Huang Tingjian, a talented scholar from Fenning, went to Beijing to take the exam. Wang Anshi and his wife, dressed in civilian clothes, met outside Bianjing and were assassinated. Fortunately, the mysterious woman Lan Xi and her brother suddenly appeared and rescued them. The new emperor Song Shenzong was furious when he heard about it and ordered the censor Zhao Tingzhi to investigate and deal with it. Zhao Tingzhi's frame-up was done by Lan Xixin. Huang Tingjian and his friends Qin Guan and Mi Fu were very angry and planned to rescue him. Zhao Tingzhi harbored a grudge and colluded with Jiang Ziqi, a powerful official who was unwilling to marry Huang Tingjian, to exclude Huang Tingjian from the examination room. Under Ouyang Xiu's care, Huang Tingjian entered the exam under a pseudonym and passed high school. Qin Guan, who complained about him, unexpectedly failed the exam. It turned out that all of this happened for Su Xiaomei.
Huang Tingjian contradicted Ouyang Xiu and Su Che, and was demoted from the capital by Shenzong, and went to Henan to serve as Ye County Lieutenant. Huang Tingjian met Lan Xixinzhong on the way to his appointment. Lanxi fell ill, which delayed Huang Tingjian's trip. Lanxi sat in the Ye County magistrate Mo Tingjian's imperial throne, which caused great trouble. Lanxi was banned, and Huang Tingjian firmly believed that Zhong Tingjian was banned. Put in prison. Su Dongpo, a scholar who was visiting here, used the Literary and Art Festival as a bait to reveal that Lanxi was Huang Tingjian's unmarried wife. In order to cling to Su Dongpo and control Huang Tingjian, Mo Tingjian promised to release Huang Tingjian immediately, and instead actively bought a family property and arranged a marriage for him and Lan Xi. Huang Tingjian moved from prison to a new house. At the wedding, the appearance of the assassin Wang San revealed a crime of the Mo family occupying private houses, seeking wealth and killing people. In order to cover up the crime, Mo easily arranged the maid Mei'er to serve Lan Xi, and ordered the manager Mo Gu to harm Wang San several times. Huang Tingjian asked Xin to protect him secretly. In the woods, Wang San was still unfortunately killed. Xin Zhong secretly protected him but failed, but Mo Bianxian stopped him at the scene and accused him of being the murderer. Mei'er told the truth and ignored the exposure. She injured Lan Xi who came to stop her and fled in a hurry. However, the lustful man was tricked into confessing by Qin Guan and Foyin, who were disguised as women, and was escorted back to Ye County. When the evil deeds of the Mo family are revealed, Mo Yitian blames Mo Guan entirely on Mo Guan and puts him on death row. Lingtai was at odds with each other, and Fu Bi, the governor, had other secrets. He hurriedly came to appease Huang Tingjian but failed, and tried to protect the Mo family. He transferred Mo Bianxian and appointed Huang Tingjian to take charge of Ye County affairs. Huang Tingjian refused to give up, and Fu Bi died in anger. Huang Tingjian cried, and was scolded and impeached by Tang Jie and others. He devoted himself to implementing new laws in Ye County, promoting agriculture and running schools, and achieved remarkable results. Cai Jing, a fellow student, came to visit and advised Huang Tingjian to go to Beijing to take the imperial examination together. Huang Tingjian declined politely and sold his examination strategies to help the victims. Lan Xi's injuries worsened day by day, and she finally died young. The reform was eager for quick success, but there were still many obstacles. Wang Anshi strongly recommended Huang Tingjian, Cai Jing and other new talents to assist the government. Recommended by Su Dongpo, Wang Anshi and others, Huang Tingjian was recruited to Beijing and stayed with his mother at the home of the minister Xie Shihou. Su Xiaomei was still stubborn and asked her daughter Jiaoer to intercept Huang's mother on the way. Huang's mother was frightened and made Huang Tingjian dumbfounded. Huang Tingjian passed through Chenzhou and witnessed the collapse of the newly built Gongde Bridge. He met with the emperor and pointed out the flaws of the reform, which made Wang Anshi unhappy and ignored Huang Tingjian. Huang Tingjian's poems and calligraphy made him famous in the capital, and he even helped connect the young girl Qin Guan to create a beautiful marriage.
Khitan learned about the decline of the Song Dynasty and Chen Bing's borders. They sent minister Xiao Xi to Beijing to forcefully demand the redrawing of the national borders. Shen Kuo was at a loss and asked Huang Tingjian for advice. Huang Tingjian draws on the past and the present to safeguard border sovereignty. Xiao Taibai, the Khitan princess who came with Xiao Xi, admired the culture of the Song Dynasty and was amazed by Huang Tingjian's bagpipe skills. She fell in love with Huang Tingjian and kept pestering him. Xie Jiaoer secretly developed feelings for Huang Tingjian during her relationship. Regardless of her daughter's face, she confessed her affair with Huang in public and impressed the Empress Dowager with Huang Tingjian's filial piety. Xiao Taibai left sadly, and then asked the Queen Mother to marry Huang Tingjian.
Huang's mother was suddenly ill, and Huang Tingjian was in great pain. Huang's mother died of illness, and Huang Tingjian supported the funeral and returned to his hometown to share peace and stay in the system for three years. Three years later, there was a severe drought and the new law suffered from natural disasters. Sima Guang and others took the opportunity to propose its repeal, and there was a lot of resentment between the government and the public. Shenzong's suspicions were hard to pin down. A "Picture of Refugees" put Huang Tingjian at the forefront of the struggle between emperor and empress and the battle between defenders. Zhao Tingzhi and Jiang Ziqi took the opportunity to cause chaos, Wang Anshi was demoted, Sima Guang returned to the capital, and Jiang Ziqi used Shen Kuo to launch a campaign against The "Wutai Poetry Case" involving Su Dongpo and his disciples involved many people, including Su Dongpo's disciple Huang Tingjian. Huang Tingjian refused to give in, his brother Shuda was disabled, Jiaoer was poisoned, and he almost died. Sima Guang came to the rescue in time, and Jiang Ziqi committed suicide angrily. The only reason for all the deliberate efforts to deal with the Huang family was that Huang Tingjian refused to marry the Jiang family.
Huang Tingjian was disheartened and decided to send away his maid Axia. He was responsible for Shuda and left the court to go to the Taihe Order. A Xia was grateful for Huang Tingjian's kindness and refused to give up. The three of them treated each other like brothers and sisters. The government of Taihe is harmonious and harmonious, and the people are safe and prosperous. After Sima Guang took office as prime minister, he completely negated the reform and appointed conservative figures. He was not easily appointed to Ruzhou Prefecture, and Taihe was under his rule.
In both private and public matters, Mo Tingjian tried every possible means to make things difficult for Huang Tingjian and criticized him from many sides. However, Huang Tingjian always adhered to the people-oriented concept and only acted on the bottom rather than the top, which made him a thorn in Mo Tingxian's side. In order to seek credit, Cai Jing forged a "jade seal" to present to the emperor and put the blame on Huang Tingjian. Thanks to his teacher's support, Cai Jing lost his official position and returned to his hometown. Huang Tingjian was demoted again. From then on, he and his family faced each other in the world, and began a more than twenty years of love. A journey of disgrace. "Peach plums and spring breeze, a glass of wine, a night of rain in the rivers and lakes, ten years of light." In the end, Huang Tingjian, the leader of the Jiangxi School of Poetry, the first of the four scholars of the Su family, the second most noble scholar of the Song Dynasty, and one of the twenty-four filial piety, a talented scholar of the Song Dynasty, died in a run-down house in Yizhou, Guangxi in a continuous autumn rain. His wandering life ended on the city tower.