Chapter 124: The Poor Scholar Who Was Missed
The emperor took it smoothly and looked at it before letting Pei Zhan pass it to the man’s mouth.
The scent of the food entices the man to sit up with his body propped up, or perhaps the power of the cherry juice just now restored some of his strength, he catches the cake with both hands and shoves it into his mouth with a brain.
After swallowing three pieces of cake and drinking a small half pot of cherry juice, he took a few even breaths, tremblingly climbed up and changed to a kneeling position, saluting the group: “I, Du Lian, kneel down to thank you for the gift of food. Please also inform me of your honor, so that I can repay you later!”
The emperor stretched his hand, “No need to be polite. Where are you from?”
Du Lian was assisted to his feet by Pei Zhan and Zhang Huai, and after he stood up, he answered, “I am a native of Huzhou Prefecture.”
“Huzhou is located in the south of the Yangtze River, it is a rich place, how did you leave your home town and faint here?”
“I don’t know, my family originally rely on some thin production, the days did have to live on. But three years ago, the family suffered a disaster, parents have been sick and died, I cleaned up after both parents, dare not forget the father’s dying instructions, then set off to the capital to catch the examination.
“Which know halfway and gullible traitors, I loaded with two hundred taels of silver baggage was blackmailed to go, I am in a foreign land, no one to help me, it fell to this.”
The emperor stared: “The Beijing examination candidates they also dare to blackmail?”
Du Lian smiled bitterly, “I have been greedy all my life, so I don’t care about that much.”
“Where did you lose your money?”
“In Tai’an.”
The emperor looked at Zhao Sum, and then continued to look at Du Lian: “This place is still 20 miles away from the capital, do you have a place to go?”
Du Lian shook his head, “I have no relatives in the capital, so I can only go to the post house to look for fellow villagers and see if there is a way to think.”
The Emperor thought for a moment and signaled Pei Zhan. Pei Zhan immediately took down his purse and shoved it to Du Lian: “Here is some silver, take it to the post house first.”
Du Lian insisted on not accepting it, so Pei Zhan stuffed the purse into his arms.
Du Lian pursed his lips and looked at them, then bent down to pick up the overturned bookcase and found two books carefully wrapped in cloth: “I can’t repay you for your great kindness, but I only have two ancient books passed down from my ancestors that are worth some money, so please accept them as a token of my gratitude.”
Zhao Su look at the emperor received the book in the hand, also put eyes to see, only to see is already yellow and also up the fur edge of the two books, look not like poetry and song book, but like about organizing money type of historical books. This scholar body ragged clothes, face yellow, but these two books but he was wrapped tightly with fine cloth.
The emperor handed the books back: “These books are your belongings, but this amount of silver is nothing to us. You keep it safe, when your future is secure, if there is a chance to send me again.”
After saying that, he turned on his horse and led the people to the stage road.
“Sir!”
Du Lian chased after him with the book for a while, but because of his weak physical strength, he eventually fell into Zhao Su’s field of vision and became a small black spot.
Meeting the starving scholar didn’t seem to be particularly important, and they talked about the camp all the way. After leaving the border of the third camp, the group went to the fourth camp on the way, and this time the emperor entered the camp and inspected around before returning to the city.
Although Zhao Su can’t get Du Lian out of her mind, her angle of concern is probably a bit special, Du Lian is from Jiangnan, and has traveled to many places, and a few days ago Fang Qingxue approached her to tell her that Empress Lu wanted to put the scope of the Flower Moon Club, and she was quite curious to know that in the places far away from the capital city, in the end, whether or not the Flower Moon Club would have caused any expected impact.
Into the city to the Marquis of Qingyun’s residence nearby, Zhao Corner looked at the sun has slanted in the west, and the emperor said: “The day has been noon, the emperor is not only the micro-uniform out on patrol, can you go to the minister’s home for a short rest?”
In accordance with normal practice, from here back to the Qianqing Palace, and then wait for lunch to come, must be an hour after the thing. The emperor is not not privately to the Marquis of Qingyun, Zhao Corner asked this question.
The emperor did not think much, nodded and said: “Lead the way.”
A line of people will enter the marquis house, the marquis of Qingyun is not, out of the great uncle Zhao Nan and the fourth uncle Zhao Ying, in the case of the emperor authorizes everyone to be casual, the host and the guest will all be familiar with the lead in the Zhao Nan to go to the east side of the garden of the three Lotus Zhai seated.
Three Lotus Lounge is a two-story small building, only one on the first floor, into the garden of the work here round table has been set up, tea also made up.
“Du Lian in the next year before the examination will certainly go to the court of the Ministry of Rites to record the name, you and your uncle to say hello, if check Du Lian’s situation is true, then his household registration to the capital.” Sitting down and lifting his cup, the emperor mentioned Du Lian at this moment.
Zhang Huai seemed to know that these words were addressed to him, and hooked his head to accept the order.
If the household registration was transferred to Gyeonggi, Du Lian would be able to continue to enjoy the benefits of the court in Gyeonggi. Zhao Su did not expect the emperor to really miss a poor scholar.
However, considering the emperor’s status as a second-generation emperor, it wasn’t hard to understand. Which second-generation emperor does not want to cultivate their own power? The family has been entrenched in the upper class for a long time, willing to think about the heavenly family is okay, such as Zhang Yu general, can stick people for the emperor to share the problem, since it should be reused. Those who do not want to obey, like He Zong them, although some aspects can not help but rely on them, can not let them make the decision, right?
When they drank tea, Zhao Su was pulled away by Hua Qianrong.
After turning a corner and arriving under the grape arbor, Yun Xiangyi and Xiaolan and Xiaoju were all here, and as soon as they saw them come in, they all immediately stood up: “Today, the whole city is talking about you, miss! Just now when we came back specially in the street to find a teahouse to sit, everywhere is talking about the girl yesterday by the emperor to raise the matter! Miss, now no one will dare to look down on you anymore!”
Zhao Su did not expect to set off such a big storm, I do not know whether it is never been a pig in the wind, so she thought of the word “things will go against the grain”. She said: “I’m also down, I don’t feel so great, in the future it’s better to take it easy, the tree attracts the wind.”
The maids nodded: “The slave girls are not the ones who don’t know what to do, just let them know that our girl is not as bad as they say.”
Zhao Su nodded.
Sip a mouthful of tea, behind the grape arbor of the vase door came in a person, it turned out to be the great-uncle mother Xing’s house maid Jasper. Jasper smiled before she spoke: “Third girl is here, let the slave girl good to find. Did you have a good time out there today?”
“Yes,” Zhao Su nodded, “Is there something Auntie wants to see me about?”
Jasper briefly said the reason for her visit, “In the morning, Dr. Chen came to the mansion to give the girls a peaceful pulse, but the girls weren’t there, so our wife said to tell the girls not to go out tomorrow, and that Dr. Chen would still be here.”
Zhao Su gave an oh and said, “Then there is no need to invite her, tomorrow I will go on duty and happen to pass by the medical center, I will just make the trip myself.”