[Comprehensive myths and legends] The man with the fox, you are mighty and majestic

In any case, the day of the autumn exam is getting closer, and the candidates who used to come out in small groups to make friends at the literature club have also started to study behind closed doors.

There are three autumn exams, starting on the ninth day of August, and taking one subject every two days. After the exam, it happens to be the Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-]th.

At that time, no matter how well you do in the exam, you can still let the festive atmosphere and various entertainment and celebrations in Lintong City wash away the tiredness of the exam.

Although some people will say sourly behind their backs that scholars are all sour scholars, it is true that scholars have been respected from ancient times to the present.

In this era where learning requires a lot of capital, it is even more important to be able to read and read. Even a child from a poor family will have a better future than the same child just because he can know a few words.

In this era, knowledge is something more precious and rare than gold.

That being the case, one cannot blame those scholars who think they have achieved something in their studies to be complacent and pretentious.

Fortunately, the custom in Daqing is not that "everything is inferior, only education is high". The people of Daqing are more practical, scholars, farmers, businessmen, and as long as they are successful, they feel that they are worthy of respect.Even if it's just an outstanding character, it is respected by the public.

The aristocratic family had already been wiped out by the power-obsessed emperor in the previous dynasty. Although the emperor of the new dynasty came from the old aristocratic family, he did not encourage the emergence of a new aristocratic family.

The ass decides the head.

When sitting on the dragon chair, I naturally don't like those so-called aristocratic families with big airs, deep foundations, and far-reaching reputations.

Even the emperor can ignore it, in the eyes of the aristocratic family, it is a kind of performance that can reflect their nobility, but in the eyes of the emperor, it is death and slapping the emperor's face.

Therefore, even though the founding emperor of the dynasty was the last descendant of a great family that had fallen, he no longer allowed those new families that could hinder his government orders because of the change of status, and he did not even allow party disputes.

All emperors love power, but a smart emperor will express his love for power in another form. He throws capable people to do capable jobs, and if they do well, they will be promoted, and those who do not do well will be dismissed.

In the eyes of the emperor, all disciples and old officials belonged to his officials and talents. What are those so-called masters?

This is also the reason why the whole city was preaching loyalty to serve the country in order to serve the emperor's grace before the autumn test in Lintong City, and the dragon's heart was very happy.

The emperor was in his prime, just in his early thirties, when he was full of ambitions, he valued these talents who passed the imperial examination, so he wantonly rectified the examination room of the imperial examination.

The emperor is not willing to see good talents lost in vain because the examination room is too difficult.

In today's world, these students are all blessed. At least even the old scholars who have taken the exam many times will not hurt their bodies or even lose their lives.

It doesn't matter if you can't pass the imperial examination, there are still various specialized examinations waiting.

In short, today is a hero who descends talents in an eclectic manner, which is one of the reasons why the Daqing Dynasty has been peaceful until now.

But these are far away from Fan Zhou and his wife. They are following the local customs in an orderly manner to prepare various details for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In fact, if these things are handed over to Steward Hu, Steward Hu will naturally handle them properly.

It's just that the couple really didn't want to participate in some kind of banquet with the over-excited and even crazy scholars who just finished the exam and didn't release the results. They deliberately made an excuse.

Because everyone is a celebrity in Lintong City, especially after the exam period, the "Liao Zhai" teahouse and tea garden have started to stage various novel and interesting plays again, which opened the eyes of those scholars who came from afar. Deeply, I also saw many truths in the world from those stories.

Yin Shidan is also one of the scholars, and he also took the exam this time. Naturally, he got acquainted with the like-minded candidates and gained a lot of friends.

The newly made friends heard that Yin Shidan was very familiar with the "odd man" and his wife, and they all came to ask for introductions, postings, and invitations to participate in the literary conference.

Yin Shidan conveyed everything, but unfortunately the husband and wife were not interested.

The husband and wife can fight, so it's fine with the text. Fan Zhou can't even understand the simplest ancient Chinese, which is very embarrassing.

Liang Nan could understand it, but when it came to composing poems and fus, he had only heard about those sacrificial rites in the royal ancestral temple back then, so it would be strange if he could use them.

So I had to take the grounds that my ancestors have been at sea for many years, have lived as merchants for generations, and their education level is not high. They only know some legendary stories to make people laugh, and they dare not go to the elegant hall. Pushed all invitations.

Yin Shidan went back and talked to his friends, and they made sense when they heard it. Besides, they have degraded themselves to such a degree, and they flattered them very politely, forcing them to attend. If it is ugly, it is not making friends but making enemies.

Anyway, these guys are already die-hard fans of the "Liao Zhai" teahouse, and they go to spend every day, not afraid of not seeing the owner.

It’s not true that the couple just made an excuse to stop working. The two of them gave full play to the initiative of foodies at home, absorbed the nutrients of local food and their world food, and innovated where they were enthusiastically.

Seeing that the master was busy, a group of little fox monsters also tentatively joined in the fun.

This group of little fox monsters are also thoughtful. It is good to work in the house and have enough aura, but if they can get the master's favor and get a job or something, they will definitely get a raise. The future is of course better.So a few simply ran to the back kitchen of a famous restaurant to steal their masters, and with the help of spells, they got twice the result with half the effort.Now it is no longer Wu Xia Ameng, everyone can be a chef in a snack shop.

With these "divine assists", the couple successfully tinkered with various new mooncakes.

Snowy skin mooncakes, fruit filled mooncakes, egg yolk lotus seed paste mooncakes, not only the fillings are refurbished, but also the outer skin is specially made elegant and beautiful. Flower mooncakes and so on.

The couple also went to the countryside to do as the Romans do, and gave local officials, colleagues in the guild, and the large group of friends who made friends through Yin Shidan a different style of mooncake gift box with seasonal fresh fruits.

Afterwards, the property under the couple's name began to supply a dazzling variety of new mooncakes, as well as special packaging gift boxes of various grades, which can be freely selected and matched, but the price is of course imaginable.

The old guests of the supreme VIP naturally have small benefits, even if it is just a small and unique moon cake, it is enough to make people feel superior.

In short, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the couple not only made a lot of money, but their popularity improved a lot.

Especially when they went to the teahouse to give gifts to the old customers in person, those foreign candidates who had been curious about the couple finally saw the real person, and felt that they were as extraordinary as the rumors. The two appreciated each other.

To be able to come up with such elegant snacks, and to produce such a unique and fascinating repertoire, even if you don't know the Four Books and Five Classics, you can't be considered a layman.

It is not without reason that the candidates have a good impression of the couple.

Although the autumn exam has passed, the days of waiting for the results to be announced are even more difficult than the exam.

Even at this time in previous years, it was difficult to offset the anxiety in my heart even if we held frequent literary conferences.Now with "Liaozhai", wealthy candidates can go to the teahouse to watch an interesting performance that they have never seen before, and poor candidates can also go to the tea garden to listen to a fresh story that has never been heard before.

When you are not satisfied, you can get together to discuss the deep meaning of the story, or write some poems and songs with your feelings and leave them in the garden of the teahouse, which can make you famous and benefit the merchants.

Fan Zhou even had a whim.

Since there are many candidates from poor families, it is better to offer a reward to the outside world to recruit good scripts, which can be regarded as adding some income to these poor students.

It's just that the scholars in Fan Zhou's impression tend to have high self-esteem, and they think that living in poverty and being happy in life is commendable, so they don't do things with great fanfare, and just spread the news in a low-key manner through the shopkeeper or the assistant.

Unexpectedly, Fan Zhou didn't realize that Qingguo's scholars were completely different from what he remembered, or maybe he, a waste of literature and history, had made a mistake in his memory.

In short, since learning of the news that "Liao Zhai" was recruiting books from abroad, those literati and even some dudes who usually don't bother with books have all started writing at their desks with great interest and even high morale.

The couple still didn't have much self-awareness, they just felt that they had just successfully penetrated into the interior of human beings, and they were quite successful as ordinary businessmen. After adding a layer of "strange man" to themselves, the business became smoother, and Avoided a lot of secret tricks.

They take their own business too ordinary, and they don't know that in Lintong City, the influence of the "Liao Zhai" teahouse can be regarded as a scene in Lintong.

Even because Lintong is a traffic fortress, this "Scenery of Lintong" is still spreading more and more among the traveling businessmen from all over the world. It seems that sooner or later it will reach the ears of the emperor.

Therefore, in the eyes of these people, their own scripts were staged in "Liaozhai", which is almost the same as an unknown person in their world wrote a script, and it was made into an international blockbuster. Sour.

So, strangely, when all the candidates should have been worried before the list of honorees was released, everyone was full of energy and holding back their energy to write stories.All the anxiety about waiting for the announcement of the rankings has been temporarily forgotten.

Originally, everything was peaceful, and everyone was so lively waiting for whose book would be selected, what kind of story it would be, and what rewards the selected person would get.

Suddenly there was a thunder on the ground, and a big news spread quickly, diverting people's attention to the other side.

When the unknown people inquired about it, they said that it was a scholar surnamed Zhu who was taking an exam. For some reason, he went to Kou's house, a wealthy family in the south of the city, to kneel at the door.

What kind of door is it to kneel down gracefully? Is this offending someone?

Zhu Xiucai is a foreigner, and he came to take the exam with four people from his hometown. If he had something to do, he asked those same years, only to find out that Zhu Xiucai knelt at the door to ask for help.

How do you say this?

The Kou family is a wealthy businessman, and they have lived in Lintong for several generations. I haven't heard that their family can cure diseases and save lives?

The friends who knew the inside story saw that Zhu Xiucai was kneeling outside begging bitterly with pain like a knife in his abdomen, but the gate of the Kou Mansion was still motionless, and no sound from outside was heard, and there was not even a boy who came out to answer the door. Forbearance, he told the people around him the whole story.

It turned out that five people from the same village came to take the exam together. Only Zhu Xiucai came for the first time, and he always liked mountains and rivers. Taking advantage of the good weather, he went to Zhongshan Mountain in the north of the city alone to enjoy the scenery. When he returned to the city, he was thirsty and happened to see a There is a tea shed, so I want to go in and beg for a bowl of water.

The old woman in the tea shed brought a bowl of water to Zhu Xiucai. Zhu Xiucai had a good nose and smelled something wrong. He thought it was not good water, so he didn't drink it, and planned to endure it and go back to the city.

Seeing that he didn't drink, the old woman hurriedly summoned another beautiful girl to bring good tea to entertain the guests.

Zhu Xiucai took the tea, but felt that the taste of the tea was not right, so she still didn't want to drink it, but she glanced at the beautiful girl and took a sip somehow. commemorate.

As a result, when I walked to the house of my friend who was boarding just now, I felt pain in my abdomen like a knife. I took out the pinch of tea and showed it to my friend, and my friend's face changed. It was Shuimangcao.After hearing Zhu Xiucai's description of the girl's appearance, my friend was sure. I heard that Sanniang of the Kou family in the south of the city died of eating water mangcao by mistake not long ago, so it must be her.

When everyone around heard it, they immediately understood.

Almost everyone knows that the water mang grass is harmful to people. The most vicious thing is that people who are killed by the water mang grass cannot enter reincarnation. They can only be lonely ghosts, waiting for the next one to be killed by the water mang grass Only when you take the place of the dead ghost can you escape from reincarnation.Those who can't wait, they do it themselves, tricking innocent passers-by into taking the water mangcao to die for them, so that they can escape as soon as possible.

Zhu Xiucai must be unlucky to be treated as a scapegoat.

There are many people who have been harmed by Shuimangcao, and over time, they have discovered a way to detoxify Shuimangcao, which is to take the obscene pants of a person who died of poisoning, and boil water to drink.

But since Kou San's family knew that this Xiu was his daughter's scapegoat, how could they save him.

After hearing the whole story, there was a lot of discussion in the crowd.

Some said that the Kou family was really cold-blooded, and some said that it was justifiable for their daughter to be reincarnated.

Suddenly someone had a flash of inspiration, "This young man, have you heard of Liao Zhai Tea House?"

At this mention, other people also thought of it, and said one after another, "The owners of the teahouse are two strange people. Maybe there is another way to solve the water mangcao. Instead of waiting here, it's better to ask those two people for help." The boss, maybe there is still a glimmer of life!"

Several people from Zhu Xiucai's hometown had also heard the rumors about the couple, they were dubious at first, and at this moment they had only a dead horse as a living horse doctor, so they immediately went to the teahouse and the mansion for help separately.

The couple have been out of control since they researched all kinds of mooncakes that were highly praised. They were also trying new dishes in the mansion today. When they heard that someone came to ask for help, the couple looked at each other. It was a "business" that came to the door. , Come out quickly to see what happened.

The scholar's fellow countryman was also in a hurry, and before he had time to explain, he wanted to grab Fan Zhou and drag him away. Liang Nan stepped aside and said displeasedly, "Where we are going, just say it, and we will follow."

The fellow countryman hurriedly said the place, and his life was at stake, so he didn't care about being rude.

The scholar's fellow countryman was nearly forty years old, and he was out of breath after running all the way.Liang Nan thought he was in the wrong, so he picked up the scholar by his collar, took Fan Zhou's hand, and within a few breaths he reached the south of the city.

The scholar was already dumbfounded when he was put down, he heard that there is a strange person who can shrink the ground to an inch, but today he actually saw it with his own eyes, if he had known this, he should have come directly to beg the couple in the first place, why did he waste so much time.

The scholar was still panting and regretting.

The couple had already pushed through the crowd and walked in.

Seeing that it was Mrs. Fan Zhou, the people around them all scrambled out of their own way.

At this time, Zhu Xiucai was already lying on the ground, and his friends and other fellow countrymen around him were weeping endlessly, cursing the Kou family from time to time, which is really unkind.

Naturally, Liang Nan would not let Fan Zhou touch other men, so he walked over by himself, squatted down and inspected the scholar's body.

He shook his head in the expectant eyes of several people around him.

"The poison of the water mangcao can be cured. If he came to me in the morning, this scholar would not have died."

The scholar's friends and fellow countrymen regretted it too much, and wept bitterly over the corpse.

People around heard that Liang Nan was able to detoxify the poison of Shuimangcao, and they couldn't help but sigh for that talented scholar who had a bright future.

No matter how regretful, Zhu Xiucai is dead.

Friends and fellow countrymen chipped in to buy a coffin, and after the announcement of the rankings, it was easy to transport the scholar's body back to his hometown for burial.

The Kou family in the south of the city was originally an ordinary wealthy family, and there were no evil deeds, but it was the parents' love for their daughter that made them so cruel that they would not save their daughter. They only hoped that their daughter would be reincarnated and become a human being again.

But even if there are difficulties, such a waste of an innocent life, or the life of a famous scholar, the Kou family has been greatly criticized, especially when there are candidates all over the city waiting for the laurel list, they are all filled with righteous indignation.

All kinds of pungent sarcasm can scold people's skin without even a word of swearing, and the Kou family's business has also declined a lot.

Although the couple just went to make soy sauce, they became famous again.

Not only can it detoxify the poison of Shuimangcao, but it also has the ability to shrink the ground into an inch.

The name of this "strange man" is solid.I believe that there will be no less "business" coming to the door in the future.

Not to mention the future.

At night, in a small courtyard where the mansion is planned to be a guest room, Fan Zhou has already skillfully set up the formation.

One Soul Condensation Formation, seven Soul Concentrating Lamps.

The couple waited for the soul to be called to the door.

Taking advantage of the time, Fan Zhou couldn't help complaining to Liang Nan: "Using boiled water in the crotch as an antidote, who the hell came up with such a genius idea!"

Liang Nan glanced at his little fox three times, "Existence is a reason, and I will explain it to you later and you will understand."

Fan Zhou gritted his teeth, and the veins on his head popped out. Just as he was about to "domestic violence", there was movement outside the door of a certain guy who spoke out, so he had to sit back first and wait to settle the score together later.

Zhu Xiucai's soul was attracted by the soul-gathering lamp and floated into the soul-condensing array, and his figure gradually changed from virtual to real.

Zhu Xiucai was in his twenties, and he was also born with a good-looking talent. At this time, the daze on his face gradually receded, and the memory of his life became clear, and his expression was full of resentment.

There is a widowed mother and a young son in his family. Although he has a wife, he cannot keep it.After his death, his wife must remarry. How will the widowed mother and orphans in the family live? !

When he came to take the exam, he originally hoped that he would be able to win the top rankings, so that he could honor his family and improve his family's predicament, but he didn't expect that his long-cherished wish was not fulfilled and he died absurdly. How could he swallow this resentment!