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Wang Xingping can't say what's wrong, but there is a key point that cannot be ignored.

The most wrong thing is not in this grain.

Tens of thousands of stones of grain, that is hundreds of thousands of catties, with ordinary ox carts to pull, it takes dozens of cars to load.

But he followed his father all the way south, and he didn't see any big carts accompanying him, and if there was no food, where did the money go? There is no reason in this, but there is one person who is the key - Cui Ba.

Cui Ba's name Cui Chenhao is a well-known north-south economy in Zunyi Prefecture, and later I heard the officials in charge of handling the case in the yamen say that this time Cui Ba in Banzhou was also implicated in the case because he had revealed the behavior of the merchants everywhere to Ma Heimei in Baimatong in the past.

But there is another problem, Nabanzhou is the boundary of Sichuan, and the two provinces of Sichuan and Guizhou have always been at odds.

Strictly speaking, the information of the businessman is not a military secret, there is nothing to say, if he offends someone, a charge of 'seducing people to steal' can be relied on, but if someone protects him, there will be no problem, and in Banzhou, Cui Ba obviously belongs to the latter.

Thinking about it carefully, if it weren't for the profit, why did Cui Ba send someone to Chongqing? Speaking of this rice price, which business is vying for it, why bother to wait for their own family, the merchants who can afford this price in Banzhou can be counted on one hand.

Everything can only be inquired about in Banshu......

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A table of chicken, duck, fish and fish dishes and special glutinous food are placed on seven or eight plates, which are not very rich on the table of Daming today, but the style of the Wang family has never been luxurious, and Lord Wang has always paid attention to the way of cherishing blessings and maintaining health in life.

Such a table is tonight's evening for his daughter and uncle, Xiao himself worships Buddha, but he never hinders his family from eating meat, saying that it is to catch the wind, and there are also braised pig's trotters bought from the Zhao family's omnivorous shop next to the North Gate Bridge, which was Wang Xingping's favorite in the past.

After eating, he talked with tea in the side hall, and he hadn't seen his daughter for two years, so Xiao pulled Wang Ruoxi to sit down and chatted about the two grandsons who didn't come with him this time.

Wang Ruoxi likes the tea ceremony, but the city of Chongqing is built in the mountains, and there are few places where wells can be drilled, and the river water is also turbid.

On weekdays, I buy water to drink, and it is rare to come back to my mother's house, there is a river water leading to the Nanming River in the city, and there is a clear well at home.

The water quality is much better than that in Chongqing City, and there is also interest, in the hall on the cool breeze of the spring night, light tea.

The four members of the family, plus a few servants and their companions, Xiaoliu and the adoptive mother, are now all gathered in one place.

While drinking tea, Wang Xingping listened to his mother's nagging, and almost choked on it again.

"I just heard from Xiaoliu that the old man in the state wants to recommend my son to join Ma Jinshi's sect?" Xiao Shi asked Wang Xingping again what he heard from Wang Xiaoliu a quarter of an hour ago, there is no rule of eating and not saying anything at the Wang family's dinner table.

In front of his mother, he could only answer honestly.

That's what Mr. Zhang said, but I heard that Mr. Ma still has some time to get home. The son planned to pass the Qingming Festival, so he asked the clan uncle to accompany him, and redoubled his preparations to go to the apprenticeship. ”

The bundle is also the gold, it is the etiquette for the gentleman, to give more to the mood less, but those who invite the west seat to the family have no reason to be stingy, for the future of their son, there are many people who smash pots and sell iron.

Although Ma Wenqing may not want it with the respect of Jinshi, the flattery that should be there is indispensable, which is an attitude.

Xiao Shi was relieved and said: "My son is out, and when he has fame one day, he will be able to hold up the lintel." ”

Wang Xiaoliu interjected next to him again: "Grandma doesn't know, now the young master has already propped up the lintel." ”

A group of people laughed again, Wang Xingping laughed a few times, and said: "But my son has not yet learned the art of eight-share making, Mr. Zhang said that my son is not in a hurry to recommend me to Yangming Academy, and it is not too late to ask Mr. Ma for advice." ”

"That's the best fit." Xiao Shi felt more and more relieved when he heard this, and his son went out for a trip, and his words and deeds were already like being reborn.

Just thinking of this verse, I can't help but sigh.

"What is Grandma sighing for?"

"I'm sorry."

"What a pity?"

"Originally, Master Ma's younger brother was Mingqing's, and his youngest sister was the same age as my son, and her appearance was not bad, but unfortunately your father's matter is estimated to be unable to wait. His brother is still a tribute, if it weren't for the caution at home, he should have been a jinshi, and the door has nothing to say, how many mothers-in-law have broken through the threshold. ”

Wang Xingping has been in the system for three years, and of course he can't talk about marriage in the three years, even if it is only counted in 25 months, it will take more than two years, more than two years. The possibility of the daughter of the eunuch family in the right year is very likely to marry someone else, and he is not interested in seeing any Qiao Mei who has never seen him.

If you want him to choose, Qingli and cute can be seen and touched, but with this etiquette at this time, he can't be a wife. Moreover, he is still too young.

However, there are still more than two years to go, and after two years, there is still the shield of the imperial examination, as long as you are willing, it is okay to drag it out for another three or five years, after all, your current body is only thirteen years old, and he doesn't dare to pack a ticket if he is serious or not.

In comparison, it was the one who was unfortunately not a jinshi in the mouth of his mother that made him more interested.

"Is it the one from Shi Ying?"

Xiao Mu smiled, "Who else can it be." ”

The name Ma Shiying is not unfamiliar in Wang Xingping's memory, and Ma Mingqing's son is more famous than his old man's scholars in Guiyang Mansion.

First, he was just twenty years old when he was lifted, which is considered small in Guizhou.

The second is to participate in the examination last year when you have to be in the forefront, just wait for the palace to finish the gold list title, less than 25 years old in the examination of the 'Gongshi', is to the news when the news is returned, the Ma family is happy, the ancestral house of the Ma family is even the 'Liansheng Fang' of the archway is ready to stand at the door.

According to the rules of the field, the provincial examination is determined to stay, the palace examination score is high, and the examination is passed (note: also the provincial examination, that is, the Ministry of Rites examination), then the title of this Jinshi is already nine out of ten, if there is no great disrespect in the palace examination, the examiner will never be dethroned.

But I never expected that there would be another turmoil.

It turned out that in the forty-fourth year of Wanli, Wuchen Branch would take the exam, and it was Shen Tonghe, the son of Wujiang County, who won the Zhonghuiyuan.

But as soon as this list came out, the capital was angry.

That Shen Tonghe was the son of Shen Jiwen, who was the right deputy capital at the time, and he had always relied on his family background to not study, so that he didn't know how to read, and he couldn't write it.

During the township examination, it was rumored that he was a capable person who was good at writing small characters with a lot of money, and brought the writing booklet of the exam question content into the examination room to cheat.

Zhao Mingyang, a fellow villager at the time of the examination, and Shen Tonghe were in-laws, and Zhao Mingyang's talent was quite famous, so Shen Tonghe came forward to bribe the examiner and put the two rooms next to each other in the examination room, and Shen Tonghe's examination papers were all from Zhao Mingyang's hands.

In the end, Shen Tonghe ranked first in the examination, won the Zhonghuiyuan, and Zhao Mingyang also ranked sixth.

Immediately, Yao Yongji and Zhu Jie, the patrol of the household department, asked Shen Tonghe to be illiterate and his examination paper was from Zhao Mingyang's hand, and asked the Divine Sect to order the Ministry of Rites to conduct a re-examination in conjunction with Kedao.

He Zongyan, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, also suggested that a re-examination must be carried out on the grounds of rumors and annoyance, and the emperor ordered the Ministry of Rites to conduct a re-examination in conjunction with Kedao.

After the re-examination of the Ministry of Rites, Shen Tong and the absurdity of literature and science were echoed, and the imperial court cut off the dispatch of him to the frontier, and Zhao Mingyang, who helped Shen Tong and cheat, was also removed from the list at the same time and never used.

Although this matter has nothing to do with Ma Shiying, his father Ma Mingqing is afraid that he will not be a servant, and he will return with him, study and pay attention to his life experience, and use his talents to be old. He did not let Ma Shiying participate in the palace examination. At that time, Ma Shiying was already twenty-five years old, and the statement that he was not a servant was actually a little reluctant, in Wang Xingping's opinion, Ma's father was cautious, after all, there was a huge turmoil in the capital, and it was more practical to return to his hometown with the qualification of a tribute first, anyway, in the folk tribute, it was equivalent to a jinshi, and it was not that he could not afford to wait for another three years.

These three are said to be the son of the Ma family's moth, not the Ma family's own son, but the Ma family who was brought from Guangxi by a betel nut merchant when he was five years old, and the merchant was not Ma Shiying's biological father.

That Ma Mingqing already had three sons, but he succeeded this one, the reason is not enough for outsiders, but I heard that this son is extraordinary, and the blind grandson of the North Gate once calculated a hexagram, saying that he would enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister in the future, although it was just a joke, it may not be for this reason.

Because of these three strange events or rumors, this young talent of the younger generation of the Ma family is quite famous in the county.

It was Wang Xingping who was also interested in asking.

A bunch of people gossip about tea until late at night......

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The next day, the rooster crowed, Wang Xingping heard the noise next door early in the morning, thinking that many of the guests who came to the city had already arrived, but it was only half, and more guests were still on the outskirts of the city, and they could only come in after the city gate was opened.

Today, Wang Xingping is the opposite of everyone's path, he wants to go out of the city before the Qingming Festival, and he has his sister and brother-in-law at home, so he can rest assured.

I had already explained to Wang Ruoxi last night, and I washed up early, and I didn't say hello again, so I went out of the house with Wang Xiaoliu and went to Chaojingmen.

Coming out of the back door, all the way through the small cross, a straight avenue, all paved with bluestone slabs, after sprinkling with water, it is also much cleaner and tidy.

After walking briskly for more than a moment, he found Xiao Wu and Xiao Qi of the Ye family outside the Chaojing Gate, as well as Zuo Taishan.

The three boys are all pure and good-natured, and they are young, and yesterday they asked Ye Da Cabinet to explain that they would follow them out to run errands, and sure enough, they waited here early, saw Wang Xingping, and came over to meet each other.

"I've seen the young master."

"Don't be so polite, have you all eaten?"

Ordinary hard-working guys have two meals a day, one at noon and one at night, and because they eat early, they usually go to bed early.

Today, I got up early in the morning, and before I could speak, I was taken to a small food stall next to it, but it was a small food stall, and a sister-in-law was selling some spring rolls, rice balls and fried glutinous food in the shed.

After pushing and conceding, the three boys stopped squirming and began to eat and drink.

After eating, I saw a team of officers and soldiers looking for the city coming from the side of the Liudong Bridge, and the Guiyang guard sergeant guarding the gate checked the official defense, and the handover was done, and the official in charge slowly entered the door and stepped forward to tear open the seal on the city gate.

The gate bar was lowered, and everyone worked together, and the gate was finally opened.

"Get up."

Wang Xingping shouted, counted out a weighed five-cent broken silver and put it on the table, and walked quickly towards the city gate surrounded by several boys.

The urn city of the Beijing gate is not like the north side of the Rouyuan gate, because there is the Nanming River arch guard, it is not like the north gate to open the urn city gate on the side.

Entering the urn city, a pair of wear will wear out of the city, at this time the shops on both sides of the box outside the city have been opened early, the farmers and merchants who come to deliver goods are crowded together, the restaurant and the wharf are noisy, so lively.

If you enter the city, you have to do a good look, but you don't have to go out of the city, not to mention that this rich boy looks like a few companions.

Wang Xiaoliu walked at the beginning, with a rare pleasure, glanced at the river, and then said to the people behind him: "What do I say, look at the east." ”

The crowd turned their heads in response, and saw that half a red sun was rising from behind the mountain in the distance, and the light shone through the thick clouds.

The Nanming River, which flows quietly from the Chaojing Gate, turns a big bay as far as the eye can see in the east, and there is a pavilion on the opposite shore of the rapids at the mouth of the bay, with three layers of glazed green tiles, which are also thick and faint in the light of the morning sun.

"Jiaxiu Building." Wang Xingping seemed to be able to see the words on the plaque in the pavilion in the distance.

Wang Xiaoliu felt strange in his heart, it was not the first time he saw it, he was also looking at the beautiful scenery before he had a few more words, but today the young master was very emotional, so he listened to the young master spit out a sentence without a head.

"The son said on the river, the deceased is like a ...... of Sifu"

There was a hearty laugh behind him.

[Note: According to various historical sources, there are theories about Ma Shiying's adopted son, but this chapter is only anecdotal.] 】

[Note: The city gates of the Ming Dynasty are equipped with official defenses, and the officials who patrol the city every day should affix seals to the city gates, and the next morning when changing the guards, they must first check and then open the door. Ming missionaries recorded this system in towns throughout the Yangtze and Pearl River valleys, but there is no record of how it was in the north, and it should be the same. 】