Ji Ning wanted to see Li Xiu'er, but there was no way.

Now he can't go to Li Jing's mansion, and if he wants to see Li Xiu'er by name, he has to be driven out by the people of Li Mansion.

Once there is a trespass, it will inevitably be difficult to go to the Li Mansion in the future.

On April 16, Ji Ning still had to go to the Temple of Literature to run an errand, this was his first day of work, and he couldn't be late, Ji Ning could only go to the Temple of Literature first, depending on the situation, and then decide how he would make an appointment with Li Xiuer.

The office hours of the Confucian Temple are very late, and the yamen will be opened at about midnight in the morning, and the official business will basically end in the morning.

In Ji Ning's opinion, this is actually more relaxed than the 9-to-5 office worker.

When he arrived at the Temple of Literature, before he arrived, except for the miscellaneous servants who were cleaning outside, there was no one in the Liren Library, he sat alone in his office seat, opened the books on the table and looked at them, they were all some old ancient books, although ancient, but the content on them was not obscure, many of them were summarized many times by later generations.

Ji Ning thought to himself: "If you relist the Four Books and Five Classics, can you compile them into a book in the Temple of Literature?" ”

Just when Ji Ning was holding the book and reading it alone, a person came in at the door, this person was not from Liren Study, it seemed to be someone from the next room.

In the Confucian Temple in the capital, there are many study halls, each study hall does much the same, basically in the manuscript arrangement, if you are lucky, maybe there is that kind of out-of-print ancient books to appreciate, if you are unlucky, every day is to sit in the study hall in a daze, every day in the deal with business.

"Why has this brother never seen him? Could it be a new bachelor who has come to register? "The person who came was in his twenties, and he was older than Ji Ning at first glance, but when he came up, he called Ji Ning Brother Ren, which made Ji Ning feel a little unhappy.

Ji Ning said: "Your Excellency?" ”

"Oh, down there is Song Shanqian, a trainee scholar from Anhe Study, who saw someone here, so he came over to take a look, but I didn't expect that there were really people inside, but I didn't know who came so early, it's rare!" The visitor smiled.

Ji Ning thought to himself: "I just came a little early, is there such a rare person?" ”

Ji Ning said: "Today is the first time I have come to the Confucian Temple to serve, and I want to come earlier, so as not to miss the time." ”

Song Shanqian laughed and said: "Your Excellency, I don't know, the people of the Confucian Temple didn't come so early, if they came early, they would be regarded as outliers, or it would be better to be rigid and conservative!" ”

came up and taught him how to stick to the old ways, and come here every day with a group of old masters to stick to the rules, which is unacceptable to Ji Ning, but there are some things that Ji Ning can't directly deny, doing things anywhere, maverick is not a good choice.

"Why did you come so early?" Ji Ning asked rhetorically.

"Oh, haha, in fact, I came earlier today, I wanted to help people do something, but I found that I was still redundant, or not, this brother still doesn't know what to call it?" Song Shanqian asked.

"Ji Ning!" Ji Ning said.

"Huh?" Song Shanqian also looked a little surprised and said, "You are this year's champion Ji Ning?" Ha, I've heard of it, I've heard of it, and in recent years, there have been few examples of Dingjia Jinshi entering the Confucian Temple, you are the first one, but I heard that your master is a scholar of the dynasty and a scholar of Shen, so some things can be explained. After all, there are people in the court who are easy to do, and this is true in the imperial court, and the same is true in the Temple of Literature. ”

Ji Ning didn't have much affection for this person, but listening to the other party, he was polite in the end.

Because it was the first time they met, Ji Ning didn't talk deeply.

Song Shanqian said again: "Bachelor Ji is new to the school, and he should know a rule, that is, be as lazy as possible here, otherwise a newcomer will not be able to stand this experience, like me, first mix for three or five years, maybe you will be able to get the opportunity to go out to the place!" ”

"It takes three or five years to get out there? Didn't you say a year and a half? Ji Ning asked.

Song Shanqian laughed and said: "If you believe these nonsense, then don't mix in the Temple of Literature, no one in the Temple of Literature will be honest with you, the opportunity to release means that the party in charge is not the kind of person with high morality, how can this kind of opportunity come from?" A bachelor, from the ninth grade to the first grade, to get the opportunity to be promoted to a university bachelor, it also takes at least twenty or thirty years of experience......"

Ji Ning also knew for the first time that the original bachelors were still divided into grades.

This has not been mentioned in any books or records before.

Obviously, the grade is like the title of the title, it is a kind of promotion rule within the Temple of Literature, the title is enough, the name of the name is not enough, you can first hang the name of the scholar to swagger through the market, if the name is enough, and the title is not enough, you need to experience a few more years in the Temple of Literature.

It is said that everything depends on the name of the Confucian Temple, driven by this unspoken rule, everyone is very lazy, and it is better to have a relationship than to be knowledgeable.

Sure enough, it is one side of the water and soil to raise one side of the people, and it seems that the people at the feet of the Son of Heaven pay more attention to relationship studies, and they don't care much about knowledge and talent.

"Thanks for the reminder!" Ji Ning arched his hand and saluted.

"Where, where, it's just a gesture, and being able to meet you can be regarded as a kind of fate! Got time to go for a drink together? Song Shanqian took the initiative to invite.

"Seeing that it's almost time, still have time to drink?" Ji Ning squinted and said.

"It depends on whether you are good at taking time, not to go to the wine inn, but in the pavilion outside our Anhe Study, there are many people who usually come out to play chess, what does it matter?" Song Shanqian's tone seemed to be that Ji Ning was a leopard, and he didn't understand anything.

Ji Ning found that he might have had too high an opinion of the Temple of Literature before.

It's a big dye vat here, and the people here are not all well-educated Confucians, and there are also many people who eat and wait for death, and even most of them eat here and wait for death.

"It's a pity that the world has so much respect for the Temple of Literature, but they don't know that there is a certain amount of corruption within the Temple of Literature system. This is still the Temple of Literature in the capital, which can be said to be the temple of the culture of the Great Yong Dynasty. Ji Ning felt a little emotion in his heart.

"Let's go, come with me!" Song Shanqian seemed to intend to let Ji Ning see the atmosphere in the Temple of Literature, and walked out with Ji Ning.

Ji Ning didn't completely trust Song Shanqian, he didn't know if Song Shanqian deliberately dug a pit to frame him.

No matter in any yamen, he was not allowed to drink during office hours, and he was not going to taste wine, but he felt that he should do it by walking around the study halls of the Temple of Literature.

Just when the two of them arrived at the pavilion outside the Anhe Library, they saw two old Confucian students, one holding a chessboard, and the other holding a chess box and laughing and walking out, and when they saw Ji Ning and Song Shanqian, one of the old Confucian students' face was not very good-looking.

Ji Ning and Song Shanqian both saluted respectfully: "Scholar Ma University!" ”

It was Ma Heng.

(End of chapter)