Promotion and fortune in Song Dynasty

Although all relevant officials involved in the case of Hengsuo Luci were all arrested and imprisoned within a few days, after rounds of interrogations, they were all destined to face severe punishment if they obtained conclusive evidence.

But obviously, the little prince spared no effort to dispatch officials from the neighboring roads, not only to solve Lu Ci's difficulties alone, but also to thoroughly investigate the entire corrupt and corrupt bureaucracy and prison system.

These matters, which greatly exceeded Lu Ci's authority, were presided over by a group of officials headed by Wang Si.

Lu Ci was happy and relaxed, and when the things that were tied to him were over, he bid farewell to Wang Si without any regrets.

After re-hiring a few crew members in Luzhou, they are going to take Di Qing to continue northward.

Due to her heavy workload, it was the time when Wang Si was the most impatient to socialize, so she only talked politely, and under Lu Ci's sincere refusal, she avoided the farewell banquet with peace of mind and concentrated on sorting out the many evidences she had collected.

On the day of departure, Lu Ci and Di Qing procrastinated until the last moment, and then hurriedly boarded the boat with the big bags and small bags of snacks bought from the market early in the morning.

While the servants were busy unloading bags of food from the covered Di Qing, Lu Ci suppressed a smile, turned his head slightly, and caught a glimpse of the ferry.

But it was a young man, wearing a shirt, with a green face, not yet crowned, carrying a heavy book bag, and holding a simple bamboo basket in his hand, his face was flushed, and he was in harmony with a man with a face full of disbelief. The crew of the impatient merchant ship argued about something.

Lu Ci narrowed his eyes slightly: "Don't rush to start, you come and ask someone to see what's going on."

The servant immediately took the order and went away. After a while, he found out the ins and outs of the matter clearly, and replied to Lu Ci: "Return to the Lord, the scholar has already solved it, and he is going to Beijing for the provincial examination. He paid the ferry fee and toll early. It’s just that he was really unlucky, and the ship owner he met happened to be involved in the bribery case of the ship company. Now he is arrested and interrogated, and he doesn’t know when he will come out.”

"But he couldn't make it in time, so he begged them to refund the travel expenses so that he could find another boat..."

It is conceivable that this sudden situation that was not written into the contract was directly rejected by the other party.

The merchant ship is also confident and plausible - they are just the owner's house being temporarily locked up, but the ship still has to run, just at night.

I can't wait now, but this scholar is the one who wants to temporarily break the contract. They are not at fault, so of course they don't have to withdraw.

Because of this loophole in the contract, the other party was clearly unwilling to be accommodating and played tricks, which made the scholar who was not good at dealing with this way feel helpless with the other party's inhumanity.

Lu Ciguan's attire did not look like that of a wealthy family. Faced with such an urgent situation, he had to come forward to discuss it himself. Obviously, there was no one behind him to rely on.

He pondered for a moment, then ordered: "Take the three pens and ask him for his name before lending it to him."

Three times, no more, no less, enough travel expenses.

Di Qing's eyes moved slightly.

He naturally guessed that the reason why the grandfather handed over the moderate amount of money to the other party in the form of 'borrowing' rather than 'giving' was to make the other party more willing to accept it.

He didn't even show his face, he just didn't want to put on a gesture of grace.

Even so, the servant who brought the money to find someone was rejected and came back helplessly: "The gentleman, thank you for the kindness of the Lord, but he admits that his family is not well-off, and has recently suffered an accident, which is even more embarrassing. Repay, and I don't want to deceive the Lord."

Lu Ci smiled and said, "When did I say that he will be the one to pay the debt?"

Not only the health servant, Di Qing was also taken aback.

Lu Ci said indifferently: "If he doesn't pay back his debt, I have a way to get it. So what he owes is at most just a favor for me to collect the bill for him. Let him accept it with peace of mind."

This is indeed true.

For a student with an ordinary family background and no power or influence, it is extremely difficult to get back the travel expenses, but for Lu Ci today, it is a trivial matter that can be completely settled with just one sentence.

After all, hard work for so many years is not in vain.

Di Qing was thoughtful.

Jianfu, who was instructed to go again, repeated Lu Ci's words exactly.

The scholar was stunned for a long time, but he still didn't reach out to take it. Instead, he suddenly raised his head and looked towards the direction where the healthy servant came with a feeling in his heart.

——It's a pity that I only had time to glance at it, and only captured a profile, but because the other party turned and walked away, I couldn't see it anymore.

Seeing the sad look on the scholar's face, he seemed to be hesitating, and the healthy servant who really didn't want to fail again, said another sentence that Lu Ci taught him: "Master, I still want to ask you, how long have you been in ten years?" Is Han Chuang studying hard for the sake of self-cultivation, governing the country and the peace of the world, or to continue entanglement with the boatman?"

As soon as these words came out, the scholar who had already shaken his determination stretched out his hand to take it without hesitation.

He bowed his hands to the healthy servant, bowed deeply to the direction of the benefactor's ship, and said earnestly: "My surname is Bao and my name is Zheng. I am from Luzhou. Thanks to the help of benefactor, I dare not say anything. I just don't know if I can know." The benefactor’s name and surname, if I am lucky enough to achieve something in the future, can I come to pay my respects?”

Seeing that he was not a pedantic and rigid scholar with no integrity, Jianfu secretly heaved a sigh of relief. Hearing this, he immediately gave the reply that Lu Ci told him in advance: "My master's surname is Lei Mingfeng, there is no need to Caring, we will meet again if we are destined.”

Lu Ci, who had seen the opponent's face clearly before, did not think of the white and young scholar at all on Bao Qingtian with the crescent moon on his forehead and dark complexion in the TV series. He has forgotten this episode.

He sat comfortably on a bench with a soft back in a very lazy posture, holding "Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan" in his hand, flipping through it quite casually, and at the same time giving it to Di Qing more casually. question.

At this moment, Di Qing is more dignified and solemn than ever before, holding the pen holder tightly, and every time he writes, he seems extremely nervous.

Lu Cixian only randomly selected 35 relatively simple scriptures and Moyi questions within the scope of "Chunqiu Zuozhuan".

It is interesting to find that Di Qing put on an expression of bitterness and hatred, but after a lot of hard thinking, most of them can answer.

Since Di Qing was not difficult, Lu Ci naturally gradually increased the difficulty.

Di Qing's brows also wrinkled deeper and deeper...

When the number of Di Qing's wrong questions approached [-]%, and the sweat on his head became more and more, Lu Ci, who had roughly figured out his background, stopped kindly, unpacked a bag of snacks on the side, and put it in front of Di Qing , smiled: "Not bad. This is a reward for you."

Di Qing still lowered her head in shame.

The number of questions he got wrong just now, even if Lu Ci didn't explain it clearly, he still has a certain number.

So even though he got the praise, he couldn't be happy at all. After a long time, he carefully raised his eyes to observe the smiling Lu Ci.

Seeing that he didn't believe it, Lu Ci couldn't help raising his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "You don't think I'm telling lies just to comfort you, do you? Then you are very wrong. Didn't brother Liu tell you that When I was urging him to do his homework, how was he tossed by me?"

—Of course I did.

Liu Qi, who managed to escape from the "severe suppression" of the little Taotie, often used it to chatter with Di Qing who was about to "suffer".

But even Di Qing, who is not familiar with Liu Qi, can easily see that when the other party said this, the corners of his eyes and brows clearly showed the pride and joy of "Little Taotie is close to me", which is not what he said 'Forced to cultivate one's morality and self-cultivation, suffered a great crime'.

It's just that this treatment that he has envied for a long time finally fell on him, but before he had time to feel happy, he began to panic because "the grandfather may have been completely disappointed in him".

It wasn't until after hearing Gongzu's words that he thought about it carefully that there was indeed some truth in the taste, that his eyes gradually recovered.

Lu Ci watched the very slight change in his expression for a moment, and unconsciously became playful, so when Di Qing reached out to receive the package of 'reward', he retracted it coldly, and took it again. Recalling the "Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan" called Di Qing with a splitting headache, he smiled slightly and pronounced the verdict: "Unfortunately, because your movements are too slow, the rest is over."

Di Qing: "..."

Even the innocent and bewildered expression of the little raccoon slave could not soften Lu Ci's heart. After putting the bag of snacks aside, he said with a smile, "Now I will make three more strategies. Listen to the question—”

Di Qing couldn't care less about the snack that had left him before he touched it.

As soon as he heard Lu Ci's gentle and elongated voice when he wrote the questions, he straightened his waist reflexively, and his hands were as fast as lightning. He immediately held the pen holder, pricked up his ears, and was ready to listen to the questions at any time.

Seeing his appearance like a cat that was extremely vigilant and ready to hunt birds at any time, Lu Ci barely held back his laughter, and then he chose a simple and easy-to-understand sentence, and came up with a strategy.

In the final analysis, his original intention was only to conduct a preliminary investigation, so that he could better provide one-on-one tutoring to Di Qing in the next few days of sailing, but it was not to discourage the little raccoon slave's confidence in studying.

Di Qing, who heard Ce's topic clearly after going through the usual difficult coping, really breathed a sigh of relief.

He was not good enough, so he naturally failed to notice that Lu Ci had been formulating the difficulty of the question based on his reaction, and he was simply happy that he could answer this strategy.

Lu Ci'an quietly watched Di Qing's vigorous writing, and the moment he finally finished writing and put down the pen, he immediately had someone bring up the freshly warmed food that was packaged from the main store.

In all fairness, compared with Liu Qi and Zhu Shuo, whom he is extremely familiar with and close to, Di Qing's background is obviously much weaker, even with the manuscripts of the same age.

But thinking about Di Qing's real education, it has only been a few years, and he has just turned 13 years old, and it is the first time he has been seriously tested by him... This quality and talent should be much better than Zhong Yuan and Yi Shu.

Lu Ci silently reckoned that with the current talent and Di Qing's diligence, if he could persist like this, it would be too difficult to pass the exam once, but after three, five or six exams, he would probably still be successful. Can be ranked in the top four or five.

But this is only his one-sided estimate.

The most important thing is not Di Qing's performance in the future, but depends on his own wishes.

Although there is such a loving relationship with Di Qing, Lu Ci never thought of going overboard and making decisions about his life on Di Qing's behalf.

——Now that Di Qing is encouraged to study, it is just that Di Qing is too young to make a mature judgment, and Gongju is still the only opportunity to change his situation in front of ordinary people, and even to make a career.

After letting Di Qing complete the obsessive-compulsive "nine-year compulsory education" period in his eyes, it's time to let this supposedly rebellious little raccoon slave fly and let him rush around.

Thinking of this, Lu Ci couldn't help looking at Di Qing, who was sipping rice reservedly, and asked jokingly, "Have you ever planned what you want to do in the future?"