May 27, Chenshi, the back door of Qufu.

The tung oil carriage had been waiting here early in the morning, and some people were busy putting luggage on the carriage.

Qu Wenhai went out early in the morning to go to the court, and at this time, Qu Qingxi was the only one in front of the door to see her off.

"Fourth brother ......" Qu Qingxi hesitated and didn't know what to say, after all, he didn't have a talent and fame, no matter whether something happened this time or not, he had no chance to end up, and his situation in this family was not even as good as his two younger brothers.

Qu Qingyan knew what he was hesitating about, "Second brother don't worry, wait for the fourth brother to return home with good news after the autumn of August." ”

"Well, the second brother is waiting for you at home."

The hour was not early, Qu Qingyan said goodbye to Qu Qingxi, her eyes looked like she was looking inside the door, and the Qin family didn't go out to see her off because of the fifteen or two months of the day.

She didn't have the extra strength to sigh, retracted her gaze and took Qianshan into the carriage, and the carriage galloped out of Yongding Gate all the way to the south.

She didn't bother to worry about food and accommodation on the road, and it was easy to rush in the summer days, so the time of six or seven days was shortened to four or five days.

In the year of the autumn examination, there are obviously many more talents in shirts on the roads in Jinan, three or three in twos and twos together, there are those who discuss knowledge, and there are also those who drink and chant right, because there are many people from other places, they found a few restaurants to barely find a spare room.

Before going out, Qu Wenhai stuffed her with two hundred taels of silver tickets, the poor family is rich, as a third-grade member, the junior in the family can't be too tight when he goes out.

He had plenty of money and was in a hurry for several days, so Qu Qingyan opened two upper rooms without hesitation, and let Qianshan and the coachman go to rest first.

They entered the city early, and it was just after the hour, and they still had time to wait outside the door before Yu Youtai went on a mission.

Called Xiao Er to ask for a bucket of hot water, Qu Qingyan quickly freshened up and changed into a neat robe, and then took Qianshan to find Yu Youtai.

Qu Wenhai sent a total of two letters to Jinan Mansion, both of which were rushed to the post station, and the fast horse was incomparable to the carriage, so early the day before, the letter had been sent to Zhou Dechun and Yu Youtai, the prefect of Jinan Prefecture.

Zhou Dechun is an old fritter in officialdom, and it is not as simple as he said in his letter that Qu Qingyan cannot end up in the capital from just a few words in Qu Wenhai's letter.

"Lord Yu, what do you think we should do about this?" Zhou Dechun was a little embarrassed, where could the muddy waters of the capital be touched by local officials like them.

Qu Wenhaixin only said that there must be a heavy thanks, but to what extent this heavy thanks can be heavy, and whether it is worth their adventure is unknown.

The content of the letter Yu Youtai received was similar to Zhou Dechun's, and his serious face frowned slightly, "It's business." ”

Zhou Dechun was a little confused, but Yu Youtai would be extremely difficult to speak whenever he put on a straight face.

"Lord Yu, what do you mean?"

Yu Youtai glanced at him, too lazy to explain, and only dropped one sentence: "I'll talk about it then." ”

Qu Qingyan rushed to the government office of Jinan Mansion with Qu Wenhai's letter, and she didn't know where Yu Youtai worked, so she thought about going to the government office of Jinan Mansion to ask someone first.

She is not a stranger to Jinan Mansion, she has just come to the annual examination the year before, and the streets and alleys are quite familiar, the master and servant rushed all the way to the mansion and were about to find an errand officer to investigate, and they saw Yu Youtai walking out of the door in an official robe.

Qu Qingyan was overjoyed, and hurriedly walked over, "Master Yu! ”

As soon as her voice fell, an official messenger rushed over and set her up with a fire stick.

Qu Qingyan was supported by the two of them, anxiously watching Yu Youtai about to get on the sedan chair, and hurriedly shouted: "Master Yu, student Qu Qingyan has something to hand over to you." ”

This name is familiar, Zhou Dechun just mentioned it, but he didn't expect to meet him so soon, he paused and looked sideways.

"Come here."

Qu Qingyan pushed away the water and fire stick in front of him, and he didn't care about tidying up his robe, and quickly ran over to hand over Qu Wenhai's letter.

There were only two of them in front of the yamen, and Yu Youtai unfolded the letter and read it at a glance, "Follow me." ”

As soon as the letter was received, others rushed over in a sedan chair, and Yu Youtai's house in Jinan Mansion was in the alley next to the mansion, which was a simple three-entry courtyard.

Qu Qingyan followed behind the sedan chair man and almost trotted all the way here, and was slightly panting when he entered the hall.

"Do you want to end up in Qiuqiu, Jinan Mansion?" Yu Youtai's elegant and serious face did not have a trace of superfluous expression, and asked her straight to the point about the purpose of this trip.

Qu Qingyan also replied bluntly: "The student occupies the residence in Jinan Mansion, and according to the system, he should go back here." ”

"If I'm not mistaken, when you went to open the seal, you already had your seat cancelled."

The previous year's annual examination was not only to check the academics of the talents in the province, but also a screening of the autumn season.

If Qu Qingyan hadn't moved back to Kaifeng the year before, there would have been no problem if she wanted to end up this time, but on the contrary, she moved away......

"Yes, the student moved last year, but the occupation cannot be moved, and the student only moved from his hometown." Qu Qingyan dared to come back and take risks because of this, as long as she was still occupied, she should be given a chance to end up according to the system.

Yu Youtai flipped out Qu Wenhai's letter again and read it carefully, and then replied expressionlessly for a long time: "You go back first." ”

Qu Qingyan got up very interestingly: "Master Yu, the student is temporarily living in the Taifeng Restaurant on Nanzikou Street, and the student is leaving." ”

She didn't expect to get Yu Youtai's answer immediately with just a letter from Qu Wenhai, she took Qianshan back to the restaurant and explained: "Tomorrow you go to the street to find a tooth wife, I want to find a house, and live until the end of August, the price is negotiable, but the premise is that it must be clean and not noisy." ”

Even if Yu Youtai has not yet given the result, she has already prepared according to the ability to stay, read books in the room for two days, and on the evening of the third day, she pinched the time to go to the government to find Yu Youtai.

Only this time he walked out of the palace with Zhou Dechun and Zong Handong, the envoy of Shandong Province.

The three of them went out of the house one after the other, and each got into a sedan chair, and the three sedan chairs left together, as if they had agreed to go straight to a certain place.

Qu Qingyan came out from behind the tree, with a faint solemn look on his face.

The person who can wear the official uniform of the third grade in Jinan Mansion can calculate it by pinching his fingers that the complement on the official uniform of Handong is exactly the same as that of Qu Wenhai when he was in Kaifeng.

What is the matter with this person coming to find Yu Youtai at this time?

Qu Qingyan took Qianshan along the road last time all the way to the gate of Yu Youtai's courtyard, knocked on the door and was taken to the hall, drinking tea while waiting for someone.

In the private room on the second floor of Qinghe Building, when the three of them sat down, the pastries and tea had already been arranged, and Xiao Er waited diligently for the three of them to sit down, and confirmed the dishes with Zong Handong, so he retired with Xiaoxiao.

Zong Handong held the teacup and gently signaled to Yu Youtai: "It's rare to invite Yushan once, come, drink a cup of tea instead of wine." ”

Yu Youtai hurriedly picked up the wine glass, and said in his mouth: "Master Zong has tormented the officials." ”

Zong Handong laughed, but didn't say anything anymore, only beckoned the two of them to use some pastries first: "Yushan is rare to come out once, this time I have to accompany him to drink a few more glasses." ”

The wine and food came up slowly, and after a few rounds of pushing the glass and changing the lamp, Zong Handong and Zhou Dechun already had a little flush on their faces.

"Lord Yu, what should we do about what you said Lord Qu explained? It's been a few days, and it seems a bit sluggish not to reply to the message. ”

Zong Handong turned his head to Zhou Dechun and glanced at him, and Zhou Dechun asked casually with a wine glass.

Yu Youtai's face did not change, but his eyes were already confused, and he only looked at him for a long time before asking, "What did Master Zhou just say?" ”

Zhou Dechun's smile froze, is there such a shallow amount of wine here?

"Lord Yu, the lower official wants to ask you about the explanation of Lord Qu in the capital, what should we do?"

"Lord Qu in the capital?" Yu Youtai's eyes rolled slowly, and it took a long time before he replied slowly: "Naturally, it is business, not a law." ”

Zhou Dechun looked at Zong Handong, he really didn't know how to continue, could this person who won the champion speak so strangely?

Zong Handong called Xiao Er and filled the wine for a few people: "Yushan, your amount of wine is really shallow, and you will be drunk after only a few glasses." ”

"I'm not drunk, I can drink another jar."

The drunk person can't listen to others questioning his own amount of alcohol, and he drank the wine glass that Xiao Er had just filled, and knocked on the table again: "It's full." ”

Sure enough, I still drank too much!

Zong Handong looked at Zhou Dechun coldly, only to see Zhou Dechun in a cold sweat, Yu Youtai was serious and withdrawn on weekdays, and rarely interacted with people.

The year before I first arrived in Shandong, I ran all over Shandong, personally supervising the annual examination of various prefectures, and after the annual examination, Zhang Luo this year's big examination, every day there are people in his room, and it is not easy to find him if there is something, this is the first time that several of them have a meal and drink together.

How did he know that Yu Youtai's alcohol consumption was so shallow, and he only knew that he would refuse to drink on weekdays, but he never thought that it would be this reason.

"He wakes up tomorrow, remember to tell him that there is news in the capital, and the name of this Qu Qingyan has been crossed out from the roster of Shuntianfu, I am afraid that it will provoke the nobles, so I don't want to participate in Shandong."

Let's not talk about the position, last year, he was transferred to Beijing to fill the vacancy, and he was a candidate with Qu Wenhai, but in the end, I don't know why Qu Wenhai made up for it, and he still stayed in Shandong.

There are a few people who don't want to enter Beijing, and once they miss that opportunity, they won't be able to find it, not to mention that there is news from Beijing, but no, he doesn't mind giving a pair of this kind of small shoes to Qu Wenhai.

"Master Zong, Lord Yu, the lower official ......" Zhou Dechun knew that once he said this, he would get Zong Handong's cold eyes, but he still said under pressure: "Although Lord Yu doesn't talk much on weekdays, he is very assertive, and the words of the lower official are not of the slightest use." ”

"What are you panicking about, no matter how assertive he is, he is just a fifth-grade official, what are you afraid of."

Zong Handong's eyes became more and more cold, and Zhou Dechun's heart trembled a little.

Of course, he doesn't care about the third-grade general, but the prefect of his fourth-grade is the angry goods caught in the middle.

Is Yu Youtai's five-grade official comparable to those of them who climbed up from the Jiji camp? The serious Chengshun was born in the second year, and he was suspended from the Hanlin Academy, and he came to Shandong to be a student officer, but he was just a foreign talent.

As soon as the three-year term expires and people return to the capital, I am afraid that they will be directly promoted to the fourth grade, or one step to the fourth grade.

Champion, Hanlin, and a promising future, how dare he offend such a person!

Zhou Dechun refused to respond for a long time, and he was extremely depressed in Zong Handong's eyes.

No wonder it's useless to be just a prefect in your fifties!

After a good dinner, when he arrived at the back, Zhou Dechun dog-legged the drunken Yu Youtai helped him to the sedan chair, and carefully told the sedan chair man to get on the sedan chair and go home.

Qu Qingyan waited in the hall until three o'clock before she heard the news of Yu Youtai's return to the house, and when she got up, she saw Yu Youtai enter the door with a flushed face.

A strong smell of wine wafted past her, and she looked up to see that the other party was already seated in the main seat.

A pair of eyes looked at her clearly, without the slightest drunkenness.

"The student has met Master Yu."

"What are you coming from?"

A subordinate served strong tea, and Yu Youtai glanced at the tea bowl and moved away in disgust.

"The students were really worried about what would happen, so they took the liberty of coming here and asking the adults how they could get done." She really can't do it if she begs like flattery, so she can only use this kind of harassment-like behavior to appear in front of the other party's eyes.

"You've moved."

"Yes, but the student's occupation is still there."

It's the same conversation as the day before, and the two of them are playing dumb riddles.

"Go back, don't come again." Yu Youtai's voice was already low, and at this time, after drinking wine and suppressing his voice, Qu Qingyan was stunned, and he was unreliable and heard a little sexy.

She was busy reining herself and secretly despised herself, when did she still think about the timbre.

"Master Yu, this fate is really important to the students."

"How old are you?"

Yu Youtai's question was a little sudden, and although Qu Qingyan was surprised, he was still busy replying: "Back to adults, the student is sixteen this year." ”

"Sixteen," there was a rare smile on his serious face, his voice seemed to be softened by this smile, he raised his eyebrows and looked at Qu Qingyan: "Even if you can't end this time, you will only be nineteen in three years." ”

How can that be the same!

Qu Qingyan was shocked, he couldn't care about anything anymore, got up and knelt down as soon as he lifted his clothes: "My lord, students don't have any more than three years." ”

Whether it was her, Qu Wenhai, or the Qin family, who had been restless until now, none of them could wait for three years.

Qu Qingyan couldn't imagine how much patience Qu Wenhai would have in three years, her status in the mansion was like a flickering candle flame, and she couldn't help a little turmoil.

"Ask the adults to be fulfilled."

She fell to her knees, begging in the posture and manner she minded most.

"Do you know that I received a message from Jingzhong today?"

"Student...... Know. ”

"You should know that your persecution of me in such a begging way will only destroy the last of my friendship with your father." Yu Youtai's cold gaze fell on Qu Qingyan's back, as if he could penetrate there.

Qu Qingyan knelt on the ground motionless, and only replied stubbornly: "Student...... Know. ”