The green-robed official of the Probation Department was in charge of today's selection work, and when he heard what Lu Huizhong said, Lord Thrifty asked them to follow the rules, the implication could not be more obvious, if Lord Frugal did not agree to this matter, why let him come and spread this, and he felt that he understood.

A few days ago, because the selection was too strict, and the frugal adults did not let go of all the civil candidates, they added a condition privately, and the people who participated in the selection must go through enlightenment, literacy and hyphenation, and as a result, after a few days, even ten people were not selected. It was decided to relax some of the rules, and at the same time a prize was issued, and those who participated in the jury were given a bounty of 1,000 taels of silver each as long as they were selected for the final thirty-three people.

After the new conditions were introduced, there was an endless stream of people participating in the selection of jury qualifications, and almost all the people in the city who were literate and hyphenated came to respond positively to sign up. However, in the morning, Lord Jian Shi received a report that there were nine deaths and eleven injuries in the coal mine in the west of the city, and he hurriedly led people out of Taiyuan City. As a result, the selection work was decided by the green-robed officials, and the secretary's office sorted out the pages of written documents and sealed them into a book, and handed them over to the green-robed officials who had returned to the main hall. The green-robed official didn't look at it, picked up a pen and wrote a big pass on it, and stamped it with the big seal of the Yamen of the Procuratorial Envoy.

Lu Huizhong is also the same as Mi Yan, filling in the information to answer questions. In the end, the green-robed official also wrote the word pass, and also stamped a big seal. Then, the green-robed official came down to the hall again, personally sent Lu Huizhong and Mi Yan out of the lobby, and then sent them to the gate of the courtyard before turning back.

Seeing the green-robed officials out of the lobby, the candidates waiting for selection in the courtyard saluted one after another, Mi Yan walked over without squinting in the salute of many scholars for the first time, although he knew that these people saluted just at the green-robed officials who came out with them, this situation strongly stimulated Mi Yan's fiercely churning chest.

When he went out, Mi Yan glanced at the people in the courtyard again, and suddenly felt that a boy in brocade clothes was very familiar, so he looked at it twice, but who knew that the boy in brocade clothes also turned his head, and the two eyes were colliding together.

It turned out to be a sibling brother of Qianxi, Zeng Cheng!

At the same time, Zeng Cheng also recognized Mi Yan, who had just come out with the green-robed official, and he rubbed his eyes in disbelief, only then did he be convinced that he was not mistaken, and his mouth opened wide in shock, and he didn't close it for a long time.

Lu Huizhong noticed that Mi Yan was looking at the courtyard and was distracted, so he called Mi Yan.

"Elder Brother Yuan, Elder Brother Yuan?"

"Oh?"

Mi Yan realized that he had lost his mind, and hurriedly confessed his guilt, and walked away with Lu Huizhong.

Zeng Cheng in the crowd began to be uncalm, and his chest turned upside down. He doesn't know much about his cousin Mi Yan's life experience, his father was also a well-known young talent in Taiyuan Mansion back then, he was a talent in his teens, and he was promoted in his early twenties.

Therefore, Zeng Cheng's grandfather married his baby daughter to Mi's father, although the Mi family was still poor at this time, but Mi's father's future was bright, and marrying his daughter was a gamble with a very high chance of winning. Unexpectedly, after Mi's father married a wife, he paid bad luck, just a few months before the big exam, Mi's father's mother was seriously ill and died, Mi's father was a big filial son, so he resolutely gave up the big exam, and prepared to re-reference after the expiration of the filial piety period for three years. Unexpectedly, just after the mother's funeral three years later, his father died of illness again, and Mi's father had to keep filial piety for three years again.

Six full years have passed, and Mi's father has also been middle-aged from a young talent. Six years of filial piety did not polish the sharpness of Mi's father, he was ready to enter Beijing in this year to go to the test, unexpectedly the sky did not fulfill people's wishes, but when he was about to set off, a serious illness was bedridden, and he did not get down to the ground until autumn. So after another three years, nine years have passed since the first time, and Mi's father finally couldn't withstand the blow and lost his mind.

Fortunately, Mi's father's wife, that is, Zeng Cheng's aunt, is knowledgeable and virtuous, and has not abandoned her for many years, even if her mother's attitude towards her husband has changed from the initial enthusiasm to the later coldness, and even disgust, she has always been with her.

Finally, under the careful care of Mi's wife, Mi's father gradually recovered to normal, and began to prepare to go to Beijing to catch the exam. The days are thriving, and at the same time, Mi's wife finally got pregnant, and later gave birth to a son who was Mi Yan. The pity is that before Mi's wife could take a look at her son, she died of a postpartum hemorrhage.

After Mi's wife died in childbirth, the Zeng family cut off contact with the Mi family. Not only that, but even Mi's father's brothers felt that he was an ominous person, who killed his parents, and now he killed his own wife, so they gradually distanced themselves from him.

Mi's father was stimulated and collapsed, and his life got worse and worse, and the dignified master was finally reduced to the point where he could only teach homework to the children in the township to barely make ends meet. Mi Yan spent a miserable childhood and adolescence in this kind of pain and downfall. However, when Mi Yan was sixteen years old, a plague broke out in Taiyuan Mansion, and Mi's father was weak and unfortunately contracted the disease and died.

Later, with the mercy and help of Mi's father's classmates, Mi Yan was arranged to enter the county school, and became a classmate with Zeng Cheng. However, how Mi Yan met her sister and made a private lifelong agreement with her, Zeng Cheng didn't know much. Anyway, this guy was stalking during the day, but he was so annoyed that he was finally caught today and beaten up hard, so he could count out the evil anger in his chest.

Zeng Cheng pointed to the back of Lu Huizhong, who had disappeared outside the courtyard gate, and asked the people around him: "Brother Tai, do you know who the son who the inspector just gave away?" ”

The man immediately looked at Zeng Cheng with a disdainful expression, "You don't know who this person is?" He is the eldest son of Lord Lu! ”

Zeng Cheng instinctively buzzed in his head, and said in disbelief: "Really? ”

"The inspector personally gave it away, can it be fake?"

Zeng Cheng felt that the thoughts in his mind were a little confused.

"Then, the person who passed with Grand Prince Lu can be recognized?"

The man tilted his head and thought for a long time, and said from afar: "I've never seen it, but I can stand shoulder to shoulder with Grand Master Lu, also known as brother and brother, and it's not a simple character to think about......"

As for what the man said later, Zeng Cheng couldn't listen to it, his intuition was incredible, and he felt frightened.

What is unbelievable is that Mi Yan and Grand Prince Lu are obviously people from two worlds, how can they be called brothers? What is frightened is that since Mi Yan knows the eldest prince of Lu, and calls him a brother and a brother, and today he just let the family beat him up again, in case this guy borrowed the power of the eldest prince of Lu to seek revenge......

Suddenly, Zeng Cheng heard someone calling his name, and subconsciously responded, it turned out that it was his turn to select.

Zeng Cheng followed the soap into the lobby, and attached the personal information signed by the official as required, but all he thought about was Mi Yan and Lu Dagongzi...... As he was filling in the answers to his questions, he suddenly heard a few soaps whispering.

"Hey, do you know the origin of the poor cuoda who accompanied Lu Gongzi today?"

"What a big move! The rich or noble ...... who intersected with Lu Gongzi"

"Hey, I can see with my own eyes what he fills in, Na Cuo is screaming, yes, yes, called Mi Yan, his parents are dead, he lives outside the mosque, and you don't know who lives outside the mosque......

"Really? The younger brother can see it with his own eyes, and the inspector didn't even look at it, so he stamped the big seal of our criminal envoy on the big nail information! ”

"Alas! It's also a good fate, I don't know how to tie up with Lu Gongzi, and I got a steady thousand taels of silver......"

Zeng Cheng's mind turned over the river, he was already convinced from the mouths of the two soap li, what he just saw in the courtyard was his cousin Mi Yan, it seems that this guy really made friends with the powerful people in the city......

Lu Huizhong and Mi Yan hit it off at first sight, and instead of pulling him to go to Juxian Building, which had just resumed business in the city, to get drunk and rest, Mi Yan was shy in his pocket, and today he relied on this newly sturdy brother Tai to officially become the official jury of the Inspectorate Department, how could he let him spend money and drink.

Mi Yan hesitated for a while, asked Lu Huizhong to wait for a while, and then disappeared at the corner of the street, and after a while, he ran back again, but there was already a heavy ingot of silver in his hand, not to mention ten taels.

Lu Huizhong was quite surprised and asked him where the silver came from, but Mi Yan just smiled and said nothing. So, the two young people who had just met went to Juxian Building side by side, and they really talked about it and rested drunk. The two ** have the meaning of seeing each other and hating each other, and after being full of wine and food, they agreed on a date to talk about it together.

When I returned to the dilapidated home, it was nearly midnight, the dilapidated wooden door was pushed open with a creak, and the groggy Mi Yan stepped in, as if he had stepped back to hell in the sky, and his intuition was like a world away, and the bizarre experience of the day was like a dream.

Mi Yan raised his hand and pinched his thigh, which happened to be pinched in the injured place during the day, and he screamed in pain. Unexpectedly, there was another exclamation, and a figure seemed to be unsteady on its feet and slipped to the ground. Mi Yanjiu was bold, he didn't feel scared at all, and when he stepped forward, he saw that it was his cousin Zeng Cheng!

In the mansion of the general army in the south of the city outside Taiyuan, Li Xin was still fighting at night, and the official documents that could not be processed were piled up on the desk, so he picked up the second batch of jury lists sent by the Yamen of the Inspectorate Department in the evening and looked through them one by one.

He had already discovered that Lu Sizhen had privately raised the bar when selecting jurors, and the people selected in the civil register were all scholars, and those with relatively lowly status such as peasants were not among them, which was also very understandable, if there were some illiterate people in the lobby of the official office to judge the case, those old men would not be able to accept such a terrible thing of sweeping the floor anyway.

This list is similar to the first list, and the people selected are either rich or noble. Suddenly, Li Xin's gaze stopped, and he noticed something different, a boy named Mi Yan, who was neither rich nor expensive! ——

Note: Cuo Da refers to poor and frustrated readers.