Bianjing, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty.

The city gate is full of traffic and crowds.

It was not the first time Yang Wuregret had come to Bianjing, and even so, he was still shocked by this magnificent scene.

Zhan Yirong smiled: "Why don't you go directly to my house?" ”

Yang Wuregret heard it and hurriedly refused.

"Forget it, your mother's character, I look worried."

Zhan Yirong's mother is naturally Her Royal Highness the Princess, but she is Zhao Zongshi's sister, that is, the sister of today's official family, not the daughter of Emperor Renzong.

It's just that her relationship with Zhan Yirong's father, that is, Nanxia Zhanzhao, is not so good.

Therefore, for many years, worshipping God and Buddha, almost rarely leaving the mansion.

Only occasionally go to the palace to walk around and go back to his parents' house, and his temperament is very indifferent.

Yang Wuregret has seen him twice, and he only feels that Zhan Yi's mother is frighteningly cold to people, not that she is not a good person, but because of her personality, Yang Wuregret will feel uncomfortable when he sees her.

So Zhan Yirong invited Yang Wuregret to live in her house, but Yang Wuregret refused without thinking about it.

Zhan Rong will naturally not be reluctant to do this.

She said: "Then you can find a place to live by yourself, and when you find a place, send someone to send a letter!" I still have to go to see my mother, and I have to go to the palace to meet the Queen Mother, and my uncle! I may not be able to come to you for the next few days. ”

Yang Wuregret nodded: "Okay, you go!" ”

The two of them had already walked into the city at this moment, Zhan Yirong took the horse and walked two steps, looked back at Yang Wuregret, pointed at Yang Wuregret and said, "You'd better not live in the brothel of the Qinglou anymore, otherwise I know, I will definitely make you look good!" ”

Yang Wuregret thought to himself, he was victimized by his predecessor's reputation!

"Don't worry, I won't go again!"

Hearing Yang Wuregret's assurance, Zhan Yirong left with confidence.

It's just that in Yang Wuregret's opinion, they have all come to Bianjing, who would go to a vulgar place like the Qinglou brothel, they must go to the Jiaofang Division!

You must know that the Teaching Workshop Division is after the official eunuchs.

It's just that after the father's house was raided, the men were assigned and the women were filled into the teaching department.

So when I came to Bianjing and went to the brothel of the Qinglou, it was more obscene.

However, you still have to live first, and then you will find out the address of the Teaching Division.

Yang Wuregret led the horse forward, his eyes turned around, and a smile was on his face.

He stepped forward and said to a young man setting up a stall, "Help me write a letter to my family!" ”

The young man lowered his head and asked, "Where are you going to send it?" ”

Yang Wuregret replied: "Luzhou! ”

The young man looked up at this time, and then the moment he saw Yang Wuregret, his face was stunned, and then there was surprise all over him.

"Brother Yang!"

The young man was Jing Wei, and he didn't expect Yang Wuregret to see him when he entered Beijing, and I have to say that the two do have a fate.

Yang Wuregret smiled and said, "What you Brother Yang shouted made me old." ”

Jing Wei touched the back of his head and said, "Although you are not my big brother, I have long regarded you as my big brother." ”

Hearing this, Yang Wuregret smiled even more.

In fact, he likes Jing Wei a lot, because his heart is relatively pure.

It's just that to be honest, Yang Wuregret feels that he wants to go to high school this year, but I'm afraid it will be difficult!

But for Jing Wei, it can be regarded as an experience!

He's still young, and he still has a lot of opportunities.

You must know that the imperial examination has not yet been determined, and it may be taken once a year or every two years, which is not accurate.

Jing Wei also remembered something at this time, so he asked: "Brother Yang, why did you suddenly come to the capital, didn't you say that you would wait until after the New Year?" ”

Yang Wuregret replied to this.

"Suddenly, a friend invited me to come to Beijing in the new year, so I came. It just so happens that I just entered Beijing and ran into you! ”

Speaking of this, Yang Wuregret also had doubts.

Yang Wu regretted and said: "Why do you set up a stall here to write letters to people, do you have no money?" ”

Jing Wei shook his head and said: "No, it's because I think I'm idle every day, so I come out to earn some money and be able to subsidize my life." After all, I have to stay until after the imperial examination next year, and I know that I am still far behind, and the possibility of high school is extremely low, so there is a high probability that I will have to wait for the imperial examination next year, so I can't sit back and eat! ”

Yang Wuregret understood, in fact, there were too many people like Jing Wei.

If they don't pass the exam, they will stay in the capital and wait for the next imperial examination.

But while waiting, you need to live!

Some people went to a big family to become a bookkeeper, some people climbed into a relationship and became a guest for dignitaries, and some were like Jing Wei, selling calligraphy and paintings, writing family letters, and subsidizing their lives with the money they earned.

Jing Wei continued: "Brother Yang, you haven't found a place to live yet, have you! Do you want to stay with me, I live at a very affordable price and the owner is very practical. It's just that I'm afraid you won't like this place. ”

Yang Wuregret smiled: "Where is it, take me to see it!" ”

Jing Wei nodded, immediately closed the stall, and then took Yang Wuregret to the place where he lived now.

Now Jing Wei lives in Nancheng, where someone has opened a school house, specially prepared for poor students, only five cents a day, which is very affordable.

The owner of this school house, who used to be a scholar in the imperial examination, just failed to pass the exam for ten consecutive years, and knew that he didn't have that ability, so he gave up.

Fortunately, he was working as a bookkeeper in a rice shop at the time, and the owner of the rice shop had an only daughter, who once came to the store and saw him. Seeing that he was handsome and knowledgeable, he asked other people in the store about him, and then the two of them hooked up.

It's not appropriate to hook up, so they achieve good things together.

Although he failed in the imperial examination, he can be regarded as on another road, soaring to prominence.

After all, now he has five rice shops in the capital and has given birth to a pair of children.

Because he has come through hardship, after inheriting the rice shop, he opened this school for students who come to the capital to participate in the scientific examination, and only needs five cents a day, which is almost free for people to live in.

The important thing is that his wife and father-in-law support him, which also makes the family very harmonious.

He built nearly 20 school houses.

But it is not full, and now there are eight people, and it is estimated that it will be full by the next spring.

Jing Wei was familiar with the other seven people, and he also told Yang Wuregret that there was a sixty-year-old man living in this school, and he was also going to take the imperial examination in the spring of next year.

Although there is no age limit to participate in the imperial examination, the sixty-year-old man has been taking the examination for thirty or forty years.

After so many years of not having a high school and not choosing to go home, the situation is self-evident.

Yang Wuregret naturally has no intention of criticizing others, but he just thinks that people living in this world are not only one way to gain fame, maybe it is appropriate to take other paths, and it may be better not to drill the horns.

But everyone is sixty years old, and it seems that there is no turning back in life.

To put it mildly, at the age of sixty, he has almost one foot in the dirt.