The yellowing leaves shed their branches and fell down the river to create a ripple.

Inside and outside the valley county, the bleak autumn day is clearly felt, and the streets outside the city government office, as well as several adjacent streets, are overcrowded.

The scholars standing on the side of the street, the wives and daughters of a certain family, and the servants looked forward to the closed academy in the distance, and the officials and city sergeants with weapons guarded the surroundings tightly.

Occasionally, the courtyard door opened, and a person who looked like a scholar was forked out and thrown outside, causing a burst of laughter.

"Cheating ...... in the exam room"

"It's already a fluke if it's not closed, I don't know if there will be a next time. ”

The cheating scholar got up from the ground in embarrassment, the dust on his body didn't care about patting, and in the sound of pointing around, he quickly squeezed through the crowd with his head buried and fled from this side.

The township examination is the second threshold for the country, and it is a first-class event for all states and counties, and candidates with the status of students gather in the city as early as the beginning of summer, even if Lu Liangsheng also arrives early, so as not to delay time.

At this time, it has been the third time since the exam, and every day, the nearby restaurants are often full of guests, and some literati and elegant guests are either discussing whether this year's exam questions are difficult, or betting on this year's laurel list, who will be Xie Yuan.

"If you want me to say, it must be Nanxiang Sixiu, those four people are from poor backgrounds, but they are very knowledgeable. ”

“...... That's not necessarily, I've seen those four people from afar once, dumbfounded, just reading dead books, I heard that on the way here, I was almost eaten by the fox demon. ”

"Fake, the government has said that where there are fox demons, they are all a group of bandits pretending to be monsters. ”

“...... Hey, by the way, have you heard, there is also a candidate living in the Zhou University Scholar's Mansion, and I heard that it is from Fushui County. ”

"Living in Master Zhou's Mansion? Ouch, then the first place this year must not have run. ”

"I heard that the surname is Lu ...... It was still ten years ago, and he was a student of Shuhua Gong, who was famous in Beijing. ”

"Who is Uncle Hua?"

In the midst of the noisy discussion, Xiao Er, who passed the dishes, carefully squeezed past a man dressed as a Taoist priest with a tray on his hand, who smelled the aroma of the food around him, smacked his lips, and locked his eyes on a table by the river.

The table is two middle-aged literati sitting opposite each other, while looking at the riverside scenery, laughing and talking about the wind, pecking and chewing slowly, in the afterglow, suddenly there is a gray figure approaching, looking sideways, but it is a Taoist priest with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, and a yellow silk cloth pocket on his shoulder.

It is also common for monks to turn into friends, and if they drive each other away, it seems that the two of them are too small and uncivilized, so they pretend not to know and continue to laugh and eat.

However, another glass of wine was drunk, and the man was still standing nearby, and one of them couldn't help but open his mouth.

"This Dao Chief, you are standing here, can you be described as a fate?"

The Taoist twisted the sparse tips of his jaw, and his gaze swept over the plates of dishes on the table, revealing a smiling expression.

"This way is not for the fate, but to observe the graceful demeanor of the two, and the conversation and demeanor are very human, so I want to make a trick for the two. ”

The two people at the table looked at each other and laughed.

"Haha, okay, there are still tricks to see after a meal, but I don't know what tricks I want to change?"

The man's eyes slipped around the table and turned around, and then looked left and right at the two of them.

"This trick, stop the shapeshift, please look at the two. ”

As he spoke, he reached out and pressed the glass that the man on the left had just finished, and pressed the other hand on the half-filled glass on the right.

The Taoist pointed his mouth and hooked a smile: "The two of you are optimistic." ”

These words also made the guests at the nearby tables couldn't help but look at them curiously, only to see that the Taoist's two hands were withdrawn at the same time, and the empty wine glass in front of the literati on the left side became half full, while the wine glass that was half full before was empty.

"Ouch, this Taoist priest is amazing!"

"...... what, what just happened?"

The two middle-aged scribes also looked at the wine glasses in front of them in a daze at this time, and they couldn't figure it out, obviously the wine was on the right, and they ran over there in a blink of an eye.

"I'm afraid this Taoist priest has a Dao method......

While one of them was thinking, suddenly his friend across from him looked left and right: "What about the Taoist priest?"

On the second floor, everyone suddenly came back to their senses, and the Taoist priest who was still there just now seemed to be gone in the blink of an eye, just when everyone was surprised, looking around, the table where the Taoist priest had just stood suddenly shouted.

"My pear blossom stuffed ...... Where's the steamed chicken with honey sauce? Why is it gone?!!"

The sound drifted away from the guardrail, the weeping willows on the riverbank fluttered lightly, and at the top of the restaurant, the missing Taoist priest was lying on the roof and kissing the ridge of the street.

Bathing in the autumn sun, the hanging flask, the wine reflects the sunlight and draws a sparkling arc into the mouth, grabs a plate of sweet and greasy chicken, chews it, swallows it, and makes a "Ahh A sense of satisfaction.

Next to him, a toad wearing a long gown printed with Tongbao money holes looked at the sky, and a piece of fatty meat in the webbed was stuffed into his mouth.

"It's been so long, it's time to come out now. ”

"It should be soon. "This person is Sun Yingxian, the three township tests are all brought to the toad Taoist to wait, lunch is solved on the spot, in his cheeky words, anyway, those people order so many dishes, and they can't finish it in the end, so it's better to help them share a little......

"Old toad, if you have a next time, you go, these two days are the way to deceive ....., go and get it. ”

The toad Taoist squinted his eyes slightly, looking at the Taoist lying there lazily.

"Think about it again, are you sure to let the old man go?"

The Taoist turned his face up, spit out a chicken bone to the sky, squinted at it for a moment, and then turned his head to look at the academy.

"Forget it, maybe by the time we say goodbye, you'll be in the steamer......"

"The ...... of the other What the old man said was that he was not afraid that the whole restaurant would die......"

The toad Taoist didn't seem to want to quarrel with him today, his flippers were inserted into his sleeves, and he turned to the side with his short legs crossed, and after a while, a voice from the crowd below shouted: "Come out." ”

In the academy in the distant township, the door opened, and a group of people came out, and among the crowd, Lu Liangsheng walked out leisurely, carrying a small bag containing pen and ink, and smelled the air outside.

The speed of his feet accelerated, and his figure seemed to be non-existent in the eyes of others, and he squeezed out vaguely, and he felt the position of the Taoist and the master from a distance.

jumped over, stepped on the eaves of a nearby shop, threw his figure on the roof of the restaurant, threw away his books, and sat on it.

"It's finally over. ”

Lu Liangsheng leaned against the roof, the whole person was completely relaxed, and he reached out to take a chicken leg handed by the Taoist.

"Finally finished the exam, wait for the release of the list, let's go back to Lujia Village. ”

"Aren't you going to the northwest to have a look?" Sun Yingxian turned his head in surprise.

Over there, the scholar smiled, watched the bustling crowd below gradually disperse, sighed, held the pot of pear blossom brew in his hand, and took a sip of the spout.

"Go, but go back to see my parents first, I have never left home, this walk has been nearly three months, and I am worried about it. ”

Sun Yingxian couldn't wait to slap himself, he had no father or mother, what are you doing talking about this.

"Okay, I'll go back with you. ”

After eating a little of the wine and meat in his hand, Lu Liangsheng rubbed his fingertips, the oil stains dissipated on their own, and he clapped his hands and stood up.

"Let's go, go back to Zhou's mansion, and say goodbye to Zhou Lao when the list is released in two days. ”

The toad man frowned, "Good life." ”

The scholar, who was about to leave, stopped to look at the master's expression, a little hesitant.

"Master, what do you think is wrong?"

The toad pointed to the half-nibbled chicken.

"I haven't finished eating, so let's take it with me. ”

Lu Liangsheng couldn't laugh or cry, picked up the half of the chicken and wrapped it, during this time, he found that the master liked to eat chickens more and more, if it wasn't for the appearance of a toad, he thought it was a fox changed.

.......

Found a remote corner and lowered the street, all the way through the downtown to Zhou's mansion, the old man Zhou Yao moved a big chair and sat under the eaves in the middle of the front yard, and when he saw Lu Liangsheng coming back, he had an expression on his face.

"How did you do in today's "Strategy"?"

Although the scholar in front of him has not been teaching for a long time, he is also half an academic teacher, and it is not abrupt to ask such a question.

Lu Liangsheng gave a gift.

"It's still coping. ”

The old man knew that this was a modest remark, and laughed out loud, and there was a man who came out from under his door, and wherever he put it, there was a light on his face, not to mention that this young man, regardless of his appearance and conduct, was very much to his liking.

His wife didn't miss the wind blowing in his ears.

"Rong'er's marriage has been withdrawn, she has been sad for a few days, and the concubine sees her running to the side yard from time to time to see Lu Gongzi, is it possible that she is interested in him......?

With this meaning, Zhou Yao also looked at Lu Liangsheng more and more, and he did his best to teach in his studies, but the mysterious technique made him feel tricky, after all, the thoughts of people in cultivation are very difficult to guess.

In case, if you don't like the love between men and women, then ask it, and you will be embarrassed.

Lu Liangsheng naturally noticed this, so he said to Sun Yingxian that after the list was released, he hurriedly said goodbye and left, he didn't hate the eldest lady of Zhoufu, but the diligence of the other party every day made him feel like a man.

No, just said goodbye to the old man and returned to the side courtyard, in front of the crescent moon door, Zhou Rong, who was dressed in a green dress, was slim, and when she saw the scholar coming, she hurriedly took a bowl of ginseng soup from the maid's hand and greeted her.

"Master Lu, can today's last game be considered smooth?"

Lu Liangsheng took the ginseng soup and said with a smile: "It's quite smooth." ”

After saying something embarrassed, he suddenly looked at her face, and hurriedly asked, "By the way, you haven't slept well lately?"

Hearing this, Zhou Rong touched her cheeks and lowered her face slightly.

"Let Childe see it...... Recently, for some reason, I often have nightmares, and I have dreamed many times that a woman in a red dress and long sleeves sings, which is very weird, Lu Gongzi, am I stained with something unclean?"

Red clothes with long sleeves, still singing?

Stay any longer...... I'm afraid something is going to happen.

Lu Liangsheng's eyes subconsciously glanced at the courtyard, and he laughed: "There are no unclean things, but the courtyard on this side is cold and cold, and your physique is weak, so it has some influence on coming here often." ”

After a rough nonsense, without waiting for the other party to react, Lu Liangsheng hurriedly said goodbye, hurriedly walked into the crescent moon door, and the angry woman stomped her feet.

"Just left, and didn't talk to me much. ”

Sun Yingxian, who was following behind, turned around and looked at Miss Zhou, who was thinking with her head tilted.

"Hey....girl, why don't you think about this way?"

Zhou Rong glanced at him and snorted: "There are also disciples in the monks. ”

"Hehe, since you don't think about it, then Ben Dao still advises Miss Zhou not to think about Lu Liangsheng, beware of nightmares coming true. ”

"What nightmare came true? Hey, you made it clear!"

Zhou Rong shouted to the Taoist who had already left, but the other party ignored her, went straight back to the house, and shrugged his shoulders at the scholar who put the toad on the desk.

"I'll help you get her away. ”

"What do you say?" Lu Liangsheng lit a stick of incense and inserted it in front of the portrait.

Sun Yingxian jumped on the desk and sat next to the toad, laughing.

"I told her, you have a good ...... of Longyang"

Lu Liangsheng: "...... you!"

Bang!

The incense stick inserted on the incense burner flew directly over, but fortunately, the Taoist reacted quickly, jumped off the table quickly, and dodged away.

I saw Hong Lian poke her head out and look at him viciously.

"Disgusting, don't joke about my son-in-law like this. ”

"Ouch, what's your house?"

"Begging for a beating!"

The room burst into laughter.

Soon after two days, the government officials who reported the good news came to the Zhou Mansion with gongs and drums, Zhou Yao also knew what was going on when he saw this battle, and took the happy money to distribute to them, Zhou Rong also followed his father to the side yard with a happy face, but when he got inside, he had long since disappeared, and even the old donkey in the backyard was gone.

There was only one letter left on the table.

Zhou Yao's teacher is above:

When I saw this letter, the student was already on his way home, and he had been studying for more than two months, and he was very worried about his parents at home, so he had to say goodbye without saying goodbye, and then go to Beijing to take the exam in the spring of next year, and then come to the house to make amends...... Yunyun.

Alas.....

Zhou Yao put away the letter, looked at her daughter again, and sighed with some pity.

Over there, Zhou Rong, who also saw the content of the letter, twisted her fingers in the silk handkerchief, lowered her face silently, as a lady for everyone, eloped to find the other party, it must be impossible, but finally there was a man who looked satisfied, but the other party was not interesting to herself.

Get out of the crescent door.

She looked at the place where the peach tree had once appeared, as if it were a dream.

"It's a pity that I never had a chance to see the peach blossoms in the courtyard again. ”

.......

The sun went to the south, and an old donkey ran wildly.

The Taoist was holding the scholar's back, and his ears were full of whimpering winds, and his words became blurred in the wind.

"Let's leave like this, isn't it a little thick..... ..... ..... Dao... Ahh

Lu Liangsheng turned his face sideways and shouted.

"Old Zhou seems to want double happiness, if you don't leave, will you wait for the Zhou family's young lady to die on the bed?"

Hearing these words, Sun Yingxian laughed together with the toad Taoist who was lying on his back with his legs crossed in his cloth pocket.

The old donkey hissed and hissed, as if laughing.

On the official road, an old donkey carried two people, hung two bookshelves, and rode away.