Chapter 290 - Casting a Sachet Into His Wagon
Chapter 290: Casting a Sachet Into His Wagon
Jiang Pengji face split into a large smile as she came up with some evil ideas in her head. She took off the sachet that was hanging on her waist and cast it into the wagon.
Feng Jin was startled, but it happened so fast that he didn’t have the opportunity to stop her.
It wasn’t just Feng Jin who was shocked. She spooked Wei Ci as well, who was reciting Qingxin Formula in the wagon. He suddenly found there was something in his arms. He opened his eyes and found a delicate, light yellow sachet. The style was made for a man but it seemed like it was owned by a girl. It looked somewhat familiar to him.
He maintained control as he picked it up. There was the small character “Xi” embroidered into the corner of the sachet. His heart skipped a beat. He turned around, looked out of the window, and found a familiar shape leaning against the window of the tea house. She was leering at him.
Wei Ci turned his head back around with no expression on his face. He ground his teeth hard and his right hand clutched the sachet tight.
The sachet was rolled into a ball. His fingers turned white because of his hard grip but he still couldn’t calm down.
Jiang Pengji laughed. There was a sense of amusement in her eyes.
“Lanting, do you have a feeling about this Langjun?” Feng Jin had watched her toss her sachet into a stranger’s wagon and he couldn’t do anything to stop her.
“Why?” Jiang Pengji looked at Feng Jin and said, “I just simply felt that he was innocent and not pretentious, unlike the other gaudy guys. Didn’t you notice that he was the same with you? You are both natural beauties.”
Feng Jin suddenly didn’t know how to respond. He felt that he couldn’t use the phrase “natural beauty” any longer.
He took a deep breath and reproved her, “Messing around is all right. But how could you give some personal belongings, like a sachet, away to some stranger?”
“Don’t worry, I know him. It was just a joke and he won’t mind. I just wanted to spook him.”
From what she knew about Wei Ci, she figured he wouldn’t complain to her even if he did have a problem with her actions.
She was sure that she had never seen him before she came to the Capital City, but somehow he didn’t just know her––he seemed to know her very well. It wasn’t some sort of familiarity to Liu Xi, but to Jiang Pengji.
It was so fun for her that she couldn’t help but make fun of it. She saw other people throwing handkerchiefs or sachets to the Langjuns in the wagons, so she tossed a sachet to him as well.
Jiang Pengji smiled and took a sip of tea. Feng Jin stared at her, feeling rather exhausted.
The wagons that came after Wei Ci were all people Jiang Pengji knew or at least had met a couple of times.
They were not the Langjuns who were born and grew up in the Capital City. The Langjuns in the Capital City were accustomed to the luxurious, but dispirited, dress code.
Master Yuanjing was a decent teacher who had decent students. Their dress was more like literati, but nothing like the aristocratic style of the Langjuns in the Capital City. What was more important, compared to those gaudy guys, their dress code fit the taste of the viewers in the streaming room more.
Every time a wagon drove by, the viewers who worshiped the pretty faces had to howl for a bit to express their thrill. They wished that they could have been there to give them some kisses.
Xiangchengwei Jitui: “I want to travel there. Then I can have the host at my back and I get to see the pretty boys. Maybe I can use the advantage of my knowledge of the poems from the ancient times to become a girl with a good reputation and social status. It’s very likely that I could finally marry a handsome and rich guy and achieve my life goal.”
Sanbei Liangzhan Danjiu: “#Despise Emoji. Time traveling for you? You have to check yourself out in the mirror first. They value pretty faces in the ancient times much more. You know about the poems from the ancient times. Even if you are the reincarnation of Li Bai or Du Fu, it won’t do you any good if you don’t have a beautiful face.”
Xiangchengwei Jitui: “#Puking Blood Emoji. You didn’t have to strike me so hard.”
The wagons with red ribbons drove into the Royal Leisure Palace one by one. They could smell the strong scent of flowers floating over the wall as they got close.
Wei Ci lowered his body and came out of the wagon. His emotions were settling. He had no idea where he left the light yellow sachet.
“Zixiao, I saw someone cast a sachet into your wagon. Who would be that bold?” Han Yu asked him when he was aware of what had happened.
Wei Ci kept his face cold and said, “Some ruthless nobody.”
Han Yu seemed to be more sedated after what he had been through, but he was still as enthusiastic as always.
If it wasn’t an appropriate occasion for him, he would have pulled Wei Ci to the side and interrogated him about the earlier incident.
“Make sure Liu County Chief does not hear this, or else you won’t pass for the evaluation this year,” Han Yu said to him.
Wei Ci’s face still showed no emotion. The gentry clans at present had all been filtered through multiple times from different places. They were counted as the elites of Dongqing Dynasty. They would have all been able to pass, but also rank if there nothing went wrong.
Since Wei Ci was Master Yuanjing’s apprentice, if he ranked poorly, he would ruin Master Yuanjing’s reputation as well as his own.
It was Wei Ci’s first time attending the evaluation after he retrieved his memory. When they were parading in the wagon, the flourish and the bustling surroundings made him lose track of time until the small sachet was tossed into his wagon. It woke him up from his memory.
“I wonder what kind of questions Liu County Chief is going to ask us. Master told us our future was still unknown and we should stay still and cope with the changes.”
Han Yu sighed secretly. With what his master was capable of, he definitely sensed something, or at least he had a lead, but he wasn’t going to disclose it to his students.
Wei Ci listened to him with his poker face. He did know what the questions would be––that was if nothing had changed.
But unfortunately, the General Evaluation Officer was replaced by Liu She. Who the hell knew what kind of questions he was going to give to them.
“We are familiar with Liu County Chief’s conduct.”
Lv Zheng was speaking in a low voice with Cheng Jing and he overheard Han Yu’s conversation with Wei Ci. He kept his voice down and said to them. “You are?”
Han Yu looked at Lv Zheng with a grin.
“Master has said that Liu County Chief was a practical person. So my assumption is his questions have to have something to do with philosophy of management,” Lv Zheng suggested.
The evaluations over the past several years were mostly about making poems. A bunch of people were either grieving for the dreadful season or praising virtues.
According to the hearsay about Liu She, he was more like a pragmatic person.
The evaluation was set to elect the young elites for government purposes instead of seeking out was the best flatterer. Liu She seemed to differ from the former General Evaluation Officers. The other Langjuns adjusted their dress after they pried about Liu She’s preferences.
If it was for catering to Liu She’s taste, Jiang Pengji and her viewers in the streaming room would see a completely magnificent parade.
Wei Ci didn’t participate in their discussion. He just stood there and listened to them.
Han Yu asked him, “You normally care about this the most. Don’t you have any comments on it?”
He lowered his eyes. “If it wasn’t master’s request, I really wouldn’t be here. Therefore, no matter what kind of questions Liu County Chief asks, it won’t matter to me.”
As long as he wouldn’t be the last one ranked, he wouldn’t bring shame on his master. He was just there for a show.
Wei Ci was guaranteed not be elected. Even he was full of talent as long as the election criterion of current Dongqing Dynasty stayed the same.
Han Yu seemed to remember something. He sighed again without saying anything.
Jiang Pengji and Feng Jin came along to the Royal Leisure Palace as well. It was nearly the end of autumn, but the flowers were blooming inside of the palace and some trees were blooming with bright red flowers; that was where the fragrance came from.
Beautiful views shined even more brilliantly while they were in pretty people’s company.