Chapter 216 Li Gan's shock! Selling exam questions!
Now there is an uncle in Zheng Guan's family who is serving in the imperial court, but he is an official from the province under his command and has nothing to do with the imperial examination.
There are many members of the Zheng family in Xingyang in the military attache system, but none of them have anything to do with the examination.
That's why Zheng Guancai needed Li Qian's help before to avoid being put in the wrong shoes.
At this time, they encountered a question about the examination, and the two of them thought of Li Qian first.
Yan Zhenqing frowned: "I went to see him a while ago. Didn't I say that he went back to his hometown to celebrate the New Year and worship his ancestors?"
"You should be back now, right? It's been a while."
Zheng Guan was impatient, so he stood up and said, "Whether he comes back or not, let's go and have a look first. Anyway, we won't lose a piece of meat even if we go there."
Yan Zhenqing thought for a while and felt that what he said made sense. The two of them got on the carriage and rushed to Li Qian's home.
The cold wind blew, bringing down a few white snow leaves from time to time.
Although March has already entered, the coldness in the capital has not diminished at all, and is even a bit colder than during the twelfth lunar month.
Facing the street, the tall black wooden door looks very low-key, but the black rosewood plaque hanging on it is extremely warm and not stained with a trace of dust, as if someone comes to wipe it every day.
At first it was "Wei Mansion", but later because Li Qian often ran here, the old eunuch happily replaced "Wei Mansion" with "Li Mansion", which even attracted Lu Bu to scold him. He said several times that he was being aggressive.
But the old eunuch ignored his words and said that the place where His Majesty the Emperor lives must not contain a lake.
And when you get rich in the future, you will have to transform this place into a palace or something...
Hearing these words, Li Qian's scalp went numb, and he thought to himself that there was something wrong with building a palace so close to the imperial palace.
"Master, those Yan Zhenqing and Zheng Guan are here!"
Snowflakes were falling in the courtyard, and a few flakes of snow had just hung on the bare branches of the black trees, which were melting quickly. A very simple old eunuch in a black cotton robe walked over quickly.
"What a coincidence?"
Li Qian had one foot on the carriage, and got off again after hearing this: "Since they are here, it saves us a trip."
He had not been out of the palace much since the New Year, and this time he left the palace with a purpose, specifically to find Zheng Guan, but he didn't expect that they would come to him before he even left the palace.
Li Qian took Lu Bu and the old eunuch all the way to the main hall.
Yan Zhenqing and Zheng Guan were brought here by servants long ago and served with hot tea.
"Qing Chen, Yong Jue, long time no see."
Li Qian smiled and stepped into the living room, took off his black mink fur cloak and shook off the snowflakes on it.
Zheng Guan stood up and helped Li Qian take his coat: "Brother Li, you just came back!"
After saying that, he turned his head to look at Yan Zhenqing in surprise: "It seems we are in luck!"
"I haven't just come back, I'm getting ready to go out."
Li Qian looked at the two of them with a smile: "If you come later, I might leave."
"You're still a busy man."
Zheng Guan patted Li Qian's shoulder unceremoniously: "You have been away from the capital for so long without saying a word. How can you be so busy when you come back?"
Li Qian didn't care. He walked inside and said with a smile: "I haven't celebrated the New Year here. When I come back, why don't I pay New Year's greetings to a few relatives?"
Zheng Guan suddenly realized: "Then you..."
Li Qian looked at him with a smile and made another roundabout twist in his words: "But since you two are here today, I won't go and will leave it until later."
Zheng Guan patted his shoulder in surprise: "That's interesting."
Yan Zhenqing also laughed out loud: "Then thank you Brother Li for the favor."
Today's lunch was eaten at Li's house.
The cold wind howled outside the door and the falling snow gradually became thicker. The old eunuch specially sent someone to prepare shabu-shabu, which is the time to eat it in winter.
A brass pot with a charcoal fire in the middle and boiling hot soup surrounding it.
Red and white meat slices, soft and fresh mushrooms, tender tofu... The three of them gathered around the small table and had a great time eating. In the end, they even boiled a few pieces of radish and cabbage to relieve their tiredness.
“It’s so enjoyable!”
Zheng Guan was not like Li Qian and Yan Zhenqing. He didn't seem to have the word "bored" in his mind. He kept grabbing the meat on the plate and eating it: "I have never eaten anything more satisfying than this in winter."
Li Qian had put down Kuai Zi a long time ago. Seeing that he was still dipping the meat slices into the sesame sauce plate, he couldn't help but smile and persuade: "It's not good to eat too much at one time. Your stomach will be rounded by eating all this, so you better keep it." Let’s eat it next time!”
"Next time you come, I'll treat you to food!" Yes.
However, Zheng Guan spoke plausibly and was still busy: "This meal is just about your mood. The next time will be different from this time."
What Li Qian liked most was his free and easy personality. After smiling and saying a few more words, he changed the topic back to the original topic.
"You are almost ready to try this. Why did you come to me when you and Qingchen were not at home to study?"
Hearing this, Zheng Guan hurriedly swallowed the meat in his mouth. Yan Zhenqing also sat up straight and said, "Brother Zheng just bought a copy of the exam questions in the restaurant. We don't know whether it is true or false, so we came here to ask you about it."
Li Qian was startled at first when he heard this, and then he laughed dumbly: "I haven't been in the capital for a few days, what's the use of looking for me?"
"Besides, I didn't pay much attention to the news about this trial, right?"
"You take a look first and then talk."
Zheng Guan picked up the silk towel on the table and wiped his mouth, then took out the test questions from his sleeve: "The questions this time are quite mysterious."
"Xuanhu?"
Looking at their expressions, Li Qian did not continue to refuse, but took the test question from Zheng Guan's hand.
There was only one line of words on the note, and Li Qian only glanced at it and was stunned.
After being lost for a moment, he suddenly raised his head and stared directly at Zheng Guan in front of him: "Where did this come from?"
Yan Zhenqing and Zheng Guan looked at each other and suddenly realized that there was indeed something wrong with this. Li Qian must know something, and it was not as simple as what he just said.
Zheng Guan did not answer Li Qian's question, but looked at him tentatively: "Jiubang, do you know something?"
Li Qian took a deep breath and then shook his head: "I don't know the specifics. But your test question... is probably true."
Before Zheng Guan and Yan Zhenqing could speak, he stood up and called the old eunuch from outside the door.
"master……"
Li Qian handed him the small note and whispered a few words, and the old eunuch quickly ran away with a nervous look on his face.
Li Qian looked at his back, sighed quietly, then turned back to look at Yan Zhenqing and Zheng Guan, and repeated what he just said: "The test questions you asked are probably true.
Yan Zhenqing opened her mouth in shock.
Zheng Guan was absent-minded for a while, and then murmured: "It seems that my 500 taels of silver were well spent..."