The carriage pulled over and Su Li and Pei Ji got off one after another.
As soon as she stood still, two luxurious two-horse carriages drove up from behind, and Pei Mingyue leaned out of the window to greet her.
Then two carriages stopped in front of them. Pei Mingyue opened the carriage door and jumped out briskly, smiling and saying, "Ali, you guys came so early?"
Su Li smiled and replied, "We just arrived too."
Two people also got off the other carriage. They were Pei Mingyue's father, Ning Yuanhou, and her second brother, Pei Mingheng, who was also the second place winner of this examination.
Pei Ji bowed and said, "My Lord."
Su Li also bowed and said, "Greetings, Lord Marquis."
Ning Yuanhou raised his hand and said with a hearty smile, "We are all family, no need to be polite."
Pei Ji is the junior fellow of his second brother. It is rare for his second brother, who is serious and stern, to value someone so much. He has praised him in front of him more than once, so naturally he wants to get closer to him.
Besides, Pei Ji's talent was unquestionable as he had achieved first place in the imperial examination. He greatly admired talented people, otherwise, he would not have been so supportive of his second son taking the imperial examination.
As for Su Li, he also found out that day that the person who saved Mingyue happened to be Pei Ji's wife, and his attitude towards them became closer.
Pei Mingheng also came over to greet Pei Ji and the others: "Master uncle, Master aunt."
“…”
Uncle-master, mistress-master?
Su Li was stunned, then remembered that Pei Ji was Pei Chuan's junior fellow student, and Pei Chuan was Pei Mingheng's uncle. According to seniority, he should call Pei Ji "uncle-master". But Pei Ji was actually only three or four years older than Pei Mingheng, and they were candidates in the same year. When Su Li heard this, he didn't react for a while.
Then he followed Pei Ji and greeted him: "Second Master Pei."
However, Pei Mingyue, seeing her second brother calling Pei Ji and his wife "master uncle" and "master aunt", secretly suppressed her smile.
At this time, the palace gate had not yet opened, so several people started chatting together, mainly Ningyuan Hou, Pei Ji, and Pei Mingheng, while Su Li and Pei Mingyue were whispering to the side.
Afterwards, Ningyuan Hou went into the palace first as he had something else to do.
"Pei Ji! Pei Ji!"
Just after Ning Yuanhou left for a while, a man came jogging from the direction of the palace gate, waving his hand towards Pei Ji as he ran.
It was Lin Muyang. Su Li had also heard in the past two days that he had won the tenth place in the imperial examination.
"Pei Ji," Lin Muyang said with a grin, "you kid, after the exam, you couldn't even find anyone. When the list of candidates came out, I couldn't even find anyone to congratulate you."
He had gone to Jufu Inn to look for him several times before, but was told that Pei Ji was not in the inn, and neither was Madam Pei. He didn't know where the couple had gone.
Then he looked at Su Li again and greeted her with a smile: "Madam Pei."
"Mr. Lin." Su Li also greeted him with a smile.
Afterwards, Pei Ji introduced Lin Muyang to Pei Mingheng. Lin Muyang was cheerful and quickly started chatting with Pei Mingheng.
Pei Mingyue pulled Su Li aside and whispered, "This Lin Muyang is also a classmate of your husband's?"
"yes."
"Tsk, are all the candidates from your place so good-looking?" Pei Mingyue asked curiously.
Su Li was stunned and looked at Lin Muyang, then he found that Lin Muyang had indeed become more handsome.
Lin Muyang was not young at all, but he seemed to have developed late. Both his temperament and appearance were like a child. Before, when I saw him, I only thought that he had a delicate appearance, which was a bit far from the handsome appearance that would make people's eyes light up. But now, it seemed that he had suddenly grown up, and his appearance became no worse than Zhao Xingwen.
Su Li looked at Pei Mingyue with amusement. This little girl was really vicious in judging people. She didn't even notice it just now.
Pei Mingyue felt a little embarrassed when she saw Su Li looking at her like that. She showed her white teeth and said with a giggle, "Of course, your husband is still the most handsome, Ah Li, hehe."
"Puff!" Su Li couldn't help laughing and whispered, "Your second brother is also good-looking."
Indeed, from her aesthetic point of view, Pei Mingheng is also very good-looking, but he is not of the same type as Pei Ji.
If Pei Ji's appearance is that of a cool and handsome man, then he is that of a dignified and handsome man. Lin Muyang is more of an energetic masculine type, while Zhao Xingwen is more of a gentle and handsome type.
"Yeah, my second brother is good-looking, but I'm used to seeing him since I was a child..."
While the two were talking, Su Li caught a glimpse of two carriages stopping at the end, and then two young men got out of the front carriage, one of whom was Zhao Xingwen.
As soon as he got off the carriage, he walked straight to another carriage and stood there. Then a young girl got off the carriage.
The girl was supported by a maid, while Zhao Xing was attentive and supporting her from the side.
After standing still, Zhao Xingwen said something to her, but the girl looked shy and replied a few words.
The other man patted Zhao Xingwen on the shoulder, and the three of them talked and laughed.
"Ali, what are you looking at?" Pei Mingyue followed Su Li's line of sight and saw Zhao Xingwen: "Hey, is that him?"
Su Li asked, "Do you recognize the girl sitting across from Zhao Xingwen?"
Judging from the looks of it, the girl should be here to take him to the palace for an exam. The two of them are obviously not in a normal relationship based on their actions. Zhao Xingwen is so bold, could it be that his wife didn't come to Beijing with him?
Pei Mingyue nodded and replied, "That person is Zhang Ruying, the second daughter of the Minister of Works, and the one next to her is her eldest brother Zhang Ruqing."
Pei Mingyue and Zhang Ruying had no friendship, they had only met at a banquet. She didn't expect that she came with Zhao Xingwen.
But she was not surprised. Catching a son-in-law from the list was something that happened every three years in the capital. Zhao Xingwen was good-looking and was in the top ten of the list, so it was not surprising that he was chosen as a son-in-law.
Su Li sneered in her heart. It turned out that Zhang Ruying had already taken a fancy to Zhao Xingwen at this time.
The second daughter of the Minister of Works. As a poor candidate with no background, if he could marry the daughter of the Minister of Works, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he would reach heaven in one step. No wonder in the original book, he felt that the existence of his wife and children was a stumbling block to him, and was so crazy that he hired someone to kill his wife and children.
Su Li looked at Zhang Ruying in front of him. In the original novel, after Zhao Xingwen was exposed for hiring a killer to kill his wife and son, Zhang Ruying had already married him and gave birth to two sons and a daughter for him.
What's funny is that after Zhao Xingwen was dismissed from his post and imprisoned, Zhang Ruying not only did not blame him for ruthlessly killing his wife and children in exchange for his future, but instead blamed the original heroine for meddling in other people's affairs and exposing her husband's crimes, which not only harmed her husband, but also caused her three children to be criticized for their entire lives. She also had no sympathy for the original wife who was killed by Zhao Xingwen.
When reading the original novel, Su Li felt that the two of them were a perfect match made in heaven, both equally selfish and cruel.
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