Chapter 406: Deed

Since the beginning of the year, the whole world has gathered in Beijing to prepare for the triennial examination. Although due to the lessons of the ritual examination three years ago, many people who stayed in Beijing in many provinces gathered together to rent or buy houses in other cities as hometown halls, but because there were too many candidates, the inns were still full, and there were also many wealthy scholars who rented houses to live alone in peace. Because of the outstanding literary name in Jiangnan, the Zhejiang Hall in Xuannan District of the outer city has always been the most lively, and the examinees of other halls love to come here to meet the literature, and there is little talk about it.

"The chief examiner of this ritual exam is Yang Shiqi, a scholar from Zuochunfang University, this old man loves the most stable articles, don't patronize and show off your words. Even if you have sharpness, you have to bring out some old and serious attitudes, so that you can go to high school! ”

"That's not the case, there is a way that is not shocking and endless, although Lord Yang is calm, but when he sees those sharp good articles, he will also be appreciative! I'm not saying that it's not good to be stable, I just think that making a fuss is like being a person, if you can't be like human nature, just blindly seek stability, you will lose the way to forge ahead! ”

"Tingyi, you are too strong, and it is not a good thing to be young and vigorous. It's the first time you've taken the exam, and you don't know the difficulties involved, and how many people in the world are on the gold list in one fell swoop? No matter how colorful the article is, if it violates the examiner's taboo, it will not be accepted. When it comes to the palace exam, it is even more nervous, the palace examiner will often walk beside the tribute, and watch the one who agrees with him write it down early, even if he writes a draft and has no time to copy it, it doesn't matter, if he doesn't like it, he has to take the turn of the top three. ”

When a few people wearing blue and cyan shirts talked about the examiner this time, some shook their heads and sighed, some people talked about it, but more people gathered together to study Yang Shiqi's several volumes of anthologies, but the young scholar known as Tingyi did not think so. After walking around, he noticed that most people were talking about the tricks and tricks of taking the exam, so he simply left the hall.

Because there are several guild halls in the whole grinding knife alley, most of them are talking about the same thing at this time, he went around in a big circle, he was too lazy to join in the excitement, looked at the sky and found that it was almost noon at this time, so he walked towards the Sixi restaurant at the mouth of the alley.

This two-storey restaurant is adjacent to Xuanwumen Street in the outer city, which is already famous for Bazhen chicken and mutton soup, and now it is next to a number of guild halls, and business is naturally more prosperous. Finding that there was an empty table near the window, he hurriedly stepped forward, and before he could sit down, a guy next to him greeted him with an apologetic face: "This son, this table has already been set for people, and there are still a few vacant seats in other places, are you ......?"

The guy said that there were a few empty seats elsewhere, but when he looked left and right, he saw that they were all full, and he immediately hesitated. Seeing that this young guest was wearing a half-worn green cloth jacket and a pair of black cloth shoes that had been washed white under his feet, he knew that this was just a poor man, and couldn't help but laugh again: "I'm really sorry, there is no empty seat upstairs, is the son going downstairs to take a look?" ”

"There are only three of us, and there is just one empty seat, so we don't need to let this brother go elsewhere!"

As soon as the young man turned around, he realized that there were three guests here. Except for one of them, who looked older than him, the other two seemed to be a lot smaller than him. The three of them were all dressed as ordinary scholars, and when they saw him bowing their heads very politely, he smiled after returning the salute and said: "Then thank you three, otherwise I have to find another place to worship the five visceral temples." ”

The man turned around and saw that the guest who was talking had taken out a wooden sign of reservation, and hurriedly beckoned them to sit down, and said, "Since the three sons are here, the little one will go and order the subordinates to serve according to the predetermined menu." Bazhen chicken, vegetarian fried gluten, red braised mutton, wild duck soup, braised tofu, spring bamboo shoots and shrimp, a pot of Fenjiu, do you see it? ”

Seeing this nod, he beckoned the single young guest to sit down again, and then asked, "What does Childe want?" ”

"A bowl of mutton noodles."

The guy was stunned for a moment before he nodded: "Okay, a bowl of mutton noodles!" ”

The young man spoke naturally, and the other three people who sat at the same table with him were not surprised, and the person who spoke at the beginning smiled even more: "Don't look at this small place, it occupies a good market, but business is booming." I've managed to save a few bucks, and I'll be out later! But now it's better than three years ago, I took your father's downwind boat to Beijing during the Yuan Festival, and the treasure money I saved was given to you as room and board money, and you invited you to make a tooth sacrifice, otherwise if you want to eat a bowl of mutton noodles, I'm afraid you have to sell calligraphy and paintings to barely eat...... Oh, no, there were few teachers in Beijing at that time, and it wasn't Jiangnan, so I couldn't even sell calligraphy and paintings! ”

It was Wanshijie who spoke, because he received this year's rice and money, and he was finally a little more comfortable with money, so he had today's treat. Xia Ji next to him remembered the high rent and food expenses at that time, and glanced at Zhang Yue with a smile: "Don't talk about it at that time, if we hadn't lived in the house of the Yuan Festival in the past three years, I'm afraid we wouldn't know how much money would go out." No wonder people say that it is not easy to live in Beijing, it is true, in a flash and three years, there are more people than back then. ”

Zhang Yue knew that the two of them were just joking, and when he saw the young man sitting calmly, he remembered that he happened to meet the same table this time, so he greeted with a smile: "This brother Tai seems to have come to the exam this year?" Two days later, there will be an exam, and this year's exam will be hundreds more than three years ago, which is really a thousand troops crossing the single-plank bridge. ”

"It's really like crossing a single-plank bridge, and the people who came here are better, like the natural nervousness of me taking the exam for the first time." Although the young man was upright, he was not withdrawn, and immediately smiled, "I also thought that since I came, I would try my best, and if I didn't succeed, I would wait for another three years." I have been studying hard for decades, no matter how high or low, I always hope to do something to live up to this life. In Xia Qiantang, Yu Qian and Yu Tingyi, should the three of them also be tested by the current department? ”

At this moment, Zhang Yue was deeply glad that he hadn't started eating yet, otherwise he would have choked on the last sentence. He nodded with a smile on his face, but in his heart he thought that he had a good impression of him as soon as he saw him, and it was not for nothing. In addition to Yu Qian's dignified appearance, what makes people feel more heartbroken is calm. And the unruly Wanshijie laughed when he heard this: "The three of us are easy to get in the last subject, and this subject will not be fun." ”

The people who eat on the second floor of the Four Happiness Restaurant are indeed as Yu Qian said, and most of them are the ones who take the exam in this department. Although there are a lot of people who talk loudly, there are more people who listen to the six ways and see all directions, and they are used to speaking loudly in this Wanshi Festival, and the two tables next to them can't help but whisper when they hear this. And Yu Qian couldn't help but be a little surprised: "In this way, I happened to meet my ancestors today, and there are three of them at a time, which is a first-class fate." ”

Nowadays, the only one who wins first in the field is the ancestor, so this ancestor is naturally not surprising, and Zhang Yue can't help but laugh. Wanshijie has always been a good thing, so he nodded happily at this time and said: "Actually, it's not a strange fate, but I just happened to hear that the Bazhen chicken and mutton in this Sixi Restaurant are a must, plus the price is cheap in the outer city, and the tooth sacrifice is just right." Otherwise, with the expenses of the inner city, I won't be able to eat enough a few times a year. Since there are guild halls nearby, it's not surprising to meet a lifter, but it's just that it's full of seats at this time, and you and we are crowded at the same table, which is fate. And if you sit down, you can sit, and you are not pretentious or cowardly when talking to you, which is even more right for our spleen and stomach. ”

Xia Ji saw that Wan Shijie had made another old mistake, so he had no choice but to say to Zhang Yue: "Yuan Jie, you also know that those old bachelors in the Hanlin Academy are extremely disciplined, and I have stayed in the Hanlin Academy for three years, I at least pretend to be well-behaved, and Brother Wan is doing what I have always thought of and said, just because of this temper, I don't know how much I have suffered!" ”

"Xiao Xia, you still don't know Lao Wan's temperament? He just likes to be comfortable, it doesn't matter if he suffers or not, isn't it because of his temper that we made him a friend? ”

"That's right, if I change my temper, it won't be the Festival of Eternity!"

Zhang Yue remembered that Wan Shijie was such a temper in Yang Shiqi's place at the beginning, and he had not changed at all after staying in the museum for three years, but it was a strange thing, so he interjected with a smile, and he immediately hit the snake with the stick. At this time, the guy happened to deliver the food with a large plate, six plates were placed in the middle, followed by a pot of wine, and then a large bowl of noodles was placed in front of Yu Qian. Because they had just talked to each other, they could be regarded as acquaintances, so Wan Shijie used the excuse that there were too many dishes, and pulled Yu Qian to eat together. Yu Qian had no choice but to agree, and his bowl of mutton noodles was also cleaned up by the four of them. When they were full of wine and food, they talked about state affairs at other tables, and their table was naturally no exception.

"Jiaozhi is located in the southwest, and it was originally a vassal of our country, and it was only because of the resistance to the king's order that the imperial court sent troops to fight. Although the British public four decided to make a great achievement, but Jiaonan rebelled again and again, but it was necessary to think about other reasons. After Chen Jikuo's rebellion was pacified, there was Li Li, and then there were many local officials such as Pan Bang, Chen Kelun, Ruan Zhao, etc., who had already surrendered, why would they rather risk killing themselves to rebel? Rebellions have come and gone, wave after wave of unsettled, even though Fengcheng Hou and Rong Changbo are both a generation of famous generals, it is not so easy to calm down by relying on a single word. A Jiaozhi dragged tens of thousands of troops in the imperial court, and the annual military supply was countless, even tired of the people in the southwest. ”

Hearing this, Wan Shijie, another official in the military department at the table, also nodded again and again. Although Yu Qian is still only a candidate for the examination, he has a lot of opinions on military affairs: "If the people are poor and tired, the people will be in turmoil, and this Jiaonan has now become a chicken rib, and it is a pity to abandon it if it is tasteless, and it is a pity to let the army be tired there all the time." ”

As soon as the word was finished, bursts of cheers rang out outside. The people who were eating upstairs looked over one after another, only to see the smoke and dust on the avenue over there, and it took a long time for someone to see the leading guard of honor clearly.

"It's King Zhou, King Zhou has come to Beijing with an edict!"