Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

Outside the hospital, Cui Liangdong had already reported the arrival of the old lady, the county magistrate of Daxing. At this time, the paper pavilion at the door was pushed aside, and an elderly woman greeted him from the inside, and asked them to enter.

After entering, he discovered that the paper pavilion had doors on all sides, and only the front and back doors were normally opened, and the left and right doors were tightly closed to prevent the wind from entering the corridor. Although the main entrance of the hall is called the paper pavilion, it does not feel dull inside. The back hall and the doors on the left and right sides are open. The wind is slowly drawing in from the outside, and a sweet apricot fragrance is burning in the furnace. It's as cool as the ice used elsewhere.

The old lady was still changing clothes in it, so Cui Liangdong asked him to sit down in the hall first, and soon there was an iced milk tea and snacks brought by his adoptive mother to ask him and the book office to taste it—all made more in the morning, and Cui Xie didn’t have it before he left. Take so many, the leftover is just right to entertain the guests.

Jiang County magistrate is from the south of the Yangtze River. He is not accustomed to eating dairy products. When I drank milk tea, I only noticed that the tea was rich and creamy. The tea taste was mellow, with a slightly bitter sweet aroma. It was different from ordinary people’s ordering and making tea, and it was refreshed with crushed ice. I couldn’t help asking: " This tea has never been tasted in this county. It must be a secret recipe from the family?"

Cui Liangdong laughed and said, "Is there any secret recipe, the old parents laughed. This is just my son and Huihuizi ordering some cow and goat milk to replenish the family's body. He thought it was not good to drink alone, so he asked people to add tea. It's cooked. But things with milk are perishable, so it's called iced."

The double skin grandma has a slightly strong flavor, and the county magistrate Jiang eats it generally, but the book offices he brought are all locals in Beijing. They love to eat butter and milk snacks. They all praise this rich flavor and taste better than half-cured and half-liquid crisp. Cheese is more affordable.

Cui Liangdong made a few polite words on behalf of the host, and the county magistrate Jiang said: "When will the Cui Jiansheng from your residence come back? This county specially tells them to come back when they are in the prison. One is to commend him face to face for donating to the Sanatorium, and second. I also want to see a child prodigy."

Only then did Cui Liangdong understand his intentions—the Chen goods donated to the Sanatorium were personally escorted by him, and there was a row of idlers watching the bustle behind the car, so that half of the city of Beijing could be seen!

On the way to the Sanatorium, I don’t know how many people praised their generosity, benevolence and righteousness, and they will be blessed if they are good... I heard that his bones were lightened, and he almost signed his name Cui Liangdong when he signed the donation book. Fortunately, the person in charge of the registration said, "Originally, your family's surname is Cui". His heart cleared and he changed the word "Xie" back in time.

That cart of dry goods, confectionery, and wine and vinegar sauces can add up to more than eighty taels of silver. Although it is not food, most of them are things that can be used in the kitchen. The quality of the items delivered was good, and there were no stale or moldy ones. It could serve the staff below and the lonely old man in the courtyard during the New Year's Day as an extra meal, and when they were sold, they could also be exchanged for dozens of Shimimai. If you replace it with coarse grains such as beams, millet, millet, and beans, you can have more than a hundred stones and ten thousand kilograms of grain, which will be enough for the old people in the courtyard to eat for a while.

Daxing County was commended for good people and good deeds under the rule.

Generally commending such a wealthy household is a few words of exhortation from the county magistrate, exempting his family from three years of labor, and then symbolically giving the almost worthless Daming treasure. But the current Patriarch of the Cui family is from Sipin. No matter where he is an official now, the family does not need to pay taxes and pay. The country house can also be exempted from paying horses and supporting horses, and everyone in the family can also be exempted from labor. .

Cui Xie was a child prodigy who had been received by the emperor and had been put under the imperial decree and put him in the Imperial College. After thinking about it, the county magistrate Jiang decided to give his family some face, so he took thousands of newly issued treasure bills, asked a craftsman to make a plaque of "good people", and personally got the Cui family.

It's a pity that Choi Xie is not at home today.

Cui Liangdong asked Jin Yiwei to come and frighten him once. Although he was afraid of the county magistrate’s dissatisfaction, he did not dare to ask people to pick up someone at Xie Qianhu’s mansion. He could only apologize on behalf of the owner: When the master comes back, the younger one must persuade him to go to the county government to pay respect to Lord Xie."

Fortunately, at this time the old lady changed her clothes and brought a few adoptive mothers and daughter-in-laws out to see her. She was the order of her son, and the county magistrate Jiang had to salute her. Cui Liangdong didn't need to serve outside, so he went out to help push the old man Cui into the inner room, and urged the cook to prepare lunch.

The magistrate Jiang told the old lady about his future intentions, and Mrs. Cui sighed regretfully: "He made these foods to give away his benefactor, so he went directly to the people's home after school. I didn't know the adults wanted Come, or I will persuade him not to go out first."

County magistrate Jiang smiled generously: "Your benefactor? Naturally, it is the benefactor that matters. This county is only sending a plaque, but I don't have to call him back to meet this person."

He stood up and beckoned to the back. The book office that came with him raised the plaque. He rubbed the red silk on his head and said, "Since Sun is not here, please lead the way, and I will hand this plaque to the old lady. He is the old and pleasant."

Mrs. Cui opened her eyes with joy, and immediately ordered people to go to the house to smell more fragrance, help her husband sit up, and personally lead him to the house.

County magistrate Jiang said: "I heard that the old lady had a stroke. I'm afraid he has trouble getting up. Just tell him to lie down and rest. You don't need to support him.

He originally thought that Mrs. Cui had to ask someone to sit on, or leaning on a pile of bedding, or still sitting in a wheelchair, but he didn't want to enter the inner room and saw a four-poster bed with a half-slatted bed. There were nooses on both sides of the bed, and the maid shook the bar under her head and pulled the bed board together with the old man.

This bed is really amazing. County magistrate Jiang and Mrs. Cui have seen the ceremony, their eyes are glued to the rising chain of the bed, and they exclaimed: "Where did the craftsman make this? It's really ingenious."

If this kind of practical thing is promoted, many people who have been bedridden for a long time can get up and sit often, or just lie down and half leaning, it is more comfortable than lying in bed all day.

Cui Taigong's face showed a bit of smugness, and the old lady also smiled and said: "It's not my grandson who asked someone to do it. I was afraid that his father would be uncomfortable in bed, so I thought of such a way to make him get up. It's loose. My old lady didn't even think of it. He is so considerate as a child."

Although county magistrate Jiang didn't see Cui Xie, he had a good impression of him first, and he didn't care about the fact that he was away from home to study and let himself go for nothing, and followed by a few compliments. Then he asked people to carry the plaque, took off the red silk covering the top, and revealed the four words "Ji Shan Ren Jia" in his own writing, and said with a smile: "The home of Ji Shan must have Yu Qing. Your house is happy to give charity and donate to the lonely old. There is good deeds in the underworld to remember, and to give back in the future, to teach your royal princes to be healthy as soon as possible, and all descendants will become useful."

The old lady was most worried about her husband and offspring. Hearing this, she almost burst into tears. She chanted a few Buddhas, and quickly blessed her good luck and thanked the county magistrate's auspicious words. She was carried out and hung upright. Outside the hospital.

While hanging the plaque, Mr. Lu also changed clothes to meet the guests, and brought the pupils to the main courtyard. When I came in, I ran into the county magistrate Jiang looking at the hanging plaque. I hurriedly bowed to the courtesy. He also called Brother He to bow and took him to the hall to sit down and talk.

County magistrate Jiang likes to be courteous with his brother at a young age, he picked him up with his own hands, and gave him a purse with incense blades for him to play. He politely thanked him, and stood behind him holding his purse.

Lu Juren watched his words and deeds, corrected them at any time, and taught him better than his own mother. County magistrate Jiang also liked his dedicated teacher. He also looked at him in a round-necked shirt with sleeves, square veil, and soft ribbons. He heard that he was still a man, and he was even more polite. He sat down and said something. , Wen Yan asked him his name and origin, which list he cited.

Lu Juren was a few years older, but his background was lower than the list. Before the magistrate who was a serious scholar, he bowed and saluted, saying: "Late born Lu Boshan, with great use of words, he was ranked ninth in Henan in the 16th year of Chenghua. Twelve Juren have always taught a few students at Cui's house. Today, the young master of his family is not here, and the late student came to accompany his old parents."

County magistrate Jiang heard that he was a Juren and claimed to have always taught Cui Xie. He couldn't help but think of some rumors and asked: "You have taught Cui's family for a few years? You teach all their brothers?"

Mr. Lu stood there steadily and said: "It is exactly that before Cui Xie returned to Qian'an, I had taught him for two years, but we have a very short mentor and apprenticeship and never taught him anything."

He is the one who taught Cui Xie later! He had delayed Cui Xie's entrance to school, so how come he can still stay at Cui's house and teach this kid again?

But depending on his appearance, he was extremely caring for the little disciple, and the children he taught also knew the etiquette advances and retreats, not like a gentleman who misled his children.

The county magistrate Jiang was puzzled and couldn't help but test him a few words, but found that he was not only well-versed in the history, but he also answered the rare questions in the Song Confucianism. He was really learned.

He unknowingly asked: "I think you have good knowledge and strict temperament, so why don't you have a mentorship with the student Cui Jian, and can't teach him?"

Lu Juren couldn’t fault him. Looking at the way Cui Xie was now, he also forgot about the days when he was not very smart. After thinking about it, he pushed the fault on others: "I heard that his stepmother was jealous. I hate him, maybe because he was blocked from studying behind his back? I didn't notice anything at the time. I just remembered that when he and his second brother were studying, they didn't come for a long time, so what could be learned."

Speaking of pulling He Ge to his side, he stroked his head and said, "Brother Xie has grown a lot since he came back from his hometown. He disciplines his younger brothers strictly and is not allowed to skip school easily. I just don’t know that his second brother will go out for a trial and he will be able to come back. Will you be more productive."

County magistrate Jiang almost forgot that there was a second son in his family, and asked him to remind him that there was such a wife in the Cui family, and he sighed secretly: "The kind mothers are more ruined, and the unkind mothers think about the law. Erdi wants to teach the children who broke the front room, but it is not something a gentleman can teach."

Thinking about it this way, I feel a little sympathetic to Mr. Lu: Cui Xie has two gentlemen, who have only been teaching for two years, and he can't be blamed for not teaching well. It must be that stepmother who refused to let her stepson go to school, and the gentleman who had invited him before was not able to teach. He broke the foundation and only taught for two years. What else can he teach?

He comforted: "There is fate between the teacher and the apprentice, and so does the imperial examination. At the beginning, your fate has not arrived, but now it is here, he will not be willing to study at ease, and ask you to continue teaching his brother? Maybe you will be the next year. The fate in here has also arrived, and your masters and disciples can still be on the top of the list together and make a good story.

Mr. Lu's thin face opened with a smile, and it looked a little more radiant than usual, and he thanked him: "Thanks to the good words of the adults, I will do my best to teach my disciples in the late birth, and strive to win the fame of Jinshi."

The county magistrate Jiang smiled and said: "I heard some rumors outside, and when I saw it, real people knew that the rumors were unbelievable, and you were also a drag. Later, I will talk about this with the same year, so that you will not be affected by the rumors in the future. Disturb."

Lu Juren said: "It's good for adults to have this heart, but I am not afraid of those words. Now Cui Xie is following me to learn poetry. I think he is not very spiritual, but fortunately he is high-minded, and he has a grand and righteous spirit in his heart. I can’t write good poems. If he is promising, he will naturally wash out my reputation, so I don’t have to bother adults."

He has an arrogance of his own. He has to get up from wherever he falls. He is not reconciled if he doesn't teach Cui Xie a speciality that can show his teaching ability.

The county magistrate Jiang saw that he had such an uproar, so he smiled and said, "The county wishes you to teach him as soon as possible."

He wanted to come to see Cui Xie today. Since the person he wants to see is not there, and the plaque is hung up, he has to return to the Ya first. Lu Juren could not keep him, so he asked someone to go to the interior to tell the old man that Mrs. Cui was not good at keeping guests, so he asked someone to pack him a box of iced desserts and a jar of good wine from Xie Ying , Personally sent it out and asked him to take it home to taste.

The county magistrate Jiang declined politely, and only made another request: "There is a ruthless please in this county-can the old lady tell me where the craftsman who makes the movable bed is? I think I will also build something in the sanatorium. A bed to make the lonely and poor old people feel more comfortable there."

Mrs. Cui chanted the Buddha's name: "I am an adult who does this good governance. How can my family not fully cooperate? The craftsman who made the bed is the one we used to be old. It is in Nanguan. The old lady asked the individual to lead the people around the adult to find He. His family can also make a narrow bed with a thick backrest, a large wardrobe that can be well-dressed, and a soft feather cushion that looks simple and not fancy, but extremely practical."

Master Jiang was familiar with the narrow bed and feather cushions, and asked, "But that kind of furniture like Qian'an? I heard from the same year when Qian'an came to Qian'an that nowadays, there are fashionable household items in their township, and even rich and wealthy people have made them. Yes. I just heard that, I don’t know what it is like. I don’t think he can do this. If it is cheap and suitable, I would have to play a few more sets."

It was my grandson who drew the picture and instructed him to fight.

The old lady was proud of her heart, and her face was full of brilliance. After County Majesty Jiang left, she talked about it for a long time, wanting to wait for Cui Xie to come back and talk to him about today. Lu Juren taught Xianzun to encourage this for a long time, and he also gave birth to a lot of ambition. Think about Cui Xie's not eager to learn poetry with him these days. He is still eight feet away from being a poet, and he is gearing up. Teach him into a talent immediately.

Both sides looked forward to it, from the first day to the next, and from noon to the afternoon. It wasn't until the Shenshi was over, that Lu Juren had anxiously added three big characters to He Ge Lian, and Cui Xie wore that dazzling green trolling, and then washed his still wet hair, and drove back in the car happily. To the Cui family.