The sun is waning, and the spicy girl who is like a spring at sunset sees her favorite lover at the corner, and suddenly puts away the dazzling light, hides herself outside the palace wall, and only reveals half of her blushing face, which is rare and gentle.

Located in the Wanshou Palace in the West Garden, the roof is a piece of glazed tiles, under the illumination of the sunset, the floating light leaps into gold, looking from afar, as if inlaid in the golden ocean.

Although it is sunset at dusk at this time, the light is still bright, but the outer hall of Wanshou Palace has been lit with several exquisite octagonal auspicious Ruyi palace lamps, the shape is similar to the Changxin Palace lamp, and it is also the shape of the palace maid kneeling to hold the lamp, but the palace maid carved lifelike, the fuel used in the palace lamp is a kind of royal animal fat mixed kerosene fuel invented by Shen Kuo in the Northern Song Dynasty, smokeless and dust-free; There are also six night pearls suspended around each octagonal palace lamp, which evenly refracts the light, and illuminates the entire outer hall of the Wanshou Palace.

Yan Song, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Jie, Li Chunfang and others, were in the brightly lit outer hall of the Wanshou Palace, and their mood gradually became clearer.

They are all more optimistic about the second Qingzi of Jin's dedication, especially the first assistant Yan Song, whose face has been serious and heavy for a day has also stretched folds, like an Antarctic immortal, with a faint smile in his kindness.

Yan Song is very satisfied with his son Yan Shifan's green words catching knives, this green words in Yan Song's opinion, both the idea and the literary style are excellent, and it is the best work among the green words that Yan Song has seen this day.

Xu Jie, Li Chunfang and others are also relatively optimistic.

"Hua Ting, I think your second article has an excellent outline, and it is more than one-third better than the first one." Yan Song looked at Xu Jie with a smile and said, "This time you should be able to get the Sacred Heart." ”

"Ge Lao praised it falsely, if you say that you are intended, Ge Lao's article is ingenious, far better than ten times." Xu Jie shook his head with a smile, and in turn praised Yan Song's article.

After Xu Jie said, Li Chunfang and others also admired Yan Song's article.

Yan Song smiled modestly and shook his head.

Yan Song was very confident in this batch of articles, and most of the worries about Emperor Jiajing were gone, and he could also be distracted from other things.

"Hua Ting, I heard Wen Hua mention it some time ago, saying that you deliberately recommended Nie Bao to be recalled to the imperial court?" After talking about the article, Yan Song stroked his beard, squinted slightly at Xu Jie and asked, his tone was casual, and he did not mean to ask the teacher.

"I'm just looking for an opportunity to talk to the elder about this." Xu Jie replied with a slight smile, and got up and held the teapot to fill Yan Song with tea.

Yan Song held the teacup in one hand, watched Xu Jie pour tea, nodded slightly, and his face was as kind as ever.

"Hehe, I'm not afraid of the old man's jokes, if it's strictly speaking, I should still call the old lady of the pavilion." After Xu Jie poured tea for Yan Song, he sat down in front of Yan Song and said with a smile in a mocking tone.

"Oh?" Yan Song pretended to be puzzled.

"Ge Lao may not know, although Nie Bao Nie and I do not have the name of master and apprentice, but there is the reality of master and apprentice, when I was still young, I entered Huating County to study, and Huating County is Nie Shi, Nie Shi has taught me and other students in the county many times, I often ask Nie Shi to learn; I have also heard Master Nie mention Ge Lao many times, Nie Shi said that when he took the 12th year of Zhengde, the chief examiner was Ge Lao, Ge Lao was Nie Shi's teacher, and Nie Shi was my teacher, so strictly, shouldn't you call Ge Lao a master, hehe......" Xu Jie smiled and briefly explained his relationship with Nie Bao and Yan Song, and after speaking, he smiled and gave a student salute to Yan Song.

"Huating, ......" Yan Song smiled and shook his head, Xu Jie's low posture made the mustard in Yan Song's heart decrease by a few points.

"How did Nie Bao mention me to you?" Yan Song asked.

Although Nie Bao is a student of Yan Song, in fact, Yan Song does not like Nie Bao very much, mainly because Nie Bao is an upright person, and he did not like some officials and phenomena in the court, and he impeached others at every turn, offending many people, on the one hand, Yan Song was involved, and on the other hand, Yan Song also had some subordinate officials who were impeached by Nie Bao.

At the beginning, Yan Song admired this township party student very much, and he had a lot of support, but gradually he hated iron and steel, and then gradually he didn't like it.

"Master Nie said that he and Ge Lao are from the township, and they are old students of Ge Lao, and they are quite favored by Ge Lao after he entered the department." Xu Jie replied.

"Confused, how can the old man be a nepotism, it's just that he still has a little talent to learn a little bit or two." Yan Song narrowed his eyes slightly and pretended to scold.

"Of course, it's not that I don't know how old Ge is a person, and I recommend Master Nie, not because of such a relationship. Mainly because of the merits of Nie Shi, during Nie Shi's foreign tenure, he has made a lot of achievements, and his political achievements are outstanding, and many officials in the imperial court have recommended Nie Shi, and he has recommended Nie Shi three times in the middle of the matter, and another eight governors and patrol officials who have been to Nie Shi's foreign places have recommended Nie Shi in the form of a chapter, which is also what Meicun (Yan Song's son Zhao Wenhua) told me. In addition, in the 21st year, the enemy chieftain in the north led tens of thousands of captives to attack Shanxi, and where he passed, our border army either fled or avoided the battle, and the enemy chieftain led the army as if entering a no-man's land, and even Datong, which was guarded by Lord Weng Wanda Weng, also avoided without fighting, and only Pingyang Prefecture, where Nie's division was stationed, resisted the invasion of the enemy chieftain in the whole Shanxi. The saint customized, 'All internal and external officials do not care about the size, all six years are full, and those who are outstanding in merit and ability are overpromoted', the period of Nie Shi's assessment has arrived, so I have such a consideration and am looking for an opportunity to consult the elder of the pavilion to make a decision. Xu Jiezheng replied.

Yan Song didn't speak, but picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.

"In fact, strictly speaking, it is not to recall Nie Shi to return to the dynasty, but to consider recommending Nie Shi to patrol Shuntian." Xu Jie added.

"It's okay to follow the routine, but Nie Bao is my student, so I can't let people think that I'm Yan a cronyist, I still need to think about it carefully, and you can come to my house another day to discuss this matter." Yan Song nodded slightly, and gave a sigh to Xu Jie's expression of recommending Nie Bao.

"If you dare to disobey your fate, I'm afraid that you will have to take advantage of the old man's meal again." Xu Jie smiled and bowed his hand, and the light in his eyes flashed.

The matter was successfully resolved, Yan Song and Xu Jie laughed and talked about other things in a low voice, and occasionally whispered a few words with Li Chunfang and others.

Of course, when laughing and talking, everyone also paid attention to the movements of the inner sanctum from time to time, as if they were confident and excellent students who had handed in the papers, waiting for the teacher to review the test papers and read out the results.

Yan Maoqing is the most attentive to the movements of the inner hall among the people, but he is not confident in his own article, but in the article of Zhu Ping'an, who has been dedicated to Zhu Ping'an, who has knelt down for three thousand years, hehe, this kind of "no one before the ancients and no one after him", "a masterpiece that makes people's eyes shine", Yan Maoqing could not be more confident.