The orioles are singing outside the window.
Xue Bai opened his eyes and found that he was asleep in the reception hall of Yu Zhenguan.
There was a "squeak" sound and the door was pushed open.
Li Tengkong also held a whisk in his hand. He stood outside the door and seemed to want to come in, but stopped and looked at Xue Bai across the threshold.
"Miss Yan San." Xue Bai stood up and held the ceremony and asked, "How are you, Miss Yan San?"
"Cardiac convulsions are what I'm good at. After acupuncture and qi-regulating soup, it should be fine for the time being. But she has a disease in her heart and her body and bones are weak. I'm afraid it will relapse in the future."
"Can it be adjusted?"
"Mrs. Yan also asked the same question. I have already prescribed the medicine, but I see that Mrs. Yan has been waiting all night. Can you go and buy some medicinal materials?" Li Tengkong said this and asked: "Are you Mr. Yan?" s student?"
"Yes, I'll buy it."
Li Tengkong looked around and saw that Xue Bai had walked in front of her with a magnanimous expression. She hurriedly took out a prescription from her sleeve and handed it over, saying: "Many of the medicinal materials are rare and valuable, and you may not be able to find them."
"It doesn't matter, just visit a few more pharmacies."
"Um."
As the fly whisk swayed slightly, Li Tengkong turned around and walked back along the corridor. His temperament was calm and quite fairy-like.
After taking two steps, she looked back and saw Xue Bai descending the steps towards the main entrance. She couldn't help but think to herself, he was really easy to be sent...
Just as he was lost in thought, he turned around.
Li Tengkong was slightly panicked, and quickly avoided, calming his mind, and walked away.
After observing Yan Yan's situation again, she went to take a rest. When she woke up, it was already afternoon and Xue Bai hadn't come back yet.
Although she knew that it was difficult to gather the medicinal materials, she probably had to spend some money somewhere.
When I arrived at the alchemy room, I first picked out the medicinal materials available in the temple. After a while, Xue Bai finally came.
"Miss Zong, please take a look. Are these the ones?"
"Buy so much?"
"Since it requires long-term conditioning, you might as well buy more."
"That's fine."
Li Tengkong and Yun Danfeng nodded lightly, turned around and took out a medicine scale and started to prepare medicine.
She just picked up a few pieces of salvia, and when she saw Xue Bai stepping forward to help, she panicked and dropped two pieces outside the scale, but the weight of the salvia was just right.
"Here are some medicinal ingredients." She said calmly, "Don't make any trouble."
"good."
The alchemy room was filled with a faint medicinal smell.
The smell of medicine is different from the aroma of spices. It is a bit bitter, but it actually smells pleasant. The freshness of grass and trees is refreshing.
Li Tengkong liked this taste very much.
She accidentally glanced at Xue Bai and found that he didn't hate the smell either.
The wind and sunshine outside the window were beautiful, and the two of them didn't say anything, just busy preparing medicine, but they could feel the peace and tranquility of the years.
"That's right." Li Tengkong suddenly spoke, "I want to tell you... I practice Taoism not because..."
She didn't want him to feel guilty because of her becoming a monk, and she didn't think she was because of him.
She decided this a long time ago.
But when the words came to my lips, I suddenly didn’t know how to say them.
"I know." Xue Bai said: "You have your ideals, accumulate virtue and do good, and hang the pot to help the world."
"Um."
Being away from Youxiang Mansion and getting along with him like this, Li Tengkong felt a lot more relaxed.
~~
"Take these medicines first, and you can come back in a few days, or I can visit Sanniang at Yan's house when I am out for medical treatment."
"Thank you, Master Refiner, for saving your life. I and my family will never forget it."
After Wei Yun finished speaking, Yan Yan also saluted and said, "Thank you Master Refiner for helping me."
Li Tengkong smiled softly, forgetting the supreme and careless attitude she had been showing today, and said: "I am not good at medical skills, but the master is a peerless doctor. When he returns to Chang'an, he may be able to cure your disease."
Yan Yan's eyes lit up, showing anticipation.
She was much better now and had returned to her usual charming and innocent appearance, but there was still no blood on her lips.
Wei Yun tried to keep the consultation fee several times, but Li Tengkong refused to accept it no matter what. He said that he had made a rule not to accept consultation fees and let her pay for the medicinal materials at her own expense.
Everyone in the Yan family had no choice but to thank her repeatedly and take Yan Yan home first to talk later.
Before leaving Yuzhen Temple, Xue Bai saw Jiaonu wearing a Taoist uniform.
Jiaonu became thinner and looked very unhappy. When he saw him, he rolled his eyes and walked away...
~~
The carriage drove into Yan's house and stopped.
"Thank you so much this time." Wei Yun looked at Xue Bai and said with emotion: "When your teacher comes home, let him thank you properly."
"Master's wife, you don't need to be polite, it's what students should do."
At this time, Yan Yan opened the car curtain and walked out of the car carefully with the support of her maid. She first raised her eyes and glanced at Xue Bai with some doubts in her eyes, and then bowed politely and said thank you.
"Thank you brother for saving your life."
Although she is playful, she is indeed very sensible.
Xue Bai smiled, stopped nagging, and turned to go home.
The next day, he went to Yanzhai again, asked about the situation, and said that the teacher was not here and he could be dispatched at any time if anything happened.
After finishing all these things, he remembered that Jinke Chunwei was about to release the results.
~~
"What have you been busy with these past two days? You're not going to the Imperial College. Do you know that the results will be released today?"
"I know, I was planning to take a look at the list."
"I think I have to remind you..."
In the early morning, Du Wulang rushed to Changshoufang and went to the imperial city with Xue Bai.
There were so many people on the street on the day when the results were released. Even the young ladies who didn’t go out on weekdays insisted on fanning themselves when they went out to choose their husbands.
Before Xue Bai came to An's door, he was mistaken for the imperial examination son, and a lot of colorful seals were inexplicably stuffed in his hand, inviting him to come and propose marriage.
This is considered implicit. I heard that catching a son-in-law under the ranking is even more exaggerated.
As they approached the Gongyuan of the Ministry of Rites, the front was too crowded for the horses to pass, so they got off their horses.
"I'll go to the Imperial Academy to tie up the horse. You can take it."
Before Du Wulang could react, a large stack of colored paper was stuffed into his hand.
"Hey, you..."
Suddenly, there was a loud noise of bells and drums.
"The results are released!"
Amid the exclamations of the crowd, an official was seen in front holding up a gold list and pasting it on the south wall of the Gongyuan.
Du Wulang looked up, was stunned for a moment, and murmured: "So short?"
The crowd rushed up like a tide, and he was immediately pushed to the side, and he looked directly at a fat little lady on the roadside.
The young lady looked him up and down, her eyes fell on the colored paper in his hand, her eyes widened in surprise, she stepped forward and said, "My husband has been selected, how about marrying the slave family?"
"Wha...what?"
"Grandpa! Here is a young man who won the ranking!"
"I……"
Before Du Wulang could react, a group of people immediately rushed to fight for him, shouting: "Let go, this is my son-in-law!"
In this chaos, the candidates who crowded to the front looked up, but they were all stunned.
"what happened?!"
~~
"what happened?"
"Twenty-three people were admitted to the imperial examinations in the regular subjects, but no one was admitted to the imperial examinations. How could this be so?"
"Did you find out? There is not even a commoner among the successful candidates in this subject..."
Amidst the exclamations, Xue Bai squeezed through the crowd, stood next to Du Fu, and looked up at the list of Jinshi.
Sun Ying, Bao Ji, Shi Zhen, Li Shu, Jiang Zhi... Soon, he had read through twenty-three names.
The number one scholar is Yang Hu.
I didn't see Du Fu, I didn't see Yuan Jie, Liu Changqing, Huangfu Ran, and I didn't see Yan Zhuang, Zhang Tongru, and Ping Lai.
None of the moves that people at the time considered outstanding were on the list.
"Let's go."
Du Fu was still in a daze, and Xue Bai pulled him over.
After squeezing out the crowd, they were separated from Yuan Jie and Du Wulang. Fortunately, the Imperial Academy was not far away, so the two of them went straight back to the Imperial Academy.
"Failed?" Du Fu murmured as if he had lost his soul: "How could it be so? The title of Jinke is 'Wang Liang Fu', and the rhyme is 'Yidaodexiyi'. I can write this Fu as if I have done it." god……"
"Brother Zimei, success or failure is the normal state of life. Just take the exam again next year."
"But I don't understand."
The two were still talking when a shout suddenly came from the Imperial Academy.
"Retest!"
"Retest!"
"Retest!"
At first, it was just one or two shouts, but the sounds quickly began to gather, and gradually formed a roar of thunder.
When Xue Bai and Du Fu stood up, they already felt like they were in the waves.
They walked out of the dormitory and saw the disciples rushing out shouting.
On the street, those who originally wanted to leave began to gather again.
Someone stood on the wall of the Imperial College and shouted loudly.
"The saint has not come to the palace examination, Ge Nu controls the examination room, and the king is on guard! The treacherous ministers are blocking the hearing and hearing. In this spring of the imperial examination, no one in the world is worthy of the rank! Are we willing to stand up for the battle?! All gentlemen, follow me. Please ask the saint to re-examine!"
"Retest! Retest!"
Xue Bai reached out to pull Du Fu, but Du Fu held him back and followed the crowd towards the imperial city.
"..."
Suddenly there was another commotion ahead.
"Genu is afraid that the people in the grassland will denounce him as evil and control the examination room! He even makes Jinwu quiet in the street and wants to kill us! We should go to Yongle Square to ask the left prime minister to come forward!"
Of course, this left prime minister does not refer to the current Chen Xilie who only nods and bows to Li Linfu, but to Li Shizhi.
Xue Bai suddenly realized that since Li Shizhi was in Chang'an now, he was afraid that this turmoil would be further fueled.
He couldn't stop this at all, and together with Du Fu, he followed the crowd towards Yongle Square.
The streets were full of people shouting "re-examination", and people were furious. No one could appease these people.
"The second mountain is there!"
They finally found Yuan Jie, standing outside Li Shizhi's house.
The scarlet door has been opened.
Li Shizhi's face was as dark as water, standing on the steps with his hands behind his back, holding a long scroll in his own hand.
Yuan Jie looked excited, holding a pen in one hand and a scroll in the other, writing furiously. There was a young man standing next to him, reading loudly along with his handwriting.
"Tianbao Dinghaichun, Yuanzi waited for Zhiquexia with literary words, wrote three chapters of "Huang Mo" and ten chapters of "Er Feng Shi", and asked for the wishes of the Sikao family to benefit the Heavenly Supervisor... This is also the despicable scholar of ancient times. Don’t forget to divide the ears of all ministers, and their meanings are clearly defined!”
The crowd gradually became quiet, listening to Yuan Jie's poem that sounded like a proclamation.
This was their crusade against Li Linfu.
Since all the officials in the court dare not say anything, then it is up to them, common men and women, to do it.
finally.
"The virtuous and sage must be thrifty and disciplined, and observe the transformation of people, so as to protect blessings. How can you not think about it and act recklessly? There are barriers between the top and the bottom, people and gods complain about you; you are insatiable in evil, and you are not afraid of falling!" "
"When the sages are superior, they must use the virtuous and upright, and depose the treacherous and sycophantic ministers, so it lasts for a long time. Why do you think it's chaos? Favor the evil and believe in temptations, be close to the sycophants and love to flatter; abolish the direct descendants and establish common people, and tolerance is a disaster!"
Yuan Jie did not disappoint them, scolding the current saint in the first poem.
Moreover, he did not mince words in his choice of words, accusing the saint of being dissolute and wanton and listening to treacherous sycophants. The four words "loving evil and believing in confusion" point directly at Li Linfu.
He even directly uncovered the case of three common people.
"Destroying the direct descendants and establishing concubines is a disaster?!"
Xue Bai was a little surprised when these eight words came into his ears.
He first thought that Yuan Jie was too impulsive, and then thought that Yuan Jie had not tolerated it before, but Li Linfu had indeed gone too far this time. If he could tolerate this, these men of the Tang Dynasty would no longer be men of the Tang Dynasty.
After enduring countless humiliations and being fed up with the persecution, Xue Bai was shocked to hear for the first time that someone dared to scold the saint in broad daylight for doing something wrong.
And this is only the first of Yuan Jie's scoldings. Today he will use thirteen scoldings to wake up today's saints.
Xue Bai even had an urge in his heart to step forward and stand side by side with Yuan Jie, to overthrow Li Linfu and rehabilitate the three common people cases. His future future would also be very different.
However, after thinking carefully for a long time, he turned around and left.
…
There were still angry moves coming in front, and further away, Jinwu Guards and Youxiao Guards came holding halberds, their armors clanking.
Xue Bai walked against the pedestrians. After breaking away from the crowd, he stopped and looked back, with a little regret in his eyes.
It’s a pity that I didn’t listen to all Yuan Jie’s appeals and didn’t stand with these courageous people.
But he has his own way of doing it.
~~
Yu Zhen Guan.
"Seventeenth Mother." Jiao Nu hurried into the alchemy room and said anxiously: "Something happened, and all the princes in Chang'an are scolding Alang."
"Call me 'Vacator'."
Li Tengkong was flipping through the medical book "Supplementary Commentary on the Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon" left by her master Qi Xuanzi. She remembered that her master had some comments on internal organ diseases, and she was thinking about it at this time.
"What day will come when grandpa won't be scolded?"
Jiaonu said: "But this time I'm afraid it will be different. I heard that Alang controlled the examination room and angered all the candidates..."
Li Tengkong put down his medical book and listened to Jiao Nu's story. He suddenly thought of Xue Bai's words, "I have recently made friends with Du Fu, a great poet in the world of poetry." He felt a little bitter in his heart.
In fact, she had already expected it. When she was very young, she knew that if she could fall in love with someone, sooner or later he would come to oppose her grandpa.
The words came true...
~~
Pingkangfang, Youxiang Mansion.
Li Linfu sat behind the screen.
On the other side of the screen, the person speaking was a chamberlain.
"Don't worry, Prime Minister. The saint has not been in Xingqing Palace recently. He has gone to Lee Garden in the Forbidden City to enjoy flowers and compose music... But, the matter has become so big, I am afraid that the right minister will give the saint an explanation?"
Li Linfu was sitting there wearing a purple robe, with a calm expression on his face, and said slowly: "Tianbao's five-year-old prime minister said that Li Shizhi colluded with Li Ying's remaining party, and now he is inciting the rebellion."
"The saint must have believed this, and Li Shizhi is looking for his own death. The problem is that the whole court thinks that it is unjustifiable that no one can pass the rank of commoner in this department. What does the right minister think?"
"ha."
Li Linfu actually smiled and looked at the letters of poetry on the desk.
All the local villagers were accusing him of his evil deeds.
These people have not yet learned how to be loyal to their country, but they have already learned to criticize current affairs.
Dealing with Li Shizhi is very simple, but the imperial examination is indeed a major event, and the saint must be given an explanation.
"Do you remember that on the night of the Yuan Dynasty, the saint and the officials drank a glass of wine together at the royal banquet?"
"What does the right minister mean?"
"Have you forgotten? The saint praised all the officials at that time. God blessed the Tang Dynasty to prosper, and all the sages gathered together, and there were many civil and military officials..."
Having said this, Li Linfu picked up his pen and wrote four words on the memorial -
"There are no wise men in the wild."
(End of chapter)
