Chapter 259: Chapter 259 Leaving the Capital

Chapter 259: Chapter 259 Leaving the Capital"Bring honor to the family?"

Auntie didn't react for a while, thinking that it would take a month or so for her nephew to pass the imperial examination. When her nephew showed a cocky expression, she realized that he was bragging.

Auntie rolled her beautiful eyes and pouted: "Oh, our Dalang has been promoted, right?"

As soon as she opened her mouth, she knew it was an old yin-yang person.

"I heard from the neighbors that only scholars can be in the government. You, no matter how high your promotion, are just a night watchman."

Although Auntie gradually untied her knot and was not as resentful as before, on the topic of "Who is more promising, nephew or son", Auntie felt that she had to stick to her principles. Unlike her husband Xu Pingzhi, her son and nephew are all Xu's children, raised at home for 20 years, and there is no difference between them and their own sons.

Auntie couldn't stand Xu Qian's arrogant attitude. He would show off in front of her from time to time, and didn't respect her as an aunt at all.

Therefore, Erlang must be more promising than Dalang, so that aunt can stand up straight in front of her nephew.

"Aunt doesn't believe it?" Xu Qian'an squinted.

"I believe it, it's just a promotion." Aunt said nonchalantly.

A while ago, Xu Ershu was also promoted, transferred from the outer city to the inner city, and had a fixed patrol area. That area is full of rich families. In order to keep their homes peaceful, they will spend money to honor the Imperial Sword Guards in charge of the surrounding areas and build good relationships.

So Ershu has a lot of private money recently. Even though 50 taels of silver were confiscated, he still has money to go to the Jiaofangsi to play.

Of course, Xu Ershu never took the initiative to go to the Jiaofangsi. After all, the girls in the Jiaofangsi are too different from aunt. Whenever he stayed overnight in the Jiaofangsi, it was because of socializing among colleagues.

On the contrary, Xu Dalang and Xu Erlang, who were as old as Shen Gongbao and had never married, would take the initiative to go to the Jiaofangsi to relieve pressure.

"It's not a promotion, it's a title!" Xu Qi'an said in a deep voice.

"Puchi..." Auntie laughed, her body trembled, charming and attractive.

"Hey, don't talk nonsense." Uncle Xu waved his hand and said unhappily: "Uncle, I fought in Shanhaiguan, from south to north, from north to south, and was covered in blood. But I'm still a little short of being titled."

Fighting from south to north, from north to south, uncle, don't your arms feel sore... Xu Qi'an complained in his heart.

Xu Xinnian shook his head, "The title is of great importance. The last time Dafeng was titled was the Battle of Shanhaiguan 20 years ago. Now the world is peaceful, where can you get a title for your military merits?"

"You don't have to have military merits to be titled." Xu Qi'an touched the little kid's head: "Isn't that right, Lingyin?"

The little kid ignored him, put his little mouth on the edge of the bowl, and slurped the porridge.

"Okay, okay, doesn't your aunt know how much you are worth?" Aunt sneered: "If you don't take a day off today, hurry to the government office. It's almost past the hour of Mao, so don't delay your second uncle from reporting for duty.

"Don't worry about bringing honor to the family, Dalang. After this year's spring examination, our Xu family will have a Jinshi. Then we will have a banquet at home and invite the clan members to come and have a meal."

The spring examination has not started yet, but Aunt is already proud.

Damn, this is the start I want. My second uncle is partial, my aunt is mean, my cousin is a scholar but suppresses me everywhere, one sister looks down on me, and the other sister steals my food... Then, the God of War returns, conferring a title with force, and driving my uncle and aunt's family to live in a doghouse... Xu Qian'an thought about it and felt pretty good.

Second Uncle Xu picked up his helmet again and nodded: "It's getting late, I have to report for duty. "

He automatically ignored the matter of the title conferment, just as a joke of his nephew.

If the Xu family could produce a noble, it would be a great honor for the ancestors. Even if Erlang passed the imperial examination, he might be on par with Dalang.

Just then, Xu Pingzhi saw the doorman Lao Zhang running hurriedly, with a panicked expression, as if there was a big insect chasing him.

"Old old old old master..."

Doorman Lao Zhang stuttered and said excitedly: "There is an imperial edict!"

"What is the imperial edict?" Xu Pingzhi didn't hear clearly.

"Imperial edict."

"What edict?" Xu Erlang didn't hear clearly.

"Imperial edict, the imperial edict of the title conferment."

Xu Qian'an glanced at his aunt with a dull look, and pushed his second uncle out: "The imperial edict of His Majesty is here."

Yesterday, when the case of Concubine Fu ended, Wei Yuan told him that the cabinet had already drafted the imperial edict for the title, and it would be decided today.

When Xu Pingzhi walked from the inner courtyard to the outer courtyard, it was like he had walked through most of his life. At this moment, his mood was very complicated, nervous, excited, hesitant, fearful... He had experienced similar feelings once, that was the wedding night.

From a distance, he saw a eunuch in a python robe standing in the courtyard, and a row of armored guards stood on both sides.

The eunuch held a roll of yellow silk imperial edict embroidered with a five-clawed golden

dragon in his hand.

Bang bang bang...

Xu Pingzhi heard his heartbeat like a drum.

Seeing the main person coming, the eunuch who delivered the edict slowly unfolded the

imperial edict and said loudly: "Tongluo Xu Qian'an receives the edict."

The second uncle knelt first, and then pulled Xu Qi'an to kneel together.

Second uncle Xu glared at his nephew. In front of the imperial edict, this kid knelt reluctantly.

"Tongluo Xu Qi'an is here."

The eunuch nodded and said loudly: "By the order of the Emperor of Heaven and Mandate, I only rule the world with culture and suppress rebellion with force, and the generals and generals are the pillars of the court and the country..... Xu Qi'an solved a series of strange cases and killed 200 rebels in Yunzhou..."

Hearing that 200 rebels were killed, Xu Qi'an was stunned for a moment, thinking that I killed thousands of enemies, how could it become 200?

Then, it suddenly dawned on him that he had boasted too much and believed it himself.

".... Xu Qi'an was specially appointed as the son of Changle County, and was granted 30 mu of good land and 500 taels of gold. This is the decree."

"Thank you, Your Majesty. "

Xu Qi'an shouted a slogan and stood up to receive the imperial edict.

"Congratulations, Lord Xu... Oh, it's County Master Xu." The eunuch in the dragon robe said

with a smile.

"Thank you, eunuch."

Xu Qi'an took the imperial edict and handed over a silver note of 100 taels.

After the eunuch in the dragon robe and the guards left, Second Uncle Xu snatched the imperial edict and read it over and over for a long time. Although he could not recognize many

characters, he read it seriously.

As he read, Second Uncle Xu's eyes became red.

"He's been conferred a title, he's been conferred a title... A viscount has been born in my Xu

family."

He ran back to the backyard holding the imperial edict, shouting, "Madam, write a letter to the Xu family quickly, a viscount has been born in the Xu family. I'm going to have a big

banquet for three days and three nights, hahahahahaha..."

Xu Qian'an picked up the box of gold and land deeds given by Emperor Yuan Jing, and sneaked

back to his room.

Second uncle is stupid, the imperial edict is not as important as gold.

After depositing the gold in the fragments of the earth book, Xu Qian'an returned to the inner

courtyard and saw Second Uncle Xu and Erlang fighting for the imperial edict. The father and son almost fought.

Xu Erlang said unhappily: "If you don't know, you might think the imperial edict is for you,

Dad."

Xu Ershu: "Get lost!"

Xu Erlang said angrily: "I just want to see how the imperial edict is written."

Xu Ershu: "Get lost!"

Xu Erlang said angrily: "Dad, show me the imperial edict."

Xu Ershu: "Get lost."

Bah, vulgar warrior... Xu Erlang left in a huff and went back to his study to read.

What's the point of being a viscount? He wants to pass the imperial examination and become

the top scholar. Otherwise, all the limelight in the family will be taken away by his eldest

brother.

"Really, is he really conferred a title?"

Aunt looked at the imperial edict in her husband's arms and opened her big eyes wide. She

hadn't figured it out yet, as if she was living in a dream.

There was no mental preparation at all.

"How could this be false? It's stamped with the imperial seal, and His Majesty also gave me

five hundred taels of gold and thirty mu of good farmland." Xu Pingzhi said loudly, as if he was afraid that others would not believe him.

Five hundred taels of gold, thirty mu of good farmland... Auntie's eyes flashed with golden

light.

"Da Lang, is this true? Why does Auntie feel like she's living in a dream?" Auntie grabbed Xu Qian'an's hand.

Xu Qian'an shook it off and said lightly: "Madam, don't try to get close to me, call me Lord

Viscount."

Xu Lingyue looked at her brother with admiration.

After irritating his aunt, Xu Qian'an reached into his arms, took out the land deed and slapped

it on the table, saying, "I'll keep the gold myself. As for the thirty acres of good land, aunt, I haven't married yet, so I'll trouble... Lingyue to help my elder brother manage it."

The aunt's hand froze halfway. She couldn't do anything to Xu Qian'an, and stamped her feet

and said angrily, "Xu Pingzhi..."

The aunt couldn't do anything to her nephew, so she could only hit her husband hard.

Uncle Xu said, "Ning Yan is joking with you, Lingyue doesn't understand these."

Xu Lingyue said softly, "Dad, I've studied for a few years and I know arithmetic." Moreover, the management of the land is usually done by the servants who are trusted by the mansion to run errands outside, and the master only needs to take care of the accounts.

The aunt suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

Her previous imaginary enemies were the wives of Dalang and Erlang, but now she found that

Xu Lingyue, this dead girl, actually rebelled and wanted to compete for power with her as a

mother. "Mom, why are you looking at me like that?" Xu Lingyue felt that her mother's eyes were burning and intimidating.

"I'm not looking at you, I'm looking at an ungrateful person."

"..." Xu Lingyue.

Speaking of the Guanxing Tower, the impression of people in the capital and even in Dafeng is

nothing more than two words: high!

In the eyes of the people in the martial arts world, in addition to being towering into the

clouds, the Guanxing Tower is also a taboo place in Dafeng, because it is home to the dynasty's only first-class strongman.

Few people would think about what is under the Guanxing Tower.

Zazaza...

In the dark underground, the iron gate slowly rises, and a winding stone staircase extends to

the underground. Every ten steps, there is an oil lamp on the wall, emitting a dim light.

Dadada..... In the silent air, clear footsteps were heard.

The footsteps gradually became clearer, and a black shadow walked up the steps from the

underground.

The black shadow had her hair loose, covering her face. She was wearing a simple linen robe

and barefoot. When she walked, her chest occasionally showed its fullness, which made people realize that she was a woman.

And she was a woman with a ravine in her chest.

"I am still a little short of becoming a fourth-grade array master. How did the teacher wake

me up..." the black shadow muttered to herself.

She looked up and saw countless lights pouring down from the door at the end of the steps. It

was the long-lost sunshine.

Stepping out of the iron gate, the black shadow stood in the silent hall, closed her eyes,

opened her arms, and embraced the sunshine.

She had not been born for five years and had been suppressed by the supervisor teacher at the

bottom of the stargazing building.

Passing through the corridor on the first floor, the dishevelled woman climbed the stairs and

walked to the second floor. The sound of footsteps came from above her head, and a white- robed sorcerer holding a tray with bottles and jars on it walked down.

The two met.

The sorcerer in white suddenly froze, and his face turned pale little by little, as if he had seen

something extremely terrifying.

After about three or four seconds, the sorcerer in white turned around and fled in panic.

The dishevelled woman, out of kindness, quickly reminded: "Brother, go slower, be careful

not to slip."

As soon as the words fell, the sorcerer in white suddenly slipped and rolled down, knocking

the woman down, and the two rolled down the stairs together.

Bang bang....

The bottles and jars on the tray were smashed to pieces, and colorful dust filled the air.

"Help, help..." The white-robed sorcerer's face flushed and gradually turned blue-black. He pinched his neck and said with difficulty:

"This, this is the poison that Senior Brother Song Qing made...."

The woman covered her neck and said with difficulty: "Senior Sister didn't bring the

antidote."

"The antidote is inside..." The white-robed sorcerer seemed unable to move, his eyes fixed on

a broken porcelain bottle and the powder on the ground.

With the help of the woman, the white-robed sorcerer took the antidote, rolled down the

stairs, came to the lobby on the first floor, and shouted to the white-robed sorcerers who

were boiling and refining medicine: "Senior Sister Zhong is out of retreat!!!"

Clang... The porcelain bottles, spoons and other utensils in the hands of the white-robed sorcerers fell to the ground.

They twisted their necks stiffly and looked over with dull faces.

The disheveled woman continued to climb the stairs, passing by the seventh floor. The

alchemy room on the seventh floor exploded with a "boom", and the floor and walls shook, and dust fell.

"Why did it explode? Why did it explode?!" Song Qing roared.

The woman ignored it and continued to climb the stairs, finally reaching the top of the

stargazing building, the Bagua Terrace.

The supervisor, who was dressed in white and had a white beard and looked like an immortal,

sat cross-legged behind the table, holding a wine glass and staring into the distance in a daze.

"Teacher."

The woman called respectfully, her eyes fell on the fine wine and food on the table.

"Zhong Li, your opportunity to be promoted to the fourth rank has come." The supervisor

said leisurely.

The woman trembled, raised her head slightly, and revealed her snow-white and pointed

-chin.

The opposite sex titles in Dafeng are divided into five levels: Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount,

and Man. Each level of title is divided into five grades (levels).

The full name of Xu Qiyan's title is "Third Class Changle County Master".

This is a title that is not as good as the upper class but better than the lower class. It has no

real power, but only an extra monthly salary.

However, the significance of the title is not in power, but in the glory and social status it symbolizes.

Is it considered a noble if you are on the list of successful candidates and are in the imperial

court? No, such power is only temporary. The symbol of truly getting rid of common people

and joining the aristocratic class is a hereditary title.

Of course, Xu Qiyan's title cannot be inherited, but at least for one day, the Xu family is

aristocrats, not common people.

In the future, if the Changle County Master marries a commoner woman as his principal wife,

the Imperial Secretary will impeach him. The civil and military officials in the court will say:

Is the princess not fragrant, or is the princess not beautiful?

He actually married a commoner woman.

In short, for the first time in hundreds of years, the Xu family has a viscount, completely

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For Xu Pingzhi, the head of the family, this was probably the most glorious moment in his

life. He took Xu Qiyan to the ancestral tomb to burn incense that day. After returning, he planned to send out invitations, hold a big banquet, and invite relatives

and friends to the house to drink and celebrate.

But his aunt thought it was inappropriate and said, "The day after tomorrow is the Spring

Examination, which will affect Erlang's study."

Yes, the day after tomorrow is the Spring Examination, the top priority of the fish leaping over the dragon gate, and holding a big banquet at home will definitely affect Erlang's study.

Xu Pingzhi felt that what his wife said made sense, so he asked Xu Erlang to move to the old

house in the outer city, study hard, and the banquets remained the same.

Xu Lingyin thought it was great.

Xu Erlang cursed and exited the live broadcast room, and went back to the old house with a

servant and a maid.

After burning incense, Xu Qiyan generously allocated 70 taels of silver as the cost of

tomorrow's banquet.

Seventy taels is a lot of money. It is the savings of an ordinary wealthy family who doesn't eat

or drink for three years; it is the money for two years of prostitution in a brothel; it is Xu

Qi'an's current annual salary. "I've just come back and haven't been to Master Hengyuan's health hall. I have to give some money to help the widows, widowers and orphans..."

Xu Qi'an took out five coins of silver from the square cabinet and planned to get Hengyuan's

body-building exercises for free at a low price.

Suddenly, the deep and ethereal voice of Monk Shenshu sounded in his mind as he sat on the

bed: "Leave the capital."

Leave the capital?!

What does it mean... Xu Qi'an looked serious. Monk Shenshu never took the initiative to

communicate with him and slept silently in his body. Now he asked him to leave the capital.

Is there something wrong with the capital, or is there something wrong with me?

As all kinds of thoughts flashed, he saw a gray world in front of him. The gray mist spread out,

and a dilapidated temple appeared. At the entrance of the temple sat Master Shenshu with

delicate features.

This monk with a mysterious origin, clasped his hands together in meditation, looked at me gently with his brown eyes, and said in a vague voice: "Leave the capital."