There’s a Dragon Girl in the Desolate Sea: 830|Seventy-second dragon scales (six)

The seventy-two dragon scales (six)

Chunfenglou's dishes are indeed unparalleled. Guan Zhuo gave him a lot of money at his home before he came to Beijing. After he came to Beijing, he had to eat and live at Xie's house. Apart from the necessary expenses, he still had more than half of the money on hand. Such a table is more than enough, but Guan Zhuo has eaten such an expensive meal for the first time, and upholding the principle of not wasting it, he vowed to swallow the last drop of vegetable juice in his stomach.

Compared to him, Xie Ji and his sisters are much more elegant in their eating habits. Their grandfather opened a medicine hall, and naturally he has read books. The daughter he taught is also knowledgeable, so Xie Ji is very small. When he was young, he loved cleanliness and never played in the mud like other children. After Liang's death, he and Linglong's two brothers and sisters depended on each other, and his words and deeds were unknowingly influenced by Linglong. Dining with those noble families is not bad in terms of etiquette.

Guan Zhuo is much more rude. At his age, everything has been set, and he can't learn if he wants to.

The three of them ate the whole table, Xie Ji didn't want to waste it, Guan Zhuo wanted to eat back, and Linglong was because the taste was really good. At the end of the meal, Linglong was still slender, thank you Ji didn't change his face, but Guan Zhuo collapsed on the chair and sighed, stroking his bulging belly: "Eat, eat, eat, eat..."

The running hall of Chunfenglou also sent a pot of hawthorn tea, saying it was for a few guests to consume. Guan Zhuo was moved by the considerate service, because the hawthorn tea didn't cost any money!

He poured a glass and poured it in in one breath. I don't know if it was an illusion, but it seemed to be a lot more comfortable.

Xie Ji stood up and pulled up her sister: "Let's go outside for a walk, so that we can digest."

Guan Zhuo paralyzed on the chair and waved his hand: "You guys, you guys go, I won't go... I really can't walk..." After speaking, he burped loudly, because he was too vulgar, Xie Ji immediately pulled her sister away from this guy, and by the way kept Changsheng and asked him to send Guan Zhuo home later.

The capital is prosperous, even when it is dark, the crowd is still alive, the streets are crowded with people, and the vendors are enthusiastically soliciting customers, selling everything. This excitement will gradually dissipate until nightfall. Today is the day of the champion parade, and the people are also very happy. Just now, Xie Ji was recognized by the shopkeeper in Chunfenglou, and the shopkeeper asked him for a calligraphy treasure. , all the money that Guan Zhuo invited for the table was returned without any change.

But I can only imagine how excited he would be when he found out.

There are hundreds of Jinshi who have been admitted this time, and the scholars are on the list. Naturally, they despise those vulgar ways of celebrating, but replace their joy with poetry festivals, but no one can get in touch with the mysterious champion Lang, to be honest, as soon as the results of the exams came out, the top one was not a talented person from all over the world who made a splash at poetry fairs, but a scholar who had never heard of it, and it made many people doubt whether the exam was fair, you know. This year, all the candidates who participated in the conference were the best candidates from various states and counties. Among them, there were many talents who were well-known at a young age. How did the conference fall to a little-known scholar?

In private, gossip continued, and it became even more dissatisfying to learn that this Huiyuan never participated in poetry festivals, nor did he associate with scholars.

Scholars become sour, and there is nothing to do with lemons. Linglong thinks that they are very similar to the plastic girlfriends in the school who are in a group. They are cautious and care about. At least after her brother became Huiyuan, those invitations flew like snowflakes. Xie Ji threw them aside without looking at them and let Changsheng deal with them. He didn't bother to spend precious time with these people. on the snake.

He doesn't need friends.

But there is a saying that the road to the enemy is narrow, and Xie Ji was a blockbuster in the palace exam. Not only is his appearance the most outstanding, but his talent is also a lot better than others. Even the emperor favors him, and praises him as "the best in the world". material.” Hearing that the faces of all the tributes turned green, one person was too showy, and the others naturally disappeared with the crowd. How could the emperor see them? Even the emperor personally asked Xie Ji's ambition! There is no such thing! Which champion did not start from the Hanlin Academy, why did he have the privilege when he arrived at Xie Ji? !

So, Xie Ji took her sister to go shopping and eat, and met this group of tributes who had just met and were going to hold a poetry meeting in the Changting corridor in the suburbs of Beijing. Naturally, Xie Ji didn't remember who they were. They wanted to forget Xie Ji but were very Difficulty... Seeing that Xie Ji is also accompanied by a girl with a beautiful face but vaguely childishness, someone said yin and yang strangely: "Zhuang Yuan Lang is really lucky, he has just been named on the gold list, and he has such a peerless beauty as his company, when It's really enviable."

Xie Ji looked at him coldly, the man was a little frightened, but he still forced a suave look, opened the folding fan in his hand with a swipe, pretending to be a jade tree facing the wind, but he didn't know that compared with Zhilan Yushu's Xie Ji, It's just a frown, just adding to the jokes.

Gein Xie Ji and Linglong seem to be quite different in age, and everyone knows that Zhuang Yuan Lang is not married yet, but he has a beautiful woman beside him, and he holds other people's hands affectionately, which is really immoral. Another person said, "I'm going to the poetry party, would you like to join us?"

Today's palace exam, Xie Ji was calm and self-contained throughout the whole process and did not panic. He also answered the questions of the examiner and the emperor in a eloquent manner. The candidates under this light spontaneously united to isolate him and wanted to look good on him.

Xie Ji was tired of these people who were always bothering their brothers and sisters. She didn't care about it. She took Linglong and turned around and left, but this group of people refused to let go. The street was blocked, so Xie Ji had to go with them Poetry is impossible.

Linglong tugged at his brother's slender fingers, scratched in his palm, and smiled super sweetly, Xie Ji saw this and knew that she wanted to join in the fun. I just hope that this group of people won't regret it later. Being torn off by a little girl and trampled on the soles of her feet is not something to be proud of.

The poets of the tributes do not prohibit others from participating, so although it is night, there are many curious people waiting in the waterside corridor early, including some noble ladies. The dynasty is relatively open and does not force women to be There are two doors and no steps, but some old-fashioned people do say that women are virtuous if they need three obediences, four virtues, husbands and children. Xie Ji has always regarded these as deaf ears.

Because of his mother and sister, he has some pity for the women in this world.

"Ah, I'm sorry." The person who held the poetry festival is said to be a talented person from Huzhou, and this time he was the first in the top two. . "I didn't know that the champion would also come, so I didn't prepare the seat of the champion. If the champion doesn't dislike it, he can sit there."

The direction of his finger is the corner of the Poetry Club. Basically, sitting there is a signboard, and he has no connection with the Poetry Club.

Xie Jing looked at him coldly, turned and left.

He didn't say a word, and he didn't answer other people's words. Seeing him so disrespectful, the talented man from Huzhou suddenly looked ugly: "Thank you!"

This time, instead of calling him Zhuang Yuan Lang, he called him by his first name.

"I want to invite people to come, and I want to push people out. It turns out that the disciples of the Great Confucianism have such virtues." Linglong clicked tsk tsk, her eyes are brighter than the stars in the sky, and when she shows a mocking look Don't be too embarrassed, "If you don't agree, come to the competition. Using this method, I also see that the person in front of me does not look like a genius, but a fool. Jealous of the virtuous, mean and ignorant, the threshold for a talented person is already so low."

Her voice was sweet and clear, fluttering on the waterside corridor, and even the people around her thought, wow, what this little girl said makes sense!

Students love face and are not good at fighting between words. The talented man in Huzhou blushed and said, "I have waited several times to invite him and he won't come. Who is looking down on who?!"

"You also said it was a request." Linglong replied, "Since it is a request, others have the right to refuse, oh I understand, you are just talking casually, if you don't come, you will lose face. It's like I look at someone's ancestral grave and tell them I really want to buy it, but if they don't sell it, they look down on me.

Huzhou talented man said angrily: "Nonsense!"

This is an obvious concept of stealing, but unfortunately he didn't know how to answer, so he scolded: "Only women and villains are difficult to support! I don't have the same knowledge as you! Xie Ji! What kind of skill do you have to hide behind a woman? Holding hands and parading through the streets in public, it is immoral! Shameless!"

Xie Ji didn't let go of Linglong's hand. He didn't think there was anything wrong with holding hands with his sister. There were many people on the street and she was so young. He was afraid of losing her, and they were connected by blood. Brothers and sisters, if they have to be separated by a distance of 108,000 miles because of what outsiders say, then there is no need to abide by the rules.

He took his sister and moved out the chair in the corner and put it in the middle of the waterside corridor. After letting her sit on it, he stood tall and looked indifferent, and spit out a few words: "Let's start. ."

Although he has been in Fengcheng for many years, Fengcheng is closed and the educational resources are not good, but he has a precious sister, and Linglong can always get him all kinds of bizarre books covering all walks of life, It's not that Xie Ji didn't notice that there was a problem, but so what? He doesn't care what secrets his sister has, as long as she is by his side, as long as the brother and sister are never separated, he doesn't care about the rest.

Compared with educational resources, it should be that these scholars are much scarcer than him. Xie Ji's experience, vision and temperament are not comparable to this group of scholars who grew up in the greenhouse. They asked him to compete, but since Just humiliate it.

Linglong sat in the chair and listened to her brother's tongue and Confucianism, and more poetry, chess, calligraphy and painting. How could these people be her brother's opponents? he compares?

Compared to the last group of people, their faces are disheveled, their stomachs really can't be digged out, and they are all downcast, but the people who are watching the lively around think that today's poetry will be very exciting, and they will watch it in the past, although I don't understand what this group of scholars are talking about, but they are all well-mannered, coupled with the appearance of shaking his head and looking so high, he is really different from ordinary people. As a result, when this handsome and outstanding champion comes here today, he usually has long eyes. The scholars on the top of the head were all stunned. At the end, I don't know who led the head, and there was a round of applause, which made the other scholars blushed. It seems that winning or not winning means nothing to him.

If these people can stop bothering him in the future, it will be even better. He is really tired of always appearing irrelevant people to disturb the lives of their brothers and sisters. Is it really that difficult to ignore each other and communicate with each other?

In the crowd, the beautiful young lady wearing a veil stared at Xie Ji's back, and there was a girl of the same age walking with her. Seeing her fascination, she bumped into her lightly and teased: "Why? Like, I didn't lie to you, did I? The champion is very handsome."

The face of the beautiful girl blushed slightly, and then she became a little cold: "Who is the girl next to him? I heard that he is already nineteen years old, isn't he married yet?"

"Look at how similar their lives are, they don't look like husband and wife, they look like brothers and sisters."

When she heard that the two might be brothers and sisters, the beautiful girl's eyes lit up, but she still knew how to be reserved, so she said, "He is indeed a handsome gentleman, handsome, and a high school champion. These scholars are no match for him. But My mother wouldn't look at the mere champion, what is the champion, there are many champions in the Hanlin Academy who have been unsuccessful in previous years."

In a nutshell, Xie Ji's current situation is that some wealthy people consider him to be a quick son-in-law, but really powerful people will not consider him as a son-in-law candidate, unless he can become a successful son-in-law in the future Otherwise, it would be difficult to marry a real noble girl.

Therefore, in the eyes of these two girls, it is really a blessing that Xie Ji has cultivated in his eighth life. Xie's ancestral grave must be madly smoked to have this opportunity, so how could he refuse? Well, it doesn't exist, only they choose him, not him.

I hope he can fight a little bit more and don't lose sight of everyone else. In this case, he might be able to stand out in the selection of her husband-in-law in the future, so that her parents will value her.

After all, she wants a talented and unparalleled man to be her husband more than those noble sons who only know how to please her and flatter her and have no family background.

It would be bad if the emperor gave her a marriage. She didn't want to marry a prince. Her parents have been in love for a lifetime. In the future, she will also find someone like her father to be her husband, so she won't share it with other women. Woolen cloth.

Which of the sons of noble nobles is not three wives and four concubines? Even if there is no concubine, there are a few people in the room before adulthood, thinking about it makes people feel uncomfortable.

Xie Ji didn't know that someone had put him on the list of future husband-in-law, he only knew that he had to be more cautious and work harder. How long does it take to reach their heights?

He doesn't know, but the last thing he's afraid of is waiting, because he has enough patience and perseverance.

Three days after the end of the palace examination, the admitted students were assigned positions one after another. It was impossible for a top-three jinshi like Guan Zhuo to stay in the capital, and was assigned to a seventh-grade county magistrate in a remote area. , the No. 2 and No. 2 flower entered the Hanlin Academy as before, and was awarded the seventh-rank editing, while the champion, unexpectedly, did not enter the Hanlin as his predecessors did, but was dispatched to the penal department and served as the chief of the sixth-rank penal department. To the surprise of many people, they did not understand what the emperor meant.

There is a saying that "non-jinshi will not enter the Hanlin", "non-Hanlin will not enter the cabinet", the Hanlin Academy has been the only way for senior civil servants in the past dynasties, but this time the champion, the emperor clearly appreciated it very much during the palace test, But he was put into the Ministry of Punishment, why is this?

It's really elusive.

If it were released to the Ministry of Human Resources and the Ministry of Personnel, there would still be an argument, but the Ministry of Punishment... what does the Ministry of Punishment have? If you want oil and water without oil and water, and if you want a future without a future, it is better to be honest in the Hanlin Academy for thirty or forty years.

What is this picture of Zhuang Yuanlang? As we all know, among the six departments, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Punishment is the worst, especially the Ministry of Punishment. It is really a small case in three days and a big case in five days. If it is not handled well, it will be punished by the emperor. The minister of punishment is also one of the most diligent officers. One, it's really a thankless place.

I don't know that this is what Xie Ji asked for himself. He is very clear about his own position, fighting? Now that the country is peaceful and the people are safe, not to mention that there are no battles, even if there is, he is not necessarily comparable to the soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles under the Da Sima and Xinyang Hou, and it is even more difficult to make military achievements; go to the Hanlin Academy Boil seniority? Yes, but he didn't want to spend so much time; he knew his strengths: calm, keen, bold and attentive, and his thinking ability and logical ability were far superior to ordinary people. When he was still in Fengcheng, he often assisted Pu My lord, there is no quicker way to make a name for yourself than to crack a few big cases.

When he was still in Fengcheng, Mr. Pu once caught a group of prisoners who were robbery and stealing. After the group of prisoners were arrested, they said that they were from Ganzhou and came from fleeing. But in recent years, the weather has been good and rainy, and I have never heard of disasters in Ganzhou. Where does this difficulty come from? So on the way to Beijing, Xie Ji deliberately made a circle and passed Ganzhou. Now the map is clearly prohibited from being sold. If you want to understand the country of this dynasty, you can only walk around with your own feet and draw it with a pen.

The climate of Ganzhou is humid and rainy all the year round. The group of thieves said that the **** in Ganzhou burst in the spring. They were scolded in every possible way. In the past, this group of people was idle, and it was even more miserable to be caught to work. They escaped at risk of their lives and fled all the way north to Fengcheng. They originally planned to get some money and find a place to settle down. Who knows As soon as the money arrived in his pocket, it was still warm...then he was caught.

Speaking of this, I just burst into tears.

Master Pu is only a small county magistrate. Ganzhou is thousands of miles away from Fengcheng. He has no authority or ability to manage it. He tried to write to Xiangfeng to mention it, but was told that it had nothing to do with him. Without much ambition, as long as the people of Fengcheng live and work in peace and contentment, he is really powerless to do anything about the people in other places.

When they went to Beijing to take the exam and passed through Ganzhou, Xie Ji went to see the dam that had been repaired.

It's shoddy, cut corners, and it's bound to burst again this year.

In addition, the people in Ganzhou are in a very poor spirit. The streets are too quiet and dead. Even the vendors who set up their stalls are dead. There are miraculously no beggars in the streets and alleys, and there are very few adult men, most of them are old and weak women and children. The shopkeeper of the inn they pointed out had his mouth as tight as a clam shell, and would not say anything no matter what he asked.

A big event is going to happen in Ganzhou.

Xie Ji can't turn the tide, but he is willing to fight this one, and hang up the number in the emperor's heart first. He wants to be a solitary minister, a master, and let Xie Fengwang kowtow in front of his mother's grave to make amends!

This is his opportunity.

Xie Ji later used money to pry open the shopkeeper's mouth and agreed with him to exchange a letter every month, which was likely to be intercepted by others. Xie Ji specially taught the shopkeeper's secret language, and the letters seemed to be simple gossip. However, Xie Ji knew everything about Ganzhou's turbulent situation.

He didn't hide it from his sister, because if he could take on this task at that time, he would definitely take his sister with him. Xie Ji did not hide anything from Linglong, and even made it clear to her sister that she wanted to make a name for herself in the world.

Linglong doesn't think Xie Ji is despicable, is there any other way to not do this? They are small and dwindling, can it be possible to tell the emperor directly that there is something wrong in Ganzhou? Don't say whether the emperor will believe it or not, but whether he can see the emperor's face or not is another matter!

In ancient times, the progress of news was slow and the channels for dissemination were limited. It might take ten days and a half for a news to reach the emperor's ears. The premise is that no one intercepts it and wants to sue the emperor without going through the procedure? The ashes are all for you!

A lot of people will die, but Xie Ji can't help it, he can't do anything, because he is too weak at this moment.

As Xie Ji expected, Ganzhou has a rainy season for nine months of the year, and the sun is rare all year round. In June, Xie Ji received a letter from the shopkeeper saying that there was a flood in Ganzhou, but fortunately it only washed away After half of the dam was completed, Lord Zhizhou began to recruit strong men to repair the dyke. However, it rained continuously for several days. Many people were washed away by the water and lost their lives, but the government did not give any pensions.

In July, Xie Ji did not receive a letter from the shopkeeper.

And the flood disaster in Ganzhou finally could not be concealed. It broke out completely. The emperor was furious and sent officials to help the disaster.

It is said that he died in a disaster, but who knows how he died? The next day, the emperor was furious in the early court and asked if the Qing family took the initiative to ask for orders to go to Ganzhou. The court was dead silent. The emperor repeated the question three times, but no one answered. Go!"

The three words were spoken loudly. The emperor had a deep impression on him. He has been paying attention to this young champion in the past few months. He is also very satisfied with the performance of his punishment department. A weak young man stepped forward, the emperor was extremely disappointed, and immediately Jinkou Yuyan made Xie Ji an imperial envoy and went to Ganzhou with the gold medal!

At the same time, Xinyang Hou was also ordered to go with him.