Chapter 70 The Prince Consort Disguised as a Man in a Revenge Story (5)
Hefeng Restaurant is one of the best restaurants in Shangjing City.
No matter what time of day, this place is always packed.
And Hefeng Tower is only one street away from Chunshanli.
In the private room on the third floor, Zhang Bujin poured one glass after another of wine into his mouth.
Beside him were several empty wine bottles.
A month ago, Zhang Bujin was a proud new scholar.
He comes from a wealthy family in Liangjiang, and his family has been in business for generations. He is the number one businessman in Liangjiang.
After making enough money, I just hope that someone can become an official.
As for him, he has been obsessed with learning since he was a child.
All the way from the provincial examination, the general examination, and the palace examination, I overcame all obstacles and tried my best.
Finally, he became the first Jinshi in the Zhang family.
He still remembers the joy he felt when the results were announced that day.
But soon, worry set in.
There are many strong people in the imperial examination room. Although he won the Jinshi, he was only a third-class Jinshi at the bottom.
Jinshi are also divided into three, six or nine grades. The first-class Jinshi naturally refers to the top three, which is the number one, second and third overall winner that everyone envies.
The second-level Jinshi are the top fifty people in addition to the first-level Jinshi.
As for the top three Jinshi, they are naturally the remaining ones who made the list.
In this imperial examination, there were a total of 120 Jinshis and 67 top three Jinshis.
And Zhang Bujin ranked 30th among the sixty-seven.
This is not a good ranking.
Both are Jinshi and have entered Jixian Academy together, but since they can serve in front of His Majesty, they will naturally have more opportunities to stand out.
As for the second-level Jinshi, they were often chosen by officials from the six ministries and sent to various ministries to help. People with outstanding abilities could stay in the capital and serve as officials after several years.
However, the fate of most of the top three Jinshi scholars is to eventually be assigned as an official abroad.
If it is a land of plenty and plenty, then it is naturally a good place to go.
But the places where I was assigned were mostly bitter cold places or counties with rugged folk customs.
And if you want to make it back to Shangjing City, it will easily take twenty years to start.
Many people never reached the threshold of returning to the capital until their death.
Zhang Bujin did not want to follow the same path as the previous top three Jinshi.
Therefore, when he faced the temptation of the admission banquet test questions, he couldn't help but be tempted.
He spent 8,000 taels of silver in exchange for a piece of test paper, hoping to prepare in advance, shine at the entrance banquet, and win the attention of the Holy Emperor.
From then on, he was able to rise to prominence and become the proud ancestor of the Zhang family.
Unfortunately, when the fraud occurred, not only was he unable to honor his ancestors, but he was deprived of his status as a Jinshi scholar, and three generations of his family were also barred from entering officialdom.
Zhang Bujin didn't dare to go back to Liangjiang at all, and he didn't dare to go back and face the reproachful looks of the people in his clan.
He later learned that someone had complained to the officials, and this originally secret matter of leaking the title was revealed.
The first person the government investigated was Chunshanli, and the person they investigated was Sui Xianzhi, the only son of the eldest princess of Jing'an.
Almost everyone believed that the person who sued the official had some issues with Sui Xianzhi, so he did this.
Otherwise, why would Chunshanli be the first place to be found?
This also made Zhang Bujin deeply hate Sui Xianzhi.
I just feel that my current downturn is all caused by Sui Xianzhi's carelessness.
I drank another glass of cold wine, but the pot was already empty.
Zhang Bujin called someone over and asked him to serve a few more bottles of wine.
He was so drunk that he didn't realize that he didn't know the waiter who came to serve him wine this time.
The man lowered his head and put the wine on his table.
"Mr. Zhang, the Qianrichun you are used to drinking is gone. The last pot was sent by Mr. Sui Xianzhi from Chunshan. Mr. Sui asked for it. Why don't you try these sweet-scented osmanthus brews? They are also the signature of our Hefenglou. "
Qianrichun is the most expensive wine in Hefeng Tower. A pot costs a hundred taels, which is more than a hundred times more expensive than ordinary wine.
But Zhang Bujin is not short of money. These days, he has been drinking Qianrichun.
Now that I heard that Qian Richun was gone, I still let the person I hated the most go to him.
He felt his anger rising, and he couldn't hold it back any longer.
"Even Qian Riharu wants to fight against me! I want to tell him, why does he keep hurting me and targeting me! I have lost my position as a Jinshi, and now he even wants to fight for wine with me! "
Normally, he would still be wary of Sui Xianzhi's identity, but now, drunk, Zhang Bujin didn't care about anything, and directly asked someone to prepare the carriage, and drunkenly headed towards Chunshan.
Naturally, there are still few people to serve in Spring Mountain.
Zhang Bujin seemed to be in a deserted place all the way, and found the room where Sui Xianzhi stayed most often.
He had been a frequent visitor here before, so he was naturally familiar with the layout here.
As soon as he entered the house, a fragrant aroma came to his nostrils, and Zhang Bujin staggered towards it.
After walking a few steps, he found Sui Xianzhi lying there.
He was just about to pick up Sui Xianzhi on the ground and argue with him for a few words, but suddenly he felt hot all over his body and his blood was rising.
Even Sui Xianzhi's face, which he hated deeply, felt a little confusing for a while.
After a moment, Zhang Bujin shook his head, stood up staggeringly, directly pulled Sui Xianzhi's legs, and stumbled towards the inner room.
The door behind them was half-closed. One of them was unconscious and the other was drunk. They had not thought about closing the door tightly.
More than an hour later.
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, his master had not yet summoned them to serve.
The servant waiting in the backyard was a little confused and quietly came outside the room.
But I saw that the door of the room was not covered, it was just half open.
Could it be that the young master has gone out?
"Sir?"
The servant called a few times and saw that there was no movement in the room, so he opened the door and walked inside.
A moment later, a scream erupted in the room.
At this moment, in the Canaan uncle's house, Shi Ran openly avoided the dinner in the house on the pretext of being drunk and was resting in his room.
At this moment, I'm afraid everything is done.
Shi Ran chuckled, the laughter full of sarcasm.
Doesn't Sui Xianzhi love to use such despicable methods?
Then let him have a taste of it himself.
As for Zhang Bujin?
He had been drunk all these days and heard that he had corrupted a good girl in Hefeng Tower through drunkenness.
But it was only because he was rich enough that he used money to settle the matter, so the girl's family never sued the government.
However, a few days ago, I heard that the girl committed suicide by drowning herself in the river.
Zhang Bujin settled the matter with money, but he is still the drunken Mr. Zhang in Hefeng Tower.
When the girl's parents got the money, they heard that they immediately arranged for their son's marriage.
Only the girl who was really hurt slept forever in the cold river water.
Shi Ran learned about this from others a few days ago.
The rumors in the capital city are also mixed.
She originally wanted to clean up this divination some time later.
Now that Sui Xianzhi had set up this so-called trap, she simply followed the trend and put the two of them together to deal with it.
It's a good show where evil people control evil people.
And in the princess mansion late at night, the eldest princess Jing'an leaned feebly on the maid next to her.
Looking at the unconscious Sui Xianzhi in front of her, her eyes were full of despair.
"What evil have I done!"