The daily routine of the ancient imperial examination

After confirming the marketing plan, the young master went to buy people that afternoon.

The other party's original words were: Employers have to pay money and worry about whether the other party will leak the secrets. It is better to go to the market to buy people directly. With the contract in hand, those people will not dare to do such a thing of betraying the master even if they have ten guts.

Looking at Shi Yunchen's back, Lu Xiuyuan touched his head in doubt, the other party is busy now, so what's the point of him going home?It's better to study in the Imperial Academy with his senior brother.

But he didn't leave, but took advantage of this meeting to help the other party conceive new stories and new stalks.

After these few days, Yan Ruyu's shop became famous in Chang'an West City.

The streets are full of articles discussing the plot of the storybook, and the counterattack articles of Shuangwen can be used everywhere, but they grasp the core points more clearly and have a stronger rhythm than those of the fox ghost talents, almost to the point of making people open the book. To the extent that you can't put it down until you finish watching it.

Even Lu Xiuyuan heard someone discussing Yan Ruyu's story in the Hanlin Academy, but the words in the other party's mouth were not good.

At lunch time, an old scholar talked about Yan Ruyu's ten-year-old genius Jinshi, and his saliva was everywhere.

"Outrageous! Absolutely outrageous! I have heard of ten-year-old scholars, but I have never heard of ten-year-olds who can become Jinshi! This Yan Ruyu is too fantastic!"

The person who was eating with him next to him couldn't help comforting him when he saw the other person's anger: "This is just a script, there is no need to be serious with him. What does it have to do with us that he became a Jinshi at the age of ten?"

The old man slapped the table, unconvinced: "Who are you trying to mislead by saying such impossible things in the script? When the old man turns around, he will report to the master and let the master report to His Majesty to punish Yan Ruyu." Lay it out."

The expression on the opposite person was very speechless: "There is no need to go online, right? Then there are fox fairies and monsters in the storybook, what truth do you teach with a story?"

Lu Xiuyuan saw that it would be lively, and left with a meal. They mainly target the young people's market, so there is no need to listen to the outdated ideas of these old men, but seeing that the other party is so unhappy, he should be more wary of his colleagues in the capital.

After eating, Lu Xiuyuan continued to read in his seat.

His brother's collection of poems has been sorted, and he is officially at work, but the bachelor attendant who is in charge of guiding him tells him that he is not busy recently and asks him to get acquainted with the environment first.

Holding a book in his hand, Lu Xiuyuan sat on a chair and drank tea. He leisurely watched the sages who were selected in the same year bustling about, and sipped his tea without any burden in his heart.

Regardless of whether he really has nothing to do or give him a cold shoulder, the soldiers will come and cover up the water.

After continuing to spend the day leisurely, he began to clock in and leave work on time. Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. They all have three days off, and they can continue to help Ah Chen write the script when they go home.

Walking slowly back home, I saw the young master serving food on the table.

"Hey, be careful, let me do it!" Lu Xiuyuan hurriedly stepped forward to take the plate from the other party's hand.

Putting all the four dishes and one soup on the table, he looked at the dishes with some strange colors, and suddenly had a guess in his heart.

"You didn't cook this dish, did you?"

Shi Yunchen crossed his arms and said triumphantly: "Today's story book was sold out early, and I'm fine when I come back. I just thought about cooking and trying it. How do you taste it?"

Lu Xiuyuan took the chopsticks aside and picked up a scrambled egg with fungus.

"Well, yes."

It's the taste of fungus and eggs.

Then he tasted all the remaining four dishes, and commented: "Not bad." They all taste like simple home-cooked dishes, and I can't find any faults for the time being.

"Not bad?" The other party was still in the same posture just now, but the previous joy was gone.

Lu Xiuyuan didn't look up, so he didn't see the change in the other person's expression, and then took a sip of the remaining loofah egg soup.

"Hey! You didn't add salt!"

He smiled and turned around, only to find that the other person looked unhappy, swallowed quietly, and added silently: "It's better to be light, too much salt is not healthy for your body..."

Shi Yunchen snorted and sat opposite him.

Lu Xiuyuan hurriedly made a lion's head for the other party: "Come here, Baby Achen, eat a lion's head, this stuff tastes the best when eaten with rice."

The other party looked disgusted: "What the hell is that baby, don't bark."

He looked at the other party and said with a smile, "It's my nickname for Ah Chen~"

After a few words, the two reconciled as before, and Lu Xiuyuan talked about his plan to go to the Wu Mansion to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival tomorrow.

"If you can't come back from outside, Yang Weijian has to go home. There are only master and senior brothers in the house, and no one else blames the desertedness. Let's go to the lively scene, what do you think?"

Shi Yunchen knew that Master Lu Xiuyuan was alone, his senior brother was alone, and his wife was taking care of his in-laws in his hometown, so he agreed.

"I've prepared all the presents in advance, don't forget to bring them when I go there tomorrow morning."

When the time came to the next morning, they came to the door with gifts just after dawn.

The concierge happily welcomed them in: "Yesterday, the master said that he didn't know that you couldn't come here. I didn't expect that Master Lu really came."

Lu Xiuyuan handed the gift to the boy walking by: "How can we not come here today is the Mid-Autumn Festival?"

The servant happily held the gift and said with a smile: "Master, if he knows that you have come so early, Master Lu, he will be very happy."

The two came to the main hall hand in hand, but they didn't see anyone, so they went to the study room to look for them. After opening the door, they found that both master and senior brother were practicing calligraphy.

Lu Xiuyuan smiled and raised the hand they held together: "Master, brother, we are here~"

Both of them put away their pens, and his master was slightly surprised: "Xiuyuan, you guys came here so early? Have you had breakfast yet? Your senior brother and I haven't eaten yet, let's have some together later."

He shook his head and refused: "I have eaten at home with Ah Chen."

Seeing what he said, his senior brother took a copybook from the bookcase next to him and carefully put it on the table.

"That's right, you can practice calligraphy here when I have dinner with Master."

What?Let him practice calligraphy here?

Lu Xiuyuan wondered if he heard it wrong just now: "Brother, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Ah Chen and I came to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival."

Senior Brother Wu heard the words and glanced at Shi Yunchen next to him.

"Then let Chen'er supervise you, and you are not allowed to leave the room until you have practiced this copybook ten times."

Then the door was closed, and the two people in the room looked at each other.

In the end, it was Shi Yunchen who burst into laughter and said, "Before I went out, I told you that it was a good time for us to come here, but you still didn't believe it."

Lu Xiuyuan gave up struggling and took the copybook on the side, but was surprised to find that it was the Preface to the Lanting Pavilion written by Wang Xizhi, a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty!

Good guy!His senior brother even has this here?

Carefully looked around, although a small part is missing and incomplete, but looking at the degree of dilapidation, it really looks like the real thing!

Lu Xiuyuan's mentality also changed, and he put it on the table in every possible way, intending to appreciate it first.

You must know that the ancients used "the dragon leaps over the heavenly gate, the tiger crouches under the phoenix" to describe Wang Xizhi's strong and handsome calligraphy, and praised him as "the best running script in the world".

When Yun Chen first saw Lu Xiuyuan, he was still worried, but after he took a look at the copybook, he suddenly smiled again, and he didn't understand what he was thinking.

Lu Xiuyuan, who was next to him, saw that the other party was puzzled, and hurriedly reached out to let the young master next to him come over, and then explained to the other party the origin of the owner of the copybook and the story behind the Lanting Collection Preface.

After listening to it, Shi Yunchen remembered that Lu Xiuyuan had participated in the Qushui Liushang banquet in the Wu Mansion before, and said, "The Qushui Liushang sounds quite interesting, after you finish practicing calligraphy, take me to have a look. Bar."

Lu Xiuyuan nodded in response and asked the other party to sit on the chair and wait for a while, while he skillfully flipped through the paper and began to write with gestures.

After copying it ten times, the time has come to Si Shi, afraid that the young master would get bored, so he planned to take the other party to talk to his senior brother first, and then go to the courtyard where the Qushui Liucup banquet was held to get some air.

As a result, he had just finished discussing the copybook with his senior, and before he even said to go out for a stroll, the eldest prince came over aggressively.

The group of them hurriedly saluted, the other party nodded and sat on the upper seat, and then slapped the table.

"It's so exasperating! It's so exasperating! You must help me find a way!"

"Why is Your Highness angry? The old minister will see if he can help to solve the problem." Although this is the Wu Mansion, his master is the most senior official, so this question can only be asked by his master.

A trace of doubt also flashed in Lu Xiuyuan's heart, didn't he say that he would be confined for three months?Why did it come out in only two and a half months?

Hearing what the old Shoufu said, the First Prince patted the table again, venting his emotions unscrupulously.

"My prince is not reconciled! I am not reconciled! The credit for governing the Yellow River was originally mine, but in the end I was taken advantage of by that King Ming, not to mention that I was framed and imprisoned for two and a half months!"

"So as soon as I come out today, the prince will come to you, and he must help me get revenge, and I must not let the second child be so arrogant!"

This, this is a bit difficult.

His master and senior brother looked at each other, it was obviously a good game of chess, but it was messed up by the eldest prince, and it turned out to be a bit difficult to reverse now.

"Your Highness, you might as well put aside the struggle with the Second Highness and do something for the common people. Your Majesty will be pleased to see that he loves the people like a son." It can also change the current image.

There is no way to change what has happened, so I can only do more to restore my image.

Unexpectedly, the eldest prince would not listen at all: "Don't want this kind of suggestion, no matter what you do in front of the father, it is useless now, I want to be able to deal with the second prince!"

The other party stood up and came to the old Shoufu to urge: "Don't hurry up and think of a solution now, and wait for the flood season to pass. If the governance is really successful, it will be a great achievement. What else can I compete with him when the second prince's reputation comes together? "

Looking at the anxious eldest prince in front of him, his master and senior brother couldn't think of any good way. Could it be that they want to prevent him from harnessing the Yellow River?

The First Prince just happened to think of this too.

"Yes! We can make this operation fail!"

When Lu Xiuyuan next to him heard this, his heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the eldest prince wanted to...

"They took my prince's chance to repair the Yellow River. I just need to let the management of the Yellow River fail, then it will not be considered their credit, and they will even bear the infamy!"

The more the other party thinks about the idea, the better it feels.

"If there is no flood, create a flood. As long as the money is provided, someone will dare to dig the embankment."

When the first prince's words fell, everyone in the room was dumbfounded. They didn't expect the other party to say such words.

How many crops have been submerged by the flood of the Yellow River?How many people were drowned?How far will the post-disaster plague affect?How much human and financial resources will the imperial court lose in disaster relief?

What are the efforts of the hundreds of thousands of militiamen who were forcibly recruited?Isn't it just to finish the construction before the flood season so that the lowly people will not be flooded?

The opponent actually came up with such a vicious and damned method in order to make his competitors fail!

After a moment of silence, everyone in the room advised the First Prince not to do it!

"This won't work! That won't work! How can I do it? How can I make my good second brother fall down?!"

The other party had a bad temper, and was forced to confine him for two and a half months before. Now when they heard that the old Shoufu and the others did not support him, they completely lost their minds under the anger.

"If you can't think of a good way, then the prince will do it according to his own idea!"

That look is almost enough to say you trash with your mouth.

Hearing these words, his master and senior brother were anxiously spinning around in circles: "Your Highness, please wait a little longer, let the old minister think of a way."

But how could this method be so easy to think of?This is not an upright thing in the first place. The old chief assistant who has been upright and dedicated to making a fuss all his life has never thought of harming others.

When Lu Xiuyuan saw the eldest prince acting like this, he felt a sudden throbbing pain on his forehead.To say that this man is short-sighted is to praise him. The Yellow River bursting its embankment is a big event. Could it be that it burst its embankment inexplicably?I'm afraid it will be exposed in an instant when the investigation is started.

The room became silent. Now that the eldest prince looked at the anxious appearance of the old chief assistant and the others, he was not in a hurry, and sat back on the chair, poured a cup of tea and drank it slowly.

"It's okay, it's a day, you think about it slowly."

When the other party's voice fell, the old chief assistant and the others panicked even more.

Next to him, Lu Xiuyuan saw his master and senior brothers being embarrassed, and his palms hidden in his sleeves couldn't help clenching into fists.

He really didn't want to help the eldest prince, but if he didn't think of a way to stop him this time, if he didn't help, the other party would probably do something as stupid as digging a river.

Afterwards, the eldest prince died as well, but those tens of thousands of people were innocent!

The author has something to say: don't worry, Lao Lu will be able to change jobs soon.