A scholar becomes a landlord

Naturally, the emperor became a puffer fish again after reading the letter, but in terms of lip service, he is really not as good as Wei Le, so this dark loss can only be eaten.

Just in time, Xiaoxue sent a new chrysanthemum cake. This is a new taste that the two sisters tried. The crust of the cake is made of chrysanthemum and flour, but the filling is made of crab roe. Added ginger in it.But the taste of ginger was a bit spicy, so they tried every means to mask the taste of ginger, and the new chrysanthemum cakes they made tasted really good, Wei Le decided to eat them as snacks these days.

"Give me a few for the young master, it's really delicious."

Wei Le waved his hand, indicating that the two of them did a good job.

"Butler Jin, reward two people with five taels of silver each. In the future, we can invent more things like this. Even if our craftsmanship is not as good as that of the imperial chef, we still have our strengths. I want to make the emperor envious."

The stingy Wei Le remembered the fact that the emperor deliberately wrote a letter to covet him, and in the letter he praised and praised the skills of the royal cooks, so Wei Le hated him.

Later, he will write a letter to the emperor to write about the new chrysanthemum cake, and he will also be greedy for the emperor.And decided not to send the new chrysanthemum cake to the emperor for this year's Double Ninth Festival, which made him mad.

"Hee~ Yes, thank you, young master."

Xiaoxue covered her mouth and snickered, their young master, sometimes he is really childish!

However, Xiaoxue also hopes to improve her skills, not to mention surpassing the imperial doctor, it must be more difficult.After all, what they learned were the imperial cuisine recipes accumulated by many generations of royal families. What they learned were only some ordinary home-cooked dishes. There is no comparison between the two.But in terms of making pasta, they can occasionally make dim sum that amazes the royal chefs.

So through the emperor, the two parties sometimes exchanged ideas on making dim sum, and Da Xue got a lot of dim sum recipes.Although some ingredients were not available due to geographical and conditional constraints, the two sisters also came up with substitutes, and the dim sum they made turned out to be very tasty, which shows that they are really talented in this area.

It's a pity that the two of them couldn't enter the palace, otherwise several royal chefs expressed their desire to take them as apprentices!

After reading the letter, Wei Le typed back directly, saying that Xiaoxue of his family would not be an apprentice.If you want to take them as disciples, if you have the ability to come out on your own, Xiaoxue will not enter the palace!

The imperial chefs who can contact Xiaoxue are all the emperor's cronies, and their mouths are tighter than anything else.So although I am not very clear about Wei Le's matter, I also know that their emperor's master has a long-forgotten friend, and the relationship between these two people who are not equal in status is very good, and they often quarrel in letters. , making those around you helpless.

They even picked out some secret recipes from the royal family and asked them to write them down and give them to the other party. This is because they really regard the other party as a close friend, so they will share the recipes, and even quarrel with ordinary people in the letter.

However, when Wei Le said that they should go out of the palace to accept apprentices, there was an imperial chef in his heart. He would leave the palace in less than two years at his age. is good.

As for the apprentices accepted in the palace, they are for inheritance, not like Xiaoxue who is his closed disciple.And when they left the palace, they probably would have already become a cup of loess, and there was no one to collect the corpse.So the old chef secretly made a decision in his heart. When he came out of the palace, he would scare a group of people, but in the end everyone was happy, especially Wei Fan, a super foodie, even bought a few firecrackers and set them up outside. .

Of course, these are things for later, let's focus on the present now!

Wei Le took part in the imperial examination, although he did not write to Master Liu and the emperor, both of them knew that he would end this year, so naturally they sent people to guard this place early, and Wei Le left the examination room The news was sent to the capital.

This time the emperor sent the most impartial and well-educated examiner to Wei Le and their province to invigilate the exam, fearing that someone would play tricks in private, jealous of the virtuous and make Wei Le fail the exam.

This kind of thing is not unheard of. People who are obviously well-educated fail the rankings, while those who are ignorant are miraculously selected. This kind of cheating in the examination room happens almost every few years, and the emperor is deeply touched. .That's why he also hated these people very much. For their own selfishness, many young talents failed the rankings, but he picked a group of useless trash for the court.

The emperor was afraid that such a thing would happen to Wei Le, so he picked the candidate again and again, and finally chose the current chief examiner.The chief examiner was indeed as fair and honest as the emperor knew. Although he knew about Wei Le, he didn't take any special care of him. He only showed appreciation when he read his articles. He has been ignoring the person who replaced Xie Yuan, and finally firmly assigned Xie Yuan to Wei Le.

Not to mention his identity, but with this talent Wei Zile is worthy of the title Xie Yuan.But it is this talent that really makes this adult admire. The article has something to say, and the words are extremely exquisite and gorgeous. What reason does he not give the other party a solution?The real purpose of the emperor's sending him to the examiner is very clear, he is just honest and not stupid.

When Master Liu was appointed as the chief examiner of this province, he never approached him in private, and even when they encountered him, he spoke normally, and he never asked him to take care of his disciples.

Perhaps Mr. Liu has confidence in his disciple, but more importantly, he has confidence in him, believing that he will be the chief examiner this time in a fair and honest manner.

In order to live up to the emperor's trust, the chief examiner was indeed fair. Although this time Qiu Wei couldn't be said to be 90.00% fair, it was more than [-]% fair, and only a few were tampered with secretly.He looked at it, and it was just a change in the ranking. In order not to cause these people to backlash, he had no choice but to acquiesce.Even if it is the last Juren, he is a Juren.

Wei Le had three people who came to announce the good news one after another, and Wei Le asked all the people who came to announce the good news to Butler Jin to reward them.

Xie Yuan~~ha, he never thought that he would be Jie Yuan, he just thought that the ranking should not be too low, but in the end he still underestimated himself.He didn't suspect that the examiner was covering himself up and giving him a good ranking, because the emperor had already told him in the letter that the examiner was a person who would not be soft and hard, and was very honest and honest, so he had reason to believe that he, Jie Yuan His identity came just right, without any trace of moisture.

Jieyuan is often the object of everyone's attention, and Wei Le is no exception.Many people came to congratulate, the banquet was set up one table after another, and the congratulatory gifts were also collected in the room.

When Wei Le saw these things, he stopped being annoyed and asked Steward Jin to deal with them.

Of course, Xie Xiucai, oh no, it was Xie Juren who came to greet him personally, and everyone else sent a housekeeper to give gifts, mainly because this place is too remote, and it is not easy for the other party to come in person.So these butlers left after putting down the gifts.

When the big families in the town came one by one in person, Wei Le only showed his face at the beginning, and asked Jin Steward and Yi Feng to entertain them, while he himself brought Xie Juren to drink tea and chat in the second courtyard For snacks, of course, Daxue and Xiaoxue sent a table to the second courtyard, and he accompanied a few people to use it.

The Xieju people knew that Wei Le was not in good health, so they didn't try to persuade him to drink, and most of their conversations were about literature.

Wei Le didn't mean to explain their misunderstanding. Anyway, although he is not short, about 1.8 meters, he looks really thin, and in addition to greeting a group of people today, his eyes are also slightly tired. It made Xie Juren misunderstand that his body has not recovered yet.

This kind of misunderstanding is beneficial to Wei Le for the time being, at least he doesn't have to worry about being persuaded to drink when he eats with others.To be honest, this wine table Wenhua really can't afford to hurt him, he really can't drink.

"Brother Wei, congratulations."

Xie Juren toasted to Wei Le.

"Happy together."

Wei Le used tea instead of wine, and all of them won the exam. Although Xie Xiucai and the others were very low in the rankings, they still won the exam anyway.

"Hey~ This time, thanks to you, Brother Wei, otherwise it would be another matter for the few of us to win the exam!"

Xie Juren and the others sighed, Wei Le raised an eyebrow, how could it have anything to do with him.

"A few of us were inspired by Brother Wei, and the last time we chatted, Brother Wei said that writing an essay should not just be gorgeous, but also have something to say? For this reason, the few of us personally learned about people's livelihood , just as it was mentioned in the article this time, a few of us won the election, but the ranking was too low."

Xie Juren was slightly embarrassed when they said this, after all, compared with Wei Le, Xie Yuan, their ranking was too low.That's why they didn't set up wine at home, but came to Wei Le to congratulate Wei Le.

The number of people can be said to be a juren, if the number of people admitted this time is a few fewer, they will have no chance of being named Juren.

"Hahahaha, why do I think it's the case! Doesn't it count as a juren when the ranking is low? No matter whether it is No.1 or the last, they are all juren, so why should they take it too seriously. I really feel embarrassed , Don’t you just work hard during the exam? You can settle down and study for a few more years to take the exam. Even if you don’t pass, it’s still an experience. Of course, everyone is happy if you pass~”

Wei Le knows that several people have the idea of ​​becoming an official, which is the idea of ​​all scholars in the world - except him.

In fact, it was quite surprising that these people were able to take the initiative to learn about people's livelihood and civil affairs, but this was also their fate, and what they planted resulted in what they had.If they can't let go of their identities as scholars to understand, they will naturally not have their share in Qiuwei this time, and probably won't have it in the future.

So everything they have gained now is due to their own efforts. Wei Le feels that these people are not useless, and they still have something to hand over.

It's just that he likes to be quiet, and an occasional gathering is okay, but he can't bear it if there are too many.

Fortunately, Xie Juren also knew that Wei Le liked to be quiet, so ordinary things would not bother him.

After eating and drinking, they stood up and said goodbye, Wei Le sent a carriage to take them back, and each of them gave them a basket of crabs, which made them very happy.

Even if they have no vision, they can see that this crab is big and fat, but it is a rarity!