In the second year of An Xia Qiming, seventeen-year-old Zhuo Lin came to the capital alone thousands of miles north.

At this time, the new emperor had only been two years since the throne, but this dynasty that had lasted for hundreds of years was already in turmoil.

The young prince took over a mess from his father. He was facing riots everywhere. The generals stationed in various places were self-respecting, and the central court could collect less than half of the taxes that were as high as they were in their heyday. However, after hundreds of years of development, the royal family had formed a huge and bloated royal family group, and the imperial court needed huge funds every year to support these pampered royal family relatives.

Therefore, the funds that the court could use were even more difficult to use, and the people were unwilling to worship these noble royal relatives. Compared to using taxes to support noble royal relatives thousands of miles away, those warlords with self-respecting troops were willing to do something for their own territory, which seemed not so unacceptable.

Of course, this is only relative.

But no matter how stormy the outside is, the capital is still the capital.

The emperor is located in the capital, with singing and dancing, prosperity and hustle and bustle.

Zhuo Lin had just taken a train from the south for several days and nights before she arrived in Beijing. Now the train is still a new thing in Anxia and cannot be directly connected. Zhuo Lin changed the train several times and finally arrived in Beijing.

She was also wearing Anlan University’s uniform, and although she was a little dusty, she still couldn’t hide her beautiful face.

As soon as she got off the train, she was blocked by two gangsters who looked slippery and slutty. "Oh, little girl, where are you going? Just came to Beijing?"

Zhuo Lin stopped with her suitcase in one hand and looked up at the person who blocked her way.

When the two gangsters saw this beautiful appearance, their eyes lit up. They had been in the railway station for a long time. It was the first time that such a beauty had been left alone.

"The girl just came to Beijing and no one answered her? Is she not a place to live? Do you want to rent a house? It's cheap and convenient!" A gangster came over with a smile.

Zhuo Lin said: "Thank you, no need."

"Oh, the sound is so nice. The girl is from the south, right? Let's go, don't be polite. You're relying on friends when you go out..." A gangster excitedly wanted to go forward to get Zhuo Lin's suitcase.

The passerby next to him saw the little girl being entangled by a gangster. Someone wanted to come forward to help, but was soon scared away by the gangster's fierce appearance.

In a chaotic world, it is the way for most people to do things.

If this kind of local snake is really involved, it will be very troublesome.

Zhuo Lin had already turned a little cold, "I said no."

The gangster obviously didn't understand what others refused. The two of them stepped forward together and wanted to grab Zhuo Lin's suitcase, while the other went to pull her arm.

Zhuo Lin suddenly smiled slightly, "You want it, give it to you."

After saying that, she put her hand on, and smashed the suitcase towards the gangster's hand. When the gangster subconsciously took it, she took something out of her bag and pulled it into the gangster's pocket.

A thick smoke came out of the gangster's pocket, and the other gangster changed his face in an instant. He saw clearly what Zhuo Lin threw in.

He shouted in a trembling voice, "Hand...grenade?! Hurry! Throw it out!" The gangster who had been thrown by the grenade was so scared that his hands and feet were weak when he heard it. He screamed and tried to take out the things in his pocket, but he made a mistake in his busyness and could not take it out. Instead, the smoke became heavier and the sound of the lead burning and the extremely irritating smell.

"Aoah! Help!"

Where can anyone dare to save him? When he heard the word "grenade" and the people around him had already been busy quitting away.

The other gangster was a little loyal and did not escape by himself, but rushed over to take out the grenade. However, there was something else in the thick smoke, which made both of them unable to open their eyes, so they could only take out the thing in a hurry and threw it out.

Some people exclaimed, some people covered their ears and waited for the explosion.

However……

Some people wonder, does it take so long to explode with a grenade?

People couldn't help looking over and saw the gadget that looked like a grenade lying quietly on the ground, without even the smoke.

However, the two gangsters somehow waited until the smoke had dissipated before they could see clearly. They collapsed on the ground with tears on their faces and couldn't get up.

I don't know if it was scared or if there was any problem with the thick smoke.

As for the beautiful little girl, she was nowhere to be found.

"..." This is a ruthless situation.

Someone looked at the two gangsters on the ground and thought a little gloatingly.

"Interesting." Under the pillar on the side of the railway station gate, two young men were watching this scene.

The younger young man was a little surprised, "Brother Fu, you knew that the little girl would be fine?" He saw that the girl was wearing Anlan University uniform and thought that everyone was from Yongcheng to go up to help, but was stopped by Brother Fu.

The older young man is tall and upright, with a handsome and hard face.

It is not like the gentle and gentle man of the southerner, but it is a bit of the heroic and fierceness of the northerner.

He glanced at the little brother beside him, "Do you think such a beautiful girl can run around alone without any ability?"

The young man nodded, "That's right, even ordinary men may not have the courage to run from Yongcheng to Beijing."

"How do you know she is from Yongcheng?" This time, the young man was surprised and touched his chin and asked in confusion, "There is such a beautiful girl in Yongcheng?" Why didn't he know?

The young man was speechless, "Brother Fu, that girl is wearing Anlan University uniform. Don't tell me you don't know?"

The young man disagreed, "The labor and capital are very busy, why do you care about what female students wear? You can watch it without any fun, let's go."

The young man lifted the luggage next to him and sighed. Brother Fu was so confused. Such a beauty was rare. He wasted the opportunity of this hero to save the beauty and insisted on standing here to watch the fun?

It is probably difficult to find a wife in the future.

Zhuo Lin didn't know that she was watching the excitement. She went out to study alone at the age of fifteen, and now she has traveled thousands of miles to the capital. Naturally, she wouldn't be prepared at all, otherwise she wouldn't be able to reach the capital.

She walked out of the train station with her luggage and called a rickshaw on the side of the road and asked someone to take her to Beijing University.

Jingcheng University is the highest institution of learning in Anxia, ​​and was originally the Anxia Taixue. Twenty years ago, when the imperial examination system was reformed, the Imperial College was also changed to Jingcheng University.

Zhuo Lin’s professor at Anlan University and the liberal arts director of Beijing University are brothers and sisters. This time she came to Beijing and sent a letter to the teacher. Of course, she also understood that the teacher also wanted her brother to take care of her for her own good.

After delivering the letter, Director Chen was indeed very happy. He cared about her residence and carefully informed her of the time and precautions for the Beijing University admissions examination, and enthusiastically invited her to have dinner at home.

Zhuo Lin politely rejected Director Chen's invitation and walked out of the university office building and happened to pass by the two young people.

The other party was stunned for a moment when he saw her. The young man walking in front nodded politely at her. The young man behind him was smaller, looking a little pale and thin. He just glanced at her casually and lowered his head.

Zhuo Lin just nodded to the other party quickly and walked out of the building.

After walking out for a while, Zhuo Lin turned around and looked behind her.

The two young men were no longer seen in the hall downstairs. Zhuo Lin was slightly relieved and couldn't help but sigh.

The two people probably didn't know her, but she knew each other.

Now the two sons of the Prime Minister Zhang’s family, Zhuo Lin, were almost engaged to the second son of the Zhang family.

Many years ago, Zhuo Lin followed her father to the capital when she was very young and met two young men from the Zhang family.

Zhuo Lin was only nine years old at that time, but Zhang Bi was already seventeen years old, and Zhang Zuo was already fourteen years old. Although so many years have passed, Zhuo Lin still recognized the identities of the two at a glance.

This is why Zhuo Lin would come to Beijing. She had been staying well at Anlan University and had no plans to come to Beijing. However, her family was preparing to engage her this year, and the engagement partner was Zhang Zuo, the second son of the Zhang family.

The Sheng family has declined for a long time in recent years. It is considered to be the Sheng family that can marry the second son of the Zhang family, but Zhuo Lin did not intend to get into this marriage. She wrote a letter to Zhang Xiang himself before getting engaged, rejected the marriage and ran away from home.

But Anlan University is too close to the Sheng family, and Zhuo Lin knows her family very well, so she chooses to stay away from the south and come to Beijing to study. Even to avoid engagement, she will not give up her studies because of this. If she cannot stand on her own in this world, it will be meaningless even if she escapes.

She was not worried that she would be discovered by the Sheng family or the Zhang family. The Zhang family was not enthusiastic about getting engaged to the Sheng family. Zhuo Lin soon received a reply from Zhang Xiang. The other party said with a graceful expression that it was to get married for the sake of two surnames, and since Zhuo Lin had no intention of getting married at the moment, it would be fine.

Therefore, she escaped just to escape from her family, because if there is no Zhang family, she will still decide another family for her sooner or later.

As for the capital, the Zhang family knew that the second girl of the Sheng family was the daughter of the Sheng family. With the ancient style of the Sheng family, they would not promote their own girl's name everywhere until they were actually engaged. At most, they could only infer from her elder sister's name.

Since she studied, the name she used has always been the word Zhuo Lin. I have to say that this may be a kind of preparation for the future. Perhaps from the beginning, Zhuo Lin had a foreshadowing that one day she would break the word Sheng.

Settlement in Beijing was very smooth. Zhuo Lin stayed in a hotel near the school for half a month and was successfully admitted to Beijing University.

She already has a degree from Anlan University and is proficient in two foreign languages. It is not difficult to get into Beijing University for further study. After entering the school, she used her foreign language skills to find a part-time job and settled in Beijing smoothly.

It has to be said that Zhuo Lin’s life at the age of seventeen has been smooth sailing so far.

Although Zhuo Lin is rebellious, disobedient and seeks trouble in the eyes of her family, she is very precocious and has a decisive power that a girl of this age cannot reach.

So when her sisters were studying piano, chess, calligraphy and painting at home, she went to school, and when her sister followed the matchmaker's words, she married into a wealthy business family, and went to Anlan University to study. When she was about to be betrothed by her parents, she decisively wrote a letter to refuse the marriage and ran away from home.

Every step seems rebellious and impulsive, but she is fully prepared for each step, whether it is financial or psychological.

Knowing that her parents would not allow her to go out to study, she began to save money in private early and used various methods to convince her parents to go to school. While studying at Anlan University, she did not forget to make money part-time and saved a small amount of savings that her family didn't know.

When she refused to get engaged, her parents took all her property away and used her accumulated private money to escape and go to Beijing, and she could also find a job in Beijing that could make a living.

The addition of a big beauty in Beijing University naturally caused a lot of sensation. Although this big beauty is usually a little busy and always has a hurry, it does not prevent her from becoming the object of discussion among students in Beijing University.

Even though Jingcheng University has allowed co-education in recent years, the proportion of male and female students at Jingcheng University is still outrageously low. Not to mention that this is a stunning beauty who looks very young but already has a degree.

In less than a month, not only Beijing University, but also some schools around were circulating rumors that Beijing University had a beautiful woman.

Every day, there are many students from other schools wandering around at the gate of Beijing University, wanting to see the charm of stunning beauty.

But it’s a pity that it is not easy for even students from our school to meet Zhuo Lin, let alone students from other schools?

Zhuo Lin is very busy. She found a job as a translator at a publishing house, wrote some small articles, and occasionally helped the teacher teach students.

Although it will take two years for Zhuo Lin to continue her studies, it is not difficult to graduate early with her ability. In fact, the school has already talked to her about staying to teach after graduation. Zhuo Lin felt that it was nothing, but she thought she was still young and had not enough knowledge, so she was planning to go to various places to study for a while before returning to Beijing to teach after graduation.

Zhuo Lin is not an innocent and romantic girl. She always has a strong purpose in doing things, and she doesn't want to waste her time on the romance.

"Zhuo...Senior Sister Table!" A young man wearing glasses hurried over and blocked Zhuo Lin's way.

Zhuo Lin stopped, "Student, is there anything wrong?"

The boy's face was blushing, so shy that he almost didn't dare to look at Zhuo Lin's eyes. But he insisted, "Zhuo...Senior Zhuo, are you free tonight and afternoon? I... can I invite you to listen to the opera? I heard that you like the opera, Qiao Jinfeng, I, I specially bought tickets."

This student looks like he is in his early twenties, but Zhuo Lin has a postgraduate degree, so he still has to call him a senior.
To be continued...