Opposite the entrance hall

Knowing that he and Pei Zhan and his party have different ways of life and are not conspiring with each other, Ji Si didn't rush to make fun of himself, and was left alone for a long time, and he didn't bother to listen to what they had to say, and he didn't know what was going on at the other end. After chatting for a long time, I simply found something to do, and started to use my fingers to comb the mane of this tempered uncle Ma with his fingers, which was wet by the morning fog. Satisfied with this service, one person and one horse are at ease.

When he heard the sound of horseshoes, Ji Sicai slowly raised his eyes, looked at Qi Ran in front of him, then moved his eyes back, and saw a group of people with their heads outstretched behind him, and then retracted them in a moment, slightly raised his chin He said softly, "Are you done?"

"Yeah," Qi Ran nodded, "Master Ji, please wait for my dismissal."

"It doesn't matter," Ji Si smiled, "I see it's still early, it's good to rest aside, and it's not too late."

"We have to leave early, and we have to go outside the city to join the people from the Yushitai faction."

"Listen to you."

After speaking, Ji Si sat up straight, and the two of them rode side by side at a gallop. Before they had gone far, they heard Qi Xi's voice mixed with the wind behind him, "Heng, be careful in everything!"

Ji Si glanced back, only seeing the increasingly blurred Lin'an Street, and couldn't see anything else on the street at all. He looked away after watching for a while, his thin lips were a little pale, and he suddenly found that he couldn't remember clearly. I can't remember what the taste of Shuzhou brown sugar balls is like, and I can't remember my parents' voice and funny face.

I don't know if seeing Qi Xi's reluctance for Qi Ran somehow made him feel homesick. Once upon a time, some people would worry about him telling him, worrying about whether he would eat and sleep well when he was out, and let Lin'an be better, but he It doesn't belong here after all.

Thinking that he hadn't been back to Shuzhou for 12 years, Ji Si was a little disappointed. He didn't make a sound along the way, and followed Qi Ran listlessly. Fog floats in the air, and the surrounding scenery is as rich as ink.

He was downcast when he felt that Qi Ran, who was walking in front, stopped suddenly. He was startled, and hurriedly stopped his horse. Just as he was wondering what happened, he was about to ask, when he raised his eyes, he saw Qi Ran get off his horse, and his movements were chic. Handsome, not sloppy at all.

Ji Si was stunned for a moment, sitting on the horseback saw Qi Ran take two steps forward, nodded slightly forward and said politely: "Lord Du."

Hearing this, he moved his gaze, raised his eyes to sweep away, and saw a person standing under a tree not far away.

This man was holding a black horse in his hand, and he was dressed in a gray cloth without any extra embroidery decorations. Not very outstanding, but with grand facial features, sword eyebrows and star eyes, he has an aura of justice and awe in which he is not afraid of evil spirits.

There was a hazy mist floating around, and accompanied by the chirping of birds in the forest, this person's aura was relatively calm and introverted, like a pine tree after rain, which could stand proudly despite the wind and rain, which inexplicably made Ji Si think of a sentence poetry.

It should be noted that Aoxue Lingshuang is not the body of the prosperous team.

Hearing the sound, the man raised his eyes, took the rope and took two steps forward, bowed and saluted, "Master Qi."

Ji Si's eyes wandered back and forth between the two of them, a little puzzled about Qi Ran's attitude towards this person, his tone was different from the three-point casual and seven-point perfunctory one who called himself, it was completely polite from the heart.

It stands to reason that the censors of the Yushitai Procuratorate are no more than seventh-rank officials. Even if they are directly under the central government's responsibility to correct the crimes of hundreds of officials, ordinary people will give them some face when they have nothing to do. I have surrendered my status.

Is it a child of some great family, or some talented person?

In his mind, he went through some famous officials surnamed Du in the Manchu Dynasty one by one in his mind, and he didn't think that there was such a talented person surnamed Du, so he moved silently, and asked behind Qi Ran in a low voice Said: "Acquaintance? Know?"

Qi Ran looked back at him, didn't make a sound, just retracted his eyes and raised his legs to walk forward. Seeing this, Ji Si hurriedly ran after him.

"I never thought that the Yushitai faction is actually Master Du." Qi Ran walked up to this person and said.

This "Lord Du" who doesn't know why he advances and retreats, has not changed in the slightest when facing Qi Ran, and even his tone is the same. Come, but the errand to Xiangzhou is thankless. Others say that you and Mr. Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs are not dealing with each other. If you are with the two of you, if you don't pay attention, there will be no one inside and outside. No one in the courtyard is willing to come, so I put Leave the job to the subordinates."

Hearing what he said, Ji Si couldn't help laughing out loud. I don't know anything else, but I think this person dares to say that this servant of the household department and the young minister of Dali Temple are really not afraid of offending him when he opens his mouth. The two broke up their official careers.

His laughter attracted the attention of the two of them, he was a little embarrassed and hurriedly shut up, and coughed with his head sideways in a straight posture.

Qi Ran seemed to be used to this person's way of speaking, and he didn't find it strange, he just pointed to Ji Sichong beside him and said: "This is Mr. Ji, the servant of the household department."

The person in front of him slowly shifted his gaze to the side, glanced at it very indifferently, his expression did not change at all, and said calmly: "I heard it a little bit."

Then he bowed and bowed to salute, "Du Heng, the censor of the imperial censor, is going to Xiangzhou to be in charge of the words and deeds of the two adults, and the daily official affairs, so that they can be recorded in the book and handed over to Beijing. What problems do the two lords have along the way?" You can tell the officer."

Du Heng?

Du Cunxiao!

He had just blew himself up, Ji Si's mind flashed, and he suddenly remembered the identity of this person.

Chengde's No. 36 man in [-] years, Du Cunxiao who entered the Imperial Academy with Qi Ran at that time.

No wonder Qi Ran is familiar with each other, how could they not be familiar with the Jinshi and the first degree of the same batch of Dabi.

Ji Si has heard about Du Cunxiao, who is different from Yan Huaizheng and Qi Ran, he is a direct descendant of a rich family, and has generations of family shadows to protect his noble status. On the contrary, he is from a poor family, but he is upright and ambitious, vowing to be a clean and good official .

At the beginning, he entered the Guozijian as a Gongsheng student. In such a land full of talents, Du Cunxiao was not considered a big man at all. Who knew that it took only three years to pass five trials and kill six generals. After entering the palace examination and winning the second place, he became the most unexpected dark horse, which made many people look at him with admiration.

A good article is the best in the world. Among the students in the same batch at the beginning, they were all overwhelmed by the three of them, and each of them was dissatisfied. Xiang Yaozi, a son of Yan Shangshu, is a son of a well-known family, with ability and status, whoever is not superior to them, it is fine to suppress.

But how can this be overwhelmed by a poor scholar who doesn't know which corner came out.

The students of Guozijian are all talented scholars who claim that Confucius and Mencius are alive, and they are definitely not happy in their hearts. However, they can’t compare with people and knowledge. Du Cunxiao is like a piece of cotton. I didn't feel the elasticity after punching down, and I was full of resentment and couldn't vent it. In the end, I got a second place in the list, so you just say that everyone is angry about this matter.

Jinshi and the third-ranked scholars of the Jin Dynasty had to enter the Imperial Academy as editors. This is an unchanging rule from ancient times. The purpose is to hone their will and improve their character. The son of heaven is born, as for how to be promoted and divided, it all depends on one's ability.

But generally speaking, as long as you come out after two or three years in the Imperial Academy, the yamen you can go to will not be too bad, and it will also be of great help to your promotion later, just like Qi Ran went to Dali Temple, Yan Huaizheng went to Guanglu Si, if it weren't for worrying about lack of qualifications, the two of them might be able to rise to another level with their identities and abilities.

In this way, Du Heng was able to beat Yan Huaizheng to get the second place. After all, he is a talented person with outstanding literary talent. He should be on the same level as the two of them. After all, he also got the title of Shaoqing of the Five Temples. Why did he go to Yushi? The Taichayuan made a seventh-rank censor?

Ji Si didn't want to understand the problem, and was even a little curious.

He said no wonder Chengde's 36th year's Sanding Jia, the number one scholar and Tanhua have both seen it, why didn't he hear the news of the second place? The co-author is not a low-key person, but he has no chance to see him at all. After all, he is a regular third-rank official. It's all right, where is there a chance to meet the censor of Yushitai?

But why did the good No. [-] guy get into this situation? Ji Si was a little puzzled, but he was too embarrassed to speak, afraid of revealing himself and saying the wrong thing.

Du Heng didn't know that he was troubled, so he just looked up at the sky, and said in a deep voice: "It's getting late, and the drizzle will stop, if the two adults have had enough rest, let's get up early to avoid delays on the way event."

After speaking, he got on his horse and rode away. It didn't seem like he was discussing with them at all, but rather like telling them that they didn't have any higher rank than him, and he was a subordinate consciously, doing his own way.

Ji Si saw the person who had already galloped away on horseback, and slowly moved to Qi Ran's side, pondering his words and gossiping: "This Mr. Du is quite different."

Qi Ran turned his head and glanced at him, for a moment he couldn't tell whether his words were in a positive or derogatory sense, but said in a flat tone: "It's time to go."

Hearing this, Ji Si pursed his lips and followed the two people in front of him in a bit of a panic.

He thought he had to bury this curiosity in his heart for a while, but it didn't take long for him to understand the reason.

It's really because of this person, who is so honest that he deserves a beating!

When a few people dismounted to rest, Ji Si Pi Dian Pi Dian hugged his snack box to curry favor with Qi Ran.

This guy has been staring at the two of them, and when he saw this, he leaned under the tree, took out a pen and ink from his pocket, murmured something, and buried himself in writing: At noon and a quarter at the post, Ji Shilang sneaked towards Qi Shaoqing with a wooden letter in his hand. Different, weak step, wretched smile, Qi Shaoqing looked at each other coldly, his expression did not change a bit, he discarded it like a bag, afraid of getting dirty, wanted to draw a clear line with him, the relationship between the two was actually not good.

Ji Si: "..."

After finding a place to stay at night, Ji Si tried every means to wander around Qi Ran's gate.

This guy came back from a walk to drain the water and saw it, and took out a pen and ink from his sleeve. The ghost knows how to put the notebook in his pocket, and muttered: "At dusk in Xushi, Ji Shilang lingered at Qi Shaoqing's door, with a strange look on his face, trying to cover it up. Sticking to one thing and thinking about it, correcting its appearance, its heart is different, not good but evil, afraid of using villain methods to Qi Shaoqing, it is the attitude of a sinister villain.

Ji Si: "..."

When he wrote, he didn't shy away from the two of them at all. He wrote and said in an open and aboveboard way, as if I was just doing things impartially.

Even when he ordered an extra chicken leg for dinner, he could say that he was extravagant and greedy for enjoyment.

At this time, Ji Si just stared at him, with a sneer on his lips, and thought in despair:

Is it too late to apply for an accompanying censor now?

The author has something to say:

small theater:

Official A: Mr. Du has passed the imperial examination. He is young and promising, and his future is limitless.

Du Heng: I am not number one.

Official B: Mr. Du is a dignified appearance, a man of talent.

Du Heng: I am not as good looking as you.

Official C: Brother Du is so talented, he was born in a poor family, but he still overwhelms the children of those aristocratic families, killing their vigor!

Du Heng: [serious face] He's right. I'm indeed a country bumpkin, so there's nothing I can't admit.

Crowd: ...

ps: The trip to Xiangzhou has started. Congratulations to Mr. Ji for gaining a little partner. Next, it's time to show your talents!

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