The carriage slowly entered the county town. Like the fields outside, the county town was also covered with snow. However, compared with the deserted countryside, the county town was a little more lively. Every household was preparing for the New Year, pasting door talismans, hanging rabbit heads, making noodles and snakes, brewing slaughter wine, and pounding rice cakes. It was noon, and the white smoke from cooking stoves on the roofs of every household was gradually coming.

On the street were a group of children playing, building snowmen and playing snowball fights, and laughter came from laughter. A group of Zhuangcheng soldiers wearing Fanyang hats and holding white wax guns were running by in line. Many pedestrians were walking carefully on the road that had been trampled, fearing that mud and water would splash and dirty the clothes.

"Hey! I really want to go down and build a snowman." Wang Gui looked at the children who were building snowmans and enviously.

Tang Huai closed his eyes and rested, like a Taoist priest who had entered into meditation, but when he heard Wang Gui's words, he couldn't help but glance at the snowman outside the car window.

"Fifth Brother, that snowman looks a bit like you!" Wang Gui pointed to a snowman wearing a hat like Yue Fei in the distance and laughed.

Yue Fei just said 'Yeah!', but he didn't look up. He was still reading more than a dozen masterpieces from this dynasty, especially Wang Anshi's masterpieces, who had to memorize them. His grandfather repeatedly told them that their magistrate was once a student of Wang Anshi.

Seeing that Yue Fei ignored him, Wang Gui had to mutter in a low voice, "What a young master!"

Li Yanqing lay in front of the window on the other side, looking at Tangyin County in a daze. This was the first time he saw the city of the Song Dynasty. Everything made him feel novel, but it was so familiar. The long-standing historical and cultural links merged the people who had lived on this land for thousands of years.

"Did you see the carriage in front of the inn on the left?"

The master Yao Ding, who had been silent all the way, suddenly spoke. Several people rushed towards the window of Li Yanqing. Even Yue Fei put down his homework and looked out the car window.

"Master, is it that black-wheeled carriage?" Wang Gui asked.

"It's that one. Those teenagers came out from Weinan Town School, just like you."

Everyone saw it, and saw four teenagers, an old man with a goatee, and a middle-aged man ran in and out to arrange accommodation for the students.

At this time, the goatee saw Yao Ding sitting in the carriage, and hurriedly waved his hand and walked towards him quickly.

Tang Huai whispered: "They were the fifth year ago and the third year last year, and a bunch of annoying guys."

Li Yanqing looked at the four teenagers. They were all twelve or thirteen years old, and were nearly adults. They were just a little immature. They could be seen as all rich children, wearing white hoodies made of high-quality lake silk, veil hats, black tight fur on the outside, and horn-tie belts on the waist. They were dressed very gorgeously. They stood at the door of the inn and looked at the carriage opposite with contempt in their eyes.

The goatee-bearded old man walked up and bowed and smiled, "Master Yao, I haven't seen you for a year. I thought you didn't plan to come this year!"

Yao Ding said coldly to him, "I just met him last month, why didn't I see you for a year?"

"Haha! Maybe I didn't notice Master Yao at that time."

"I think Master He's eyes grew over the top of his head."

Li Yanqing knows his master very well and never knows hypocrisy and politeness. He will show his face without any concealment to the person he doesn't like, such as Master He is.

The goatee-bearded old man narrowed his eyes and smiled: "We all look forward to the arrival of Lushan School! It depends on who has such good luck, haha!"

He laughed to the sky and turned to walk towards the inn. Yao Ding snorted heavily, asking the driver to continue driving, and the carriage turned around and drove towards another road.

"Tang, what does that Teacher He mean?" Yue Fei asked in confusion.

Not only Yue Fei was puzzled, but Li Yanqing and Wang Gui didn't understand. Tang Huai sighed, "The rule of the first round of the ring match is to determine the opponent by the top four draws last year. Four draws are the bottom four. Everyone hopes to draw us, and they also named the first round draw 'Zhulu', which refers to our Lushan Town, because we have always been eliminated in the first round."

"Hmph, I don't know who will kill me this year!" Wang Gui rolled up his sleeves and said angrily.

Li Yanqing and Yue Fei looked at each other and both knew that the situation was serious. The other was a twelve or thirteen years old, but they were seven or eight years old children. Studying depends on accumulation, and what they lacked was this accumulation process.

Yao Ding's face turned darker when he heard Wang Gui's words.

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The carriage finally stopped in front of an inn. This was the inn run by Tang Huai’s family in the county, called Tangji Inn, and they live here every year.

The carriage had just stopped, and the inn shopkeeper who was as fat as a big winter melon brought out with two friends, smiling and said, "After waiting for a day, I finally waited for Master Yao."

The shopkeeper's enthusiasm was like a cup of hot tea in winter, warming their hearts. Yao Ding's face, which was covered with iron filings, also showed a smile, "I'm here to cause trouble for shopkeeper Wang again."

"Where! Where! It's the honor of being able to entertain the four prodigy in the country. Go in and warm your body, and let the guy get the luggage."

Yao Ding glared at the four disciples again, meaning to ask if they deserve the title of "child prodigy"?

The shopkeeper took everyone to the backyard. This was the Tang family's inn. Not only did they exempt their room rates, but they also prepared the best room for them. Yao Ding lived alone in a room, four students lived in the largest room, and also made a room for their review and preparation for the exam.

"The four prodigy will clean up and go down to have a meal! Your master has already gone first." The shopkeeper greeted enthusiastically at the door.

Tang Huai said a little displeased: "Shopkeeper Wang, don't call us prodigy in the future, it sounds harsh."

"Haha! The young master said, I'll prepare the dishes and chopsticks, some little officials should come down quickly!"

After the shopkeeper went down, Tang Huai said to the three of them again: "This shopkeeper Wang will take care of our daily life, and my uncle will be responsible for the arrangements for the chores of the boys' association, so he lives in the county."

"When will you draw lots?" Yue Fei asked.

"It should be tomorrow! I guess there is still a school that has not come today, and Xuezheng will be the draw of lottery tomorrow morning."

The four of them walked while talking and soon arrived at the canteen in the front yard. The canteen was located on the left side of the inn lobby. There was a small room with two black painted date wooden tables and long benches around them, which looked quite simple.

In addition, a screen surrounded by a circle by the window. The furnishings inside were pretty good. There was a couch that could accommodate three people. Yao Ding sat alone on the couch, drinking wine slowly, and three or four plates of side dishes were placed in front of him.

The meal for the four of them was placed on a large table, with a pot of stewed old hen in the middle, steaming hot, braised fish, fried eggs with meat, roasted winter bamboo shoots, cold-cut mutton and other four or five good dishes.

There were four large porcelain bowls all around, filled with colorful porridge. Wang Gui sat down and shouted, "Why are you drinking porridge?"

Li Yanqing's heart moved and asked with a smile: "Shopkeeper Wang, is this Laba porridge?"

Manager Wang smiled and walked forward and explained: "Although tomorrow is Laba, according to the customs of Tangyin County, you have to drink Laba porridge for three days. Of course, you can not drink it today, but this was arranged by your master."

The four of them looked at the master together. The master was blocked by the screen, but his cold voice came through the crack of the screen, "Yue Fei, recite the Poet Saint's "La Day" once, don't eat if you can't recite it."

This poem is a little bit remote, and Yue Fei really couldn't remember it, so he had to lower his head and said, "Students don't know!" Yao Ding said angrily, "Take out the poem and read it, go back and write it ten times."

Yue Fei took out the book and read it aloud and read it:

The warmth of the wax is still far away every year, and the freezing of the wax is completely eliminated this year.

The color of the snow is still the same daylily, and the spring light is leaking, and there are willow branches.

Even though I wanted to drink and wanted to get drunk at night, I returned home and had just left Zichen Dynasty.

The oral fat face medicine follows the blessing, and the green tube and silver baby are coming down to the sky.

Li Yanqing also remembered it silently. He had a very strong learning ability and could not forget the general poems.

Yao Ding nodded, "Let's have a meal! After dinner, go to write, write three thousand words, and write another poem. With today's snow scene as the title, please feel free to go to bed after you finish it, and I won't check it."

"Master is going out tonight?" Wang Gui asked quickly.

"There's a lot of nonsense!" Yao Ding snorted.

Wang Gui didn't dare to say anything anymore. Li Yanqing elbowed him and blinked and said in a low voice: "Maybe Master will go to spy on the enemy's situation at night, know yourself and your enemy, and you will be defeated by a hundred battles!"

Wang Gui suddenly smiled and imagined his master wearing night clothes flying over the eaves and walls. He added: "He is carrying a sword!"

Yue Fei sighed, "Please stop thinking about it, Master is going home."

"go home!"

The three of them were stunned for a moment. Look at me, look at you, and then they realized that Master should have a home!

"Fifth Brother, is your grandmother still here?" Li Yanqing asked.

Yue Fei shook his head, "My grandmother has been there for many years. Master and uncle live with him, and his younger uncle is studying in the Imperial College of Bianliang."

After pausing, Yue Fei said again: "My uncle is the Xuezheng in the county."
Chapter completed!