Qi Zhu has encountered many times in his life when people rushed to treat him to dinner. Most of the time, he didn't even raise his eyelids because the people who wanted to treat him to dinner were often not qualified.
But of the two people in front of me, one is the emperor's cousin, the Minister of Nanshufang in the Ming Dynasty. The other is the emperor's cousin, the hereditary Duke.
He can't afford to offend either of these two people!
Fortunately, at this time, Zhang Yan came out of the south study room and said not far away, "Congwen, come this way, I have something good to say to you!"
"I'm sorry, you two, I'm sorry to be with you!" Qi said as if he was being pardoned, saluted and left quickly.
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Li Jinglong looked at Zhu Gaochi with a smile on his face, "What? Your Highness also wants to entertain this Qi Buzheng?"
Zhu Gaochi smiled so hard that his eyes were like slits, and said harmlessly, "What? No?"
"Okay!" Li Jinglong nodded and smiled.
"Haha!" Zhu Gaochi grinned and walked away slowly with his hands behind his back.
"Fatty!"
Li Jinglong cursed in his heart, "I'm looking for someone named Qi for some serious business, what are you looking for for him?"
I was thinking in my mind, and then I couldn't help but think of Zhu Gaochi's harmless face with eyes narrowed to a slit.
"puff!"
He suddenly couldn't help it and grinned.
At this moment, Xie Jin came over from behind, yawning.
Seeing this, he asked, "Why is Duke Cao laughing?"
"I remembered something!" Li Jinglong couldn't help but laughed so much that his shoulders were moving.
Xie Jin looked around and whispered, "Why are you smiling so happily!"
"No...no..." Li Jinglong was out of breath and waved his hands repeatedly.
The more he behaved like this, the more curious Xie Jin became. He couldn't help but ask, "Master, why are you laughing? Is there anything else you can't say to me?"
"Look!" Li Jinglong pulled Xie Jin and turned around into the dim sum room. He smiled again, "Did you look at His Royal Highness's face?"
Jie Jin stood there, Zhu Gaochi's chubby smiling face appeared in his mind, "What's wrong with his face?"
"Haha, when he laughs..." Li Jinglong whispered, "Have you noticed that when he laughs, there are slits in his eyes..."
Xie Jin was a little stunned...
"His eye hairs are so long and thick..." Li Jinglong laughed so hard, "A crack plus those hairs...doesn't it look like...?"
Xie Jin thought for a while, and suddenly said, "........."
Then he couldn't laugh or cry, "Mr. Cao Guo... what do you want me to say?" After saying that, he quickly looked around, "Why are you... why are you talking nonsense?"
"Isn't this about you?" Li Jinglong drank a sip of tea and said with a smile, "I won't tell anyone else either!"
"Hey, this... is so unbecoming!" Xie Jin shook his head, and then whispered, "Let's get down to business!"
"Yeah, tell me!" Li Jinglong stopped smiling and listened seriously.
"You said that, that's almost it!"
"What's going on?"
"Tsk... Let Duke Zheng tell you, and then you tell me..." Xie Jin lowered his face.
"Oh!" Li Jinglong nodded quickly, and then asked, "Almost?"
"Yeah!" Xie Jin nodded, looked out the left and right windows, and then lowered his voice, "I glanced at his papers. He has real talent and knowledge, and he deserves to be ranked second in class!"
As for speaking and listening, Li Jinglong understood it as soon as he heard this. Jin Youzi, who used to be an aide in Zheng Guogong's house, got a second-class Jinshi.
"The urine has also improved!" Li Jinglong thought to himself, "I can talk!"
In Xie Jin's words, he didn't mention who had greeted him in advance, but he directly said that the candidate had real talents and learning...
This is the art of speaking!
And he said at the beginning that he glanced at Jin Yuzi's paper...
There is a lot of knowledge here. When grading papers for the general examination, names are unknown, and before the papers are submitted to the examiner, a special person will copy them again to prevent the examiner from discovering that they know him or that there is something hidden in the article.
Head code or something like that.
Xie Jin scanned it first, and as he could only force himself to learn and memorize, he must have written down the important sentences on the paper, and his writing would be a little crooked...
If he has real talent and knowledge, he will be lucky enough to get a top grade.
Erjia is both decent and unattractive!
He has no real talent, but he is lucky enough to get past the bottom of the top three.
If you are lucky, this is the blessing of your ancestors!
Therefore, things in this world that ordinary people think are absolutely unimpeachable, in the eyes of those in power, are just the same thing. If there are people in the court, it is easy for them to be officials!
"Thank you for your trouble!" Li Jinglong smiled.
"Why bother?" Xie Jin picked up a piece of snack and put it in his mouth, "My father-in-law, I didn't understand what you said!"
"Boy!" Li Jinglong smiled and said in his heart, "You've learned to commit adultery!"
"I still have to go to the examination room!" Xie Jin yawned, cupped his hands and said, "Excuse me!"
"You go about your business!"
Li Jinglong waved his hand, and after Xie Jin went out, he drank a bowl of hot tea in the snack room before slowly walking out.
But as soon as he came out, he saw Deng Ping and others respectfully leading an old man in a python robe into the waiting room.
Li Jinglong hurried over and asked, "Uncle, why are you here?"
The visitor was none other than Dongguan Bo He Rong.
"Master Cao Guo!" He Rong laughed, "It's Long Live Master who wants to see me!"
Li Jinglong thought for a while and said with a smile, "I haven't seen you for a while, and I'm still thinking about going to your house to sit there another day!" As he said, he smiled and said, "I heard that you have a good house in your house.
Double steamed, but you can’t buy it outside!”
"It's just rice wine made by relatives in my hometown!" He Rong said with a smile, "It's not a good wine, it's just a good drink!" He added, "This man is old, and nothing is as good as the one in his hometown."
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"That's right, that's right!" Li Jinglong nodded repeatedly, "You're right, there is an old saying, the clothes are not as good as the new ones, the old friends are not as good as the old ones...the nostalgia is unforgettable!" He said, and said with a smile, "Uncle, old man.
Do you miss your hometown?"
Having said this, he smiled and said, "With your status, this is not a big deal. Tell the emperor that he will go back to his hometown in Guangdong and live there for three to five years..."
"I won't go back, I won't!" He Rong shook his head and sighed, "I'm not afraid of your jokes, just those relatives in my family... Hey! It smells good when you're far away, but smells bad when you're close... I'm thousands of miles apart in the capital.
I send people here from time to time to beg for this and that... If I go back to my hometown, won't I become their God of Wealth?"
"Tsk, that's right!" Li Jinglong stamped his foot, "Hey...but you are always soft-hearted, so it's difficult to deal with it!" As he said that, he glanced outside and said, "Junior, there are still official matters over there..."
"Go about your business!" He Rong said with a smile, "Now it's your young people's world!"
"This world was not conquered by your generation!" Li Jinglong smiled, "By the way, I know you always like to eat seafood. Someone has sent a boat of smoked fish and dried shrimps to my house these days, so I will spend the afternoon with you. Someone will send it to you..."
"Look, it costs you money again!" He Rong said with a smile.
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"Why does the emperor see the old man?"
Li Jinglong walked toward the south study room with his hands behind his back and began to think in his mind.
Do you really think he respects the elderly so much that he greets the nobles of the older generation with greetings?
He was trying to trick He Rong!
Unfortunately, nothing came out!
Thinking about this, he suddenly stopped and thought to himself, "The Emperor just met Qi Zhu, the Chief Secretary of Guangdong, and Zhang Quan, the Marquis of Yongding, the Commander of the Guangxi Dusi, and now he has temporarily summoned Dongguan Bo!"
"It must be a matter between Guangdong and Guangxi! I'm afraid... let Uncle Dongguan lead the army?"
He was far from the only one who speculated on the emperor's intentions.
In the south study room, it seems that everyone is working, but in fact everyone is secretly thinking about something.
People were coming and going in the Forbidden City of Nuoda, and those who came in and out were also secretly guessing the direction of the next move.