According to the rules, the night before the execution, a table of severed head wine was set up. Yang Qiuchi took out some broken silver and dotted the guards, so that they could prepare a little more heartily.

Bai Qian always has an appetite, just drinking vigorously and constantly talking to Mrs. Bai.

I don't know how long later, the jailer quietly told Ma Du that the time for the visit had already passed, and it was almost time to close the prison gate.

When it was time to break up, Bai Qian always stretched out his hand from the iron fence and grabbed Yang Qiuchi's hand: "Young Master Yang, I did something wrong at the beginning, if I had promised Mei'er to you at that time, at least she would not have suffered this time, and now that their mother and mother are in exile in a foreign land, I don't know how to live this day." ”

Madame Bai and Bai Sumei sobbed and cried.

Seeing their miserable appearance, Yang Qiuchi's heart was agitated, although he didn't know where the place where he would be an official in the future, whether it was the place where Mrs. Bai and her mother and daughter were exiled, he couldn't care about it, and comforted: "Master Qian, please rest assured, I will take care of Mrs. Bai and Miss Sumei, and I will never let them suffer!" ”

Bai Qian looked at Yang Qiuchi in a daze, slowly let go of his hand, took a step back, knelt on the ground suddenly, and kowtowed a few times: "If Yang Gongzi can take care of my mother and Mei'er, Bai will repay Gongzi's great kindness in the next life!" ”

Yang Qiuchi also hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed in return.

When they left the prison, Yang Qiuchi and Ma Du took out all the silver on their bodies and gave it to the cell boss who was in charge of Madame Bai and Bai Sumei, and asked him to prepare a few sets of winter clothes for her mother and daughter and take care of her mother and daughter.

The cell boss knew Ma Du's identity, how dare he mess around, and he refused until Ma Du ordered him to accept it, and he swore that he would never let Mrs. Bai's mother and daughter suffer a little grievance in the edict.

Yang Qiuchi's words just now have already been said, he is not a person who makes promises casually, but what he promised, he will do it desperately.

However, there is no need to do this matter desperately, even if the place where he is an official is not the same as the place where they were exiled, Yang Qiuchi is determined to send them to the Yunnan penal colony safely first, spend money to settle them, and then go to take office.

The next day, Bai Qianzong and they were executed, and Yang Qiuchi did not go to watch. He had seen too many dead people, and although he had not seen Ling Chi, the most famous way of execution, he was not in the mood to study it now, and he was unwilling to experience the pain of life and death.

Yang Qiuchi spent money to find two grievances, and went to the execution ground to find a good cemetery for Bai Qian's corpse to bury.

――――――――――――――-After dealing with these things, Yang Qiuchi, Song Qing, Song Qingniang and others left the capital Yingtianfu and returned to Ningguo Mansion.

Mother Yang and Feng Xiaoxue have already taken over all the Hao family's property. On the same day, Yang Qiuchi held a banquet in his new home to celebrate. Zhou Zhifu personally inscribed the "Yang Mansion" plaque for Yang Qiuchi, replacing the original "Hao Mansion". Relatives and friends gathered together to celebrate the marriage of Yang Qiuchi and Song Qing.

Now, Hao's family has become Yang Qiuchi's home, and he has taken a good look at this mansion.

This mansion is really too big, Yang Qiuchi's family and twenty brocade guards put it in, but it is still too empty to take care of it at all. Entrusted by Yang Qiuchi, Zhou Zhifu invited a number of dart masters for Yang Qiuchi from the trustworthy dart bureau as caretakers, and Yang Qiuchi bought a number of slaves and servants, which made the Yang Mansion and the original Hao family's business operate normally.

Song Zhixian, Song Qing's mother and Song Yun'er lived in Yang Mansion for a few days before returning to Guangde County. Before leaving, Song Zhixian asked Yang Qiuchi to study at home with peace of mind, preparing to participate in Enke, and did not need to go to the Yamen prison cell in Guangde County for the time being.

Yang Qiuchi thanked him repeatedly, he just took the opportunity to trim up, he was too tired during this time. You don't need to read these four books and five classics, but you can use this time to sleep well for a few days.

He is now a wife and two concubines. wife Feng Xiaoxue, concubines Qin Zhihui and Song Qing, but Qin Zhihui has not been heard from since Qin Zhihui was kidnapped by the female predecessors of the martial arts, so now there is only one wife and one concubine left.

According to the rules set by Qin Zhihui before, after Yang Qiuchi discussed with Feng Xiaoxue and Song Qing, they went to sleep in the room of their wives and concubines in five days.

Song Zhixian came back a few days after they returned to Guangde, and this time they moved their families here. As soon as they met, Song Yun'er happily told Yang Qiuchi that his father had been promoted.

It turned out that according to what Yang Qiuchi said, Jinyi Wei Niu Baihu reported the role played by Song Zhixian, especially his daughter Song Yuner, in cracking the Hao family's rebellion case and arresting the anti-thief Deng Youlu, plus Song Zhixian successively cracked the Yin family [***] case and Jin Keying's white bone case, and the officials promoted Song Zhixian to Ningguo Mansion Tongzhi, which was the vacancy of Wang Tongzhi, who was originally killed by his younger brother.

Originally, this matter was mainly due to Song Yun'er's credit, but because Song Yun'er was a woman, women could not be officials in ancient times, so the credit was also credited to her father Song Zhixian.

Song Zhixian was originally only the magistrate of Guangde County, a seven-grade official, but now he was suddenly promoted to the same magistrate of Ningguo Mansion, a five-grade official, and became the executive deputy secretary of the prefectural party committee. I was so happy that I didn't sleep well for several nights, and my family moved to Ning Guofu to take office.

Of course, Song Zhixian will not forget how he got these credits, he is very fortunate that he was smart at the beginning, and he got involved with Yang Qiuchi in the relationship between this uncle and nephew, and now it seems that this move is the right move.

After moving to the Yamen of the Governor of Ningguo Mansion, Song Zhixian held a banquet to celebrate and express his gratitude to Yang Qiuchi.

Since Song Zhixian and Guangde County are not appropriate, Yang Qiuchi, of course, will not be able to be the supervisor of Guangde County. Originally, Song Zhixian meant to hire Yang Qiuchi to continue to be his staff member and assist him, but this time Yang Qiuchi politely declined to participate in the imperial examination.

Song Zhixian also knew at this moment that the current Yang Qiuchi was not called Wuxia Ameng in the past, since he took over the Hao family's property, he has become one of the richest people in Ningguo Mansion, purely from the perspective of money, he will not care about the money of the staff, so Song Zhixian no longer insisted.

Anyway, Song Zhixian also knows, not to mention that Yang Qiuchi is now his niece and son-in-law, just with the relationship between his daughter Song Yuner and Yang Qiuchi's life-and-death friends, if there is something he can't do in the future, Yang Qiuchi will definitely help him.

The two families are together again, which makes Yang Qiuchi also very happy. Although Yang Qiuchi and Song Yun'er didn't call, he was very comfortable with this little girl.

Seeing that the words that left Enke were getting closer and closer, Song Zhixian had never seen Yang Qiuchi read, and had tactfully reminded him to read, and also hinted that he could teach him. This Song Zhixian was born in Juren, and Yang Qiuchi was the same year as the old lady of Yangjia Village, who had experienced the imperial examination, and it was more than enough to be Yang Qiuchi's teacher, but Yang Qiuchi was not interested in the Four Books and Five Classics at all, so Song Zhixian had to let it go.

A few days before Kaienke, Yang Qiuchi set off to Yingtianfu to take the exam, and brought fifteen brocade-clothed male guards to it. Originally, Song Qing was going to follow, but Yang's mother tactfully told her that her husband was going to take the imperial examination this time, and if she was going, it would distract Yang Qiuchi, so Song Qing gave up.

Although Song Qing was afraid that Yang Qiuchi would be distracted and couldn't go with her, her cousin Song Yun'er didn't have to worry about this, Song Yun'er liked to be lively the most, of course, she yelled to follow, of course Yang's mother agreed, she hoped that Song Yun'er could protect Yang Qiuchi with her.

Song Yun'er's father, Song Zhixian, no, it should be called Song Tongzhi now, he has always hoped that Song Yun'er and Yang Qiuchi would have a result, and he, the old fox, had already seen that Yang Qiuchi was not a thing in the pool, and he would turn into a dragon in the event of a storm in the future, so of course he raised his hands in favor.

So, Yang Qiuchi and Song Yun'er set off for Yingtianfu with fifteen brocade guards.

After the group arrived at Yingtianfu, of course, they lived in the Qianhu House in Madu. Ma Du heard Yang Qiuchi say that he came to participate in the Enke Imperial Examination, he was very surprised, but he was also very impressed, and he was hospitable, he didn't know the bitterness of this imperial examination, so he dragged Yang Qiuchi all day long to run around Yingtianfu, drinking and playing for fun, and almost all the fun places in Yingtianfu.

During this period, Yang Qiuchi and Ma Du went to inquire about the specific departure of Mrs. Bai's mother and daughter's exile, and learned that they would not leave until after the Spring Festival. Yang Qiuchi was relieved at this time, and by that time, where he would serve had been clarified, and he could make a decision based on the appointment.

On this day, the Enke Township Examination finally started.

The examination room of the Tianfu imperial examination is called Gongyuan, each candidate has a number room, a single room, the number room is a brick and wood structure, the candidates enter the number room, the invigilator has to lock the door from the outside, and the talents are writing articles inside to take the examination.

Yang Qiuchi thought very well, anyway, there was Gonggong Li behind them in the back, and he would be over after three days of sleeping in him, but as soon as he entered this room, he found that this room was too simple, it was a small single room, and a table took up more than half of it, plus a stool and a heating brazier, there was no free space.

It is now the fifth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, it is the cold winter wax moon, if there is no fire in this room, it is still relatively cold, fortunately Yang Qiuchi wears more. But if you want to sleep, you have to catch a cold, fortunately, Feng Xiaoxue and Song Qing prepared cotton clothes and pants for Yang Qiuchi, as well as heating utensils, and bought charcoal to make a stove, so as not to freeze.

Yang Qiuchi was extremely bored, sitting in the room and roasting the fire, reminiscing about Song Qing's warm embrace.

I finally got through to the end of the third exam. Yang Qiuchi walked out of the room, stretched his waist for a long time, and was about to go back, when he saw the talents of the reference running towards the Gongyuan one after another. Not sure what happened.

Yang Qiuchi looked up, there was already a circle of people not far away, Yang Qiuchi followed to see the excitement, and listened to those showmen to know that it seemed that a poor old showman who was taking the exam had no money to buy charcoal to make a fire, and he worked hard in the number room for three days, and when he finished the number room today, he found that this show had been frozen to death inside.

Yang Qiuchi squeezed into the crowd to take a look, and sure enough, there was a corpse lying on the ground in the No. 1 room, it was an old man, he looked like he was fifty or sixty years old, his hair and beard were gray, it seemed that he was an old talent, he had taken the imperial examination for a lifetime, and he died in the examination room of the Gongyuan Academy.

This old man's body temperature regulation ability is low, and he is already very sensitive to temperature, plus he has been soaked in the number room for three days and three nights, does not move his limbs, and has poor blood circulation, and, looking at the yellow muscle of the dead old man, he should be long-term malnutrition, plus he has studied hard all night, is extremely tired, and his resistance is reduced, so it is easier to freeze to death than young adults.

Yang Qiuchi was sighing, and suddenly sighed, and a strange phenomenon caught his attention: the old man's robe was neat, and he seemed to die calmly, but it was precisely because of this calmness that Yang Qiuchi felt abnormal. However, because there were too many people watching the excitement, Yang Qiuchi couldn't see the other circumstances of the dead old man clearly.

After a while, I heard a voice in the distance: "Get out of the way!" The examiner, Master Jia, came. Yang Qiuchi turned his head and saw that there were several people walking in the distance, and there were officials in front of him to open the way.

I heard that it was the examiner, but Yang Qiuchi had never seen it, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be a thin old man.

The crowd stepped back, clearing a large area. Master Kaojia stood at the door and looked at it, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The deputy chief examiner in charge of the inspection said: "It's an old show who died in the number room." The lowly party has already checked, this old Xiucai's name is Lu Xueru, he is a native of Chuzhou, Yingtianfu, and lives in a small village called Beishao in Chuzhou. I have been taking exams for many years and have failed many times. It seems that he had no money to buy charcoal to make a fire, and he was frozen to death. ”

This examiner, Jia Hanlin, is a member of the Hanlin Academy (equivalent to the current chief staff member of the General Office of the Central Committee and academician of the Academy of Social Sciences), and was personally sent by the imperial court to preside over the Tianfu Township Examination in the capital. After listening to the words of the deputy chief examiner, he frowned, such a thing is going to be passed on, and he will say that he has not organized the imperial examination effectively, this is the examination held by the emperor Kaienke, and it is also held on the emperor's birthday.

However, since the matter has already come out, it is impossible to conceal it, and asked, "Have you notified the Yingtianfu Yamen?" What about resentment? Is it a grievance? ”

The deputy examiner replied: "I have already sent someone to call it." ”

After a while, several people came, one of whom was a general judge of Ying Tianfu and brought a grievance.

This sideways meat with a disgraced face looks a bit like a pig killer. The man walked into the room and began to check.

After a while, the pig-killing man walked out, bowed down and said, "Lord Hui, this old show is frozen to death." ”

Jia Hanlin showed a wry smile on his face and said, "Then carry him to the Yamen mortuary for storage, and hand it over to his family when he comes." With that, he turned around and was about to leave.

Yang Qiuchi shouted: "My lord, please stay!" Squeeze out of the crowd, "My lord, this Lu Xueru doesn't seem to have frozen to death." ”

(To be continued)