Li Baolu was still in a daze until she entered the restaurant. She had repeatedly confirmed that she and Gu Jingyun really didn't know the boy.

She doesn't say she remembers 100% of the people she has met, but she will definitely have an impression. She won't search for them and still have no memory at all.

But Gu Jingyun obviously knew the other party, Li Baolu couldn't help asking him, "Who is that person?"

Wei Yingjie looked at Gu Jingyun with a smile.

Ignoring his watching eyes, Gu Jingyun picked up the teapot and poured a cup for himself and Baolu, and said, "It should be my half brother, he looks very similar to my father."

Wei Yingjie immediately said: "It's similar to Mr. Gu, Miss Li, can't you tell?"

"Where is it like? My family's Jingyun is like beautiful jade, and his facial features are like my mother-in-law and uncle. How does that person look like my family's Jingyun?"

The corners of Gu Jingyun's mouth turned up slightly in joy.

Wei Yingjie twitched the corner of his mouth and asked, "Do you dare to touch your conscience?"

Li Baolu immediately put his hand on his left chest, and looked at him seriously.

Tao Wu, who was on the side, finally understood, scratched his head and said, "That person really doesn't look like Mr. Gu, so he is Mr. Gu's brother? Do you want to say hello?"

Wei Yingjie felt an arrow shot in his chest and was temporarily speechless.

But Li Baolu still looked at him and sighed, and said seriously: "Poor eyesight is also a disease, and it needs to be cured. I have some medical skills. Would you like me to help you?"

Taking another arrow in the heart, Wei Yingjie gritted his teeth and said, "No, I made friends carelessly. These eyes really need to shine brighter."

Tao Wu was embarrassed by Wei Yingjie's stare, coughed lightly and muttered: "What I said is obviously the truth, but I really don't see anything like it..."

Li Baolu glanced at Wei Yingjie and snorted softly.

Gu Jingyun directly brought the menu to order, and gave the menu to Li Baolu after ordering what he wanted.

Li Baolu glanced at the menu, ordered a large dish, passed Wei Yingjie and handed it to Tao Wu, "Brother Tao, order a few more, you're welcome, your son paid us for the goods, and we are not short of money now."

Wei Yingjie looked at her eagerly, "What about me?"

Li Baolu said: "Your eyesight is not good, let us help you order, you can eat whatever you order."

"You're retaliating."

"Don't say it if you know it, I will be more unscrupulous. Well, Brother Tao, we don't need to order his, he can just eat our favorite dishes."

Tao Wu laughed heartily.

Seeing that Wei Yingjie was so choked that he couldn't speak, Gu Jingyun couldn't help but pursed his lips and smiled.

The food came quickly, and the four of them enjoyed their meal happily.

Tao Wu said in satisfaction, "The food in the capital is still delicious."

"That's because you just ran for your lives," Gu Jingyun said, pointing to the dishes on the table, "I ate a roast suckling pig in Guangzhou. It was fragrant and soft, and melted in your mouth. Today's dishes can't compare. The braised lion head eaten in Yanping is rosy in color and fragrant, not to mention the taste, the one in Yanping is like this, let alone the area around Huaiyang? It’s a pity that we changed our route on the way and didn’t make it to Yangzhou.”

Li Baolu nodded again and again, recalling the braised lion's head that she ate at that time, drooling: "At that time, I almost swallowed my tongue, but it's a pity that I'm not good at cooking, otherwise I must learn this dish seriously."

Wei Yingjie and Tao Wu were drooling after being told by the two of them, and the food on the table was not very delicious.

Tao Wudao: "Actually, the best restaurants in Beijing are the Zhuangyuan Restaurant and Zhenxiu Restaurant, not to mention the Zhuangyuan Restaurant, but the Zhenxiu Restaurant is famous for its delicious food. Most of the cooks there are after the royal chefs. It's a pity that a table of good banquets costs hundreds of taels. I can't afford to wait."

Both Wei Yingjie and Tao Wu came from honorable families, and they were considered upper class in the capital, but even so, they didn't dare to go to Zhenxiu Lou often.

Li Baolu did some calculations in her head, one hundred taels was enough for her family of five to eat, drink, and wear clothes in Qiongzhou for a year, and one year's consumption was exchanged for one meal. This meal is really expensive, and eating delicious food also requires a price.

And for their meal of six dishes and two soups, they also ordered a pot of bamboo leaf greens and a pot of fruit wine, and the total cost was only two or three dollars.

Sure enough, Da Chu's silver is still very valuable.

Li Baolu patted her purse, feeling relieved.

"Have you ever visited the night market? The capital is still very lively at night. This street is full of scholars, so there are many stalls selling pens, ink, books and some antiques at night. Do you want to go and have a look?" Wei Yingjie recommended himself. : "I'm not good at reading, but I still know a thing or two about these things, why don't I give you a reference?"

There are real and fake things on the street, it all depends on a pair of discerning eyes, Wei Yingjie likes to shop for treasures on this street the most.

Li Baolu thought that Gu Jingyun must be bored after staying at home to recuperate his injuries for the past few days, so she turned her head to look at his expression and found that he was fine, so she nodded and said, "Okay, let's take a stroll."

A group of people went downstairs.

Downstairs, a group of scholars were playing Poetry Solitaire. When they entered the door just now, the young man they saw was standing in the middle, looking at the two above them arrogantly.

The two of them were pushed a little tight by him, their heads were sweating, and one of them faltered for a while before suddenly shouting: "The only way to be quiet in old age!"

After that, big beads of sweat from each person slipped down, and after a while, they said: "The love in the quiet is unparalleled in the world."

"Shuangxiulongzhonglei don't do it," Gu Lekang took up the poem almost immediately. He glanced at the two people in the first line dissatisfied, and said, "We have to shorten the time limit, otherwise people will drag it to the end every time." Only exporting, it will inevitably delay time."

"How about this, after the previous person has finished speaking, the next person must take out the poem within three breaths, otherwise it will be considered a failure, how about it?"

There was a silence in the field, and it took a while before someone responded with a smile: "This method is good, you can try it."

Gu Lekang raised his chin proudly, "Then this round will start with me. Du Fu's "Jiangcun" "What more can I ask for than a small body"."

Everyone: ...

Damn, should it be so difficult, what should I do if I start with a word, and my mind goes blank for a while and I can't think of it?

Gu Jingyun glanced at the people around Gu Lekang, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he left the restaurant happily.

Wei Yingjie felt that his good mood was very strange, and said: "Gu Lekang inherited Gu Tanhua's intelligence and intelligence. It is said that he was able to write poems at the age of three, and worshiped Gu Daru at the age of five. He passed the Xiucai examination when he was nine years old, and I heard that next year he will take the provincial examination. If he goes well, you may meet in the general examination. As the eldest brother, aren't you worried that you will lose to him?"

Gu Jingyun glanced at him contemptuously, and asked, "Can I cheat if I know how to do it?"

"In principle, no."

"Then this worry won't exist." Gu Jingyun paused and said: "He is too stupid, and with the support of those around him, if he doesn't stumble, he will be the same as Zhong Yong."

"..." Wei Yingjie held back, but couldn't hold back, "Aren't you just as arrogant as him, I thought it was a tradition of your Gu family."

"No," Gu Jingyun said, "I inherit the pride of the Qin family."

Li Baolu coughed lightly and explained: "Although my family Jingyun is proud, he is not conceited. His classmates like him very much, and even if they don't like them, they won't flatter him like those people inside."

"That's because he didn't wear the label of Zhongyonghou Mansion on his head."

"You're right, but can't I tell the truth from the fake? What's more, Poetry Solitaire has nothing to show off. It's the poems of predecessors, and we didn't make them. We just read them from the back. Why should you be proud?"

It makes sense, but what should he do if he hasn't read it, and he can't recite it?

Gu Jingyun was in a good mood, and turned his head to Wei Yingjie and said, "I haven't seen Gu Tanhua yet, do you know where he often appears, I want to see him before leaving the capital."

Wei Yingjie swallowed and asked, "Do you need me to help you date him?"

Gu Jingyun shook his head, "I don't want him to know me before I come to take the test. I just want to take a look at him and see if he is doing well."

Wei Yingjie said cautiously: "I heard that Gu Tanhua loves to go to the Zhuangyuan Building. Poetry meetings are often held there. He is a frequent visitor there, and students also like to ask him for articles."

Gu Jingyun was even more joyful when he heard the words, "Is he still in the Imperial Academy?"

"Yes, the emperor asked him to preside over the compilation of the history books of the previous dynasty."

"Oh, what an honored assignment, how many years has he been doing it?"

Wei Yingjie swore that he could hear happiness in it, and he said seriously, "It's been eight or nine years."

"It's serious." Gu Jingyun sighed, and said softly, "If he spends his whole life compiling this history book, I don't know if he will be famous in a hundred years."

Wei Yingjie twitched the corners of his mouth. This wish was cruel enough. Who worked so hard to get an official position in order to compile a history book of the former dynasty?

I will fix one book in my whole life, is this really my own son?

After inquiring about Gu Huaijin's current situation, both Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu breathed a sigh of relief.

Gu Jingyun thought, it was great that such an incompetent father assigned him, and his scope of activities could be expanded.

And Li Baolu began to guess how hard her father-in-law and uncle had contributed to such a miserable life in the court.

Gu Jingyun was very happy all night, while Wei Yingjie and Tao Wu sent them back with some trepidation.

Both of them felt a little scary. After all, Gu Huaijin was Gu Jingyun's father. Hearing that his career was not going well, Gu Jingyun was so happy. Are they afraid?

However, Gu Jingyun wanted to confirm Gu Huaijin's situation again. He said to Li Baolu: "Although he looks incompetent and harmless, no one knows whether he has a hole in his hand. Concubine Lan Gui and the fourth prince are the last ones who want to see their uncle rehabilitated The only ones who came back are the Gu family, we have nothing to do with Concubine Lan Gui and the fourth prince, but the Gu family has to start paying attention."

Gu Jingyun has always known about his own background and the situation of the Gu family.

In order not to let him know nothing after coming out, Uncle Qin kept everything from him, so he knew that the Gu family had divorced his mother, and within two months he married the second lady of the Fang family for Gu Huaijin.

And Miss Fang became pregnant as soon as she entered the door, and later gave birth to Gu Lekang prematurely.

Gu Lekang is only one month younger than him!

Qin Xinfang is not a fool, he only needs to calculate the time to know that there is something tricky in it, which also makes him even more angry, otherwise Gu Huaijin, who was born in Tanhua and talented, would not have stayed in the Imperial Academy for more than ten years, sharing the same subject with him The No. 1 Scholar Tanhua who came out has already reached the third rank, the Chuanlu and the second-class Jinshi who are worse than him, the good ones are also the third and fourth ranks in the capital, and the bad ones have also gone through storms. Opportunity, the starting point is no worse than Gu Huaijin.

But Gu Huaijin has been in the Imperial Academy for more than ten years since she passed the examination. At the beginning, she was able to transcribe imperial edicts, record the words of the emperor, and attend political affairs. Up to now, she is repairing books every day, and she can't even hear the voice of the emperor, let alone see you.

If Gu Huaijin could no longer come out of the Imperial Academy, this would be the end of her life.

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