Chapter 375: A Hidden Secret
Bai Erzhuang followed He Shun to Ah Zhen's room.
After passing through the winding veranda and entering the room, my anxious heart gradually calmed down.
"Second brother, sit." Ah Zhen stood up and pointed to the chair in front of him.
Bai Erzhuang sat down and instructed Ah Zhen with a calm face.
"Serve tea to the second brother." Ah Zhen said.
Soon, someone served tea and went back quietly.
He Shun closed the door, and only Ah Zhen was left in the house.
"Second brother, you know Wan Chunhua." Ah Zhen asked directly.
Wan Chunhua, who was also the newly appointed county magistrate of Yangfeng County, slandered Bai Sanzhuang for rebellion, and finally sentenced himself to prison.
"I know, he and I participated in the government examination and the imperial examination at the same time, but I fell to the ground." Bai Erzhuang said calmly.
"Second brother, tell me about the events of the year." Ah Zhen sighed and said.
“…… In the spring of that year, I went to Huaicheng to take the prefectural examination. ”
Bai Erzhuang didn't come to the void, and told it very calmly and seriously.
When Emperor Zuo was in charge of the country, the father and son were suspicious of each other, and the two of them put all their energy on the court battle, which led to the darkness of the officials, coupled with the floods and droughts in the world, everyone had a hard time.
Bai Erzhuang thus inspired the ideal of saving the country and the people.
At that time, he went to the government examination with a group of students, and the young people were always in high spirits together, talking about the future and politics together.
In addition, Bai Erzhuang is the youngest and has not yet reached the crown, everyone says that he has a great future, and compared to other senior brothers, his future seems to be even greater.
One day, his senior brother An Huairen brought a young man to join the discussion.
This young man's name is Mei Xiao, he is extraordinarily expensive at first glance, but he is very approachable when talking to everyone, and he learned from the conversation that he is from the capital and studying at his ancestral home outside Huaicheng.
After everyone became acquainted, they introduced each other as confidants, and even became brothers of the opposite sex.
Young people always have endless topics to talk about together, they climb mountains together and chant poems against each other, and talk about the disadvantages of the current dynasty with candles together, this new Mei Xiao can always put forward opinions that everyone can't think of.
After the government test, An Huairen won the first place, Wan Chunhua won the second place, and Mei Xiao won the third place.
And Bai Erzhuang is not up or down, and he is also happy to get the middle ranking, after all, he finally gave the Bai family a key step in the transformation from a farmer to a farming heirloom as Mrs. Bai expected.
The most important thing is that he is young, and he has a lot of time to gain.
After the list was unveiled, Bai Erzhuang and An Huairen, Wan Chunhua and others drank together to celebrate, imagining a beautiful vision of going to Beijing to take the exam in the future.
Mei Xiao also came.
Everyone opened their hearts and chatted, and it was at this time that everyone knew that Mei Xiao was the emperor's grandson Xia Zhongqi, and he turned into a civilian Mei Xiao to take the exam.
Everyone was very shocked and frightened that they had formed a brother of the opposite sex with the imperial grandson.
The imperial grandson dispelled everyone's fears, he and everyone put their hearts together, and the reason why he went deep into the people to get to know the scholars was to rejuvenate the dynasty with these talents in the future.
At that time, the suspicion between the crown prince and Emperor Zuo became deeper and deeper, and the situation of the imperial grandson was also very difficult.
These young people were shocked by the emperor's grandson's deep snares of the people to recruit talents, and swore to follow the emperor's grandson.
In particular, An Huairen and Wan Chunhua were the most active.
Bai Erzhuang hesitated, because he felt that this matter was not trivial, and it was not enough to be enthusiastic, so he didn't swear together.
And the imperial grandson felt that he was young, and the noun was really average, but he didn't care much about him.
There was one thing that made him realize that the imperial grandson was just an enlightened and loving people in disguise.
When everyone returned to the inn after drinking, he left his things behind and went back to fetch them.
At the door, I heard the imperial grandson sneering at the entourage and scolding these students for only having the value of a rag, and they would abandon it immediately after he completed his great cause. Moreover, Bai Erzhuang also spied on the secrets of the emperor's grandson, he not only snared the students of Huaicheng, he used this method to snared aspiring students in many places in the world, and cultivated them into subordinates who swore to follow him to the death and were willing to sacrifice for him.
What is the imperial grandson who understands the righteousness, what is the imperial grandson who even suffers from the people, what is the imperial grandson who reverses the chaos, it is just a person who is negative and plots against the people.
Bai Erzhuang's frightened wine woke up, he broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly returned to Shenshu Village overnight.
It was precisely because of this encounter that he came to the entrance of the village in a trance, followed Eugene Gui's way, and lost his marriage with his childhood sweetheart.
“…… Second brother, you failed twice in the imperial examination on purpose. Ah Zhen asked quietly.
Bai Erzhuang raised his eyes and said with a wry smile to Ah Zhen: "That's right." ”
Everyone thinks that he failed the list twice in a row because he lost his marriage contract with Xia Qinghe and had no heart for the imperial examination.
Of course, there are reasons for this, but the more important reason is that he doesn't want to get involved with the imperial grandson, and his ranking in the palace test is not so eye-catching, and the imperial grandson did not force him to join the imperial grandson group.
After failing in the imperial examination for the first time, he breathed a sigh of relief.
The reason why I took the test twice was because I couldn't resist Mrs. Bai's insistence.
These two imperial examinations cost all the Bai family's family resources, and deliberately failing the list made him feel very guilty about his family, but compared to the greater disasters in the future, he would rather fall off the list.
"When did An Huairen go crazy?" Ah Zhen asked.
Bai Erzhuang thought for a while and said: "It was probably the first year of Jing Yuan, he participated in the top of the imperial examination high school list, and suddenly went crazy when the list was announced. ”
An Huairen returned to Xiashan Village after going crazy, and everyone thought that he had gone crazy in one fell swoop.
Only Bai Erzhuang knew that things were not so simple, he always thought that An Huairen had seen through the scheming of the imperial grandson, and he was so disappointed that he went crazy.
Therefore, with sympathy for An Huairen, he visited him from time to time and took care of him.
I didn't expect him to carry a deeper task on him.
"You and my sister were abducted, and An Huairen was the mastermind behind the scenes. I realized that he was not crazy because he saw through the imperial grandson, but pretended to be crazy and sneaked back to the Nanguan Mountain area to do things for the imperial grandson. The mines in the mountains, the weapons...... So the kidnappers are just a front ......"
Bai Erzhuang didn't say anything, he believed in Yi Azhen's cleverness, and he didn't need to say it thoroughly.
In the first year of Jingyuan, Ah Zhen's grandfather, that is, Emperor Zuo's second prince who had always disliked the border was still at the border, took his wife and children from the border to press into the capital, Emperor Zuo abdicated, and Ah Zhen's grandfather became a great treasure, and first abolished the prince and set himself on fire in the palace.
And the imperial grandson Xia Zhongqi, Ah Zhen's grandfather read it in his uncle and nephew, and his image was loyal and honest, so he did not attribute him to the party of the abolished prince, but in order to show that the emperor was benevolent and made him King Kang.
Crutches don't have to be a cover.
Ah Zhen remembered that the purpose of their abduction was to knock on the bone and suck the marrow to make muscle blood pills, who did this muscle blood pill for?
King Kang or who?
"That Wan Chunhua is the first time after the emperor ascended the throne to take the first rank, he has been in the county order for so many years, I guess he is also deliberately hiding himself, has been for the emperor's grandson...... No, do things for King Kang. Bai Erzhuang said.
Ah Zhen nodded, thought for a while, and said: "It seems that when King Kang was the emperor's grandson, he attracted many scholars from all over the world, and so many people were willing to be driven by him. ”
Bai Erzhuang was silent.
Wan Chunhua is not, he would rather cut himself than protect King Kang.
And how many Wan Chunhua are there in the DPRK now?
No one knows.
"That's all I know, and it's a secret that has been buried in my heart for years." Bai Erzhuang said.
After finishing speaking, my heart felt relaxed.