Jing Xingzhi’s Daily Life in Ancient Times

Remembering Minister Hong’s face, his eyes red and ready to cry, Jing Xingzhi actually felt unhappy.

‘Just think of it as your own contribution,’ Jing Xingzhi said with ease, “It doesn’t matter if I do it.”

Li Yunxi looked at him carefully and suddenly found that his junior brother Jing Xingzhi looked serious at that moment, and it didn’t look like he was lying to him?

It seemed that this guy did this not for himself to become a high official, but really for the sake of a group of unknown low-level officials.

He asked deliberately: “Aren’t you unhappy that your work was in vain?”

Jing Xingzhi smiled and said, “It’s not like I’m working in vain. I’m afraid senior brother’s private treasury will have to be bled for a while, so please don’t be angry with Xingzhi.”

Li Yunxi stared at him, a little puzzled: ‘I see this guy is very serious about getting an official position just now, how come he isn’t disappointed at all now?’

Unless… he was rushing to get benefits for the people below him from the beginning?

‘So, he took a false shot and confused me.’

Fooled!

Li Yunxi, who felt that he had discovered the truth, suddenly turned fierce and glared at Jing Xingzhi.

Jing Xingzhi blinked harmlessly.

‘What’s wrong? Even if you don’t give me a fourth-grade official position, you still glare at me!’

‘Could it be that you’re really angry that there’s something missing from your private treasury, but this… you looked happy just now? Have you forgotten?’

Jing Xingzhi looked innocent, weak, and confused.

Because he was a dignified emperor, it wasn’t an exaggeration to say that Li Yunxi was the richest in the world.

Jing Xingzhi felt that although “Second Senior Brother” was domineering, he was still a generous person and wouldn’t be angry about money.

So, it was strange that Li Yunxi suddenly glared at him…

Jing Xingzhi was a little confused and asked, “What’s wrong? Your Majesty?”

Li Yunxi, who was looking at Jing Xingzhi, was deep in thought.

He thought to himself: ‘Could it be that… I am overthinking it?’

‘No, I don’t think too much about it. He behaves like two different people now. I must have been fooled, and my feeling is not wrong.’

Li Yunxi looked at Jing Xingzhi without blinking, and slowly, his frown slowly relaxed.

Then Li Yunxi pointed at Jing Xingzhi and laughed loudly.

“You Jing Xingzhi! How dare you plot against me?! Do you think I’m not treating people like Minister Hong well enough? You think I’ve treated them badly, so you’d rather play some tricks and get good conditions for them.”

Li Yunxi burst into tears as he laughed, and his heart was moved by the scheming of this eighteen-year-old boy.

‘Pretending to get an official position for yourself, you are actually doing it for the good of others. What if he had directly said that the conditions were difficult and asked me to promote everyone to a noble rank? I definitely wouldn’t agree. Therefore, he is very clever.’

But this cleverness brought benefits to others, and he wanted to leave a young and energetic impression in the hearts of countless ministers. At such a young age, he wanted to be a fourth grader, who wouldn’t be a joke!

But wasn’t this what he wants? A good minister who sacrifices themselves for others?!

The more Li Yunxi thought about it, the more he felt that he could not mistreat such a good child.

“Don’t scheme too much in the future. I don’t have much money in my private treasury,” Li Yunxi blamed Jing Xingzhi affectionately, took out a piece of bright yellow silk, and wrote a long list with a pen.

Jing Xingzhi, who was sitting below, felt very uncomfortable, holding back his laughter.

‘Second Senior Brother, what are you thinking? I feel like every word you said is familiar to me, but I’m just a little confused.’

‘But you are the boss, so if you like, just make up your mind. Anyway, I did suffer. If you make it up to me, I’ll gladly accept it.’

Jing Xingzhi put on the dazed expression like his son, and began to relax, waiting for Li Yunxi to reveal the surprise reward for being a good person.

Li Yunxi’s heart surged at that moment, and he was very generous.

He gave Father and Mother Jing two official titles, both of the third rank. He thought that Jing Xing’s wife would be uneasy living in the frontier, and the fifth-rank noble was out. Finally, I thought that little Ah Deng was very cute, so he gave him the title of nobility to a little county.

Zhang Tong was frightened as he read the contents of the imperial edict.

‘No one would even dare to do this in opera and novel. Do a good deed and your whole family will be promoted!’

Jing Xingzhi decided not to secretly call the second senior brother a stingy person.

Jing Xingzhi sincerely thanked: “Thank you, senior brother!”

What Father Jing wanted most was to pass the imperial examination. Now he would be a third-rank official, and he would definitely be happy.

It was a pity that he was in such a hurry to rush to Dingbei this time that he didn’t have time to go back to his hometown and tell his parents.

Told them that Jing Xingzhi won the first prize and became a fifth-rank official, Liu Fang gave birth to little Ah Deng, and the family of three was doing well.

The team sent to Dingbei and Anbei was temporarily called the northbound team.

Five days later, the northbound team set off in great force.

The scene was quite spectacular when they left. Many people went out spontaneously to watch the team leave the city.

At Shiliting Pavilion.

Wu Mingrui, second-place brother, and third-place uncle, came to see them off with a group of new Jinshi, and the Shiliting Pavilion was so blocked that no one could stand.

Among the current Jinshi, Jing Xingzhi was the number one scholar, but he was also the first to “go abroad” and hurriedly went to the north.

The newbies who were new to the officialdom were all naive and envious, but most of them expressed their sincere blessings, hoping that Jing Xingzhi would prosper and that his official career would be prosperous as well.

Jing Xingzhi drank one cup after another, and finally, he hugged his bloated belly and waved his hands: “I can’t drink any more, I really can’t drink anymore! It’s better not to delay any longer, and take the first step! Don’t send me away if you’re the same year.”

Wu Mingrui laughed: “I can’t believe that our champion is so good at drinking!”

The second-place brother joked, “Now that you are an official, you’re so good at drinking. There are so many of us, and we haven’t been able to drink you down yet!”

The third-place uncle was steadier and spoke like an elder, “Okay, okay, let Xingzhi go. The team has been waiting for a long time. We will wait for him to come back, and we’ll let him make up for his drunkenness!”

“Easy to say, good-bye! We are all from the same year!”

Jing Xingzhi waved his hand, turned around, and walked away step by step.

Afraid of being pulled back again, Jing Xingzhi didn’t look back.

However, he smelled of alcohol, which would surely make Liu Fang and little Ah Deng uncomfortable. Jing Xingzhi planned to change into a carriage and lay down to sleep by himself.

He walked to the front of the queue and spoke to Liu Fang through the carriage curtain, getting a pot of honey grapefruit tea to sober up.

Slightly drunk, he carried the teapot and walked to the empty carriage behind him, not letting anyone else help him.

After walking a few steps, just before he reached the empty carriage, Hong Jiyi opened the curtain and greeted him with a hearty smile: “Okay, come up and sit for a while! Talk to me. I’m the only one in this carriage. I don’t mind your drunkenness.”

Jing Xingzhi felt something might be off but nodded and sat down.

Hong Jiyi noticed the teapot and asked curiously, “What’s that?”

Jing Xingzhi smiled, “My wife made tea for me.”

Not stingy, Jing Xingzhi shared a cup with Hong Jiyi from the teacup in his carriage.

Hong Jiyi took a sip and remarked, “Good honey, you’re lucky!”

Jing Xingzhi hadn’t expected that Hong Jiyi wouldn’t offer any advice or serious conversation, but instead, he chatted with him about everyday things.

At the end of their talk, Hong Jiyi pulled out a bunch of medicinal materials and said, “These are for you. You can take them with you. If your wife or children feel uncomfortable, ask the accompanying doctor to prescribe medicine. There’s no harm in having it.”

Kind-hearted as always, Hong Jiyi insisted that Jing Xingzhi take them. Jing Xingzhi reluctantly accepted.

After Hong Jiyi’s carriage drove off, Jing Xingzhi took two steps to find another carriage but the next carriage stopped him.

An unknown official, a sixth-rank official, wanted to give Jing Xingzhi two bags of dried fish from his hometown.

Jing Xingzhi, baffled by the random gesture, shook his head, “It’s impossible.”

The official smiled and revealed his identity: “Young Master Jing, I have been following Minister Hong before. Thank you for speaking up, which allowed us to gain the convenience and promotion directly!”

“Even if you don’t want these things, you still have to take them.” The sixth-rank official spoke in a rather domineering tone, sticking his head out of the curtain and pointing at the long line of carriages. “There are so many people waiting behind, so don’t delay!”

Jing Xingzhi looked at it, stunned.

Many carriage curtains were secretly opened, and countless people were staring at him and smiling.