"Disrespectful and disrespectful, I didn't expect it to be the head of the Shen case!"

Shopkeeper Wang immediately paid tribute, he has also seen countless people rushing to take the exam in the club, and theoretically a talent is nothing.

But Shen Yichen is different, he is the son of Chengguo Gong, and several poems have been transmitted to Jingshi, which can be said to be famous all over the world.

Coupled with the name of the head of the Tianfu Xiao Sanyuan case, the average lifter is really not as good as his show.

Not only the shopkeeper Wang, but even several other guests in the lobby also stood up and hugged their fists after hearing Shen Yichen's name.

"I just arrived in Beijing, but I didn't expect to meet Shen here, it's really an honor."

"Case Chief Shen came here so early, it seems that he has the confidence to pass the township test, and he went directly to the Beijing Division to prepare for the test?"

"It should be, how can you not have the confidence to be successful when you are young?"

There was even a literati who came to Shen Yichen's table, bowed his hand and said: "In Xia Yingtian, Xu Fengyuan, I have heard the name of Brother Shen for a long time, and it is really a blessing to see it today!" ”

Seeing that the other party was a lifter, Shen Yichen also got up and saluted back: "Brother Xu praises it, I am really ashamed to be here." ”

"I wonder if Shen can enjoy a thin noodle and have a good time with Zai?"

After the man named Xu Fengyuan finished speaking, he turned around and brought a pot of wine from the counter, ready to sit down and drink with Shen Yichen.

Looking at the other party's posture full of social, Shen Yichen was a newcomer, and it was difficult for someone who was unfamiliar with life to refuse, so he could only nod and agree.

In this way, Xu Fengyuan sat down at Shen Yichen's table, but he was familiar with himself, and this guy's emotional intelligence was quite high.

took the initiative to take the money for the table, and asked the shopkeeper to add a few more good dishes, so that Shen Yichen didn't know what to say.

"Brother Shen really can't hide it, your song "Sword Like a Rainbow" has been read countless times, and it can be described as the love of your life, I really don't know how you wrote such a good sentence."

When Xu Fengyuan said this, his eyes showed the kind of frenzy of seeing idols, and it seemed that what the love of his life said was true.

"The article is made by nature, and the magic hand gets it."

Shen Yichen replied with a smile, how to say this thing clearly, can only use Lu You's poems to perfunctory.

"Where did the inspiration for Brother Shen's "Jin Mingchi" come from, the words describe the woman's expectations and grievances in the deep boudoir, I am afraid that Song Zhiliu will have to bow down."

"Could it be that Brother Shen has been in the gentle township on the bank of the Qinhuai River all the year round, so he can have such a deep understanding?"

If Shen Yichen could still be perfunctory in the previous question, he was speechless when he asked this time.

It's not good to admit it, and if you don't admit it, you can't explain it, Shen Yichen secretly regretted it in his heart at the moment, he knew that he was a fanatical fan of himself, so he shouldn't have agreed to sit down.

Fortunately, at this time, Ah Niu, who has always been a man of few words, came out to relieve the siege and said: "Don't talk nonsense, Brother Chen never visits the brothel of the Qinglou." ”

"Oh, and that happens?"

Obviously, Ah Niu's words surprised Xu Fengyuan, a person who has never visited a brothel in a green building, but can write a woman's deep feelings, which is really amazing.

Seeing that Xu Fengyuan was becoming more and more interested, Shen Yichen had no choice but to quickly change the topic and ask: "Brother Xu, you are already a child, and you arrived at the hall so early for next year's Spring Festival?" ”

The shopkeeper asked Shen Yichen this question before, which was just used to change the topic.

"I hope Brother Shen won't joke, the reason why I arrived at the hall in advance is because my father happened to be doing business and the cargo ship happened to go north, so he came over by the way."

After the merchants?

At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang formulated the order of "Shinong Industry and Commerce", and the status of merchants was the end of the four people, only slightly higher than the status of slaves and maids.

Although the merchants were not forbidden to participate in the imperial examinations, they were influenced by the policies of the early Ming Dynasty, and the concept of "low status" of merchants was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and even in the early Ming Dynasty, they were regarded as untouchables.

However, with the economic development of the Ming Dynasty, some policies that emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce were gradually loosened, and the status of merchants began to rise. In the Xuande period, the system of business introduction and store calendar began to be gradually abandoned and no longer implemented, and the status of merchants was basically close to normal at this time.

Of course, this so-called normality is in front of the people at the bottom, after all, rich is the uncle. But in the scholarly class, merchants are still the object of contempt, and even the sons of merchants will be inferior.

That's why Xu Fengyuan said Mo jokes, he was worried that his identity would be looked down upon by Shen Yichen.

For this concern, Shen Yichen naturally smiled, he himself was a servant son who was not included in the genealogy, and theoretically had a lower status than the son of Shangjia. If it weren't for the banner of Chengguogong, it is estimated that there would be more people who look down on it.

Seeing that Shen Yichen did not have any contempt for his identity as the son of a businessman, Xu Fengyuan was even more happy at this time.

is worthy of being his idol, and the pattern of Shen's case head is admirable!

Then Shen Yichen and Xu Fengyuan chatted a little more, and the slightly more important thing was that they learned that the examiners of this year's Shuntianfu Township Examination were Zhou Xu and Wang Yining.

In the previous imperial examinations of Tianfu, Shen Yichen could be said to have tasted the benefits of being familiar with the examiner, and he wondered if he should take this opportunity to also give a greeting to these two or something.

If you get appreciated, the chances of winning the prize are doubled.

It may be that Xu Fengyuan's self-cooked personality is too eloquent, and Shen Yichen, who has always tasted superficially, rarely drank too much, and he couldn't even remember how he returned to the room.

When he opened his eyes again, it was already early the next morning.

Rubbing his head that ached faintly after a hangover, Shen Yichen walked out of the room and asked the shopkeeper to make a sobering soup.

And asked him to prepare the towels and hot water again, and after Shen Yichen was ready to wash up, he went to the Chengguo Mansion in Jingshi to visit his cheap Lao Tzu.

After drinking the sobering soup and taking a bath, washing away the smell of sweat and wine, Shen Yichen changed into clean clothes again, and then walked out of the room and called Ah Niu, ready to go to the Chengguo Mansion in Beijing.

There is a saying about the layout of the Ming Dynasty, which is called "the east is rich and the west is expensive". There are records that the imperial city of the Ming Dynasty is outside the Donghua Gate, the Zhongguan is outside the Xi'an Gate, and the rest of the Qing, the Temple, and the Zhulang Cao of Taiwan Province are inside the Xuanwu Gate.

The main officials all lived near the Xuanwu Gate in the inner city, which naturally formed the so-called "Xigui" pattern.

However, Shen Yichen is going to the core imperial city, compared with the folk sayings, this is the real place of princes and relatives, but the people don't have the opportunity to see it.

Beep Pavilion

The Chengguo Mansion of Jingshi was not too far from the Yingtian Hall, and it was not too far away from the Yingtian Guild Hall, and it was not long before the mansion was reached all the way west.

Compared with the Chengguo Mansion in Nanjing, the Jingshi Mansion is obviously larger and more magnificent. Because Yingtian belongs to the ancient capital, many of the mansions of the princes and lords are renovated and expanded on the old buildings, and the foundation is relatively poor.

The predecessor of Jingshi was Yuan Dadu, which itself was built in accordance with the standards of the imperial capital, and Zhu Di built a lot of construction in order to move the capital, and various planning standards had to be updated, which naturally made it more grandiose.

Shen Yichen came to the corner gate, took out his own greeting note and handed it to the porter and said, "Shen Yichen, a member of the natural life, will visit, and there will be a message from Brother Lao." ”

I thought that after the other party accepted the post, he would go to pass it on to Cheng Guogong, and he just had to wait.

As a result, Shen Yichen never expected that this worship post would be handed over, and the other party didn't even mean to reach out to pick it up, but said coldly: "I didn't make an appointment in advance, and there are no outsiders in the Guogong Mansion." ”

"So how do I make an appointment?"

Shen Yichen didn't embarrass the porter, but asked how to do it.

"Go to the corner room and fill out a form, and then just wait."

"Dare to ask the little brother, how long do you have to wait?"

"I don't know, but it's possible for a student like you to be born in ten or eight years."

Shen Yichen was stunned when he heard this sentence, as the saying goes, the prime minister has seven officials in front of the door, and he has seen it today, which is obviously an order to expel customers.

Ah Niu behind him also had a feeling of being tricked, and said in a dissatisfied tone: "Who has to wait ten or eight years to see a guest, aren't you making fun of people?" ”

Originally, the porter was just indifferent, but when he heard Ah Niu say this, a contemptuous expression appeared on his face.

"What a noble status is Grandpa, how can any cat and dog be seen, and just want to pay homage to all his life?"

"To tell you the truth, military generals with three ranks, civil officials below the fifth rank, have no qualifications to communicate with each other. I can talk to you about the appointment, I am already in a good mood today, if you dare to make noise in front of the Guogong Mansion again, I will immediately ask the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division to send you to prison! ”

Ah Niu was originally a tendon as his name suggested, and now he was even more furious: "Who do you say, a cat and a dog, Brother Chen is the son of the grandfather of the country, why can't he enter his mansion?" ”

"Isn't there something wrong with your brain, just now this one said that his name is Shen Yichen, could it be that you don't even know what Grandpa Guo's surname is?"

The porter showed an expression of looking at a fool, Chengguo's surname is Zhu, this young man's surname is Shen, and if you want to recognize your father, you should change your surname first.

At the same time, the dispute at the corner gate also attracted the attention of the guards of the public mansion, if Shen Yichen and the two planned to continue arguing, I am afraid they would have to be taken down on the spot.

So seeing this scene, Shen Yichen stopped Ah Niu's impulse to theorize, it was obvious that the group of family members in the Jingshi Chengguo Mansion did not know that Zhu Yong still had a son in Yingtian Mansion.

After all, it is not a glorious thing to have an illegitimate child who is not included in the genealogy, Ying Tianfu can't hide it, and it is much easier for the Jingshi, who is thousands of miles away, to be unknown.

So Shen Yichen took out Zhu Yong's family letter from his arms, which had the private seal of Chengguo Gong, as long as the porter was not blind, he could understand that the person who had this kind of family letter was definitely a person close to the government.

"I have a letter from home, you take a closer look at the seal on it."

With the mentality of being suspicious, the porter glanced at the private seal on it, and soon his face changed, and the family seal of the Chengguo Mansion was theoretically something that no one dared to imitate.

Even if there is, it is impossible for such a bold person to be in front of the Chengguo Mansion.

But it was too strange, and one of the porters whispered twice in the other's ear, and the latter immediately ran into the house.

Soon, a middle-aged man wearing a robe similar to a housekeeper walked out, without identifying the private seal on the letter, just glanced at Shen Yichen, and immediately bowed and said: "This group of subordinates has no eyes, I don't know that Shen Gongzi is coming, Grandpa, he has been waiting for you for a long time." ”

As soon as this sentence came out, the jaws of several concierges who had been very disdainful of Shen Yichen before were about to fall in surprise.

There is still such an outrageous thing in the world, the dignified Duke of the Ming Dynasty, there is really a son with a different surname?