Lang Jun is coming

For Zhu He, there were indeed many inexplicable things today. For example, now Li Yuanshi suddenly praised him for being upright, but for some reason, he was inexplicably unhappy.

After finishing a cup of tea, Li Yuanshi looked at the person who was still standing in front of him, and finally found something similar to Pei Lian.

Even straight-headed people are hard to deal with!

"Don't worry, Zhu Shaoqing. What Pei Taichang wants still needs some work. I'm afraid I will delay the official business, so I just send someone to deliver it."

Speaking of this, Zhu He couldn't stay any longer, so he just bid farewell.

Seeing that people left, Li Yuanshi got up, took a candlestick and walked to the side room.

The side rooms of the household department are larger and deeper than those of other departments.It was okay at first, but when we got to the back, it got darker and darker, and only a few locked windows could let in some sunlight.There are bookcases one after another in an orderly manner in the room, all with copper locks the size of a palm.

Li Yuanshi lit the candles with the torch that he brought with him, and walked slowly to the innermost cabinet against the wall. He placed the candlesticks on the ground not far away.He took out a key connected by a copper ring from his sleeve, and by the faint candlelight, he followed the wooden signs marked on each cabinet door.

The key with the jagged head gently turned one of the big locks, and the opening of the cabinet door caused the wooden sign on it to shake from side to side, and the dancing candlelight reflected the word "Dingzhou" written in cinnabar on it.

The cabinet was neatly stacked full of papers, all tied with a red string with a wooden sign the size of a pinky finger.

"Qinghe scattered flying catkins... flying catkins..."

Li Yuanshi's wrinkled hands picked and picked among the papers, unconsciously reciting the poems on Pei Lian's note.

In fact, Zhu He is not stupid, but just confused because he is outside the situation.The last two sentences of Pei Lian's poem are not difficult to understand, even those who have read some books know it.

"The throat of Kyushu, the main area of ​​Huaijing" refers to Dingzhou.

Dingzhou stretches across the entire northern part of the Heng Dynasty, bordering on the Daxing border, but one-third of it is wasteland.It was only because Dingzhou was originally the land of Daxing. After the founding of the Taizu of the Heng Dynasty, the army was strong, while Daxing was weak in comparison, so he took the initiative to donate the land of Dingzhou in order to survive.However, over the past 200 years, as the forces of the two parties have continued to change, Daxing has already made up his mind to return to Dingzhou as a rogue.

Once Dingzhou falls, the Heng Dynasty's Shunchang Mansion will all be exposed to Daxing's iron hooves, and the south of Shunchang Mansion is Huaijing.Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Dingzhou is a "throat area, a key area".

What stumped Li Yuanshi was the previous sentence "clean and scattered flying catkins, chasing horseshoe disease carefully".

"Qinghe" is another name for April, and "Qinghe Sanfeixu" means flying catkins all over the sky in April. The half sentence of "chasing horseshoe disease carefully" has a saying of "spring breeze is proud of horseshoe disease".Spring coincides with April, and "horse hoof disease" expresses the joy of being a Jinshi.

In April, when the capital was connected with Jinshi, only Chunwei could be thought of.

The place and reason have been determined, only the word "Feixu" needs to be considered.

There is more than one kind of thing that can scatter catkins, but if we only take the iconic willow in Huaijing...

At this point in his thoughts, Li Yuanshi's heart was shaken, and his right hand, which was searching in the document, immediately had a target.

Speaking of Dingzhou, the first thing that comes to mind is its special geographical location, followed by the famous merchant family, the Yang family!

Pei Lian would not give a hint of finding a needle in a haystack, Li Yuanshi was almost certain that the other party was looking for the Yang family in Dingzhou.

However, although the poem is clearly explained, the situation is becoming more and more complicated.The complexity lies not in the Yang family itself, but in its close relationship with the chief executive, Liu Hanqiu.

"Dingzhou Yang's family, Liu Hanqiu?!"

In the side room of Taichang Temple, looking at the two open documents on the table, Meng Ruanqing knew the deep meaning without even thinking about it.

The three looked at each other, Chen Juncong picked up one of them casually, and said leisurely: "Have you thought about it?"

This question was about Pei Lian and Meng Ruanqing.

On that piece of paper were Yang Ping and Han's ancestral home, the relationship between the ancestors in the family, the classics studied, etc. It seemed that they were handed over to the officials for review before Chunwei.And the impolite tribal inscription in their hands was obviously copied by the officials.

The other is Liu Hanqiu's life.

Meng Ruanqing nodded slightly, the corners of his mouth were not as smiling as in the past, and he said with a serious expression: "Almost everyone in the Heng Dynasty knows that Liu Xiangben was born in Dingzhou, and his family's ancestors were engaged in business. I don't want his father to be addicted to gambling and lose all his family property. Poverty When Liu Lian went to Beijing to rush for the exam, his father's friend's Yang family sponsored Liu Lian's expenses. After the Spring Festival, Liu Xiang was hand-picked the number one scholar. In order to repay his kindness, he married the young lady of the Yang family, and later accepted the younger generation of the Yang family , Yang Qi became a student."

"Ms. Yang's family has passed away for many years, and the only person who can have a relationship with Liu Hanqiu is Yang Qiyu, but Yang Pinghan was picked out by the officials. Why do you want to be far away instead of close?"

Chen Juncong said with a face of thought.

He looked back and forth word by word in the two papers, hoping to find out what the official implied.

"Perhaps...it's not that the official family prefers to be far away, but that there is no such thing as 'near' at all?"

Pei Lian suddenly made a sound, and lightly tapped the two sentences on Yang Pinghan's document with his fingertips, and the three of them couldn't help but focus on it.

Those two sentences are not long, but they contain a lot of content, even the last link connecting the whole thing.

"The ancestral home is Dingzhou, and the current home is Huaijing. My ancestors have been in business for three generations, and my cousin Yang Qiyu is the only one in the same generation. None of them have committed any crimes or harmed their virtues."

After Chen Juncong finished reading silently, he only felt that there was something missing. "Yang Pinghan and Yang Qiyu are cousins..."

"Let's not talk about why Yang Ping and Han's lineage are now living in the capital." Meng Ruanqing took a look at Pei Lian, and added: "Since they are cousins..., according to the time when Liu Xiang accepted Yang Qiyu as a student, now Yang Qiyu should also be able to go to Chunwei. old."

They all belong to the same family and are of the same age, and the officials just threw away these two documents, plus Pei Lian's guess.

The eyes of the three meet again, this time there is no doubt, more clarity.Each of them knew it in their hearts, but they were inevitably shocked when they thought of the truth they had guessed.

After sorting it out, Pei Lian folded the paper and put it in his sleeve, waiting to find a free time to burn it so as not to leave a tail.

"So, this year's Chunwei may not have Yang Qiyu at all. This is what is called seeking far away."

Chen Juncong felt cold all over his body, and had to be afraid of the meticulous observation of the officials.

He and Meng Ruanqing could tell from Liu Hanqiu's transfer of the examination questions that the officials wanted to take the imperial examinations seriously, and that anything that could be related to the imperial examinations was nothing more than fraud.And there are many forms of cheating, such as entraining notes, taking exams, and impersonating others.Therefore, there is a reason for the official family to ask for the Chunwei roster from the Ministry of Rites for verification.

Each state capital of the Heng Dynasty had a specific quota for the imperial examination. In order to have a higher chance of passing the exam, some candidates would think of the method of false citizenship and go to the state capital with a large number of places to take the state examination.Huaijing is the one with the most quotas.

Fake names are common in the imperial examinations every year. In recent years, the management has been lax and not as strict as when the country was founded. Most of them passed by with one eye closed.Now that they are going to be used as knives, they will naturally have to be strictly investigated again.However, I'm afraid even the officials didn't expect that they originally wanted to catch some small shrimps, but accidentally caught a big fish named "Yang Qiyu".