After the two Shangshu adults from the capital entered Huairou City, the Fengxiang in this city changed.

The previous remarks about the sudden collapse of the Li family were actually controversial, and some people were not happy with the Li family's collapse, and they even wanted to maintain this high literati mark, yes, it was a sign, even if the inside had rotted to death. But what is even more tricky is that there are many people in the city talking about what happened to the Li family fifteen years ago, which is not very friendly to the imperial court, so Ji Lingzhou and Zhao Yizhi also accepted a secret order to curb this public opinion, suppress this discussion, and do not allow anyone to take advantage of it.

Therefore, within a few days after the reception banquet, they used their own means and experience to quickly manipulate public opinion, direct the limelight to the Li family's collaborators and treason, and use vague concepts to distinguish the current Li family from the Li family 15 years ago, so that the people have a deep understanding of the current Li family.

And the method they used is also very easy to understand, it is nothing more than that the Li family has experienced a devastating blow and the Li family is just a remote side line, and it is not the same thing as the Li family, a scholarly family that was at its peak back then, and because in the past few years, the Li family led by the Li Baijing brothers no longer has any scholarly temperament, and has completely degenerated into a business family, from the top class of "Shinong Industry and Commerce" to the bottom, and today it has been exposed that they have done such things that insult their ancestors and endanger the country. There is not a single pity at all.

For the dumping of the Li family, the news was like a wing, and quickly spread to the top and bottom of the Qi country and outside the Qi country, and for a while public opinion was boiling, and the literati and writers wrote articles lamenting the noble Li family that was very prosperous in the past, and the merchant circle was even more funny, because of the identity of the Li family, they laughed and talked about the fact that it is better to do business than to study hard, and learn from the Li family.

Of course, there will be some people who really feel the pain of the skin, they are closely related to the Li family's business, they are the buying party, the supply party, these people are scolding and losing business, while ruthlessly changing the object of cooperation, looking for the next direction of profit, and some people have given up the Li family's abandoned son as early as the beginning, and instead set up a more favorable tree.

For example, a few Gentiles I met at the banquet had already widened the line in the capital, and perhaps they had already spoken to an official who knew his face but did not know his heart, and planned even more terrible and huge benefits.

These sudden changes, these undercurrents, and these deceitful deceits, are no longer in Wei Shaoguang's eyes and heart, she honestly stays in Lizheng Yuan to read books every day, takes care of the noble patients downstairs, and prepares for next year's imperial examination in rare silence.

It has been many days since June, the moon is gradually becoming mellow, and the weather is gradually getting hotter.

The imperial court was very strict with the execution of the Li family, all the adult men of the Li family were beheaded after the autumn, and all the young men and women were exiled to the frontier, deprived of the family and fell into slavery.

Wei Shaoguang shrugged at this result, saying that she expected it, but she still felt that she should cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and the other one who was very concerned about this matter was Li Youguang.

His whole family died at the hands of the Li family, and this revenge for killing his father should be avenged, but under the persuasion of Wei Shaoguang, he still gave up his original plan, he practiced martial arts and poison in the barge garden, and quietly accepted the result.

The matter here is about to end, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu received an interview team from the Great Calendar, and went back to the capital with Yan Bai first, while Fu Weiren and Zhao Yizhi, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, also left Huairou City and went to Shengjing City in Kyoto after dealing with the remaining problems in Huairou City.

Wei Shaoguang's information and analysis of the outside world were only on paper, and she survived the humid and sultry summer while studying, preparing for the imperial examination, and writing various analysis reports.

When the first autumn leaves fell, Li Youguang said goodbye to Shaoguang and went to the capital, and according to certain preparations, he went to the bottom one step in advance, established a stronghold, and only waited for Wei Shaoguang to go to the meeting two years later.

Ji Tao followed Xiahou Ming to learn martial arts, and Wei Shaoguang and Jiang Seventeen would take the time to teach him some theoretical knowledge and more superb light skills and mental techniques.

When winter came, Jiang Qiqi left Huairou City again, leaving the southern city that would not snow without knowing the return date, and returned to the northwest, preparing to celebrate the New Year with that huge family.

Li Zhengyuan was unusually empty for a while, representing the cold rain that came in winter and was about to fall every three or five times, Wei Shaoguang wore winter clothes and walked idly in the somewhat desolate garden, casually looking at everything here, starting from the Mirror Flower Pavilion in full bloom, to the begonia tree that had fallen low leaves in front of the door of Jiubaiju, and finally arrived at the barge garden with evergreen bamboo leaves all around, shaking the light and sighing and pushing open the door and walking into the yard, her fingers holding the oil-paper umbrella were a little red, It was because the cold air eroded her body temperature, Xiahou Ming and Ji Tao were standing under the porch and talking about martial arts, when they saw Shaoguang walking back from outside, the two stopped talking and saluted Wei Shaoguang together.

"Childe."

Wei Shaoguang's gaze gradually focused, and she smiled slightly, "Xiahou Ming, Ji Tao, what were you two talking about just now?" It looks very lively. ”

Ji Tao wanted to speak, but Xia Houming quickly stopped him, he took a small step forward and lowered his head and replied, "We were discussing the New Year just now. ”

"Oh? But it's still early, do you have any great ideas? ”

Shaoguang is very interested in this, this is her first year under the mountain, it should be more interesting.

"We want to make dumplings, hang red lanterns, and set off fireworks with Childe, I wonder if Childe can agree?"

Wei Shaoguang pondered for a moment and happily agreed, "Then please teach me then." ”

The three of them laughed happily together.

There is still some warmth in this slightly cold Jiangnan winter.

Wei Shaoguang touched the stove in his hand and thought in a trance, sitting by the window in the tea room, facing the cold wind and looking lazily at the bleak scene outside, the fragrance of tea rose in the house, and the lingering fragrance of black tea almost became the taste of Wei Shaoguang for a whole winter.

This is a warm New Year that only the master and servant spend together, this is a two years of non-stop participation in the imperial examination, and this is a two years that are destined to be very extraordinary and ordinary.

The rare spring exam, autumn exam, spring exam and the final palace exam were held within two consecutive years, and Wei Shaoguang was like a machine born for the exam, all the way from Huairou to the capital.

This is where her journey officially begins.