Qi Renli adjusted his sitting posture and nodded at Meng Changqing, "It's narrow." ”

"I was born in Mengfu, I have the reputation of my father and brother, and my mother's ardent expectations, and I am afraid of making mistakes every step I take, but I am so cautious but it is inevitable that there are false rumors, and I am not happy."

Meng Changqing took the teapot in the small second-hand hand, stood up and poured a cup of tea for Qi Renli, "Brother Qi, look at your actions, the family should not worry about the silver, since you want to enter the court, and you have already entered the palace test, why not spend some silver to find a stable errand, and save yourself from going to the ministry to be looked at." ”

"I've had that thought too." Qi Liren said, "However, to tell you the truth, although my family has a little money, it is not enough to worry about money.

I am not the only one in the family who is studying and taking the entrance examination, and my cousins also point to the family property, and the money given to me personally is not enough to give to Shangguan.

Besides......" Speaking of this, Qi Liren smiled bitterly, "Besides, if you really do this, what is the difference between it and buying officials, why do I have to study hard for decades to this day." ”

"Indeed." Meng Changqing agreed, "I am afraid of further disappointing yesterday's fighting spirit, and taking a step back is now so unwilling, Brother Qi is really in a dilemma." ”

Qi Liren didn't expect the person in front of him to understand himself so well, and the more he looked at Meng Changqing, the more he felt like a belated confidant in his life.

"Yes! It's hard! Qi Liren shook his head with emotion, "Hey, if I let myself go, it doesn't matter if this official doesn't do it, but I can spend my family's money to get to where I am now, it's not that I can not do it if I say it."

My family expects me to be promising, but they also know that my ranking in the palace examination is not high, so they don't expect my official position to be high, but only hope to have a foothold in the capital government.

Unfortunately, I can't even do that. ”

"Drink tea and drink tea." Meng Changqing waited for him to drink half a cup, and immediately added it to him, "Brother Qi doesn't have to be too himself, there are only so many official positions in the imperial court, especially in the capital, being an official under the imperial city, knowledge is only one aspect, and more important is luck." ”

"Yundao?" Qi Liren put down the teacup, "How do you say this?" ”

"I have a question first, in the last palace examination, I was born in the same jinshi as you, and now there are any officials?"

"Yes."

"Among those people, are there any who stay in the capital to be officials?"

"There are also a few who have entered the six yamen, although they are only eight or from eight ranks, they are much better than me."

"Must those people be better educated than you? Must you be more virtuous than you? Does your family have to be richer than yours? ”

Qi Liren thought about it and said: "It's not like this, some people are not as knowledgeable as me, some people borrow money and don't pay it back, and some people have mediocre families. ”

Meng Changqing continued: "But they have become officials, this does not mean that you are inferior to them, it just shows that their luck seems to be better than you at the moment." ”

Qi Liren nodded, "Perhaps." ”

"Brother Qi, since you have no luck on this road now, why don't you take another path?"

"What's the other way? Not an official? ”

"Don't be an official in the capital." Meng Changqing said, "Although the magistrate is not as good as the Beijing official, as long as you become an official, it is different from the people, even if you can't enter the capital as a magistrate with all your best efforts in this life, but as long as you don't make mistakes in the official position, as long as your child is willing to endure hardships and study, it will be easier for him to take scientific examinations and become an official than you in the future." ”

"I've never thought about that before." Qi Liren said, "I only think about myself, because I haven't married yet, so I have never imagined for my children, but I didn't expect Young Master Meng to be younger than me and think of this." ”

"Once a person has drilled the tip of the bull's horns, there is a single way to look at the problem."

Qi Renli agreed again, "Indeed, thank you Young Master Meng for your order." ”

"How to calculate my words is up to you. In fact, I don't have to say much, and in a few more days, Brother Qi himself will think of this. Meng Changqing picked up faster, "But it's ......"

After her tail note was slightly elongated, Qi Liren followed closely and asked, "But what?" ”

"I still have a question, what are the officials for?"

Qi Liren: "Huh? ”

"What is Brother Qi an official for?"

"Naturally, it's for the glory of the family."

"Not for the people?" Meng Changqing pointed to the brush that Qi Renli put down at the corner of the table, "The same pen, in the hands of the reader, is a pen, the truth of the sages, writing your own articles, after all, is your own business, and has nothing to do with the people." But if it is in the hands of politicians, every word written is closely related to the people. (End of chapter)