Chapter three hundred and twenty fourth questioning the crime on the spot
I don’t know the true face of Yan’s mansion, just because I am in this mansion.
Yan's mansion is luxurious, with three and four buildings in a row. There is a large garden in front of the mansion. The garden is divided into east, middle and west roads. There is also an artificial lake of dozens of acres dug by hand in the garden. Strange flowers and trees are planted next to it.
A hundred flowers have bloomed.
The black horse that killed the horse had long been brought into the racecourse by the servants of the Hou Mansion. Zhu Ping'an was given a bamboo sign with a vivid horse engraved on it and a name. He could use this sign to claim the horse when he left. Zhu Ping'an followed.
Leading another servant, they walked through the long west road in the mansion and headed to the courtyard where the Yan Mansion held the banquet. On the way, neatly dressed maids carrying fruits, vegetables, wine and food passed by in neat rows.
The servant who was leading the way looked at the backs of the maids passing by and swallowed hard.
There was a burst of noise and the sound of silk and bamboo not far away, and the silhouette of dancing girls could be seen in the distance, and the banquet place was about to arrive.
Zhu Ping'an adjusted his sleeves with great interest and slowly walked into the banquet place step by step.
The banquet pot was burning with spices, and the fragrance was floating in the air. The orderly potted flower arrangements enhanced the banquet a lot. The dancer in the red dress waved her colorful sleeves and danced with her bare feet. There were singers and musicians beside her.
play music.
What most attracted Zhu Ping'an's attention was the banquet's meandering wine glass. In the center of the banquet was a white jade and rockery stone. Surrounding the rockery stone were piles of mountains. In the middle of the mountains were pipes carved from white jade. On the rocks were placed huge wine jars inlaid with gold and jade.
The jade liquid ripples in the wine vat, and the fine wine flows slowly along the white jade pipe like a clear stream. The guests sit around the piled mountains, and the fine wine from the jade liquid can flow into the wine glasses.
If you don’t use a wine glass to catch the wine, the wine will flow into the card slot and disappear. It should be reusable.
Bear paws, camel hooves, scaly skin, running on the mountains, swimming in the water, waves on the grassland, flying in the sky and growing on the ground were all made into delicacies and placed on the banquet like flowing water.
At this time, the banquet has begun, and the atmosphere is very lively. Everyone is surrounding a short, fat and thick fat man, vying to be the first to flatter him. This big fat man is about thirty-seven or eighty-year-old, not tall, and has a short neck. He is the most distinctive.
You are blind in one eye, but the other eye is full of cunning and wit, as if you can see into your heart with just one glance.
This one-eyed fat man is very energetic, so energetic that he gives people a feeling of arrogance and domineering.
Short, fat, one-eyed, arrogant and domineering. When these factors are combined, Zhu Ping'an can conclude that this man is the only son of Mr. Yan Ge. Yan Shifan, who is now the right minister of the Ministry of Industry.
It should be said that God is fair. Even though God made Yan Shifan so fat and round that he was blind in one eye, he gave this man a super good IQ. Not only that, this man was also good at psychology. It is recorded in history that "he is cunning."
He is witty in questioning, knowledgeable and has a strong memory. He is familiar with rules and regulations and has a good understanding of current economic affairs. He is also energetic and capable of complicated dramas. He is especially good at figuring out the emperor's likes and dislikes."
Zhu Pingan was led in by the servants of the Yan Mansion. He announced inside, and then everyone saw Zhu Pingan standing at the door.
Why is such a young man here? I have never seen him before. People who usually hang out in Yan Mansion are full of curiosity about Zhu Ping'an standing at the door.
"Who is coming?" A man sitting not far from Yan Shifan put down the wine glass in his hand, raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhu Pingan and asked in a dark voice.
This person is Luo Longwen, whose courtesy name is Hanzhang. He was originally an ink merchant and made his fortune in ink. He mastered the unique skill of making ink when he was young. He is good at using tung oil fume to make high-quality ink, which is known as: as hard as stone, as patterned as rhinoceros, and as black as black.
Lacquer, a snail is worth ten thousand yuan. After making a fortune, he joined Yan Shifan's family and became Yan Shifan's secret guest. Under Yan Shifan's guidance, he is now the head of Zhongshushe.
It can be said that this person is one of Yan Shifan's right-hand men.
"Xiahe Zhu Ping'an, I am fortunate to have received an invitation from Master Yan, and I came here to pay a visit."
Zhu Ping'an was neither humble nor arrogant, and bowed to everyone. He was not at all intimidated by Luo Wenlong's questioning tone, and replied leisurely.
"Zhu Pingan? Haha, who is Zhu Pingan?" Luo Longwen couldn't help laughing twice when he heard this, and looked at Zhu Pingan with some disdain.
Hearing this, many people around him started laughing, and most of them looked at Zhu Pingan with contempt.
In fact, when Zhu Pingan said his name, how many people would not know who Zhu Pingan was. After all, the examination is a major event for both the government and the public. Moreover, many of them are used to hanging out in the Yan Mansion, such as Luo Longwen,
It’s not that I don’t know about the fact that Ouyang, the young master in Yan’s mansion, missed Hui Yuan. He’s just taking sides.
In addition to these smiling people, there were other curious eyes at the banquet.
Amid everyone's laughter and scrutiny, Zhu Pingan remained calm, neither humble nor arrogant, and accepted the baptism of everyone's gaze calmly.
At this moment, the fat and plump Yan Shifan, the object of everyone's flattery, stood up with a smile, his shining single eye fell on Zhu Pingan, he stretched out a finger to point at Zhu Pingan, and introduced to the crowd with a shaking face:
"Hanzhang, everyone, this person is not ordinary. You don't know him today, but one day he will be famous all over the world and will be deeply engraved in your minds. This time the Enke Examination Leader is Zhu Ping'an.
Zhu Zihou, a famous child prodigy in Xiahe Village, Anqing Prefecture, passed the provincial examination at the age of 13 and won the imperial examination, which was slightly ahead of Yang Ting and Yang Gelao who passed the imperial examination at the age of 12. However, Yang Gelao went to Beijing the next year after passing the imperial examination.
In the examination, no matter what, I lost my reputation. It was not until I re-entered the examination room six years later at the age of 19 that I passed the examination."
Having said this, Yan Shifan glanced at everyone with his shining single eye, smiled slightly and meaningfully, and asked: "Do you know how old this person is?"
When everyone heard this, they looked at Zhu Ping'an and shook their heads, and said they didn't know.
"This person is only 14 this year, and he is already a Huiyuan at the age of 14! Mr. Yang Ge is no different." Yan Shifan waved his hand and nodded at Zhu Pingan.
After hearing Yan Shifan's words, there were a lot of surprises at the banquet. Many of them did not expect that Zhu Ping'an was so young. The 14-year-old Huiyuan was much more powerful than Yang Ge, after all, Yang Ge was nineteen years old.
He has just passed the exam, but this person actually passed the exam at the age of 14, and he is still good at it!
"14-year-old Huiyuan, no wonder, no wonder"
After everyone was surprised, a sinister voice sounded at the banquet. It was Luo Longwen who had spoken at the beginning.
"What's wrong?" someone asked.
"No wonder I have to put Brother Donglou in my eyes. No wonder I dare not put Yan Mansion in my eyes. Brother Donglou thinks so highly of you. He sends you an invitation and invites you to a banquet. Mr. Huiyuan, 14 years old.
It's amazing. The banquet has been going on for a long time, and after three rounds of drinking, I'm late. Do you dare to ask Hui Yuan Gong if he knows etiquette? People don't have faith, and they don't know what to do. If Hui Yuan is not punctual, don't you be afraid?
Are you making fun of the generous family? Or do you mean that you don’t take us and everyone else seriously at all?”
A faint smile appeared at the corner of Luo Longwen's mouth, he looked at Zhu Ping'an with a sinister look, and asked loudly.
Luo Longwen's language was quite provocative and skillful. As soon as he finished speaking, most of the people looked at Zhu Ping'an with a reproachful look. Failure to be punctual is not a good habit. Failure to be punctual means being untrustworthy.
How can people who are not trustworthy be good? (To be continued...)