Your Majesty, please do not

Chen Zhi kowtowed, his forehead touched the ground, and he said pleading words, but his tone was terribly cold: "Don't ask, give me some face..."

Liang Huan didn't understand what he said, and he didn't know what leaving the capital had to do with face.But he knew that after Chen Zhi said that, he couldn't ask any more questions, and it would be unreasonable to make trouble.

He was made very uncomfortable by the respectful posture of the statement, and he went to pull him up, and when he touched his arm, he felt an almost imperceptible tremor on his body.

Liang Huan simply dragged him into the back room, sent him to the seat beside the table, and then sat down himself, took out a few folded papers from the stack of papers on the table, and handed them to the statement before.

"If you don't have anything important to do, don't leave. Come and help me with things. I'm a fledgling, and I'm very scared. I want to find someone to share, and no one else can trust me. I can only trust you."

Hearing this, Chen Zhi felt that being trusted by others should be a very warm thing, but he had already lost the possibility of feeling warmth from this person.

He unfolded those papers with trembling hands, and some names were written on them, each name was followed by the person's hometown, family, and even old acquaintances, almost all the relationships of a person.

Looking carefully at these names again, he found that several of them looked very familiar, and they were people who were at the same table as him at the banquet yesterday.

Seeing that he had almost finished reading it, Liang Huan explained slowly: "You know that the article on the test paper is euphemistically written, but you must also know that the culprit is Ouyang Qing. To deal with him, you must have someone who can compete with him." Ashamed to say, I have not had anyone available for so many years, so I can only play with your ideas. Here are all the people who have been selected into the Imperial Academy of Jinke, except you."

"You must pick someone with a clean background, so you have to check them one by one, so of course you don't have to."

"You must come and help me, don't leave!"

Statement Zhi already knew that it was impossible to leave, and if he asked him to stay, it would be impossible for him to leave.He wrung his hands together, his mind was blank, and he naturally responded in the appropriate way in his mind: "Thanks to His Majesty's attention, if you need it, I will never hesitate to die."

Liang Huan curled his lips, "What is death, how could I push you to the front? That must be betraying others first and protecting you."

For this kind of words, the statement can only respond with a perfunctory smile.

Leaving him behind, Liang Huan felt that everyone was happy, so he said excitedly: "Didn't you say last time that you have no place to live in the capital? A group of my friends have a village in the suburbs. There are many vacant houses. I will give them to you." Do you want one? Anyway, if it’s vacant, it’s vacant, and you don’t need money.”

"No need..." The statement refused without even thinking about it.

In the past two days, Liang Huan was a little dissatisfied after hearing "no" several times from him. He drooped the corners of his eyes and said angrily, "You don't want to do anything for you, Chen Xingli. We are friends who have slept together in the same bed. Why? After a while, you don't consider me a friend anymore?"

Phrases like "shared the same bed" do no harm to the statement, but the question is simply too difficult to answer.He thought for a long time but couldn't think of a suitable answer, so he turned his head away and said in a low voice, "I can't think like that, it's against the rules."

"It's so annoying!" Liang Huan suddenly yelled at him, the voice didn't seem to be angry, but to complain, then glared at him and said, "Can you stop talking like that? There are only two of us in this room. Who are you showing this to?"

Statement Zhi didn't dare to meet his gaze, so he had to lower his head, but his voice was calm: "It's not for anyone to see, it should be like this."

Only in this way can we find a suitable posture to stay by his side without being so difficult to distinguish as before and causing misunderstandings.

"You really want to do this, right? Well, then I'll find you a place to live. I'll take care of it. You can't refuse!"

The statement can only be answered with a low "yes".

Seeing that he always reacted like this no matter what he said, Liang Huan felt very uncomfortable, and he still leaned in front of him, grabbed his arm, raised his head and complained: "Xingli, I didn't expect you to become like this .I still like you to treat me as before, I remember you used to secretly kiss me... It would be better if you don't behave."

Chen Zhizhi's eyes were covered with a layer of frost. He was angry and didn't understand why Liang Huan could say such a thing without shame.Don't you have any regrets?

But he quickly realized that he shouldn't be angry.Being angry means that the heart has not passed yet, and the moment I stepped on the boat, it should have passed.

Looking down, I saw his face again.His clear eyes and faint smile on the corners of his lips are still alluring, but that only shows that he is fine and has nothing to do with him.

From now on, this person is just the king he wants to serve, nothing more.

Thinking of this, he lost all those messy thoughts, carefully withdrew his grasped arm, got up and knelt in front of him, and said solemnly: "In the past, I was stubborn and disrespectful to you, please forgive me. crime."

This is what he thinks is the most appropriate response. He thought Liang Huan would lose his temper with him after saying this, but he just heard his disappointed voice: "Okay, I have nothing else to say, and I won't ask you what you don't want to say." , go back and rest. You usually sleep until noon, but you got up so early today..."

The statement was no longer able to think about the meaning of his words, only when he heard that he was told to go, he immediately got up and did enough courtesy before leaving.

Watching his back disappearing from his eyes, Liang Huan suddenly felt a sense of loss, feeling empty in his heart.

When I heard that he was leaving yesterday, I panicked all of a sudden.In fact, there is nothing indispensable to him. Although he is good, he is not indispensable.If he really wanted to leave the capital, there was no reason to stop him at all.

But when he thought that if he left completely like this, he would never see him again, and he felt that it would not work, and he didn't know why he couldn't.So no matter what reason you find, you must first keep him.

Liang Huan didn't understand at all why he had such a strange attachment.

Five days later, all the new scholars gathered at the Guozijian and knelt at the door to listen to the imperial decree.

According to the usual practice, the top ten in the palace examination will be awarded the status of "Hanlin Academy Shu Jishi". This status is not an official position, but means that they will study in the Imperial Academy for three years, and then they will be assigned official positions according to the examination results after three years.

The many Jinshi behind will be awarded some other official positions, either eighth-rank or ninth-rank small officials in Beijing, or local magistrates, county magistrates, etc.

The official position of one of them is very eye-catching. Wang Qian, a Jinshi from Yongzhou, ranks at the bottom of the top three, and the official position he conferred is actually in the book of the Imperial Academy.

The grade of the Hanlin Academy's book is not high, it is only an eighth grade, not as good as a county magistrate.But according to common sense, except for the top ten Shu Jishi, others should not be eligible to enter the Imperial Academy.Wang Qian's ranking is so low, it is enviable to be able to get an official position in the Imperial Academy.

At Chenshi in the morning, the newly selected Shu Jishi arrived at the Hanlin Academy one after another.The seats in the main hall have been arranged, and a waiter asked them to walk in, saying: "The master of the courtyard hasn't come yet, everyone, sit down as you please, wait for a while."

It is said that he sits casually, but the only one who is really casual is Xu Gong, the number one scholar in the current department.He didn't care about others, and sat in the middle of the first row by himself.But everyone has no objection to this. After all, he is the champion, and he should sit wherever he should.

Chen Zhi looked at this young man with raised eyebrows and slightly curled lips. He heard people talk about this year's No. [-] scholar these days, and they all said that he came from a scholarly family, with a gentle and elegant demeanor. Doesn't that seem to be the case with real people?

The others squeezed a few rows back together, but they couldn't squeeze in, so they had to let Jinke's Tanhua Yan Weihang to the front.This person was chosen because everyone is a young talent, and he is 43 years old.

There are many shallow wrinkles on Yan Weihang's face, and the look in his eyes looks a little gloomy at first glance.He was not polite to everyone, and went to sit next to Xu Gong.

Xu Gong glanced at him, then showed a look of disgust, "Who asked you to sit here? Poor old man, stay away from me..."

"Gulu—" halfway through speaking, his stomach growled first.

Embarrassed, he turned around and asked everyone, "Is there anything to eat? Give me some, I didn't have breakfast!"

No one paid attention to him for a long time.

"Here." Xu Gong suddenly heard a low voice in his ear, and his voice was very restrained.

He turned his head following the sound, Yan Weihang was looking at him calmly, and at the same time stretched out a hand with a round jelly bean in it.

"My daughter stuffed it for me when I went out, you should put it on first."

Xu Gong stared at him suspiciously for a while, then looked at the things in his hands, finally picked up the jelly beans and threw them into his mouth.

He turned his back to Yan Weihang, and muttered while chewing the jelly beans: "What kind of shit, it's so unpalatable..."

Chen Chenzhi chose the seat in the last row, and soon he was waiting for Cheng Wei, the head of the Hanlin Academy. He was in charge of all the affairs of the concubines here.Cheng Wei looks very old, but still looks hale and hearty.

He walked forward, shook his sleeves, said hello, and then took out his book and lecture notes.

There is no fixed number of lessons that the Hanlin Academy will teach the Shu Jishi. In previous years, the Four Books and Five Classics were usually broken and shredded.But this year, after the palace examination, Bai Lai, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, specially came to find Cheng Wei, and asked him to change the content of the classes for the concubines.

Bai Lai always pushes for the reform of the etiquette system, telling Cheng Wei not to pay attention to the meaning of words and sentences, but to focus on practicality.

Originally, the Ministry of Rites had nothing to do with the Imperial Academy, and Cheng Wei's official position was higher than that of Bai Neverg, but he still listened to what Bai Neverg said.

One is because Bai Wanlai has been against Gao Kaiyan all the year round. When he saw the emperor driving Gao Kaiyan away, he felt that the wind was going to be in Bai Wanlai's direction.

The second is because he felt that what Bai Cong said was indeed reasonable. After three years, the Shuji scholars would be assigned to various places to become the pillars of the officialdom, and few of them would stay in the Imperial Academy to study.That being the case, it is better to teach something practical.

Therefore, this year Cheng Wei plans to start with "Mencius". "Mencius" talks about applying Confucianism to governing the country, which is just suitable for newcomers who are about to enter the officialdom.

Cheng Wei was still talking about the origin of "Mencius", and he listened to the statement, but suddenly felt that there was someone more around him.He turned his head to look, and it was obviously a familiar face, but his appearance here surprised the statement.

Liang Huanzheng looked at him with a smile.