Misty rain and heavy flowers accompany the king's return

The population of the imperial capital is more than 200 million, and the imperial city in the middle of the four city guards.

The main street is called Fenghuang Avenue, which is extraordinary in style, no less than the Zhuque Street in Bianjing in the previous life.

Shen Luo, from today onwards, he calls himself the same.Shen Luo got up early, wanting to see the imperial capital.

Although the yard is said to have three entrances, there can be a field in the front and a courtyard in the back.

The house is spacious, with a main hall and left and right wing rooms.

Not to mention four servants, even a few more people are fine.

Shen Luo and the others live in the back, and there is a tea room in the middle, where they can sit and watch the courtyard scenery.

The bedroom on the right hand and the study on the left are extremely comfortable and a small but warm and excellent residence.

"Let's go out to eat in the morning, you should eat first!" Shen Luo said, the steward he arranged was called Xiaotang, who was very capable and used to be a book boy in the palace.

"Okay, master." Xiaotang returned, and Shen Luo was a little funny when he said a word of master: "Just call me son from now on."

"Yes!" Xiaotang couldn't help but nodded with a smile.

Go out alone with Qingchen, follow the small hall, walk straight ahead, turn two corners, and see the Gongyuan, which is full of tranquility in the busy city.

There are rare lush trees on the left and right sides, and the word "Gongyuan" on the archway of the stone pillar is simple and elegant.

"It's only about three thousand steps." Shen Luo looked at Qingchen leisurely and said.

Qingchen couldn't help laughing: "You're really smart, you can even count your steps."

Shen Luo smiled back, and the two sat down in a nearby tea house.

There are refreshments for sale in the teahouse, because it is near the sea, boiled noodles with fat shrimp meat, pancakes with sea oyster meat, and meat buns stuffed with crab roe.

Chen Luo was chewing on the crab roe bun, and couldn't help but wonder why the world here was so similar to his previous one.

While the two were enjoying the delicious food, Master Longtu, who had been away for almost a month, finally returned to Longkou Village with his brother-in-law.

"The young master is gone, what's going on?" Long Tu turned pale with shock when he heard that.

Chang's said from the side: "Did you leave to escape marriage?"

Long Tu glanced at the young brother-in-law's shrewd reminder, feeling less dissatisfied, and picked up Long Qingchen's letter to check: "Did he say he went to Southwest Mansion to join his uncle?"

"Why is there anyone else in their family in the southwest?" Chang asked pretending to be curious.

"Hmph, who is there!" Long Tu said dissatisfiedly: "As for the orphans and widows, what good can he ask for?"

"He and that Wushizui Shen Xiucai are on good terms, did he go there and hide?" Chang asked suddenly.

"Go and have a look!" Longtu slammed his teacup and stood up.

"Slow down, master, don't get too angry." Mrs. Chang gently supported him, while Longtu touched the beautiful woman's hand comfortably, and followed.

Just after walking out of Longkou Village, I saw the tail of the brigade's police team heading towards Gaofu Temple.

"What's the matter?" Chang's family is the magistrate of the county, and he knows many police officers.

"Madam Long, this is Shen Luo Shen Xiucai from our county, who passed the No. 1 Jiangnan Township Examination in high school, and the county magistrate personally came to see you off." The messenger replied.

"No. 1 in the provincial examination, wouldn't you at least pass the examination to get a Jinshi?" Long Tu clicked his tongue.

"Isn't it? This is the joint entrance examination of the five counties. At least it is a Jinshi. Master Long, you and him are neighbors, and this is also the glory of your Qinghua Township!" The messenger said jokingly.

"That is, that is!" Longtu nodded.

"I don't know if anyone in your residence knows this Master Shen?" the messenger asked.

"My brother is familiar with him and often discusses poetry." Longtu replied with a smile.

"Oh, this is incredible, you can discuss poetry and essays with Master Wenxing, your son is worthy of a famous family." The messenger complimented: "Let's go, let's go to Gaofu Temple together, your brother-in-law is here! "

"Brother is here? Let's go!" Chang said excitedly.

"go!"

The Gaofu Temple was crowded with people, Master Asong and everyone from the Shen family greeted the county master together in front of the temple.

The county magistrate sent 200 taels to Mr. Asong. The people in Shenjia Village envied him, but they dared not do anything wrong.When Shen Luo's family was defeated, why didn't they think of taking him in.

"Longevity, old man?" The county magistrate already knew that Master Asong was Shen Luo's relative, so he sat side by side with him and asked modestly.

"Four out of sixty." Master Asong replied with a smile.

Everyone gossiped together, and Long Tu came to pay respects.

"My virtuous brother is here." The county magistrate was not surprised to see them.

"Master Shen is in high school, he and Qingchen are close friends, so I'm here to congratulate you!" Long Tu said.

"Oh? Young Master Ling and Brother Shen Xian are close friends?" the county magistrate asked curiously.

"Master Long, Mr. Long is A Luo's best friend. He often comes to paint and listen to the piano. He also asked for a painting of A Luo, which was drawn with a surnamed emperor!" Guilty Qingchen eloped with A Luo, rushing to answer.

Just as Assongbo was talking, a big boat docked at Wushizui, and a few blue-shirted boys got off.

The yamen servants watched curiously, and one of the leaders of the blue-shirted boys stepped forward: "Master Asong, don't come here without any harm."

"You are, oh, you are the attendant of Lord Huang, we have seen it." Lord Asong still remembered the person standing at the door as a guard.

"Master Shen High School, we are here to congratulate Gaofu Temple at the request of Prince Qi." The blue-shirted boy said without saying a word.

"Prince Qi." The county magistrate stood up in surprise.

"My lord once paid a visit to Mr. Shen and Mr. Long here." The boy in blue shirt's reply surprised everyone including Long Tu.

The blue-shirted attendant gave hundreds of taels of silver and left under the gift of everyone.

"This Shen Xiucai will have a great future." Long Tu hosted a banquet at home for the county magistrate, Brother Fu Lang, Master Asong and everyone in the Shen family.

After sending them off, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

His brother-in-law Changxian Cheng also stayed behind: "You said that Qingchen is gone, will you leave with him?"

"It's really uncertain, go and call Shen San." Long Tu ordered.

Shen San ran over to collect two or two ounces of silver, and told the story of Shen Luo and Long Qingchen in detail, and he learned it vividly. If it is called normal, he must be beaten for this kind of behavior, but now But it made Longtu's heart itch, and waved Shen San down.

"Brother, what do you think?" Long Tu asked.

"Don't panic, send people to the southwest to have a look, and at the same time send people to the imperial capital to find out, if it's true, then your Long family is very lucky." Changxian Cheng said steadily.

"This Shen Xiucai, what is his future?" Chang couldn't help asking.

"Which one is the first in the township examination, or the first in the joint examination, not above the third grade? In the future, they will shake the ground when they come to our county." Changxian Cheng said.

"Yes, yes, what elder brother said is true, I just hope that this child Qingchen will have such a blessing!" Longtu rubbed his chin and said expectantly.

The sheriff is only a fifth-rank official. If his son-in-law is a third-rank official, then this big tree will reach the sky in one fell swoop.

Ci Wenhao was very busy when he returned to the imperial capital. He was the ruling prince, and he was assigned by the emperor's brother to assist in some court affairs.

Liu'er reported the matter of Huzhou in detail, Ci Wenhao nodded: "How is this Longtu a man?"

"Greedy, philistine, very good at taking advantage of the wind, he is a profiteer. He smuggled salt goods in Southwest Prefecture and made a fortune. If it wasn't for my brother-in-law's younger brother to take care of him, he would have died several times." Liu Er returned.

"Greed is good, it can be used by me at any time." Ci Wenhao said.

After a while, someone came from the palace, saying that the emperor had summoned him.

Ci Wenhao changed his clothes, got in the car and drove into the palace.

In Wutong Hall, Prince Yue and Prince De have already arrived.

"Second brother." The two princes greeted him.

"See the emperor!" Ci Wenhao saluted.

"Hmm!" Emperor Qianyuan Yin Zihao had half gray hair at the temples and was only 50 years old at the time.

He is not angry and majestic, and has an extraordinary bearing. Although there are traces of years of vicissitudes between his bright eyes and sword eyebrows, the breath around him reveals the strength of Wenzhi and martial arts. He was a brave warrior when he was young, with outstanding swordsmanship, riding and shooting. The best thing is that the youngest brother Luo Wang and the others don't know much about it.

King Luo grew up outside the palace. He was enfeoffed at the age of 15 and had little contact with him.

"Wen Hao took the lead this time." Emperor Qianyuan looked at the three brothers and said with a smile: "This time, the state government sent you out to supervise the joint entrance examination and the township examination. Your ability to know people."

Prince Yue introduced Rong Hao to look at his second brother: "Second brother, what kind of talent did you find to excite brother Huang? Tell me, we have to be convinced if we lose."

Prince De smiled slightly, the dimples on both sides were unusually eye-catching.

"Come on, show them the article." Emperor Qianyuan waved his hand, and the palace servants around him handed over the two answer sheets to Prince Yue and Prince De, who took a look and exchanged after reading.

"How is it?" Emperor Qianyuan asked leisurely.

"Convinced." Prince Yue put down the test paper: "How did the second brother know this person?"

Citing Wenhao told the story of listening to music at the Huzhou City Gate, and everyone nodded their heads.

"This is fate. It seems that the second brother and this Shen Juren have a lot of fate." Prince De said indifferently, seemingly unintentionally, but quite profound.

"It's really rare for a country to produce such a character. Second brother, you didn't cultivate this on purpose, did you?" Prince Yue also said jokingly.

"Isn't this cheating? If you can't afford to lose, don't come here!" Ci Wenhao smiled indifferently: "I win by fate, and it's an honor to win. If the two of you lose, you will accuse me of cheating. That's not good."

Emperor Qianyuan chuckled and said, "Believe in fate, when fate comes, it will come naturally."

"What the emperor said is true!" The three princes nodded in agreement.

"What if he can try and come first?" Prince Yue asked suddenly.

"Take it." Emperor Qianyuan said.

"Then what about the imperial examination?" Prince Yue continued to ask.

"It can only be fourth, the first three have already been decided." Emperor Qianyuan said without hesitation.

Prince Yue nodded: "Your Majesty is wise." The default Tanhualang was his brother-in-law, the youngest son of Zuoxiang Bailiyu.

The number one scholar is the son of Yun Changkong, the prime minister of the right, the number one talented man in the imperial capital, Yun Mo.

King Yue glanced at his second elder brother Ci Wenhao when he asked, but the latter didn't say a word and didn't mind at all.

He was a little proud, and drank a few more glasses at the reception banquet.

Before the classes in the Gong Yuan started, the elder Tongge asked someone to give 300 taels to Shen Luo to live on.

Citing Wenhao personally invited Shen Luo and Long Qingchen to come over to the mansion, and told the small hall to take good care of them. If Shen Luo had something to do, he could come directly to the palace without notification.

"Your father already knew you were gone, and probably guessed that you were together, but now the entire Huzhou County regards Brother Shen as a literary star, so it is a great honor to congratulate him!" When they left, Ci Wenhao seemed to be indifferent He said: "Would you like me to be the matchmaker for you? I think Long Tu should be full of joy."

Long Qingchen thought for a while, but didn't answer, and looked directly at Abai beside him.

Shen Luo replied respectfully: "It's better to wait until the palace examination is over, the good thing is not in the rush, what does the prince think?"

"Well, it should be so, and read with peace of mind, even if they come, it will be pushed on my head!" Citing Hao waved his hand and said.

"Thank you, my lord!" Shen Luo thanked.

"There are 1000 taels here. For making some clothes, the Gongyuan is no better than Huzhou and Jiangzhou." Ci Wenhao handed him a bank note and said.

Shen Luo took it and nodded his thanks.

"He is humble to the lord but a little distant. It seems not easy!" Xing Nuo, the counselor of the palace who was hiding aside, said, his eyeballs were light blue, not light brown.

"It's rare for such a person to be so respectful. If he takes money from this king, he's already in debt." Citing Hao said nonchalantly.

"Yes!" Xing Nuo nodded.

On the way back, Shen Luo and Qingchen made some clothes together, but neither of them had any decent clothes, one really didn't have any, and the other didn't dare to bring them.

"A Luo, can I buy you a jasper hairpin?" Qing Chen asked.

Shen Luo wanted to laugh when he thought of the long scholar's belt on 'that man''s head, but he wanted to imitate him immediately.

But now he is the chief governor of Liaodong Protectorate, and his identity is completely different from his own, which is not something that ordinary people can learn if they want to.

"Just use an ordinary scholar's belt!" Shen Luo replied, he didn't want to be too obsessed with wearing it.

On the day of registration for the Tribute Academy, candidates from the entire dynasty gathered, more than 900 people were selected by the empire with a population of 4000 million.

The people who came here were all arrogant, after all, their identities are different now.

"No. [-] in the south of the Yangtze River, Shen Luo." The newspaper official sang, and the top three in each area can go in and give them a seat.

A row of five old masters sat on it, looking at them, headed by the dean of the Gongyuan, Guowei, the emperor's teacher.

"Why is there no test paper here for Shen Luo?" Guowei asked while looking at the profile of each No.1.

"My lord, his answer sheets have been transferred by the emperor, and they are with the emperor." Vice-principal Qi Heng got up and said.

"Oh?" Guowei looked over, "Shen Luo got up."

Shen Luo stood up: "The students are here!"

"Come over with a few more articles, Dean Qi will come up with a question." Guowei said lightly.

"Yes!" Shen Luo and Qi Heng returned together.

Many scholars looked at Shen Luo, wondering why his answer sheet would go to the emperor.

Ten days of study every month, one day off, and the study in the Gongyuan began like this.

"My name is Yun Mo. I heard that brother Shen is a great talent. Do you have time to have a cup of tea together?" Mr. Yun Mo Pianpian, in an air of generosity.

"Yunmo, are you so anxious to hug your thighs, are you afraid that you will lose your champion?" Baili looked at them calmly, his tone full of temptation.

Shen Luo looked at the two in front of him, and heard that they were the sons of the left and right prime ministers.

"If you two agree, how about drinking tea together?" Shen Luo asked.

Baili looked at Shen Luo calmly: "Since Brother Shen invited me, then I will give Brother Shen some face!"

With a slight smile, Shen Bai made a gesture of invitation to Yun Mo.

Yun Mo and Baili Songran admired his graceful manner.