The face is a bowl of rice, and the money is the rice in the bowl;

When you are hungry, a lump of porridge can also be changed.

In ancient times, the dignity and humility were based on "officials" as the benchmark, nine grades and eighteen levels, with clear levels, and trespassing was a sin. Showing off talents and lifting people is the reserve force of officials, and of course, they also have a big face and enjoy all kinds of privileges. For example, they can wear straight-shirts, square scarves, and long boots that ordinary people are not allowed to wear; they can be paid a high salary to teach in a private school, and they can be given priority in recruiting temporary workers in the yamen; they can be exempted from errands and do not kneel when they see the magistrate; they can not be scolded and spanked like ordinary people; even if they have violated the criminal law, they must be revoked by the county department of academic affairs before they can be sentenced, and so on.

Tian Demei has the qualifications to show talents, of course, she has to show off her talents. He wore a dirty torn square scarf with two tails on the back of his head, and threw two big sleeves that could hold bucket rice, and walked to Lu's mansion with square steps, and when he arrived at the gate, he pretended to tie his shoelaces and rubbed his feet, wanting to wait for Lu Xing to greet him.

The family who took him turned around and saw him rubbing at the door, called him a few times, urged him a few times, and he walked in the door.

No one greeted him at the gate, he thought that the door of the living room must be grand, but he didn't bring him into the living room of the main courtyard, but brought him into the west courtyard. He thought that Lu Xing was going to discuss the tea art with him in the flower hall, and searched for the jargon praising the artistic operation and the beautiful environment along the way, but unexpectedly, he turned around and took him to the grape trellis on the side of the garden.

Under the grape trellis, Lu Xing was dressed in a nightgown and was lying on a rocking chair with a white-haired dog in his arms, swaying leisurely while receiving the service of a maid fanning fan and feeding cherries.

There are no refreshments and tea sets for receiving guests, there are no decorations for asking people to play cards and chess, and there is no preset even for an idle seat. He could only stand in a daze, waiting for Lu Xing's respect and enthusiasm after hearing "Tian Xiucai is here". However, he waited for a long time, but Lu Xing, who brought his family, didn't seem to hear it, and still leaned back on the chaise longue, closed his eyes slightly, and stroked the horn dog in his arms with his hand, swaying leisurely.

According to later generations, Tian Demei was a master's student, and Lu Xing had not yet graduated from junior high school; according to the ranking of "emperors, sages, hermits, children, immortals, literati, warriors, farmers, industrialists, and merchants," he was the fifth, and Lu Xing was the ninth; according to the eighteenth generation of old relatives, he was the cousin of Lu Xing's father; according to the unwritten rules among different surnames in the town, he was at least Lu Xing's uncle and uncle; according to the old and young, he was nearly 60 years old, and Lu Xingcai was 28...... In any case, Lu Xing's arrogance is a violation of etiquette and regulations. But the landed phoenix is not as good as a chicken, Tian Demei knows the situation, and she is angry in her heart, but she doesn't dare to be more serious, so she can only laugh and relieve herself of embarrassment: "Young Master Lu, it's time to wake up!"

Tian Demei shouted three times, and it was louder and louder each time, Lu Xing raised his head, sat up with the horn dog, spit out the cherry pit in his mouth, saw it and pretended not to see it, and asked slowly: "Who scared my little baby? Didn't you see it sleeping?"

"I am Tian Demei, the eighty-third student of the Shaanzhou Prefecture Township Examination in the first year of the Later Tang Dynasty!" Tian Demei reported solemnly.

"Little girl, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, with me, he won't dare to bite you!" Lu Xing comforted the dog and handed it to a maid ring, "Feed it some lunch and let it sleep! Remember, remove the fish bones, don't get stuck! Go, good girl, she treats you badly, you report to me!"

Lu Xing settled down his pet, as if he hadn't seen Tian Demei: "Who spoke just now?"

"Noi Wu Shengya!"

"'Milk' and 'Grandpa' are two people, how can they give birth to a father? Who are you, which workshop is from? It's really uneducated!" Lu Xing muttered in a daze.

"I am Tian Demei, the eighty-third student of the Shaanzhou Township Examination in the first year of the Later Tang Dynasty Mingzong!" Tian Demei emphasized with a grim face.

"Now it's the Hou Han, you said that the rotten sesame seeds of Chen Guzi from many years ago were used for birds?" Lu Xing laughed and replied rudely.

"Although the dynasty has changed, the qualifications have not changed!"

"What qualifications, hanging hair is not worth it! I can buy two taels of silver, do you believe it or not?"

"Honor of scholars, how can you afford to be blasphemous!" Tian Demei couldn't control it anymore, and shook her sleeves and turned around to leave while angrily fighting back.

"Slow, I still have something to ask!"

Lu Xing waved his hand, and Tian Demei stopped.

"Oh, you've read, I've forgotten, disrespectful, disrespectful! What are you standing for? Sit!"

Tian Demei looked in a circle, but there was no place to sit, so she had to tease herself: "No, move your waist!"

"Oh, cure your back pain! Then the lord is free to visit!" Lu Xing teased.

Tian Demei held the showman's shelf: "Please speak!"

"What's the use of reading?"

Tian Demei thought that children knew this problem, so she opened her mouth and replied:

"Rich families don't need to buy fertile land, there are thousands of bells in the book.

There is no need to build high-rise buildings to live in peace, and there is a golden house in the book.

Don't hate to go out with no one, there are many cars and horses in the book.

Don't hate unscrupulous matchmakers when marrying a wife, there is Yan Ruyu in the book.

The boy wants to fulfill his life's aspirations, and reads the Pentateuch to the window. ”

"Do you read more or less?"

"Although I don't dare to say that I am rich in five cars, I can be regarded as having a full stomach!"

"Where is your Qianzhongsu and Golden House? Your carriages and horses are like clusters, and your wife is as beautiful as jade? Why do I smell the smell of urine in your clothes, haven't they been washed for many days? I see your child dressed and bare-assed, is it to be cool? I heard that your wife goes to the vegetable market every day to pick vegetable leaves, is it true or fake?"

"The three armies can win the commandery, but the husband cannot take the ambition; the gentleman loves money and takes it in the right way; he would rather be poor to help himself, not to be wronged and tired himself; the soldier is determined to be in the way, and the shameful clothes and evil food are not enough to discuss with him; the king can not be stopped by the Tao; when he hears the Tao, he can die at night; the unrighteous and rich and expensive are like floating clouds to me; the people with lofty ideals are benevolent, and there is no survival to harm the benevolent, and there is a killing to become benevolent!"

Tian Demei can only use the independent spirit of "the rich and the rich, the poor and the lowly, and the mighty and unyielding" independent spirit to desperately maintain her face.

"You do read a lot, and your mouth is also skillful, admire, admire!"

Tian Demei heard Lu Xing praise him, just stiffened his neck, and Lu Xing opened his mouth again: "Since you are a scholar, you know a lot of reason, let me ask you, can you kill people to pay your life, and you have to pay back debts?" Lu Xing sat up and asked tauntingly.

The reason was too simple, Tian Demei disdained to answer, and resisted with silence, indicating that Ling Ran was inviolable.

"You owe five taels of rice and noodles to Fuxing Grain Stack, three taels of silver to Jishan Pharmacy, two and a half taels of wine money to Dongxing Tavern, two hundred taels of food money from Lao Wang's vegetable stall, and ninety taels of tofu money from Tofu Workshop...... A total of 12,2035 wen is owed in silver, and if they ask for it or not, they will all transfer it to my oil mill account! Tian Xiucai, you are a decent person who reads and knows etiquette, and you will not be embarrassed if you don't pay off your debts, right?"

Tian Demei is not afraid of the ground, he is afraid that someone will ask for debts, hearing Lu Xing say this, he immediately soaked in hot soup with fried dough sticks, and his whole body was soft.

"Bensheng only reads the books of sages, disdains to be careful, and circulates in the market, although it is temporarily difficult and does not settle the bill in time, but there will always be a day when he will come out, and he will naturally repay it when the time comes?"

"When are you going to get ahead? Set me a specific time! Is it the iron tree blooming or the stone sprouting? It's almost sixty years old, the earth is around the neck, and you haven't made a small lifter, so it's not too shabby to say this! Shamelessness is shamelessness, don't say it so high-soundingly! If you really want face, settle the account immediately!"

Silver money is hard head, and a penny is a piece of copper. No matter how dexterous her tongue is, she can't stir up copper juice, and no matter how good she writes, she can't write a silver ticket, Tian Demei is embarrassed in addition to embarrassment, her mouth opened a few times, and she didn't spit out a word.

If you want to know what happened, please see the next episode: Crooked Poetry and Interpretation.