He also put himself on the edge of the cliff while forcing Wang Xiujuan to a dead end, if the Wang family wins this time in the recruitment ring, his Liu family will not be able to raise his head from now on, but Wang Xiujuan will not be able to marry because of this;

If the Wang family loses this competition, Wang Xiujuan will keep her promise and marry obediently, but what if the person who wins is not from their Liu family?

However, if you want to win, it seems unlikely, you can ask someone to help you fight, of course Wang Chuanhua can do the same, if you talk about the influence on the rivers and lakes, you can't compare with Wang Chuanhua at all,

When the time comes, he will definitely lose, and the only hope is that there will be a strange man with high martial arts and ugly appearance to win everyone and then take Wang Xiujuan away.

Thinking of this, Liu Jinbiao sighed and said, "Xiong'er, go and write a letter to your cousin, explain the situation here to your cousin clearly, and ask him to find a few more people to help in the rivers and lakes!"

Chang'an, in the imperial study of the palace, Li Longji was sitting and drinking tea with Tian Yangming.

Tea in the imperial study is one of the supreme glory of the Tang Empire, plus Tian Yangming, there are only six humanities and military generals who can drink tea in the imperial study, and Tian Yangming is the only one who has been given tea three times.

Even the emperor's first close attendant, Gao Lishi, only served tea in the imperial study, but he never had the opportunity to drink tea, and this matter alone could glorify his ancestors.

To receive this honor,

Tian Yangming couldn't be happy, because he felt that Li Longji had something in his heart, the emperor is like this, what does he want you to do. It never tells you directly, but lets you think for yourself, and if you figure it out, then you do it yourself. How to prove that you are doing right or wrong,

It's very simple, depending on the emperor's attitude towards you, your promotion to an official proves that you are doing the right thing. To demote you is to prove that you have done something wrong.

As far as Tian Yangming is concerned, he is currently a very popular minister and can no longer be promoted, so the emperor can only reward him by giving tea. This is of course a very high honor, but it also illustrates one thing from the side.

That is, he has reached the point of being a master of high merit, and he has been a courtier of others since ancient times, and once he has reached the situation of being a master of high merit, there is no reward. It's really dangerous.

Tian Yangming knows the truth that a companion is like a tiger,

Therefore, the higher the status, the more cautious he is, and now he almost never leaves the house except for the court affairs, and he will never get involved in the banquet and drink that he was very keen on before.

Sometimes he himself wonders why he was not happy when he was promoted and made a fortune from a place of rest and bitter cold to the prosperous place of fireworks in the capital, and he couldn't sleep every night. I am always worried that I will be blamed for my words, and my family will be ruined in an instant.

Every time he received a decree from the eunuch of the Yellow Gate. ordered him to go to the imperial study to serve a drink, just like going to the tiger's den in Longtan.

Every time he saw those people from all over the country who were full of ambition to enter Beijing to take the exam, Tian Yangming couldn't help but shake his head and sigh in his heart

"Everyone else is in and out of the phase, and the wife is sealed, but who knows the danger of the ups and downs of the sea, and every day is like walking on thin ice. Trembled. If you are not careful, you will fall into a desperate situation from which you will never recover. ”

Li Longji took a sip of tea lightly and asked, "Tian Aiqing, this is the new tea that Nan Xianwen specially sent from Shuzhou, hehe." You are Nan Xianwen's old employer, he is a kind person who does not forget his roots, and he is also thoughtful in doing things, and he will not forget his old club if he wants to, I guess you have already tasted it, right? ”

Tian Yangming hurriedly got up and left his seat, walked a few steps to kneel down in front of Li Longji's tea case, and said: "Emperor Mingjian, Nan Xianwen did send a lot of tea to Weichen when he came to Beijing this time, but Weichen didn't see him.

He also turned away all the gifts, and ordered someone to send a message to him: You and I are now both vassals of the emperor, and we belong to each other's colleagues. Nan Xianwen is also a person loyal to His Majesty, and when he saw that the minister didn't say anything, he turned around and left, asking the emperor to take a look. ”

"Alas," Li Longji sighed helplessly, "Aiqing, you are good at everything, but this is not good, I told you a few jokes, and you also knelt down and knocked nine times, how can I laugh with you in the future? Forget it, I won't talk about anything else today, just talk about the tea ceremony, so as to save you the trouble of kneeling around, and I will also look upset." Get up quickly!"

After giving thanks, he stood up and sat down again.

Li Longji carefully tasted the tea in the tea, and said slowly: "I often say that life is like a play, that is because I love opera, in fact, if it is more appropriate, this life is like tea." At the beginning, we were all the same innocent, everything was the same.

Just like this first brewed tea, only light taste, many people feel that the first tea has no taste, but who knows that this light taste is the most rare, and when you drink the second tea, it is impossible to reminisce about this taste, if you say which tea is the most mixed,

It is this second tea, both the fragrance of tea and the bitterness of the years, the taste can only be tasted by yourself, this person can't say it clearly and can't figure it out. If it has the longest aftertaste, it is the third tea, and most people don't like to drink this third tea, because the taste is dull.

Especially after just drinking the mellow taste of the second tea, I feel even more tasteless, but I feel that all kinds of life are in this third tea, although the mouth is tasteless, but the sweet, astringent and bitter many tastes are in my heart, this is the same as people, when people are old, recalling the things they did when they were young, it must be a different taste. ”

Tian Yangming bowed down and said: "Your Majesty's teachings are extremely true, and Weichen has written it down." ”

Li Longji said: "Speaking of which, your staff member Nan Xianwen is much more careful about things, this time the tea he offered is called Nine Stars Huanyue, I was very surprised at the time, thinking that they found some new varieties of tea trees in the Shuzhou area,

When I took the raw tea and took a look, it turned out to be just Lao Jun Mei, although it was the best Lao Jun Mei, but why it was called such a strange name, I couldn't understand it, this Nan Xianwen didn't say it, just smiled and asked me to taste it myself, it's rare, it's rare for someone to make such a joke with me, to be honest, no one laughs with me, and I feel bored, so I'm happy!

I ordered someone to make a cup of tea and taste it carefully, it is said that this old gentleman Meizhen has drunk it more than a thousand times, but I didn't expect that I didn't taste it, first a sweet taste, and then a sour taste, I don't understand,

Then there is the astringency, like the tea bricks offered by Tibet, which is extremely bitter, and when the bitterness has passed, there is such a pleasant fragrance that leads from the throat to the lungs. I was a little drunk. (To be continued......)