The weather is fine, and Qingqian City is bathed in the warm winter sunshine. Today is the day when Guiliu and Taozhi say their goodbyes. At the city gate, the charming woman in a pink dress is crying, looking like she wants to cry but doesn't want to cry. In fact, she did not get the Queen's permission to leave the palace this time, but ran out secretly on her own, so she couldn't stay out for too long, but she didn't want to leave, she wanted to stay with Guiliu all the time.
Passion has been sad since ancient times, and Gei Liu also has a little sadness. Suddenly, he misses the old days. At that time, he had nothing to do all day long, and often got drunk in restaurants in the capital, and was picked up by Taozhi every time. Although the days are leisurely, they are not boring. Unlike now, the master and servant don't know when they will meet next time.
"Let's go quickly. My mother will definitely be angry if we delay for too long."
Faced with Gei Liu's urging, Taozhi's mood of not wanting to separate suddenly reached the extreme, and Pear Blossom burst into tears.
Guiliu felt distressed for a while, sighed, rubbed her little head, and then said something shocking, "After returning to the palace, go to the arsenal, find the tip of the green gun, and then send it to me with a falcon."
Soon Geiliu added: "Send it with my father's Fire Falcon that travels thousands of miles a day. When you go back, be obedient and don't sneak out again, especially not on the excuse of sending a spear point. Also Just don't make my mother angry. My mother said before that you are becoming more and more disobedient, so you should stop letting others worry about you."
Taozhi wiped her tears with her sleeves and said aggrievedly: "I am not disobedient. If I am disobedient, it is for His Highness's sake."
"I know." Guiliu said softly, "That's why I never blame you."
Taozhi stood on tiptoe slightly, put her hands on his shoulders, and bit down on his neck gently. Her red lips opened slightly, and a soft voice sounded in his ears, "Your Highness, take care of yourself, please pay attention to safety, slave and wait." You come back."
"You too, please be safe on the road. Even if you are a martial arts master, I will still be worried. When will I receive the Flowing Fire Falcon, I will be able to rest assured."
Taozhi smiled and took a step back, "Then, slave has left?"
"Let's go, let's go home early." Guiliu waved goodbye.
Taozhi's red lips were biting tightly, looking at him reluctantly, and finally summoned the courage to turn around, take a step forward, and then looked back, feeling sad and ready to cry.
The lingering glances were the most touching. Gui Liu lowered his head and turned around, striding towards the city.
The charming woman in a pink dress stared at the back of the snow-white hair until he disappeared, and then finally turned around and left.
There is a grand restaurant in Qingqian City. All guests are served with silverware. After drinking, there are entertainment activities such as singing, dancing and pot throwing. The scene is very lively. Of course, the price is also very expensive. Ordinary people cannot afford to live in this restaurant. A meal in a restaurant is expensive, so restaurants are mostly occupied by wealthy families or local officials.
A slightly lost man with white hair walked into the restaurant. At first, the waiter was polite and polite, but when the man casually took out two silver ingots, the waiter realized that he had made a mistake and greeted him with a smile. , with a warm and eager attitude.
The man didn't order much, just a plate of boiled beef and two pots of soju. He went up to the fourth floor and chose a quiet seat by the window to sit down. He had a panoramic view of the scenery. Looking far into the distance, he could vaguely see the gurgling sound. The water-colored Yaojiang River.
Another person paid a few taels of silver and then went straight up the stairs. He also did not go to the noisy area and came to a quiet corner.
Seeing the white-haired man who was in a daze, he was stunned for a moment, then walked over cautiously, tentatively trying to get a clear look at his profile.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince?"
Guiliu turned his head suspiciously, saw the appearance of the person clearly, and was a little surprised, "Officer Li?"
Li Zixin nodded and was about to sit down when he tentatively asked, "Can you sit down?"
"Of course I can sit down," Geiliu said, feeling very surprised to meet him here. You have to know how a capital official, who is busy with complicated official duties all day long, has time to travel to such a far away place?
"Official Li, if I remember correctly, the Ministry of Etiquette should be preparing for next year's Spring Examination, right? I see that the Minister and the ministers are very busy, but it's better for you, are you running out to be lazy?"
Li Zixin did not hide anything, and said frankly: "I am a small official, no more than me, no less than me. I am bored to death by being bored all day long. I asked for a few days off from His Majesty and ran out quickly. After taking a breath, there was no place to go, so I just wandered around and ended up in Qingqian City."
Gui Liu had a strange look on his face, "Just ask for leave from my father? That's fine. You're more straightforward than the Imperial Academy Grand Priest. It's no wonder that my father has always had a bad impression of you. By the way, my father was rarely free last time. It was not easy. I wanted to take my mother on a mountain tour, and the carriage was ready, but one of the wheels was removed, was it you who did it?"
Li Zixin was shocked at first, then looked around, and finally lowered his voice, "How do you know, Your Highness?"
Gui Liupi smiled but said, "Besides you, who else could do such an immoral thing? That is to say, my father and my mother did not pursue it, otherwise you would have been bruised and bruised, and I would have beaten you to death. Crippled.”
The wine was served at this time, and by coincidence, Li Zixin also ordered a plate of boiled beef and two pots of ordinary soju. In order to cover up her embarrassment, Li Zixin filled a glass of wine and raised it, "Take one?"
Gui Liu smiled and raised his wine glass, bumping it gently with him, and then the two of them drank the wine in one gulp.
There are very few people in the world who are not afraid of the Plague Prince, and one such person is Li Zixin, an official in the Ministry of Rites. He has no family background, he simply passed the imperial examination and entered the official career. He has an ordinary family background, average political achievements, and is just an ordinary official. And the reason why he was able to get involved with His Highness the Crown Prince was because he and the Crown Prince had a common hobby, which was ordinary Jiannan Shaochun.
The two of them studied ancient books and deduced the changes and evolution of the place over thousands of years. Within five or six years, they successively found the Eight-Nine Tan Jiannan Shaochun. The coffin conclusion of the brewing master that "there is no more Jiannan Shaochun in the world" was broken.
What kind of friend is best? Drinking buddies, of course. Therefore, even though Li Zixin and Guiliu are very different in status, they can still get close to each other. A few years ago, in order to find the jar of Jiannan Shaochun recorded in ancient books, the two slept together for a long time. In the end, their hard work paid off. They dug three feet into the ground and struggled for three months to successfully retrieve the jar of swords. Nanshaochun was found.
Guiliu poured a cup of wine into his throat, coughed and said, "This shochu is really ordinary, incomparable to the taste of Jiannan Shaochun."
Li Zixin nodded, "After drinking Jiannan Shaochun, I always feel that other wines are not the same. Have you become picky?"
Guiliu smiled and said: "Once upon a time, the sea was difficult to deal with, except for Wushan Mountain, it was not clouds. This is the truth."
"That makes sense, let's go one!"
The two clinked glasses again.
The two pots of soju were consumed quickly without realizing it, and I didn't even eat much beef. Both men had a good capacity for drinking, but they couldn't hold back the strong soju, so they both became a little tipsy.
Li Ziyi's face turned red after drinking, and his mood became even higher. He said loudly: "When will His Highness invite me to have a drink at Chunxian Tower?"
Guiliu smiled and scolded: "What are you drinking? You don't even know if you'll drink to death."
"What do you know?" Li Zixin said loudly and arrogantly, "That's called dying under the peonies, but being a ghost is also romantic!"
"Bullshit! How can a person be romantic after death? According to what you said, I should have gone to the Longzhou brothel to have a look. What about the damn assassin? Is this the truth?"
Li Zixin nodded and smiled: "Yes, yes, you have to live well to be romantic."
Guiliu rubbed his cheeks fiercely, exhaled the smell of alcohol, felt much better, and said softly: "Li Zixin, I know you don't aspire to be in the temple. Everyone wants to achieve great results and be the master, and they want to be that one person who is inferior to ten thousand people." Above all, you are the only one who doesn’t want to. I want to know what kind of life do you want? Traveling around the mountains and rivers? Or the comfort of half-day leisure? "
"I really want to walk around and see the beautiful mountains and rivers of our Dajing Dynasty, but now is not the time."
"Isn't it the right time?" Guiliu asked doubtfully, "Since your heart is not in the temple, what do you have to worry about?"
Li Zixin replied: "Eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor do not owe each other anything. I just want to be true to my heart."
When the waiter who happened to be passing by heard this, he quickly stopped and asked carefully: "Is the guest a court official?"
Before Li Zixin could answer, Gui Liu had already spoken up for him and said with a smile: "Official from the Ministry of Rites, the examiner next spring."
Waiter Dian said "Hey, hello" and quickly bowed respectfully to this noble man. Then he looked at Guiliu cautiously and asked: "The guest officer, who are you?"
Just when Li Zixin was about to open his mouth, Gui Liu was the first to smile and said, "It's just a foil, not worth mentioning."
The waiter didn't believe this obvious statement of modesty, and quickly said respectfully: "You two adults, sit down slowly. I, the little one, will step aside first."
He hurried downstairs and reported the matter to the landlady, saying that the person drinking by the window on the fourth floor was the Chunwei Examiner appointed by the emperor and a senior official in the Ministry of Rites. The landlady quickly asked the chef to cut several portions of beef and took out several pots. Collect fine wines and deliver them personally.
Guiliu and Li Zixin, who originally planned to leave the show, looked at the table full of fine wine beef, looked at each other, and couldn't help laughing.
After the landlady left with sweet words, Guiliu took a sip of the fine wine and laughed even harder, almost choking on the wine and coughing to tears.
"My original intention was to tease you. Who knew that Chunwei, the examiner, has such a famous name, and he can still drink for free."
Li Zixin smiled from ear to ear and said, "If the boss lady knows that we are bluffing her, will she be so angry?"
"Why are you so angry!" Guiliu pointed at Li Zixin, narrowed his eyes and smiled: "If you are not the examiner of Chunwei, you can still be the examiner of Qiuwei."
Li Zixin laughed loudly, "Then why don't we come here every day to eat and drink? We can wait until next autumn before we leave!"
Guiliu still squinted his eyes, took a sip of wine, and said with a smile: "Li Zixin, are you the examiner of Chunwei?"
"Yes, you must! From now on, you can come here to drink wine every day!"
"Li Zixin, I'm not kidding you."
Li Zixin was stunned, rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and murmured: "Did I hear you right? Did I drink too much?"
Guiliu sat up straight and said softly: "I know what you want. There is Wu Peixian in this court, which is very bad. Having you, Li Zixin, is the luck of those poor students. After all, I don't participate in the government, and I don't have much power. I only Can you ask my father to give you a chance to be an examiner? But in twenty years, if I am still alive, you treat me to a drink in this restaurant, and I will give you a gold seal and purple ribbon as the Minister of Etiquette."
Li Zixin was silent for a long time, took a deep breath, and said seriously: "I will definitely live up to your will!"
The two of them threw away the silver wine glasses and started drinking heavily.
At dusk, when the waiter went upstairs to clear the table, he found that the two officials were drunk and lying on the table, sleeping soundly.
He approached on tiptoe, intending to quietly take away the messed up cups and plates. The Chunwei examiner slammed the table and shouted loudly: "With tens of millions of mansions, it will shelter all the poor people in the world with joy!"
The waiter in the shop was so frightened that he quickly backed away. When the movement disappeared, he realized that it was the examiner who was talking in his sleep.
He picked up the silver wine vessel and found a piece of rice paper underneath. He picked it up out of curiosity and saw a line of powerfully written characters. Even though the writing was rough and ink, he felt a little miserable and desolate.
"Ugh, if I suddenly see this house in front of my eyes, it will be enough for my house to be broken down and freeze to death."
In the spring of Yongshuang's sixteenth year, butter rain fell on the capital.
The Gongyuan of the Ministry of Rites in the capital set up an incense table in front of the steps. After thousands of people paid homage to the examiner, the Spring Examination officially began.
When the list was unveiled, a total of ninety-six tributes were admitted, half of whom were from poor families. The world was shocked and the whole court was in an uproar.
The examiner, Li Zixin, took stacks of test papers from poor families and scattered them at the court meeting. He said to the civil and military officials, "See for yourself," and then turned and left.
“One lamp spreads to all lamps, and eventually all lamps shine.”
The Buddha said so.
