The second day of the first lunar month of the first month of the air is coming soon, the temperature is still very low, although there is no snow, but the north wind is still cold, blowing on the face, a little stinging.

After Wu Haogu got up early in the morning to worship his father Wu Cheng, he stood alone in the courtyard and looked at the room where Ximen Qing lived hesitantly, and was thinking about whether to knock on the door, when his apprentice Mi Youren hurriedly came in from outside, saw Wu Haogu in the courtyard, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Wu Haogu asked him: "Why do you have time to come over today, don't you have any relatives to leave?" ”

Mi Youren said: "How can those relatives of my family matter as Master Cai?" Didn't the teacher forget to visit Master Cai's mansion today? By the way, teacher, did you receive anything good yesterday? ”

"I received a painting of Fan Wenzhenggong's "Shi Lu Ti", "Wu Hao Gudao," by the way, you have an extra junior sister and junior brother. ”

"Fan Wenzheng's calligraphy is a good thing......" Mi Youren smiled and said, "Who are my junior sister and junior brother?" ”

Wu Haogu said: "Your junior sister is Du Yongde's granddaughter, and "Shi Lu Ti" was also given by him. ”

Du ...... Du Wenyu? Mi Youren looked at the teacher with an exaggerated expression, "Teacher, she is a famous beauty and talented girl!" ”

Wu Haogu glanced at him and said seriously: "What the teacher values is her talent, as for the beauty...... I didn't pay attention to it. ”

Mi Youren smiled and did not speak.

Wu Haogu said again: "Your junior brother's name is Zhang Zeduan, and the words are right. The first-hand boundary painting is no worse than you, and it will definitely have a great future in the future. He paused, "He was recommended by Gou Shishi to Weishi, and he will move to Weishi in a few days, and then he will introduce you to each other." ”

"Oh." Mi Youren nodded and said, "With the junior brother who can accompany the teacher to the north, I will be relieved." ”

"Xiaomi official, it's not only your junior brother who is going north with your master, but also me."

This is Ximen Qing's voice. As soon as the words fell, the door of the house where Ximen Qing lived was pushed open, and I saw Ximen Qing, who was dressed as a scribe, coming out of the house.

Mi Youren was stunned, "Ximen ......"

"Xiao Yi!" Wu Haogu hurriedly interrupted Mi Youren, "It's Ximen Xiaoyi." ”

"Brother Xiaoyi." Mi Youren saluted, then looked at Ximen Qing, and looked at Wu Haogu with admiration.

With Wu Haogu's identity and property, it is not a skill to marry Ximenqing, but it is really a great ability to let a woman like Ximenqing "run promiscuously".

"Yuan Hui, Xiao Yi, you wait for me for a while." Wu Haogu said hello, then turned around and entered the house, took the scroll of "Shi Lu Ti", and handed it to Mi Youren, "Take a look." ”

Wu Haogu's appreciation of calligraphy is not as good as Mi Youren's, so he wants Mi Youren to pass by first.

"It's the real thing." Mi Youren nodded, put away the copybook, and handed it back to Wu Haogu, "Teacher, with this copybook, Master Cai will definitely let you go north with your official body." ”

In fact, Wu Haogu has now made a great contribution (painting "Photo of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang"), and it is also appropriate to give an official. However, this matter was not done through the art academy, and Liang Shicheng could not ask for credit for Wu Haogu, so it had to be proposed by Cai Jing, who was directly responsible for this matter. And Cai Jingti still didn't mention it, it was between the two......

"Okay, then let's go to Master Cai's mansion." Wu Haogu glanced back at Ximen Qing, "Xiao Yi, do you want to go together?" ”

Ximen Qing nodded, "It's okay, but it's inconvenient for me to meet with Master Cai." ”

Cai Jing has read countless people, Ximenqing's gender can't be hidden from his eyes, so as not to be embarrassed, Ximenqing doesn't want to meet him.

"Alright, let's go out," Wu Hao said, "and find some more food on the way to settle breakfast." ”

Cai Jing's current mansion is also in the west chamber of Kaifeng Mansion, not far from Wu Haogu's residence, and it is a rather magnificent mansion.

When Wu Haogu, Mi Youren, and Ximen Qing arrived, there were already more than a dozen horses tied to the rows of tying horses at the gate of Cai's mansion, and there were many men dressed as horsemen and domestic servants waiting beside the horses—these were obviously the mounts of officials who had come to visit Cai Jing. Unlike Bao Qingtian in later TV dramas who traveled in a large sedan chair, all kinds of Qingtian in the Northern Song Dynasty were generally horsebacked, because the sedan chair was only a means of transportation for the emperor and the concubine, and others were not eligible to enjoy it, unless it was an old or sick minister, the emperor would be allowed to sit in a sedan chair.

The officials who came to shoot Cai Jing's ass today were not as old and virtuous as they were, so there were only horses in front of Cai's mansion and no sedan chairs.

And Cai Jing's sycophant is not filmed if he wants to, he has to queue up, Wu Haogu handed over the name, gift list and a red envelope in the concierge of Cai's mansion, and then he was taken to an ear room to wait, and there were more than a dozen people waiting in the ear room. It should all be sesame mung bean officials who come to the door to slap horses. Wu Haogu suddenly had a feeling of queuing up for a number in the Bank of the Later World, and he didn't know when he would be able to call himself? I don't know if there is a VIP number in line to pat the fart?

Wu Haogu and Mi Youren glanced at each other, and found a chair in the corner to sit down, while Ximen Qing pretended to be Wu Haogu's follower and stood behind him.

Just next to Wu Haogu and Mi Youren, there was a man in a cyan Confucian robe, very young, about twenty-four or five years old, very elegant, sitting on a chair and waiting.

The man recognized Mi Youren, and when he saw him sitting next to him, he was stunned, and asked in a low voice, "Brother Yuanhui, are you here too?" ”

Mi Youren smiled: "Brother Meng Heng is here, but won't the younger brother come?" Saying that, he pointed to Wu Haogu, "This is the family teacher Wu Chongdao, and the younger brother is accompanying the family teacher to visit Master Cai today." ”

"Wu Chongdao? The first person in the painting? ”

"Exactly." Wu Haogu arched his hand.

Mi Youren pointed to the Confucian scholar and said to Wu Haogu: "Teacher, this is Bai Mengheng, Zhengzhou Sihu joined the army, Zuo Wenlinlang. ”

Bai Mengheng's "Mengheng" is the name, this person's big name is Bai Shizhong, and he is also an important minister of the Huizong and Qinzong dynasties in history, but now he is still an unknown petty official.

Sihu joins the army is a petty official in charge of household registration, taxation, warehouse payment and other things, and is generally awarded to the new branch jinshi, and Zuo Wenlinlang is actually Wenlinlang, adding the word "left" just means that the person who is awarded this official is a good man from Jinshi.

The Song Dynasty twice added "left" and "right" to the ranks of some low-level civil officials to distinguish their origins. However, when people introduce and address each other, they often hide the "right" and highlight the "left". For example, Chen Youwen's Wen Linlang is "right", but no one will call him Chen You Wenlin, usually call him Chen Wenlin. Because it is a shame in the officialdom to not have a jinshi background, there is no need to highlight it.

"Long admiration, long admiration." Wu Haogu saluted Bai Shizhong.

Bai Shizhong also politely returned the salute, and then sat down on the chair, without saying anything to Wu Haogu and Mi Youren, his brows were still slightly furrowed, and he seemed to be a little worried.

Wu Haogu guessed that this person must be the first to come back to shoot Cai Jing's sycophant, worried that the gift was too thin and the sycophant couldn't be photographed...... It is not easy for officials whose families are not wealthy and who have not earned a shortage of fat.

……

"Oh? Wu Dalang and Mi Yuanhui are here? ”

Cai Jing had just finished washing up at this time, and was sitting in the inner hall eating crab roe buns. The crab roe buns of the Cai family are very particular, and the crab roe used is purchased from the Pingjiang army. It is cooked in August and September every year, the crab from Yangcheng Lake of Pingjiang Army is cooked, the crab paste and crab roe are taken out, fried with lard, and then canned and sealed, and transported to Kaifeng Mansion. Because of the long distance and the exquisite production process, the price of a can of crab roe in Kaifeng Mansion ranges from dozens of yuan, which is a very expensive ingredient - as for the history books of later generations, it is nonsense that Cai Jing's crab roe steamed buns cost 1,300 yuan each, which is nonsense, Cai Jing is a corrupt official and not a wronged leader, and the money he has worked hard to get greedy with his ability can make the people below be deceived so casually?

"Father, this is a gift list." Cai You presented the gift list given by Wu Haogu with both hands.

But Cai Jing didn't answer, he pinched a crab roe bun in each hand, and was gnawing on it with relish.

"What a good thing?" Cai Jing asked.

"It's Fan Wenzhenggong's "Shi Lu Ti".

"Shi Lu Ti?" Cai Jing raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "It's really a good thing, ask them to come and see you." ”

"Come now?" Cai You looked at his father eating steamed buns, and asked with some uncertainty.

You have to talk about the first come, first come, right? Wu Haogu and Mi Youren have just arrived, and there are dozens of sesame mung bean officials waiting in front of the two of them. Why did you let the two of them cut the line? Speaking of which, Mi Youren and Wu Haogu are not officials yet.

"Right now," Cai Jing smiled and instructed the servants around him, "Add three pairs of chopsticks and steamed three crab roe buns...... You'er, you can also accompany you. ”

This is to have breakfast with Wu Haogu and Mi Youren, what a big face. And both of them are cloth clothes, and they don't have official bodies.

Cai You asked, "Father, is it too much?" ”

Cai Jing glanced at his son and sneered: "You can't just look at the present, Wu Dalang and Mi Yuanhui are cloth clothes now, but they are friends of King Duan's cloth clothes." In the future, once King Duan ascends the throne, these two may be able to recommend the second mansion. ”

"Recommend the second mansion?" Cai You took a breath, "Will there be official luck?" ”

Cai Jing smiled: "Duanwang is not as good as he is today, he is frivolous, and it is reasonable to reuse personal friends with friends." Therefore these two men will be of great use in the future, and we will be courteous to them now, and we will be able to invoke them in the future: go and bring them to me. ”

Cai You listened to his father's analysis, and his heart was suddenly overjoyed, because their father and son had already joined His Royal Highness Duan Wang!

If Mi Youren and Wu Haogu have a chance to become the ruler in the future, then it is not a sure thing for him to enter the two mansions? When the time comes, everyone will be able to form a traitorous party...... No, it's a loyal party and doing our best to assist the Holy Monarch......