Entering the Chongwen Gate of the inner city of the capital, it is also to the inner city of the capital, there are many canals in the area of Chongwen Gate, the ditches and ravines, here is the terminal station for transporting goods to the city by waterway outside the city, the freight is developed, the surrounding streets and alleys can also be lively, you can see ferries, warehouses and warehouses everywhere, in addition to some small merchants and hawkers along the street, there are more large-scale shops responsible for wholesale.

Tang Xie and others chose to settle down in the temporary inn, in the Chongwenmen inner street, here is the area in the south of the city, to the north is a standard antique street, you can see a lot of shops selling antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and in the direction of the east, is a canal in Chongwenmen, there are warehouses, there are ships unloading around, Lifu is carrying goods, it seems very busy. As for the inn, most of the people who live are businessmen who come from the south to the north, because it has just arrived in November, and there are still more than two months before the examination in February of the next year.

At that time, the inns in the city will basically be full, even some of the places with independent courtyards will be rented away, and even the temples and Taoist temples in the city will become a place for students to stay, and even more will go to the Confucian Temple in the capital to stay overnight, the Confucian Temple usually prepares a lot of rooms for the students who come to the capital to take the exam in the examination year, but the students want to enter the Confucian Temple to spend the night, there will be certain constraints, because they have to help the Confucian Temple do some scattered things as compensation, which will affect the students to study seriously.

But all those who are promoted in the examination are already good in learning, and their social status is also very high, even if they were disciples of the poor before, they will also get the generosity of some gentry, and this will not be too poor.

In the Dayong Dynasty, as a lifter, he has entered the scholar class, he can be a small official in the yamen, or go to the Confucian Temple to do chores, and he can get an errand that everyone envies, but if he wants to enter the court to become a famous court official, or if he wants to enter the Confucian Temple as a bachelor so that he can have a better promotion in the future, he needs to be admitted to the Jinshi.

The name of the inn is called "Yuelaiju", the name sounds very elegant, but it already feels a bit cliché to Ji Ning's ears, and there are inns with this name in the world, maybe the inn originally did not pay much attention to the business of students, so there was no much vassal knowledge or imperial examination in the name of the inn. Just like the inns in the capital near the Gongyuan and the Temple of Literature, many names are very auspicious, such as "Zhuangyuan Inn" and "and the first residence", students also like to enter this kind of inn, in order to be a colorful head.

As long as you have a good name, you can have more customers in the inn for no reason, and the price of a room can also increase by a few percent.

Ji Ning lives in the Tianzi upper room, that is, the third floor of the inn, the first reason why Tang Xie and others like this place is because the scenery here is good, live a little higher, and you can see a lot of scenery in Chongwenmen at night, including some scenery of Flower Street and Willow Lane.

Because the guest rooms in the capital are relatively tight, especially in this Yuelaiju, Ji Ning and Yuling can only live in one room temporarily, and the layout of this room is not small, divided into the inner room and the outer room, and there is also a bed outside, which can be used for Yuling to sleep. In fact, this is also convenient for merchants or students who come and go from the south to the north, because merchants or students will bring small servants or scholars for the convenience of travel, especially businessmen, people are afraid of being remembered by thieves at night, and they will definitely need to live outside a person who can support them at any time, so there are many guest rooms in the capital will have such a "intimate" design, and there will even be two or three beds in the outer room of the guest room, as long as there is something inside, shout, people outside will hear.

"Young master, is it a little cold here?" Yu Ling looked at his small bed and said a little aggrieved.

"Is it tight? You can try to sleep first, and turn around and make a brazier in the room, but you need ventilation, and it is not recommended to make a brazier at night. Tang Gongzi and they will look for a house in the capital to live in, let's see if it can't be found, and we don't need to be too close to them, after all, there are only two of us, but there is a fire kang in this way, at least it can be warmer. Little girl, after you arrive in the capital, you will pay attention to your own warmth, you don't have to worry too much about other things, take care of yourself first, and then take care of me, you know? Ji Ning said.

"Oh." Yu Ling was still angry because of Ji Ning's rejection that day, and she was also sullen when she cleaned up her small bed.

Ji Ning was also cleaning up, and suddenly the servants of the Tang Mansion went outside and knocked on the door: "Ji Gongzi, my son-in-law said that there is a Fujian man, I heard that Ji Gongzi and others came here, and they came to visit, please go down and have a look!" ”

"Got it, I'll clean up and come down immediately!" Ji Ning said a word and hung up his clothes first.

He also understands that after arriving in the capital, there are a lot of things about this and that, and there are also a lot of literary meetings and entertainment, the so-called literary meetings, in fact, students sit down to discuss knowledge, and to put it bluntly, a group of students are looking for opportunities to get together to drink and talk about the wind and moon.

Ji Ning didn't continue to clean up, explained to Yu Ling, and went downstairs, when he heard someone shouting: "The ship from the south has arrived!" ”

There was a commotion outside, and even some innkeepers rushed out, as if to see the excitement or something good.

"What's the situation?" Ji Ning went downstairs and saw Han Yu and asked.

"I don't know, the accent of the northerners is so strange, Yongning, can you understand?" Han Yu asked.

Ji Ning smiled bitterly, for him, the words of the northern accent are correct and round, which is what he is used to, the official language of the Dayong Dynasty is actually Shaanxi dialect, which is also the legendary "Yayin", but due to the northward migration of the capital, the main accent of the people in the capital has become the northern accent, except for the Confucian Temple to do some activities, Shaanxi dialect will be used, other times, even if it is in the court, only the northern accent will be used.

As for the accent of Jinling City, it is more similar to Wu Nong's soft language, which is the dialect of Jiangnan.

"I guess I understand a little bit." Ji Ning said, "Didn't you say that there was a lifter from Fujian?" Where are the people? ”

"I live downstairs, I heard that you are Xie Yuan of this Jinling Township Test, and I want to come and visit you." Han Yu smiled, "Yongning, you still don't know how famous you are." In the township examination in Jinling, it is very difficult to get Xie Yuan, even if it is very difficult to pass the Jinshi examination within one or two sessions, but the Xie Yuan of the Jinling Township Examination will basically be smooth sailing in the future. Yongning, you also have a chance to be in the ranks, don't forget to promote a few brothers then! ”