Ten Dragons Take the Inheritance

Chapter 373 Appearance
The April weather in the capital is not too hot, but after the Qingming rain, it gets hotter day by day, and I can’t wear a jacket for a long time, but it’s a bit cold in a single dress, and it’s hot enough in the daytime However, it is very cold at night. Dressing in such weather is really a nerve-wracking thing, so people all over the street often wear vest clips on their hoods outside their single clothes. It's annoying, but it's better than being sick, isn't it?Among the crowd passing by on the street, a young man in a water-coloured singlet with a lynx leather wallet leading a servant hurried along the road. Although his face was calm, his footsteps were a little more anxious. Yuan Restaurant seemed to be relieved, unfolded the folding fan in his hand, and walked into the restaurant with a light shake.

Among the thousands of restaurants in the capital, Minyuan Restaurant is not very famous, at most it is mid-range, not to mention the luxury and luxury of Moon Tower, even compared with large restaurants such as Lion Tower, it is still inferior , but there is one thing that is incomparable to other restaurants, and that is the humanistic atmosphere.The owner of the restaurant may be trying to attract business, or maybe he just respects scholars. From the very beginning of the establishment of the restaurant, it was stipulated that anyone who can compose a good poem on the spot will be given half-price food and drinks. This point alone has attracted the attention of most literati and poets. , it is said that Emperor Kangxi also came here in casual clothes, and exchanged poems for wine, leaving behind a good story. Every time in the year of the competition, Minyuan Restaurant is full of customers every day, and all the people who come and go are famous people. or to drink and sing, or to meet friends through literature, or to have a debate, which is very lively and becomes a beautiful scenery in the capital.

Today, the Minyuan Restaurant is very noisy as usual, but there are a lot fewer customers, which is not surprising. The competition is coming to an end, and only the palace exam is left. After leaving the village, the rest are the elites who are about to take part in the palace examination, and these people are only about 300 people in total.There are fewer guests, but the quality is very high. Most of them are scholars who are about to take part in the palace examination. They are suave, chatting and laughing with allusions, which can be regarded as very lively.

The young man who hurried into the restaurant didn't stay long on the first floor, he just glanced at it and went up the stairs to the private room on the second floor. He took out a piece of silver and threw it to the waiter who came forward with a smile on his face. , smiled and said: "Master is looking for someone, so there is no need to wait." After speaking, he ignored the flattery of the waiter, and went straight into the second box of C.

"Ha, Xiao Hong is here, but you are late, and you will be fined three glasses of wine." A handsome young scholar immediately shouted with laughter when he saw the boy walk into the box.

Xiao Hong?Of course it wasn't the real Xiao Hong, this person was the current big brother Hongli.Hongli, who was only twelve years old, inherited Yin Zuo's tall genes, and also inherited Qiu Ju's good looks. Like a fifteen or six-year-old boy, with a gentle smile on his face and a bookish look, he couldn't help but feel a sense of intimacy.

"Brother Zhai, please forgive me for coming late, oh, these big brothers are..." Hongli smiled and asked politely as he cupped his hands to the young man who said hello.

Brother Zhai, whose real name is Zhai Jia, whose style name is Liaoyou, is 12 years old. He was born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi. , when the spring breeze is in full swing, today I specially invited a few people of the same year to drink and celebrate together.

"Xiao Hong, come, let me introduce you to some handsome contemporary figures." Zhai Jia waved happily, signaling Hongli to sit on the empty seat beside him, pointing to a bearded man in his early thirties on his right hand The scholar said: "This is brother Zhao, Zhao Xiongzhao, from Wujin, and his poems are incomparable today."

"Little brother Hong Mingfu has met Brother Zhao." Hongli saluted very politely.

"Don't dare, I'm Zhao Xiongzhao, whose name is Houchi." Zhao Xiongzhao saw Hongli's extraordinary aura, so he didn't dare to neglect, and introduced himself politely.

Zhai Jia pointed to a solid white-clothed scholar on the left hand side, made a face and said, "This is Brother Wang, Wang Shichen, from Changzhou. His writing is popular all over the world, and he is highly regarded by scholars. It’s a certainty, even if it’s not impossible, it’s not impossible to make someone jealous.”

"Brother, don't listen to brother Zhai's nonsense. Wang Mou just wants to be in the second class. It is enough, but your brother Zhai is coming soon, and you are making fun of me. You should be fined three glasses of wine." Wang Shichen flicked his beard and smiled slightly. road.

"That's right, brother Zhai wants to use the yuan himself, but he uses brother Genfu as a trick. He deserves to be punished!" A scholar in Tsing Yi sitting opposite Zhai Jia laughed and got up, picked up the flagon without hesitation Fill up Zhai Jia's cup.

"Don't panic, don't panic, drink for a while, and I have to introduce this Qiufeng blunt scholar, haha, if it's just papers, I'm no match for him, but this guy has a lot of things to do, every time he goes to the competition, something happens, isn't it? Diarrhea is a headache, or Ding You, this is the third competition, I thought this guy should be transferred, but this guy made a mess again in the examination room, forgot to avoid taboos, a great article. It’s really embarrassing to be ruined. Oh, this guy’s name is Cao Xiandong, styled Ziming, he’s from Zibo, Shandong, and he’s the most romantic.” Zhai Jia covered the mouth of his wine glass with his hand, and laughed and laughed at Cao Xiandong. The history is described.

"Haha, that is, that is, so-and-so is just a miss, left and right is nothing more than that, but you wait for the dragon gate to leap, and you can expect to transform into a dragon, then there will be a few more places to go for the autumn wind, come, drink , oh, this little brother is..." Cao Xiandong didn't care about his bad luck at all, he drank the wine in his glass very coolly, looked at Hongli with a smile, and asked tentatively.

"Oh, this little brother Hong is amazing. Regardless of his young age, I'm afraid he won't be inferior to all of you. He will definitely be a member of my generation in the future. Come, let's have a toast together." Zhai Jia did not introduce Hongli in detail. He laughed and joked about his origin and background.

"Oh, that's good, don't be as obedient as Cao. Come on, Cao will toast you." Cao Xiandong's eyes suddenly flashed, and he didn't ask any more questions, he raised his glass with a smile, Taking another sip of the wine that was just filled, he took the wine glass and found the bottom of the glass.

"Okay, little brother, I'll have a good drink with everyone today, but it doesn't work if there is no order. Otherwise, everyone can come to Lianshi. How about having a drink if you can't make it?" Hongli was very happy He quickly drank the wine in the glass, and suggested with a smile on his face.

Everyone here is a temporary choice among literati, and they are naturally experts in poetry and other things, but no one is willing to show weakness, Zhai Jia nodded with a smile and said: "Okay, my brother, let me say something first: outside the window The bright moon is bright."

Hongli quickly answered, "Yan Ruyu in the room."

Cao Xiandong laughed and said: "My little brother is thinking about red sleeves now, haha, lying drunk in the arms of a beauty."

Zhao Xiongzhao said casually: "Changge should be laughed at."

Wang Shichen shook his head and said with a smile: "You have been thinking of good things, hey, Dangfu understands.

"It doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense." Cao Xiandong shook his head and said, "I'm already drunk, how can I drink again? Brother Genfu's sentence is absurd. In Yimou's opinion, he should be the master of the family, hahaha..."

Two whites?Everyone was stunned for a moment, then suddenly came to their senses, and they all laughed so hard that they couldn't help laughing. Wang Shichen picked up the jug and poured it into Cao Xiandong's mouth without hesitation. Yes, drink, drink."

After drinking a lot of wine, from noon to Shen time, a group of literati can't stand the alcohol, once the wine is on, they talk more, astronomy and geography, laughing and cursing, each expressing their hearts, giving a lot of advice With emotion, at the end of the day, only Hongli and Cao Xiandong were able to maintain a certain level of sanity, and the rest of the people had already started talking nonsense.With enough food and wine, it was time to break up. A group of people staggered out of the restaurant, made an appointment for a reunion, and then dispersed.Seeing that it was getting late, Hongli didn't dare to stay any longer, so he inquired about Cao Xiandong's residence privately, and then hurried to the palace, never thinking that when he just returned to elder brother's house, a group of young eunuchs were waiting there Already——Shang Shang's oral order: pass on Hongli's audience.Hongli didn't care too much, hurriedly rinsed his mouth with tea, wiped his face, and followed the little eunuchs to the Hall of Mental Cultivation where Yin Zuo was.

"I kowtow to see Huang Ama." When Hongli saw Yinzuo, he knelt down and kowtowed to pay his respects.

"Why, have you had enough?" Yinzuo sat at the desk reviewing papers, asked without raising his head, and didn't raise his voice, letting Hongli kneel on the ground.

As soon as Hongli heard this, he understood that his business of going out to drink in private was a failure, and the cold sweat on his head suddenly gushed out like a spring, and he didn't dare to quibble, but just lowered his head and said: "Return to Huang Ama's words." , I didn't ask for an edict to leave the palace today, which violated the ancestral system, I dare not argue, please punish Huang Ama."

"Oh? You are very frank. After all, how should I punish you?" Yin Zuo said calmly, without stopping the pen in his hand.

"I ask Huang Ama to forgive me, I won't dare next time." Hongli kowtowed.

"Well, let's go, you've had enough wine today, you must have had enough food, and you're in good spirits, so go back to your room and copy "The Analects of Confucius" ten times." Yinzuo said calmly.

Hongli didn't expect the punishment to be so light, he felt relieved, and hurriedly kowtowed to thank him, lowered his head and planned to leave the room, Yin Zuo suddenly raised his head, a smirk flashed across his face and said: "The opportunity I gave you Only once, there will never be another time, you have to take care of yourself and don't go astray, otherwise I will never forgive you, just go."

Hongli's face turned pale immediately, and he didn't dare to wipe the sweat from his head. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Thank you, Emperor Ama Hongen, my son will leave." .

Alas, the child!Yinzuo stared blankly at the door of the room, his heart was in a mess, and the scene of seizing the throne in his mind flickered like a movie. He knew that Hongli had already begun to cultivate his confidants in secret, but Yinzuo But I can't bear to deal with it, what should I do?Yinzuo really felt a little uneasy...

On April 28, the first year of Yuanzhuo, the first palace examination during the Yuanzhuo period was held in Qianqing Palace. Yinzuo personally presided over the palace examination.Two hours later, all the scholars had completed the test papers, handed in their papers and returned. All the test papers were reviewed by the Minister of Military Aircraft, and the rankings were drawn up, and reported to the imperial court for review, and the rankings were planned to be released three days later.

According to the old practice, after all the test papers are judged, the top [-] will be handed over to Yinzuo for review to determine the final ranking, but this time Yinzuo stipulates that the top [-] test papers must be reviewed by Yinzuo. In addition to Yinzuo wanting to understand the writing level of today's students and dig out some talents, more importantly, he wants to select some excellent articles from these test papers and publish them all over the world. Eight, those many disciples are well prepared for public opinion. This is the original intention of Yin Zuo to ask this question, but there is nothing to say.Of course, Yinzuo will not judge all the test papers in person, the workload would be too much, and with the help of a thousand ministers of military aircraft, Yinzuo can rest assured, and there is no need for Yinzuo to do everything Taking him into his arms, besides, Yinzuo still has something to do now—seeing Fang Bao, so after the palace examination was over, Yinzuo confessed a few words in a hurry and went back to the study on his own.

"Caomin kowtowed to the sage, long live my emperor, long live, long live." Fang Bao knelt down on the ground as soon as he saw Yin Zuo marching into the study room, and said loudly.

"Yeah." Yinzuo nodded noncommittally, without shouting, walked to the dragon chair and sat down, with a weird smile on his face, looked at Fang Bao and said, "Mr. It's not that someone is going to urge you, I'm afraid the husband still refuses to come."

Fang Bao knelt down on the ground, not daring to raise his head, and said: "Caomin dare not."

"Don't dare? Hey, Mr. Fang, why don't you dare? You went back to your hometown when I took the position. Have you asked me?" Yin Zuo said with a smile.

"Responding to the Holy Majesty's words, Caomin is a scholar, he is so old that he dare not listen to him. Caomin obeyed the emperor's edict and forbade his hometown, and dared not violate it." Fang Bao replied calmly.

"Oh, is it?" Yinzuo smiled evilly and said, "If I remember correctly, the edict of the first emperor was issued in July of the 47th year of Kangxi, but I still saw you in Changzhou in November of the 47th year of Kangxi. In the Spring Garden, how do you explain this?"

"This..." Fang Bao paused and said, "That's all because the former emperor ordered the grassroots to help sort out some documents, and the grassroots are just doing things according to the order."

Haha, Lao Fang, Lao Fang, the last edict you made back then made my knees sore, let me let you have a taste of it today.Yin Zuo looked at Fang Bao who was kneeling in front of him, and felt quite happy to get something back. He deliberately didn't speak, picked up the paperwork on the table, and let Fang Bao kneel there.After a long time, Yin Zuo seemed to wake up suddenly, slapped his forehead and said: "Ah, please get up, Mr. Fang, alas, I forgot that Mr. Fang is still kneeling, hehe, it's my fault, just get up. "

forget?Can you forget about this too?How could Fang Bao not know that Yin Zuo had intentions at all, but how dare he point it out, and besides, he had a ghost in his heart, so he could only kowtow and say, "Thank you, Lord Long En." Unexpectedly, after kneeling for a long time, his legs and feet numb, body, staggered under his feet, almost fell to the ground again, managed to stabilize his body, did not dare to say much, and stood aside with his hands down.

Well, it's even, it's time to get down to business.Yinzuo's face turned serious, he waved his hands and said, "Give me a seat." The little eunuch in the study moved Zhang Xiaozi and placed it in front of Fang Bao.Fang Bao hurriedly bowed and said, "Caomin dare not."

"I let you sit down, so you sit down. I still have something to ask you." Yinzuo lowered his hand and signaled Fang Bao to sit down. Fang Bao had no choice but to sit down, but he only dared to sit halfway. butt.

"Mr. Fang is so courageous. Hey, it's amazing to participate in the succession of the throne with a commoner." Yinzuo grinned and said with a half-smile.

Yin Zuo's words were a bit serious, Fang Bao couldn't bear it anymore, he didn't even dare to sit on half of his buttocks, he knelt down on the ground, crying and said: "The Holy One is serious, the grass people are just commoners, how dare you do this."

"Dare, why don't you dare?" Yinzuo smiled and said, "On the second day of October in the 45th year of Kangxi, what did you say to the Holy One?"

Yinzuo's words hit the secret in Fang Bao's heart, and Fang Bao's face turned pale "shua", and he insisted: "No, it's nothing."

"Hey, really? Who said the words 'Guanshengsun'?" Yin Zuo laughed out loud and took out a book with a yellow silk mask, walked slowly to Fang Bao, and handed it to Fang Bao. Going over, he said: "The former emperor has always had the habit of keeping a diary, and everything you say is in it."

The sweat on Fang Bao's head suddenly poured out, and he didn't dare to pick up the diary, and said with a wry smile: "Your lie, I'm guilty."

When Yinzuo was about to say something, a young eunuch hurried in at the door and said, "I want to report to the Holy Majesty, Yang Mingshi from the household department and the two servants, A Ling'a, were wrestling outside to ask for an audience."

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Xiao Liu kowtowed and begged for a ticket: "I want a monthly ticket! Brothers, help me out!"

(End of this chapter)