In the city of Nanjing, there are many restaurants and inns, as the imperial city of the Ming Dynasty, there is an endless stream of merchants who come and go to stay every day. If it is said that it is economical and cheap, it must be the Tongfu Inn in the east of the city and the Yuelai Inn in the west of the city.

In fact, when it comes to food, accommodation or something, these two are not better than others, but with two good names, they immediately became the favorite place for scholars who entered Beijing to take the exam, and it didn't matter if the price was expensive, there was a good luck, and the heart was comfortable, isn't it?

I don't know when it began, there was an unwritten rule for the scholars who entered Beijing, all the scholars in the north lived in the champion building, and the scholars in the south had to stay in the pavilion. It doesn't matter if the proprietors of the two families are tens of thousands of Confucian students in Nanjing, and the two of them together can only take over more than 1,000 people, with more wolves and less meat, a typical seller's market.

The meal has long passed, but the lobby of the champion building is still lively, the Confucian students do not go back to the room to rest after eating, they are still talking, and they are also talking about the general trend of the world, they are not idle, the purpose of this is mainly to make a name. If you can make a little reputation, maybe you will get into the eyes of a big official in the dark, then it will have a bright future, the worst, make a few more friends, maybe who will rise to the top in the future, and you can also leave a good fate, right?

"Everyone," Han Kezhong got up and said loudly: "All of you here are all the heroes of my northland, Han is not talented, and I am willing to use a glass of thin wine to win everyone's champion and first, and Pengcheng is thousands of miles." As he spoke, he took the wine glass in his hand and drank it all.

"Good!" the scholars also raised their glasses and drank.

A Confucian student in Tsing Yi over there got up and arched his hand and said: "I have long heard that Shandong Han Shouxin is heroic, and when I see it today, it is really extraordinary." The younger brother Wang Shu had the courage to return a glass to Brother Han, and hoped that Brother Han would not dislike it. ”

Han Kezhong filled the wine glass in his hand and said with a smile: "Where did Brother Wang say, at the same time, the northerners should watch and help each other, and they all meet for fate, so why dislike it." ”

Someone in the audience shouted: "Brother Shouxin, today's beautiful scenery, why not make a poem and spread it, it is also a good story!"

"Yes, that's exactly how it should be. "And there were people who answered the word.

"Shopkeeper, take pen and ink and wait!"

The atmosphere was warm, Han Kezhong did not shirk, closed his eyes and pondered, in a moment, he had already drafted, and he was about to drop the ink when he picked up the pen, when someone suddenly broke in at the door and shouted loudly: "Brothers, the southern barbarians deceived me and there is no one in the north, and now I am in the teahouse in the east of the city and a few of my classmates are moving, and please go to the rescue!"

"Huh?!"

"What!"

There was an uproar. Han Kezhong's face sank, and then he threw the wolf in his hand, and said angrily: "The southerners are unreasonable, how can we sit idly by, today is just right, give them a lesson." ”

"Yes, I've been looking at them for a long time. ”

"If you fight, you fight, are you still afraid that they can't succeed!"

"Let's go!"

"Go together, go together!"

For a while, the crowd was excited, and they hugged and went out.

"It's okay, it's okay. The shopkeeper secretly rejoiced: "If this fights in my champion building, it will be troublesome." ”

On the other side, the situation in the pavilion was similar, and the shopkeeper laughed in a low voice: "It is estimated that the owner of the teahouse is miserable this time." ”

"Shopkeeper's. The shopkeeper said worriedly: "This freshly served dish, they ran away before they ate it, it's really a waste of things." ”

"You're a monkey spirit, pretending to show anyone. The shopkeeper laughed and scolded: "Go and call the old king in the back kitchen and them together, let's have a meal together." ”

"Okay~, you are the shopkeeper, I admire Xiao Zhao. As the shopkeeper spoke, he even jumped and ran to the back kitchen: "Everyone come out, boss, please eat!"

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"Your Highness, the situation is too chaotic, why don't we go first?" casually knocked down the Nth teacup that flew from nowhere, Xu Ruyi spoke softly.

"What are you afraid of, with you, who can hurt me. Zhu Yunwen didn't care, and there was still some eagerness in his eyes.

"Your Highness, don't make trouble. Xu Ruyi hurriedly said: "Just look at it, if you really want to go up, someone will hurt you when you turn around, how to say what happened to the slaves and maids, the emperor is estimated to be able to cut them all." ”

"Oh, that's right. Zhu Yunwen nodded regretfully.

"Stop it!! Lao Tzu" Niu Er stood at the door and snorted, majestic, it's a pity... No one paid any attention to him.

"What the hell, it's all a bunch of things. Niu Er spat on the ground, then rolled his eyes, and shouted again: "Kill ~ people ~ !!!!!"

"Huh?"

"Who, who died?"

"Oops, why are you still fighting?"

"Sorry, I didn't hold it. The beater withdrew his fist in a scornful manner.

Everyone looked around, and there were more than a dozen classmates wailing and moaning on the ground, but no one seemed to die?

"What's the situation?" everyone was wondering, Niu Er stepped on the stage, looked down and said: "They are all studied, and they are like ruffians and hooligans in this court, is it still good-looking?"

It's not easy for a shopkeeper to open a teahouse, how different are you from robbers when you smash it like this?"

Everyone present was stunned for a moment, and then whispered earnestly: "Who is this?"

"I don't know. ”

"Looking at this look, why does it look like a gangster?"

Jiao Sheng came out of the crowd out of nowhere, and raised his eyes to look at Niu Er: "Who is Your Excellency?

"Like, who are you?"

"What does this have to do with you?"

Zheng Shanru over there also said loudly: "Your Excellency misunderstood, we have already spoken to the shopkeeper, and the losses should be shared by my southern scholars, and I will not let the shopkeeper suffer losses." As he spoke, a money bag was thrown in the direction of the shopkeeper.

"What do you mean by the surname Zheng, when I don't know etiquette in the north?" Jiao Sheng glared at Zheng Shanru angrily, and then took out a piece of silver from his arms and threw it over.

"Cut. Zheng Shanru slanted the corners of his eyes, his face full of disdain.

"You!" the scene was chaotic, and it looked like a fight was about to start again.

"Damn, can you stop for a while!" Niu Er burst into tears: "Lao Tzu Niu Er, it's a gangster here, this teahouse is covered by me and my brother, you break your head Lao Tzu doesn't care, but it's not okay to fight here!"

"It turned out to be a gangster. Zheng Shanru said contemptuously: "What do you know about the affairs of the scholars, don't retreat quickly, be careful that we even fight you together!"

"That's it, is it your turn?"

"Get out of here!"

Everyone coaxed the seedlings, but Niu Er didn't speak, but Niu Tiehammer couldn't help it: "Who said that you want to beat my brother, you stand up and see if Lao Tzu doesn't pull your head off!"

"Hammer, shut up!" Niu Er snorted, then jumped off the stage and took a few steps in front of Zheng Shanru: "Boy, I don't understand the affairs of your scholars, and I don't want to get involved." But snakes have snake paths, rats have rat paths, and with my Niu Er here today, you can't be wild!" he said, pulling out a dagger from his waist.

"What are you going to do?" Zheng Shanru looked at Niu Er's hideous expression, and couldn't help but take a step back.

"What for?" Niu Er smiled: "Kill your Lao Tzu and pay for your life." Do you think it's worth it? He took Zheng Shanru's hand, stuffed the dagger into his hand and held it: "If Lao Tzu doesn't retreat, you will beat Lao Tzu?

"Come on!" Niu Er grabbed Zheng Shanru's hand and pointed the dagger at his heart: "Poke it, Lao Tzu will definitely say his admiration when he sees Lord Yama when he goes down." ”

"You!" Zheng Shanru's face changed, and everyone's eyes gathered.

Don't say: brine and tofu, one thing drops one thing.

Today's matter, even if it is changed to Shuntian Mansion Yin, it is not easy to deal with the Yamen arrest soon, the law does not blame the public, and a person who is not good may be trapped. As soon as the two bulls came, the three times five divided by two solved the situation in front of them.

Aren't you amazing? You're so powerful, you're going to kill me, we're all gone.

Zheng Shanru is holding a knife in his hand, neither advancing nor retreating. With a knife, he will exchange his life for the life of a gangster, and he will have to be severely punished by the family law of the clan, but if he admits it, he will lose his face.

In this dilemma, there was a sudden noise outside the door.

"Despicable, even called for reinforcements!"

"Do you want to be ashamed, the wave on the left is not your people?!"

It turned out that the large army of the champion building and the first pavilion had arrived.

The scene is lively now, the fight between sixty or seventy people is already a miasma, if more than a thousand more people come, it will be more than enough to tear down this teahouse.

"That's good. The shopkeeper's tears were about to fall out.

Niu Er is also hairy, if he can settle this scene, then what kind of gangster will he be, and he will be the emperor directly.

Zhu Yunwen was also anxious: "Ruyi, this teahouse is very good, if it is smashed, it will be a pity, where will you go to listen to books in the future, can you... ”

"Well... Xu Ruyi also frowned, this situation is really difficult to solve at the moment.

As the saying goes: a thousand people cover the sky. In a hurry to come out by himself, there was nothing else on his body that could prove his identity except for the seal of an East Factory. It's not realistic to show them the seals one by one, and the East Factory is not a place with a good reputation, if it's not right, it's not good that this group of stunned people can really come to "eliminate harm for the people".

"Where is Brother Jiao?!" Han Kezhong shouted outside the door.

"Brother Zheng, you are... What's the situation?" Another person squeezed in from outside the door, looking at Zheng Shanru and Niu Er in the hall, he couldn't help but be stunned.

In the corner, Xu Ruyi felt that the speaker's voice was a little familiar, and after taking a closer look at the voice, he really knew it!

I was talking earlier, but now we are meeting, and they are still familiar, wearing plain Wensheng Gongzi clothes, wearing Wensheng Gongzi scarf, waist and crotch sword, a scholarly chivalrous morale, it is the little apprentice accepted by Xu Ruyi Qiandeng Town: Gu Yuezhen!

"Brother Gu came in time, you must invite him to dinner when you turn around!" Zheng Shanru raised his eyebrows, quietly put away the dagger in his hand, and was about to reply, but saw the crowd outside divided into two, and an old man in a Confucian robe walked slowly: "I will try soon, you don't study hard behind closed doors, but make noise here, the face of the scholar has been lost, so how can you enter the court as an official in the future?"

Three long beards, full of hair. A pair of starry eyes on the angular face scanned the audience, not angry and arrogant.

"It's Liu Qing's family here. Zhu Yunwen lowered his head to dodge, as if he was afraid of this old man's appearance.

"Your Highness, who is this?" Xu Ruyi wondered.

"He is a Hanlin bachelor, Liu Sanwu, and Liu Qing's family. Zhu Yunwen said in a low voice.

"It's him. Xu Ruyi nodded, and then his heart was suddenly shocked: "Is it him?!He is not dead yet?"

Liu Sanwu, a well-known benevolent elder of the Hongwu Dynasty, is as famous as Song Lian, a native of Chaling, Hunan, and calls himself Tantanweng. In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, he was deeply respected by Zhu Yuanzhang and respected as a benevolent elder.

These things can be regarded as known to the world, but Xu Ruyi is not very clear, and the reason why he is surprised in his heart is because in his memory, this is a big case involving Liu Sanwu's death.

"It is now the 30th year of Hongwu, and it is also the last imperial examination of Zhu Yuanzhang during his reign. And this Liu Sanwu is still alive, which means... Xu Ruyi's heart sank...

Liu Sanwu looked at Zheng Shanru and said unhappily: "The first one in Jiangnan, a filial piety heirloom, a model for my Jiangnan scholars, is now fighting bravely and fiercely with people in this teahouse and wine shop, is this how you are taught in your family?"

"The gentleman is angry, and the disciple knows his mistake. Zheng Shanru said respectfully.

"And you, in a few days it will be the period of the examination, the Northern Song Dynasty Han Gong once said, 'Donghuamen roll call is a good man', you are like this, how different is it from a ruffian?"

"What Mr. taught me is that late life knows mistakes. More than 1,000 people bowed their hands in unison, and the momentum was amazing.

"Since you know your mistake, why don't you go back quickly? If you stay here, do you really want to fight and fail?" Liu Sanwu shouted angrily, and the scholars present did not hesitate anymore, and scattered in all directions, not even daring to let out a fart.

"Who is this person, why is he so powerful?" asked the onlookers, puzzled.

"Liu Sanwu, the chief examiner of this exam!"

"Oh~" The questioner suddenly realized: "No wonder, no wonder." ”

The tables and chairs in the teahouse were smashed and smashed, and the scene was a mess. Now that there is no bustle to see, the previous tea customers and the people outside the door have also dispersed one after another.

The shopkeeper of the teahouse came to Niu Er and said with a smile: "Anyway, today's matter is thanks to Niu Ye's action, and the little old man has thanked him here." ”

"The shopkeeper is polite. Niu Er arched his hand: "I didn't do anything, and in the end, it was Master Liu who helped you out of the siege, didn't he?"

"One yard to one yard. The shopkeeper shook his head, took out a piece of loose silver from his arms and handed it over: "If there is no help from Master Niu, I'm afraid I won't be able to drag Mr. Liu to come." I still understand this point. What's more, it is even more rare for Niu Ye not to push when he encounters trouble. This little bit of silver is nothing, it's just a little bit of heart, Niu Ye don't shirk. ”

"If you don't give me the money I should take, I will rob it. Niu Er smiled and said: "I took your example money on weekdays, but I can't pretend to be dead today." I, Niu Er, are the most rules-oriented, I don't take your silver, and you don't want to be verbose. ”

"Bang bang. Xu Ruyi clapped his hands and walked closer and said with a smile: "What a well-behaved gangster, it's rare, our family has a future for you, are you willing to want it?"