When the bright moon climbed to the middle of the sky, the city of Guiyang was already dark and silent, but the mansion of the Yang Mansion was brightly lit, and countless servants and maids came in and out, busy, because their master came from Bozhou and had just moved in. mansion.
In the back house, Yang Yinglong, who had finished his bath, was wearing a light robe, and lazily threw himself on the official hat chair, took a bowl of sour bamboo shoot and chicken skin soup, took a small sip, closed his eyes and sipped the taste, Slowly asked: "The person I asked you to inquire about, have you already found out his whereabouts?"
The steward of the Yang Mansion responded respectfully: "After the old slave received the summons from the master, he immediately sent someone to Tongren, but he didn't expect that person to come to Guiyang. The old slave checked all the inns in Guiyang and there was no news of him. Living in a private house, it is not easy to find it. However, since he came to Guiyang to participate in the tribute examination, he will definitely go to the government office to register when the time comes, and the old slave will find him."
"Well! Just find him, don't disturb him, this person is of great use to me!"
Yang Yinglong tapped on the handrail lightly, and said leisurely, "Is there any special news from Shuixi side recently?"
The steward of the Yang Mansion thought for a while, and tentatively said: "Pianxie Ji seems to be very interested in this tribute test."
Yang Yinglong smiled faintly, and said, "It's not just the Tian family who cares about the tribute test, are there other things?"
The steward of the Yang Mansion thought for a while, then suddenly smiled lightly and said: "There is one more thing, it has been very lively in Guiyang recently, but you may not be interested in this kind of thing, sir."
Yang Yinglong didn't respond, just sipped the fresh soup and listened quietly.
The steward of the Yang Mansion said: "The eldest lady of the Xia family in Hongfeng Lake has always been kept at a distance by Shui Xihao, who knows that she has two suitors for some reason recently. One is Ge from the Liangyuegu Guoji family. Young Master Long, the other one is unknown so far, the two agreed to fight in Huaxi to decide who is qualified to pursue Miss Xia."
Yang Yinglong was really not interested after hearing this, and said indifferently: "I don't know the so-called children's games. Is there anyone from the Yang family in Jingzhou?"
The steward of the Yang family smiled flatteringly and said, "My lord, how dare the Yang family in Jingzhou accept the order? Mrs. Yang came here in person, but the journey is far away, and she is still on the way. The Yang family in Jingzhou has already sent someone to deliver a letter, saying Madam Yang will definitely arrive in Guiyang during the tribute examination."
Yang Yinglong let out a "huh" and yawned lightly, the steward hurriedly said: "Master is tired all the way, let's take a rest first, do you want someone to sleep with you?"
Yang Yinglong stood up, stretched his waist lightly, and said: "No, I'm tired."
"yes!"
The steward agreed, hurriedly took a step forward, and bowed to send Yang Yinglong into the back hall.
At this time, although Tianfu was completely silent, the residence of Lianxie Ji Tian Miaowen was still lit with lights.
On the desk, a few sheets of paper were randomly placed, and some names and numbers were written messily on the sheets.
Tian Miaowen put down her pen, raised her charming eyebrows slightly, and murmured in a low voice: "This year's tribute examination, Nanzhili and Beizhili will each admit 135 people, Jiangxi will admit 95 people, Zhejiang and Fujian will each admit 90 people. Eighty-five people from Huguang and Guangdong each, eighty from Henan, seventy-five from Shandong, seventy from Sichuan, sixty-five each from Shaanxi and Shanxi, fifty-five from Guangxi, and forty-five from Yunnan. I am the least in Guizhou, just like last year, there are only 30 places."
Tian Miaowen leaned gently on the back of the chair, closed her eyes and patted her forehead lightly, muttering to herself: "Thirty places, according to the usual practice, the An family will take four, the Song family will take three, my Tian family and the Yang family will each take two. , other chieftains took turns to share 14 places, and the remaining 5 places were given to ordinary scholars.
None of these people is a fuel-efficient lamp. If you want to win one more, it is tantamount to snatching food. It seems that only by placing Xu Boyi among ordinary scholars can you win one more place, but I don’t know if he has such a talent. strength..."
Tian Miaowen thought hard for a long time, then picked up the pen again, pulled over the sheets of paper filled with names and numbers, and calculated again, the light in her boudoir stayed on until very late...
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On the green hillside, Ye Xiaotian flicked his fingers, and a small bug landed on Xia Yingying's sleeve without a sound. Before it could crawl into the sleeve, Ye Xiaotian was "surprised" and said: "Oh, there is a bug!" !” Saying that, Ye Xiaotian stretched out his hand, knocked the bug to the ground, and kicked it hard.
"Ha! I'm such a genius! It's only a day's work, and I can master the technique of releasing Gu proficiently."
Ye Xiaotian thought complacently. Seeing that her sweetheart is so considerate, Xia Yingying smiled sweetly at him, her big eyes shone with a charming spring light, an indescribable temptation.
Xiaolu and Xiaowei stood with arms folded at a distance of more than ten feet behind them, watching them helplessly together. However, they estimated that the good times of these two people are coming to an end soon. Guoji Gelong has already spread the news of the Huaxi meeting to the whole Guiyang mansion. Those rich and wealthy are all idle. I heard that this is so interesting. Everything about it was as if it had been spattered with chicken blood, screaming to watch the excitement.
As the news spreads, Hongfeng Lake, which is not far from Guiyang City, will definitely receive the news, waiting for Xia Yingying's more than 20 uncles and uncles, eighty or ninety cousins, and even more than one hundred nephews. Arriving aggressively at Huaxi...
The two girls could already foresee Ye Xiaotian's miserable end.
Ye Xiaotian looked fascinatedly at Xia Yingying's sweet smile, and said, "You're still smiling, I'm going to duel with that gorilla in eight days, don't you worry that I'll be killed by him?"
Xia Yingying said sweetly: "How could it be? With me watching, he wants to kill you, but I'm not willing."
Ye Xiaotian rolled his eyes and said: "Actually... we are already in love with each other, what's the matter with him. You don't like him, why don't you tell him that there is no need to compare."
Xia Yingying shook her head with a sweet smile and said: "You have already agreed to him. I am sorry to cancel the duel now. I heard from Xiaolu that everyone in Guiyang Mansion knows about it now. If we propose to cancel the duel, you will be laughed at."
Ye Xiaotian hurriedly said: "I don't mind being made fun of."
Xia Yingying widened her eyes and said, "But I don't mind! You are being teased, and I lose face, I will definitely be very angry."
Ye Xiaotian sighed helplessly, and said sullenly: "That is to say, no matter what, we have to compare."
Xia Yingying tugged on his sleeve lightly, and said in a sweet voice: "Why, are you angry?"
Ye Xiaotian took advantage of the situation to pretend to be angry, and said with a straight face: "After all, don't you just like to watch two men fight for you?"
"Not at all."
Xia Yingying smiled sweeter, her voice became sweeter, she gently held Ye Xiaotian's sleeve, and said softly: "I just like to watch you fight for me. Ah! Look, look there..."
Xia Yingying jumped happily, and pointed to the front of the slope. Ye Xiaotian is used to her surprises, and when she followed her fingers, she saw three cows in front of the slope, two males and one female, and two bulls with huge horns were "blinding the door", and said: "What are you looking at?" ?”
Xia Yingying said: "Look, those two bulls are fighting for the heifer. You are a man, are you not as good as a bull?"
If Ye Xiaotian hadn't been the big guy who saw the two bulls, he might not have been able to identify the gender of these three cows, but thinking that she is a local village girl, it is nothing unusual to know bulls and cows, Ye Xiaotian was relieved, but he didn't know, Xia Yingying's standard for identifying bulls and cows turned out to be body shape. And these two bulls were grown up, more than twice as strong as the heifer that had just grown up, so they happened to be fooled by her.
A duel between two bulls ended in the defeat of one side. The failed bull fled and ran for about a mile before stopping on the hillside. The victorious bull mooed triumphantly, rushed towards the heifer that was grazing, raised his two front hooves vigorously, suddenly stood up, and put his two front hooves on the heifer's back.
This adult bull is very strong, and this fall is also powerful. The heifer was crushed by him and knelt down on the grass. The bull also slipped to the side, and the heifer mooed. Struggling up, it seemed like he wanted to run away, but the bull jumped up suddenly, raised its two front hooves, and put it on its back again.
This time, the prepared heifer stood firm, and the adult bull stood firmly on both hind legs, raised his head and let out a "moo" again. The bull was huge, long and long like a rolling pin. The big guy, who was straight and thicker than the door bars, thrust forward vigorously.
Xia Yingying's eyes were wide open, and she clenched her small hands in front of her chest, she was so nervous that she couldn't breathe: "Look, look quickly! That big guy is not trying to fight for the heifer, it is catching the heifer. It's too bad to bully anyone, oh, look, it pokes that heifer with a big meat stick, and it hurts!"
Xia Yingying frowned her delicate eyebrows, her small face was wrinkled, and she panicked in pain for the heifer. Ye Xiaotian widened his eyes, looked at the two mating cows, and then at Xia Yingying who did not blink, her face was filled with righteous indignation, her cheeks twitched violently a few times.
Xiaowei and Xiaolu ran over quickly, pulled Xia Yingying away with blushing faces, "Yingying, come quickly, I found a lot of mushrooms in the woods over there."
"I won't go, that big bull is so hateful, I want to see the injustice..."
"Forget it, forget it, you don't care about the things between people and animals..."
"Ha ha ha ha… "
Ye Xiaotian couldn't bear it anymore, hugged his belly and laughed wildly, he thought the little wife he was looking for was quite cute, it seemed that he would not be lonely in the next twenty years.
At this time, there was a burst of unrestrained and rough laughter in the Hongfeng Lake Xia Mansion.
Mr. Xia put his hands on his hips and smiled imposingly: "How, how? I said, just because of my precious granddaughter's fairy-like appearance, how can I not be liked by a man, unless the man is blind. In the past , It’s because you are watching her too closely, look, I only let her go out twice alone, and someone will fight for her. If I let her go out two more times, no one will light a beacon tower for her Ah, hahahaha..."
The sixth son of Xia, Xia Yan, the great hero who successfully gave birth to a precious daughter for the old Xia family and ended the masculine history of the Xia family, complained: "Father, you were worried when Yingying went out before, and you have to let her go out." Ten or eight people can’t follow, why are we watching too closely at this time? Also, Fenghuo opera princes, that’s not a good metaphor.”
"Fuck you!"
Mr. Xia widened his eyes, and gave his son a quick kick: "You are the only one who has studied! Don't show off to me! I'm going to Guiyang, I'm going to see, besides Ge Long, who else has such a talented child?" Eyes, fell in love with our family Yingying."
Upon hearing this, Xia Laoliu hurriedly persuaded: "Father, don't go, you are so old..."
"Fuck you!"
Grandpa Xia flew up again and kicked his son's ass: "My mother can still weave nets to catch fish, what's wrong with me going out, I have to go, you all come with me, if everything goes well If so, I can bring back a grandson-in-law this time, hahahaha... "