When Zhu Shijing's appointment letter came down, Li Ziyu, Leng Xiangbai and Jiang Zhou's faces were so gloomy that water could drip from their eyes.
Liu Boxing helped the injured An Rui sit on the couch, not even daring to breathe, and lamented that the aura of his senior brothers was becoming more and more powerful.
Zhu Shijing didn't expect this, but when he saw what was written on the appointment letter, he just curled his lips indifferently.
He joked, "Whoever has such a big grudge against me, I really have to be a salted fish this time."
An Xin patted his shoulder and consoled him: "My condolences."
"Thank you!" Zhu Shijing glanced at her.
Li Ziyu looked at the two people who still had the leisure to joke around, and shook his head helplessly, "I'll go find someone I know in the Ministry of Personnel and ask if there's any room for maneuver."
"No need, cousin. It's not a good idea to be sent there as a county magistrate. Didn't you notice that the place I went to this time is a county called Huangyan under Leling County?"
"Oh! I remember it." An Rui, who was still a little pale, was sitting on the couch when he suddenly remembered: "Leling County, Baichuan Academy is right there."
Liu Boxing: "Is Ajing where you were exiled? It's not far from Baichuan Academy."
"It should be." Zhu Shijing replied.
Seeing that Zhu Shijing calmly accepted the appointment from the Ministry of Personnel, An Xin told him about the son of Mr. Gongsun Jin, the president of Baichuan Academy, who worked as the Minister of Personnel and whom he met on his way back from the Imperial College today.
"He said that he had heard of our relationship as a teacher and student in Mr. Gongsun's family letters.
The Ministry of Personnel originally wanted to appoint Ajing to be the magistrate of the relatively wealthy Jinzhou, but something went wrong during the process.
Today he stopped me and asked if I wanted to change the place for Jing. "
After An Xin finished speaking, she looked at him, waiting for his answer.
Today, the Minister of Personnel Gongsun Hong seemed to be hesitant to speak. It was obvious that there was another hidden reason behind Zhu Shijing's appointment change, and it must have been done intentionally.
"No need," Zhu Shijing said, "Just go there."
Leng Xiangbai: "Have you thought it through?"
"Doesn't she love seafood?" Zhu Shijing raised the corner of his lips, pointed at An Xin, and said half seriously and half jokingly: "When we get there, I'll have someone rush to send her a few baskets back so she can eat as much as she wants."
Li Ziyu looked at him with disdain: "By the time you take office, the weather will be hot. Even if you rush to the capital, I'm afraid it will turn into a basket of stinky salted fish and rotten shrimp."
Zhu Shijing touched his nose and said awkwardly: "It seems so."
An Xin thought of those plump lobsters, crabs, sea cucumbers, shrimps, shellfish... She was so greedy that she almost drooled.
When everyone saw An Xin's greedy look, they all smiled.
"Ahahahaha, you wish." Jiang Zhou laughed the loudest: "It's no use being greedy. The beach is too far from here. It's impossible to eat seafood."
An Xin looked at the people who were laughing at him, smoothed a strand of hair from his temples and put it behind his ear, and said calmly, "Who said that!"
Everyone's eyes turned to her because of An Xin's words.
"You have a solution." Zhu Shijing's eyes were burning, and he said eagerly, "Tell me quickly."
If there really is a way to transport the seafood caught by fishermen on the coast to more distant places for sale, then he would have nothing to be afraid of!
At this time, Zhu Shijing even saw that promotion and wealth were waving at him.
An Xin raised her head proudly and glanced at them with her clear eyes, "Huh! Who said that I think beautifully just now?"
Everyone turned their condemning eyes towards someone who only caused trouble with his mouth.
Jiang Zhou glared at An Xin and gritted his teeth: "Don't go too far!"
"You can say what you want to say, and don't say what you don't want to say. Anyway, I'm not going to be the county magistrate of a coastal county. What does it have to do with me whether my performance is good or not?"
An Xin looked at him with a smile, and pointed at the people sitting next to Jiang Zhou who was being stubborn.
Even An Rui and Liu Boxing, who were at the bottom of the food chain among their fellow disciples, glared at him disapprovingly.
Because An Rui was injured during this period, his fellow apprentices gave in to him and he became bolder. He scolded Jiang Zhou and said his classic line:
"How can you be so heartless, so cold, and so unreasonable."
Liu Boxing: "Humph! How can you be so unlovable?"
Leng Xiangbai looked at him indifferently: "A Jing will be lonely when he is sent to Huangyan County alone. Why don't we unite the officials who were reported by A Zhou and let him accompany A Jing. It would be nice to be a legal advisor or something."
Zhu Shijing showed a wicked smile, stretched out his arm and put it around Jiang Zhou's shoulders, looking like a good brother, "I think it's okay."
"No." Jiang Zhou pushed away his arm that was around him, wanting to give this shameless guy a slap in the face, "Stop dreaming, do you think there's something wrong with my head?
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How dare you think that I would give up my job as a Beijing official and become your advisor? "
Li Ziyu glanced at him calmly and said, "If you don't want to accompany Ah Jing, you should know what to do."
Jiang Zhou turned sideways and glared at the culprit who had caused him so much anger. He saw her looking at him with a smile, and he also saw others staring at him with eager eyes.
I had no choice but to walk up to An Xin and tug at her sleeves, "It's just what I thought was beautiful, is that okay?"
An Xin took the opportunity to say: "You should stop being so mean and rude to others in the future. The officialdom is not all black and white. If one day you offend too many people, it will be difficult for us to protect you."
Jiang Zhou paused, was silent for a moment, nodded, and said "hmm" softly.
An Xin then asked someone to bring paper and pen, and wrote down the saltpeter she had found in a certain place during her travels, as well as the method and proportion of making ice with saltpeter and water, and handed it to Zhu Shijing.
This is not some golden finger or anything, it is something we actually learn in high school chemistry textbooks.
Afterwards, An Xin began to dry some modern seafood, package them, and sell them to more distant places.
He would orally or write down on paper what he had seen and known before, and give it to Zhu Shijing so that he could ponder it slowly after he had seen it.
Li Ziyu, Leng Xiangbai and others were once again shocked by An Xin's rich and profound knowledge.
"Cousin, you know so much. You can even make ice cubes. That's amazing."
"Yeah." Liu Boxing: "Little Shanzhang will always be my pride."
The others were obviously also honored to have such a teacher.
An Xin had no intention of using his current knowledge to show off.
However, his students were sent to a coastal area with abundant seafood, but the area became backward and poor because they were unable to transport seafood for distant exports.
How could a teacher like her just ignore her work?
Zhu Shijing took the pieces of paper handed to him by An Xin as if he had found a treasure, with tears in his eyes.
What he held in his hand was not the rice paper with words on it, but the road to success paved for him by his own chief.