In the evening, the alley of the mill was crowded with many people. Although the entire tribute courtyard has long been surrounded by the sergeants, and the soldiers and horses of the five cities have patrolled the streets back and forth, but today is the time to end, naturally no one will come out to drive people away, so one by one, the figure of looking forward to it, a new or old mule cart, some are family members come to wait, some are family companions, and some are relatives and friends...... All in all, if it weren't for the rules here and not being able to keep quiet, people would have been talking about it early in the morning.

There are three exams in total, each three days each, and now the exam questions of this exam have long been known to everyone, and those who have literary and ink skills have to figure out the difficulty of this exam question, and quietly shake their heads from time to time. Chen Yan, who was dressed in a green cloth and straight jacket, took Chu Ping and the four to stand in the crowd, listening to those whispers, looking at people's expectations and expectations, and unconsciously, he was also curious about the situation inside. So he simply relied on Chu Ping's four young age and great strength, lined up the crowd and walked inside, sweating profusely, and finally reached the front, but there was a row of sergeants in front of him. Only then did he stretch his neck to look at the Gongyuan, and he suddenly heard a creaking sound.

"It's over!"

I don't know who raised their voices and shouted, and everyone turned their eyes to the gate of the Gongyuan. Seeing that the two gates suddenly opened, and one by one the gray-faced people came out, everyone was in an uproar for a while. Some are called young masters, some are called masters, some are called uncles and brothers, and some are called eldest nephews and little nephews...... All of a sudden, it was called anything. Chen Yan was almost stunned by this messy voice, and his eyes were immediately a little insufficient.

Fortunately, this tribute courtyard is close to the east wall of the capital, and you must pass through here when you come out of the gate over there, plus there are a total of five of them, so you don't miss people, and soon the sharp-eyed Chen Yan saw Luo Xu wearing a blue Songjiang cotton cloth. He was neither the first to appear, nor was he at the end, walking leisurely in the middle with the examination basket on his shoulder, and even having leisure to look around, not like he had been holding back in that small room for nine days, but as if he had come back from a trip to the garden.

"Brother Luo!"

Compared with those who worked hard to gain fame, Luo Xu was naturally relaxed. Father didn't expect him to come back from the Jinshi exam, but the emperor gave him a background, and made a decree to let him take the exam, but he didn't say that he would definitely be allowed to pass the exam, as for those examiners and examiners, I was afraid that they would be even more eager to make some articles when they were transcribing their names, so he was full of ease, and even the condiments were prepared, and he changed his way to make delicious stomach fillings in the number room every day, which made the trumpeters and inspectors all stunned. It's easy to finish the exam at this time, and he hummed a small tune softly with a long sigh of relief, but this first big brother Luo suddenly scared him.

Except for those brothers and sisters in his family, who else will call him big brother? Wait, there's a Luo word in front of this!

Looking at the crowd, Luo Xu, who was still muttering, was stunned for a moment, almost thinking that he had made a mistake. When he saw the young man waving to him, he immediately put aside those doubts and the like, and rushed forward in three steps and two steps, and said with a smile: "Why are you here?" Didn't you say that you would go to the school every day after returning to the city? ”

"I go to the school every day, but as long as I have a name, it's easy to sneak out. Before class started this afternoon, I said to the gentleman of the school that I would come to the Gongyuan today to have a look, so that I could feel the spectacular scene of thousands of students leaving the Gongyuan. Naturally, Mr. praised me for my heart, and I was allowed to leave lightly and skillfully. Chen Yan explained with a smile, seeing that Luo Xu was still carrying the test basket in his hand, and seeing that everyone who had just come out was one, he couldn't help but be a little curious, "Does the Tribute Academy have to ask for this thing?" ”

"Of course." Luo Xu didn't want to block others in the middle of the road, so he pulled Chen Yan to the side, and then opened the lid of the test basket with a smile, "Look at it, there are all kinds of pen, ink, paper, and inkstones here, and I use the remaining chickens, green onions, peppers, and ......" After he explained a lot, he saw that Chen Yan was already dumbfounded, so he flicked a finger on his head, "Don't be so surprised, this is the case, each game is three candles per person, plus three catties of firewood and charcoal, the food is rice and meat, but you have to make it yourself." Most people are cold stoves, as for me...... It belongs to the leisurely and elegant. ”

After boasting a few words, Luo Xu was in a good mood after all, so he walked out slowly side by side with Chen Yan, and said some interesting things in the examination room along the way, and he suddenly asked: "Say, come all the way to Dongcheng Gongyuan, what is the matter with me?" Don't fool me with words to fool your academy master, I'm not a pedantic old master. ”

"This ......" my sister agreed to herself at noon, and then said a news that surprised him, Chen Yan also knew that her sister suddenly asked her to find Luo Xu this time and asked him to take him to apprentice for his good. However, the more his sister told him not to confide in outsiders, the more he couldn't help it, and it took a long time before he gritted his teeth and said, "That's the case, the Han Hanlin you mentioned last time, Brother Luo...... I've been there twice before...... I want to try it this time to see if I can get Han Hanlin to accept me as a disciple. ”

As soon as these words came out, Luo Xu was stunned. After staring at Chen Yan for a long time, he said with a twinkle in his eyes: "This apprenticeship is a great thing, how can you have to have six etiquette bundles to cultivate, besides, although you don't have parents in your family, there are other elders, you can't hide from them, right?" Don't make your own decisions. ”

"How dare I make my own opinions, my sister agreed, and helped me say it in front of the old lady, otherwise how could I have the guts? As for the Six Rites Shu Xiu, I took advantage of the afternoon's efforts to ask Chu Ping and the four of them to help me prepare. ”

A sentence that my sister agreed, which made Luo Xu stunned when he heard it, and then he was happy again. Before the end, he inquired about the situation of the Yangning Marquis Mansion very much, and naturally knew that Chen Lan was meticulous and meticulous now, and he would never be able to hide his actions, but if she really inquired, then he would definitely understand that he was completely genuinely kind. So, with the indescribable joy, he smiled and nodded, and promised: "Okay, I originally planned to go there again tomorrow, but since your family has agreed today, let's leave now!" ”

Out of the alley of Suimofang, Luo Xu saw Chen Yan command, Chu Ping immediately divided two and ran towards an ordinary-looking oil truck over there, and couldn't help but look at Chen Yan's ordinary little scholar's clothes again, and secretly praised this kid for being young and low-key, unlike those who are wealthy in Beijing. But just as he was thinking so, he suddenly heard a loud whip breaking through the air, and when he turned his head, he saw a carriage stop beside him.

"Young master, this is finally the end of the exam!" The driver of the car took off the felt hat on his head with a smile, and a small guy came out of the car, "Madame, I'm in a hurry, let's hurry up and ......."

"You can help me bring this back first!" Luo Xu couldn't help but stuff the test basket in his hand to the little guy, and then said in an unquestionable tone without waiting for him to answer, "You go back and tell my mother, just say that I have to go to Beiju Xianfang to do something first, and I will come back in the evening, and then I will have to bring a box of my mother's favorite Tianxiangzhai dim sum." Alright, you hurry up and go back first! ”

"Young Master, Young Master!"

Seeing Luo Xu pulling Chen Yan and getting into another carriage on the side of the road with two young men with big shoulders and round waists, the little guy was stunned for a moment, but he called twice and didn't hear back at all, so he had to cry and get into the car with the test basket with a sad face, thinking about how to explain to his wife when he went back. However, when he returned to Yiyuan, he ran to the second gate to report in, and after a while, he followed a mother into the tea house, and after entering the house, he kowtowed and said the originally, to his surprise, Mrs. Lin did not have the slightest reproach.

After sending the little guy away, Mrs. Lin remembered the gentleman that her son had been mentioning, and couldn't help but smile on her face, and sighed softly: "This kid respects the teacher, and he went to visit Mr. first when he came out, which was originally right." ”

The end of the Gongyuan was not early, plus from the Dongcheng Gongyuan to the Beiju Xianfang in the Beicheng, almost half of the inner city collapsed, Luo Xu took Chen Yan to the Dengshi Hutong to buy a few things, so the small alley that arrived at the Beiju Xianfang had already passed a shift. Due to the imminent night curfew, all pedestrians on the road were in a hurry, and when Chen Yan followed Luo Xu to get out of the car in front of the door, he looked at the sky and couldn't help but be a little worried.

When he was in the car just now, he was tired and dying because of the many days of answering questions in the Gongyuan Academy, and the car was dim, Luo Xu just talked to Chen Yan without a ride, and he didn't pay much attention to his expression, but now that Chu Ping and the four had already lit the lantern, he naturally saw Chen Yan's expression that was not quite right. Tilting his head and thinking for a while, he suddenly asked, "How did your sister know?" ”

"She's such a smart person, what doesn't she know...... Hey? Chen Yan reacted suddenly, and when he saw Luo Xu looking at him with a smile, he immediately understood that he was revealing his stuff again, and couldn't help but be a little depressed, "Sensei, my sister is very attentive to my affairs, there is nothing she doesn't know, besides, I won't say it, as long as my sister asks me, these four little bastards will also tell you!" ”

Seeing that Chen Yan glared at Chu Ping and the four of them angrily as he spoke, Luo Xu couldn't help but laugh, but immediately groaned. Chen Lan knew that it was Han Hanlin who he introduced to Chen Yan, and he would definitely inquire before he promised, why did he have to pick him to go to apprentice immediately at three o'clock on the night he just came out of the Gongyuan? Could it be ...... What happened to the Chen family in the Yangning Hou Mansion!

At this time, the sky was already completely dark, and most of the ordinary people in the alley had already slept, and it was pitch black everywhere, and the light of the four lanterns was only enough to illuminate the land in front of them. Luo Xu was only stunned for a moment, so he didn't ask any more questions, and dragged Chen Yan to knock on the door of a courtyard next to him. Seeing that the old servant who answered the door was surprised and delighted when he saw him, he smiled and pointed to the big urn that Chu Ping was holding in his hand, and said with a smile: "Uncle Liang, this is the mash of Du Kanglou in Dengshi Hutong, I know you love this, so I brought it with me." ”

Seeing that Uncle Liang narrowed his eyes with a smile, he dragged Chen Yan and walked inside, and shouted loudly after passing the screen door: "Sir, today the Gongyuan is over, I will bring someone to your place to eat!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the curtain in front of the main room was beaten high, and a middle-aged man wearing a blue cloth straight jacket stepped out of the room through the threshold, and when he saw the group of people who came in one after another, he shook his head helplessly.

"I really owe you in my last life, I actually accepted such a disciple as you, and I still think about you all day long because of your brother Xiaonan...... Come in, I thought you might come, and your wife made braised pork tonight! ”

Luo Xu was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly smiled and stepped forward to thank him, and then turned his head and dragged the dumbfounded Chen Yan: "What are you still doing, being a fellow disciple with me, aren't you happy?" Come in with me, my wife's braised pork is the best in the world! ”

PS: Anyway, there is a good news that I have forgotten to mention, before the crown cover signed out the traditional Chinese version, in the second half of the year should be in Taiwan, or the publishing house of the old book. Students who have read the traditional version of the previous set of books should know that there is still nothing to say about the printing and cover, but it is troublesome ^_^ to look at the traditional vertical arrangement