The sun is thinning out, the setting sun like a springtime spirited girl at the corner to see the beloved lover, all of a sudden put away the blinding light, hide themselves outside the palace walls, revealing only half of the shy red face, a rare tenderness.
Located in the West Garden of the Longevity Palace, the roof is a piece of glazed tiles, in the light of the setting sun’s afterglow, floating light jumping gold, far away from the view, as if inlaid in the golden sea.
Although at this time when the sunset dusk, but the light is still quite bright, but the longevity of the Palace of the outer hall has been lit a number of exquisite octagonal auspicious Palace lamps, similar in shape to the long letter Palace lamps, is also a palace maid kneeling to hold the lamp shape, but the palace maid carved lifelike, Palace lamps inside the fuel is the invention of the Northern Song Shen Kuo a kind of imperial animal fats and oils mixed with paraffin fuel, smokeless, dust-free; in the octagonal lamps in each of the four sides also hung sixNight Pearl, uniform refraction of light, shining the entire outer hall of the Palace of Longevity a bright light.
Daming first auxiliary Yan Song, second auxiliary Xu Ji, as well as Li Chunfang and others, in the bright lights of the outer hall of the Palace of longevity, the mood is also gradually brightened up.
They are more optimistic about the introduction of the second green words, especially the first auxiliary Yan Song, serious and heavy day’s face also stretched the folds, like the South Pole Immortal Weng, and kindly with a faint smile.
Yan Song on his son Yan Shifan knife Qing words is very satisfied, this one Qing words in Yan Song view, whether it is the intention or literary style are excellent, is Yan Song this day read the best of the Qing words.
Xu step, Li Chunfang and others are also more optimistic.
“Hua Ting, I see that this second article of yours has an excellent outline of intention, and is three times more elegant than the first.”Yan Song looked at Xu Shi with a smile and said, “This time when can get the heart of the saint.”
“The pavilion elder fallacious praise, if say intention outline, the pavilion elder’s article ingenuity, far better than order ten times.”Xu step smiled and shook his head, in turn, Yan Song’s article is highly esteemed.
After Xu step said, Li Chunfang and other people also to Yan Song’s article esteem.
Yan Song modestly smiled and shook his head.
Yan Song is very confident in this batch of incoming articles, and the worry in his heart about Emperor Jiajing has gone for the most part, and he can also be distracted from other things.
“Hua Ting, I heard Wen Hua mention some time ago that you intend to recommend Nie Bao to be recalled to serve at the court?”After talking about the article, Yan Song stroked his beard, slightly narrowed his eyes and looked at Xu Shi and asked, his tone was casual and did not have the intention of raising an offence.
“I was about to seek an opportunity to talk to the pavilion elder about this matter.”Xu step while slightly smiling back, while getting up and holding the teapot to Yan Song filled with tea.
Yan Song held the teacup in one hand, looked at Xu Shi pouring the tea, nodded slightly, his face was as kind as ever.
“Oh, speaking of which I’m not afraid of the pavilion elder’s joke, if it’s strictly speaking, I should also call the pavilion elder tai shi.”After pouring the tea for Yan Song, Xu Yi sat down in front of Yan Song and said with a flirtatious tone of voice with a smile.
“Oh?”Yan Song pretended to be puzzled.
“The court may not know, Nie Bao Nie adults and I have no master and disciple name, but there are master and disciple reality, when I was young, into the Huating county school, and Huating governor is Nie Shi, Nie Shi many times in the county school to teach me and other students, I often ask Nie Shi to learn; also many times listen to Nie Shi mentioned the Court of the old man, Nie Shi said that he was just moral twelve years of the examination, the chief examiner is exactly the Court of the old man, the Court of the old man is the Nie Shi’s master, and the teacher is my teacher, and the old man is Nie Shi’s master.Nie master and is my teacher, so strictly on it, order is not that should be called pavilion old for the master, huh ……”Xu step smiled and ran through his relationship with Nie Bao, Yan Song briefly, finished also smiled and executed a student salute to Yan Song.
“Hua Ting you ah ……”Yan Song smiled and shook his head, Xu step’s low posture let Yan Song heart of the mustard and reduced a few points.
“How did Nie Bao mention me to you?”Yan Song asked.
Although Nie Bao is Yan Song’s student, in fact, Yan Song on Nie Bao this student is not much like, mainly Nie Bao this person is upright, when in the dynasty when the eyes of some officials and phenomena, impeach others at every turn, offend people more, on the one hand, even dragged down Yan Song, on the other hand, Yan Song also has some subordinate officials were Nie Bao impeached.
At first, Yan Song was very appreciative of this country party students, much to promote, gradually is hate iron, and then gradually on the dislike.
“Nie division said, he and the pavilion is the countryside, and is the pavilion students, after the entrance examination quite by the pavilion care.”Xu step back.
“Confused, old man and is not nepotism person, but is to see in him there are a few points of talent to mention one or two just.”Yan Song slightly narrowed his eyes, falsely rebuked.
“Of course, I am not unaware of Pavilion Elder’s character, I recommend Nie division, nor is it in the way of such and such relationship. Mainly because of the merits of the Nie division, Nie division during the foreign office, build a lot of, outstanding achievements, in the court a number of officials have recommended the Nie division, give the matter in the tour of Zhende three times recommended the Nie division, another eight to the Nie division outside the place of the governor and the inspector general of the officials in the form of zhangzhang recommended the Nie division, this is also the Meicun (yan song’s godson zhao wenhua) and I said. In addition, twenty-one years in the north of the enemy chief I Ta rate of tens of thousands of northern captives attacked Shanxi, passed by the place, my border troops or flee, or avoiding the war, the enemy chief I Ta led the army into no one’s territory, and even Weng Wanda Weng adults guarded Datong also avoided the war, the whole of Shanxi, only Nie division stationed in the Pingyang Province, the power to resist the enemy chiefs invasion. His Majesty custom ‘all internal and external officials no matter how big or small, all to six years for the full, virtuous and outstanding, super pew’, Nie division assessment period to, so I have such considerations are looking for an opportunity to teach the court to decide it.”Xu step squarely back to report said.
Yan Song did not open his mouth, but picked up the teacup, gently sip a mouthful of tea.
“In fact, strictly speaking, it is not to recall Master Nie back to the court, but to consider recommending Master Nie to patrol Shuntian.”Xu Shi added another sentence.
“According to the rules there is no impossibility, but Nie Bao is my student, can’t let people think that I, Yan Mou, is nepotistic, still need to think carefully, some other day you come to my residence to discuss this matter again.”Yan Song nodded slightly and sent a mouthful to Xu Shi’s look of recommending Nie Bao.
“Dare not follow orders, when the time comes, I’m afraid I’ll have to take advantage of another meal from the pavilion elder.”Xu Shi smiled and answered with an arch, his eyes flickered with a brilliant light.
The matter was satisfactorily resolved, Yan Song and Xu Yi laughed and talked about other things in low voices, occasionally whispering a few sentences with Li Chunfang and others.
Of course, in the time of whispering and laughing, the crowd is also from time to time to pay attention to the movement of the inner temple, like a confident and excellent students who have handed in the paper, waiting for the teacher to read the paper and read out the results.
Yan Maoqing is the most attentive to the movement of the inner temple, but he is not confident in his own article, but the article of Zhu Pingan, “confident”, a kneeling in front of the Buddha for 3,000 years, oh, this “no one in the past and no one in the future”,”Let a person bright” masterpiece, Yan Maoqing again have confidence but.
