marquis of jingan

Chapter 571 Two Futures
After hanging out with Zhang Jian all afternoon, in the evening, Shen Yi finally woke up from the wine, so he obediently went to Zhao Shangshu's mansion, and had a meal at Zhao's house.

After eating, it was naturally the time for daily conversation. Shen Yi chatted with Zhao Changping for a full hour in the study before leaving the Zhao family.

The next day, Shen Yi didn't go out much, but stayed at home with his wife and children, and took a look at a banned book given to him by Zhang Jian the day before yesterday, reading it with gusto.

Under the powerful attraction of the forbidden books, Master Shen read at night by candlelight, and soon another day passed.

On the morning of the third day, Shen Yi did not go to other places, but took an examination of Shen Heng's theory at home. After reading four or five articles in a row, Master Shen put the article down, coughed, and said with a smile: " The article is good, but the handwriting needs to be practiced more, your current handwriting is too rigid, and it lacks a bit of elegance."

"I'll ask Jiang Sheng to go to Dongshi Street later, and I'll buy you a few knives of paper later, so you're good at practicing."

Shen Heng smiled and nodded, then looked at Shen Yi with a smile: "I heard from Master Gu that my brother's handwriting is not as good as mine."

"Listen to that old man's nonsense."

Master Shen rolled his eyes: "Brother is a Jinshi on the second list, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, that old man didn't even get a Jinshi, I can't believe it, I can't believe it..."

The two brothers are basically from the old man Gu's family, so Shen Yi's remarks are naturally a joke. Shen Heng squinted his eyes and laughed softly: "What brother said makes sense. Tomorrow, I will go tell Master Gu that the sage of calligraphy My little brother is gone, starting tomorrow, I will be exclusively reading my elder brother's words."

Shen Yi smiled dumbly, and was about to speak, when the voice of the servant girl Qing'er suddenly came from outside: "My lord, there are two people from the outer court looking for you, saying they are your subordinates..."

Shen Yi nodded to show that he knew, then he turned his head to look at Shen Heng, and ordered: "Qiu Wei is coming soon, you should write more articles, run around with Master Gu, and strive for a good ranking in Qiu Wei's exam. Next year in the spring, I will give you some activities for my brother, so that you can try to make up for the vacancies of Beijing officials."

Shen Heng smiled and said: "If my younger brother wins the first class, there will be no need for elder brother to do activities."

The top three must enter the Hanlin Academy, so naturally there is no need for activities.

"It's good to have this kind of thinking, don't give birth to arrogance."

Master Shen said in a slightly low voice: "Be free and have nothing to do, think about Master Gu more, he was fooled by this arrogance for a lifetime."

Old man Gu didn't write a memorial to sue the prime minister, he might have been a Jinshi and returned to his hometown early, why did he live in Jiankang, separated from his family for decades?

"understood."

Shen Heng bowed his head in a respectful salute.

Seeing that his elder brother was about to leave, he hesitated for a while, and then said, "Brother, if I win this year's Qiu Wei, can I..."

He gritted his teeth lightly: "Can you take the young lady to live in Jiankang?"

The Youniang he was talking about was Chen Youniang, Chen Qing's younger sister.

After Shen Yi dealt with the Fan family in Jiangdu, Chen Youniang was taken to the Shen family. Although she worked in the Shen family, she was raised by Shen Zhang as her daughter. But this time when Shen Heng went to Jiankang to take the exam, Chen Youniang did not follow, but stayed in the Shen family. Jiangdu, looking after the old house for the Shen family.

Shen Yi glanced at his brother, then smiled dumbly: "Okay, this time Qiu Wei did well in the exam, I will tell my father for you."

After saying this, Shen Yi no longer looked at his overjoyed brother, but lowered his head, straightened his clothes, and walked towards his front yard.

At this time, when they came to visit and claimed to be two people under him, there was no need to guess, it must be Ling Su and Xue Wei.

Soon at the front yard, the two thousand households of the anti-Japanese army were already waiting in the main hall of Shen's house. When they saw Shen Yi coming, the two stood up immediately, bowed to Shen Yi and clasped their fists and said, "My subordinates pay respects to Shen Yi." male!"

Shen Yi's face darkened, he waved his hands, and said in a deep voice: "Sit down, this is the word Shen Gong, don't mention it!"

The last time he was in the palace, the emperor used these two words to piss him off, which caused Master Shen to kowtow one more time for no reason, which was a great disadvantage.

The two warriors looked at each other, but they didn't know why Shen Yi was angry. Xue Wei, who had a more straightforward temper, said with a smile, "Then what should I call you?"

"I've been promoted."

Shen Yi smiled and said: "Now I'm the Minister of the Ministry of War of the fifth rank, equal to Ling Qianhu. If you don't mind the trouble, you can call me Shen Langzhong."

"The doctor, the doctor..."

Xue Wei yelled twice, and said with a smile: "It sounds like a doctor on the go."

Ling Su, who had no expression on his face, also squeezed out a smile on his face, and said: "After entering Jiankang, I asked the locals of Jiankang about your residence, and found out some other news. Listen to these The local people said that you have been promoted by His Majesty to be a bachelor of the Imperial Academy."

Speaking of this, Ling Su bowed his head respectfully and said: "Mr.

Ling Su is a hereditary Qianhu. Although he is an inconspicuous military officer, he is still very clear about the official system of the imperial court.

His Qianhu is an official of the fifth rank, and Shen Yi's bachelor of the Hanlin Academy is actually a fifth rank official.

And the gap between the two fifth grades can be said to be very different.

From the point of view of the fact that the Bachelor of the Imperial Academy is called "Prince Chu", it is reasonable for them to call Shen Yi "Minister".

Xue Wei did not know, but he knew that Ling Su was very good at being a man, so he also bowed his head and called a gentleman.

Although the word "Xianggong" is still somewhat "overstepping", it is already much better than Shen Gong.

Because the word "Shen Gong" has a bit of a "lord" in the identity of the imperial envoy, and it is somewhat taboo.

And Xianggong is more of an honorific title.

Shen Yi waved his hands helplessly, motioning for the two to sit down.

After the two of them sat down, Shen Yi smiled at the two of them, and said, "You two came here a long way away, and my family members should come out to welcome you, but my father didn't know you were coming, so go out I went to Dongshi Street to play chess with others, and I haven’t come back yet.”

"The youngest son in the family is very noisy, and my wife is still taking care of him."

Master Shen cupped his hands towards the two people, and said: "I guess we can only see you at night, sorry for the impoliteness."

What this kind of leader said to his subordinates, that is to say, it was a big deal. The two thousand households did not even dare to speak, and their attitudes were very respectful.

After being polite, Shen Yi got down to business.

"Tonight, you will have dinner at my house. After dinner, I will arrange a place for you. Tomorrow, you pack up and I will take you into the palace for a face-to-face meeting."

Hearing the words, the two thousand households swallowed in unison.

Rough people like them, see the emperor...

In the past, it was something that I didn't even dare to think about!

Xue Wei was even more stunned, unable to say a word.

It was Ling Su who was the first to react. He stood up first, bowed his head to Shen Yi, and then said: "I have already arrived at the Xianggong's mansion, and I have the audacity to eat dinner at the Xianggong's mansion. It's just that my subordinates and Xue Qianhu have already Find an inn, don't dare to bother you at night."

After finishing speaking, he took out a small box from his sleeve and held it in his hand: "Prepare a small gift, and I hope you don't dislike it."

Xue Wei also brought something, groped in his arms for a while, and found out a pure gold longevity lock, he said with a smile: "Master, this is a longevity lock made with bounty money and salary, it is absolutely clean , to the young master."

Master Shen looked at the two gifts and shook his head slightly.

"I got my heart, but I can't ask for things."

Shen Yi looked calm, looked at the two men, and said, "Our anti-Japanese army always puts merit first and doesn't look at anything else."

"I recommend the two of you to His Majesty, and it's not because I'm greedy for your little things."

Master Shen looked serious, and said slowly: "In the future, if you are promoted by His Majesty to become commanders, you will all be commanders."

"I hope you will also remember what I said."

"All right."

Master Shen waved his hand and said flatly, "Put it all away."

A smile appeared on his face: "Before it's still early, I'll show you around Jiankang."

　The daughter-in-law has a high fever for two days...the probability is positive...

　　I don't have any symptoms yet, but if my daughter-in-law is really positive, there is a high probability that I won't be able to escape...

　　Alas... If you get a fever later, let me tell everyone!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)