Ji Ning still lives in the small courtyard, stays at home every day, and enters the rhythm before the exam preparation.

There are only two little girls at home to accompany him, Yu Ling and Lin Juan'er's personalities are somewhat similar, but Yu Ling is more lively and cheerful, and Lin Juan'er is quiet and introverted, but when the two little girls are together, there will always be a lot of tacit understanding, Yu Ling will always tell Lin Juaner about Jiangnan things, it seems that Lin Juaner likes to be a quiet listener.

"Yu Ling, come and help me pack up my books!" Occasionally, when Ji Ning didn't want to move, he would arrange for Yu Ling or Lin Juan'er to do things.

Maybe it's because the two little girls are a little idle, and they are also willing to find something to do for themselves, so as to show that they are valuable by Ji Ning's side.

If she is more leisurely, Yu Ling will even teach Lin Juaner to read and read, but unfortunately Lin Juaner has passed the best time to study, this little girl is also very difficult to learn, she knows some simple words, but if it is a little complicated, she has already begun to make difficulties, and occasionally Ji Ning will help the two little girls to "make up for the lesson" together.

Seeing that in mid-March, the time for the palace exam was approaching, because Ji Ning had not visited relatives and friends for many days, and he didn't know much about things outside.

In the past few days, he has only been to Zhao Yuanrong's hut once, but he has not met Zhao Yuanrong, he just left a letter, which expressed some of his meanings in obscure words and put forward some opinions.

It's not that he can help Zhao Yuanrong much, it's just that he thinks that having one more friend in the capital is actually not bad.

And Ji Ning admires Princess Wenren who likes to live alone and has a bit of autism and simple thoughts.

On the 11th of March, he went out to see Tang Xie and others, and he also learned from Tang Xie that Gu Yuming had been seriously ill before, and now he is still a sick man, and he doesn't even know whether to participate in the palace test.

Tang Xie and the others were also like the world's scholars, and they ridiculed Gu Yuming a lot, but at this time, they were already a little more unbearable.

Han Yudao: "This Gu Yuming, a dignified Jiangbei talent, can be regarded as a rare talent with both ability and political integrity in the Dayong Dynasty, but he was beaten all over his body by the people of King Hui's Mansion, and all the scholars in the world felt cold. Yongning, you still don't know that whether the scholars in the capital are admitted to the Gongshi or not, they are ready to jointly go to the imperial court to impeach the Huiwang Mansion, so that the people of the Huiwang Mansion will know the fate of injuring the scholars! ”

Ji Ning didn't express his opinion, he thought to himself: "Princess Wenren's side, it's still a shot!" ”

Using Gu Yuming's matter to put pressure on King Hui's Mansion was one of the plans that Ji Ning had proposed to Zhao Yuanrong before.

Because Ji Ning knew that at first, so many people had prejudices against Gu Yuming, completely because of envy and jealousy, but people all over the world always have sympathy and pity, especially these students who went to the capital to take the exam, because they themselves had not yet obtained a high social status, and they were also afraid that they would be lynched by the powerful.

Ji Ning's advice to Zhao Yuanrong is to find someone to guide public opinion on Gu Yuming's issue, but he just needs to find someone to fan the flames, all the scholars will feel that Gu Yuming has been wronged this time, and they will also think that the people in Huiwangfu are bullying people, so that they can help Gu Yuming at the same time, and at the same time, they can also make Huiwangfu's side in the whirlpool of public opinion.

"Yongning, are we going to visit Gu Yuming?" Tang Xie asked.

Ji Ning shook his head slightly and said: "It's always a little inconvenient, I came out today, just to ask more about the palace exam, if there is nothing else, I would prefer to go back and study more earlier!" ”

Song Rui next to him said: "Yongning, we congratulate you on being admitted to Huiyuan, this time you can't stay in the capital for a long time, to participate in the ceremony of your promotion to Jinshi, Brother Xie and I have decided to leave for Jinling City tomorrow!" ”

Ji Ning didn't expect Xie Tai and Song Rui to go back so early.

But after thinking about it, I was relieved, five people came to the exam together, but only two people went back, naturally I wanted to go low-key, if I left after Ji Ning and others took the Jinshi exam, maybe I would suffer more loss at that time, but it was better to go back to Jinling City earlier.

Ji Ning didn't keep much, nodded and said: "It's been almost half a year since I left home, and I miss the customs of Jinling City a little bit, when the two of you go back, remember to help me bring a handful of soil from the north back!" ”

"Definitely!" Xie Tai and Song Rui both saluted Ji Ning, and they knew that they would definitely have some intersection with Ji Ning in the future, but at that time, Ji Ning may have been a bachelor in the Temple of Literature, high up, and even able to preside over the local township test, becoming a highly respected person.

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Tang Xie and the others were going to visit Gu Yuming, but Ji Ning did not go with him.

He was going to go to Zhao Yuanrong's nest in the afternoon, and the main purpose was to read more basic treasured books over there.

Although Zhao Yuanrong was simple, there were books that were almost comparable to the National Library of the Great Yong Dynasty, and the few books that Ji Ning saw were all things he had never seen elsewhere, and many of them were very helpful to him, and they were even solitary and fragmentary.

When Ji Ning arrived at Zhao Yuanrong's nest, there was no one there.

He pushed open the door and went inside, but when he saw that someone seemed to have cleaned it up, he remembered that Zhao Yuanrong said that no third person had entered here except for the two of them, but he was also thinking about it in his heart, and when he was thinking about it, he heard someone behind him: "Coming?" ”

Ji Ning turned to look at Zhao Yuanrong, and said with an apologetic expression: "The princess is coming, I haven't been far away to greet her, forgive my sins!" ”

"You didn't see me, it's not your fault, just sit!" Zhao Yuanrong carried a burden in his hand, put the burden on the table, and then sat down with Ji Ning, when Ji Ning came last time, Zhao Yuanrong didn't know when he prepared a chair, so that when the two of them finally didn't have to sit on each other, one sat on the chair and the other sat on the stool.

Zhao Yuanrong is also a shrewd and capable person, sat down and said directly: "Ji Ning, you asked this palace to contact the prince, this palace has indeed seen the prince, and it was seen in a secret channel, as you expected, my imperial brother, but he really knows how to forbear, when I saw his eyes like eagles, I knew that his ambition was not small, but he was forced by his father, and he still has to be cautious!" ”

Ji Ning thought to himself, of course, if the prince doesn't even have a little personality of his own, he can only wait to be slaughtered.

“…… As soon as I told the prince, he probably understood what was going on, it turned out that he was also secretly preparing to attack King Hui and King Chong, I didn't expect that he might be more prepared than me! Zhao Yuanrong's face was a little happy, and he said, "Besides, you asked me to start with the matter of Gu Yuming and guide the public opinion of the scholars in the capital, and I also sent someone to do it, and now it seems that the effect is not bad, and the effect should be received soon." Ji Ning, I really want to credit you this time! ”