Rebirth of the Golden Bastard

Let's say that after Si Kongming left, he immediately found someone to investigate the background of Xia Cangqiao and the Xia family, but the investigation found nothing except that the Xia family had been businessmen for generations and they were all loyal to the royal family.He sat on his favorite wood-carved recliner with a puzzled face, covered with black and white striped tiger skin and snowy fox skin under his feet, and the personal attendant next to him said respectfully: "If the eldest prince cares so much, why not send a How many people are going to ambush Xia Cangqiao?"

Si Kongming clicked his tongue, "Do you think Xia Yunqing is dead? He is Yingyou's favorite disciple. Among the attendants, Nan Xun who is next to the ninth brother may be the only one who can draw with him. You guys can only show it decoration."

The attendant's expression was not good, but he still said: "Your servant should die." Then he withdrew.

Let go of Si Kongming's crooked ideas and not mention it, just say that Cang Qiao has been bored recently.For half a month, he accompanied Tang Ben and his party all over Yilan. Pu Mingze finally got used to Cang Qiao's way of speaking, and now he has perfected the ability of "the wind is too strong to hear".In half a month, the annual scientific examination in Yilan will start. Cang Qiao found that there are more and more scholars in Yilan. They all look the same: green shirts and white crowns, carrying a bookcase to read It looks weak and weak.

"Why didn't you look at the martial arts practitioners?" Cang Qiao was puzzled, "Didn't you say that you still want to choose the champion of martial arts?"

"The time of the scientific examination is different." Xia Yunqing explained next to him, "The literary examination is in summer every year, and the military examination is in winter."

Cang Qiao nodded, but it was true, the entire capital city of the literary test alone was occupied by scholars. If they were put together, there would be people hanging on the walls of Yilan City.

"Once a year..." Cang Qiao was sitting on the roof of the Xia Mansion, staring at the bustling streets outside in a daze.

Xia Yunqing sat next to him, the two came up to enjoy the cool breeze, and Gu Xiao sat behind them holding a big umbrella for the young masters.Gu Xiao tilted her head to look at Cang Qiao, "Master, do you want to take the exam too?"

"Me?" Cang Qiao raised her eyebrows exaggeratedly, "Are you trying to ridicule me?"

Gu Xiao quickly shook her head, "No, young master, I think the current young master's exam must be fine!"

"Examinations and cleverness are two different things." Cang Qiao shook her head, but Xia Yunqing smiled: "You also know that you are clever?"

Cang Qiao squinted at him, "What about you? Why don't you go to the martial arts exam?"

"Because it's not necessary." Xia Yunqing replied very simply, "I don't like being an official."

Cang Qiao let out a long "hmm", and then his eyes fell on a familiar person outside the wall.

"Oh, little Shenyang." He smiled and said, "This is a guest from Feng Yasong's family. I heard that he is also here for the exam. He arrived two months earlier."

"Smart way." Xia Yunqing nodded, "All the inns in Yilan are already full, so it's a good thing to come early."

"What is he doing?" Cang Qiao looked left and right, "At this time, others are desperately reading, and he is still selling his paintings..."

Xia Yunqing also looked over, and saw that Shen Yang was sitting cross-legged on the ground, with a pile of calligraphy and painting folding fans on the ground, it really looked like he was doing business.

The two of them were watching, and they saw three or five groups of scholars coming not far away, the one walking in front was a bit high-spirited, and looked like he was dressed as a young master from a rich family, with a face full of Childish, not tall.

They were talking and laughing, and they walked to the calligraphy and painting booth in Shenyang in a blink of an eye. The leader stopped and looked down at the calligraphy and painting.

"Such an ugly character is still being sold?" He said suddenly.

Shen Yang was dozing off behind the calligraphy and painting, but suddenly woke up, and looked up at the young man in front of him.Seeing the disdain on the other side's face and the appearance of a Wen Sheng, he stood up and gave a salute, "What advice do you have, my lord?"

The man was not annoyed when he saw Shen Yang, he just looked at him with a smile and felt a little displeased.His eyes turned around on those calligraphy and paintings, and he picked up a copybook, "Shenyang?" He looked at the signature below, flipped through the content of the copybook and said, "The pen is weak."

Shen Yang looked at him, and then took the copybook back to look at it, "Young master, it seems that there are a few words that are not quite right..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a familiar voice, "Xiao Shenyang, when I say you are calligraphy and painting, you jump and curse at others, and others say you have a good temper!"

Shen Yang Xunsheng raised his head, and saw two people sitting on the opposite roof, one of them was Cang Qiao.At this time Xia Yunqing had already grabbed Cang Qiao's waist and jumped off the roof, leaving Gu Xiaoxiao on the roof with a sad face.Gu Xiao lay on the eaves and shouted into the courtyard of the Xia Mansion: "Mother Wang! Help me get the ladder!" While shouting, she was still thinking in her heart that she would never go to the room with the young masters next time!

Two people suddenly fell from the roof, which also startled the group of scholars.Not to mention Cang Qiao's gorgeous body, Xia Yunqing's expressionless face exudes a restrained atmosphere, like a sword hidden in a scabbard.The speaker stared blankly at Xia Yunqing for a while and suddenly came back to his senses, coughed and his ears turned red.

"Let's go." He opened his fan and walked around Cang Qiao to leave, but he didn't want Cang Qiao to grab his wrist.

"Hey brother." Cang Qiao leaned forward with a smile, "You want to leave after belittling people?"

Xia Yunqing frowned, took Cang Qiao's other hand, "Brother, don't cause trouble."

Shen Yang also waved his hands, "It's a good thing to be able to discuss with each other, don't be angry, Young Master Xia."

Cang Qiao cut, and then let go of the man.The man was angry, turned his head to Shen Yang and said, "Remember it! My name is Fang Xing! The winner will be decided in the scientific examination field!"

Shen Yang cracked his mouth and smiled: "Remember, Brother Fang."

"Who is your brother?!" Fang Xing snorted, turned around and led the other scholars away.

Cang Qiao turned her head to look at Shen Yang and Xia Yunqing, "Literati are different, it's not like I can't agree on three sentences and just fight..."

Before the words finished, Xia Yunqing looked over in disapproval.Cang Qiao pursed her lips, feeling very displeased, "What's the matter? Seeing how tender she is, you want to protect her?"

Xia Yunqing was taken aback for a moment, and said blankly, "Where do you start with this?"

Shen Yang nodded, "That President Fang is quite cute, but he has a bad temper." Then he looked at Cang Qiao, "It looks a bit like you."

"Like fart!" Cang Qiao glared at him, "I am number one in the world!"

Shen Yang laughed out loud, shook his head and squatted down to pick up the calligraphy and paintings on the ground, wrapped them in a bundle, and prepared to leave.He tidied it up quickly, and after counting it, he found that a picture of a beauty was missing. When he looked up, he saw Xia Yunqing was holding that picture and frowning at it.

"Second Young Master Xia." He picked up his burden and stretched out his hand to look at Xia Yunqing.

Xia Yunqing looked up at him, "Did you draw this painting?"

"Ah?" Shen Yang was puzzled, "The calligraphy and paintings here are all made by my own hands."

Xia Yunqing turned the painting over to face him, and pointed to one of the places, "Have you seen this thing before?"

Shen Yang followed his fingers to look down, the beauties in the picture of beauties were smiling brightly, but Xia Yunqing was pointing to the ornaments on the waist of the pictures.It was a square ring with a hollow in the middle, only small totems carved on both sides, and long tassels hanging underneath.

Shen Yang rubbed his chin, "Well... I should have seen it before."

Xia Yunqing suddenly brought Cang Qiao up to him, and stretched out her finger, "Is the one in the painting the same as this one?"

Shen Yang looked in the direction he pointed again, and saw that Cang Qiao was also wearing the same ring on his belt.Square, hollow... Shen Yang looked at the painting on the left, and Cang Qiao on the right, and finally nodded, "It's the same!"

Xia Yunqing said seriously: "Where did you see this thing?" This ornament has been worn by Cang Qiao since she was a child, how could she see it in other places?

Shen Yang thought for a while, "Last year? The year before last? Oh, I went to a lot of places. Most of the calligraphy and paintings were made during my travels. I don't remember where exactly."

Xia Yunqing looked at him darkly, "Please remember."

Shen Yang nodded quickly, "I must think about it!"

"Can I take this painting?" Xia Yunqing asked.

Shen Yang was in a dilemma, "This can't be done, it's all my hard work..." Before he finished speaking, a silver ingot was raised in front of his eyes.Cang Qiao squinted at him, "Aren't you selling paintings? Can I buy them?"

Shen Yang chuckled, "Success!"

After Shenyang left, Xia Yunqing put away the painting and turned to look at Cang Qiao's wrinkled expression like a bun.He said helplessly, "Aren't you happy?"

Cang Qiao snorted, "You must see that the little brother looks good!"

Xia Yunqing didn't know whether to laugh or cry, she took Cang Qiao's hand and walked to the other side, "Are you hungry? Let's go eat the fried tofu at the alley?"

Cang Qiao liked the fried tofu at the entrance of the alley very much. Although she was not happy with it, she followed Xia Yunqing.Just after turning the corner of the alley, I saw that the fried tofu shop was surrounded by a group of scholars.Take a closer look, isn't that the Fang Xing gang just now?

"Take my tofu!" In fact, he was obviously an irrelevant person, but for some reason Cang Qiao felt a little uncomfortable when he first saw him.

The scholar turned his head and saw Cang Qiao, he said something to the people beside him, and they laughed and walked towards the other side of the alley.Cang Qiao looked back at Xia Yunqing, "He just laughed at me!"

Xia Yunqing paid for tofu and nodded, "It's his fault."

Cang Qiao frowned, "You never let people speak ill of me."

Xia Yunqing took the tofu and stuffed it into Cang Qiao's hand, "He didn't say anything bad about you. I have good ears, so I listened."

"Then what did he say?"

"He said..." Xia Yunqing coughed and said, "We look like a good match."

"Ah?" Cang Qiao was stunned suddenly, and seeing Xia Yunqing's uncontrollable joy on his face, he blushed, "That kid, what nonsense are you talking..." But he has a good eye.snort.

The fried tofu successfully diverted their eyes, and the two walked in opposite directions, but after a few steps, Xia Yunqing suddenly stopped.

"The smell of blood." Xia Yunqing turned her head and jumped towards the place where the scholar had just left. Cang Qiao hurriedly followed behind. Turning around the alley, Fang Xing was running back.The young man ran into Xia Yunqing's arms without thinking, his hands seemed to be grabbing a life-saving straw, and he would not let go.

"Kill, kill..." He said incoherently, "Killed!"

Xia Yunqing frowned, handed him over to Cang Qiao and rushed out of the alley.Not far away, several scholars fell into a pool of blood, and fried tofu fell to the ground.He jumped up to the roof and looked around, but he didn't see any suspicious person. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Cang Qiao coming out of the alley, carrying his clothes and running in front of the scholars, stretching out his hand to sniff.

The snow-white clothes and white boots looked a little glaring with blood stains on them.Fang Xing followed behind with tears in his eyes, "Dead...dead...dead?"

Cang Qiao stood up and sighed, "Dead."

Fang Xing was stunned for a moment, and then his shoulders trembled. Cang Qiao couldn't bear to see him like that, and just wanted to raise his hand to touch his head to comfort him, but Fang Xing suddenly shouted: "Murderer!" Pointing straight at Cang Qiao, Cang Qiao was stunned for a moment, and the first thought in her mind was——No way!Come again!

Xia Yunqing jumped off the roof at this time, looked at Fang Xing with a sullen face, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

At the far end, someone from the yamen had already run over, and Fang Xing said, "I know who he is, he is the most arrogant and domineering person in Xia Cangqiao's capital!" As he spoke, he looked at Cang Qiao with hatred on his face Said: "If I had known that you would treat Wang Fa as nothing, I shouldn't have provoked you. It's all because I'm too conceited to let them..." As he spoke, Dou Da's tears fell to the ground one by one.

Cang Qiao looked at him expressionlessly, and said in her heart: That's really good, I'm going to believe it's true.

When I was thinking about it, I felt my feet were off the ground, and in the blink of an eye, it was Xia Yunqing's enlarged face.The man picked him up and walked outside the pool of blood, as if he didn't hear Fang Xing's accusation at all, he just said, "The shoes are dirty."