Moreover, one is a middle-level official in the Yushitai, and the other is already the third-in-command of the Hanlin Academy, known as the base of the prime minister.

The future is very different.

No wonder my father didn't want to see him recently. After meeting him, he saw his disciple wearing the same grade of official uniform as himself. Thinking about it, it only took him three months to complete his journey of more than ten years. I really don't know.

What to say.

Fortunately, Bo Qian was indeed a man who remembered his gratitude. Not only did he accept Taiji and Huaiji as his disciples, but once he had established a foothold in the Hanlin Academy, he remembered to praise himself as his senior brother.

After Shi Zhongkui walked out of the official hall, he saw a green-robed official in his forties with grayish temples standing in the middle of the courtyard, waiting silently.

When Mei Hanlin saw the young man in red robe coming out, he immediately knew that this was the rightful owner.

He hurriedly raised his hands and saluted, "I am a student of Mei Chengyi at the Common Hall of the Hanlin Academy, and I have met the bachelor."

Shi Zhongkui hurriedly stepped forward to support him, then took two steps back and saluted him, "My nephew Shi Boqian has met Uncle Mei Shi."

Mei Hanlin was overjoyed, but he kept saying "I don't dare, I don't dare".

Yu Tongfu, who followed him out, secretly sighed that Shi Zhongkui was really shady. At the same time, he also saluted and said, "I am lowering my rank to Yu Tongfu. I have met my predecessors."

Jinke's number one scholar and Tanhua Lang saluted him at the same time, which made Mei Hanlin feel relieved.

When he returned the gift, his voice trembled a little.

Some officials of the Hanlin Academy who heard the voice and looked over also looked at him with envy.

This person surnamed Mei was really lucky. After spending more than ten years in the Hanlin Academy, he was actually related to his son through marriage and the Six Yuan leader, a bachelor's degree student, and he had the hope of promotion before his eyes.

And when they thought that Mr. Mei was already 19 years old and still just a scholar, everyone immediately felt that Mr. Mei was not worthy of the second wife of the Xue family.

Of course, this is also because of comparison between Shi Zhongkui and Yu Tongfu.

Otherwise, a 19-year-old scholar, even if he comes from a high-ranking family with a third rank or above, will feel that the child is trying to live up to his expectations.

But the more Mr. Mei strives for success, the more Mei Hanlin feels that Xue Baoqin is not worthy of his son before Shi Zhongkui rises.

Not to mention that both Xue Baoqin's father and Xue Baochai's father passed away.

But now it's completely different.

Seeing that Shi Zhongkui was promoted to a bachelor's degree, at least he would be the right minister of the Sixth Ministry.

Then he will naturally become a bachelor, and the road to the cabinet has been completely paved.

Moreover, Shi Zhongkui is so young, if he had entered the cabinet before 35, he would have been in the cabinet.

There is enough time to get rid of the top few in the cabinet, and maybe he can really stay in the position of chief minister of the cabinet for ten or twenty years.

Mei Hanlin couldn't help but look forward to it. When the two families become brothers-in-law, wouldn't it be as easy for him and Chongshan's child to get promoted as drinking water?

That's right, Mr. Mei's name is Mei Chongshan.

This name is not bad, but it is a pity that Shi Zhongkui subconsciously did not want to marry his sister-in-law into the ungrateful Mei family.

The three of them were polite for a while, and Shi Zhongkui felt that no one would be able to trouble him on etiquette issues, so he grabbed Mei Hanlin's wrist and walked side by side with him to his official hall.

After drinking tea and reminiscing about old times, Mei Hanlin glanced at Tongfu from time to time.

Shi Zhongkui immediately knew that this old guy had something secret he wanted to tell him.

Yu Tongfu secretly laughed in his heart, stood up and saluted Shi Zhongkui and said, "My lord, I have to go back to the historian to clean up and clean up. I will report to your lord again tomorrow."

Shi Zhongkui nodded with a smile, "When senior brother returns, please salute my wife and the old lady of Duke Tui's Mansion on my behalf. Later, Yu Shun will bring ordinary food to my little niece."

Hearing that there were snacks, Yu Tongfu couldn't help but laugh.

It is nominally for my daughter Xi'er, but my mother-in-law and my wife also like all kinds of snacks from Shi Zhongkui.

There was even an experience where he was forced to come to the door to ask for it in person after eating it.

Mei Hanlin looked at Yu Tongfu's back with some envy.

Does this mean that Yu Tongfu will be transferred from the National History Museum to serve as Shi Zhongkui's deputy?

From now on, everyone in the Hanlin Academy should be fawning over him?

Thinking of this, Mei Hanlin couldn't help but envy that guy Hong Gao.

Although I am one year later than Yu Hong, my situation is really compared to what I was in two years ago.

I am definitely better off staying in the Hanlin Academy than Yu Honggao sitting in the crater-like Daxing County Government Office.

But just because he accepted a good disciple, in less than two years, he was not only promoted to a fifth-rank official, but also entered the Inspectorate.

This person is really annoying to compare with others.

So Mei Hanlin firmly held Shi Zhongkui tightly again.

As a teacher at the Common Hall, Mei Hanlin had no idea whether Fan Dao and Shi Zhongkui would celebrate the festival.

But after giving some hints, Shi Zhongkui calmly pretended not to understand.

Mei Hanlin felt that this was the default.

He was happily sent away by Shi Zhongkui, and hurried back to prepare to cause trouble for Fan Dao.

Fan Dao was indeed plotted by him, but the result was somewhat beyond his expectation.

After Shi Zhongkui got off the government office, he followed the night wandering god to a mass grave twenty miles away as it approached midnight.

After some preparation, I spent a long time using the soul-calling talisman, but there was not a single innocent soul at all.

Only then did he suddenly realize that the 6 extra points of merit he suddenly gained this morning must be due to the Yinsi cleaning up the area around Gyeonggi last night.

Shi Zhongkui couldn't help but curse in his heart.

Since you can get 6 points of merit by indirectly inducing the Yin Si to take action, then if you do it yourself, wouldn't it be at least ten times the merit?

It's a pity that there are some things that you can't say to Ye Youshen and Cheng Huangming, not even to your biological father, wife, or biological son.

I could only sigh and go back to my home.

Then he called Ye Youshen to the study room and said, "A certain person came down to earth to experience and what he wants is merit. Do you understand?"

Ye Youshen was stunned for a moment before he reacted.

I think this is wrong. People don't care whether the underworld is at fault. Instead, they hope that ghosts and spirits will cause trouble.

Only in this way can you slay demons, and when you go back to heaven to discuss your merits and reward them, you will be able to gain more credit.

Otherwise, living a peaceful life is not equivalent to descending to earth for nothing.

Ye Youshen couldn't help but scratch his head.

If the demons cause trouble and cause a big mess, the underworld will be the one in trouble.

But since the immortal made it so clear, he would definitely be dissatisfied if he was not allowed to kill a few demons and eliminate a few demons.

"Sir, how about the little god order someone to investigate outside the Great Wall?"

The closest Great Wall to the capital is Juyongguan, which is only about 130 miles away. However, this place is a military town, and ordinary horse bandits, bandits and spirits dare to mess around anywhere.

Shi Zhongkui understood as soon as he heard that the Yin Division had actually cleaned up an area of ​​a hundred miles around the capital in one night.

He teased angrily, "You guys are moving very fast."

"My lord, please forgive me. It's just that we are afraid of trouble from above. If Emperor Dongyue or the superiors of the underworld blame us, even if we have hundreds of years of merit, it will be useless."

After hearing this, Shi Zhongkui also understood the principle that merit is an attack and fault is a fault.

When the superiors want to cause trouble for you, they will not care how much credit you have made in the past.

Then I stopped holding on to this matter.

However, he did not object to Yeyoushen sending people to search outside the customs.

He just said "be careful", went back to his room, ate a spiritual peach and went to sleep.

When I woke up, my cultivation level, which had reached the critical point, successfully broke through to the 8th level of Qi training.

In three to five months, you should be able to break through to the ninth level of Qi training. By then, you will have to prepare for the breakthrough to the foundation building stage.

However, there are 4 red fruits, plus the 18 spiritual peaches that have been saved in addition to one spiritual peach every month this year, and the harvest of ten spiritual peaches in another 40 days, it should be enough for me to go smoothly.

Break through the foundation.

As for the Foundation Establishment Pill, Shi Zhongkui thought that he wouldn't take it if he could.

After all, with his position as the Royal Horse Supervisor of Ma Ben, if you think about it, you will understand that the Foundation Establishment Pill he can obtain is probably not a powerful one.

But if it were placed in the lower realm, it would definitely be a top-quality elixir.

The side effects will be relatively small.

After washing up and having breakfast, I went to the Hanlin Academy to report. Seeing that nothing happened, I took the people outside the city again in the afternoon to keep an eye on the dredging of the moat.

I was worried before that someone was trying to build a moat, but half a month has passed and I haven't seen any action from the other party.

Shi Zhongkui slowly felt relieved.

After five days of this, the moat was finally almost cleaned.

After completing the handover with the officials who came to inspect and accept the goods, all that was left for me to do as an imperial mission was to increase the production of the rice fields.
To be continued...