school days in ancient times

On the second day, Ye Mian really brought Lu Lizheng from Guozixue to Ye Mansion. Before dinner, Lu Lizheng wanted to eat their mutton pot, so Ye Mian ordered his servants to prepare it. After thinking about it, he wanted to eat it. Guo Ding needs more people to be interesting, so he asked the boys to invite Wei Angyuan and Ruan Yunsheng separately.

In the end, only Wei Angyuan and Wen Xun came. Li Zhao was stimulated by the king of Rongnan County because of the Xunxun exam, and he followed his father's subordinates to train in the school for the past two days. Ye Mian didn't pay much attention to it, it was just a temporary invitation, so it's good to be here.

The four of them had a table in the Nuan Pavilion of Baofengyuan. Ye Mian asked someone to warm a pot of green wine and prepared a set of tokens of this year's new style. Several people laughed and talked about the drinking order, and the night was very lively.

After the meal, the old lady of the Wen family personally sent someone to pick Wen Xun back to the mansion, and Wei Angyuan said that Ye Mian wanted to send Lu Lizheng back to Guozi School.

Ye Mian looked at him and smiled, saying yes.

Ye Mian knew that Wei Angyuan didn't like Lu Lizheng very much, but since he knew that he and Lu Lizheng had a good relationship, he never said anything bad about Lu Lizheng in front of him.

This reminded him of Jiang Beiqin from yesterday.

On the way back to the Prime Minister’s Mansion, Ye Mian used his alcohol to act foolishly, and kept laughing foolishly at Wei Angyuan in the carriage. He pounced on him and twisted his mouth, "Say! Do you want to be a good brother for a lifetime?"

"Ye Si, what kind of wine do you have? Let me go!"

"Then you have to answer me first."

"You should, you should," Wei Angyuan patted him perfunctorily.

"Poverty or wealth, health or disease?"

"..."

"No matter how many people beep in your ears that Ye Mian is a troublemaker, you can't dislike me."

"I listened to them, we don't know each other for a long time!" Wei Angyuan couldn't bear to push him.

"Ang Yuan, you are so kind, hahahahahahaha~~"

"Ah!! You are disgusting!!!"

On the second day of school, the snow was still melting on the road, the carriage stopped at the gate of Guozixue, and Feng Jin scrambled and scrambled to get out before the fourth young master of his family jumped down.

"Master, if you step on this, the ground is very dirty," Feng Jin squatted on the ground and arranged the pedals, raising his head.

Ye Mian looked at the muddy water just splashed on Feng Jin's shoe, and then glanced at the shiny new light-colored sheepskin boots on his feet, curled his lips, and got out of the car in an orderly manner with Feng Jin's support.

Passing through Erdao Yongguang Gate with a book bag in hand, I saw many students clustered together in front of the list wall, stretching their necks and looking up, pointing fingers from time to time, discussing with the people next to them sentence.

This is the ten-day exam results list.

Ye Mian only glanced at it and went back to Qirui Courtyard, not staying there.

It's not that Ye Mian is not curious, but that the children of the aristocratic family will never surrender their status and huddle together with the sons of ordinary people to read the list. Children from various courtyards will copy the list and bring it back to them to read.

Sure enough, when Ye Mian entered the school room of Qirui Academy, he saw several people gathered around Li Zhao's desk, chattering and studying the list.

Ye Mian handed the cloak to Mo Shi, who smiled and greeted him with a good morning, and squeezed past him, shouting, "Show me too, I heard those people talking about King Rongnan from outside, he's got it!" How many head armors?"

Seeing that it was Ye Mian, everyone made room for him. Li Zhao moved his buttocks outside and dragged him to his chair to sit with him.

"Look at it quickly, it's amazing," Li Zhao put his arm around him, and put Qi Zisheng's list of subjects on the table with the other.

Ye Mian sat down and took a closer look, huh!The first place in the nine subjects all read "Zhuang Jue, from Qinanyuan", all of which are eye-catching!

When the king of Rongnan County first came to Guozixue in Beijing, he swept all the subjects of Qizi students to the top. This was a beautiful blow!

Ye Mian stared, silently mourning for Ye Shilang for three seconds.

This matter naturally caused quite a stir in Guozixue, from students to teachers, everyone discussed it like Qirui Academy, but Ye Mian did not pay attention to this matter for as long as others.

Because the class bell rang twice, but Ruan Yunsheng hadn't come yet, Ye Mian took advantage of his husband's inattention and threw a note to Wei Angyuan who was in front of him to ask him.

Wei Angyuan also shook his head.

Ye Mian frowned, and finally made it to the end of the class. As soon as the teacher rolled up the books and hadn't walked out of the school room, Ye Mian ran away first, and the angry teacher blew his beard from behind.

Ye Mian went to Jiaoyuan to find Jia Yuanzheng.

Jia Yuanzheng was also wanting to ask Ye Mian about it, and seeing Ye Mian snorted angrily, "He didn't ask for leave, now you are more courageous, when the snow melts, go to your house one by one. !"

Ye Mian laughed and lost a lot of good words and escaped.

He faintly felt that something was wrong, Ruan Yunsheng has always been more thoughtful than them in his work, and usually absent from school is covered up beautifully without anyone noticing, how could he be caught by the school so loudly, and he was invited yesterday Ye Fu didn't come either...

Sure enough, when they came back from the dining hall in the afternoon, they saw Ruan Yunsheng sitting in the school room with an uneasy face in a daze.

"Yun Sheng!" Ye Mian stepped over in a few steps.

Ruan Yunsheng came back to his senses, raised his head and smiled at him, full of bitterness.

There were too many people talking, several people entered the Nuan Pavilion, Wei Angyuan drove all the servants out.

"what happened?"

"Something happened in our Ruan Mansion, I'm afraid it won't be kind this time." Ruan Yunsheng said with lowered eyes.

Several people were shocked, Ruan Yunsheng was always safe, if he said that he couldn't be kind, something must have happened.

"But Ruan Du Yushi?" Li Zhao was the first to react and asked urgently, and then said, "I didn't hear my father say that..."

Ruan Yunsheng smiled wryly, "It's impossible for everyone to know about the disturbance before it's decided. If that's the case, our Ruan family is completely over."

"Don't talk nonsense! What's going on? Tell me slowly." Ye Mian frowned.

Ruan Yunsheng sighed, "When my father was the deputy capital censor seven years ago, he was patrolling in the south of the Yangtze River and passed Zhao'an County. The magistrate of Zhao'an County was a distant relative of our Ruan family. It happened that they had a murder case and wanted to be convicted. The heavy prisoner is the county lieutenant of Zhao'an County, who has an official position, and needs to be submitted to the Ministry of Criminal Justice and the Metropolitan Procuratorate by the Qing History Department of the local prefecture, and the county magistrate saw that my father is in Zhao'an, so he directly submitted it to my father."

"But there is a problem with that case?" Wei Angyuan asked with a frown.

Ruan Yunsheng nodded, and continued: "After reviewing with the local bureaucracy, my father saw that there was no problem at that time, so he sentenced the prisoner to autumn execution, and then submitted it to the capital for approval, and the prisoner was executed. Who would have thought... ...."

Ruan Yunsheng clenched his fists, "Who would have thought that a few days ago, I went to Dali Temple to overturn the case in one fell swoop, and this case was to be overturned."

Several people were shocked, "Who is that Juzi? Is this case really unjust?"

"That Juzi is the county lieutenant's nephew," Ruan Yunsheng bit his lip, "Dali Temple temporarily suppressed the case and informed my father privately, my father and the others secretly investigated with the evidence in Juzi's hand, That county lieutenant was indeed framed."

Ye Mian swallowed, "Ruan Du Yushi is only participating in the review of this case..."

"The law of the Dawen Dynasty, if the censor commits a crime, it will be added to the third class, and there is a serious point of filth." Wei Angyuan frowned and interrupted Ye Mian, "Now the bad thing is that the county magistrate of Zhao'an County has relatives with the Ruan family. I don't know."

A few people came out of the Nuan Pavilion, and there were two quarrelsome people in the school room who wanted to tease them and asked them what bad things they were secretly discussing in the Nuan Pavilion, but they all looked like they were about to come, so they didn't dare to say anything .

Qirui Academy's school house is rarely noisy during class breaks. The gentleman who came to class entered the courtyard, but didn't hear any movement in the room, and retreated again. Lift your feet and step into the house.

The unjust case of the county lieutenant in Zhao'an County was vindicated within a few days, and there was an uproar in Beijing. After all, his son came to surrender, and it was already a great honor for Dali Temple to hold down a few days for the Ruan family to plan.

The laws of the Dawen Dynasty were strict. After investigation, more than a dozen officials who handled the case, from jailers to officials, were all held accountable. .

Ruan Yunsheng's father is a third-rank member of the Dawen Dynasty, and the power in the court is deeply rooted. Originally, reviewing the wrong case of a small local official would not hurt the root cause. Usually the most important thing is to sit upright. Over the years, countless people have been offended. After a few rounds of tension between various forces in the DPRK and China, the emperor personally investigated whether Ruan Zuodu's censor had "accepted bribes and perverted the law" before making a decision. .

The ups and downs are changing, but the impact on the school is not much.

The weather is getting warmer, and the snow all over the city has already melted away.

Although the spring in March in the capital is not as green as the willows in the south of the Yangtze River, it is also springy and warm, which makes people happy.

Today is the ninth day of March, and the students are going to climb the mountain to pay homage to the Kuiyuan Temple.

Baofengyuan removed the last brazier in the house. Early in the morning, Ye Mian stood on the ground and raised his arms to let the maids wait for him to change his spring shirt.

Bright but not dazzling sunlight penetrated into the room through the wooden panes. Ye Mian stood in front of the window and let Baohe and the others play with them. Let the girl squat on the ground to plant flowers and bury grass.

Mama Liu, who came from the sewing room to deliver this season's new clothes, stood in the room with a big smile on her face, staring at Bao Nian and Bao He squatting on the ground, tidying the clothes for the beautiful fourth young master, hanging incense Bao Peiyu.

"This season's clothes are all from the south, right?" Baohe praised while stretching out his hand to smooth the belt, "It's so pretty, and the colors are bright."

Bao Nian nodded, "The waist is so tight, it shows off."

"Young lady has really good eyesight," Liu's mother hurriedly smiled and stepped forward to flatter her, "The clothes of our eldest and fourth young masters this season are not only the styles from the south, but also the materials are directly bought from the south. I bought two embroiderers from Gusu, and the embroidery methods are different, just look at it."

Bao Nian fixed his eyes on Ye Mian's silver thread embroidered begonia pattern on his neckline and waist, and nodded with satisfaction, "It's true, it's better than the previous embroiderer, then let them make some more pairs of socks for the fourth young master , the socks are embroidered with tread waves."

"Hey!" Mother Liu quickly agreed, "I'll send it to you in two days."

Baoxue personally poured a cup of hot tea for Liu's mother, "Mom, please sit down, they are clumsy and need a while."

"Thank you girl, I'll just stay here," Liu's mother even waved her hand: "There's no reason why the young master stands on the ground and the old woman sits there."

"It's okay," Baoxue pursed her lips and said with a smile, "How old is Fourth Young Master? Baofeng Court doesn't have so many rules now," she said, taking Mama Liu's sleeve and letting her onto a beautiful pier.

Mama Liu sat in a corner of Xiudun cautiously, and the little daughter who came with her also followed with her face red and her head lowered, tightly grabbing the hem of her mother's shoulders and not letting go.

I'm afraid of this person, seeing the decent and generous maidservants in Baofengyuan wearing silk and gold, and seeing her own daughter's lowly appearance, Liu's mother is very upset.

Just like his father, he can't beat a fart with a stick!

What is the purpose of making new clothes for her?Isn't it just to let her enter the house and talk to these big guys?When she spends some money in the future, it's better to be a third class in this yard than to fiddle with dead things in the sewing room!

Mother Liu's mouth sank at the thought of this, she gave her daughter a hard look, and motioned her to speak, which she had taught her before she came.

The daughter of the Liu family shrank her neck, but kept her head down and bit her lips tightly and did not speak.

She dare not.

The older sisters here are dressed better than Nanny Yang, who is in charge of the sewing room. They wear bracelets in clusters, and they speak nicely in Mandarin, unlike her, who speaks with a flat country accent.

She felt that she was not worthy of making tea and pouring water for others, let alone talking to her like her mother taught her. She still remembered that she had been humiliated by the sisters in the room a few times when she tried to curry favor with Nanny Yang.

This is the fourth young master who serves by his side, fourth young master... She only dared to glance at the corner of his clothes, which she brought over today.

Mother Liu's heart pounded with anger at his daughter's donkey.

Baoxue was careful, shook her head, picked up a plate of minced meat sponge cake and handed it to Liu's daughter, said with a smile, "Eat it, the leftovers from the fourth young master's breakfast are still warm."

The daughter of the Liu family didn't dare to pick it up, and she lowered her head even more. Finally, mother Liu couldn't hold back her anger, and reprimanded in a low voice: "You can take it, you don't know how to praise it!"

"Hey? Don't scold her!" Baoxue hurriedly stopped her.

Ye Mian was brought back to his senses by the noise over there, and after hearing what was going on, he raised his chin at Baoxue and said, "Tell her not to cry, she must not like muffins, you can give her chestnut caramel Sweet mouth."

Ye Mian asked someone to drive to Ruan Mansion to pick up Ruan Yunsheng before heading to Bei'an Mountain together.

The two of them sat in the carriage and opened the windows. Now it is the season of greenery outside, and there was a fine spring rain yesterday. very comfortable.

Even Ruan Yunsheng, who has been depressed these days, showed a smile, raised his eyebrows and teased Ye Mian: "We are going to worship Kuiyuan, not mother-in-law. Why are you so handsome?"

Ye Mian is wearing the latest style of sky blue in the south today, with a crescent white belt tightening his waist, and a pair of black deerskin boots with black bottoms. Guduo's peach blossom branches are still attractive.

"It's so pretty!" Ye Mian shook his head triumphantly, "I'm the prettiest boy in Beijing after my elder brother left here."

Ruan Yunsheng was teased by him and had fun for a long time.

Ye Mian was also happy to see him smiling, and moved over from the opposite side of Ruan Yunsheng, and sat next to him. The two brothers put their arms around his shoulders and sighed: "Weirds say that the weather can affect the mood, how long has it been?" Haven't seen you smiling like this? You have to smile more."

Ruan Yunsheng these days because his father's case has been cleared up a lot, the three-point smile that was always on the corner of his mouth disappeared, and his brows were frowned all day long. Seeing the loss of brilliance, Ye Mian was worried.

"Give me another big laugh!" Ye Mian raised his chin with his fingers.

Ruan Yunsheng rolled his eyes, then turned his head and looked at him with the corners of his lips curled up, "It's been bothering you these days, when my father's business is settled, I'll be the host, how about going to find a place outside the city to evacuate during the ten-day vacation? ?”

"It's easy to say, a family of brothers doesn't talk about two families."

His father's case, Dali Temple has some clues now, and now it can almost prove that Ruan Du Yushi was not corrupt, so he can only be punished as "dereliction of duty".

Officials must be demoted, but it is much better than dismissal, but I don't know how many ranks and how to demote. The Ruan family clan and in-laws did not dare to relax, and they have been active in the court.

Bei'an Mountain was on the outskirts of the city, and the two sat in the carriage talking and laughing all the way, and soon arrived at the foot of Bei'an Mountain.

The foot of the mountain is already very lively.

There are many students, bustling with each other, all carrying small bamboo baskets brought by their families, which contain things to be thrown in the temple to win prizes, and various blessing purses, which contain scriptures written by themselves.

"Brother Mian, Yun Sheng, this way."

Before the two got out of the car, they heard Li Zhao's voice.

In the distance outside the window, under the old magnolia tree, Li Zhao, who was also wearing a new spring dress, jumped up and waved to them, full of vigor and heroism.