The warm sun is warm, the spring is wafting, the flowers are in full swing, and the plum blossoms are blooming in sequence.

In the Liulichang, a beautiful young man with a beautiful face, hanging a purple gourd wine pot with a patina like greasy shiny patina, sitting at the door of the shop, eating a bowl of pea yellow purchased on the way, bargaining with the shopkeeper who was familiar with the shop owner, saying that the books he liked were just an old girl who could not get married, while setting up a street stall with the bookstore next door to watch the books, and at the same time, waiting for the rabbit here, killing three goals.

He borrowed a bench for the shopkeeper of the young drunkard, sat behind the counter and carefully wiped a piece of imitation porcelain of civilians. He raised his head and looked at the scoundrel guy outside the door with his face squinted to the shop next to him, and smiled and said, "Mr. Cao, if you dare to touch her hand in broad daylight and hug her a few more times, my shop will sell all the books to you at a 50% discount, what about?"

The young man picked up a piece of pea yellow and threw it into his mouth, and smiled and said with a smile: "Forget it during the day, bad reputation, can it be done at night? Let's go to the corner of the wall?"

The two men at the door spoke in a very small voice, obviously not deliberately avoiding the old woman. When the woman heard this, she grabbed a book from the stall, laughed and scolded her, and smashed the book at the handsome man who had no right all day long. "One has no eggs and the other has no courage, and they only know how to talk wildly. Is it interesting?"

That Minister Cao was not a nickname, but a real minister of the Dali officialdom, and it was also the Ministry of Personnel who was in charge of the officialdom.

The young man caught the "hidden weapon" and did not read the title of the book. He just sniffed it and gently threw the book back to the beautiful woman's stall. "The content is not meaty, and the words are not colored. If you don't read it, it's boring and uninteresting."

Cao Gengxin's vision was slightly off, and he saw a few people walking out of an antique shop in the distance, all from outsiders, from Beijuluzhou.

A tall middle-aged man wore an old mink hat with a lot of wear on his head, a cotton jacket, and a pair of suede boots on his feet. The man's face was not bitter at all, but he was poor.

It was Liu's sword cultivator and Liu Xu, who was the Mule Mahe River.

Yuan Xuan of Sanlang Temple is a young man wearing a mud-gold robe.

This trip south to travel to Baopingzhou. The heir of Sanlang Temple nicknamed "Yuan Yichi" and "Yuan Chongshui" still only brought two followers, Fan Yu, a martial artist from afar. This female martial arts master once went to the Dali Aidu and Dadu battlefield, and sacrificed her life. Therefore, there was a detailed record of the Dali Rites Ministry. Fan Yu visited the mountains and rivers in Dali. After receiving the pass certificate, if Fan Yu publicly stated his identity, he must treat him with courtesy. If she was interested in walking in the night with brocade clothes, she would not have to disturb her travels.

The high-ranking gods of Dali all have such a "gift list" in their hands, which is convenient for checking and hospitality at any time. Whether they are monks on the mountain in other places or martial artists in the martial arts world, as long as they have been rewarded with morality on the battlefield, the court should regard them as national wise men and treat them with courtesy.

Liu Wuding, an old sword cultivator in the Yuanying realm, is different from Fan Yu who is a similar child. The old man is the first-class worshiper in Sanlang Temple. His annual salary is quite considerable and he takes a lot of money. In fact, he only does one thing to protect the Taoist disciples of the Yuan family. In the past, Yuan threw it away, but now it is just a replacement for Yuan Xuan.

When the old sword cultivator was young, he was once a genealogical monk, but later became a lonely and ghostly mountain cultivator. Because Liu Wuding had just entered the Jindan realm, he secretly ran to destroy other ancestor halls after a few days of leaving the seclusion. This was the first time he had done such a thing. He was not experienced enough in the world. He accidentally did not hide his identity and was seen by the other party that the sword skills were so bad that he caused a big disaster. He was originally expected to inherit the legitimate inheritance of the ancestor hall and a young genius with a bright future had to be expelled from the mountain gate and then fell silent.

But looking back at the sword question two hundred years ago, the old man never regrets it.

So what if I am young and energetic? I have been young.

Cao Gengxin hurriedly swallowed the last bite of pea yellow, shook his sleeves, stood up and shook his robe, and waved with a smile: "Liu Jianxian, Mr. Yuan, Liu Jianxian, Grandmaster Fan. Ha, Liu and Liu Liu were the same voice. If I had known, I would have called one."

The young minister used a very authentic elegant language from Beijuluzhou.

Liu Xu frowned and asked, "Are you a priest from the Ministry of Justice? You want to check our identities?"

The people on the mountain who dealt with monks from other places in the Dali Dynasty usually worshipped the Ministry of Justice. If the monks accompanying the Dali Army were dispatched, they would not be hospitality.

Yuan Xuan had already recognized the other party's identity and smiled and said, "Uncle Liu is not from the Ministry of Justice, but from the Minister of Personnel of Dali Jingcheng, a very famous person on the mountain."

This person is indeed very famous. He could make the Emperor of the Song Dynasty of Dali to make an exception and allow Cao Gengxin to take a wine pot to the yamen. However, he stipulated that he could only drink one pot of wine a day and no additional wine was allowed on the same day. If he stayed overnight at the ban, he would also give Cao Shilang a jar of Changchun Palace Fairy Brew as a reward, which was called fishing with wine, so as not to ask for leave. It is rumored in the officialdom that Cao Gengxin, who returned to Beijing to become a minister, prepared more than a dozen reasons early to shirk all kinds of official duties that he thought were the same, and he would do it again every time he used it.

In the north of Beijuluzhou, Zhongtiao Mountain, facing north and south, travels along a large river. The mountains are narrow and long, and the entire majestic mountain range is like a god standing up at the center of his eyebrows.

The Liu family of Lumahe and the Yuan family of Sanlang Temple are located in the mountains with extremely rich mineral resources, one east and one west, such as occupying treasure pots and weapons warehouses respectively.

Cao Gengxin gave Yuan Xuan a thumbs up, "Young man is so good at seeing!"

Yuan Xuan smiled and said, "Mr. Cao, I am actually not young."

Cao Gengxin nodded and said, "We are the same as we have a tender face and are more advantageous."

Liu Xu asked: "Ministry of Personnel? What do you want us to do?"

Cao Gengxin smiled and said, "Actually, it's not about looking for you, but for you to wait for someone with you. He has been a neighbor with him for many years, but he has never seen him before. After thinking about it, he always feels uncomfortable."

Yuan Xuan asked, "Is it that Lord Chen Shan?"

Cao Gengxin smiled and said, "Young Master Yuan is so smart, you can get it right as soon as you guess."

Yuan Xuan felt in his heart that you will wait for whom we are looking for. What's hard to guess? Besides, the Longquan County Kiln Supervision and Construction Agency is not a neighbor with that mountain of retreat.

Liu Xu said, "What do you do when you see him?"

Actually, this question is a bit out of place.

Cao Gengxin of the Ministry of Personnel could not control what Liu Xu came to Dali to do, and of course Liu Xu, the sword cultivator, could not control who Cao Gengxin wanted to meet.

But from this we can see that the relationship between Liu Xu and Chen Ping'an is definitely not as similar as what he and Yuan Xuan said.

However, Cao Gengxin did not look annoyed. He patted the wine gourd around his waist, turned his head and asked with the beautiful woman who set up a stall to post books, "Shopkeeper Nangong, why do you say something?"

The woman laughed and said, "One of Su Zi's famous works is orderly, 'The woman said I have been storing wine for a long time, so I can wait for my child to need it from time to time."

Cao Gengxin smiled and said, "I still need to introduce myself. My name is Cao Gengxin, whose courtesy name is Shucheng. I have been a kiln manager who has been a long time since I was a magnificent official. I was in the former site of Lizhu Cave Heaven. Now I am a job as a servant in the Ministry of Personnel and have been depressed and unsuccessful. If there is no noble person in the court, it will be difficult and difficult to be an official on the same day."

Cao Gengxin turned his head and smiled and said, "The Lord is here."

Liu Xu and Liu Wuding looked at each other.

This surnamed Cao is not only a qi-cultivator, but also has a high level of experience.

Cao Gengxin glanced at Liu Xu and Liu Wuding.

Once upon a time, a qi practitioner in the Nascent Soul Realm, not to mention a sword cultivator, was so unattainable. Now, when I look at them, the old gods, it seems that they are just like that.

Just like when Cao Gengxin was young, I remember the first time I visited Liu Jia at the alley outside the building. Because I knew about the realm of the old god in advance, I was a little nervous. After carrying two pots of good wine, I still had to worry about not being etiquette enough and whether I would be turned away. Now, I can drink with Brother Liu.

When he was younger, Cao Gengxin was inevitably worried about what he saw, heard, and talked about state affairs when his family elders were young. Even if he was sure to win, he deliberately pretended not to be sure.

Now our children of the Dali Dynasty have regarded the Dali Dynasty as one of the most powerful countries in Haoran, and regard this kind of thing as the most natural thing.

Especially the bastards in Yichi Lane and Chier Street began to consider their respective advantages and disadvantages with the Middle Earth Daduan Dynasty and the Xuanmi Dynasty, and guessed when Dali would catch up.

Actually, it wasn't like this before.

I remember when I was young, Cao Gengxin asked his grandfather about the official affairs that was famous in the court and the country. Shen Chen, the Minister of War, really scolded Master Cui. Since Shen Chen resigned from the Ministry of Personnel, with his stubborn personality, he founded academies in his hometown. Why was he willing to return to the officialdom? It was Master Cui who came forward in person and took the initiative to invite Shen Chen to Beijing to take charge of the Ministry of War?

After all, Cao Gengxin's grandfather is the head of the Cao family in Shangzhu Kingdom. The outside world can only guess things, but this old man can ask Shen Chen in person.

It turned out that when Master Cui went to the local academy, he did personally invite Shen Chen to return to the officialdom. The reason for convincing the stubborn temper of Shen Chen was very simple.

Cui Feng asked Shen Chen to raise his eyelids, so he might as well look at it for the long term.

Since they will soon be all over the country, why are you Shen Chen still caring about those trivial matters?

If that story is limited to this, Cao Gengxin actually felt that Master Cui was so talented that he would not make the boy feel numb and his back became cold.

It turned out that the old man had a more "trivial matter" with his grandson who valued the most, saying that when Master Cui appeared in that private academy, the academy that Shen Chen had worked hard to establish had been converted into an official office. The new mountain chief was already on the way to take office. The mountain chief was a literary scholar who was originally disliked by Shen Chen. Three generations of grandfathers and five Jinshis. Once this person occupied the academy, both sides had both public revenge and personal grudges. It was probably that Shen Chen would be disgusted and died with his eyes closed. The so-called resignation of office and retirement in his hometown to retire, would be really miserable.

Cui Feng gives you a choice, and there is no second choice.

You will either be depressed in your hometown until you die, or you will be a high-ranking official in Dali Capital, serve the country, the people, the people, the people, the country, the three immortals and the ambitions, devote yourself to the work, and display your ambitions.

So Cao Gengxin came to a conclusion very early on that the smarter a person is, the more afraid of Master Cui.

Cao Gengxin has been the chief official of the kiln affairs for so many years, but he really thought that Cao Gengxin did not want to achieve something. It was just that Cao Gengxin was smart enough to dare not be smart enough.

After leaving Qianbulang, Jiang Shangzhen said she wanted to go to Changchun Palace to be busy with some private matters.

Xie Gou is still at the Fire God Temple.

Chen Ping'an only brought Xiaomo to find Liu Xu and his group.

Cao Gengxin bowed and took the initiative to apologize: "I have been an official in the town for many years, but I have not visited Lord Chen Shan in Luopo Mountain. I am very rude."

"I'm not going to visit my parents' officials if I go to the yamen office or the bureau. I'm just pretending it's even."

Chen Ping'an bowed and asked with a smile: "Why is Mr. Cao here too? I'm waiting for me and waiting for me here?"

Cao Gengxin smiled and said, "It's true that I can't hide it from Master Chen Shan."

Chen Ping'an asked, "Is there anything to discuss?"

Cao Gengxin shook his head and smiled, "Just meet and say hello, and you will be satisfied if you see him. If Lord Chen Shan needs to invite his friends to drink, he will only say that he can keep accounts without spending money in the Changpu River or even big or small restaurants in the Changpu River.

Chen Ping'an said in confusion: "Shishou Gong's salary is so high?"

Cao Gengxin said shamelessly: "Master Chen Shan and his friends drink, the restaurant keeps the accounts, the Minister of Personnel Cao's debts are debts, and the poor Cao Gengxin returns the money."

Liu Xu was impressed by this. He was not a member of Cao Gengxin, and he had no similar tastes. He knew that he would not be friends without having to talk too much, but Cao Gengxin and the second shopkeeper must be able to chat.

Chen Ping'an bowed and smiled, "Here I thank you here."

Afterwards, Chen Ping'an took Liu Xu and the others away from Liulichang and asked Liu Xu if he had chosen a good inn. Liu Xu said that there was no one for the time being. Chen Ping'an recommended a place and said that he was not familiar with the Xianjia Inn, but now he is very famous on Baopingzhou Mountain.

Of course, Liu Xu didn't care. Anyway, Yuan Xuan was the one who paid for it, so Yuan Xuan naturally didn't care. He didn't spend a lot of money on a trip to Liulichang, and he was worried that there was no place to spend money.

Minister Cao returned the small stool to the shop, and finally got what he wanted and bought the books he had long wanted.

The proprietress who set up a stall to spread books in the shop next door asked curiously: "Why did the iron rooster pluck his feathers? What kind of ecstasy soup did he give him?"

Cao Gengxin smiled and said, "I told Lao Hong that the person who was chatting with me at the door of his shop was the Lord Chen Shan of Luopo Mountain. When Lao Hong was happy, he gave me it for nothing."

"Isn't it really a shame?"

The woman was skeptical and quickly turned her head to look at the back of the blue shirt in the distance, murmured: "I don't look so handsome, I look worse than you."

I remember that in the past, Liulichang Bookstores sold a book of travel notes on landscapes and travels, and the sales were quite good. The lord in the book said that he was a young man with a handsome face, a handsome face, a handsome demeanor, and a green shirt and a sword carrying a horse, and the romance came uninvited, and he could not stop the affair...

Cao Gengxin put the books in his arms and smiled and said, "Be a down-to-earth person, you are a happy person with a broad mind and fat body. Eating, drinking, and sleeping are also fragrant."

Walking out of the noisy Liulichang territory, Liu Xu asked, "Will we really go to Changpu River to drink?"

Chen Ping'an smiled and said, "What do you think? You can go there with your knees. If you really want to report Cao Gengxin's name, it's useless. Nine out of ten restaurants will surely drive people away."

What's more, the restaurants on the Changpu River are quite hot and there are not many places to drink vegetarian wine. Mr. Cao obviously believed that Lord Chen Shan did not dare to go too much.

Yuan Xuan raised his courage and asked shyly: "Master Chen Shan, do you still remember me? I introduced myself to the raft fishing in Tonglu Lake last time. I was named Yuan Xuan, who came from Sanlang Temple."

Chen Ping'an nodded and smiled, "Of course I remember that I remember deeply. At that time, Mr. Yuan was young and was old, with a kind heart, but he acted well."
To be continued...