Chapter 4: The Scribe

Rejecting Zhong Ling's suggestion to gain fame in the Wenshu exam at home, Huang Liang still decided to go to Yanzhou Mansion to get an errand. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although I went to the following counties and towns, I could get a better errand with my child's degree, but now the family is surrounded by four walls, if it weren't for the fact that the tiger demon was crushed by mistake and got a thousand rewards, the family can no longer open the pot, there is still time to be a village elder, go to the government to find an errand, and the most important thing is to feed the family.

Zhong Ling saved half of the black-flour steamed bun for himself as a supper, and his wife was like this, it was really a good match, how could he be cheeky to run for a great future, the most important thing is to feed a family first.

According to what everyone said, he got a literary degree without a scientific examination, which is better than all the children in Yanzhou City, but in fact, he knows nothing about how to take the academic position, and even some readers who can't get a children's academic degree are not as good, even if they go to the imperial examination, it is a shame.

And now there are rumors in the state city, what is Guan Ergongzi mocking himself for being lucky to get a literary position, there are no poems and articles flowing out at all, it must be a straw bag. Li Dexin, a famous scholar in the country, said that his literary position was smashed on the head by **** luck, in fact, he can't shit, otherwise how could there be no poem circulating.

However, there are also positive rumors in the market, saying that they are lazy in scientific examinations, and they have no intention of poetry, so naturally there is no poetry outflow......

I'm a straw bale!

Huang Liang still admits this, if it weren't for the mysterious Tao Te Ching and library that unfolded in front of him, I am afraid that I would not have any literary position. Until now, I haven't figured out how to become a child in a daze, and I can still go to compete with a group of students from Guozijian and Guan Ergongzi, a recognized genius in Yanzhou City.

Of course, the poems themselves must be known, and they are all everyone's, but Huang Liang disdainfully took them out. With his childish position, he will definitely be able to get a good errand in the government, although it is not as good as some high-ranking officials and nobles, but it is enough to be well-off, so that the Zhong family sisters and brothers can live a well-off life with themselves. The sixth child in the front street is a child, and now their family's life is very nourishing, and they are a future person, is it not as good as the sixth child.

Although the errand of the Yanzhou City Government is not glamorous enough, for Huang Liang, there is still a courtyard in Yanzhou City, with three rooms, and then go to the Yanzhou City Government to seek an errand for a civil servant, this is already a good day that was sought but not obtained in the previous life, and it is a good day that makes the relatives and friends around envy.

Huang Liang followed Zhong Shan to find the sixth brother in the front street, according to the seniority, Huang Liang wanted to call him the sixth brother, when Huang Liang and the two arrived at the door of the sixth brother, the sixth man was tiptoeing out of the yard and carefully closing the courtyard door. The sixth child is of medium stature, with a white face and a long beard, a bun wrapped in a turban, and a gray coarse cloth gown.

Zhong Shan's eyes purred, and he quickly shouted, "Sixth brother." ”

The sixth man who was closing the courtyard door was frightened, and the next moment, the action of closing the courtyard door suddenly became faster, and the courtyard door was pulled shut with a "bang", and the sixth quickly lifted the hem of his robe, turned around and ran towards the street. The shrill voice of a woman shouted in the courtyard.

"Dead ghost, get back to me......"

In the midst of the shrill scolding, a woman with a woman's hair in a bun and a coarse cloth hairpin skirt went out of the courtyard with a rolling pin in her hand.

When the sixth child ran past Zhong Shan's side, he glared at Zhong Shan, and said to Huang Liang as he ran, "Brother Liang, I already know about you, Uncle Zheng mentioned it to me on the street, you go back and wait for me at the yamen, and I will take you to see ......." The sixth man walked like a fly, and before he could finish speaking, he disappeared without a trace.

Li Zhengzheng, who was wearing a small hat, turned in from the street entrance, and was almost hit by the sixth child, and in the laughter of several neighbors in short jackets and brown clothes who were squatting at the gate of the courtyard to eat, the sixth man climbed up on the street and disappeared.

The woman chased her to the corner of the street with a rolling pin, but she couldn't catch up, so she stomped her foot angrily, raised a large piece of dust, scolded a few ridiculous loafers, turned around angrily, talked to Li Zheng and walked back, and when she arrived at Huang Liang and Zhong Shan, the woman's eyebrows were full of smiles.

"Yo, isn't this Brother Liang in the backstreet, I heard that Brother Liang, you have a literary title on the gold list, and it's the best kind, congratulations, Brother Liang. ”

Huang Liang thanked him again and again, and called the woman his sixth sister-in-law.

The woman's eyes rolled, and the rolling pin in her hand waved, "Brother Liang, you will be a capable person in the future, unlike our family, who knows how to fool around outside." In the future, Brother Liang, if you work with a yamen in our family, can you help me take care of our family?"

"Sixth sister-in-law, you are really a vinegar jar. ”

Zhong Shan said with a playful smile.

The woman was not annoyed, smiled and scolded Zhong Shan, twisted her waist and carried a rolling pin, and went home.

Li Zheng, who had not spoken, saw the woman enter the courtyard gate, and then said to the two kindly, "This is what the sixth family looks like, even the adults of Futai know that she is a vinegar jar." Brother Liang, hurry up and go to the yamen, the sixth son should be waiting for you at the yamen this time. ”

Zhong Shan and Huang Liang rushed to the mansion, and on the way, they told Huang Liang about the situation of the sixth family.

The sixth child has been in the government for more than ten years and is still a scribe, but this is not because there are so many people with civil positions in the government, but because the vinegar jar in the family. There are not many schools in Yanzhou City, there are not many people who can read and write, and there are even fewer people with literary degrees.

The old six were promoted to the deputy director of business, and the new deputy director of the Daohuaxiang Restaurant in Yanzhou City rushed to the banquet in his own restaurant, and invited a few singers during the banquet. After the sixth child returned home, he smelled the fragrance on the robe from his own vinegar jar, and the vinegar jar immediately fell upside down, and the family was turned upside down.

The sixth can't settle his own mother-in-law, and was troubled by his mother-in-law on the yamen, the head of business, the charge of the division, the head of the six houses, the head of the house, the master of the house, and finally the matter actually went to the lord of the house, the Qing official is difficult to judge the housework, and the lord of the house can't say who is right and who is wrong, but these little things are difficult to help the lord of the house, according to the past practice, the lord of the house and the big man waved his pen, and the sixth became a flat-headed scribe from the second master.

"Don't expose the shortcomings behind your back, Zhong Shan, you kid is not authentic. ”

The sixth man who was standing next to the stone lion at the entrance of the mansion saw the two of them coming, and came over with a hippie smile and scolded Zhong Shan, and asked Zhong Shan to go on a business trip and take Huang Liang to see Lord Bo by himself. Zhong Shan told Huang Liang a few words, and when the sixth child was annoyed and wanted to kick, he quickly dodged and slipped away.

"Brother Liang, don't listen to Zhong Shan's nonsense, how can I be afraid of my wife, that's Jingnei, I am a scholar with a literary degree, how can I say that I am afraid of my wife. Let's go, my brother will take you to our business department to rest for a while, and then I'll take you in when the master Bo comes. ”

The sixth hooked his shoulders and pulled Huang Liang into the mansion, turned a corner from the side door, and entered the courtyard of the six branches.

Lao Liu is right, after a scholar obtains a literary degree through reading or taking an exam, his talent will slowly grow in his body, his physical fitness will become stronger, and he will gradually be able to compete with some masters who have practiced martial arts. A scholar like Lao Liu, who has been a child for many years, is not something that a woman can bully, even if his physical fitness is not strong.

As soon as I stepped into the gate, I was faced with a shadow wall more than two people high, and not far behind the shadow wall was a courtyard. The courtyard is all paved with blue striped stones, and a large bonsai is placed at each of the four corners of the courtyard, and the pot of the bonsai planted in the northeast corner has a big gap, showing the yellow-brown soil inside.

Greeting a young man wearing a veil crown, the sixth child dragged Huang Liang into a room on the east side of the courtyard.

"Find your own ground and sit on the ground. ”

As soon as the sixth child explained Huang Liang, he went to the table against the wall and took a black clay pot, said hello to the clerk in the room, and went out to pour hot water.

Huang Liang sat down on the chair in the corner of the wall, and carefully looked at the room, there was a large window next to the door, because it was the end of autumn, the window paper had not yet been pasted on the window, and a large peony flower was carved on the red wooden window. By the window is a desk for errands, there are several stacks of documents on the table, two inkstones, two pen holders, the black wooden plaque in the middle of the table is engraved with the word business, and a chair is placed on each side of the table.

The table furnishings placed in the corner of the wall are similar to those of the sixth child, except that the black wood sign is engraved with the word "military department", and a middle-aged scribe has sat on one of the chairs on both sides of the table, and the other table does not seem to be sitting yet, and the things on the table are also in a mess.

The door was pushed open, the sixth man entered the house with the black sand pot, put the black sand pot on the table, the sixth wiped his hands, and then was busy making tea for the people in the house, although Huang Liang said that he was not thirsty, he was still stuffed with a cup of tea by the sixth child.

The sixth sat down with tea in his hand and began to taste, while discussing some of the things that happened in the yamen with the middle-aged man lying on the other table.

"I heard that Guan Ying chanted a good poem in Linhe Garden, and his literary name soared, and it was rumored that a professor of Fuxue wanted to recommend him to participate in the Xiucai Examination this year, which is a big deal. By the way, I heard that yesterday the magistrate Lord Zhao sent his daughter to the Yanzhou Guozi Prison, and this time his bet with General Feng Lao has officially taken effect, it depends on whether this Miss Zhao Mulan can get a civil position through the scientific examination and help us Lord Zhao win this bet. ”

"Hey, you know the golden light that shrouded half of Yanzhou City last night, I heard your military department Zhao Deng say that General Dingyuan, who was stationed in the military camp in the east of the city, broke through in martial arts and achieved the general of Zhuguo. Now it's okay, we have a suitable candidate for the position of governor of Yanzhou, and An Guogong, who is acting as the governor, is leaving. ”

"Sixth brother, you can blow it, An Guogong has been acting as the governor for more than ten years, and he can take office as a Dingyuan general who breaks through to the Zhuguo, without military merits, everything is nonsense. There is a captain's mansion on the street of my house, and Captain Fuyuan's martial arts, but unfortunately he is only a captain, and he can't even do the actual job of Captain Guide. ”

The middle-aged man lying on the table of the military department refuted the words of the sixth child and used the things around him to corroborate.

Lao Liu sneered when he heard this, and took a sip of tea in the black clay pot, "Lao Huang, you can talk about it, and Fuyuan Lieutenant, Niu Ergen, that kid doesn't know a single big character, how can he be a battalion captain, how can he write tactical regulations, and he can't even make dictation, it's good to be a captain." The day before yesterday, I ran errands with Lord Zhao, but I heard Lord Futai mention it, saying that the imperial court wanted to purge the Yanzhou army, and from the army Sima Cha to the army commander, if the ability is not worthy of the real job, even if the martial arts are high, they must be dealt with to the end. ”

Lao Huang of the military department couldn't care about drinking tea when he heard this, put down the teacup and walked to the seat of the sixth child, and sat down on the table, "What you said is true, this is a big deal, and the rectification of the Yanzhou Army is not a trivial matter!"

"Of course it's true. ”

The door was pushed open from the outside, and the young man with a jade belt around his waist walked in with a piece of paper in his hand, and as he spoke, he handed the paper in his hand to Lao Huang, who was sitting on the table, and sat down on another stool at the business table, "When I came in from the outside just now, I met Shi San, the messenger of the main book, and that kid asked me to hand over this notice to you, and that's what I said." ”

"Lord Bo is here, Brother Liang hurry up, follow me to see Lord Bo, when he gets busy, I don't have time to see you." Hearing this, the sixth man put down the teapot, greeted Huang Liang and walked out.

Huang Liang hurriedly followed when he heard this, and when he was about to go out, he heard the young man ask Lao Huang who this person was, and Lao Huang replied that it might be some relative of Lao Liu's family, and he wanted to come to the mansion to find an errand through Lao Liu.

The room of the main thin office is in the courtyard of the inner layer of the courtyard, through several carved beam corridors, the sixth and a few clerks said hello, the two arrived at a door frame wooden sign engraved with the word "main book" in front of the door, the sixth said hello to the messenger standing at the door, chatted a few words, and then knocked on the door.

Directly facing the door is a large window, through which the sunlight falls on the large black table, half of the table seems to be plated with gold leaf, the old man with a four-cornered veil crown on his head, and the clear-faced old man is bowing his head on the documents placed on the case, half of the wide case is full of various documents, and on the other side is an inkstone, a teapot, and a purple sand cup with half a cup of tea. The old man raised his head and glanced slightly at the sixth and Huang Liang who entered the door, and then continued to bow his head at the documents on the table.

"Sixth son, what is the matter with you coming to me, this young man has a literary position and is a relative of your family?"

Although Lord Bo only glanced at the two of them, he straightened out the situation and asked the sixth child without raising his head.

The sixth child hurriedly gave up his hand, called Master Zhang Mingjian, told Huang Liang about it, and praised Huang Liangfu as soon as he got the literary position, he would be able to hang an elephant in Wenyuan Pavilion, and he would definitely not be just a child in the future. Now I want to get an errand in the government, so I came over and begged Lord Zhang.

When Lord Zhang heard that Huang Liang was hanging like Wenyuan Pavilion, his eyes finally left the documents on the table, and turned to Huang Liang who was standing, and after the sixth brother finished his introduction, he asked, "Since you are hanging like Wenyuan Pavilion, can you have a heroic and righteous spirit?" After Lord Zhang finished speaking, he stared at Huang Liang with burning eyes, and at the same time, the sixth man on the side also looked at Huang Liang with excitement on his face.

Huang Liang's expression was stunned, and when he carefully considered the sentence and wanted to speak again, Lord Zhang sighed regretfully, and moved his gaze to the document on the table, "It's my wishful thinking, Sixth Son, you take this ...... Huang Liang, right, go to the Yamen Officials Section to do a life investigation, and then go to ...... Bing Ke, there is only Xiao Huang in the Bing Department now, a scribe with a literary position, and Huang Liang can also help him share some affairs. He waved his hand, signaling that the two could leave.