Sun Chengzong talked to Ji Qingwen again and told him some common sense in the officialdom, and then left in his own sedan chair.

Ji Qingwen was called away by the Jinyi guard in the middle of the night, and he didn't arrange the person to answer, so he could only take two feet and walk towards the Liansheng Inn.

Unexpectedly, Li Yan is not in the Liansheng Inn now, and after inquiry, he learned that he went to the Shaanxi Hall in the middle of the night and has not come back yet.

So Ji Qingwen borrowed a light sedan chair from the store and let the sedan chair driver carry it to the Shaanxi Hall.

In the Shaanxi Guild Hall, Li Yan, Duo Jiugong, Xing'er, and Huang Degong were all dressed neatly, anxiously waiting for Ji Qingwen's news.

Especially Duo Jiugong, he is an old servant of the Ji family, Ji Qingwen is like a relative in his eyes, so everyone else is sitting in the lobby waiting, so he can't bear it, and he runs to the door of the hall alone and squats.

Therefore, Duo Jiugong was the first to see Ji Qingwen coming, and immediately rushed up, and said with a handful of snot and tears: "Young Master, Jinyiwei didn't do anything to you, right?" Li Gongzi came to report the news, and I was scared to death. Hurry up and call the old and young masters in the Shaanxi Chamber of Commerce, Jinyiwei, Zhaojiao, Dongchang, Xichang, Jingzhaoyin, and the Criminal Department...... I asked everywhere, but there was no news at all, so I was really anxious. ”

Ji Qingwen smiled: "Didn't I come back as I was?" There are no missing arms or legs, now you are relieved, right? ”

Duo Jiugong wiped a handful of tears and muttered, "Don't worry...... Rest assured...... It's good that the young master is back...... It's good to be back......"

The other three heard the conversation between Ji Qingwen and Duo Jiugong, and they also hurriedly came out of the house - Huang Degong was a man who had never seen the world, and only knew a simple smile; Xing'er has been committed to Ji Qingwen and has already cried into a tearful person; Only Li Yan was slightly calmer, but he also had an unconcealable smile on his face.

Seeing this, Ji Qingwen grinned and said, "Hey, what's wrong with all of you?" It's as if I came back from the dead, you see, I don't miss a single hair, isn't it complete? Okay, look at your appearance, you haven't slept all night, go back to rest, and when you wake up, I still have something to explain to you. ”

After saying that, Ji Qingwen's face sank, and he said to Li Yan again: "Brother Li, you come with me, I have a few important words to tell you." With that, he pulled Li Yan to a secluded corner.

Li Yan knew that Ji Qingwen and his party last night must have encountered something unexpected, so he asked, "Brother Ji, where did you go last night?" ”

Ji Qingwen didn't answer, but said, "Brother Li, don't speak yet." Let me ask you, you didn't get on the list this time, do you know what the reason is? ”

This sentence asked Li Yan's sore spot, the muscles on his face twitched, and he said: "It's always that I am not good at learning, or I don't have an appetite for the examiner, so I didn't pass the exam, right?" ”

"No, it's not." Ji Qingwen replied, "The emperor said that among all the candidates in the examination, your article is the best, better than that of member Liu Ruozai." But the emperor is now purging the eunuch party, and your father Li Jingbai is a member of the eunuch party, and he is not very famous. Therefore, at this juncture, you will not be admitted. ”

When Li Yan heard the news, a white scholar's face suddenly swollen red, and after a while, it returned to its original state, and said: "I see, it seems that my article is still understood, I am very relieved, I am very relieved!" There was no resentment in his tone, but he was full of relief and lightness.

Ji Qingwen answered: "Brother Li doesn't have to be like this. Brother Li seems to be hopeless in high school, but he can still take the exam. This sentence is the emperor's golden mouth. With Brother Li's talent, who is the best in the next department? ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Yan raised a smug smile on his face, and was about to speak, when he suddenly reacted and asked, "Brother Ji, you just opened your mouth 'Emperor' and closed your mouth 'Emperor'." Where did you hear these words, Your Majesty? ”

Ji Qingwen looked up vigilantly as if looking around-it was still early in the morning, and there was no one else in the luxuriously decorated Shaanxi Hall except Ji and Li.

So Ji Qingwen breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Don't hide it from Brother Li, Li Yuanyin was actually ordered to escort me into the palace last night, and I heard the emperor say those words just now." ”

When Li Yan heard this, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Exceptional! Exceptional! Brother Ji was able to meet the Holy Lord, what a special encounter! If I wasn't familiar with Brother Ji, I would have thought Brother Ji was blowing a conch! ”

Ji Qingwen hurriedly stretched out his finger and pressed it to his lips, made a "silence" gesture, and said, "Brother Li, don't be quiet, I don't know if this matter is a blessing or a curse!" ”

He subconsciously looked around again and said, "Brother Li still remembers the day when he was in the Liansheng Inn to 'ruthlessly'? Among the three people sitting at the same table with us, the young man is the current emperor, the old man is Sun Chengzong, and the middle-aged man is Yuan Chonghuan! ”

Li Yan's eyes were so wide that his eyeballs were about to fall out of his sockets, and he exclaimed, "What Brother Ji said is true?" Master Sun and Inspector Yuan are both pillars of the imperial court! ”

Ji Qingwen nodded and said, "That's right, it's them." And now I worship Sun Chengzong as my teacher, and now I want to call him Teacher Sun......"

"How is this possible? Master Sun has taught the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and he has taught the current emperor, but he is the emperor's teacher, how can he accept apprentices casually? Li Yan exclaimed again.

Ji Qingwen replied: "This matter is the emperor's decision, and I can't ...... it."

Li Yan sighed and said: "It's not that I underestimate you, Brother Ji is a businessman, and some of the joints here are not very clear." In the imperial examination, it is important to be able to enter the Jinshi, but it is also extremely important to be able to pass the examination and worship the big man in the court as a teacher. Although Brother Ji didn't take the exam today, he was able to vote under the boss Sun Chengzong, which was more than ordinary Jinshi randomly looking for an examiner as a teacher, and I don't know how much stronger it was. Alas! In addition to the word "special encounter", I don't know how to evaluate it. ”

Ji Qingwen also sighed: "Alas! Yesterday I patronized kowtow, but I didn't expect there to be so many rules here. By the way, the emperor appointed me to do weaving in Suzhou, and I'm afraid I will leave for the south today......"

"What!" Li Yan exclaimed again, "The emperor asked you to be a weaver in Suzhou?" Aren't you kidding? ”

"I knew you didn't believe it." Ji Qingwen said as he looked up and looked around, and saw that no one was eavesdropping, so he took out the holy decree from his arms and handed it to Li Yan, "Well, the holy decree is here, if Brother Li doesn't believe it, just take it and take a look." ”

Li Yan hurriedly stretched out his hands, held and opened the holy decree, and read the forty or fifty words written on the holy decree over and over again, and finally sighed: "It's really unpredictable!" What is the meaning of this will, does Brother Ji know? ”

Ji Qingwen took back the holy decree, hid it in his arms again, and said: "I remember that the emperor and Teacher Sun told me that I don't understand the rules of officialdom, and I want to ask you for advice when I encounter something." ”

Li Yan said: "This is the wrong love between the emperor and Lord Sun, where do I know what officialdom rules?" What's more, the three weaving bureaus in Suzhou, Jiangning, and Hangzhou have always been supervised by ministers and eunuchs according to convention. Brother Ji is not a eunuch but can supervise weaving, which can be said to be the first time since the founding of the country. Moreover, although the three major weaving fabrics are only to provide textiles and utensils for the Imperial Palace, they have the name of the Chincha Lord, and they can compete with the governors, governors, and prefects of various places. ”

He paused and sighed again: "Brother Ji, do you know that the palace test is the first place, the champion and the first, that is just a six-grade editor." Although you didn't take the high school entrance examination, you did five-grade weaving, and it was also hand-picked by the emperor, this special encounter is unprecedented! ”

Ji Qingwen smiled bitterly: "I see. This Suzhou weaving has such a status, no wonder the emperor asked me for 200,000 taels of silver a year......"

"What 200,000 taels?" Li Yan said in surprise again, "What does Brother Ji mean, could it be that the emperor is selling officials?" Do you want your family to pay 200,000 silver before you are willing to appoint this Suzhou weaving to you? ”

"Hey~ Where does Brother Li want to go?" Ji Qingwen said, "The emperor means that I want to earn 200,000 silver a year from the weaving mansion in Suzhou and send it to Guanwai to be used as a military salary for the official army to recover Liaodong." ”