Lin Jue's previous compliment was still a polite compliment. Although jasper bracelets are precious, Lin Jue has not seen them before. The Lin family in Hangzhou has a whole piece of jasper bracelet carved into cabbage. Although the jade quality is much worse than this bracelet, but
It can be seen that jasper is actually not a great thing. However, when the little princess said that there was a coincident natural Guanyin statue inside, she immediately understood that it was a great thing.
Lin Jue squinted his eyes and took a closer look. Sure enough, he saw a seated Guanyin statue among the jasper where the little princess was pointing. The lines were clear and the eyebrows were clear. It was like a natural thing made with fine workmanship. Lin Jue looked at the appearance of the bracelet carefully.
It is as smooth as a mirror, and it is definitely not artificially carved on the surface of the bracelet. There are no such sophisticated counterfeiting methods these days, and it is definitely natural.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. This is really amazing. This thing is absolutely priceless." Lin Jue praised.
"Of course, this was what Queen Yude gave to my mother as her granddaughter-in-law when my father and my mother got married. My mother gave it to me, saying it would keep me safe for the rest of my life." The little princess said with a smile.
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Lin Jue smiled and said, "Your mother really loves you, and your family is really rich."
The little princess chuckled, suddenly made a face, stretched out her hand to take out a few silver notes from her green sleeves, and said with a smile: "Look, this is the silver my mother gave me at the bottom of the box. A total of one hundred thousand taels."
"..." Lin Jue stood there with his mouth half open, stunned and speechless.
"What's wrong?" the little princess narrowed her eyes and smiled.
"Your family... is so rich." Lin Jue said blankly.
"What is this? My brother gave me two hundred thousand taels of silver last night. He said that our wedding was in a hurry and we didn't have time to do the dowry, so he used the two hundred thousand taels of silver as a dowry. I haven't had time to tell you yet."
"..." Lin Jue's body was shaky and he almost fainted.
"Husband, what's wrong with you?" the little princess called, shaking Lin Jue's arm.
Lin Jue put his hand on his forehead and sighed: "Nothing, nothing. I must be hungry and feel a little dizzy."
The little princess hurriedly said: "Then hurry up and have breakfast. Girl Green Dance's rice porridge should be ready."
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The millet porridge cooked by Lu Wu is indeed delicious. The golden millet porridge is sprinkled with some minced beef, nuts, rose petals and so on. It is both beautiful and fragrant. Lin Jue drank two large bowls and was still unsatisfied. He was still worried that his stomach would be too full.
I was full and had no choice but to give up.
During breakfast, Lu Wu hesitated several times and exchanged glances with the little princess. Seeing how delicious Lin Jue's food was, the little princess couldn't bear to speak. After breakfast, Lin Jue asked Lin Hu to prepare the carriage and horse to go out. After winning the first prize, he also
You need to report to the Department of Civil Affairs under the Political Affairs Hall. After that, there will be an investigation of high school graduates, similar to the political review process on earth. When everything is qualified, the imperial court will issue an order to award the high school graduates
Official positions or candidates, or qualifications for probation in various major yamen.
This time is often the busiest time in the officialdom. First-class Jinshi are eligible to stay in Beijing, but they may not be able to get good official positions. Once they are assigned to some yamen with little power and wealth, they will be in trouble for the rest of their lives.
It is difficult to turn around. Therefore, what kind of yamen you enter and what kind of official position you hold are matters that determine your future. It is very important for those second-class and third-class scholars who are not qualified to stay in Beijing.
The only way is to stay in the capital and become an official through connections. I would rather stay in the capital and be a sesame mung bean official than go to a barren land outside the capital to be a chief official. Many people spend their whole lives in places outside the capital until they die.
He is just a state official, with no future at all. But staying in the capital gives you more hope. Who knows what opportunities will suddenly come to him? He will suddenly enter a key department in the court, and then he will rise to great heights.
Got to be perfect.
At this time, it is the time when all kinds of brokers and lobbyists show their talents. After each imperial examination is over, many people make a lot of money during the short ten days of waiting for the allocation. Some new scholars from well-off families have made a lot of money.
In order to get a good official position, he even spared no expense and paid large sums of bribes. At this time, the whole court was enveloped in a dirty atmosphere.
Of course, Lin Jue didn't have this idea, and he didn't actually need it. As the top scholar in the undergraduate program, it was certain that he would stay in the capital. It was just a matter of which yamen he landed in. Lin Jue planned to report to the Department of Civil Affairs.
After that, go to Mr. Fang and Yan Zhengsheng to listen to their opinions. The imperial court will also ask the Jinshi scholars for their own wishes and will consider the matter as appropriate. This is like filling out personal wishes.
However, just when Lin Jue was about to leave, a package came in from outside, saying that someone came to congratulate Lin Zhuangyuan on his wedding and sent a congratulatory gift.
It was a blue cloth package with small floral flowers. It was simple and plain. It didn't look like an expensive gift. Lin Jueben didn't pay attention and asked the maid to put the gift on the table and ask casually.
"Who is it? Where is he? I'll go see him."
"Going back to my uncle, the person at the door said they didn't know who it was, and said it was a child who delivered the package for someone else. When I asked the child, the child couldn't tell clearly, and said it was a person with his head and face covered." The maid reported back.
"So weird? Why are you sending congratulatory gifts like this? I don't have many friends in the capital, who is this?" Lin Jue was a little curious.
"Open it and take a look. Maybe there is a famous post inside." The little princess said with a smile.
Lin Jue nodded and reached out to untie the floral package. The moment the package was opened, Lin Jue's expression suddenly changed and his brows furrowed tightly.
There wasn't much in the package. On a piece of damaged red paper covered with writings lay a gold hairpin, five-color peach blossoms, gold inlaid with jade, and it was exquisite.
Lin Jue's face turned pale with shock, and big beads of sweat rolled down his forehead. He felt his mouth was dry and he wanted to speak but couldn't.
The little princess on the side didn't know why. She saw a piece of plain paper next to her. She reached out and took it out and said with a smile: "Sure enough, there is a famous note. Let me see who it is."
Unfolding the plain paper, the little princess read softly: "What's the point of abandoning the present? I'll take care of myself at that time. I will still cherish the old feelings and take pity on the people in front of me."
Lin Jue sat down on the chair as if he had been struck by lightning. The little princess did not notice anything strange about Lin Jue, and smiled to herself: "There is no name or signature, who is this? Sneaky. What is written on this red paper?"
The words? Let me take a look."
Lu Wu had already noticed something was wrong with Lin Jue. She walked quickly to Lin Jue and whispered: "Sir, what's wrong with you? Are you okay?"
Lin Jue murmured to himself: "What's going on? What's going on? Is her spirit in heaven blaming me? How can these things see the light of day again? What's going on?"
The little princess looked back in shock and asked in a low voice: "Husband, what's wrong?"
Lin Jue said in a trembling voice: "These things... these things... belong to Huanqiu. After Huanqiu passed away, I buried the golden hairpin she gave me and the marriage letter I wrote to her in the mountains behind the academy.
Among the tombs. Hangzhou and Beijing are thousands of miles apart, how could it... appear here."
"Ah?" The little princess and Lu Wu exclaimed in surprise, and looked at each other at the same time, with a look of surprise in their eyes.
Lin Jue tremblingly stretched out his hand to take the plain paper from the little princess's hand, and murmured: "What's the point of abandoning the present? I'll do it myself at that time. I still care about the old times and take pity on the people in front of me. She blames me for abandoning me in the end.
She blames me for being disloyal to her. But Huanqiu, do you really think so? I wanted to go to your grave to tell you, but my husband and wife disagreed. Why didn't you tell me what you thought in a dream?
Me? But...even if you tell me, I'm afraid I can't listen to you. I can't let others down. You're right, I did give up in the end. No...no, I didn't give up in the end.
, I always have you in my heart, but you are gone, what should I do?"
Lin Jue's heart was in a mess, his words were garbled, and his face was full of pain. The dead Huanqiu held a very heavy weight in Lin Jue's heart. It was Lin Jue's first love in this life, and also his first love in three lifetimes.
A relationship that involves real emotion is the most unforgettable. When he learned about Huanqiu's death, Lin Jue burst into tears several times and did not recover for a long time. At this moment, this person who had been buried in the grave suddenly appeared in front of him.
The appearance of the golden hairpin and the marriage certificate made Lin Jue temporarily confused, causing his brain to fall into chaos at this moment. Therefore, he seemed to be incoherent.
"Husband!" Guo Caiwei frowned and looked at Lin Jue and shouted softly. Lu Wu bit her lower lip, tears welling up in her eyes. She couldn't bear to see the young master sad, and she felt extremely uncomfortable at the moment. But both of them were clearer than Lin Jue.
Because they all know the truth of the matter.
"No, no, no!" Lin Jue suddenly jumped up, stared at the gold hairpin and the red paper and said: "Something is wrong, how can there be any ghosts in this world? These things are in the mountains behind Hangzhou Academy, thousands of miles away from here.
, how could it appear here? It stands to reason that after such a long time, this paper should have rotted, but why is it just a little damaged. I remember that this gold hairpin was stained with a lot of dust at the time, and I didn't bother to wipe it, so I buried it like that.
It's gone. But now it's as clean as new, and there's... actually a hair on it? What's going on?"
Lin Jue took a barely visible strand of hair with his fingers and pulled it out. It was really a long black silk wrapped around a golden hairpin. It looked like a woman's soft and slender black hair.
"Where did the hair on the golden hairpin come from at that time? Who put this golden hairpin on the head? If it is a ghost, how can it be a real thing? This is absolutely impossible." Lin Jue shouted.
"Young Master!" Lu Wu cried as tears flowed from her eyes.
"Also, there is something strange. How come this piece of plain paper is brand new? Look at the ink, it is freshly dried." Lin Jue reached out and lightly touched the handwriting of the poem, leaving a faint ink mark.
"I just wrote this not long ago, well... maybe just a few hours. How could this be the work of ghosts? The fragrance of this plain paper... um... this fragrance. Oh my god, could it be... could it be...
Say...how is this possible? Who can tell me what's going on?"
The more Lin Jue thought about it, the more confused he became. He stood there blankly, looking at the two women in front of him in astonishment. He was almost stupid.
"Husband!"
"Master!"
The little princess and Lu Wu shouted in unison.
"This... what is going on? Wei'er, Lu Wu, do you know what is going on? I... I am completely confused." Lin Jue murmured, like a helpless child.
"We know, husband, don't panic. Take a sip of tea and calm down. We know the ins and outs of this matter. We wanted to tell you last night, but you fell asleep. I don't know how to speak, but here we are.
At this time, I can only tell you the truth." The little princess said softly.
"You...you know what is going on? How did these things...appear here? What happened? You all know?" Lin Jue shouted in shock.
"Yes, we all know." The little princess nodded gently. "Sit down, husband, and let me tell you slowly."
