Chapter 103 - III
Jing Xingzhi used impure jade to set up the dragon viewing formation, with a large piece of white jade in the middle, which was so expensive that Jing Xingzhi felt distressed.
Liu Fang looked at the magic and sat on the small bench, feeling like he was experiencing a wonderful adventure.
He seemed to know some of Jing Xingzhi’s magic and the Jing family’s qi-guiding technique, which was really powerful, almost like a special power.
For example, Liu Fang clearly felt that he was already a powerful Liu Fang. With the second-level qi guiding technique to strengthen his body, Liu Fang could now move hundreds of kilograms of things with ease.
But no matter how magical it was, it wasn’t as magical as what Jing Xingzhi was doing at the moment.
Above the formation, a small white dragon appeared out of thin air, flying gracefully!
The jade stones that were originally arranged in a complicated manner flew up piece by piece, some exploded, and some moved their positions.
The formation rotated at high speed, and finally, the entire formation was wiped out in a dozen breaths, leaving only a pile of ashes.
Jing Xingzhi’s face turned pale; he held back a mouthful of blood that he almost spat out and stared at the ashes tightly.
The pile of jade stones turned into runes, which were like ghost-drawing runes, but the Mandarin language could be deciphered.
However, the language existed for a short while, and Jing Xingzhi solved most of it. A circle of white light emitted from the ash pile and scattered randomly, and nothing could be seen.
At that point, Jing Xingzhi breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he was injured, he didn’t show it. The result was also good, perfect.
The mandarin told him: There was a road to the north, and he could get what he wanted.
So, in this way, the current encounter with “frontier” would definitely turn out to be a good thing. It could even solve the signs of depression that he was a little distressed about.
Although he didn’t know why someone was so angry and wanted to go north to deal with it, he believed that God would not lie to people.
Jing Xingzhi adjusted his breath and looked at Liu Fang with a smile. “Go north, the hexagram is very good.”
Liu Fang also breathed a sigh of relief and asked relaxedly, “How good is it?”
“I will get promoted, and you will get rich.” Jing Xingzhi walked toward Liu Fang with a smile, then pointed his finger at little Ah Deng’s nose. “He will… gains some fat!”
Little Ah Deng stared, thinking that his father was playing with him, and shouted happily, “Ah Dada!”
Jing Xingzhi couldn’t help but pinch his little face twice.
Then, after finishing squeezing it, Jing Xingzhi commented playfully, “The fourth prince’s cheek is better.”
Liu Fang pinched his little cheek and argued, “Obviously, Ah Deng’s face is softer.”
Jing Xingzhi said, “But the fourth prince can react with fury and glare.”
Liu Fang: “…”
‘Was the fourth prince something for you to play with?’
Well, it seemed that Jing Xingzhi liked to play with children, especially naughty ones who were played with the most.
Thinking about it, Liu Fang got a little excited. “Maybe if we went north, we could meet the second prince?”
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On the second day, the new scholars gathered outside Kaiyang Hall with bewildered faces.
Inside Kaiyang Hall, ministers were having a court meeting. What kind of official was that? He started at the fourth rank.
And what about these newbies? At most, the number one scholar was a sixth-rank official. Apart from the number one scholar, the rest were seventh-rank officials, and there were many of them in the capital.
The second-place brother asked Jing Xingzhi, “Brother number one, do you know what’s going on?”
Jing Xingzhi nodded honestly, “I know.”
Then the second-place brother and third-place uncle both looked at Jing Xingzhi eagerly.
Jing Xingzhi smiled and said nothing.
The second-place brother resisted the urge to hit someone and asked proactively, “Brother Jing, can you tell us?”
Jing Xingzhi told him, “He is here today to give us official positions.”
“I know!” The second-place brother had an innocent look on his face, but the third-place uncle, who had a shaggy beard, changed his expression and knew that things were not simple.
When Jing Xingzhi thought of his fainting, it was the second-place brother who sent him home. So, he said as patiently as he did to Li Jiafu, “The rush to assign official positions to us must be because of the lack of officials.”
“Ah? Ah! I understand.” The second-place brother immediately understood after three consecutive attempts.
But after the second-place brother understood this, he found more questions surrounding him, and he… didn’t know the answers.
Jing Xingzhi smiled at him, “We’ll find out later anyway, so why be anxious?”
The second-place brother nodded and drank the bowl of soothing soup.
After a while, the top three scholars were called into the hall, and the Jinshi behind them watched eagerly and enviously.
—To be called into the hall, what kind of luck was it for the top three in this session?! Could it be that someone wanted to jump to the next level and become an official?
Many people guessed, but they guessed the ending correctly and the wrong direction.
After all, no one would have thought that Li Yunxi, a man so cruel, would actually recruit new people to work in the frontier.
As a newcomer, of course, they could do odd jobs or reserve their strength to recharge and enrich themselves.
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Inside Kaiyang Hall.
Li Yunxi looked at the three people below and asked, “Are you willing to go to Dingbei as a missionary and take on the responsibility of educating the people?”
Hearing this, the second-place brother and third-place uncle puffed up their chests and spoke loudly.
“The student is willing!”
“The student is willing!”
Their hearts were full of happiness of a young newcomer who had the chance to be reused!
Only Jing Xingzhi was a quiet and calm.
Li Yunxi didn’t hear his junior brother’s answer, so he frowned and asked, “Jing Xingzhi, what about you?”
Jing Xingzhi lowered his head and replied, “It is a heavy responsibility to educate the people of Dingbei. I am afraid that I would betray the Holy Majesty’s hope.”
‘If you asked me to go without benefit, I wouldn’t do it.’
And this thing seemed really difficult. Jing Xingzhi thought that he was dedicated to serving the country and the people, and he would never succumb to the Tyrant Li easily.
When Li Yunxi heard this, he remembered that his junior brother was a stubborn person.
He thought to himself, it wasn’t that his junior brother was unwilling, but he was afraid that he wouldn’t do well.
But…he had a trick for him!
Li Yunxi regretted for a moment that he did not talk to this stubborn junior brother first.
He looked at Jing Xingzhi and asked, “So are you willing or unwilling?”
“I am afraid that I would disappoint the Holy Majesty, so I hope that the Holy Majesty would think twice!”
Li Yunxi raised his eyebrows coldly: “Just answer me directly!”
“I am afraid that I would disappoint the Holy Majesty.” Jing Xingzhi insisted.
Li Yunxi was blocked in one breath, but then he comforted himself: ‘Isn’t that what I want from a loyal minister? He looks annoying, but he’s actually very cute when he is in trouble.’
So, Li Yunxi corrected his attitude and patiently coaxed, “I planned to try a new teaching method. I thought you, young people are smart, so I asked this question. Don’t think too much, just tell me if you are willing or not?”
Jing Xingzhi finally raised his head and asked with bright eyes, “But which master should I follow if you want us to be in charge of education?”
Li Yunxi smiled and said hypothetically, “What if I let you take charge?”
Jing Xingzhi paused for a moment, thinking about the lion before opening his mouth, but with a righteous look on his face, said, “Then I must be at least a fourth-grade official, right?”
The second-place brother: “???”
The third-place uncle: “…”
Convinced, the number one scholar was indeed the number one scholar.
But Jing Xingzhi still had some tricks up his sleeve, shaking his head and saying, “This is against the rules, it’s not good.” Reluctance was written all over his face.