Chapter 204: Entering Beijing

On September 15, Li Qingzhi held a banquet in Miaoqian Village.

He was admitted to Xiucai before and held a banquet, and he will definitely do it now.

Li Qingzhi's previous banquets were all quite local, and the tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks were all borrowed from the neighbors, but this time it was different.

A few days in advance, Zhu Qian arranged for someone to rest the old house of Li Qingzhi's family, and on the same day, Zhu Qian closed his restaurant, loaded the tables and chairs in the restaurant on a boat, and sent them all to Miaoqian Village.

The chef of Zhuqian Restaurant also brought the kitchen utensils they were used to to coming to the village.

The original mud house of the Li family was paved with bricks on the ground, bamboo mats were hung on the wall, and they were cleaned up elegantly and beautifully, and a few tables of eight immortals were placed in the middle, which was where the distinguished guests ate.

Next to the house, a temporary large kitchen was built with bamboo and bamboo curtains, and the original vegetable field of the Li family in front of the house, and even the vegetable field of the Yao family next door were bulldozed.

Outside, on the side of the road, a low "long table" was laid out with seven or eight door panels and benches.

In Miaoqian Village, if there are few guests in the banquet, they will borrow a table from the villagers for everyone to sit and eat, if there are many people, they will use the door panel and stools to make a "long table", and when the relatives come, they will serve a bowl of rice, and they will go to pick up the dishes themselves, and eat while squatting or standing.

The Li family has few relatives, and they have always borrowed the table to hold a banquet, and today this "long table" is set up in order to hold a flowing water banquet.

At that time, there will be dishes packed in large clay pots here, regardless of whether they are related to the Li family, the people who come here to congratulate take a bowl and say a few auspicious words, they can line up to serve the dishes and eat, and touch the light of Li Qingzhi, the Xie Yuan of Jiang'an Province.

On this day, Li Qingzhi came to Miaoqian Village early in the morning.

He saw Chang Zhan with two apprentices, preparing the dishes to be used for the banquet with the two chefs of the Zhu Family Restaurant.

These people have their own magical powers, and after Li Qingzhi has read the proposed menu, he can't wait to eat it right away.

In addition, a temporary stove was built with bricks and mud outside, and the helper in the back kitchen of the Zhu Family Restaurant and the shopkeeper were using the stove to make simple big pot dishes, which were to be provided with flowing water mats later.

Before noon, the people who came to the banquet arrived one after another.

People like Wang Xianling and Zhu Qian can go into the house and sit and eat. Relatives such as Jin's father and mother, Li Laogen, and Jin Xiaoshu can also eat in the house.

Uncle Jin's family, Qian Changsheng, Mrs. Qian, and Sister Wang, Mrs. Xu, etc., they could only eat at the Eight Immortals table outside.

This time, people like the Yao Gong family, Aunt Jin's family, and Aunt Jin's family next door who are more distant from each other were not even invited, so they could only go to eat the flowing water banquet.

"As soon as Li Qingzhi is developed, he looks down on us, please don't invite us!" Yao Zhenfu was indignant.

Yao Gong glared at him: "You give me some peace and don't talk nonsense!" "Their family and the Li family are not related to each other, only Jin Jasmine and Jin Xiaoye are cousins.

But this relationship ...... Even if the Jin family is not separated, most of them do not communicate, and now the Jin family is still separated!

In fact, it is okay for Li Qingzhi not to invite Uncle Jin's family, according to the customs of the village, married girls often only interact with their parents and biological brothers and sisters.

In the past, Li Qing insisted on inviting them because the Li family had few relatives, and the two families were still somewhat affectionate as neighbors, but now that affection has long been exhausted.

"Dad, why are you still talking to them? They even used our family's land for the banquet, so why didn't they invite us? Yao Zhenfu said.

Yao Gong sneered: "It's not that they didn't give money to use our family's land for the banquet!" ”

Their vegetable plot was indeed bulldozed, but they gave a tael of silver as compensation!

Where is the order of food on the spot worth a tael of silver?

Yao's mother took out a few bowls at this time and distributed them to the family: "Let's go to the flowing water seat and line up, I saw that they made several dishes, and we each served a bowl, and when it was served, we went home to eat." ”

Yao Zhenfu was reluctant to go, feeling embarrassed, and he didn't want to congratulate Li Qingzhi.

Yao's mother didn't care about him, put an extra bowl next to her, and pulled her grandchildren who were also holding the bowl to line up.

There were already many people queuing up in the villagers in front of their temple, and people from other villages rushed to line up.

Li Qing saw that the line was a bit long, so he told the person in charge of the flowing water seat and asked them to start dividing the dishes first.

As for the serious banquet, it will have to wait until noon.

The flowing water seat was lively, Li Qingzhi saw that Jin Liushu's wife and children also went to the queue, they can eat the main seat, and now they go to the queue, they should want to take more food to take home.

Li Qingzhi glanced at it and began to talk to Wang Xianling and Zhu Qian, who came early. Today's banquet was not actually paid for by him, nor was it prepared by him.

He originally planned to take advantage of the holiday of Chongcheng Primary School in the middle of the month to simply do it in the canteen of Chongcheng Primary School, but the people around him did not agree.

Zhu Qian and they gave him a lot of gifts, but he confiscated most of them, so these people insisted on helping him organize this banquet.

After thinking about it, Li Qingzhi did not refuse.

If he behaves too coldly, if he has to draw a line with these people, they may be uneasy.

In short, Li Qingzhi didn't spend a penny on this banquet, and the money used was made up by Zhu Qian and the businessmen of the Chongcheng County Chamber of Commerce.

As for the place where it will be held...... In the first few years, the banquets were held in their hometowns, and Zhu Qian set the location of the banquet in Miaoqian Village.

The people who received the invitation came quite early, and Wu Baichuan came early.

Li Qingzhi asked him to enter the house and sit down, and he was suddenly a little excited.

Finding an opportunity, he also told Li Qingzhi about entering Beijing: "Li Jieyuan, I have two ships, one of which can be used for you, and I don't have any goods to send to the capital this time, the ship is empty." ”

"This can't be done, my brother will settle the account, you can't afford not to accept this money." Li Qing insisted that it was impossible for Wu Baichuan to have an empty ship, if there was really no goods, this empty ship would not follow him to the capital, and he could save a lot of money.

Wu Baichuan hoped that Li Qingzhi would be able to pull himself in the future when he was developed, and he was unwilling to accept the money, but Li Qingzhi did not agree, and he could only return to his seat regretfully in the end.

Back then, Sun Juren was admitted to the Juren Examination, and he didn't know how much money he received, Li Qingzhi was really different.

However, even if Li Qingzhi had to pay, he could give Li Qingzhi some more convenience, such as tidying up his ship again and putting the best crew on that ship.

The time was close to noon, and I didn't know how many dishes were distributed on the flowing water table, and the serious banquet was already full of people.

It's time for the feast, but no one has come.

Li Qingzhi came to the door, looked into the distance, and saw that the person he was waiting for was coming-Gou Tongzhi took a few guards and strode here.

"Master Gou!" Li Qing stepped forward with a smile and welcomed Gou Tongzhi to take a seat.

He invited a lot of people to the banquet this time, and the heaviest one was Gou Tongzhi.

Fucheng is a little far away from here, and Gou Tongzhi came a little late, but now that he is here, the banquet has officially begun.

A variety of delicacies are served, ranging from local favourites to new dishes such as boiled fish.

The spicy and fragrant fish fillet is Li Qingzhi's favorite, but many people are not used to eating it.

Li Qingzhi and Wang County Ling Gou Tongzhi, as well as the chief secretary of Chongcheng County, Juren and the like sat together.

Gou Tongzhi and Wang Xianling told him some things that need to be paid attention to when entering Beijing to catch the exam, and the two also talked about the scene when they participated in the general examination and the palace examination together.

Li Qingzhi memorized with his heart while happily

Eat.

Today's dishes are really sumptuous, and there are even several seafood in them, and I don't know how much they spent on Zhu Qian.

Li Qingzhi felt that this banquet was extravagant, not to mention others.

Li Laogen was dumbfounded, and Uncle Jin's family was a little afraid to put down the chopsticks.

Even if they do, they don't know what they're eating.

Jin Xiaoye has seen the world and is calm, she took her two children to sit at a table with Jin's father and mother, Jin Xiaoshu and his wife, and Li Laogen, while comforting the panicked Jin's father and mother, while serving them vegetables.

Of course, she didn't forget Li Laogen, who didn't dare to move like a quail, and gave Li Laogen a lot.

This banquet was only held at noon, and after eating, Gou Tongzhi Wang County ordered them to leave, and Li Qingzhi asked the people who came to the banquet to divide the dishes and go home with Jin Xiaoye.

Li Laogen, who was still very frightened before, was in good spirits after Gou Tong knew that they left, and he didn't go back, planning to stay in Miaoqian Village to brag.

After returning from the provincial capital, Li Laogenle went crazy, he chatted with people everywhere, talked about all kinds of things in the provincial capital, and said a few official words from time to time, just to let people know that he was different now.

Li Qingzhi felt that he didn't have eyes.

After holding a banquet, Li Qingzhi stopped socializing with others and concentrated on preparing for entering Beijing.

Wu Baichuan gave a boat to Li Qingzhi and arranged it.

Li Qingzhi saw the ship, and began to move things to the ship, and by the way, arranged the cabin for living people.

On the first day of October, the Shen family's fleet passed through Chongcheng County, and Wu Baichuan's two ships followed.

It is not a secret that Li Qingzhi entered Beijing on this day, and many people came to see him off.

Seeing the fleet go away, the people gathered at the new wharf in Chongcheng County to see them off were a little stunned.

Chang Zhan was not in a good mood, Chang Cui didn't realize anything at first, and when the fleet was far away, he cried loudly: "Brother Xiaodou, Brother Da Mao, wow......"

"Cuicui, don't cry, don't cry." Chang Zhan coaxed.

Chang Cui hugged his neck and cried even harder.

Qian Changsheng covered his chest, and he also wanted to cry a little.

His health is almost better, and Li Qingzhi helped him heal.

His cousin gave him a miracle so that he could get back on life, and he learned a lot from it.

His cousin was also a teacher and friend to him. Now that his cousin is gone, he doesn't know how long it will take to see each other again...... He was really uncomfortable.

Fang Jinniang cried directly.

Seeing this, Jin Xiaoshu hurriedly comforted her: "Jinniang, don't cry, sister and brother-in-law, they will have a good life." ”

Fang Jinniang said "um", but the tears did not stop.

These people are very uncomfortable, those students who came to see off the students of Chongcheng Primary School, Li Qingzhi's classmates, the businessmen of the Chongcheng County Chamber of Commerce, and those people who watched the excitement on the dock, they were actually very happy.

"Li Juren entered Beijing this time, and I don't know if I can get the top prize!"

"I think it's okay, Li Juren is so powerful, he takes the first place every time!"

"If Li Juren is admitted to the top prize, it will be too powerful!"

"Li Juren must be a Wenqu star!"

"Speaking of Wenqu Xing, go down to earth...... Have you ever been to Miaoqian Village? It is the hometown of Li Juren, and I heard that many people go to Li Juren's old house to touch Li Juren's talent. ”

"I've been there, that day Li Juren held a banquet, and I also went to ask for a bowl of dishes!"

"I also went and gave me a big bowl of soybean stewed pork, which tasted so delicious."

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