After Ji Ning helped Zhao Yuanxuan insert the hairpin, Zhao Yuanxuan went from kneeling to standing, and the ceremony officially ended.

The guests talked about Ji Ning's magical mental arithmetic method before, and left the hall of the West Cross Courtyard together, Zhao Yuanxuan also took the maidservant to the inner courtyard, and King Chong went to the main hall of the main courtyard to entertain the guests. Even if Ji Ning had just made everyone present impressed, King Chong would not have specially met Ji Ning, and only Tang Jie, Han Yu and others came out with Ji Ning.

"Yongning, you really showed your face for our young scholars in Jinling City, you didn't see Qin Feng's disgraced appearance just now, I believe that he won't dare to come out to meet people before the list is released, so as not to be ridiculed!" Han Yu smiled with a gloating look on his face.

Tang explained: "Before the list is released, he won't dare to come out after the list is released, Yongning will definitely be able to be admitted to the lifter, and at that time, Qin Feng will feel even more faceless." ”

Xie Tai and Song Rui next to them also nodded yes, they were not convinced by Qin Feng's reputation as the number one talent before, and they all wanted to compete with Qin Feng, but Qin Feng's talent was also excellent, and there was no chance for them, and now Ji Ning was helping them out.

Ji Ning sighed: "It's never a competition in talent and learning, but just in miscellaneous learning, some people talk about it, and it will pass for a while, and the most important thing is to be able to achieve some results in the imperial examination." ”

In a word, I got to the point. Ji Ning is only better than Qin Feng in arithmetic, it can be said that it is a head-to-head competition between the new generation of talents and the old talents, and it does not involve the orthodox knowledge of the Four Books and Five Classics, even if someone will use this matter to praise Ji Ning for his ability, he will not feel that his talent really surpasses Qin Feng.

The banquet in the main courtyard continued, because of his previous brilliance in the county lord and the ceremony, Ji Ning was also much more concerned, and many people took the initiative to come over to greet Ji Ning.

Some families also came over to be polite to Ji Ning, saying as if they wanted to make friends with him, but in fact, these families are also above the top, they may be aware that King Chong may later gather Ji Ning to King Chong's Mansion as a staff member, so they will be polite to Ji Ning, King Chong has always cherished talents, since he saw that Ji Ning had such good mental arithmetic ability, he was likely to recruit Ji Ning. But being a staff member is obviously not Ji Ning's goal, his goal is the imperial examination, not relying on this kind of appreciation and being shackled to a palace somewhere.

"Ji Gongzi, I will have time to move around more in the future, ha, there will be a banquet in the mansion next month, and the invitation will be sent to the mansion at that time, I don't know how to go to the mansion?"

Others came to get acquainted with Ji Ning, and they didn't even know where Ji Ning lived, and they didn't know where to send an invitation to Ji Ning, out of courtesy, Ji Ning explained to the door of his house, these people are still wondering, how does this place sound very familiar, and it is clear that it lives very close to a certain person in the city who can't be provoked, and there will be no relationship between Ji Ning and this character, right?

With doubts, they didn't dare to ask more, lest Ji Ning suspect that the matter would be leaked out, but it was not a single person who thought of this question at all, for those big families, what forces are there in the city, which people can be befriended, and which people must be feared, they know very well that this division of forces is clear, and if one step is not careful, it may cause a big family to collapse in an instant.

Ji Ning doesn't care about this, where he lives, it's just for convenience, and besides, he doesn't want to have anything more directly related to a "person he can't mess with".

After a wave of people came over to greet Ji Ning, Ji Ning's side finally calmed down, and Tang explained: "Yongning, have you noticed that some of the people who came to greet you seem to be jealous of you, do you know why?" ”

Even if Ji Ning guessed some clues in his heart, he still smiled and shook his head, Tang Xie felt that he might be too suspicious, so he didn't say anything more.

The banquet was still in progress, and a boy in men's clothes walked out of the inner courtyard, striding in front of Ji Ning, Tang Xie and the others saw that it was the one who was collecting debts with Ji Ning in the afternoon, and they were all thinking in their hearts, hadn't Yongning negotiated the money and debt dispute with this son? "Hey, can you talk to me?" As soon as Zhao Yuanxuan came, she looked at Ji Ning with a smile, at this time she had already changed into women's clothes, and even her hair had been combed again.

"Yongning, you?" Tang Xie and the others were also embarrassed.

Ji Ning said: "This Zhao Gongzi, please don't talk nonsense in front of my friends next time, I don't owe you any money." ”

"Hmm. You don't owe me any money, do you owe you money? What a stingy guy. Zhao Yuanxuan wrinkled his nose and said.

These words still failed to relieve Ji Ning's doubts, but Ji Ning could only shake his head helplessly, he didn't know that she was the county lord before, but now that he knows, some things can't be said too directly, otherwise it will be disrespectful to the county lord, and he will feel awkward in front of Zhao Yuanxuan, after all, he didn't want to be Zhao Yuanxuan's county horse, and he didn't plan to pursue Zhao Yuanxuan.

"I'm going to be here to accompany my friends, if Zhao Gongzi has something, you might as well talk about it later." Ji Ning refused very politely.

Zhao Yuanxuan's face was immediately displeased, she thought to herself: "He has no conscience, I will help him fight for face in front of people, he is now crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, and he will directly throw me aside, no, I want to denounce his ruthless and unrighteous behavior!" ”

"No, I have some important secrets to tell you, and if you don't talk to me alone, I'll make them public!" Zhao Yuanxuan suddenly threatened.

At this time, even Tang Xie and the others felt that staying any longer was a kind of disrespect for Ji Ning, and they hurriedly excused themselves to leave, saying that they were going to see friends, but they themselves said that they didn't see any friends at this banquet, and this excuse was also very clumsy.

In the end, Ji Ning still followed Zhao Yuanxuan to the courtyard on the east side, and as soon as he entered, Zhao Yuanxuan crossed his waist and said, "Ji Yongning, how can you be like this?" I'm kind enough to help you, and now that you're showing your face in front of people, you're ready to deny me, aren't you? ”

"I really don't dare to admit it." Ji Ning emphasized, "Lord Huaizhu!! ”

Just a title made Zhao Yuanxuan's face change from anger to shame, she did appear repeatedly in front of Ji Ning, but she never showed her true identity, and now Ji Ning's cold treatment of her is understandable, after all, there is a gap in identity between the two.

"What's wrong with me being the county lord? I didn't choose my identity, I was born, and I don't want to be a county lord, I want to be an ordinary girl, so that I can go out to school, and I can even go to Sanwei Academy to study. Zhao Yuanxuan said aggrievedly, "Hey, are you unwilling to accept me as a student anymore?" I'm going to go to your academy tomorrow with a gift to study at your academy and officially worship you as a gentleman. ”

(Happy National Day to all.) )