There's a Dragon Girl in the Desolate Sea

Chapter 830

72nd dragon scale (6)

The dishes in Chunfeng building are really unique. Guan Zhuo gave him a lot of money at home before he went to Beijing. After he went to Beijing, he ate and lived in Xie's house. In addition to the necessary expenses, he still had more than half of his money. It was more than enough to invite such a table of noodles. However, Guan Zhuo ate such an expensive table for the first time. Adhering to the principle of not wasting, he vowed to swallow the last drop of vegetable juice into his stomach.

Compared with him, Xie Ji's brother and sister are much more elegant in eating. Their grandfather opened the medicine hall. Naturally, he also read books. His daughter is also knowledgeable and polite. Therefore, Xie Ji loved cleanliness when he was very young and never quarreled in the mud all day like other children. After liang's death, he and Linglong's brother and sister depended on each other, and his words and behavior were unconsciously influenced by Linglong, Even if he was allowed to eat with those aristocrats, he was not bad in 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 ate a whole table of table noodles. Xie Ji didn't want to waste it. Guan Zhuo wanted to get back to his book, while Linglong wanted to eat it because it tasted really good. In the end, Linglong still had a slim waist, and Xie Ji didn't change his face, but Guan Zhuo collapsed on the chair, stroked his protruding belly and sighed: "eat it, eat it, eat it..."

The running Hall of Chunfeng building sent a pot of hawthorn tea for several guests. Guan Zhuo was moved by the considerate service because the Hawthorn Tea didn't cost money!

He poured a cup and breathed it in. He didn't know if it was an illusion. It seemed that he was really much more comfortable.

Xie Ji got up and pulled up his sister: "let's go outside for a walk, or we can eat."

Guan Zhuo paralyzed in his chair and waved: "you, you go, I won't go... I really can't walk..." he said, burping loudly. Due to his excessive vulgarity, Xie Ji immediately took his sister away from this guy, and left his longevity and asked him to take Guan Zhuo home later.

The bustling capital is bustling even when it is dark. Pedestrians are jostling each other on the street. Vendors are enthusiastically soliciting guests and selling everything. Under various color lights, the night is as bright as day. This bustle will not gradually dissipate until night. Today is the number one scholar's street day. The people are also very happy. Xie Ji was recognized by the shopkeeper in Chunfeng building just now, The shopkeeper asked him for a piece of calligraphy. Guan Zhuo returned all the money he asked for. Guan Zhuo, who wanted to be paralyzed in the box, didn't know.

But you can also imagine how excited he will be when he learns.

There are hundreds of scholars who have been admitted this time. Naturally, they don't look down on those vulgar celebrations, but use poetry clubs to replace their joy. However, no one can contact the mysterious No. 1 scholar. Seriously, as soon as the test results come out, the scholar who tops the list is not a talented person from all over the world who has been in the limelight at the poetry fair, but a scholar who has never heard of, It also makes many people doubt whether the joint examination is fair. You should know that the best candidates in various states and counties come to the joint examination this year, including many young and famous talents. How did this Huiyuan fall on an unknown scholar?

In private, there was a lot of gossip, and it became more and more discontent to learn that this Huiyuan never participated in the poetry club or interacted with scholars.

When the scholars are sour, there is nothing wrong with lemon. Linglong thinks they are like the plastic girlfriends in school. They are careful and fussy. They have no ability and are always demons. They feel that they are the best in the world. At least after her brother became Huiyuan, those prayer cards flew like snowflakes. Xie Ji threw them aside for Changsheng to dispose of without looking at them. He was too lazy to spend his precious time with these people.

He doesn't need friends.

However, there is a saying that the enemy's road is narrow. Xie Ji made a blockbuster in the imperial examination. He not only has the most outstanding appearance, but also has a lot of talent. Even the emperor favors him and praises him as an "immortal material". I hear that the faces of all the tribute scholars are green. If one person is too out of the wind, others will naturally disappear from the people. How can the emperor see them? Even the emperor asked Xie Ji's ambition in person! There's no such thing! Which number one scholar didn't start from the Imperial Academy, why did he have privileges here when he came to Xie Ji?!

So Xie Ji took her sister shopping for food and met this group of Gongshi who had just met to go to the Changting corridor in the suburbs of Beijing for a poetry meeting. Xie Ji naturally didn't remember who they were. They wanted to forget Xie Ji, but it was difficult... Seeing Xie Ji with a beautiful girl with a faint childish look between her eyebrows, someone said, "the number one scholar is really lucky, It's really enviable to have such a beautiful woman around me just after I was named on the golden list. "

Xie Ji looked at him coldly. The man was a little scared, but he still forced to look casual and elegant. With a brush, he opened the folding fan in his hand and pretended to be a jade tree facing the wind. Unexpectedly, compared with Xie Ji of Zhilan Yushu, he was just imitating others and adding laughingstock.

Gein Xie Ji and Linglong look quite different in age. Everyone knows that the number one scholar Lang has not married yet, but he has a beautiful girl around him and holds someone else's hand intimately. It's really immoral. Another man said, "I'm going to the poetry fair. Will the number one scholar want to join us?"

In today's imperial examination, Xie Ji was calm and self-contained throughout the whole process without panic. He was also meaningful to the questions of the examiner and the emperor, and answered them like a flow. He became more and more like a ha batch of other candidates in the same batch. He did not hide his light at all, so the candidates under this light spontaneously united to isolate him and wanted to give him a good look.

Xie Ji is tired of these people who always disturb their brothers and sisters. Li doesn't want to talk to them. He turns around and walks away with Linglong. However, these people refuse to let go. There is a traffic jam in the street. Xie Ji has to go to the poetry meeting with them.

Linglong pulled her brother's slender finger and scratched it in the palm of his hand. She smiled very sweet. Xie Ji saw it and knew that she wanted to join the fun. I just hope these people don't regret later. It's not something to be proud of that a little girl tore her face off and stepped on the soles of her feet.

Other people are not prohibited from participating in the Gongshi poetry fair. Therefore, although it is night, there are many curious people waiting in the waterside pavilion corridor early, including some noble ladies. This dynasty is relatively open-minded and will not force women to go out of the gate. However, some old-fashioned people really shout that women should be virtuous only if they follow three rules and four virtues and teach their husband and children, Xie Ji has always ignored these.

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

"Ah, sorry." It is said that the person who held the poetry meeting was a talent in Huzhou. This time, he was the first in the second class. He studied under the great Confucianism and lost to Xie Ji, an unknown generation. He was very unconvinced, so he deliberately embarrassed“ I didn't know that the champion would come, so I didn't prepare the champion's seat. If the champion doesn't dislike it, I can sit there. "

The direction of his finger is the corner of the poetry meeting. Basically, he sits there as a Kanban and has no chance with the poetry meeting.

Xie Ji looked at him coldly, turned and left.

He didn't say a word and didn't answer others' words. Seeing that he didn't give face, the Huzhou talent immediately looked ugly: "thank you!"

Now, instead of being called the number one scholar, he called him by his first name.

"I want to call people and exclude them. It turns out that the disciples of the great Confucianism are so virtuous." Exquisite tut tut has a voice. A beauty like her has brighter eyes than the stars in the sky. Don't be too ashamed when she shows her sarcastic eyes. "If you don't accept it, come and have a competition. I don't think what I see in front of me is like a genius, but like a fool. Jealous of the virtuous and capable, mean and ignorant, the threshold for talented people has been so low. "

Her voice was sweet and crisp, fluttering in the waterside pavilion corridor, and the people around felt that wow, what the little girl said was reasonable!

Scholars love face and are not good at quarreling. Huzhou talent turned red and said, "I've asked him several times, but he won't come. Who despises who?"

"You said yes, please." Linglong replied, "since it's an invitation, others have the right to refuse. Oh, I see. Your invitation is just casual. If you don't come, you won't give face. For example, I like other people's ancestral tombs and tell them I really want to buy, but if they don't sell, they look down on me. It's such a truth. I've been taught."

Huzhou talent angrily said, "nonsense!"

This is an obvious concept of cheating. Unfortunately, he didn't know what to answer, so he angrily denounced: "it's difficult to raise only women and villains! I don't know the same thing as you! Xie Ji! What's your ability to hide behind a woman! Walking in public hand in hand, immoral! No shame! "

Xie Ji didn't loosen his hand with Linglong. He didn't think there was anything wrong with holding hands with his sister. There were many people in the street, and she was so small. He was afraid of losing her, and they were brothers and sisters connected by blood. If there were rules because outsiders said they would have to be thousands of miles apart, it's worth it if they didn't 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 pavilion corridor. After his sister sat on it, he stood tall and looked indifferent, spitting out a few words: "let's start."

Although he has lived in Fengcheng for many years, Fengcheng is closed and educational resources are not good, he has a baby sister. Linglong can always get him all kinds of strange books, including books from all walks of life. Xie Ji is not unaware of the 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 never separate, he doesn't care about the rest.

Compared with educational resources, it should be that these scholars are much less than him. Xie Ji's experience, horizons and temperament are beyond the comparison of these scholars who grew up in the greenhouse. They tried him, but they humiliated themselves.

Linglong sits on the chair and listens to her brother's words and Confucianists, comparing poetry, songs, music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Where are these people her brother's opponents? How can they be regarded as her brother who has been trained by herself? How can mortals compare with him?

Compared with the last group of people, they looked so good that they couldn't dig and ship. They were all dejected. However, the people who came to see the excitement felt that today's poetry would be particularly wonderful. In the past, they would also come to see it. Although they didn't understand what these scholars were saying, they were all literate. Coupled with the appearance of shaking their heads and leaving the dust, they were really different from ordinary people, As a result, today, when the handsome and outstanding scholar Lang came, the scholars with eyes on their heads wilted. When he saw the end, I didn't know who took the head, there was a round of applause, which made other scholars blush, but Xie Ji didn't look good. He just took his sister away. It seemed that winning or not was meaningless to him.

It would be better for these people not to bother him in the future. He is really tired of always having irrelevant people disturb their brother and sister's life. Is it really so difficult to ignore each other?

In the crowd, the beautiful young lady with a veil stared at Xie Ji's back. She was accompanied by a girl of the same age. Seeing that she was distracted, she bumped her gently and joked: "how about I didn't lie to you? The number one scholar is so good-looking. "

The beautiful girl blushed slightly, and then became a little cold: "who is the girl next to him? It is said that he is nineteen years old. Isn't he married yet? "

"Look at their life. They don't look like husband and wife, but like brothers and sisters."

As soon as they heard that they might be brothers and sisters, the beautiful girl suddenly brightened her eyes, but she also knew how reserved she was. She said, "they are really elegant gentlemen, handsome and handsome, and top scholars in high school. These scholars can't compare with him. But my mother won't like the only champion. What is a champion? There are many unsuccessful champions in the Imperial Academy. "

In short, Xie Ji's current situation is that slightly rich people regard him as a fast-moving son-in-law, but really powerful people will not list him as a son-in-law candidate. Unless he can make progress in the future, it is as difficult as heaven to marry a real noble daughter.

Therefore, in the eyes of the two girls, they can take a fancy to Xie Ji. It's really a blessing that Xie Ji has cultivated for eight generations. It's only when the ancestral grave of the Xie family is crazy and smoke, that they have this opportunity. So how could he refuse? It doesn't exist. Well, they only pick him, not him.

I hope he can fight a little more and don't lose heart with the people. In this way, he may stand out among her husband-in-law candidates in the future and let her parents value him.

After all, compared with those noble CHILDES who only know how to please her and flatter her, she wants a talented and handsome man to be her husband.

If the emperor marries her, it will be bad. She doesn't want to marry the prince. Her parents have loved her all her life. In the future, she will find someone like her father to be her husband, so she won't share it with other women.

But who is not the son of a noble nobleman? Even if there were no concubines, there were several people in the room before adulthood. It's embarrassing to think about it.

Xie Ji doesn't know that someone has included himself in the list of future husband and son-in-law. He only knows that he should be more cautious and work harder. Xinyang Hou is a mountain pressing on his head, and Da Sima is in charge of the army and horses in the world. How long does it take him to reach their height?

He doesn't know, but what he is most afraid of is waiting, because he has enough patience and perseverance.

Three days after the end of the imperial examination, the admitted students were assigned positions one after another. It was impossible for a top three scholar like Guan Zhuo to stay in the capital. He was assigned to a Qipin county magistrate in a remote place. As before, Tanghua, the second in the list, entered the Imperial Academy and awarded Qipin editing. Unexpectedly, Xiang Yuanlang did not enter the Imperial Academy like his predecessors, but was sent to the Ministry of punishment, Ren liupin, the head of the Ministry of punishment, surprised many people and didn't understand what the emperor meant.

It is said that "if you are not a scholar, you will not enter the Imperial Academy" and "if you are not a scholar, you will not enter the cabinet". The Imperial Academy is the only way for senior civil servants of all dynasties. However, this time, the champion Lang was clearly appreciated by the emperor during the imperial examination, but he was put into the Ministry of punishment. Why?

It's really unpredictable.

If you put the Ministry of household and the Ministry of officials, you can still say, but the Ministry of punishment... What does the Ministry of punishment have? If you want to have no money and no future, it's better to be honest and boil your qualifications in the Imperial Academy for thirty or forty years. As long as you have the ability and don't let the emperor dislike it, you can prosper sooner or later.

What is the picture of the champion? As we all know, among the six ministries, the Ministry of work and the Ministry of punishment suffer the most, especially the Ministry of punishment. It is really a small case in three days and a big case in five days. If it can not be handled well, it will be punished if it can not be transmitted to the emperor's ears. The Minister of punishment is also one of the most diligent officials in exchange. It is really a thankless place.

As everyone knows, this is Xie Ji's own request. He is very clear about his position. Is there a war? Now that the country is peaceful and the people are safe, not to mention that there is no war, even if there is, he is not necessarily better than those experienced soldiers under Da Sima and Xinyang Hou. It is even more difficult to make military achievements; Qualifications to go to Hanlin academy? Yes, but he doesn't want to spend so much time; He knows his advantages: calm, sharp, bold and careful, never forgetting his eyes, and his thinking ability and logic ability are far superior to ordinary people. When he was still in Fengcheng, he often helped Lord PU. There is no faster way to become famous than solving several shocking cases.

When he was still in Fengcheng, Lord Pu once caught a group of criminals who fled and stole. After they were arrested, they said they were from Ganzhou and came from exile. But the weather has been good in recent years. I have never heard of the disaster in Ganzhou. Where does this come from? So on the way to Beijing, Xie Ji made a special circle through Ganzhou. Now the map is banned from trafficking. If you want to know something about the territory of this dynasty, you can only walk around with your own feet and draw it with a stroke.

Ganzhou is humid and rainy all year round. The thieves said that Ganzhou burst the dike in spring. The magistrate blocked the news and sent people to recruit adult men to repair the dike, but they didn't give a penny. They were scolded in every way. In the past, they were idle. It was even more painful to be caught working, so they escaped against the danger of their lives and fled all the way north to Fengcheng, I was going to get some money to find a place to settle down, but I was caught before the money was warm in my pocket.

At this point, tears ran down my cheeks.

Lord Pu is only a small magistrate. Ganzhou is thousands of miles away from Fengcheng. He has no authority and ability to manage. He tried to write to Shangfeng, but was told that it has nothing to do with him. Lord Pu has no great ambition. As long as the people in Fengcheng live and work in peace and contentment, he can't do anything about the people in other places.

When they went to Beijing for the examination and passed Ganzhou, Xie Ji specially went to see the dam that had been repaired.

Shoddy manufacturing and shoddy work and materials are bound to burst again this year.

Moreover, the people in Ganzhou are extremely poor in energy and spirit. The streets are too quiet and silent. Even the vendors who set up stalls are dead. There are no beggars in the streets. It is also rare to see adult men, mostly old and weak women and children. The innkeeper of the inn where they are leading is as tight as a clam shell. He won't say anything no matter what he asks.

Something big is going to happen in Ganzhou.

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

This is his opportunity.

Xie Ji then pried open the shopkeeper's mouth with silver and agreed to exchange a letter with him every month, which was intercepted by others. Xie Ji specially taught the shopkeeper the secret language. The letter seems to be simple gossip, but Xie Ji knows everything about the wind and grass in Ganzhou.

He didn't hide it from his sister, because if he could take the task at that time, he would definitely take his sister with him. Xie Ji didn't hide anything from Linglong. Even if he wanted to be famous in the world, he made it clear to his sister.

Linglong doesn't think Xie Ji is despicable. Is there any other way not to do so? They are small and declining. Can they tell the emperor directly that there is something strange in Ganzhou? Don't say whether the emperor will believe it or not, you have to say otherwise whether you can see the emperor or not!

In ancient times, news progressed slowly and communication channels were limited. It may take ten days and a half months for a news to reach the emperor's ears, provided that no one intercepted it and didn't go through the procedure to sue the emperor? Give you the ashes!

Many people will die, but Xie Ji has no way. 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 throughout the year, and the sun is hard to see all year round. In June, Xie Ji received a letter from the shopkeeper, saying that Ganzhou sent a flood, but fortunately only half of the dam was destroyed. The governor of Ganzhou began to recruit strong men to build the dam again, but it rained continuously for days, so many people were washed away and buried, but the government didn't give a pension, Seeing the heavy rain, he was in a panic.

In July, Xie Ji didn't receive a letter from the shopkeeper.

The flood in Ganzhou finally broke out. The emperor was angry and sent officials to relieve the disaster, but he went to three groups of officials, but none of them came back alive!

He said he died in a disaster, but who knows how? The next day, the emperor was furious in the early Dynasty and asked if you could ask your family to go to Ganzhou. There was a dead silence in the court hall. The emperor repeated the question three times, but no one answered. Just when he was about to get angry, Xie Ji arched out: "I'd like to go!"

The three words spoke loudly. The emperor was deeply impressed by him. In recent months, he has been paying attention to the young champion. He is also very satisfied with the performance of his ministry of punishment. Seeing that only this gentle and weak young man in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty came forward, the emperor was extremely disappointed. He took the golden words, granted Xie Ji as an imperial envoy, and went to Ganzhou with the gold medal!

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