Wen Lingjiao's love couldn't be more straightforward, Qiu Yizhi really couldn't refuse, but Emperor Zheng Rong's nurturing grace to him couldn't be easily disappointed.

So after thinking about it, he finally said: "Please, please Miss wait a few more days, as short as a year and a half, but no more than two or three years, when I make a great contribution to the saint, all the kindness has been repaid to the emperor, and I also have a background for my brothers, and then how about living in seclusion in the mountains and forests with Miss?" ”

Speaking of this, Qiu Yizhi was already full of tears: "This is a little reluctant invitation in the next little bit, and please Miss can fulfill it!" ”

Wen Lingjiao is not the kind of person who is rude and willful, and does not understand human feelings, the so-called "people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes", she, the holy daughter of the Tianzun Sect who has been in the Tianzun Sect for more than ten years, knows it all too well - far away in the rivers and lakes, even more so in the temple, Qiu Yizhi has a lot of shackles, and it is reasonable that he can't get out easily, if he agrees lightly, it will be unconvincing.

So Wen Lingjiao nodded vigorously and said, "Okay, I promise, I'll wait, I can wait!" ”

Wen Lingjiao's bright and delicate words reached Qiu Yi's ears, which made him suddenly happy, and immediately wiped away the tears that were still rolling in his eyes: "Okay, I also promise Miss that there will be no attachment at that time, and I will not disappoint Miss!" ”

Qiu Yizhi and Wen Lingjiao were talking, but they saw a person rushing over from a distance, ran to Qiu Yizhi and stopped in front of him, bowed his hand, and said: "The adults used to enjoy the flowers here, so that the villain can find it." ”

It turned out that Wang Lao Wu was here.

Qiu Yizhi was immersed in the oath with Wen Lingjiao, and when he saw that Wang Lao Wu, who was incomprehensible, interrupted their mountain alliance and sea oath, although he couldn't scold, his face was not good: "Old Wu, what are you doing here in such a hurry?" Are you in a hurry to be reincarnated? The tone was rather stiff.

Wang Lao Wu thought to himself, Lord Qiu also gave me a candy heart bun this morning, why is it not yet noon, and he slapped it over? He didn't know the joints, so he was naturally ignorant, so he had to report tremblingly: "What's that, Zhao Tou'er asked me to come over and inform the adults, saying that Mr. Lin had written the recruitment notice and posted it at the city gate, and asked the adults to go over and see it!" ”

This is a major event that cannot be delayed.

Qiu Yizhi nodded: "I know, you go back and tell Brother Zhao, just say that I will be there in a while." ”

He watched Wang Lao Wu turn around and run down, then turned his head to Wen Lingjiao and said, "If Miss is fine, you can also go over with me to see the excitement." After reading it, it's not too late for me to have dinner together. ”

Wen Lingjiao had no reason to object, and said, "It's okay, then ask Gongzi to lead the way." ”

The two of them walked a few steps one after the other, and Wen Lingjiao suddenly raised her voice and greeted, "He'er, where are you?" ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she listened to the bottom of the answer from the corner of the wall: "It's ...... coming" The words were full of grievances and resentments.

After a while, Guo saw He'er walking forward unhappily and slowly, and there was a flush next to his two eyes, obviously crying bitterly.

Wen Lingjiao didn't seem to be paying attention, and said coldly: "He'er, come with me." ”

He'er didn't speak, but went back to the house with her head down to get some belongings, and followed.

Qiu Yizhi was soft-hearted, and when she saw He'er's pitiful appearance, she felt a little unbearable, so she said to her: "He'er, don't be sad, there are some things, you know, Miss Wen also knows, even if you are in the next place, you can more or less guess some of them." Whoever is good to you and who is not good to you, you must always weigh and weigh, and you must always rely on your own conscience in life and work. Right? ”

Qiu Yizhi's words were incoherent, and the preface did not match the afterword, but it was a rare proverb to He'er's ears, which made her sobbing and nodding her head.

The three of them walked slowly towards the gate of the city, and saw two or three hundred people gathered at the gate, looking up at a two-foot-square notice like a nestling waiting to be fed. However, most of the onlookers did not know how to read, and although the notice was clearly written in black and white, they could not even understand the meaning of a single line.

After watching it out of thin air for a long time, someone finally nominated an old man who was setting up a stall at the city gate to write letters, and said to him: "Teacher Fan, you are a great talent in this county, hurry up and read to us what is written on the notice, it's better than what we are in a hurry here." ”

The old man surnamed Fan had actually been waiting for others to ask him to read the notice, but he wanted to set up a shelf and said, "No time, no time." I have read a notice to you here to delay my business, shall I drink the northwest wind today? ”

"Hey! Teacher Fan, where is this? Another person said, "Come on, come on, how about we get together two pennies and buy a bowl of rice wine for Teacher Fan to drink?" ”

Everyone listened to his call and agreed in unison, and after a while, the person who picked the head accepted five or six hundred copper coins, put them in the blanket, shook them twice in front of the old man Fan, and said with a smile: "Teacher Fan, these copper plates are enough for half a tael of silver, let alone a bowl of wine, it is enough to put a table in the restaurant next door, right?" ”

Old man Fan was already smiling when he heard the extremely pleasant sound coming from the coat: "Enough, enough." "Reach out and take it.

The man was very clever, and immediately raised the blanket high and said, "Teacher Fan, you read the paperwork for us first, and I will naturally give you money after reading." You see so many people here, are you still afraid that I will run away? ”

Old man Fan thought that this person was reasonable, and as soon as he agreed, he squinted a pair of presbyopia, looked the document up and down several times, but sighed and said, "Our new county master!" People are good people, but I don't know where to rely on an unlucky master, this article is written in a nondescript manner, it is better to have an extra silver or two, and find me to write it! ”

Before he finished speaking, the crowd immediately burst into laughter, and someone said, "Teacher Fan is talking nonsense again." Although our county lord is young, he is also a Jinshi, a protégé of the Son of Heaven, right? Teacher Fan has been a showman all his life, and he is embarrassed to criticize the county master? ”

This sentence touched Fan Lao's headache, and an old face turned red, and said, "Don't believe it. To write a document, of course, you need to write in Chinese, you have to use four or six prose, you have to pay attention to the rhyme, you have to be even, you have to avoid the sacred, and it is best to use some allusions or words...... Look at what this document is written, like a storyteller, it's hard to get into the hall of elegance, it's hard to get into the hall of elegance......"

Old man Fan was about to continue, but the onlookers couldn't bear it anymore, and said one after another: "Teacher Fan, we have to think of ways to earn it back after we make money, you can read it quickly, I still have to go to work in the afternoon!" ”

"How much do you get paid for your work? Two pennies, can you listen to the private school teacher give you a lecture? There seemed to be a hint of sarcasm in his tone.

Another person said bluntly: "Listen to anyone's class, you can't listen to Teacher Fan, do you want to be a showman for the rest of your life?" ”

After saying that, there was another sound of ridicule in the crowd.

Qiu Yizhi hid in the crowd from afar, listening to their laughter, but there were different ups and downs in his heart: last year's Enke exam, it was his master Zhong Likuang who was the chief examiner, and when he was admitted to Jinshi, he was already particularly concerned about the insights in the article, and he didn't attach much importance to grammar and rhetoric. However, the literary style of the Han Dynasty for more than 200 years has become increasingly exaggerated, and it is difficult to change the habit, and it is not possible to turn it around by one or two scientific examinations - the most pitiful thing is this old Xiucai who writes letters for a living, I am afraid that his rhetoric is already poor, and his views are also very dull, and he is destined to have no chance to lift people in this life.

Qiu Yizhi was thinking about it, but he heard the leader of Fang Cai say loudly: "Okay, okay, you don't know a single big character, are you embarrassed to laugh at Teacher Fan?" Then he said to the man surnamed Fan, "Teacher Fan, don't throw your schoolbag, hurry up and finish reading the notice, we can also do work and farm." ”

Old man Fan's old face was already as red as pig's liver, so he quickly took over the conversation, agreed to two sentences, and then stepped forward and read according to the notice:

The people of San'in County listened. Now it is a peaceful and prosperous era, but there are inevitably mountain bandits and water bandits, and I heard that there are Japanese robbers in the state, which are very fierce. You are all people from good families, and you don't provoke others, and others come to your door, but you can't let others beat them. Therefore, the county has recruited 200 people from the township this time, and you don't need to farm, work, or do business, and you can eat a piece of imperial grain if you are in charge of protecting the territory and the people. ”

Qiu Yizhi listened to this document on the sidelines and it was really very easy to understand, so that these illiterate people could understand it, and I couldn't help but praise Lin Shuhan for thinking thoughtfully, but I heard someone among the onlookers say: "There is such a good thing?" I can eat the imperial grain, what else do I do for the landlord of Zhou? ”

Old man Fan, who was standing in front of the notice, saw that the person who spoke had also ridiculed him, so he returned Fang Cai's ridicule to the man without diminishing: "Want to eat the emperor's grain? Do you deserve it too? Listen, there are also conditions for the county lord to recruit people: first, he must be upright, and no one who is a traitor or a fool in the market will be used; Second, they should be in good health, and they should not be used by anyone who is weak or sick; Third, we must have a strong temperament, and we don't use anything that can't endure hardships and can't endure hard work; Fourth, there should be someone in the family to take care of it, and there is no need for any single transmission or only child in the family. ”

Someone in the crowd said: "How can you recruit a few people to be soldiers, and you are still so particular?" How many can meet these conditions in Sanyin County? Why don't you go farming? ”

Old man Fan listened, and said with a smile: "Your kid is also the life of farming, listen to the salary offered by our county lord: two taels of silver per person per month, double when marching and fighting, eat and drink without spending money, behead the enemy, make war achievements, and have another reward!" ”

When everyone heard this, they were already exclaimed-Shanyin County is a poor county in the south of the Yangtze River, a family of food and clothing, five or six people, and the annual expenses are only about two taels of silver, and now the county lord's salary is actually two taels of silver per month - this temptation is really too great.

Just when there was silence in the crowd, and everyone was thinking about whether they were enough to earn this military salary, Qiu Yizhi slowly walked into the crowd, waved at everyone, and said: "Fathers and fellow villagers, the officials are polite!" ”

When everyone saw it, they immediately exclaimed, and a few of them who reacted quickly hurriedly knelt down, and kept calling Qiu Yizhi's official secrets.

Qiu Yizhi hurriedly called everyone up, and said with a smile: "Everyone has heard this notice clearly." This official is sincerely recruiting warriors, although the conditions listed above are more stringent, but I also have 100,000 people in Shanyin County, 50,000 strong men, can't I draw these two hundred? ”

Qiu Yizhi saw that everyone was still suspicious, so he said: "This official speaks from the bottom of his heart, if everyone doesn't believe it, if this official comes out with some sincerity." ”