June day, the sun shines brightly the next moment, and the rain falls sharply, and the city of Chang'an is a little panicked.

The crackling sound of firecrackers came on the street.

"What's wrong at this time?" The street people who were sheltering from the rain looked out in the corridor and saw several servants running by in the rain and fog on the street, throwing firecrackers along the way, and blowing the rainwater away.

Seeing these servants, people in Chang'an City are not unfamiliar with them.

"It's the Guo family again."

"Ah, is Xue Qing the top scorer?"

The results of the test in early May were calculated as time should be heard. They asked without caring about the rain and soon learned that they had won the top spot and became Huiyuan.

Not the top scorer.

Huiyuan is basically the top scorer, and it is just the last palace examination.

I asked questions and explained them if I knew it. The noisy and lively momentarily seemed to scare the rain, so the clouds dissipated and the rain closed, and there were more people on the street.

"This is a big three yuan...it's amazing."

"Not one more."

"And Huiyuanna is thrilling. Go quickly. There is a storyteller from the capital in front of the Liu family to talk about this."

Half of the people from Chang'an City rushed to the Liu family mansion. Guo Baoer threw off the straw raincoat on his body and shouted angrily: "What do you care about them! It seems that Xue Qing is from their family." He rushed in angrily. Guo Huaichun and the second and third masters of Guo Er and the third master were sitting in the room and talking with a smile. Guo Baoer ignored the servant's obstruction and rushed in.

"Dad, did you hear it?" she shouted.

"Did Xue Qing fight a hundred people by one?" Mr. Guo Er patted the handrail and said with a proud look, "We have heard of it."

Guo Baoer said, "Uncle, who cares about that? Xue Qing is actually hang out with that little bitch Chunxiao."

Who cares about that... Mr. Guo Er clenched his beard and laughed dryly.

Guo Huaichun glared at Guo Baoer, nodded to Mr. Guo Er and Master Guo San and said, "You go, as agreed, you can do it."

Mr. Guo Er and Mr. Guo San stood up in response. When Mr. Guo San passed by Guo Baoer, he smiled and squeezed: "Baoer, what are you anxious for? Xue Qing is yours next month."

Guo Baoer snorted and turned his head: "I don't want him."

Mr. Guo San cried and said, "Baoer, you can't do this. Why does Xue Qing always run to the brothel? That Chunxiao is gentle..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Master Guo Er, "Stop talking nonsense, do things." He pulled him away.

Guo Baoer stomped his feet and called out to Dad: "Look at Xue Qing, no one looks at what he looks like in the capital!"

Guo Huaichun said: "Then I'll take you to see him."

Guo Baoer said, "I told me to go, you won't let you go... Hey?" He stared at him and took a step forward, "Dad, what did you say?"

Guo Huaichun said: "I will ask your second and third uncles to buy you a dowry, and you and I will go to Beijing to pick up Xue Qing."

Guo Baoer's eyes lit up, his mouth slowly opened, and he let out a whistle, turned around and left: "I'll clean up now." The person said that, he had already stepped across the threshold in three or two steps, jumped off the steps and ran away.

The girls who were standing in the corridor waiting had not come back to their senses.

Guo Huaichun shook his head and turned inward.

......

......

The footsteps were mixed with the shouts of the young lady, and the girls' play made the Guo family noisy. Mr. Guo Er and Mr. Guo San looked back.

"Baoer's temperament is so irresistible that Xue Qing."

"Scholars are cunning, and Xue Qing is the most cunning among scholars..."

"How can you say you're cunning? That's amazing."

"No matter what, he can't escape anyway."

"That's right. My brother has invested a lot this time and actually asked us to go out to buy the dowry together."

"Yes, just go there, and you can also go with your family. It's too much money."

The two masters spoke, but there was no sign of pain on their faces. Instead, they were flirting with each other. They hadn't gone out for a long time.

"This time I'll send Xue Qing a blessing..."

The two looked at each other and laughed.

Compared to the Guo family, the noise in front of the Liu family was shaking. On the platform, it was not the most popular shirtless sumo wrestler in the Liu family, but a goatee man, holding a folding fan in his hand and dancing.

"...Then Xue Huiyuan stood at the stairs at the entrance of the stairs..."

"...Who will? Please give a question!"

"...The pen is like a knife and a knife...it's done in one go...take it..."

The storyteller stood up and made a gesture of writing in front of several cases. The speech of the capital city speech made the vast crowd in front of the Liu family listen in as if they were intoxicated.

This storyteller was sent by the Liu family from the capital.

"...The written article is hung on the screen and recite..."

The Storyteller did not read it, and the people present did not listen to this.

"...The whole seat is shocked...Oh, I'm showing off my aggression and humiliating myself. The scholar threw down his pen and covered his face..."

Looking at the exaggerated imitation of the storyteller on the high platform, the people burst into laughter, and Old Master Liu, who was sitting in the front chair with a golden ball, also laughed generously.

"I actually want to plot against this kid. Poor, I don't know that this kid is the best at plotting against others." He said.

A master next to him didn't understand and wanted to make fun of him, "Who are you talking about, Dad?"

Old Master Liu glared at him: "Silly."

"Is Chunyang? How could that happen?" The master was surprised and uneasy, "He is very obedient. He was won this time and became a Jinshi... Thanks to you, Dad... How much did you spend this time?"

Old Master Liu said, "Get out, we Chunyang passed the exam by ourselves, and we never need to spend money."

So what was spent before? But the master understood this time, and he shrank his head and retreated. The other masters behind him gloated.

"San brother, give up... Don't think that your father is expensive by his son..."

"Dad only likes Chunyang..."

The people of the Liu family were all enjoying the fun and noisy.

Because of different preferences, the storyteller only talked about the scenes of Xue Qing's writing but did not tell the articles. In Zhizhi Hall at the foot of Liudaoquan Mountain, all his eyes were concentrated on the thick paper taken out by Guo Ziqian in front of him.

At this time, everyone was not in the cottage, but under the big locust tree at the door. After the heavy rain, the world was clear, and the big tree was surrounded by people, either white hair or young, with green shirts, long robes and cloth clothes.

Guo Ziqian stood in the front, with the young people from Zhizhitang and the students from Liudao Quanshan Society scattering around.

"This is the first article written by Xue Qing... Everyone will read it separately..."

"In addition to Xue Qing's, everyone has written articles. Let's listen to them together and analyze the pros and cons."

"Who will read the first one?"

A young man was given the permission of Guo Ziqian. He took the paper with excitement and started to recite it. Because his nervous voice trembled, but the people present did not laugh at him, but listened attentively.

The young master's voice was not as good as that. Nuannuan squatted on the grass and thought, and then concentrated on licking the candy man in her hand.

Someone pinched her braid.

"You stepped on me..." Nuannuan said biting the candy man, and she was gently patted her head before she finished speaking.

"Go to play there." Le Ting said, "It's too sunny here, be careful to feel dizzy."

Nuannuan said with a whisper, "Young Master Leting, are you here to listen to my young master's articles?"

Leting looked at the vast crowd over there, and looked excited, thinking, or flirting with his eyebrows...

"I don't listen anymore, I can't understand it now." He smiled.

Nuannuan said, "Then you listen in the future."

Leting smiled and was about to walk away. There were chaotic footsteps on the other side of the mountain road. It was a few gentlemen from the society. Leting stopped to salute.

"What's wrong?" asked Mr. Zhou, who was in charge.

A young man over there finished reading one, and when he saw the gentlemen here, he said hello.

"It's the article that Xue Qing was the first talent of the public senator." Guo Ziqian came over and said.

Mr. Zhou suddenly said, "I heard about this."

The other gentlemen also nodded.

"Those are those articles."

“Have done well and done well.”

"It's great to prove that you are not humble or arrogant."

Guo Ziqian said enthusiastically: "Mr. Zhou, I have compiled a copy for you and Mr. Yan, and I will send it in a while."

Mr. Zhou and Mr. Yan both taught Xue Qing. The gentlemen present knew very well that they were half-true and half-false to joke about them and expressed jealousy. Mr. Yan never talked much, and Mr. Zhou smiled and refused to respect him.

"Just give it to me, I'll read it later." He said, "I've read his articles in the Imperial College and have improved a lot."
To be continued...