Wen Yu is currently looking for a new place to live, but the process of finding it is quite difficult.Just like what Yu Xiuyue said, the official house is not ranked, so I can only find a private house to rent or raise money to buy it.

People like Xu Weizhi and Xun Nong, who are relatively wealthy, chose a house in the inner city and bought it when they came to Beijing, and they have already lived in it now.

But Jinshi from a poor family like Wen Yu, even if he got a lot of rewards for his success, it is impossible for him to buy a house of his own in the inner city of Beijing where every inch of money is very expensive.

In the inner city, the southeast area next to the imperial city is where the dignitaries, nobles, kings, grandchildren and nobles live, and the houses are priceless.The outer city is further divided into four districts, southeast and northwest, among which the northern district is the closest to the imperial city and has the highest prices.

After what happened to the Liu family three months ago, Wen Yu is now more cautious than before, in all aspects, and because of this, the road to inspect the new house is not smooth.

Imperial Academy is located near the Yubei Bridge on East Chang’an Street, and it is barely adjacent to the main road of Beiqu Street. However, the North District belongs to the outer city and the inner city, and Imperial Academy is located in the center of the inner city.In terms of distance, there are three or four miles between the two places.There is only one wall between the Imperial Academy and the imperial city, so it is more convenient for Hanlin officials to enter the court than other offices.

The capital of Daqi is divided into inner city and outer city.The capital city has four layers of walls, and from the outside to the inside, the capital Nankang is divided into the suburbs, the outer city, the inner city, the imperial city, and the Forbidden City.Among them, the Imperial City and the Forbidden City are located in the north of the central area of the inner city.

The outskirts of the city are mainly built to resist the attack of powerful enemies, so the population in the outskirts of the city is small, and most of them are the places where officers and soldiers are stationed.And from entering Zhengyangmen, it is the inner city, and the government offices of the central government are basically located within Zhengyangmen.

The official residence is at the innermost side of the inner city. There are not only low-level officials like Wen Yu who have no family and no house, but also high-ranking officials who moved out alone because they couldn't stand the messy relationship in the wife's and children's house.

It can be said that the official residence is a better place to live for officials, but it is a comprehensive list of candidates based on three items: rank, number of years of being an official, and age of the official.

Even though the imperial court has stepped up efforts to expand the official residences in recent years, it is impossible for young new officials like Wen Yu to have the opportunity to be included in the list of official residences without staying for three or two years.

Until the day when Song Duan invited her to participate in the Mid-Autumn Festival Night Tour, she had been looking for a house for nearly ten days, but she was still worrying about the house.Either the rent is too high for her to afford, or the rent is cheap but it is too far from where she works at the Imperial Academy, and the journey takes almost an hour.

Now, Wen Yu is caught in a dilemma. After thinking about it, she realizes how good and cheap it was for Song Duan to find a place for herself.

Wen Yu looked at Song Duan staringly, with a flattering and pleading tone in his tone. If other people spoke in such a tone, they would definitely be disgusted by others, but Wen Yu's voice was as clear as a green bamboo, like a spring water ding-dong,On the contrary, it is obviously cute.

"Brother, I would like to ask you to do me a favor? I wonder if you have any free time recently to listen to the junior talk with you in detail."

Song Duan raised his eyebrows for a moment, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised. The looming candlelight lit up his face, and his long and narrow phoenix eyes were full of smiles.

He conveniently gave the shopkeeper ten copper coins, bought two Kongming lanterns, and handed one to Wen Yu with the lanterns."Why, senior brother, isn't my time all yours now? What do you want me to do for you?"

A strand of hair floating from Wen Yu's head was shining brightly under the warm yellow light, and fluttered up and down under the breeze from time to time.

In the golden autumn and August, sweet-scented osmanthus is fragrant.

Wen Yu has learned to filter Song Duan's indecent and flirty words and automatically extract the main information.

"Well, this junior would like to ask senior brother to help you find a new residence, preferably closer to the inner city. I will reward senior brother."

Wen Yu said a little bit nonchalantly, her face was flushed red, don't know if it was because of shyness or the light of the lamp.

Song Duan thought of something, and his voice became lazy: "Do you know what the reward I want?"

He leaned over to speak next to Wen Yu's ear in a playful way, and Wen Yu even felt his lips touching the tip of her ear, breathing on her neck, Wen Yu tilted her head a little to the left uncomfortably,He took a few steps back and moved a little further away from Song Duan.

Even a person like her who has no interest in love knows that Song Duan was too close to her just now, at least beyond the normal social range she can accept.

Could it be!

Wen Yu thinks that Song Duan is already twenty-seven years old, but he has never married a wife and had children, and he has never heard of any concubines in his concubine. Coupled with his current male identity, does this person love the same sex!The more she thought about it, the more she felt there was a trace.

Wen Yu couldn't help taking two or three steps back. Although she didn't discriminate against this kind of people, it would be a big mistake if she hit herself.

Bah, Wen Yu secretly scolded himself for being too trustworthy.No, no, she can't make a conclusion so quickly, think again and again before acting in everything, superficial phenomena can't represent all the truth.

Frowning, she began to reflect on whether she had done any transgressive things in the past two years, but no matter how much she thought about it, she couldn't come up with an example.

Song Duan put the unlit Kongming lantern on the ground, folded his arms, and watched Wen Yu's complexion change again and again like a kaleidoscope with great interest.Suddenly he burst into laughter, laughing so hard that tears welled up in the corners of his eyes.

Wen Yu Taohua's eyes were full of resentment: "Senior brother, one has two and cannot have three. I don't want others to be so close to me, I don't feel comfortable."

Song Duan narrowed his eyes slightly, his eyes fell on Wen Yu's face through the dim light.other people?Am I just someone else?You don't want me to get so close, what about Yin Xiangfu?What about your friend Yu Xiuyue?

Wen Yu pursed her lips, did she speak a little too heavily just now, "Senior brother, me, me."

A few traces of scarlet flashed in Song Duan's eyes. If it was according to his temperament, if he wanted something, he would just grab it. However, the younger brother thought he was a gentleman.

He sighed, forget it, stretched out his hand to pat Wen Yu's head, and then thought of what Wen Yu said just now, retracted his fingers, froze for a moment in mid-air, and then returned the whole hand to its original position.

"Little brother, don't be sorry, it's just a joke."

What he should be happy about now is that the little junior brother is willing to play with his temper. Doesn't this also show that she is closer to him than to others.Even if you just treat him as a relative, it is better than treating him as a stranger.

Song Duan was suppressing his feelings. He didn't know when it would explode. He knew that there was still an introduction to fire, but no one knew when the introduction would come.

He lit the wick of the Kongming lantern with a torch, and watched the Kongming lantern fly into the sky bit by bit.Strange to say, he knew that his junior brother was a man, but subconsciously felt that she was not, but whether it was household registration or daily relationship, it proved to him over and over again that he was wrong.

Song Duan looked at the Kongming Lantern flying farther and farther away, why did he fall in love with Junior Brother?He has already passed the age when love is dazzled. Others have already married and started a family at his age, and what's more, their children have already married.

However, Song Duan looked at her. There are so many reasons for love. If you like it, you just like it.

Wen Yu's Kongming Lantern had the words "safe and smooth" and "everything goes well" written on it. She looked up at the night sky full of lights, closed her eyes and silently made a wish.

At the stalls in the night market, those who have skillful hands in the market knead the statues of toads and rabbits out of loess, which are called Lord Rabbits, and are specially sold during the Mid-Autumn Festival.The three-petal mouth, the slender white ears are painted with a touch of red, the body is covered with vermilion robes, and the emerald green leaves and pink flowers are dotted on this handsome little rabbit, giving it a different flavor.

In addition to the long ears on the top of the head and the distinctive three-petal mouth, Lord Rabbit's body, face shape, and even posture are all human.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, every family will worship Lord Rabbit to pray for blessings.

Unicorn Rabbit, Gourd Rabbit, Sitting Elephant Rabbit, Sitting Tiger Rabbit... There are all kinds of them, with different symbolic meanings.In the Qi Dynasty, the image of Master Rabbit became more humanized, richer and more diverse, including snack vendors, generals and heroes...everything that one expects to find.

Wen Yu stopped and stopped along the way, pretending to be nonchalant and looking at Song Duan quietly from time to time, opening and closing her mouth, hesitating, but when she reached the riverside, she still hesitated.

Her eyes randomly scanned the surroundings without focus, and suddenly her eyes were attracted by the clay pavement. On it was a shining clay sculpture of a rabbit master, with ears pricked up, with a proud and dignified expression, wearing a fox fur robe, which made her instantlyI thought of the day when first met Song Duan.

She was afraid that someone would snatch the statue, so she trotted over to pay for it.

Wen Yu beamed with joy, she finally found a reason to speak, and stuffed the rabbit master into Song Duan's arms as if asking for credit.

"Senior brother, people gather together on a full moon, and it will remain the same in the coming year."

The bright and clear moon hangs high in the sky, and the moonlight sprinkles on the lake, creating waves of light, which are better than the shadows of flowers and the chaos of spring lights.

The shadows in the world become three, and they are not as lonely as before.

As soon as the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, the weather gradually cools down.

Now Wen Yu is short-mouthed and short-handed when she eats people.

Although the senior brother didn't know her unreasonable slander and speculation about him in her heart, but the guilty conscience lingered in her heart, and she always lacked confidence when facing him.

It was only on the 17th that she found out that on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the senior brother had planned to give her a surprise, which was a long-overdue gift to celebrate her nomination on the gold list.

It was an official house in the inner city. It was originally assigned to Song Duan, but because of his rapid promotion in the past few years, he was awarded a house in the southeast area of the inner city by the late emperor.She's house is naturally vacant.

The privilege of senior officials is not just words.Up to Song Duan's position, changing the name of the official residence is nothing more than a trivial matter, and most of the underground people want to use it to please him.

Wen Yu wanted to refuse at first, but he will not be rewarded for nothing.

But the brother said: "There are never any secrets in this Capital City."

Wen Yu immediately understood what he meant, and she didn't need to hide it. Her teacher, her mentor, had nowhere to hide from as early as the first day she stepped into Capital City and entered the officialdom.

It doesn't matter whether others will use this to please Mr. Wu Ge and Song Shilang, it's useless for her to avoid suspicion like this.

It is easy to be a corrupt official, but it is difficult to be a clean one. Each grade has its own status. Asking for work, giving money and giving gifts is a custom.Corruption and bribery are the norm in officialdom.

What is an outlier? When everyone is doing this, you are the only exception. Isolated targeting and adding insult to injury are the normal state of an outlier.

It's hard to be an upright official, but at this moment Wen Yu's thoughts are firm and naive. It's no wonder that Lu Yigui said she was too stubborn.

On August 17, Wen Yu officially started working and living in the Imperial Academy.

On the 20th, Yu Xiuyue also rushed back.

This year's Imperial Academy admitted only 14 Shujishi, and on the 25th, all of them rushed back.

Daqi stipulated that only officials of the fourth rank or above were eligible to go to the early dynasty.Therefore, they don’t need to go to court in the early morning. They only need to arrive at the government office of the Imperial Academy on time at Maoshi (five to seven o’clock), and it is generally required to arrive at seven o’clock at the latest.

If you live far away from here, you need to get up earlier than Mao hour.

Wen Yu now lives in the official residence, which is quite close to the Imperial Academy, but only fifteen minutes away on foot.Even if you have to go to morning court in the future, you don't have to wake up too early.

Yu Xiuyue rented a house in the south of Zhongxin Street in the North District. The people living nearby are officials who are not much different from his position, so there are many conversations among neighbors, and the living environment is more leisurely than where he used to live..

Wen Yu is used to getting up at five o'clock, and because most of the central government offices are located in the inner city, so she will see all kinds of officials of all ranks on the streets of the inner city on the way to work every day, civil servants, military officials, orStrong or old or infirm, they either ride human-powered sedan chairs or ride in carriages, but more people ride on horseback or on foot.

Yu Xiuyue also came here on horseback because he was far away from the government office of the Imperial Academy, and because he was young, strong and physically fit.

People in Xidan, regardless of gender, age or age, all grew up on horseback.

Yu Xiuyue's riding skills are even more outstanding.After he saved money to buy a horse, he raised it carefully every day as a treasure.

It is also because of this that even though Yu Xiuyue lived three times farther away from the government office of the Imperial Academy than Wen Yu, he was still able to arrive at the government office with her or even earlier.

Wen Yu used to set off from the official building at 5:40, and arrived at the government office before 6:00 every day.At this time, and this season again, the sky is dark, and under the dim night, the few sparse stars twinkle more and more.

But the inner city deserves to be called the inner city. All the roads from government buildings to various government offices have full-time people guarding the oil lamps on the roads every night, and add oil immediately after the lamps are burned out.

Although this job is upside down day and night, the salary and benefits are comparable to those of the ninth-rank officials in Beijing and China. The premise is of course that rights are not discussed.

As usual, Wen Yu set off on time.

The road is clearly so spacious, but saw a bay red horse that looks like a rare breed rushing up to the place where Wen Yu was, impartially.

What is an accident can only be called an accident if it is unexpected and there is no preparation for it.

The unbridled rope couldn't resist the mad excitement of the horse, and even with all his strength, Yuan Zhan couldn't stop the animal from sprinting forward and accelerating.

Yuan Zhan's expression was gloomy, and his eyes were like poisonous snakes, revealing a creepy look of terror.He let out a sneer and was calculated.It's just that this person is his elder brother or his younger brother.

Wen Yu didn't know the danger was coming.

Thirty meters, twenty meters, fifteen meters, ten meters, the sound of the maroon horse kicking the ground became louder and louder, Wen Yu turned around as if hearing something, her pupils shrank sharply, but she could no longer avoid it.

The eyes of Yuan Zhan and Wen Yu met unexpectedly in the air, and they met suddenly.

He came up with a plan and jumped forward on the vault.

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