People all over the world say that Qingzhou is the place where scholars come out, although they can't open the imperial examination to select good talents as in ancient times, but those who have excellent grades in the college can be recommended to the officialdom around the world.

As the highest place in Qingzhou officialdom, the state capital city is the first choice for many scholars, where not only can you show your ambitions, but also accumulate some money to support a family, you must know that the state capital city is not generally high, it can be nearly twice as high as other big cities, and anyone who has entered the official position can be given a set of mansions with the size of the official position, which is nothing more than the world's scholars for the sake of the common people, for the sake of Yan Ruyu and the golden house, they all sharpened their heads and wanted to have a place here.

The 100 officials of the state capital have their own duties, weakening and weakening the three provinces and six departments in ancient times, and finally dividing the official positions into seven grades according to their grades, the first rank of officials is the prime minister and the clan elder; the second grade is the ministers, such as the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Industry, and the lords of the major cities; the three grades are mainly the heads of the executive departments, such as the city reserve army, As for the fourth to sixth grades, they are basically coordinated officials under the hands of the city lords of various departments and departments; the seventh rank is the lowest level of the official grade, and they are generally village and town chiefs; and as for the seventh grade, there is no grade below, and most of them are scattered pawns who have signed documents.

After the end of the trip to the ancestral temple, it was already a unitary time, and Shen Wen, as the minister of Yizhou, went straight to Qinghua Academy, carrying a pot of wine to the place where his former classmate is now the great Confucian Ling Chunqiu.

"Bo Yong, come on, accompany Xiangye and I have a drink!" Shen Wentong said to Ling Chunqiu with a red face and drunken eyes.

Ling Chunqiu looked at his classmates who were disheveled in clothes right now, exposing most of their chests regardless of the cold, where was there still a half-dignified appearance at this time, and couldn't help but persuade: "Don't drink in the next place, Brother Shen, you prefer to find a place to drink, just drink, in the next drop before entering, the wine was drunk by Brother Shen, what is going on!"

Shen Wen rolled his eyelids upward, looked at the stars looming in the sky, and said, "It was the night star last night, for whom did it fall into the dust." ”

Ling Chunqiu was confused by half of the poem, but he also knew that Shen Wen was afraid that he was not small, so he asked curiously: "Brother Shen, you have drunk most of this wine, and you are almost drunk, what else do you dare not say? ”

Shen Wen, who was almost lying on the table, stretched out a finger and nodded his head, and pointed upward, if it was an ordinary person, it would be really difficult to understand Shen Wen's meaning, but Ling Chunqiu naturally did not belong to the ordinary people, and immediately understood Shen Wen's meaning, and exclaimed: "State lord?"

"Shhhh

Ling Chunqiu became even more curious, leaned closer to him, and asked in a low voice, "What happened that made Brother Shen so afraid?"

Shen Wen was stunned, and spit out two words in his mouth for a while: "Ancestor, temple!"

Today's first day of the Lunar New Year is the day when the state lord and hundreds of officials go to the ancestral temple to worship the ancestors of heaven and earth, and today's vision is in everyone's eyes, the sun and moon are hanging high in the sky like in previous years, and the sky and cloud shadows are hovering on the ancestral temple, but the appearance of a state in front of him tells him that there is an accident in the ancestral temple, and this change is only afraid that it will be inseparable from the state lord.

"What the hell is the reason why Brother Shen doesn't go around in circles anymore, right?" The curiosity in my heart was provoked for three points without being told all of it, just like the itching of the boots, and I couldn't get pleasure at all.

Shen Wen looked left and right, maybe he was really a little afraid of the state lord this time, and he looked frightened, but in the end, he still lowered his head and told Ling Chunqiu everything that had happened.

Outside the window, the jackdaws frightened the night and flew away. Although Shen Wen was drunk, his thinking was still clear, and it didn't take much time to say something.

"Smack"

Ling Chunqiu was furious, and slapped his palm on the table, fortunately, he was an old scholar who was powerless, no matter how hard he used, it was just to make the sound heavier, at most let the wine jug shake up two more times.

"This Huang Ming is really hateful, as a human race, he has done something to the ancestral temple, and he even dares to propose to marry the second lady of the Hua family as a concubine, it is really rampant, and it is not a gentleman's doing!" Ling Chunqiu, as a great Confucian and did not drink, was angry at this time, and had his own momentum.

Shen Wen, who had just finished speaking, leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes to recuperate, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said, "You also think that the ancestral temple anomaly has nothing to do with this Huang Ming, right?"

"At this time, of course, for many years, even after the 'heavenly change', the ancestral temple sacrifice has not been a problem, and today, the prosperity is in sight, the ancestral temple is outstanding, and it just so happens that this Huang Ming can solve this problem, such a coincidence, I don't believe it when they say that they didn't contact and kill them!"

"That's what I thought, too. Shen Wen said: "But what makes me feel even more inappropriate is that this Huang Ming was brought by the state lord, which means that the state lord predicted the changes in the ancestral temple in advance, so he did not attend the parade of hundreds of officials, especially at the last moment of the ancestral temple sacrifice, she always felt that something was wrong." ”

Ling Chunqiu nodded, he was also quite surprised, the figures of Hua Ning and the state lord flashed in his mind, and he couldn't help sighing: "It's a pity that Hua Ning's kid is really wronged, I really don't know why the state lord wants to agree to Huang Ming to marry Hua Ning to him." ”

"Huh?" Shen Wen seemed to remember something, and said: "Yes, among the hundreds of officials in Qinghua Palace, who doesn't know that the state lord loves the second lady in every way for the only closest relative, and it really hurts to the bones, so it is really unreasonable to agree to Huang Ming as a concubine! But why did you agree?"

Ling Chunqiu pondered for a moment when he heard this, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and said in horror: "The Lord of the State would not act like this, so what if it is not the Lord of the State?"

Shen Wen was directly stunned by Ling Chunqiu's words, but instead thought about it: "At the end of the sacrifice, I heard that some government troops reported to General Zhao Chengen that there was a city garrison army holding the state lord's edict and wanted to replace the government army stationed in the ancestral temple, but the government army refused on the grounds that the state lord did not stamp the seal. At the time, I didn't think so, but at this time, I felt that it was quite wrong, how could the state lord do such a reckless thing? If it was really the state lord who replaced the government army, what was the so-called thing? If someone was pretending to be the state lord's handwriting, then what did this person want to do?"

After thinking about it, Shen Wen didn't have a clue, so he stood up with a "swish", tidied up his shirt, and said, "No, I got the government army to find Zhao Chengen to verify it, and I always felt that something was wrong." "After that, he opened the door and walked out.

"Slow, you are the head of the civil officials in Qingzhou, but you want to meet the commander of the government army privately, aren't you afraid of the world?" Ling Chunqiu called out to Shen Wen, who was in a hurry and reckless, and then called his attendants, instructed him to prepare his ox cart, smiled at Shen Wen, and said: "The old man will accompany you on a trip, just discuss the style of joining the army late at night." ”

"Or Boyong thinks about it, the great grace is not grateful!"

A short time later, an ox cart carrying the two men rushed out of the city at night.

At this time, on the third floor of the Huamanlou, in the Muyu Pavilion of Liu Rushuang and Liu Oiran, Huang Ming was arguing with Liu Rushuang, and suddenly "snapped", and Huang Ming left a handprint on his face.

"You actually hit me?" Huang Ming looked at Liu Rushuang in disbelief.

And Liu Rushuang also looked at him without the slightest fear, and his mouth was even more unforgiving: "Why don't you say that you will change the letter of the military quartermaster of the prefecture? Fortunately, those ruffians don't know the inside story, otherwise wouldn't we all be exposed? Who else asked you to temporarily increase the conditions to marry the second lady of the Hua family? What if you show your stuffing in front of everyone? I obviously told you that I can't use all my cultivation before the Terran Ancestral Temple, wouldn't you almost kill you and me by doing this?!" In fact, what she wanted to say in her heart was that the two of them were exposed, and it was really bad to ruin the Holy Lord's plan.

Huang Ming defended when he heard this: "I didn't know that the government army still had to read the state lord's seal letter, and I thought that other official letters generally only need the state lord's own handwriting, so I asked you to practice imitating handwriting." As for the second miss of the Hua family, I never took it to heart, I just married them disgusting Hua family, the real wife in my heart will always be only you!"

Liu Rushuang didn't wait for Huang Ming to get angry, he still waved his sleeves towards Huang Ming's face, and he sat on the bed in a daze.

Seeing this, Xiao Lian didn't have to wait for Liu Rushuang's instructions, so she went downstairs to find the little summer girl.

The strings of the zither sounded, and there was a murmur mixed in it: "Anyway, the great array of the Terran Ancestral Temple has been moved, and half of the task in this Qingzhou Prefecture is completed, and the next thing is ......"

In the dead of night, Hua Ning's residence in Qinghua Palace was filled with the smell of wine, under the residual candle, there were three wine jugs thrown on the ground, and on Hua Ning's embroidered couch, the red tassel had been drunk in the past, with a ruddy and lovely face, and in front of the window, a snow-white figure was still standing in the cold wind of the night, and from time to time he lifted the wine jug in his hand and poured it into his mouth.

Thinking back to what happened during the day still felt like a dream, a nightmare. The dearest sister actually wanted to marry herself to that strange man, and she was still a concubine! Later, after Qinghua Palace, she didn't go to her sister to intercede, after all, she had promised to give Luo Buyi three years, and Luo Buyi would come to her after three years, and now it's only been less than half a year, how can she regret it?

I poured a sip of wine into my mouth, but I choked on it because I drank it too quickly, and I couldn't stop "coughing up".

When did she learn to drink? Hua Ning asked herself. Oh, yes, it was when I first met Luo Buyi, Sister Hua Yun brought eighteen brews for them to taste, she drank three bowls of wine for the first time, and then she was carried back to the guest room, that night, she was teased by Sister Hua Yun and slept on the same bed with Luo Buyi. Fortunately, the two of them were young and ignorant, and they were both drunk and asleep, so nothing unspeakable happened, but now that she thinks about it, it might as well have happened at the beginning.

With a shock of his wrist, a pair of white short swords flew into the night sky, and after a while, they hung in front of Hua Ning again, spinning like two well-behaved little beasts.

Hua Ning's hair fell between her temples, her drunken eyes were starry, her cheeks were blushing because of the night breeze or because of drunkenness, her eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and the corners of her lips were smiling bitterly.

This is a divine weapon that was obtained with Luo Buyi, but unfortunately it doesn't have a name yet. His eyes swept over the body of the short sword, and in a trance, he found that there were two seal characters on the sword body under the sword, and then he looked at the other one as the same, but the glyphs were different, and what was even more strange was that Hua Ning clearly didn't know these words but clearly knew what these words read.

Hua Ning poured the last sip of wine into her mouth, threw the flask on the table casually, smiled slightly, and a tear drew out of the corner of her eye, which gently dripped to the ground.

At the same time, on the Luoshen Peak in Zhongzhou, which is tens of thousands of miles away from here, in the main hall of the Celestial Elephant Palace, a mottled ancient mirror faintly shines with brilliance, and suddenly the brilliance flashes and condenses into six ancient words: "Heavenly Soldier: Linglong, Red Bean." ”

Exquisite dice An red beans, do you know the lovesickness to the bones?