There was a crowd of people outside the school hall, not only the students of the various academies who participated in the poetry meeting, but also other readers gathered in Luoyang City, as well as the people who came to see the excitement in Luoyang City, all gathered outside the school hall, and many school attendants were putting people inside at the door, going out and going in. Although the people outside were in a hurry to go in and watch, they didn't dare to be impulsive, after all, so many of the Yamen's arresters were standing here, and if they were impulsive, they would be taken to the prison for a few days on the charge of causing trouble, but they would not be able to get here. Xia Hongsheng didn't expect so many people to come, and thought that it was the students who sat in the courtyard behind the school management to participate in the poetry club, and they just had a circle of people around to take a look, but he didn't expect that so many people would come to see this excitement. It's still just a poetry meeting, so if it is replaced by a bucket in a few days, wouldn't it be empty?

"Childe? You don't attend poetry clubs? Xia Hongsheng was standing behind and jumped and looked at the door, when he heard a voice behind him, and when he looked back, it was the academy attendant who took them to the inn that they had just arrived that day.

"This big brother, it's you!" Xia Hongsheng greeted him with a warm smile: "I just came out with the seniors to see Zhangzhang, so I didn't participate, but unfortunately I overslept in the morning and was not brought in by them." Big brother, I'm afraid you'll have to be busy these days! ”

The squire nodded and sighed, "Yes! Since yesterday afternoon, the little one hasn't closed his eyes! No, just now the people of Mingxiangju sent a lot of tea, saying that they also sent a maid to pour water and add tea, and the little ones were ordered to wait here and take them in! I don't know why this Mingxiangju is so big, and he doesn't want money, isn't this burning! ”

"Wouldn't it be better, someone went to add tea and pour water, wouldn't it save you a lot of effort? Ha ha! Xia Hongsheng was a little surprised, he was holding back his strength to promote this new method of brewing tea, and sent fried tea, and was worried that these students and scholars would not drink it, and they also took it to sencha soup, so they simply even came out, so that these people can learn this brewing method, this shopkeeper is really thoughtful!

The attendant was very happy to see that Xia Hongsheng, a scholar, was not only very polite to him, but also had no sour rot at all, and actually chatted with him so freely, and he was very happy, plus he just came that day, and Xia Hongsheng was polite to him, which made the attendant feel that he was respected, and he was happy from the bottom of his heart. So at this time, he patted his chest and said, "Childe, go, the little one will take you in!" Those who don't open their eyes don't know that Gongzi is also a young talent in the academy, and those maids are estimated to be in it for a while, and they are still singing music in it now, and they haven't started to compose poems, so you can keep up when you go in now! ”

"This ...... It won't bother you, big brother, right? Xia Hongsheng said very worried about him.

"Don't worry, Childe!" Seeing that Xia Hongsheng was worried about him, the attendant patted his chest arrogantly and assured.

Xia Hongsheng no longer shirked, and smiled happily: "That's thank you so much, big brother!" ”

The attendant took Xia Hongsheng to bypass the large group of people in front of him, and walked to the side door of the school hall.

"Childe, let's go in!" The attendant turned his head and shouted at Xia Hongsheng. Xia Hongsheng hurriedly walked over and thanked the attendant and the little guy who opened the door, but scared the little guy and quickly dodged it.

The attendant said goodbye, turned around and left, Xia Hongsheng said to the little guy again: "Thank you for this little brother, if you hadn't made it convenient, I don't know when I would have to wait until now!" ”

"Childe, you're so polite!" That little guy was very unaccustomed to seeing Xia Hongsheng's attitude towards him so well. Although the other scholars did not bully him or give him a bad look, they had never been so polite to him, so they were a little hasty, so they hurriedly bowed and said, "Childe, I'll take you over!" ”

Xia Hongsheng followed the little guy to the backyard of the school, and before he had gone far, he had already heard a burst of singing and dancing, and when he turned to the backyard, he saw that the entire huge backyard was full at this time, and there were desks on both sides of the pond, and the students who participated in the poetry meeting and the invited scribes and distinguished guests were sitting on both sides of the pond, and there was a platform in front of them, on which there were Youling performing.

"Master Xuezheng has just finished speaking, this is the time to perform, and there will be other academy cave masters who will come up with new poems to comment on later, and really let the people who participate in the poetry club compete for poetry, but it will not start until the afternoon." The little guy introduced Xia Hongsheng, then said goodbye, and hurriedly turned around and went back to the side door.

Hearing the title of the cave master, Xia Hongsheng grinned, it was not good to listen to the mountain chief, haha! In ancient times, the leaders of the academy were not like in later generations, they were called principals or deans, the principals of the highest academic institutions, Guozijian, were called sacrificial wines, the principals of the official schools below were called Xuezheng or Yuanzheng, and the principals of other private academies, there were many titles, mostly mountain chiefs, cave masters, and those who directly called Mr., which dean sounded good.

Xia Hongsheng glanced at the stage a few times, listened to a few words, and felt bored, but saw that whether it was the audience standing around or the students and guests sitting behind the case, they were all fascinated and applauded from time to time. Xia Hongsheng looked around, but did not see Xu Qixian and them, but unexpectedly found that there was a folding fan on each case, but it looked like it was blank, there was no inscription or painting on it, and the folding fan also had navy blue tassels on it, which looked more chic. Xia Hongsheng couldn't help but say in his heart, this shopkeeper's work is really strangely reliable, looking at this, in just two days, he really got this thing done, this shopkeeper is very capable, if there is any new business in the future, it will be handed over to him to do a good job.

Since I don't write poetry in the morning, there's nothing to look forward to. Xia Hongsheng couldn't watch the performance on the stage, and even more so the speeches of those pedants, but Xia Hongsheng wanted to wait to see what the maids sent by Mingxiangju would do, and whether they could make this new style of fried tea a hit.

Xia Hongsheng squeezed out of the crowd, looked left and right, turned over and jumped into the garden, found a piece of bluestone under the shade of the wall and sat down.

"Huh? Isn't this Brother Xia? As soon as he sat down and leaned against the tree, he heard a voice from the side of the garden, Xia Hongsheng turned his head to look, but saw a young man in white standing there, who seemed to be a little familiar, but he couldn't remember, but he heard the young man in white ask again: "Brother Xia doesn't participate in the poetry meeting?" ”

As he spoke, the man in white also crossed into the garden and walked to Xia Hongsheng.

Xia Hongsheng stood up and scratched his head: "Uh...... This brother ......"

"Oh, Brother Xia got drunk yesterday and forgot about it? Yesterday in Yixiangju......" the young man in white said with a smile.

As soon as he said this, Xia Hongsheng suddenly remembered, and suddenly realized: "It turned out to be you, brother!" Yesterday in Yixiang Juri, Brother Tai stood up and faced the Turks, which is really admirable! ”

It turned out that the young man in white was the young man who jumped out and cursed the group of Turks in Yixiangju yesterday, and the brocade robe he wore yesterday was changed to a simple white dress today, and Xia Hongsheng didn't recognize it at first.

The white-clothed young man arched his hand with a smile, and said, "Where, Brother Xia's long and short sentences deter the Turks, which is really admired by the subordinates." After the Turks were scared away yesterday, they went down to make friends with Brother Xia, but found that Brother Xia was already drunk. I learned from Brother Xu that Brother Xia was only thirteen years old, and the so-called hero came out of the youth, Brother Xia is really the dragon and phoenix among people! ”

"Brother Tai praised it falsely, in Xia Hongsheng, the word Jingshi, dare to ask Brother Taizun's surname?" Xia Hongsheng arched his hand and asked.

"Under ...... The surname is Wang, the word can be, and Brother Xia calls me Zike. The young man in white laughed.

"Brother Ziketai, why don't you go to watch it, but come here instead?" Xia Hongsheng asked.

The young man in white smiled and said, "Haha, it's not much older than Brother Xia, and Brother Xia's title is enough." I came down to see the students compose poems, but I didn't want to wait until the afternoon, and I hadn't been to this Luoyang School Museum, so I wanted to go back and forth to see. ”

While he was talking, the voices on the stage stopped, and those excellent singers finished their performances and went down from the side to the back. Then another man came up and preached aloud, "Tea!" ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw the Zhu door facing the platform open, and then I saw two rows of white-clothed maids coming from outside the Zhu Gate, those maids carried kettles in their hands, and then rushed in from behind the door, and walked to the front of the desks, leaving one person in front of each desk. Xia Hongsheng was a little surprised, this battle was very big, and he didn't know where the shopkeeper found so many people.

But I heard the person above shout again: "Gentlemen, the tea drunk in this poetry meeting is concocted by Mingxiangju in Luoyang City in a unique way, without adding ginger and onions, without salt and pepper, without raising the heat, with the method of brewing, to restore the original taste of tea, and to drink it, the original taste of Fangjue tea is wonderful." Gentlemen, please be quiet and savor. ”

As she spoke, the maid in front of each case had already put the tea leaves into the cup and brewed them. The person who spoke on the stage introduced the brewing technique of the phoenix three nods.

Xia Hongsheng grinned and secretly gave a thumbs up, this shopkeeper is really a talent, and he is capable!