"Thank you, Mr. Li, for your understanding." Zhu Pingan thanked Li Chunfang with his hands.
"Zihou and I don't need to be polite. The chief assistant is waiting for you inside. Come in quickly." Li Chunfang shook his head slightly and smiled.
Zhu Ping'an smiled slightly, bowed his hand to Li Chunfang again, then straightened up his appearance and walked into Yan Song's office room.
"Enter Zhu Ping'an as a junior student and pay homage to the Chief Assistant."
Zhu Ping'an walked into the room, and without saying a word, he bent down in the direction of where he was sitting and bowed in salute. He said he was a latecomer and had a respectful look on his face.
"Haha, Zi Hou is here, no need to be polite, please get up quickly." Yan Song, who was sitting upright, stood up with a gentle smile, his attitude was very kind, just like the grandfather next door.
"That's it, Zihou, why don't you get up quickly? We, Mr. Yan, admire young talents like you the most. Are you so polite that you are out of touch?"
Then, a strange but somewhat familiar voice sounded above Zhu Pingan's head, and then a pair of hands helped Zhu Pingan up.
Zhu Pingan stood up and then raised his head to look at everything in the room. The first thing that caught his eye was the kind-faced old man with white beard who stood up and walked up from the seat. He was none other than Chief Assistant Yan Song;
The middle-aged official with a serious Chinese character face is none other than Zhao Wenhua, who presided over the scientific examination in Yingtian back then, and is now the right minister of the Ministry of Industry and the chief envoy of the General Affairs Department.
"Thank you so much, Mr. Zhao." Zhu Ping'an bowed his hands to Yan Song and Zhao Wenhua and thanked them.
"Look at you, you are so polite as you talk." Zhao Wenhua held Zhu Pingan's hand, then turned to Zhu Pingan's shoulder and patted him, smiling and shaking his head.
"Okay, stop standing, let's sit down and talk. I am an old man, not like you young people."
Yan Song was very kind, smiled and teased, and waved to Zhu Ping'an and Zhao Wenhua to sit down and talk.
So the three of them took their seats separately, and Zhu Ping'an took the initiative to sit at the bottom of the table, sitting upright and half-full of the chair as a sign of respect.
"Actually, speaking of it, I can be considered Zihou's teacher." After sitting down, Zhao Wenhua said with a smile.
"Oh, Wenhua, how do you say this?" Yan Song was very interested in this, and asked with a smile while stroking his beard.
"Haha, my adoptive father didn't know something. The year before last, I was appointed as the academic officer of Nanzhili and was transferred to Sichuan. I took over as the academic officer of Nanzhili and presided over the provincial examination. It was also that year that Zihou went to Yingtian to take part in the provincial examination.
Speaking of which, the person who took the scientific test before the provincial examination was Zihou from the school I took the exam for." Zhao Wenhua explained with a smile.
It is no secret that Zhao Wenhua recognizes Yan Song as his adopted father. Everyone in the civil and military circles of the Manchu Dynasty knows this. Zhao Wenhua has long been accustomed to calling Yan Song his adopted father, and he does not feel any embarrassment. Yan Song is over eighty years old.
At this age, it’s enough to be my grandfather, let alone my father.
When Zhu Ping'an heard this, he was slightly startled. In fact, it was like this in general terms, but strictly speaking, it was not like what Zhao Wenhua said.
Zuoshi is the honorific title for the examiner of the provincial examination and the joint examination.
However, as the academic examiner, Zhao Wenhua only presided over the subject examination before the township examination. The examiner for the subsequent township examination was not Zhao Wenhua. The examiners at that time were Zhang Tao and Wang Da, both Hanlin bachelors. So strictly speaking, he
The teachers for the provincial examination were only two bachelors, Zhang Tao and Wang Da.
However, generally speaking, the scientific examination is also part of the provincial examination. Zhao Wenhua is the one who takes the examination and is considered a seat teacher.
Since Zhao Wenhua said this in front of Yan Song, and Yan Song looked happy to see it happen, Zhu Ping'an was not going to get into trouble at this time and engage in a teacher-student debate.
Take a seat, take a seat.
If there are too many lice, this one is not enough.
Counting this way, I have two tutors in the Yan Party. One is Yan Maoqing, who was the tutor during the joint examination, and the second one is barely considered the tutor during the provincial examination, Zhao Wenhua... Yan Maoqing is Yan Song's most capable general, and Zhao Wenhua is.
Yan Song's adopted son and capable general, both of them are the backbone of the Yan Party.
Haha, why do I feel that I am a young Yan Dang? Zhu Ping'an smiled silently in his heart.
However, in fact, Zhu Pingan also knew that because of the memorial to impeach Zhao Daying, everyone in the Yan Party would hate him to the core.
What seemed like Zhu Ping'an's long mental activity was actually only a second.
"What Mr. Zhao said is absolutely true. It's Ping'an who was rude. I hope he can atone for his sins. Student Zhu Ping'an has met with his master."
Zhu Ping'an raised his head and glanced at Zhao Wenhua and Yan Song, then smiled and apologized, then stood up from his seat, preparing to salute Zhao Wenhua.
"Look at you, I was just joking, but you took it seriously." Zhao Wenhua shook his head and smiled, and got up from his seat affectionately. Corporal Li Xian stretched out his hands to hold Zhu Pingan's arms, preventing Zhu Pingan from bowing down.
Big gift.
"Thanks to the great love of the teachers, the students got first-class scores in the subject test and were promoted to the provincial examination. Once a teacher, a lifelong teacher, how can the students dare to forget it."
Although he was stopped by Zhao Wenhua, Zhu Ping'an still made a gesture of saluting, said something that was against his will, and had a serious look on his face. To anyone who looked at him, he looked like a good student.
"You, it's enough to have this intention, why bother to stick to these etiquettes."
Zhao Wenhua said with a smile, and kindly pulled Zhu Pingan to the seat, pressed Zhu Pingan's shoulders, and asked Zhu Pingan to sit down, looking like a gentle teacher.
"Oh, there is also such a thing, why didn't Wen Hua mention it to me?" Yan Song picked up the tea cup, took a sip of tea, and looked at the two of them with interest.
"It's not the child's fault. The thing is, last year, I proposed to study in Nanzhili, and it happened to be the provincial examination. As the academic promotion officer, I presided over the subject examination. At that time, Zihou handed in his papers very early. When I first met Zihou, I thought
Who is such a young man? Who is the supervising student? I thought, I am afraid he has no real talent and learning. Because he was young, he thought that if he could write well, he would be given a second or third class.
Unexpectedly, when I saw the test paper submitted by Zihou, I was impressed and admired it. Seeing that Zihou was just a child, I couldn't help but feel doubtful, fearing that he would know the answer to the test question early, so he asked another question on the spot to test the test.
thick."
Zhao Wenhua stood up, picked up the teapot and refilled the tea for Yan Song, and slowly told Yan Song the scene of Zhu Ping'an's scientific examination.
After Zhao Wenhua poured tea for Yan Song, he came to Zhu Pingan with a teapot. Zhu Pingan quickly got up, took the teapot from Zhao Wenhua, filled it with tea for Zhao Wenhua, and then poured himself a cup of tea.
"Oh, what question did you ask?" Yan Song asked.
"What's wrong with this?" Zhao Wenhua replied.
"Wenhua, you are trying to be difficult on purpose." Yan Song smiled and shook his head. Yan Song was very familiar with the imperial examination. The imperial examination was just a formality, and the question asked by Zhao Wenhua was too difficult.
"My adoptive father wrongly blamed me. At that time, Zihou's test papers were too good, and he was only thirteen years old. I was also curious about his talent, so I took the test. If the test papers were really written by him, the general questions would not be as good as those of him.
Talent." Zhao Wenhua explained with a wry smile.
"Well, Zihou, how did you answer that time?" Yan Song nodded, looked at Zhu Pingan and asked.
"Looking back to Shoufu, Ping'an responded like this at that time. People in ancient times regarded this as etiquette, but I must follow it now, but it may not be consistent with ancient etiquette. People in ancient times regarded it as righteousness, but I must follow it now, but it may not be true.
It is consistent with the ancient meaning."
Fortunately, it was me who asked the question. If it had been anyone else, I would have forgotten the answer at that time. Zhu Pingan has a photographic memory, not to mention the questions he answered at that time. This kind of question is nothing to Zhu Pingan.
Regarding the difficulty, Zhu Pingan thought for a moment and then repeated the answer to Yan Song.
"Good." After hearing this, Yan Song stroked his beard and nodded appreciatively.