Township drinking, since the beginning of the week, the idea is to recommend the sage to the monarch, and the township doctor is the host to set up a banquet.

Since the establishment of the imperial examination in the previous dynasty, for more than 100 years, township drinking has become a common practice for local officials to hold banquets to entertain those who should be raised.

At that time, those who won the imperial examination in Zhuzhou were called township tributes. Its tributes, as the name suggests, are scholars who pay tribute to the Son of Heaven. Therefore, the township drinking ceremony held in Zhuzhou can also be called the tribute ceremony, which is the etiquette of the official bin Li Gong people "entering the meritocracy" when the state tribute is held.

In this way, even if a group of officials and the major high-ranking families of Qinghe attended, Liu Chenxing and other members of the pilot test were still the protagonists of the banquet.

Drinking in the countryside is not only a banquet, but also a ceremony.

As a rite, a fixed process and ritual are indispensable.

And in a banquet, the most important thing is nothing more than the host and the guest.

According to common sense, the drinking ceremony in Zhuzhou Township is generally based on the history of thorns, Xie Yuan is the guest, Xie Deputy is the introduction, and the rest of the children are the guests.

Liu Chenxing, as the current state test solution yuan, is naturally the guest.

In view of the difference between Beizhou and Qingyang County, there are many high-ranking officials in the state city, and if there is a comment that does not cultivate Derong, her road to the imperial examination will come to an end.

Therefore, on this day, Liu Chenxing got up on the fifth drum day to bathe and change clothes, practiced reading aloud at the end of the day, and after half an hour, the wet hair was dried, and the long hair was coiled to the top of the head, and the party put on a blue and black hat, which was a hat with a black gauze texture, and then changed into a newly bought white cloth wide-sleeved summer shirt, and pedaled black cloth shoes, and looked new.

Although she is a daughter, her best outfit is only a cloth dress, but there is a saying that "a coarse cloth wraps her career, and she has poetry and books in her belly." ”

So he came down in a men's round-necked gown, at first glance I thought it was the young Yulangjun, but when I looked closely, my lips were red and my teeth were white, and my cheeks were round, revealing the girl's coquettishness, and I knew that it was a female Jiao'e.

Liu Chenxing is still quite satisfied with his appearance, after all, Ye Niang has a good foundation, even if she can't be better than the blue, it should not be much worse.

He also served as a guest in the township of Qingyang County, and he was considered experienced, so he calmly went to the banquet with Liu Qingshan and Xue Cheng.

The so-called peaceful and prosperous era is indispensable for all kinds of banquets in singing and dancing, and people at the time also like the liveliness of the banquet.

In addition, this year's drinking in the township is quite interesting, and there is a thirteen-year-old female Xie Yuan, who is curious, but at the right time, that is, it is now nine o'clock in the morning, and the cars and horses outside the Thorn Shi Mansion are already like flowing water, and all the cars and horses of the major high-ranking people who have been invited to attend.

If so, when Liu Chenxing and his party arrived, the hall was already full.

Most of the officials and other prominent people were men, and those who could attend the school drinking were also men, and the east side of the hall was full of men wearing official uniforms or brocade clothes.

They sit according to their personal dignity and inferiority, one person and one seat, and the two adjacent people generally know each other, and they are pushing the cup into the lamp, talking and laughing.

At this time, I only heard the official words of the waiters outside the hall shouting: "Xie Yuan Liu Chenxing, Liu Qingshan, Xue Chengzhi." ”

They had long been curious about the female Xie Yuan, and when they heard this, they all raised their heads and looked at the person who came.

Feeling the scrutiny of more than a dozen pairs of eyes, especially those who have been high-ranking officials or have knighthoods, their momentum is extraordinary, and their eyes do not feel the pressure of the superiors.

Liu Chenxing suddenly felt like a thorn in the back, and couldn't help but sigh that Qinghe really hides the dragon and crouching tiger, it is one of the birthplaces of the Gaomen Shi clan, which is not comparable to ordinary state cities, and then his heart sank, his eyes did not squint, and he crossed the threshold with his robe and entered the hall.

Liu Qingshan and Xue Cheng followed.

At this time, the adult was the meaning of the father, and he called the official, and it was customary to call him by the official name by the surname, or the surname by "gong" to show respect.

Liu Chenxing and the three of them then said to the chief of the assassin history: "The student meets the history of the assassin. ”

Beizhou Thorn Shi's surname is Chen, a middle-aged literati with a white face and beard, at this time, he sat on the top of the head, and saw Liu Chenxing and his party clearly, seeing that Liu Chenxing's eyebrows were all green, and he still wondered how he understood the yuan, but he still said: "The future is terrifying!" Although there are not many people who have passed the state test this year, they are all young talents, the youngest is only thirteen, and the oldest is less than thirty. ”

Liu Chenxing and the others did as they said, and some waiters introduced the seats on the west side to take their seats.

The seats on the west side are the seven lifters who have passed the state examination this time, as well as several students from the state government school.

The seats are also specially arranged, Liu Chenxing and other seven lifters are seated in the first row, and several students from the state school are in the second row.

In addition, Liu Chenxing, as Xie Yuan, the first place in this state examination, is seated in front of the crowd, that is, the first place on the west side, and then Cui Yao, the deputy of Xie Yuanlong, and the third Du Yuanlang, and then continue to arrange seats according to the ranking.

Before he could sit down on the couch, he heard a cold snort from beside him, and Liu Chenxing subconsciously glanced at it.

I saw an eighteen or nineteen-year-old boy in brocade, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, very handsome, but he was a little arrogant between his eyebrows, and he was afraid that he was a picky character.

Liu Chenxing did not meet this person in the examination room, but when he saw him sitting in the seat of the deputy of Xie and wearing brocade clothes, he knew that he was Cui Xiang's grandson Cui Yao.

Consciously has no intersection with the children of the powerful, not to mention that Cui Yao was a popular candidate for Xie Yuan, but now she occupies the top of the list, it is estimated that she does not like her most, the so-called poor do not fight with the rich, the people do not fight with the officials, Liu Chenxing just didn't hear it, and then sat down on the couch.

Seeing this, Cui Yao was stunned.

He didn't expect that he had already spoken out, and Liu Chenxing didn't think he heard it, didn't he look down on him as a deputy?

Thinking that he politely refused the state student apprenticeship quota and gave up the opportunity to take the provincial exam directly, he thought that he would be able to solve the yuan in high school, and as a result, the three exams of the state exam were all behind Liu Chenxing, a little woman, which had made him lose face.

But looking through Liu Chenxing's three exam papers, he saw that he was indeed a real talent, so he didn't care about a little woman.

But he paid so much attention to her, how could Liu Chenxing not pay attention to his deputy, so he shouldn't have heard his greeting......

Thinking of this, Cui Yao glanced at Liu Chenxing again, and saw that his skin was very snowy, his eyebrows were green without painting, and his lips were red without dots.

I don't know that there is a little ink on my chest, Cui Yao only feels that it looks much more pleasing to the eyes than those high-ranking ladies who are greased and powdered, and he has never met Liu Chenxing, so he unconsciously glanced at it again and again.

When he realized his actions, his face turned red for a moment - what was he doing!?

Cui Yao was startled, and hurriedly withdrew his gaze, but in a panic, the wide sleeves placed on the case were around, and the wine glass "clanged" and knocked over the case.

Liu Chenxing didn't look at it much, only looked at the person who was the first person on the east side, sitting face to face with him, the master of the bearded guest!?