Champion parade street, refers to the emperor in the Jinluan Hall to pass the roll call, hand-picked champions, Bangyan, Tanhua and Jinshi, the champion led all the Jinshi to thank the emperor, to the left gate of Chang'an to watch the process of posting the gold list and going home.

In fact, the so-called scenery of the champion riding a horse on the street is completely a folk rumor, and it is impossible to have a three-day parade in the street.

At the end of the ceremony, all the Jinshi returned to their residences, and the official document of the Ministry of Rites to report the good news would be sent to the place of residence of the new Jinshi through the official road and the post station, and the local government would build a memorial arch for the new Jinshi to glorify the township.

On March 18, the Ministry of Rites gave a banquet on March 19, and all the jinshi cheered up and went all out...... There will be a lot of things in the past few days, and there will be a lot of thanksgiving in the future, visiting the ancestral shrine, visiting the Confucian Temple, waiting for the award, etc., until the end of March.

And Shen Xi has one more thing, that is, to help the imperial court track down the whereabouts of the stolen grain from the treasury.

According to the previous agreement, at the end of March, the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce will transport grain for the household department, and at that time, the official grain will be mixed with a large amount of stolen grain and transported away.

The place where the stolen grain is hidden is not only in the capital, but also in the warehouses of the surrounding prefectures and counties of Shuntianfu or the inconspicuous houses in the countryside, which may contain the stolen grain, which is also the reason why the government was not easy to trace before.

Shen Xi returned to the Dongsheng Inn after the end of the preaching, and at this time there was a group of people who came to congratulate the inn.

These people are not even easy to drive away Yu Niang casually, they are Shen Xi's "classmates" when he entered Taixue at the beginning of the year, all of them are meritorious and famous, and they basically participated in this examination, but there are very few who are really in the Jinshi...... The main reason is that the questions of this session are not very friendly to young students with little experience.

Among them, Sun Xiliang, who came to congratulate, was also a roommate of Shen Xi in the same dormitory when he was studying in Taixue.

These people politely brought gifts, and the big bags and small bags almost filled Shen Xi's room, and when they came up, they said congratulations familiarly, recalling the past and looking forward to the future, and making friends. Their purpose is very simple, since Shen Xi is the champion, it will not be long before he will enter the Hanlin Academy, which will be of great help to them to participate in the examination and even become officials in the future.

The friendship of classmates is considered to have a relatively solid foundation in the party, and they do not have a good relationship with Shen Xi at this time. After Shen Xi is conferred, if you come to congratulate you again, you will have to pay a visit, and it depends on whether Shen Xi has the time and mood to see him.

After a lot of polite remarks, I chatted for a while about the news in the city. One after another, people dispersed. Sun Xiliang was about to say goodbye, but suddenly remembered something and asked:

"Shen Zhuangyuan, I waited to read your masterpiece "Liao Zhai" before, and I don't know if I can give some more manuscripts. We discussed it and wanted to write a book for Shen Zhuangyuan......"

Shen Xi immediately understood that this was going to help him become famous.

In these years, whenever there is a talent and a good work comes out, there will always be a businessman or a sycophant who will try his best to publish a book for him, in addition to making a name for himself, it can also bring some economic benefits to the person concerned...... However, most of the book publishers are actually losing money and making money.

Shen Xi's "Liao Zhai" is actually Ji Xiaolan's "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang", the literary value of this book is quite high, and it is not impossible to publish a book. But Shen Xi runs a printing workshop at home, but lets others publish books, and has the illusion of giving up profits.

However, Shen Xi still agreed, and asked the servant Tang Hu to go upstairs to take down the manuscript and give it to Sun Xiliang, although the manuscript is not very many, but it is enough to produce a medium-length story collection.

After Sun Xiliang got the manuscript, he left in high spirits.

After sending off the guests, Yu Niang came over and said with a smile: "Zhuangyuanlang is really proud of officialdom." The reputation is also going to soar, and when people in the world mention the talents of the Hongzhi Dynasty in the future, they must add the champion Lang ......"

Shen Xi smiled bitterly: "Yu Niang smiled." ”

Yu Niang and Shen Xi went upstairs and arrived at the room. Yu Niang told Shen Xi in detail the details of the grain theft case that she had investigated in recent days, and from her attitude of knowing everything, there should be no concealment at all, Shen Xi didn't know if she said this, whether it was Jiang Liwei, who was eager to make meritorious contributions, allowed it.

“…… There are more than 60 large and small grain depots used to hide stolen grain found around the capital, and the grain stored in them is about 40,000 stones. Lord Liu has ordered that troops will be sent to seize it within two days, and Gongzi must be careful to take revenge on the thieves. ”

Shen Xi disagreed: "We haven't revealed our identities from beginning to end, so we shouldn't retaliate against me, right?" ”

Yu Niang was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly when she thought about it.

This matter is indeed when Shen Xi traded with the other party, Jin Yiwei and Dongchang Shunteng gradually found out the clues, but on the surface, the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce and Shen Xi were simply waiting for the other party to deliver to the dock, and there was no other contact, even if something happened, the other party would only think that other links were exposed.

If the thief gives out food in the future, he can't say that he will have contact with the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, how can the two of them, as "business partners", retaliate against Shen Xi?

Just as he was talking, someone downstairs suddenly shouted: "The new champion lives here?" ”

The voice is loud, and even if he can enter the inn without being stopped, this person must have a certain background, and even the people of Jinyiwei and Dongchang dare not be rude to him.

Yu Niang accompanied Shen Xi out of the room and came to the staircase, only to see a middle-aged man with a smile on his face standing downstairs, holding an invitation card in his hand, and saluting slightly: "My Hou Ye specially asked the little one to send the invitation, and a banquet will be held in the house three days later......"

Shen Xi asked, "I don't know what the house is?" ”

At this time, the man's face swelled with a touch of arrogance: "Shouning Hou, Zhang Houye." ”

Shen Xi and Yu Niang glanced at each other, and a thought came to their hearts, it came so fast!

Shou Ninghou is the younger brother of Empress Zhang, the uncle of the country, Zhang Heling, and the mastermind behind the grain theft case in the treasury is likely to be the Zhang brothers.

Since it was an invitation from the Hou Mansion, Shen Xi couldn't slack off, went downstairs to take the invitation, and had to give a reward to the person who sent the invitation.

The seven-rank official in front of the prime minister, even if Shen Xi is the top student in high school, he can't be angry with a Hou Mansion. However, Shen Xi still didn't bother to do the thing of sending the door out, and when the people left, Shen Xi took the invitation back to the room, and Yu Niang frowned: "Maybe it's good or bad." ”

Zhang Yanling invited Shen Xi to come over three days later, and he must not be the only one who was invited, as for who would go at that time, it was not known for the time being, but Zhang Heling's intention to take the new champion for his own use was very obvious.

Shen Xi is not very old, so he should not be favored by the Zhang brothers, but the problem is that Shen Xi is the young proprietor of the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, and the Zhang brothers are also ready to use the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce to help transport grain, maybe the two brothers have made up their minds to take the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce under their command. The intention of wooing Shen Xi is obvious.

Yu Niang said before that the time when Liu Daxia decided to do it was these two days, and it was unknown whether Shen Xi could come out safely when he arrived at the Shouning Marquis Mansion. But since the Hou Mansion invited him not to go, it is not okay.

Everyone knows that even if the Zhang brothers do whatever they want now, and are not accepted by decent officials, even those imperial historians who can't hide sand in their eyes dare not impeach the two in front of the emperor, and the crux is that Emperor Hongzhi has such a wife as Empress Zhang, and the matter of the Zhang brothers is an imperial family matter. The emperor's two brothers-in-law are a little presumptuous, if you provoke, you can only suffer yourself.

Even the former first assistant Liu Ji offended the Zhang family, and he was ordered to give office, not to mention a small official?

Shen Xi calculated the time, and the day Zhang Heling invited him to come over the house happened to be the day when he expressed his gratitude to the Jinshi, and Shen Xi and the Jinshi would have to enter the palace at that time.

Shen Xi said: "Yu Niang, before I go to the Hou Mansion for the banquet, can I go home and have a look?" ”

Shen Xi said "go home". Not to go back to his hometown in Fujian, but to the courtyard he rented in the capital. Since he was forcibly taken to the Dongsheng Inn by Yu Niang, Lin Dai happened to break his "adulterous relationship" with Xi'er, Shen Xi has never gone back, and he is a little worried about Lin Dai.

This time, Shen Xi proposed to go back and have a look, as if he was going to explain the aftermath on his deathbed, even if Yu Niang was hard-hearted, it was difficult to refuse at this time.

"Then tomorrow, the slave family will personally accompany the son back to the house......"

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The next morning, Yu Niang asked people to prepare the carriage and horses. It seemed that he was sending Shen Xi out to participate in the cultural meeting, but in fact, the two quietly went out from the backyard.

Yu Niang is not guarding against thieves in the grain theft case.

Judging from the situation these days, the thief did not send eyeliner, she was mainly afraid that Jiang Liwei would know. Because of this, Shen Xi was reprimanded.

Shen Xi put a black cloak on his head, walked through the streets and alleys with Yu Niang, and finally returned to the small courtyard where he lived. As soon as Shen Xi lifted his cloak, he saw a very large young man squatting in the corner of the wall basking in the sun.

"Division...... Brother? ”

When the man saw Shen Xi, he walked over with a look of disbelief, and immediately changed to a look of surprise, "You...... You went back to the mountain with the master? ”

Shen Xi was stunned by the question. Feelings: Wang Lingzhi these days, when he went back to the mountain gate with his master, he was actually waiting at the door of his house?

Shen Xi pondered for a moment how to answer, and then said, "I just came back, have I seen your senior sister?" ”

Wang Lingzhi had a little jealousy on his face: "Senior brother, I think you should not go to see senior sister, she is fierce these days, I want to enter the door and ask where you have been, she doesn't even allow me to step into the threshold, and says senior brother, you are dead......"

"I was thinking, how can a senior brother have such a great ability, how can he say that he will die? But senior brother, don't you want to take the exam, why did you suddenly go back to the mountain with the master? ”

Shen Xi thought to himself, how close his eyes must this Wang Lingzhi be, so that he doesn't even know that he has won the top prize?

But after thinking about it again, I am relieved, even if the news of his champion is widely spread, but in such a big place as the capital, there are still most people who don't hear about foreign affairs, not to mention that outsiders like Wang Lingzhi are not familiar with life in the capital, and the news has basically been passed on by word of mouth in these years, and no one has told him, how did he know?

"Let's go in and talk."

Shen Xi didn't want to stay at the door of his house for long, and wanted to go in to see Lin Dai and them. stepped forward and knocked on the door, and heard Zhu Shan's angry shouts from inside: "Our young lady said, if you don't leave, break your legs!" ”

Wang Lingzhi's body trembled when he heard it, obviously even a person like him, who practiced martial arts, and was a martial artist, didn't take Zhu Shan.

Shen Xi slapped the door twice: "It's me." ”

A puzzled voice came from inside: "Shao...... Master? Is that you? ”

"Hmm."

Shen Xi answered, and then the door "creaked" open.

I haven't seen him for more than a month, Zhu Shan seems to be a little stronger again, and a bright smile suddenly bloomed on his beautiful but unattractive face: "It's really a young master, hehe." He immediately shouted, "Miss, the young master is back!" ”

Hearing the voice, Lin Dai ran out of the room, and when she saw Shen Xi standing at the door, her eyes lit up, but her small mouth immediately pursed, and she turned around in a huff, almost crashing into Ning Er's arms who came out of the news.

"What are you going to do when you come back, it's better to die outside, he doesn't have this home in his heart at all!" It is estimated that he has been with Zhou for a long time, and his words and actions are the same tone as Zhou's when he was angry.

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PS: The third update!

In the afternoon, my daughter called back from school and said that her stomach hurt badly, and the Son of Heaven hurried to the school to pick her up and take her to the hospital for medical treatment, and she didn't return home until 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Clean up your mood, the Son of Heaven hurriedly coded the words, and only now did he rush out a chapter!

This chapter was written in a hurry, and there may be errors and omissions, please forgive me!

This chapter is an addition for all book friends.,The next chapter will be a big update for the new alliance leader "Lan Xi".,If the results are good.,There will be a fifth chapter update today!

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