When Gu Wuchen grabbed Lin Lian's arm and wanted to introduce him to his wife, Gu Yingsleeve said that Lin Lian was the son of Mei Niang, and Gu Wuchen was stunned for a moment.

Gu asked suspiciously: "Who is Mei Niang?" ”

Gu Wuchen sighed: "The eldest brother and sister-in-law were affected by me, and when they were exiled to the northwest Xinjiang, the entire Gu family followed Mei Niang, and they died of the epidemic on the way...... As he spoke, he saluted Lin Lian, "You are also the one who was affected by me, and I received your favor yesterday, which is really beyond repayment." ”

"How dare you, how dare you? Master Gu killed Lin Tie. Lin Jian hurriedly returned the salute, and even pressed his head lower than Gu Wuchen to be considered rude.

Gu Yingsleeve followed Gu and Gu Wuchen's youngest daughter Xun'er to the inner house to change into clean clothes, and Yang Pu and the deputy lieutenant of Yunqi in Dongyang Mansion told Gu Wuchen about the assassin's party chasing and killing Lin Tie's master and servant, but at the entrance of the village, several foreign horse traders who had befriended Lin Tie helped to besiege and kill him.

According to the Ministry of Prosecution and Envoy in charge of the impeachment of a provincial criminal name, Gu Wuchen served as the deputy envoy of Jiangdong according to the Inspectorate, not an incompetent person, listening carefully to the description of Yang Pu and the deputy lieutenant of Yunqi in Dongyang Mansion, he knew that the few foreign horse traders who were good friends with Lin Jian were only afraid that they were also strong and powerful, and he had no intention of pursuing it, so he only said to Yang Pu: "Send two people to assassinate me in Shiliang County to find Lord Liang, and discuss this matter in detail, and the matter of chasing down the assassins and the same party is still handed over to Shiliang County to deal with." I'm still on my way to take office, and I haven't officially taken office, so it's inconvenient to ask about it......"

Gu Wuchen went south this time, his son Gu Siyuan and his wife and daughter accompanied him, except for Yang Pu's father and son and a military man who followed him back to Beijing in northern Hebei to act as escorts, there were only four maids and servants, and there was no manpower to send to Shiliang County to report the news, and the deputy lieutenant of the cloud cavalry of Dongyang Mansion naturally took the matter over and sent two people to Shiliang County on fast horses to report the news. As for Gu Ying's sleeve killing the servant, he also needed to be disposed of after the body was examined, at that time, Gu Ying's behavior was shocking, but according to the laws of the dynasty, there was nothing wrong with it, and there was no need to hide it.

Things were ordered here, and Gu Wuchen asked Lin Jian what his plans for the future he had: "Yesterday, I heard from Liang Gongzuo Ren that you are the only person who has won the examination in Jinke Township, Shiliang County, when do you plan to go to Beijing to participate in the examination?" I thought it would be more certain to go to Beijing early to study in a quiet place. Si Yuan's maternal grandfather is the former household servant Tang Gong Hao Xin (Tang Hao Xin), also my teacher, the young talent is still a reward, you go to Beijing as soon as possible, you can bring a letter for me to report safety, you can also borrow a place in the soup house to read quietly...... "Gu Wuchen originally just wanted to thank Lin Jian for his kindness yesterday, but knowing that he was the son of Mei Niang, who also died of the epidemic at that time, he had the heart to treat him as his own son and nephew, and yesterday he knew that Lin Lian's status in the Lin family was not very high. At this time, he had the heart to help him in the imperial examination.

"Thank you Lord Gu for your kind cultivation, Lin Lian Township ranked one hundred and thirty-seven in the examination, but it was a fluke that he did not fall into Sun Mountain, and he has no intention of going to Beijing to participate in the meeting for the time being......

"That's it......" Gu Wuchen hesitated slightly, he is very talented, in the eyes of others, it is great to lift people in the examination, he feels that the score of one hundred and thirty-seven in the township examination can only be regarded as very reluctant, Liang Zuoren did not mention this to him yesterday, he pondered for a moment, and said, "You stay in Shiliang County and study hard for another three years, and it is good to participate in the next subject examination, you are still young, the future is great, it is rare to lift people in the weak crown age examination, I was one year older than you when I went to Beijing to participate in the examination." ”

"......" Lin Jian wanted to wait for Gu Yingsleeve to come over and mention the matter of going to Jiangning for him, but Gu Wuchen said this, and he no longer avoided it, and said, "Lord Gu may not know that those foreign horse traders are not helping me for no reason...... They were originally invited by me to Shanglindu to sell horses when I was in Tinghu, the second son of the family was greedy for his good horses, and wanted to buy them by force, when I rescued them from the siege, in fact, I had already offended the family, I was afraid that Dongyang would not have a place for me, and planned to go to Jiangning to find a ...... "Lin Jian half-truthfully told Gu Wuchen about his life, "It's not that I am a villain in vain, and the second son of this family is actually narrow-minded." Although I am also a child of the Lin family, I chased and killed my fellow assassins, and the few sword servants around the Seventh Lady disobeyed the order and did not save them, but they also knew that if they were to save me, they would be guilty of the second son of the family. I stay in Dongyang for a day now, just like sitting on pins and needles for a day......"

"......" Gu Wuchen didn't expect Lin Jian to be in a hurry to leave Dongyang Mansion, he was stunned for a while, and said, "We will also leave for Jiangning tomorrow, since you don't want to stay in Dongyang, you can go to Jiangning with us, but the matter of seeking a career is postponed, and it is the right way to try to get out of the country and enter the office......

In the township examination, the meritorious and famous, the scholar has the qualification to be an official, but the officials are all petty officials, small officials, and the space for promotion is extremely narrow.

In the past ten years, the most successful person in promoting people into the office is Dong Yuan, the current governor of Weiyang Mansion. Dong Yuan has been in the office for six years, and his performance is excellent, but he has only accumulated merit and has been promoted to the main book of Xianxia County. However, when the luxury family swept through Eastern Fujian in Jin'an, the rebels slaughtered the county under Xianxia County, and Dong Yuan united the people of the county and abolished the county to refuse to defend the city and made miraculous achievements. Later, he gave the secretary of the Jiangning military department and Li Zhuo, the governor of Eastern Fujian, the utility under his command, and disagreed with Li Zhuo on the matter of attaching to the luxury family, and was transferred to Jiangning as the commander of the Jiangning military department, and was transferred to Weiyang Mansion as the prefect in March. In a few years, the nine-grade officials of that year have become the honor of the four-grade government, and they can also be regarded as strange in the officialdom.

The so-called strange is naturally not the right way. The scholars of the world regard the Jingshi Society as the last leap of the Dragon Gate, and Gu Wuchen is naturally no exception. As a rule, if you will take the high school examination, you will not be able to brush it down, and no matter how bad the results are, you will be born in the top three with the Jinshi, and you will study in the Hanlin Academy for three or five years, and you will be released to the official vacancy above the eighth grade county. There are people in the court to take care of it, and the respect of a government is only a matter of ten or eight years, which is far better than being a petty official for a lifetime.

Gu Wuchen was so eager, Lin Jian wanted to shirk and was afraid of Gu Wuchen's enthusiasm, so he said that he would think about it after going to Jiangning, at this time, in order to offend the second son of the family, he was restless, and he had no intention of staying in Dongyang to read quietly.

Gu Wuchen's son, Gu Siyuan, stood aside and watched Lin Lian's face, and the intention of shirking was very obvious, but when he had no ambition, he thought that his so-called offending the second son of his family was only afraid of making up a lie, and he probably knew that his father's identity was used to help Jiangning yesterday to make a fat messenger under his father's big tree.

Gu Siyuan was angry about Lin Lian's tough attitude and dispute with his family's guards outside the tea hotel yesterday, but Lin Lian realized that it was a fact that the assassin was kind to his family, and he naturally had to suppress the complaints in his heart. Gu Siyuan listened to Yang Pu's description of the fierce battle at the entrance of the village just now, and it sounded obvious that Lin Tie deliberately lured the assassins to the village entrance to besiege and kill the Gu family to ask for merit.

It is said that Gu Siyuan and Gu Yingsleeve are cousins, Gu Yingsleeve is married to Lin Tingxun as a concubine, Lin Tie wants to call Gu Yingchou's aunt, and Gu Siyuan is a generation older than Lin Tie, but Gu Wuchen and Gu Jia's elders are present, and there is no seat for Gu Siyuan to sit on during the conversation, Lin Tie is both a guest and a benevolent father, and Gu Wuchen holds hands and sits in the main seat of the hall, Gu Siyuan is also very dissatisfied with this.

Yang Pu and Yang Pu's son Yang Shi and another Tsing Yi guard all thought so in their hearts, and they didn't have a good impression of Lin Bin, but they couldn't help but repay the kindness of others, and besides, the adults of his family were also very enthusiastic about Lin Bin, even if they had some disdain in their hearts, they didn't dare to show it.

Gu Yingsleeve changed his clothes and came out, and asked Gu Wuchen and the Gu family elders to say goodbye one by one, these Gu family elders had said bad things about Gu Yingsleeve behind their backs before, thinking that Gu Yingsleeve's marriage to Lin Tingxun as a concubine had ruined the style of the Gu family's eunuch clan, and they didn't disdain it, if it weren't for Gu Wuchen's insistence, these Gu family elders would not have come to show up. After knowing that Gu Yingsleeve was disobeying the servants at the entrance of the village just now, Gu Yingsleeve changed his clothes and came out to ask An Shili, and these Gu family elders reflexively stood up and didn't dare to sit and accept the salute.

Lin Jian saw it, and thought to himself that the Gu family really had no backbone popularity, and it was no wonder that after the Gu Wuchen brothers fell, the Gu family quickly fell.

"What about Xun'er, the life-saving benefactor is here, why can't she hide and say thank you?" Gu Wuchen saw his wife and niece coming out of the back house, and the daughter who was shouting all day long to go out even dressed as a man and went out with her was hiding from the guests at this time.

Gu sent the maid to run over to the back house, and after a while, he saw Gu Wuchen's little girl blushing and twisting and walking in front of Lin Tie to salute, and thanked him in a soft voice: "Gu Junxun Xie Lin Gongzi yesterday... Yesterday...... Zhi En ...... "finally mustered up the courage to say this, and hid behind her mother Gu in shame.

Seeing her like this, Lin Lian couldn't think of the soft bullet he started yesterday, but he couldn't peek at her in front of his father and brother, the elders of the clan, and the servants, Lin Lian could only sit upright and talk to Gu Wuchen there.

Gu Wuchen didn't expect to read much of the scriptures and the world behind closed doors, although Lin Tie had a low status in front of him, the deputy envoy of Jiangdong who was the fourth grade, but Lin Tie was a guest, and he had a helping hand in front of him, Gu Wuchen couldn't throw Lin Tie to others to entertain, and besides, Gu Wuchen didn't have anything else to do today, but he was interested in discussing poetry with him with a backward attitude.

Although Lin Jian retained his original memory, he was only very tired in poetry for more than two months, and his level was not as good as before he went to Jiangning to take the exam, let alone show off in front of Gu Wuchen, and made several jokes after talking about it. Fortunately, Gu Wuchen saw that his face was red and his ears were red, and fine sweat was oozing from his forehead, so he was no longer embarrassed, probably knowing that Lin Lian's attainments in poetry and scriptures were limited, and he only told him to work hard in Jiangning.

Gu Siyuan, Yang Pu and other Gu family members saw this scene in their eyes, and they all knew that Lin Lian's stomach was limited, and they all thought that he was really self-aware that he didn't go to Beijing to participate in the examination, only Gu Yingsleeve knew in his heart that Lin Lian was better than before after the tribulation of life and death, and Lin Xu, who had come back from life and death, showed decisiveness, courage, meticulousness and strategy in just three days were the best men she had ever seen, and it was only Gu Yingsleeve, who knew all the deceit, that those who only knew poetry and scriptures were not worth relying on.

Zhou Pu didn't know anything about poetry and scriptures, he stood aside and listened drowsily, and he was very sympathetic to Lin Lian: how to discuss these things with this sour Confucian, he decided in his heart that Lin Lian had real talent, ability, and true temperament.