Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

Chapter 258

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The Cui family is going to return to Beijing with the whole family, so there are a lot of things to prepare, and people don't come back so quickly.

In late March, Cui Liangdong brought a few family members back to Beijing to clean up the house, and took Master Cui's handwriting to Yuci's courtyard to report to Cui Xie.

"... At first, the master was not happy, and the poor man listened to the uncle's instructions and sent the letter to the old lady first. The old lady agreed to the marriage, and the master did not write directly to the Yang family to break the marriage. Later, the old immortal Kong Yunzi Daochang Master brought back to his hometown made a divination, saying that the Yang family girl and the second son had very similar fates and could prosper our family, and the master turned his anger into joy and agreed to the marriage."

The Yang family's marriage isn't good enough

Master Cui is going to heaven!

He himself, a commoner who was convicted and dismissed from his post, got engaged by his own abilities, and he couldn't get his son to have an in-law who was under the jurisdiction of the Zhengliupin Mansion who was ruling their hometown!

Cui Xie rolled his eyes secretly, turned his face and said with a serious face: "So, it is time to thank Daoist Kong Yunzi with a generous gift of spare parts. I heard that Daoist has been conditioning his father's body over the years, and it has been very effective. This time I enter the capital. Do you want to come too?"

Cui Liangdong said regretfully: "The Taoist priest is an idle cloud and a wild crane, and he doesn't like the richness and honor in Beijing. The master said that he would donate a Guanyu Qingxiu in the mountains for him, and then he would add incense money during the festivals. If you don’t agree, it is said that people are restrained in the temple, and he only needs to build a bamboo fence thatched hut to avoid the world, live alone in the world, and cultivate the way of longevity.”

Cui Xie exclaimed, "It's really a master!"

As expected of the Taoist priest Xie Ying found, they coaxed Lao Cui into such a fascination, and even saved their family money, without asking for enough money to cultivate a Taoist temple, what a conscience and demon!

However, it is estimated that this Taoist priest is so conscientious, and it is necessary to eat the money of Xie Cui and his family. Xie Ying is also a Jinyiwei, so he can handle it. That favor is still placed on Xie Ying. When he returns to his hometown, Ding You can draw more cartoons for Xie Ying when he has nothing to do.

He couldn't help walking around the hard drive, followed Cui Liangdong to compliment the Taoist priest, and asked, "The Taoist priest refuses to enter the capital. If the master is unwell, how should he take care of himself?"

Cui Liangdong said: "The Taoist priest is now at home for the master to burn the golden liquid elixir, saying that he needs to practice more, so that the master will feel uncomfortable when he arrives in Beijing."

Well, that's good, just from the name, you know it's a poisonous elixir with heavy metals on it.

Cui Xie applauded silently in his heart, but with a concerned look on his face, he asked Cui Liangdong, "What does this medicine cure, Master, have you been taking it before, is there any taboo?"

Cui Liangdong said in awe: "This is the good medicine that Daoist Kong Yunzi is good at! Last year, the old man went to Yulin to collect grain, because he asked horse thieves to stole the grain in the middle, and failed to hand it over to the army in time. Both strands were badly beaten, and the wound took more than a month to form a scab. After standing up and walking a few steps, he had to lie down. It was thanks to the Taoist priest that he took Jindan internally and externally to save the master's life, and he was slowly recuperated. can walk.

"Master's injury was so severe at that time, and he got infected when he got home..." Cui Liangdong suddenly lowered his voice, leaned into Cui Xie's ear and said, "I contracted the symptoms of Xiayuan's deficiency and inability to consolidate semen, and it was the Daochang Lian again. After receiving this golden liquid pill for the master, it is only now relieved. This elixir is really a life-saving elixir, and the master can rest assured."

Master Cui is really old-fashioned. Fortunately, he loves tossing, otherwise, how could Daoist Kong Yunzi come to Cui's house

Cui Xie sighed and waved his hand: "Okay, you can prepare for the marriage. Although Brother Heng is no longer a direct descendant, I can't marry a wife. After the bride enters the door, she has to take the heavy responsibility of the patriarch, and this marriage has to be taken care of. With the large scale of marrying a clan wife, you can't feel wronged by the Yang family girl."

Cui Xie wrote a note, asking Cui Liangdong to go to the counter to get money to rebuild the old house, regardless of the cost of money or time, as long as it can be repaired before marriage.

Because the children of the two families are all getting older, and the marriage is more compact, Na Caili and Cui Xie will go first. They used a pair of geese called by Xie Ying out of the city, plus a few fine silk, gold and silver utensils, and invited Zhu Zhishan, a famous Jiangnan scholar who was sitting at their house, and two national uncles as matchmakers, and gave them to the girl. Home face.

Zhu Zhishan is the author of "Youth Jinyiwei".

Cui Xie asked Guozhang to lend his son, and in front of the two disciples, he urged them to perform well this time, so that Caizi Zhu could figure out their temperaments and set up the people in the comics!

The two national uncles also straightened their waists and backs in an instant, and their breathing became lighter. With two pairs of eyes as bright as stars, they assured Cui Xie, "The disciples will definitely show their heroic qualities in front of Zhu Juren. He wrote us as a young master of Jinyiwei that everyone in the world would envy!"

The two of them dreamed that they would meet some bandits and tyrants on the road, good heroes to save... Scholar, ask Zhu Yunming to write them more heroically.

As a result, accepting and asking the name Erli went well in one go, and brought the woman's eight characters back to get married, and they did not encounter any robbing them on such a long trip.

The two uncles were deeply disappointed, but when Zhu Zhishan came back, he praised Cui Xie that they were "smart and alert" and "respectful to scholars". Compared with the relatives of the Empress Dowager Zhou and Wan's family in the previous dynasty, they were rare and good relatives among relatives. .

Cui Xie mentioned him again: "Their brothers are not relatives in the comics, but the disciples of masters from outside the world. You can't just use the model of Uncle Guo to set them up. You pay attention to how alert and sensitive they are along the way, and you can see in the details. Crisis, how many robbers have been avoided, so that you and your party can come and go safely?"

Zhu Zhishan said in surprise: "This way my wife is ordinary, where did the bandits come from?"

Cui Xie raised his chin slightly, and said inexplicably: "Mrs. Pingping? Then Yongping Mansion will tell you what Mr. Yang usually does, and who are the prisoners in their mansion? Going north of Yongping Mansion is outside the mouth. The east is connected to the seashore, which is a place where bandits and aliens are rampant. If you were not traveling with the Zhang brothers this time, where did the wife come from?”

What he said was so reasonable and so certain that people couldn't help but believe it. Zhu Zhishan had poor eyesight and could not see the details of the surroundings. He carefully recalled that the Zhang brothers arranged everything on the road, and indeed he had to check everything in person. When they eat tea and rice, they always use their own bowls and chopsticks; they have booked a room in an inn, and sometimes they have to change rooms soon after they move in; on the road, the two uncles sometimes walk, sometimes change between carriages and horses; sometimes they walk Also take a detour...

Perhaps it was the clue of some bandits haunting

The Zhang brothers privately regretted that their case-handling skills were not practical, and they did not encounter half of the thieves; Zhu Zhishan came up with many thrilling and silent confrontations for them, and went back and improved "Youth Jinyiwei".

Cui Xie was not in a hurry to rush his draft, so he went to the temple first to give the Cui Yang family a horoscope. The wedding date was pre-determined by Master Cui invited the Taoist Master Kong Yunzi, and it was on the 14th of June, which was a good day for marriage. The children of the two families are not too young, and the parents are willing to marry as soon as possible and do not dare to delay. Cui Xie wrote a post, combining Wen Ding and application period into one, and asked Cui Liangdong to go to Yongping with a formal dowry to make an appointment. .

He was busy preparing for Cui Er's marriage in Beijing, and in Qian'an County, Daoist Master Kong Yunzi, an expert in the world, finally made two pots of golden elixir. On the third day of June, Master Cui loaded up the elixir, reluctantly sent gold and silver to bid farewell to the fairy, and finally got up with the whole family and rushed to the old house in Beijing.

The family walked unhappily with luggage. Before they entered Beijing, Xie Ying had already received the news that Daoist Master Kong Yunzi had left Beizhili, as well as the last letter from the Daoist priest to him.

This Taoist priest was also enshrined in the palace, and he made genuine golden pills, and he would not kill people by poisoning, so he gave Cui Ju all the authentic good elixir of Xuanmen: two furnaces burned with sulphur. The Golden Liquid Pill, which also gave a few poisonous dragon pills wrapped in sulphur.

When Cui Ju just came back from Yulin, the wound was festering and difficult to heal. It was Kong Yunzi who rescued his legs with a poisonous dragon pill. Later, when Cui Ju was cold, he kept eating his newly refined golden liquid pill. These two kinds of pills were handed down from immortal recipes and were once dedicated to the emperor. They can't be considered poison anywhere.

However, Jindan itself has erysipelas, and accidents can happen if you are not careful when you eat it.

Although Dulong Pill is one of the four major elixir of Xuanmen, it is good at treating all diseases, but it is afraid of the wind after taking it. Otherwise, mild chills and vomiting, severe convulsions and stiffness, if rescue is not timely, the person will be abolished. And the poisonous dragon pill is highly poisonous, you can only take one raisin-sized pill at a time, and you cannot take more than one pill, but the golden liquid pill can take thirty or fifty pills at a time.

If he unfortunately takes a few more poisonous dragon pills mixed in the golden liquid pill at one time...

Xie Ying lightly folded the letter, pressed one end to the candle flame, watched it slowly burn towards her fingertips, and threw the paper into the brazier just as it was about to burn to her flesh.

Although Cui Xie and Cui Ju have a vengeance for murder, after all, that body is also Cui Ju's own life, and they are father and son. Anyway, he is a Jinyiwei, and he has accumulated a lot of grievances in his hands, so this one is not bad.

Xie Ying never mentioned this matter, but Cui Xie knew it. After the grandparents of the Cui family returned to the old house, he excused himself to ask An to see Cui Ju's face in person, and asked him how the immortal's medical skills were.

Master Cui now has a prejudice against the eldest son, and when he asks anything, he feels that he has no good intentions, and shouted: "Kong Yunzi is a true immortal in the world, and he doesn't greedy for money, fame and fortune, how can he be similar to those ordinary Taoists! The immortal medicine, I have already killed the strongmen of the Liu family! I was in the country to recover, and I depended on Immortal Master Kong Yunzi to take care of me. Where were you at that time? Now you come to question the ability of Immortal Master. I don't see you looking for a well-known doctor!"

His face was red now, and his voice was so loud that he could be heard all over the yard. The two younger brothers lowered their heads and dared not speak. The old lady hurriedly called someone out to scold her son, and summoned the three grandchildren to the inner courtyard to comfort Cui Xie: "Your father has eaten some hot and dry medicinal herbs, and has a quick temper. Don't agree with him. When his illness is cured and he doesn't take this medicine, he will naturally be able to change back to the way he used to be."

This is just the old lady's wishful thinking.

Cui Heng, Cui He and their brothers met their eldest brother, just like their fellow villagers saw the Red Army, they wished they could hold their eldest brother and cry, and sighed and said, "Since my father lost office, his temper has gotten worse day by day, and his leg has been hurt. After that, I will be able to toss people even more. Fortunately, Daoist Kong Yunzi can persuade him a little bit, otherwise my father is still worried that our brother will take his luck after we get married. I wish we would be like your big brother and never get married. Since Daoist priest left a month ago , father's temper can't be suppressed day by day, our brothers are not worried about their lives..."

Cui Heng was even more worried: "I'm afraid that when the bride enters the door, my father can't hold back his temper for a while, and he treats her like this. How can my father-in-law explain it?"

His father-in-law specially asked for leave for his daughter and sent her to Beijing for marriage. In case the father gets angry at the wedding or when the in-laws meet, and then yells and scolds their brothers, making the family scandalous...

Cui Xie comforted: "Master also has a change in his temper during his illness. Children have to be considerate. On that day, I will greet my in-laws in person." , if he invites more guests to save face for his in-laws.

After the brothers talked for a while, Cui Ju asked the eldest son to teach him a few words, saying that Cui Xie had too much luck, and he was afraid that if he stayed in the Cui family for a long time, he would suppress Cui Heng's luck and delay his marriage. Don't leave him at home for dinner.

Mrs. Cui was so angry that she wanted to beat her son at home, but Cui Ju just hid in the outer courtyard and personally watched Cui Xie go out, not allowing anyone to keep him. His two younger sons did not dare to contradict their father, and they were reluctant to bear the elder brother, so he said helplessly: "Let's go to the Shijiaofu to accompany the elder brother tomorrow."

The two sent Cui Xie outside the door, and they had a thousand words to say in their hearts, but there were too many neighbors staring at the door, and they didn't dare to say anything.

Cui Xie looked at the quail-like appearance of the two of them, as if he had just seen this world. He did not dare to tell his neighbors that his father was unkind, but he felt a little sympathetic to them. He reached out and patted the two younger brothers who were no longer small. The shoulders: "You are very talented in this subject examination, my brother is very pleased. I have set up an examination room at my house over there. Junior Brother Li and a Zhu Juren from Wu Zhonglai often study there. You can go to practice when you have time. restraint."

The longing and attachment that the two younger brothers had accumulated in their hometown were almost dashed at once.

But no matter how much Cui Yu hates the eldest son, Cui Xie is the most important person besides the groom in this marriage.

He was wearing a six-rank official's uniform, which matched the official position of Mr. Yang. There were also the father and son of the Zhang family, the handsome and elegant Hanlin, or the officials of the ministry invited by the Hanlins. There is Xie Ying, the emissary of Jinyiwei, who is now famous in the capital... When Cui Xie is not there, no one in the Cui family can afford them.

Cui Heng dressed in the groom's robe and followed him to toast, while Cui He was dressed in a scholar's robe to entertain the official son who came with his family. There was a lot of excitement inside and outside the old house of the Cui family. In the evening, even Liu Ji, the first assistant of the dynasty, who could not afford to climb up the family, ordered someone to send a congratulatory gift. Although the gift was not heavy, it was enough for Cui Xie to be stunned for a while. .

This wedding was extraordinarily grand, but the excitement and decency seemed to revolve around Cui Xie, and it was also divided among the Cui Heng brothers and the old lady of the Cui family, but only with the titular master of the family, who was also once. Cui Ju, the mainstay of the family, has nothing to do with it.

He was clean around him, but his heart was like boiling oil. He managed to endure it until the newlyweds had worshipped and entered the bridal chamber. Dan.

Kong Yunzi made two pots of elixir for him before leaving, and filled an arm-length elixir gourd. He used to eat frugally before, calling this marriage exciting, and he didn't want to save any more, so he happily poured fifty grains, took cold wine, and walked into the small cross-house where his concubines lived.