When the car arrived on the official road, although it was still a little bumpy, it was very slight.
Ye Xiaotian was lying on the desk, writing home letters like a snake, and when he put down the pen, he picked up the letter paper and blew it. Seeing that the ink was dry, he took an envelope, sealed it with wax paint, and wrote on the envelope: The address and recipient are "Brother Xiaoan".
Ye Xiaotian handed the letter to Zhao Wenyuan, and said with a smile: "So, Brother Lao Wenyuan has this letter."
Zhao Wenyuan smiled and said: "It's okay, what's the post station? Its job is to welcome and deliver. It's nothing to send a letter for you. Hehe, this is the first thing I use for public affairs after I take office."
Both of them laughed, Zhao Wenyuan looked at the handwriting on the letter, and praised: "My dear brother, your handwriting is really beautiful."
Ye Xiaotian said: "I can write well, I only have such a little thing that can support my appearance. When it comes to knowledge, I am far inferior to your brother."
Zhao Wenyuan shook his head and said with a smile, "You'd be ashamed to say that. To tell you the truth, my reputation for raising people is not a result of serious examinations."
Ye Xiaotian took the opportunity to ask: "Oh? As far as I know, the imperial court only favors the chieftains who guard the land for the country when it comes to the imperial examination. Could it be that brother Wen Yuan came from a chieftain family?"
Zhao Wenyuan smiled and said: "No. However, my father is Bozhou Amu, and he has always been highly regarded by the chieftain of Bozhou, Mr. Yang. As a brother, he can't succeed in literature and martial arts. My father had no choice but to ask Chieftain Yang to come forward and fight for this honor for me. return."
Ye Xiaotian said: "Ah! It turns out that your father is Bozhou Amu, disrespectful, disrespectful."
As Ye Xiaotian said, he thought to himself: "Zhao Wenyuan is outspoken about his background, does he not know my identity or doesn't care? Although Yang Yinglong cares about the ownership of the position of venerable, he probably won't Put your expectation of winning me over on Zhao Wenyuan, it should be just a coincidence that he and I were elected at the same time and went to Hu County to be an official at the same time."
Just as Ye Xiaotian thought of this, one of Zhao Wenyuan's guards rushed to the side of the car, bent down and said to the car, "My lord, we will arrive in Tongren soon."
Zhao Wenyuan nodded, and said with a smile to Ye Xiaotian: "We have traveled smoothly this way. According to the current pace, we should not miss the deadline to go to Huxian County. Now that we have arrived in your hometown, do you want to go back to visit it? Returning to your hometown in good clothes, It's human nature."
Ye Xiaotian's self-reported hometown is the Dawanshan Division of Tongren Prefecture, so Zhao Wenyuan made this statement. But Ye Xiaotian doesn't have any relatives in Dawan Mountain Division, he hesitated a little, and said: "Forget it, business matters, family members will understand, after we rest in Tongren, I will write another book and ask someone to take it home Just go."
At this time, another guard came over on horseback and said loudly: "My lord, there are people waiting at Wuliting ahead, saying they want to see Mr. Ye Xiaotian."
Zhao Wenyuan turned to Ye Xiaotian in surprise, and said, "But your relatives are here?"
Ye Xiaotian doesn't have any relatives in Tongren, he couldn't help being terrified when he heard this: "Don't that mad woman Xue Mu find out about me from somewhere, and come to pester me again?"
Ye Xiaotian stepped out bravely, and saw a grass pavilion by the side of the road in front of him, a little boy was standing in front of the grass pavilion, when he saw him coming out, he greeted him with a smile, bowed his head, and said loudly: "Congratulations, Mr. Ye, congratulations!" Master Ye!"
When Ye Xiaotian saw it was him, he hurriedly jumped off the shaft of the car, and said with a smile, "Xiaozhu, why are you here?" It turned out that this boy was Li Zhongyin's personal servant, who had dealt with Ye Xiaotian many times, so Ye Xiaotian naturally recognized it .
Xiao Zhu said with a smile: "As ordered by my master, I am here to meet Master Ye. I heard that Master Ye won the election and was assigned an official position. The prefect and my master are very happy, so I asked the younger one to meet here. The prefect has already Set up a banquet for Master Ye, ready to welcome you."
Ye Xiaotian was a little dizzy from being surrounded by this group of masters, he shook his head and said with a smile: "Xiaozhu, you don't have to be polite with me, you and my old friend, you should just call me Ye Gongzi. How come the magistrate and Master Li also know that I am coming to Tongren?" ?”
Xiaozhu said: "Master Ye, you lived all the way in post stations. There happened to be an official from our Tongren Mansion in the post station where you stayed yesterday. When he came back and mentioned this, the magistrate knew about it. So early in the morning, the younger ones greeted you." Here it is."
Zhao Wenyuan had already got out of the car and followed Ye Xiaotian, he smiled slightly when he heard this, and said: "Brother Ye Xian, you have been selected as a scholar and a candidate one after another, and now you have become a court official, Zhang Zhifu also has a bright face, don't let the magistrate wait for a long time , you go now."
It was Ye Xiaotian who hosted the banquet for Zhang Zhifu. Ye Xiaotian was naturally not good at arbitrarily advocating to bring Zhao Wenyuan along. Moreover, Zhao Wenyuan had a background from the Yang family in Bozhou, so it was not easy to get close to Zhang Yi who was branded by the Tian family. So Ye Xiaotian only told Dong Dong and Yao Yao After a few words, they rushed to the city together with Xiaozhu.
Zhang Zhifu was watching a play in the back garden. When Dou E sang about the snow in June, Fatty Zhang held a small handkerchief and was crying like tears. I’ve watched it hundreds of times, so I don’t need to cry every time.”
Zhang Zhifu wiped his tears with a small handkerchief, then blew his nose vigorously, and said to Li Jiao, "This Dou E is really wronged."
Li Zhongyin said with a mournful face: "Yes, yes!"
Zhang Zhifu threw away his handkerchief, stretched out his hand to touch the teacup, and looked at the stage with reluctance. It happened that a maid was refilling his cup of tea at the back. A few drops of tea splashed onto Zhang Zhifu's hand, causing Zhang Zhifu to groan in pain.
The maid turned pale with fright, quickly knelt down, kowtowed like garlic: "Master, calm down, master, calm down."
Zhang Zhifu jumped out of the chair a few times, but unfortunately the fat around his waist was caught by the armrest, and he couldn't stand up for a while, so he pointed at the little maid angrily and said: "Bitch, do you want to murder me? Pull her down to me and beat her to death!"
The maid was so frightened that she just kowtowed and begged for mercy. The two servants who rushed up to drag Zhang Zhifu out of the chair turned to the maid, picked her up and left, the little maid cried out in despair: "Master, please forgive me, please forgive me..."
Li Jiaoyu and the others sat there without saying a word. Although they felt that Zhang Zhifu's actions were a bit reckless, but the Tixi Zhang family inherited Tongren, and Zhang Zhifu was the local emperor here. Don't look at him usually being silly, especially the one who pretends to be elegant. Sometimes it is even more ugly, but who dares to laugh at him
The gatekeeper of the magistrate's mansion had already received orders that Ye Xiaotian didn't need to report when he arrived, so Xiaozhu led Ye Xiaotian, accompanied by another servant from the Zhang family, and drove straight in. He came directly to the back garden. Go little girl.
Fatty Zhang blew on his chubby white hands, saw a few red dots on the back of his hands, cursed resentfully, then called two servants to drag him out of the chair, turned around and saw Ye Xiaotian, couldn't help but He grinned.
Ye Xiaotian hurried two steps, bowed to the ground, and said excitedly: "Ye Xiaotian met my mentor, mentor! Long time no see, Xiaotian misses you very much, old man, are you okay?"
Ye Xiaotian has dealt with Fatty Zhang before, so he knows how to please him. He knows that calling Zhang Zhifu old parents or Mr. Zhang is not as friendly as calling him mentor, and Fatty Zhang likes to be arty, so he must like it better.
Sure enough, Zhang Yi's fat face almost turned into a chrysanthemum, his eyes were so narrowed that he couldn't see, he said to Ye Xiaotian with a pleasant face: "You are here, get up, get up, hahaha, you go now Guiyang, I won the Juren and became an official again, the old man is very happy."
Zhang Yi turned his head and said to Li Zhongyin complacently: "I must have a good eye, I said at the beginning that this kid must be promising."
Li Zhongyin nodded and said with admiration, "My lord has the eyes to know the pearl, you can be called Bole."
Zhang Zhifu looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "Hahahaha... who is Bole?"
Li Zhongyin was stunned for a moment, Ye Xiaotian quickly took a step forward, and said with a smile: "This Bole was a person who was very good at selecting talents in ancient times, but his story has always been spread in the Central Plains, your mentor, you lived in Tongren, no wonder I don't know about it. "
Zhang Zhifu suddenly said: "Oh, so he is an ancient man." Li Zhongyin wiped his cold sweat secretly, if Fatty Zhang really made a fool of himself on the spot, this man has a big chest but a small mind, and he will not have a good life in the future.
Ye Xiaotian greeted Li Zhongyin again, and it was clear that Li Zhongyin was his mentor, but at this time he could only call him Master Li to show the difference from Zhang Yi.
Zhang Zhifu happily asked Ye Xiaotian to sit down. He had just been pulled out of the chair, and he squeezed his fat body back with great effort. How about rest?"
Zhang Zhifu said: "Oh! It's nothing. I just watched a play and saw that Dou E was framed, and she was going to be dragged to the execution ground. I felt pity for the teacher, and I couldn't help crying."
Ye Xiaotian said: "Master is really merciful. By the way, when the student just came in, he saw a woman being dragged out, crying, who is that?"
Zhang Zhifu resentfully said: "That lowly maid, who couldn't even pour tea well, scalded the old man's hand, dragged it down and beat him to death."
Ye Xiaotian hurriedly said: "The student has been promoted by his mentor, so he has the glory today. Now that he returns to Tongren, he has to reunite with his mentor. On such a happy day, your mentor has a lot of adults, so don't worry about that ignorant little girl."
Fatty Zhang could still listen to the words of the person who looked pleasing to the eye, so he waved his hand when he heard the words, and the servant next to him hurriedly chased him out and ordered the suspension of the sentence.
Fatty Zhang said to Ye Xiaotian with a smile on his face: "Shiqian Mansion, Sinan Mansion, and Zhenyuan Mansion usually laugh at me that there is no one in Tongren Mansion, and I can't even be a scholar. How about it, if I don't make a song, Zhang Yi will do it. It scares people to death, hehe, Xiaotian, you are a scholar and a scholar, and you won it easily. In my opinion, it is not a problem to enter Beijing to take the Jinshi examination."
Ye Xiaotian couldn't help being startled when he heard his bullshit, and hurriedly said: "Master, if the student enters Beijing, he will definitely be a Jinshi, but if he is a Jinshi, he may not be able to return to Guizhou to be an official. The student still wants to leave The teacher is closer, and listen to the teachings of the teacher from time to time."
Fatty Zhang muttered, "Oh! That makes sense, forget it, we don't want this Jinshi anymore."
Li Zhongyin and the others looked at each other in blank dismay, thinking: "This pair of master and apprentice are indeed in the same line, and those who brag about themselves are already shameless to the extreme!"
Fatty Zhang said with a smile: "Master, I was very happy to hear that you came, and specially set up a reception banquet for you. Zhongyin, you guys go to the living room first, and the official and Xiaotian will come later."
Li Zhongyin and others hurriedly resigned, Ye Xiaotian knew that Fatty Zhang had confessed to him, so he leaned forward quickly, as if to listen attentively.