Court Marriage

Now, although Gong Zhuoxiang is only the censor of Zuo Yidu, who is the fourth-ranking official, everyone in the court knows that he is the most favored minister of the Holy Spirit, but he is only limited by his age to temporarily hold a seniority in this position, and his future career will be There is no limit to it, so there will be no shortage of people who want to have a relationship with him, and there is no shortage of people who use his close friends as an excuse. For example, this idea hit Lu Zijian.

Moreover, although Lu Zijian's family affairs are ordinary, he is also a pure guard who guarded the emperor when he ascended the throne, so even regardless of Gong Zhuoxiang's relationship, it is normal for some big families to list him as their concubine-in-law.

"What do I mean? What's the matter... are you going to match me?"

Lu Zijian was stunned for a moment before he realized what Gong Zhuoxiang was referring to. He couldn't help looking at him in surprise, thinking that this person was stimulated by something. He usually cares about his own affairs, so why did he suddenly mention these things? ?

And you mentioned this to me with such an expression, dare I say you have an idea... Lu Zijian secretly slandered.

"...Men always have to get married and stay behind, otherwise it will hinder your future career."

Gong Zhuoxiang hesitated for a moment, and finally said unwillingly, he and Lu Zijian have been very stable in their relationship and life in the past two years. Gong Zhuoxiang is also very satisfied with this situation, but watching Lu Zijian alone Living alone in Beijing, he will inevitably feel distressed, but if he is willing to let Lu Zijian remarry, it is absolutely impossible, but in the position of the two of them, Gong Zhuoxiang feels that he may not be qualified for that. Selfish.

"When can you stop looking at me with such a murderous look, when will I be thinking about it."

Lu Zijian squinted and stared at Gong Zhuoxiang's cold face for a while, until the coldness on the other's face was about to reach freezing point, then he suddenly shook his head and sighed, then leaned back lazily on the wall of the carriage, the corners of his mouth so A little suspicious upward bend.

"What if I keep doing this?"

Gong Zhuoxiang's eyes lit up, leaned forward and approached Lu Zijian, watching every change in his expression solemnly and earnestly... Zijian, do you mean to stop marrying for me?

"Then I won't think about it. Anyway, I don't think you are the eldest son and grandson of a big family. I have to carry so many responsibilities. Besides men, the powerful are afraid that they will not be able to marry women. Even taking a teenage girl as a concubine, not some but... um..."

Lu Zijian smiled and pinched Gong Zhuoxiang's face, but before he could finish speaking, he was pressed against the wall of the car and kissed deeply, but before Lu Zijian could fight back, Gong Zhuoxiang was very angry. He quickly retreated and left, returning to his usual easy-going look.

"Since it's settled, I'll arrange a housekeeper for you tomorrow."

Gong Zhuoxiang showed a comfortable smile on his face, he already had many new ideas in his heart, and he was looking forward to it.

"...Mu Bo is very good, what else do you need a housekeeper to do?"

What have we settled on? Lu Zijian's eyebrows twitched, and he became more and more powerless towards Gong Zhuoxiang's growing self-righteousness.

As for the Mubo he said, Gong Zhuoxiang arranged for him. It can even be said that the housekeeper and a dozen servants in his family were all chosen by Gong Zhuoxiang... Lu Zijian is a little angry when it comes to this. I think it was easy for him to choose those well-behaved maids and beautiful boys. Gong Zhuoxiang actually cleaned them up for him. Although they can be seen in exchange, they don't dare to stand in front of him. Elevate, what fun is there?

Of course, Lu Zijian paid for the servant's monthly bills and all the family expenses himself. He would not take advantage of Gong Zhuoxiang, and Gong Zhuoxiang would never show off his wealth in front of him.

"Mu Bo can take care of your daily life and food, but you are not good at interpersonal communication. Although you are not good at those people, after all, people are in the officialdom, and they must have the proper etiquette."

Gong Zhuoxiang's idea was that since Lu Zijian didn't realize the importance of the existence of a master mistress, he would simply not let him know, and send two housekeepers to share and take care of internal and external affairs, so that Lu Zijian was gone. Worry about the future, it can be considered that he is good and I am also good.

Lu Zijian's family background is considered to be a little rich, and his old family is about the level of twenty or so servants. Although his official position is not low now, he doesn't care about his appearance at all. He still lives in the small house where he was preparing for the exam, and there are only a dozen people serving at home. It is enviable that he is at ease every day, and Gong Zhuoxiang’s favorite is probably his free-spirited, generous and cheerful. character.

"Okay then, where shall we go for dinner?"

Lu Zijian nodded indifferently, and turned to ask about his destination today. He no longer has any illusions about the person sent by Gong Zhuoxiang, and it is estimated that he is not much younger than Mu Bo...

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX carrying two large jars of spirits alone, Qiao Yingxuan came to his old place by the river and sat down. It was a large flat rock, and Qiao Yingze chose this place because there was a room and a half not far from the stone. A simple and elegant building on the riverside, the building is suspended on the bank and the river with pillars, so as the tide ebbs and flows, Qiao Yingxuan feels that every time he sees it, it seems to change places, so inexplicably Just fell in love with this place.

Qiao Yingxuan also visited the small building when he came a few times before, but found that although there were wooden furniture such as beds, tables, chairs, cabinets, etc., there were no traces of bedding and rice grains that showed that someone lived there, but there was no dust or dilapidation. , so I thought someone cleaned it. Qiao Yingxuan didn't meet anyone for a few consecutive times, and then he didn't go in to see it. He just drank his own wine and punched himself on the big rock where he could see it. After venting, I lay on the stone and watched the stars, until I was drunk and fell asleep, and was packed and carried to Lu's house by Lu Zijian to sleep for the night, and the next day I was alive and well and what to do...

Today's Qiao Yingxuan, as always, was suffocating and drinking first, thinking that the old family, the young, the dumb, the insane, and the wife who was supposed to be in love with each other, but only with Lin Niao, he couldn't even say a word from his heart. no…

Thinking about his eldest brother and younger brother, his eldest sister and brother-in-law, and even his senior brother and brother Xiang, Qiao Yingxuan's drinking became even more violent. His expectations have always been very simple. He just hoped that there would be someone who would allow him to love him well and truly love his wife who understood him well, and then the two would live a lifetime of love and affection with children and children.

It's a pity that God can toss him too much. The first person who made him feel hazy was actually his sister-in-law, and the first woman to leave him an heir represented only humiliation to him, and then he married later. Married a first-class wife, but can't have feelings for each other...

Qiao Yingxuan didn't want to break his promise, and even for the sake of his children, he didn't want to fall in love with other women anymore. Doting on a concubine would inevitably kill his wife and hurt his children. The family's lessons were there, he wouldn't let himself repeat the same mistakes. of.

There was a lot of backlog of troubles in his heart, and Qiao Yingxuan's wine was in a hurry, so when he saw the figure of a slender and elegant man in a white cloak approaching the small building, he was already drunk. Carrying the remaining half jar of wine, he jumped off the stone and ran over.

It was already dusk, and Qiao Yingxuan could only see from a distance that the man was dressed in plain white under the cloak blown by the wind. At the age of twenty-five or six, his appearance was rare and elegant. Qiao Yingxuan had always been very curious about the owner of the small building. At this time, he felt that he might have met the righteous master, and he couldn't help showing a happy and bright smile on his face.

To say that the young man is really brave, a man on the empty river is stupid with a bottle of wine? He ran towards him with a smile, but he just watched quietly without changing his face, except that the hand holding the fan was a little tighter, and his figure didn't move at all, as if he wasn't worried that the other party would be malicious.

"Excuse me, are you the owner of this small building?"

Qiao Yingxuan didn't stop until he ran to the young man. Although he knew in his heart that he was rude, he didn't intend to restrain himself. He thought that if the other party disliked him like this, he would fight him. As soon as he greeted him, he continued to drink alone. If the other party did not dislike it, then he would invite the other party to drink, as if he had met more friends.

"...Yes, dare to ask what's wrong with this son?"

The young man's calm gaze stayed on Qiao Yingxuan's smiling face for a while, thinking that his 'accidental encounter' was not a fake, his expression softened slightly, and he answered his question, apparently not minding Qiao Yingxuan's ignorance. present.

"I like this small building very much. I have long wanted to know the owner here. I was fortunate to meet him today. I would like to invite the young master for a drink."

Seeing this, Qiao Yingxuan smiled even brighter. He raised the wine jar in his hand and stared at the young man with bright eyes, looking very much looking forward to it.

At this time, Qiao Yingxuan obviously did not realize that his current behavior was seen by others as a blatant approach, especially because the other party was such a handsome and elegant young man, which made Qiao Yingxuan's move more and more difficult. pure...

"…Please."

Fortunately, the young man was good at observing people's hearts, and felt that Qiao Yingxuan did not seem to be malicious, and his appearance was upright and cheerful, so the young man turned the folding fan in his hand and pointed in the direction of the small building.

Qiao Yingxuan was not polite, and let the young man as the master take the first step. He carried the wine jar and entered the small building together. The two sat at the table by the window by the river. When Qiao Yingxuan saw that there were no wine utensils in the house, he immediately took one action. The wine jar paid tribute to the young man.

The young man's eyes flickered, and he raised his head to fill the wine jar he took without hesitation, then handed the wine jar back to Qiao Yingxuan, and wiped the wine marks left on his lips with his fingers.

"it is good!"

Qiao Yingxuan saw that he was so frank and refreshing, he took a few sips back to the wine jar without hesitation, and suddenly felt a heat flow down his esophagus into his abdomen, and then rose from his abdomen, making his limbs and bones comfortable. extreme.

However, Qiao Yingxuan didn't know that when he was squinting his eyes with enjoyment after drinking, the young man was watching him secretly. After seeing that he was indeed safe, he took the wine from him and took a sip. He took a sip. As for the first sip just now, the young man actually just sipped it on his lips, and wiped it with his fingers to test it on his silver-encrusted belt.

Qiao Yingxuan was happy to drink it. Seeing the elegant and upright appearance of the other party, a strong desire to talk arose in his heart for some reason, so he started talking about himself in front of this person who didn't even tell each other his name. mind.

The only remaining rationality allowed Qiao Yingxuan to ignore the person he cared about, but he couldn't stop him from reciting all the hard-to-recite sutras in his own family, and he didn't give the other party a chance to interject until Finally, he said 'don't worry about me, someone will come to pick you up...', and then he was drunk and lying on the table unconscious.

"…"

The young man sat with Qiao Yingxuan silently and dumbfounded for more than half an hour, watching him ramble about the shortness of his parents and his various tragic things with his ink, until the man fell asleep and could not say a word, this kind of The experience was so new to the young man that in the end he couldn't hold back his calm expression and burst out laughing.

Looking at the big boy who seemed to be not a few years younger than himself, but couldn't hide his childishness, the young man couldn't help reaching out and rubbing his hair, and God knows he never seemed to have done such an intimate gesture with anyone in his life. After all, the place where he was born and raised was such a cold and cruel world.

"See you soon..."

Although he didn't know the name of the person who was drunk in front of him, but the young man who already knew so many "privacy" of him, it was obviously easy to find out his identity.

He took the wine jar and poured the remaining few drops of wine into his mouth. After the young man put his cloak over Qiao Yingxuan's body, he turned and left the small building.

The next day, after Qiao Yingxuan woke up in Lu Zijian's guest room, he struggled with the plain white brocade cloak for a long time, and finally kept hypnotizing himself that he didn't say anything, and finally suppressed his chaotic mood. down.

In the days that followed, Qiao Yingxuan still lived as usual, except that he was more and more 'respectful' to Yang Yingmo, there seemed to be nothing to worry about anymore. , but he never met the person that night again, so he would sit at the table near the river to eat and drink alone, and then clean up before leaving, but he was never drunk again.

In a twinkling of an eye, it is another year of spring when the flowers are blooming. In the spring of the third year of Qianwu, the first literary examination spring since the new emperor came to the throne, officially started on the ninth day of February...

The general examination of XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is the same as the rural examination of the examiners. It is three consecutive exams every three days, and because the Gongshi examination can pass the palace exam without any accident, it will only be re-ranked and divided into Jinshi level, so generally If you can pass the test, you will have a good future.

Outside the examination room on the ninth day of February, the carriages sending the examinations blocked most of the streets. Whether it was a young master from a high school or a poor family, they all wore single clothes and shoes according to the rules, and waited in line to check in with all kinds of supplies. At this time, the officers, soldiers and yamen who have always bowed and bowed in the face of Juren masters, all of them have infinite beauty with straight waists and loud voices, as if they wish they could find cheat sheets on all Juren As if checking hard.

In addition to the crowd of people in the queue, the door of a carriage that had been parked for a long time was opened, and the handsome young man in beige brocade jumped out of the carriage by himself, then turned around and hugged two golden boys in turn. The little boy, and then helped another elegant man in a dark blue gown to get out of the carriage.

"Zhuzhuo, I remember it all, just let me line up."

Qiao Yingze held Gong Zhuoliang's hand helplessly, but his heart was warm and unspeakable. For his exam today, Gong Zhuoliang had already started preparing all kinds of supplies for him half a month ago.

"You're going to stay in there for nine days, but you can't be careless. Forget it, since it's already at this time, you won't listen to anything that tells you to do what you can, then try your best to give me a good score in the test. Well, I'm waiting at home to celebrate for you."

Relying on his height, he finally surpassed Qiao Yingze by a little bit. Gong Zhuoliang lowered his head slightly and rubbed against his forehead, his eyes full of encouragement and trust for him.

If Qiao Yingze's talent, knowledge and knowledge will still fall off the list, then it's not a matter of cheating in the scientific examination, then there is definitely a problem with the examiner, Gong Zhuoliang is convinced of this.

"Daddy, Daddy, we are waiting for you too!"

The five-year-old Qiao Minyan held Gong Jinxian's small hand with one hand, and hugged Qiao Yingze's thigh with the other. The bright little face with a smile was extremely rare, and Gong Jinxian also learned to hug him with the other hand. Qiao Yingze, still sweetly said and waited, then blinked his beautiful big eyes and looked at Gong Zhuoliang.

"You guys are good, Daddy is not at home these few days, you have to listen to little Daddy carefully, don't be naughty, you know?"

Qiao Yingze squatted down on the faces of the two little guys and took a sip, and after they kissed back sweetly, he stood up and gave Gong Zhuoliang a deep look, and then the little servant carried the test kits and food. The box of supplies stood aside, while Qiao Yingze stood in the line alone.

Gong Zhuoliang followed behind with two little guys grabbing the hem of his clothes, while he followed Qiao Yingze's speed and walked slowly to the entrance of the examination room, because there were quite a few people like him who sent their relatives into the examination room, so he was not It didn't attract anyone's attention until he checked Qiao Yingze, the young officer who was checking his card test was stunned, and then followed Qiao Yingze to see Gong Zhuoliang, who was with him not far away, his eyes suddenly lit up, his face lit up. There was also a suspicious blush, and then he pushed aside the rude companion next to him. Although his expression was still serious, but his movements were gentle, he asked Qiao Yingze to take off his shirt and examine him.

Qiao Yingze blinked a little strangely. He had seen the 'tragic situation' of the people in front of him, but when he arrived at his side, the other party was suddenly so polite, which made him a little inexplicable, but of course Qiao Yingze would not be at this time. Go to the idiot and ask why, he cooperated to untie the belt and take off the jacket to the other side, and then opened the belt of the middle jacket to reveal the inner jacket, which is convenient for the other side to check whether there is any interlayer entrainment.

"The coat is fine."

The young officer kicked his colleagues and signaled them to turn over the box lightly. Then he turned his head and looked at Qiao Yingze's clothes. Qiao Yingze's body is actually a kind of close-fitting style. The officer and soldier twisted it with his fingers and found that it seemed to be a fine cotton thread made of thick strands woven into a dense material, which was thicker and warmer than ordinary materials but would not be suspected of having interlayers. It can be seen that the people who prepared this are more active.

The officers and soldiers searched Qiao Yingze's body, but couldn't help but peek at Gong Zhuoliang, thinking that this is the living palace everyone and his husband, Qiao Dacai, I saw this one today, and it really is one To the godlike people!

"…"

Seeing that the young officers and soldiers looked very similar to the 'fans' in his previous life, Gong Zhuoliang thought that he might have recognized them from Qiao Yingze's name, and he couldn't help but raise his gentle and kind gesture when the other party peeked over again. The corner of his mouth, so after a while, Qiao Yingze, who had everything checked, successfully entered the entrance of the examination room. Of course, under the operation of those veteran ruffians, outsiders could not see what preferential treatment Qiao Yingze received, but compared with the others. Embarrassed, Qiao Yingze, who sat in his examination room, simply sorted out his clothes and utensils, with a relaxed expression.

After watching Qiao Yingze enter, Gong Zhuoliang smiled and glanced at the young officer and soldier, then turned around and took the children to board the carriage and left.

If Gong Zhuoliang, who said this was a gesture of goodwill, did not take it to heart, after knowing that Qiao Yingze was also taken care of by him in the examination room, Gong Zhuoliang accepted this person's kindness. Of course, he would not Silly to take the name of bribes to directly thank the soldier.

So one day after the exam, when the soldier stepped into the Liangze Bookstore branch where he used to go, he was dragged to the living room by the shopkeeper he was already familiar with, and then turned his ordinary membership card into a senior one. Jinka, so Gong Zhuoliang has added another die-hard book fan... This is just a small episode, so I won't mention it here.

Nine days later, the carriage stopped outside the entrance of the examination room again. Gong Zhuoliang stood quietly outside the entrance until he saw the familiar figure walking out, and then quickly walked up to meet him.

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

Qiao Yingze looked at the person who approached him with a warm and contented smile, and then he was so relaxed that he fell into Gong Zhuoliang's arms, closing his eyes as if he didn't even have the strength to raise his hand.

"Just this time, don't think about me indulging you like this again in the future."

Gong Zhuoliang touched Qiao Yingze's obviously thin face in distress, and regardless of whether anyone was watching, he directly hugged Qiao Yingze and got into the carriage, and then separated the two little guys who came to hug him and sat down. He came down so that Qiao Yingze could sleep in his arms, but the man just kept smiling with his eyes closed and let Gong Zhuoliang swing him around...