The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

The second day is New Year's Day.

The hundred festival year is the first, the first day of the first month, the beginning of the year.

I heard the sound of firecrackers coming from outside early in the morning, I don't know which family has set off firecrackers outside early in the morning.The warmth and smell left by the man still remained in the quilt, but the man was no longer by his side, which made people feel a little melancholy. Li Wen lay on the bed with the quilt wrapped around him, staring at the top of the bed with his eyes wide open. Some miss the man who left.

Until early in the morning when he heard a boy knocking on the door, he responded, "Come in."

The boy pushed open the door and entered, and brought hot water for him to wash.

"Is everyone else up?" Li Wen took the face towel and wiped his face, then handed the towel to Xiao Tong, and asked

Li Tong replied, "Miss Si got up early to get busy, Young Master and Young Master Yang are still sleeping and haven't woken up yet."

"Well, I see." Li Wen nodded, and after getting dressed, he went to the side room.

The two boys slept in his bed last night, and when he came over, the two boys on the bed had already woken up and were laughing and laughing in the bed.As soon as they heard his voice, the two boys sat up. As soon as they saw him, his boy crawled out of the bed and rushed towards him, "Brother."

"grown ups."

Li Wen hugged him, slapped the kid on the buttocks, and said, "Come down quickly, and put on your clothes yourself. Do you know that today is the first day of the Chinese New Year? It's the New Year's Eve. We'll ask for a piece later." Have breakfast." He sent for hot water to wash the two cubs.

The two cubs put on new clothes and shoes, put on tiger hats, and ran ahead one after the other.

"Papa Papa"

They went to the door to set off firecrackers, the firecrackers were lit and crackled, and the two boys covered their ears and danced beside them, "Firecrackers, New Year's Eve..."

"Hahaha"

But it’s just that it’s the New Year’s Eve.

Everyone in the house is beaming with joy. The new year is a new beginning for everyone. Everyone has good expectations for the coming year in their hearts, and they look forward to living a happy life in the future. better.

Early in the morning, the servants below came to pay New Year's greetings to the master. Li Wen brought the red envelopes he had prepared, and each of them rewarded a red envelope.Miss Li Jinwan, the fourth lady, was not stingy either. Seeing her brother handing out rewards, she also gave out a red envelope to everyone in the house.

The dishes in the morning are very rich, including all kinds of chicken, duck and fish, and a large table is filled. Everyone sits down and eats the first meal of the new year together.

The mouths of the two boys are full of oil, watching the two boys eat, adults feel delicious.

"I don't have much to do today, why don't you go out later and go to the temple to enjoy incense?" Li Wen thought that there is nothing to do today, and everyone is bored if they stay at the house all day, why not take advantage of this time Everyone is here, let's go out together and go outside for a walk.

He absolutely refused to admit that it was because he heard from the man this morning that their family was going to go to the temple to offer incense today, so he decided to go out on the spur of the moment.

"Well, okay, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, go to the temple to worship the gods, just to ask for favors." Li Jinwan has been in the capital for so long, and has never been to a nearby temple to worship, so she feels that her brother's proposal Yes, so I agree.

The two boys were naturally very happy when they heard that they were going out.

Bai Yu nodded, he can do whatever he wants.

So after eating, they began to prepare to go out.

There were two carriages, the family members and children of the family were sitting in the carriages, Li Wen rode with the others, walked in front of the team, and went out of the city.On the way they went, they also encountered chariots and horses from other houses, presumably they were people who went to burn incense in the temple together.

The incense in the temple was at its peak, and the wives and ladies of the officials in the capital came to offer incense early in the morning.

"Aniang, you go worship, I'll take a walk around here." Zhao Xiangyi went back to the General's Mansion early in the morning, and escorted the female family members in the mansion to worship the gods on the mountain, but he didn't have much interest in worshiping the gods. So he talked to his aunt, and left alone with a servant.

"This child." Seeing that the eldest son walked away, Mrs. Wang had no choice but to take the child and follow the old lady into the temple to worship Buddha.

After walking for nearly half an hour, they arrived at the foot of the mountain, where many carriages had already parked.

Leaving two people here to watch the chariots and horses, they went up the mountain. Along the way, they met many ladies and ladies who also went up the mountain to burn incense.

A lady on the road recognized this Li Liuyuan, and seeing the young and handsome young master, she couldn't help being moved. Besides, this Li Liuyuan became a senior member of the fifth rank at a young age, and he was more promising than the young talents in the capital. The emperor's high regard will definitely lead to a smooth official career and skyrocket in the future.Hearing that Mr. Li has not yet married a wife, it would be a blessing for them to have a good marriage with Mr. Li. That courageous young lady couldn't help but stepped forward and asked, "May I ask Mr. Li?"

Li Wen didn't expect to be stopped by a girl on the way. Should he admit it, or not?

Seeing the woman in front of him with lowered brows and peeking at him shyly, Li Wen only felt a headache, but lying is definitely not acceptable, after all, there must be many people in this capital who know him, "It's just me, I don't know the girl What's the matter?"

Li Jinwan looked like she was watching the show, and she didn't come out to help her brother, to see what her brother would do.She beat the girl who stood in front of her brother, Xiaojia Biyu, who was average in appearance, but not quite worthy of her brother.As good as her brother is, no matter what, she has to be a talented woman with outstanding looks to be worthy of her brother and her sister-in-law.

"My little girl has met your lord." The little girl bowed and said, "My lord, are you also going up the mountain to burn incense? I happen to be walking with you all the way, can you let us go with you?"

Li Wen took a look at the other side where most of the female relatives were, and politely refused, "We have mostly men here, so it would be inconvenient for us to go with the girls." So the subtext of these words, let's go our separate ways.Without waiting for the other party's reaction, he glanced at the few standing aside watching the show, and gave them a look: Hurry up!

Nodding to the girl, he took the lead and walked to the front.

Li Jinwan smiled and followed behind her brother.

hateful!Looking at the girl who walked away from behind, she stomped her feet angrily.

Their footsteps were fast, and they quickly got rid of the team behind, and then surpassed the team in front, and went up the mountain without breathing, and reached the temple halfway up the mountain.

Knowing that there are many things to do at the girl's house, once she goes in, she won't be able to come out for a while, Li Wen said, "After half an hour, let's meet here at this gate, if you want to burn incense, burn incense, if you want to go shopping Just go for a stroll, don’t run far, don’t go to places where no one is around or where there are dangers, remember everything.”

"I know, brother." Li Jinwan said.

"If you want to burn incense, go in and burn incense. I'll take a walk around here."

Originally, Li Wen thought that since he was here, he would go in and burn incense, but when he thought that the temple was full of wives and ladies burning incense and worshiping Buddha at this time, and when he thought of the girls he met on the way just now, all of them had expressions on their faces. Looking at him shyly and timidly, Li Wen felt that he should not go in, lest it would be difficult to get out after a while.

"Brother, are you coming in to burn incense?"

"I won't go in, you go."

"Oh, we're going in."

''Well 〇,,

Li Jinwan walked away with Magpie and Yingchun girls, Li Wen took Bai Yu, the two boys, Ah Chen and Ah Wu to the back of the temple.

When they had just finished the exam, there would be some time, and it happened that Lu Zhishu was still here in the capital, so they made an appointment to go out and play together, and they visited all around the capital, so they also visited this temple. , so I still have a little impression of this temple.

The temperature on the mountain is colder than that at the bottom, the branches are covered with snow, the leaves on the trees are all gone, and the leaves are bare. The trees here will not regain their vitality and greenness until the cold winter passes and spring arrives.

Seeing the figure standing under the tree with his back turned to him, Li Wen smiled.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the man standing under the tree turned his head and saw the young man appearing behind him, Zhao Xiangyi's mouth twitched, revealing a slight smile.Li Wen walked a few steps forward, stood in front of the man, looked up at the man in front of him, and said with a smile on his face, "Master Zhao, what a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you here.

"Yes. Master Li, it's a coincidence." Zhao Xiangyi didn't expect the young man to come to this mountain. When he was about to get up and leave this morning, the young man pestered him and asked him what he was going to do today. He told the young man that he would send him to the house. The female relatives from the village came to this mountain to burn incense, but they didn't expect the young man to follow.

So, can you say it was a coincidence?

——This is clearly following him.

For some reason, Zhao Xiangyi thought that the boy was looking for him, and Zhao Xiangyi felt that he was in an unprecedented good mood. The boy's smiling face, looking at his crooked eyebrows and eyes, seemed vivid in his eyes. and cute, if

It's not that there are outsiders here, he can't wait to hold his boy in his arms and hug him.

"I have met Mr. Zhao." Bai Yu stepped forward and saluted.

"You don't need to be too polite when you're out today." Zhao Xiangyi glanced at Bai Yu and said calmly.

"You guys are strolling around here. I have a few words to say to Mr. Zhao. Mr. Zhao and I will go over there for a walk." Li Wen ordered Bai Yu and the others to stay here, and let the two boys follow here , Do not run around.Bai Yu said, "No problem, we will wait for you here."

You see, I even threw my own brother aside for you?Shouldn't you be very moved?

Li Wen raised his eyes and glanced at the man, Zhao Xiangyi understood what the young man meant, and led Li Liuyuan to the other side.

The two walked side by side until the sight behind them disappeared, and Li Wen reached out to hook the man's finger when he noticed that there was no outsider nearby. Holding it in the palm of his hand, he looked sideways at the young man beside him and asked, "Are you looking for me?"

"Ahem...this temple does not belong to your family, you are only allowed to burn incense, and we are not allowed to worship Buddha?" Li Wen smiled and glanced at the man before refusing to admit that he came looking for this person.

Zhao Xiangyi's eyes were stained with a smile, and he didn't expose the young man, and said, "Xu, you can come if you want, this temple is not our Zhao family's, you can come anytime you want. If you want to come next time, please come in advance." Tell me, and I will come with you."

"Just the two of us?" Li Wen raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Well, just the two of us." Zhao Xiangyi replied with a smile.