In order to celebrate his uncle's passing the Jinshi examination, Song Ziling took out the last bit of beef fried sauce at noon and mixed the rice with Lin Chen and Lin Buyu.
Mei Zhu Girls' School
When Song Ziyu entered the girls' school today, she found many noble girls greeting her with a smile.
Wei Lanzhi, the second daughter of Wei Guogong's Mansion in Meiban, invited her to have tea at Wei Guogong's Mansion after school. Naturally, Song Ziyu did not refuse and went happily. The tea had not even started yet! Wei Lanzhi asked about her uncle.
After drinking tea for an hour at Duke Wei's mansion, Song Ziling also understood that Wei Lanzhi wanted to be her aunt.
There are also those noble ladies who usually don't even look at her when they see her, but today they greet her enthusiastically. They greet her because of their uncle, and they all want to be her aunt.
She just wants to be friends, sisters, and besties with them, but they just want to be her aunt.
This feeling makes Song Ziyu very uncomfortable, because the ladies who are friends with her are either because of her uncle or her mother, or they use her as a scapegoat. No one really wants to be with Song Ziyu.
People make friends.
Song Ziyu and the other girls were taking a break from school that day. Mrs. Liu also heard that Shen Ming was promising. Not only was he a Jinshi, but he was also ranked first, so he asked Song Ziyu to visit her uncle.
"I'm not going." Song Ziyu, who was still giving Liu a shoulder, pouted and turned away.
"Why don't you go? That's your biological uncle, and you don't want to see your mother?" Although Ms. Liu was quite dissatisfied with Shen Wan and Li, she thought that it was the Song family that was sorry for her, so why not?
Dissatisfaction can be ignored.
Song Ziyu thought about what she had said to her uncle before. Now that he had won the Jinshi, she naturally had no shame to see him. Moreover, if she went now, she would still have the feeling of currying favor with her uncle because of his future prospects.
, she doesn’t want to go!
Besides, her mother was the one who wanted to move out of the General's Mansion, so why did she want to see her? Although she asked herself to go with her, why should she let the eldest lady of the General's Mansion not follow her!
Song Ziyu bit her lip and said, "I just won't go anyway."
Mrs. Liu shook her head and said: "Forget it, if you don't want to go, then don't go!"
After saying that, Mrs. Liu looked out the window and said, "Why hasn't your father come back yet?"
On the day of the palace examination, Shen Ming got up early. After burning incense and bathing, he ate some breakfast and took a carriage to the palace.
In the Jinluan Hall, Xuanyuan Yu was sitting on a high seat, looking at the Jinshi below who were writing strategies.
After scanning a circle, his eyes fell on a young man in Tsing Yi sitting in the middle. The young man's back was straight and he was holding a brush in his hand. He was writing the decree calmly and calmly,
Those eyebrows and eyebrows look a bit familiar.
He waved to the prince standing aside and motioned for him to come forward.
"Your Majesty," the prince called in a low voice.
Xuanyuan Yu pointed at Shen Ming but did not speak.
The prince leaned over and whispered softly: "That is Chunwei's number one Shen Ming."
Xuanyuan Yu nodded and waved his hand to the prince, who stepped aside again.
It turned out to be Shen Wan's younger brother. He said that his features looked familiar! He also knew that Chunwei's number one was Shen Wan's younger brother, but he didn't know what Shen Ming looked like.
This palace examination requires these students who have won the Jinshi to write a policy essay within the time of two sticks of incense. Writing a policy essay in front of the emperor not only tests the true talents and learning of these Jinshi, but also their psychological quality.
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There were a few Jinshi who were not mentally well-educated, and their hand holding the pen was shaking. Although they managed to write an article, the words were so crooked that even they did not dare to look directly at them.
There was also a timid one who just burned one stick of incense and passed away.
With a look of disgust on his face, Xuanyuan Yu had people drag him down and revoked his title of Jinshi. Such a cowardly person had no qualifications to serve as an official in the court.
After the two sticks of incense were burned out, the father-in-law in the palace collected the strategies written by the Jinshi. They distributed them to the Hanlin Academy academicians and several cabinet ministers to read. The ministers exchanged and read them, and then kept the good ones. Let the emperor see it.
During this period of time, the Jinshi were sitting in their seats waiting.
Hanlin scholars and cabinet ministers compiled the ten policy papers they thought were best in order of their ranking and presented them to the emperor.
Xuanyuan Yu smiled when he saw the strategy at the top, with the word "Shen Ming" written on it. Then, he read it very attentively.
After reading all ten policy papers, Xuanyuan Yu had already made a decision in his mind. Except for the second place that was a little different from the ministers', the rest basically remained unchanged.
Two hours later, Shen Ming, wearing the No. 1 Scholar uniform and No. 1 Scholar hat, appeared on the street riding a tall horse with a bouquet on its head, and the No. 3 pick and No. 2 pick, both appointed by the emperor.
This is the tradition of the Dongchen Kingdom. The top pick, the second pick, and the top pick are all paraded through the streets.
"Ah, it's Mr. Shen."
"Look! I said Mr. Shen is definitely the number one scholar."
"This champion is truly a talented person!"
"Shen Zhuangyuan, look at me..."
Many girls on the street waved their handkerchiefs at Shen Ming. Some of the bold ones even followed the horse and threw purses at Shen Ming, but Shen Ming didn't catch any of them.
After the tour, Shen Ming returned to Izumo Villa under the escort of official officials.
When Shen Wan saw that her younger brother had won the first prize, she was so happy that she asked Qiu Ju to give him a reward of one hundred taels of silver.
Of course, she also sprinkled wedding money to the servants and long-term workers as usual, so that they were also happy.
Shen Wan originally wanted to hold a big banquet the next day and invite some people to celebrate. But Shen Ming was going to attend the Qionglin Banquet the next day, so she scheduled the banquet for the third day and invited some friends to go there in advance. Posted.
However, she and Shen Ming didn't have many friends in the imperial city, so they only set up two tables.
On the morning of the third day, these people arrived at Izumo Villa one after another. Among them were Princess Ren and Princess Liufang, Mr. Yun and Yun Qingyang, as well as several friends of Shen Ming, and Li Li from the same county as him. Anyang was among them, and shopkeeper Zhao from Zhaixing Tower also came with congratulatory gifts.
Since there were both men and women, Shen Wan arranged a table for the women and a table for the men.
When the banquet was about to begin, Shen Wan saw that Murong Li hadn't come yet, so she pulled shopkeeper Zhao aside and asked, "Why is the Marquis not here?" She remembered that she had sent someone to Anding Marquis to deliver the post.
Shopkeeper Zhao glanced at Shen Wan and said, "Don't you know, Madam? The Marquis has left the imperial city to go out for fun." The Marquis has been gone for several days, and he probably hasn't seen her post yet.
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"Where did you go for fun?" Shen Wan asked again.
Shopkeeper Zhao shook his head and said, "I don't know. He only said he wanted to go out for fun. He didn't say where he was going. He also said he would be back in two months."
The Marquis was in poor health, so he also advised him not to go out for fun and just look at the mountains and rivers outside the city. But the Marquis said that he wanted to say that he was still alive and had a look at the great rivers and mountains in Dongchen. He locked himself in the room and grew moldy. Seeing that the Marquis had made up his mind, he stopped trying to persuade him.
Although Shen Wan was a little worried, she still nodded and said, "It's good to go out for a sightseeing tour and see the scenery."
Didn’t doctors also say that maintaining a happy and relaxed mood is better for physical and mental health?
Shen Ming and Lu Wenqing dined with Mr. Yun and the others in the main hall, while Shen Wan and Ling'er dined with Princess Ren and Princess Liufang in the side hall.
Princess Ni was very satisfied with the cooking skills of the cook at Izumo Villa, and she would praise every dish she ate.
"My cook in the palace is still a royal cook from the palace, but his skills are not as good as yours."
Today's dishes were all prepared by Qiu Ju, and the cook just helped her.
Shen Wan smiled and said: "Actually, it's not that my cook is better than Yu Chu. It's just that these dishes are things you haven't eaten before, Princess. It's the first time you eat them and they are naturally fresh, so you feel they are better than those made by your cook." The food is delicious.”
Princess Ren thought for a while and said with a smile: "What you said makes sense."
"By the way, why didn't the young prince come?" Shen Wan looked at Princess Ren and asked. Logically speaking, she and the young prince were also friends, so he should come too.
"He's not here. He took people to Muyun City. It happened two days ago."
"Muyun City?" Shen Wan thought for a moment, then frowned and asked, "Isn't Song Heng already gone? What is the young prince going to do?"
Could it be that the bandits were so powerful that Song Heng and his two thousand elite soldiers couldn't wipe them out, so they asked Prince Yun to come to support them?
Princess Ren shook her head, "I don't know. I asked him, but he didn't say anything. He just said he would go and come back. I guess it's for the purpose of suppressing bandits!"
For no reason, Shen Wan suddenly felt flustered and her face turned pale.
"Mrs. Shen, are you okay?" Seeing her change of expression, Princess Liufang asked quickly, fearing that she had an upset stomach. But it was hard for her to ask, did she have an upset stomach? Because her mother-in-law didn't know that Shen Madam is pregnant.
Shen Wan took a deep breath, her panic disappeared, she shook her head and said, "I'm fine, let's eat some food!"
This meal was tasteless to Shen Wan because he always felt that it was unusual for Little Prince Yun to go to Muyun City.
After dinner, Shen Wan went to the garden with Princess Ren and Princess Liufang, while Shen Ming took Mr. Yun and the others to Tingfeng Pavilion to drink tea and talk about poetry and practical matters. Three of Shen Ming's friends were awarded Jinshi , they are all people who are about to enter the official career. Although Yun Yi is not in the officialdom, he also knows the ways of the officialdom, so he took the opportunity to teach Shen Ming and others.
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