Yu Jun

Chapter 287 Gossip
When Qi Chang learned that Mo Lingfeng was going to entertain him tomorrow, it was too late. He paced back and forth in the room, nervous and apprehensive. After a while, he took out a piece of silver from the box and left the house.

At the time of Xu, the drums sounded, the lights were on, and many shops were about to close. Qi Chang forgot to wear a crane cloak when he walked, letting the cold wind make his shoulders shrink. He walked in a hurry. Seeing the shops on the roadside gradually closing, he quickened his pace and ran to Go to the nearest clothing store, take out your money, and order a set of daily attire from the inside out.

The next morning, before dawn, he got up, bought some breakfast, and sent it to the clothing store to treat the guys to eat and drink. He also sat aside and urged them. He only regretted that the embroiderer didn't have eight hands and couldn't take him right away. This new set of clothes is ready.

He was going to the Hanlin Academy for duty and could not stay here forever. After repeated urging, he had no choice but to leave first.

Along the way he bought green fruits, tangerines, and dates, put them in two bamboo baskets, covered them with oil paper, carried them to the Hanlin Academy, and carefully placed them under the table.

The colleague on the left who is also the lecturer smiled and said: "Qi Chang, what good things did you buy?"

Qi Chang said quickly: "A few fresh fruits."

The person on the right leaned over and said, "Why don't you buy it when it's worth it? You won't need to mention it this time."

Qi Chang bent down and took out a few dates and distributed them to the two of them: "The ones bought at this time are the freshest. I bought them at night and they were all pinched."

"Why are you so particular all of a sudden?" The colleague on the right bit off half of the date in one bite. "It's very sweet. Isn't it meant to be given to the future in-laws?"

As soon as these words came out, people around him turned on their heels and faced Qi Chang with smiles on their faces.

One of them teased: "Hey, Qi Chang, which family did you attract?"

"It's not easy for you people from Kuanzhou to get married, so don't miss it."

"It's not enough to buy some fresh fruits. You also have to buy four snacks, four wines, and four——"

Qi Chang waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, I want to visit Mo Gu... General Mo's house, buy some fresh fruits, and express my feelings."

After hearing this, several people standing not far away from the duty room couldn't help but come over and surround Qi Chang.

"General Mo really invited you?"

"Don't go uninvited. General Mo stays behind closed doors. I heard that even Privy Councilor Wu sent me a message, but she didn't reply."

"I didn't even respond to the messages my father sent me."

"It seems that Mr. Wu didn't reply either."

Qi Chang said with a smile: "General Mo has a lot of troops, so naturally he can't interact closely with the court officials. I'm just a small minister, I won't get in the way, and I'm both from Kuanzhou. That's why General Mo entertained me."

When the colleagues on the side looked at him, their eyes changed. There was more exploration and solemnity in their teasing.

Qi Chang added General Mo, and the weight was completely different. Qi Chang came to the Hanlin Academy carrying fresh fruits. His words seemed humble, but in fact, he made it public that General Mo had entertained him.

It is difficult to reach the sky if you have no support as an official.

The change was subtle and rapid, and the smiling faces surrounding Qi Chang became sincere.

Qi Chang was in a good mood and even straightened his waist. Just when he was feeling proud, a sarcastic voice came from the corner: "What a deep love between master and servant!"

Qi Chang's face suddenly turned red, all the way to his ears. His grand display brought about even more intense embarrassment.

In embarrassment, the colleague who was still smiling just now suddenly became silent.

This silence instantly turned his embarrassment into embarrassment, and another rage burned crazily in his heart, wanting to tear the person who spoke into pieces into pieces.

From birth to past, it has been a shame, and he hates it when people mention it!

Clenching his hands into fists, he suppressed the humiliation and anger in his heart and sat down silently.This is Kyoto, this is the Hanlin Academy. As a minister from the seventh rank, he can only suppress his anger - there are only a handful of people in this room who have struggled out of poor families, and the rest have their own differences. The place where he comes from is not small, and he can fall out with him at any time.

Two or three people gathered in the corner and kept saying the four words "Master and servant love deeply".

"The Mo family is really capable. They sent a slave to the Imperial Academy."

"Hmph, from a true background, he is not even a slave, he is a beggar with no place to come from."

"You don't know this. The Mo family has to send someone in. If there is someone in the Hanlin Academy, their eyes and ears of the Mo family will not be blocked."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bachelor He Feng who was standing outside the door walked in, rolled up the file in his hand into a roll, walked to the corner, and gave the classics who had just spoken a hard knock on the head.

"Be careful of what you say and do! You can't have your eyes and ears closed! Have you checked all six files? You have nothing to do. On the winter solstice, you will go to the palace to attend the sutra lecture and banquet!"

Everyone immediately shut up, looked at each other, sat down in front of their cases, and immersed themselves in reading the files in front of them.

He Feng made a long face, shouted out three more names, and followed him out to inspect the imperial edict.

After he left, the remaining people in the room quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

The classics who had just been scolded whispered: "Old old-fashioned."

Another person laughed and said: "You don't know him yet. He never says a word more. He wants to sew his mouth shut."

"The more you say, the more mistakes you make."

Qi Chang was in a state of confusion and felt like he was sitting on pins and needles. It was not until everyone focused on the file inspection that the humiliation slowly subsided, but it did not dissipate, but remained pressed deep in his heart.

It was time for you, so he carried the fresh fruit and hurried out of the Hanlin Academy. He went to the clothing store to pick up some clothes, and instead of going back, he changed into them in the store, and even the turban on his head was completely new.

Wrapping up his green official robe, he asked his waiter to take it to his home. As soon as he left the house, a young man wearing soapy brown shorts followed him and walked up to him: "Shi Qi, my master's file is in your hands." Are you in?"

Qi Chang closed his mouth and said "hmm".

The boy immediately said: "There are some shortcomings in the file, please help me."

After saying that, he quietly stuffed a roll of banknotes into Qi Chang's sleeve.

Qi Chang did not look at the boy, but moved his arm, letting the crisp new banknote scratch his arm, and then walked to the general's mansion as if nothing had happened.

The door of the General's Mansion opened, and a servant led him to the back garden. He originally thought that Mo Lingfeng was hosting a banquet in the back garden, but before he arrived, he heard a burst of women's cheers.

Although the voice was loud, it was not noisy. It was not as soft and delicate as what he usually heard. Instead, it had a cheerful aura.

He didn't know why. As the servant stepped into the Moon Gate, his eyes suddenly opened up - the garden of the General's Mansion actually had no winding paths or flowers and trees. At a glance, he could see the stone wall from one end to the other, and the middle There are lakes and running water, but there are no water pavilions or rockeries.

He had never seen such an unobstructed gaze in the back garden, which was like a school ground. He was surprised when he saw twenty or thirty thin women gathered together, surrounding Mo Lingfeng and Xiao Dou practicing shooting.

Mo Lingfeng wore a moon-white narrow-sleeved blouse, with a purple sleeve tied across his forehead to wipe his forehead. He wore an elephant bone tool on the thumb of his right hand. He took the bow and arrow from Xiao Dou's hand, opened the bow and nocked the arrow, and pointed it at the grass man on the other side of the lake.

She concentrated and calmed down, and the surrounding sounds became quiet. Qi Chang only heard a "whoosh" sound, the string was quickly withdrawn from the groove, and the arrow shot out like a meteor, hitting the straw man's abdomen.

The onlookers cheered again.

(End of this chapter)