On the second day, when Yin Zhaoxian and Shi Yusheng got up to wash, they were told by Chen Laohan that Ji Yuan had already rowed away, saying that he would wait for them at Zhuangyuandu.

Compared to taking them on a boat to the Champion Ferry and then going to the other side, it must be much more meaningful to meet at the Champion Ferry and then upload the ferry to the other side.

After breakfast at Chen's house, Chen Jinghong, the son of Chen Laohan, took two scholars to Zhuangyuandu, originally wanting to drive the ox cart, but the speed was not as fast as walking.

Chen Jinghong was originally a village man, and the two scholars had gone through the long-distance training to catch the exam, so the three of them were not slow, and they walked more than ten miles in more than an hour.

The closer you get to Zhuangyuandu, the more people flow, as if people are slowly converging here from all directions on the road, not that all of them are tribute teams, but more people come to the river temple here to worship the river god Niangniang.

Before he arrived at Zhuangyuandu, the Chen family man stopped, pointed to the two places in front of him and said to the two scholars:

"The building with white walls and black tiles over there is the Tongtian Jiangjiang Temple, although it is not the largest temple on the entire river, but the incense is one of the best, especially many scholars are leaving words and poems there, and this is Zhuangyuandu, Mr. Ji must be near the small pier in the north, you just look for it!"

Chen Jinghong was ready to leave after saying this, he didn't have anything to do to go over there, there was no need to follow him to the end.

"Thank you Brother Chen for sending me away!" "Yes, thank you Brother Chen, I will definitely repay you when I become an official in the future!"

"Hehe, that's good, I wish the two high schools, I'll go first, take care!"

Chen Jinghong smiled, and saw that the two of them bowed and returned the salute to the two before turning around and leaving, he had seen a lot of such scholars, and they all looked forward to passing the champion and being the next champion.

Yin Zhaoxian and Shi Yusheng waited for Chen Jinghong to leave, and then they tightened their bookcases, and walked towards Zhuangyuandu in the slight cold wind, the two of them didn't want to go to see the Jiangshen Temple, but they didn't want Ji Yuan to wait for a long time.

Yin Zhaoxian and Shi Yusheng have both seen Chunhuifu Wharf, this champion ferry is naturally far inferior to Chunhuifu Wharf in their eyes, but then look at the looming wharf on the other side, there is the water transportation hub of Gyeonggi Province, which is more magnificent than the outer harbor of Chunhuifu.

It's just that unlike the many cruise ships in Chunhuifu, it is a real cargo hub, and there are few flower boats, and it is a harsh winter at this time, and there are not many cargo ships, and only one docks occasionally.

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The canopy boat is parked next to a small pier to the north, and although the boats on the side are smaller than the rest of the pier, they are all big ships compared to the canopy boats.

Ji Yuan sat on the bow of the boat and watched the "Imperial Treatise" by himself, and listened to the noise of the ferry dock in this port.

It seems that because the name of this ferry is Zhuangyuan Ferry, it also brings a literary atmosphere, there are four treasures of the study room here and there are also people who sell words and paintings, Ji Yuan looked up after reading a book, and he actually found that there is a shallow crape myrtle in the mixture of many gas phases, and it stands out from the crowd in many mixed gas phases.

"Could it be that there is a favored prince in this champion crossing?"

Although this crape myrtle gas is very shallow, it appears to be very pure and does not have too many variegated colors, indicating that its human heart has not been infected by the stale and extravagant atmosphere of the court at least yet.

Ji Yuan frowned and thought about it, and then looked at the direction of entering the dock.

The interesting thing is that Yin Zhaoxian's heroic righteousness is also conspicuous, and the two qi seem to have some traction while rising.

"It seems that what the "Foreign Dao Biography" says is not bad, and those who are 'bright' in crape myrtle will attract virtuous ministers!'

Ji Yuan jumped from the bow of the boat to the dock, ready to go and see if there would be an interesting encounter.

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Next to the Four Treasures booth of a scholar's office in Zhuangyuandu, a handsome man in his thirties was followed by a number of entourage, and was walking and observing the surroundings.

One of the servants saw the man rubbing his hands and immediately spoke out in concern.

"Third son, if you feel cold, let's go to the boat, there is a stove and a velvet fur inside......"

"Hey, you're here again, spoiled!"

The man waved his hand to stop the people from talking, and wandered forward again, today I came to the Jiang Temple to see if there were any new exquisite inscriptions, but I didn't find anything, so I took a look at this champion by the way.

Those scholars who entered Beijing to take the exam, the most scholars gathered at this time, are all people who have been admitted by virtue of their talents, and it is also very interesting to see the so-called talents of these states facing the pilgrimage expression of the champion, and it will be even more interesting if you can find one or two interesting people.

At this moment, the man saw Yin Zhaoxian and Shi Yusheng who had just walked into the dock with bookcases on their backs, and saw that their hands and faces were red from the cold, and it seemed that they had come completely by themselves?

The nearest market must be thirty miles away from this Zhuangyuandu, and the nearest village is also twenty miles, and the scholars who walked such a long way in the cold wind early in the morning were at least the first two today.

The man pointed to the two scholars and said, "Do you think these two people came by foot or by carriage?"

The servant next to him looked at the scholar not far away, and after a moment he replied:

"Returning to the third son, although the steps of these two people are quite stable, they are soft, they must have walked a long way, and their fatigue has been revealed. ”

The man said "oh", and found that the two of them were also walking towards this side, and also looked at the calligraphy and paintings listed in the stalls on the side, but the footsteps did not stop.

That is, when he was about to pass by the man, Yin Zhaoxian suddenly stopped and looked at him, and then walked a few steps forward like a ghost, reaching a dangerous range, causing several subordinates around the man to squint.

Several fierce people focused their eyes here, and Shi Yusheng panicked for a while, and hurriedly went to pull Yin Zhaoxian.

"Sir, what's on my face?"

The man asked Yin Zhaoxian, and Shi Yusheng pulled him, so that he seemed to wake up from a dream and apologized repeatedly.

"Everyone, please forgive me, just now Yin lost his mind, seeing that this son felt very kind, but he must have never seen it, but he felt very strange......"

Yin Zhaoxian spoke in a lower voice, and found that the other party actually had two servants standing behind him and Shi Yusheng, and the other two suddenly grabbed their arms, and the person behind them directly opened the bookcase and rummaged in it.

"What are you doing? Stop!

Shi Yusheng shouted in panic, Yin Zhaoxian was calm but his face was not good-looking, he had looked at people a few more times and caused trouble, his eyes kept wandering around the dock to find it, he knew that Mr. Ji must be nearby, so he didn't panic at all.

The surrounding vendors and others obviously have the attitude that more is better than less, guessing that the two scholars must have provoked some powerful people, this kind of thing is not uncommon in Zhuangyuandu.

After searching the two bookcases and searching the body, no murder weapon was found, and a servant handed over the two official documents to the third prince, who opened it and looked at it and asked the two.

"Who is Yin Zhaoxian?"

"I am!"

After Yin Zhao answered first, the third prince looked up and down at him with interest.

"It's actually Jizhou Xie Yuan? Let them go!"

When the servant heard this, he let go of the hands that had locked the two of them, and the first thing the two scholars did was to quickly rub their arms, and the second thing they did was to put down the bookcase and pick up the books that had just been flipped to the ground.

The third prince glanced at the ground, and there were a few books with strange titles, and he was also curious, so he squatted down together.

"What kind of book is this? I haven't seen it!"

When Yin Zhao saw what he was pointing at, he replied:

"The Theory of the Flock of Birds" and "The Meaning of Knowledge" are clumsy works, not famous books. ”

The three sons picked up a copy directly from the ground, and the cover was written in beautiful calligraphy "The Theory of Birds-Tong Sheng's Answer", and then looked at the other three books are "The Theory of the Birds-Traveling Night Tour", "The Theory of the Birds-The Weak Crown Book Pair" and "The Theory of the Birds-The Phoenix Singing Wutong", which seems to be a series.

Flipping through a few pages of the book in my hand, the first impression is that the handwriting is clear and the calligraphy is exquisite, and then the content is very novel and interesting.

"Yin Jieyuan from Jizhou, why don't you sell these books to me?"

The third prince said to Yin Zhaoxian very seriously, and he also heard the latter and Shi Yusheng stunned for a moment.

"Uh... How many copper coins are you going to pay?"

Yin Zhaoxian can write a few more copies of this book by himself at any time, and now the two of them are just entangled, if they can sell it, it will naturally be good.

The third prince hooked his hand at the servant, and the latter immediately took out two ingots of silver from the money bag in his arms, looking at the size, there should be at least four or five taels per ingot.

"Are these enough?"

"These are a little too much......"

"Enough is enough, enough is enough!"

Before Yin Zhaoxian finished speaking, he was rushed to answer by Shi Yusheng, the man smiled, took the silver from the servant's hand and put it on Yin Zhaoxian's bookcase, and then stretched out his hand to him, the latter reacted and hurriedly handed over the other three volumes of "The Theory of Birds" and one volume of "Zhiyi" to the other party.

When those people left by mistake, Yin Zhaoxian and Shi Yusheng still had a sense of unreality, these books might have been sold for ten taels of silver, and the winter in the capital would be very good.

Ji Yuan stood in the distance like other people watching the excitement from afar, but the others dispersed when they saw the conflict before they got up, but he kept looking at the direction in which the prince left.

At the moment when the "third son" took over the handwritten book of Master Yin, the crape myrtle on his head churned slightly, although the change was not obvious, but it had special stamina.