Chapter 359: Gifts before the Eagle Feast
Li Mi and Zhao Guangling are the men who dominate the crowd in the Chu Palace, but the palace test list is such a result, Zhao Guangling is the first, and Li Mi is the second!
Although it is a good thing to be on the list, even the people of the Institute of Reasoning are not too optimistic about Li Mi, so in the eyes of others, this result is already good.
But Li Mi and Zhao Guangling are very clear about their own level, and this result is extremely abnormal!
Li Mi doesn't care, after all, he also hopes not to be so high-minded, if he really takes the exam to solve the yuan, some people stand up and say that he is relying on his father-in-law Wu Weizhong, or suspect that he is using his power to facilitate favoritism.
And what Zhao Guangling wants is not the ranking, but the attitude of the imperial court, which is actually Wang Hongzhi helping him, if he is named the first name, or the ranking is too high, and if he is reported, it is tantamount to putting him on the fire to roast, if the emperor allows it, if the emperor does not allow them to participate in politics, how to deal with it?
Therefore, Wang Hongzhi and Mo Hengluan and other old oilers in officialdom can only give Zhao Guangling a last name, the emperor is not happy, and no one will say anything if he brushes it down, if the emperor agrees, the last name and the second place are actually no different.
In view of this, don't look at Li Mi and Zhao Guangling are indignant, but they have actually accepted it in their hearts, which is also the best result.
As for Zhang Huangting, he was really happy.
Li Mi immediately rewarded the officials who reported the good news, and asked the restaurant to send a banquet, and called all the people from the yamen of the Liwen Institute to eat and drink together to celebrate.
Everyone also had an understanding of Li Mi's temperament, and a group of people were also happy, no matter how big or small.
Even Suo Changsheng and Emmanuer, who stayed in the small dark room all day, came out to eat and drink to join in the fun, and they were not harmonious.
was playing hard, Song Zhiwei, who pushed the official yamen, led his colleagues over to congratulate him, and the prefect Chen Heguang was still in the Gongyuan and couldn't come over, so he also asked Song Zhiwei to send a congratulatory gift.
Li Mi was warmly entertained, and planned to let people prepare a banquet, just out of the door, I saw a vast crowd of more than a dozen people carrying shoulders, pouring into the yamen of the Institute of Reason, it turned out that Xiang Mushi and Chongsheng got the news, and the two families not only came to congratulate, but also invited the chefs of Songxian Building!
Suzhou is known as "spring has a knife fish, summer has a shad, autumn has a fat duck and winter has a sparse" saying, all kinds of rivers and seas are fresh and beautiful, not to mention, that is, the food that is not in season can also be seen every day, don't say, now is the beginning of spring, not the season to eat crabs, but the two elders have brought hundreds of catties of Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs!
Of course, the second elder is inevitably suspected of watching the excitement, and one or two are not merciless at all, ridiculing and ridiculing Li Mi and saying that he wants to take Xie Yuan, but the result is countdown, and he is not afraid of laughing to death.
Today, I came to the banquet to eat and drink, just to deliberately make Li Mi ugly, to put this celebration banquet as the first in Suzhou, we can't test others in the exam, but we want to compete for the first place!
Li Mi couldn't cry or laugh, these two old men were clearly here to make trouble, they were the first to the bottom of the exam, and they were even more magnificent than Xie Yuan, isn't this a deliberate shame!
Speaking of trouble, what is the situation of Li Mi, the second elder knows it without saying it, but he just came to have a good time, and they also know that Li Mi does not care much about this martial arts.
In addition to Li Mi and Zhao Guangling's injuries have not healed, it is normal to not be able to pass the test, and the written test is a step higher, but people only take the test of Moyi, and the seven books of martial arts are memorized, and there is no difficulty, and no matter how brilliant the writing is, it is the same score, which is really annoying.
Horizontal and vertical is also to seek benevolence, each has its own place, the celebration banquet will be joyful and joyful until the middle of the night, Li Mi used the title of the gold list, the cave room was full of candles, and that night was in Zhen Mi's room, Hu Tian Hu Emperor did not know when to rest, only knew that Zhen Mi was full of spring the next day, and he couldn't move his steps when he walked, and Li Mi didn't support the wall, but just lost the crutches that he didn't use for a few days, and turned them out again......
According to the rules of the liberal arts examination, after the government examination, a deer banquet will be held, and when it comes to the palace examination, there will be a Qionglin banquet.
And the Wuke Mansion Examination is also indispensable, and on the second day, the Governor's Mansion sent someone to invite, saying that the Governor and Yousi Yamen held an eagle feast, and all the new imperial examinees had to participate.
The name of the Eagle Yang Banquet comes from the Book of Poetry "Wei Shi Shang Father, Shi Wei Ying Yang", taking righteousness and mighty like Eagle Yang, it is an encouragement to the new branch of martial arts.
Of course, the martial arts people are not stupid, and who really goes there for food and wine, the Eagle Yang Banquet to thank and learn, to contact the same year, is the first step into officialdom, and it is also an extremely important social activity.
These martial artists have always been the identity of martial artists, and the martial artists are called martial artists, and they have taken a new word, also because the martial artists are more murderous, and the new words are just a little more relaxed.
Now Wusheng has become a martial artist, and it is finally considered to be a "positive result", and the practice of martial arts is not bad for money, although there are many poor scholars, but most of them are still the children of the generals, and they can not be cold when they thank them, so one or two of them took a generous gift and ran to the governor's yamen.
Zhao Guangling and Zhang Huangting naturally also received the post, so they discussed with Li Mi what gifts to bring.
Zhao Guangling and Zhang Huangting's family is not short of money, although Li Mi has not taken care of his own accounts, but he has no worries about food and clothing, and he has no thoughts about yellow and white things.
But as soon as he said that he wanted to give a gift, Li Mi became angry, and after a long time, he set himself the penultimate one, and Lao Tzu still wants to give you a gift?
Dream on!
So Li Mi asked the officials of the Institute to wrap up some leftovers from yesterday, and came to the governor's palace with Zhao Guangling on crutches.
They were familiar with the Governor's Palace, and the people in the Governor's Mansion were already familiar with it, but when they arrived at the Gatehouse of the Governor's Palace, they were dumbfounded.
This time, everyone came to participate in the Eagle Yang Banquet, and there was already a long queue at the door.
This queue is also about the rules, although the Governor's Office did not explicitly state, but everyone was raised in the same year, and this unwritten rule naturally had to be followed, that is, starting from the first place and ranking down.
Brother Li Mi occupied the last three places, although Li Mi was a little angry, but he didn't dare to move forward, so he could only shrink back aggrievedly.
The front gatehouse kept singing the gift list loudly, and those who were disciples of the generals, the gift list was also heavier than the other, as if there was no competition everywhere, even if it was a gift, it would be compared.
Zhang Huangting didn't have the confidence of Li Mi and Zhao Guangling, and when he heard the above report, he couldn't help but feel apprehensive in his heart, and he arrived at Li Mi.
"Brother...... Is our etiquette really okay......"
Li Mi "cut" and said to Zhang Huangting: "These old men, they said it well, they want to get a martial artist for Lao Tzu, but they ended up being the penultimate one, what kind of gifts do you want?" ”
"Besides, these drinks and dishes are all given by Brother Xiang Mu and Grandmaster Shi Chongsheng, and others can't eat them if they have money, so why bother sending mundane things like gold, silver, and jewelry."
Zhang Huangting knew that Li Mi was deliberately messing around, and he could only sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman, but this long dragon was also slow, after all, the gift giving was too complicated, and he had to sing the gift list, seeing that it was noon, Zhao Guangling saw that Li Mi was on crutches, so he said to Li Mi.
"Let's go to the porter and sit and wait, our feet are numb."
Zhao Guangling's injury is on the shoulder, and he has already been healed, and this move is also concerned about Li Mi, Li Mi and Zhen Mi had a ridiculous night last night, and there was no moderation, so he couldn't hold it anymore, so he and Zhao Guangling walked forward.
As soon as he walked out of the group, the people in front of him didn't do it.
"Three friends, everyone is here for a banquet, we are all people with status, what is the Governor's Palace, you can't break the rules, let the general Rong laugh at our imperial examination people have no etiquette."
The man deliberately raised his voice, and the martial artists in line looked sideways, looking at Li Mi and the three of them, as if they had caught a thief, their eyes were full of contempt.
Although Li Mi was upset and irritable when he waited, this kind of thing was not a glorious thing after all, so he said to everyone.
"You misunderstood, I either want to cut in line, or my legs and feet are not angry, I feel uncomfortable standing, and I just want to sit in the gatehouse."
Li Mi explained like this, and knocked his foot with a cane, thinking that this explanation could clear up the misunderstanding, but who knew that it caused cynicism.
"The penultimate name still dares to pretend to be sick and pretend to be injured, and if you want to be the first, your face is really thick enough, but everyone present is not blind, and your heart is very open, if your skills are not as good as others, you should admit to gambling and admit defeat.
The man said righteously, and the people in Wuju also laughed loudly, Li Mi inevitably frowned, but Zhao Guangling couldn't stand this anger!
"You have the guts to say it again!"
Others don't know, but he knows that Li Mi's injury is to trap Cheng Yu, if there is no Li Mi's sacrifice, Cheng Yu will definitely disrupt the government exam, and it will be these people's turn to be proud of the examination room, I am afraid that the government exam will not be able to be held normally!
There is no problem with his and Li Mi's exams, and the rankings are only arranged by Wang Hongyu, Mo Hengluan and others out of political considerations, in order to protect Li Mi and Zhao Guangling, which by no means means means that Li Mi and Zhao Guangling are weaker than these people!
Li Mi is also an unsung hero, for these people to be able to participate in the government examination and suffer injuries, now if you want to sit in the concierge, you have to be suspicious and ridiculed by these people, and even slandered, Li Mi started from a small role at the grassroots level, he is used to seeing these, but he Zhao Guangling can't bear it!
The man saw that Zhao Guangling was furious, but he didn't let it go, straightened his chest, and said to Zhao Guangling.
"Say it again! This is the Governor's Palace! What you have lost is not your own face, but the face of all the martial arts people in our department, you can be shameless, but don't affect us in the same year! ”
This person is also a sensible person, he has to bring other people with him for everything, and use the collective of the same branch and martial arts to suppress the three of Li Mi, if they are replaced by someone else, I am afraid that they will be ashamed and embarrassed, even if they are wronged, they can only swallow their anger.
But where did Zhao Guangling get angry, his sisters even dared to set fire to the Chu Palace, and the lord of Guining County had to be polite to him, he was used to seeing wealth and nobility when he was a child, although these martial artists also had some backgrounds, but in Zhao Guangling's eyes, they were not enough!
Li Mi watched from the side, knowing that Zhao Guangling couldn't help it, but he was afraid that he would really make a move in a while, so he grabbed Zhao Guangling and said in a low voice.
"Okay, what's the matter with these people, it's a big deal that I won't go to this eagle feast, let's go back to the yamen to drink!"
Li Mi's decision is also good, Hengzhi has already let these people see it, and if he goes in to participate in the banquet for a while, it will inevitably cause trouble again, why bother to join in this excitement again, it is better to go back to drink, and there are not so many scruples.
Zhao Guangling knew that Li Mi was a person who took care of the overall situation, and he didn't want to make the whole Eagle Yang banquet unhappy because of these trivial things, so he snorted and wanted to go back with Li Mi.
But the man didn't give up, and said to Li Mi and the others: "Although the skin is thicker, but in the end there is still self-knowledge, the Eagle Yang Banquet is really not suitable for you, let's get out of here, hahaha!" ”
Many Wuju people also laughed as if they had won.