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Chen Zhi was packing up his things in his room when the proprietress of the Yongzhou Guild Hall knocked on his door and brought him a bowl of vegetable porridge.

Vegetable porridge... He stared blankly at the bowl.

When I saw him for the first time, he was covered in bruises and soaked in the rain.I was afraid that he would have no strength, so I asked the staff in the guild hall to get some food for the patient, so I made a bowl of vegetable porridge.

At that time, I only felt that he was very pitiful. How did the sympathy develop into that?

Realizing that he was thinking about this, he quickly controlled his thoughts.

"Mr. Chen, are you packing? Is it because I don't feel comfortable living here?" The proprietress asked suspiciously when she saw the baggage he put on the table.

"No, I..." Chen Zhi turned around and smiled nonchalantly, "I'm leaving, leaving the capital."

The proprietress was startled, she frowned and asked, "It's not time to be appointed as an official yet, is it? Where is Young Master Chen going?"

"I didn't know where to go, so I planned to leave here first. I'm not an official anymore."

"why?"

Not knowing how to explain it, he just shook his head slightly.

In the quiet night, the whole building of Yongzhou Guild Hall is extraordinarily quiet.Although Chen Zhi tried his best to calm down, the pile of books still made a lot of noise, and people in several nearby rooms could hear it clearly.

A tenant stuck his head out when he heard the noise, and just happened to meet the proprietress passing by, so he asked her, "Is that Mr. Chen's room? What is he doing?"

The proprietress replied casually: "He is packing up his belongings and will leave the capital tomorrow."

The tenant let out an "oh", knowing that the sound would not last for too long, he retreated into the room.Neither of them saw it, however, and a man standing on the stairs overheard their conversation.

This person is Wang Qian, and he is another successful candidate in Yongzhou besides the statement.He did well in the test, but he fell to the bottom of the top three in the palace test.

He looked at Chen Zhizhi's grades very jealously, and he had a feud with him before, so he often ridiculed him.Chen Zhi didn't care about him, he treated him politely, and didn't know how much resentment he had towards him.

When there was no one in the corridor, Wang Qian walked to the door of the statement room, knocked on the door and asked, "Xingli, are you there?"

As soon as the sound of packing up things stopped, Chen Zhizhi gently opened the door and let Wang Qian in.

Wang Qian looked around and found that there were indeed a lot of things in a mess in the room, so he asked, "You made such a mess, do you want to move it?"

"Yes," Chen Zhi smiled lightly, "I will leave the capital early tomorrow morning."

Wang Qian was quite surprised, "Why are you leaving now? Where are you going?"

"I don't know where to go, so let's go home first." Chen Zhi didn't answer his first question, but he told the truth about the latter question.Although he knew that Wang Qian didn't like him, he couldn't stop him from leaving.

"It's hard to pass the exam, how can I be an official now?" Wang Qian still asked the question he wanted to ask the most.

Chen Zhizhi knew that he would ask such a question. Among the people in Yongzhou, Wang Qian is the most official fan.He replied lightly: "I didn't really want to be an official, so I left and I won't do it."

Of course it is impossible for Wang Qian to ask him what happened, but it is enough to ask here.

Wang Qian spent money to entrust someone.

What he was looking for was Zhang Xintian, a well-known corrupt official and doctor of imperial history.He is the highest-level censor with a lot of contacts in his hands.There are rumors in the market that as long as you give him money, there is nothing he cannot do.

The task Wang Qian entrusted was very simple: report the news that Chen Zhizhi was leaving, and have someone arrest him.

His hatred for Statement Zhi is very subtle, he doesn't want to see him leave the capital to bid farewell to the court, but only wants to see him being punished, humiliated, and deprived of his fame, which can bring him pleasure.

As a speech officer, Zhang Xintian could only report something like this.Xinke Scholars left the capital ahead of schedule, and since they haven't been conferred with official positions, it's up to the people in charge of the imperial examination.

So Zhang Xintian wrote a note with Wang Qian's words, and asked someone to show it to Luo Yu, the deputy chief examiner of the palace examination, and hinted that he would bring this person back for punishment.

When Luo Yu got such a matter, he planned to do what Zhang Xintian said, but when he saw the name of Chen Zhi, he hesitated.

This person... has a background.

At that time, Gao Kaiyan led a group of examiners to kneel at the gate of Weiyang Palace all night, but he didn't change this person's ranking.If this person is really convicted, he does not guarantee that he will not be beaten to death.

Luo Yu knew that Zhang Xintian, who was open to money, must be taking advantage of someone else. Anyway, if he can't do this, he will go to him to settle accounts, and it has nothing to do with him.

But he didn't dare to keep this matter in his hands, so he wrote another note and asked someone to send it directly to the palace.He only said the facts, and didn't say anything to condemn him.

In the early morning, Chen Zhi left very early, and left the room with a bag before dawn.

He saw the proprietress sleeping on the counter, so he gently patted her awake and asked, "Can you keep things for me?"

"What is it..." The proprietress rubbed her sleepy eyes.

Chen Zhi handed over a wooden box and a stack of folded papers, fearing that she would not remember clearly if she did not wake up, so she leaned on her ear and said: "This is for Lin Weiyang, if he comes looking for me, I will give it to him. If he doesn't come If so, throw it away for me."

"Lin Weiyang...Okay, I got it." The proprietress put away her things and lay down again.

Seeing that she agreed, Chen Zhi looked back at the store again, opened the door and left.

If he still cares more or less about him leaving, then it's okay to tell him.Anyway, everyone is gone, so it doesn't matter if you know it, you can't arrest yourself from Yongzhou to settle the score.

This morning, the chill was penetrating, and as soon as I exhaled, a cloud of fog formed in front of me.Chen Zhi wrapped his heavy cloak tightly, and stepped on the road to the pier by the faint moonlight.

Walking step by step, he realized that this was the last part of his journey in the capital, and he might never come to this place again in his life, and all the memories related to it were left behind.

At least I came here once, and wrote an article on the examination paper that worried about the country and the people, which is considered to have fulfilled my due obligation.As for whether it was useful, I didn't have time to ask.

Anything else should be forgotten.

He couldn't help but think again about what he was about to forget.From the heavy rain when I first arrived in the capital, to the dead branches and leaves in Qionglin Garden, scenes flashed in my mind.

Thinking of this, I still feel heartbroken.Tears condensed on the cheeks, aching as they were dried by the cold wind.I don't know if it's because of the cold weather, my body is shaking uncontrollably.

On the wharf in the capital, the first boat bound for Yongzhou was about to leave at Maoshi.Standing on the bank, Chen Zhizhi looked at the dim moonlight in the vast river, and then looked back at the still-awakened capital city. He had mixed feelings, but finally he took a step forward and stood firmly on the boat.

Once this step is taken, everything behind him will be severed.Neither people nor things are relevant anymore.

He paid the money and sat in the cabin, wrapping himself tightly in a cloak, surrounded by travelers waiting to sail.I closed my eyes and fell asleep for a while, but suddenly heard a commotion outside, several loud voices shouted everywhere, as if they were looking for someone.

The boatman ignored the matters on the shore, glanced into the cabin, counted the number of people, and said, "Okay, enough people, let's go now."

As he spoke, he went to the stern of the boat, took the loops off the stakes, and went back to rowing again, and the cables around the stakes were loosened round and round, and the boat could leave the shore.

However, after rowing for a long time, he found that the boat hadn't moved at all, so he had to go back to the stern to check, only to see that the cable was stepped on by a person on the shore.

"Little brother!" the boatman shouted towards the shore, "Get out of the way, you are stepping on my rope!"

The man on the shore glanced at him, turned around and shouted: "It seems to be on this boat, everyone come here!"

Hearing this, the boatman glanced into the cabin in panic, and said tremblingly, "We don't have any fugitives here, so don't implicate the people on the boat..."

The commotion outside and the statements were all heard, but at the moment he felt calm, feeling that left and right had nothing to do with him, and he didn't care much.

However, he was closing his eyes when he suddenly felt that someone was coming on this boat, and the footsteps were heavy.Now he finally became curious, and when he opened his eyes to look, the person who came up happened to see him too.

It was a man with a big arm and a round waist. After seeing him, he looked at a piece of paper in his hand and asked him, "Is your surname Chen?"

"It's me, what's the matter?"

The man took half a step back, made a "please" gesture, and there was no tone in his voice: "come out for a while, you have something to say."

Chen Zhi frowned and said: "The boat is about to sail, let's talk about it here."

The man's voice was beyond doubt: "You have to come with us."

"Where?"

"Enter the palace."

I was taken aback for the statement, but suddenly found that I had lost all those emotions.

"What to do?"

"We just take you there, you go and ask yourself."

Having said that, he knew he couldn't go.Anyway, there is still a boat to Yongzhou tomorrow morning, and I don't care if it will be two days.

Under the statement, the boat went with those people.When he returned to the shore, he obviously never left, but he felt completely different from before.Perhaps with that foot on board, a lot of things have changed.

At this time, it was just in time for the morning court, and he was waiting at the gate of Weiyang Palace.Weiyang Palace was where Liang Huan mainly stayed in the palace. The main hall was used to receive courtiers, and he went to sleep in the inner room at night.

Said it was the first time to this place.He felt that if he was the former self, he would definitely try his best to look at everything in this palace.But now, he just wants to know what he wants to do here, and whether he can succeed.

Today's morning court was full of nonsense as usual, Liang Huan was usually very patient, but today he scolded the old minister who had a long and stinky speech.As soon as he got angry, everyone's reports became concise and concise, so that the early morning ended before the sun fully rose.

Lu Yin came and said that someone had arrived, and Liang Huan walked straight to Weiyang Palace.He saw the man standing at the door from a distance, and couldn't help but smile like he had seen him countless times before, but suddenly realized that he had to be angry at this time and not give him a good face.

Lu Yin closed the window of Weiyang Palace, lit two pots of charcoal fire, opened the curtain, and the thin sunlight penetrated into the room.

When Liang Huan sat down on the main seat in the main hall, he saw Chen Shuzhi coming over and kneeling below.He looked at the man in plain clothes, his skeleton seemed to be unable to support the large robe, and the cuffs and hem were messily spread on the ground.His low-browed and pleasing appearance looked very humble, which was extremely disproportionate to this splendid palace.

Liang Huan stared at him, wrinkled his forehead, grinned and said, "Chen Xingli, why did you leave the capital?"

Hearing him call himself this way, he knew that he was not very angry from the statement.But whether he is angry or not doesn't seem to matter to me.

"There's no particular reason, I just don't want to stay any longer." His voice was clear and light.

"He left for no reason?" Liang Huan leaned forward and squeezed out the words through his teeth, "I took out your examination paper and drove away a minister for your rank in the palace examination. I quit, just left, who am I worrying about?!"

He was a little dissatisfied with the statement, no one asked him to help, and he didn't even want to pass the exam at all.He gave him something he didn't want, why should he ask himself to cherish it?

But these words can't be said.He lowered his head and took away all the emotion in the voice: "I don't know these things, you don't let me go, I just don't want to go."

Seeing him like this and hearing him say such things, although Liang Huan still wanted to scold him a few more words, he felt that he was unreasonable.After a long silence, when he spoke again, his voice was much softer: "Xingli, tell me the truth, why did you leave?"

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