The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

At lunch time, Su Jin and Xia Silin met at the dining hall. The dining hall provided meals with the food tickets. Su Jin originally planned to bring his own meals to eat, but he thought why it should be so special. Food is not too bad either.

There are a lot of people in the dining hall. Everyone holds dishes and tickets to line up to get a meal. The order is orderly, but Su Jin can see at a glance that there is a small side hall on the side of the tricky dining hall. Su Jin shuttles back and forth to take a look. All of a sudden, it turned out that the meals on the two sides were very different. For the same food ticket, you can get one piece of fish, meat, fresh soup, and vegetables in the side hall, but you can only get one piece in the lobby. A plate of sliced ​​meat fried with vegetables and pickled vegetables. The sliced ​​meat is as thin as paper. Pick it up and put it in front of your eyes. Su Jin admires the knife skills of these chefs. The soup is also a big bucket of egg soup with green leaves and eggs floating in it. There are a few big wooden spoons on the flowers, and everyone scoops them back and forth, stirring the soup in the whole vat like the water of three rivers.

When Su Jin was getting annoyed, Xia Silin came over with an empty plate and said with a sad face: "Brother Su, the person who distributes the food said that I can't get the food ticket here, so I have to go to the side hall over there."

Su Jin took Xia Silin's food ticket and compared it with his own, but saw that Xia Silin's food ticket had a small "Jia Yi" seal stamp on one corner, while his own food ticket had nothing. Su Jin and several people around took out The food tickets to watch them are all the same as my own. There are only stamps and the seal of the college, not the small seal of the school where they are.

After thinking about it for a while, Su Jin realized that there are three grades for meals in this day. The students who want to come to Class A and Class B can enjoy the treatment of Xiaozao, while other students can only eat these poor meals.

Su Jin thought for a while and said to Xia Silin: "The food here is not good, let's eat better over there."

Xia Silin readily agreed to follow Su Jin through the round door to the side hall. Su Jin went to the food counter and silently handed over food tickets.

The servant who was distributing the food grabbed the ticket and glanced at it, then handed it back and said, "Master, you have come to the wrong place."

Su Jin pretended to be surprised by not accepting the food ticket and said: "How do you say that? Isn't this a food hall? Isn't it a place where the students of the academy eat?"

The servant smiled and said, "Do you really understand or are you just pretending to be confused with me here? Your dining place is in the lobby next door. This is not where you came from."

Su Jin sneered and said, "I don't understand what you mean. It's also a dining place and a food ticket distributed by the academy. Why do I have to go to the next door to eat?"

The servant looked at Su Jin with contempt and said, "I can't tell you, you have to ask Mr. Cao to see you, so come here and make noise for the next one."

After finishing speaking, he casually threw Su Jin's food ticket, and the food ticket fluttered to the ground. As the food ticket fell, the anger in Su Jin's heart rose immediately.

"Pick it up." Su Jin shouted.

"What did you say? Have you lost your mind and gone crazy?" the servant said without any fear.

"Are you hitting flies in your ears? The young master told you to pick it up and ask him to take the food here." Su Jin sneered with a corner of his mouth.

"Bah, you are so poor, don't play wild here, but the academy is not a place for you to play wild, so open it aside and don't delay others' meals."

The veins in Su Jin's neck popped up and he shouted angrily, "One last question, do you want to pick it up?"

Su Jin's voice was so loud that the surrounding diners and other people in the food hall gathered around to see what happened.

Standing behind Su Jin, Xia Silin listened to the ins and outs of the future. Seeing that Su Jin was about to go berserk, he tugged at the corner of his clothes and said, "Brother Su, don't bother to use my food ticket to get the meal because I have a lot anyway. "

Su Jin said one by one: "I want to use my food ticket to get the canteen here. Tangtang Tangying Tianfu Academy even divides the meals into three, six, or nine grades. It's disgusting. This kind of place is in vain called the holy place of the academy. It's ridiculous. gone."

The surrounding audience saw that Su Jin actually began to slander the academy. A deep voice came from behind the crowd with their mouths wide open in surprise: "Who is speaking so loudly that even the dignified Yingtianfu Academy is not in their eyes."

Everyone turned their heads and looked back, but they saw a tall, ruthless young scholar separated from the crowd and approached Su Jin, followed by four or five arrogant students. Everyone knew that this person was Zhang Ye, the president of the Student Maintenance Association. They are all members of the maintenance committee.

Su Jin doesn't know anyone who maintains the association, he has long forgotten that he made up his mind to work hard to get rid of distracting thoughts; at this moment, his mind is full of "unfair" three days since he entered Yingtian Academy. He felt extremely angry that there were rumors that this place was like a fairy cave, but it was practical but full of filth.

First, Mr. Cao was arrogant and rude, and then he was divided into grades and grades in the assigned school, and he used the opportunity of the ceremony to amass money wantonly. Even eating had to be divided into identities. After all, Su Jin is a person from later generations. All kinds of phenomena caused him Strong dislike at this moment [-]. Don't say anything when you force your temper, pay attention to propriety, pay attention to patience, even in this academy, he doesn't want to stay any longer.

"Whoever you love is a big deal. I will go back to Luzhou and be my little rich man. Let's also join the chamber of commerce and build a good relationship with people. Donate some money and live a nourishing life. It's better than being so angry here." Su Jin rolled his eyes and thought.

"Are you talking nonsense here?" The president of the maintenance committee asked Su Jin with a folding fan.

Su Jin stretched out his hand and slapped his folding fan aside and said, "Don't point your finger at me. I said it. Could it be that I said something wrong?"

Su Jin's actions caused the members of the maintenance team to yell at him repeatedly, and two people rushed forward to grab Su Jin's collar. When the hot soup splashed, the two quickly backed away and were a step behind. A few drops were splashed on their faces, and red spots suddenly appeared, as if they had leprosy.

"Zhiniang thief dare to do something!" The head of the council scolded, "Catch him and bring him to Mr. Cao."

Several people clamored together, but no one dared to come forward. It turned out that Su Jin scooped up another spoonful of hot soup and poured it out.

At this time, there were more and more people onlookers, not only the diners from the two schools, but also the students in the next hall, who gathered around and asked each other, pointing and discussing endlessly.

"Eh, this person isn't that Su who suffers from nocturnal excursions... Su what?" one person said.

"How can Su Jin be able to make troubles like this?" Another person said.

"Hey, I'm waiting for my success, but you're saying such sarcastic remarks, get the hell out of here and don't talk to me next time."

"Really, I'm wrong. It's just that I've been like this for two years since I came to the academy. Is it worth worrying about?"

"You are a slave, so why should I eat second-class food when I wait? Isn't it true that the students from the first and second halls are more noble than me after they are officials?"

"It is really inappropriate to say that today's benevolent emperors have decreed to select scholars regardless of high or low, even if traffickers and pawns are also treated equally in the imperial examination."

The man's words resonated immediately, and a rough voice in the crowd shouted: "I also agree that what makes me more uncomfortable is that the food in the lobby is so hard to swallow. I don't want to eat but I'm hungry and dizzy." Su Jin listened When it came out, it was Wu Hengxin's voice. Unexpectedly, this idiot dared to speak out.

"Don't mention the food. It has everything in it. Mr. Zhao from the same class just now ate a few wriggling meat in the pickles. Ya'er is really disgusting."

"What if there are a few dead flies in my vegetable soup? Is it because the family is poor, if it is not for his free food, I would not want to stay here anyway."

The crowd blamed the injustice of the college dining hall, the filthiness of the food, and the filthiness of the food. The president of the scholar gave a glance, and a member quickly got out of the crowd to rescue the soldiers.

Zhang Ye shouted: "What are you doing? It's going to be reversed? You are eating free meals in the academy, and you still think this is a gang of spineless people who are capable? Don't eat it! Gentlemen don't eat cheap food, but you should be gentlemen?"

As soon as the voice fell, someone retorted: "I am waiting for the students to eat the grace of the emperor. Don't deceive me. I don't know that the cost of meals and teachers in our academy is all the money allocated by the imperial court, not someone from the academy. .”

Zhang Ye was at a loss for words, his face flushed for a long time before he said: "Then the academy didn't let you eat, isn't it a failure of the emperor's grace to make such a fuss?"

"Damn! The emperor's grace is to let us eat live maggots and flies? If we eat it, we should eat it together. Why is there a pickled vegetable soup on the other side? Aren't we students from the same academy?" Su Jin sneered and raised the hot soup in his hand.

The president was startled, hurriedly took two steps back, pointed at Su Jin's nose and said, "You rascal actually incited the students to make trouble, I think you are just asking for trouble. Wait for Mr. Cao to come and see how you deal with it. Let you go." Hairy."

As soon as Mr. Cao’s name was mentioned, some poor students felt terrified. Mr. Cao must be ruthless. Thinking of how hard he has worked so hard to get the position of a scholar in the academy, if he is expelled by Mr. Cao, his future will not be completely ruined; thinking of this, everyone Most people shut their mouths tightly and dare not speak.

Su Jin naturally understands what these people think, but he doesn't intend to let these people follow him. It is obvious that these people have long been unhappy, but they don't have the courage to say it. If there is a backbone among these people, it will definitely not be his turn. Su Jin came to make trouble. In the final analysis, Su Jin was only doing it for his own tone.

"Everything can't be taken for granted. I'm waiting for a sage who will never make trouble unreasonably. Even when Mr. Cao came, I said the same thing. If Mr. Cao can tell the common truth about this matter, I, Su Jin, would be willing to be punished." Su Jin Loudly said today that since the incident has become a big mess today, it will be a big deal if the trouble continues.

At this time, a shout came from outside the dining hall: "Get out of the way when Professor Cao arrives."

The crowd stepped aside one after another and saw Cao Min with a livid face leading a few of his subordinate officials striding through the crowd and coming in.