Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 79 I'm Shameless
Only Jinshi would go to the Confucius Temple to worship collectively, three animals and six animals, brocade banners like a forest, and 200 people were all wearing brocade gowns with cloud patterns.

Just these clothes, brocade banners, and tributes that are placed inside and outside the temple will never cost tens of thousands of taels of silver.

At the end of the day, even Shi Zhongkui's body feels exhausted, let alone some infirm ones.

If none of them fainted, the emotions of the many candidates were already agitated, and the experience of the small officials who took care of them was rich enough.

In the evening, the new imperial examiners and officials basically lost the mood to eat and drink.

Fortunately, before the dinner, there was more than an hour to rest, and everyone sat in twos and threes on the chairs on the high-rise building to chat or take a nap, and ate some pastries and water, and then they recovered.

As Xie Yuan, Shi Zhongkui's every move is of course the focus of everyone.

Seeing his upright posture, some elderly juren and officials suddenly envied and sighed in their hearts.

Juvenile Zhongju and Juvenile Scholars, a bit of modern people should be famous as early as possible, otherwise it will not be so happy.

When it's time to light the lanterns, the tall buildings are hung with lanterns of different sizes and shapes.

This is also a tradition of climbing tall buildings for many years, or a means of making money.

If you want to hang your own lantern upstairs, in addition to the level of lantern riddles, you must be a frequent visitor to high-rise buildings, and you must be of the level of a wealthy person.

A businessman or land rich man who has money but no status, no backer, or the level of backer is not enough, or wants to find a son-in-law as a backer, is willing to spend two to three thousand silver a year in order to choose a son-in-law.

Shi Zhongkui looked at the lanterns hanging in the main hall of the banquet, not thinking about guessing the riddle at all.

People spent so much money to hang their own lanterns in, not really for the sake of being famous and contributing to the imperial examination.

And if you guess the lantern riddles correctly, it’s okay, it’s nothing more than a matchmaker will come to chat with you the next day.

But if the guess is wrong, the embarrassment will be thrown at grandma's house.

"Bo Qian is Duke Xie Yuan, so he should throw bricks to attract jade, otherwise he would have to recite a poem. However, if this poem cannot be approved by the chief and deputy examiners and the shutter officials, otherwise he will have to spend his money and avoid disaster."

Shi Zhongkui rolled his eyes violently in his heart, the last sentence was the key point.

But no Xie Yuan really dared to let himself fall into such a situation.

Since he didn't want to guess lantern riddles, Shi Zhongkui walked to a desk in front of the banquet hall without hesitation.

There were 2 candidates, chief examiners and assistant examiners in the hall, plus hundreds of pairs of eyes on the circular attic built around the hall. When they saw him walking directly to the desk, some people sighed and some were excited.

Xue Pan, Jia Lian and Jia Rong heaved a sigh of relief.

"Boqian is worthy of being a real gentleman," Jia Rong said in a low voice, "I heard that several dukes' mansions, more than a dozen Hou Bo's houses, even the royal mansions and the families of the second and third rank officials made an exception to participate in this lantern riddle this year. meeting."

Xue Pan laughed, "Brother, I don't worry about it. Besides, my sister is not bad, so you two just worry about it."

Jia Lian and Jia Rong couldn't help feeling annoyed, it was you Xue Da fool who was sweating nervously just now, and now you are still teasing your uncle and nephew.

The two couldn't help but looked at each other, thinking about how to make Xue Pan bleed.

In the lobby, Shi Zhongkui really didn't need to pretend to be contemplative, after all, after knowing that he won the exam, he had already thought that he would write poems and fight against each other at the Luming Banquet.

Holding a pen and pretending to walk seven steps back and forth beside the desk, when he happened to stand in the middle of the desk, his face lit up.

Dip the pen with ink, and write on the high-quality rice paper: Li Du's poems have been handed down thousands of times, and they are no longer fresh.Talented people come out from generation to generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years.

Yuan Donggang, a scholar of the Imperial Academy who was closest to him, and six deputy examiners, who could also be called shutter officials, froze in place after seeing it.

The sentence that talented people came out from generation to generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years, directly compares all the poems of the Great Zhou Dynasty for a hundred years.

As for the first sentence of Li Du's poems, which is not new until now, under the background of the latter sentence, although Shi Zhongkui still feels arrogant, no one stands up to criticize him.

Everyone was born as a Jinshi, so they still have some knowledge.

And Li Du's poems must be very good, but after hundreds of years, I am really tired of listening to them.

Besides whether this poem is good or not, even young children can tell that if they stand up and reprimand Shi Zhongkui at this moment, someone will jump out to make trouble for him tomorrow.

If someone says, you can write a poem like this if you have the ability, then you will be in big trouble.

"What is it written in the end, what are the shutter officials waiting for, hurry up and order people to sing it."

If it was normal, how would the nobles present dare to instigate the Imperial Academy.

But today is the Lu Ming Banquet, and no one dared to appoint the chief examiner. As the deputy, the deputy examiner happened to be the one to do these things.

Yuan Donggang, who heard the discussion, took a deep breath, glanced at Shi Zhongkui standing aside with his hands folded, and sighed deeply.

He personally picked up the rice paper on the desk, dried the ink carefully, and then called his book boy and asked him to hold the rice paper on his chest.

While showing it to the people around him, he read aloud, "Li Du's poems have been handed down thousands of times, and it is no longer new. Talented people come out from generation to generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years."

As soon as the voice fell, the scene fell silent, followed by gasps and exclamations.

All the words about Wenqu descending to the mortal world, being talented, comparable to Cao Zijian, etc., all rested on Shi Zhongkui's head.

In a waterside pavilion not far from the climbing building, many female family members and young ladies who came with their mothers heard the reports from the maids, and some of them suddenly became dumbfounded.

Wishing to marry Shi Boqian, he will definitely talk about it in the boudoir in the capital from time to time.

Seeing that Yuan Donggang actually took the rice paper from the book boy and rolled it up, and carefully put it into the long sleeves of his official robes, the six shutter officials couldn't help feeling anxious.

"My lord, you are insulting gentlemen."

Yuan Donggang laughed indifferently, "I am the chief examiner of the Jinke Township Examination, and I should be the teacher of the candidates. The poems written by this student are not kept by me, the teacher, should I let you get them?"

"This,,,."

The six shutter officials immediately scolded Yuan Donggang in their hearts for being shameless for saying it so directly, but what he said was absolutely correct.

Although the assistant examiner is also an examiner, he is not qualified to be his teacher.

In this world, kings, relatives and teachers, unless the emperor comes, theoretically no one can take that piece of rice paper from Yuan Donggang's hands.

Not to mention that Yuan Donggang's words were clearly intended to be a rascal.

After this remark was heard by the surrounding honorable children, officials' children, and even a few officials who came to see the fun in person, the discussion became even louder.

"Yuan Donggang, you are not a son of man."

Yuan Donggang chuckled, turned around and returned to the main seat and sat down without saying a word. He also picked up the jug with a smile, filled a glass of wine, and drank it in one gulp.

Seeing him like this, everyone could only scold him even more.

Yuan Donggang laughed and said, "Boqian, tomorrow you must go to Wei Shi's house to have a narration. I have some things to tell you, and at the same time, I can leave an inscription and seal on this poem."

This remark instantly aroused everyone's dissatisfaction, and the same imperial examination person had long since extinguished his thoughts of competing with Shi Zhongkui.

(End of this chapter)