After learning that the handsome young man with red lips and white teeth in front of him was actually an imperial envoy Xu Jin, Tang Bohu and his friends suddenly became restrained and came forward to greet him carefully.

As the saying goes, the name of the tree's shadow man. Although Xu Jin is young, his reputation in recent years has been so great. In terms of fame, Xu Jin won the fifth consecutive year of 1000s, and passed the imperial examination in one breath, which was shocking. In terms of literary reputation, Xu Jin's poems are the best, and the song "Linjiang Xian" made the talented men lose their reputation. In terms of martial arts, he was only twenty years old and had already experienced many battles and won the throne of count. This time he returned to Beijing, he might be even more honored.

Therefore, Xu Jin is a civil and military talent, with a brilliant halo, which makes it difficult for ordinary people to look directly at.

Tang Bohu thought he had been a friend of Xu Jin for a long time, so although Xu Jin has become famous and different from the past, he still called Xu Jin Ziqian "kindly" and was even more cheerful in front of his friends. It is probably to show the friendship between him and the imperial envoy.

"Brother Ziqian, let me introduce you to you. This is Brother Seagate Zhu Yunming, and this is Brother Zizhong Chen Chun..." Tang Bohu stroked his beard and proudly introduced his talented friends to Xu Jin.

Zhu Yunming was Zhu Zhishan, whose name was Shijie. Xu Jin naturally knew this one of the four talents in Jiangnan. He also met him once at the Yangzhou Courtesan Competition last time. He was an old man in his sixties.

As for Chen Chun, Tang Zhen, and Cai Yu, although people like Chen Chun, Tang Zhen, and Cai Yu were not as famous as the four talents, Xu Jin, as a calligraphy enthusiast, naturally heard of them and copied their copybooks.

According to historical records, Wen Zhengming once took the lead in forming a poetry club called "Ten Friends of Dongzhuang", and Chen Chun, Tang Zhen and others were one of the ten friends of Dongzhuang. These talented men from Suzhou who were not satisfied often gathered together to recite poems and essays, and traveled with them to various scenic spots and historical sites in the south of the Yangtze River, which became a story for a while.

Xu Jin has always scoffed at the so-called "unappreciated talent" and the reason why these people cannot be officials to show their ambitions is generally two reasons. The first is that they fail the imperial examination; the second is that they are not the material for being officials and are kicked out by their opponents.

For example, Zhu Yunming was ugly in life, and a small finger (deformed) grew on his thumb, so he gave himself the nickname "Zhishan", which means self-deprecating. In ancient times, people like Zhu Zhishan could not become high-ranking officials even if they passed the imperial examination, and at most they could be a minor official. The key is that Zhu Zhishan failed the exam and finally passed the exam. As a result, he failed the exam seven times in a row. In the end, even his son was defeated, and he still failed. He was even more unlucky than Zhang Cong. Zhang Cong passed the exam at least the eighth time.

Wen Zhengming was even more miserable. He was still a scholar after most of his life, and he didn't even get a juren. He wanted to go to the Ministry of Personnel to be a nominee and was not qualified to be a nonsense, and he was even a nonsense official.

Therefore, the so-called "talented without seeing" talent are actually losers in the exam and officialdom. A group of discouraged losers gathered together and could only express their feelings for the mountains, rivers, and pens, and bubble girls. They have made a name for themselves in literature. Some of them have achieved remarkable results and even won the title of romantic talent, such as Tang Bohu and Liu Yong.

It is obviously boring to talk about current affairs with such a group of cynical losers, but it is very pleasant to talk about poetry, songs, music, chess, calligraphy and painting.

At this moment, Xu Jin was very arrogant and mixed among the old talents, standing behind the desk, watching Tang Bohu's portrait of early spring and early summer. The talents were chatting and laughing, making witty comments, and the atmosphere was relaxed and refreshing.

Since Xu Jin learned sketching by Tang Bohu, the old talented man in Tang has become more exquisite in painting, his brushwork has become more refined and his speed has become much faster.

About an hour later, the two pretty maids in early spring and early summer were vividly on the paper. The two pretty faces with the same faces, different attitudes and different temperaments were particularly charming and charming, making people happy to see them.

"Tang Ziwei, this painting belongs to me. How about I invite you to have three drinks?"

"Brother Ziwei, I will use the last picture of the autumn morning in the mountain residence to exchange it for you."

"Brother Ziwei, you can take away the spring (palace) map in the next home, but this picture of the ladies in the same way must belong to me."

Before Tang Bohu finished painting, the friends rushed to ask for this painting. Xu Jin looked at the two pretty maids in the painting, and he also loved it tightly. He quickly raised his hand and said, "Everyone, a gentleman does not take away the favors of others. This painting was painted by the official who asked his brother Ziwei to paint. The maid is also his maid. Naturally, the painting belongs to me."

The old talented men burst into laughter, but no one asked for it anymore. Who dares to steal the things from the imperial envoy?

Tang Bohu is obviously also a competition-style guy. The more people watch, the more excited he becomes. Today he has performed extraordinaryly. This painting is obviously his pinnacle work in recent times.

After Tang Bohu finished painting, he stroked his beard and admired himself for a moment. The more he looked at it, the more he liked it, and he was a little reluctant to give it to Jin. What a character Xu Jin was? Seeing this, he immediately pulled the painting over and said with a smile: "Zi is afraid of brother. A gentleman cannot chase after a word, so he can't break his promise. Don't be too slow to use it. Use the seal as soon as possible, either the inscription can be written."

The old talented men laughed again, feeling more and more that the imperial envoy had met the eyes.

Tang Bohu did not bring in the ink, so he was reluctant to pick up his pen and signed his name and date on the blank space. He also wrote a short order to describe what happened today.

Xu Jin couldn't help but feel happy, and at the same time, he felt strange. At the auction five hundred years later, I don't know how many billions of dollars this painting could be sold. Will the auctioneer mention himself when introducing the origin of this painting?

Xu Jin blew dry his handwriting, then handed the scroll to Chuchun and told her to put it away. The two pretty maids had been itchy for a long time, but they were not able to come up. At this time, after taking the scroll handed over by Xu Jin, he immediately opened it and watched excitedly.

When I saw myself in the painting, the two pretty maids could not help but cover their mouths, and were amazed by their own beauty. Even Wang Cuiqiao next to me showed a hint of envy.

But I saw two identical girls in the painting standing beside the railing, and the background was Taihu Lake with lotus leaves filling the fields. The girl seemed to have two lotus flowers blooming side by side. In early spring, she was gentle and shy, and in early summer, she smiled brightly, which made people feel moved.

Tang Bohu said proudly: "Brother Ziqian, these are two. I will give you the other eight to you tomorrow, and our old accounts will be cleared!"

Xu Jin bowed his hands and smiled and said, "I really believe in others if I fear my brother!"

Chen Chun laughed and said, "It is rumored that Tang Ziwei was detained by King Ning in Hongzhou (Nanchang), Jiangxi. In the end, Lord Xu was advised and hit Ning Wang's car with his bare butt, so he was able to escape from the city. However, his butt was beaten so hard that it was broken and flesh was broken. It took several months to recover. Now it seems that the rumors are not false, otherwise why would you owe Lord Xu ten pictures of ladies?"

When talking about Tang Bohu's embarrassing incident, all the bad friends laughed. However, Wang Cuiqiao and others made a big furious face and hurried out of the pavilion to get on the carriage, so as not to let a group of shameless people say some dirty jokes.

Xu Jin asked the Jinyiwei to send Wang Cuiqiao and his daughters back to the imperial envoy headquarters first, and then went to the restaurant with the old talents for a banquet. The banquet lasted for two hours before it ended, and it cost Lord Xu fifty taels of silver.

At the banquet, all the old talents were working hard to express their political views, obviously trying to win the appreciation of Xu Jin, the imperial envoy. Unfortunately, Xu Jin did not intend to use these guys from the Angshiji clan, so he let them continue to be talented men who "have no talent". They are obviously better at this.

However, there is one exception, that is Wen Zhengming. Just when others want to pour out all the goods in their stomachs in front of Xu Jin, Wen Zhengming is always neither humble nor arrogant, calm and polite.

It just so happened that Xu Jin was missing a document, so he wanted to Zhao Wen Zhengming as his aide, so he made an appointment with him to meet alone after the banquet.
Chapter completed!