When Tian Xiu walked out of the wine shop, it was already raining outside.

A raincoat was stacked on the side of the saddle bridge of her mount, but she didn't take it out and put it on. Her mind was so chaotic right now that she couldn't care about anything else.

She didn't want to go back to Yamen immediately for a while, so she simply led the horse and walked slowly along the street.

The city in the rain is quiet. There is no horseshoe clattering on the blue stone, no sour creak when the axle turns, no long and short shouting of hawkers along the street, not even the restless crowing of roosters and wild dogs......

Wang Shaoqing's words before leaving were so loud that she was so surprised that she couldn't even defend herself. She didn't want to defend either. She has been a wind watcher in Jiangnan for several years, but the full name of this wind watcher is "Jiangnan Road Xingzhou Wind Watcher", which is fundamentally different from what others think is "being a wind watcher in Jiangnan". Xingzhou, perhaps not many people have heard of this place name, and there are certainly fewer people who can point out with more certainty that this place belongs to the jurisdiction of Jiangnan Road. Tian Xiu can be sure that at least nine of the ten people who have heard of Xingzhou can't tell which direction it is, let alone teach them to tell them about the general situation of Xingzhou, they definitely can't say it! Those who have never been to Xingzhou will never imagine what a dangerous place it is! When she took office, she walked for 50 days on the road, and when she saw Xingzhou City for the first time, she was so aggrieved that she shed tears, and the first thought in her heart was to resign and go home...... What is Xingzhou like? She stayed there for several years, and she could only give it one word of evaluation: poor! There are ten counties under the rule of Xingzhou, and none of them has more than 3,000 households, all of which are lower counties that officials are unwilling to go to; Except for Fangping County, where the state capital is located, which has more than 2,000 households, other counties generally have only a few hundred or thousand households. The population is sparse, the production is thin, and the terrain is treacherous, this is the state where she stayed for five years and another ten months!

Wang Shaoqing said that she was a scholar, and accused her of not observing the people's customs in the name of observing the wind behind her back, and she was unwilling to correct it. Since Yu Ji resigned as the Jinghu Road Wind Observation Envoy in the last years of Gaozong, there are still a few Wind Observation Envoys who can truly "inspect the place, appease the people, and care for the orphans and the weak"? This official position is actually a disguised derogation of officials. The reason why she was sent by the imperial court to be the envoy of Xingzhou was because she put forward some "absurd fallacies" in the "Qingshan Manuscript" and was hated by others, so she was sent to endure hardships in the past.

She really went to suffer. Not only did she endure hardship, but she was also bullied. Officials from several counties in Xingzhou have not been in office for many years, and the scribes and servants in the yamen are mixed with scoundrels and bullies, stirring up a miasma in the local area. Once, when she was resting in Zhaoshan County, she asked the store a little about the local folk customs, and in the middle of the night, someone sent her cruel words through the door, warning her to keep her mouth shut, don't ask what she shouldn't ask, don't say what she shouldn't say, otherwise, you must know that the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and Lin Shen does not stay; In Dakuan County, someone stuck a bronze dagger on her door and warned her not to inquire about why the government had to collect taxes in the 19th year of the 33rd year. The green salt in the lower county town is sold for 100 wen per catty, which is nearly twice as high as elsewhere, and the people can't even afford to eat salt, so they can only use bitter stones when cooking, while the mothers-in-law in the yamen are wearing dresses made of silk. She angrily wrote an official document to the Xingzhou Mansion to expose it, but in exchange for the Xingzhou Mansion's request: Watching the wind makes the people's sentiments observed, what do you worry about the families of the people in the public family! made her so angry that her eyes turned black! She could only be so angry that her eyes turned black. She couldn't do anything else. She is just an insignificant observer, she has no right to deal with local affairs on the spot, and when she sees injustices, the only thing she can do is to write an official document about what she has seen and heard, send it to Beijing, and hand it to the imperial court. But the final result of these official documents was lost......

She was not only harassed by her boss, ostracized by her colleagues, framed by rats, and almost killed by animals. At the end of last year, on her way back to Xingzhou from Beijing, she encountered a hungry tiger in Xiayu. If she hadn't given up her mount and cut off the horse's leg and fed the beast to the hungry tiger, she would probably have died on that barren mountain......

However, for her, the past few years in Xingzhou are not all bad, at least she feels that it is a valuable asset. These ordeals made her mature faster! If five or six years ago she was still an unsheathed sword, then this sword is now full of cold light. Now she will no longer be as hesitant and helpless as she was when she was just reprimanded; Now she has the determination, confidence and perseverance to do some things one by one, such as being the director of the patent department......

Thinking of what he was about to do, Tian Xiu's mood suddenly relaxed. Wang Shaoqing's words are really scholars' opinions! Those who send their names in someone else's name, and those who agree to someone else's name, they are all moths of the country! Well frogs can't talk about the sky, summer insects can't talk about ice, everyone has different opinions, she doesn't bother to argue with Wang Shaoqing!

However, Wang Shaoqing doesn't seem to be a moth, right?

She hesitated again......

She had now walked through several streets, and she could already see the tall archway in front of the imperial city in front of her. Suddenly, she heard someone calling her nickname.

It's Li Zhe. He and a few other people were standing on the side of the street talking loudly, all of them with red faces, and they all seemed to have drunk a lot of wine.

Li Zhe is her father's protégé, but the two did not know each other before. When Li Zhe asked her father for advice, she was learning arithmetic with Li Mu in the capital, so Tian Xiu was not familiar with this person at all. However, because Li Zhe has a good relationship with Li Mu, and at the same time is very valued by Nanyang, she loves Wu and Wu, she also has some good feelings for him, and Li Zhe invited him to banquets twice, and she was also happy to go to the appointment. But recently, her opinion of this person has changed a lot, and Li Zhe's invitation before the Double Ninth Festival was politely declined by her......

There are a few people around Li Zhe, and Tian Xiu knows almost all of them, all of whom are famous scholars in the capital. There was only one person, and she looked more eye-catching.

"This is a Hebei celebrity, Jiangzhou Pei Tao Pei Guangzhi." Li Zhe hurriedly introduced her.

Tian Xiu hadn't heard of this famous man from Hebei, but he still said a few polite words to Pei Tao.

Li Zhe gave her a look and motioned to the side to speak, one by one, he didn't want to say it in front of everyone.

Tian Xiu pretended not to see it, and continued to ask Pei Tao about the current situation of his teacher Song Guan, and when she heard that the old gentleman was also in Beijing now, she couldn't help but be happy. Mr. Song is a Chu Ci family, and it just so happens that she also knows such a person who has studied Chu Ci well, or why don't she come forward with Nanyang and let these two people meet?

Li Zhe finally saw an opportunity, and interjected: "Qingshan, Mr. Song is in Tang Lao Xiangguo's mansion, if you want to see him, I, I...... Hiroshi and I can help you refer. ”

He said this, and Tian Xiu couldn't turn a blind eye to him anymore, so he had to smile and nod: "There have been too many things in the yamen recently, and we have to wait for a while." She asked Pei Tao again, "The old gentleman won't leave soon, will he?" ”

"Not yet. The teacher has promised Lao Xiangguo that after Lao Xiangguo begs for the bones of the imperial court, the two of them will go back together at that time. Pei Tao said very decently.

Li Zhe said: "There will be a chance tomorrow!" Tomorrow, the king of Jinan will hold a banquet in the palace, and he also invited Mr. Song, if you are free, we will go together. One by one, tomorrow and tomorrow, all officials will be closed, you don't have anything else to do, right? ”

Tian Xiu immediately said, "Not tomorrow." I had already promised Princess Nanyang that I would go to her village to accompany her. ”

Li Zhe looked at her with disappointment.

Tian Xiu was afraid that he would say something else, such as accompanying her to see Nanyang or something, so he hurriedly said: "I still have something in the yamen, go first!" Brother Yiyi Guang, everyone, I'll go first! After saying that, he wiped the rain from the saddle bridge on the horse's back, turned over and rode on, arched his hand and walked away.