After respectfully saluting the tray, Mama reached out and took out the yellow thick in her hand, the back of the yellow thick was embroidered with the pattern of the phoenix Yu Fei, the texture was even more extraordinary, and it was even more colorful under the sunlight.

"There are all the ladies of the family who are taking the female official examination, and stand out twenty, now the solar term is in season Dragon Boat Festival, as the end of the test, hundreds of young ladies show their strengths, and prepare for this Dragon Boat Festival."

The sonorous and powerful voice of the guard Mama reached everyone's ears at this moment.

Xie Qingyu also thought about it at the moment, the Dragon Boat Banquet was a commemoration of Qu Yuan in her impression, and the ritual test was her weakest point, and she didn't know how to prepare for this banquet, and for a while, Xie Qingyu's face was also full of difficulties.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if you have no doubts, you can go down and prepare."

Looking at everyone's thinking expressions, the guard said slowly.

After a while, everyone left the Jiangnan Gongyuan in turn.

The crowd had also dispersed at this time.

Xie Qingyan and Qin Zixuan walked in the direction of the examination hall.

"Zixuan, do you know the old customs before this Dragon Boat Festival?"

As soon as Xie Qingyu came back, she pulled Qin Zixuan to talk about the ritual test, but if it was the Dragon Boat Festival, she felt that this ritual test was not just as simple as eating zongzi.

Qin Zixuan looked unimpressed, and directly asked for a few side dishes from the shopkeeper of the examination institute, and then said to Xie Qingyu, who looked anxious.

"Don't worry, we'll talk about it after dinner."

Although Xie Qingyu knew Qin Zixuan's temperament, he didn't expect that she would be able to maintain such composure at such a moment, but Xie Qingyu was not in a hurry, after all, there was still some time to go.

In a few moments, the shopkeeper had already brought the food, and the two of them ate casually.

"The Dragon Boat Banquet contains more than just a banquet." Qin Zixuan said inadvertently while holding the dish.

Xie Qingyu knew that Qin Zixuan was going to talk to him about the Dragon Boat Festival, so he put down his chopsticks and listened quietly.

"The Dragon Boat Festival is a more important festival in Dayan, every year is to worship the dragon ancestor on this day, just before the Dragon Boat Festival, all the royal family participating in the sacrificial ceremony in the palace need to bathe and fast for three days, and the people who preside over the ceremony are all people with high status in the royal family."

"Then the person selected by the emperor to sacrifice will kneel on the high platform and worship the land of the West Heaven where the Dragon Ancestor is located."

"The whole ritual system is very complicated, it takes half a day just to sacrifice, and then there is a banquet with the theme of the Dragon Boat Festival."

"The banquet in the palace is even more complicated, all the kings and grandsons of the family come to participate in this Dragon Boat Banquet, and they are very painstaking in terms of meal standards, seat allocation, and program selection."

Xie Qingyu really didn't expect that it would be so troublesome to have a Dragon Boat Festival in ancient times, but what Qin Zixuan said was about the royal Dragon Boat Festival, and he knew a lot about it, thinking of this, Xie Qingyu looked at Qin Zixuan's eyes and couldn't help but show a little inquiry.

Who is Qin Zixuan sacred, and why does she know so much about royal sacrifices? Xie Qingyu's heart was full of doubts, but in fact, he couldn't blame her, because Qin Zixuan didn't reveal anything to her from beginning to end.

"The reason why there are such questions in this ceremony exam is just the last introductory exam for all the ladies of the family who are taking the female exam, but this test is much more difficult than the previous basic skills."

Qin Zixuan saw Xie Qingyu's thinking, and immediately explained.

"In this way, this is the most difficult question in the female officer exam." Xie Qingyan also retracted his thoughts when he heard this, and replied lightly.

"Now you can only win by coming up with some novel ideas, you and I will think about it first today, and discuss it tomorrow." Qin Zixuan said lightly.

"Okay."

Immediately afterwards, the two began to eat and chatted casually about other things.

After all, there is no solution to the urgent test at this moment, so it is better to eat well.

"By the way, I thought of a broken idea in your last chess game." Qin Zixuan seemed to remember the last backgammon as she ate, so she said to Xie Qingyu.

I have been practicing backgammon every day these days, and I must have a good fight with Xie Qingyu when I have time.

"I'll do it next time I have time." Xie Qingyu really didn't have Qin Zixuan to be so persistent, he had already been tired of playing backgammon in the past few days, so he shirked it.

After the two finished eating, they went back to their respective rooms.

When Xie Qingyu returned to the room, he suddenly remembered that he hadn't paid the shopkeeper for a few days, so he turned around and came back, planning to settle the money for the past few days.

"What else does Miss Xie command?" Now the shopkeeper saw Xie Qingyu, changed his previous snobbery, and asked very politely.

"Here's the price for the next few days." Xie Qingyu took out twenty taels of silver from his arms and handed it directly to the shopkeeper, counting the previous one, twenty taels of silver was enough to live until after he finished the exam.

"Miss Xie, you see that you are in such a hurry, it doesn't hurt to be a few days late." Although the shopkeeper was polite to Xie Qingyu, he still took the twenty taels of silver directly.

Xie Qingyu didn't want to say anything more to the shopkeeper, so he wanted to go back to the room directly.

"By the way, Miss Xie, you came with another letter, I just came early this morning, after you went out, I forgot about it when I was busy, and now I saw Miss Xie, and I remembered it."

Xie Qingyu just raised his foot when he heard the voice of the shopkeeper, letter? Asaaki has a letter!

He immediately turned around, took the letter from the shopkeeper's hand, and immediately went back to his room.

The last time Qianqiu wrote to inform him that his mother was fine, he was relieved, and today Qianqiu wrote again that something must have happened to his mother!

Xie Qingyu thought like this, and his hand to open the letter trembled a little for a while, he had not yet been admitted to the female officer, and his mother must not have anything to do.

Miss, Mrs. is already weak, but a few days ago she gradually had a slight coughing up of blood, and the whole person became a lot haggard, Mrs. misses Miss every day, and does not let the slave tell Miss, but the slave and maid can't bear it, I don't know when Miss will return?

After reading the letter from Qianqiu, Xie Qingyu burst into tears directly, coughing up blood! How can my mother cough up blood so well, isn't it that the beauty she was drunk before is almost unbearable? It's only been a year now, and what Jiang Zhiyang said at the beginning was that it was two years, how could the illness happen so quickly.

In the letter, Qianqiu asked when she would return, but she had reached the last step, and she must not leave everything at this time to go home, if she gave up at this moment, her mother would have no way to save her.

The transactions between her and Nangong Chengyu were all after reaching the Jiangnan Leader, and only then would she be qualified to negotiate terms with Nangong Chengyu, and now she is still too small.

Xie Qingyu has never hated his own insignificance more than today.

The plan for today is to prepare for the Dragon Boat Banquet as soon as possible, get the position of the leader of Jiangnan, and go home as soon as possible.

Dragon luncheon, think of a way, novel ideas.

The more anxious Xie Qingyu was, the more he couldn't think of any way, he only remembered the matter of his mother's relatives in his heart, although he wanted to think of a way to have a dragon lunch banquet, but his thoughts couldn't be concentrated for a long time.

This night, Xie Qingyu was thinking about Liu Yuehan's affairs, and he was not even stable in his sleep.

In the early morning of the second day, Xie Qingyu immediately got up and wrote a reply to Qianqiu.

Take care of the good students, and they will return soon.

Xie Qingyu walked directly to Qianliju with the letter paper and sent the letter according to the old address.

After coming back, Qin Zixuan was already sitting in her room waiting for her.

"Where have you been early this morning, I am still looking for you." Qin Zixuan asked curiously when she saw Xie Qingyu coming back.

"There was a letter from home yesterday, and I just went to send it." Xie Qingyu raised a faint smile when he saw Qin Zixuan, but the sorrow between his eyebrows was difficult to hide.

At home? Qin Zixuan's gaze at Xie Qingyu also became complicated, she still remembered that on the day she was drunk in Zuihuanlou, Xie Qingyu had mentioned her mother, and now she was even more sad, could it be that something happened to her mother?

"Didn't you come to me with a good idea?"

Xie Qingyu saw that Qin Zixuan was so eager to find herself, and she was also a little curious in her heart, although she thought about it yesterday, she never came up with a satisfactory idea.

"I'd like to hear what you think." Qin Zixuan looked at Xie Qingyu and said with certainty, Xie Qingyu's thoughts have always been different from others, and he may not really have any ideas.

Xie Qingyan also sat down at this moment and talked about his temporary thoughts yesterday.

"The Dragon Boat Festival is a great ceremony to worship the Dragon Ancestor, and the old should not be changed at all, so it can only be started at the dinner."

Qin Zixuan bowed slightly, signaling Xie Qingyu and continued.

"On the dinner party, when rehearsing the program, you can set up a song and dance around the theme of the Dragon Boat Festival, and finally you can invite a troupe to arrange a scene about Longzu, and the meal can be based on pastries, as for the dishes, it is mainly vegetarian, plus a special name."

Xie Qingyu began to analyze the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival according to the standards of the dinner party that Qin Zixuan explained to him that day, but Qin Zixuan's expression was faint from beginning to end, making it impossible to see his attitude towards this method.

After a long time, Xie Qingyu finally finished speaking, Qin Zixuan put down the teacup in his hand, looked at Xie Qingyu very seriously and said slowly.

"You can't say that this method of yours is good, and you can't say that it is bad, but as far as this ceremony is concerned, it is impossible to stand out like this!"

Xie Qingyu's method can only be said to follow the rules, but it makes people unable to find mistakes, but at this moment in the competition, everyone is trying their best for this Dragon Boat Banquet, and such a simple method will definitely be compared by others.

"Zixuan, what do you have in mind?"

Xie Qingyu also knew that what he said was really not good, it was true that he didn't concentrate on thinking about it yesterday, he was now Zixuan and became a team, if she was so unfocused, I am afraid it would affect Zixuan.

"I used to have some ideas, but now I am afraid that saying it will limit your thoughts, so you can think about it again, and if you think about it another day, you will come to me again, and we will discuss it together at that time."

After Qin Zixuan finished speaking, she turned around and left Xie Qingyu's room, leaving Xie Qingyu alone in the room.

Since Qin Zixuan left, Xie Qingyu also began to reflect, he can no longer be so fragile, and now if he is not attentive, he will not only harm himself, but also Zixuan, who is in the top ranking.

For today's plan, the only way is to quickly come up with a good idea, take down the leader of Jiangnan, ask Nangong Chengyu for medicine, and then let Jiang Zhiyang cure his mother's illness.

Thinking like this, Xie Qingyu's heart calmed down a little, and then he picked up the pen and slowly wrote the word Dragon Boat Festival on the rice paper.