i am afraid

Pei Qing is the youngest son of Zhen Guohou's mansion, but his biological father is not Zhen Guohou, but Zhen Guohou's younger brother who died young, thinking that this is the only blood of his younger brother, Zhen Guohou took him into the mansion.The status is very different, and Pei Qing is introverted. Pei Yue didn't have any brotherhood towards this younger brother. Quan pretended not to have this person. Jiang Yan was influenced by him, and he didn't have much impression of this little cousin. Just remember that there is this person.

After their question and answer, Su Xiao next to him blinked his eyes, and said strangely: "Brother Ah Yan is A Jiang's younger brother, and also Pei Qing's younger brother?"

Glancing at Jiang Yan, Yin Jiang said, "Didn't I tell you earlier? Aunt Pei and my mother are handkerchief handkerchiefs, and they used to be sisters of Jin Lan."

Su Xiao nodded his head half-understood, and didn't ask any more questions.

Pei Qing seemed a little at a loss, he hesitated and said, "Ayan...brother?"

Jiang Yan didn't know how Yin Jiang could be so negligent and let him bump into an acquaintance, and he was not embarrassed at the moment, so he had to agree.

"Okay, okay, the recognition of relatives is over here, let's eat first, otherwise the pot will be boiled." Su Xiao clapped his hands and said without noticing the stagnation of the atmosphere.

The hot pot is placed on the table, which is also a new thing that has been tossed out in recent years, because Beiling, the capital of this dynasty, has long winters and is extremely cold here, so it is very suitable to eat this in such weather, and it spreads quickly Come.

The soup in the pot was churning, and the green vegetables were cooked in a blink of an eye. The meat had to be slow and waited. Jiang Yan sat between Pei Qing and Yin Jiang, and scalded a few pieces of vegetables and mushrooms. The mushrooms are in the bowl, and I eat them in small bites.

Suddenly a piece of fresh and tender snow-white meat fell into the bowl, emitting a curl of heat, and when he looked up, Yin Jiang smiled at him, his eyes shining brightly.

"Just take it out, blow it up and eat it, be careful not to burn it."

Jiang Yan paused, lowered his head, bit the corner of the meat slice, and slowly tore off a small piece. To be honest, it was not as delicious as the one made in the palace. The meat slice had a unique smell of mutton. Ignore it, but maybe it's because it was just taken out of the pot, and it slid all the way into the stomach with a stream of heat, which made my heart warm.

Pei Qing lowered his eyes, and the angle of the chopsticks changed slightly, to pick up a half-baked mushroom instead.

They are all from their own family, and they don't pay too much attention. Li Suting said while eating: "I have a county magistrate in my hand recently, which can be released. Su Xiao, you and Ziqing are both famous. If you have If you have an idea, just tell me."

Su Xiao blinked and said, "Where is it?"

Li Suting paused for a moment, then said, "The area around Jiangsu and Zhejiang."

The area of ​​Jiangsu and Zhejiang has been prosperous since ancient times, and everyone paused for a while before continuing to eat as if nothing had happened. Su Xiao bit his lips and said, "It's too far away from home! I still won't go, and I Afraid of suffering, the county magistrate is exhausted, so it is better for me to live comfortably now."

Lin Ziqing said, "I won't go."

Su Xiao looked at him and snorted: "It's not a matter of whether you can go or not! You have to go! Otherwise, do you know what a waste it will be?"

Lin Ziqing repeated: "I won't go."

Ji Xiao turned his eyes and looked at Li Suting, "Brother, since you have a quota in your hand, then Li Xianzong probably has more in your hand?"

Li Suting was silent for a while, "Don't get his idea, this time the old man is watching."

Jiang Yan raised his head and found that the atmosphere had become a little strange. He looked at Yin Jiang, trying to see something on his face, but Yin Jiang just shook his head helplessly, added a few chopsticks to him, and told him: "You still have to wait for the meat to come out." Small, you can’t always be a vegetarian.”

After he finished speaking, he patted Li Suting on the shoulder, and said softly, "Brother, don't think too much, we all know that it's difficult for you."

"Is there anything difficult for me to do." Li Suting shook his head, and said: "The king's capital can't be stayed, and only one can leave. I'm just doing my best."

Su Xiao snorted softly: "It is said that our Su family loves concubines and destroys wives. My father loves me so much! Why can't I stay? Lin Ziqing, you should hurry up and take office, don't make it look like I'm so pitiful .”

He didn't mean what he said, and Jiang Yan felt amused when he heard him scolding his father, but at this moment, Yin Jiang's face suddenly became serious, and he said: "Brother, is the quota this time right?" Is it related to the release of officials from Chunwei?"

After the Spring Festival, after the Spring Festival, a large number of people are suppressed in the official department. Not everyone has the opportunity to become a county magistrate, but the county magistrate moves every five years, and some places will be vacated every year. Place the top Jinshi.

Li Suting nodded, and asked again: "What? Is there a problem?"

Yin Jiang glanced at Jiang Yan, then seemed to have made up his mind, and said: "Although according to the usual practice, the Ministry of Officials will withhold some of the places used to place Jinshi for private use every year, but this year is different. The new emperor has just ascended the throne. Urgently needing a group of confidants, why don't you stare at Chun Wei? I think the old man is really taking a risk this time."

Jiang Yan was stunned, and Pei Qing on the side was also stunned. It seemed that Yin Jiang had never thought that Yin Jiang would be so courageous to talk about such a thing in front of Jiang Yan himself.

However, Li Suting sighed slightly: "Why don't I know about this? But don't worry, I won't have a problem with the quota. The original county magistrate of that place was a clean and honest one, but he returned home when he was old. After saying a few words, I hope that there will be diligent officials to take over there, and I will write a letter of recommendation, so I will go with the flow. But the old man... This year Li Xianzong will take up a post in the Ministry of Officials, and those places have probably been booked out long ago."

Jiang Yan hurriedly asked: "Can the imperial court also reserve the number of places for Jinshi in the new department?" Can they still guess who can be admitted and who can't?Unless the exam questions are leaked!

Everyone looked at him one after another, Jiang Yan's face became hot, he didn't know what he said wrong, Ji Xiao waved his hand, and said comfortingly: "Brother Ah Yan, you don't understand, that is the Yin official, and one of the ten places will be given to Yin." Official, no one will pay attention at all, after all, official Yin is considered famous, and no one would investigate so carefully."

Yinguan is similar to the inheritance of titles. When an official reaches a certain level or obtains the special permission of the emperor, he can choose one of his descendants to become a Yinguan. But in fact, under normal circumstances, the status of yin officials is far inferior to that of qualified Jinshi.

Jiang Yan only felt a hot current rushing straight into his mind, and he couldn't help shouting: "The officials are so unfair, why has no one impeached?"

He thought about it carefully, none of the recent papers were aimed at the Ministry of Officials, and there were many papers about the impeachment of others by the Minister of the Ministry of Officials. The image of a veteran minister who is concerned about the country and the people is clearly printed.

On the one hand, he felt angry, angry at being cheated for so long, and on the other hand, he was confused. He didn't know whether he should say that he was blinded or someone else was covering the sky.

Li Suting didn't seem to want to say more, he waved his hand, and made a decision: "This matter has nothing to do with us. What is he doing? But this time the quota is very rare, I think we should discuss it carefully."

Su Xiao shouted: "I won't go, Lin Ziqing!"

Lin Ziqing shook his head: "I can't just leave like this, Su Xiao, I know you're in Su's house..."

Su Xiao covered his ears and refused to listen to him.

Ji Xiao patted Su Xiao on the shoulder, and said with relief: "My latest batch of goods has arrived. If there is no accident, at least I can make a profit of 600 taels after paying back the cost. It's enough to fish out the greens, and you know, my family is in business, so I don't have as many rules as your official family, my father and my eldest brother treat me pretty well."

Su Xiao gritted his teeth.

Lin Ziqing lowered his eyes and continued: "No matter what I do, I'm just being angry. Your father almost sent you out."

Jiang Yan's eyes widened, but he did not make any noise. He looked so cute. Yin Jiang patted his head and smoothed out a messy lock of hair at the back of his head.

"Then it's settled." Li Suting said, "Su Xiao will take office."

Su Xiao wanted to say something else, but Lin Ziqing raised his hand and stuffed him with a piece of meat: "Eat yours, I heard that the dishes in Suzhe are sweet, and you are so salty, I'm afraid that when you get there, you will lose weight from hunger." lock up."

Su Xiao ate the meat with tears in his eyes. He seemed to want to say something, but he still didn't say it for a long while.

At this moment, Yin Jiang suddenly said: "I have completely severed ties with the Yin family, not counting the house. I have spent a total of 2000 taels of silver, but I am afraid that they have spent less than 200 taels on me since I was a child."

The stagnant atmosphere was broken, and his words seemed to open up the conversation box, Ji Xiao sneered: "You are still good, after all, officials and eunuchs don't dare to ask for more, my father will list a hundred or so, The funniest thing is that there are actually two valuable purple ginseng inside. I clearly remember that one was stewed when he was sick, and the other was given away. I gave it to him since I was 13 years old. He ran a business, and he didn't do anything wrong, and after all these years, he still didn't have enough money for half of the money."

Li Suting frowned even deeper. He took the route of imperial examinations. In order to stabilize his status, he never touched his hands. He wanted to save enough money to be free. He didn't know that he would have to wait until the year of the monkey, so he could only work hard to climb up. But in recent days, he has also clearly discovered that someone is tripping him up.The Ministry of Officials is the headquarters of the Li family, and it depends on the owner to beat the dog, unless the owner has acquiesced.

Jiang Yan looked around without any trace, and the voices in the surroundings were chaotic, but he could still distinguish them. Li Suting's thoughts were very complicated, Ji Xiao was a little numb in anger, Su Xiao was a little confused and a little happy, and more It was worried about Lin Ziqing, and Lin Ziqing just thought about his mother lightly.

Yin Jiang... Yin Jiang has no voice, his mood is very calm, without any fluctuations.