The opening of the imperial examination is a major event for the country. As soon as the Enke Palace Examination was released, the court urgently announced to the world for 800 miles.

Duan Jiqing not only knew that all the candidates for the exam in the 14 prefectures and counties in Chongqing had failed, but also expected that all the candidates who failed the exam would not be able to stay in the capital and wait for the next year to take the exam. As long as someone returns to his hometown, he will definitely ask someone to send a message to his home, so it is not surprising that people came to the capital.

Fearing that the stupid girl of the youngest girl would not be busy, he quickly asked a clerk in the military room to go to the restaurant to buy a table of banquets, and then put it in a food box to send it to his daughter's house. He also asked another clerk to go to the sedan shop to hire a sedan chair, go to Chaijia Lane to report to Mr. Gu, and then invite Mr. Gu to have a drink.

After explaining everything, he rushed to Guan Bantou, who was in the government office, rushed to his daughter's house. Just now, Mr. Fei and Juren Bao arrived. Qin'er was shyly asking his youngest girl to go to boil water and make tea.

There was a family letter, and it was sent by the juren himself. Duan Jiqing was in a happy mood during the happy event. As soon as he entered the yard, he bowed and said, "I wish you the two masters respecting their surnames. Duan Jiqing is the son-in-law of the lower class. This is the little girl who is in the lower class!"

"It turned out to be Duan Jingcheng, who was disrespectful! He was born in Bao Lingyun in his late years and met Duan Shibo." Juren Bao put down the specially prepared gift and hurriedly bowed back to the gift.

"How dare you? Master Bao, you are the master of juren, Duan dare not accept this great gift."

"Duan Shibo, Wansheng and his brother Zhixing are friends. You are the old Taishan of Zhixing's virtuous brother, and you are the elder of the young generation. This ceremony is absolutely indispensable."

"Master Bao, don't, you are the juren. You will make me live a long life if you do this!"

"Lingyun, they are all his family, so there is no need to be polite." Mr. Fei smiled and looked at Captain Guan Guan who had just followed in, and bowed: "Duan Jingcheng, I am old, Fei Chuming, and I don't know if Zhixing mentioned Lao I in my previous letters."

"I mentioned it, Mr. Fei, I saw that I was old. If you weren't for your support, how could Zhixing do the first thing to do in the club? Please give me a visit to you."

"That's a trivial matter, not worth mentioning. They are all family members. We sit down and talk for a while, so we don't have to worship each other, okay?"

"Since you always say that, please give me a seat, youngest girl, what about tea!"

"Master, I'm burning."

"Duan Jingcheng, no hurry, we are not thirsty."

As soon as Master Fei finished speaking, Liu Shanyang's cousin came up and bowed and bowed: "The youngest Liu Shangen has met Duan Jingcheng, and the younger's acting cousin Liu Shanyang pays respects to Duan Jingcheng and Mrs. Han."

"So my little brother is the cousin of Liu Juren of Jiangbei Hall. Has your cousin come back?"

"We are back. We are back with Mr. Fei and Mr. Bao. My brother should have come to pay a visit together, but he has been away from home for too long and my uncle is sick again. He really can't let him come to pay a visit first."

"When you get to your doorstep, you will definitely go back and take a look first. You will come here first, and you will be killed by me, and you will be killed by me."

"Duan Jing is so generous. This is my brother's wish and I don't respect him." Liu Shangen pointed to the pile of gifts he had just put down, and turned around to salute Qin'er on behalf of his cousin. Qin'er, who had never seen this situation, was at a loss for a moment.

The two juren and one juren came all of a sudden, and they all came with generous gifts. Duan Jiqing had never been so glorious, so he hurriedly called the three of them to take their seats and then introduced Captain Guan.

It is better to be in charge of the county magistrate. Mr. Fei and Juren Bao are also willing to make friends with them. After a while of greetings, they took out a stack of family letters.

"Duan Jingcheng, this is what Zhixing asked me to send to you. This is what Pan Er belongs to, and this is what Yang Juren of Jiangbei Hall..."

"It's okay, as long as it's from Chongqing Prefecture, I promise to send it one by one." The son-in-law's letter turned back, Duan Jiqing put the letter aside and talked about the serious matter with great enthusiasm: "Two, before returning from the yamen, I sent someone to Chaijiaxiang to report the message to Mr. Gu, telling him the news that you two have returned from the capital, and hired him to come and have a drink."

"Duan Jingcheng, have you invited Mr. Gu, Mr. Gu come here later?"

"Well, how can you not invite him for such a big deal?"

"This is not very suitable, we should come to visit us."

Duan Jiqing has not been a one or two taels of glory in the past six months. He first served as the assistant to the Banking Bureau and ran to Chaijiaxiang every few days. Not only did he raise thousands of taels of silver, but he also distributed more than two hundred taels of "running errands". Now he is busy helping Mr. Gu organize a group training. He used to call himself "late child" in front of Mr. Gu, but now he has become a "student".

He waved his hand and smiled proudly, "It's okay, there's nothing wrong with it. It's not appropriate not to report it in time. I bet that his nursing home knows that you two have come back from afar, and I don't know how happy you will be."

"We planned to go to see you tomorrow morning, but we didn't expect..."

"It's okay," Duan Jiqing changed the subject as he looked at Qin'er's eagerness to speak, "Mr. Fei, Mr. Bao, there are so many things in the letter that I can't explain clearly. Can you two tell me how Zhixing was doing in the capital?"

"Duan Jingcheng, Zhixing is your son-in-law who is good at riding the dragon. You know the best of him. However, he is loyal and respects his hometown and is diligent in his work. Mr. Ji of Hanlin Academy, Mr. Jiang of the Ministry of Justice, and Mr. Wang of the Ministry of Revenue don't know how much he values ​​him. He will discuss with him no matter what he has. A few years ago, he raised more than 2,000 taels of silver to renovate the guild. We will start construction the day before yesterday. Calculate the day before yesterday. It should be about to take the day."

"The work is going on March 24th," Bao Juren took the tea from his youngest girl and added with a smile: "On the day when the construction started, Mr. Ji, Mr. Jiang, Mr. Wang, Mr. Qian and fellow villagers in Beijing all went there. He respected the Bodhisattva and set off firecrackers. The work was so lively. I don't know how lively it was."

"I thought I had to wait until the palace examination was released, but it would be better to start construction as soon as possible."

Duan Jiqing thought that the two people in front of him were all unable to do Chinese style, so he hurriedly changed the topic: "Mr. Fei, I almost forgot to tell you that I received the letter from you and Zhixing on February 12th. When I received the letter, I realized that you and Zhixing were planning to rebuild and expand the guild hall. Mr. Gu was very pleased and immediately set up a bank fundraising bureau. He was the prime minister's bank fundraising matters.

First, I went to visit Futai, Xuetai, County Master and County School Teacher, and then asked the gentry of this county to discuss the plan of preparing for silver, and then went to Jiangbei, Jiangjin, Bishan, Rongchang, Tongliang and other prefectures. I ran for two months and lived up to expectations. Finally, I raised more than 3,000 taels of silver. I planned to send all the money to the place, but the court asked various places to organize group training, and it would cost money to prepare for group training, so I only transferred two thousand taels, and the remaining one thousand taels were used to prepare for group training."

"Two thousand taels are enough!"

"Duan Jingcheng, when did the money be transferred? When would Zhixing receive it?"

"The silver was deposited in Rishengchang on the eighth day of the fourth month. Two thousand taels are not a small amount. Mr. Gu was worried about a mistake, so he asked his nephew Gu Zhixin to come to Beijing to deliver bills of exchange. Zhixin's virtuous nephew is also a scholar. He was a tribute student from our Ba County last year. He would not come back when he went to Beijing this time. After handing the bills to Zhixing, he went to the Imperial College to study."

Mr. Fei thought about it and asked again: "Duan Jingcheng, when will Nephew Gu Xian move?"

"On the tenth day of April," Duan Jiqing looked at Captain Guan, and then smiled and said, "There are bandits in Guangxi who are causing trouble. It is said that Huguang is not peaceful. I am worried about the safety of Gu Xian's nephew, so I asked the Captain Guan to send a Captain Baifu to escort all the way. Calculate the days. They will be in the capital in ten days."

Master Fei Er was not very relieved and turned around and asked, "Guan Bantu, is the white servant you sent reliable?"
Chapter completed!