The four newly promoted people came back from the Luming Banquet in Shuntian Prefecture, turned around and entered the Luming Banquet in the county.
County magistrates, county magistrates, Dianshi, and Jiaoyu several county officials in charge personally presided over them. The four new imperial examination students were invited, and the scholars who did not pass the examination were also brought to sit and accompany them. Among the students who were born and famous, the only one with a white body that could not even wear a Confucian scarf was naturally Cui Xie, who was specially brought up by the county magistrate.
He was placed on a small table under the porch, just as a spectator eating and drinking. The musicians on both sides played "Deer Ming", the county magistrate and the four new recruits sang "Yo yo Lu Ming, eat the apple of the wild" one by one, the whole process followed the ancient ceremony, and the guest of honor answered Ceremony, I have to compose poems after singing, and by the time I eat the food, the dishes are almost cold.
Cui Xie was very suspicious that this was because the county magistrate Qi hosted this small banquet and had a good time before he was admitted to the top rank.
The county magistrate ordered someone to hold a cup, poured three rounds of wine, and said to the new Juren: "I don't want to think that among the four Juren, there are three talented people who criticize the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. After hearing about this, the county thought it was very coincidental, so I put that insightful eye. The owner of the bookstore who knew the talents also called to the banquet. Why don't the talents write a poem with his bookstore to commemorate it?"
The four celebrants and the six accompanying guest students who were not on the list all looked at Cui Xie under the corridor. He hurriedly got up to make a toast, congratulated several people on the title of Gui Bang, and thanked the county magistrate for his care, allowing him, a little white body, to have the opportunity to attend the Xiaolu Ming Banquet and sit and drink with Zhuzi.
The county magistrate Qi nodded and told him not to be too polite, but to ask the four to compose a poem.
The order in which the poems are composed is the same as the order of the seats in this banquet, and they are divided according to the order. Guo Yong stood up and said with a toast, "Thank you, Sir, for helping me, I also wanted to have a drink with Xiaoyou Cui, but I never had the chance to meet. I was able to pass the exam this time, and I also entrusted your book "Sixth" The blessing of "The Talented Talented Criticism of the Three Kingdoms" - after we entered Beijing, we called people to be talented people a lot, for fear of failing in this subject and asking people to say that our Qian'an talents are not as good as others, we were so angry that we did not dare to fail the exam."
After he finished speaking, he wrote a five-character, eight-sentence poem to him on the spot.
Tang Ning then stood up and said, "Brother Guo said that the Six Talented Books did give us a lot of fame, and the soldiers on the field are better than others when they treat us in Qian'an. I just need to add a little more. - We also read a lot of Song Confucianism in the library of Cui Gongzi, this time with Brother Guo and Brother Wang, I also have a lot of credit for the collection of books by Cui Gongzi."
He also drank it and sat down with a blushing face after reading the poem.
Among the four Juren, the only Wang Pu alone has nothing to do with the Six Talents Book, but he also took Cui Xie's beauty note at Shen Zheng's Chongyang Poetry Conference, so he smiled and said, "Then I will thank Cui Gongzi for being in Chongyang. The beauty note at the poetry meeting. The Cui Meiren’er note is exquisitely printed, and I was afraid that the handwriting would not match the painting note. "
He usually said "Cui Meiren Er Jian" casually because he was used to speaking. The Qixian magistrate twitched his brows and looked at Cui Xie subconsciously—he also had a frowning look, his face turned to the side, as if he didn't want to hear the name "Cui Meiren".
I also know shame, and I have never completely lost my mind about money and money, and it is still saved.
Qi Sheng retracted his gaze silently, and after listening to the poems written by the two kings, he encouraged them a few more words, asking the four of them not to slack off, and to try their best for the meeting in February next year. Afterwards, Tian Xiancheng and Sun Jiaoyu also praised a few words, and by the way, they also persuaded the six people who did not take the high school examination, so that they should not be discouraged because of their failure, and they should follow the example of these four people and study hard for three years before they end. .
The four new students and the six students all sat and listened respectfully, and toasted to thank the three masters for their teaching.
After the banquet was over, the county government prepared chariots and horses to send each person home, but Cui Xie was led to the flower hall, and the book boy served him dry lychee soup to relieve his hangover, and put a bergamot on the case. Alcoholism.
Cui Xie drank the sweet and sour soup, but he didn't understand how the county magistrate chose the person—it was an honor to have him participate in the Xiaolu Ming Banquet, so why didn't he leave him after the banquet, but just a little guy like him. White Ding down
Do you want to leave him here to teach him a few words and let him study hard, or does Lord Xian Zun also read the Three Kingdoms they criticized and urge him to update it
He couldn't think about it, so he had to ask the book boy who was waiting on the side. The book boy leaned over to his chair and said in a low voice, "Your flirtatious affairs have been exposed. Your lord has been thinking about how to teach you a lesson for the past two days. You have to be careful."
What's wrong with me... I don't know if I'm taller than 1.7 meters.
He scratched his head in distress and leaned over to ask the book boy to say a few more words to him. The book boy first glanced outside the door and asked him enthusiastically: "What kind of beauty is that beauty in your bookstore, does it look good on the beauty note? Does it look good with Diaochan? Is that really the outer room of the prince?"
Cui Xie said "hey": "It's her. I've never seen what she really looks like. To be honest, my shop has been rented to her house, there's nothing I can do, but I can go to see other people's concubines. Room? After I knew about this, I never approached the bookstore again, and the shopkeeper and the clerk didn’t go back either. If there was any trouble inside, it really doesn’t have anything to do with me.”
He explained in a blunt manner, hoping that the book boy would help him convey it to the county magistrate Qi to strengthen his credibility. The book boy smiled and said, "I'll say yes for you, and you can also give me some Cui Meiren's papers. I want the new Three Kingdoms papers, either from Emperor Zhaolie, Marquis Wu, or Duke Guan. Don't belong to the thieves of Cao Cao."
Cui Xie nodded and said, "Then I'll ask them to save a set of Shu Kingdom's monarchs and ministers for you. There were few paintings in the past, so they can only be divided according to the civil servants and generals. Afterwards, they will be divided according to the Three Kingdoms and Han ministers. Come up with a set."
He was talking, laughing and coaxing the child here, but he didn't know that a county magistrate who wanted to use him as a child to discipline him came in, he pushed open the door and walked in heavily, looking down at him.
The book boy hurriedly went down to serve tea, Cui Xie stood up and saluted, and respectfully called "Sir." Master Qi nodded casually, sat on the chair of the Grand Master and asked, "Do you know why I left you here today?"
Cui Xie said, "I don't dare to guess at Wansheng. But now it's almost September, and it's only five months before next year's county exam. Your Excellency is staying at Wansheng at this time. Maybe there are some things to ask about the scientific examination."
The county magistrate asked again, "How is your writing?"
Cui Xie now writes three articles every day, each of which is written in an eight-to-eight format, with three to five hundred words in a proper manner. I can't say how good the content and text are. The work is stable and tidy, and there is nothing wrong with the couplet sentences.
He got up and asked, "The students have written a few new articles in the past two days. If the adults want to listen, I will memorize them."
Seeing his confident appearance, the magistrate Qi calmed down his anger a little, and said, "No need to memorize it, I'm not here to teach you today, so I don't need to spend too much effort. Just come."
Cui Xie listened quietly, but what he asked was a small question, cutting out the sentence in "Mencius: Li Lou Xia" in Chapter 33 "People in Qi have one wife and one concubine", "but there is no prominent person." This is a one-sentence question in the sub-topic. I cut off the sentences with related meanings in this chapter, and leave this sentence alone, which is vague and cannot show the true meaning of Mencius.
However, when breaking such a cut-and-drop question, you can only answer the question itself, without connecting the top and bottom, and use the words in the whole article that are not given in this sentence. That is to say, the meaning of "people of Qi", "wife" and "peeping" cannot be written, and only the meaning of doubt implied by "there is no visible person coming" can only be dig deep.
When he found the question, he held the subject of "doubt" and "not yet", and answered carefully, "What I have heard is not seen, and the longer I stay, the more doubtful my heart becomes."
The county magistrate's expression softened even more, and after savoring the problem for a while, he sighed: "It's not like someone who has only learned to write for a few months. I have seen those schoolchildren writing, and breaking a problem is the most difficult thing to do. , especially these small questions that are cut up and down, either connected or touched, you are so precise in solving problems, it is not like a person who has only learned to write for a few months. It is a rare talent... "
The county magistrate Qi could not have imagined that he really had written articles for more than ten years, and had also done so many years of reading comprehension and refining the central ideas and themes of the articles. In the Daming Imperial Examination, students only need to write short essays of three to five hundred words, but the pupils of later generations start writing essays of three hundred words in the third grade. The high school entrance examination requires 600 words, the college entrance examination is 800 words, and after college, it is necessary to write a dissertation of tens of thousands of words...
Even those who were admitted to Juren had not undergone his professional reading and composition training for so many years.
It’s just that his basics of classics and ancient prose are a little bit worse. He has been studying hard for the past few months. With enough words and meanings to fill the frame of the article, the articles he writes appear sophisticated and well-organized, unlike those of his age. things written by people.
The county magistrate Qi couldn't help but sighed again in his heart: A good prodigy—
At first, he sighed, but suddenly he remembered the reason why he left him this time. The breath was stuck in his chest, and he sighed again. A child prodigy doesn't know how to raise hopes, and he came up with those frivolous and glamorous names.
He raised his eyebrows and taught a lesson: "If you want to take the exam, you should not only pay attention to the article, but also have a good character. You scholars who find the reputation of a romantic and talented person find it interesting, but in the eyes of the examiners, it is frivolous; in the eyes of Shangguan, it is not good. Steady and dignified, how can such a person be of great use?"
Cui Xie quickly stood up and defended himself: "Wansheng dare not. Wansheng has always been clean and self-righteous, and really never did those things."
Qixian Magistrate's beard shook and said lightly, "What do you think I'm talking about? I'm talking about your book - printing a book is also an elegant move by a scholar, but there is a sense in selling books. Pictures and sketches are all excellent things. Why do you want to use the beautiful name of Cui Meiren again? In case you win in the future, people say that Cui Xie, a student from a certain county, pretends to be Cui Meiren for business operations. Does it sound good?"
… What a shame! Frost in June!
Cui Xie stood up and argued, "Returning to your lord, this is really not the original intention of being born late, it's all a misunderstanding—"
He took Wanning's painting notes from the Chongyang Poetry Conference and distributed them to the scholars, because Guo Yong named him Cui Jian because the painting notes hadn't been named yet. But because the pictures on the paintings were of beautiful women, it was rumored for some reason, and after they were sold, it became Cui Meiren's paper, and the color prints of his family were also called Cui Meiren's calligraphy and painting outside...
It's all a misunderstanding!
Scholar mistaken me!
It is no wonder that Emperor Taizu Hongwu forbade the students to discuss politics. The students are really unreliable!
The county magistrate Qi sat and listened for a long time, then asked, "It really wasn't because of the Wang family's outer room behind your bookstore?"
Cui Xie reluctantly said: "It's not really. Think about it, my lord, my bookstore was given to his family after the seventeenth year of flooding. There has never been such a rumor, but it came out after the paper was printed, right? The first time I heard about this, it was two or three days after the Chongyang Poetry Society printed a painting note and gave it away. It was because the painting was printed on a beautiful woman, and was named Cui Jian by Guo Juren. Those who have seen the painting note. People just screamed, and finally came up with the name of Cui Meirenjian."
At the beginning, he also told the buddy and the prince to refute the rumor. Later, the rumor became more and more refuted, and it spread directly into the capital, and it was unknown whether it spread to the south.
This is the three city tigers and Zeng Shen who murdered and passed on him, a good old man, into a beauty!
Cui Xie was in a state of grief and indignation, and the county magistrate Qi was also dumbfounded. He thought that Cui Xie's reputation would be ruined only by having a female family in the store, so he would be fine if he changed the house; but he didn't want the rumors to have spread to other places now, even if the owner refuted the rumors in person, he wouldn't be able to come back.
Originally, such rumors ran faster than those who refuted them, and more people believed them, not to mention such lustful rumors. Even after spending a lot of effort to refute rumors everywhere, others still have a deep impression of "Cui Meiren" in their hearts. When they look at him again, they will inevitably think of it, and it is not good for his reputation.
Qi Sheng couldn't think of any way for a while, so he said: "Then don't use a house with that woman. I found another shop for you, you can open a shop in another place."
Cui Xie said: "It's not necessary... The prince said the day before yesterday that he was going to Yongpingwei, serving as an official under the command of Uncle An Shun, and taking the girl from the moon to the Yongping Mansion for resettlement. In this way, my shop will be freed up and open later. There is nothing taboo about buying and selling.”
County magistrate Qi frowned: "She has lived there for so long, how can the neighbors not know? That shop naturally has traces of fragrance, and you, a scholar, should not mess with this. Since she is no longer living, you simply take the bookstore official. If it's sold, the county will decide to find you a shop on North Street, so that you can open a new bookstore cleanly?"
Cui Xie bowed his hands and thanked me: "This is the adult caring for me, how can Cui Xie be that person who doesn't know what to do? It's just that the shop is the dowry left by the concubine, and I can't bear to sell it. Since it is no longer used for business, I think He will clean up its room, put books in different categories, and let people go in and sit and read a few books."
The county magistrate asked subconsciously, "Do you want to keep it as a library?"
Cui Xie said slowly: "Not only does he collect books, but anyone who loves to read books allows him to read them. He can also read them in the library or borrow them out. I am not capable now, and there are not many books in the store, but I can save them for a few years. It will gradually increase. At that time, our Confucian scholars, schoolchildren, and even ordinary people who know a few words in Qian’an will be able to read poetry and books without spending a few words. How can the literary style in our county not flourish?”
He was also a librarian who was about to join the library before the time-travel. It didn't matter if he didn't have a place before, but now he has a ready-made yard, why not transform it into a library and continue the unfinished business before the time-travel
What's more, although rumors spread quickly, they are quickly forgotten. As long as the library opens for two or three years, everyone's deepest memory here must be that they can read books for free. By the time of the 23rd year of Chenghua's examination, the yard once lived in Yueniang and sold Cui Meiren's paper, and the traces of Cui Meiren's paper will be very weak. bad side.