Du Xinran was more careful than the sky, and felt that with his talents, he would surely achieve an earth-shattering career.

He did not study literature, and the Confucian theories respected by Da Yang were pedantic and useless in his opinion, and they were useless because scholars said that they were Confucianists;

He also doesn't like to learn martial arts, thinking that learning martial arts to the extreme is just a hundred enemies; even if he can become a general and command 10,000 people on the battlefield, he is only 10,000 enemies;

Neither loves to learn literature, nor does he love martial arts, coupled with his sister's doting since childhood, the final result is that his literature is not successful today.

But he still thinks he's going to make a career.

It's just that reality has hit him again and again, and to this day, most of that mind has been extinguished.

Du Xinran's melancholy and anguish are silent and obedient on the outside, why the young man who was sharp the day before yesterday is no longer there, Xu Heng is difficult to know from a photo. But he did guess two points.

"Yes, Prince Heng, please take care of yourself. ”

This sentence landed for a long time, Du Xinran bowed his head beside the door and greeted him for a long time, but Xu Heng still did not start.

Raising his head, he only saw that Xu Heng was looking up at the newborn sunrise in the east with his hand in the shade, and after looking at it for a while, Xu Heng turned around, looked at the young man of the same age as himself, and said with a smile: "Dufu official, do you know what this Huhai Mansion is for?"

"The villain doesn't know, the villain takes over, this morning is the first time," the official's self-proclaimed self-proclaimed was even more humble, and the villain was like a steel thorn, piercing the blood in his heart somewhere, but he had to continue, "The government official didn't have time to tell the villain about the functions of Huhai Mansion and the villain's responsibilities and let the villain wait here for a while before going out, and the villain had nothing to do, so he cleaned the courtyard by himself, and he didn't know what the director of Huhai Mansion was." ”

"Okay, you don't know," Xu Heng restrained his smile and nodded, "Then do you know what I came to Huhai Mansion for?"

"This ......" Du Xinran guessed what Xu Heng was going to do, so he gritted his teeth and said, "The villain doesn't know." ”

"You don't know what Huhai Mansion is set up for, and you don't ask me why I'm here,"

Xu Heng calmly recounted the results of the questioning just now, and suddenly shouted, resounding all around:

"What a bold official, then why don't you stop me!"

A shout and question made Du Xinran's body tremble, and he straightened up suddenly, his steel teeth clenched, his forehead was close to Bi Lu, and he stared straight at Xu Heng. Du Xinran was already extremely angry.

Xu Heng was not afraid, and shouted again: "Du Xinran, is what I said wrong?"

"Childe is right. Du Xinran squeezed out these two words from between his teeth, and then pressed down his straight body inch by inch, the young man knelt on the ground, his fists clenched, and his body trembled uncontrollably, "It's all the villain's fault, please punish the son!"

After asking the second question, Du Xinran knew what this Heng Gongzi was going to do:

I'm afraid that he had already planned everything, and came here to find fault with himself, and take the opportunity to avenge the stranded at the city gates.

What should come will come, and the teeth will be rewarded, aren't the sons of the honorable ones that virtuous?

He suppressed the anger in his heart and fell to his knees, waiting for the humiliation and punishment to come.

But kneeling for a long time, the expected thing did not come for a long time.

He raised his head slightly, looked at where Xu Heng was standing, and was stunned to find that there was no one there.

When I looked up again, I saw a faint white shadow beside me.

Xu Heng has already quietly walked to the side?!

Xu Heng stopped, looked down at the man who was kneeling down again, and said with a calm face: "I have never blamed you for stopping me outside the gate of Shen'an City, and I even appreciate your uprightness a little, but your performance today has disappointed me very much." ”

"Originally, I had the idea of helping you, but now it is gone, and you can figure out the reason for it. ”

Heng Gongzi's words shocked Du Xinran's heart, and his courage and spirit returned to him.

He knelt on the ground and straightened up, looked at Xu Heng and said bluntly: "Heng Gongzi taught a lesson, but Gongzi was born in a noble family, where can we understand the difficulties of our promotion to the small people." ”

Du Xinran's rebuttal actually made Xu Heng smile, he was very energetic and returned to this peer, but Du Xinran, who was full of resentment, was not the chief of the guard he wanted: "I have also been as humble and humble as you, but I have never doubted my confidence that I will achieve a career, and I have not relaxed my requirements for myself." Opportunities are important, but the most painful thing is that you don't have the ability to grasp them. ”

"Learning to taoguang and cultivate a strong self is a necessary stage, even if you give up this, you will fall into the ordinary, and you will be a small people for the rest of your life. ”

Xu Heng's previous words shocked Du Xinran's heart, and the latter made his face red, and after respectfully bowing to Xu Heng, he stood up, hugged his fists at Xu Heng and said, "How does Gongzi Heng know that I wasn't in Taoguang just now?"

Du Xinran's kneeling salute made Xu Heng turn sideways to avoid it, Xu Heng didn't care about his unauthorized getup, looking at the bright eyes of the young man in front of him, he said softly: "If I were you just now, I wouldn't be so angry." ”

Du Xinran smiled embarrassedly.

Xu Heng also smiled, he looked at the sky, found that the time was not early, nodded to Du Xinran as a farewell, and was about to step into Huhai Mansion to do business, when a question came from behind him: "Dare to ask Heng Gongzi what happened when he entered Huhai Mansion?"

Fu turned around again, and sure enough, it was Du Xinran who asked with his fists.

Xu Heng smiled slightly: "When I came to Huhai Mansion, I naturally came here for something. ”

Du Xinran was speechless.

At this time, a hand patted Du Xinran on the shoulder, and the owner of the palm said behind him: "Heng Gongzi, I will come to receive, you can step back for the time being, someone will come to tell you the functions of Huhai Mansion and the duties of Huhai Mansion officials in a moment." ”

After the words were spoken, the person behind him had already crossed the entire courtyard, came to Xu Heng, and saluted: "Master Heng, the affairs of the department are busy, and the official is late." ”

"It's okay, I've just arrived. If Lord Bai has anything urgent, it's better to finish it first, anyway, my matter is not too urgent. ”

"The matter of the son is also very important, how can the lower officials be like this?"

……

Huhai Mansion is nominally an idle government house belonging to the Case Fu Division, but in fact it is one of the gates of the Jianghu Division, which is called the two divisions along with the Case Fu Division.

Unlike the reputation of the Case Fu Division, the Jianghu Division has always been secretive, and like the East Pole Palace, it is a secret department directly under the emperor, and most of the time it is not known to the world. Its function is to collect information on the rivers and lakes for the emperor and deal with the time of the rivers and lakes, and it is one of the forces hidden under the rivers and lakes, and it has great authority.

Du Xinran's appearance here was really an accident.

Huhai Mansion was originally not arranged by the officials of the Ministry of Officials, and Li Chongjiu did not arrange it for Du Xinran. Du Xinran should have gone to a Ministry of Rites yayuan called Hu Hai Mansion, but the petty official of the Ministry of Rites who accepted Li Chongjiu's bribe was dizzy, and accidentally copied the name of Hu Hai Mansion by mistake and wrote it as Huhai Mansion.

Huhai Mansion does have its place, so Du Xinran, who came to report on the first day, went wrong.

(End of chapter)