The sun is shining brightly, and the spring breeze is clear.

Chen Ji changed into clean clothes, wasted a long period of effort, and finally coaxed Xiao Ran to be obedient. Seeing that the tip of the little girl's nose kept twitching, she had already cried until she choked and hiccuped. Chen Ji had no choice but to stay quietly by his side, not even daring to say jokes, for fear of choking the little girl.

Fortunately, after making sure that he was okay, the little girl began to recover by herself, if she really expected Chen Ji to coax, eighty percent of the little girls were so angry that they stomped their feet, turned their backs, and shouted in a suppressed voice, "Son, get out of the way." ”

Storm.

Chen Ji no longer needed to accompany the little girl to be silent, and dragged someone to rush to the study, and went to "add fragrance to the red sleeves".

In the antique room, two rows of neat bookshelves are full of books, and judging by their condition, they probably haven't been turned over since they were put on the shelves.

In the corner of the bookcase, there are several stacks of booklets that should be compiled from previous test-taking articles, without exception, the top volume has obvious creases on the second or third pages, which shows that the owner still loves the articles in these positions very much. Then there is a pen holder of red sandalwood, which may be a blue and white brush wash produced by a certain kiln, and one party cannot say that it is also an inkstone of a certain site of the four famous inkstones, which is elegant and deep. The ink strip on the edge of the inkstone should also be worthy of the "decoration" of this room.

Chen Ji felt a sense of frustration that he was insulted when he touched it.

With a sigh of relief, Chen Ji walked to the back of the case, and Xiao Ran had already laid out the letter paper and began to grind. After examining it for a moment, Chen Ji's eyes fell to the copper ruler on the side, engraved with the sentence "The gentleman is good at three ends, although he is not light". Chen Ji only feels that the writing is good, teaching people to be deafening, and it is also well carved, the so-called iron painting silver hook.

pursed his lips and smiled, just based on the "comment" just now, some of them are worthy of this house.

Xiao Ran has been looking at his son-in-law, noticing the changes in his rich expression, and forgetting that he is still in sadness.

"Ink is good." Xiao Ran reminded.

Chen Ji came back to his senses, scratched his head, and tilted his head to look at Xiao Ran: "Do I want to wash my hands?" ”

Xiao Ran blinked, "Childe, this is a letter to the master, you can't run." ”

Chen Ji was slightly sluggish, smiling bitterly, he had heard all kinds of escape techniques, and he dared to have a "hand-washing escape" here.

shook his hand, and suddenly felt a kind of pride in splashing ink, "Xiao Ran, bring the pen." ”

A delicate small Kaihu pen was handed over.

Chen Ji's eyelids drooped, his gaze pressed down, and fell on the plain stationery, without a word for a long time. Then he bit the pen and groaned, made a cup of tea, and began to write: "Comrade Chen respects ......"

Xiao Ran was confused, and he didn't recognize the whole word, but he also knew the word "Daddy", but Childe didn't write it.

Before he could remind, Chen Ji had already shouted, put away his pen and exhaled, "It's okay, you can send it over later." ”

"Huh?" Xiao Ran counted the crooked words on the letter paper with his fingers, because a few of them really couldn't tell whether they were a complete word or a few words, so the number was between fifteen and twenty.

Where's this letter-writing?

"Childe, that's it?"

Chen Ji put down his pen and said, "Isn't it possible?" Then he read word by word: "Comrade Lao Chen, hello, everything is fine at home, please read it!" ”

Xiao Ran spread out his fingers and retracted them, confirming the last number of words, which matched the number he had just counted......

After recalling, the pink fist was clenched and hidden behind his back. Looking up, Chen Ji had already bypassed the bookcase and arrived on the low couch near the window, half-lying down to recuperate.

Xiao Ran was stunned and gave up struggling.

Anyway, this is the first time Childe has written a letter to his master.

After receiving it, I will be very happy!

……

……

Not long after Xiao Ran went out with the letter, Gui Chun walked in from outside, came to Chen Ji, and said, "What Gongzi ordered, Shen Qiu went out to do, and it may take three or five days to get results." ”

Chen Ji's mind was now on how to deal with going to the house, and he nodded to indicate that he knew. Regarding reading, I couldn't find anyone to talk about. This also shows that it is really not easy to read a good book without a guide.

During the rest just now, Chen Ji recalled all the fragments of reading in the past. There is nothing else except a few crooked things about the Qinglou Chu Pavilion, let alone some test-taking articles. And it was the exam-taking essay that won the identity of Xiucai last year, which he had forgotten completely. It really makes people suspect that his identity as a showman is not in the right way. Eighty percent of this has the "face" of Comrade Lao Chen behind it.

Nearly two hundred years of Jokhang Chengping, many things in the roots have actually begun to bean curd, when today's son has a great determination, but natural disasters and man-made disasters, in the end can only be mended, tear down the east wall to make up the west wall. It is difficult to put an end to clean up the business of personal fraud, and according to Chen Xiujie's identity, it is really not too difficult to give his son a back door. As long as you press one or two sessions in the later township test, no one will care how much ink there is in Chen Ji. The two terms are only six years, and it is also a sufficient "brewing" process for the seventeen-year-old Chen Ji.

What's more, Xiucai is just the starting point of his career, and the admission requirements are not very high. After all, the Chen family has produced a second-class jinshi, and Wenyun can still leave some behind.

Chen Ji scratched his head, turned his head and asked Gui Chun, "What books do I usually read?" ”

Gui Chun puffed out his eyes and said with an embarrassed smile: "Childe, I have been here for a short time. ”

Chen Ji glared at him, and then said, "Go out and inquire, have the scholars in Yidu City organized any rallies recently, and they have gone on a youth tour." Listen to it, come back and tell me, and help me find a way to break into the enemy......"

Gui Chun listened ignorantly, scratched his head, repeated it and hurried out.

Chen Ji was inexplicably a little upset, left the soft couch, carefully paced to the bookshelf, and took out a few books at random, all of which were the Four Books and Five Classics, as well as various targeted annotations. Spread out a few pages, uh, it's all traditional characters, and there is not a single punctuation mark yet......

Well, I wasn't born to read. Chen Ji put all the books back, took out a novel of "Fox Romance" from the "dark box" inside, stretched out his tongue and puffed his right index finger, and flipped through it with relish. With a small step, he slumped into the chair.

……

The breeze is coming, and the warbler is crying willows.

Early in the morning, the gate of Yidu City was crowded with a crowd of green shirts, and the hawkers waiting to enter the city were far away, both afraid and a little envious. The patrol soldiers of the City Gate Division had a smile on their faces, but they didn't know what kind of resentment they had in their hearts, but they hid it very well, and sent the green-shirted men into the carriage and went along the official road.

Cowered under the eaves of the last carriage, hung conspicuous inscriptions. The word can be used in Yidu City, naturally it is the Chen Tong judge, so the city gate general's face has been collected a lot, for fear of provoking this stinky street judge.

Chen Ji rarely participated in this kind of meeting between scholars, in fact, the readers who really claimed to be scholars were unwilling to invite him to be half-hearted scholars, and most of the scholars who were looking forward to having a relationship with him were afraid of the general judgment behind him, even if they had the heart, they were powerless. directly led to his few familiar faces in Yidu Wenlin. This trip, in fact, was also cheeky, and it was revealed that it was already foreseeable that people would not welcome him.

With Shen Qiu, who came over, his face was even more ugly than that of his young master: "Childe, why don't we go and join in this fun?" ”

"You murderer." Chen Ji scolded, "Ben Gongzi didn't study well in previous years, eighty percent of it was a drag on you, it seems that Xiao Ran is right, you are used to coaxing Ben Gongzi to eat, drink and have fun!" ”

On the official road, the carriage occasionally bumped a little, Shen Qiu shrank in the corner, and said aggrievedly: "Childe, you wronged me to death, I was persuaded to study a few years ago, and the big stick beat me a lot." ”

Chen Ji glanced over, "......"

Shen Qiu shrunk his neck and said with a smile: "If you don't dare in the future, you must persuade your son to study." ”

Chen Ji shook his head, "It's impossible to read, but after all, there is a Jinshi father on his head, at least he can pass the level." I heard that if you take the exam, you can donate to the official, but if you don't donate, Lao Chen will climb to the provincial department in the future, and you can also be an official according to the rules, and you will have a title of lifter, and the starting point will not be too low......"

Shen Qiu sighed, his heart was mixed, and he would like to think about this, those sticks were not in vain before, and when he thought about it, he faintly wanted to cry.

"Childe, usually our lord doesn't have much contact with the Guogong Mansion, how can he remember to invite Childe to visit the garden this time?"

Chen Ji clapped his hands with a folding fan in his hand, and said with a smile: "Son, I made some silver and asked for a post." ”

Shen Qiu sat up in shock, his eyes widened, and he said, "Childe, you are a person who wants to study hard." ”

Chen Ji waved his fan over, "I have to go to the house to study in a few days, how can I mix up if I don't recognize a few classmates?" I have to find a gunman for the articles I hand in every month. This is a major matter related to the face of the Tongju Mansion, why is it that the money is not a person who studies hard? ”

Shen Qiu was dumbfounded, shrank back, and didn't speak again.

Chen Ji added: "Besides, if your kid has some ink in his stomach, I'll take you, a scholar, over, and I'll sign in for class, and when you need to hand in your studies, your kid will splash ink or two, and my son will be able to deal with it." Chen Ji glanced at Shen Qiu with great grievances, and he was disgusted.

Shen Qiu was helpless, sticking to the carriage, a puddle of mud.

Shen Qiu had just come back, but he didn't know what Chen Ji asked Gui Chun to inquire.

Chen Ji leaned back, shook the green fan in his hand, and said: "In the eyes of others, I, Chen Ji, am not a second ancestor, about this, I don't think there is anything inappropriate, this is the case." However, I always have to fight for it, and I also want to see the real readers of this era......"

Chen Qi's eyes were long, and Shen Qiu looked at it when he heard it, and suddenly had a feeling that he couldn't see through it. Instead, Xiao Xi Nu smiled himself, his eyes were shining, and he said in his heart, "If you can see through it, you won't be the son he recognizes." ”

The wheels rolled, and after nearly an hour of travel, it stopped, and Chen Ji's carriage fell last, and when he got out of the car, there was no one in front of him.

As far as the eye can see, it is a green grassland, and there are many stands around it, which is probably a martial arts arena.