The three of them walked slowly along the avenue of Bianhe Beibian, looking at the scene of all the people entering the city and the people weaving, and they had a feeling of being in a dream. After entering the inner city from the beam gate, the degree of prosperity and liveliness is even better, which makes the three masters and servants even more amazing.

"Oh, uncle, here...... It's much more lively here than our Hangzhou. Speaking of boats, there are no more ships than our Hangzhou, and there don't seem to be many people. How can it feel more lively? Lin Hu smashed the bookcase all the way and said.

"Xiaohu is right, I think so too. It seems that the roads are wider, the bridges are more, and the houses are taller and bigger. In a word...... All in all it feels weird. Lu Wu tilted her head with a small floral package on her back, and combed the young woman's hair ornament, revealing a snow-white slender neck, which was very delicate and cute, and the golden hairpin on her head was shining in the sun.

"Also, when Sister Green Dance said this, it seems to be the case. I panicked, I don't know what's wrong. Lin Hu said.

Lin Jue knocked on the little hat on his head and said with a smile: "The panic is that we haven't eaten enough, we haven't eaten lunch when we are on the road, so we are naturally hungry and panicked." Let's go, find a restaurant for a meal first. ”

Green Dance said: "I have to find an inn to live in." ”

Lin Jue nodded and said: "After eating, I am looking for a place to live, Mr. is in the capital, but I don't know where he lives now, I am afraid that I will not be able to see Mr. and Mrs. today." Even if we found it, the three of us would not be able to live in the teacher's house. The gentleman's residence must not be large. ”

"Uncle, I'm afraid we'll have to rent a house to live in." Lin Hu said.

Lin Jue frowned and thought about it, he remembered that when he left Hangzhou last year, the little county lord Guo Caiwei had said that she was coming to the capital. also said that he wanted to live in a house near the Daxiangguo Temple given to her by the little prince Guo Kun. It's already March of the New Year, and Guo Caiwei would have been here if she had come to the capital. If Guo Caiwei is here, she doesn't have to find another place to live, she just goes directly into her house, and it saves trouble. Also, Xie Yingying also said that she was looking for herself in the capital after the New Year, but I don't know if she has arrived. I have been on Funiu Mountain for a few months, and if they come and can't find themselves, they don't know where they have gone. Even if they are in the capital, how can I find them?

However, Lin Jue soon came back to his senses and stopped thinking about this, things had to be done one by one, first find an inn to settle down, and go to the Ministry of Rites tomorrow to register for the record, which is one thing that candidates who come to Beijing to participate in the Spring University Examination must do, and then inquire about the residence of Fang Dunru and his wife, and then slowly inquire if the little county lord and Xie Yingying are not in the capital. Also, Lin Bonian is also going to visit there. There are still a lot of things, and we can only take one step at a time.

After making up his mind, Lin Jueyi waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's go down to the restaurant first, have a good meal, and then make a plan." ”

The three of them ordered a table of wine and food in a restaurant next to Bianhe Street and had a delicious meal, and when they checked out, this table of wine and food actually cost as much as five taels of silver, which made Lu Wu's flesh hurt, and he kept muttering that the price of this capital was so expensive. Lin Jue was secretly amused, isn't it a place at the feet of the Son of Heaven? The locally produced grain, vegetables and vegetables in Bianliang City are limited, and they are all transported to the capital from all over the world, and the prices are naturally too much higher than those in other places. It seems that it should be very difficult to live in the capital. Lu Wu carried all the belongings of two thousand taels of silver, and he had to calculate his food, clothing, housing and transportation, I am afraid it would not be enough. If there is really no money to spend, I'm afraid I'll have to find a way to find Erberlin. I hope it doesn't come to that point, Lin Jue doesn't want to keep his voice down for money.

After eating this meal, it was also evening and it was getting dark. The setting sun shone on the streets on both sides of the Bianhe River, and the traffic did not abate in the slightest. The three masters and servants found an inn called Tongfu and opened two rooms to settle down temporarily. The innkeeper was also kind, looking at Lin Jue's posture like a man from other places to participate in the imperial examination, he specially told Lin Jue to be cautious on the street, saying that the recent Spring Festival examination in the capital is imminent, and the idlers and gangsters on the street like to rob these powerless movers, and ask him to be careful not to show his money.

Lin Jue smiled bitterly, the first good place under the feet of the Son of Heaven, it seems that the public security situation is also worrying. The gangsters in the capital are so bold that they even rob the lifters, aren't they afraid that they will rob the future pillars of the DPRK and China?

The three of them had been on the road for several days, and their bodies were a little tired. After staying and washing up a little, Lin Jue ordered to go to bed, don't care about anything, and recover your energy first. So the three of them did not eat dinner, but rested to each other. Lin Jue hugged Lu Wu and slept from the evening of the first day to the dawn of the second day.

Early the next morning, after dinner, Lin Jue asked Xiaohu to stay in the inn with Lu Wu, and went out with the documents given by the Hangzhou Xuezheng Yamen, and inquired all the way to the Bianliang Da Nei Palace. With a little vague impression in his memory and the guidance of others, he went all the way north to the place where the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites was located.

Finally, when the sun was three poles, Lin Jue was already standing at the entrance of the huge blue brick square in front of the right door of the Ouchi Palace. At the entrance of the huge archway, fully armed forbidden soldiers stood there, and in the distance were rows of exquisite courtyard houses, where was the office of Shangshu Province, and the yamen of the Ministry of Rites was among them.

The forbidden soldiers at the corner of the street did not stop Lin Jue, and after Lin Jue showed them the official document proving the identity of the child, he gave the green light all the way. I think it's also because there are more people here during this time, and these forbidden soldiers are also used to it.

After crossing the street and entering the square, a tall wall stood in the distance, and below the high wall, heavily armed and shining swords, guarded by Praetorian Guards patrolled and went. Inside the city walls, several temples glittered in the sun. Lin Jue knew that inside the city wall was the Great Zhou Dynasty's Inner Palace. In one of the dozen or so palaces there, the current saint of the Great Zhou Dynasty lives there.

On the square, there are two groups of exquisite courtyards in the east and west, and in the middle is a huge space of more than 30 zhang, like a chasm separating the two courtyards, which is quite antagonistic to each other. Lin Jue knew that these two courtyards were the two institutions that symbolized the highest authority of the Great Zhou Dynasty. This large courtyard to the east is the government hall, and to the west is the Privy Council. It is known as the 'East and West Mansions'. The two major institutions, one in charge of government affairs and the other in charge of military affairs, were the core of the power of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

As for some other departments, such as the Yamen of the Three Divisions, the key departments such as the Supervision Yuan and the Imperial Historical Observatory are elsewhere. Some of them are in the squares outside the gates on the east and west sides of Ouchi, and some are in other places, and there is no place for them here. The saddest thing here is the dignified Sansi Yamen. Once upon a time, the Sansi Yamen was a yamen that monopolized financial power on an equal footing with the two governments. The three envoys were once given the name of 'counting'. However, now in the square in front of Daqing, the south gate of the imperial palace, which symbolizes the supreme power, they have no place. Their original majestic and tall Yamen public house has been completely encroached upon and swallowed up by the political affairs hall.

In the courtyard on the south side of the government affairs hall, an errand officer learned that Lin Jue was here to report, so he led Lin Jue to another small courtyard from the side. Before entering the vertical gate in the courtyard, the messenger asked Lin Jue to stand outside the vertical gate and wait for a while, and walked in with Lin Jue's paperwork.

Lin Jue had to stand under a flower tree outside the hanging door and wait, only to hear bursts of laughter and laughter in the courtyard, which seemed to be very lively.

In the courtyard, when the messenger came in, several officials in official uniforms were chatting and laughing around a tree of blooming peach blossoms, and they were amazed.

"Hey, this year's peach blossoms are blooming well, look, it's a double-petaled flower. It's big, it's red, it's beautiful. A middle-aged official laughed loudly.

"Master Hu loves peach blossoms the most, and this peach blossom seems to be human. There were only a few flowers that bloomed yesterday, and it seems that he knew that Lord Hu was coming to our Ritual Division today, so he naturally opened it widely. This is called 'suddenly like a spring breeze in the night, thousands of trees and peach blossoms'. Hahaha. One official laughed.

"The poem outside the horse can't be changed, what does it mean to 'suddenly come like a spring breeze overnight'? This should be changed to 'suddenly like a night to know that Hu comes, and the peach blossoms bloom beautifully'. ”

"Zhang Yuanwai, your literary talent is really high, a good poem was changed beyond recognition by you, what else is 'nonsense'? Are you insinuating and sarcasm? ”

"No, no, no, Lord Hu's surname is Hu, and Hu Lai means...... The meaning of Lord Hu coming. It's such a nonsense, but it's not the kind of nonsense you said. ”

"What kind of nonsense? What I'm listening to is just one meaning, which is the meaning of nonsense. Everyone understands what Hu Lai means. You're just making fun of us, Master Hu. ”

A mixed vindictive mouth of one horse and two officials. Hu came and went, and his surname was said by these two people, but it was not a good word, which made the middle-aged official's face unhappy, as if he was angry.

"Enlighten my lords, a student from Chunqiu has come to report for registration." The servants came forward to report when they saw the stitches.

Seeing that there were outsiders here, several officials hurriedly stopped the noise, coughed a few times, and stood with their chests folded and their beards on their shoulders, looking serious.

"Where's the move? I'll take a look. The middle-aged official said. The handyman presented Lin Jue's official document, and the middle-aged official jumped up when he saw his name.

"Oops, he's here. Hahaha, what a coincidence. The middle-aged official laughed.

"Master Hu, what's wrong? Who's arriving? The officials were busy.

"Do you know that last autumn, I took the autumn exam on Liangzhejiang Road, and the first Xie Yuan was Lin Jue of the Lin family in Hangzhou. I ordered it myself. I heard that he left for the capital last year ago, and it took him four or five months to arrive. On the first day I came to the Department of Ceremonies, he arrived. Isn't this fate? Hahaha. ”