Chapter 301 Going to the Meeting

Entering the study and closing the door, Xu New Year stared at his elder brother with an odd expression.

The face is strange but not anxious, not an emergency ………. Detective Xu made a judgment and sat himself down at the round table, poured a cup of water to relieve the dry thirst after eating too much MSG, and laughed in a casual tone:

“O Erlang, a man can’t swallow his words, say what he has to say.”

Xu Erlang walked to the desk, picked up a copy of the invitation, “snap” light sound, accurately landed in front of Xu Qi’an.

Xu Qi’an unfolded the invitation and scanned it with a glance, knowing why Erlang Xu had an odd expression.

The content of this invitation is to invite Erlang Xu to attend the literary meeting, and there is an interesting sentence on it: bring your sister with you.

The invitee was Wang Zhenwen, the chief minister of the dynasty.

“You’re a Chunxian Examination Councilor, and it makes sense to invite you to participate in the literary meeting.” Xu Qi’an analyzed.

Xu New Year has only two younger sisters, and on occasions like the Wen Hui, it’s natural not to invite young children. The Wang family, this rule will not understand?

As for the women’s participation in the Cultural Society, although the Daebong is still the same as the Three Obediences and Four Virtues, due to the existence of the cultivation system, there are also outstanding women among them.

Therefore, although the status of women is lower than that of men, it is not that low. They don’t have to wrap their feet, they don’t have to wear a veil when they go out, and they can go out and play whenever they want.

Auntie and Ling Yue, for example, would take their escorts out to the jewelry store every now and then.

It was not uncommon for women to be present at literary meetings.

“Stupid!”

Xu New Year laughed coldly: “The officialdom is like a battlefield, there may be many dim-witted fools stealing the high position, but the temple dukes are not among them, and Wang Shoufu is even the leader of the dukes, and his every move, a sentence and an expression are worthy of deep thought and chewing. Otherwise, how to die do not know.

“Big brother is Wei Yuan’s man, Wang Zhenwen and Wei Yuan are the two fierce tigers in the court, incompatible with each other, he invited me to attend the Wen Hui at his residence, it’s bound to be not as simple as it seems.”

Xu Erlang paced the room while thinking, “I, Xu New Year’s Hall Huiyuan, have a great future, Wang Shoufu is jealous of me and wants to strangle me before I grow up ……..

“Nope, even if I were to win the gold list and be honored in the first rank, it would be easy for Chief Wang to deal with me; there is a huge difference in status between me and him, and he doesn’t need to plot and scheme to deal with me at all.

“Then, is his invitation to me really just an ordinary literary meeting? In that case, it would be thinking too simply of my opponent, and thinking too simply of Wang Zhenwen ………”

The distressed Erlang Xu looked toward Daolang Xu and frowned, “Big brother, say something.”

I feel that your thoughts are gradually di ………. Xu Qi’an frowned, ”In this case, go ask the other fellow students who have won the gongshi to see if they have received invitations.

“If there is, then this is just a simple literary meeting. If it isn’t, and you alone are invited, a scholar from the Cloud Deer Academy, then there must be something strange about it.”

“This I naturally thought of, but unfortunately there’s no time.” Xu Erlang was a little anxious, pointing at the invitation, “Big brother, look at the time, the cultural meeting is tomorrow morning, I simply don’t have time to seek …….. I understand.”

“Understand what?” Xu Daolang asked.

“Chief Minister Wang is not giving me a chance to react at all, if I don’t go, he will spread the word of my self-importance that there is no one else in the world and tarnish my reputation. If I go, there will surely be some kind of intrigue waiting for me at the literary meeting.” Xu Erlang drew in a breath of cool air:

“Ginger is still old.”

Being so said, Xu Qi’an also alerted, said my old Xu family is not easy to produce a reading seed, that Wang Zhenwen is so inappropriate.

He then sensed that something was wrong and frowned, “You also said just now that Chief Wang doesn’t need to plot and scheme if he wants to deal with you. Even if you win the grade, you’re only just out of the novice village, while others are almost full leveled numbers.”

Xu New Year said blankly, “What is a novice village and what is a full leveled number?”

“If you don t go, your proud and arrogant reputation will be spread, if you go there may be intrigue ……… Erlang decide for yourself.” Xu Qi’an patted his shoulder and comforted him.

“Since when is big brother as dumb as Suzume?”

Erlang Xu was displeased, “After all I’ve said, you still don’t understand what I mean? I’m trying to get big brother to go with me.”

“No, you cannot go with me. You are my brother, but in the official world, you and I are not on the same path, Er Lang, you must remember this.” Xu Qi’an’s face turned serious as he said in a deep voice:

“You have your own path, your own direction, don’t have anything to do with me.”

Xu Er Lang is a smart man, silent for a moment, “hmm”.

Big brother was actually warning him not to get involved with Wei Yuan in any way. One day, even if Wei Yuan falls, it is inevitable that big brother will be implicated.

But Wei Yuan’s downfall had nothing to do with him, Xu New Year, his status was only Xu Qi’an’s brother, not Wei Yuan’s subordinate.

This idea was shared by Xu Xinxin.

Historically, in those powerful valves with bells and whistles, the sons and daughters of the family were not of the same mind and belonged to different forces. The advantage of this is that even if one wing is broken, the family will only have its bones broken and will not be destroyed.

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The next day, Xu Qi’an mounted his beloved mare and rushed to the night watchman’s office in the blue sky, “da da da”.

After the dawn, Song Tingfeng a few familiar colleagues came over to find him, we sat together to drink tea and get high on peanuts, after blowing smoke for a while, they began to encourage Xu Qi’an to treat the Department of Education.

“Roll on …….”

Xu Qi’an spat at them and scolded: “All day long you know how to go to the Department of Education, not all have seen me fight, that old monk under the Bodhi Tree how to say? What did the old monk under the Bodhi Tree say? Beauty is a bone-scraping knife.

“All you do is whoring all day long, how can you afford to wear a uniform? You guys don’t mind whoring, but you have to drag me into it, yuck!”

We all know what kind of person he is, not afraid at all, scolded, “In our Yamen, who has whored more than you?”

Xu Qi’an said, “I don’t pay, so how can it be whoring? We’re all familiar with each other, but if you guys talk nonsense like this, I’ll definitely go to Wei Gong and sue you for slander.”

“Bah!” The crowd spat at him.

However, everyone still admired Xu Qi’an, it wasn’t that this guy didn’t pay for sleeping with the flower girl, but that the flower girl wanted to pay to sleep with him.

“Ning Banquet, I heard from Old Song that when you were still a gong, when you first joined the night watchmen, you were already in love with Miss Floating Fragrance? Besides a poem, are there any other mastery?” A tongluo vainly asked for advice.

The few bronze gongs and silver gongs present, their eyes swished brightly. Who wouldn’t want to be the favorites of the Flower Leaders of the Department of Education.

“There is indeed a trick to it.” Xu Qi’an replied in the affirmative.

“What trick?!” The crowd of watchmen breathed heavily.

At that moment, a dignified voice came from the doorway, “Gathering and gossiping while on duty, do you still have discipline in your eyes?”

The crowd turned around to look at the door of a hall, a golden gong, eagle eyes sharp as a knife, the corners of the eyes have shallow crow’s feet, it is certainly Jiang Ruizhong.

“Ginger Kim Gong ……..”

The crowd curbed their playful postures and respectfully explained, “Xu Ningyan is teaching us how to sleep with the Flower Leader without spending any money.”

“?”

Jiang Lizhong swept his gaze sharply over the crowd and snorted, “One by one, you know how to do spring and autumn dreams …….. Well, you guys talk about yourselves, remember not to gather for too long.”

After saying that, he turned away and went out of the courtyard, leaning towards the wall and stimulating the hearing of a fourth grade martial artist.

Inside the hall, the others nudged Xu Qi’an, “Ning Banquet, go on.”

Xu Qi’an coughed, “A little thirsty.”

Sung Tingfeng served him tea.

Taking a sip to moisten his throat, Xu Qi’an spoke eloquently, “Indeed, Miss Floating Fragrance liked me because of a poem, but she truly couldn’t stay away from me by relying on something other than a poem.”

“What is it?” The crowd was busy asking.

“Do you guys know what women hate most about men?” Xu Qi’an asked rhetorically.

All the night watchmen gave their own opinions, thinking that it was “no silver”, “no talent”, and so on.

Xu Qi’an shook his head, looked around at the faces of his fellow officers, and said in a deep voice, “It’s a case of making shallow friends.”

What kind of reasoning is this? At that, the beatniks were deep in thought.

“What does this have to do with the fact that Miss Fuxiang can’t stay away from you?” Zhu Guangxiao frowned.

“When I first met her, behind closed doors, ask me about her ……..” Xu Qi’an put down his cup, his face turned rigorous and calm, and said word by word: “In the end, is it okay?”

“And then I did, and so she couldn’t stay away from me.”

In a silence, Song Tingfeng questioned, “I suspect you’re lying to us, but we have no proof.”

“It’s normal, it’s not something that ordinary people can comprehend, especially men who aren’t capable enough.” Xu Qi’an patted him on the shoulder and said to the others:

“I’ve told you the trick, whether you can comprehend it or not, well, depends on the individual.”

“Crossing shallow words, in the end it works or not ………,” Jiang Lunzhong left thoughtfully, these two sentences at first glance without any obstacles to comprehension, but also feel that there is an unimaginable profoundness lurking behind them.

It’s better to ask Wei Gong, with Wei Gong’s talent, this kind of small trick should be able to be comprehended instantly.

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After dismissing his colleagues, it wasn’t long before a mandarin came in and said, “Xu Yinluo, Jiang Jinluo asked me to ask you if you still need to prepare the cooking herbs, your cultivation level, you can attempt to quench your body.”

The old ginger just came to ask about this matter? It would be enough to order a mandarin, there is no need for him to come here in person, right?……… It should be for Vajra Undefeated, but it is too embarrassing to ……….. Xu Qi An responded:

“No more.”

“Okay.” The clerk retreated.

Not long after, the two phrases “to make shallow conversation” and “in the end is it good or not” spread in the night watchman Yamen, it is said that, as long as you understand the meaning of these two secret phrases, you can whore the flower girl for nothing in the Church Department.

Don’t be skeptical, because this is what Hsu Yinluo himself said.

For a while, there was a heated discussion in all the halls.

At this moment, the culprit Xu Qi’an hall entrance to usher in the guards of Shaoyin Court.

The guards said, “The Second Princess has summoned you over.”

“Got it, I have things on hand, I’ll go later.” Xu Qi’an, who was flipping through the dossier, sat behind the desk without moving.

The guard arched his hand and left.

About a quarter of an hour later, Xu Qi’an put the dossier down and sighed in relief.

“The influx of jianghu people in the capital is more and more, and so on the news of the fight spread out, more afraid that there will be more martial arts to come to the capital to join in the fun ……… Although it greatly promotes the economy of the capital, but the pit door abduction and even burglary of the case of the frequency of cases continue to come out.

“At this rate, there are two ways to address this aspect of things ……..”

Xu Qi An beckoned, summoned the mandarin, and instructed, “You write a folding ………. paper.”

Each silver gong’s parish has arranged at least three mandarins to act as secretaries, after all, the silver gongs can cut people, writing words ……… Xu silver gongs like this, belong to the average level.

Xu Qi’an gave Wei Yuan three suggestions: one, to draw troops from the thirteen counties under the jurisdiction of the capital to maintain law and order in the outer city; two, to petition His Majesty to ask the forbidden army to participate in the patrols of the inner city; and three, during this period of time, those who steal from their homes will be beheaded! Anyone who robs in the street will be beheaded! Anyone who provokes trouble in the street, causing injuries to passers-by and damage to the property of stall owners, shall be beheaded!

The first two articles are for the third article to make the padding, under the heavy punishment, the thieves are bound to go to extremes, therefore need a large number of troops, masters suppression.

This may cause the thieves to be desperate and commit murder, but if we want to quickly purge the crooked culture and restore stability in law and order, we must use heavy punishment as a deterrent.

After writing the folders, another guard came in, this time it was a guard from De Xin Yuan.

“Princess Huaiqing has invited Lord Xu to the palace.”

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Hsu Mansion.

Xu Erlang wore elegant light white robes, tied his hair with a jade crown, and hung beautiful jade on his waist, his own, his father’s, his elder brother’s ……. In short, the most valuable pieces of waist jade of the men in the family were hung.

“Big brother and father are martial artists, they don’t even use it on weekdays, I think it’s a waste to put it aside.” This was what Erlang Xu told his aunt and Lingyue Xu.

The literary meeting organized by Chief Minister Wang must be as talented as clouds, and is considered to be under the topmost party of this era, so Xu Erlang felt that he had to dress decently.

The aunt examined it up and down, and was satisfied that her son was definitely the prettiest cub at the literary meeting.

“You can go if you want to attend the literature meeting, why bring Ling Yue with you?” Auntie asked.

Xu Lingyin immediately raised her head when she heard “cultural meeting”.

“That’s what the invitation says, think of it as taking Ling Yue for a long visit.” Erlang Xu said.

The aunt took her daughter’s hand at once and said excitedly:

“When you go to the Cultural Fair, you should take a look around and see which son you like, and come back to tell Mother that with the prestige of our Xu House now, it won’t be a problem for you to marry into a wealthy family.”

“Mother what are you talking about, I’m not going.” Xu Ling Yue sidestepped unhappily.

Xu Lingyin saw a gap and pounced on Xu New Year, “I’ll go if sister doesn’t go, second brother take me, take me.”

With that, the whole thing hung on Erlang Xu’s leg.

Xu New Year shook a few times, but actually didn’t shake her away, this little girl was frighteningly strong.

“Fine, but you have to go change into a pretty dress or you won’t be taken there.” Heojiro said.

“Uh-huh!” Xu Lingyin nodded happily.

Then he went back to the house under the leadership of his aunt, and ten minutes later, the little doudouneau combed his hair to look like an adult and put on a handsome suit ………. The second brother and sister had already left.

“Ow ow ow ow ………”

Killing cries echoed through the yard.

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In the melting spring sunshine, the carriage arrived at the royal residence.

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