What is Li Changhai doing at this time? In fact, he didn't know why he was nervous and went to the capital with Guan Ping and the two brothers of the Qiao family.

Maybe it's because I'm too confused and don't want to face Yunying for the time being, maybe I really want to go to the capital to see if there are any new business opportunities, in short, I got the matter of the ancestral hall and rushed to the capital non-stop, and finally caught up with the hundred talents who walked half the way on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

The show of Baijiaji is a group of people who go out early, but out of Asahi City gradually began to be lively one after another, and the scholars who wanted to go to the capital to catch the exam, as well as the businessmen who sniffed the business opportunities and waited for the opportunity to move. Originally, Li Changhai still had a dispensable attitude, but as he got closer to the capital, his spirit was getting better and better, and his mood was getting higher and higher.

Humanity is "frustrated in love, proud in the shopping mall", and when he arrived outside the capital, Li Changhai was already in high spirits and ready to do a great job.

However, looking at the bustling crowd outside the capital, Li Changhai realized that it was simply an impossible task to enter the capital now.

Tengyun Dynasty's scientific examination is very special, as long as anyone who is admitted to Xiucai will have the opportunity to come to the capital once, but the gate of this capital is not so easy to enter. Every year on the second day of February, the academies outside the four gates of the capital will open their doors to receive the famous posts of talents from the south, south, and northwest, and then the imperial court will arrange a general examination between the tenth and fifteenth days of the first month of February. Each of the four colleges will take 100 people as the promoter, and the list will be announced on February 25.

After that, those who regretted or spent all the money began to leave Beijing one after another, and those who were unwilling could wait outside the city gate. Those who have waited for the general examination to enter the royal academy in the capital and take the college examination together with the people in the capital, and after the college examination, only more than 100 people can become Jinshi of the current department. Jinshi and the second can also enter the palace to participate in the palace examination, and then the emperor will decide the top three.

When the top three are determined, the capital will be opened, and a large number of businessmen who are stranded outside will be allowed to enter and exit, and these people who are waiting outside can enter and walk the door, or see the prosperity of the capital, and use it as a talking point after returning to their hometown.

Li Changhai didn't want to wait outside, and Guan Ping, who had been to the capital once, didn't want to wait. As soon as he knew that one more day outside was one more day of testing, as time passed. Even drinking saliva outside has to pay a big price. Even if he has the Li family's funding and Li Yinfeng's private treasury this time, he doesn't plan to waste it. What's more, he also carried a letter written by the Jia family with him, and in order to get ahead, he had to go to the city to recognize his relatives before the conference exam.

Qiao Yuangui and Qiao Yuanfu came to the outside of the capital because the price of the inn here is staggering. In the end, under the kind guidance of Guan Ping, he found a few poor students and went to live with a farmer in the nearby suburbs. Rao is so. The money on his body has also gone a lot, and this is just the beginning.

Guan Ping has never had a good impression of the people in the old courtyard of the Qiao family, and pointing here can be regarded as benevolent and righteous. turned around and went to Li Changhai to discuss entering the city.

Now that the four gates are closed, people who do not have a household registration near the capital will not be able to pass the pass of the guards of the city at all, Li Changhai has been around several times before, and the crowded city gate is lined up in a straight line, and the people who go out of the city are at will, and if they want to enter the city first take out the household registration for inspection, if the household registration is not nearby and they still want to pass the customs in confusion, it will be a wild beating in the past. Hearing Guan Ping say that he was going to enter the city, he immediately shook his head and denied: "Brother Ning Yuan, brother-in-law, don't harm me, those soldiers are all sharp-eyed, if we are beaten in public, how will we see people?" ”

Guan Ping actually likes Li Changhai to call him "Brother Ning Yuan", and the "brother-in-law" makes him panic in his heart, and he will inevitably think of the wife who is full of hand oil and has no ups and downs. But if you marry, you will marry, Li Yinfeng can even take out the silver at the bottom of the box, and he can't say anything no; had to suppress Li Changhai's words and whispered: "Didn't you see those idlers basking in the sun under the battlements of the city gates? Those people have a way in. ”

"How do you know?" Li Changhai asked several businessmen, and they all told him to prepare a large sum of money to live outside the city for a month, who would have expected that Guan Ping, a seemingly honest scholar, suddenly said that there was a way to enter the city? I was taken aback.

"The last time I saw someone ask them to give them money, they went in, but they have a lot of appetites." Guan Pingcai was embarrassed to say that he ran out of money last time, thinking that those idlers were begging there, so he ran to stand with people, who knew that the people next to him asked him if he had circled the wrong territory, and then the entanglement people beat him. When I was lying drowsy, I happened to meet someone looking for these idlers to "talk about business", and then I knew the real errands of the idlers.

"I'm not afraid to have a big appetite, I heard this morning that the innkeeper has raised the rent again, and I guess he will come to us next to talk about it. You and I are each a small servant, eating, drinking, and salaing, I'm afraid that I can't support it without two or three hundred taels of silver in January, is it possible that two or three hundred silver can't enter the city? "Li Changhai has a good economic mind, and he can figure out this account at once. Only a person like him who has a brain and Guan Ping who has suffered losses will know that finding idlers is a sure thing; And the rest of those who have no courage always imagine that they may not spend so much money this year, and they may not necessarily bargain with idlers, which can be seen whether people have a long-term vision or not.

Li Changhai, who had a long-term vision, quickly found an idler who looked honest and honest, and spent two hundred taels of silver to buy four pieces of paper covered with strange patterns. Walking on the stone streets of the capital that were wide enough to accommodate several carriages in parallel, Li Changhai couldn't help but pout, and only an honest scholar like Guan Ping would really think that those people were idlers. According to him, those people were clearly also soldiers defending the city, but they were in different shifts.

In any case, the two of them are still cautious in the capital, which has never been seen before in terms of architecture and urban layout. After entering the city, Li Changhai wanted to go to his inn to see the situation first, while Guan Ping also wanted to go to the address given by Jia Shi to find his grandfather privately. Li Changhai turned around and looked for the Li Ji Inn on a certain edge of the outer city, while Guan Ping walked straight into the inner city until the famous Suzaku East Street in the capital.

The identities of the people who can live on Suzaku East Street are extraordinary, even if Guan Ping didn't know it before, walking on the street with many high-ranking families is also enlightened, and he is looking forward to seeing his grandfather and grandmother soon.

There are two delicate stone lions standing under a big banyan tree at the bottom of Zhuque East Street, the two vermilion gates are hidden, and the word "Jiafu" is simply engraved on the lintel. Guan Ping stood at the door and looked left and right, and suddenly lost the courage to come forward and knock on the door, he couldn't believe that his relatives who had been so sleepy that he couldn't take a meal would live in such a high-gate compound?

After standing for a long time, just when the pony behind him wanted to ask him if he wanted to move forward, the door opened from the inside, and a gentle and polite male voice came: "Sir, master and lady don't need to send it, today's trip has benefited a lot, and Liangsheng will go to Shangshuling's mansion to pay a visit in the evening, and when the time comes, he will definitely help Mr. mention it in front of Shangshuling." ”

"Liangsheng, don't mention the old man's name, you just took charge of the Ministry of Rites, so let's take the opportunity to let Lord Shang Shuling have a better impression of you; In the past two years, the head of the household department has been in the limelight by relying on the regent, otherwise, you will first show your face in front of the prince about the reform of the scientific examination? As the old man's voice came, two soap-clothed little men came out of the door, then a beautiful man in his thirties and forties, and then a pair of old ladies and couples in their sixties.

Seeing the old man's face, Guan Ping couldn't help but exclaim, without him, the old man's eyes and eyes were no different from Jia's; And the old man's face is very similar to Guan Ping's immature face at this time, the eyebrows, eyes, nose, and lips look like he has seen his old self.

"Phew! Where did you come from, do you know who our adults are? Don't get out of the way yet. Seeing that someone was blocking the way of their adults at the foot of the stone steps, the two little servants hurriedly shouted.

Guan Fangcai also heard that the person who came out of the door turned out to be the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, which shocked him even more than seeing the old man's face. The scientific expedition is the sole responsibility of the Ministry of Rites!

"The winter solstice is un......reasonable" Liu Liangsheng, who is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is low-key, and he doesn't want to have any conflicts with people on Suzaku East Street, which is full of officials, and when he raised his eyes and scolded the little guy, he accidentally glimpsed Guan Ping's appearance, and the second half of the sentence was directly stuck in his throat.

"You ......" Mrs. Jia had already seen Guan Ping's appearance clearly at this time, and after looking up and down, it was difficult to point to the neckline of his clothes.

"Where did this little brother come from? Why does it look so familiar? Mr. Jia also looked at Guan Ping, and he couldn't hide that familiar feeling, so he couldn't help but ask.

"Old man, he! Isn't he just like you did when you were younger? And the neckline of his dress, the kind of winding flying needle chrysanthemum is my family embroidery. Mrs. Jia threw herself down the steps excitedly, if Guan Ping hadn't seen the opportunity to hold the old man quickly, she would have broken it.

"Little brother, you ...... What is the surname? What is your father's name? Mrs. Jia grabbed Guan Ping's hand and carefully looked at the embroidery patterns on the neckline of his shirt, and asked nervously.

"I ......" Guan Ping also had mixed feelings in his heart at this time, and while taking out the letter from his arms, he replied respectfully: "The next surname is Guan Mingping, and the word is Ningyuan." My father's name is Guan Fang, and my mother is Jia's. ”

"Tranquil and distant! This was Yao Niang's favorite sentence back then, could it ......" Old Man Jia couldn't help but pounce in front of Guan Ping, "Does your father know kung fu, and is there another thumb-sized red mole behind your mother's ear." ”

As soon as he finished asking this sentence, Liu Liangsheng, who was standing at another angle, saw a red mole behind Guan Ping's ear, although it was not the size of a thumb, but the angle and shape were clearly in the same position as Jia Yaoniang's back then, and he couldn't help but feel bitter in his heart, and he endured the pain in his heart and reluctantly persuaded:

"Sir, master, let's go into the house and talk about it! Ning Yuan, help the old man, enter the door and talk about it in detail. (To be continued......)