A night of heavy rain, the dawn only stopped, the capital at the end of February added a little chill, the big blue stone road was slippery, many people went out when their shoes were wrapped with straw ropes, so as not to fall, Rao is so, when the sky is bright, the city gate is also crowded with people waiting to enter the city.

The carriage guarded by the officers and soldiers in three layers of armor galloped towards the city gate, without the slightest intention of stopping and slowing down, and the people on the side of the road panicked and dodged, and the armored soldiers in front of the city gate did not reprimand angrily, but quickly opened the city gate.

The group was gone, and the chaos in front of the city gate gradually subsided.

"Whose honor guard is this, comparable to a prince, but there is no mark. ”

"That's Song Yuan Song's, so he won't use the logo, lest he be recognized by the enemy. ”

"My God, I'm afraid that others won't recognize me in such a battle?"

"But didn't you say that Song Yuan didn't go out?"

The murmur was soon interrupted by the rebuke of the officials, and the people crowded forward again to wait to enter the city...... The entry and exit checks are very strict, because there have been too many murderers in the capital recently.

"Song Yuan's wife is very sick. The old servant said in a low voice, "You can't ignore the accident on Duan Shan's side, so you run back and forth regardless of the danger." ”

Mr. Qingxia looked at the people and horses who disappeared on the road in front of him, and said, "The matter of that section of the mountain is almost solved." "That's how you can get away.

The old servant said: "After the court said that there was a grievance, the criminal department blocked the door, and they were all busy with this matter, so Lord Song could be busy." "No matter how busy this kind of thing is, it can't be compared with tracking down Duan Shan's murderer, it's not the same.

As he spoke, he took out the name card and handed it to the guard.

A doorman took it and looked at it, a little kind.

"Lord Lin, please. He said, motioning for the verification to give way.

Mr. Qingxia nodded to the city guards, and walked away with the old servant, and the people in front and behind him continued to line up to check in, carrying baskets and carrying petunia and driving sheep on the road, among which there was a pair of eyes staring at the master and a servant in front of him.

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Song Yuan stepped into the house, Song Ying had just finished feeding Mrs. Song medicine, Song Huzi did not sleep, and sat on the ground rubbing mud to play.

"How was your mother last night?" Song Yuan asked, frowning at Song Huzi again, "I want to play with mud and go outside to play." ”

Song Ying handed the medicine bowl to the girl and said, "It's all the same in the house outside, but it's just a matter of cleaning up twice, and my mother slept well last night." ”

Song Yuan looked down, Mrs. Song was asleep, and he reached out to tuck the corners of the quilt.

Song Ying put down the medicine bowl and squatted down over there to coax Song Huzi to drink a few sips of water, and the sleeves of her skirt were smeared with patches of muddy water, she didn't care about getting up, and then saw that Song Yuan, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, had fallen asleep with his head tilted against the bedpost.

Song Ying picked up the thin quilt from the bed and put it on him.

Song Yuan woke up.

"Dad hasn't slept all night?" Song Ying said, "You go to sleep for a while, I'm here, you don't have to worry." ”

Song Yuan stretched out his hand and rubbed his face, and said, "I'm fine, I'll go back to the city and sleep in the yamen in a while." Looking at Song Ying, the girl's eyes were also full of red threads, "It's you, you have to rest well." ”

Song Ying smiled and nodded yes.

"Duan Shan was killed, isn't Dad embarrassed?" she asked again.

Song Yuan said: "It's really too sudden, too unexpected, caught off guard." His brow furrowed.

Song Ying said: "The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and if there is something to solve, there is always a solution." ”

Song Yuan thought for a while and smiled: "It's true, he is dead, and the matter is not impossible to solve." ”

The girl stepped forward and brought the tea soup, Song Ying took it and handed it to Song Yuan, the girl bowed her head and withdrew, Song Yuan sometimes told her daughter about the court, and retreated to the door to listen to the conversation inside.

“.... But I can't talk about it. ”

“... If you can't say it, don't say it. ”

Mixed with Song Huzi's meaningless screams, the mud hit the ground, and Song Ying went to comfort again, and the door closed to isolate all this.

After a spring rain, there will be more rain, and the capital will become fresh and tender under the rain, and the willow branches will be the first to bud, and it seems that the whole city is green and swaying in the blink of an eye, and spring has arrived.

The spring of Shanxi Road came later than that of the capital, sitting in the bright hall, looking at the swaying half-yellow and half-green branches and leaves outside the window, Huang Jian, the official of Shanxi Road, smiled, and turned to look at the officials inside.

"March 18 is a good day for the release of the lists. He said, "This time, there are 132 people in my Shanxi Road, and now there are 190 people who have passed the primary election. ”

More than a dozen examiners present responded with a smile that it was finally time for the township examination, which had been hard for nearly a month, to settle down.

"It's not a good choice for the one who is going to fall in the end. ”

"yes, it's all good articles. ”

Having said that, in the afternoon, Zhu Juan was quickly decided, and it was handed over to the chief examiner and the deputy chief examiner to determine the ranking, and after confirming all this, it was the second day, and it was time to open the seal and write the list.

With Huang Tixue's order, he dismantled the roll call and wrote the list.

In a tense atmosphere, the files of one hundred and thirty-two people were opened and registered, and looking at the list, Huang Tixue looked a little surprised: "These people..."

The deputy chief examiner was a little nervous when he heard this, and said, "But what's the problem?"

The imperial examination is related to the students' lives, so it is very important, and it is extremely easy to make trouble, and it is just in previous years, but this year I don't dare to be careless, after all, there were examiners in the county examination who were killed.

Huang Tixue said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, I mean these twenty-three people are all students of Chang'an Mansion, the number of high schools in Chang'an Mansion this time is unprecedented, Li Guangyuan has a good way to rule, and he should be rewarded." ”

An examiner said with a smile: "Mr. Qingxia's teaching is really good, and there are so many high schools in Chang'an Mansion in three years." ”

The list was circulated again, and there were shouts of admiration, and some people babbled again.

"There are ten people here who are all students of Zhizhitang. He said.

These words made the people present stunned, which school is Zhizhitang?

"Have you forgotten? The man said meaningfully.

The name Liao Cheng immediately reminded everyone present, last year Chang'an Mansion almost broke out in civil unrest, a group of students sat in protest against the imperial court official Liao Cheng Duan Shan indiscriminately arrested innocent, although it was not explicitly stated afterwards, but the government found out that the original was a group of students with a consortium named Zhizhitang.

"I heard that the Zhizhitang Association is for reading, and the one named Xue Qing also wrote poems, the Son of Heaven is heroic, and the article teaches Er Cao. Everything is inferior, but reading is high. Chao for Tian Shelang, twilight to the Tianzi Hall. There will be no seeds, and men should be self-reliant. Huang Tixue read with a smile, looking at the names of these ten people, "Yes, it's really a study." ”

A Taoist official present at that time, who had handled the information about Zhizhitang that had been investigated in detail in the case file of Chang'an Mansion, was surprised and sighed, and nodded: "There are twenty-three people on the list of Zhizhitang, and this time there are ten people, nearly half, which is really powerful." ”

Liao Cheng is a eunuch, Duan Shan is a cool official and has died, the civil officials present are naturally disdainful and fearless, although the literati are light, but they are still their own people to see the outside world, in addition, these candidates are their Shanxi Road, but also their protégés, the name of teachers and students remains unchanged for life, and they will enter the officialdom if they win the jinshi, and the relationship between teachers and students has benefited a lot, so everyone here praises endlessly.

Huang Tixue was even more red-faced, raised his hand and said, "Let's put the list." ”

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The crackling sound of firecrackers and the sound of gongs and drums have lasted for a day and have not yet dispersed.

It seemed that the young man in front of the pothos window had been standing with his hands down, and it was not until a hand patted his shoulder that the young man suddenly noticed that he turned back, and his face was thin and his eyes were bright in the twilight glow.

"Brother, what are you doing standing here stupidly?" asked Liu Wu'er.

Liu Chunyang looked at her and didn't answer.

"Are you jealous of those who are lifted? Don't be like this, you are also a lifter. Liu Wu'er continued, saying some words of comfort.

Liu Chunyang didn't say a word, until a small guy ran in.

"Young Master, the book that Young Master Liantang gave you. He shook a book in his hand.

"What kind of book? Liu Wu'er said, stretching out his hand, "Xiao Ke show me." ”

Over there, Liu Chunyang stretched out his hand and took out two balls of cotton in his ear, and said, "What?"

Liu Wu'er was stunned: "Brother, are you blocking your ears?" and was annoyed, her previous words were in vain, "What are you doing with your ears? ”

Liu Chunyang said: "I endorse it." "Reach out.

Xiao Ke hurriedly handed him the scroll in his hand and said again, "Young Master Liantang will return you." ”

Liu Chunyang held the scroll and threw it on a few cases, Liu Wu'er took it and flipped through it, and saw that it was a very common interpretation of Zhongyong University, so he threw it back and said, "When are you going to the capital?

Liu Chunyang said: "Now that the test has not arrived, what is the point of me going to the capital." ”

Liu Wu'er said: "Brother, you are pretending to be stupid with me, of course you went to the capital to see Xue Qing." ”

Liu Chunyang said: "I am me, he is him, what is the meaning of me going to the capital for him." ”

Liu Wu'er said angrily: "Brother, you are so powerful now, against a grandfather, you are so stubborn in everything." ”

Liu Chunyang waved his hand: "Go out to play, don't affect my study, otherwise it will be boring to go to the capital." ”

Although Liu Wu'er was displeased, he also knew that the matter was very important, and advised: "Then you remember to write to Xue Qingduo, he is doing his homework well, and he is in the capital Guozijian, you can ask him." ”

Liu Chunyang was noncommittal, watching Liu Wu'er and Xiao Ke walk out, still turning around to the window, muttering for a moment before reaching out to pick up the scroll on the table, bowing his head and rubbing the cover of the book gently, a crack opened on it, and the young man's slender fingers pinched out a piece of tissue paper from it, and the small characters on it were all over it.

Liu Chunyang swept it carefully, and when he saw a line, his eyes paused, and he reached out to caress it.

“... At that time, he was not there, and he went to Jiang Xian and the others, and he went to the toilet on the way to Kang Daidao, and returned in a moment..."

A moment to go?

"For youkai, a moment is enough to do a lot. Liu Chunyang muttered, took a deep breath and spit it out, swept the tissue paper at a glance, and put it into the incense burner on the windowsill casually, the green smoke curled into ashes, leaning against the window and raising his voice, "Xiao Ke." ”

Xiao Ke was busy playing with two little girls in the yard.

"Pack up our salutes, we're ready to go to Beijing. Liu Chunyang said.

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"They're going to Beijing?"

Xue Qing asked, unable to hide her joy, standing in front of Pei Yanzi's table and stretching out his hand.

"Show me. ”

Pei Yanzi handed him the tissue paper in his hand, Xue Qing took it and smiled: "What can't you see here, why do you have to use a book to pass it on." "The sight fell on a book scroll on Pei Yanzi's desk, a very ordinary interpretation of scriptures, which can be seen everywhere on the market, the only difference from the market is a small seal on the cover of the book, which is a small seal to know the word, not so much like a word, but more like a small pattern.

Pei Yanzi said: "In case you can't see people." ”

Xue Qing laughed again, shook his head and didn't say anything, looked down at the tissue paper in his hand, what Zhang Liantang wrote, what he said was very simple, how many rankings were among the few people, and they arrived in the capital at the end of March.

That's fast.

"Has the place to live been arranged? will it be crowded over there when the time comes?" Xue Qing said.

Pei Yanzi said: "Chu Minghui has arranged it, we don't live together, we are an association, but don't form a party." ”

Forming an association is a fun move for teenagers, and it is different if they form a party, especially for those students who want to take the imperial examination, they have formed a party of their own before they have joined the office, but it is not likable, and it is not convenient for everyone to have more communication, and they will be wary, after all, the future official positions of the family may be different....... Not forming a party is actually for the sake of forming a party, Xue Qing was silent for a moment, and smiled, these teenagers are no longer teenagers, the world is clear.

"I haven't been to Zhizhitang much lately, how are they reading?" she asked, sitting down across from Pei Yanzi, not continuing the topic.

Pei Yanzi opened a book and said, "That's it, anyway, I won't be able to pass the imperial examination this year." ”

"They're just for the future, don't look down on people, look farther, Young Master Yanzi." ”

"I have a vision for a lifetime, and Zhang Shuangtong can't pass the exam. ”

There was laughter in the room, and the scholar who was bored outside the door and pulled the twigs and braided his hat looked through the window on tiptoe, and the round window was facing a few cases, and he could see two young people sitting facing each other, and Xue Qing was still staring at the young master with his hands in his hands..... The scholar sighed lightly, the young master's good looks are also troublesome.

At this time, laughter also sounded in Chen Sheng's study, and the laughter of the adults was deep and subtle.

"So we'll take our leave. ”

"Don't worry, Xiangye, it's not trivial to try, and we will definitely do it. ”

The people sitting in the room all got up, and seven men retreated and went out, and Mr. Qingxia Kang Dai and the other five people remained in place, and it was normal for the examiners to have other details to say as the chief examiner of the Guozijian sacrificial wine and so on.

The men left, and the room was quiet for a moment.

"How's going on with Duan Shan?" Mr. Qingxia said, "I haven't heard of it lately. ”

Kang Dai said: "It's okay, now the Criminal Department is still taking over Duan Shan's case, and it was only when Wang Xiangye spoke that it calmed down a little." "Hehe smiled again," Qin Tangong took the Qinzhou Road in exchange for a little appeasement. ”

Mr. Qingxia looked at Chen Sheng, Chen Sheng nodded, and said: "As soon as Duan Shan dies, there is no point in tracking down the murderer, the meaning is only that the Qin Party fights with others." ”

Mr. Qingxia said: "That's good, the Five Worm Army is really going to be caught, I'm afraid that she will be implicated." ”

Kang Dai said: "I think about it too much, I won't be implicated, I said that she was with us, there is no evidence at all." ”

Mr. Qingxia looked at him and said, "It's not that she is implicated, she was brought up by the Five Worm Army, and if something happens to the people of the Five Worm Army, she won't care." ”

Kang Dai was about to say something, but a blue-robed man interrupted: "Lord Lin is right, although this matter seems to be in the past, we still don't take it lightly. ”

The red-robed man next to him and another person also nodded in agreement.

Chen Sheng said: "It's good for everyone to know in their hearts. He added, "And no matter whether Qin Gong's side really reveals the past or secretly investigates in private, we will respond to all changes with the same, and then we will do a good job, and then it will be our turn to do it." ”

Everyone in the room said yes in unison.

"Lord Lin, go first. Chen Sheng said, "Wang Xiangye, you have to move around more." ”

From the outside, Mr. Qingxia is Wang Lieyang's person, and Mr. Qingxia got up and left.

The room was quiet again for a moment, and Kang Dai was just about to speak, Chen Sheng said: "In the future, you will suspend your contact with Mr. Qingxia." ”

Kang Dai and the other four were stunned.

Chen Sheng said: "Duan Shan identified Mr. Qingxia when he was dying, and the Qin Party has already set his sights on him. ”

The four of Kang Dai were terrified.

Why didn't Chen Sheng tell Mr. Qingxia so that he could take precautions.

"Not preventable. Chen Sheng said, his gaze swept over a few people, "So I can't say it." ”

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