When Zhao Rong came to Xiangyi to report to the officials for the first time after he came to this era, he had dealt with the government in this era. The corruption and darkness of the government in this era also opened Zhao Rong's eyes.

As the victim, when Zhao Rong and his group came to Xiangyi County to report the bandits, Xiangyi County not only did not immediately send people to the scene to arrest the Zhang brothers who were most likely not far away, but instead treated Zhao Rong and others as criminals for interrogation. Then, when they learned that Wu Song had injured a robber in the conflict, Xiangyi County also decided to imprison Wu Song for a while, saying that he wanted to investigate whether Wu Song was injured by mistake. At the same time, Zhao Rong also asked him to stay in Xiangyi City to wait so that he could accept the inquiry from Xiangyi County at any time.

Fortunately, Zhao Rong kept carrying Huang Shang's handwritten letters to him. Seeing that something was wrong, Zhao Rong could only quickly take out the letters to prove that he was summoned by Huang Shang, who had been officially conquered by Duanming Palace. He was preparing to go to Kaifeng to see Tong Guan, a high-ranking eunuch who is currently in power in the court and the country, and could not stay in Xiangyi for a long time. As a result, Xiangyi County Yamen immediately changed their attitude. First, Xiangyi County Magistrate came to meet Zhao Rong in person, and then immediately sent someone to the site of the incident to hunt down the Zhang brothers. Finally, he respectfully sent Zhao Rong and his party out of the county Yamen, and bowed to Zhao Rong with a smile on his face.

Zhao Rong was of course very sighing, and finally understood why Wu Song refused to avenge his elder brother in "Water Margin" and why he chose to avenge Wu Dalang by himself. Then Zhao Rong became more determined to take this opportunity to enter the officialdom - in such a world, without any official position, no matter how rich he is, he is like a fat sheep at the slaughter of others.

With this determination, I continued to go north along the Bian River waterway. After two days, on the afternoon of June 18, Zhao Rong's ship finally arrived outside Tokyo City, one of the four capitals of the Northern Song Dynasty. He saw Kaifeng City, the largest and most prosperous city in the world in this era. The city has a population of more than 1.5 million, and the population density is even more closely following the imperial capital of the 21st century!

Unfortunately, although Zhao Rong and his party could directly enter the city from Shuitu, because there was a batch of grain transported to Kaifeng, the Dongshuimen area where the waterway entered the city was densely filled with ships, crowded with canal and grain ships. The boats near Fuguo Cang and Guangying Cang on the inside of Dongshuimen were even more like ants. The river surface was so crowded that needles could not be inserted. Zhao Rong's boat was not as difficult as climbing to the sky even if he wanted to get close to Dongshuimen.

Logically speaking, in this case, Zhao Rong and others could have stayed on the boat for another night and waited for the next day to enter the city. However, because they had been on the boat for more than half a month and had had enough of the waves and were anxious to enter the city to see the prosperous scene in Kaifeng City with their own eyes. Zhao Rong, Wu Song and others discussed it for a while and decided to abandon the boat outside the city and go ashore, walk into the city by Hanmen Datong Gate next to Dongshuimen, and let the ships they hired in Runzhou decide on their own when they will return to Runzhou.

After making this decision, Zhao Rong first wrote a letter to his father for his safety with him using his quill that he had brought with him, so that his father would know that he had arrived in Kaifeng successfully. He handed the letter to the boatman he hired in Runzhou and asked the boatman to take the letter back to Runzhou and handed it to his father, and then abandoned the boat and went ashore and entered Kaifeng City by land. At this time, the time was already around Shenshi of that day.

Even though he had seen a larger city than Kaifeng in the 21st century, Zhao Rong still seriously underestimated the huge area of ​​Kaifeng City. After entering the city, Zhao Rong learned that Huang Shang currently rented a residence near Xianning Temple, which was located in the northwest corner of Kaifeng's outer city. Even if he was hired to travel there, he would definitely be completely dark before he could arrive.

After asking this, Zhao Rong was a little troubled. He thought to himself that if it was dark and he had arrived at my teacher's house, what if he had already fallen asleep? Also, the teacher said in the letter that he currently lives in rented. What if the house he rented is too small and could not live in? So Zhao Rong quickly made up his mind and said, "Just do this, find an inn in the city to rest for a night, and wait for tomorrow to see Huang Shang. In this way, even if he encounters him not at home or his family can't live in us, it is easy to arrange for him."

After Zhao Rong told Wu Song and Zhao Xiaoyi about this decision, Wu Song and Zhao Xiaoyi also nodded together, and then Wu Song also suggested: "Wangjun, when the villain was roaming in the world, he had long heard that the area around Kuzhouqiao in Kaifeng was the most lively, and all kinds of food and aged food were bright all night and never stopped. Otherwise, we would go to Zhouqiao to find a place to live and see the night view of Kaifeng by the way?"

Zhao Xiaoyi, who has always loved the most lively, quickly encouraged Zhao Rong to go to the Zhouqiao area to find a place to live. Zhao Rong had long heard that Kaifeng City was the earliest city in the world that never sleeps, and wanted to appreciate the prosperous scene of Kaifeng City that was brightly lit all night, so he nodded in agreement. At that moment, Zhao Rong and others quickly hired a donkey cart and came straight to the most lively and prosperous Zhouqiao area in Kaifeng City.

The bustling and prosperous area of ​​Zhouqiao is still far above Zhao Rong's imagination. The sky is just slightly dark, and the road is surrounded by various colorful lanterns, and there are even original light box advertisements with candles as the light source. The signs and flags of various merchants are densely packed, continuous for several miles, including restaurants, tea shops, tile houses and various shops, making Zhao Rong, who has seen the world, dazzled and dazzled. The prosperous scene is ten times that of Yingtian Prefecture, Nanjing, which Zhao Rong had seen before.

When they entered such an environment, they were a little hungry. Of course, Zhao Rong and his group refused to waste their time. They first found an inn nearby Guozi Street to book a room and settled their luggage. Then Zhao Rong and others of course rushed to the streets, looking for food while exploring the street scenes. Of course, during this period, Zhao Xiaoyi, who had learned the lesson, had to carry the package on his chest and take care of it carefully.

Originally, Zhao Rong and others wanted to find a restaurant to sit down and drink and have a good meal, but there were too many snacks in the Zhouqiao area, such as fried lamb, white intestines, dirty, red shredded, cut lamb heads, ginger-spicy radish, summer moon tofu, chicken skin erected dough, fine-grained wontons, roasted pork skin and wild duck meat, etc., etc., there are hundreds of kinds. Not only does it look great, but it smells even more fragrant. In addition, I was going to see Huang Shang the next day, so Zhao Rong quickly made up his mind and simply gave up the idea of ​​going to the restaurant to drink. He chose to eat on the snack street in Zhouqiao. He ate every snack he had never seen before, and soon he was full of all the food he had never seen before.

After filling her stomach, Zhao Xiaoyi, who was still unsatisfied, accidentally heard a news on the street that Sai Guansuo and the girl were quick to hold a competition in a nearby tiled house, so she tried her best to encourage Zhao Rong to open her eyes. Zhao Rong had already heard of the extremely sexy female sumo wrestling in Kaifeng during the Song Dynasty. She wanted to see with her own eyes how women of this era competed with the wrestling, so she nodded and asked Zhao Xiaoyi to find the way. She soon found the tiled house and spent some money to enjoy it.

There are many lustful men in the world. Before the competition began, there were already three floors next to the ring in the Washeli, and three floors outside were surrounded by the Kaifeng people watching the competition. They were crowded and crowded, and it was crowded. In addition, it was midsummer. Zhao Rong, who was crowded in the crowd, was quickly sweating all over and had to look around to find a slightly cooler place.

There were too many people in the Washerli, and there was no cool place to be found. On the contrary, the actions of the two middle-aged men next to him reminded Zhao Rong. Maybe it was because it was too hot. The two men dressed as literati took out a folding fan and spread it out to sway and fan the crowd. Seeing this, Zhao Rong suddenly remembered that he also had a folding fan. He hurriedly stretched out Zhao Xiaoyi's hand in the package on his chest, took out a folding fan from it and fanned it out.

It would be fine if I didn't have a fan, but something happened. One of the two middle-aged men next to me was just a casual look at Zhao Rong, but when I saw the exquisite folding fan in Zhao Rong's hand, the middle-aged man's heart suddenly moved, and his eyes immediately fixed on Zhao Rong's hand. After a long time, the middle-aged man also attached himself to another middle-aged man's ear and muttered a few words in a low voice. The other middle-aged man immediately turned his head, looked at the folding fan in Zhao Rong's hand, then nodded, and whispered a few words to his companions.

After listening to the instructions of his companions, the middle-aged man who first noticed Zhao Rong folding his fan nodded, then stepped forward and approached Zhao Rong, and said to Zhao Rong with a smile: "Young Master, I dare to ask, the poem written on your folding fan is Wang Changling's "Jobs in the Army", the long clouds in Qinghai are dark in the snowy mountains, and the lonely city looks at Yumen Pass. The yellow sand is wearing golden armor for hundreds of battles, and will not return until Loulan is destroyed?"

"Yes, how do you know?" Zhao Rong asked back in surprise.

"It's indeed this poem." The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Young Master, the surname is Wu, and the single name is Min. Can you ask the young master more, who is this folding fan?"

"Of course it's mine." Zhao Rong was even more surprised. He didn't understand why the person in front of him was so concerned about the folding fan in his hand.

"Is it your folding fan for your son?" The middle-aged man who claimed to be Wu Min was even more surprised than Zhao Rong, and said, "Young Master, no, right? As far as I know, this folding fan seems to be something from someone else. Can you ask me again, where did you get this folding fan, young master?"

"What are you asking about this?" Zhao Rong felt alert in his heart, and even suspected that Wu Min in front of him was actually staring at the package on Zhao Xiaoyi's chest.

"Nothing." Wu Min said with a smile: "I'm just destined to be a good person. I've seen a noble man who used this folding fan before. He also knew that this folding fan was his beloved thing and his origin was unusual. Now, when he saw the young master suddenly take out the folding fan, he felt curious, so he asked a few more questions, and if there is any offense, please forgive me."

"Have you seen this folding fan before? Have you seen it there?" Zhao Rong suddenly woke up and subconsciously glanced at the folding fan in his hand - the folding fan given to him by Huang Shang. Huang Shang said that it was the folding fan given to him by Tong Guan.

"Young Master, I have already said this just now. I have seen it from a noble man." Wu Min replied with a smile.

"Mr. Wu, are you a working official?" Zhao Rong was also very quick and immediately guessed that the identity of Wu Min in front of him was not simple - otherwise, would he have the opportunity to see Tong Guan's folding fan?

Wu Min nodded with a smile and whispered: "I am currently the rank of the Ukrainian Department."

"It turns out that he is a great official, who is disrespectful and disrespectful." Zhao Rong hurriedly bowed.

"Young Master, don't be polite." Wu Min bowed politely and asked again: "Young Master, now you can tell me, where did you get this folding fan?"

Seeing that Wu Min was really only concerned about the folding fan in his hand, Zhao Rong also told the truth and said, "I will not hide it from Master Wu. This folding fan is my mentor, and I will give you a gift to me for the meeting."

"Young Master, who is your mentor?" Wu Min asked again.

"My teacher's surname is Huang, and his name is Yi Shang." Zhao Rong replied: "He is currently the official title of the Schoon Bachelor of Ruiming Palace."

"I see."

Wu Min smiled slightly, with a look of relief on her face. Another middle-aged man who had been listening next to her couldn't help but speak and asked with a smile: "Young Master, do you know who the first owner of this folding fan is?"

"Of course I know." Zhao Rong did not hide it, and said directly: "I came to Kaifeng from Zhenjiang Prefecture this time, and he asked me to come."

"He asked you to come?" The middle-aged man was slightly surprised and asked hurriedly: "Young Master, can you ask more questions? Why did the original owner of this folding fan call you from Zhenjiang Mansion thousands of miles away to this place?"

"I asked my teacher to recommend it." Zhao Rong replied in a roundabout way: "The old owner of this folding fan appreciates me quite well, and he thinks that I will not have a great future in living in the countryside, so he asked my teacher to write me and ask me to come to Kaifeng to see him, and then he will find a way to find something for me."

"Is this really a matter?" the middle-aged man seemed a little skeptical and said, "As far as I know, although this noble man likes to promote talents, he is very cautious in employed people. Unless he is really a talented person, he will never support him easily?"

"What are you doing?" Zhao Xiaoyi, who was next to him, almost took the conversation, patted the package in front of him and said, "The letter written by Mr. Huang to my husband is just pretending to be here. My husband is going to pay homage to his teacher, and then to pay homage to that noble man."

"Xiao Yi, don't talk too much."

I don’t know the depth of the visitor, Zhao Rong quickly scolded him. However, the middle-aged man saw from this point that Zhao Rong was not telling a lie. After blinking his pretty eyes, the middle-aged man suddenly smiled and said, “Young Master, since you have such an opportunity, I should congratulate you. But I think, if you are willing to serve the country, you don’t have to bother that noble person. There is a shortcut here, but I don’t know if you are willing to leave?”

"Young Master." Wu Min spoke quickly before and even gave a wink at the middle-aged man.

"I know the importance." The middle-aged man answered, and then whispered to Zhao Rong: "This young master, maybe it's your fate. This year is exactly the year of suburban sacrifice. According to the rules of the court, officials with sufficient ranks have the right to recommend talented people to be appointed as officials. If the subordinates are not talented, they happen to have a recommended place. If the prince does not abandon him, he is willing to give this place to the prince and directly recommend the nobleman to be appointed as officials."

"What?" Zhao Rong was stunned when he heard this and said to himself: "What's going on? There is such a good thing in the world? For no reason, someone actually wants to send me an official job?"

"Young Master, don't you thank me?" Wu Min came to Zhao Rong's ear and whispered: "Your blessing is here. The noble man in front of you is Cai You, the eldest son of Cai Jing, the prime minister of this dynasty, and was awarded the title of Jinshi. He is currently a scholar of the Longtu Pavilion. With his support, it is difficult for you to not be able to rise to the top!"
Chapter completed!