Since Bai Sheng didn't sign, Li Qingzhao was not reluctant, gave Bai Sheng a "let's go" look, put down the brush and walked inside the door.

Bai Sheng didn't follow him, but smiled bitterly, saying in his heart that it was strange that you could enter the door like this.

Sure enough, before Li Qingzhao walked to the threshold, she was stopped, and the person dressed as the housekeeper who stopped her didn't say much, but only snorted at the table in the "gift office", the meaning is very clear, you haven't taken out the gift yet, how can you enter the door?

These people don't care about the appearance of Li Qingzhao and Bai Sheng who have no long things and are empty-handed, and those officials who came to give gifts with expensive jewelry are also the same on the surface, so no one stopped Li Qingzhao from signing the sign-in book, but only signing but not giving gifts, then it won't work, where to go back, Cai Mansion will not accept it.

It is said that Li Qingzhao grew up in a scholarly family, whether it was her father who raised her or married her husband or even her husband, they are all the kind of people who are not good at flattery, they belong to the literati with backbone, and they hate corruption the most, even if they are used to this kind of corrupt atmosphere that is ushered in, they will not be in cahoots with these people. And Li Qingzhao lives in his hometown of Qingzhou all the year round, and is addicted to piano, chess, calligraphy and painting all day long, so he doesn't know these vulgar etiquette.

Do you have to take something to visit a patient? She really didn't understand, so she was stopped at the gate, and it was difficult to move forward.

Bai Sheng stood behind Li Qingzhao and smiled bitterly, he understood the twists and turns, but there was nothing he could do. Because he had no money and no treasures, and he guessed that Li Qingzhao didn't have anything too precious on him, could he enter this door with a few taels of silver in an embroidered purse?

In addition to helplessness, his mind was still thinking about the beautiful word "Xiao Feng" just now, he felt that this should be a woman's name, but no matter how he looked at this font, there was a familiar feeling, as if he had seen it somewhere.

"Go, go, you can go! What kind of system is it to block here?" The housekeeper of the Cai Mansion didn't care what Li Qingzhao and Bai Sheng were thinking, and after waiting for a while, he didn't take out any gold and silver treasures, so he directly killed people.

Li Qingzhao was unwilling to be blown away, and said: "I am a teacher invited by Master Cai, and I am bothered to report it to the housekeeper." ”

The housekeeper was immediately furious, and sneered: "Joke! Are you a fool to me? You don't even ask, how talented is my Taishi Cai? The people who can be his teachers have long since died, even if they have to ask our Taishi for calligraphy articles today, how can they hire others to be teachers?"

What this housekeeper said is really not crazy words, and there is no need to say that the article does not need to be said that in the Song Dynasty, who could be the prime minister was not a talented man with eight buckets and a rich man? Speaking of calligraphy alone, Cai Jing is indeed higher than Song Huizong, sometimes there is a "Su Huang Mi Cai" saying, which means that Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, Cai Jing four people's calligraphy represents the calligraphy level of the entire Song Dynasty. And now that the three of Su Mihuang are dead, Cai Jing has become the only remaining master of calligraphy, just at that time, it is not an exaggeration to say that his calligraphy is the best in the world. (Note: Su Huangmi Cai is the "Song Four Family", and later generations replaced Cai Jing with Cai Xiang because Cai Jing's reputation was too stinky.) ）

Of course, Li Qingzhao knew that Cai Jing was deeply educated, but Cai Jing did invite her to come to Beijing to give a lecture by letter, although I don't know who the student who was assigned to her was, but it was definitely not Cai Jing himself. But how can this be clearly said to the housekeeper of Cai's house? There is no evidence, she only hates that she didn't bring Cai Jing's handwritten letter when she came out of her hometown in Qingzhou, so that she is speechless at the moment.

Seeing that Li Qingzhao was silent, the housekeeper extinguished his anger, leaving only a mocking face: "Okay, I see that your woman is not a relative of ordinary people, so I don't know you in general, I advise you to leave quickly, don't make trouble in front of the Taishi Mansion, otherwise I will call someone to send you to Kaifeng Mansion, and your husband's face will not look good at that time." ”

At this time, the sun was already three, and the warm sunlight was slanting on Li Qingzhao's face, but it could not dispel her hesitation and helplessness. She and Bai Sheng were neither the first nor the last to visit, and just when they were blocked, five groups of visitors arrived one after another.

These people were like old horses, they signed in skillfully, presented gifts, and then swaggered into the Prime Minister's Mansion, and their faces were particularly arrogant when they passed by Bai and Li, as if they were much superior to Bai and Li.

Bai Sheng noticed that most of the gifts given by these people were antiques, calligraphy and paintings, gold and jade items, and only a few of them were directly paid in a large number of gold ingots, but they could also be exchanged for an unimpeded flow. As for silver and copper coins, they are not visible here at all.

"Let's go, brother. Li Qingzhao sighed softly.

She finally gave up the fantasy of entering the mansion, and when she just turned around, she suddenly stopped, Bai Sheng looked at her, and saw a Confucian student in his thirties coming towards her, with a white face and little beard, a slightly chubby figure, and a burden in his hand.

The person who came looked at Li Qingzhao with a slightly cordial gaze, and greeted warmly: "Qingzhao, why are you here? ”

It's just that when he saw Bai Sheng beside Li Qingzhao, his face sank suddenly, and he lowered his voice and said, "This is Bai Sheng, right? You have escorted Humble Jing to the capital, why are you still entangled with her?" What do you want to do?"

Bai Sheng only heard the voice and knew that it was Li Qingzhao's husband Zhao Mingcheng, because he had heard this voice arguing with Li Qingzhao last night, so he immediately walked a few steps to the side, ignoring the other party's questioning. My heart said that I didn't want to come by myself, but your wife must let me accompany me, okay?

Li Qingzhao couldn't help but be angry, but he didn't want to quarrel with her husband at the door of Cai Jing's house, so he only said coldly: "I didn't expect you to learn to be inflammatory!" Then he wanted to bypass Zhao Mingcheng to chase Bai Sheng, but was stopped by Zhao Mingcheng with his arm stretched out, and said in a voice that couldn't be lowered: "What are you doing? Do you want to elope with a wild man in public? You don't have a face, my Zhao family still needs face!"

Li Qingzhao was furious when he heard this, but he didn't want to tear up with Zhao Mingcheng in this kind of place, so he stopped and turned his face to the side, but he saw Zhao Mingcheng sign in at the sign-in desk first, and then put the burden in his hand on the table at the gift receiving office, and after opening it, there was a set of jade tea sets, a jade pot, equipped with six jade cups, and introduced to the recipient: "Each teacup is worth 3,000 guan, the jade pot is 10,000 guan, and the full set is more than 20,000 guan!"

Seeing this scene, Li Qingzhao couldn't help but sneer: "You are really willing! Why didn't I see that you were such a person at the beginning?" This set of jade pots is the heirloom of her Li family, and it was a gift from her father-in-law Li Gefei to her father-in-law when her father-in-law Zhao Tingzhi was the right minister, but I didn't expect it to be taken to Cai's mansion by Zhao Mingcheng to give gifts. At this moment, she sincerely felt worthless for her father, and she also felt sad for her marriage.

Zhao Mingcheng didn't think so, turned around and whispered: "Don't you know why your father became an official? Now that neither of our two families is an official, seeing that I am about to become an official, how can I be implicated by my father-in-law? Wouldn't our family be ruined?"

Of course, Li Qingzhao knew that his father was dismissed as an official, and now above this court is Cai Jing's world, those who follow it are rampant, and those who go against it die, her father was masturbated because he offended Cai Jing, otherwise how could she be so eager to see Cai Jing to intercede? She just doesn't understand and disdain to bribe. He didn't answer immediately, only gave a silent sneer.

Zhao Mingcheng enlightened his wife, but he didn't enter the mansion immediately, but turned his head to look at Bai Sheng not far away, made a lofty gesture and said: "What are you still doing here? Do you also want to enter the Taishi's Mansion? You want to be famous or not, you want to have a family background without a family background, you want money without money, you are a mountain village man, you don't even have the qualifications to stand here, do you know?"

After that, without waiting for Bai Sheng to answer, he pulled up Li Qingzhao's sleeve and walked to the gate, Li Qingzhao wanted to struggle not to go, but his strength was weak, and he was afraid of being embarrassed in front of everyone, so he could only be pulled into the Prime Minister's Mansion by Zhao Mingcheng step by step.

Bai Sheng stood alone on the side of the street outside the Xiangfu Gate, shook his head with a wry smile, and said in his heart, how can he meet someone who pretends to be forced with money in the Song Dynasty? Seeing that two of the sixteen healthy servants at the gate were coming towards him, he knew that he was about to bombard people after hearing Zhao Mingcheng's words, so he wanted to turn around and leave, when he suddenly heard a familiar voice behind him: "Do you want to go in?" I can help you. ”

When I turned my head, I saw Wanyan Wulu standing behind me wearing a purple mink fur, carrying a large money bag in her right hand and a huge gold ingot in her left hand.