Zhang De, who was sitting at the top, asked directly: "Do you know that kid named Gu Zheng? I heard that you have a good relationship with him?"

Wang Jien replied honestly: "Yes, the apprentice and he are the same neighbors, and we were only one street apart when my grandmother was still alive." ”

Hearing Wang Jien's answer, Zhang Dekai nodded and continued to ask, "Is he literate?"

This Wang Jien hesitated a little when he answered: "When we were outside, our relationship can only be said to be acquaintance, and when the apprentice was in the palace, I supported each other with him because of my fellow villagers." ”

"I didn't know much about my skills earlier. ”

After getting the answer, Zhang Dekai sighed, but said a few more words: "This kid's luck is not bad, and he was assigned to the Hanlin Academy." ”

"If you have a relationship with him, you will come and go often, I remember that his housekeeper is still arranged in the outer bedroom of our Funing Palace. ”

"In this way, you can be regarded as being in one place, and on weekdays, if you hear any unusual news, you should tell your master and me one more sentence. ”

"This is also your boy's chance. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Dekai actually sighed, and glanced at Wang Jien with some complicated looks: "Your brother, you have chosen the opposite path to you." ”

"The road ahead is long, no one knows, but if you come out, it is a road to heaven. ”

"It's different from people like you and me who have chosen the path of close servants. ”

Wang Jien, who doesn't understand the deep meaning of Zhang Dekai's words, his shrewdness is just limited to a child's intelligence and ability.

He didn't understand, but it didn't prevent him from smiling and serving by Zhang Dekai's side, until his master waved him to leave, Wang Jien restrained the smile on his face in the dark, and returned to his bedroom with a little worry.

This night, Wang Jien didn't sleep very well, and after getting up early in the morning, he looked for the place that Zhang Dekai told him, and hurried to see this little brother who had an inexplicable future because he left early.

Who knows, when he just passed through a corner gate and turned into the courtyard of Gu Zheng's bedroom, he saw the following scene.

In this small courtyard, it was full of attendants.

An old man with a white beard was reading the contents of a book on a yellow piece of paper.

Wang Jien, who has just undergone training, knows very well that this is something closely related to a small yellow door like them, a promotion and appointment.

After the chief chamberlain has finished reading it, this piece of paper will be attached to the back of the biographical information of the promoted person, and will be used for the records of the personnel of the Inner East Gate Division who distributed the money in the palace.

I don't know who is in this courtyard, such good luck is actually a promotion, and when he touches it, he can also be happy.

Wang Jien was thinking about it, and the waiter said to one of them: "Which one is Gu Zheng? ”

"I can take this bookmark and go back to the errand. ”

And Gu Zheng, who was mentioned, walked out in stride in the envious and jealous eyes of the three people in the same room, and seriously bowed his hand to the current internal official, and thanked: "The kid is Gu Zheng, I don't know where to sign?"

This central internal official was even more surprised, isn't this a newcomer who has just been on duty?

But the face of this internal official was not obvious, but he finished the process with Gu Zheng with a smile, and encouraged him a few times in the general way of treating his juniors, and after receiving a string of money that Gu Zheng stuffed into his cuffs, he was satisfied and went back with a bookmark to resume his life.

After the people left, the small courtyard was in an uproar.

These old people who work in Funing Palace, where have they seen such a speed of promotion.

On the second day of construction, he directly mentioned the first-class Xiaohuangmen, even if it was the emperor's own son, cough cough, it was not so fast.

But the kid next to him still looked like a little adult, and indifferently let the three roommates next to him just want to pinch his face.

"Hey, your kid is on duty at night, do you want a treat?"

"That's it, stinky boy, you've got our brother's luck. ”

But Gu Zheng smiled sincerely at the three people opposite, and agreed very happily.

Just when this group of people was enjoying themselves, Wang Jien's voice rang out at the gate of the courtyard: "Gu Zheng?"

Gu Zheng turned his head and beckoned to this little friend he hadn't seen for a few days.

Seeing that Gu Zheng had a friend here, the three people in the same room were interested, and after repeatedly confirming the time of the treat, they returned to the bedroom with their shoulders hooked up, leaving the yard to Gu Zheng and his friends.

"Why are you here?" Gu Zheng smiled happily, but Wang Jien was a little more complicated.

He replied with some displeasure: "My master told me that you have also been assigned to live here temporarily, and I originally wanted to come and see how you are doing and what you need. ”

"When I looked at it today, I found that you were doing well without me. ”

Hearing the acidity in Wang Jien's words, Gu Zheng's smile was a little more sincere: "How is it possible, I still think that when I get familiar with the duty over there, I will come over to join you in two days." ”

"You don't know, I'm the only one in that place, and I'm responsible for all the work. ”

"I think our Majesty the Sage is a thrifty person, and I don't want to add more people in extra places, so I mentioned it so quickly. ”

Hearing Gu Zheng say this, Wang Jien's heart felt a little better, and his sourness, which was originally a little overtaken by his little brother, immediately turned into worry about his friends, and hurriedly asked: "Why are you the only one on duty, is that particularly tired?" These people are really going up and down, and if they want to tie up with the emperor, they are actually using people like us as their sons. ”

"If you're too tired, do it slowly, don't wear your body out. ”

Seeing this little friend, in the end, care outweighed jealousy, but the smile on Gu Zheng's face was a little sincere, and he comforted Wang Jien well, and turned his head to return to his post on duty.

His position has been promoted to a first-class Xiaohuangmen, and he can already get a big sum of 500 yuan just from the perspective of Yulu.

Not to mention that in addition to the silver money, he could also get cloth, silk, hemp, and a stone of rice, which was definitely rich.

In addition to the money, those things that he doesn't need on weekdays can be sent to the palace by someone to solve the embarrassment that the family has spent all the money from selling his body.

Inheriting the emperor's affection, Gu Zheng naturally could only repay him with a good job.

Since this emperor is very concerned about the topographic map of the mountains and rivers.

Then let's help him from this aspect, for a child who can understand geographical travelogues and has learned craftsman's skills, this is not too difficult.

And after Gu Zheng received the pen, ink, paper and inkstone that Li Shenfu sent to him, Gu Zheng put all his mind on it for the rest of his time.

Many times when Zhao Kuangyin came to the central room alone, he would find this interesting little yellow door, with an extremely serious expression, while flipping through the books on the bookshelf that I don't know how old they were, while writing and drawing something on the straw paper on the side.

Zhao Kuangyin looks interesting, he is not a literati, and he is more helpless to calm down and look at the things on the text.

But since he found that sitting in this middle hall, surrounded by military books and full of sand tables, under the guidance of the children on the side, his own thoughts and some impetuous hearts will gradually fall silent. After getting this understanding, he directly moved the folding documents in his hand and the things that he needed to go back to the palace to deal with, and the whole thing was moved to this room that was not open to the public.

This big and small, a noble and a humble person, actually formed a wonderful combination.

No one said a word more.

And Gu Zheng is also used to meeting this emperor, so he no longer makes a noise to disturb.

The tacit understanding between the two people is such a natural thing, but in the most ordinary day, Zhao Kuangyin was the first to open his mouth to break the atmosphere.

"Boy Gu Zheng. ”

"In. ”

After Gu Zheng heard the leader's call, he stopped the last stroke on the paper. Once again, he stood with his hands down, waiting for Zhao Kuangyin's next words.

"You say, what would you do if your closest family member made you make a decision that you are extremely unwilling to make?"

And Gu Zheng replied without hesitation at all: "Then I want to see if this decision is harmful to me, and to what extent it is harmful, and then make a choice." ”

"What's more, if you really care about your family, you won't be forced to make choices that you don't want to make. ”

"If you have to, then whether such a family member has that sincerity or not, but it is another matter. ”

Zhao Kuangyin's words were vague, and Gu Zheng's reply was not clear.

The emperor then asked another question.

"If it is a farmer, the elder brother of the family earns a large family business, and the younger brother is the most loved child by the mother. ”

"This mother is partial to the younger son, and wants this brother to share more benefits to the younger brother. ”

"What if it were you?"

But Gu Zheng pretended to be ignorant, and returned: "The kid's poor family has no tiles on the top and no land on the bottom, so there is no such superfluous troubles." ”

"But I've heard about the house of the very wealthy Erbaozi on the next street. ”

"His old son is also a useless little son. ”

"These two treasures went south and north to buy a big family business, so that the little brother received a lot of favors. ”

"But this person's heart is always insufficient, one day, when Er Baozi still has to go out to do goods, this confused old man has to hold Er Baozi, and use the reason that his children are still young, so that when he is not there, he will hand over the right of the housekeeper to the hands of the little brother. ”

"Saint, you can't imagine what happened. ”

Speaking of this, Gu Zheng sighed bitterly, this expressionless little adult on weekdays would react like this, which really aroused Zhao Kuangyin's curiosity.

He then asked, "What happened?"