Chapter 265: No. 4: Both Brothers are One of a Kind

“Is Floating Fragrance your date in the Churchyard?” Zhong Li asked.

Xu Qi’an was stunned, “How did you know.”

Zhong Li nodded, slightly bowing her head as she walked unhurriedly, “If you don’t have a great relationship, how could you invite me to visit. And you are someone with great qi, you won’t be a skirt of a flower girl like those men.”

Fifth sister, you still have the potential to be a detective ah …….. Xu Qi’an gave a “hmm”: “This Floating Fragrance, is considered my confidante, when I was young, I had outstanding talent, I could not forget, I was born to read.

“But my second uncle planned my life early, so that Dafeng missed a poet giant …… That year I was fourteen years old, and I took my cousin to participate in the literary meeting organized by the readers of the State Council, and on that day, the sky was raining and snowing …… The literary meeting you You know, is the academic exchange of the party, will invite some of the women of the Department of Education to play music to help, and the floating incense is also in it.

“I was a hit at the literary meeting, everyone praised me for my good poetry, Fu Xiang was also at that literary meeting on my love roots, from then on we often write letters to each other, launched a platonic love. Plato is spiritual love, absolutely no vulgar physical relationship …….”

Zhong Li faintly interrupted, “What are you doing talking to me about this.”

“Promise me you won’t tell Cevi.”

“Oh.”

Zhong Li twisted her head to look at him for a moment, withdrew her gaze, and continued to walk forward, approaching the Shadow Plum Pavilion, she said, “I can look into the air.”

“………”

Before people arrived at the Shadow Plum Pavilion, Xu Qi’an had already heard the sound of silk and bamboo piping.

Huh, the Shadow Plum Pavilion is playing tea round so early today? He led Zhong Li to the entrance of the courtyard and saw two black lacquered courtyard doors closed, with the sound of drums and music coming from inside.

Bang Bang Bang ……. Xu Qi’an knocked on the courtyard door.

“Shadow Plum Pavilion is wrapped.” The voice of the green-clothed boy came from inside the door.

“It’s me.” Xu Qi’an said.

The courtyard door opened, and the green-clothed boy with a happy face said in a loud voice, “Mr. Xu, you’re here, there’s an extraordinary guest from the Department of Education tonight, and he’s in the house.”

At those words, Xu Qi’an frowned, “Unbelievable guest?”

In Xu Qi’an’s opinion, it is only above the third grade that one can forget about it, but this status, this status of the officials, basically do not come to the Department of Education.

The courtiers have their own pussies.

“Yes, as soon as he came to the Department of Education, he went straight to the Shadow Plum Pavilion, saying that he wanted to see our lady’s zither skills, our lady originally did not intend to accompany the wine, so she politely refused.” The green-clothed boy “hey” a sound, pretending to be mysterious said:

“Guess what?”

Xu Qi’an crossed his eyes and answered honestly: ”Mom personally appeared, and Floating Fragrance closed the door to talk for half a day, I do not know what to say, but even let the mother helplessly accept, reluctant to go out to offer songs.

“The most unbelievable thing is that the flower girls of the Church Department, twelve of them came at once, uninvited.”

Xu Qi’an was shocked, thinking that even that awful old man Wang Shoufu didn’t have this treatment.

Of course, the old king was old and probably didn’t have the heart and energy to come to the Education Department for pleasure.

“It can be, I can’t imagine that the capital city still has this kind of character, no, the Department of Education must be a place where I am a one-trick pony, I have to go and meet this guy.”

Thinking of this, Xu Qi’an nodded without changing his face, “Take me to meet.”

……….

At this time, in the hall where the guests were entertained for drinks, Fu Xiang was sitting in the middle of the field, bowing her head and stroking the zither, gentle and beautiful, alive with color.

She had a special aura when she was playing the zither, not like a flower girl in the Church Department, but a lady of the house who was waiting for her daughter to be born.

The drinkers were seated in rows, and except for the green-shirted man with a strand of white hair on his forehead, the rest of the guests were accompanied by a flower girl.

After the song was finished, Floating Fragrance rose with a flourish and saluted, “I am amused.”

“Lady Floating Fragrance is too modest, in terms of zither skills in this capital city’s Department of Education, there are hardly any who can compete with you.” A man with a goatee and wearing civilian clothes laughed.

“Quickly take your seat, our Chu warrior is waiting.” Another man with a big belly chimed in.

The drinkers present were up in arms.

There were even some people who directly put the words to death and flirted, “Since that poem about plums, Lady Floating Fragrance has stopped accompanying the wine, but since it’s Brother Chu who has returned, it’s a matter of two more words. Lady Floating Fragrance, don’t keep Brother Chu waiting.”

Floating fragrance eyes full of waves, swept through the crowd of drinkers, the identity of these people are not simple, either in the six ministries in charge of the real power of the officials, is the Hanlin Academy of the commoner, the Imperial House of the Imperial House of the Qing Dynasty and other noble.

The man with the falling green shirt had an even more unusual identity, the scholar of the twenty-seventh year of Yuanjing, and now the number one swordsman in the capital.

He fulfilled both the hot desire of the talented women of the Oratory Department and their fantasies about the chivalrous man of the jianghu, a double halo. Therefore, as soon as the news of his arrival at the Church and Workshop Department spread, twelve flower girls came uninvited and took the initiative to accompany him.

“Forgive me, lords, but my daughter is not feeling well and should not drink today.” Floating Fragrance smiled haughtily and turned to an unoccupied wine case.

Several of the officials frowned, their hearts not pleased.

Although Floating Fragrance’s reputation for voluptuousness has spread far and wide, and has long since ceased to be confined to the capital city’s teaching department, she has not been too self-centered, and is only letting her accompany the wine, and is not trying to do anything to her.

On the contrary, the green-shirted swordsman smiled sagely and was unimpressed.

The drinkers here are all the jinshi who were born in the twenty-seventh year of Yuanjing, and they are extremely close to him, and this time they came to the Education Department to drink, firstly to catch up with old times, and secondly to meet Fuxiang, the flower girl who is famous all over the Dafeng.

In Chu Scholar’s opinion, looks were rather secondary, but it was this introverted temperament that made him quite appreciative.

Ming Yan looked left and right, raised a bright smile, warmed up the scene, “Our floating incense lady, since and Xu Lord good after, will no longer accompany the wine, she is still waiting for Xu Lord ransom it, all the masters don’t make it difficult for her.”

Although all of those present were officials with real power in their hands, in front of the night watchman, they were all younger brothers. In front of Xu Qi’an, the recently knighted night watchman, it was the younger of the younger brothers.

As expected, the drinkers collected their displeasure and lowered their heads to drink.

Chu Scholar raised his eyebrows, “Lord Xu? Which Lord Xu.”

For some reason, he was sensitive to the surname “Xu”.

At the same time, he remembered what Number One had said when Number Two had asked Number One for information about a gong with the surname Xu in the Earth Book chat group:

This man’s greatest weakness is good sex, with the Church Department of a number of flower leaders have an affair ……..

Then, he contacted No. 3, whom he had just met but pretended not to know, who had a cousin with outstanding poetic talent, and that cousin was the one who had written “Dark Fragrance Floating Moon Dusk”, which had achieved the reputation of Floating Fragrance.

Ming Yan waited for a while, seeing no one grabbed the answer, then smiled and opened his mouth, “Speaking of that Lord Xu, it is really an incredible character, he made his fortune in the tax silver case last October …….”

吧啦吧啦的，把许七安的事迹，如数家珍的说了一遍。

“When he was in Yunzhou, one man and one sword stood in front of 8,000 enemy troops and fought alone for half an hour ………”

The Flower Leaders of the Department of Education had already heard this story several times, but they were still listening to it with great interest and fascination.

Floating Fragrance was a little proud, a little smug, raising her chin and softly saying, “Xu Lang faced thousands of enemy troops when he was at the end of his strength.”

Another flower girl Xiaoya saw the situation, quickly grabbed the topic, crisp and clear: “Young man chivalry, make friends with the five capital male. Liver and gall bladder hole, hair shrugged. In the conversation, death and life are the same. A promise is a thousand pieces of gold.”

“Good word!”

Chu Scholar praised loudly, while a doubt flashed through his heart:

Didn’t number two say that the rebels who besieged the Buzhengzhi Division had more than 400 people, and Xu Qi’an died of exhaustion after cutting down 200 of the enemy? How did it become 8,000 people?

An official said, “Indeed it is a good poem, such great talent, it is a pity not to study, that Xu Pingzhi is not the son of a man.”

The rest of the drinkers nodded in agreement and said, “It’s a pity that Xu Qi’an didn’t come to the Education Department today, or else I would have told him to know the talent of our scholar scholar.”

Hearing these words, a series of “?” surfaced in Chu Scholar’s mind.

Xu Qi’an was not killed in battle in Yunzhou, after more than a month, it is impossible that the capital side did not get the news.

Just then, Fu Xiang cheered in surprise, “Xu Lang!”

……..

The green-clothed boy led Xu Qi’an into the courtyard and towards the hall, saying, ”It’s not that I’m picking a fight, that master is much more popular than you.

“I’ve asked the sisters in the courtyard, Hou, this master is a legend. He was a scholar in the 27th year of Yuanjing, but for some reason, he resigned from the government and became a jianghu guest.

“Then he made a big splash, and made such a big name for himself in the capital that he was hailed as the capital’s number one swordsman by Duke Wei.”

Xu Qi’an’s footsteps braked violently, and he said, “Crap, number four is in there?

What’s the matter with this Dabong’s scholar, are they all old drivers of the Department of Education.

The fourth knows that I am the cousin of resignation and knows that I have died in Yunzhou …….. Now that I’m not dead, I’m going to talk about it in the earth book chat group. …….. Li Miaozhen will recall that she was induced to die socially by No.3 …….. Xu Qi’an never thought that social death would come so quickly.

“Hsu Lang!”

At Floating Fragrance’s cry of surprise, Xu Qi’an realized that social death came sooner than he had expected.

In the hall, the drinkers and flower girls turned back in unison, and a gaze fell on him.

With the situation of the fourth and the second are now at cross swords, they should not take the initiative to chat, steady one hand steady one hand …….. Xu Qi’an instantly suppressed all his emotions and stepped into the hall with a smile on his face, making a bow:

“Excuse me gentlemen.”

The officials present had smiles on their faces, shouting “Lord Viscount” and warmly greeting him as if they were familiar with Xu Qi’an.

There was more surprise in the eyes of the flower girls.

“Hsu Lang.”

Floating Fragrance smiled like a flower, leading him to a seat and attentively pouring wine.

As Xu Qi’an took his seat, he glanced back and realized that Zhong Li had disappeared.

She must be hiding somewhere ……. Can not be too far away from me ah, otherwise tonight, the teaching department may be lost by a fire ……. With that in mind, Xu Qi’an looked over at Number Four, scrutinizing him greatly.

Number four was a handsome handsome man, with a strand of white hair on his forehead adding to his charm, all slicked back and no sharp edges in sight.

Chu Scholar was also scrutinizing Xu Qi’an, without mentioning anything else, just because of this skin, he believed that the night watchman in front of him was No. 3’s cousin.

The brothers are both good looking and handsome.

How did he survive ……. Chu Scholar nodded and said, “Chu Yuanjian, the character Zizhen.”

Xu Qi’an arched his hand, “Xu Qi’an, character Ning Banquet.”

The next step was to play the wine-ranking game, with Wenqing Huaquan Xiaoya in charge of acting as the ordering officer, playing everything from pairs of couplets to poetry solitaire.

The only regret was that Xu Qi’an didn’t participate, instead letting Floating Fragrance by his side do it for him, and he just drank and ate meat by himself.

Xu Qi’an came to visit Fu Xiang on this trip to the Education Department, and it was only when he saw that she was in high spirits and had a rosy complexion that he believed that it was really just a small cold, and that he had been worrying blindly.

“Such a beautiful day, is Lord Xu really not going to compose a poem?” An official was unwilling and encouraged Xu Qi’an to compose a poem.

Xu Qi’an shrugged it off by saying that his literary mind was exhausted.

Not only were the officials present disappointed, but the flower girls also lamented.

In fact, it was not that he did not want to compose poems, but he did not think of when to do so.

Today, Wei Yuan had given him a task, which was to mediate between them, stopping number four and number two from fighting to the death, and making them exchange blows point blank.

In that case, he’d have to brush up on his favorites here at the Fourth first.

“Brother Chu, yesterday I heard from my colleagues in the government office that because the Heavenly Man Contest is imminent, that Heavenly Sect disciple Li Miaozhen will soon be going to the capital. And you are a sword cultivator of the Human Sect ……,” Xu Qi’an paused and didn’t go on, but the implication was obvious.

No. 4 Chu Yuanzhan smiled, “I will step forward on behalf of the Human Sect and fight the Heavenly Sect disciples.”

He knew Xu Qi’an well, this person had befriended Li Miaozhen when he was in Yunzhou, and was himself a gong who was valued by Wei Yuan, so it was not surprising that he knew these insider secrets.

Xu Qi’an obediently looked toward the long sword leaning against the side of the wine case and curiously said, “Can you let my little brother have a glimpse of this sword’s sharpness?”

Chu Yuanjian shook his head, “Ever since he lost to Zhang Kaitai back then, this sword has never been sheathed again.”

“That’s over, the sword rusted to death in its scabbard.” Xu Qi’an blurted out.

“What?” Four froze.

“What I mean, little brother, is why the sword is not sheathed.”

Chu Yuanjian’s smile is gentle, no frame, and he answers all questions, “I’m raising my sword qi, this sword does not come out, but comes out with a sharpness of 10,000 meters.”

Xu Qi’an slowly nodded his head, suddenly inspired, he held his wine glass and frowned, pretending to be contemplative.

“What’s wrong?” Four asked.

Xu Qi’an leisurely said, “Earlier, my literary mind was dried up and I couldn’t make a good poem, but after listening to Brother Chu’s words, suddenly my literary mind sprang to life and I couldn’t help but want to compose a poem.”

The eyes of the drinkers and the flower girls “swished” brightly and looked at them anxiously.

A little surprised, a little pleasantly surprised, Number Four squared his seat, “All ears.”

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PS: Caught up with the code before 12:00 and changed it after the first shift.