Monks and Bachelors

When the gongs and drums of the first Jinshi's announcement of good news hit the gate of the scholar's mansion.

The last strand of black hair fell from Liu Baichuan's head. At this moment, he was shaving his eyebrows in front of the mirror.

"Bai Chuan, Bai Chuan, come out quickly, you have won the first Jinshi in high school!" Lin Xueshi yelled at the door.

Liu Baichuan knocked on the wooden fish and opened the door, chanted a Buddha's name and said: "The poor monk's name is Wumei!"

Lin Xueshi raised his eyes and stared at Liu Baichuan's face for a long time, only to see that the beauty was still there, but the two eyebrows had been shaved clean.

"Why are you bothering?" Xueshi Lin asked Liu Baichuan after sending away the announcer with a handful of coins.

"It doesn't bother you or me, so the only way to go is to become a monk!" Liu Baichuan said.

"Your Bai family is very wealthy in Yanshui, you hide in Yanshui, who can do anything to you?!" Xueshi Lin said.

"The monk has always been aboveboard!" Liu Baichuan said coldly, shaking off Xueshi Lin's hand on his cuff.

"Where do you want to place the order?" Xueshi Lin asked helplessly.

"Hanshan Temple ten miles outside the city".After Liu Baichuan finished speaking, he walked out the door.

"Wait a minute, I'll take the horse to see you off!" Xueshi Lin hurriedly asked the housekeeper to lead the horse.

"Bachelors stay put, the road to the west is far away, you can't deliver it!" Liu Baichuan rode his horse and swung his whip.

"Then I'll bring you wine, do you want it?" Lin Xueshi's voice was carried in the wind.

"The monk doesn't quit drinking!" A burst of hearty laughter reached Xueshi Lin's ears.

Therefore, Lin Xueshi must live in Hanshan Temple for a few days every month, and have a few drinks with Master Wumei.

Regarding the fact that Liu Baichuan won the first Jinshi, but insisted on becoming a monk, Lin Xueshi also sent a letter to Yanshui Liu's house, of course, he did not mention a few turning points in the Communist Party.

The answer from the Liu family was beyond his expectations. The master of the Bai family said: "Tiekou said that I was destined to have no children. I think Bai Chuan's son was borrowed. He has been sick and troubled since he was a child. The family has always kept him alive. When my daughter came to raise him, now the gods and Buddhas want to take him back, how can I stop him!"

Lin Xueshi had no choice but to let go of the thing in his heart that he wanted Liu's family to persuade Liu Baichuan to turn around, but he was still ruthless, and every month he had to collect a large basket of words to persuade Liu Baichuan.

"I will pay the capital, we two will open a shop together, and you will come out to take charge of it, do you think it is good, you are smart, and you will definitely make a lot of money if you start a business. In the future, being a land Taozhu is no worse than working under the emperor's errand! "Scholar Lin persuaded.

"Hmph, it seems that you still don't give up on my second sister, so you want to pull me out to make money for you! Lin Yufeng, let's make your spring and autumn dream come true! A monk is compassionate, how can a poor monk ruin someone's good marriage!" Wu Wu Eyebrow poured a glass of strong wine into her throat, coughed twice and stood up with a sneer.

"Okay! Okay! If you don't do business, you don't do business. Why are you a monk so angry!" Xueshi Lin looked at Liu Baichuan, who had just grown new eyebrows, and said in a low voice.

"The emperor asked about my sister Yanyu again, saying that I wanted to see her, so I had no choice but to lie to the emperor that she became a nun. I also became a monk in Hanshan Temple. After a few days, you take me to Hanshan Temple to see your sister, and also see the top Jinshi who doesn't love power and position but loves Sanskrit music. Hey! Bai Chuan, do you think we said You told a lie that didn't end well!" Liu Baichuan sighed after drinking a cup of tea.

"Your Majesty really wants to visit me in the temple in a few days?!" Master Wumei lost his voice.

"Who dares to let him come? I entrusted someone to ask Mrs. Hui for mercy. She stabilized the emperor first. By the way, Mrs. Hui has always been concerned about you. You don't want to go to the palace to see her after returning to secular life!" Xueshi Lin asked.

"No! No! If you mention her again in front of me, the monk will not even see you anymore." Master Wumei got up to see off the guests, poured the last glass of strong wine on the table down his throat, and began to cough violently again.

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☆、Princess Remarried

"This set of boxwood root-carved cups is really exquisite!" Lin Xueshi stroked the boxwood Haiwu Tianchou cup in his hand and praised.

"Without this carving skill, how could the abbot allow me to be presumptuous in the temple!" Liu Baichuan stopped the carving knife in his hand, and glanced at the screen being carved from a distance.

"It's just that the subject matter of this Haiwu Tianchou is rather vulgar. As long as it can be carved recently, this Haiwu Tianchou is indispensable!" Lin Xueshi glanced at the half-finished screen beside Liu Baichuan and commented.

"If a person is rich and successful, he wants to live forever, and this sea house can only satisfy the people's hearts. If he is a shabby person, he probably doesn't have the intention to buy a carved screen!" Liu Baichuan coughed. After a long time, he raised his head and drank a big gulp of spirits,

"Your cough is getting worse. You'd better drink less alcohol in the future!" Xueshi Lin looked at Liu Baichuan's coughing flushed face and advised.

"Don't worry, I won't die for a while, and I don't want to add money to the sea house. There is a true temperament in wine. After drinking, I feel at ease. I only say what I want to say, and I only do what I want to do! Unlike You don't drink alcohol all day long, and every sip of alcohol can make you sexually promiscuous, as if everything is the fault of alcohol, so push yourself clean!" Liu Baichuan sneered as he blew on the sawdust on the screen.

Lin Xueshi embarrassingly echoed Liu Baichuan's smirk, and at the same time took out a string of rosary beads from his bosom and handed them to Liu Baichuan, saying: "When I entered the palace a few days ago, I met the newly widowed Princess Zheng Guo, and she begged me for a rosary. I saw that the string of old beeswax rosary beads on her wrist was good, and thought that your belt must look good, so I asked her for it, and brought it to you during this meeting !"

Liu Baichuan looked at the rosary in Xueshi Lin's hand, pulled up the sleeve of his monk's robe and asked Lin Xueshi, "How do you compare this string with the one on my wrist?"

Xueshi Lin looked at Liu Baichuan's wrist, his pupils involuntarily enlarged. The string of chicken oil yellow old beeswax rosary beads in front of him, no matter how big each one was like longan's eyes, was just as soft and moist as honey in color, and the clouds and mist in the beads The appearance is far beyond what he begged from Princess Zheng.

Xueshi Lin said with a dejected expression: "It turns out that someone has sent you hello, and my string seems to be out of your sight!"

Liu Baichuan snatched the rosary from Xueshi Lin's hand and said, "Who said I don't want it anymore, it's because of your kindness!"

"Did you hear about Princess Zheng's remarriage in the past few days?" Liu Baichuan took off the string of rosary beads on his wrist, and replaced it with the string given by Xueshi Lin, rubbing it with joy.

"The princess is young and young, so it is reasonable to marry again, but Prince Concubine Li has only been here for half a year, and the princess is too eager to make this trip, and this matter will inevitably be discussed by others!" Lin Xueshi thought, but his mouth was silent.

Liu Baichuan smiled lightly and said: "The whole world is just like you who only dare to talk in their hearts!" "But the emperor also spoke the truth." Liu Baichuan said as he sat down opposite Lin Xueshi.

"When did you see the emperor?" Xueshi Lin said, looking at Liu Baichuan's two eyebrows that had just grown together.

"Half a month ago, the emperor brought people to the Huguo Temple to chant scriptures for the late empress. He ran to Hanshan Temple by himself, and pointed out that he wanted to see the first Jinshi who became a monk. The abbot had no choice but to let me come out. I thought the emperor had seen me. , Knowing that I lied to him, I must be furious, and I think that I am already a foreigner, and the emperor's law may not be able to restrain me. Who knows, the emperor was stunned when he saw me, and listened to me. After I confessed, the slight anger on my face turned into jittery, and I even rewarded me with this string of rosary beads, and told me to learn a few more sutras, and invite me to the palace to chant sutras for him in the future." Liu Baichuan said one sentence at a time. I fondly recall the shadow of that day, so far, it still feels like a dream.

"It turns out that the Holy Majesty has met you. I said why he was so angry when he talked to me these few days." Xueshi Lin slapped the table and smiled, feeling relieved.

"Then do you know the candidate for the new son-in-law?" Liu Baichuan stared at the screen added to the sea house, always feeling that the crane's left feather carving was not vivid enough.

"Young and unmarried officials above the fourth rank in the court are all possible, but there are only two or three young unmarried officials above the fourth rank and with outstanding looks. However, Zeng Shilang is too old-fashioned, and Zhang Shangshu is a little Misconduct..." Lin Xueshi speculated.

"Then you can be considered the best among these two or three people?" Liu Baichuan put the wine pot in his hand, coughed twice, and interrupted Xueshi Lin's words.

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☆, every lovesickness, a thousand miles of life

"Could it be that you said that the Holy Majesty is going to force me to marry a widow, or the most arrogant widow in the world?!" Xueshi Lin said in a daze as if struck by lightning.

"No, absolutely no, even if I crashed my head on the dragon pillar in the palace, I would definitely not agree!" Xueshi Lin still had lingering fears when he said this.

Liu Baichuan looked around Xueshi Lin's head twice, and said with a low smile, "The dragon pillars in the palace are very hard, you have to be careful with your head!"

"It's been half a day since I've been here, and I finally saw you smiling. It's not in vain for me to drive fifteen miles to see you in this scorching heat!" Xueshi Lin raised his glass and sighed.

"Today isn't the end of the first month or the end of the month. You traveled fifteen miles just to see me?" Liu Baichuan said with a light smile.

"Ji Zhongsan misses Lu Anfu every time he loves him, so it's possible that our friendship is not as good as theirs!" Xueshi Lin laughed.

"You have been in court for several years, and your sharp-tongued problem has become more and more serious. Since you came to see me, you have seen my people for a long time, so please go ahead now! The world is full of dust. , I will not send you away!" Liu Baichuan bowed his hands solemnly.

"Actually, there is one more small matter that I ask you to agree to!" Xueshi Lin went out, hesitated for a long time, and then slowly shrank back.

"Haha! Tell me what's going on. It's causing our Bachelor Lin to shrivel like a tortoise." Liu Baichuan stood up and couldn't help laughing.

Lin Xueshi walked into the room with his head buried, tried twice, and finally said: "Actually, it's my little sister, Yanyu, she came to Beijing a few days ago, and now she lives in my house. My lacquer fan, I tried to be brave and said that I could draw it for me, but she painted it for a few days, and the fan she drew was not even satisfactory to herself, so she pestered me all day long and asked me to take you back , let her consult face to face!"

"It turns out that Miss Lin is here, how dare I see her with my dignity?!" Hearing Lin Yanyu's name, Liu Baichuan said coldly.

Lin Xueshi looked at Liu Baichuan and burst out laughing, "Could it be that you still remember that when you and Mrs. Hui went to my house in Meichuan, my little sister beat you out with a stick?!"

"Hui Niangniang is a woman, so it's nothing to be treated like a rabbit, but a man seven feet behind me is treated like this..." Thinking of this, Liu Baichuan couldn't help feeling angry from his chest.

"You really still hate my little sister, but you can see her, but there is one person you have to see." Xueshi Lin laughed.

"You tell me that I have to meet that person?" Liu Baichuan said with anger on his face.

"My little sister accompanied his master, Gu Hongzi, to Beijing to paint for the queen mother. If you don't see my little sister, it's possible that Gu Hongzi, whom the family talked about all day long, has also disappeared!" Xueshi Lin looked at Liu Baichuan. His face was full of anger, and he was very proud in his heart, he couldn't help raising his legs, and dangling back and forth in front of Liu Baichuan.

"It turns out that Gu Hongzi has also entered the capital. I got this good opportunity. Why don't I miss it? What are you still hanging around? I can't wait to see him right now." Liu Baichuan said, squinting at Xueshi Lin, raised his leg and walked towards the door. Walking outside, it seemed that Xueshi Lin had been loitering in the temple's wing, dragging him down.

Lin Xueshi got up helplessly and sighed several times, followed Liu Baichuan out of the wing.

"It is said that Gu Hongzi was a well-known swordsman in the past. He once made a name for himself in the world with a set of Gu Hong swordsmanship. Later, I don't know why he quit the world and became a folk painter. What is rare is that he turned his amazing sword The method was integrated into the textured dyeing technique of landscape painting, and he created an original painting method that used the three main colors of lacquer gold, azurite, and stone green to outline the landscape. The world calls the landscape he painted in this way the golden landscape. What is wrong with his landscape paintings is the excellent use of color, what's more rare is..."

Along the way, Liu Baichuan talked endlessly about Gu Hongzi's magnificent landscape with Lin Xueshi, but Lin Xueshi was still hanging on his heart. He kept thinking that if Master Liu San knew about Gu Hongzi's As for the fact that he has already left the capital, I don't know if the third young master Liu will be like Gu Hongzi in a fit of rage, realizing a set of peerless swordsmanship from his self-created landscape painting technique, and then killing him with a single blow , Xueshi Lin wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.

"I have learned from Master for decades in vain. Although the person who painted this fan has never seen Master's face, he has completely grasped the essence of Master's calligraphy and painting!" Lin Xueshi recalled that his little sister looked at the fan painted by Liu Baichuan and admired it. scene.

"Little sister has always been an arrogant and unyielding person. After studying painting with Gu Hongzi for a few years, her vision has become higher and higher. She doesn't even pay attention to my knowledge. I don't want her to sigh in front of Bai Chuan's painting. For example, I often hear people say that writing books and painting is the most important thing about temperament. It seems that Bai Chuan's temperament is really similar to that of Gu Hongzi. In the future, it is hard to guarantee that he will not abandon his pen and have a sword. He spends a lot of time holding a paintbrush. In the future, he will definitely become a swordsman like Gu Hongzi, and he will practice a set of peerless sword skills, maybe knife skills. His swordsmanship, stabbed me to death with one sword..."

The more scared Lin Xueshi was, the more he couldn't help thinking wildly, so scared that he almost fell off the galloping horse.

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