North College's main gate is very grand, the gate on both sides of the doorposts of the newly engraved couplet "the sound of the wind and the rain, the sound of reading, the sound of the family, civil affairs, the world, all matters of concern". This is Zheng Yuming for the third anniversary of the founding of the North College, he will be Ming Donglin Party leader Gu Xiancheng wrote the next couplet of national affairs changed to civil affairs, Zheng Yuming did so because the people of the vassal state has no concept of the country, at this stage, Zheng Yuming can not let the people have the national idea, he also thought of the whole Qin's excellence to abandon the concept of the vassal state to the State of Wu.
Zheng Yuming's couplet, caused by the North College students boiled, Wenhui newspaper every day about the couplet after reading and comprehension of the experience. The news spread to Ulsan South College, South College teachers and students have a dissatisfaction, because their college entrance is not so inspiring quotes, Wang Jie wrote a letter of 10,000 words to Zheng Yuming, the center of the idea is that Zheng Yuming has to be a pair of the South College, Premier Zheng things have to be fair to the two colleges. As a result, Fan Zhongyan's "worry first, after the world's happiness and joy" also came out. South College students are very satisfied with this couplet, the South Newspaper about the reading and comprehension of the same lively for a few months.
Quage stood impassive in front of the couplet that had the maesters in high esteem, for he could not read. Quage surveyed the scholars coming in and out of the entrance to the North Academy and noticed a strange phenomenon; there were many scholars coming out of the academy with luggage in their hands.
"What is the purpose of this strong man's visit to the Academy? Is he looking for someone?" There was a gate guard at the North Academy's main gate, and there were three gate guards on duty here every day. One of the gate guards saw Kuai Ji with a long sword on his waist, wandering around the gate for a long time surveying the students of the North Academy, and couldn't help but go forward to interrogate him.
Kui Ji made a bow toward the gatekeeper, "This Huben, I have been entrusted by an elder to deliver a letter sealed in the North Academy."
Seeing that the doorkeeper was dressed in a hoochie tights and had a short iron rod hanging from his waist, Quigi assumed that the doorkeeper was of soldierly status.
"Oh, who is it that you are looking for? Today the academy started its long summer break, I'm afraid the person the strong man is looking for has already gone home or left the academy for another place." The gate guard, who had originally only worked as an auxiliary soldier, was happy to hear Qui Ji honor him as Huben, and warmed up to Qui Ji in his heart.
"Long summer vacation?" Kui Ji froze, this academy is still on vacation? Those students who came out with their luggage just now were going home on vacation?
"Yeah, it's summer vacation, the academy has two long vacations a year, one around the Spring Festival and one in the hot summer, the hot summer takes the longest vacation, forty days." The doorman explained for Kui Ji.
"Oh, I see! The scholar I'm looking for is named Fu Chou, does Huben know of this person." Kui Ji frowned, Fu Chou was the person on the list given to him by the King of Tang who had the most access to Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui, this tutor of Fu Chou assured Kui Ji of his disciple's reliability, as Fu Chou's father died in the battle of Shan Au on the East China Sea coast, and two years ago, Fu Chou's greeting epistle to his teacher revealed his hatred for both Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming, implicitly telling his teacher that he had gone to Wu to pursue his studies for the sake of his father's vengeance.
"So it's Bachelor Fu ah, he seems to be still in the academy, strong man wait a moment, I will inform for the strong man." Fu Chou's excellent grades and pleasing looks made him a celebrity in the North Academy, and the gatekeeper had long recognized him.
"Thank you, Huben!" Kui Ji bowed in acknowledgement.
There was a peddler under a large tree next to the main gate of the North Academy, and when he heard Fu Chou mentioned in the conversation between Kui Ji and the gate guard, he immediately paid attention, peddling the goods in his bamboo basket to people walking by while quietly moving a few steps towards where Kui Ji was standing to get a better look. Kui Ji's five senses were so sensitive that the slightest movement caught his attention, and when he turned back to see a peddler dragging a passing student to sell writing supplies, he narrowed his eyes and watched. The peddler was unsuccessful in his sales pitch, and after being rejected by the scholar, he sat sullenly on a rock under a tree, wiping the sweat from his face with the hem of his coat and cursing the temperature impatiently. Seeing that this man was a common vendor, Quiggy dropped his guard slightly and turned his head to watch the academy gates.
After a few moments, Fu Chou followed the doorman to the main gate of the academy, the doorman pointed towards Kui Ji, Fu Chou thanked the doorman and walked quickly to Kui Ji.
"May I ask the strong man if he is slightly carrying a letter from my tutor?" Fu Chou offered his hand to Kui Ji, whose appearance was that of a ranger. Fu Chou wondered how his Tang tutor, who had always disliked such people, would entrust such a person with a letter, as it was very easy for Tang to send a letter to Wu, as long as it was entrusted to a Wu merchant ship passing through the territory of Tang to bring the letter into Wu, and then paid a little money for the delivery to the post station, which then dispatched the letter according to the address to the various parts of the world.
"Fu-chou? Is Winya your teacher?" Kui Ji did not answer Fu Chou's question, but only asked him back about his identity.
"Not bad, I am Fu Chou, and Mr. Wen is none other than Mister Fu's mentor."
"Please speak with me in a secluded area." Taking a look at the bored yawning vendors nearby, Kui Ji led Fu Chou away from the academy gates and over to the side of the fence, which was a little farther away from the avenue, where no one came and went, and where the two men conferred so that they couldn't be heard unless they walked by purposely.
The peddler at the entrance of the college is responsible for keeping an eye on the movements around the college, and Fu Chou in the college is the key target of surveillance. Now that Kui Ji has chosen a secluded place to talk to Fu Chou, the peddler will attract the attention of both of them if he gets close to the place, and in order not to alarm them, the peddler can only pretend to be trying hard to sell his goods, and switch the angle to observe Kui Ji and Fu Chou's movements.
"Maester Fu has a big grudge against Wu, doesn't he?" Kui Ji knew very little about Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui, and he needed Fu Chou to help him with the details, but Fu Chou's thin-armed, wiry appearance dissuaded Kui Ji from trying to get Fu Chou to be his assassination assistant along the way.
When Fu Chou heard Kui Ji's question, the expression on his face immediately became odd, and he hung his head and nodded twice sullenly. Kui Ji thought that Fu Chou remembered the family revenge sad, immediately rejoiced, such a person will not betray him, in order to revenge will provide him with all the help, just what he needed.
"This is your master's epistle, you may view it first." Kui Ji pulled out the epistle from his bosom and gave it to Fu Chou, so that Fu Chou could read it and verify that he was the one sent by the Tang to make Fu Chou work for him.
"What is it that the stalwart needs help from Fu Mou?" Fu Chou's tutor, Wen Mi, called Kui Ji a chivalrous man in the letter and told his disciple to make things easier for Kui Ji, Fu Chou read the letter and folded it up and put it into the pocket of his singlet.
"Haha, Kui Ji has come to Wu to do a great thing, to do this great thing for the King of Tang, and also for you." Kui Ji smiled faintly.
"To do something great for the King of Tang, and also for me?" Fu Chou did not comprehend what Kui Ji had said and was about to ask more carefully when Yang He's voice came from behind him.
"Fu Di, my brother has already fetched the medicine, Fu Di quickly send it to your uncle so that your uncle can take it and get well soon." Yang He held a paper bag in his arms and hurriedly came from the distance.
Yang He and Fu Chou's families were brought from their homeland to Wu by the Wei merchant fleet at the beginning of May. After two days in the refugee camps at the border of Wu, and after being examined by a doctor, who found that there were no contagious diseases among the people, they left the refugee camps in advance under the guarantee of the Wei family and traveled on the Wei merchant fleet's merchant ships to the Gao Ma ferry port.
Yang He's family consists of only four people, Yang mother and Yang He's two brothers and one sister. Fu Chou's family, however, has a lot of friends and relatives. In addition to Fu Chou's mother and two sisters, there is also a family of five uncles and a slave from Fu Chou's family. Originally, there were two slaves in Fu Chou's family, but the other one died of illness last winter.
When Yang He and Fu Chou learned that their relatives had arrived at the refugee camps on the border of Wu, they rented a courtyard house in Wangdu, which was divided into two households with brickwork and used to arrange for the two families to move in. Fuchou's family was large, so the courtyard room was bigger, with two more rooms than the Yang family's side. Yang He insisted that the rent be shared equally between the two families, because Yang He had more savings than Fuchou, and his income was usually more lucrative than Fuchou's. Fuchou refused to accept the offer, but he was unable to accept the offer. Fu Chou could not refuse the kindness of his classmates, and could only remember it in his heart to repay them later, and of course, there was also the kindness of Wei Zhong's family to be repaid.
When Yang He and Fu Chou arrived at the Gao Ma Di ferry port in mid-May to receive their relatives, they were in tears when they saw the faces of the people. Both Yang He's family and Fu Chou's relatives are very thin, extremely malnourished, Fu Chou's uncle also because of frostbite four years ago in the East China Sea in the siege of the mountain hollows, joints fell sick, joint pain can not walk, if not the Weijia merchant bank is rich and powerful, carriages, guards, Fu Chou uncle all the way to the car or stretcher, Fu Chou uncle is unable to get out of the country of the Tang Dynasty.
Seeing that Uncle Fu was very sick, Fu Chou and Yang He searched around for a good doctor and medicine to cure Uncle Fu's illness after putting the two families in a rented house. In the end, Wei Kou asked Huo Si Hua to ask Jiang Gui, the No. 1 doctor in Wu, to diagnose and prescribe medicine for Fu Chou's uncle. Yang He went to the Wei Mansion this time to do some work, and incidentally helped Fu Chou pick up Uncle Fu's second course of Chinese medicine from Dou Kou. Uncle Fu had already finished the first course of Chinese medicine and his condition had been reduced by half.
Kui Ji's eyes twinkled as he gazed at the hastily approaching Yang He.
"Fu Di, who is this?" Yang He glimpsed Fu Chou talking to a lean man at the academy's main gate, so he held the medicine and turned over.
"Kui Ji has been entrusted by Maester Fu's master teacher to bring a letter for him slightly." Kui Ji replied ahead of Fu Chou. "Since Kui Ji has completed Master Wen's entrustment, when he has to take his leave, the two of you will see you later." Kui Ji finished arching his hand and without waiting for Yang He and Fu Chou to react, he turned around and drifted away.
Kui Ji knew Fu Chou's life and his family, and when he heard Yang He's words that Fu Chou's uncle was obviously in Wu, he was immediately suspicious, feeling that the weak bachelor in front of him wasn't as reliable as the King of Tang and Wen Mi had said, and that there was no way that he could come to Wu to avenge himself and still keep his family by his side. To be on the safe side, Kui Ji immediately decided to leave Fu Chou and think of another way to approach Zheng Yuming.
"Hey..." Fu Chou couldn't call out to Qui Ji in time, Qui Ji had already quickly moved away, Fu Chou was depressed, Qui Ji hadn't told him about the big event he had mentioned.
"This person is quite the wanderer." Yang He felt that Kui Ji came like the wind and went like a shadow.
"Right." Fu Chou felt vaguely uncomfortable and a little uneasy in his heart.
"Fu Di, let's go to the dormitory now to pack up our things, and go back to the courtyard to spend the night today, and leave early tomorrow morning, shall we?"
College has been on vacation, but this year the college of the first and second term of the students of the holidays are to get around the internship, this is Zheng Yuming deliberately arranged. Next year, the two colleges in the north and south of one, two students will go to participate in the promotion examination, the examination results will be sent to all parts of the local officials, Zheng Yuming hopes that these students through internships to understand the handling of administrative affairs, to the local administration can be competent.
The place of internship was decided by lottery, Yang He drew Dacheng, Fu Chou drew Nambu, and Wei Zhong went to Zhou Cheng in Northeast County. Dacheng and Nambu are close to each other, so Yang He and Fu Chou can travel together, and usually meet each other, but Wei Zhong is depressed that he can't intern with his best friend, and has already set off with his family's merchant ship after the exam this morning.
"That's very good." Fu Chou subconsciously felt that it would be good for him to leave the royal capital, and when he heard Yang He's suggestion, he hastily nodded his head.
Hawkers closely followed the kui Ji walked for five or six minutes, turn the corner on the back of the missing kui Ji, know that tracking failed, immediately and not in a hurry, only turned to sell tea in front of colleagues, take the opportunity to buy tea, to report the situation to colleagues.
After the vendor finished his tea, he returned the same way to the entrance of the college to do his small business, as if he left the entrance of the college just to buy tea to quench his thirst. After the vendor left, Kui Ji jumped down from the hiding tree, quickly hidden into the crowd, Kui Ji did not know that his appearance characteristics have been spread all over the royal capital intelligence network, as long as the intelligence officers found, they will pay more attention to him.
Shortly after Fu Chou and Yang He went to the dormitory and packed up their things and left, a man in a tight-fitting green suit snuck in, flipped open the letter Fu Chou had put in his desk drawer and read it silently, memorized it, put it back as it was, and brought the door with him to leave quietly.