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Chapter 196: The Deer Feast

In the eyes of the ancients, the imperial examination was a very important thing, which represented the first threshold for students to step into officialdom.

Every year after the imperial examination, there must be a deer feast, which is presided over by the chief examiner and local officials, which is intended to celebrate the scholars of the imperial examination high school.

Congratulations on their achievements in the autumn examination, and they will go to Beijing to participate in the spring examination hosted by the Ministry of Rites in the coming year.

In the original world, the Luming Banquet began in the Tang Dynasty and lasted until the end of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

During the banquet, the song of "Deer Song" must be played, and then the song of Deer Song must be read aloud to enliven the atmosphere, show the talent of a certain duke, and sing praises to each other politely.

"Deer Song" was originally from a musical song in "The Book of Poetry Xiaoya", with a total of three chapters, namely Yo Yo Lu Ming Eating Wild Apple, Yo Yo Deer Ming Eating Wild Artemisia, Yo Yo Deer Ming Eating Wild Cen, which means that the deer found delicious food and did not forget his partner, and made a Yo Yo sound to summon his partner to eat together.

The ancients believed that sharing was a virtue, so the emperor feasted the ministers of civil and military affairs, and the local officials feasted their colleagues and local gentry, so as to buy people's hearts and show their virtues as a virtuous corporal.

"If it is used for a banquet, the monarch and the minister" have nothing to do without forgetting their accomplices, indicating that this is the style of a gentleman.

It is said that in the Spring and Autumn Period, Sun Muzi hired the Dao Jin Kingdom as the prime minister, and the Jin Mourning Gong held a banquet to entertain guests, and recited the three chapters of "Deer Song" during the banquet, but most of this rule can only be popular in rich places, and the poor places have insufficient food and clothing.

The first day Liu Mingzhi got up was to worship the Jade Emperor, worship Taishan Tianqi Rensheng Emperor in the east, worship the Buddha in the west, Guanyin Bodhisattva in the south, worship the ghosts and gods of the five directions in the north, and worship the king of the ten halls of Yama.

After a night of fear, Liu Mingzhi took advantage of the opportunity to go to the thatched house and carefully checked the finch, fortunately, Wenren Yunshu just gave Liu Mingzhi a small lesson, and did not use a lot of strength, otherwise even if it was not broken, it would take a few days to recuperate, and it would be difficult to get out of bed, let alone participate in the deer banquet specially explained by his father-in-law.

After arriving at the main hall, Liu Mingzhi shivered when he saw the second elder sitting around the table, and he could put a few pieces of wild ginseng on a porridge, this is what his mother can do?

Liu Mingzhi also guessed the thoughts of Liu Zhi'an and his wife, he wanted to hug his grandson and wanted to go crazy, it has been more than two months since he married Qi Yun, and her stomach has not improved at all, as an elder, it is understandable to do such a thing because he is always worried about the incense of the Liu family, but this is too inauthentic.

Just let the old man say no in private, anyway, the old man has been in the mall for many years, and this will definitely not be unspeakable, and the elders of the Great Dragon Dynasty can also come out of Liu Zhi'an and his wife.

Liu Zhian glanced at Liu Mingzhi lightly: "After eating, go to the Luming banquet, and watch you at home upset." ”

Liu Mingzhi opened his mouth and looked stunned, no, how did we provoke the old man, is it a bit too much to have such an attitude when we first met in the morning.

Mrs. Liu was also calm and relaxed, and handed over the lotus seed soup for one night: "Zhi'er drink porridge." ”

Liu Mingzhi looked at the lotus seed soup in front of him, his legs were weak, and his heart trembled, especially Mrs. Liu's salty and indifferent tone, which made him feel furious.

But after thinking about it, I am going to participate in the Luming Banquet today, what kind of people are present at the Luming Banquet, the chief examiner Yuan and many local officials in Jinling, the old man and the two will not put anything to replenish qi and blood, if they make a fool of themselves, they are not the only ones who lose them, but more of the face of the Liu family.

After figuring out this, Liu Mingzhi was no longer ambiguous, and picked up the spoon and planned to dry this bowl of lotus seed soup for twenty-six years of Xuande. Kindness? What do you mean? Liu Mingzhi found that the people on the table were staring at him, Liu Zhi'an and his wife, brother Liu Mingzhi, little sister Liu Xuan, Song family brothers and sisters, and An family brothers and sisters were all staring at him strangely, and even Qi Yun was staring at him tightly.

In this strange scene, Liu Mingzhi beat a drum in his heart, looked at the lotus seed soup in front of him cautiously, and put down the spoon tremblingly: "Porridge water is not hungry, today I suddenly want to eat cakes, porridge.... Forget about the porridge. ”

Liu Dashao didn't notice that except for Qi Yun, everyone present had heavy dark circles under their eyes, obviously looking like they were sleep-deprived, all because of Liu Mingzhi's two pig-killing wails under the dark moon and wind last night.

The culprit slept until dawn, and it was strange that several people's hearts were balanced.

Especially Mrs. Shi Liu, looking at this usually favorite son, she also felt unpleasant in her heart.

Yesterday, Liu Zhi'an teased Mrs. Liu in the main hall and said that she wanted to have another baby, saying that she had no intention of listening, and Mrs. Liu took a fragrant potpourri bath in the room early, and waited for Liu Zhi'an to go back.

Although people have to be middle-aged, soak wolfberries in a thermos cup, wolfberries are hard to beat the years, and you have to add a little angelica, although Liu Zhian is the father of three children, but he is only about forty years old, Mrs. is ready We can't help but be interested, although I thought that the tuba practice was scrapped, and there were already plans to practice the trumpet, but who knew that the tuba suddenly rose in the middle of the five kills and took the big dragon, but who knew that the trumpet would not be the existence of the five kills super god? Practicing another one is actually just a small matter.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, Liu Dayuan is ready for everything, and he is about to sow seeds, Liu Mingzhi's loud scream directly made him stupid, so there is today's scene.

Mrs. Liu was also complaining, and wanted to scold Liu Mingzhi's ear: "You have been disturbed by giving birth to a little brother, what the hell is your son doing?" ”

It's a pity that these words can only be thought about in my heart, Mrs. Liu is not as faceless and skinless as Liu Zhi'an's father and son, she is the daughter of the Bai family, everyone is beautiful!

Liu Mingli's resentment is that he was disturbed by the eldest brother, although the rabbit does not eat the grass by the nest, but the old saying is that the building near the water gets the moon first.

These days, with the charm of the dumplings, Liu Mingli feels that the day when he will get off the list is just around the corner, and the relationship with Song Lei is getting closer and closer.

Although the moonlight was good yesterday, the two little guys always felt that there was a swish behind them, and it seemed that something could always pop up somewhere, and the mentality jumped up, admiring the moon? Get a hammer.

Liu Mingli didn't know how cold he felt last night, as if he was being stared at by something, needless to say except for the willow leaves.

Qi Yun's idea is much simpler, everyone looks at Fujun, if I don't see if it's not very gregarious, in this case, let's stare at it like everyone.

Eating two bites of bread in fear, Liu Mingzhi, who wanted to go back and change his clothes, also extinguished this idea and went out directly in disgrace.

"Young Master!"

Liu Mingzhi turned his head curiously, this voice was a little familiar.

"Ying'er, why are you here?"

Ying'er timidly handed over a jade pendant: "Young master, you didn't bring a jade pendant." ”

Liu Mingzhi touched his waist, it was really empty, and let Ying'er half-squat to tie a jade pendant to herself, Liu Mingzhi patted her head: "It's better to be Ying'er, there are always Diao people who want to harm the young master." Thinking of the bowl of lotus seed soup, Liu Mingzhi secretly swore that in the future, he would not touch any of the series of drinks prepared by his mother.