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    When Tian Xiu walked out of the wine shop, it was already raining heavily outside.

    There was a raincoat folded beside the saddle of her horse, but she did not take it out and put it on.  Her mind was so confused now that she couldn't care about anything else.

    She didn¡¯t want to go back to the Yamen right away, so she simply led the horse and walked slowly along the street.

    The city is very quiet in the rain.  There is no clicking sound of horseshoes on the blue stone, no sour squeaking sound when the axle turns, no long and short shouts of vendors hawking along the street, not even the restless crowing of roosters and the barking of wild dogs. In the past, it will always be  The hustle and bustle of Shangjing now seems a bit unreal

    Wang Shaoqing's words before leaving were so powerful that she was so surprised that she couldn't even defend herself.  She didn't want to argue either.  She worked as a watcher in Jiangnan for several years, but the full name of this watcher is "Jiangnan Road Xingzhou Watcher", which is completely different from what others think of as "a watcher in Jiangnan".  Perhaps not many people in Xingzhou have heard of this place name, and there are definitely even fewer people who can point out with certainty that this place falls under the jurisdiction of Jiangnan Road.  Tian Xiu is certain that at least nine out of ten people who have heard of Xingzhou cannot tell which direction it is, let alone explain to them the general situation of Xingzhou - they will definitely not be able to tell!  People who have never been to Xingzhou can never imagine what a dangerous place it is!  When she first took office, she traveled through mountains and rivers for fifty days. When she saw Xingzhou City for the first time, she was so aggrieved that she burst into tears. The first thought in her heart was to resign and go home What exactly is Xingzhou?  What kind of thing?  She stayed there for several years and could only give it one word: poor!  There are ten counties under the jurisdiction of Xingzhou, none of which has more than 3,000 households, and they are all lower counties that officials are unwilling to go to. Except for Fangping County, where the state capital is located, which has more than 2,000 households, other counties generally only have a few households.  More than one hundred thousand households.  With a sparse population, few resources, and dangerous terrain, this is the state where she, the "Jiangnan Watcher", stayed for five and ten months!

    Wang Shaoqing said that she was just a scholar, and accused her of not observing the folk customs in the name of being an observer, and she was unwilling to correct them.  Ever since Yu Ji resigned as prime minister in the last years of Emperor Gaozong's reign and took up the post of Guanfeng envoy on Jinghu Road, how many other Guanfeng envoys can truly "inspect local areas, appease the people's sentiments, and care for the lonely and weak"?  This official position is actually a disguised form of derogation for officials.  The reason why she was sent to Xingzhou to watch the wind by the imperial court was because she put forward some "absurd fallacies" in the "Qingshan Manuscript" and was hated by others, so she was sent to endure hardships.

    She really wants to endure hardship.  She not only endured hardship, but also suffered bullying.  There are officials in several counties in Xingzhou who have been absent from their posts for many years. The clerks and servants in the yamen are mixed with rogues and bullies, creating a mess in the place.  Once, when she was resting in Zhaoshan County, she asked a shopkeeper about the local customs. In the middle of the night, someone sent harsh words to her through the door, warning her to control her mouth and ask questions she shouldn't.  Ask, don't say anything that shouldn't be said, otherwise, you must know that the mountains are high, the emperor is far away, and the forest is deep, leaving no trace; in Dakuan County, someone stuck a bronze dagger on her door and warned her not to ask why the government was in the east.  In the 19th year of the Yuan Dynasty, the same tax as in the 33rd year of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty was levied; the green salt in Xiayu County sold for 100 wen per catty, nearly twice as much as elsewhere. The people could not even afford salt and had to cook only  They use bitter stones, but the women who serve in the yamen all wear silk dresses.  She angrily wrote an official document and went to Xingzhou Prefecture to expose it, but what she received in exchange was a warning from Xingzhou Prefecture: "Guanfeng envoys only observe the sentiments of the people, why are you worrying about the family members of the public!"  She was so angry that her eyes turned black!  She could only become so angry that her eyes turned black.  Apart from that, there was nothing she could do.  She is just an insignificant observer, and has no right to deal with local affairs on the fly. When she sees injustice, the only thing she can do is to write down what she sees and hears in an official document, send it to Beijing, and submit it to the court.  But the final result of these official documents was to sink into the sea

    She was not only made things difficult for her by her boss, ostracized by her colleagues, and framed by rats, but she was also almost killed by beasts.  At the end of last year, on her way back to Xingzhou from Beijing, she encountered a hungry tiger in Xiayu territory.  If she hadn't been cruel enough to abandon her mount, cut off the horse's legs and feed the animal to the hungry tiger, she would probably have died on that barren mountain

    However, for her, the past few years in Xingzhou were not all bad things. At least she felt that it was a valuable asset.  These hardships made her mature faster!  If she was still an unsheathed sword five or six years ago, then this sword is now filled with cold light.  Now she is no longer as hesitant and helpless as when she was just reprimanded; now she has the determination, confidence and perseverance to do something - for example, Si Cao, who is appointed as the Patent Department

    Thinking of what he was about to do, Tian Xiu felt relieved.  Wang Shaoqing¡¯s words are truly the opinions of a scholar!  Those who put names in other people's names, and those who agree to others' names, they are all members of the country.Bug!  A frog in a well cannot speak of the sky, and a summer insect cannot speak of the ice. Everyone has different opinions. She doesn't bother to argue with Wang Shaoqing!

    "However, Wang Shaoqing doesn't seem to be a moth, does he?

    She hesitated again

    She has now walked through several streets, and she can already see the tall archway in front of the imperial city in the distance.  She suddenly heard someone calling her nickname.

    It¡¯s Li Zhe.  He and several people were standing on the street talking loudly, their faces were all red, and they seemed to have drank a lot of wine.

    Li Zhe is her father¡¯s prot¨¦g¨¦, but they didn¡¯t know each other before.  At the time when Li Zhe asked her father for advice, she was studying arithmetic with Li Mu in the capital, so Tian Xiu was not familiar with this person at all.  However, because Li Zhe had a good relationship with Li Mu and was highly valued by Nanyang, she also had some affection for him. Li Zhe invited him to two banquets, and she gladly went to the appointment.  But in recent times, her view of this person has changed a lot. She politely declined Li Zhe's invitation before the Double Ninth Festival

    There are several people around Li Zhe, and Tian Xiu also knows almost all of them. They are all famous scholars in the capital.  There was only one person who seemed unfamiliar to her.

    "This is a famous person from Hebei, Pei Tao and Pei Guangzhi from Jiangzhou." Li Zhe quickly introduced her.

    Tian Xiu had never heard of this famous scholar from Hebei, but he still exchanged polite words with Pei Tao.

    Li Zhe glanced at her and motioned to go aside to talk - he had something to say and didn't want to say it in front of everyone.

    Tian Xiu pretended not to see it and continued to ask Pei Tao about the current situation of his teacher Song Guan. She couldn't help but feel happy when she heard that the old man was also in Beijing now.  Mr. Song is a master of Chu Ci, and she happens to know someone who studies Chu Ci carefully. How about inciting Nanyang to come forward and let these two people meet?

    Li Zhe finally saw an opportunity and interrupted: "Qingshan, Mr. Song is in the mansion of Mr. Tang. If you want to see him, I, I Guangzhi and I can help you introduce him."

    After he said this, Tian Xiu could no longer turn a blind eye to him, so she could only smile and nod: "There are too many things going on in the Yamen recently, and it will take a while." She asked Pei Tao again, "Mr.  Are you leaving soon?"

    "Not for the time being. The teacher has promised the old prime minister that after the old prime minister begs for the bones from the court, the two of them will go back together." Pei Tao said tactfully.

    Li Zhe said: "There is a chance tomorrow! Tomorrow the King of Jinan will host a banquet in the palace, and Mr. Song will also be invited. If you are free, we will go there together. Tomorrow, all the officials will have a rest. You have nothing else to do, right?  ?¡±

    Tian Xiu immediately said: "Not tomorrow. I promised Princess Nanyang a long time ago that I will go to her village to accompany her."

    Li Zhe looked at her disappointedly.

    Tian Xiu was afraid that he would say something else, such as accompanying her to see Nanyang, so he quickly said: "I still have something to do in my yamen, so let's go first! Brother Yiyi Guang, everyone, I'm going first!"  He casually wiped the rainwater on the saddle bridge of the horse, turned over and rode on, cupped his hands and walked away.
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