The boy doesn't know what it's like to be sad!

Wang Lingzhi is simple-minded, and he can't realize the gentleness and understanding of his daughter's family to men, he only thinks about martial arts, and the friendship of the same family, so he will say such things that make Shen Xi feel cold.

"Senior brother, I'm hungry, let's find a place to eat. Isn't there a lot of delicious things in this capital? ”

If there is no nutrition, Wang Lingzhi and Zhu Shan's personalities are somewhat similar, and they don't forget to fill their stomachs first wherever they go.

Shen Xi searched for the surrounding tea and wine shops, he was not ready to spend money to invite Wang Lingzhi to eat any good things, he casually found a noodle restaurant on the street, sat down and ordered two bowls of cut noodles, one bowl per person and one in front of him.

Wang Lingzhi looked at the noodle bowl in front of him in surprise: "Senior brother, what is this?" ”

In this era, because flour grinding was not easy, people who lived in the south for a long time rarely ate pasta, and even if they came into contact with it, it was mainly flatbread, steamed buns, and steamed buns, and it was not uncommon to have never seen noodles.

"Good things, try them, don't call them anymore."

Shen Xi picked up the chopsticks as he spoke, Wang Lingzhi did the same, scooped up the noodles and put them in his mouth, and after a few bites, a pair of eyes suddenly lit up, grinned, and ate in a big gulp.

Wang Lingzhi is big, burly, and eating is like pouring into his throat, Shen Xi is full after eating a bowl of noodles, but Wang Lingzhi is not enough to stuff his teeth.

Shen Xi said that he had a treat, but he had no choice but to call Wang Lingzhi bowl by bowl, and even the shopkeeper of the noodle restaurant couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply used a big sand bowl to give Wang Lingzhi noodles.

Wang Lingzhi ate nine bowls and touched his stomach: "Is there anything else?" ”

Shen Xi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Hold you to death, you are only allowed to eat so much, and you want to eat it next time...... Shopkeeper, checkout. ”

At this time, he had to take Wang Lingzhi away, because this kid was the focus of attention wherever he went, because he was too outstanding, and the behavior that this kid occasionally showed was too different, Shen Xi had long felt strange eyes from his surroundings.

Everyone in this noodle shop looked at Wang Lingzhi as if they were looking at the reincarnated starving ghosts.

"It's good to come out with my brother. I had noodles to eat, and if only I could eat a few more bowls. Wang Lingzhi came out of the noodle shop, glanced back, and remembered the door of the noodle restaurant quite attentively. In the future, even if Shen Xi doesn't invite him, he will come by himself, and the first time he eats noodles, he feels very novel, and the aftertaste is endless.

Shen Xi wanted to attend the Wenhui with Su Tong in the afternoon, and he didn't want to bring Wang Lingzhi with him. But I'm afraid that this kid will immediately bother Lin Dai after saying goodbye to him, or compete with Zhu Shan.

Shen Xi really had no choice, so he could only take him on board.

"When you get to the place, you are not allowed to talk nonsense without my instructions, if you say a wrong word, you can only stay in your own inn until you can try, don't think that I will meet you!"

Shen Xi said in a threatening tone.

Wang Lingzhi thought about it, and felt that the problem seemed to be very serious, and he couldn't leave the inn, so what else did it mean? He immediately nodded: "Senior brother is a literati." I don't understand what you say, so I'll just sit next to you. ”

Shen Xi nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, just don't say a word." ”

Wang Ling thought to himself, I learned another trick, is this similar to the trick "Quiet as a Tiger" that my senior brother once taught me? Then I'll just sit there and pretend to be a tiger, the kind that can pounce and bite at any time. He forgot that Shen Xi's original words were "quiet as a virgin and moving like a tiger", and the reason why "tiger" was used instead of "rabbit" was that Wang Lingzhi felt that "tiger" was more majestic. From "Sun Tzu Nine Lands": "It is like a virgin from the beginning, and the enemy opens an account; After taking off the rabbit, the enemy is too late to refuse. ”

Wang Lingzhi did whatever he wanted, and waited until he arrived at the inn where Su Tong stayed. After entering the room, the three of them sat down together, and Wang Lingyi sat there with a solemn face, not moving.

Su Tong muttered in his heart: "Brother Shen is too, when you go out with such a stunned young man, how to introduce your friends when you see them in a while?" ”

Shen Xi did not exist as a royal tomb. Talking to Su Tong, he looked normal.

After talking, Su Tong called two servants and went out with Shen Xi and Wang Lingzhi. Wang Lingzhi put his hands in front of him, and his steps were steady and powerful, as if Shen Xi had brought a bodyguard.

At this time, Su Tong was a little envious, his own little servants were all short and thin, compared with Wang Ling, it was not an equal weight at all.

Su Tong thought to himself: "If I go out and have such a nursing home, I will be majestic wherever I go, and if I tell people that this nursing home is still a martial artist, it will have more face." ”

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In this meeting, the participants were basically the current and previous people from Fujian Province who went to Beijing to take the exam, and there were also some candidates from Huguang and Jiangnan, who basically belonged to the "South List".

In the Ming Dynasty Rite Department examination, there were regional divisions in admission, so that officials were paranoid about the region and the township party, and the contact between candidates in the same place was more frequent and close.

If you can't form a gang and form a faction, and if you don't have fellow villagers to take care of you, it is very difficult to rise quickly.

Because no matter how good an official's performance is, there is no fixed audit standard, and the official reputation does not represent everything, because this thing can be faked.

There is no one in the court these days, and you still want to be an official? Even if you are asked to take the top exam and come back, let you grind in the Hanlin Academy for a few years, and then assign you to Nanjing Sixth Department as an idle official, you will not be able to grasp the real power for a lifetime.

If there are people in the court, even if they are just a scoundrel in the market, they will still be promoted and make a fortune.

The place where the Wenhui invited each other is a teahouse opened by Fujian businessmen, called Min Sheng Teahouse, Min Tongmi, which means pity for all sentient beings, and at the same time, Min Tongfu, which means Fujian people. Since the early years of Jingtai, it has become an important contact point for Fujianese in Beijing.

In the era when the concept of the chamber of commerce is still hazy, this kind of place with a certain chamber of commerce and the nature of the hometown association has appeared, and the role of liaison and communication is also obvious, at least Fujian people to the capital, even if they encounter bandits in their pockets, they can get a certain shelter here, and someone will help you find a way to get in touch with your family in Fujian. If there is no exact address for the letters from Fujian, most of them are also forwarded through the Minsheng Teahouse.

Shen Xi and Su Tong came early, there were not many guests in the teahouse, most of them were Fujian lifters, most of these people were in their thirties and forties, and their family backgrounds were generally good.

Because in the first year of the Fujian Township Examination, the situation of private fraud was very serious, and there were only a few really poor disciples, and these people should have been listed at the top of the list. But after the list was announced, they were at the bottom of the list at most, and there were even many people who fell miserably.

Shen Xi is an outlier.

Of course, Shen Xi's family background is also quite rich, and many people from Fujian Province who came to Beijing to take the exam felt that Shen Xi relied on the bribes of the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce behind him to have the fame of last year's township test Xie Yuan. Therefore, Shen Xi was not only complimented by many scholars who were also bribes, but also hated by those who were from poor families.

There are some things that Shen Xi can't explain, originally participated in the Wenhui to meet more friends, as for how these friends will help him in the future. That's secondary, mainly for the sake of Sutong's love.

Su Tong was very active and enthusiastic in contacting these matters, and Shen Xi really couldn't shirk it.

The "Hanlin" in the Hanlin Academy, has always been the most students in the South Zhili, followed by the North Zhili Shuntianfu, although Fujian belongs to the education province of the Ming Dynasty, there are many Jinshi in the past, but there are not many people who stay in the Hanlin Academy. In this meeting, only two Hanlin were invited. One is from Fujian, and the other is from Huguang.

Several candidates who came over this time, including people from Huguang and Jiangxi, all added up to forty or fifty people, gathered together, and the second floor of the teahouse was a little crowded.

However, Su Tong and others had limited contacts after all, so among the people invited to come, only Shen Xi was a little famous because he was a provincial Xie Yuan, and the other people were basically twenty people from various provinces and townships. their goals. It is to get to know the two "Hanlin" of the Hanlin Academy.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Hanlin Academy was in charge of the affairs of Wenhan, and although its officials were low, they were the choice of the nobles. Cabinet ministers must be from Hanlin officials. It is also an unwritten rule that if an official has not served in the Hanlin Academy, he is not qualified to become an auxiliary minister of the cabinet. If Hanlin can enter the cabinet to participate in the secret, he will be a noble minister.

At the beginning of the literary meeting, it was different from the literary meeting that he participated in when he was a child and a talent. In particular, the cultural meetings held in the year of the examination are more practical.

Everyone came for one purpose, to make a fuss, let Hanlin help comment, distinguish the advantages and disadvantages, and then arrange the ranking, but also make a prediction, whose article meets the standard of Zhongjinshi, and who is still some distance from Zhongjinshi.

The two Hanlin discussed the problem, Shen Xi and Su Tong picked up the brush to write the article, and Su Tong said: "Wu Gongzi didn't give much face, and accepted the invitation, but no one came." ”

Only then did Shen Xi know that Su Tong had also invited Wu Xingyu.

It's no wonder that Wu Xingyu is arrogant, and he is angry that he lost in the Fujian Township Test, since he knows that Shen Xi is going to the meeting, how can he come to participate?

To make an article, even if Han Lin thinks he does a good job, but he is a few years older than Shen Xi, that is of course, there is no glory, but if Han Lin thinks that he is not doing well, then he will send his face up to someone to smoke.

Wu Xingyu's best choice is, of course, to retreat.

While everyone was making a fuss, there was an alternative next to him, sitting there doing nothing, looking at the people present with a fierce face, as if he was about to eat people at any time.

At first, others only thought that he was an entourage or a nurse, but today there are many people who come, and they don't pay attention to each other's greetings. But now when they all bow their heads and make a fuss, there is a vicious figure sitting next to them, and some good things want to know what this person is about.

As a lifter, he is a "master" in the local area, and he brings some domestic servants and entourage with him when he comes to the capital to catch the exam, but these people are not qualified to come upstairs.

Among the people, even if they are not from good families, they will be "subsidized" by some gentry, and the local gentry want to "avoid taxes" through these masters, so they are afraid that they will not be able to get married.

Shen Xi didn't see the strange gazes of the people present, as long as Wang Lingzhi followed his instructions and sat honestly on the side and didn't say anything, that was the effect he was pursuing.

Although the people present were a little dissatisfied with Wang Lingzhi sitting next to him, but in the end, the people were brought by Shen Xi and Su Tong, and if they were not careful, they might offend the two, so they simply buried themselves in making a fuss and ignored them.

Just when the second floor of the teahouse was quiet, and only the sound of "brushing" was heard, there was a sudden commotion on the street outside, and a person shouted at the throat of the male duck: "Get out of the way, otherwise you deserve to die!" ”

The thick Jiangnan accent, accompanied by the sound of the horse's hooves, was a person riding a high-headed horse, so blatantly riding a horse in the downtown area, all the way to the door of the teahouse before stopping.

Shen Xi happened to be sitting at the window, and when there was a bustle outside, he would naturally turn his head to see what was going on, just as the man raised his head and looked up.

The two of them glanced at each other, and they both saw a slight suspicion and wariness in each other's eyes.

At this time, the servant who was shouting at the throat of the male duck just now followed, and said to the white-clothed boy riding on the tall horse: "Master Tang, this is the Min Sheng Teahouse." ”

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PS: The second update is here!

First of all, I sent out today's two guarantees in one go, and tomorrow morning I will get up early tomorrow morning to catch up with the draft of the eruption, which includes a big update for the new alliance leader "Lei Yang"!

It's been a long time since I've been so passionate, and I hope that tomorrow's number of updates will break the record of the Son of Heaven! Encourage you all! (To be continued.) )