All the members are good people, only the host is a pervert

Originally, the court gave this group of newly-appointed scholars a month's leave to visit their families, but this was ancient times, the roads were long and the carriages were slow. If Lin Ruan wanted to return to Weizhou from the capital, he had to pass through the two large states of Laizhou and Bianzhou.

When she first came with Jiang Wenhui and Lu Zhao, it took her more than a month to reach the capital.

However, this is also because the rivers in the north are frozen in winter. When spring comes and the Bian River thaws, Lin's father and his group can take a boat and reach the capital in less than half a month.

She hadn't been idle this month either. She reorganized the material she'd studied for the past three years in preparation for the Imperial Examination, and incorporated questions and outstanding answers from previous years' examinations. Of course, she couldn't write it herself, so she had the system print it out. Using the excuse of writing a book, she locked herself in her room, paralyzed in space for a month.

A month later, she entrusted the book to the escort agency and sent it to the prefect of Weizhou, Lü Liang. Then she put on her court robes and went to the Hanlin Academy to report for duty every day.

Hanlin Compiler, a sixth-rank official, received a monthly salary of 50 taels of silver and 25 dan of rice. Fortunately, the court, aware of the difficulty of living in the capital, allowed officials who could not afford to buy houses to rent official residences provided by the court. The annual rent was only 5 taels of silver, which was used to cover the maintenance costs of the official residences.

After Lin Ruan entered the Hanlin Academy, he was not troubled as he had imagined, nor did he replace anyone to serve the emperor. Instead, he was arranged to work in the History Museum of the Hanlin Academy to compile history.

Yes, even though Lin Ruan had a system plug-in, she could only stay in a small hall of the Hanlin Academy to study history books.

The scary thing is that there is not only one top scholar here. The top scholar of the previous imperial examination and the previous previous imperial examination are all here. What about the top scholar of the previous previous imperial examination?

Die here.

Others only see the Hanlin Academy's promising future, but that promise presupposes endurance. Countless talented individuals have failed to endure the hardships of the Hanlin Academy, perishing before their missions are accomplished. Everyone says only Hanlin scholars can enter the cabinet, but the most important requirement for becoming the First or Second Minister is survival.

Tsk.

Lin Ruan was doing quite well in the Hanlin Academy, although he always gave people the impression of being a little arrogant. However, as a scholar, and one who had won the top three places in the imperial examination, it was understandable that he was a little arrogant.

The most important thing is that Lin Ruan is rigorous and focused in her work, and she is also extroverted, generous and not calculative. She can get along well with all her colleagues, and her colleagues in the Hanlin Academy quickly accepted her.

Two months later, Lin Ruan had firmly established herself in the Hanlin Academy, and her No. 1 Scholar's Mansion had been renovated and ready for her to move in.

Lin Ruan went in first to take a look. The so-called large four-courtyard means that there is an additional east courtyard on the basis of the four courtyards. Entering from the main gate, there is a moon gate next to the screen wall. After passing a large garden behind the moon gate, you will reach the east courtyard.

The east wing, the garden, and the third courtyard all had moon gates for entry and exit, and the two connecting halls each had four side rooms. Beyond the halls were three main rooms facing north and south, with no side rooms.

Lin Ruan counted them and found that not counting the back room, the back house and the ear room, there were thirty rooms in the main house and the side rooms alone, which was enough to live in anyway.

The structure of the Zhuangyuan Mansion is grand and exquisite. Lin Ruan arranged the second main room into a study and an outer hall, with an ear room on the east and west sides serving as an accounting office and a treasury; she connected the three east side rooms to form a large banquet hall, and used the three west side rooms as guest rooms.

As the only woman in the family, Lin Ruan naturally lived in the third main room. Of the five main rooms, the main hall was naturally the center. The first room on the east side served as Lin Ruan's bedroom. The first room on the west side was for Chi Wenning, and the second for Lu Wenze. There were two side rooms on either side of the main room, and the one on the east side was given to A-Qiao.

The three wing rooms on the east side were also connected and arranged into a banquet hall, and the remaining rooms were temporarily vacant.

Lin Ruan's father, the old lady, was assigned to live in the three main rooms in the east wing, which still had a bedroom, a main hall, and a male study. Of the remaining eight side rooms, one served as an ancestral hall, and the remaining four were used as storage rooms for Lin Ruan, Lin Ruan's father, Chi Wenning, and Lu Wenze.

As for the kitchen staff and servants, they were all arranged to live in the fourth courtyard's back rooms; the maids and servants in the front yard were all arranged to live in the back rooms. Anyway, there were eleven back rooms and seven back rooms, so there was enough space for even a large number of servants.

After taking things out of the space and letting the housework robot decorate the entire house, Lin Ruan moved in with his subordinates.

After moving into the new house, Lin Ruan did not hold a housewarming party at home, but instead booked a table at a restaurant to entertain his colleagues to make amends.

Lin Ruan smiled and said, "My father and my wife haven't come yet. I'll hold a housewarming party after they come to Beijing. I hope you will all come and enjoy it."

Everyone agreed. After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Lin Ruan stood up and raised his glass. "Thank you all for your support today. I'll drink first as a toast." After saying this, he drank it all in one gulp. The others present also stood up and toasted Lin Ruan in return.

After eating and drinking, everyone chatted for a while and then left one after another. After seeing off the last guest, Lin Ruan returned home and collapsed on the bed.

When Lin's father and his companions arrived, Lin Ruan had just achieved a minor accomplishment in the Hanlin Academy—before studying history, one must first read history. With the worlds of the eldest princess and the female superior as a foundation, Lin Ruan read history books as if they were short stories in vernacular Chinese. But as she read, she discovered that Fengwu Kingdom's history lacked a systematic chronicle of events, and each history book recorded different reign titles for the emperor's accession to the throne. The original records had two versions: one stating that the new era began in the year of the emperor's accession, the other that it began the following year.

Lin Ruan had only been on the job for a few months, so he couldn't just whip out a history book and tell everyone, "Look! I wrote this!" However, the reign title could still be standardized. Using the system, Lin Ruan wrote a sentence in the handwriting of a Fengwu emperor on a page of a history book, decreeing that a new era would begin the following year.

With the system, others naturally couldn't find out that this statement was false, so the reign titles of Fengwu Kingdom were unified. The head of the Hanlin Academy reported this matter to the emperor and gave Lin Ruan a credit.

System: If it’s 6, it has to be your operation 6.

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After Lin's father and his companions arrived, they had no objections to Lin Ruan's arrangement. Chi Wenning did feel a little disappointed about sharing a room with Lin Ruan, but he didn't show it too obviously, and Lin Ruan just pretended not to see it.

To be honest, Lin Ruan was happy about Chi Wenning and the others' arrival. Although her needs could be met in the brothel, it was, after all, something that would be tasted by thousands of people. Even though she brushed her teeth in front of him before being served, Lin Ruan still felt a little uncomfortable.

Although she was wealthy, she couldn't display most of it publicly. Furthermore, while Fengwu Kingdom's laws didn't restrict officials from seeking pleasure in brothels, they did prohibit them from keeping prostitutes there. Even if Lin Ruan had money, she couldn't afford to keep a prostitute to serve her alone.

After dinner, Lin Ruan was reading in the study when Lu Wenze walked in wearing a plain dress and holding a bowl of chicken soup. Lin Ruan was surprised and said with a smile, "You rarely dress so plainly."

This was the truth. Perhaps it was because appearance reflects the heart, but Lu Wenze, with his peach-blossom eyes, favored brightly colored clothing, and his hairpins and crowns often chose colors like topaz, ruby, and agate. Tonight, he wore a simple and elegant outfit, his hair held together only with a sandalwood hairpin, which suppressed the charm in his eyes and eyebrows, revealing a beauty that was a harmonious blend of contradictions.

Lu Wenze chuckled softly, "It's all because of my wife. I haven't seen her for a long time, but she stayed in the study so late. I thought I had lost my novelty in front of her."

Lin Ruan took the chicken soup and placed it on the desk. She walked over to the desk, took Lu Wenze's hand, and said with a smile, "Then your soup tonight is free. Come on, come back to my room with me."