The True Winner of the Red Chamber

Although the county examination is the first stop on the long imperial examination road, there are still many benefits to passing it.

For example, the No.1 lin rice and "recommendation qualification", and other people can go to county schools or private schools run by the government as teachers, and barely enter the country gentry class. Although it is the lowest class, it can already be called "" by simple farmers. Master".

For Zhen Yingjia, who just won the case, he still has one more thing to do: treat guests.

On the imperial examination road, there are two official banquets, Luming Banquet and Qionglin Banquet.

The former is for those who have just passed the provincial examination. Although it is a celebration, it is also a clarion call to move on.The latter is for the new champions, to celebrate their formal entry into the officialdom and their imminent prosperity.

The rest are some private banquets, such as inviting all the students who have passed the exam, small-scale ones to make friends with each other, or a private school, and a province to celebrate together.

Zhen Yingjia is studying in Qingsong Academy, and there are about a thousand classmates and teachers in it. Naturally, the Zhen family can afford to invite these people to dinner. You must know that when Zhen Yingjia got married, three people were placed in the largest restaurant in Jinling City. The water mat of the sky.

Now there are only two problems that trouble Zhen Yingjia: where to invite guests and how many people to invite.

Zhen Yingjia just thought about it, and felt that it would be better to come to the big one, so on the third day after the county test, all the 340 seven students who passed the county test, as well as the current students and teachers of Qingsong Academy, received this test. An invitation from Zhen Yingjia, the county trial chief.

Treating guests at the head of the desk is not difficult to understand, but... the place where the guests are being treated is a bit jaw-dropping.

The Ningcui Garden of the Zhen family is the most famous garden in the south of the Yangtze River besides the emperor's palace - Tirenyuan. The three big characters Ningcuiyuan on it were written by the emperor himself.

Thinking about the case this time, the surname is Zhen...

A single biography of the three generations of the Zhen family...

Could this be Mrs. Zhen? ! !

must go!After three turns in their minds, everyone made the same decision, and even the students who had already packed their bags and planned to study hard for the government examination also made new clothes specially.

Ningcui Garden, you must go!

On the morning of the first day of March, the housekeeper of Zhen's mansion brought the family's decent-looking and well-spoken servants to greet the guests at the gate of the garden.However, Zhen Yingjia accompanied Li Daji and Li Shixin in the inner courtyard to put incense sticks on Mrs. Li.

"It's been a year..." Li Shixin sighed and offered the incense.

Li Daji looked left and right at the tidy mourning hall, and said, "Let's go out and talk."

In March in the south of the Yangtze River, the grass is green and the flowers are red, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, but not long after bathing in the soft sunshine, Li Daji said seriously: "You said earlier that you wanted to hide your identity to study, I believed it, but now you come to such a show, Who else can hide it!"

Li Daji would even be afraid of his own son when he disciplined others, but Zhen Yingjia smiled and said, "I also do it for the good of the academy."

Li Daji almost completely disregarded Shanzhang's image and called him "bullshit!".

Li Daji didn't dare to be too close, so Zhen Yingjia smiled and said: "August is the township examination, and many people in the academy are going to participate. My Ningcui Garden has been borrowed by Xuezheng to hold the Luming Banquet. Since I have won the first case, it is better to invite them together, which is also a good omen."

After saying this, Li Shixin clearly saw his own father's beard shaking, is he satisfied?

Li Daji gave a "hmm" and said, "It's too much work." However, his tone was much calmer.

Zhen Yingjia said again: "I thought it was a bit too ostentatious at first, but what if I don't get the top case in the government examination? Besides, the government examination is too close to the township examination, I'm afraid that if—"

Li Daji interrupted him before he finished speaking, "We must win the case!"

Zhen Yingjia nodded and coaxed the old man, "I also want to donate the rice to the academy."

Li Shixin couldn't bear to look directly at him. His father's temper was really well understood by his son-in-law. Didn't the old man hold back his smile and twitch his beard again?

While saying yes, Li Daji said: "You don't need to accompany us, go to the front to receive guests."

Zhen Yingjia smiled and went to the front yard.

Speaking of which, the above are all superficial reasons, and the deeper reason is that he wants to collect points and collect points.

This trick really worked. After sending out the invitation, he gained more than 600 fans and more than 3000 likes.And since this morning, the points have been increasing at a rapid rate visible to the naked eye.

Upgrading to level three is just around the corner, let alone how happy I am.

In Ningcui Garden, many guests have come, even Wang Ziteng's nephew has also come. He is ranked fourth this time, which can be regarded as a good ranking among the top ten.

But... Wang Gongzi has not been in a good mood since he came in Ningcuiyuan.

He used his uncle's name to test the magistrate, and the magistrate clearly agreed to choose him as the head of the case, but he didn't know that it was another person who announced it in the end!

Wang Gongzi looked at the students in Ningcui Garden who were excitedly talking about Zhen Yingjia, and became more and more angry.

"There are so many people invited." The student next to him sighed to his companion.

"Who says no? According to the housekeeper at the door, there are at least 1000 people here." Another person praised.

Hearing the conversation of the people next to him, Wang Gongzi flashed malicious glances in his eyes, pretended to be nonchalant and sighed to the student next to him: "Oh, it's too ostentatious, but it's just a county exam."

The two stopped, and Prince Wang felt a little joy in his heart. He shook his head deliberately with a stern face while regretting, "I remember that the case of the court examination last year was only ten tables in Tongfulou."

Seeing the expressions on the faces of those two, Prince Wang thought that everyone had the same thoughts as him, but one of them suddenly said excitedly: "This is Ningcui Garden, you can only come in if you win the Juren."

"Who says it's not? I heard from them that the Zhen family specially ordered the same table as the Luming Banquet! Regardless of whether I pass the provincial examination next year—"

Someone patted him and said: "You have already eaten the Luming Banquet ahead of time, are you afraid you won't win?"

The two looked at each other and smiled, Prince Wang's expression became even more ugly, who would have thought that those two seemed to have just discovered him, and asked, "What did you just say?"

The Prince was so angry that he wanted to walk away, to show his integrity as a scholar, but he held back his smile a little forcedly, and said to the two of them: "Ningcui Garden is indeed a good place." The voice whispered: "I heard that Brother Zhen has contacts with the prefect and the chief envoy?"

He almost said that he cheated, Wang Gongzi frowned, on the surface he didn't want to get along with this kind of person.

"That's right," one of them sighed, "It's still the son-in-law of the head of the mountain."

Another person continued: "I resigned as the official of the fifth rank. You said that even if we win the first prize, it will take more than ten years to be promoted to the fifth rank. Is he really resigning like that?"

Prince Wang is getting more and more troubled, but these two people are called "Shan Zhang", they must be from Qingsong Academy, maybe he should talk to the person who won the exam this time?

It's just that he ate the Luming Banquet ahead of time, even if he really had some thoughts about Zhen Yingjia in his heart, he absolutely couldn't spoil the banquet, so the prince hit a wall all the way, and he didn't even touch food except for drinking.

Zhen Yingjia was sitting at the main table. Other than Li Daji and others, there were also the top three in this exam, and Kang He sat next to Zhen Yingjia because he came second in the exam.

It was Cao Fuxiang who came to give gifts to overthrow the atmosphere of the banquet.

Give gifts to the emperor.

The emperor rewarded Zhen Yingjia with a set of pens, inks, papers and inkstones. The same thing can be turned out in different ways in different populations. Cao Fuxiang is a very eloquent person.

"Your Majesty said that although these are not expensive pens, inks, papers and inkstones, they are used for answering papers issued during the palace examination." Cao Fuxiang said while looking at the envious eyes of the people around him, and emphasized: "Our family wishes you You're in high school."

There was a round of warm applause, and Prince Wang, who was not far from the main table, became more and more jealous after seeing this scene.In his opinion, Zhen Yingjia had tried some means to snatch the case from him, and even this set of pens, inks, papers and inkstones should be rewarded to him.

Wang Gongzi drank too much wine and was a bit over the top, and wanted to ask maliciously if he didn't win.

But before he could say it, Cao Fuxiang laughed again, and said: "Of course His Majesty has already rewarded the things, and specially asked our family to wait for the list to be delivered before sending them."

He looked at Zhen Yingjia proudly, and said again: "One more thing. If you don't win," Cao Fuxiang coughed twice, then changed his dignified voice, "Study hard, this thing is for you to see !"

Laugh out loud.

Prince Wang's eyes were red with anger.

Cao Fuxiang winked at Kang He cryptically, meaning: It's all true, Master Zhen is really taken to heart by the Holy Majesty.

Kang He looked at Zhen Yingjia, who had already drunk to the point of peach blossoms beside him. The imperial grandfather spent as much thought on him as a prince. Fortunately, he had no royal blood, otherwise there would be one more person to worry about.

But now, this man is his helper.

When the banquet was over, Zhen Yingjia sent the last guest away, stood at the gate of Ningcui Garden and looked at the servants who were busy packing things inside, and let out a long sigh of satisfaction.

There are still one thousand points to be promoted to the third level.

"The government government has posted a notice, the third court exam at the beginning of April!" Li Daji's voice sounded, "Hurry up and read the book! Don't miss a day!"