The capital is a place that many people yearn for infinitely. It was a prosperous place, it was a place full of dignitaries and nobles, it was a place where the most powerful people lived, and it could always involve the hearts of so many people, whether it was a farmer who cultivated the land or a talented person who read, there was no one who did not yearn for it. But at the same time, the capital is also a place that people can't reach, that is a place where only eunuchs and nobles can enter, and civilians are just imagining, or there is such an opportunity, and they will no longer be nostalgic after a little stroll.

But there are always some people who are special, they may come from thousands of miles away, they may have been just a peasant facing the loess with their backs to the sky, they may have only brought a package, and they started such a special long journey with a box of books.

Needless to say, there must be people here who can stay, but there must also be people who will regret leaving.

But compared to ordinary people, they have become a relatively special existence, an existence that can climb upwards, and there is almost no one who does not want to go through a ladder to reach the peak they want to go to.

This time, it is just in time for the triennial imperial examination.

Gao Jin is such a poor student who traveled thousands of miles to take the exam.

This is the first time he participated in the imperial examination, but it is also very likely to be the last time, his father died when he was very young, there is only an old mother in the family, his mother has bad eyes since he was a child, and the family has no financial resources after his father's death, and his mother can only change clothes to maintain the family.

For him, the old mother has already given too much, and as a son of man, he can't be so selfish.

Because the home is too far away from the capital, the old mother is trying to make a mess, and she is afraid that she will not be able to catch up with the imperial examination, so she went out half a year in advance, and now, Gao Jin has arrived in the capital, so he has been walking for nearly five months.

The high city wall is a façade, the thick heritage of this ancient city can be seen at a glance, the beautiful and not the charm of the red is her most elegant makeup, the soldiers standing straight in front of the door are her majesty, she is noble and inviolable, making people yearn for it and dare not touch it at will.

And looking at the inviolable appearance of the soldiers guarding the city, while making him a little scared, he also inevitably had some resentment from poor scholars.

If one's hometown can be guarded like this, then the infestation of the rogue will not be solved in minutes.

He also has the temperament of a weak scholar, although he has some chatter and dissatisfaction, but he never dares to be the first to express it.

He lowered his head and walked slowly, his heart was a little entangled, in fact, although he thought like this and had come here, but in fact his entanglement was almost exhausted, and there was still more than a month before he was reliable, he now had problems with food, clothing, housing and transportation, and he had entered here, and he found that even the clothes worn by the vendors were much better than his own, at least there were not so many patches.

Gao Jin wrapped his clothes tightly, not to keep out the cold, but not to want those embarrassing patches to fall into the eyes of others.

He wanted to leave now, to leave this place that didn't belong to him and didn't belong to him.

He doesn't fit in here.

But he knew he couldn't do that.

Suddenly, there was a noise of gongs and drums accompanied by a hoarse and sharp voice, and listening to the hoarseness of this level, this person seemed to have been screaming like this for a long time.

"Get out of the way, General Fang is going to lead the team into the city, get out of the way, General Fang is going to lead the team into the city." ”

This man rode a horse and roared past, and before Gao Jin could react, he was squeezed aside by the surging crowd, this time he didn't say anything, after all, if he didn't go to the side, what was waiting for him was trampling, literally.

Those people will not stop their galloping horses because of themselves, even if they step on people.

It seems that he has to verify something, and Gao Jin, who has thousands of thoughts, is squeezed out because of the crowding of too many people.

Gao Jin's mind was full of those two words—it's over.

When he was pushed out, he didn't think he would escape the fate of being trampled on.

"Phew—"

Fang Hibiscus tried his best to hold the reins of the horse to prevent the horse from taking a step forward, and he hurriedly signaled to the back after noticing the abnormality, so as not to cause a large-scale accident due to the sudden braking of the horse.

Fang Hibiscus pressed his hand on the horse's back, and a clever hand gently flipped off the horse's body, and the movements were elegant and smooth, which was different and pleasing to the eye.

Looking at this person who suddenly appeared from the crowd, Fang Hibiscus was a little upset, frowning and looking at his horse - chasing the wind, chasing the wind is already an old horse, it has followed him through the most difficult time on the battlefield, and now the meaning of Fu Fang Jin is no longer a mount, but a partner.

Chasing Wind was a little frightened, but fortunately it was fine.

Fang Hibiscus was a little relieved, Fang Hibiscus was a little dissatisfied, but he still had to be patient, it was not that Fang Hibiscus had a bad temper, it was just caused by the exercise in the barracks, and whoever made a mistake was not a military order.

This person is indeed very reckless, and even a little stunned and sluggish, and he has not even gotten up yet.

Looking at this person's dress, Fang Jin just knew that this was a scholar, the ancient scholars were a little weak and troublesome, and the most annoying thing in the military camp was the scholars, obviously they didn't have much military literacy, but they also liked to point fingers, but the people didn't fight with the officials, and the soldiers couldn't reason with the scholars, and Fang Jin didn't want to lose his temper with the scholars, so he still dragged Gao Jin up.

However, everything is indeed very different in Gao Jin's eyes.

Perhaps because of his unrelenting reluctance, Gao Jin still looked up, and the oncoming horses rolled up smoke and dust, as if they wanted to shatter his hope that he didn't explain.

At the last moment, he closed his eyes.

The expected pain did not come, Gao Jin was a little dazed, happy, and a little sad, he couldn't tell what was wrong with him.

Maybe it's because the expected death plot didn't happen, and he survived.

However, no matter how many emotions he had, the current situation was that this person who came on a horse was so different.

He once fantasized about what the characters in the capital looked like, thinking about the tall heads, luxurious clothes, arrogant eyes, and disdain for all kinds of characters.

I thought that once I got the opportunity, I could sit on the top of the hall like those characters, look at the people below with cold eyes, watch them cry bitterly, watch them complain about the impermanence of the world and the ups and downs of fate, and I can be as leisurely as a spectator.

Although ruthless and a little shameful, it is plain and enviable.

He also once thought that if he could be an official, he would eliminate violence and peace, and he would do things for his hometown fathers and relatives, so that they would not starve and freeze, and let the deep pit of dissatisfaction and resentment hidden in the hearts of civilians be slowly filled.

But in fact, when he thought he was going to die, those so-called wishes or thoughts did not appear for even a moment.

He's actually a lot more than he thought.

However, when he focused his attention on the man who came on horseback, everything seemed to have a new beginning.

What is the return of the moon?

He suddenly realized that his previous imagination was very narrow. What is a big man and what is wonderful? Is it really wonderful enough to just stand on top of many people and enjoy the envy of many people?

The so-called majesty and the so-called imposing.

When the man, dressed in silver-white armor, rolled down from his horse, turned his back to the thousands of horses, and stood still before his eyes, all the imagination of beauty became brittle.

Everything felt so obvious.

He has been confined to a small place since he was a child, he has not experienced any major events, nor has he experienced any baptism, he has not seen any truly outstanding people, his vision has not reached a height, and naturally he has no more experience.

And once you meet the right person, it's a fresh start.

Fang Jin's eyes were a little cold, of course he knew that the gaze of the person in front of him was getting more and more strange, because he was a little entangled, so he let Xiao Slag turn on the function of mind reading.

The strange twists and turns in the heads of the ancient literati, as Fang Jin, who is now a general, still can't fully comprehend them, but he doesn't plan to understand these strange thoughts too much.

There is no malice, and Fang Jin doesn't plan to care about it anymore.

He stretched out his hand and summoned a small soldier, who took the scholar aside, and ordered some silver to be given to him to suppress the alarm, and then called two men to ride in front of him to open the way, so that something like that might not happen again.

Fang Jin came back once in so many years, and with the emperor's order, he still needed to go to the palace in a hurry, so he couldn't afford to delay.

Looking at the billowing smoke, Gao Jin gradually came back to his senses.

Maybe it's because I want to open it, or maybe it's because Fang Jin's charm is too great, Gao Jin's complicated thoughts suddenly became unusually clear, and he lost his previous suspicion and uneasiness, and his rickety back also had a straight appearance.

Some people may not be able to achieve anything because they are really incapable, while some people just need to meet a noble person at the right time, someone who can give him inspiration and confidence.

Gao Jin is the latter, and Fang Jin is precisely the one who is most suitable to be a noble person.

There are so many people in the world, even if there are many people like Gao Jin, but it is really difficult to find the noble person who belongs to him in the vast sea of people.

It is even less to be favored by nobles and to be able to take the lead in the rapids.

Whether it is Fang Jin or Gao Jin, they may not have thought that just such a meeting would become a moment that would affect the fate of their lives.