Chapter 259 After the Lu Ming Banquet

"Yoyou deer sings, eating wild apples, I have guests, playing zither and sing.

The sacred drum springs are the generals who carry the baskets. People like me, show me to walk around..."

The top five leaders of this year, after dancing the Kuixing dance, which won the pre-conference exam, the banquet came to an end for more than two hours. According to the rules, Shen Mo's lead singers in red silk sang the same song in unison, ending the Zhejiang Luming Banquet in the 34th year of Jiajing.

After the meeting, there were also souvenirs prepared by the province. Each person had a set of exquisitely crafted "Honeyday Cup Disk" with inscriptions on the bottom of the plate, marking the honor of the disciple. As the five people who danced the Kuixing dance this time, there was also a silver ink cartridge for gifts, which was also extremely exquisite. For Jie Yuanlang, the lead singer, there was a pen holder for Hetian jade.

Holding a lot of souvenirs after the meeting, I couldn't help but sigh in secret: 'It can be seen that all the past and present are the same.' But other candidates are not as indifferent as him. They hold them carefully and say, "I finally added a family heirloom to my family." The high and low things are the second. What is important is that the meaning of this thing is so glorious.

After bidding farewell to the examiner and all the staff, he followed the crowd silently and saw an old man wearing a cloth robes and white hair and beard walking by in front of the children. No one knew him and no one paid attention to him.

But after realizing silently, he put the things in Tao Yuchen's arms, followed the old man and walked towards the backyard.

The guards in the mansion knew him and did not stop him, so they let him follow the old man into the Yuemen Cave. Chen Mo then said, "Hengshan Gong, please stay." The old man was startled, and he looked back and laughed and scolded: "Duke Jie Yuan, are you going to scare me to death?"

Silent bowed respectfully and said with a smile: "Hello, you are old. I just saw you. I don't know if you want to reveal your identity, so I didn't ask for peace rashly. Please forgive me if you are happy."

The Hengshan Gong squinted his eyes and said a little depressedly: "I just went out just now, just to see if anyone knows me." He said, "As a result, no one knows me."

"Who in the world doesn't know you?" said silently: "Wen Zhengming, one of the four talents in Jiangnan, is a person that Hai Yu admires. You must report yourself on the spot to attract onlookers." This Hengshan Gong is Wen Zhengming. He was known together with Tang Bohu and others fifty years ago, and became famous in the world. However, the imperial examination was not smooth and he was unable to pass the exam. At the age of 54, he was recruited to Beijing for his famous calligraphy and painting and was appointed as a attendant in the Hanlin Academy.

He was only a scholar, but he had a talent and reputation far beyond the Jinshi. He was naturally envious and excluded by his colleagues in the Hanlin Academy and felt unhappy. Since the second year he arrived in Beijing, he submitted his resignation year after year. Finally, he resigned at the age of 57, returned to Beijing, sailed south, and settled back to Suzhou. Since then, he has devoted himself to poetry, calligraphy and painting, no longer seeking official career, and has sent himself to write and write, and has become more famous. Those who buy his calligraphy and paintings and call him to break through the door, claiming to be "written in the world."

After Hu Zongxian took office, he repeatedly asked for help, and explained his feelings and moved him to reason. Finally, he moved the old man to become a guest of the mansion, responsible for the Governor's office to communicate with the official documents.

The two met in the mansion. Wen Zhengming admired this talented and respectful junior and got along very well with him. So he asked directly: "What big thing has happened in the past two days?" Although he was fully prepared for the imperial examination, he still maintained a high level of attention to the court, especially the situation in Zhejiang, especially some unusual phenomena, and even more so... For example, Hu Zongxian's sudden absence from the Lu Ming Banquet seemed ordinary, but if he thought about it carefully, he might contain great changes, so he had to find out clearly.

"Big thing? What big thing can happen?" Wen Zhengming shook his head and smiled.

"Why didn't you see Hu Zhongcheng just now?" Chen Si asked softly.

"Oh," Wen Zhengming smiled and said, "It's just a small group of Japanese pirates appearing in the Beixin Pass area. Because it's too close to the provincial capital, Hu Zhongcheng was cautious and led his troops to clear it out."

"Are you a small group of Japanese pirates?" Chen whispered: "How many people?"

"It is said that more than a hundred are no more than two hundred at most." Wen Zhengming smiled discontently.

Silent nodded slowly, and he didn't take it seriously. After talking about the serious matter, the old man suddenly smiled and said, "I heard that you are going to marry my Yin family's granddaughter?"

He laughed silently and said, "You are so well-informed." Suddenly, he remembered the allusion that Chen Jing had told me a few years ago. Wen Zhengming praised Miss Yin as the number one beauty in Shaoxing. He couldn't help but smile and said, "I will go back to get engaged in two days. When the day is settled, I'll ask you to enjoy the treasures at that time."

Wen Zhengming laughed and said, "If you forget my wedding banquet, see that the old man won't scold your old father-in-law to death."

Before the silent eyes, the old father-in-law was holding two swords and quickly promised: "When you go back, you will write you first in the guest record, and you will definitely not forget it."

Wen Zhengming smiled and said, "That's about the same." He pulled him in to drink, but the six were still waiting outside, and silent could only refuse.

After coming out, Chen Jing asked the six people: "How is it? How many people agreed in the end?"

"Fifty-six, 80% of our Shaoxing Prefecture's students came to us." Wu Dui replied with a smile. There is another very important task to attend the Luming Banquet this time, which is to invite the students of the same year to participate in the teaching activities of Qionglin Club.

After all, Qionglin Club has already started its sign. When the seven people recruited each other before and after the banquet, most of them were willing to participate, and the remaining half were not here. They were also very sorry. They all said that they were absent because they had no choice but to attend, and they also promised to participate next time they had the chance.

After returning, representatives of scholars came over and said that they had already found a good place for Lingyin generation and asked Qionglin Society to provide guidance the next day.

Silently asked the representatives, "I wonder if everyone has any requirements?"

Several representatives said respectfully: "There is no other request, I just wait to listen to Mr. Xie Yuan, Mr. Qingteng, and all the talents on stage to teach."

At first, the seven were quite distracted, and they were quite distracted. Just talk about it. After all, Zhu Zi is familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics. When he reaches the forum, he can probably explain some meanings.

But when those representatives left, our seven sons of revival began to sweat coldly.

They suddenly realized that although they had read a lot of their books, they always sat in the audience and listened to others' lectures, but never taught others their questions in front of everyone. Not to mention that they were facing thousands of failed candidates - don't forget that those who could take the provincial examination were all scholars from thousands of people.

Imagine that in that grand scene, the scholars of this generation are all gathered together. And these "Chiefs" stand in front of everyone, and they should be talking freely; but unfortunately, under the burning gaze of thousands of young talents, they are panicked, "the feet are about to move and stagger, and they are stuttering, and they are at a loss, so they have to wait to make a big ugly in front of everyone!

Just imagine that at that time, thousands of pairs of scrutinized eyes will stare at themselves, which will scare the legs and feet of several people to their weakness.

Seeing that everyone was backing down, although they were silent, they still encouraged him: "We will practice it first today, and tomorrow we can only think that there are a thousand cabbages in the audience." He said in a deep voice: "This is the first test facing our Qionglin Society. Whether we can become famous in one go depends on this game. Whether we advance or retreat in the face of difficulties depends on you."

Everyone had to bite the bullet and agreed, and went back to their rooms to prepare the lecture draft. At night, the guards, book boys, housekeepers, cooks, maids and others in the villa were gathered in the yard, and they became listeners, and began to take turns standing on the table to give lectures.

I was the first to go up, and then I realized that being a teacher was not that simple... Even when I looked at the dozens of people in front of me, looking at their smiling eyes, he still felt dizzy. He had already thought about the words he had already thought about repeatedly in his belly, but he didn't know how to express them. He had completely lost the lotus that he usually talked.

‘It turns out that there is a need for drilling!’ said silently. Looking at the six people under the stage, he cheered himself up and said, ‘It’s all cabbage! OK, formal drilling!’

He took a deep breath and calmed down. After clearing his throat, the yard was silent. Silence finally began to speak the course he had thought about in advance. The personal soldiers and servants looked at Silence without blinking, listening very seriously.

In class, what a scholar's affairs are so sacred, and I can't get anything to listen to... Although it's much boring than a social show, I can't understand anything, but it's more rare! After so many years, I mentioned it to my grandson and said, "Grandpa, I've heard Mr. Jie Yuan's lectures back then. How glorious and proud!"

At first, he was quite unnatural in silence, and the speech was often stumbling, but fortunately, these listeners didn't pick on it and let him talk nonsense. After a while in this relaxed environment, he found some tricks, which were very useful!

So the speech later became smoother and smoother, and gradually entered a state of being as if no one was around; although it was not so scattered, what I learned in my heart finally came out like flowing water, without any obstacles!

When he finished speaking, Xu Wei was so proud of him that he praised him for a while, and then asked, "Let me tell me what the trick is!" Obviously, he had already recognized his teaching skills.

Silently wiped the sweat from his forehead and said exhausted: "Try to look up as much as possible. If you don't look at their eyes, you won't be nervous."

"Look up?" Everyone experienced it, "Isn't that arrogant?"
Chapter completed!