The annoying spring rain is pouring down on the world. The rain, like mist in the air, floats in the air, just like a dream.

Kaifeng Mansion is now also in a prosperous dream. This dream is the title of the gold list, the capture of the son-in-law under the list, the banquet of Qionglin, the parade of praise officials, and the supreme glory pursued by countless scholars in the Great Song Dynasty who spent their lives.

Since February 29, the list has been released outside the gate of Guozi Prison, and the entire Kaifeng Mansion has been like a dream, with all kinds of good stories, all kinds of legends, and all kinds of inspirational stories, all of which revolve around the 561 good men.

Wu Haogu sat with his back against the window, with an easel in front of him, and a freshly painted gongbi color photo was glued to the easel's drawing board.

This time, it is not a woman, but a young man with handsome eyebrows, with a smart expression and a chic and elegant expression. The name of the person on the painting is Li Cao, and the character is the second in the provincial examination of this subject. It's also a big hit for champions!

Wu Haogu had already heard the rumors of "exemption from the palace test". The Empress Dowager Xiang, who listened to the government, thought that Zhao Ji was not pro-government, and he was in mourning, so he was not suitable for presiding over the palace examination, so it was better to be exempted from the palace examination and set the ranking of the Jinshi according to the ranking of the Ministry of Rites. It seems that his younger brother Wu Haowen has no chance to win a champion, but the results of the second and first place are enough, after all, he is an official in the middle of the court!

And this year's Provincial Yuan Jiyi is unlikely to be the champion because it is an official to take the exam, so the second Li Pu should be promoted to one place and get a big leader in the world.

Therefore, since February 30, Wu Haogu has devoted himself to the literary event of painting portraits of the old men.

Of course, 561 Jinshi can't all let Wu Haogu paint and color, a good painting portrait can't be finished in a few days, if you want him to paint, at least a few years!

Therefore, Wu Haogu was only responsible for drawing the pencil sketches of the first and second Jinshi, as well as the white drawings and gongbi color portraits of the first ten Jinshi.

The pencil sketches of the third, fourth and fifth Jinshi will be painted by Mi Youren, Du Wenyu and Zhang Zeduan. In addition, except for the top ten jinshi, the remaining 551 jinshi could only leave white sketches with pencil sketches as models—also made by the three major disciples of Wu Haogu.

According to Wu Haogu's plan, 561 portraits of Jinshi white and 10 portraits of Jinshi Gongbi and color will be hung in the "Editor-in-Chief Building" of the monthly magazine "Wenqu Xing" in the future as the treasure of the town building.

The editor-in-chief building of the monthly magazine "Wenqu Xing", Wu Haogu plans to build it in the future "Qionglin Palace New Town", which is built next to the new site of Guozijian.

At the same time, the "Oiran" album will also have its own editor-in-chief building, which will be built in the city of Kaifeng. Wu Haogu wanted to take a part of the land of the old Dutingyi when the "Dutingyi" was demolished and rebuilt, and used it to build the headquarters of the "Oiran" album. Portraits of past Oirans will also be hung inside!

In addition, the main store building shared by Christie's and the Republic Head Office – the original "Christie's Club", a four-storey "skyscraper" – has now officially started construction.

The previous construction of the "three-story tube building" has accumulated valuable experience for the construction of 10,000 real estate under the head office of the Republic Bank, and has also trained a construction team. Now this team is being supervised by Huang Zhisheng's younger brother, Huang Shusheng, Huang Jiawulang, to build the main store building of the Republic Bank next to the West Painting Immortal Temple in Kaifeng Fucheng. Construction has been going on all winter, and now it is time to "go to the beams", and when Wu Haogu returns from Jiehe Commercial Market, the main store building of the Republic Bank should be renovated and put into use.

The "Senate", "Municipal Office", "Police Patrol Station" and other buildings built by Huang Zhisheng and others in Jiehe Commercial City are all a mixture of the tube building and the main store building, with a height of three floors, a brick and wood structure, and the internal layout is similar to the main store building, and the decoration is also very simple and simple. Therefore, the construction time will not be too long, and it should be completed in a few months.

At that time, Wu Haogu will personally go to Jiehe Shang City to sit in the town and supervise the progress of the Shang City project.

And this bourgeois criminal capital, which was instigated by Wu Haogu's butterfly wings, is not Wu Haogu's dream for the future?

If the dream comes true, the changes in Jingkang more than 20 years later will become an opportunity for Chinese civilization to leap forward again!

However, when he thought of the suffering that hundreds of millions of people in the world would suffer because of this leap, Wu Haogu could only sigh faintly.

"Dalang, what's wrong? Isn't the drawing good enough? ”

It was Pan Qiaolian who spoke, she was sitting next to Wu Haogu with a big belly, looking at the lifelike portraits on the drawing board, smiling and asking.

"Okay, how can it be bad?" Wu Haogu picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, "Even if it's not good enough, it doesn't matter, this painting will still attract the attention of tens of millions of people and become a masterpiece of celebrity Qing history." ”

"Why do you say that?" Pan Qiaolian asked.

"Because my painting is the dream of thousands of scholars all over the world."

"The title of the gold list, the top student in high school?"

"yes." Wu Haogu nodded.

"But ......," Pan Qiaolian suddenly frowned, looked at the person on the painting and said, "But the slave always feels that there is an indelible sorrow in this person's gaze." ”

……

After winning the champion, how can there be sorrow?

Fan Zhijin felt strange, he was obviously the title of the gold list, and he won the palace test, but how could there still be an indelible sorrow in his heart?

Is it because of the blood feud in the family? I made the champion, how many days can the adulterer Yin woman be free? And Han Xianggong has already said that as soon as the national mourning is over, he will marry his daughter to himself, and then he will be the son-in-law of the Han family in Xiangzhou!

With such a splendid future, what reason is there to be worried?

And also...... What are you drinking? Why is it so bitter? Still...... Uh-huh, uh-huh!

Fan Zhijin suddenly coughed loudly, and then everything in front of him, the champion of high school, the bright future, and the daughter-in-law of the Han family, suddenly disappeared.

Fan Zhijin, who had been in a coma for three days, was woken up by a bowl of bitter medicine!

"Wake up, wake up......"

"It's okay, it's okay, this big measure won't die in our Daxiangguo Temple after all."

"Roast Pig Courtyard, who do you say is Cuoda? Didn't he just not get into the sergeant? ”

"Wang Dalang, don't be angry, is it the poor monk who is wrong?"

Fan Zhijin was in a daze and heard another conversation in his ears, one of them seemed to be Wang Huang, and the other didn't know who it was?

"He's ...... It can't be a stroke, right? ”

"I don't know, why don't you give it a try."

"How do you try?"

Lang Zhong said to prick it with a needle...... Needle belt? ”

"Bring, bringing."

"Then prick."

"Where?"

"What did Lang Zhong say? Is it an eyeball? ”

When Fan Zhijin heard this, he screamed, and immediately jumped up from the bed, "Don't pierce, don't pierce...... How can you prick your eyes? I'm blind when I prick it! ”

Wang Hao and a fat monk beside him glanced at each other and laughed.

"Brother Jin, you're finally awake." Wang Hao smiled bitterly and said, "You have been in a coma for four days, and Huang Maohe and I are worried." ”

"I ......" Fan Zhijin looked around, it was still the room he rented in Daxiangguo Temple, it was messy, and it still emitted an unpleasant smell, obviously not where the champion should live.

"I didn't hit?"

Wang Hao laughed, "Of course I didn't hit it...... If you are going to be hit, why will you faint? ”

"Alas, it's over." Fan Zhijin sat on the bed board with his buttocks, and tears fell.

"What's the end of it?" Wang Hao glared, "Isn't it just that you didn't get into the jinshi?" I'll take the next subject again! ”

"Exam?" Fan Zhijin sighed, "I'll starve to death before the next subject!" ”

"Starving?" Wang Huang was stunned.

The monk of the Roast Pig Courtyard of Daxiangguo Temple suddenly frowned when he heard his words, "Fan Langjun, you don't have no money, right?" ”

Fan Zhijin knew that the monk was worried about the house money, so he had to bow his hand apologetically, "It's down, it's really shy in the bottom...... The price of this house will be ...... first."

"Forget it, forget it." The great monk waved his hand, "Every time Dabi has a few people who don't have money to settle the bill, they are all used to it...... Since you don't have any money, you don't have to stay in Kaifeng Mansion, so hurry up and go to Guozijian to ask for a few post coupons so that you can go home quickly. ”

The poor scholars are poor, if the court does not give post tickets, I am afraid that some people will really starve to death on the way home to catch the exam......

"There's no home," Fan Zhijin sighed, "I can't go back." ”

Wang Hao was stunned, "Washed away by the flood?" ”

He knew about the flooding of the Daimyo's mansion last year.

Fan Zhijin also nodded. It's hard for him to say that he went to Liangshan, otherwise he wouldn't have sent him to Kaifeng Mansion to ask for guilt?

"There's no one at home?"

"There is also an old mother, two children, just ......"

It's just that I can't get up and down in Liangshan.

"This, I want to think about it...... "Wang Huang, who is one of the six thieves in history, is actually quite a friend, and he is really thinking of a way for Fan Zhijin."

"Can you put your face down?" Wang Hao thought for a while and asked.

"Face?" Fan Zhijin smiled bitterly, "Brother General, don't you want me to beg for food, right?" ”

"Begging?" Wang Hao was amused by him, "Where can I be, Brother Jin won't have any other skills except begging?" ”

Fan Zhijin actually thought about it seriously, and then shook his head.

What else could he do but beg for food?

Oh, and Shangliangshan is a thief...... In fact, it's not a thief, but an endorsement of a thief!

"You are a scholar, Xie Yuan of the Daimyo Mansion!" Wang Hao said loudly, "If you can read, you can read money!" ”

Is it? Fan Zhijin thought to himself: How come I don't know?

"Do you know Pang Kuan?" Wang Hao asked.

Fan Zhijin shook his head.

"Even if you enter the Nei Province, you know Pang Kuan," Wang Hao said, "He is your famous fellow countryman!" ”

A eunuch? Fan Zhijin pondered, did Wang Hao want to cut off his life and enter the palace? This is the ...... You can consider it.

Wang Hao continued: "Now that the Queen Mother is in the court, he is the Queen Mother's henchman, and he is so red that he turns purple!" I just set up a big house on the side of the Jinshui River, and I have brought a few nephews from the countryside of the Daimyo's Mansion to be my grandsons, and I am looking for a teacher for them these days. You are a big celebrity, and you are Xie Yuan, if you are willing to go to the eunuch's house to be a teacher, are you still afraid of starving to death? ”