Dressed as Tang Bohu

Tang Ziwei was completely drenched by the rain, followed Xu Jing to the painting boat, changed into light clothes and continued to play with them.

From Gaoqiao all the way to Hemen, after a day, I was very tired.Although it is the warm autumn season, it is inevitable to suffer from some wind and cold.The next day, he lay down in the room with nothing to do.

But compared to him, Xu Jing, who was implicated and drenched in heavy rain, was more ill.

Tang Ziwei took the story book in his hand and leaned half on the bed.Yetang brought a basin of hot water to wipe his face, and set a table in front of the bed with some preserved fruits and tea on it.

After finishing all this, Yetang wrung out the towel and put it in Tang Ziwei's hand before saying, "Young master, then I'll go out first."

"Go ahead, if Zizhong comes back later, you can say that I am studying in the room, don't let him know." Tang Ziwei turned a page of the booklet in his hand.Tang Shen is now busy with the renovation of the second Tangji restaurant, and he looks like a real head of the family.

"Yes." Yetang answered with a low eyebrow, and walked out, closing the door behind her.

Wisps of green smoke billowed from the kitchen window, and the bitter smell of medicine permeated the courtyard.Yetang hurried to the kitchen to look for medicine, but Li Quan stopped her and said that someone was looking for it outside.

Ye Tang went out to see that a two-horse carriage was parked in the narrow alley in front of Tang's house. The curtain on one side of the carriage was pulled open, revealing Xu Jing's pale face at the window.

"Mr. Xu, why are you here?" Ye Tang was startled, and hurriedly saluted.

Xu Jing waved his hand at her, and said with a shy smile, "I was caught in the wind and cold yesterday, and remembering that Brother Tang also got caught in the rain with me, I came to see if I was concerned. Is Brother Tang still in good health?"

"The young master has caught a cold, it's nothing serious." Yetang replied.

"It's not convenient for me to go in, so as not to get sick. I have prepared some ginseng tea and medicines here, and you can send a few volumes of poetry anthology to Brother Tang." Xu Jing coughed twice as he spoke, and then he saw the carriage get on and off A little boy was holding a stack of beautifully packaged boxes in his hands.There is also a small cloth bag of gold thread brocade on the top.

Xu Jingdao: "The gold bag contains a string of pendants. I saw you yesterday and thought it fit. I brought it today. Would you like to try it?"

Yetang's eyes widened in surprise, he stretched out his hand a little hesitantly, untied the little gold bag, and took out a silver pendant with beads from inside.The sterling silver pendant was half the size of a palm, exquisitely carved, with a little emerald inlaid in the center, Ye Tang felt that he had never held anything more beautiful and precious than this in his life.

With trembling hands, she put the pendant around her neck, stroked the edge of the pendant with her fingers, and looked up at Xu Jing, "Master Xu, this is too precious, I..."

She bit her lip, wanting to return it, but was reluctant.

"It suits you very well." Xu Jing pursed his lips and smiled at her.

"Thank you Mr. Xu." Yetang's heart felt hot, he couldn't help lowering his eyes to avoid his sight, and reached out to take the things in the boy's hand, but the latter avoided him.

"Let him help you move in." Xu Jing moved his nose, as if he smelled something, and said, "Is this the smell of medicine?"

Seeing the little boy walk to the door, Yetang was startled when he heard Xu Jing's question, "Master's medicine!"

She hurriedly saluted Xu Jing and ran into the door.

Seeing that she was gone, Xu Jing also put down the curtain, lay back on the soft couch in the car, and waited quietly for the boy to come back.

The trees in the courtyard of the Tang family shook their yellow leaves, and along with the leaves fell to the ground, there was a man covered with a black cloth.I saw him coming down from the tree vigorously, passing through the backyard within two breaths, climbing through the window and landing, and arrived at Tang Ziwei's bed.

"You're here." Tang Ziwei raised his eyes to see the person coming, and put aside the scripture in his hand. "Why are you still covering your face, for fear that others will not know that you are an assassin?"

With a slumped face, Heisha took off the masked black scarf and stuffed it into the skirt of his clothes, walked over and sat by the bed, picked up the tea on the table and drank it down.

"The tea is poisonous." Tang Zi said in fear.

"Puff! Cough..." Heisha spit out all the tea that he hadn't swallowed in one gulp, and glared at him while taking out medicine from his body: "Who poisoned you again? Why did you put the poisonous tea? it's here?"

"Why do I keep the poisonous tea here? Of course it's just to trick you." Tang Ziwei smiled when he saw that he looked funny.

However, Heisha still doubted himself: "You won't let me think I'm not poisoned after poisoning you, so you can trick me into not taking the antidote and then die from the poison in order to let me test the poison for you?"

"Conspiracy theory." Tang Ziwei rolled his eyes.

Heisha also recalled the taste, and after thinking about it, he still ate a homemade Baijie pill and put it in his mouth.Anyway, it is just the effect of purifying and detoxifying, and the diarrhea will pass after a few times of suffering. It is better to be careful in everything.With a sullen face, Heisha seemed to foresee the upheaval in his stomach that was about to start, and secretly made up his mind that he would never touch anything about this guy in the future.

"Quickly tell me, what happened this time?" Heisha asked.

When Tang Ziwei saw that he was talking about serious matters, his expression changed, and he said, "Heisha, I think you have to go to the capital with me this time."

"The capital?" Heisha was stunned, then shook his head like a rattle, "No, no, you forgot that I was pushed out by you as a scapegoat, so if the Yang family catches me in the capital, they won't be able to kill me. ? Still with you, it is really convenient for them to grab a pair at a time."

Tang Ziwei narrowed his eyes, "You want to break the contract?"

Heisha's heart trembled, but his face was righteous: "Didn't I say it a long time ago, missions that threaten my life are absolutely not allowed!"

"Really, then don't move or laugh." Tang Ziwei's eyes were cold, he looked at Heisha as if he was looking at a dead person, "Do you know what you drank just now?"

"You want to lie to me again?" Heisha said, but his heart started beating.

"Have you ever heard of 'Smiling Half Step Crazy'?"

"I've never heard of it." Heisha looked wary, it's not a good thing to hear the name.

"People who have taken 'Smiling Half Step', as the name suggests, must not walk half a step, or show a smile on their faces, otherwise they will explode and die from the whole body. In addition to the strong toxicity of this medicine, it tastes like tea leaves with a slightly bitter taste. The aroma is tangy, and it gives the taste and care of the breeze to the face before death, which is really the best medicine."

Heisha turned pale when he heard what he said, and almost didn't curse out loud.

"How can there be such a poison in this world? You are trying to deceive me!" He looked at Tang Ziwei, only to see the latter smiling slightly, his eyes as quiet and deep as a cold pool, and no trace could be seen on his face. Clue.

"You can try it, but if you really die, I will feel a pity."

Heisha's complexion flickered, he hesitated for a long time, finally sighed, and his body relaxed, "I'll go to the capital with you, it's okay."

Tang Ziwei smiled, "Very well, then we will set off on the waterway in December..."

"Wait, give me the antidote before you talk about this!" Heisha said dissatisfied.

When he interrupted, Tang Ziwei paused, and casually took a candied fruit from the plate at hand and stuffed it into Heisha's mouth.Heisha didn't see what was in his hand, subconsciously flinched, thinking it was the antidote, and took the preserved fruit into his mouth.

After chewing it twice, Heisha frowned, "This is preserved pear." Then he realized, "You really lied to me!"

"Since we have agreed, why don't we talk nonsense?" The smile on Tang Ziwei's face faded.

If it were someone else, he would be too angry to show his anger at this time, but Heisha is different.He rolled his eyes and said: "Although I have agreed, you asked me to accompany you to the capital because you want me to be a lucky boy for you, right? If you let me do things during the period, you can't return it." Let me kill you a few times and let you catch it? We can't just make a bet."

Tang Ziwei heard what he said was reasonable, nodded and said, "What do you think?"

Hearing this, Heisha came to his senses, "Look, I've lost all my business in the past few years because of you, and my assassination has always failed. Life is not easy, and I haven't saved enough money to marry a wife..."

Tang Ziwei understood. He pointed to the bed and said, "I don't treat you badly. Twelve taels a month is my wages for hiring you."

"The price is fair." Heisha nodded.

He saw Tang Ziwei's current situation well in his eyes, if Tang Ziwei said something like four or five taels, he still planned to bargain with Tang Ziwei, if it didn't work, he could reluctantly accept it.After all, in the past, except for those big bills of murder, he usually robbed about this amount of money, and Tang Ziwei doubled it when he didn't want to open his mouth.

Heisha grinned, looked at Tang Ziwei and said, "I just like you like this! Don't worry, I'll take care of everything you say when you go to the capital, except for those that threaten my family and life."

Tang Ziwei nodded. Although Heisha seemed unreliable, he would never change what he promised.Since he wouldn't betray Yang Yuanbin because he paid double the money back then, now he won't turn his guns on himself because of others.As for more, Tang Ziwei never expected from the beginning.

He roughly told Heisha about the time and route to go to the capital, so that he could prepare early.

Heisha expressed his understanding. When he walked to the window and was about to leave, he saw a white dove under the eaves outside the window. Only a letter box.

Heisha blinked, and reached out to grab it!

He pinched the root of the carrier pigeon's wings, cooing and struggling.When Tang Ziwei heard it, he looked over strangely, "It hasn't been here for nearly a year, it's coming at this juncture..."

Heisha grabbed the pigeon and handed it to Tang Ziwei, "Then I'll go first."

Tang Ziwei nodded to him, and after seeing him jump out of the window lightly, he took off the letter box on the pigeon's feet and took out the letter paper.Zhu Chenhao's handwriting was still on the crumpled paper, but it became much calmer and thicker after a year, and it also looked much better.

The words on the letter were very short, Tang Ziwei glanced at them, and couldn't help but chuckled, "Ask me not to take part in the examination?"

He shook his head, too lazy to get up from the bed to look for pens and ink to answer his three capital letters of impossibility, so he tied the empty letter box back, handed the pigeon a piece of smaller candied fruit, pushed its tail, and let it fly out.

After doing this, Tang Ziwei pulled the quilt over his body and leaned back on the head of the bed.

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"The autumn moon climbs the fairy osmanthus, and the spring breeze looks at the apricot blossoms; once I am happy, I will go to Jinghua together."

As the saying goes, if there are books, it will be long, and if there are no books, it will be short.

In the blink of an eye, November has passed, and all the sweet-scented osmanthus flowers in the city have fallen into the soil.Tang Ziwei sat in the courtyard with Zhu, Wen, Xu, and Zhang, around a round table, with dead leaves swirling and falling on their heads.

"Let me offer you a toast first. This time, when you enter Beijing, you must be named on the gold list. Don't let others see the joke!" Xu Zhenqing raised his glass.

"Okay." Tang Zi answered him in awe, and drank the wine glass upside down with him.

Wen Huiming lifted the jug and filled the glass, saying: "Ziwei, don't cause trouble when you go to the capital. If there is anything, please send a letter back. We are all here."

"Okay." Tang Ziwei nodded and took another drink.

Zhu Zhishan held his chin in one hand, lifted the jug with the other, and said, "I'm going to work in Xingning County, Guangdong, too. It's not as beautiful as yours, but it's not as dangerous as you. Ziwei, it's a chance for you to go to the capital, but don't worry about it." Forget that the Yang family is waiting for you in the capital. Also, you can go with Xu Jing and Du Mu, don't really treat them as your best friends."

"I know, you take care too." Tang Ziwei picked up the wine glass and touched his pot, with a "clang", shaking Zhang Ling's tears down.

"Tang Ziwei, you wait for me, I will go to the capital to find you after studying hard for three years!"

"I don't believe it." Tang Ziwei said without the slightest hesitation.

"Under the guidance of us great talents, those who barely passed the entrance examination just now should not join in the fun?" Zhu Zhishan also sarcastically spared no effort.

... So Zhang Ling's tears became more violent.

This time the test will be in February of the next year, but the journey is far away, Tang Ziwei accepted Xu Jing's invitation to take a boat from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to the capital together, so he was in a hurry to prepare for the departure just after November.

Xu Jing prepared a large boat with two floors, which could carry more than a dozen people, so Tang Ziwei thought about it, and besides Ji Tong and Heisha, Feng Qian, who had been kept in the stable in the backyard of Tang Ji Restaurant, would also Bring it on.

As for Yetang, Xu Jing personally invited him.

Mr. Xu, who was quite well off, covered all the expenses of the crew on board. Although Tang Ziwei brought more than 100 taels of silver prepared by Tang Shen, it was useless.There are quite a few candidates from Suzhou who are rushing for the exam. On the way, they often see boats and small boats going to the capital, and few of them are comparable in size to theirs.

The boat sailed for more than half a month, and when it arrived in the capital, it had just snowed.

Heisha was afraid of the cold, so he was wrapped in more than four layers inside and out, and shrank to follow Tang Ziwei, not half the appearance of the first sharp swordsman in the south of the Yangtze River.Ji Tong is also dressed as a ball, but most likely children are always hotter, and they don't feel cold when they help out before and after running.

Xu Jing got off the boat, wearing a fur fur and still pale.At his side was Du Mu, followed by the book boy, and two attendants carrying his luggage.

"Brother Tang, what do you think if we find an inn to settle down first?" Xu Jing asked.

Naturally, Tang Ziwei had no objection, so the group took a horse and directly checked into the nearest inn.

Throwing the things on the table, Tang Ziwei sat on the chair for a while, picked up the teapot on the table, and found that it was empty.He sighed, stood up and planned to go downstairs to let Xiaoer make a pot of hot tea, but when he walked to the door, he heard voices from the door next door.

The voice was not loud, and the content could not be heard clearly, but it could be clearly heard that Xu Jing and Ye Tang were talking outside the door.Tang Ziwei stood at the door for a while, when he heard the voice stop, and the sound of the door closing came from the next room.

He raised his hand and pushed the door to go out, but at this moment, there was a knock on the door.

Tang Ziwei switched from pushing to pulling, opened the door, and saw Xu Jing standing at the door with a smile on his face. Come to the capital, and now it's just Shenshi, do you want to go out for a stroll?"

The sky outside was quite bright, Tang Zi was afraid that he had nothing to do, but he wanted to see what the capital of the Ming Dynasty looked like, so he nodded and said, "That's fine."

Tang Ziwei didn't take off his cotton coat, so he put on a cloak.I wanted to call Heisha, thinking about how he was shivering in the cold wind, but finally gave up.When he went downstairs, he ordered Xiaoer to make a pot of hot tea and bring it up for him, while Tang Ziwei left the inn with Xu Jing himself.

Feng Qian was tied to the door, and before the man had time to lead it to the backyard, Tang Ziwei saw it, so he walked over and raised his hand to stroke its head twice.Feng Chian lowered his head slightly, and obediently let his hand rest on the bridge of his nose.

Seeing it, Xu Jing asked: "Brother Tang brought it with him, he must be a horse lover, why don't we go for a ride?"

Tang Ziwei blushed, and said, "I just like horses, I'm not good at riding horses."

In his previous life, he had only accompanied others to ride on the horse farm once or twice, and it was the kind of walking slowly accompanied by a coach.When I came to this world, although I got a horse early, this guy was not cooperative at the beginning. After raising it for more than a year, I gradually got close to it, and getting a horse was a big problem.

Up until now, he hasn't led the wind to the whole server, it's just that he won't be thrown off.If it goes to the street, it will definitely lead to a tragedy.

Xu Jing was slightly taken aback, and said: "Then let's walk, and find a place to rent a carriage?"

"That's great." Tang Ziwei nodded and walked forward first.

Xu Jing hurriedly followed and walked beside him, "We are now at Xizhimen. I heard that this capital is rich in the east and rich in the west, poor in the north and cheap in the south. If you want to talk about the most interesting place, it is still in the south city. The south city There is a painting spring building, I heard that the girls in it are all the best..."

"When you say that, I want to ask you a little bit," Tang Ziwei glanced at him sideways, and said softly, "I didn't intend to bring Yetang with me, why did you invite her to come to the capital?"

Xu Jing's face turned red, and he seemed a little embarrassed at Tang Ziwei, pursed his lips and said, "I'm a little interested in her, so I didn't think too much about it."

"Interested?" Tang Ziwei didn't know what to say when he heard his words, "Then you still want to go to Huachun Tower?"

"It's different," Xu Jing shook his head, and instead talked about Tang Ziwei, "I thought Brother Tang was as unrestrained as the rumors said, but I've drank a lot during this time, but I haven't seen how close Brother Tang is to them. I once went to meet Miss Xu Su, she is indeed a rare woman in the world, she can see through me at a glance. But she said that she is not brother Tang's beloved. I don't understand why Brother Tang is so good, But no one is with you all the time?"

"This has nothing to do with you." Tang Ziwei felt absurd when he heard that he went to find Su Niang.What is this man trying to do?

Xu Jing looked straight at him, with seriousness in his dark eyes: "I admire Brother Tang very much, but I just want to know you more. If you don't like it, I won't ask any more questions."

Tang Ziwei tilted his eyes slightly to meet his gaze, and it took him a while to answer: "En."

Xu Jing lowered his head, his hands were tangled in front of him, "Then shall we still paint the Spring Tower?"

Tang Ziwei: "..."

At this moment, there was only a rush of horseshoes from far to near.

A tall brown-red horse came head-on, and the driver wore a thick brown satin cape swaggering behind him, followed by two horses, one on the left and one on the right, barely stopping in front of Tang Ziwei and the others.

The brown-red horse in the front neighed loudly, spraying out clouds of white mist from its mouth and nose.Xu Jing took a step back in fright, but Tang Ziwei stood still, looking at the man on the horse with eyes like torches.

I saw the man turn over from the horse, his young face looked a bit rigid, his brows were furrowed, but there was a complicated meaning in his eyes.

"Tang Yin, you shouldn't have come to the capital."

Tang Ziwei raised his eyebrows, rolled his eyes, and said softly: "Shouldn't this be said to yourself, Lord Ning, you shouldn't have come to the capital."

As soon as Tang Ziwei said the words, Eleven and Seventeen behind Zhu Chenhao looked at each other, hesitating whether to reprimand him or not.In a blink of an eye, he saw that Xu Jing was still standing there, his eyes lit up, and at the same time he took a step forward and shouted at Xu Jing: "In front of King Ning, you didn't even kowtow to the Prime Minister to welcome you, how brave you are!"

Xu Jing was terrified by their loud voices, and immediately knelt down with a plop, "Meet King Ning!"

Tang Ziwei squinted his eyes, and slowly raised his cloak and flung it back. Before one knee fell to the ground, he heard Zhu Chenhao's annoyed voice.

"If you don't want to kneel, get up for me!"

Tang Ziwei acted as if he didn't understand what he meant, got up from the ground, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, my lord."

Zhu Chenhao gritted his teeth loudly, which made Eleven and Seventeen tremble with fear.

However, in just a moment, Zhu Chenhao's tightly clenched right fist was released, and his face returned to a calm state, he only lowered his voice and said to Tang Ziwei: "Are you blaming me?"

"I'm not that naive." Tang Ziwei shook his head, but he was telling the truth, "I'm just not sure, are you a friend or an enemy to me now?"