The next day after the announcement is the 'Lu Ming Banquet'. In addition to the new recruits, the main and deputy examiners, the supervisors and all the internal and external curtain officials will be present.
As for why it is called the Luming Banquet, it is reported that the emperor of a certain dynasty invited the imperial examination students to a royal banquet with "deer" as the main royal banquet, to show the emperor's mighty grace and the intention of recruiting talents. The deer has always been revered as an immortal beast, the image is a rare talent, the emperor is noble as the emperor, and 'Ming' means a gift from heaven.
There is another saying that deer and 'lu' have the same pronunciation, which means fame and fortune, and the entry of new subjects is the beginning of official career. Scholars have always been reserved and reserved, so they will replace them with deer. All in all, this Luming Banquet is a banquet to celebrate new recruits.
It is said that it is a banquet, but in fact, the banquet is not mouth-watering, and it mainly takes a form. First, the chief and deputy examiners brought the big and small curtain officials to worship the saint, and then the new recruits gave thanks to the examiners.
In fact, the main test is the main test, and the others are secondary.
Xue Tingxiang was dressed in a bright red towel, with a hairpin and cornel on the right side of the hat. Hairpin flowers are originally a custom of Jinshi and Di, but in order to express joy, new entrants can also wear hairpins when they go to the Luming Banquet.
But only Jie Yuan can be tied to show the difference.
A total of seventy new recruits gathered together, with Xie Yuan in the lead, Ya Yuan behind, leading a group of new recruits, first saluting the chief examiner Huang Mingzhong, then the deputy examiners, and so on.
Afterwards, the banquet was held, and the "Luming" chapter in the song "Book of Songs" was also considered to be the name of this Luming banquet.
In the hall, the violin and drums were in tune, the singing and dancing sounded, and the red candles with thick arms illuminated the whole room as if it were daytime.
"Our Jie Yuanlang is really a hero." An official said to the people around him, stroking his beard.
But that's not the case. The sixteen-year-old Juren master is extremely rare, and he can be called a genius.
Over there, Xue Tingxiang was toasting the examiner.
Huang Mingzhong didn't smile, took the wine and drank it, and said some words of encouragement.
It can be seen that he is in a bad mood. As for what is not good, only he knows in his own heart.
Next was the deputy examiner Ye Ju. Ye Ju also said some words of encouragement. When it was his turn to drink, someone inserted a sentence from the side: "Lang Xie Yuan should thank Master Ye, if it weren't for Master Ye, Xie Yuan would Lang's name as Jie Yuan, but I can't get it."
As soon as this person said a word, someone interrupted: "I think you drink too much before you talk nonsense. This Jie Yuanlang is a young talent, and his fame is naturally easy to catch."
The man was also aware of his gaffe, and hurriedly ignored it with a haha.
Naturally, Xue Tingxiang couldn't pretend that he couldn't hear him, but he couldn't ask for specifics either. He could only bow to Ye Ju with a smile: "Student thanks the Deputy Examiner again."
Ye Ju supported him: "The court opened a new course to recruit talented people. Xue Jieyuan is a talented person. It should be like this. Don't thank me."
Others only regarded it as a passing remark. Only Xue Tingxiang knew about it. It seemed that if he was able to win this solution, it was probably because of what happened during the period, and what Ye Ju did in it.
After Luming's banquet was over, everyone drank a lot of wine, and it was fortunate that there were carriages and horses to send each other, otherwise there would be news the next day, the anecdote of new recruits sleeping on the street.
In recent days, there have been many such anecdotes about this kind of anecdote, most of which are that a certain candidate was frustrated in the examination room, drunk on the street, or a certain candidate was kicked out of a brothel somewhere because of their money. If there is an anecdote about a new recruit, the fun will be great.
After Luming's banquet, there were some celebratory receptions and tea parties, all organized by candidates or new recruits, but Xue Tingxiang was in a hurry to go back to his hometown, so he didn't participate.
Since then, the members of Beilu Academy have parted ways. Those who missed the academy continued to study hard in the academy, hoping to come back in three years.
I will try it in February next year, also known as Chunwei. It is now mid-September, and the journey to the capital is a long way off. It will take at least a month or two to travel on the road, and when we arrive in the capital, we have to settle down. The time is very tight. Some new recruits are reluctant to toss, and some will go directly to the capital for the test in February next year.
However, most people still have to go back to their hometowns to settle down with their loved ones at home.
Because the time was too late, Lin Miao didn't plan to go back to Xia County. He made an appointment with Xue Tingxiang and others to go to the capital and went back to Beilu Academy.
As for Xue Tingxiang, Mao Badou, Chen Jian, and Li Datian, they all rode back to Xia County.
Along the way, the journey is long, and it takes at least half a month to get home, and the four of them return home like an arrow.
Just as Xue Tingyan and the others were on their way back, something happened in Yuqing Village.
The matter has to start from before. Since that time, Wang Dazhi and his wife found the Zhaoer sisters and were chased away, and the two have not appeared again.
After that, I came here once, but I was chased away before I even entered the village.
Country people are not very particular about their words. When they heard that they sold their daughters, and now they have to pull them back and sell them on the side, they all spurned, rushed and scolded them. There are those who speak harshly and scold them very badly, which makes the two of them really poor and crazy. They go home and have children. Anyway, they will sell them when they are born. Whoever sells them is not selling them.
He scolded the two of them to hide their faces and ran away, and they haven't come back since then.
At the other end, Xue Cui'e returned to Zhao's house.
Because she has been invisible these days, she said she went out to dig wild vegetables and chop wood, but when she went out for a day, when she came back, there were only a few wild vegetables and a few pieces of dry wood in the basket.
Does this look like going out to work? So she was scolded a lot.
Especially her daughter Dian Dian is only over a year old now, just when she was learning to walk and running around. Don't look at the Hong family's harsh treatment of Xue Cui'e, but Diandian is Zhao Jinrui's first child and Hong's first granddaughter, so she is naturally a treasure of love.
But no matter how rare the child is, she can't bring her alone. Xue Cui'e has not been seen every day in the past few days, and the Hong family is very busy, so she hates that it is not something to be a mother.
That day, Xue Cui'e disappeared again this morning. This time, she didn't even bring a machete or a back basket. Mrs Hong searched around the village and couldn't find it. When she came back, she found that her granddaughter's head was broken, so she cursed in her yard. up.
Just as she was scolding, Xue Cui'e came back with her face covered. She looked very embarrassed, her face was blushing, and those who didn't know thought she had run into some bad guy.
Hong Shi thinks so, otherwise how could this happen for no reason.
Her first reaction was not to console her, but to ask what happened to the slap print on Xue Cui'e's face. Xue Cui'e naturally wouldn't tell her what was wrong, she answered hesitantly, and knew she was lying as soon as she heard it. This time, the Hong family was incredible. She jumped three feet high and shouted to the man and her son, saying that Xue Cui'e had met a robber.
There could be any robbers in this country place, but Zuo only met the bad guys.
The bad guy is naturally a man, what can happen to a woman who meets a bad guy, but if the other party wants to have bad intentions and Xue Cui'e resists, he will be beaten like this, and maybe his body will be stained.
When Zhao Jinrui heard what his mother said, he immediately turned black and scolded, "You still have the face to come back!"
Uncle Zhao wanted to ask what was going on, but how could he, a father-in-law, ask in detail about this kind of thing? He could only listen to the mother-in-law and son scolding each and every one of you, so the reason why Xue Cui'e was like this was because of everything. It's because she was overpowered by bad guys.
Of course, there are also the contributions of the Zhao family's eldest daughter-in-law and second daughter-in-law.
The Hong family is filling the house, and the two have always hated this old witch every day for harassing the father-in-law to be bad to the first two sons, and usually made things difficult for the two daughters-in-law. Now that it was the two people's turn to watch the excitement of the Hong family, it was inevitable that they would fan the flames and add fuel to the fire.
Xue Cui'e opened her mouth to four, even if she wanted to tell the truth at this moment, she couldn't explain it clearly. As soon as she said that she was going back to her mother's house, she was blocked back, saying that she was deliberately deceiving.
Here, Zhao Jinrui became angrier the more he heard it, grabbing Xue Cui'e and going back to the house was a beating.
Ditian cried hoarsely, the Zhao family was in chaos, and some villagers heard the news and came to ask questions. Under the publicity of the Zhao family's eldest daughter-in-law and second daughter-in-law, the news of Xue Cui'e's loss of virginity was known to the whole village.
Xue Cui'e was finally unable to argue, and was beaten to the death by Zhao Jinrui. Here, just as Zhao Jinrui came out of the house, Mrs Hong said, "If you leave her, you must leave!"
In fact, at this time, the Zhao family also knew that it was a misunderstanding, but the Hong family hated Xue Cui'e, and now it's such a mess. It is easy to spread rumors, but difficult to explain clearly. If Xue Cui'e was really left at home, Zhao Jinrui became a green cloud in the eyes of outsiders.
However, the Zhao family was quite smart, and let Xue Cui'e stay at home to heal her injuries before sending her back to Xue's house.
When Zhao Shi heard that her daughter was divorced by her parents' family, she fainted on the spot.
The Xue family turned around for a while, and asked a doctor to treat Zhao Shi. When Zhao Shi woke up, he faced the fact that his daughter was divorced. The Zhao family insisted that Xue Cui'e had been raped, so she had to be divorced. During this period, the two Xue Qingbai brothers almost fought with the two sons of the Zhao family, but luckily they were stopped by the two parents.
The two families sat down to discuss the matter. Even if Mr. Xue testified that his daughter did come back, and the slap mark on his face was beaten by him, the Zhao family's attitude of divorce was also firm.
However, Uncle Zhao also spoke softly and expressed his difficulties, but what he said was taught by the Hong clan. Roughly, Xue Cui'e's appearance from Yuqing Village was seen by the villagers, and this kind of gossip spread in the village. Now the matter is not explained at all, even for Zhao Jinrui's future, this wife must be divorced.
What can Mr. Xue say, can he say that he made a sin
Let it go, let it go, the man wants to divorce his wife, but the woman can't stop it. Even if he could call his relatives to go to the man's house and threaten to smash and smash, but in the end, the Zhao family is still there, not looking at the monk's face or looking at the Buddha's face. Besides, Mr. Xue was also afraid that the matter would spread to Yuqing Village, and the Xue family would be embarrassed in the future.
This marriage shouldn't have ended from the beginning, if it wasn't for Xue Cui'e's disappointment...
After all, it was all her own fault, and she couldn't blame others.
After a long period of haggling, the two reached the following agreement.
The Xue brothers went to Zhaojia Village to make a scene, and the two played together in a play, which means that all this was a misunderstanding, but because the Zhao family slandered their daughter so much, even if the Zhao family came to ask for it, the Xue family would not Bring my daughter back. And the Zhao family should divorce his wife, what should we do
In fact, this play is all performed for outsiders to watch. As for the ups and downs of each, only one can taste it.
Xue Cui'e and Zhao's naturally protested, but this time, Mr. Xue was very firm.
After the matter was done, Mr. Xue suddenly aged by more than ten years. Since the birth of Xue Qingshan, Mr. Xue's body and bones were not as good as before, and he fell ill this time.
There is no need to elaborate on asking the doctor about the medicine. The Zhao family has never regretted it later. Others don’t know it. Anyway, the third and fourth rooms are busy.
But right at this moment, another thing happened, something happened on the side of the hill.
The Xue family is now in a difficult situation. In order to keep the baby clean, Zhao'er simply moved to the top of the hill to live with Zhao Di.
If she had hesitated to move before and Xue Cui'e was taken home, she would not have to think about it. The two have already torn their faces, who knows what will happen to Xue Cui'e living together.
The top of the hill is clean and the environment is good, and it is far away from the troubles of the Xue family. Zhao'er has a very happy life every day, teasing his nephew to raise a baby, and his life should not be too beautiful.
Nowadays, the fact that Zhao'er is rich is well known in the whole village. Who doesn't know that the famous Wangji vegetable store in the county is opened by Zhao'er. As time passed, the small workshop became widely known, and many women from the village came to ask for work. Anyway, Zhao'er is also short of people now, so he picks the needle and thread, and stays to work.
They used to cover it up because they were too weak. With Xue Tingxiang winning a scholar, and backing to the mountain of the Xue family, and the deterrence of Xu County magistrate, if you want to be jealous, you have to weigh yourself.
But since ancient times, people who have money will be missed. No, they were thieves on the top of the hill that night.
This thief was not very timid. At first, he stole chickens twice. Because there are many chickens on the hilltop, and Xue's family has been busy recently, Zhou and Sun have not detailed them, so everyone doesn't know.
Who would have thought that this thief was getting more and more courageous, and actually touched the room where Zhao'er lived.
He was under the window, and he was held down by Heizi, who stared at him silently for a long time. The thief was so frightened that he cried and called his mother, Zhaoer, Zhaodi, and Aunt Gao all got up when they heard the movement.
Especially Zhao'er, he picked up a shovel and pointed at the thief with his stomach straight, as if he would start a fight if he disagreed.
In fact, he couldn't help being careless, Gao Sheng was not at home, and there lived three women's families and a baby girl on the top of the mountain. Forget her sister, Aunt Gao is old, this old man is old and young, so she has a few strengths.
"Don't do it, don't do it, I'm the third black."
He was black and loud, and he couldn't see the face clearly, but the thief knew his face, so he reported his name. It was also because the shovel against his head was too scary. He felt that he would get rid of his head in the next moment. Originally, Hei San planned to run away because he was a man.
"Hei San? You're not too timid, and you stole it on my head!" Zhao'er sneered and asked Aunt Gao to get the rope and tie Hei San.
"Sister Zhao'er, spare your life. I was also confused for a while. It's really not going to last at home, so I lost my head for a while."
"Don't tell me, talk to the patriarch later!"
Aunt Gao held the lantern in the dark and called people down the mountain. Hei San was thrown into the yard, and the two sisters, Zhao'er, entered the house. As for Hei Zi, he has been squatting beside Hei San, intending to bite him if he disagrees.
Xue Qingbai and Xue Qinghuai came soon, along with Xue Qiang and the others.
"Okay, you bastard, you stole it under the eyes of my sister Zhao'er!" Xue Qiang and a few young boys came up with punches and kicks, beating Hei San to the point of crying.
"Sister Zhao'er, what should I do? Let's beat him up?"
"Lock it up first, and send it to the patriarch and Lizheng tomorrow."
Although Xue Qiang felt that Zhao'er was a bit of a fuss, they were always convinced by Zhao'er and didn't say anything. It was Xue Qinghuai who saw the meaning of Zhao'er. This time, he was forgiven lightly. Next time, someone will definitely commit the crime again. Anyway, it's all from the villagers. What can you do to me? Someone will surely follow suit.
So Zhao'er is planning to kill the chicken and warn the monkeys!
Patriarch Xue always protects his shortcomings, and Hei San is a foreigner. Needless to say, he will be expelled from the village.
As soon as he heard that he was going to be sent to the patriarch and Lizheng, Hei San, who was covering his head, couldn't care to pretend to be dead, and cried, "Sister Zhao'er is merciful, don't send me to the patriarch Lizheng."
Zhao'er sternly ignored him, just let Xue Qiang get Hei San and lock him up.
"Sister Zhao'er, I know it's wrong, I really know it's wrong, don't send me to the patriarch, they will definitely not spare me, I still have an old mother at home, my mother can't stand this stimulation..."
Seeing Zhao'er still unmoved, Hei San was heartbroken and was about to give up begging for mercy, when a flash of light suddenly flashed in his mind: "Sister Zhao'er, I have something to tell you, I know how Widow Xue died. I tell you You, can you let me go?"
Zhao'er looked over immediately.
Hei San was overjoyed and told what he knew.