Starting from a thatched cottage, the farmer embarked on the road to wealth through imperial examina

When the carriage stopped, the driver opened the curtain and a handsome young man walked out of the carriage.

The young man was tall and slender, wearing a long robe embroidered with indigo cloud patterns, a tassel on his head, and a jade pendant the size of a child's fist hanging on each side of his waist. Due to the distance, although he could not see his features in detail, when he walked out of the carriage, the first impression Ye Changyan had was that of a banished immortal from the sky stepping on flowing clouds into the mortal world.

Ye Changyan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, what a handsome young man!

Following the handsome young man out of the car was a young man in a black robe, who seemed to be his follower.

Under the guidance of Li Yuanpu, this handsome young man, surrounded by a crowd, stepped onto the stairs in front of Yunfeng Tower.

After everyone entered Yunfeng Tower for a while, Ye Changyan simply tidied his clothes, then stood up from the street corner and walked towards Yunfeng Tower.

“Brother Ye!”

“Brother Li!”

When Ye Changyan arrived at Yunfeng Tower, he saw Li Yuanlin waiting for him at the door. The two exchanged a few brief greetings and Li Yuanlin welcomed Ye Changyan in.

The Yunfeng Tower is worthy of being the number one building in Wanshou County. The whole building looks magnificent from the outside and the interior decoration is gorgeous. Ye Changyan secretly admired in his heart that the owner of the Yunfeng Tower has a unique taste.

Inside the building, scholars and students who knew each other sat around a table, drinking and discussing knowledge. The table was filled with various fruits and snacks.

There is a large stage in the center of the first floor, on which a storyteller is telling the well-known "General Jin Goes to War".

At this moment, Ye Changyan saw an acquaintance who was not quite an acquaintance, Zhong Yunfeng, the young master of Yunfeng Tower.

A few days ago, one of the important people came to congratulate me in person.

Although the two had only met once, Zhong Yunfeng left a pretty good impression on Ye Changyan. He did not have the ostentatious aura of other wealthy young men, but instead gave people a sense of being introverted and reserved.

Seeing that Zhong Yunfeng knew Ye Changyan, after a brief greeting, Li Yuanlin handed Ye Changyan to Zhong Yunfeng and went to the door to greet the guests.

"Mr. Ye, please come upstairs!"

"Mr. Zhong, please!"

Zhong Yunfeng led Ye Changyan to a table at the back of the second floor. Although it was a table at the back, the layout of the Yunfeng Building was ingenious. The second floor was arranged in a circular shape, and the stage in the hall downstairs could be seen from every corner. The storyteller on the stage was singing and his emotions were in full view.

There were five people sitting around the table. Zhong Yunfeng introduced them to Ye Changyan one by one. Most of these people were scion of prominent families in Wanshou County.

Ye Changyan briefly got to know a few people, and then listened to Zhong Yunfeng instructing Yang Ruotai to help entertain Ye Changyan.

"Ruotai, Brother Ye is my honored guest. I am too busy right now. Please help me entertain him."

"Yunfeng, don't worry, your friends are my friends, Yang Ruotai's!"

Yang Ruotai was born into the Yang family of Wanshou County. Although the Yang family was just a merchant family, they were one of the two major oil merchants in Wanshou County. They had two oil mills in Wanshou County, and their oil shop business covered several neighboring counties. There was a Yang's oil shop in Qingshan Town where the Ye family was located. After years of operation, the Yang family had accumulated a lot of wealth.

"You must be the leader of the new scholars in Wanshou County. Let me toast you!"

The young man sitting in the middle among the five people raised his glass to Ye Changyan, and the other young man sitting next to Ye Changyan hurriedly picked up the wine pot and filled the glass in front of Ye Changyan with wine.

When Zhong Yunfeng introduced the young man who was toasting just now, he only said that this person was Mr. Tang from Yuzhou Prefecture. Ye Changyan had no impression of this person. However, the young man who poured the wine, Ye Changyan heard Zhong Yunfeng introduce him as a descendant of the Hong family, a big family in Wanshou County. Ye Changyan searched through his original memory and had some impression of the Hong family. They were indeed quite prominent in Wanshou County.

The young man named Hong who poured wine for him seemed to be very attentive to Mr. Tang. Except for Yang Ruotai who did not show it so obviously, the other three seemed to follow Mr. Tang's lead. It seemed that Mr. Tang had some background.

"I am truly sorry, I am in mourning and it is not appropriate for me to drink alcohol. I would like to offer Master Tang a cup of tea."

As he spoke, Ye Changyan reached out to pick up the teapot on the table, but he heard the sound of something being pressed heavily on the table.

Ye Changyan raised his eyes and saw that Mr. Tang's face changed, and the sound just now was made by the other party pressing the wine glass on the table.

"Brother Tang, please forgive me. Brother Ye is in mourning and it is not appropriate for him to drink. How about I drink this cup for him?"

Yang Ruotai, who was sitting on the other side of Ye Changyan, raised his glass towards Mr. Tang with a smile on his face.

Although Mr. Tang looked very unhappy, he still picked up the wine glass again and drank it all.

Afterwards, the atmosphere at the table became a little weird. It seemed that except for Yang Ruotai, the other four people no longer greeted Ye Changyan while they were toasting each other, as if they treated Ye Changyan as a invisible person.

Only Yang Ruotai would accompany Ye Changyan for a cup of tea in between. Ye Changyan realized that it would be difficult for him to fit in with this group of people, so he turned his gaze to the storyteller on the stage downstairs.

Ye Changyan saw that the storyteller was talking on the stage with saliva flying all over the place. After listening to a short passage, Ye Changyan felt that what the storyteller said was quite boring.

"Brother Ye, what do you think of this passage?"

Yang Ruotai saw that the other four were drinking happily, while Ye Changyan was staring at the stage in loneliness, so he wanted to liven up the atmosphere.

"Not very good, too boring."

Ye Changyan stared at the stage, his thoughts blurting out, but he didn't pay attention to the situation around him. At this time, everyone around him was staring at Ye Changyan in amazement.

"Clap clap clap..."

Then there was a burst of applause. Ye Changyan turned around from the stage and saw that Master Tang, who was sitting in the middle of the crowd, had stood up and was clapping with his hands. The other three also followed suit and applauded. Only Yang Ruotai raised his hand with an embarrassed look on his face. He didn't know whether to applaud or not.

Ye Changyan was completely confused. He didn't know why these people suddenly started clapping. Before Ye Changyan could think about it, he saw Master Tang speaking loudly with a look of contempt on his face.

"What a big tone! Some people actually said that Mr. Hao's book was not very good, and even shamelessly commented that Mr. Hao's book was too boring!"

Hearing Master Tang's sudden loud shout, Ye Changyan seemed a little puzzled. As Master Tang finished speaking, the entire Yunfeng Tower seemed to have pressed the pause button, and there was an instant silence.

The people at the tables on the second floor and the people in the hall on the first floor all turned their eyes in the direction of Ye Changyan.

Ye Changyan felt the air temperature around him suddenly dropped several degrees, and then he realized that he might have poked a hornet's nest. Seeing a group of people with unfriendly faces looking at him, Ye Changyan's gaze fell on Yang Ruotai, who was shocked, and gave him a questioning look.