Traveling through troubled times, he fled with his stepson

Xu Yaluo acted in a hurry. He said he was going to find Wei Qiqi and immediately went into Wei Qiqi's yard.

"Wei Qi, I'm coming in!"

Wei Qiqi heard these words and the next second someone pushed the door open. A cold current rushed into the room in an instant, making the warm room a little colder.

"How do you find time to come here, you are so busy?"

As he spoke, he slowly stopped writing and blew on the words he had just written to prevent the ink from smearing.

"Since you have nothing to do, I'll come and capture you as a soldier."

She was just as good looking, but she was still clearly outshined when standing next to Wei Qiqi.

Whenever she saw her face, Xu Yaluo always sighed, no wonder Li Zhou married her, with this look, it was only because she didn't gain any weight, otherwise she would have been deceived.

"Okay, wait for me to clean up, and then you can be a soldier."

Wei Qiqi is younger than Xu Yaluo in both this world and that world, but not by much. There is only a four or five year age difference between the two, but he speaks a bit more maturely than Xu Yaluo.

"By the way, Li Yuan told me yesterday that he would no longer take the imperial examinations. Can you tell me the reason in detail?"

Xu Yaluo's originally happy expression faded a little after hearing this. She glanced around and silently dismissed the people around her.

"Last year, although Feiyue had not learned enough, Li Yuan had. His teacher told me that his ability was good enough to take the county exam and get a good ranking."

Wei Qiqi nodded: "You said that last year's imperial examination was affected by the previous one. Many places were checked very strictly. You are afraid that Fei Yue and Li Yuan's mentality will be affected."

"There's more than one reason." Xu Yaluo's voice became a little lighter when he spoke.

"Although I can't interfere with the provincial examination, others will do something for me because of my status as the city lord."

"It was just a small provincial examination, and even when the emperor was so angry, there were still people trying to cheat in it.

The mix of good and bad people among them is jaw-dropping.”

Xu Yaluo frowned as he thought of something and said, "I later sent someone to investigate, and it turns out that some people in the scientific expedition were indeed shady.

Most of the people who are doing this are from wealthy families who have studied for many years in the hope of changing their fortunes with one person.

I guess he will not move up, but just stay at the status of a juren, and be assigned a minor job, which will not only be inconspicuous, but also help his merchant family in the local area. "

Wei Qiqi raised her eyebrows. She had never heard of this before. Li Yuan never told her about this. He just told her not to worry about anything.

"There are others who have similar academic qualifications, but are unlucky. They either have a stomachache or diarrhea or have missed out on opportunities for other reasons. This time, they can bribe their entire family with money to get a better position or to secretly get something."

Xu Yaluo's words made Wei Qiqi's face solemn.

The imperial examination is a matter of great importance, as it concerns the election of court officials and the future of the people.

Those who obtain imperial examination rankings through various unfair means and are capable of such things will always abandon their conscience for their own interests in the future, which is tantamount to a disaster for the people.

Moreover, there had already been a problem with the imperial examination in the past two years, and the emperor had undergone a major change of personnel, yet he still dared to do this.

It only means that the real person behind the scenes has not been caught, and the buying and selling of official positions and cheating in the imperial examinations are not things that have only happened in the past two years.

People far away in Beijing would not care about the things in the remote areas. They only care about the core interests, that is to say...

The trend of corruption has existed for a long time.

With layer upon layer of corruption, this dynasty, which has existed for nearly three hundred years, is likely to be rotten to the roots, with the civil and military affairs declining.

The premonition she had had last night was correct.

Seeing Wei Qiqi's serious expression, he knew that she had thought of some things layer by layer.

"It was Li Yuan who told us about the visit to the military camp. We actually thought of what you thought, but not as much as Li Yuan did."

Xu Yaluo thought of the child's courage and intelligence, and once again wished that it was her own child.

“After he analyzed the situation with us, my city lord broke out in a cold sweat.

Do you know what he said?"

Wei Qiqi shook her head. She was a little curious about what Li Yuan could say.

"He said that the world is in turmoil and war will break out sooner or later. We must prepare in advance and not let our guard down and show weakness to others, otherwise we will be the first lamb to be slaughtered."

This was followed by "He said he wanted to give up the scientific research, because the scientific research was not easy to do in such a troubled time and would become useless.

Troubled times are coming, and whoever has money and weapons in his hands will have a better chance of survival."

"My man became more and more frightened when he returned, and immediately decided to strengthen the city walls, train more soldiers, and register people of the same age."

"It's always better to be prepared."

Wei Qiqi comforted.

"There is just one thing that worries me. Feiyue is different from Li Yuan. He is too young and doesn't have so many family and national affairs in his mind. He spends all day thinking about the outside world. I am afraid that troubled times will come. He doesn't have the courage and ability like Li Yuan..."

"Ma'am, you don't have to worry. Feiyue is a very smart and generous child. Once he understands a lot of things, he knows the importance of them."

"I hope so."

Wei Qiqi had finished everything. She put the lid on the brazier, then stood up and left with Xu Yaluo.

"Please help me keep an eye on some of the servants. The New Year is coming soon and some ladies will come to visit. I don't have the energy to take care of them all. Please lend a hand."

Wei Qiqi shook her head after hearing this: "Between friends, helping each other is insignificant. It just so happens that I've been bored in the house for quite some time, so there's nothing wrong with going out for some fresh air."

She treated Xu Yaluo as a friend and was sincerely grateful to her.

What Xu Yaluo did for them was not only for the sake of Li Yuan's mother, but also because she truly treated her as a friend.

She is not a cold-hearted person. If someone is kind to her, she cannot repay them and she will not do anything to calculate other people's interests.

The two of them walked side by side to the meeting hall, where several managers were present. When they saw Xu Yaluo and his men coming, they glanced at them with some curiosity.

But just these two eyes, my eyeballs seem to be glued to them.

"cough!"

Xu Yaluo coughed, and everyone woke up in shock. They immediately lowered their heads and stopped looking up.

"Now that you're here, don't delay things. If you talk faster, we can solve it faster."

Someone looked at Wei Qiqi, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

"It's okay, you can say whatever you want."

The man nodded and said, "The accountants in the city have already calculated the accounts. I have checked them one by one. There is nothing wrong. Only in the grain department, the price of rice is lower this year, so we didn't make much profit."

The man explained one by one. When talking about food, Xu Yaluo frowned, "How can food be low at this time? The end of the year is approaching. It will not go down, not to mention rising a little."

"This little one is not clear."

"Then check again."

Wei Qiqi thought that the food problem was related to the fortunes of the country and the city. If Xu Yaluo felt there was a problem, there must be a big problem.