Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 219 Inspection

This is Mr. Gu from the Rites Office of our government office. He is in charge of the delivery and inventory of the books used for the imperial examination. Miss Hua, please hand over a copy of the delivery details from the Rites Office so that we can check it. "

Hua Lei nodded and handed over the Ministry of Rites' shipping list that had been prepared long ago. Lord Gu, who was wearing a green official robe, stepped forward and carefully took it. After carefully checking it with the list in his hand, he nodded.

He said to Hua Lei, "Miss Hua, the detailed list is correct. I will take people to the boat to count it now. Please send someone to go with me. Today, all the books of Yueyang Prefecture in the prefecture will be moved to the government office. The books of the remaining nine prefectures will be delivered by Miss Hua's boat tomorrow. I will go with the boat when the time comes.

The quantity and items of books in each state will be specifically counted when they are handed over. "Hua Lei nodded and asked Qing Lian to take Mr. Gu to the boat. Manager Liu from the printing house also followed wisely.

Before the books for the imperial examination were loaded onto the ship, the Ministry of Rites had already packed the books for each state into bundles. Each state had four large bundles, each of which was divided into six small bundles, and the outer packaging had uniform numbers. For example, the outer packaging of the books for Yueyang State had the word "Yueyang" written on it, and then each large bundle had a number from one to four after "Yueyang" on the outer packaging.

Because we are going directly to the provincial capital, today Lord Gu will check the forty large packages from the ten states of Yongjia Prefecture. These forty large packages have red clay stamps and Chinese character numbers. If the Chinese characters and numbers are correct and the red clay stamps are not damaged, it means there is no problem and the first step of inspection has passed.

Then we carefully counted the four large packages from Yueyang Prefecture. In addition to the intact packaging and the intact red mud stamps on the outer packaging, after opening a certain point, there was also a secret verification method at the local level. The delivery personnel were unaware of this method and it was in the hands of the local receiving officials and distributed to the local area together with the list in mid-April.

This is to prevent someone from stealing or exchanging goods during transportation. If this secret verification method is passed, the second step of the inspection will be passed, and then the four large packages of books will be unloaded first, opened directly on the dock, and the six small packages inside the large package will be opened in front of both parties to check whether the red clay stamp on each small package is damaged.

If there is no damage, then the entire inspection is over. The delivery person Hua Lei does not know what books are in each small package.

Except for two people who followed Pei Jingxuan, the others followed Mr. Gu to inspect the goods on the ship. Pei Jingxuan smiled and asked Hua Lei to come to the table. He personally refilled Hua Lei's tea. Several people began to drink tea and chat while waiting for the inspection results.

Pei Jingxuan nodded secretly while watching Hualei sitting on the side drinking tea. She was wearing formal sky-blue clothes, a double-slanted collared wide-sleeved top, and a long skirt that reached her ankles. She was meticulous and dignified. On her melon-shaped face, she had a pair of bright almond eyes. She sat there with her back straight and her shoulders upright, looking generous and generous.

Seeing Pei Jingxuan looking at her, Hualei was not embarrassed and smiled at Pei Jingxuan. Pei Jingxuan couldn't help but smile. Ever since he received the letter from his mother, asking him to secretly prepare for the agency rights, his mother praised this little girl in every letter. At first, he just thought that his mother was old and had a filter for her grandchildren, so she had such a high evaluation of Hualei.

Now it seems that it wasn't really because his mother had a filter, but it was because this little girl was too outstanding. Moreover, he never thought that Hua Lei could get the right to transport the imperial examination books to the two prefectures, and also help his friend get the contract rights.

When his mother wrote to him and asked him to help send someone to the shipyard to purchase a ship, he never thought that Hua Lei had this plan. He thought that this girl was thinking that there were not enough land carriage caravans, so she bought a ship to transport things to her father in Mobei herself.

Little did he know that the matter of the government transportation rights for books engraved for the imperial examination, which neither he nor his mother had thought of, was considered by this little girl, and she put it into practice one step ahead of time and fought for it, and succeeded immediately and smoothly won the government transportation rights.

Even his mother couldn't believe it at first. He had never expected that this girl would get the government's transportation rights. What was even more unexpected was that this little girl came all the way to Yongjia Prefecture by boat to help him.

At this moment, Pei Jingxuan looked at Hualei as if he were looking at his own daughter, with both admiration and heartache. Thinking about the children in his family, Pei Jingxuan felt a little depressed.

After he and his wife, Mrs. Gu, got married, they had two sons and two daughters. The eldest daughter is now the same age as Zhenzhu, and is already fifteen years old, one year older than Hualei. However, she still acts like a child at home every day, and she would act coquettishly and get angry with her wife over a piece of jewelry or a set of dress.

The thirteen-year-old eldest son and the ten-year-old youngest son were still chasing and playing in the inner house behind the government office every day, and the little girl's younger brother was only nine years old this year, but he had already been admitted to the Imperial College with the first place in August last year.

This is really a comparison that makes people angry. My daughter is not as good as Hua Mancheng's daughter, and my son is not as good as Hua Mancheng's son. Pei Jingxuan couldn't help but feel a little discouraged. Yes, what Hua Lei didn't know was that Pei Jingxuan had met his father Hua Mancheng. Although they had only met once.

Pei Jingxuan is two years older than Hua Mancheng, but they were both candidates for the same autumn examination. Pei Jingxuan ranked 112th and Hua Mancheng ranked 128th.

When Hua Mancheng went to Beijing to take the exam, he did not go to Dingbei Marquis Mansion. It seemed that he was delayed on the way. Time was tight and he arrived in Shangjing City two days before the exam. So after a day or two of rest, he went straight to the exam room. When he was leaving the exam room, he heard from his fellow townsman that his mother had a sudden illness and it was very serious, so he hurried back home.

The reason why they met once was because the two examiners were facing each other. Although everyone was focused on their own exams, they had to stay in the exam room for nine days and nine nights, so it was inevitable that they would go in and out of the toilet, so Pei Jingxuan saw Hua Mancheng. The reason why he knew it was Hua Mancheng was because the name of the examinee was hung on the door of the exam room.

So after Pei Jingxuan returned home, he wrote a letter to ask Lord Pei of Mobei whether this Hua Mancheng was the son of his good friend Hua Canghai, because there are not many people with the surname Hua.