Fantastic scenery

In the 26th year of Wanli, but only two months after Chunwei, Fangshu High School was awarded the editorship of the Imperial Academy, and soon became famous in the capital.

Not because of any major event, just because of an embarrassing incident.

He was defeated by Dong Qichang in Guixiangxiuju Bicai, and lost a year's salary.

And Layman Yingshan and Layman Xiangguang spent half a day on the matter of "fighting skills" for a copybook. The reason was a copybook. I can't afford to offend, so I have to say that whoever is talented will get this copybook. Fang Shu looked down on Dong Qichang, thinking that although he was talented, his character was extremely poor, so he gambled and gave up his salary for a year.

"Although this Zhilan Tanhua is Tanhua, but this comparison... how can I draw better than Mr. Dong Qichang! A newborn calf is not afraid of tigers!" Fang Shu's folk nickname is "Zhilan Tanhua", and people say that he is "standing like a Zhilan Yushu, Smile like a bright moon in your arms, go through thousands of sails, never fall into the blue clouds"

In fact, he knew that he really didn't deserve this sentence.

"It can only be said that each has its own strengths. Zhilan Tanhua's article also made Mr. Dong blow his beard and stare, bloodshot eyes rushed out."

"The last level of painting, Zhilan Tanhua was a disastrous failure! I don't know what he painted in a dark mess! A bunch of onlookers laughed and cried."

"Ha ha ha ha"

Yes, he painted the cake, and when he went home, he told Erliang that Erliang could only comfort him, "This cake is well painted! It looks like...the cake you made."

And Dong Qichang painted a part of "Wanyu Thatched Cottage", which is his shocking work.

How many days did Fang Shu even go out to the Hanlin Academy, eager to wrap his head, but the dandy champion was not enough to secretly mock in front of his colleagues, and sent someone to his door every day to pass invitations to him, inviting him to a banquet, just looking for an opportunity Then give another wave of ridicule in front of his gang of dudes.

Every day, Fang Shu had to ask Erliang, his only attendant, to smile at the messenger, "My lord is busy... we will come to make an apology some other day!"

Fang Shu is really busy, he is not lying about this, since he lost to Dong Qichang, he started to paint like crazy, studied the way of ink and wash, for days and nights he didn't think about eating and drinking in his broken courtyard In the garden, I painted under the banyan tree that was as thick as three people hugging most of the yard.

This point is quite similar to Dong Qichang. They are both unconvinced people. Dong Qichang is proud of his talents. The magistrate Zhong Zhenji told him that although the writing style is good, the writing style is too ugly... From then on, Linchi worked hard and learned Yan Zhenqing's "Duobao Pagoda Stickers", and later learned Li Yong and Wang Xizhi, so the calligraphy competition that day was only slightly inferior to Fang Shu, But Fang Shu's painting was defeated by him, which made the old man very happy, and thought to himself, what the hell is going on, isn't Tanhua like this?

"Master...don't you eat?!"

Fang Shu stands under the tree, tall and straight like a pine tree. The air in early summer is a bit hot and dry. He is clinging to a piece of Tsing Yi, and when he looks closely, he can see the patches hanging from the Tsing Yi.

He raised his head and took off the brush that seemed to be lightly attached to his thin lips with his hands. A few drops of ink were stained on his fair face, his slender brows were tightly frowned, and he looked sideways at Erliang. Erliang knew that he should not Hearing his own words, he used to tilt his head when thinking about problems.

"Master...?" Erliang's voice was thinner than that of ordinary men.

"Ah... I heard... Didn't you say that there is no rice at home? What else do you eat?"

It turned out that he still knew... Then he spent a few taels of silver savings to buy ink and wash?

Fang Shu picked up the letter from the number one scholar who had just thrown away, and sighed, "Let's go to the banquet and have a meal."

"Master..."

"Our Master Fang Fuyan! What a guts!! We are biased towards Master Dong Xuanzai!"

Zhuangyuan Lang is Li Zheng, the youngest son of Li Dai, the current official minister, whose name is Ronglai.

He likes to have fun, prefers Yin Ji concubines, his body is a little weak, he is probably lacking in energy, and his height is also medium, with two asymmetrical eyebrows that make Fang Shu want to shave him into a Taoist without eyebrows, but he does Talented but not too talented to overwhelm others, but... the number one scholar makes Fang Shu more and more unbalanced... This officialdom is unfathomable...

Li Zheng hooked Fang Shu's shoulders, his drunken eyes were misty, Fang Shu was a little uncomfortable from his alcohol, and looked out of the window sideways. ", pleasant to the ear, did not take Li Zheng's ridicule to heart.

Seeing that he was not angry, Li Zheng withdrew his hand angrily, and found a patch on the corner of his clothes, as if he had found a treasure, pulled up the hem of his clothes and said to the group of wealthy businessmen: "Look at our Mr. Fang! So frugal! Yan, if you have any difficulties in life, let me know! Although it won't help much, there are still three clothes and two pieces of cloth!"

Immediately there was a burst of laughter, and Erliang behind Fang Shu turned pale and looked at his young master.

"Brother Ronglai laughed. Didn't you just lose one year's salary to Lord Dong? It's normal to be a little bit tight. If Brother Ronglai kindly helps, Fang will be very grateful, and he will definitely repay it in full in the future."

Li Zheng was slightly taken aback, did this kid really lose the ability to get angry?

"Oh, it's easy to say!"

After that, he asked his servants to bring some cloth.

Erliang couldn't help being angry, "I'm afraid this is the fabric that Li's family can't use! They really treat us like beggars!"

Fang Shu took a look, "It's good to have it! The more difficult times have come, how can this be aggrieved?" Erliang looked at Fang Shu's smiling face, how much courage this smiling face has given him for so many years.

Fortunately, the Hanlin Academy has food, but Erliang's food is only a problem...it depends on him to do coolies to make ends meet.

Fang Shu would be angry when he heard that Dong Qichang took another concubine.This old and unscrupulous thing used his salary to forcefully marry a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, which is really harmful to others and himself!

He endured it for a day and returned home to tell Erliang about it, feeling as if a cannon was about to explode in his heart.

Erliang had just gone to help Boss Liu on West Street move the rice for a long time, and his body was drenched in sweat. While wiping his sweat, he said to Fang Shu who hadn't taken off his official uniform:

"Young Master... Dong Qichang doesn't have your money, so he wants to take a concubine... It's good to accept it, but if it doesn't work, it's just robbing! No wonder you!"

Fang Shu also realized that he was uncomfortable, so he untied the plain silver belt, took off the cloud head shoes, took off the Erliang Chaoguan, and put down the green silk, the facial features were printed properly, Zhilan Tanhua is really a beautiful flower.

Fang Shu folded his official uniform, which was his only intact outfit.Like Li Zheng's family fat, but his monthly salary for a seventh-rank official who has just entered the officialdom is only seventy stones, and Dong Qichang took it!

"I really shouldn't fight for a moment, but I just think he's uncomfortable! Poor girl I don't know." Fang Shu went to the courtyard to paint again.

Erliang took a closer look, "Master...you really have no talent in painting...the duck in this painting is not a duck, and the chicken is not a chicken!"

"I drew a crane!"

Not to be idle for half a month, a major incident happened in the court, and something happened in the "Girl Fan Tushuo" written by Lu Kun, the servant of the Ministry of Justice. In Li Guifei's biography, Lu Kun was labeled as flattering, and this biography was also revised by Fang Shu.Presumably, the emperor should know that he loves his concubine and ignores the memorial to impeach Lu Kun and others.As a result, the epilogue "Worry and Dangerous Discussion", which was published from nowhere, spread in the capital. They exploded the pot, and they all stood their ground to express their innocence. The civil official group in this dispute between princes firmly supports the eldest son Zhu Changluo. There will never be a day of recovery.

But this time the emperor didn't express his opinion. Fang Shu just arrived, and he and the few Jinshi who revised together can be said to be frying on the pan.

"Lord Fang, I heard...the emperor has dispatched Jin Yiwei for this incident. If this book writer is caught..." Li Zheng wiped his neck with a grim expression, "I'm afraid It is to kill the heads of the Nine Clans!"

"That's natural, such evil deeds disturb people's hearts! The crime is punishable!" Fang Shu looked calm and composed, but it made it hard for the number one scholar to say anything.

As soon as he left the palace, he saw two people wearing embroidered spring knives and tooth tags around their waists, one was wearing a flying fish suit and the other was wearing a python suit, they were both tall and strong.

The two people heard the footsteps and looked back, saw Fang Shu, one of them raised his eyebrows, said something to the other, then turned and left, Fang Shu was almost invisible when he saw the generous and tall background he was leaving frown.

Those who stayed walked up to Fang Shu, Fang Shu bowed and said, "Join Mr. Wen!" Naturally, he had to salute the commander of the third-rank Jinyiwei in his seventh-rank small lawsuit.

Wen Xuanqing was very affectionate when he saw him, "Fuyan! But I heard about your anecdote a few days ago!", just about to put his arms around his shoulders, but was blocked by Fang Shu.

Hearing that he talked about his loss to Dong Qichang, he couldn't help it.

"There are a lot of people here..." He didn't want to bear the crime of adultery with Jin Yiwei, Wen Xuanqing felt a little aggrieved in his heart. I'm disgusted.

"I've been busy recently! That demon book case." Wen Xuanqing walked beside him, Fang Shu was slightly shorter than him, but he stood out from the crowd among civil servants.

The two left the imperial city.

Fang Shu avoids him like a snake and a scorpion now, "This is an emergency period, don't get too close to me, you go and do your work."

"It's nothing. If someone mentions it, I'll say it's an investigation. Others are not allowed to say anything, and civil servants are not allowed to bite the root of their tongue on my head."

Fang Shu let out a long sigh of relief, and sighed inwardly, besides, he was afraid that he would offend Wen Xuanqing.

"That was Huo Tailing just now?" Fang Shu couldn't help asking.

Wen Xuanqingjun raised a smile on his face, "Huh? Fu Yan recognizes him?"

"There has never been an intersection, but I have heard of this Shenji Battalion and the commander of Jinyiwei." Fang Shu concealed the embarrassment in his heart, "He seems to hate me very much." After passing by twice, Huo Tailing watched His own eyes were full of disgust.

"He's just like that! He's a man without principles, and it's no good for you to stay away from him." Wen Xuanqing was also a little jealous of him, "Just now he warned me not to get too close to you."

Fang Shu was a little shocked, "You mentioned me?"

"Well, I was surprised when he suddenly came to talk to me today. Thinking about it, we haven't spoken for several years. The first time we talked about Fang, he actually mentioned Mr. Fang."

Changing the subject, "Then is there any progress on the demon book case?" Fang Shu started talking.

Wen Xuanqing was sometimes careless, and he didn't have any reservations, and it was also because he really had nothing to hold back.

"We seized many bookstores, but we couldn't find out who wrote this "Worry and Dangerous Discussion". There was no writer in the place where it was printed, but the people who bought this bookstore were tortured every day in Jinyiwei Prison to extract confessions.", Speaking of this, Wen Xuanqing also held his forehead, feeling a little tired.

"What about the emperor? What is his attitude?"

"No...he doesn't seem to care much about this matter." Wen Xuanqing saw that he was almost at Fang Shu's mansion, "I wanted to invite you to dinner with Erliang, forget it, I have to go back, but ...You should be more careful during this time!"

Fang Shu understood Wen Xuanqing's warning and nodded, "Thank you, Mr. Wen."

"No problem"

After Erliang heard about this incident, he went out to check that no one was listening, and he was most afraid of the all-pervasive Jin Yiwei.

He entered the room and said, "I'm afraid this is a despicable trick used by some of the civil servants just to get rid of dissidents."

Fang Shu said while drawing, "Whether it's the work of Concubine Zheng's brainless mother-in-law or the conspiracy of civil servants, these innocent people must be recruited, don't they just like to do such things?" , He clenched his pen tightly, and gritted his teeth, "Didn't they do the same thing ten years ago? Everything that has been turned into ashes can be drawn out and blacked out for liquidation! Then eradicate dissidents."

"Master... resolve this urgent crisis now!"

"Actually, I'm not very worried about this matter. As long as they can't find the author of the book, I thought about it for a while. The official department has no brains to refer to a book from the Ministry of Industry, but there is no evidence, so it will be there." Publicizing the dangerous rumors of the prince's dispute, who doesn't know that the emperor prefers Zhu Changxun, but he is going to encounter this bad luck, I'm afraid it will be him!"

"Young master...don't be too optimistic. This cabinet is the main thing. The emperor can't stand Prince Chang Xun. It's not because of this group of people. They make the emperor unable to do what he wants to do, and impeach a Ministry of Industry." Shang Shu, it is not difficult!"

This Fang Shu also knew about it, so he didn't speak, so he had to pick up the pen and draw a "charm"

But in a few days, things turned around. Everyone in the court thought it was a bad thing, but Fang Shu saw a breakthrough, whether it was the predicament he was limited by the demon book case or the predicament in his official career.

The War Supervisor of the Anti-Japanese Aid Korea—Shang Shu of the Ministry of War was sick and had to go back to the capital, but there was a shortage of military advisers on the main battlefield, and those in the cabinet were thinking about candidates for the War Supervisor.

This evening, Fang Shu took the initiative to invite Li Zheng to drink tea. Li Zheng wanted to refuse, thinking about what time he would drink tea!Having fun is a waste of time.

"Hey, I want to talk to Brother Ronglai about the pain of the past few days, but I have nowhere to say it." Seeing that I can listen to other people's sad things to make me happy, I am in a good mood!He could be brooding about Fang Shu's first place in the imperial examination, wishing that he didn't get along well.

"Since this is the case... I will take you to the Diansi Garden to listen to the little song, shall I? The atmosphere there is good, and this sad thing is not sad to say!"

Fang Shu scolded him as a "scumbag" in his heart, this Diansiyuan is a well-known Goulanyuan in the capital.

Seeing that his expression was wrong, Li Zheng said, "Don't worry, I know that Fuyan is struggling, I'll treat you, take your dog slave... Follow Erliang with you", almost said dog slave, he was very upset I like Erliang not only because he is Fang Shu's follower.

Fang Shu seemed to have ignored the little episode, "Thank you, brother Ronglai." However, he was a few months older than himself, so he was ashamed to call him elder brother.

Entering the Diansi Garden, there are laughter of men and women everywhere, playing and singing Laqu, sending to welcome.

When the old bustard saw Li Zheng as a 'distinguished guest', his old and decrepit face was full of flattery, "Oh! Mr. Li, why did the southeast wind bring you here??"

She saw a man in Tsing Yi followed behind Li Zheng, Yushu Linfeng, "Hey~ Isn't this Zhilan Tanhua?" The big mouth may really scare away a bunch of customers.

Fang Shu made a bow, "I didn't expect such a humble name to come to this place."

"Oh~ If you hadn't lost to Mr. Dong, how would we country folks know!", this time the veil couldn't hide her big mouth.

Fang Shu still smiled, but he was so angry that he didn't want to swear, "It's a blessing to be defeated by Mr. Dong. It's a good thing that I have gained some fame by borrowing his name!"

Li Zheng gave a blank look in his heart, and told the old bustard about his "business": "Aren't you here to listen to Miss Qinghuan playing music?" Li Zheng also picked up his fan and pretended to be elegant, yes, after all He is the number one scholar, so he still has to decorate it when he goes out.

The old bustard couldn't help laughing, "Oh, how honored Miss Qinghuan is! But...today, there seems to be some inconvenience."

When Li Zheng heard it, he couldn't get out of his anger: "What's the inconvenience? If you are a performer, don't you sell your body? Are you afraid that sunflower water will come when you play a song?"

"Oh, it's Mrs. Huo who hired Miss Qinghuan...how can this old man afford to offend her??"

"Master Huo? Which Master Huo!! Did you press on my head??" Li Zheng was not very tall, and the sound of slapping the table with the fan was really loud, which scared the bustard almost to his knees. Fang Shu thought it was funny, This time, the corners of her mouth turned into a real smile, and the geisha watching at the side all blushed a little at Zhilan Tanhua, bowed their heads and murmured.

The old bustard hurried forward and said: "Master Huo Tailing!" Fang Shu heard it clearly, his smile froze for a moment, then returned to normal, and said to Li Zheng: "It is also possible to find another famous actress. Yes, the main thing is for us two brothers to have a heart-to-heart talk!"

Fang Shu gave Li Zheng the steps to go down, so he had to go downhill on the donkey, "Fuyan is right, just come and sing along with me, and give me a private room." He approached the old bustard and said, "I will suffer For Mr. Huo."

Fang Shu laughed at Li Zhengzhen's youthful heart, so childish that he couldn't compare it clearly, so he secretly responded to himself.

Entering the door, incense was burning in the room. Fang Shu didn't like the smell, it was too strong, and he couldn't help moving his nose.

The two sat down facing each other, Erliang was standing behind Fang Shu, and Fang Shu said to him, "Go out first."

"Yes, my lord." In front of outsiders, he always called Mr. Fang Shu.

"I heard that this love affair was taken over by someone, and it turned out to be Mr. Huo!", the more Li Zheng thought about it, the more wronged he became. This Huo Tailing was someone they couldn't touch, at least for the time being.

"It's just an actor, why should you be serious? Just don't hurt Brother Rong Lai's liver!" Fang Shu endured the smell of incense and powder, and poured tea for Li Zheng.

Li Zheng looked at the two women playing the piano and plucking the strings in the room, "Fuyan, you don't know, do you think these two women are beautiful?"

Fang Shu took a light look at them. They covered their bodies with light gauze, their bodies were supple and graceful, and they skillfully applied makeup, then nodded, "It's a pair of delicate girls."

Li Zheng shook his head, "But she is just a vulgar fan in front of that Qing Huan girl, she really makes Liugong Fen Dai colorless!"

Fang Shu smiled lowly, "It made me curious."

"Hey, Fuyan, you are also beautiful, but it's really different from this Qinghuan. One is charming and charming, and the other is as moist as jade. It's your smile, which is full of distance!" , no praise, all belittlement.

Fang Shu lowered his head and frowned, "Brother Ronglai can't take jokes." If he was a child, he would beat anyone who said he was beautiful until his parents wouldn't recognize him.

"Stop talking about these gossips, what do you say you have to say?"

Fang Shu showed a wry smile, "Hey, it's not the scandal of the demon book case in the past few days! In the past two days, several good people who revised with me have been involved, and they are probably still suffering in prison! I don't know what It's my turn now."

Li Zheng was happy in his heart, but his face became sad with Fang Shu.

"Hey, Fuyan, aren't you okay? This is a clear lesson from the sky, I must not frame you!"

Fang Shu knew in his heart that he was safe for the time being thanks to Wen Xuanqing, but this couldn't last for two days, and he couldn't sit still.

"Let me borrow your auspicious words! It's just that there is more than one worry..."

Fang Shu refilled Li Zheng's drink and continued his conversation.

"I heard that the war supervisor Xing Jie returned to the capital with illness, and he is a little worried about the border war," Fang Shu said with a sad face.

"Fuyan is concerned about the safety of his family and country..."I thought he would continue to talk about the demon book case that has been raging these days, but he brought up an irrelevant matter, which was somewhat lacking in nature.

Where is he concerned about the country's comfort, he is forced by the situation.

"Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of a country... It's just that the military commander who supervises the war... can't explain it in a single word!" How could Fang Shu not know what he was thinking, and immediately threw another bait.

Li Zheng put down his glass and became interested.

If this Fang Shu said something that he didn't pay attention to his wording, he would definitely play him a book and step on his tail.