To The Land of Nevernight

Tang Shen was a little embarrassed, he looked up at Wang Qin, not knowing what to do for a moment.

Wang Qin smiled and said, "Little Junior Brother, let's go?"

Tang Shen shook his head: "...OK."

The two got into the sedan chair, and Wang Qin said, "Go to the Imperial College." The bearer lifted the sedan chair and headed for the Imperial College.

The official system of the Song Dynasty basically followed the previous dynasties, and the food and clothing of officials were very strict.Officials who are below the rank are not allowed to light official lamps, nor to use cars and horses that exceed the rank.The sedan chair that Erpin Shangshu can use is very spacious, even if two people sit side by side, it will not be crowded.

The city of Shengjing was full of traffic and voices, these noisy voices were separated from the sedan chair, and Tang Shen sat upright.

There was silence in the sedan chair, no one spoke.

It seemed that he was passing by a street with a snack bar, and there was a hawker shouting from outside the sedan chair. Wang Qin opened his eyes and asked, "Have you had dinner yet?"

Tang Shen was taken aback, and turned to look at him.

No matter how big the sedan chair is, if two people sit, the distance will inevitably be quite close.Tang Shen turned his gaze away, and after adapting, he said, "No."

Wang Qin said to the bearer, "Go and pick Qizhai."

The bearer said, "Yes."

Tang Shen was at a loss, he had just arrived in Shengjing, and he had no idea what Caiqizhai was.But Cai Qizhai seemed to be on the way, the bearer didn't detour, went straight forward, and stopped after a quarter of an hour.After waiting for a cup of tea, the bearer handed in a bag of pastries, which were still warm to the touch.Tang Shen opened it and saw that it was a bag of glutinous, fragrant and snow-white moiwowo.

Tang Shen immediately understood what Wang Qin meant, but he looked at Wang Qin who didn't intend to eat the cake at all.Tang Shen felt something was wrong, he thought about it carefully, wrapped the bag of Ai Wowo back, and said, "Senior brother, this is in your sedan chair, how can I eat?"

Wang Qin looked at him: "I don't mind."

Tang Shen said earnestly: "A gentleman doesn't talk when he eats, and he doesn't talk when he sleeps. It's also impolite not to eat at the table."

Wang Qin seemed a little taken aback. He looked at Tang Shen, and after a while he smiled and said, "Junior Junior Brother is a wonderful person. Then after finishing your school registration, take it home and eat it. The cakes from Qizhai are served in Sheng Beijing also has some names, if you like it, you can try it in the future, it has a lot of semicolons in Shengjing."

"Senior brother said, I will definitely try it."

Soon the sedan chair arrived at the Guozijian, Tang Shen followed Wang Qin and got off the sedan chair.

Wang Qin was still wearing Zhenghong official uniform. As soon as he arrived at the Guozijian, he was greeted respectfully by the porter and called for the sacrificial wine that he was on duty that day.The sacrificial wine was an old man with gray hair and a pot belly. When he saw Wang Qin, his eyes were surprised, he came up and saluted, and said, "Master Wang."

Wang Qin returned a salute: "Lord Lin."

"My lord Wang hasn't set foot in the Imperial College for many days, so I don't know why he came today. Lord Shang Shu just happened to come, and the subordinate officials are about to go back. If it was a little later, there might only be a few hundred students in the Imperial College to welcome you."

Wang Qin said with a smile: "It is true that we sometimes ask for each other." He turned sideways and said, "This is my junior brother, named Tang Shen, styled Jingze, and he comes from Gusu Mansion. He took an examination in Gusu Mansion last year. I took a child test for Xiao Sanyuan, and now I want to come to Shengjing to study and participate in the autumn autumn in August. Can the Imperial College accept him as a student and transfer his student status."

Lin Jijiu said: "Naturally, it's convenient, but ordinary Gong students who want to study in the Imperial College must have a letter of recommendation."

Tang Shen suddenly remembered that Fu Wei had said before that he would write a recommendation letter for him, but when he left Fu's residence, Fu Wei forgot and didn't give him the recommendation letter.Tang Shenzheng was about to say, "I'll bring the recommendation letter tomorrow", but before he could open his mouth, Wang Qin said, "I'll write the recommendation letter."

Lin Jijiu said: "It's no problem if Mr. Wang recommends it personally."

The three of them came to a study, and Lin Jijiu found a pen, ink, paper and inkstone.Wang Qin slightly rolled up his right sleeve, picked up the ink ingot, poured some water on the inkstone, and studied the ink for a while.Then, he took a fine wool pen from the pen holder, dipped it in the ink, and began to write the letter of recommendation.

Lin Jijiu said: "Master Wang's character is rich and handsome, and his bones are clear and upright. I was lucky enough to see it half a year ago, and it is still the same as before!"

Wang Qin: "Master Lin is joking."

"It's really the words from the bottom of my heart."

This flattery, Lin Jijiu's expression did not change, and Wang Qin was unmoved, as if it was a matter of course!

Tang Shen watched from the side, thinking he had learned by heart, then he walked to the table calmly, picked up the ink ingot and began to grind the ink.

After Wang Qin finished writing two lines, when he was dipping the ink again, he saw Tang Shen was grinding the ink for him.He raised his eyes and looked at Tang Shen, who was watching him concentrate on writing.Wang Qin looked away, and continued to write after staining the ink.In a short while, he finished writing a recommendation letter, dried the ink and handed it to Lin Jijiu.

Lin Jijiu: "That's all right. The lower official knows about the student status, but it's already released today, and the lower official will transfer the student status of Mr. Tang over tomorrow."

Wang Qin suddenly said, "I'm afraid it will take a month to transfer my student status from Jinling Mansion."

Lin Jijiu was stunned, he thought for a long time, and asked, "What does Mr. Wang mean..."

Wang Qin was silent, he was playing with the white fan, rubbing his fingers lightly on the jade bone. "Jiangnan Gongyuan is not a place of floods and beasts, and the guards are not strict. Every year, one or two students will lose their student status, and they only need to reapply. Sometimes they think they lost it, but in fact they found it again, and it has no effect on Gongsheng. The sacred place where the Song Dynasty cultivated the pillars of the country should focus on the students' academic homework, and wasting manpower and material resources on student records is really a failure of the official system of our dynasty."

Lin Jijiu suddenly realized: "Tomorrow Mr. Tang's student status will go to the Imperial College."

Wang Qin smiled and said, "My junior brother and I will leave first, Master Lin will stay behind."

Lin Jijiu: "Master Wang, go slowly!"

Wang Qin and Tang Shen left the Imperial College together.

Wang Qin said: "How long have you been in Shengjing, do you have a place to live?"

Tang Shen hadn't recovered from the conversation just now, and after a while, he finally said: "Yes, I will live next to the Imperial College."

Wang Qin raised his eyebrows: "For the sake of going to the Imperial College every day?"

"Yes."

Wang Qin: "In that case, let me give you a ride."

The two got into the sedan chair again, and Wang Qin sent Tang Shen to the alley.Tang Shen got off the sedan chair, only to see Wang Qin use his white fan to part the curtain of the sedan chair, and said to him, "The spring is late, and the flowers and trees are luxuriant."

Tang Shen didn't realize it by himself, but his photographic memory did. He subconsciously continued the sentence: "Cang Geng, Qi Qi, Qi Qi?"

Caifan Qi Qi, from "The Book of Songs".

Caiqizhai is taken from this poem.

Wang Qin smiled and said, "Junior Brother, don't starve yourself."

Tang Shen: "..."

It turned out to remind him not to forget this bag of Aiwowo!

Tang Shen carried the bag of snow-white Aiwowo: "Okay."

The curtain of the sedan chair was lowered, and Wang Qin's pleasant voice came out from the sedan chair: "Go back to Shangshu's residence."

After a while, the sedan chair disappeared into the alley.

Holding the bag of Ai Wowo in his arms, Tang Shen watched the two Shangshu official lamps disappear at the end of the road, and he breathed a sigh of relief.Without Wang Qin, Tang Shen didn't have the politeness of "can't eat at the table". As he walked home, he opened the bag of Aiwowo and started to eat.

"Hey, it's really delicious." I ate two more at once.

After eating his stomach full, Tang Shen recalled the scenes he encountered in the Imperial College today, and said with emotion: "Tang Jingze, this is the officialdom!" When he returned home, Yao San had already boiled the bath water for him, and Tang Shen Shen started to take a bath.

Traveling to ancient times, Tang Shen still likes to take a bath.When I was in Zhaojia Village, I didn't have any conditions. I didn't even have to worry about eating at home, so I couldn't take a bath.After arriving in Gusu Mansion and living conditions improved, Tang Shen picked up this hobby from his previous life again.He rested his hands on the edge of the tub, closed his eyes and meditated.

Suddenly, Tang Shen opened his eyes and said in astonishment, "When did he know that my name is Jing Ze?" After a while, "No, he also knew that I passed the children's exam in Gusu Mansion? It was Liang Did Mister write to him and Mister Fu, or did he check me out a long time ago to know so much?"

Tang Shen: "..."

"My brother, what kind of person is he!"

With such emotion on his lips, Tang Shen decided in his heart that he must be more energetic and careful when facing Wang Zifeng in the future.

On the second day, Tang Shen went to the Imperial College, and found that he had been accepted by the Imperial College as a student, and his student status had also been "transferred" to the Imperial College.Three days ago was the Empress Dowager's [-]th birthday, and the entire Imperial College was on holiday for half a month, and the students did not attend classes.Tang Shen received this month's tuition money from the Imperial College, took his student uniform, and returned home.

After three days in Shengjing, Tang Shen and Yao San were busy for three days.Now that they have free time, the two of them wandered around the huge city of Shengjing.

Shengjing deserves to be the capital of the Great Song Dynasty.

Gusu Mansion occupies a geographical advantage, relies on the Grand Canal, and is a transportation hub in the south of the Yangtze River, so it is prosperous and long.But Shengjing is different.Hu people and Liao people, who are rarely seen in Gusu Prefecture, are very common in Shengjing.They are no different from ordinary people except that they dress differently, but they still eat and drink tea in Shengjing City.

Before coming to Gusu Mansion, Yao San once said to Accountant Lin: "Although Shengjing City is good, our Gusu Mansion is not bad." But after seeing the real Shengjing City, Yao San said to Tang Shen discouragedly: "My little master , I thought that our business in Gusu Mansion is already big enough, and we can do it when we come to Shengjing. But now it seems that Shengjing is really too big, and our business may not be possible."

Tang Shen: "You are not wrong."

Yao San: "Is there still a turning point?"

Soap, scented soap and essential oils, such daily necessities and luxuries are easy to sell in Shengjing, but there is no Tang family in Shengjing, and there is no Liang Song who can take care of Tang Shen.A single plaque in Shengjing City can smash down five capital officials!Tang Shen's business is easy to do, and his things can sell well, but as long as he sells, people will be jealous, so he may not be able to keep his business.

It is indeed a good way to ask Fu Wei and Wang Qin for help, but Tang Shen and these two are just teachers, students and brothers.As the saying goes, brothers and sisters settle accounts clearly, Tang Shen and them are not relatives, but the oil and water behind the soap business is very frightening, and the two sides can only negotiate on the condition of cooperation.

As for the logistics business, it is even more impossible.

Gusu Fucheng has a population of more than [-], what about Shengjing City?There are millions of giants!

If you want to start a logistics business, the money you need to spend is not what Tang Shen has now.

however……

"Brother Yao, the business of Paxiagong is not impossible!"

Yao San was shocked and said: "But my little boss, the reason why our Xixia Building can be built in Gusu Mansion is because there are Tang's logistics guys, who can continuously replenish fresh goods for Xixia Building every day. Sheng Jing No logistics guy."

"But Shengjing is adjacent to the Liao Kingdom in the north."

"what?"

Tang Shen raised the corners of his lips and smiled slightly: "Those who really like to eat boiled mutton are never from Jiangnan, but from Shengjing!"

When you arrive in Shengjing, it is called the real old Beijing mutton!

In Shengjing, there is no way to deliver vegetables and fresh meat as quickly as Gusu Prefecture.But Shengjing has never been short of mutton and pork, because to the north is the Liao Kingdom, the prairie.The wind blows the grass and sees cattle and sheep, even if it is beef, Gusu Mansion can't eat it, but Shengjing can eat it!

Tang Shendao: "Brother Yao, let's go to the dental shop tomorrow and buy some servants. Let's rent another yard and settle them down. In addition, after you return to Gusu Mansion, find the shopkeeper Lu from Xixia Building and let him come Shengjing is looking for me."

"Okay. My little boss, do you want to start the business of Xixia Building?"

Tang Shen: "Yes!"

Yao San's eyes lit up: "Then I will come with shopkeeper Lu, and I will come to Shengjing to help you."

Tang Shen: "You don't need to come."

"what?"

"When did I say that I am now in the business of Xixialou? I am going to be in Qiuwei in five months. Brother Yao, I still want to get a reputation. I don't want to get Jieyuan, but the ranking It can't be too bad, otherwise, wouldn't it be embarrassing for Mr. Fu and my Senior Brother Wang!"

Three days later, Yao San went south by boat and returned to Gusu Mansion.

The Guozijian hadn't started school yet, Tang Shen was struggling at home alone, with his head hanging from the beam and his buttocks, and studying hard.

Fu Wei was appointed by the Imperial Academy, he is a great Confucian who knows the world well, and one of the four Confucianists in the world.But he has been lazy over the years. Since Wang Qin got the first prize in the examination eight years ago, he has never cared about Wang Qin's studies, and he has no teaching experience.After playing with the birds and watering the flowers for half a month, Fu Wei suddenly thought: "Hey, why has my new student, Tang Jingze, never appeared?"

Wen Shutong reminded: "Sir, according to the number of days, Mr. Tang should have gone to the Imperial College to study."

Hearing this, Fu Wei rarely felt guilty: "Oh, I'm old, I have accepted students but I can't afford to teach them, and I want him to go to the Imperial College to study with other Gong students."

Wen Shutong muttered: "I didn't see you paying attention when I was teaching Wang Xianggong before. It's because Wang Xianggong is talented and intelligent, and he is self-taught!"

Fu Wei: "Little boy, what are you muttering about?"

"Nothing, nothing."

Fu Wei stroked his gray beard: "There are still four months, and he will have Qiu Wei, so it's not good to continue like this. In this way, you let him come to me tomorrow. Tomorrow is also the holiday of the household department. Zifeng called, I have something to tell him."

The author has something to say: Xiao Tang Lang: Brother and I are not ♂ relatives ♂ and not ♂, how can I ask him to help me in the soap business!

Lao Wang next door: Brother, I always feel that this little soap seems to have other functions.