If someone in the ancient village got the first prize in the exam, it would definitely be considered as a matter of honoring the ancestors.
The county government would beat gongs and drums all the way and send the No. 1 Scholar post to their homes. Most of the people thought it was Wenquxing who came to earth, and they would be happy for him.
When the eldest son and the second son came home together, the Ling family suddenly became lively. When Mrs. Liang asked them why they came home so suddenly, they looked at each other, smiled and said nothing, and said they were waiting.
You will know soon.
Seeing that both of them were married and had children of their own, but still so naughty, Mrs. Liang also showed a kind smile.
In Mrs. Liang's heart, she was happy to have her granddaughter come back regardless of when or why she came back.
Once people get older, they especially like to be lively. Ling Yun cannot stay at home all the time, and his granddaughters are getting married one after another, except for the fifth child.
Everyone exchanged pleasantries and expressed their feelings that they had not seen for a long time. Of course, most of them asked how the eldest baby was, because the second baby lived in the county and could go home from time to time, while the eldest baby lived in Annan Mansion, which was quite far away, so it was rare to come back. Naturally,
It's a small talk.
After chatting for a long time, when it was time for dinner, the eldest child and the second child started cooking and cooked a large table of dishes. Everyone sat together and ate happily.
I don’t know how long it took, but bursts of bronze drums sounded in Guangping Village. The first person to hear the drums was a child. The child was about to go to school, but he was frightened by the scene along the way. Many people were walking on the road, beating gongs.
Playing the drums makes it so lively.
The most important thing was that he actually saw people wearing official uniforms in the team. This suddenly inspired him and he rushed towards the elementary school without stopping.
As soon as he arrived at the door, the child leaned on the door and gasped for air. At this time, Li Chuan, who was sitting at the door, noticed him. Li Chuan first looked inside and found that the sound of reading was already heard inside, but the child had not yet
Entering the door, it is simply unreasonable!
Looking at the latecomers, Li Chuan became very angry and scolded angrily, "Zhao Yuanwu, what are you doing? Do you know that class is already in session at this hour?"
As soon as Zhao Yuanwu looked up, he saw an angry Li Chuan roaring at him. Zhao Yuanwu's mind at this time was not on being late. Instead, he leaned against the door and pointed the way into the village, saying incomparably, "Li...Grandpa Li, no
…It’s not good, then…there are a lot of people there.”
Li Chuan held the warning board in his hand and hated the iron. "There are so many people, what are you doing? You are young and don't learn well. You dare to be late for school. Come here quickly. It seems that if I don't give you a few boards, you will
They don’t even have a long memory.”
Zhao Yuanwu raised his head and kept pointing outside, hesitatingly saying, "No, Grandpa Li, there are...there are many people outside..."
However, Li Chuan didn't take it seriously and still said, "It doesn't matter whether people come or not. Come here quickly to receive your punishment."
When Zhao Yuanwu saw that he insisted on beating him, he leaned against the door and refused to come in. Li Chuan saw his little intention at a glance and walked towards the door with the ring in hand.
Zhao Yuanwu looked back and looked into the distance from time to time. In just a blink of an eye, Li Chuan came to him. Without saying a word, he directly lowered the ring board and hit Zhao Yuanwu's palm with the board one after another. Zhao Yuanwu made a "hmm" sound in pain.
Li Chuan hit him ten times, and then he grunted and said, "Why don't you go in quickly? What are you doing here?"
Unexpectedly, Zhao Yuanwu continued to point outside and said anxiously, "Grandpa Li, look over there, there are many people."
Li Chuan noticed Zhao Yuanwu's eyes from the beginning and kept glancing outside. He thought he was trying to find an excuse to avoid being beaten. However, he didn't expect that he was still like this after being punished, and he couldn't help but become curious.
So he looked in the direction of his finger, and was dumbfounded for a moment. Under his gaze, he saw a group of people marching towards the village. If he calmed down and listened carefully, he could still hear the sound of gongs and drums.
Li Chuan froze on the spot, staring at the line of people, murmuring to himself, "What is going on? There is neither a New Year nor a festival, so how can there be sound of drums? Could it be that the doll is getting married? But
I have never heard of anyone getting married recently in the village."
Zhao Yuanwu suddenly asked, "Grandpa Li, isn't this a happy event?"
When Li Chuan heard this, he immediately became angry. He thought that he had been asking him to go to school, but he didn't know that the child just stayed here and refused to go in.
"You little kid, I asked you to go in and go to class, but you didn't listen. What are you doing living here?"
Zhao Yuanwu pouted, feeling unhappy, and after a while he said thoughtfully, "Grandpa Li, I just ran over there, and I saw an official wearing official uniform in the team!"
As soon as these words came out, Li Chuan was moved and said, "What? Official uniform? You baby, you are not allowed to deceive Grandpa Li."
Seeing that Li Chuan didn't believe what he said, Zhao Yuanwu sighed like an adult, then he patted his chest and assured, "Grandpa Li, it's absolutely true. Yuanwu didn't lie to you, and I don't dare to lie to you. Yuanwu
I saw it clearly, so I came over to tell Grandpa Li."
"this…"
Li Chuan hesitated to speak, and for a moment he was not sure whether his words were true or false, because he couldn't understand why the government was beating gongs and drums into their village at this time.
If it was the time for the scientific examination, it would make sense, but when he thought about it, there was no scientific examination in this May season, which puzzled him.
Unable to understand, Li Chuan stood at the gate of the primary school, watching the team getting closer and closer. The sound of the drums became louder and louder, and people from the village gradually gathered.
Especially when they saw Li Chuan at the gate of the primary school, everyone came towards him.
At this time Zhou Dachang asked, "Uncle Li, what do you think this is? Could it be that the Ling family boy did something big outside?"
"Um?"
When Zhou Dachang said these words, Li Chuan was awakened. If there could be any big event in the village that would alarm the government, it must have been something big done by that boy Ling Yun.
This is wrong if you think about it. Ling Xiaozi was already a candidate four years ago. If he goes one step further, he will become a Jinshi. Jinshi?
Thinking of this, Li Chuan's pupils gradually dilated, and he carefully calculated this time. Although it was not the time to be selected as a Jinshi, it would be almost the same if he waited for the report to arrive at the imperial residence.
"Don't be impatient. The Ling family is right here. If it is really about the Ling family, then it is definitely a good thing. It is a huge good thing, and it is enough to change our Guangping Village."
After hearing this, the old man in the village asked, "Oh? Lao Li, what do you say? Could it be that the boy from the Ling family has become a high official?"
Li Chuan grinned and kept laughing. When the man asked, he didn't answer directly. Instead, he pretended to be mysterious and said, "Don't be anxious, just wait. It's a big happy event anyway."
Sure enough, as soon as Li Chuan finished speaking, the team walked towards Ling's house. The elementary school was not far below Ling's house, and they could see it clearly.
Seeing this, everyone gathered around, and Li Chuan was no exception. He would not miss this moment of witnessing a miracle no matter what.
When the procession of beating gongs and drums approached the Ling family, the Ling family had been waiting for a long time. The eldest son was holding Liang's hand, and Yang and others were waiting at the door.
When the gong-playing and drum-beating team reached the foot of the hillside, they heard someone in the team shouting loudly, "Congratulations to Mr. Ling Yun of the Ling family. Congratulations to Mr. Ling Yun of the Ling family. Congratulations to Mr. Ling Yun of the Ling family for being the number one scholar in the ninth year of high school."
"coax!"
As soon as these words came out, the whole audience was shocked.
The Ling family and the people of Guangping Village all looked at the visitor in disbelief. They couldn't imagine that Ling Yun had actually won the Jinshi, and he was the top scholar who was often said to be the most powerful one in the world.
Then bursts of laughter could be heard, and everyone hugged each other and laughed heartily. Ling Yun won the top prize. This was a great joy for everyone in Guangping Village. It marked that their small village had a great success. A well-known big shot.
Ling Yun won the prize, and a banquet was held for three days in Guangping Village. This time he won the first prize. Everyone discussed that the banquet should be held for a week, and the Ling family naturally had no objection.
They are now different from what they used to be. Whether it is status or money, they are the most noble beings in Guangping Village.
When the No. 1 Scholar poster was hung in the lobby of the Ling family courtyard, everyone wanted to go in to see it, observe it, and feel happy.
It is worth mentioning that Mrs. Yang actually won the title of Madam of Imperial Order. She was the first peasant woman in Lingshan County or Anzhou Prefecture to receive this title.
This makes all the women in Guangping Village and Lingshan County envious, especially those with children, who are even more determined to take the imperial examination for their children.
Take Guangping Village as an example. Because there is a primary school, you can go to school for free. If the children of that family do not go to school, they will be chased from the east to the west of the village by their mother or elders carrying sticks.
This phenomenon is not accidental. As long as people pay attention and observe carefully, they will inevitably find that in order to let the children concentrate on their studies, the elders of Guangping Village do everything they can.
Also, when Ling Dashan was alive, none of his sisters had ever been married. When the news of Ling Yun's first prize came out, the Ling family inexplicably gained several more relatives.
As for whether it is true or not, we don't know. Anyway, the situation of the Ling family is that relatives come to visit from time to time.
As the saying goes, if you are poor in the busy city, no one cares about you, but if you are rich in the mountains, you have distant relatives. If you don't believe it, just look at the wine at the banquet, and drink to the rich first. There is a high-headed horse tied in front of the door. Even if you come in person, you are still close.
Although these relatives are visiting, they will not affect the normal life of the Ling family. If they cause the Ling family the slightest dissatisfaction, the villagers of Guangping Village will involuntarily kick them out of the village without the Ling family opening their mouths. .
If those people do not repent and continue to pester the Ling family, they will be blacklisted in Guangping Village. The villagers will come forward and block the entrance of the village, preventing them from entering.
Seven days of running water mats in the Ling family have passed by in a flash. The happiest people these days are undoubtedly the children in the village, especially the children who go to school, because they have been eating mats for these seven days and do not need to go to school at all.
As a result, these children were particularly grateful to Ling Yun and felt that Ling Yun was their savior. Among them, there were some eccentric children who took it upon themselves to pay homage to Ling Yun's portrait.
They kept talking about letting him win the first prize a few more times, so that they would not have to go to school, and thus they would not have to be punished by the Master.
If Ling Yun were to see this scene, I don’t know how he would feel!
[Author's digression]: (To explain, these two days are a chapter of 3,000 words)
Note: Regarding the fact that Ling Yun won the top prize, I originally wanted to write about the current situation of the Ling family in detail, but everyone seems to want to see Ling Yun, so I’ll stop here!!!
If there is anyone you want to see in the end, I will write a sequel!
We will return to the capital next, and let’s wait and see what kind of storm Ling Yun will stir up!
This chapter has been completed!