The sky was getting darker, but two rows of lanterns were lit down the Wangjiang Tower, illuminating a bamboo forest with colorful lights and shadows.

The banquet of the prefect Lin has been set up. The climate has been very good recently. Although the wind is strong by the river, it looks cool.

From the afternoon, the servants of the prefect's family began to get busy. The bamboo mats purchased from Qingshen were laid underground, with auspicious patterns such as bats, orchids, and carp, which looked extremely exquisite.

But compared with the Shu embroidered silk silk hanging on both sides as curtains, it is still a bit worse.

The thin and almost transparent silk flew up and down in the warm wind, and the butterflies and bees embroidered on it seemed to come alive, swirling and dancing in the light, changing in different colors.

Even though they were knowledgeable, the scholars attending the meeting were still stunned by the scenery in front of them.

Even the exquisite foods such as elegant fish, bamboo pupa and moon bear paw that were sent as priced as flowing water have forgotten to enjoy.

Wealth is the real atmosphere of wealth and honor!

In the three years, the Qing Dynasty prefect had 100,000 silver silver, not to mention the fertile land of Chengdu, which was only in the two capitals and Huaiyang. The prefect Lin was born into a prominent family and was determined to study and advance from a young age. Unfortunately, his luck was not good, and his fame stopped being a juren. In desperation, he had to go to the streets and become an official.

With the support of a close old man in the court, his career was smooth, and now he is the prefect of the Grand Mansion. Unfortunately, this person likes money a little, and he has made some money as an official in Chengdu, and he is very rich, and his daily expenses are extremely extravagant.

There are not many people attending this banquet today, only forty or fifty, but they are all young talents with fame. The luxury of this banquet is three points better than the Tang Family Poetry Club.

The banquet has not officially begun, but the celebrities from Chengdu Prefecture have all sat on bamboo mats in groups of three or three and drank and talked. The lights are floating, showing elegance.

On the second floor of Wangjiang Tower, Wu Lun was talking with a 17 or 18-year-old young scholar with a flattering look on his face: "Brother Zhiqin came from the capital to visit his relatives this time, and he must have worked hard all the way. However, if there is nothing else in our Sichuan, we have produced a lot of fine wine. For example, Shaochun in Jiannan and Shuijingfang in the city. Brother Su Wen is good wine, and Wu Lun specially sent two jars, which is not worthy of respect."

"Haha, Mingqing is intent." The young scholar of seventeen or eighteen nodded slightly with a proud face. This person was Lin Tingchen, the cousin of the prefect of Chengdu, whose courtesy name was Zhiqin. He was born with red lips and white teeth, wearing a scholarly shirt, standing with Wu Lun, both of them were elegant and handsome.

Lin Tingchen said again: "I like the wine in Shu very much. Even though I have been poor all the way, I have been very difficult to walk on. I finally arrived in Chengdu, but there was nothing surprising. Others say that Chengdu is Jinguan City, but I thought it was full of beauty everywhere, hum."

As he spoke, he sneered contemptuously: "Wangjiang Tower should be the most beautiful place in Chengdu, and I think that's it."

In his words, he tried his best to belittle Chengdu. The servants next to him were all locals, all of whom showed resentment.

Wu Lun said: "Brother Zhiqin said that Chengdu is just an ordinary big city. The Jinguan City does not mean that there are brocades everywhere, but that it is a distribution center for Shu brocade. Speaking of the scenery, there is another wonder in Wangjiang Tower."

He pointed to the bamboo forest below and said, "Those bamboos are very strange. The bamboos elsewhere are round, while the bamboos here are square."

“It’s nothing great.”

"That's it, that's it." Wu Lun echoed in congratulations. When the slaves heard it, they felt even more unhappy. The eyes of Wu Lun were full of contempt.

Lin Tingchen belittled Sichuan for a long time in his words before pretending to be depressed: "There is still half a year to go to the autumn examination. I am preparing for the exam in my hometown, but my brother came to Chengdu with a letter, saying that he would stay in Chengdu for a while and then go to the capital. It is a long journey, and the road is difficult, so I can do this in one go."

Lin Tingchen and Prefect Lin’s hometown are in Guizhou. Along the way, he has really struggled.

Wu Lun is such a perceived person. Knowing that Lin Ting Chen had something in his words, he immediately pretended to be curious and asked, "Brother Zhiqin is from Guizhou, and he is about to be in Qiuwei. Why do you want to go to the capital? What should you do if you delay your future?"

Lin Tingchen immediately pretended to be mysterious and whispered to Wu Lun: "It's this reason. I'm not to hide it from Mingqing. I have transferred my household registration to the capital. The capital is a place where dragons and tigers are hidden, and the competition is fierce. If I were in Guizhou, it would be easy to take this autumn exam this year. But if I go to the capital, things will be hard to say."

"Ah, I changed my family to the capital. Why is this? I can't figure it out no matter how I think about it. Others transferring my family to remote areas. Why do I have to go to the prosperous place in the capital to join in the fun? However, it's very difficult to transfer my family to the capital, and I don't know how you did it." Wu Lun was a little surprised, and he was confused, and he couldn't figure it out anyway.

It turned out that the admission quotas for each province in the Ming Dynasty had a limit on the provincial examination, and there were discounts for remote provinces. On the contrary, there were many restrictions on places where cultural prosperity in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Otherwise, if there were no restrictions on places such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang, if there were no restrictions on the quotas for him, thousands of juren will be given a year, and other provinces will only have to stare at him.

However, there are policies from the top and countermeasures from the bottom. Many candidates will transfer their household registration to remote areas during the year of the exam. They think more confidently, which is quite like immigration to the college entrance examination in later generations.

This incident is strange today. Lin Tingchen is not alone in the Guizhou exam area, but he is going to Shuntian Mansion to squeeze into a single-plank bridge with the same group of exam experts. Is it worth it?

Without answering why he changed his family, Lin Ting and Chen Gao smiled mysteriously: "It's just a transfer, so why is it difficult? My brother is a disciple of Taifu Lu."

"Teacher Lu, which Taifu Lu?"

Lin Tingchen sneered, looked at Wu Lun with contempt, and said intently: It turns out that he is a local bun, and he doesn't know anything.

Lin Tingchen: "Crown Prince's tutor, Crown Prince's tutor, Crown Prince's tutor, Crown Prince's tutor, who do you think it is?"

"Ah, Duke Lu, commander Lu Gongbing of the Jinyiwei!" Wu Lun stuttered, and sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead.

Lin Tingchen deliberately changed his face and said in a deep voice: "Ming You and I have said it very much. You and I can be regarded as the same as before. The reason for this matter is that it can be heard from me and you must not be like someone else's ears. That's right, if you go to the capital, maybe I really can't win the Juren. However, it doesn't matter whether you are a Juren or not."

"That's right, that's right, with the support of Mr. Lu, what is the mere juren's fame?" Wu Lu praised repeatedly.

"No, although I am supported by Mr. Lu, if I can pass the Juren, it will be of great benefit to my future future. In fact, I also want to go to Beijing to go to the Jinshi exam after passing the Juren in Guizhou. Unfortunately, it is of great importance, but I can't go." Lin Tingchen sighed deliberately and whispered in Wu Lu's ear: "Tell me the truth, I went to the capital to marry Mr. Lu's baby granddaughter this time. Mr. Lu's health is no longer good. The doctor of the Imperial Hospital said that I am afraid I can't stand this winter. The Lu family wants me to go to Beijing to get married."

"Ah, Lu... the granddaughter of Mr. Lu." Wu Lu was dumbfounded, looking at Lin Tingchen's proud face, and felt crazy jealous. As a person, why could he marry the granddaughter of the most powerful official of the dynasty?

This bird man is so lucky.

The jealousy in his eyes flashed and was immediately replaced by flattery. Wu Lun: "Congratulations to Brother Lin, if you become rich and powerful in the future, please give me some advice. Alas, people's lives are different. Brother Lin can actually marry Mr. Lu's granddaughter, which is a great fortune!"

"Haha, it's easy to say, it's easy to say." Lin Tingchen couldn't help laughing: "I heard that you have always admired Yang Shen's niece Tang Mi. He is a talented woman. How about it? There is progress. However, you have a love, Miss Tang may not be interested. She has a fiancé, so I'm not worth it for you."

This sentence was like a knife stabbed into Wu Lu's heart. His face changed and he said angrily: "Miss Tang has an engagement with my brother. You probably don't know that my brother is a fool, and his character is extremely unbearable. He puts a flower in cow dung."

"Who said no? I have heard people say that your clan brother has been making a big fuss in Chengdu recently... His name is Wu Jie... Haha, he actually plagiarized Miss Tang's poems, such a gentle and scum, I will scold you once and once." Lin Ting and Chen talked to Wu Lu for a long time, and felt a little tired, and wanted to find a place to rest for a while.

He was also a little impatient by Wu Lun and said, "My brother is coming soon, so I'd better go down to have a social event first. By the way, I'm going to hold a poetry meeting later. I happened to write something and ask the talents from Shu to correct me. If you have a new work later, you might as well write it out too."

Wu Lun knows that Lin Tingchen is the protagonist of this night banquet, so others should not join in the fun: "Brother Lin is a talented man, I will not be ugly."

Lin Tingchen nodded with satisfaction: "That's it, you go down to have a drink too." Wu Lun was obedient. In fact, he had arranged several literary meetings along the way along the way. He also asked his good-handed to write a lot of poems in advance, just waiting to create another story of Shilin, hoping to increase his weight in Lu Bing, the commander of the Jinyiwei.

With the energy of the Jinyiwei, I wrote a poem here. Perhaps in less than two days, the manuscript of the poem was sent to the hands of the Lu family with a flying pigeon.

"Brother Lin, please." Wu Lun was about to get aside, but suddenly he saw a familiar figure downstairs.

He smiled and said to Lin Tingchen: "Brother Lin, didn't you just say that you would curse my brother once? Now the opportunity is here."

He pointed downstairs and said, "That's Wu Jie, Wen Zhuan Gong."

"Hey, it's him. Anyway, you and I are bored now, so why not play with him?" Lin Tingchen became interested.

Unfortunately, when the two of them walked downstairs excitedly, Wu Jie disappeared. When they asked, the yamen runner who was guarding the entrance of the banquet replied that the man said he was here to attend the banquet, but because there was no invitation, he was stopped and went there on his own.

Wu Lun was very disappointed. Originally, he could have teased Wu Jie with the power of Lin Tingchen and let out a sigh of anger, but he didn't want to be in vain.

After sighing for a moment, Lin Tingchen beside him left without any fun.

Wu Lun hurriedly followed, Lin Tingchen had a bright future and he really wanted to follow closely.

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