to see him as a common person at this moment.

I don't know if my brother can do whatever he wants, will this sister be a little more knowledgeable.

After walking along the path in the bamboo forest for about a stick of incense, Le Xiyan found that his eyes suddenly opened up.

In this bamboo forest, there is an unknown two-story small building, there is a stone table outside the building, a woman in red sits on the edge of the stone table and knocks on the table boringly, and behind her, there are three beautiful girls like flowers.

Seeing Zizhu bring people back, Lin Jinmo tried his best to calm down the excitement in his heart, pretended to be calm and stood up and said, "You are Le Xiyan?"

Le Xiyan clasped his hands into fists and replied respectfully: "I've seen Miss Lin." ”

Lin Jinmo nodded, pointed to a seat and said, "Let's eat first." ”

After Le Xiyan took a seat, he found that in addition to Lin Jinmo, the remaining four maids, including Zizhu, also sat down, and it seemed that they were going to eat at the same table.

He secretly rejoiced in his heart: Looking at this, although Lin Jinmo looks cold, he is very good to his subordinates, and the eldest lady who is willing to eat at the same table with the maid is naturally not bad.

Thinking in his heart, Le Xiyan picked up the chopsticks and prepared to start the meal, but when he saw the dishes on the table, he was stunned for a moment.

I saw that there were all kinds of chicken, duck, fish and meat on the table, and each dish was very exquisitely made, he had never eaten a single one, even the green vegetables had three plates, and the small stone table had been filled, and there were ten dishes when he counted carefully.

Lin Jinmo saw that he hadn't moved his chopsticks for a long time, and asked softly: "What's the matter, Le Gongzi, is it not to taste, if so, I will let people change the table again." ”

Le Xiyan shook his head, frowned and asked, "Did Miss Lin invite other guests?"

Lin Jinmo didn't understand what he meant, but just subconsciously shook his head and said, "No, just a few of us, just talk about it." ”

Le Xiyan gently put down his chopsticks and sighed.

Zizhu glanced at him, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Does Young Master Le feel a little wasted?"

Le Xiyan nodded and said: "My family has been farmers for three generations, although they are poor and poor, they also know that food is precious. There are so many dishes, where can a few of us finish eating, now that the weather is getting warmer, I'm afraid that tomorrow night these dishes will all change their taste, isn't it a big waste. ”

A woman who looked the youngest kept picking up the food in her mouth, and said while eating: "You are too strange, my young lady kindly bought a table of food from outside the academy, and you don't appreciate it, why are you still complaining." ”

Lin Jinmo also put down his chopsticks, thought about it carefully, and said to the girl: "Daisy, you pick four dishes of your favorite food and keep them, and send the rest to the people in the academy." ”

Daisy let out a soft "oh", then frowned at the table full of delicacies and carefully selected, and finally left the squirrel osmanthus fish, stewed crab roe lion's head, Wensi tofu and three sets of duck and four dishes, and then carefully put the rest of the plate into the food box, got up and walked towards the bamboo forest with another maid.

Le Xiyan smiled and nodded, "Thank you, Miss Lin." ”

Lin Jinmo replied softly: "I only thought that Le Gongzi was the champion, and I should treat each other politely, but I didn't think that there would be extravagance and waste, because I was not well prepared and disturbed Gongzi's appetite." ”

As she spoke, she pointed to the four remaining plates on the table and said, "How to eat, eat." ”

Le Xiyan was hungry for a day, and these dishes were indeed delicious, so he ate two large bowls of rice in a row.

If it weren't for these girls, he would be a little embarrassed, and he would probably be able to eat two more bowls.

Several people ate all the dishes in Table Mountain, without any waste, which is exactly what Le Xiyan wants to see.

After being full of wine and food, the other three women returned to the bamboo building to rest, leaving Zizhu still sitting outside, making tea for Lin Jinmo and Le Xiyan.

Lin Jinmo took a sip of tea to clear his throat and asked, "Do you remember the questions of this year's entrance exam?"

Le Xiyan nodded and said, "The question is how Daliang will develop for thirty years." ”

Lin Jinmo said: "What I wrote is that the Liang should be heavy on the career of the official and light on the scholars, and heavy on the officials and light on the people. What does Childe think?"

Le Xiyan was a little surprised, he was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said: "There is an ancient saying that water can carry a boat or overturn a boat, and countless emperors and generals throughout the ages have taken the country as the boat and the people as the water. As everyone knows, the development of the country lies in benefiting the people and restraining the people.

If you try to please the people, it will only make the people more and more insatiable, and finally when the desire is infinitely large and the court can't satisfy it, it will backfire.

It's like every time there is a famine, it takes a lot of starvation to open the door of the relief granary, and even if there is a large amount of food, it must be distributed in small quantities and many times.

This kind of behavior seems to disregard the lives of the people, but in fact, it is to save more people. If the grain is distributed too early, the people will not feel the harm of the famine, so they will not be able to attach importance to unity and cherish the favor; if too much grain is distributed and everyone is fed, they will begin to complain about why the imperial court only distributes grain and does not distribute money and land;

Only when the interests are properly constrained, so that everyone can live and work in peace and contentment, and there is no greed and perversion of the law, can the stability of the country be guaranteed in the end. ”

Le Xiyan sighed, and all of them praised: "The angle is clear, the logic is meticulous, and it is really commendable to dare to deny worldly knowledge and open up new paths." I am afraid that anyone who has governed the country throughout the ages will have something to think deeply about when they read this article. ”

Lin Jinmo smiled, unabashedly proud of this article.

"Yes, I also think that this article is not ancient and modern, at least it can be regarded as a once-in-a-century encounter. ”

As he spoke, Lin Jinmo suddenly stood up and stared at Le Xiyan with a serious expression.

"However, it was such a good article, but in the end it only won the second place, do you know why?"