letter of commitment

"hug."

More than half a month has passed since the Yantai incident. On this day, Mu Chu also carried a small stool and sat at the door, waiting for Shen Qingshu, who had gone to the county town to get medicine, to come back. Every time Shen Qingshu came back, this was what she would say .

"It's autumn now, and the weather is cool, so don't always come outside."

As Shen Qingshu said this, he followed Mu Chu's open arms and hugged her.

"Today I came out out of time."

"Oh? Then what were you doing before you came out?"

Shen Qingshu pulled her into the room, moved a chair over for her to sit down, and then began to untie the cloth wrapped around her forehead.

"I can't tell you, sir." Mu Chu played with mystery, her hands were completely healed, and these days she started to learn needlework from Mrs. Li again, but it was not sewing, but embroidery.

In a few days, sir, I will go to Fengdu to take the imperial examination, and I want to embroider something for her to take with me.

Shen Qingshu didn't speak any more, just concentrated on replacing the old medicine, applying the new medicine, and wrapping it with a new cloth strip.

"gentlemen."

"Huh?" Shen Qingshu had already changed the medicine, packed up the remaining things and responded.

"Sir, are you sure about the imperial examination?"

When Mu Chu was young, he heard from the teacher that the imperial examination was a place where students from all over the country competed to take part, and it was a place where there were a lot of talents and masters. Although the husband was good enough, Mu Chu was still a little worried.

Shen Qingshu was silent, she didn't know what to do, even if she had made thorough preparations, the result was unexpected.

"Sir." Mu Chu sat on the chair, watched Shen Qingshu come back from fetching water to wash his hands, and called again.

"Ok?"

"I want to sleep with you tonight."

"No."

Shen Qingshu simply refused, even if everyone knew that she and Mu Chu were a couple now, no one would know except Mu Chu and Mrs. Li knew that she was a woman.

It's okay to have close contact on weekdays, but if they really want to sleep together, it will have a bad effect on Mu Chu's reputation.

"But you're leaving in two days."

Mu Chu muttered in dissatisfaction, but he didn't think about it at a deeper level.

"Then you should be obedient and wait for me to come back." Shen Qingshu smiled and touched Mu Chu's head, Mu Chu shrank his neck, his face was a little red, and he responded softly.

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The day of parting came. At the entrance of the village, Shen Qingshu had already packed her things. What Mrs. Li and his party told her was nothing more than asking her to take care of herself outside and not to be nervous during the exam.

Shen Qingshu answered one by one, but his heart was on the person who didn't appear.

When the drivers driving the carriage began to rush, Mu Chu's figure had not yet appeared. Shen Qingshu just thought about it, and was about to turn around and get on the carriage, but that familiar clean and ethereal voice came from afar. Looking back suddenly, the two master and servant were going run this way.

"Sir—" Mu Chu drew his voice, fearing that Shen Qingshu would not be able to hear him.

"Sir..." Mu Chu, who had just finished running, flushed with exhaustion, with sweat dripping from his slightly protruding forehead, panted heavily and said to Shen Qingshu.

Shen Qingshu took out a handkerchief and wiped it. There was not much expression on his face, but he was very happy because of her arrival in his heart. He patiently waited for her to smooth out her breath, and pinned the few strands of black hair hanging down to her ears for her. Then, wait for her to speak.

"Sir, this is for you."

Mu Chu handed a small cloth bag to Shen Qingshu, and then drove her into the car, waving at the back of the already started car, Shen Qingshu poked his head out of the window and looked at the increasingly blurred figure until the figure was no longer there. I couldn't see it, so I sat back in the car.

Opening the small cloth bag given by Mu Chu, there was a handkerchief inside, and some text was embroidered on it, but it could be seen that this person's embroidery was not good, and the font was crooked, but the content could be barely seen: "Dan Chi Countermeasures Three thousand characters, the title of the gold list is five-color spring."

Shen Qingshu held the handkerchief tightly in his palm: "I'm going to high school."

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After a two-day journey, Shen Qingshu arrived in Fengdu. Today was the day of the imperial examination. Without thinking too much, he gave instructions to the coachman and went straight to the National Examination Institute.

When we got there, because the time had not yet arrived, the tribute gate of the National Examination Institute had not yet opened, but there were already many scholars in Confucian uniforms and scarves at the gate, and a few young masters and sons in Chinese costumes. There was a lot of people's voices for a while, so it was very lively.

When the time came, the examiner opened the tribute door, and with the opening of an official, the examinees entered the venue in an orderly manner.

As the huge sandalwood on the bronze furnace in the National Examination Institute burned out, the examinees stopped writing one after another, waiting for the examiner to come down and collect the papers.

When Shen Qingshu stepped out of the tribute gate, he didn't know that Ling Luoqian and Sun Qingling, who had already received the news, were already waiting for her outside.

Surprised, Ling Luoqian came over and put her shoulders in a joke:

"Oh, but within a month or so, I forgot about us, oh..."

When you came to Fengdu, why didn’t you come to see my uncle first, Lan Shou~

Shen Qingshu is serious, how can he know if the other party is joking with her and is going to make amends, or if Sun Qingling came out to smooth things over.

"Brother Qingshu, don't you want to listen to his jokes, I don't know if today's test questions are going well?"

"That's right, brother Qingshu, are you sure?"

When Shen Qingshu was still in his hometown, Shen Qingshu didn't know what to do, but when he saw the test questions today, he felt relieved. Hearing the two people's questions, he didn't give a definite answer. The corner of his mouth raised an arc: "Waiting for the emperor Let’s see when the list comes out.”

But already has a well-thought-out appearance.

Ling Luoqian was overjoyed: "It seems that we can be colleagues who work together in the future, let's go, Chunfeng Building has already hosted a banquet, and by the way, I will introduce a few people from the court for you. If it is really a high school, it will be of great benefit to you." benefit."

"This……"

"Don't say no, please."

It's hard to turn down the hospitality, but Shen Qingshu was stunned when he saw the horses brought by Ling Luoqian.

"What kind of expression is this, brother Qingshu? If you really want to serve the imperial court, riding a horse is one of the compulsory homework."

Speaking of handing over the reins of one of the silver shovel-colored horses to Shen Qingshu, Shen Qingshu took it in a daze, and could only stare at the horses. Ling Luoqian led Sun Qingling and jumped onto the other horse.

"and many more……"

"Ok?"

"I can't ride a horse..."

"I know, Qingling told me about it."

Then Shen Qingshu was even more puzzled, what exactly was Ling Luoqian's intention?

"Brother Qingshu, don't panic, this horse was originally chosen by Ling Lang when I was practicing riding for me. It has a very gentle personality and is extremely human. Even people who are not good at riding can easily handle it, right, Guozi? "

The one called for fruit was the horse that Shen Qingshu would ride later, and he neighed in response to someone calling his name.

Shen Qingshu still has lingering fears, not because she really doesn't know how to ride, but because she was thrown by a horse when she was young, leaving a shadow.

"oops."

Ling Luoqian couldn't stand it anymore, so he dismounted from his own horse. Luck picked up Shen Qingshu and put her on the horse directly. Before Shen Qingshu came, Ling Luoqian said something next to the horse's ear, and then With a slap on the buttocks, he raised his hoof and let out a neighing sound as he walked away, leaving only Shen Qingshu's frightened wah-wah still echoing.

Ling Luoqian clapped his hands in satisfaction, got on the horse, embraced Sun Qingling, put his legs on the horse's belly, and rode the horse towards Chunfenglou.

When Lingsun and Sun arrived, Guozi was one step ahead of them, and was sweeping her tail back and forth at the gate of Chunfeng Building, while Shen Qingshu was lying on the horse. When the boy helped her off the horse, the two were still fighting, almost Can't walk.

When we went upstairs to the Chunfeng Tower, there were already officials waiting for a long time, and when they saw Ling Luoqian, they all stood up and saluted.

"You are welcome, sit down."

After a group of people sat down again, Ling Luoqian introduced Shen Qingshu to them. After getting to know them a little bit, the officials were also interested, and before Ling Luoqian opened his mouth, he introduced himself consciously.

"Taichang Shaoqing, Xu Du."

"Doctor Taizhong..."

"Young House, Young Supervisor..."

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Shen Qingshu returned the salutes one by one, the officials present were also casual and had no official authority at all, Shen Qingshu couldn't help but think of the saying that like attracts like and divides people into groups.

But the one who impresses Shen Qingshu deeply is Xu Du, not to mention that he is very similar to Ling Luoqian in temperament, and he keeps pouring himself wine, Shen Qingshu has remembered them from the bottom of his heart.

After drinking for three rounds, Xu Shi was really happy, most of the people at the table got drunk, even Shen Qingshu felt a little tipsy.

"Hiccup~"

Ling Luoqian hiccupped, a little too drunk, thick neck, blurred eyes, raised the full wine glass, staggered to stand up, Sun Qingling tried to stop him but couldn't.

"Today, I would like to thank all my colleagues for coming to the banquet together. In the future, my virtuous younger brother will rely on you all!"

"Hey, easy to say... easy to say..."

It wasn't until the family members of all the officials came to lead the people that the colleagues' meeting for Shen Qingshu came to an end.

Both Ling and Chen were already drunk, especially Ling Luoqian, who couldn't walk steadily. Sun Qingling couldn't let them ride horses anymore, so they hired a carriage, and after getting Ling Luoqian into the carriage, Shen Qingshu didn't know what to do anyway. Willing to get in the car.

"What kind of car, I want, I want to ride a horse!"

It is said that drunkenness makes people courageous, which is true.

The drunken Shen Qingshu still remembered any shadows, his clothes fluttered, and he got on his horse. The passers-by on the street stopped and looked at the man on the horse. What a handsome young man in white!

The clothes were blown by the autumn wind, and her fair face was red because of drunkenness. Seeing her thin lips slightly parted, she seemed to be smiling, but her eyes were so bright and calm, like an autumn lake, which made people suspicious , is she really drunk?

"Brother Qingshu..." Sun Qingling was very worried and called to Shen Qingshu, but Shen Qingshu lowered his body and smiled, put a finger on his lips and made a silent movement, then straightened his waist again, exerted strength between his legs, and rode away go.

"Brother Qingshu!"

Sun Qingling hurriedly ordered the coachman to take Ling Luoqian back there, and also got on the horse to look for Shen Qingshu.

"If you have wine today, you will be drunk today, and you will worry about it tomorrow~"

Shen Qingshu said so, the pedestrians on the street listened like that, and Sun Qingling chased after him like that. For a while, the storytellers in the teahouses in Fengdu City added another piece of material:

"The handsome gentleman is on the run, and his beautiful wife is chasing after him", not to mention, the common people listened to that with gusto, and the insider didn't spit out a mouthful of old blood in public, but, this is a later story.