Teasing the cat in his arms, Lin Yuan's eyes kept falling on Li Qingqian's body, and Lin Yuan found out for the first time that he could be so relieved to look at Li Qingqian's flower arrangement so quietly.

Being stared at by a person for a long time, Li Qingqian could feel the gaze falling on him even if he didn't look up, and the peach blossom in his hand had been inserted several times and still didn't have the effect he wanted. glanced at Lin Yuan with shame, but Lin Yuan still didn't care. Li Qingqian picked up the peach blossom again and began to try, and after looking at it a few times, there was still an indescribable feeling.

Taking the peach blossom out of the bottle, Li Qingqian looked at Lin Yuan and said, "Can you not keep looking at me?" ”

Lin Yuan laughed lightly and didn't care for a moment, still looking at Li Qingqian with a flushed face. With some embarrassment, he threw the peach blossom in his hand at Lin Yuan, then snorted and turned around and went to the kitchen.

Lin Yuan smirked and picked up the peach blossoms that fell at his feet, walked to the vase that Li Qingqian had landed on the stone table, and inserted the peach blossoms into it. Taking a few steps back and looking, Lin Yuan nodded with satisfaction.

While admiring his masterpiece, Lin Yuan suddenly found Li Yuhai standing at the door, coughing a few times in embarrassment, Lin Yuan walked towards Li Yuhai and asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”

"The government handed over a message, saying that there was a letter from Yuzhou." Li Yuhai said, his face did not begin to look at Lin Yuan and Li Qingqian when they were alone.

Counting the day, it should be a letter sent by Wang Ming, and he will rush to Yuzhou in more than a month, so Wang Ming should have already started.

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "Got it, I'll go back." After speaking, he turned around and shouted in the direction of the kitchen: "Qingqian, I'm in a bit of a hurry to go back in advance." ”

Seeing that there was no movement in the kitchen, Lin Yuan didn't care, but Li Yuhai on the side turned a little darker, and looked at Lin Yuan a little speechlessly, as for Lin Yuan himself, he turned around and left quite happily, looked at the back of Lin Yuan leaving, and looked back at the direction of the kitchen where Li Qingqian was staying, Li Yuhai sighed helplessly.

Looking at the contents of the letter, Lin Yuan picked it up and put it down and repeated it a few times. Wang Ming did not say his current predicament in the letter, but Lin Yuan did not think that not writing did not mean that there was none. Fu Qiuxue on the side looked at Lin Yuan with some puzzlement, not knowing what was written in the letter that made Lin Yuan look like this.

Putting down the letter in his hand, Lin Yuan turned to ask Fu Qiuxue: "You know something about the Xue family, let me ask you, if the Xue family finds out that someone has shaken the Xue family's industry, what will they generally do?" ”

Fu Qiuxue thought for a while and said: "The Xue family will not move, because Xue Yong is an extremely confident person, so the Xue family is also of this kind of temperament, they will not think that someone will make their faces in Nanyang City." ”

"I'm talking about what ifs." Lin Yuan emphasized again.

"There is no reference example, after all, if he finds a little clue, the Xue family will not let him appear in front of the public at all." Fu Qiuxue said.

Lin Yuan thought about it, Wang Ming opened a store in Nanyang, and only received an obstacle in the period before the opening, and he had not encountered any obstruction since he took out the documents of the Ministry of Rites, and there was not even a single person on the Xue family's side from beginning to end. No matter how you look at it, this thing is a bit abnormal.

"Grandpa is worried about the Xue family's revenge?" Fu Qiuxue asked.

"I'm wondering why the Xue family hasn't moved so much so obviously." Lin Yuan voiced his doubts. If he didn't figure out the intentions of the Xue family, how to do this matter made Lin Yuan feel uncertain.

Knowing what Lin Yuan was worried about, Fu Qiuxue explained: "This is actually not that complicated, it is just a decision made by the Xue family from the official document of the Ministry of Rites that Grandpa asked Wang Ming to take away before. The Xue family had already had a grudge with their grandfather in Jiangsu and Zhejiang before, and this time the Spring Exam was presided over by the grandfather and Lord Yao, and if the Xue family was smarter, they would not block their own roads, which was not in line with the family's style of acting. ”

"So the Xue family did it on purpose, and deliberately didn't target me?" Lin Yuan thought about it, maybe this was the reason why the Xue family didn't do it, or there was a deeper reason, but he didn't know.

Yuzhou is not safe, this is what Lin Yuan noticed early on, putting aside the grievances between himself and the Xue family, but all the officials sent to Yuzhou by the imperial court will not last long. It's like a besieged city that can't be splashed by water. What personal grievances are there in front of these, even if they have been friends for many years, as long as they stand on the side of the imperial court, the Xue family will be regarded as mortal enemies. This is the grievance between the Xue family and the imperial court.

I was a little worried that Wang Ming didn't have a capable assistant in Yuzhou, and he wanted to let Wang Ming gain a firm foothold before he went, so he didn't have much time to follow.

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan said to Fu Qiuxue: "You clean up, and you will set off to Yuzhou in the next few days to assist Wang Ming in dealing with some things, remember not to expose yourself." ”

Fu Qiuxue didn't expect Lin Yuan to be so uneasy about Yuzhou, you must know that Wang Ming took away a lot of talented people before he went, and now he let himself go, no matter how he looks at it, it looks like something is going to happen.

Lin Yuan has indeed been a little upset these days, and Yuzhou has become a piece of Lin Yuan's heart disease before he goes, and no one will believe it when he says it.

Fu Qiuxue nodded and said, "I know, I'll go down and prepare." ”

"You are more familiar with Yuzhou, if there is anything, you have to inform Wang Ming in advance, the two of you support each other, be sure not to be caught by the Xue family before I go. Be careful. Do you understand? Lin Yuanyou instructed.

"Got it, we'll be careful." Fu Qiuxue nodded and turned to leave.

Lin Yuan had never felt so tired, and now he had not yet fought head-to-head with the Xue family, Lin Yuan felt that he was overly perceiving the strength of the Xue family here, maybe the Xue family did not give rise to a sense of powerlessness as he imagined.

Putting the letter in the furnace and looking at the blazing flames, Lin Yuan felt that he needed to make some preparations earlier, maybe the Xue family had already begun to plan for the Spring Festival.

Lin Yuan didn't guess wrong, the Xue family was indeed planning this year's Spring Exam at the moment. Outside the Hexiang Building in Nanyang City, He Wenchang walked out of the sedan chair, straightened his clothes and walked towards the building.

As an official of the Xue family in Nanyang City, He Wenchang, as a Nanyang Xuezheng, was naturally the important figure of this meeting. He Wenchang was the champion of Dengke appointed by the first emperor of Shenlong in the tenth year. After many years of struggle between the DPRK and China, He Wenchang has been in charge of Nanyang Xuezheng for six years since he was transferred to Yuzhou six years ago.

As the official who has dealt with the Xue family the most in Nanyang City, He Wenchang can be said to have risen step by step behind the Xue family over the years, and he is already an official material, because with the help of the Xue family, it is not an exaggeration to say that the official fortune is prosperous.

Naturally, the DPRK and China will reciprocate this kind of support. During He Wenchang's tenure as a scholar in Nanyang for several years, he did a lot of things for the Xue family, and he himself made a lot of money from it.

Walking into the private room on the second floor, He Wenchang saw that there were only two people in the room, one of whom he knew Xue Huaitao in the second room of the Xue family, but the other did not know him.

Seeing He Wenchang walking in, Xue Huaitao said with a smile: "Lord He is late, you should punish yourself with three cups." ”

He Wenchang smiled and did not refuse, but picked up the wine jug on the table and poured himself three glasses of wine and drank it all. Seeing this, Xue Huaitao applauded loudly. And the person next to Xue Huaitao looked at He Wenchang with interest. As far as he knew, He Wenchang was born as a champion, and at this age, he shouldn't be messing around with Xue Huaitao here.

Seeing that He Wenchang had found a place to sit down, Xue Huaitao pointed to the people beside him and said, "Lord He, this is a businessman from Luohe Mansion, and it happens that there is a word difference between him and you, Lord He, named Zhao Wenchang." ”

Saying hello to Zhao Wenchang with a smile, He Wenchang glanced at this side and saw that Zhao Wenchang didn't seem to be an ordinary businessman, and it didn't feel right. It's just that it was brought by the Xue family, and there shouldn't be any problem.

After three rounds of drinking, Xue Huaitao looked at He Wenchang and said, "Lord He, it looks like the spring exam is coming, what are your plans here?" ”

He Wenchang glanced at Zhao Wenchang, who was already a little drunk, but Xue Huaitao waved his hand and said, "Shopkeeper Zhao is an acquaintance, and he said that he was fine." ”

He Wenchang said: "This year is different from previous years, the main and deputy examiners are all appointed by the saint, Yao Lian will not say it for the time being, there is still some trouble on the side of the Jingguo Gong. ”

Xue Huaitao frowned and then said, "There will always be room for operation." Shopkeeper Zhao has a lot of things here. He Wenchang obviously saw the movements made by Xue Huaitao's hand, and after a little contemplation, he said: "The prefect has talked to me about these things a lot in the past few days, and there is really no way to do it this year." ”

Xue Huaitao was a little unhappy, as in the past, He Wenchang would definitely not talk to him like this. looked at Zhao Wenchang beside him apologetically, saying that he was really powerless.

Zhao Wenchang thought for a while and said, "Lord He, don't worry about this refusal, I know it's a little difficult to do this, do you think you can add this?" ”

He Wenchang frowned and looked at the silver ticket on the table, the amount was very large, to be precise, this was his own two-year money, He Wenchang ignored it, and turned to look up at Zhao Wenchang who took out the silver ticket.

"What does Shopkeeper Zhao mean by this?" He Wenchang asked.

"It's not interesting, I just think that Lord He works hard for the court day and night, and he always has to subsidize a little." Zhao Wenchang looked at He Wenchang with a smile.

"I said there was no room for negotiation in this matter, and it would not go either way." He Wenchang's voice became smaller and smaller, because he saw Zhao Wenchang take out two more silver tickets from it. Swallowing his saliva, He Wenchang kept reminding himself that he was a member of the imperial court who could not resist this temptation.

Seeing that He Wenchang did not push away the silver ticket he sent over, Zhao Wenchang nodded secretly, it seems that things are still turning around, after a long time, He Wenchang, who had been struggling for a long time, was still defeated, looked up at Xue Huaitao, who was a little unhappy, and said: "You tell me the situation first, and then make a decision." ”