"Look! I said Mr. Shen is definitely the number one scholar."
"This No. 1 Scholar is truly a talented person!"
"Shen Zhuangyuan, look at me..."
Many girls on the street waved their handkerchiefs at Shen Ming. Some of the bold ones even followed the horse and threw purses at Shen Ming, but Shen Ming didn't catch any of them.
After the tour, Shen Ming returned to Izumo Villa under the escort of an official.
When Shen Wan saw that her younger brother won the first prize, she was so happy that she asked Qiu Ju to give him a reward of one hundred taels of silver.
Of course, she also spread wedding money to the servants and long-term workers as usual, so that they were also happy.
Shen Wan originally wanted to hold a big banquet the next day and invite some people to celebrate. But Shen Ming was going to attend the Qionglin Banquet the next day, so she scheduled the banquet for the third day and invited some friends to go there in advance. Posted.
However, she and Shen Ming didn't have many friends in the imperial city, so they only set up two tables.
On the morning of the third day, these people arrived at Izumo Villa one after another. Among them were Princess Ren and Princess Liufang, Mr. Yun and Yun Qingyang, as well as several friends of Shen Ming, and Li Li from the same county as him. Anyang was among them, and shopkeeper Zhao from Zhaixinglou also came with congratulatory gifts.
Since there were both men and women, Shen Wan arranged a table for the women and a table for the men.
When the banquet was about to start, Shen Wan saw that Murong Li hadn't come yet, so she pulled shopkeeper Zhao aside and asked, "Why is the Marquis not here?" She remembered that she had sent someone to Anding Marquis to deliver the post.
Shopkeeper Zhao glanced at Shen Wan and said, "Don't you know, Madam? The Marquis has left the imperial city to go out for fun." The Marquis has been gone for several days, and he probably hasn't seen her post.
play?
"Where did you go to play?" Shen Wan asked again.
Shopkeeper Zhao shook his head and said, "I don't know. He only said he wanted to go out for fun. He didn't say where he was going. He also said he would be back in two months."
The Marquis was not in good health, and he also advised him not to go out for fun, and just look at the mountains and rivers outside the city. But the Marquis said that he wanted to say that he was still alive, and he wanted to see the great rivers and mountains in Dongchen. He locked himself in the room and grew moldy. Seeing that the Marquis had made up his mind, he stopped trying to persuade him.
Although Shen Wan was a little worried, she still nodded and said, "It's good to go out for a sightseeing tour and see the scenery."
Didn’t doctors also say that maintaining a happy and relaxed mood is better for physical and mental health?
Shen Ming and Lu Wenqing dined with Mr. Yun and the others in the main hall, while Shen Wan and Ling'er dined with Princess Ren and Princess Liufang in the side hall.
Princess Ni was very satisfied with the cooking skills of the cook at Izumo Villa, and she would praise every dish she ate.
"My cook in the palace is still a royal cook from the palace, but his skills are not as good as your cook's."
Today's dishes were all prepared by Qiu Ju, and the cook just helped her.
Shen Wan smiled and said: "Actually, it's not that my cook is better than Yu Chu, it's just that these dishes are things you, Princess, have never eaten before. It's the first time you eat them and they're naturally fresh, so you think they're better than those cooked by your cook." The food is delicious.”
Princess Ren thought for a while and said with a smile: "What you said makes sense."
"By the way, why didn't the young prince come?" Shen Wan looked at Princess Ren and asked. Logically speaking, she and the young prince were also friends, so he should come too.
"He's not here. He took people to Muyun City. It happened two days ago."
"Muyun City?" Shen Wan thought for a moment, then frowned and asked, "Isn't Song Heng already gone? What is the young prince going to do?"
Could it be that the bandits were so powerful that even Song Heng and his two thousand elite soldiers couldn't annihilate them, so they asked Prince Yun to come to support them?
Princess Ren shook her head, "I don't know. I asked him, but he didn't say anything. He just said he would go and come back. I guess it's for the purpose of suppressing bandits!"
For no reason, Shen Wan suddenly felt flustered and her face turned pale.
"Mrs. Shen, are you okay?" Seeing her change of expression, Princess Liufang asked quickly, fearing that she had an upset stomach. But it was hard for her to ask, did she have an upset stomach? Because her mother-in-law didn't know that Shen Madam is pregnant.
Shen Wan took a deep breath, her panic disappeared, she shook her head and said, "I'm fine, let's eat food!"
This meal was tasteless to Shen Wan because he always felt that it was unusual for Little Prince Yun to go to Muyun City.
After dinner, Shen Wan went to the garden with Princess Ren and Princess Liufang, while Shen Ming took Mr. Yun and the others to Tingfeng Pavilion to drink tea and talk about poetry and practical matters. Three of Shen Ming's friends were awarded Jinshi , they are all people who are about to enter the official career. Although Yun Yi is not in the officialdom, he also knows the ways of the officialdom, so he took the opportunity to teach Shen Ming and others.