Lei Yue Longmen

The so-called wine is too rare for a bosom friend, once the two have drunk it, it will be difficult to hold it back.Chuan Feiyan had a big drinker and Cen Zhu knew it. She and Jiang Yiting together couldn't drink more than her, but it was the first time Li Jingmu had a big drinker and Cen Zhu knew about it.She remembered that when she used to be addicted to alcohol, she was scolded by her, and the trouble was very unpleasant, and she never dared to drink recklessly again.

Now, looking at the person at the banquet who was holding a sea bowl and drinking wildly without changing his face, she suspected that the person she knew before was the fake Li Jingchen.

It is rare for Chuan Feiyan to meet an opponent in chess, and he intends to test Li Jingchen's drinking capacity. Seeing that she can still talk and laugh with her after drinking five bowls of yellow soup in a row.

Cen Zhu was worried that Li Jingmu had drunk too much, and his stomach could not take it anymore, so he advised her to drink less, but the clinker was scolded by the two people who had a good time together: "Put your claws away, women's affairs, men don't care!"

The more Cen Zhu touches it, the more he feels that this is right, right? Isn't Chuan Feiyan? It's fine to say this sentence knowingly, what does it mean for you, Li Jingzhu, to nod along?

She couldn't persuade them to drink, and couldn't take their wine glasses, so she had to sulk on the sidelines.The two got drunk and started talking nonsense head to head.Of course, the topic cannot be separated from the character they both know, Cen Zhu.

"Sisters and sisters, let me tell you that Cen Zhu entered our academy at the age of 14. She is the youngest junior among us. But she is ambitious, knowledgeable, and especially business-minded. There was a time when the academy was short of money. Can’t drive? I’m going down. My father is frowning every day. If she doesn’t say anything, she will send a large sum of money, saying that she earned it at home when she was out of school. Both Yiting and I admired her to death. At that time She is only 16 years old. Although my father doesn't like her being distracted from business in public, he often praises her to my mother in private, saying that this child is sensitive, flexible, and capable of managing the world. Although Yiting I lost to her in terms of knowledge and talent, but I would fall far behind in sophistication. Yi Ting often joked with me that if Cen Zhuo hadn't been absent from the scientific examination for some reason, he might not have been the number one scholar back then. It belongs to him. Facts have proved that Cen Zhu is indeed the number one scholar, and she really passed the next subject."

"I'm telling you this, but I actually want to tell you, brother and sister, our Cen Zhuo is the number one scholar among the champions. He has a good personality, good character, intelligence and ability. Will you marry her in the future? Yes. Lost."

The corners of Li Jingchen's mouth were raised slightly, holding the wine bowl with a half-smile.

Cen Zhu was ashamed and wanted to shut up that sister's mouth.

"No? But, you have to watch her carefully. If a person is too good, he will attract a lot of covetousness or jealousy. Look at her face, which is a disaster for the country and the people. Although she won't take the initiative to mess with women, But I can't resist all the flowers and plants rushing towards her! Have you ever heard of 'a young man with a jade face and hairpin, once he broke all the Jiankang branches'?"

Li Jingchen shook his head, looking curious.Cen Zhu was embarrassed, and hurriedly served Chuan Feiyan some food to try to change the topic: "Senior sister, don't just drink, eat a la carte, eat a la carte."

In the end, Chuan Feiyan politely pushed aside.She proclaimed to Li Jingchen with her tongue out, "This is actually about her!"

Cen Zhu's face turned red immediately, redder than the two people who had drunk too much.She came up to continue interrupting without giving up, this time not only Chuan Feiyan bothered her, but even Li Jingchen got her hands on her, pushed her far away, and asked Chuan Feiyan:

"Why is it called 'Once To All Jian Kang Zhi'? Who is 'Jian Kang Zhi'?"

"Good question! Seeing that my younger siblings are people who have read poetry and books, this question hits the point." Chuan Feiyan smiled and said: "This 'branch' is naturally not an ordinary 'branch', she is a golden branch and a jade leaf Don’t you know that when Cen Zhuo was in high school, two princes fought in front of the Xihua Gate of the palace in order to recruit her as his son-in-law. The blood was broken, and the people in the city were shocked. In the end, it was the emperor who came forward and hit each of them with a stick to calm down the incident. People made up these two lines of ballads to praise the instigator of this incident—huh? What about people?"

She tilted her head up in the room, looking here and there, and the Zhuangyuan Cen, whom she had just abandoned like a scrap, was pulled back by her as a prop for an exhibition, "——Brother Cen, our champion." After finishing speaking No? He politely slapped him away, and continued chatting happily with Li Jingchen.

Cen Zhu waved his fists in protest, "What compliments? It's embarrassing me. This matter has nothing to do with me at all. They already had a rift in private, and they just vented it out on the matter of their son-in-law. How unlucky I am!" , if you don’t do anything, you will suffer injustice!”

"Don't take advantage of it and act like a good boy. You didn't do anything, and those two princesses are jealous of you and are willing to be the laughing stock of the whole city? What about you, a child!" Chuan Feiyan hiccupped and was already drinking. High state.

Cen Zhu sneered: "Hmph, do you want to add it? There is no excuse for the crime!"

Li Jingchen silently drank a glass of wine, his expression was dull, don't you see? He was happy and angry, and asked quietly: "So, 'Jiankangzhi' refers to the two princesses?"

Cen Zhu: "..."

"Not yet? Only!" Chuan Feiyan became more and more addicted as she talked, and sold out all of Cen Zhuo at once. After reading it over and over again, most of them are trumped-up "crimes".Finally, she slapped the table, and the sound was scary.

Just when everyone thought she was going to make some high-level remarks, this elder sister leaned over to Li Jingchen and whispered in a contrasting voice: "It is said that there is another princess who has taken a fancy to her."

Li Jingchen's face froze suddenly.Cen Zhu? Knowing what Chuan Feiyan said, he just felt a wave of fear.

Chuan Feiyan whispered in her ear for a while, and Li Jingzhu's expression eased again. Cen Zhu silently breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly felt a sense of rebirth after a catastrophe.

"This time it's true, sister? Lie to you. At that time, Yi Ting had just been transferred back to the capital to work in the Ministry of Officials. He happened to be in charge of filling in the vacancies of Jinshi in the new department. I saw that the Ministry of Officials had arranged for every Jinshi to make up positions. He was very puzzled that there was no number one scholar, Cen Zhu, so he asked the Minister of the Ministry of Officials why. Fu Mingqi, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials at that time, appreciated Yiting very much, so he revealed the details to him, saying that it was ordered by the emperor himself. He was going to stay in Beijing with an exception. Yiting asked him why? Why? He said meaningfully, "Once the Dragon Gate ascends, he will be the emperor's son-in-law." Isn't that the emperor's intention to recruit Cen Zhu as his son-in-law? ? Know which princess has taken a fancy to Cen Zhuo.

Yi Ting didn't know whether this matter was good or bad, so he passed the news to Cen Zhu.

On the second day, Fu Shangshu suddenly changed the number of candidates, and arranged Cen Zhu to be the magistrate of Longmen County.Yiting asked the reason again, but why didn't the old Shangshu say it? He was willing to say it, and just shook his head and sighed.

Yi Ting went to Cen Zhu to ask the reason, who knew that this kid could run faster than a rabbit, and slipped out of the imperial city on the day he received the appointment.We only found out later that in order not to become a son-in-law, she even lied about having a marriage contract.Face to face, he rejected the emperor's kindness.Do you think the emperor can wipe it off?In a fit of anger, he dispatched her to Longmen County, the poorest county, as a small county magistrate with no money or power.I have also convinced your husband. In fact, being targeted by the emperor like her is basically tantamount to having no relationship with the officialdom.It was only because she was the number one scholar that other Jinshi had officials to serve as officials. If there is no number one scholar, it is okay to have no officials. In the past, she barely won a small county magistrate.Ordinary people spend their whole lives like this, but she is not? An ordinary person, she has the ability to lead a group of mountain people, and they are both reclaiming wasteland and farming. Governance has become a well-known rich county in Yurui.She's in the top ranks of law and order, she's in the top ranks of taxation, and she's in the top ranks of trade. If I were the emperor's old man, I'd be annoyed too, isn't this? The transfer order will come down!Let you show off in this small county, and transfer you to Beijing to see if you can continue to show off.So, my sister can enjoy happiness with Cen Zhu at ease in the future! "

This elder sister smiled? After she finished speaking, her head hit the table with a "boom", and her face was flushed and she passed out drunk.

Cen Zhu no? You were speechless: "Amazing, amazing! I've been in the liquor store for so many years, and I've never seen anyone who can knock down my senior sister. This brother has a good drinker!" Thumbs up.

The latter's expression was still indifferent, and he was sipping the remaining wine in the bowl. He looked confident, as if neither of the two senior sisters was her opponent.Cen Zhu secretly sighed that there is a strong player in the strong, and he really underestimated her before.

Ask the maid to help Chuan Feiyan back to the room to rest, but this sister started to drink alcohol halfway and went crazy, one or two maids couldn't control her at all.Helpless, she had no choice but to go up to help, picked up the man who was drunk like crazy, and carried him all the way to the door of her boudoir. She hesitated before going in. She wanted to hand him over to the two girls, but the two girls never Seeing such a madam who barks her teeth and claws like this, she was very frightened and looked at her with eyes begging for help.Helpless, she had no choice but to be a good person to the end and send the Buddha to the West.

When she put her on the bed, didn't Chuan Feiyan go crazy, she tugged on her sleeve and wept silently, "Senior Sister, is there anything you want to tell me?"

Chuan Feiyan choked up and said, "Cen Zhu, it's good that you're here. I can only talk to you about some things. In the past three years, Yiting's heart? It's actually quite bitter. He has a dull temper and admits death. Many things depend on him. Can't you? If you are transparent. He keeps telling me that this is not the world he imagined, nor is it the court he imagined. He is fighting against the people in the court, knowing that it is not good for him, but Still angry as if he wanted to fight. In fact, no matter how others squeeze him out or suppress him, I am not afraid. I am just afraid that one day he will let go of the anger in his heart, and he will be overwhelmed. At that time, our mother and I What can I do?"

Cen Zhu was speechless, feeling as if his heart was being weighed down by a big rock, "Don't worry, Senior Sister, I will persuade Senior Brother Jiang."

Returning to the living room with mixed feelings, Li Jingchen was still sitting at the dining table, with his waist straightened, and he took the bowl to his mouth with a firm eye.Cen Zhu sat next to her, took off her empty bowl, put it aside,

"Stop drinking and eat something. I was too busy drinking just now. I see that you didn't move your chopsticks much."

Li Jingchen turned his head and looked at her very slowly, "Why didn't you take the imperial examination?"

"I passed the exam?" Cen Zhu felt that her question was very strange, so he picked up a chopstick and put it in her bowl: "I didn't? Did I still win the number one prize?"

"Last class."

Li Jingchen uttered three words lightly, his eyes fixed on her face persistently.

Cen Zhu was stunned for a moment, "What about the first subject?"

"You, Jiang Yiting."

"Oh, you're asking me why I didn't take the imperial examination in Qinghe 19th year with Senior Brother Jiang?"

She nodded.

Cen Zhu said lightly: "I was still young at that time, no? I wanted to enter the officialdom so early, and I wanted to play for two more years."

"is it?"

Li Jingchen let out a "hum", not believing it at all.

In the 19th year of Qinghe, Cen Zhu was just 19 years old, so he could enter the officialdom.But she pushed back that date by three years.The reason for this she knew better than anyone.

The 19th year of Qinghe was a special year.It was exactly one month after the Chunwei exam that year that a severe famine occurred in the north. She invited herself to go to the south of the Yangtze River to adjust grain, and met Hua Qing in Kangyang City in April.

At that time, her attitude towards herself was—to avoid it and avoid it.

No matter what she does, she gives both kindness and power, rewards and punishments, this profiteer hides as much as he can, avoids as much as he can, and makes it clear that he doesn't want to have anything to do with Donggong.

Such behavior was projected to the imperial examinations of that year, and the reason for her absence became clear.

Because the examiner that year was Tan Xuanjing.

In Yurui, although Jinshi who have passed the imperial examination are collectively called disciples of the Son of Heaven, they regard the current chief examiner as a "mentor" and are automatically included in the faction of the mentor, and are cared for and promoted by the mentor. The tacit unspoken rules of the various factions in the imperial court.

Therefore, before each scientific examination, the selection of the chief examiner will cause all parties to fight for blood.In the 19th year of Qinghe, the main examination of Chunwei fell into the hands of Tan Xuanjing, which was the result of the struggle between the East Palace and various forces.He naturally made great use of it, taking advantage of the opportunity of scientific research to recruit talents for the East Palace.

And Jiang Yiting was the young talent he was most optimistic about at that time.

It's a pity that Jiang Yiting was born in a famous family, with an upright temperament, aloof and unruly, he didn't pay attention to the deep-rooted factional disputes at all, he only respected the etiquette and disregarded factions in his actions, and even violated the interests of the East Palace many times.

Tan Xuanjing wanted to win him over, even at the cost of marrying his granddaughter, but in the end he couldn't win him over, so he had to find various excuses to send him outside the capital, hoping to teach him a lesson.And the other factions are also afraid of his rebellious temperament, and they acquiesce that he is from the East Palace, aren't they willing to help, so this champion in the 19th year of Qinghe is still a little boy in a place far away from the capital to this day? the county magistrate.

Just imagine, if Cen Zhu had passed the same exam back then, with her more tense relationship with Dong Gong, her fate might have been worse than that of Jiang Yiting.Li Jingchen had reason to suspect that she had foreseen all this in advance, and would rather postpone the exam for three years than rely on Donggong Tan Xuanjing.