Chapter 270: Business on the Way Home
In previous years, the trial release list of Jinshike Province was generally in mid to early February, the east wind thawed in February, and the spring returned to the earth, and nine out of ten people in the imperial capital had to go to Qujiang to go to Qingqing.
The new science and technology scholars "no one asked about the cold window for ten years, and they became famous all over the world in one fell swoop", which is really a spring breeze, and they also take advantage of this good spring, they have to have a party and a feast. Among them, the most prestigious is the official Qujiang Jinshi Banquet.
However, at this time, the official Qujiang Jinshi banquet has not yet formed a practice, and whether it is held or not depends on the mood of the saint. If there is no official holding in a certain year, the new imperial examination will also crowdfund, and invite the Zhigong Ju and the same examiners of the year, as well as the prime ministers to the banquet. Most of the officials invited belong to civil officials, and the officials will not postpone such a vassal and elegant Qujiang banquet, firstly, for personal interest, and secondly, to improve their prestige in the scholarly circle, and of course there will be more officials attached to them.
This year's Qujiang Jinshi banquet is a bit special.
First of all, Liu Chenxing, the first place in the provincial examination, was involved in the case of fraud in the science field, because he implicated the emperor's eldest grandson, King Wei, and even used the three divisions to interrogate, the empress also canceled this year's Qujiang banquet.
Immediately after the opening of the palace test, it was the empress who personally read the papers, according to the habit of people who like to gather and feast, how should the imperial court hold a Qujiang banquet, but it was the end of February when the list was released, and it was March after two or three days, and there was the Shangsi Festival on March 3, which was one of the three major festivals of the dynasty.
With the March 3 Qujiang Banquet attended by hundreds of officials, it would inevitably be too overlapping to hold the Jinshi Banquet in Qujiang a day or two before, and the Empress did not order the Qujiang Jinshi Banquet to be held.
However, there is no official banquet, and according to the convention, their new imperial examination can be crowdfunded, but the chief examiner of the palace examination is the empress, who dares to invite the empress.
If the empress as the chief examiner does not come, how can the other examiners dare to attend the banquet, and what is the point of just a group of new imperial examination students carnivaling their own banquet?
If so, this year's new Kejin Shiqujiang banquet has passed quietly.
There is no need to participate in the Qujiang banquet, and thinking that the empress only gave two months to return to her hometown, and more importantly, it has been two years since she left home.
Liu Qingshan now has the background of a jinshi, and according to the convention, he has to wait for the selection of Quan four years later to become an official, and the subject selection exam that wants to enter the career in advance will be taken at the end of the year, which means that there is nothing else to do now, and he is also bent on returning home.
As soon as the brother and sister are combined, they will not invite guests on the first day of moving into their new home, and they will wait for Ye Niang and Grandma to pick up and then respond to the housewarming banquet of the people.
For example, on the first day of the first month of March, they stayed in the new house for one night, and the next morning they ate a ready-made millet porridge with mutton steamed cakes, that is, a breakfast of mutton buns at the gate of the fang, and as soon as the door opened, the brother and sister rode the horse they bought in Beizhou to catch the first wave of people out of the city, and quickly whipped out of Chang'an to go back to their hometown.
In the third month of the lunar calendar, in late spring.
Lukewarm, just in a hurry.
The brother and sister are both people who can live, and they bring all the food on the road when they leave.
There are 20 hard-boiled eggs and 20 Hu cakes in cooked food, and this weather will not be a problem for four or five days.
Rice, millet, dried meat, and filtered dried vegetables were each packed in a cloth bag and carried on horseback, which were considered staple foods, but they were easy to cook as long as there was water and fire.
In order to get home a day earlier, the brother and sister would wash rice and cook in the morning and evening, and at noon they would rush non-stop, and when they were hungry, they would make do with eggs and cakes.
In this hurry, it was a spacious and flat official road all the way, but it was only three days, and it was Luoyang.
Luckily, when I arrived in Luoyang, although it was late afternoon, the red glow was all over the sky, but the city gate was not closed, and because Luoyang was one of the most prosperous big cities in the country, there were still several passenger ships waiting to depart on the Grand Canal wharf.
There was time to rest on the ship, and the brother and sister didn't care about the rush for three consecutive days of eating and sleeping, so they directly picked the largest passenger ship.
For no other reason, the bigger the boat, the smoother it is, and of course the more expensive it is.
When he came, he was still a poor and white man with an uncertain future, and he dared to spend three times to buy a ferry ticket, which is now considered a small fortune.
Almost without thinking, the siblings decided on the most expensive cabin, with a separate room for each person.
The fish and shrimp by the water are fat, in the restaurant hall on the first floor of the big passenger ship, I ordered grilled fish, boiled shrimp, and a fat goose, the brothers and sisters ate with a mouth full of oil, and then went back to their respective rooms to take a hot bath, and slept with their heads bored, and got up the next morning, I had to sigh that young is good, and the fatigue of the journey in the past few days has been swept away, and the whole person is in good spirits.
It is no wonder that the waterway is known as the most comfortable way to travel in ancient times, the boat is like a flat ground on the water, sitting in their cabin, while enjoying the spring of the lake on both sides of the river, while practicing words and poetry, and now it is also a little rich woman with two suites in the imperial capital, extravagantly buy a few catties of cherries in early spring, eat one from time to time, even if it has been eating non-stop, you can afford to eat, this life is simply too beautiful.
Of course, all comfort and enjoyment are based on the economy.
Liu Chenxing's enthusiasm for making money couldn't help but rise, and secretly said that even if she became a female official, Aunt Liu's hot pot business could not be lost, and at the same time, she would continue to expand other businesses.
As the saying goes, do one line, love one line.
In his previous life, he was a liberal arts student, and Liu Chenxing was not interested in any inventions, but now he has two hobbies in life, one is to make money, and the other is to eat.
Therefore, after thinking about it, Liu Chenxing felt that if he wanted to do other businesses, he still had to make food, that is, to make the brand of Aunt Liu into a catering company, which has many kinds of food.
In this way, you can earn money and make delicious food to improve your life.
Tired of practicing calligraphy, Liu Chenxing stopped his pen, blowing the river breeze that sneaked in with the window on the Grand Canal, and twisted a cherry from the porcelain plate on the bookcase, because it was the first batch of cherries in early spring, it was still a little sour, but the taste of fresh fruit made Liu Chenxing squint his eyes with satisfaction.
Cute and delicious cherries, just for a beautiful girl like her, all day long mutton over mutton over what to say.
It's a pity that there are no desserts, and then take a cup of coffee, such a spring afternoon is really beautiful.
Thinking of the taste of coffee and desserts blooming in the taste buds, and one or two girlfriends gathered in a petty bourgeois dessert shop, enjoying afternoon tea and eating melon gossip, Liu Chenxing's eyes opened suddenly, and his round eyes were about to catch up with Xue Yuan.
That's right!
How could she only think of it at this time!
Whoever has the best money in the world belongs to women and children.
Nowadays, women have a high status, and they can run around the streets wearing men's clothes or gaudy skirts. And who doesn't have one or two handkerchiefs, but there are only brothels where men gather in Pingkangfang, but there is no women's hall where their women chat, this is the blank market waiting for her to enter!
Liu Chenxing spit out the cherry shell on the plate on the case, and her new business was born.
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