General Constitution of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 148 Wuxi
After Gu Kexue left, Ning Jue rushed to the Metropolitan Procuratorate by himself.

Yesterday, the clerk of the Experience Department looked at Ning Jue as if he had seen a ghost.

"Ning Qianxian, you, why are you here?"

The scribe looked at Ning Jue at a loss.

After all, he thought that he and Ning Jue had only met each other once in this life, but who would have thought that he would see Ning Jue again the next day.

"Does the Metropolitan Procuratorate have a backup of Gu Kexue's dossier, Minister of the Ministry of Rites?"

The scribe could only smile wryly and said: "Qian Xian, look at what you said, the files are all kept in the official department, how can we keep those things in the procuratorate."

"Just ask me, the young one is in Jinling, and I know a lot."

Ning Jue had no choice but to give up, and immediately asked: "I saw Gu Kexue, who seems to have a Jiangnan accent, his family should be in Ji Nei, right?"

The scribe gave Ning Jue a thumbs up.

"Qian Xian is wise, and Gu Butang is from Wuxi County, Changzhou Prefecture, within the territory of Japan."

Ning Jue's expression darkened slightly.

"Wuxi County... is in charge of clearing the land in Changzhou, which prefecture is the vassal?"

The scribe rummaged through the bookshelf upon hearing the words.

"Reporting to Qianxian, they are the relatives of the Prince's Mansion of Pingyao County in Shen's Mansion."

"Where did the current stop?"

"I can arrive in Wuxi in the future."

Ning Jue threw away the mansion newspaper in his hand, and went back to Duke Cheng's mansion.

As soon as he entered the door, Ning Jue packed his bags, and Gu Qingnong followed Ning Jue to pack without saying a word.

After hearing the news, Zhu Xizhong hurried over: "My dear brother, where are you going?"

"Wuxi, copy his Gu Kexue's hometown."

Zhu Xizhong glanced at Gu Qingnong who was beside Ning Jue, and then at Ning Jue who was packing his bags in front of him.

Is it so unrepentant?
Gu Qingnong packed his clothes and reminded softly, "Officer, Wuxi is not far away. If you go down the river, you can get there in half a day. Just bring some change of clothes."

After all, Gu Kexue spent a lot of money to cultivate it.

The folded clothes are much more neat than Gao Gong.

"Chenggong, take care of Miss Qingnong, I'll come back as soon as I go."

Before Ning Jue could go out, Gu Qingnong rang behind him: "Wait a minute, officials."

Ning Jue turned her head in a daze.

"what happened?"

Gu Qingnong smiled slightly, and reminded softly with some embarrassment: "The officials forgot, Qingnong is no longer a girl."

These words were clearly meant for Zhu Xizhong.

The voice just fell.

Even though Zhu Xizhongxuan took a step back, he waved his hand at Ning Jue and said, "Some things I can't help, and I have other things to do, my brother, let's go and help. There should be no boat to Changzhou at this time. I tied a boat at the water gate. I don’t need a boat, my brother just take my boat.”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Xizhong left the Kuayuan as if fleeing.

After Zhu Xizhong left, Gu Qingnong looked at Ning Jue and said with a smile: "The road is far away and there are few people, the officials must listen to a tune."

Seeing Gu Qingnong's appearance, Ning Jue couldn't help feeling chills in his heart, but the smile on his face gradually grew stronger.

"Listen! You are not afraid, what am I afraid of?"

Well thought out.

Wait to die, die under the pomegranate skirt, okay?
Gu Qing Nong fell into Ning Jue's arms when he heard the words, and whispered in Ning Jue's ear with a blushing face, "Hee hee, the slave family is already an official, so there is nothing to be afraid of."

Ning Jue grabbed Gu Qingnong's arm and smiled, "It's time to get on the road."

Hearing Ning Jue's answer, Gu Qingnong seemed a little frustrated, but he could only take the two of them's changed clothes and follow Ning Jue into the carriage prepared by Zhu Xizhong.

Just after the wheels of the carriage turned, Zhu Xizhong in the front hall ordered casually: "Go and inform Eunuch Mai."

"Grandpa, there is no need to inform, Eunuch Mai already knows about this."

Zhu Xizhong was startled when he heard this.

"Did Eunuch Mai know?"

"Yes, the servant has just returned from the garrison hall."

Unlike the capital, the highest administrative body in Nandu is not the cabinet, but the garrison office.

The garrison hall is composed of three people who served as the Nanjing garrison, the guarding eunuch, and the counselor and engineer of the Nanjing Ministry of War.

In the garrison hall, the guardian eunuch is the head, and the garrison eunuch often also leads the errands of the weaving bureau.

Therefore, in the Weaving Bureau of the Ming Dynasty, he was a veritable "official of the emperor three thousand miles away", and his status in the supervisor of ceremonies was not inferior to that of Zhang Zuo and Huang Jin.

Hearing that Mai Fu had already learned the news, Zhu Xizhong felt a little relieved.
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In the Forbidden City in the southern capital, in the Office of the Lijian Yamen.

Under a huge portrait of Yue Wumu.

The slender Maifu was wearing a white satin jacket and sat barefoot on an official hat chair.

From time to time, steamed bread crumbs were still sprinkled into the blue and white porcelain fish tank under his feet.

"Old ancestor, Ning Qianxian has already gone to Wuxi."

"Understood, what is the origin of that girl?"

The waiter hesitated for a moment before saying: "It's a skinny horse raised by Gu Butang's family, the others don't know about it."

"Oh? Then Gu Butang is interesting." There was a smile on the corner of Mai Fu's mouth, and he asked: "The disciples of the living saints in the Xinquan Academy are still there?"

"No, they seem to be just like us, sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight."

Mai Fu sneered: "A group of deaf and blind people are worthy of watching tigers fight? At most, they don't know it yet, and they should move after a while." A child prodigy, Xu Ge is always a child prodigy, Xie Wen is a child prodigy, Li Wen is a child prodigy, Yang Shen, Wang Shizhen, Yuan Wei, and Zhang Juzheng have not yet made their mark in politics, let’s get a reputation as a child prodigy first.”

"Now the child prodigy's reputation is not enough, and he is rushing to become a saint again. Those who know it are fighting for fame, but those who don't know it is because God has eaten enough to throw away seeds in the past two years."

"Since the crown prince has given the order, then I will protect Ning Kezhong in the dark, and we don't care about other things."

The servant in front of Mai Fu lowered his head, and then said in a low voice: "Eunuch Mai, the emperor probably already knows what Gu Ke learned, if the emperor blames it."

Listen to the waiter.

Mai Fu couldn't help but clapped his hands and wiped away the crumbs of buns in his hands.

"I'm in a panic, I'm the one who's holding the sky down."

"Even if I report it, so what? Besides making the emperor angry and hurting the immortal body, what else can I do?"

Mai Fu stood up slowly, looked at the empty Forbidden City in front of him and said contemptuously: "This Jiangnan should have been tidied up a long time ago."
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On the broad river surface, Gu Qingnong washed his feet barefoot in the river water.

"Officer, according to this speed, we can enter Wuxi City before dark."

Ning Jue looked at Gu Qingnong with some doubts.

"Are you Tianzu?"

Hearing this, Gu Qingnong seemed to have been poked into something sad, and immediately stood up and put on his shoes.

"If he hadn't met the officials, Qing Nong would have been sold to Hangzhou as a boat maid. The boat maid couldn't bind her feet and couldn't stand on the boat..."

"It's okay, where is the Gu family in Wuxi City?"

Ning Jue changed the subject casually, and Gu Qingnong said: "I have never been to Qingnong, I only heard that it is by the East Li Lake in Xiguan, so it should be easy to find."

"I heard that only the old lady in the Gu family is still in Wuxi. The old lady worships the gods and gods, and I begged that both the old man and the brothers have passed high school as Jinshi."

Ning Jue couldn't help but sneered when he heard the words: "Immortal? This immortal is probably called Shao Quanzhai."

Gu Qing, who was pious just now, was obviously startled: "Which god is Shao Quanzhai?"

"Uncle Da Zong of Nandu during the Zhengde period was a brother of Gu Kexue's father. I caught a glimpse of it in the Metropolitan Procuratorate."

It was supposed to be singing to Ning Jue on the way.

But I heard Ning Jue talk about the intricate network of interpersonal relationships along the way.

Until sunset, the cruise ship slowly sailed into Wuxi Wharf.

As soon as Ning Jue got off the boat, he saw a gorgeous and unusually large sedan chair on the pier. After picking up three monks from the pier, the eight bearers ran towards the city as if flying.

The roof of the sedan chair fell up and down, and the head of the monk in the sedan chair could even be heard hitting the sedan chair.

Obviously in a hurry.

Behind the buttocks of the sedan chair, there was a carriage, which was full of ritual objects and other objects.

"Is this a sedan chair?"

Behind Ning Jue, several Cheng Guogong's servants said in unison: "Qian Xian, it's a sedan chair, you read that right."

"How can the sedan chair be so fast?!"

Zhu Yuanzhang had an ancestral system, and only women, children, old and weak could ride sedan chairs. Therefore, civil servants mostly took carriages, military officials rode horses, and low-ranking officials could only walk or ride donkeys.

There are eight large sedan chairs, and only officials of the third rank and above can take them after leaving the capital. In the whole capital, there are only a few small sedan chairs carried by four people.

The reason for such a regulation is also very simple, the bearers are strong laborers, one more bearers, one less in the field.

This is even the first time that Ning Jue has seen eight large sedan chairs.

"This is an overreach!"

Ning Jue slapped his thigh and hurriedly urged: "Take the horse down!"

"Here!"

"You guys follow behind." Ning Jue rushed to chase the eight sedan chairs.

No matter how fast the sedan chair was, it could only be carried by people.

Ning Jue quickly stopped the gorgeous sedan chair on the spot.

"Stop for me!"

The eight bearers braked together.

Then Ning Jue heard three crisp sounds of "dong", "dong" and "dong" in the sedan chair.

The three monks climbed out of the sedan chair, and even ignoring the ceremony, they fell down and vomited.

Seeing the sedan chair stop, a man with the appearance of a butler jumped out of the carriage behind him, pointed at Ning Jue and scolded Ning Jue as soon as he got off the carriage: "Which f*ck onion are you?"

"Blind your tricks, you don't know how to inquire. In the whole Wuxi city, who doesn't know whose family this sedan chair belongs to?"

"Missing my wife's funeral, you boy will never get out of this Wuxi city alive!"

The butler didn't notice at all.

After I said these few words.

The young man in front of him was visibly excited.

Ning Jue was not willing to let it go when he heard the words, Dang even pointed at the butler and angrily reprimanded: "I know too well!"

"In the entire city of Wuxi, only he, Gu Kexue, can take this sedan chair! You should lift the curtain and let me see if it's Gu Kexue sitting inside!"

"Today, you can either call Gu Kexue out of the sedan chair, or beat me to death here!"

The housekeeper and bearer looked at each other.

Immediately he laughed out loud.

"It turned out to be a foreigner." The butler's face changed, and then he pointed at Ning Jue and said angrily, "Hurry up! Don't say it's you, a lowly official, even if his surname is Gu, he can't stop this sedan chair! "

"Isn't this the Gu family's sedan chair?"

"Nonsense, you can't see such a big Zou character?"

It was only then that Ning Jue discovered that the bronze ornament on the sedan chair was the word "Zou" in seal script.

Where did this Zou family come from? !

The servants of Cheng Guogong's mansion in the distance arrived one after another, but Ning Jue's face sank.

"I don't care if your surname is Zou or Gu! Copy this sedan chair first!"

"You fucking looking for..."

Before the steward could finish his sentence, the servant of Duke Cheng's mansion slashed at the sedan chair in front of him.

The splashed sawdust hit the butler's face, and the butler's tone changed.

"...Let's talk to my young master, the young one is just a helper."

He looked at Gu Qingnong who was hurrying over in the carriage behind him.

Only then did Ning Jue understand the two choices that Gu Kexue really gave herself.

If you accept this girl, you will go to the bandit ship of the strict party. If you don't accept this girl, you will force yourself to come to Wuxi, causing trouble to come to the east.

It's just that Ning Jue is obviously more concerned about another matter at this time.

The majestic Six Parts and Nine Qings!

How did you become such a bird in your hometown in Wuxi? !

(End of this chapter)