Red Mansion Jia Lan: Do you want to run away tonight to visit your relatives? Chapter 38: Meeting a senior student and lamenting about the examination room. The good news comes with a small list
Chapter 38: Meeting a senior student and lamenting about the examination room. The good news comes with a small list
After Cheng Keyei left, the noisy crowd turned their attention back to this ranking.
"Jingu Academy is worthy of being number one in Shenjing, with the largest number of people on both the big and small lists."
Jia Lan listened to the discussions of the people around him while looking for Qin Zhong.
"Congratulations, Mr. Jia!"
A man in a green robe with a round collar appeared in front of Jia Lan and looked at him with a smile on his face.
Jia Lan smiled and said: "Senior Qian, you are making fun of Lan again. May I ask why you are so happy?"
"Why, you haven't seen the list yet?" The scribe named Senior Qian was slightly startled, pointing to the hall and asked.
"Looking at it, there is not even a shadow, but it is the name of senior Qian Xisheng, ranked sixth on the big list. There is definitely a hope for this subject!"
Qian Xisheng looked at Jia Lan strangely: "Did you really see it?"
Jia Lan was scratching his head when Qin Zhong ran over with a happy face: "Brother Lan, you are on the list!"
"Huh?" Jia Lan pointed at himself. When Qin Zhong nodded, he laughed and said, "How is that possible? I obviously saw it...no!"
He suddenly remembered that he seemed to have only read two lists, and then he was interrupted by Fan Sheng. Later he met Cheng Kewei, and in the end he actually forgot that there was actually one list that he had not finished reading.
"Shiwen list?! I'm on the Shiwen list!?"
Qian Xisheng burst out laughing when he saw it: "I didn't expect Mr. Jia to be confused sometimes!"
Jia Lan also smiled and said: "Mr. Wu Ding is so handsome and charming that it is hard to leave him alone!"
This is so true. Qin Zhong came over at this time, chasing Jia Lan like a nymphomaniac and asking: "Brother Lan, I heard that Mr. Wu Ding also spoke to you, tell me quickly!" <
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"Oh?" Qian Xisheng was also interested when he heard the words, "Just now, the mountain leader called me to give instructions, but I didn't know that such an interesting thing would happen!"
Jia Lan then told the two about Fan Sheng's story. Qian Xisheng sighed and said: "The examination room is like a battlefield. Even Taibai's talented people have to submit a letter to recommend themselves, saying, 'Once you climb the Dragon Gate, your worth will be ten times that'."
How can one live without fame and fortune?"
"Yes, it's difficult!" Qin Zhong thought of himself from Fan Sheng, and sighed: "It's not easy to get rid of the obstacles..."
"Okay, okay, don't sigh. When other people see you and me sighing here, one big list and one small list, they might go crazy with anger!"
Jia Lan smiled and said, Fang Tangjing and others happened to be passing by at this time, and when they saw Qian Xisheng, they came over to greet him.
Fang Tangjing saw that Jia Lan was there and didn't want to come, but Qian Xisheng was not only a disciple of the mountain leader Li Xuanzhu, sixth on the list, he was also from the Qian family in Yuhang, and had a long history of nine hundred years since King Wusu of Wuyue in the Five Dynasties.
The prosperity has not declined. Although no one is in a high position, he has long been respected by his hometown. Especially when Taizu of the Xia Dynasty raised his army, he spent all his wealth to support Taizu. He did not ask for any rewards after the founding of the country. He only talked about what he did back then, just to rebuild China. Taizu even
In gratitude, I gave a plaque and issued an ancestral instruction to treat the Qian family well. Therefore, the Qian family does not have the status of princes, but they have the same status as princes.
"Senior Qian..."
Everyone was greeting one after another, and Fang Tangjing was walking in the front. He happened to hear the second half of Jia Lan's sentence and almost ran away immediately. Although he could guess that Jia Lan was not talking about him, now that he heard it, he still felt very angry.
After greeting each other and saying goodbye, Fang Tangjing couldn't help but said loudly: "Everyone, I heard that a new batch of Zuiqionglou's new wine has been introduced to the restaurant in the city. A certain person is the host. I invite you to sing to the wine today. If you don't get drunk, you will never return!" p>
"Thank you so much, Brother Fang!"
"Brother Fang is generous!"
[What a good man...Brother Fang, thank you! Drink more!]
Jia Lan looked at Fang Tangjing lovingly, feeling that this man was really a money-giving boy. He gave it once last time and again this time.
As the actual owner behind Zui Qiong Lou, he knows very well the price of Zui Qiong Lou’s wine. It is basically ten times that of ordinary wine on the market. Even if the alcohol content is high enough, at least one person must drink it to get drunk.
Four or five pots, this is worth a lot of money.
"By the way, the chief just called me to reprimand him, and he asked me to call you over. Haha, it's your turn." Qian Xisheng suddenly remembered something and looked at Jia Lan with evil intentions.
The mountain leader, Li Xuanzhu, has always been dignified. Even as a disciple, Qian Xisheng always panics every time he is summoned by his teacher alone.
"Senior, it wasn't you who harmed me, was it?"
Looking at his expression, Jia Lan couldn't imagine that he was being held in high esteem by the other party.
"Perhaps they framed me for some reason to make me guard against arrogance and impetuosity?"
Qian Xisheng chuckled and did not deny it. Jia Lan sighed and went alone.
But it was said that Fang Tangjing led people to the Yunlai Inn in Guancheng City, asked for a large booth, and cursed in his heart when the bartender quoted the price of Zuiqionglou wine.
[What a killer, twice as good as Shenjing!]
But in order to win over people's hearts, Fang Tangjing could only endure it no matter how painful it was.
Although the name of Yunlai Inn is ordinary, it really lives up to its name, and its guests come like clouds. As the largest wine shop and inn in Juyongguan City, there is an endless stream of businessmen coming and going. The inn has a front hall, an atrium, left and right side courtyards, and a rear courtyard.
The guest room area, plus the parking space for carriages and horses, occupies a slightly larger area than Diecui Academy.
Fang Tangjing took a sip of wine, and the strong alcohol rush to his forehead. With the drunkenness, he said bad things about Jia Lan and boasted about himself, and the atmosphere gradually became high.
"I don't deny that Jia Lan is indeed talented, but his poetic talent is mediocre. He is just a middle-class person. It is often said in the market that his poetic talent is not inferior to that of the former Ming Xia Lingshou. From my perspective, his poetic talent is not inferior to that of Ming Xia Lingshou.
It is nothing more than buying a reputation for his works. For a wealthy family like the Jia family, it is not difficult to hire a few gentlemen to work together to publish a book called "Sound Rhythm". As for the poems written by Jia Lan, which are often rumored, they are just based on names.
That’s all.”
Fang Tangjing was so angry because he blamed all his failure in the examination on the fraud of the ancient imperial examination.
It is true that as long as there is a system, there must be loopholes. Even in later generations with advanced technology, various methods are emerging in endlessly, let alone the era of Red Mansions?
The Xia Dynasty thought deeply about the shortcomings of the previous dynasty and set iron rules for vicious incidents such as buying joints and exchanging papers. Once discovered, they would never tolerate it and it would be valid for life. Some officials were reported ten years later and were still dismissed according to the law.
Coupled with the ubiquity of embroidered clothing guards, ordinary officials did not dare to be too blatant and effectively suppressed this evil.
Fang Tang Jing undoubtedly regarded the Jialanjia Mansion as the leader of Qin Hui and Zhang Juzheng, and used his power to interfere in the imperial examination.
There were all frustrated children present, and they all had similar negative emotions, so Fang Tangjing got excited again.
But I heard the storyteller’s thick and clear voice coming from under the stall in the atrium.
"Dear guests, today the rankings of the major academies in Shenjing were announced. Our Diecui Academy in Guancheng City also has two students, one senior and one junior, on the list. One of them is from Yuhang Qian's family.
Xi Sheng, this person..."
The storyteller listed Qian Xisheng's glorious history in detail, "So he is ranked sixth, and he really deserves it."
But I heard him change the subject, "But there is another person. Although this person is young, his academic ability cannot be underestimated. Do you know who I am talking about?"
"Who else can it be? Of course it's the academy's small case manager, Mr. Lan from the Jia Mansion!" someone shouted from the attic next to him.
The storyteller cupped his hands and said: "My guest has clearly seen that the person I am talking about is Mr. Lan of the Jia Mansion. Although the head of the case is young, his writing skills are very profound..."
This person really has some skills. Not only did he recite Jia Lan Yue Kao's composition without hesitation, but he also explained it word for word. It is obvious that he is not an ordinary storyteller, and he obviously has the skill of meditating for many years. p>