Wanli 1592

Chapter 590 Xu Guangqi's decision

After reading this letter, Xu Guangqi didn't speak for a long time, looking at the dancing flames on the candle, he was full of emotion in his heart.

When the sky was bright, Li Zhizao, who had also slept for a whole day and a half, rushed to find Xu Guangqi excitedly.

He felt that he did well in the exam and performed very well. He couldn't help sharing his happiness with his friends, but when he came outside Xu Guangqi's hut, he was surprised to find a car parked in front of his friend's hut. A crude carriage.

"Zixian, what are you going to do?"

Li Zhizao looked at Xu Guangqi in surprise.

Xu Guangqi said with a smile: "It's nothing, just leave."

"Leaving?" Li Zhizao turned pale with shock: "What's going on? The general examination has not yet been announced, and there will be a palace examination after that. What are you doing leaving?"

"The matter has come to this point, and it will definitely be the result of failing the ranking. It is nothing but a waste of money to stay. It is better to leave as soon as possible, so as not to waste time here."

Seeing what Xu Guangqi said, Li Zhizao couldn't understand, so he stretched out his hand to hold Xu Guangqi.

"Zixian, the general examination has not yet released the results. Unless you hand in a blank paper, you may still be able to take the mid-term examination. You must know that if you leave now, if you pass the examination, how can you participate in the palace examination?"

Xu Guangqi shook his head.

"I know best what I have done in the exam, Zhenzhi, I will definitely fail this time, there is no need to waste a month, let's leave as soon as possible!"

Li Zhizao really couldn't understand why Xu Guangqi was so sure that he would fail the ranking, but he didn't know what he should say to comfort Xu Guangqi.

"Are you planning to go home?"

All he could do was ask.

"No, I'm going to Shanxi."

Li Zhizao's eyes widened immediately: "Shanxi? You're crazy! There's a war going on there! It's a turbulent place right now. Wouldn't you die if you went there as a powerless person? I won't allow you to go there! Besides What are you doing there?!"

Xu Guangqi looked at Li Zhizao's flustered face, and said, "I'm going to seek refuge with someone."

"Go to someone?"

Li Zhizao felt that his brain was not enough.

"Well, I'm going to join Xiao Zhennan."

"what?!"

Li Zhizao exclaimed, "I heard that right, Zixian?"

"You heard me right, I said that I'm going to join Xiao Zhennan, and I'm going to finish this battle with him, and then, maybe I'll go to Burma! Anyway, I don't want to stay here anymore, next time Before the test begins, I will always be by Xiao Zhennan's side."

With that said, Xu Guangqi patted Li Zhizao on the shoulder: "Zhenzhi, your literary talent is far superior to mine, and you should be able to pass the test this time. I can only congratulate you in advance. If there is a destiny, you and I will definitely meet again." See you."

After finishing speaking, Xu Guangqi was about to leave, but Li Zhizao was taken aback for a moment, then was startled, and immediately stopped Xu Guangqi.

"Zixian, I don't care what's going on with you. It doesn't matter if you fail once. After three years, you can make a comeback. But don't you know how dangerous it is if you go to Shanxi to join Xiao Zhennan? You are a juren! Don't commit suicide yourself. Dangerous! One failure is no big deal, how can you give up on yourself like this?"

This time it was Xu Guangqi who was stunned.

"Abandon yourself? Me?"

Xu Guangqi couldn't help laughing bitterly: "Zhenzhi, how many times have I failed in the Juren examination? Why should I give up on myself? This is what I want to do. I think I have to go to Shanxi to find Xiao Zhen Nan, he is not an ordinary general, I have some doubts since I was studying, maybe Xiao Zhennan can help me solve my doubts."

"Confused? Xiao Zhennan?"

Li Zhizao shook his head, and forced himself to calm down: "He is a general, he doesn't study, you are a juren, why do you need Xiao Zhennan to solve the doubts you got from studying? Zixian, you still say that you have not given up on yourself?"

Xu Guangqi smiled helplessly, then sighed, put down his luggage, and took out a letter from it.

"Just take a look, and you'll know after you take a look. It was brought to me by the Nantuo people in Xiao Town last winter."

"last year?"

Xu Guangqi nodded: "I had a close relationship with Mr. Ye Mengxiong, Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, and Ye Gong had an old relationship with Xiao Zhennan. He learned that Xiao Zhennan was worrying about the talents who governed Burma, so Ye Gong took care of Xiao Zhennan. He recommended me, and in the winter of last year, the people sent by Xiao Zhennan found me and brought me this letter and this."

Xu Guangqi took out a box from the package, and a gun was taken out of the box.

"Is this a firecracker?"

"This is no ordinary firecracker."

Xu Guangqi pointed to the firing device: "This is called a flintlock. Instead of using a matchlock to ignite the fire, it uses this piece of flint to collide with this piece of fire sickle, and after the friction produces sparks, ignite the gunpowder in the fire door, so as to ignite the gun. This is obtained by Xiao Zhennan imitating the new type of firecracker of the Frang Robot in Burma, and the Hongyi cannon you mentioned earlier is also the same."

Li Zhizao looked at this exquisitely crafted musket in surprise, then shook his head violently, and asked, "A musket makes you decide to throw away your fame and follow Xiao Zhennan? It’s not like this, is it?”

"What does it mean to abandon fame?"

Xu Guangqi was a little amused: "Aren't I still juren? As long as there is a test, as long as I am not dead, I can continue to take the test. How do you call it abandoning fame? As for the reason, it is in this letter."

Li Zhizao looked at the letter in his hand in surprise, then opened the envelope, took out the letter inside and began to read.

After a long time, Li Zhizao raised his head with confusion in his eyes.

"Is he really a general?"

"If it's a fake replacement."

Xu Guangqi laughed, then took the letter back from Li Zhizao's hand, packed it, and put it in his bag.

"What is the purpose of my study? Is it just to be an official, to live a prosperous life, or even to oppress the people in Yurou Township? It is undeniable that it is because my family is poor and I am not good at making a living that I have embarked on this path. There is no other way to survive the imperial examination.

So I am ashamed, I am surprised, a general can see this kind of thing, but I am in the middle of the game without knowing it, I almost forgot the original intention of a scholar, and I don’t know when reading has become a means of making money. Fame has become a reliance on making money, Zhenzhi, do you think this is right? "

Li Zhizao looked at Xu Guangqi in confusion, then shook his head.

"Well, I also think this is wrong, so I want to find out what is the right way to do it. There are not many people I can ask. Right now, I can only ask Xiao Zhennan. It just so happens that he It’s being used, Zhenzhi, we will definitely meet again.”

After all, Xu Guangqi boarded the dilapidated pony carriage in front of the door with his bag on his back and the package.

(End of this chapter)