To The Land of Nevernight

Essential oils are not a rare thing in Shengjing.

Customers who can afford essential oils, even if essential oils are not sold in Shengjing, can still buy high-priced essential oils from distant Gusu and Jinling prefectures.Now Huatangqiu is about to sell essential oils, and within half a month, all wealthy households in Shengjing will know about it.

They have used essential oils before, and now Huatangqiu wants to sell them, just for freshness and fun, and it has not created the original advertising effect of Gusu and Jinling.

Shopkeeper Xing ordered Hua Tangqiu's staff to sell essential oils hard, but there was no effect.

With three days left before the Qiqiao Festival, Tang Shen went from the Imperial Academy to the Qianli Tower to meet the shopkeeper Xing Da.The shopkeeper, who used to be majestic and majestic in the past, was quite disappointed at the moment. Seeing Tang Shen, he sighed and said, "Master Tang, to be honest, I have also heard that your Gusu Zhenbao Pavilion and Jinling Jinxiu Pavilion sell gold strands and soap. It's just a pity that although the south of the Yangtze River is rich, it can't compare with Shengjing. Don't be angry, I'm telling the truth. Our ladies and ladies in Shengjing haven't seen anything good. The night pearl of the Western Regions, For Dongying’s Sanzhang coral, I’m afraid our sales of golden strands won’t be as good as Jiangnan’s.”

When Tang Shen heard this, he had already guessed in his heart, but he was still a little surprised: "The rich merchants in Shengjing are so knowledgeable?"

"No."

Tang Shen comforted him: "That can only be blamed on the people of Shengjing who are well-informed. What does it have to do with you, Shopkeeper Xing?"

Shopkeeper Xing felt much better after being comforted in this way, and he also had a better impression of Tang Shen.

Tang Shen: "I asked you to do something half a month ago, can you do it?"

Shopkeeper Xing Da: "This kind of jade and jewelry are nothing to Hua Tangqiu. I listened to you and made a hundred samples. I have already let shopkeeper Lu take them away this morning and take them to the workshop in the suburbs. Xiao I would venture to ask, Tang Xiaodang, what is the use of asking me to do these things?"

Tang Shen smiled slightly: "Didn't you say that the lady in Shengjing is well-informed and has never seen or played with anything. Since they have used the golden strands before, let's make them a fresh one. Three days later, You will know."

Three days later, Qiqiao Festival.

Qiqiao Festival, also known as Qixi Festival, is called "Qixi Festival" because it falls on the seventh day of July.At first, Qixi Festival was used to worship the birthday of Seventh Sister (Weaver Girl), and the girls prayed for ingenious skills.Later, there was a love story about the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and this festival gradually became a festival for girls to pray for a good marriage.

In the evening of this day, several gorgeous carriages stopped at the gate of Huatangqiu.

The wives and young ladies of wealthy families generally seldom show their faces during the day. As night approached, several wives came to the painting hall in unison.After getting out of the carriage, the three of them took a look and recognized each other at the same time.

"Mrs. Lin, Mrs. Zhao."

"Madam Ma, Madam Zhao."

"Mrs. Lin, Mrs. Ma."

The three of them bowed slightly, as a courtesy, and entered the painting hall together.

On the first floor of Huatangqiu, there are some cheap jewelry hairpins, rouge gouache, and soap.Soap is sold on this first floor.When the three official wives entered the shop, a clerk greeted them and took them respectfully to the second floor.

When they reached the second floor, they saw a beautifully arranged shelf at the corner of the stairs. The three of them were taken aback and stopped together.A lady covered her lips with a smile and said: "I heard that in the south of the Yangtze River, soap is used by ordinary people for washing and washing hands. Only soap with a strong fragrance will be used by wealthy people to wash their hands. It is called scented soap. I started to wash my hands with scented soap a year ago. , It was indeed washed clean, and my hands were much smoother."

Another lady said: "A year and a half ago, I also started to wash my hands with soap, which is really helpful."

The last lady smiled and said: "Then I am not as good as the two elder sisters. I only started using soap to wash my hands half a year ago. It is the golden thread that is easy to use. After I started using it a year ago, my hands are much whiter and tenderer. Dude, I heard that starting today, Hua Tangqiu will also sell soap and golden strands, where is the golden strands, take me and my two sisters to have a look."

The guy felt a pain in his heart, he just felt that he had received three great Buddhas.

Shengjing was the capital of the Great Song Dynasty. There is a joke saying that one signboard in Shengjing was smashed down, and ten people were smashed, eight were officials, and one resigned.These three wives are old acquaintances, their husbands are the worst officials in the court, and Madam Ma's husband is also a fourth-rank official!The husbands of the three had been fighting against each other in the court, and they had different political opinions. Every time the three wives met, they would also be ridiculed by the Ming Dynasty and compete with each other.

What a great day, just as Hua Tangqiu was about to sell golden strands, these three people came together!

The clerk felt bitter, but he apologized with a smile on his face: "Madams, please come with me."

The three of them quickly walked through the soap racks and all kinds of jewelry placed in the lobby on the second floor, and then walked around a huanghuali Baibaoge with various antiques, and saw a double-sided Suzhou embroidered screen Afterwards, there was actually a small Baibaoge, which was so insane!

In front of this Baibaoge is an elevated shelf with a glass-colored vial placed on it.Inside the bottle is a clear, crystal-clear light yellow liquid. A huge luminous pearl is luxuriously placed in a corner of the shelf. The light of the luminous pearl shines on the glass bottle, which is exquisite.Even the three ladies watched with wide eyes, shocked by this extravagant handwriting.

Then he looked up at Baibaoge behind the shelf.

But I saw that there was a small translucent bottle in each grid of this Baibaoge, and some liquid was contained in the small bottle.These bottles are only one-fifth of the bottle on the Ye Mingzhu shelf, but they are very exquisitely made, and the bottles alone can make people love it.Most of the liquid in the vials was yellow, and some were so pale that it was almost impossible to see the yellow.

Mrs. Ma was well-informed and said directly: "The ones on the high shelf are golden strands, I know that. But the dozens of small bottles on this shelf are also golden strands?"

The clerk smiled and said: "Madam is clever. Of course, the golden thread on the Baibaoge is also the golden thread, but it was adjusted by our owner and slightly modified. The three ladies may not know that the golden thread sold in Shengjing Painting Hall in autumn , Jinling Mansion and Gusu Mansion don’t have it! The golden strands in Shengjing are divided into three grades, low-grade, high-grade and precious.” Then, the clerk explained the three grades of golden strands, saying: “Jiangnan only Sell ​​low-grade and high-grade golden strands, and only Shengjing can have those precious golden strands!"

When the three ladies heard it, they nodded appreciatively.

Seeing this, the clerk said again: "And the ones on this Baibaoge are even more amazing. The precious golden strands are made of many kinds of petals, and they are adjusted to produce different flavors. Our Huatangqiu has made improvements. These small bottles behind the small ones The golden strands in it are all just top-grade golden strands, with a single floral fragrance. But these golden strands can be bought and blended by yourself!"

Mrs. Ma was surprised: "You mean, we can concoct the precious golden wisp by ourselves?"

The clerk said again and again: "Exactly! Adding different floral scents together creates different scents. How can guests like the three wives use the same scent as others!"

These words entered the hearts of the three ladies, and the eyes of the three of them flashed.A quarter of an hour later, they left Huatangqiu with many small porcelain vases, all with joyful expressions on their faces.

He also sold hundreds of small bottles of golden wisp, this guy was extremely proud.After sending the three distinguished guests out, he was a little curious again: "How does the shopkeeper know that these ladies will buy all the scented small bottles of golden strands every time?"

Yes, this is exactly the new trick Tang Shen came up with in Shengjing: DIY essential oils!

The essential oils produced by Tang Shen's simple method are not as good as those of later generations in terms of quality, but there are not as many points of attention as later generations.The mixture of essential oils with different flavors may smell unpleasant at most, but there will be no major problems.The glass bottles are extremely precious, and they are only used to hold samples. They are placed in the store, and the essential oils bought by the ladies are all in white porcelain bottles.

Being unique is the most irresistible temptation for the wealthy family in Shengjing.

They have seen all the good things in the world, no matter how precious they are, no matter how gold strands are marketed as diamonds, they have the money to buy them, and they don't care.But if it is said that they can debug it by themselves and make a golden strand that belongs only to them, they will definitely be tempted.Tang Shen even thought that in half a year, there would be a competition in the boudoir to try and adjust the golden strands in Shengjing!

Tang Shen gave the idea to shopkeeper Xing, and shopkeeper Xing called it brilliant, and at the same time came up with a coup.How can an ordinary guy say such demagogic words?These are all taught by Master Xing!Touting the ladies in Shengjing and belittling the ladies in Jiangnan, emphasizing that this golden thread is unique to the entire Song Dynasty and only in Shengjing. Can those ladies not be tempted?

This kind of marketing method was really fruitful, and when it spread to Tang Shen's ears, he was stunned, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Pushing and regional discrimination have existed since ancient times, and they have been tried repeatedly!" After thinking about it, he thought again: " Shameless!"

Anyway, the wives and ladies in Jiangnan don't know about this, Tang Shen can only think that next year, Jinling Mansion and Gusu Mansion will also start selling rare golden strands, and open DIY production.

Soap, scented soap and golden strands were also sold well in Shengjing, Tang Shen and King Jing's Mansion both made a lot of money.

In August, the weather was no longer so hot, and the scholars on Tang Shen's list gradually gained a firm foothold in Shengjing.The top three of the first class all reported their duties in the Imperial Academy, and Tang Shen, Yao Tong, and Wang Xiao were already familiar with each other.And half of the second-tier Jinshi were not released, and they were all in the capital.At the end of August, led by Wang Xiao, the Jinshi fellows gathered in Qianlilou.

The bright moon hangs high, and the lanterns are just beginning to come on.

In the private room on the second floor of Qianli Building, more than 20 Xinke Scholars raised their wine glasses.

Wang Xiao said with a smile: "My colleagues, I respect you, if you don't get drunk tonight, you won't return home!"

Everyone said together: "My lord, if you don't get drunk, you won't return!"

The crowd was divided into two tables, and everyone ate and drank while reciting poems. It was a romantic story about a gifted scholar.

However, when they drank too much, all the wits became drunks, and they couldn't even recite poems, and they all started talking nonsense.Some complain that their boss is too harsh and assigns them too many duties every day.Some lamented that their salary was too little, how could they support a family of eight.I thought that if I was admitted to Jinshi, I would become a master, but if I want to be an upright official, I can only eat bran and swallow vegetables!

Everyone has their own troubles, Tang Shen is the youngest and the least persuaded to drink.He was not very drunk, and soon found Mei Shengze who was sitting at another table.Mei Shengze is also good at drinking, but just a little tipsy.Seeing Tang Shen, his eyes turned red, he hugged Tang Shen and cried, "Jing Ze, my heart is bitter!"

Tang Shen had never seen Mei Shengze like this before, he wanted to laugh, but he had to hold back, and asked pretending to be concerned: "Brother Shengze, what's wrong?"

Mei Shengze cried and said, "After the official examination, I was assigned to the Ministry of Industry. Do you know about this?"

Tang Shen teased: "Of course I know. Aren't you a Yuanwailang in the Water Department of the Ministry of Industry? This Yuanwailang was a fifth-rank official in the previous dynasty. Although this dynasty is a sixth-rank official, Mr. Mei, you were born in the second best. Now you are at the sixth rank, which is higher than me. I have to call you senior."

Mei Shengze pointed at Tang Shen: "You you you..."

"What am I?"

Mei Shengze wiped away his tears: "Okay, Tang Jingze, I won't tell you anymore, I'm suffering! I'm a weak scholar, I've been suffering for ten years, and I reported it to the emperor's family. You said they sent me to the Ministry of Industry What's the matter? Recently, our Ministry of Water is in charge of the reconstruction of the Taiye Pool. I'm like a blind man, my eyes are darkened, and I don't know anything. The doctor wants me to go to the palace with him to inspect the Taiye Pool every day. I am a sixth grade Officer Zhima, every time I enter the palace, my legs tremble with fright. The Taiye Pool is just a big pool in my eyes, what do I know!"

Tang Shen thought for a while, and said: "Then you are willing to be like me, staying in the Imperial Academy every day to write the four books, writing with sore wrists, dark, and far away?"

Mei Shengze's eyes lit up: "I want to!"

Tang Shen: "..."

Tang Shen: "I wish I could be king!"

Mei Shengze looked puzzled.

Mei Shengze envied Tang Shen for being able to write the Four Books. In his eyes, this was a great achievement, which could be recorded in the annals of history and passed down through the ages.But in Tang Shen's eyes, he would rather go to Taiye Pond for field investigation than sitting in the room copying and writing books!more importantly……

Tang Shen's eyes darkened.

More importantly, enter the palace every day!

Mei Shengze was trembling with fear, because he would inevitably bump into nobles every day, and occasionally even bump into the emperor.But what a great opportunity!Tang Shen lamented in his heart, you don't want such a good opportunity, give it to me, I still worry about not having the chance to show my face in front of the emperor!

In September, "The Doctrine of the Mean", which had been compiled by the Imperial Academy for a whole year, was finally completed, and was put into the library by Li Dashi himself.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but after two days of idleness, the superiors assigned another task.

Write a letter to pray for the emperor's birthday!

Everyone in the Hanlin Academy suddenly felt miserable.

Others always think that the Imperial Academy is a leisurely office, probably because every day when someone comes to the Imperial Academy to do business, they will see these adults, from the second-rank bachelor to the seventh-rank editor, either reading or on the way to read.

"I'm too free to read books, isn't it free?"

Tang Shen, editor-in-chief of the Seventh Rank Imperial Academy, spit on your face: "Bah!"

If it is said that reading and writing articles is a leisurely thing, it is indeed quite leisurely. The Hanlin Academy mostly does these two things all day long.But if you write day and night, month and year, who can stand it?Yao Ji and Wang Xiao are fine, they are ancient people, they have been used to it for decades after reading books.Tang Shen already had one head and two big ones!

Write essays every day!

When I opened my eyes, I started to think about how many essays I would write today, and when I was eating, I still wanted to think about how many essays I had to write today.Going back to the Yamen at night, I closed my eyes and thought about how many compositions I would write tomorrow.

Tang Shen also felt bitter!

The emperor's birthday is even more extraordinary.

The birthday of Zhao Fu, Emperor Kaiping of the Great Song Dynasty, was the seventh day of October. It was only the beginning of September, and the Imperial Academy was busy, writing prayers to him constantly.Yao Ji was led by Master Yang to sort out the emperor's various affairs in the past year, and record them in a book after investigation.Wang Xiao and Tang Shen were sent to write articles, only prayer articles.

No matter how colorful these articles were written, the emperor would only read a few of them, and burn all the others, in the name of asking the heavens to pray for blessings.

The person in charge of confirming which articles were finally sent to the emperor was a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, a second-rank university scholar, Yang University.

This Grand Master Yang has quite a relationship with Tang Shen.

At the time of Tang Shen's rural examination, originally because the first round of stereotyped art was written more than excellent, but not bright enough, he had no chance to become a sub-yuan.But Master Yang saw the five questions of "Book of Changes" written by Tang Shen in the second session.Master Yang fell in love at first sight, and almost wanted to give Jie Yuan to Tang Shen, but considering that Tang Shen's first test paper was indeed not as good as others, Master Yang gave Tang Shen a sub-yuan because he promised to be fair.

After arriving at the Imperial Academy, Tang Shen didn't have the chance to meet these great scholars. The highest he met were usually fifth-rank officials.

Knowing that Master Yang would come in person the next day, Tang Shen thought hard after returning home, dug out "Book of Changes", and read it again carefully.

After coming to the Hanlin Academy for so long, Tang Shen discovered early on that no one but himself knew about Master Yang's liking for "Book of Changes"!

"Wang Zifeng, Wang Zifeng!"

Tang Shen couldn't laugh or cry when he read the name of his senior brother.

Tang Shen moved to Tanhua Mansion three months ago, this mansion is really close to Shangshu Mansion, just two alleys away.After reading "Book of Changes" that night, Tang Shen thought about it, picked up the book, and came to Shangshu Mansion.The concierge saw Tang Shen, and immediately respectfully invited him in.This time when Wang Qin was at home, Tang Shen didn't go to the flower hall, but went directly to the study.

Wang Qin was lying on a rocking chair, reading a book leisurely by lighting a candle.

After Tang Shen came, he called out, "Senior Brother Zifeng."

Wang Qin poked his head from the back of the book, with a look of surprise: "Why is little brother here today?"

Tang Shen lied with his eyes open: "When I was studying, I encountered something that I didn't understand. I saw that it was still early, so I came to my senior brother to clarify my doubts."

Wang Qin stared at him, put down the book, and smiled: "Are you really here to clarify?"

Tang Shen thought for a moment, and decided to tell the truth this time: "I miss senior brother."

Wang Qin smiled brighter, and he stretched out his hand: "What book."

Tang Shen said in his heart, if you don't believe the lies, you still don't believe the truth now!Wang Zifeng, cleverness is misunderstood by cleverness, don't you understand!

Tang Shen's coming to Shangshu Mansion this time was indeed a sudden idea. As Wang Qin said, since Tang Shen took office in the Imperial Academy, the two brothers and sisters had less contact and spent less time together.Tang Shen was only a seventh-rank mung bean official, and he couldn't get along with Wang Qin in officialdom.At most, the two of them may meet once in a while.

Today Tang Shen thought of Wang Qin reminding himself that Master Yang liked "Book of Changes", somehow he came up with the idea to come and see Wang Qin.

Of course Wang Qin would not believe the sentence "I miss my senior brother", but when Tang Shen handed him the "Book of Changes", Wang Qin was slightly taken aback.After a while, he said: "Is the Imperial Academy writing a letter to the emperor to pray for blessings?"

Tang Shen didn't understand how Wang Qin knew all of a sudden, but when he saw "Book of Changes", he was shocked: Wang Zifeng can think so much about a book?I'm afraid it's not a devil!

Tang Shen thought for a while, but didn't hide anything: "Yes." Anyway, if Wang Qin wanted to know, he would know soon.

Wang Qin paused for a long time before saying, "Young junior brother really misses me."

Tang Shen raised his head and looked at him inexplicably.In the flickering candlelight, Wang Qin smiled quietly, with a rare soft and warm breath.

At this moment, Tang Shen felt for the first time that he had really made friends with Wang Zifeng and became friends.

Holding a copy of "Book of Changes", the brothers and sisters chatted all night, talking at night while holding candles.

On the second day, Tang Shen came to the Hanlin Academy, and at noon, Master Yang really came.

Yang Qi sat at the head of the room, looking around, he had a panoramic view of the officials in the room.He said slowly: "My colleagues, in a few days it will be the birthday of the sage. The Imperial Academy has been busy for a month, and there should be a result. Every year on the birthday of the sage, I will select three articles to be enshrined, and this year is no exception. One for each, are you ready?"

Everyone said in unison: "It's ready."

Yang Qi nodded in satisfaction: "Come on over there."

The officials stepped down from the high platform and received articles one by one from the officials.Tang Shen sent an article he wrote up, and Master Yang finished the article and left without saying a word.

Yao Ji was not in charge of writing articles, and among the top three in the new division, only Wang Xiao and Tang Shen had to write.

Wang Xiao said emotionally to Tang Shen: "I don't know what the result will be, Jing Ze, you can be sure."

Tang Shen: "I've always believed that it's up to people to plan things, and it's up to God to make things happen."

Wang Xiao nodded: "That's right, we just need to do our part well."

The next day, Master Yang did not announce at all which three articles he had sent to the face saint, but on the fourth day of October, Tang Shen suddenly received an edict.A fifth-rank official came to the Hanlin Academy with a smile, and began to read the imperial edict in front of everyone: "My subordinates, I am ordered by Haotian. Daya. I am now promoted to the sixth rank of the living room, and I will take up the post on the tenth day of the lunar new year. I am here. In October of the 27th year of Kaiping."

Everyone in the room was shocked, Tang Shen lowered his head, his expression remained unchanged, but his hand that was holding up the edict trembled slightly, showing that he was not at peace.

At the same time, another imperial edict also entered the Imperial Academy, but it entered the hall next door.Yao Ji, who received the order, raised his hands high and couldn't hide his joy. He was promoted to a fifth-rank living man.

Qijulang and Qijusheren are called "historians around the emperor", responsible for recording all the affairs of the emperor, and wrote the book "Ziju Zhu".The dialogue between the emperor and his courtiers, the memorials of the courtiers, and the holy words spoken by the emperor occasionally, all are recorded by the living man and the living room.

There are three living men and twelve living servants in this dynasty. Most of the time, the emperor must be guarded by two living servants/living servants.

At least one living lord changes every year, and the number one scholar in each palace examination will inevitably become a living lord, it's just a question of when to start.When the number one scholar was promoted to the living man, the moment he left the emperor and stepped down as the living man was the beginning of his being reused by the emperor.However, the living room has a lot of freedom and can be changed from time to time, and there is no restriction on who must be in charge.

Everyone knew that Yao Ji would be promoted to the living man, but no one thought that Tang Shen would be promoted with him!

The officials of the Imperial Academy came to express their congratulations one after another, Wang Xiao's expression was lost, and he couldn't speak for a long time.But he still bowed his hands to Tang Shen: "Jing Ze, congratulations."

Tang Shen took a deep look at him and said, "Thank you brother Dai Yue."

Wang Xiao felt bitter in his heart, opened his mouth, but couldn't speak again.

Tang Shen has a lot of contacts in the Imperial Academy, firstly because he is young, most of the Imperial Academy are elderly old Hanlin, seeing him is like seeing his own grandson, and I like him very much.The second is because he has a backer behind him!

Tang Shen is Fu Wei's student, and everyone knows this.Although Fu Wei never came to the Imperial Academy, he was nominally the top leader of the Imperial Academy.In addition, Tang Shen and Wang Qin have a good relationship.The Household Department was responsible for the site selection and renovation of the mansions of the No. [-] Scholar, No. [-], and Tanhua. The mansions of No. [-] and No. [-] were all chosen in the west of the city, but Tanhua's Mansion was in the east of the city, which was close to Shangshu's Mansion.

People always say that Wang Xiao and Wang Zifeng are distant relatives.But those are indeed only distant relatives, Wang Xiao and Wang Zifeng are inseparable.After Wang Xiao came to Shengjing, he visited Wang Qin several times. Wang Qin was more than kind, but only kind.

Wang Qin and Tang Shencai are fellow apprentices.

No matter how upset Wang Xiao felt, he would scold at most: "This damn relationship!"

However, he didn't know that this time Tang Shen's promotion to Living Sheren had nothing to do with Wang Qin.It was Kaiping Emperor Zhao Fu who promoted Tang Shen.

Of the three articles Yang Qi sent, one was naturally Tang Shen's.Because Tang Shen wrote at the beginning: "The flying dragon is in the sky, and it is in the virtue of heaven. Seeing the dragon in the field, the world is civilized." These two sentences come from "Book of Changes Qian Gua", Master Yang was very happy when he saw it, and thought of Tang Those five articles that Shen wrote in the township examination.

"Well, I didn't give you a solution at the beginning, but now I can make up for it, and I have solved one of the old man's worries!"

At the beginning to please Master Yang, Tang Shen frantically quoted scriptures in the middle and latter part of the article.He excerpted the Taoist classics "Tao Te Ching", "Zhuangzi" and "Huainanzi", and bragged about Zhao Fu's great achievements in the past 27 years since he succeeded to the throne.Then he praised Zhao Fu as a wise emperor like a fairy, with gorgeous rhetoric, and wished to blow him a sentence "Your Majesty, you are a fairy" in front of Zhao Fu.

This article was written in front of Wang Qin when Tang Shen had a long talk with Wang Qin that night.Tang Shen also felt that he probably had a convulsion, so he wrote such a peerless flattering article.It may be that he was sleepy that night, so he wrote such an article in a daze.If he was asked to write it again, he probably wouldn't be able to write it: he doesn't have such a thick skin!

All in all, Tang Shen had a happy event, was promoted to a living room, and became the emperor's confidant ever since.He was not stingy, and invited his colleagues and a few Jinshi who were more familiar with the rankings to have dinner at Qianlilou, and had a good celebration.

Going home in the evening, Yao San learned of the happy event and said happily, "Double happiness is coming to my little boss!"

Tang Shen asked in surprise, "Double Happiness? Is there any other happy event?"

Yao Sandao: "This should have been done a long time ago. Half a year ago, the young master's high school was visiting, and Miss A Huang was going to come from Gusu Mansion to reunite with the young master's family. It's a pity that my mother suddenly caught a cold, and she couldn't afford it. Embark on the ship. Ms. Ahuang refuses to leave my mother alone and come to Shengjing, she wants to stay in Gusu Mansion to take care of her. This care lasts for half a year. My mother's health improved last month, and they boarded the ship two days ago , I think I will be able to arrive in Shengjing within half a month!"

In Tang Shen's mind, a little girl dressed in sackcloth and shouting angrily, "Tang Shen, don't waste your money!" warmed his heart, and said, "Okay, then we'll wait for them to come!"

On the sixth day of October, Fu Wei caught wind and cold, and Tang Shen went to visit Fu Wei in Fu's mansion after leaving the government office.An hour later, Wang Qin also came.

The two talked with their husband for a while, Fu Wei fell asleep, and the two brothers and sisters left again.

Leaving Fu's residence, Tang Shen suddenly said: "Brother, do you have good wine and food at home today?"

Wang Qin looked at Tang Shen in amazement, and after a while, he smiled and said, "When will the younger brother come, no good wine and food?"

Tang Shen nodded: "Then I'll go home and change this official robe first, and then I'll go find my senior brother."

Wang Qin stared at Tang Shen, but smiled and said nothing.

As night fell, Tang Shen really changed into blue clothes and came to Shangshu's mansion.

The huge Shangshu Mansion was deserted and deserted. Wang Qin set up a table of dishes in the courtyard, with the pond water under his feet.Under the moonlight, more than a dozen koi are playing in the water.Because Wang Qin seldom spoke during meals, Tang Shen didn't open his mouth either.After eating, the butler removed a table of dishes and served another pot of tea.

Look up at the moon, bow your head and drink tea.

Tang Shen took out something from his sleeve, and gently placed it on the stone table, making a crisp click.

Wang Qin lowered his head to see this thing, was slightly startled, raised his head and said, "Little brother?"

Tang Shendao: "There are bandit gentlemen who are as sharp as cutting and grinding. Brother Gao Jie, the younger brother has always known. I entrusted someone to find this piece of jade from the Gusu Mansion. It took two months to find a piece of translucent white jade. , I want to come to the white brocade robe that senior brother wears best. I know that senior brother was born in the Langya Wang family, and I have seen countless beautiful jades, but I don’t like this piece of jade. This is just my brother’s heart, congratulations on senior brother’s 26th birthday .”

Under the transparent moonlight, something as bright as a star shone in Wang Qin's clear water eyes.

After a long time, Wang Qin picked up the jade and said, "How do you know that today is my birthday?"

Tang Shen was stunned for a moment, then said: "Mr. Fu said it when he was last year. He said that he was busy these days and forgot that the day before yesterday was my brother's birthday. The day you spoke was the eighth day of October. Isn't my brother's birthday the sixth day of October? "

Wang Qin caressed Meiyu: "Yes. It's just that the seventh day of October is the Holy One's birthday, and all the officials in the court are busy with this matter. Even I often forget that the sixth day is my birthday."

Tang Shen didn't know there was such a thing, he didn't even think about it: "Then I'll just remember it for senior brother."

Wang Qin suddenly raised his head and looked at Tang Shen.

Tang Shen: "...Brother?" How did he provoke Wang Zifeng?Could it be that the flattering was not good enough this time?

Wang Qin looked at him for a while, then smiled quietly.He reached down and found a sachet tied under the jade.Fragrant Nan is made of dark blue Jinxiu, Wang Qin smelled it, and found the fragrance inside to be elegant and somewhat familiar. "Is it the smell of peonies?"

Tang Shen explained: "It's 蕳草 and peony. In "The Book of Songs·Guofeng·溱洧", it is said that "Qin and 洧, Fang Huanxi. Scholars and women, Fang Bingxi. Women say that they are watching, and scholars say that. Let's go." Look at it, besides Wei, enjoy it and have fun. Weishi and women, Yi Qi flirted with each other, and gave them a spoonful of medicine.' I thought the name of the senior brother was taken from "Qin Wei", isn't it?"

Wang Qin looked at Tang Shen and said with a smile, "Yes."

The author has something to say: Xiao Tanglang: Traveling to ancient times, the first thing I learned was flattering!Brother, am I not good enough?

Old Wang next door: Great [smiles]