Encounter with the Four Great Talents

On the carriage, Tang Shen was carefully analyzing the situation: "Your Majesty has only been on the throne for less than two years now, and this year is the first round of scientific examinations he presides over, so you must pay special attention to it. Be cautious in your words and deeds in the capital." , Don’t guess the questions randomly, if someone listens to it, if you don’t guess correctly, forget it, if you guess correctly, you may be accused of stealing the question and leaking the question.”

Tang Yin shook his head immediately: "Where would I?"

"If you don't know how, what's the problem? If you don't explain clearly, you can still be condemned to death." Tang Shen rubbed his temples, otherwise, how do you think you lost the title of number one scholar in history?It's not just because I guessed the right question out of nowhere. "If you don't want to be in the limelight in the test, then don't talk to people about the test."

Tang Yin understood this, and immediately nodded in response.

"Then, the new emperor has been on the throne for two years, and now he has begun to eliminate people from different camps. No one knows who he started. You must be cautious when making friends in the capital. If you are a child of the capital, it is best not to make too many friends , the same is true for the children of rich families and officials from all over the world. It is best to only associate with the children of poor families. You must know that if the city gate catches fire and it will affect Chiyu, you cannot be the city gate, but if you have a relationship with the city gate, you may be Chiyu gone."

Tang Yin felt a chill run down his spine, and quickly wrote it down.

Seeing that he was obedient and obedient, Tang Shen relaxed a bit, and said with a smile, "I've already beat you two boys, Gao Fu is steady, Tong Shou is clever, they are also taking care of things at home now, and they have some experience. , You can discuss things with them at ordinary times. If you really have any doubts, you can talk to Brother Wenbi. Although Brother Wen is younger than you, he has gone through a lot of things and is a cautious person. He should be able to help you Quite busy. In fact, I originally thought that if you want to go to the capital, you can wait for a few years to calm down before going, but it is useless to talk about the matter so far, I can only hope that you will be more careful."

"I know, I will be careful." Tang Yin silently remembered what Tang Shen said in his heart, and some blamed himself for agreeing to go to the capital so easily.It seems that I really need to be more careful.

Just talking one by one and listening to each other, Suzhou has arrived.

To Tang Yin's surprise, what greeted him outside the city of Suzhou was not Wen Zhengming's boy named Baichuan, but a man with a round face and a smile.When the man saw him, he was stunned for a moment, then turned his eyes and saw Tang Shen, and immediately smiled cordially, and called out crisply: "Second Lord!"

Tang Shen looked up to see him, and smiled: "Tuanzi, long time no see."

Tuanzi saw that he was very kind, and didn't let them stop to talk about the old days. He flexibly supported the shaft and jumped into the carriage.

Tang Shen smiled and smashed a piece of jade pendant over, and Tuanzi accepted it with a smile, and wagged his tail beside Tang Shen: "Second Master, your writing speed is much slower than what you wrote on the letter, so we asked Yuanzi and I to write the pendant." You've been waiting here in turn, and you're only here today!"

Tang Yin looked at him in surprise when he heard him speak Beijing dialect.Tuanzi glanced at him with a smile, and said with a smile: "Uncle Tang, have you never seen the younger one? The younger one is called Tuanzi, and he is a servant of the Zhu family. Our master and the second master are old friends, so we specially sent the younger one to pick him up." What about you? By the way, Mr. Wenbi is also living in Zhufu."

Tang Shen laughed, and tapped him on the head with a fan: "You're wrong, my elder brother and your master are old friends."

Tuanzi looked at Tang Yin in surprise, and subconsciously spit out a sentence: "I didn't hear what I said... Uh, what, Second Master, everything you entrusted to our master is ready, don't worry."

The expression on Tang Yin's face was a bit weird, he knew only one Zhu family, but why did this guy named Tuanzi and his younger brother mature like this?Moreover, why does my younger brother know someone I have never met?

Tang Shen glanced at him, and said calmly: "He is one of the two servants beside Mr. Zhu Yunming, named Tuanzi. The other named Yuanzi didn't come today."

"Yuanzi and I take turns. It's my turn today." Tuanzi immediately chirped: "These days my master has been waiting at home, and he said that if it wasn't too hot, he would come and wait for you together."

"Forget it." Tang Shen waved his hand, "Little brother is blessed, I can't afford it."

Tuanzi laughed loudly, and chased Tang Shen to ask him how the past few years have been, and how has his foot injury healed?Is Yonglu here? How is Sister Dongyue?Tang Shen seemed very happy to see him, and he answered every question he asked, but he didn't ask how Zhu Yunming was doing, after all, the eldest brother was sitting opposite him.

For Tang Yin, it was impossible for him to forget Zhu Yunming.But after all it has been so long, Tang Yin felt that he could let it go.But seeing Tuanzi today, seeing that he was indifferent to him but so warm to Tang Shen, Tang Yin felt very strange.

In fact, this can't be blamed on Tuanzi, Tuanzi has never met Tang Yin, the people who accompanied Zhu Yunming back to Suzhou were not him and Yuanzi, so he never met Tang Yin.After that, Zhu Yunming didn't mention it to the two of them, so they naturally didn't have any impression.On the other hand, Tang Shen actually lived with them for several days, and after that, he occasionally exchanged letters and gave them gifts during the Chinese New Year. Of course, he got to know them better.

And the dumplings look lively on the surface, but they are actually very cautious.Before he could figure out his master's attitude towards this old Tang family man who was said to be very friendly, it was not easy for him to come forward.As for Tang Shen, it doesn't matter, how familiar they are.

Tang Shen got a headache from the tuanzi's quarrel. Seeing Tang Yin's troubled look again, he beat him with a fan: "You really haven't been on the house for three days. I'm tired. If you quarrel a little bit, I'll cut your tongue. Are you here?" How is Suzhou doing?"

Tuanzi laughed and began to talk about their life after returning to Suzhou.Tang Shen listened casually, while Tang Yin perked up his ears.

Not long after Zhu Yunming returned to Suzhou from Changzhou, Grandpa Zhu resigned and returned home. He came back quickly, otherwise he would fall into the hands of the new emperor.Just because he knew current affairs, the new emperor rewarded him a little bit, and even rewarded him with 3000 taels of silver.Now the serious elder in Su's mansion is the grandpa of the Zhu family, but the grandpa is too lazy to take care of things, and their master is not good at managing things, so the master of the house is basically their master.Who told their grandfather to be his son and grandson? Their grandfather only recognized this one grandson.

After the grandfather came back, he quickly settled on Zhu Yunming's marriage, and they got married not long after. The new wife is a girl from a Suzhou family. Miss, I'm pregnant again now.

Zhu Yunming usually has nothing else to do at home, just take care of housework, tease his precious daughter, bully his concubine brothers, go out from time to time to attract bees and butterflies, and live a very comfortable and carefree life.

The corners of Tang Shen's mouth twitched, and he sighed, "You really are happy."

Just talking like this, Zhu's mansion arrived, and the person who greeted him was Yuanzi and the chief steward of Zhu's family.

Tang Yin got out of the carriage, saw the gate of the Zhu family that had not changed from what he remembered, and was in a daze for a moment.It's just that among the people who greeted him, none of them had ever seen him before.

The chief manager of Zhu's family came back from Beijing, and he didn't know Tang Yin. After being introduced by Tuanzi, he met two people and invited Ann, and invited them in, saying that his master was waiting.

Sure enough, Zhu Yunming was waiting and was talking to Wen Zhengming, when he saw the two coming, he stood up and greeted them with a smile.

When Tang Yin saw Zhu Yunming, he was completely stunned. In his memory, the young man was slender and handsome. When he smiled, his bright eyes shone brightly.Today's man is still slender and good-looking, but his smiling appearance is much more stable, but he still has a pair of peach blossom eyes, red lips lightly raised, and his frowns and smiles are just right.Wearing a solemn dark blue gown, holding a jade bone silk fan, when striding over, her hair fluttered lightly, elegant and beautiful.

When the eyes met, the deep and bright eyes stared at him as in the memory, and the love was as deep as the sea.

While Tang Yin was still at a loss, Tang Shen said bluntly: "You didn't tell me that you have a daughter."

Zhu Yunming glanced at Tang Yin, walked up to Tang Shen with a smile and said unceremoniously: "You have to know what that does, I won't marry my daughter to you."

Tang Shen gave him a hard look, Zhu Yunming laughed loudly: "That girl is sleeping now, when she wakes up, I will give you a hug to play with." Then she turned to look at Tang Yin, nodded with a chuckle, "Brother Tang, long time no see."

Tang Yin's expression froze for a while, and finally he showed a smile: "Brother Zhu, long time...no see."

Only then did Zhu Yunming pull Tang Shen to go inside: "Let's go in and talk, the weather is so hot this month, I asked someone to make some mung bean soup, and I chilled it early, I remember you still like to drink it .”

Tang Shen looked back at his elder brother with some embarrassment, seeing Tang Yinzheng and Wen Zhengming following them talking and laughing, he had no choice but to say to Zhu Yunming: "My elder brother won't eat you, why run away?"

Zhu Yunming blinked at him and said softly, "I'm not afraid that your elder brother will be uncomfortable."

Tang Shen sighed and sat down on the chair beside him, "You know it will be uncomfortable."

"If you hadn't written to ask me to help with the boat, I would not have planned to meet him for the time being." Zhu Yunming glanced at Tang Yin, who kept talking to Wen Zhengming with his head slightly lowered, without even looking at himself, which made Zhu Yunming Also embarrassed to speak.

Tang Shen leaned back on the chair and took out his fan to shake the wind: "I asked you to help with the boat, but I didn't ask you to help us stay in Zhu's house."

Zhu Yunming couldn't help laughing: "It's good for you to help you save money, you are so ungrateful."

"I don't dare to accept your favor." Tang Shen took the mung bean soup handed by the dumpling and drank most of it in one gulp: "My God, why is it so hot?"

"It's going to rain, and it won't be hot when it rains." Zhu Yunming smiled and handed him the handkerchief, "You're still wearing so many clothes because you're afraid of the heat."

"Only two pieces. If I take them off again, I won't be able to go out." Tang Shen then finished the soup and handed the bowl to Tuanzi: "Duanzi, please bring me another bowl."

Tuanzi hurriedly ran down, Tang Shen supported his chin and fanned himself, looking Zhu Yunming up and down.This man still looks handsome, but his temperament is more rounded, and he no longer has such a stinging feeling. "Are you really not going this time?"

"The capital? Don't go." Zhu Yunming said with a smile: "It's the same as what I wrote in the letter to you. The capital is not very peaceful now, especially if I am like me."

Tang Shen nodded, and saw Tuanzi running towards him with a bowl full of soup. After drinking it, he finally felt the heat from the stuffy carriage radiated from his pores, making him feel much refreshed from the inside out.

Zhu Yunming was chatting with Tang Yin, because he heard Wen Zhengming talking about the itinerary with Tang Yin, so he naturally interrupted to talk about the arrangements.

He knew that the two were going to the capital after receiving Tang Shen's letter.Tang Shen asked him to help arrange a boat to take them to Beijing.

In fact, although the waterway is faster than the land, the safety issue is always very worrying.By land, as long as you go north along the official road and don't take side roads, there are still a few people who dare to rob on the road, and your safety is guaranteed.But the waterway is different. If something happens, it will be very troublesome, and no one will answer for help.

But if you follow a large fleet, it is different. The large ship is safe and stable, and there are many people guarding the ship. The way back and forth is familiar and you will not encounter accidents. Rob, as long as you can entrust the relationship to board the ship, everything will be fine.

Tang Shen asked Zhu Yunming to arrange such a boat. Zhu Yunming often travels to and from the capital city of Suzhou, so he naturally has his own connections. It is very convenient to arrange for two candidates to board the boat.

Hearing from Zhu Yunming that everything had been arranged and they were only waiting to board the ship five days later, both of them were extremely grateful.Zhu Yunming smiled and said that you are welcome, and said with great regret that he had to give up this scientific examination because of something at home, and it was a pity that he could not continue to compete with the two of them.Both of them were deceived by him, and they persuaded him together, saying that he has outstanding talent, and he will definitely be named on the gold list in the future.

Tang Shen, who was sitting next to him, had no other thoughts other than rolling his eyes.