Rong Lan smiled and gave Xu Zhizhi a salute in return, and said, "I just said that Miss is very talented, but I haven't heard of your name in Yanjing City, and it is really a candidate for the exam, so I really guessed correctly." ”

Guess her?

Did this woman say it casually, or did she mean something?

Xu Zhizhi chuckled lightly and said tentatively: "What kind of talent, it's just a little clever." However, Miss Yung is mysterious and even more impressive. ”

"Miss Jean smiled, but I don't have the surname Rong, my surname is Yan, my name is Rong Lan, a person from Yanjing, 20 years old this year." When Rong Lan saw her asking, he didn't pretend to be stupid, but confessed unusually unusually, "I don't know Miss's name?" ”

It turned out to be surnamed Yan?

Xu Zhizhi was a little surprised.

As far as she knew, in the country of Yanlai, there was a serious polarization between nobles and commoners. However, all the descendants of the emperor's relatives are forbidden to serve as officials through the imperial examination.

Usually these princesses and daughters have been born with a fortune, and when they reach a certain age, they will have corresponding ribbons; The descendants of the descendants can be directly crowned kings and lords, and the descendants of the collateral lineage will be demoted to the title of official according to the corresponding status.

They are all raised by the state treasury, and their surnames are a symbol of their status.

But Yan Ronglan's surname is Yan, but he openly came to participate in the imperial examination!

It can be seen that her name is very mysterious.

Xu Zhizhi pondered for a moment and replied: "Under Xu Zhizhi, 15 years old, from Baishui Village. ”

"Huh?"

When Yan Ronglan heard this, he snorted lightly, and then looked at her in surprise, "So Pei Shaozhang, the dean of Baishui Academy, is your ......?" ”

"It's under the teacher." Xu Zhizhi replied calmly.

She has long known about the teacher, I heard that she was talented when she was young, but she was stubborn, and she was proud of her talents, although she won three yuan in the imperial examination and became a sensation in the capital, but after entering the officialdom, her career has been repeatedly frustrated, and she is unwilling to bend to meet her will, and she is often suppressed.

The teacher also disdained the deceit in the officialdom, so he simply resigned from the official position, traveled all over the north and south of Yanlai and began to study water conservancy projects, and finally met the current husband in Baishui Town, so he settled there and founded Baishui Academy.

To say that Baishui Academy can be famous in the capital, it is not only the credit of Teacher Shaozhang.

Speaking of which, before Xu Zhizhi, the teacher also had a student, that is, her senior sister, named Zhou Mingyu. In the spring three years ago, the senior sister and the teacher were in the same three yuan as they were back then, and the master and apprentice became a good story, so Baishui Academy became famous.

It's just that the senior sister's official fortune seems to have inherited the twists and turns of the teacher, and it has been three years since she won the top prize, but now she is still trapped in the position of the sixth grade of the Hanlin Academy, which is only one level higher than the magistrate of the seventh grade.

I haven't moved a nest in the past three years.

Seeing that the same period that was worse than her, one by one, they were either transferred out or moved inward, and they all climbed on her head. And Xu Zhizhi, the senior sister, sat firmly in place, which was not easy.

Before she entered Beijing, the teacher had instructed her to let her go to see Zhou Mingyu after the exam, and I heard that the other party also had the idea of resigning and returning to her hometown to give up on herself.

Xu Zhizhi only felt that he hoped that he would not follow in the footsteps of these two people.

"I see." Yan Ronglan nodded suddenly in realization, "Maybe you are the third champion of Yan Lai Kingdom!" ”

Xu Zhizhi smiled silently and reminded her very kindly, "Xie Yuan of my township test has someone else. ”

Yan Ronglan: "Forehead ......"