The township test held in August of the second year of Tianshun was nothing for Feng Zhou.

It is no different from the children's test, the same worship to the Temple of Literature, and enjoy the test of Wenqu Xingjun.

As for the various decorations in the Gongyuan, there have been all kinds of grief Daiyu, which is not worth mentioning at all for Feng Zhou.

Sure enough, a few days later, when the osmanthus flowers were fragrant, after the autumn list was released, he became a jinshi of the Ming Dynasty and obtained the qualification to enter Beijing to take the exam in the coming year.

The ranking is a few places below Xie Yuan, which is not eye-catching, but it is enough.

Next, he returned to Dingxing County, dealt with real estate, said goodbye to friends, and killed a random person - Du Liangsheng and his gambling house team, how many evils they have done, how many evils they have done, it is time to go to Xitian to report.

At the same time, you can buy a good horse as a means of transportation.

It's not that he didn't buy it before, but before he killed Du Liangcai again, he heard the news that the mule and horse caravan had been coming from the grassland, bringing very majestic and good horses, which were several times better than the local horses sold because of the imperial horse administration.

Because the north of the capital was often saturated, in order to obtain greater profits and open up a broader market, this caravan came to Dingxing.

In the afternoon of this day, Feng Zhou strolled to the mule and horse market, found the courtyard where the mule and horse caravans lived, and stepped in.

Because it was the first time to come to the place where Ma Zheng was promoted, this caravan brought all good horses, and they were very clean, and the price was also very good.

For example, the horse in front of Feng Zhou, the whole body is like black satin, shiny and shiny, only the four hooves are white, the back is long, the waist is short and straight, and the joints and tendons of the limbs are developed strongly.

In general, this horse is a rare good horse in the Central Plains, and it is a romance buried in a man's bones, and its price is naturally very reasonable at more than five hundred taels of silver.

"Hey, father, can I buy this?"

A young man who had just grown a light cyan beard on his lips excitedly circled around the "Treading Cloud Tree" and turned his head to his father and asked.

Before his father, who was dressed in satin, could speak, a middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper next to him bowed and said: "Young master, the old man and the old lady said before that if it is an ordinary good horse, it will be managed by our subordinates, but a good horse like this needs to be handled by the young master himself, so that the Zhao family will not fall into the ancestral style." ”

As the saying goes, the fifth generation of a gentleman is a failure, so many families are very strict with the cultivation of family children in order to continue the family for you.

Reading and knowing etiquette and gaining fame are only part of it, participating in practice, operating up and down, and not being fooled by others are the basic requirements for the prosperity of the family.

But no matter how well a young boy can manage the family business, it is impossible for him to handle and serve a horse himself.

But in fact, for the Zhao family, spending five hundred taels of silver to buy a horse would only attract the covetousness of other big families.

Although the Zhao family is strong, it must not become the target of public criticism.

This is the principle of family affairs.

Hearing the steward's words, Zhao Detian's face collapsed, he sighed, and took his palm away from the horse sullenly, as if he was still nostalgic for the silky touch just now.

Standing on the sidelines, the steward naturally understood, still with a professional smile, he had already seen that this family was not like buying this horse, but at least he could buy one or two other good horses.

In the golden autumn of September, a horse sale commission worth ten taels of silver can make this guy's life much better - provided that this business is completed, of course...

"Driver, can you tell me about the cars here?"

Feng Zhou interrupted the horse seller's thoughts, and said gently, "I want to know more." ”

The horse seller turned around, just glanced at it, and guessed the upper limit of Feng Zhou's purchasing power from many aspects such as his ordinary clothes, ordinary bearing, and too young age.

is another poor talent who has no money and comes to see the world.

The horse seller was unhappy for a while, he stared at the father and son just now, but he didn't have time to greet a poor scholar.

Just when he wanted to tell a lie and send away the sealed boat, the young man suddenly said, "Uh... Brother Feng?"

"Brother Zhao?" Feng Zhou was a little surprised, at the same time, the influential figures of Yuelai Academy had a conflict last year, and they all participated in the township examination in the past August, so they were naturally very familiar with it—although Zhao Detian was only familiar with this exam.

Zhao Detian smiled, for this classmate who is both civil and military, he always has an ulterior sense of superiority, what is the use of your good brain?

Calculate that you were admitted to the Jinshi and became an alternate official, so you thought you could be an official?

I heard that I had to go to the gambling house to earn silver taels, and I was really a person who couldn't get on the table.

He smiled slightly, trying not to expose his subtle superiority as much as possible, and said politely: "Hey, Brother Zhao, you also came to see the horse?"

Feng Zhou nodded and replied, "Well, I'm just going to take a spin casually." ”

"Ha, then good luck, after all, like us who often travel far and wide, it is a pity not to have a good horse to walk. ”

Zhao Detian grinned at Feng Zhou, then turned around and left, leaving a sentence, "I'll go first, if you have time, you can go outside the city together." ”

The horse seller rolled his eyes, and while leading Zhao Detian's family to another place, he said to a certain guy with a sad face in the corner of the car dealership hall: "Li Xiaogang, brother, can you come and greet this gentleman for me?" I can't leave for the time being. ”

The guy named Li Xiaogang dragged over, took over the obligation to greet Feng Zhou, and said weakly: "This gentleman, are you going to know about this horse?"

"That's it. ”

Li Xiaogang closed his eyes and recited the situation of this snow-treading black horse, "Sir, this horse is from Tumut River, three years old this year, and he is a local nobleman.....

Feng Zhou interrupted the other party and asked directly, "Is there a five-year-old?"

"Huh?" Li Xiaogang didn't react for a while, and Feng Zhou had to repeat his question: "Is there a five-year-old? ”

"....." Li Xiaogang grew his mouth, stared at a sealed boat dressed in ordinary clothes, couldn't hold back a fart for a long time, and it took a long time before he woke up like a dream, and nodded like garlic, "Yes, some are just five-year-old treading clouds, worth six hundred taels of silver......"

Six hundred taels of silver is not a small amount, and it is worth the fifty years of hard work of a horse seller.

"No problem," Feng Zhou indifferently took out a few silver tickets from his pocket, and said in the ghostly eyes of his fellow Li Xiaogang: "I can pay at any time, where can I settle the bill?"

After the time of three incense sticks, Zhao Detian finally persuaded him to buy a jujube red horse for one hundred taels of silver.

Just as he triumphantly led the jujube red horse out of the courtyard gate, ready to gallop on the horse, the extremely beautiful cloud-stepping black horse slowly ran out and stopped in front of him.

On horseback, Feng Zhou sat on it, smiling, "Brother Zhao." ”

“....... Brother Feng. ”

"I'll go first, if you go out of the city, you can greet me, I'm free these days. ”

“...... Good. ”

Zhao Detian replied absentmindedly.

But an unprecedented sense of frustration rose in my heart.

I really owe it, why did you provoke him just now!

I hate going out of town the most!