Pei Gonggui

Pei Jun sighed and carried Jiang Xuan out of the sedan chair to go back to his room. That night he actually had a weird dream.

He dreamed that Jiang Yueyuan was sitting on a small hill, and he was rushing towards it with his legs restlessly, but he couldn't climb to the top, so anxious that he kicked his legs and wanted to run, but he woke up again with his eyes open——

In the dim morning light outside the window, his nephew Jiang Xuan was hugging a little cloth tiger, with half of his body lying on his lap, falling asleep, like a big rock holding him down.

It's strange that I can't walk in my dream.

Tired, he lifted the child away, secretly thinking that at night he must be driven back to sleep by himself, and when he got up he only did morning exercises, brushed himself and had a meal, then entered the imperial city and went to the Hall of Qinghe to pay homage.

However, as soon as he arrived at the main hall, it was like hitting a stone wall.Because he waited outside the hall for more than a quarter of an hour, he didn't see Jiang Yue going up.

He took a look at the roster of the supervisor of ceremonies and found out that Jiang Yue had set off this morning to go to the camp in the north of the city to supervise the military drills, because it was the first time in the new year, and the time was long, so he would have to wait until next month to come back.

Only then did he know that Jiang Yue had stayed in Prince Rui's Mansion all morning yesterday, and he wanted to see him again before leaving, but he didn't want the two of them to wait blindly without knowing who, and they were so blind .

Pei Jun frowned and sighed in his heart, thinking that the next side between him and Jiang Yue might really have to wait until Chun Wei passed the exam and he left the Forbidden Garden, so he couldn't help feeling guilty again.

At this time, the reporter behind him suddenly said: "Teacher Cai has arrived, Grand Master Cai has arrived."

When Pei Jun turned his head, he saw that it was Cai Yang who helped his father Cai Yan, and he walked slowly towards the left side of the corridor.

Cai Yang's expression was hesitant and hesitant, and there was still a faint bruise on his cheek. When he raised his eyes and saw Pei Jun in front of him, his eyes were even more irritable.But Cai Yan next to him still had an ancient and calm face, his old eyes were still half down, and he couldn't distinguish between happiness and anger. Only when he saw Pei Jun, he raised the corners of his mouth slightly, did he have a polite and modest face, ordinary Said: "Master Pei arrived early today."

"Taishi Cai is a disgruntled official. Today is the first day of seal opening, as it should be." Pei Jun stood by the threshold leading to the Jinluan Imperial Palace, watched the father and son walk over, smiled and gave Cai Yan a hand , with a double entendre: "Oh, Taishi Cai, be careful, it's a big deal to fall here."

Cai Yan paused, raised his head and glanced at him lightly, followed him to step into the threshold of the Royal Palace, and smiled indifferently: "The bones are old, so I ask Mr. Pei to take care of me. If my son has Mr. Pei's politeness , it’s worth it if I close my eyes.”

"What is Cai Taishi talking about?" Pei Jun raised his eyebrows, glanced at the wound on Cai Yang's face, and smiled, "Let's not say that Cai Dashi is full of knowledge and famous all over the world, but your eldest son Cai Shishi The supervisor is on the side, and the military and government are in control, so how can the juniors be on the same level?" Speaking of this, he remembered something, nodded and said: "I heard that the third son, Lan, is going to join the department this year, isn't this another young talent? , Kunpeng has spread its wings? You three young masters have always been raised in the family land, and the people of Beijing have never been lucky enough to see them. The officials and others all hope that they will be able to see the demeanor of the famous family in the palace examination on the second day."

"What kind of family demeanor, Mr. Pei is absurd." Cai Yan smiled dumbly at him, raised his hand and patted his arm, "In terms of young talents, who in the court can compare with Mr. Pei? The third child in my family is very stupid. If If I can be lucky enough to enter the Hanlin, I will eat fast, chant Buddha, and burn incense, old man. I have never expected such a thing as Kunpeng spreading its wings."

This means that his third son, Cai Lan, has no intention of scrambling in the officialdom and fighting for power. The implication is that he wants Pei Jun to know about this plan, so he doesn't need to bother to suppress it, and it's best not to worry about it.

But Pei Junshi has never bothered to remember Cai Lan. In his previous life, his impression of the third young master Cai was mostly based on others talking to him several times, and this impression did not come from the youngest son of the Cai family. His knowledge of the Imperial Academy did not come from his background in a famous family. To be honest, it is quite subtle.

Thinking of this, Pei Jun nodded and smiled first, and bowed to Cai Yanyi: "Teacher Cai is too worried. The Cai family in Xilin is a famous family of Confucianism, no one can surpass him, and Taishi Cai is even a phoenix under his knees. What can't be entered in a mere Hanlin? ——Don't worry, Third Young Master Lan will not disappoint you."

Upon hearing his words, Cai Yan nodded: "Then thank you, Mr. Pei for your kind words." After saying that, he raised his hand: "Mr. Pei, please."

Pei Jun retreated and said politely: "Master Cai, please."

In today's early court, it was confirmed that the new deal would start immediately after the end of the Spring Festival. The young emperor Jiang Zhan ordered Zhang Ling and Zhao Taifu to lead a hundred officials in the upcoming new deal, and ordered the six ministries to help them wholeheartedly.The ministers lead the decree.Then it was said that the spring was approaching, and finally it was time to come up with the test questions. In order to prevent fraud, except for the two chiefs of the Ministry of Rites, the other officials who set the questions were selected by the cabinet by lottery at the end of the day. Officials have to be locked up together with the Ministry of Rites to avoid suspicion. These few days will be the time when the candidates for this question will be completed.

This room Pei Jun was listening to the court meeting indifferently, looking thoughtfully at the vacant seat among the princes, but suddenly heard a voice above his head: "Pei Qing."

He couldn't help trembling, and looked away, only to see that Jiang Zhan on the dragon chair was looking at him intently and asked:

"How about the preparations for Chunwei?"

Ever since Jiang Zhan became a pro-government, he told everyone to bring their surnames to official positions to show that the emperor thinks clearly, but only to Pei Jun, the word "Qing" has never changed for many years.

Pei Jun lowered his head calmly and said: "Reporting to the emperor, the Ministry of Rites is one mind on Chunwei's matter. Fortunately, there are no mistakes for the time being."

"Okay." Jiang Zhan nodded, but his eyes did not move away from him, but his voice was softer: "Pei Qing is entangled in all kinds of things, but she is still able to supervise her well. I am very relieved."

From Jiang Zhan's words and deeds, Pei Jun knew that this person must have thought about the dispute between the two of them, and now he has calmed down, and realized that without his Pei Jun's help, the stability of the imperial power would be hindered. It was only then that I lowered my head to reconcile with him as before.

Little did they know that Pei Jun had no intention of reconciling with him at all, and the relationship between the two of them had long been unable to return to the way it was before.

Pei Jun just thanked Jiang Zhan for his compliments as usual, Jiang Zhan relaxed a little, finally looked away from him, and continued: "Then the cabinet will present the officials who made the questions to the imperial court today. I will reply as soon as possible. Thank you, my lords."

Cabinet leader.Then people from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Nine Mansions submitted taxes, national debts, and budgetary expenses, all of which were removed by Cai Yan with a light, fluttering, or sighing. scattered.

Pei Jun greeted everyone from the six tribes, and took Jiang Xuan to Prince Rui's mansion to guard the spirit.This time it was a mistake, he took Jingzhao and the official documents of the Ministry of Rites to read.When he arrived, he remembered Pei Yan's entrustment, so he sent people to sue the inner courtyard of the palace to avoid them, and then led them into King Rui's study room - there were no calligraphy and paintings left on the four walls of the room, and the four treasures of the study on the table were missing. Fang Yantai, if there were any ancient books in the bookcase, they are no longer visible now, only the dozens of snuff bottles on the wooden frame have been sealed by the Ministry of Rites, so they are still in their original state, otherwise, they would have been divided up long ago exhausted.

Humans are for wealth, what birds are for food, and form is emptiness, and the four images have no category, which can be seen naturally.

Pei Jun clicked his tongue twice, and only sighed that King Rui didn't do much for his son's clothes, but he didn't know how much thought and money he spent collecting these dead things, and he didn't know how much effort and energy he spent to snare those dead things. In the end, the woman who took away these dead things treated harshly Pei Yan, the only one who remembered to bury him in the tomb, and stayed in the prison to suffer, but she left without knowing anything.

It's really ironic.

He raised his hand and asked someone to pack these snuff bottles. When the sun set, he brought Jiang Xuan out of the palace, and then led Jiang Xuan to the silk and satin village opened by the sister of Mei's family by the river to tear cloth for the doll. Make some clothes.

Mei Siniang came out with a fox fur waistcoat wrapped in a smile, and personally measured the little baby with her pointed vermilion nails.While looking after his nephew, Pei Jun casually picked up four bolts of good-colored new cloth, but when he heard Mei Siniang's quotation, his heart almost choked up, and he couldn't help crying: "Fourth sister, good sister, I Just to make a few new clothes for my nephew, not for my best friend, why would you give me this price?"

Mei Siniang raised her hand to straighten the old jacket on Jiang Xuan, the eldest son, and smiled softly with a Beijing accent with a Hexi accent: "That is not an ordinary material, Mr. Pei. We dare not fool you if we fool others I can only blame you for picking the good ones." As he spoke, he raised his red nails and touched the silk satin and exquisite embroidery on the fabrics, and said: "These are all the new designs of the embroiderer at home. ——It’s the only one in the world, if you buy it, it’s gone, and the little boys in spring look very nice in their clothes, how many young masters and brothers should be envious of them.”

——The Mei family all have the ability to tell people's likes and dislikes at a glance, and to tell people what they want with three words, and Mei Siniang's ability is naturally more proficient than her sixth brother Mei Linyu, but faintly In just a few words, everything Pei Jun wanted was explained.

Hearing this, Pei Jun just smiled, looked up at Jiang Xuan who was stunned beside her, and saw that Mei Siniang picked up the material and gestured to the child's neckline. It's also stunning.Pei Jun suddenly felt the pain in his purse, lowered his head and sighed honestly, ordered four more horses cruelly, touched Jiang Xuan's head and said: "It's all here, why don't you just do a few more. The fourth sister will choose some other clothes, just remember to do what is best—these are all for the little prince, and the lining is made softer, so you can't be sloppy at all."

Mei Siniang hurriedly agreed, and Pei Jun signed and asked her to go to the house to settle the bill soon. Finally, he touched the ingot of silver and handed it to Jiang Xuan. He bent down and whispered to the baby with a smile. In front of Si Niang, he raised his hand to give her the silver ingot and said, "Come on, shopkeeper, this son will reward you."

With his little grown-up appearance, Mei Siniang leaned forward and back together, thanked Pei Jun again and again for accepting it, and then yelled at Pei Jun: "Oh, you are so polite, the sixth child will scold me to death if you know it."

Pei Jun picked up Jiang Xuan and smiled at her: "Your sixth son will never accept my money, sister, you should pay back some money for him, otherwise his half-fed food will collapse." Saying that, he left and returned home. .

Three days later, when the official in Chunwei was appointed by the court, Pei Jun packed up his clothes and prepared to take the car dispatched by the Ministry of Rites to go to the Forbidden Garden to retreat to avoid suspicion.

On the day he left the mansion, Qian Haiqing followed Uncle Dong, who held Jiang Xuan in his arms and sent him all the way to the gate of Hou Zhongyi's mansion.Pei Jun glanced inadvertently, and saw that Qian Sheng had indeed lost weight. He couldn't help but feel the hardship of the exam, so he ordered a few words to eat carefully and answer carefully, and finally said: "When Chunwei enters the arena, there will be Someone asks you where you live. This question is actually asking who you studied under and who you are close to. You should tell the truth that you used to be with someone surnamed Tang, and now you are in the residence of the Marquis of Zhongyi. Make a good seat, but you won’t be able to get the papers from me and the Tang family when you enter the test later, so you don’t need to worry about Feng and Song, just read the scriptures.”

Qian Haiqing nodded after hearing this, and solemnly said goodbye to Pei Jun. Pei Jun pinched Jiang Xuan's little face in Uncle Dong's arms, told the baby to be obedient, and asked Uncle Dong to take care of the child, and then got in the car and went to the Forbidden Garden up.

The Forbidden Garden belongs to the Hanlin Academy in the Imperial City. It is located in the southeast corner of the Imperial Academy. There are special people in the Sun Palace to send food to them. Once the officials enter, they cannot go out until the scientific examination is over.The [-] officials selected for the test questions will first listen to the Zhongshu Ling in the front hall to convey the cabinet’s hopes for the test questions. This hope is based on the will of the emperor and is often closely related to current affairs of the court. Talents who can apply their knowledge to life.

After the training is over, the officials will draw lots and divide them into four groups, which are divided into four types of examination questions: Feng, Song, Jing, and Yi. Since each official is good at different knowledge, in the Forbidden Garden, who is in charge of what category is usually After the lottery was drawn and discussed amicably, each group made a decision with humility.For example, when Pei Jun was in Hanlin in his early years, he started with style and song collections. He was usually good at these kinds of test questions, so he didn't want to spend too much time trying other things. Therefore, Pei Jun was in charge of these two types of questions. In the next ten years, there were no written rules in the court.

But this time it was different.Because among the 16 people who were selected, there was actually Cai Yang.

Presumably, in order to ensure that his son Cai Lan Enke's career would be smooth sailing and that the test questions would not go too far, Cai Yan dispatched his second son, Cai Yang, to take charge of the affairs of the Forbidden Garden.Pei Jun frowned when he saw him, and thought that Cai Yang would like to study wind and song, and he would definitely compete with him when dividing the questions.

Just as he was thinking, someone behind him smiled and patted him on the shoulder, and when he turned around, it was Yan Yuliang.

Pei Jun's brows eased a little from this, and he said "Senior Brother", and the two walked into the hall talking and laughing together.

After a while, Zhong Shuling finished talking about the meaning of the cabinet, saying that because of the new policy this year, the emperor attached great importance to the current subject, so it would be better if the test questions were closely related to the policy of the new policy, so he put down the royal silk rewarded by the palace The silk was wrapped in a piece of red brocade, and after they were drawn by lottery, they were drawn up within three days and three answers were written on the silk, and presented to the palace for the emperor to have a look at. First, check whether the selected officials still have knowledge, and second, let the officials make reasonable questions and avoid artificial difficulties resulting in improper selection.

After Zhongshuling left, one person needed to inscribe and sign on the red brocade bestowed by the emperor, and the homonym means "good fortune", which is a good omen among civil servants, and the officials who wrote the title wanted to see that Pei Jun was the new young master a few years ago. The celebrity in front of the imperial court got up and flattered him and said: "Master Pei is excellent in both calligraphy and painting, which is rare among scholars. In recent years, he has been running around in the officialdom, but he has not shown it. Why don't we write the word 'revealing the title' today, and tell us to do it too?" Rewards?"

However, Pei Jun folded his hands, shook his head and laughed: "You all have no good intentions. It's really telling me that Pei Jun's class is playing tricks and making people laugh."

He turned to Cai Yang who was on the side, and sighed: "Mr. Cai's calligraphy is worth a thousand gold. Compared with others, I use a pen to scratch the ground with chicken feet. Forget it. Let's reward Master Cai's wonderful pen." good."

As soon as the officials heard that he took the lead in praising Cai Yang, they immediately turned around and followed his compliments.Cai Yang listened, and the displeasure of being neglected by the officials just now was swept away, and he pretended to give in, but he still pulled up his sleeves and took the pen, and the officials next to him ground the ink for him, and started to write.

Yan Yuliang looked at this scene, hit Pei Jun on the back and said, "You really gave him face."

Pei Jun laughed, and whispered to him: "If you don't write that word, the imperial court will post an extra two or two taels of silver every day for us to write questions, not one cent more, one cent not less, and my inscriptions don't matter. If you get an extra penny, why bother with that? If he likes the things of vanity, let him take them. Anyway, no matter how valuable the words are, they will be burned by the emperor if they are written on the red cloth. ,What's the point?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the word "Fang Cai Yang" was already written, and it really won the praise of the whole room. Pei Jun gave Yan Yuliang a push, and continued to lead the applause with a smile.

Fortunately, Pei Jun drew lots with Yan Yuliang, Feng Jiru followed Cai Yang, and Cai Yang was really going to take the test questions, so Pei Jun also sent Buddha to the west, and chose Feng Jiru. Class, went into the wing room with Yan Yuliang and the other two.

Because of Pei Jun, the test questions of the wind group were all completed before sunset on the second day, and they were handed over to the person sent by Zhongshuling. A chess set was dug out from the closet, remembering Yan Yuliang's superb chess skills, he dragged him to sit in the courtyard to bask in the sun, playing chess while recalling the time when he took the exam.

"I think back then," Yan Yuliang walked away first, sitting on a stone bench with his knees propped up, "We all took the supervisor's car to the examination room together, but you were different. Before getting in the car, your master suddenly drove out and called After leaving you, go sit in his car—that posture, like a great mission from heaven, personally sent you all the way into the examination room, making us who really thought you could enter the top three, but when the results were released, we saw that you were only in Jinshi The eyeballs are about to fall out."

"Hey, brother, don't talk about it. At that time, Zhang Ling scolded me..." Pei Jun moved his chess to deal with him a few times, remembering the big quarrel with Zhang Ling after the rankings were released, and the words and sentences were separated by years. Although it is indeed blurred in my memory, I can probably remember it as: "I didn't want to be an official at first, but only wanted to enter the Imperial Academy, so he scolded me for wasting my bones and not seeking to make progress, and fined me to face the wall in his house." .As soon as I got angry, I ran away, so I wouldn’t chill with him in the future.”

Yan Yuliang fired a cannon and ate one of his horses: "Who would have thought that you would leave the Hanlin faster than anyone else. You were hypocritical back then."

Pei Jun just laughed when he heard this, looked at the horse he had taken away, and sighed softly.

"Speaking of Hanlin." Yan Yuliang thought of something else, "Your student surnamed Qian also participated in the department—"

"He's not my student yet." Pei Jun corrected.

"Hey, it will happen sooner or later." Yan Yuliang finished speaking casually, and when he saw that Pei Jun was about to speak again, he hurriedly held him down, "Okay, okay, I mean to ask—how do you plan to arrange his position in the future? Hanlin's vacancies are very tight, if you want to let him in, you have to tell me first, so that I can inform Sun Yard in advance."

Pei Jun shook his head with a click: "Qian Sheng is different from me back then. He wants to be an official, what kind of Imperial Academy?"

——Although entering the Imperial Academy is also a courtier, it is completely different from being a courtier who enters the class as a courtier.

In Hanlin, people can get in touch with all aspects of the imperial court, they can get in touch with contacts, write official documents for trivial matters in the court, and participate in major and minor matters, but that's all.Those contacts are useless in Hanlin, and the official documents they write are also to praise others. They have no right to vote when they participate in the council, and they can only speak with their mouths open.Therefore, some people enter Hanlin as a post station, and when they come out, they are full of goods and then go up everywhere, but some people stay in Hanlin for a lifetime and never feel aggrieved.Sometimes this is not necessarily due to different encounters, but just pursuit of differences, but in the past, Zhang Ling only felt that Pei Jun's "differentness" was a kind of cowardice and evasion, and never asked whether it was instinct.

However, when Pei Jun thinks back now, the quarrel was so severe back then. He never admitted that most of what Zhang Ling said was true. It was only after I realized my will to be an official that I finally realized that those who dare to be officials are brave.

Such a person would not be willing to stay in that comfort zone and pick up shoes for the sages every day.

He smiled, made a move, and looked at Yan Yuliang, "Senior brother, the first court meeting next month is to formulate the new policy rules, and I plan to advise the court to set up a new salt arrest department, and then put Qian Haiqing in it. Qian Haiqing is from Jiangnan, and his father is a well-known drug dealer in the area, his connections and material resources are both useful and should not be wasted."

"Sealing the Salt Department? Is this a meddling in the salt industry?" Yan Yuliang smacked and nodded, "I think it will work. The salt market has not been peaceful in the past two years. If we can find a way to go to the south to become an official Salt and private salt, maybe you can get some oil and water. Wait for your student—"

"Not yet my student." Pei Jun corrected him again with a smile.

"Wait for Qian Sheng," Yan Yuliang waved his hand and changed his words, "When he gets rid of the Tang family, the water transportation of the admiral of the Nine Houses will be vacated, so we will jointly lay off him, and pass all the duties to you Jing Zhaosi. Could it be that it’s cheap to transport anything and deduct anything?” Speaking of this, he bumped Pei Jun with his elbow, “But in this matter, don’t you think that Prince Yin Jin of Jingzhao Mansion won’t share—”

"General!" Pei Jun yelled suddenly, and a cannon blasted into Yan Yuliang's gate. He laughed and said, "Hey, senior brother! If you let your imagination run wild, you've lost to me once."

Yan Yuliang was taken aback, stared at the chessboard, and slapped Pei Jun on the arm suddenly: "Damn it, you are cheating! How could you beat me!"

Yan Yuliang is the only person who loves chess all his life, and he has nothing to do all day long, either teaching his son and daughter about knowledge, or studying all kinds of chess records assiduously.When he was in his twenties, Pei Jun definitely couldn't win against Yan Yuliang. He had lost all his life in his previous life, but now he was able to live again and beat him. How comfortable he was, he rubbed his chest and laughed: "It's all Senior brother taught well, taught well, I am a famous teacher who turned out to be an excellent apprentice. Come on, come on, let's play another game."

In this way, he bypassed Yan Yuliang's talk just now, and coaxed Yan Yuliang, who was furious, to lose him again.

Just like that, he was locked in the forbidden garden, playing chess, reading books, chatting, and occasionally discussing knowledge. After nine days, the spring outside closed, Shi Zi was discharged from the hospital, and Pei Jun and others could go home.

Standing in the front yard with Yan Yuliang, he saw Feng Jiru wiping his forehead and walking out of the Song Group's wing, while Cai Yang was still talking to the other two officials in the background, pointing out Spring and Autumn, so he called out as expected. Feng Jiru said with a smile: "Feng Shilang, is everything going well?"

Feng Jiru quickly came over with a salute, no matter how headache he looked at Cai Yang, he still said: "It's okay, it's okay." In the end, he didn't say anything else, only that Mr. Pei also rested at ease, and the second day will be graded in the ministry Goodbye, Bento is going out first.

Pei Jun looked at the back of this man as he left, and knew that he must go back to the Ministry of Rites first to store the rolls, and wait until he figured out which subject to put in which box, so that he could prepare for the matter of accepting bribes and exchanging papers in the future.

But he didn't intend to intervene, he just hooked up with Yan Yuliang and was about to leave.

At this time, the guard of the Forbidden Garden brought a jug of good wine to flatter Cai Yang, and asked all the adults to drink a glass of wine before leaving.

So Cai Yang called Pei Jun to stop, poured out a glass and handed it in front of Pei Jun, not without sarcasm, and invited: "Master Pei is a must for this pleasure of wine and meat. Come, Lord Pei, please have a drink." This is like a reward. It was like charity, as if letting Pei Jun drink the jug of wine given to him filially by others would suppress Pei Jun's arrogance and make him inferior to him.

Yan Yuliang frowned slightly when he saw it, and thought that these two were officials of the same rank, if news of Cai Yang's wine appreciation got out, it would be Pei Jun who laughed, so he raised his hand to block the cup for Pei Jun liquor.But before he could speak, Pei Jun who was beside him had already accepted the wine with a smile, and drank it as soon as he raised his head.

After drinking, Pei Jun savored it carefully for a while, and smiled at Cai Yang: "It turns out to be sapphire wine, and it is really good wine...but this wine has a strong flavor and lacks rhyme. - Mr. Cai, you should have a taste too."

When Cai Yang heard this, his face turned blue, Pei Jun shook his head and smiled secretly, and only said goodbye to him in the second day, and then dragged Yan Yuliang away gracefully.

When I came out of Hanlin, the sun was warm and the sun was shining.After doing this, Pei Jun felt his stomach was empty, and after a while, he felt even more hungry that his chest was pressed against his back. When he smelled his whole body, he could smell the sour smell of four stinky men squeezed together in the wing room.

He was about to ask Yan Yuliang to have dinner together so that he could go back home to sleep, when he knew that as soon as he walked out of Si Chongmen, a servant from Jingzhao Division hurried up to greet him, saying that he had been waiting here for a long time, and he wanted to invite Mr. Si to go to the department Sign an urgent document to demolish the building.

The meal was unfinished now, so Pei Jun had no choice but to say goodbye to Yan Yuliang first, and followed the handyman to Jingzhaosi.

Right now, just after the Spring Festival in Beijing, the long street that Si Chongmen walked out suddenly became more lively. There were many young people coming and going listening to books, watching juggling or walking around the streets. It seemed that the depression of scholars was completely gone. It's hard, what should be done at this moment is to squander all the glory of youth——

After all, no matter whether it is good or bad, whether it is good or bad, the results will not be known until the results are released in one month, and these students from all over the world have different knowledge, but in the short few months in the capital, they are very different. Soon Qiqi learned how the Beijingers behave when they have wine and are drunk now. In the past few days, they probably have to play everything on outings, and wandering among these commoner scholars, Pei Jun is leisurely with an old heart. Looking at it, he was only worried about the instability of law and order and the miscellaneous affairs of Jingzhao—in this way, Pei Jun's wages would not increase, but he would have to work more to survive and less to go home.

While thinking, a gust of early spring wind blew on him, and he blinked, only to feel that the colors and light shadows in front of him seemed to be very hazy because of Cai Yang's glass of sapphire wine.Under the gradually darkening sky, the shops and restaurants along the street were all lit up, making Pei Junzui see that it looked like stars shaking in the river, fading and turbulent.

He wandered through these lights and shades one by one, and he didn't recognize any of the faces he passed by. When he got near Jingzhaosi, he caught up with a team of brides passing by on the avenue in front of the door. , Blowing the suona and bamboo sheng beeping, crackling and setting off firecrackers, it almost cracked his eardrums.

Intuitively upset, he instructed the handyman, and the two of them turned into the alley and entered the Jingzhao Division through the back door, but saw that the garden in the Central Division was still there, and the vegetation was not in full bloom. At this time, it was time for work to end, and people dispersed. Pretty much.

At this time, the handyman invited Pei Jun back, and the day's work was over, and he resigned and went home after the ceremony.

So Pei Jun strolled to the corridor by himself, and when he walked through the atrium, he turned his head inadvertently, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a man in military uniform standing in the shadow of the yellow light at the entrance of the main hall, holding a scroll in his hand. , was talking to Jingzhao Candidate Song Yi.

Pei Jun's footsteps stopped suddenly, and he stopped behind the pillar five or six steps away from the man in an instant, shaking his head suddenly to wake up.

He tried to open his eyes wide, and finally recognized the person in the slightly drunken blur.

——The one in military uniform is Jiang Yue, who is standing in the corridor with his back facing him.

As a result, he no longer made a sound, and was also afraid that if he took a step forward, he would completely shock the scene that suddenly appeared in front of him, and push everything back to the very beginning.

He leaned on the porch pillar and looked over quietly. He saw that Jiang Yue's military uniform had not faded at this time. It is natural and tight, standing tall and handsome, with a folded horsewhip in the hand holding the scroll, which is even more casual.

Pei Jun speculated that this person probably came to the department to take a look on the way back from the city, and the little dust on Jiang Yuesu's white trousers and soap-colored brocade boots further confirmed his conjecture. He could almost imagine that Jiang Yue's mount must be tied outside the door for orders, waiting for him to get on the horse and leave as soon as he finished.

This is Jiang Yue's always capable and dignified appearance.

Pei Jun looked at it, and felt that the sapphire wine that Cai Yang had given him was really good, and it made him, who is a very drinker, suddenly feel dizzy for no reason. Before he finished walking, he was still playing the lute and the firecrackers at this time, which made his mind even more chaotic and disturbed all the tranquility in this corridor, so that he couldn't understand what Jiang Yue and Song Yi were talking about. In the short gap between the ups and downs of the music, Jiang Yue's sentence that was crushed by the noise and hustle and bustle was captured:

"—This... it's signed,... don't bother... Mr. Pei proposes a question..., you can do it yourself."

What's funny is that after he said this, the drumming outside suddenly stopped, and Song Yi hurriedly took the scroll he handed over, and he could clearly hear what he said: "Yes, yes, what the lord said is very true, I will definitely not disturb Mr. Pei to rest." As he spoke, he reported some recent official duties of the department, and Jiang Yue said "retire", and finally left with fists in his hands.

But at this moment, there was another round of beating of gongs and drums outside, causing Jiang Yue to frown with a headache, but he still stood under the eaves, unfolding the next volume of documents in his hand.

He looked clear and focused, completely unaware of any abnormalities around him.

Pei Jun just looked at Jiang Yue seriously reading the scroll in such a hazy way, and couldn't help but smile with his lips curled up. Without moving his eyes, he stepped on the violent and festive drumbeat outside the wall, and walked gently behind Jiang Yue. Suddenly, he raised his hand and wrapped his arms around Jiang Yue's narrow waist, resting his chin in the socket of his shoulder. When he felt that the person in his arms was about to instinctively rise up and reward him with a throw over his shoulder, he called out in time:

"...Jiang Yue."

The voice was hoarse with a hint of fatigue and drunkenness, and together with the light smell of wine in his tongue, it lingered in Jiang Yue's ears, causing Jiang Yue to freeze in his arms again, without moving for a while.

The next moment, amidst the noisy gongs and drums soaring into the sky, Jiang Yue only heard the bewitching voice mixed with a soft murmur, which slowly reached his ears:

"Jiang Yue, I'm hungry."