I'm just a dude

Chapter 10

Almost instantly, the accident happened suddenly.

Five or six skinny young masters quickly sprang out of the pavilion, and ran towards Qi Yuan and Qi Kun with strange smiles.

Qi Yuan was stunned suddenly, but Qi Kun reacted a step faster, seeing that the momentum was wrong, he grabbed his arm and ran desperately towards Juxian Tower.

Fortunately, their position was high, and when those people climbed up, they had already run out for a while.Qi Yuan was so angry that he wanted to curse, but his body was so weak that he was out of breath within a few steps.

Qi Kun is physically stronger, and he dragged him forward without thinking, but he was also flustered. There are too many officials and marquises in Beijing, and their Zhongyuan uncle's mansion has been neglected for many years. No communication.These people at the Dongchi meeting today are either relatives of the emperor or close ministers. If someone really makes things difficult for them, who will help their brothers?

Just thinking about it, I heard the cries of the disciples and servants getting closer and closer.

Qi Kun hurriedly looked back and saw that Qi Yuan's legs were spinning limply, while the Juxian Building was still some distance away, a hesitant look appeared between his brows.

Qi Yuan also knew that his body would definitely not be able to outrun those behind.Although he didn't like Qi Kun, he didn't intend to let the other party be unlucky. Seeing the latter's eyes move slightly, he simply stopped, panting and said: "You run, they are looking for me!"

After speaking, he glanced around, quickly grabbed two stones from the side mountain road, and was about to fight people desperately.

But Qi Kun pushed him and said: "I'll stop them, you run!" After that, he climbed up the short slope in two or three steps, pulled a dead branch as thick as an arm from the side, and blocked it in front.

Qi Yuan jumped up and cursed: "Are you stupid? We were arrested together, and we were both beaten!"

Qi Kun couldn't speak with a sullen face, but pushed him anyway.

Qi Yuan cursed secretly, saw a small boat docked in the path ahead, so he had no choice but to go all out, throwing the stone, and yelled at Qi Kun to run towards the path with him.

Xu Yu is relaxing by the lake with his younger brother at the moment.

The name of this junior is Ren Yan, style name Wenying, he is the son of a distant relative from a side branch of the Xu family, but he is not his own, but the son of his mother and her ex-husband before she remarried.

The relative loved the mother and son very much, and treated Ren Yan better than his own son.Ren Yan remarried with his mother at the age of five, so the relative wrote a book, pleading with the Xu family to help hire a well-known Confucian from Songjiang Prefecture as Mr. Xi to teach Ren Yan homework.When Ren Yan was ten years old, the relative asked the patriarch to intercede and let Ren Yan come to the capital for two years to practice riding and archery and learn art with several young masters.

Therefore, Xu Yu and him are not only cousins ​​in name, but also senior brothers who apprenticed together.This Ren Yan is also extremely smart. He started the scientific examination after returning to Songjiang Mansion, and he passed all the tests, and even reached the top of the list, and won the title of "Little Three Yuan".

Not to mention the Songjiang Mansion, even in the entire imperial court, talents of the Three Yuans are extremely rare.Therefore, last autumn, the Songjiang Mansion sent him to the Imperial College as a talent for tribute selection.

It's just that although this Ren Yan is smart, he is a bit lofty, and only likes to get along with Xu Yu.Today when he came to the Dongchi meeting, he refused to be with others, and even sent the servants away.

Xu Yu knew that he was weird, but he still persuaded him: "It is rumored that the chief examiner of your current provincial examination is a student of Ruan Gelao. , even if you don't like it, be patient."

Ren Yan sneered: "So what about the old man's son? He's just a dude. Besides, he's really hateful, he actually tried to coax me into buying that man's fake painting."

Thinking of what happened just now, Xu Yu couldn't help but smile: "He didn't mean to coax you, I'm afraid he really thought it was the real work. Li Gonglin's brushwork is smooth and smooth, and he has a refined and flattering air, while the lines in the "Mu Fang Tu" in the hands of the man just now It is strong and has an ancient flavor, and even the coloring and coloring on the silk are the same as the real one, how can ordinary people distinguish it?"

Ren Yan's complexion got better now, he lifted his chin slightly, and sneered, "It's just their poor eyesight. How can Layman Longmian's paintings be so easy to imitate? Just because of his steady, graceful and agile spirit, it's seven years away Eight points."

Xu Yu smiled: "Brother Wenying studied under Mr. Yichan, and he really got the beauty of Danqing."

But Ren Yan sighed again: "I don't dare, sir often said that I only got one or two points in learning, but pretended to be seven or eight. The only reason I know Li Gonglin is because I envy him as an official in the capital. Touring the noble family. If I become an official in the court in the future, I can also be like him, not attached to the rich and powerful, and indulge in the mountains and forests. On good days, I will only go out of the city with wine with brother Zijing, and visit the garden to see the water. Wouldn’t it be happy... "

Xu Yu smiled without saying a word.

Ren Yan's eyes moved slightly, and he said again: "I heard that there is a custom in Beijing to give incense during the Flower Festival..." Before he finished speaking, he heard someone shouting from behind.

Both of them looked back together, and saw two teenagers jumping down the hillside, running towards them in a panic, and there were still a few people behind them shouting and cursing, and they were about to catch up.

Qi Yuan was in a panic right now, when he jumped down the hill, he almost staggered and fell there, but luckily Qi Kun gave him a hand.

However, when he staggered, someone behind him grabbed his scarf ribbon.His scarf was torn off immediately, revealing the net scarf that bound his hair inside.

Qi Yuan couldn't care less about this, seeing someone blocking the way ahead, he yelled "Get out of the way" and scolded the people behind him, "You bastard, you son of a bitch..."

Now that he had reached the water's edge, he saw that the boat seemed to be tied, and it was too late to untie the rope, so his heart was so hard that he wanted to jump into the water directly.

Xu Yu recognized him in that instant, and called out hesitantly, "Young Master Qi?"

Xu Yu's voice was not too loud, Qi Yuan thought it was Qi Kun meeting a friend, so he hurriedly stopped and turned his head happily, hoping to be rescued by someone.

Qi Kun also thought it was Qi Yuan's friend, so they hurriedly stopped together and turned to look at Xu Xuan.

Only then did Qi Yuan recognize the third young master in front of him.

He thumped in his heart, guessing that the other party probably met him in a restaurant, and called out tentatively.The two of them had no intersection, and this person didn't seem to be able to meddle in other people's business.However, with this dazed effort, those people had already caught up and surrounded them in the middle.

Qi Yuan was secretly anxious and a little annoyed, leaning against Qi Kun, looking at those people vigilantly.

It was only now that Xu Yu saw something was wrong.

The leader of the group happened to recognize him, walked two steps forward and said, "The younger one has met the third son. The third son, these two stole the jade pendant of our Lord Marquis, and the younger one wants to take it back for a business trip, please excuse me." .”

Qi Yuan yelled: "Fart! I don't know you at all!"

Thinking again, the other party is Lord Hou, and he is from the uncle's residence, so he said again, "Do you know who I am? My father is Uncle Zhongyuan!"

The man turned a deaf ear to his words, only looked at Xu Yu, although his tone was respectful, there was no fear on his face.

Ren Yan watched coldly from the side, not paying attention to the Duke's mansion, there is only one Marquis of Wu'an in this capital.I heard that the young Marquis of Marquis Wu'an is especially fond of prostitutes and prostitutes. This white-faced scholar has a good birth, so I'm afraid he will be favored by others.

This kind of matter should not be ignored, but Marquis Wu'an and Duke Cheng have different political views and have always been at odds.The emperor also pampered the young master, even the matter of him forcibly robbing the women was just a matter of fines, now this matter, I am afraid that Xu Yu will not be able to control it if he wants to.

What's more, most of the scholars at the Dongchi meeting are outstanding talents. If this young master makes a scandal, it's just a good time for the supervisory censor to refer to him.It can be regarded as helping Cheng Guogong's mansion.

As soon as he changed his mind, he jumped in front of Xu Yu and reprimanded: "Since there is something to do, why don't you hurry up!"

Although Qi Yuan didn't expect these two people to help, but when he heard this, he still felt cold and raised his eyes to look at those two people.

Qi Kun was anxious and angry, he made hooting noises to scare those people, and shouted loudly: "My second brother is a scholar from Shuntian Mansion! You are so courageous!"

The servants laughed loudly: "What's the matter with the scholar, it's a Juren, our Marquis wants to have fun, just say a word!"

After speaking, we must yell and start.

Xu Yu suddenly said: "Wait!"

Several people froze and turned their heads to look over.

Xu Yu took a step forward, frowned and said: "Young Master Qi is Ruan Hong's distinguished guest, and we are waiting for him to start the banquet over there. You can't take him away."

The evil servant was taken aback, but he didn't believe it: "Mr. Ruan's distinguished guest, how come our Marquis doesn't know about it?"

Ruan Ge has been in the cabinet for many years and is deeply favored by the emperor. Recently, it is rumored that he will be promoted to the chief assistant of the cabinet.So these people are more afraid of Ruan Hong.After all, that person is also used to being domineering.

Xu Yu looked gentle, but her tone was a little displeased: "Why, this means that Ruan Hong should come over and explain to you guys?"

Those few people even said they didn't dare, but they looked hesitant and didn't want to let them go.

Xu Wei hesitated for a moment, but skipped a few people, grabbed Qi Yuan's arm, and said to Qi Yuan, "Mr. Qi, go change your clothes now. Ruan Hong brought snow wine today, and he has already asked about you twice. .”

If Qi Yuan met a savior, he quickly grabbed his sleeve with his backhand, and said along the way: "I took a nap today, so I came late."

Those people looked at the two of them suspiciously, but they didn't dare to jump up and snatch them. After watching them angrily for a while, they had to turn around and report the news.

Both of them were a little nervous, and waited for those people to walk away before Qi Yuan heaved a long sigh of relief, turned around and thanked Xu Yu.

Xu Yu withdrew her hand and glanced at him: "I didn't help you anything, I just borrowed Ruan Hong's face." After a pause, he asked him suspiciously, "Why did you mess with Marquis Wu'an?"

Qi Yuan thought to himself that it was the Marquis of Wu'an, he secretly wrote down the name in his heart, and then thought about the incident on the boat, he opened his mouth but couldn't say it.

Ren Yan watched in amazement for a long time, and couldn't bear it any longer. He interjected and asked, "Zijing, this is..."

Xu Xuan hesitated, and glanced at Qi Yuan.

Qi Yuan hurriedly said, "I'm going down to Qi Yuan." Seeing Ren Yan raise his eyebrows after speaking, remembering that these scholars love to address each other politely, he added, "No word has been chosen yet."

Ren Yan nodded: "I know you, the young prodigy of Shuntian Mansion."

Qi Yuan felt guilty and couldn't say anything.That Ren Yan didn't seem to take him seriously, he just turned to Xu Yu and said, "Zijing, it's time for us to go back."

Xu Yu nodded, turned around but paused, turned back hesitantly, and said to Qi Yuan: "You Ji is in the east hall of Juxian Building, he has a change of clothes, and the small crown is also different, if you don't mind, you can wait a while Put it on and come to Juxian Tower for a banquet."

Qi Yuan's hair is disheveled right now, and his clothes are also torn torn by branches, it really doesn't look like it.Qi Kun is better than him, but he also needs to re-tie his hair and wash his face.

The two thanked each other again.

Ren Yan was a little impatient, so he dragged Xu Yu away quickly.

Qi Yuan and Qi Kun understood, they just ran wildly, and now they are very embarrassed, the man hates them, so they just follow from a distance, so as not to be annoying.

Fortunately, Juxian Building is very close.According to Xu Xuan's prompt, Qi Yuan turned in from a corner pavilion on the east side, and found You Ji in the tea room of the East Hall.

There are servants from several other families resting and playing in the tea room.You Ji was taken aback by Qi Yuan's disheveled hair, hurriedly took him to the clean room beside him, and only then did he ask the whole story.

Qi Yuan was still in shock at this moment, so he took a while to explain the matter clearly.

Although he didn't understand why the little duke arrested him, but thinking about it, he knew it was not a good thing, so he had been thinking of desperately just now.Right now, this life is not his own, he dies as soon as he dies, and he can't be caught and insulted by others.

Just now, he was angry and full of courage, but he didn't think anything about it.Seeing You Ji suddenly at this moment, my heart felt at ease as if I saw a relative, and then I felt endless grievances, sat down on the couch, and started to drop the golden beans without saying a word.

You Ji panicked all of a sudden.Although he called Brother Qi on his lips, he always felt that Qi Yuan was younger than himself and needed someone to take care of him.Seeing him being wronged like this now, he hurriedly wiped his tears while scolding Wu Anhou.

After comforting like this for a long time, Qi Yuan stopped his tears, wiped his face and said, "I'm not afraid, but I'm just angry. Don't scold me, that meat bun is not easy to mess with."

When You Ji saw that he still gave people a nickname, he burst out laughing, and hurriedly said: "What's the matter, no matter how hard you are, you are still a marquis, and he is inferior to our Duke's mansion. If our master insisted on returning it Shi Quan, now that the Holy Majesty intends to allow it, how dare he challenge our young master? If our young master is willing to show up today, you don’t have to be afraid of them.”

Qi Yuan thought for a while, but he didn't think that Xu Wei could be his backer.Not to mention that Marquis Wu An didn't seem to be afraid of him, just looking at Xu Yu's dignified, refined and handsome appearance, he was not a nosy person.Helping him today is mostly because of Ruan Hong.

He sighed inwardly.

You Ji wiped his tears for him, and called two young boys in green clothes to come in. After a while, someone brought hot water, fragrant soup, jade skin soap, jasmine oil, fragrant face cream, bronze mirror and jade comb, And a girl who specializes in combing hair.

When Qi Yuan was in Yangzhou, he was used to it. He bathed in fragrant soup in the morning and evening, washed his face and hands with eight white powder, and combed his hair with sweet-scented osmanthus oil.Tooth powder is mixed with balm, and there is a smoke cage under the clothes all day long.So seeing this battle today, I didn't think much of it, and I finished washing and tidying up everything.

You Ji took out another golden silk hair crown.The hair crown is small and exquisite, with a shining gold, it looks precious enough, but there is a piece of light blue sapphire embedded in it, which is extremely rare.

Qi Yuan had seen good things before, and he saw that this sapphire would cost several hundred gold, so he was busy pushing it away.

But You Ji laughed and said, "If the third son hadn't brought the message, I wouldn't have dared to show this. What's more, today the son only brought two small crowns, and the other was given by the emperor. Please sit down quietly."

The little lady combing her hair smiled and tied Qi Yuan's hair.You Ji looked aside for a while, and then came out with a gown woven with golden satin with moon-white patterns.

Qi Yuan's clothes were a little too big, but when Taoist robes were prevalent, literati especially loved loose coats.Qi Yuan's skin is snow-white, his eyes are clear, and he is dressed in light blue from head to toe. When he is dressed up, he looks like a clear white jade, with a particularly bright air.

You Ji and the little lady were dumbfounded.

Especially You Ji, staring straight at Qi Yuan for a while, he couldn't help but smile: "Brother Qi is going to make our young cousin jealous."

Qi Yuan himself was quite satisfied, he had never dressed up so brightly since he was reborn, looked in the mirror, turned left and right, walked two steps with his hands behind his back, and asked, "Who is Master Biao?"

You Ji said: "The one with our young master. He is very noble, dressed in white clothes all day long, and looks like a fairy. He doesn't regard us as human beings." He was very dissatisfied with that person.

Qi Yuan thought about it, just now that person was dressed in a plain white spring shirt, with beautiful long eyes and a smile on his lips, he really had a noble and lonely demeanor, very different from the children of the aristocratic family.

He didn't take it to heart either, after looking in the mirror for a while, he became happy again, and said to You Ji, "I still have a jar of incense pills in my clothes, bring them quickly."

You Ji took it out for him, looking surprised.

Qi Yuan chuckled, took out two pills from it, gave one to him and one to the young lady who had just combed her hair, and said proudly: "This Qinglian Xiangwan, it's very good for you to take it back to smoke your clothes or take it with you."

You Ji took it and sniffed it lightly: "It smells so good! Brother Qi, with so many incense pills, how many girls do you want to give?"

Qi Yuan tucked the incense pill into his sleeve, and said with a chuckle, "I didn't intend to give it to the girl, I just sold it."

It was getting late, and Qi Kun had finished washing up, so he came over and asked him to go to the banquet.You Ji took the two of them there together.After entering the Juxian Building, he bypassed the humming crowd from the curved corridor on the side, and only rushed to the front tables.

Qi Yuan happily walked for a long time, and when he saw the baskets of pens, ink, papers and inkstones prepared in the front row, he was suddenly taken aback, remembering that the banquet was going to be a poem and a thesis, especially since the few people in front were all watching, how could he pass .

Qi Yuan originally planned to find a seat in the back, just eat and drink.Now that he realized it, he was about to turn around and run while pulling You Ji.Unexpectedly, just as he turned around, he heard someone shouting inside.

"Genius Qi! Prodigy Qi!" Ruan Hong patted the table excitedly inside, and waved to him, "Come on, come on! I'm just waiting for you!"