Jinyi Night Walk

A pair of old servants who stayed in the old house, this is a couple, and now they are left to Empress Tumen Baoyin together.

Tumen Baoyin has changed her hometown, background and name.

Because she was looking for peace, Emperor Yongle meant to give her a place to live in peace, and did not intend to use this poor woman's identity to make any fuss, so Xia Xun didn't even pass Ying Tianfu, he took a trip east factory, and got the required household loan documents.

Now, the Queen of the Northern Yuan Dynasty has become a Han woman who was originally from Daning Mansion, and her name is Chu Yunxiu.Her mother changed her name to Fang, and her ancestral home was in Shanxi.Wulan Tuya suddenly became Chu Yunxiu's daughter, named Xie Muwen, and Chu's deceased husband was naturally named Xie.

According to official materials, the Chu family's husband was originally from Jinling. He had been doing business in Daning for many years and had just passed away at the beginning of the year. So the Chu family sold the shop in Daning, moved the family to the ancestral home of the late husband, and bought Xia Xun's house. An old house.

Knowing that the mistress's family is coming today, the old couple who stayed behind in the old house brought their son, daughter-in-law and grandson to clean up the hall and the hall. Lanterns were lit on the front porch. The whole place is exquisite and beautiful. The small courtyard here is dreamlike and very beautiful.

Xia Xun took the "Chu family" family to look at the courtyard one by one.

Pavilions, terraces and pavilions, flowers and trees are scattered, and it is a scene of classical gardens in the south of the Yangtze River.A winding flower path, a series of small bridges, a layer of flower walls, clusters of flowers and plants, the willows in the garden are shaded, the mountains are rugged, the winding paths lead to seclusion, picturesque, and the sound of frogs in the pool is even more impressive. Very peaceful.

Just as people from the Central Plains are shocked by the vastness of the world and the magnificent landscape when they arrive outside the Great Wall, the "Chu" family is also shocked by the scenery of the gardens in the south of the Yangtze River.A small courtyard seems to be smaller than the tents and sheds where the cattle and sheep were tied up when they were outside the customs, but they can arrange this small space beautifully with unique ingenuity. Looking around, there is nowhere that is not a landscape, but I don't feel cramped.

"How about it, Mrs. Chu, are you satisfied here?"

After visiting the entire courtyard, Xia Xun took them back to the living room. Because the two old servants were nearby, Xia Xun directly recalled the current identity of Empress Tumen Baoyin.

The living room is five rooms wide, with single eaves and resting mountains. Inside the hall, there are rolling sheds. fragrant.

"Good! Good, it's even more beautiful than I imagined!"

Tumen Baoyin looked at Xia Xun emotionally, paid him a tithe, and said solemnly, "My lord, thank you!"

Xia Xun smiled faintly and said, "Ma'am, you're welcome. Tomorrow morning, the steward of my house will send you the land deed. There are hundreds of acres of high-quality paddy fields in the east of the village. There are tenants in each of them, and they are all good crops that are well-used." You don’t need to worry about it, you just need to collect the rent on time. Hehe, the tenants in the Guanli are not the serfs outside the Guanli. You might as well prepare some gifts to visit and express your condolences during the festivals. They will try their best to cultivate the land for you. I'm not busy, I'll get to know it slowly."

Xia Xun looked at Tumen Baoyin's old mother, then at Xiao Ying who had been silent all this time, paused and said: "It's getting late, you've been busy all day, you should rest earlier, I... Not staying any longer."

"Thank you sir, thank you sir!"

Tumen Baoyin's mother and daughter were overwhelmed with emotion, and thanked Xia Xun repeatedly. They sent Xia Xun to the second gate all the way, and then stopped under Xia Xun's repeated persuasion, turned to Wulan Tuya and said, "Mu Wen, Send the adults out of the house!"

"Oh!"

Sakura reluctantly agreed, and took a step forward.

Xia Xun hesitated to speak, and finally only bowed his hands to Tumen Baoyin's mother and daughter, then turned and walked out. Xiaoying immediately followed behind him without saying a word, just walking like a gourd with a mouthful of mouth.

The two of them, one in front of the other, walked all the way to the gate.

Xia Xun stood still, and Xiao Ying also stood still, Xia Xun turned his head to look, and Xiao Ying was looking at him flickeringly.

It was the first time I saw him giving someone away like this, and Xia Xun couldn't help but burst into laughter, but Sakura was unhappy and still stared at him.

Xia Xun coughed dryly and said, "Xiao Ying, there's no need to give it away, I... I'm leaving now."

When Xia Xun called her Xiao Ying, Xiao Ying felt uncomfortable.It was as if she had returned to Liaodong again, pretending to be a maidservant by his side, trying every means to seduce him, but in the end she was teased by him in every possible way.

She pursed her lips, her face was serious, but she still didn't speak.

Suddenly, Xia Xun quickly changed his words: "Mu Wen, I..."

Xiao Ying raised her eyebrows and said coldly: "As far as I know, people in the Central Plains rarely call girls by their names directly. Do I know you very well?"

Xia Xun rolled his eyes and thought, "How many places on your body have I never touched? Are you familiar with it?"

But he had to change his address: "Miss Xie, I'm leaving now, you live here in peace. If there are any difficulties that cannot be solved in the future, you can go to Fuguo Duke's Mansion to find me."

Xiaoying Xiaoyao turned her nose up, and said proudly: "Thank you, my girl and you, it's better to have a good time in the future!"

After finishing speaking, he turned around, stepped over the threshold, and closed the door heavily.

Looking at the closed door, Xia Xun gave a wry smile, so she went down the steps, bent down and got into the sedan chair. Shi Shiran sat down and said loudly, "Let's go!"

Xia Xun did not go back to Jinling. When he left Beijing, in order to cover up his trip, he publicly revealed that he left Jinling three days earlier than Zhao Zijin, and went to the local area for business. The guard of honor is still parked in the barracks of Longjiangyi, so he has to rush there to wait. Tomorrow morning, I will return to Jinling openly, and "pay the decree to face the saint"!

Early the next morning, Xia Xun unfurled the guard of honor and returned to Beijing with great fanfare.

On the same day, when the examinations were held in Chunwei, the soldiers and horses of the five cities and Ying Tianfu sent a large number of inspectors and arresters to patrol the streets to maintain order. The imperial envoy came to ask and found out that today is the period of the scientific examination. Xia Xun was curious. Although he had been an official for a long time, he had never seen the scene of the scientific examination with his own eyes, so he ordered: "Come on, detour to the Gongyuan!"

Xia Xun gave an order, and the guard of honor turned to Gongyuan Street, and when he arrived near Gongyuan Street, there were more patrols and arrests here, and there were even officers and soldiers standing guard.

Xia Xun knew that the students had been poor for ten years and the scientific examination was not easy, so he ordered that it is forbidden to ring the gong to clear the way, and it is forbidden to raise the flag to clear the field, and walked quietly in front of Gongyuan Street.

Xia Xun rode his horse around to the main gate of the Gong Yuan, and saw a long queue of disciples entering the arena.

Suddenly, two wolf-like soldiers came out with a man in disheveled clothes and disheveled hair. When they arrived at the door, they threw the man on the ground with a "boom". Clothes and a basket fell on the man.The basket rolled to the ground, and the food and the Four Treasures of the Study inside rolled all over the floor. The candidates who lined up to enter the venue quickly moved aside, for fear of getting his bad luck.

Someone gloated and said: "This person's entrainment has been found out, and now he is ruined. The Ministry of Rites will issue a document, and his student status will be cancelled, and he will be a farmer from now on!"

Xia Xun got off the horse and paced over, only to see the young man's face ashen, silently grabbed his clothes, not even the basket, and left in a daze.There were too many officials coming in and out of this tribute court today. Those officials didn't know who he was, but they didn't care much about Xia Xun's actions.

Xia Xun looked at the ground, frowning. On the ground were broken pen barrels, smashed inkstones, shoes with the sandwich pried open, and torn undershirts densely covered with small characters. There are also steamed buns that have been broken in half, hats with their brims torn off, and the most unusual thing is that there are candles that have been folded into several pieces.

What an eye-opener, I never thought that the ancients used various methods of cheating, so ingenious.Xia Xun admired a few times, turned around and got on the horse and was about to leave. Suddenly, he heard several candidates chatting in line, and one of them said: "The president of this science is Xie Jin Jie, a bachelor. This is the blessing of this future. If you can do it Wouldn't it be a blessing for the students of the Shoufu to be appreciated by the Shoufu adults and to rise to the top?"

When Xia Xun heard Xie Jin's name, he couldn't help but rein in the horse.

Another student said "Hey": "Xie Jin is a bitter and mean person. As his student, I don't know how to get angry. What's so good?"

There was another candidate next to him, who seemed to be a son of an official. He knew something about the inside story of the officialdom, so he showed off: "I don't know how many people are thinking about the position of the chief examiner, but it was snatched away by Xie Jin, who abruptly intercepted someone else's job." A way out. Let’s talk about Xie Jin, who became the chief assistant of the cabinet at a young age. He is already under one person and above ten thousand people, so why bother to grab this opportunity? He can’t be a man.”

Another student agreed and said: "That's right, he was responsible for compiling "Taizu Shilu", "Wenhua Baojian", and "Yongle Dadian". In the officialdom, he is already very high Renchen. The most glorious cultural and educational merits of this literati, he alone has occupied my courtship, is he still not satisfied, even the position of chief executive officer of the scientific research is not willing to give it to others, this person does not know how to advance or retreat! The ancients said: Yue If it’s full, it’s bad, if it’s very strong, it’s bad, I don’t think it’s a good thing!”

These few people whispered in low voices, and they didn't expect to be heard, but Xia Xun's martial arts training is extremely superb, and his eyes and ears are far better than ordinary people. Their whispers were heard by Xia Xun for a long time Clearly.

Xia Xun returned to Beijing yesterday, led by Ji Gang into the palace quietly, and left with Queen Tumen Baoyin after seeing Shengjia. I really don't know about it.Hearing this now, his brows could not help but frown, and he thought to himself: "When I left, I asked him repeatedly to cultivate his body and mind, so why didn't he listen? As the chief assistant of the cabinet, he holds great power, and he is also the chief editor of "Yongle Dadian", a scholar of the world. The elites are all gathered under your sect, if this is not enough, why go to grab the chief examiner again?"

Xia Xun was displeased, but after thinking about it, he felt that what Juzi said was pretentious, and it might not be true.Maybe the emperor thought that Xie Jin was the world's top literary figure and took the initiative to appoint him as the examiner. If this is the case, it means that the emperor has appeased his anger and has no resentment towards Xie Jin.Then Xie Jin pushed the boat along the way and agreed to it. Although he took over too much and didn't know how to keep a low profile, it was not a big problem.

Xia Xun only vaguely remembered that Xie Jin had offended a traitor and offended the emperor, so that he was killed. As for the specific situation, he only knew it but didn't know why.

Who is the sycophant?Why fight?

In the final analysis, it is nothing more than a dispute between interests and factions.

Xie Jin stretched his hand too far. His catastrophe actually happened in this scientific examination! ! .