Twenty-nine, steamed steamed buns.

Before dawn, the big head got up and made a fire to steam steamed buns.

Thinking that he had sent so many faces yesterday, he couldn't be busy alone, and Han Xiufeng and Pan Er also got up early to help. There is no need to make breakfast, some are steamed buns that have just come out of the cage.

Fei Erye is old, he doesn't sleep as well as young people, he gets up early, goes to get chopsticks after washing his face, clips a hot steamed bun, and asks while eating: "Zhixing, are you going to the provincial museum today?" ”

"Go, Director Zhang asked last time." Han Xiufeng was worried that he would choke on the old man, so he lifted the kettle and beckoned him to go to the hall to drink tea.

"Then prepare some scattered silver, and we'll go together later."

"Prepare the silver?"

"You don't know?" Second Master Fei sat down and asked.

Han Xiufeng helped him make a bowl of tea, put down the kettle and said, "What are you doing with silver, I really don't know." ”

"We don't have much money in the government hall, and the provincial hall is not rich. The New Year's festival is to be celebrated, the opera troupe is invited, and the lantern festival is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the cost is large, so as long as the people who go have to pay one or two wine, food, lamps and candles. ”

"I really don't know that, if it weren't for your constant reminders, I'd have made a joke later."

"I thought you knew." After eating the steamed buns in his mouth, Second Master Fei looked at him with a smile and said: "Zhixing, didn't you say last night that the silver for renovating the hall was not enough, I thought about it, in fact, this silver is not difficult to raise, but our Chongqing hall is too small, and we haven't made a rule over the years, and even there are only a few regulations." ”

At the mention of silver, Han Xiufeng suddenly became interested: "Second master, you said, I will listen to you." ”

"What kind of place is the guild hall, the guild hall is the place where the bus stays, and it is a place for Beijing officials and officials who come to Beijing to express their hometown friendship and connect with their hometowns. We don't have any rules here, there are many rules in other guilds, such as candidates for alternate officials and foreign officials who come to Beijing to face the saint to stay in the guild hall, each must pay a fee of three taels and pay a donation of thirty taels of silver! ”

"Second master, you always say that people like me come to Beijing to fill the vacancy, if you live in the hall, you have to pay thirty-three taels?"

"Exactly."

Second Master Fei smiled and continued: "In addition, after the alternate and candidate official of the residence hall is appointed, he should lose funds for public use. However, this should be divided into four categories: Beijing officials, foreign officials, military attachés, and business trips, and each of them will decide the amount of silver donated according to their grades. There are rules in the provincial hall, which is twenty-four taels for one product, sixteen taels from one product, ten taels for two products, six taels for three or four products, four taels for five or six products, two taels for seven products, two taels for eight or nine products and one or two for not entering the stream. ”

Han Xiufeng muttered: "After Fake took office, I don't have much to donate. ”

"It's only twenty taels of Zhengyi, which is really not much. However, have you ever thought about how many people will come to Beijing to wait for candidates in a year, and some officials who are iron-clad officials in the yamen have difficulty filling the vacancies, and they will come to Beijing again after a year or two of taking office? Even if there is a superintendent and a protector, he has to come to the ministry to receive the certificate, and he has to go to the ministry of rites to receive the seal. ”

Han Xiufeng thought about it and couldn't help laughing: "That's right." ”

Second Master Fei nodded slightly, and then said: "The high school where the people who live in the hall have to donate for public use, the champion is twenty-four taels, the list is sixteen taels, and the jinshi is four taels. ”

"Second master, this also needs silver, then it also needs silver, what if people don't want to pay?" Han Xiufeng couldn't help but ask.

"If you don't pay it, what are you kidding? The large and small test halls in Beijing, including our provincial pavilion, have rules for this: those who should lose should be handed over immediately, without delay! The head of the association will register the donated silver taels received, and the name of the book will be on the plaque in the hall, and the number of donors will accumulate to a certain scale, and then publish the credit report and engrave it on the stone tablet to hang forever. Fei Erye put down his chopsticks and emphasized: "If you don't want to donate or don't deliver the name of the book, you can also note it in the donation book of the guild hall to expose its unrighteous deeds!" ”

This trick is ruthless, but what is the difference between this and forced donation, Han Xiufeng couldn't help laughing.

Second Master Fei devoted himself to helping Han Xiufeng raise money, so he didn't care whether it was a forced donation or not, and turned around and pointed to the account book on the incense case: "In the past few years, as long as it is a civil and military official who has lived in the guild hall, I have all registered. Where they are now, and what position they hold, they have it all in their books. It's not easy to write to them to ask them to make up for the money they should have donated before, but you can make a relationship with the letter, after all, we do have to renovate the hall, and the money needed to renovate it is really not enough. ”

Beijing officials have no money, and foreign officials can't have no money.

Thinking that a hundred and ten taels of silver was really nothing to those county prefects, Han Xiufeng couldn't help but say, "Good idea! Second master, what a good idea for you! ”

Second Master Fei grinned and said, "As I said just now, our place here is a test hall, and it is a place for Chongqing government officials who come to Beijing to take the exam. The hall is going to be renovated, do you say that Chongqing Fuxue and the county schools of 14 prefectures and counties should also help make up some money? ”

"Second master, according to what you always say, they should make some efforts, but the government school and the county school are all Qingshui Yamen, and the professors, instructors and county teachers of the government school are not from our Chongqing government, they don't necessarily help us, even if they can help them, they can't get the money."

"Fuxue County School is Qingshui Yamen, those professors, instructors and teachings are not much oil and water, but the students of Fuxue County School have silver! Think about it, how many students are there in the whole Chongqing Prefecture, and one person donates one tael, and a few hundred taels of silver will come. Second Master Fei smiled and said meaningfully: "Zhixing, I dare to guarantee the ticket, as long as you send a letter to Master Gu, Master Gu will definitely help Zhang Luo." Old Master Gu is highly respected, and with his old man coming forward, this matter will definitely be done! ”

Raising money is a thankless task for others, but it is a matter of fame and fortune for Master Gu, who is far away in Ba County's hometown. Not only can he raise money by helping the Chongqing Hall renovate to show his family's status in Ba County and even Chongqing Shilin, but the money raised will not be in vain than his old man's hands.

Thinking of this, Han Xiufeng couldn't help but smile and said, "Second Master, you are right, as long as you send a letter to Master Gu, his old man will definitely help with this!" ”

"Forget it today, I'm going to the provincial pavilion later, there's nothing to do tomorrow, I'll help you write it tomorrow."

……

Han Xiufeng felt that Fei Erye's words were very reasonable, so he stopped helping Datou and Pan Er to steam steamed steamed buns, and waited for He Heng and Liu Shanyang to go to the provincial pavilion together after breakfast.

The reason why I am in a hurry is not to talk about hometown friendship and nostalgia, but to learn the rules and regulations of the provincial hall.

The four of them rushed to the Sichuan Hall together, only to see that the festive red lanterns had been hung at the gate. There is no couplet pasted, or the previous door couplet, but you can tell that it has just been drawn by looking at the color.

He Heng is a real reader, so he stopped and read: "You can stop here, cut the candle and cut the west window, talk about the scenery of your hometown, Jian Gexiong, Emei Xiu, Bashan Qu, Jinshui Qinglian, and all the famous mountains and rivers come to the bottom of your eyes; Enter Beijing to think about suggestions, whip the north road, it is difficult to look at the typical sage. Xiangrufu, Dongpo Wen, Taibai poems, Sheng'an Kedi, line to see beautiful talents, and go to Chang'an. ”

"Okay, yes, good union!" Liu Shanyang praised from the bottom of his heart.

"Junjie, Shizhen, do you know who made this alliance?" Second Master Fei couldn't help asking.

"I really don't know."

"Second master, who did it?"

This couplet was made by Li Tiaoyuan, a man from Luojiang County, Chengdu Prefecture during the Qianlong Dynasty, who was talented and wrote poems and letters. When I came to Beijing to take the exam, I happened to meet the completion of the hall, so I made this pair and sent it. When Lord Zhou saw this pair, he was full of praise, and immediately decided to be a door link, and also awarded him twenty taels of silver! ”

Han Xiufeng was not interested in these, and saw a familiar figure in the distance, and hurriedly said, "Second Master, Brother Junjie, Master Jiang is here." You talk first, I'll go to greet Master Jiang, and by the way, give him last night's money. ”