The Spring Festival of the fifteenth year of Hongzhi came in the heavy snowfall. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Throughout the winter, there was heavy snow around Beijing, which made goods scarce in the city, and at the end of the year, prices were high, and the people were even stretched thin to purchase New Year's goods.

The Shen family is not as good as before, with the collapse of Hui Niang and the business system she mastered, the silver saved by the Zhou family was basically buried in it, and even the Zhou family had to live on food and clothing.

Fortunately, Shen Xi, as the official of Hanlin and the speaker of the East Palace, will issue New Year's goods at the end of the year, plus the chicken, duck and fish meat that Shen Xi personally asked someone to procure, this New Year is quite lively and festive for the Shen family.

It's just because of Hui Niang's "death" that there is a little sadness in the celebration.

On the first day of the new year, the snow stopped and the sun rose early over the eastern horizon.

At the turn of Tatsumi, the temperature gradually rose, and the Zhou family burned paper money in the lobby of the mansion, which made Shen Xi who took his wife and children to visit the New Year very embarrassed.

"My sister-in-law, born a hard-working person, went not long after marrying a husband and took her daughter to live. Originally, I did a good job, thinking that I could go to the capital to enjoy happiness with Hanwaer, who knew that I would go like this, woo woo...... Even the bones were not buried back to their ancestral home, and they died in a foreign land...... My miserable girl. ”

Zhou cried and didn't say anything, and wanted to set up a tablet for Hui Niang, which would be offered in the future, which made Shen Xi speechless for a while.

"Mother, people can't be resurrected after death, you should always look away, I believe that Aunt Sun has knowledge, and I hope we can have a happy life."

Shen Xi went over to support Zhou, but was pushed away by Zhou.

"You have the ability, you can not be your aunt, but the person who hurts your aunt the most in her life is you...... Woowoo...... She also said that she would accept you as a righteous son, but unfortunately she missed it...... You just continue to have no conscience......"

Even if Zhou scolded Shen Xi at this time, he didn't have the momentum he had before, but he was like a chattering old woman who was counting people and patronizing her mouth, because Zhou also knew in her heart that there were some things that she couldn't complain about her son, just a few complaints.

Shen Xi stayed at the old mansion for a morning, and after lunch at noon, he took his wife and children back to the house.

Under the pretext of going to a colleague's house, Shen Xi took the opportunity to meet with Hui Niang.

Since Hui Niang was redeemed by Shen Xi, Shen Xi has begun to get used to this two-sided life, and what he can do is try not to share his love for Xie Yun'er and Lin Dai on Hui Niang. But Shen Xi knew that he would favor one over the other after all, after all, a person's energy is limited. Lin Dai may not be able to notice anything, but Xie Yun'er, who is thoughtful, vaguely notices a clue.

After sitting at Hui Niang's side for about an hour, Shen Xi pondered that there was no one else in the capital except Xie Duo who had to go to the capital in the first year.

Shen Xi arrived at the official residence of the prince of the country, sat in the sun with Xie Duo and drank tea, talking about some court affairs and academic difficulties, and unconsciously the sun was setting in the west.

Shen Xi said goodbye and came out of Guozijian, just wanted to go home, and remembered that Xie Qian should also go away, and asked about the previous ticket by the way.

When he arrived at Xie's Mansion, the acquaintance invited Shen Xi to the study, but saw that Xie Qian did not shrink in the house to read, nor did he go to the backyard to accompany his family, but dried books in the open space in the front yard.

Seeing Shen Xi looking at him with questioning eyes, Xie Qian said: "There was a heavy snow before, and it was rare that the snow stopped and the sun was good today, so I took out the book at the bottom of the box to dry." ”

Drying a book is an elegant thing, but the temperature is still very low, and it is estimated that it is still below freezing. Shen Xi secretly wondered, drying books in the cold on this day, and I didn't know what Xie Lao'er thought.

After Xie Qian put away the books that had been drying for a day, he led Shen Xi to the study and said, "The old man has submitted all the tickets you have consulted before, Your Majesty...... There are still dissatisfactions. ”

Falsehood!

If the emperor was not satisfied, you would have come to me for trouble, and let me re-draft with you, so that I could dry books at home as easily as I do today?

You want to take the credit for the old disrespect, I have long known it, as long as you remember to marry your little granddaughter to me.

"Marriage, did you mention it to your parents?" Xie Qian also remembered this and asked casually.

Shen Xi shook his head: "It hasn't been mentioned yet." ”

Xie Qian's face turned pale: "You kid is sincere in getting angry with the old man, right?" What is there about my family that is not worthy of you? Don't say that you will be a concubine and a wife for you, she can also afford the lintel! ”

Shen Xi knew that Xie Qian was telling the truth.

Although Xie Hengnu is young, she is the eldest granddaughter of the elder of the pavilion, and she is definitely from a famous family, such a woman is enough to provoke the Shen family.

But Shen Xi understands that Xie Hengnu doesn't understand firewood, rice, oil and salt at all, and he doesn't want Xiao Nizi to understand this, he just needs to let this young lady live in a carefree happiness. Xie Yun'er is a rare independent woman in this era, and she has done a very competent job in the position of the eldest lady of the Shen family.

"Don't get me wrong, in fact, the student's intention is to wait for Miss Xie to be one or two years older, and then personally come to the door to propose marriage and marry her. Now...... Slightly younger. Shen Xi said frankly.

"Young? When you got married, you said that my granddaughter was young, and you yourself are not old-fashioned. Xie Qian put the book away angrily, and threatened in his mouth, "At most, half a year, if you don't pick it up, the old man will change his mind at any time." ”

Shen Xi respectfully accepted it.

In marriage, he felt that he should still take the initiative.

Xie Qian lowered his face and married his granddaughter to him, in fact, strictly speaking, it can't be said to be married, but to be sent, because Xie Qian knows that his granddaughter is a concubine when she arrives at the Shen family, and with Xie Qian being so arrogant and stubborn, he is still willing to let his granddaughter be small, if he doesn't take the initiative, then he really doesn't know each other.

No matter how capable Shen Xi is, he is just a five-grade Hanlin official, Xie Qian can completely abandon him, in the officialdom, there is no reason why no one can operate without it.

"After the year, it will be the Ministry of Rites examination. What do you think? ”

Xie Qian sat down, waved his hand to let Shen Xi sit aside, and asked casually.

Shen Xi looked at Xie Qian with some confusion: "Does Elder Ge want the students to have any ideas?" ”

Xie Qian smiled and said, "You kid can see it clearly, and you know that this session has nothing to do with you, right?" Don't be complacent, if there is no accident, I'm afraid that the old man will take the main exam for this year's examination, and then the old man will be the first to pull you on...... Let you not do your job all day long! ”

Shen Xi shook his head and smiled bitterly!

I helped you so much, and you characterized me as "not doing business"?

In the fifteenth year of Hongzhi's history, the main exams were Wu Kuan, who was the left waiter of the Ministry of Officials and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and Liu Ji, who was a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.

However, due to some reasons, history has deviated, Wu Kuan is still the Zhan Shi of the Zhan Shifu and has not been promoted to the left attendant of the Ministry of Officials, while Liu Ji has gone home to guard the system in the position of a bachelor, and has not appeared in the capital for two years.

This is an extremely serious problem, as Shen Xi enters the officialdom, the number of people and things he comes into contact with increases, and the butterfly effect formed becomes more and more obvious, and some major events in history have deviated, and he can no longer stand at the height of history to judge whether some things will happen.

For example, the chief examiner of the Hongzhi fifteenth year of the Ministry of Rites examination is still an open case, who will the emperor send to serve as the chief examiner.

Liu Jian said that he was ill and could not go to the court, Li Dongyang was at home for his son's funeral, and repeatedly proposed to beg the old to return to the field, but Emperor Hongzhi did not plan to increase the number of cabinet scholars, and now the cabinet affairs are shouldered by Xie Qian.

It stands to reason that Wu Kuan, who served as a lecturer in the East Palace when Zhu Youzhu was the crown prince with Xie Qian and Li Dongyang, entered the cabinet naturally, but because the last question case had something to do with him, he somehow lost the trust of Emperor Hongzhi, and Wang Wei, Li Jie, Jiao Fang and others were not enough to provoke the big beam in the emperor's opinion.

Once Liu Jian and Li Dongyang were allowed to return to the field, it would be very difficult to find another satisfactory person to enter the cabinet, so Emperor Hongzhi would now prefer to turn the errand of the three people into Xie Qian alone, rather than make a proposal in the court to add cabinet scholars.

"Elder Ge is about to preside over the exam? That...... Who will preside over the major affairs of the imperial court? Shen Xi asked in surprise.

Xie Qian smiled: "You are not very old, and you have a lot of things to worry about...... After recuperating at home for a period of time, Liu Gong's illness is almost cured, and the temperature is warmer today, if nothing else, he should be able to go to court after the year, as for Scholar Li's side...... After the funeral, it was time for him to come back. At that time, I, the most incapable person, of course, will preside over the examination, which can be regarded as making the best use of people! ”

Shen Xi thought to himself, you are really humble at all, who doesn't know now that you Xie Qian is calling for wind and rain in the court, and many people say that you are the best choice for the next Shoufu University Scholar?

Obviously, Liu Jian is nearly seventy years old, and Li Dongyang is also older than Xie Qian, as long as the two of them are in office, then no matter who is added to the cabinet later, Xie Qian is the first assistant.

Shen Xi said: "What does Elder Ge mean, doesn't he want students to participate in this ritual examination?" ”

Xie Qian thought for a moment and nodded: "The old man does have this intention. Your Majesty is very satisfied with the Shuntianfu Township Examination that you presided over the assessment, and this is also a rare Township Examination that has not been criticized by outsiders in recent years, it seems that you and Jin Gui have put a lot of thought into it. ”

That's the truth.

Shen Xi can be said to have offended many people for this township test, especially Shuntianfu and Zhang's relatives, maybe someone will retaliate against him for this.

"But after all, the students are only shallow in their studies, and they ...... At the time of the last session, the students were still only candidates. "Shen Xi wants to state a position, that is, I am young and underqualified, and I am not enough to take on important responsibilities.

"It's not for you to be the examiner, it's always okay to be a room official, right? If His Majesty really asked the old man to preside over the examination of the Ministry of Rites, he would be able to ...... in terms of questions and marking."

Xie Qian almost slipped his mouth and told what he was thinking and discussing. He clearly wanted to say that if the emperor asked him to preside over the examination of the Ministry of Rites, if Shen Xi served as the housing official, he could be lazy and hand over the important tasks of the question and the final selection to Shen Xi, anyway, Shen Xi had the experience of presiding over the Shuntianfu Township Examination, and before that, Shen Xi helped him draw up a lot of votes.

This attitude simply made Shen Xi speechless.

Feelings, you gave my granddaughter to me, so I can give you free coolies? Ask me for everything, why don't you just do it as a cabinet scholar, how about letting me do it?

"Your Majesty has not yet made a decision, this matter is estimated to be settled at the end of the month, if the old man is the main exam, you will definitely be named. With your current official position and status, you can be regarded as the best among the house officials, and it is not impossible to even let you be the chief examiner! Xie Qian sighed lightly.

Shen Xi didn't appreciate it, and said: "If Xie Ge wants to make the world's scholars unconvinced, you can give it a try, but I'm afraid that in the end, the voice of the test questions in this session will be stronger than the previous one." I'm afraid this isn't the result that Elder Ge wants to see, right? ”

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