The Zhou family actually doesn't care about the five thousand taels of silver at all, but this is the reward of the township test, the emperor's grace is vast, this is a dignified thing, after retrieving the silver, it must be enshrined in front of the ancestral spirit card intact, and no offering can compare to the weight of the five thousand taels of silver.

Zhou's father told Wei Gao that he would donate 50,000 taels of silver to the government to exempt Suzhou City from the city rent for half a year, and the rest would be used to exempt some land taxes.

Wei Gao thought to himself, one yard is one yard, and the Zhou family's style is still unmatched.

"Master Zhou's move is really a good deed, Zhou Dacai will definitely win the champion next year. Wei Gao happily accepted it, so that it could bring him less scolding, and save him a hat on his head to scrape the ground.

"To borrow Lord Wei's auspicious words, if this is really the case, I will definitely take out 100,000 taels of silver to help the poor. Father Zhou patted his chest on the spot and promised.

"Okay, good, just rush this 100,000 taels of silver, Wen Bin will definitely be able to win the championship. Wei Gao's heart was full of joy, as if he had already received the 100,000 taels of silver.

Wen Bin smiled bitterly and looked at the situation, which means: It's all up to you now, you can't leave it alone.

Besides, with him smiling bitterly, the two of them can only understand the unspeakable.

"Senior brother, when are you going to end up and get a Xie Yuan back for senior brother?" Wei Gao stared at the situation again.

"I said, senior brother, don't you think that Xie Yuan is a potato and cabbage in the market, I can buy it back if I go?"

"Of course, it's harder for others than climbing to the sky, and for you, it's really like going to the market to buy potatoes and cabbage. Wei Gao said with a smile.

"Yes, if the nephew ends up, it is estimated that many people will directly abandon the exam and avoid it. Father Zhou also squinted and said with a smile.

"Yes, that's right. Master Wei's words are not an exaggeration at all. ”

"That's it, it's better to be a talented man next time, if Suzhou Mansion gets Xie Yuan for two consecutive terms, my husband will definitely be promoted to a higher level. ”

The people on the side echoed in unison.

Wei Gao was refreshed when he heard this, he didn't expect this, if Suzhou Mansion gets Xie Yuan for two consecutive years, this is also a great political achievement, something that has not happened in a hundred years, and promotion is doomed.

He hurriedly said: "Senior brother, senior brother begs you, for the sake of senior brother's official hat to be a little bigger, you can bother with it." ”

Everyone around them burst into laughter.

Besides, he was so embarrassed that he could only give his hands, smile bitterly, and nod his head, but he didn't bow down.

He didn't think about ending up in the next session at all, but looking at the pressure from all sides now, it is estimated that he can't avoid it. He originally thought that he would accept the emperor's gift and become a jinshi directly, so as not to go through the examination process. The emperor's bestowal is directly equivalent to the same as the first champion, the list eye, and the flower only have the origin of the Jinshi, and it is not the same as the same Jinshi. With the same word, the gold medal will become a bronze medal, and the value will plummet.

The head of the Qing Dynasty's Zhongxing Famous Ministers, Zeng Guofan, was prosperous, and made meritorious contributions to the society, becoming the pillar of the great men of later generations, and the most hated thing in his life was that he only took a fellow Jinshi in the Jinshi exam, and failed to enter the top three of the first class. Of course, when he was admitted to the Jinshi ranking, he was dozens of outside, and he was still far from the first class.

It can also be seen from this that a first-class jinshi does need some luck and some blessings, and sometimes it is difficult for a talented person to match it.

Pu Songling's most hated thing in his life is a first-class jinshi, and he will add a stroke to everything he writes about who is a confused official and does things absurdly: this must be the work of a first-class jinshi. Because Uncle Pu has been full of ambition since he was a young man, he has worked hard until his beard is white, and he has never won this honor.

Wei Gao left, everyone sat down again to eat tea, and soon the banquet came up.

The Zhou family first set up a three-day flowing water banquet in Nanjing, feasted all relatives and friends in Nanjing, and then returned to Suzhou to worship ancestors and banquet guests, that is, ten days of flowing water banquet, and then built a memorial arch.

Zhou's father has decided to expand the scale of the archway, and directly build a small building, which is called Xie Yuan Building, which is the first Xie Yuan produced by the ancestors of the Zhou family, which is worth celebrating.

As for the matter of the next champion, everyone deliberately did not mention it to prevent too much pressure on Wenbin, in this case, people are in danger of collapsing.

In the afternoon, Lian Daning and Meng Fanjun also came to congratulate, and naturally it was lively again. Besides, he was so frightened that he hid directly in the inner house, and went to play with Sisi, Qiuxiang, and Pomegranate, these two big guys looked fierce and vicious, and they hated to eat him when they saw him.

After Chen Musa found out, he did not appear in person, but sent someone to send a message to congratulate him. Although Chen Musa is not a calligrapher, he is a master of science, and the words are much more valuable than Tang Bohu's, and the Zhou family is naturally overjoyed, and it is also included in the ancestral offerings.

After the congratulations, he went back with the pomegranate, leaving behind him infinite prosperity.

"You really don't envy Wen Bin when you look at this scene?" Pomegranate still looked at the lively scene in the Zhou family mansion with some reluctance.

"What is there to envy, if you really like this excitement, I will tell the emperor that you will directly give me a champion and the first. Let's have a big feast and a grand ceremony. Besides, he laughed.

"Bragging. Pomegranate pouted.

"Don't you know that?"

"What do you know?" said Pomegranate, dazed.

"Oh, forget it. Besides, it became clear that Chen Musa didn't tell Pomegranate about it.

"Forget it, no, you have to tell me what's going on. Pomegranate didn't follow, and asked after him by pulling his sleeve.

Besides, he had to give the emperor a prescription to cure the emperor's illness, and the emperor wanted to give him a special jinshi and the first thing again.

"Why don't you want this good thing, what are you?" said Pomegranate.

"What do I want this false name for?" he asked rhetorically.

"What is a false name, this is fame, and the only way for a person to glorify his ancestors. I'm not the kind of woman who has a lot of vanity, but fame is not vain. "Pomegranate is in a hurry.

"I thought, if you really have to raise people to become scholars, you should go to the test yourself. Besides.

"Well, I'm going to support you, but you're going to have to end up. Pomegranate Road.

"I just can't think about it now, don't you see everyone rushing at me? Just now, if I hadn't hidden, I don't know what they would have become. "Besides, I have the heart to cry, what's the matter, I don't want to take the exam, don't I give up a place for others, why no one praises my selfless communist spirit, but reprimands me like a criminal.

"Well, that's how it should be, or you won't have any motivation at all. Pomegranate smirked.

Besides, he took the pomegranate directly back to the central island of Xuanwu Lake, and the pomegranate had to go back to his parents' house to live for a few days.

Pomegranate was surrounded by the maids and returned to the room, where she still remained the same as before she got married, and the furnishings remained the same.

Besides, when I went to visit the teacher, Chen Musa had just come out of the secret room, and when he saw him, he just nodded, still the same as before, as if nothing had happened.

Besides, after talking about Wenbin's Xie Yuan, Chen Musa still nodded, and when he saw that there was no one in the room, he asked, "You gave the title of Wenbin's article, right?"

Besides, he was taken aback: "Teacher, how do you know?"

"Why don't I know, in this whole country, I can guess that the emperor has such a topic, except for me, it is you. Chen Musa smiled faintly.

"I was just a momentary inspiration, and this topic popped up in my head, and I just thought that the emperor might come up with this kind of topic, so I told Wenbin, but I didn't expect to guess it. ”

"Well, this kind of thing is about understanding and instant inspiration. By the way, can you really guess the emperor's mind from the emperor's handwriting alone?" Chen Musa was interested in this.

"Well, you can't guess everything, it's just a certain aspect, a certain point. Besides, he groaned.

Besides, when I remembered that when I first read "Historical Records", I was particularly impressed, and I felt that I could read Sima Qian's image between the lines, but I didn't have this feeling when I read "Hanshu".

The reason why he can guess the emperor's mind is because he used the Najia system of Jingfang, and incorporated all the points in the emperor's handwriting, such as horizontal and vertical, into the Najia system, which is equivalent to establishing a simple computer system, and then computing on this basis, plus some very mysterious telepathy, the results obtained, the probability of encountering the thoughts of the parties has increased a lot.

Of course, this kind of system is still relatively accurate in diagnosing the disease, and guessing a person's mind is a little worse, some are accurate, some are not accurate, and some cannot be guessed.

"Then according to your calculations, how long can the emperor's body last before he needs to be rescued again?" asked Chen Musa.

"Three years, if the emperor takes good care of it, it should be able to maintain it for five years. "And that's right.

"Three years?"

Chen Musa groaned, doesn't this mean that he will still face this problem again after three years, will he protect the emperor, or will he fully fall to the crown prince?

To protect the emperor, the prince has to continue to be the prince, if he falls to the prince, he is watching the emperor die, which can certainly become the dignitary of the new dynasty, but it is a betrayal of the emperor.

If he makes such a choice, it is difficult to say whether he can escape the emperor's punishment, and the most ingenious way is, of course, to continue to let the emperor be governed, but to put the emperor to death, so that he can not only escape the emperor's punishment, but also win the favor of the prince.

However, Chen Musa pays attention to preserving heavenly principles and eliminating human desires, which is obviously very different from his philosophy.

"Teacher, don't make it difficult to solve this problem, people are not as good as heaven, let's wait until the key point is reached in three years. Besides, he laughed.

"Well, you're right, I'm still thinking early, it's not urgent, let it be. Chen Musa laughed.

Moreover, the concept is that the boat is naturally straight to the bridge, and it has to be straight if it is not straight, and many things are in vain to calculate, and in the end it may not have anything to do with what you think about your own calculations, the more you think about it, the more useless it is, and the more you think about it, the more you lose the rules.

This statement is the idea of resignation to fate, and it is also the conclusion he came to after reading "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" several times.

With Pu Songling's talent and the wonder of the articles he wrote, it was difficult to get a champion crown, but every time he got off the field, he returned with a loss, and in the end, he couldn't even mix up a lifter, which can only be said to be fate.

Bai Juyi is a young jinshi, one day to see all the Chang'an flowers, what a spring breeze, although it was bumpy, it was much better than Su Shi, Du Fu and others, the beauties around him were like clouds, and his life was rich and healthy, even if he was Qingzhou Sima, he could be chic and comfortable, which was also fate.