Chapter 13: The Title and the Story of a Breakfast
The autumn test is imminent, Min Qiuye is working harder and harder, and even we rarely participate in the chat at home on weekdays. Here Zhao Hezhi and I rested, so I went to his room to look for him, only to see that his face was yellow, obviously using his brain excessively. I gave him six walnuts that I bought from the street and told him to pay attention to his body.
Zhao Hezhi said Lao Min, if you go on like this, I'm afraid you won't be able to wait for the autumn test and hang up, come, here are some new issues of gossip weeklies and Jianghu magazines, you have nothing to do as a pastime.
Lao Min said that after studying hard for 18 years, success or failure is in the present day, and he has to be nervous. Then you have to pay attention to your body, I flipped through Zhao Hezhi's books and periodicals as I spoke, why did you enter the Xiaosheng rivers and lakes, why are the things you write still like the imperial court monthly.
I pointed to an article "On the Necessity of the Reform of the Prince's Mansion Military System" and said to Zhao Hezhi, this is also a gossip in the rivers and lakes? Zhao Hezhi smiled bitterly and said, This is an article by Song Sixian, a member of the Ministry of Rites, and our Xiaosheng information is also a core journal, and he wants to evaluate the title, and when he finds me, I will publish it.
I am exposed, the soldiers of the Prince's Mansion are also the affairs of the Zongren Mansion, and it is not the turn of the Ministry of Rites to point fingers.
Zhao Hezhi said that you don't know, Song Sixian posted this article on reducing the prince's military power, and he has been in the limelight in the court recently. The Queen Mother's faction has long been dissatisfied with the excessive number of soldiers in the prince's mansion in various places, and this article is precisely because of this to do what he likes, and it is said that the candidate for the next Ministry of Rites will be decided on him.
I wasn't very interested in the affairs of the court, so I suggested that the three of them go out for a walk. Lao Min said that he wanted to warm the book, and I said, don't forget, today is September 28, the birthday of your Confucian saint. According to the dynasty system, the emperor wants to visit the Confucian Temple today, and the scholars from all over the country can visit in the afternoon, and it is also good to be contaminated with some imperial spirit. Saying this, Lao Min's eyes lit up.
It was noon when he arrived at Guozijian, and the emperor had finished sacrificing holes and had returned to the palace. We wandered outside the Guozi prison and came to a bookstore with three big characters written on the plaque, "New Oriental". Min Qiuye is obsessed with books, so we followed in.
There are a lot of books in the store, what "Three Hundred Sets of Eight Strands of Text Templates", "One Thousand Cases of Famous Sentences in Historical Classics", "Eight Strands of Quick Books", etc., Min Qiuye bought a bunch of them, and before checking out, the boss asked Min if he was filial piety for taking the exam, and Min Qiuye nodded. The boss whispered, I have a way here, so that you can take the autumn exam for high school, but it will cost some money.
Min Qiuye asked, how to get a way? Our shopkeeper knows a capable person from the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites in the imperial court, as long as the money is appropriate and can buy a question, when the paper is graded in the future, your test paper will be taken care of. Although the first class is hopeless, the end of the second class and the third class are still about the same.
What is the price? This also tells you clearly, there are a total of eight questions, a total of 300 taels, two 1,000 taels, you see this is the price list. After that, he took out a piece of paper from the drawer, on which was written the price of the title, I glanced at it, the price of the first to the eighth title varied, if all eight were bought, no 10,000 taels would never be able to get down.
Min Qiuye was speechless by this price list, although he was from a wealthy background, he could still take out one or two hundred taels of silver, but ten thousand taels of silver, cough cough......
Min Qiuye shook his head, the shopkeeper said that you are wearing silk and silver, but I didn't expect you to be a poor ghost. The three of us rushed out. I heard a gong on the street and avoided ......
I followed the prestige, who is this, what a big shelf. Zhao Hezhi said don't make a noise, quickly kneel down, this is the prince of Qi. The three of us knelt on the side of the road, there were more than 200 people in a team, Hao Hao Tang Tang walked over, I secretly glanced at it, hey, the maid in the team is so familiar, isn't that Li Xinyu?
After the team, Min Qiuye said that there was a big pomp, and Zhao Hezhi said, rare and strange, the emperor sacrificed Kong in the morning, and the scale had to be small 2,000 people.
The next day, I went to the dart bureau and saw that the whole city was under martial law, with three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry. After inquiring through passers-by, it turned out that King Qi was assassinated in the capital's mansion yesterday, and Jingzhao Mansion and Liumen were dispatched to arrest the assassin.
I see, at this time, I was patted on the shoulder, and I swung my fist, but it was blocked, it was Li Xinyu. I said that now the whole city is looking for you, and you are still walking in the streets.
Li Xinyu said what are you looking for me, I am so famous? I said that I saw you in King Qi's guard of honor yesterday, and today the news of King Qi's assassination came.
Have you seen it with your own eyes? Qin Sanguan, everything is about evidence, you are so bloody, be careful that I sue you for slander. I thought about it, too, although she is from the Heaven and Earth Society, but, no, there is no but, and let me deceive her......
What will you do to assassinate the King of Qi? Li Xinyu was not fooled, and said that it was not us who did it, and you apologize to me.
Aha, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I treat you to breakfast.
The two of them came to a newly opened store, called Starbucks, and as soon as I went in, I said loudly, man, two bowls of tofu brains, two fried dough sticks.
Sorry officer, there are no tofu brain fritters in the shop.
Oh, so let's have two bowls of spicy soup, more chili peppers, five vegetable buns, and five meat buns.
Sorry, there are no Hu spicy soup buns in the shop.
Ah, two bowls of soy milk, three fires.
There is no soy milk fire in the shop.
Li Xinyu was furious, what do you want, what kind of store do you open, you can close the door.
Accompany Li Xinyu to return to the dart game after breakfast. Recently, there have been a lot of things in the dart bureau, and after taking over the business of the Longmen Dart Bureau in Shandong, it has undergone an internal reorganization.
Our group is a hero in retaking the Shandong business, and I myself am from the Taishan faction, so it is natural that our group is organized on the Shandong Road.
In the past few days, Yang Jiaoxi took Heifeng Village to go through some procedures in Shandong Road, such as changing the business scope of the business license, business area, etc., but I, Persian Mingjiao and Liu Qingfeng basically have nothing to do.
When Liu Qingfeng saw me coming, he pretended to be mysterious, are you interested in finding a wife, I said that it is good to dare to love, but there is no money. Liu Qingfeng said that I don't need too much money, I have a friend named Xiaolongnu who opened a matchmaking ......
What, don't mention xiaolongbao to me, it's angry. So I told me about the morning at Starbucks.
Why don't you look for Persian Mingjiao, he has a lot of money and is good-looking. Liu Qingfeng pointed to a bruise on his face, how do you know that I didn't go to him? I think he is too violent, maybe he will have a better temper if he finds a girl, who knows that I just spoke, that's it.
I'm afraid it's more than that.
Liu Qingfeng said abruptly, I still want him to help us with the introduction fee, not much, just one or two silver. I said you know, I just paid the rent and I don't have any money to spare.