Jian Qing left, and early the next morning, he packed his luggage and left the sad place with his servant. There were hundreds of candidates who also failed the exam in the mansion. It was meaningless for them to continue to stay in the mansion city. It would be better to go back and continue to study hard and wait for the next year to take the exam.

As a result, the rooms in the city where guests were already full of guests were quickly empty, and most of the upper room in Wanjia Restaurant was vacant in one day. Fang Zigui took the opportunity to move out of the cross-yard and move into the upper room. This led to the fact that Li Ling was left alone in the end, which was really a little space.

Fortunately, Gu Yuezi brought people here again within two days, and Xu Cang was also with him. He was brought in early because Gu Yuezi knew that Li Ling's residence was spacious enough. In this way, seven or eight people moved in again in the yard, which made the place lively again.

The three of them met, naturally, greeted and congratulated each other - although they were in the county town, Gu Yuezi still knew from the county government that Li Ling had passed the mansion test in the morning. Then, Li Ling asked about the situation at home again: "Yue'er, you didn't make things difficult for you in your house, did you?"

"Look at what you said, how could Yue'er be so well-behaved and obedient? Speaking of which, my wife likes her very much. If my son Tianle was not too young, I would have wanted to propose marriage to you." Gu Yuezi said with a smile.

But Li Ling was so whispered: "Good guy, I think you are a friend and brother, you really want to be my elder? And how could my sister marry a yellow-haired boy at will?" But he could only laugh at him.

As for Xu Cang, his expression was always a little strange. Li Ling asked carefully before he expressed his thoughts. However, after knowing that Li Ling had passed the mansion examination and became a child, he was full of emotion: "I think you are just an ordinary common man, but in just half a year, it was the same as me. But I... it took three years to get to this point, and I wasted five years of failure to pass the scholarship. I think I am really ashamed."

"Brother Xu doesn't have to do this. After two exams, I can understand that the imperial examination is really extremely harsh. In addition to knowledge, luck and mentality are the key. I believe that with your talent and knowledge, as long as you take the exam calmly, let alone scholars, even scholars and Jinshi are not a problem." Li Ling hurriedly comforted him.

Gu Yuezi also said, "Brother Li's words are reasonable, and I also think you will definitely win this time, Brother Xu!"

"I hope so." Xu Cang's temperament is indeed a little different from before. He has more confidence and said with a smile.

Then, the three of them turned the topic to the main business, namely the bookstore business. But before a few words were discussed, a friend came to report that someone outside came to invite Li Ling and Gu Yuezi to Zuixianju for wine after being ordered by Master Wanjia Jiu.

The wine was already decided, and Li Ling and the others were happy to go to the appointment. Xu Cang used the excuse that he was a little tired and did not go there and stayed in the inn.

...

Taibailou and Zuixiangju are the most common restaurant names in various places in ancient times, just like the two "chain" inns in Yuelai and Longmen in the martial arts world in later generations. Although this kind of restaurant must have nothing to do with Li Taibai, fortunately, every restaurant that dares to name it is pretty good, and the brand will naturally not fall.

The same is true for Zuixiangju in Hengzhou City. It is considered to be the top restaurant in the city. Because the building is divided into five floors, it has become the most famous restaurant in the city. It also comes to guests every day, and its business is very good.

When Li Ling and the others took the bus to the restaurant, they looked like they were busy. Fortunately, there were thousands of people leading the way in front of them, so there was no need to worry about not being able to find anyone.

Wan Lang was already waiting in a private room on the third floor. When he saw them coming, he smiled and greeted him: "Brother Li, Brother Gu, you are here." As he said that, he opened his eyes behind them again, as if he was looking for someone.

Seeing this, Li Ling and the other two felt a little strange. It was not until they sat down that Gu Yuezi asked casually: "Are there any guests not yet arrived?"

"I originally wanted to call Brother Hai to come and have fun together, but he didn't come here if he had something to do." Wan Lang said as he paused and looked at Gu Yuezi, "Didn't you agree to invite the author of the Romance of the Gods that day? Why can't he come here if he has something to do?"

Hearing this question, Li Ling and Gu Yuezi looked at each other and couldn't help laughing. This made Wan Lang even more and more strange: "Why, is there any problem I asked? Hum?" He suddenly felt his heart and his eyes fell on Li Ling's face: "Could it be..."

"I didn't expect that Brother Wan, you have a time when you are not well-informed. I can't hide it from it. Actually, I am the author of the book "Fengshen Romance." Li Ling said in a blink of an eye at him.

Even though he had guessed something, Wan Lang was still stunned for a moment, and then ate and said, "Are you serious? Brother Li is that Xiaoyaozi?"

"That's right!"

"Ha... this is really funny. I really didn't ask about it, and I didn't expect that it would be your brother Li who wrote such a masterpiece in the Congregation of Gods... In my opinion, he should be an elderly person anyway."

"Haha, stop talking about you. Many people in our county don't know that Brother Li is Xiaoyaozi, and their ideas are the same as you. They think that Xiaoyaozi is an old man with rich experience and seclusion in the mountains and forests."

As they said that, the few people burst into laughter and then toasted each other with a few glasses of water and wine.

In fact, Wan Lang invited them to come for a drink and banquet today for three purposes. The first is to celebrate Li Ling, the second is to wash away the dust of ancient confinement, and the third thing is the most important thing, which is to negotiate cooperation between the two parties.

However, before getting to the topic, Wan Lang looked at Li Ling seriously and said, "Brother Li, what happened before is already a little slight."

"Well? But the culprit has been found in the government office?" Li Ling was excited when he heard this, put down his wine glass and asked anxiously.

To be honest, the things that happened that day had been bothering him. If they could not be resolved, he was really afraid that something would happen when the hospital examination was in the hospital.

Gu Yuezi, who was standing aside, didn't know what happened, but he didn't ask, but looked at this and that with some confusion. Wan Lang said, "In the past two days, the government office has been strictly inspecting the two acts. It was not until the day before yesterday that they really confessed that they were instructed and bought to take the risk of frameing you."

Li Ling narrowed his eyes, did not react much, and continued to listen to the other party's words: "The person who instructed them was Qin Debiao, the guard of the government office, who was responsible for the matters related to the government trial. According to his instructions, in order to accomplish this, he gave two of them 200 taels of silver each."

"Qin Debiao? I don't know him at all."

"Of course, because he was bribed, so he did this. He was quite generous when he took action. He directly took out a thousand taels of silver and asked him to do things according to the rules, which would hurt you. And he promised that as long as the matter was done, he would give him another thousand taels of silver!"

Li Ling couldn't help but take a breath: "Two thousand taels of silver are to frame me? It's really a big deal! But I really haven't offended anyone, let alone a powerful person with such a trick."

"Yes, this is also the most confusing place. In the end, it was found that Qin Debiao was contacted by a businessman named Guan, and the man had left the city as early as the day of the incident."

"The person has left? Wouldn't he be able to find out any more information?"

"Don't worry, the government office can't keep checking, but it doesn't mean that our Wan family can't check it down." Wan Lang smiled and stood up, pouring a glass of wine for Li Ling and Gu Yuezi, who was stunned. "Their methods are indeed very clever. The merchant surnamed Guan is not very revealing in the city, and the government is not dedicated to it, so he stopped here. Fortunately, in business, my Wan family has some connections. After exploring people yesterday, we finally caught the beginning and end of the man. It turned out that he was very close to a businessman named Zhao Chenghuang, and he should be a subordinate who obeyed his orders."

"So, according to what you found out, is Zhao Chenghuang behind the scenes?" Li Ling frowned again: "But I don't know this person either."

"Uh, you may not remember him. You should have seen Ji Wuyou from Pingjiang County. He is also a candidate in the undergraduate entrance examination and lives in our Wanjia Inn. He lives in the No. 2 courtyard. Zhao Chenghuang is a manager or shopkeeper in his family."

When Li Ling heard the candidate surnamed Ji in Pingjiang, he remembered the small storm when he had just arrived in the city, and the young master Ji who wrote "I am very rich, who dares not accept it" and the "Uncle Huang" who almost caused internal conflict among the candidates in Jiangcheng County to say a few words. By the way, when he thinks about it now, he can't remember what the other party looks like. Anyway, it's just a simple face that can't be found in the crowd...

"It's them..." Li Ling bit his teeth and said hissing, "Just because our people had some displeasure with them in their words at the beginning, they would frame me like this? No, there were many people who had conflicts with them at that time, and it was not me who took the lead. Why did they only target me in the end?"

"It should be Brother Li, you ruined their good things." Wan Lang had already learned about the day from the inn and said something strange, "They had already mastered the situation, but their plan was lost because you said you wanted to get a house. Moreover, you moved into Tianzi No. 1 Courtyard and compared Ji Wuyou, which naturally made him hold a grudge even more! A young master like him who is used to being generous to the family is naturally very annoyed when he loses face, so he has to do everything he can to harm you."

Li Ling was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly again. He had thought a lot before, thinking that it was the revenge of the dealer, or the move of the people standing on the dealer's side, but he never thought that it would be the consequences of a small friction a few days ago.
Chapter completed!