Please sign for your missing male ticket [Liao Zhai]

25

Although Zhang Suhua's letter of reconciliation has been delivered, brother Tang cannot release the news of his separation from Zhang Suhua on the second day of their wedding.We met with Liu Ziqian to discuss and discuss, and set the time to announce this matter in half a year.

When Liu Ziqian saw the letter from He Li, he did not question the necessity of the strategy of pulling Zhao Qi and Yi Han Qi like I did. Instead, he and Brother Tang vividly interpreted how Zhang Suhua forced each other to die, Only then did Zhang's father, who realized something was wrong, stop the idea of ​​sending Zhang Suhua to Mao's house.

In Liu Ziqian's words, if it hadn't been for such a trouble, I would have felt sorry for my brother.

…If you can say this sentence to imply that your brother is going to cuckold him, you are already very sorry for your brother.

The above are all off topic.

After Brother Tang failed the entrance examination four times, Brother Tang, who passed the entrance examination for children for the fifth time, finally passed the entrance examination and won the top spot in one fell swoop.And now, brother Tang and I are on our way to the rural examination.

Looking at the wooden sign on the outside of the restaurant that reads "Free food and drink for all test takers" and a skinny old man standing next to the sign with a bitter face, I feel that today's noon meal is settled.

When the old man saw Brother Tang and I walking towards him, his already drooping eyelids drooped even more.He walked a few steps towards brother Tang and me, as if he wanted to say something to us, but at this moment, someone came out of the restaurant, and the old man saw that person, so he didn't bother to talk to us. He just waved his hand, which meant to let the two of us go in.

Brother Tang and I nodded our thanks to the old man and entered the restaurant. When we passed by the old man, we heard the old man say to the person who was leaving: "Your Excellency, you will know Yuan from now on, don't forget the little old man."

...Is this casting a wide net and catching more fish?

The restaurant is not big, just a place with a square of five meters, and there are dozens of wooden tables crowded with dozens of people.Acquaintances and unknown scholars sat at a table, and the topics of conversation were similar—this old man was also picky.

Looking at the three dishes and a pot of wine served by the waiter in the shop, I also have the desire to join this topic.

Three dishes, a plate of scrambled tofu with scallions and a plate of blanched cabbage, the only one with a little bit of meat is the plate of scrambled eggs with leeks. You have to search through the pile of leeks carefully to find some scrambled eggs with leeks.As for the jug of wine, it is a serious water wine, and you have to taste it carefully to get a taste of the wine.

...Why on earth does this old man insist on treating us to such a meal.

After picking up the dishes in front of me with a few chopsticks, I called the waiter and wanted to spend some money to order some meat dishes.But the waiter in the shop was quite embarrassed and pointed to the sign on the outside of the restaurant, and said: "The shopkeeper said, it's free." It means that he can neither take my money nor serve me meat dishes for free.

The waiter in the shop made it so clear that I couldn't make it difficult for him, so I had to give him some coins and let him do his own work.Xiao Er took the copper coin to thank him, but he was not in a hurry to leave. He sat down on the vacant seat, covered his mouth with his voice suppressed, and told Brother Tang and me why the shopkeeper invited this passing candidate to dinner. .

"It is said that I had a dream." The waiter in the shop moved forward mysteriously, and lowered his already low volume a little, "A god entrusted the shopkeeper with a dream, saying that among the scholars who came today There will be someone who can get Jie Yuan, and that Jie Yuan will save the shopkeeper's life in the future."

I looked at the pale dishes and repeated: "Save his life."

The waiter in the shop laughed a little, and then said: "The god told the shopkeeper in his dream why the name of the person who could pass the test of Jieyuan was, but as soon as he woke up, he forgot the name of that person, and only remembered about it. That's how it happened. So when the shopkeeper made the calculations, he thought about using the cost of a banquet to prepare as many banquets as possible."

...It is also difficult to be a cook.

The shop waiter was not satisfied after finishing speaking, he winked at the shopkeeper, and whispered: "We all call him Lao Di."

The shopkeeper seemed to have heard the shop waiter's entertainment, and turned around to visit the shop.The shop clerk stood up from his seat with a wink before the shopkeeper saw him doing foreign work. He took out the rag tied around his waist and pretended to wipe the table a few times, then turned around and entered the back kitchen.

Only Brother Tang and I were left on the table again. While I was listening to the shop waiter chatting, Brother Tang had picked out all the eggs from the leeks and eggs and piled them in front of me, while he was slowly picking up the leeks in front of him. eat.

Looking at the leeks falling in front of Brother Tang, I silently dropped the blanched cabbage and leek eggs.

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When brother Tang and I left, we also received blessings from the shopkeeper.At this time, the shopkeeper's expression finally looked a little better than when he welcomed us into the door.

It's still those high schools in the future, don't forget what he said.Breathing out the smell of leeks, I said to the shopkeeper, "For this meal, we will never forget you."

The shopkeeper didn't understand what I meant, so he said a few words in a row, and then said to the young man walking behind us: "Your Excellency will pass the exam in the future..."

Before the shopkeeper finished speaking, he was interrupted by the boy. "You said I would pass the Jieyuan exam?"

"This..." The shopkeeper thought about the words for a moment, and said, "It may be very large."

"It's not huge, it's inevitable."

As the boy spoke, he tossed a piece of silver, which just fell into the hands of the shopkeeper.As soon as the shopkeeper received the money, he wanted to return the money to the young man, but the young man had already walked a few steps, and only raised his voice: "If you don't pay for this kind of food, you are still poor."

Hearing this, the expressions of the shopkeeper and the few people who had just walked out of the restaurant changed.Those people took out the silver and put it in the shopkeeper's outstretched hand with a serious face, and in the restaurant, the sound of money falling on the table was heard one after another.

When the shopkeeper heard the sound, cold sweat broke out on his face, and he didn't have time to take care of the young man who caused the disturbance, so the shopkeeper wiped his face and went to appease the diners in the shop.

Youth may be vigorous, but the actions of that person can no longer be explained by youthful vigor.Even if the shopkeeper's free move was impure, in the final analysis, he just wanted to save his own life.What the young man did can be said to have cut off the shopkeeper's livelihood.

Looking at the boy's back as he walked further and further away, I thought to myself, let's see the truth in the examination room.

Hmm...Brother Tang and you, we learned the truth in the examination room.

27

There are three township examinations, each lasting three days.

Squeezed in the middle of the crowd waiting for brother Tang to leave the tribute courtyard, I had the illusion of picking my son out of the college entrance examination room.

There were three games in a row, and the first one to come out in each game was the boy he had seen in the restaurant.Same as the previous two times, as soon as the boy left the tribute courtyard, he was surrounded by three layers of people guarding outside the tribute courtyard and asked what the exam questions were.The young man also cooperated. Every time he was asked, he would not only tell the test questions, but also tell the top, middle and bottom of each test question.

Among the people who listened to the young man explaining the problem, apart from those who were waiting for their relatives and friends to leave the tribute courtyard, there were also a few people wearing jade-colored blouses, which showed that they themselves, like the young man, were all scholars.Just from the way those few people kept nodding their heads when listening to the young man's words, it can be seen that although the young man is arrogant, he does have the capital to rely on his talents.

When the young man was lecturing, more than a dozen candidates had already come out of the tribute courtyard, and the crowd around the young man immediately increased.The young man raised his eyes and looked at the people in the outermost circle, snorted lightly, and changed the order of the explanation of the current affairs policy theory, starting from the last idea of ​​breaking the topic.

Among the candidates who had just appeared on the stage, it was obvious that a person in his forties had used what the young man said to be the last-class way of solving the problem.Hearing the last word "failed" from the young man, the man staggered and was about to fall, but fortunately he was helped by brother Tang who was walking to him, so he didn't fall to the ground on the spot.The man supported Brother Tang's arm to stand firm, and pushed the people in front of him to squeeze in. While squeezing, he shouted: "No hit? Why do you yellow-mouthed kid talk nonsense from there!"

The young man heard the man's words but ignored him, and continued to talk about the middle-level problem-solving ideas on his own.After the boy said a few words, the shouting person collapsed his shoulders, silenced and squeezed out of the crowd.

Not even close.The gap between the middle and the lowest grades is so big that someone like me, who can't even pass the exam as a scholar, can hear it, let alone a middle-aged person.

After the boy finished talking about this idea of ​​solving the problem, the judgment he gave was "acceptable".

When two people heard the judgment given by the young man, their faces immediately became happy, and they didn't hear anyone who matched their thinking in solving the problem in the middle class, so they held their breaths and waited for the young man to say the top class. train of thought.

——Everyone seemed to regard this young man as the chief examiner.

The young man obviously enjoyed the feeling of being the focus of everyone. He looked around, and after getting enough airs, he slowly said what he called a superior idea.But this time, the juvenile's judgment is "under Xie Yuan and above Yakui".In other words, those who can answer in this way of thinking will be among the top five in this township examination. As for who the No. 1 belongs to, it is self-evident.

Among the examinees surrounding the young man, obviously none of them used the superior thinking that the young man said.Those people were complacent because they didn't hear the same content as their own ideas to solve the problem in the last and middle classes. When the young man said the superior idea, the group of people who were secretly delighted were dumbfounded .

One person raised his voice and asked loudly: "If you break the problem and think about it, what if you don't belong to the three classes?"

"How?" The young man looked at the person who called out, the contempt in his eyes showed without any concealment, "If you are not in this, you will not be eligible for the exam in this life, so you should stop wasting time on this book. "

In a word, the faces of the candidates who spoke directly changed.

I poked Brother Tang's waist and asked, "You use the best thinking?"

"What he said was high-class, but it was just low-class."

Brother Tang said as he grabbed my mischievous finger and put it to his mouth as if to bite, while I pulled my finger back.While the commotion was in full swing, the young man had already crossed the crowd and walked in front of Brother Tang.

"Lu Yan, Lu Xiliu."

"Mao Ji, Mao Weizhi."

Lu Yan glanced at my finger that was still held by brother Tang, and said, "See you on the Guibang."