Aoyama Chronicle

The New Imperial Examination Banquet in Qingzhou Township Examination is a kind of affirmation and commendation for all those who have passed the exam. This year's new [-] candidates gathered together, either exchanging poetry and literature, or discussing state affairs, and also having a drink with each other.In short, this is like a large-scale dating meeting, so that all the candidates can get to know and communicate with each other.

Zhong Yiwen entered the arena almost at the last minute. In fact, he was not very interested in such a dinner party.It doesn't matter if he is noble or out of gregarious, rather than spending his time attending such a dinner party, he would rather stay at home with Qin Fei and Xiaochen.

As soon as Zhong Yiwen came in, he attracted the attention of many students. The reputation of "Bamboo Gentleman" is not fake, and now that Xie Yuan is famous, Zhong Yiwen can't keep a low profile even if he wants to.However, students who don't have enough weight really don't have the guts to get close to Zhong Yiwen. "Bamboo Gentleman" doesn't like to make friends, and doesn't like to participate in any activities among students. Many of them know this.

"Brother Zhong, are you late?" Li Zhang, No.2 in the provincial examination, came over to greet Zhong Yiwen with a smile.

Zhong Yiwen saw that it was Li Zhang, and nodded: "Well, there was something delayed at home, but luckily I didn't miss it."

No matter what Zhong Yiwen said was true or not, Li Zhang would not pursue it any further, and directly led Zhong Yiwen to walk inside: "Fortunately, we have reserved a place for you, please come here."

Zhong Yiwen knew the basic situation of this dinner party, and the top ten positions were at the bottom, directly with the chief examiner and the adults of various state capitals.And the hundreds of people in the back are randomly arranged seats regardless of ranking. There is no problem if there are acquaintances who like to sit together, they are completely free.

When Zhong Yiwen passed by, he had already seen Chang Le and Hou Wenchang sitting together, talking with a few candidates. When they saw Zhong Yiwen, they waved their hands specially as a way of saying hello, and Zhong Yiwen nodded.

When he got to the innermost place, Zhong Yiwen realized that not only were there a lot fewer people, but the environment was also much better.As soon as he and Li Zhang came over, all the people who had already been sitting there stood up and bowed their hands in salute. After the two sides saluted for a while, they gathered in twos and threes to talk with each other.Zhong Yiwen naturally sat down with Wu Yuan'an who had come here early. Although he wanted to call Bai Jingqing over together, but thinking that Bai Jingqing came to the door early yesterday to ask him to say goodbye, he was afraid that he would not want to communicate with him openly, so he had to give up. Let Bai Jingqing sit alone on the side.

"Brother Zhong, I still want to congratulate you on your upcoming baby!" Wu Yuanan cupped his hands in congratulations.

Zhong Yiwen knew that Wu Yuan'an and the others lived so close to him, so he must have known about Qin Fei's body, and it was just a taboo not to come to the door immediately, but now it seems that this is the case: "Brother Wu, you just said it so casually and it didn't mean anything at all." ?"

Wu Yuan'an laughed in a rare way: "Brother Zhong, you don't have anything, do you need anything from me? How about I send you a picture, do you want it?"

"Yes! Why not? Brother Wu, your calligraphy is good, maybe one day Brother Wu's calligraphy will also become a sky-high price, and then I will post it!" Zhong Yiwen didn't mind joking with Wu Yuanan at all.

"Zhong Jieyuan, I heard that you were stopped by a group of buddies on the way home after reading the list yesterday to give you a silk bag. You are really lucky!" A man suddenly stood up and spoke loudly, attracting everyone's attention past.

Many people here have heard about Zhong Yiwen being stopped by his brother to deliver things yesterday. Although many people were envious, no one dared to say it face to face.After all, although it sounds nice to say this, Zhong Yiwen is a family man, and after all, his reputation is a bit damaged.

Zhong Yiwen nodded generously and admitted: "Yeah, doesn't this happen every time I go back to the country for the test? I heard that there are people who deliberately hire people to deliver things. I'm still a little baffled. It's blocked. Could it be that one of you spent money, but someone mistook me for me?"

The disciples below immediately roared with laughter.What Zhong Yiwen said was true, there were indeed people who deliberately hired people to do this, but they were exposed afterwards and turned into a big joke, but after all, it only happened once.

Not far away, another scholar stood up and spoke: "'Zhu Junzi' heard that when you were in Yangzhou, you often went to drink flower wine, and gained a reputation as a playboy, and was finally divorced by others. Is it true?"

"Brother, you're from Yangzhou, right? Otherwise, it's impossible to know me so well?" Zhong Yiwen smiled slightly, "I really did this before. After I became a scholar at the age of 15, I felt that I was very famous. People invited me out every day. It was amazing, so I followed suit. As a result, I got a reputation as a playboy, and I thought it was very honorable, young and ignorant."

A lot of people laughed. When they were young and frivolous, no one did one or two ridiculous things.

"My grandma stopped me from going, but I still didn't agree, and ran out every day secretly. One day, my grandma asked me, why do you like to go to places like Hualou? I replied, there are many beauties there Then my aunt directly gave me a mirror. If you want to look at the beauty and look at yourself, you don’t need to go to that place. Is there anyone who looks better than yourself? Then, I suddenly realized that I was at a loss. How can I go to see a beauty, I clearly sent myself to others to see!" Zhong Yiwen's words were half-true, but the people below succeeded in laughing.

Originally, he thought that Zhong Yiwen was noble and difficult to approach, but he also had a different understanding of Zhong Yiwen.The most important thing is that Zhong Yiwen dared to talk about his appearance, without any embarrassment, which made them feel that Zhong Yiwen was informal.

Zhong Yiwen went on to explain: "As for the matter of retiring, I really have nothing to say. When I was 15 years old, I was selected as a scholar, and my grandmother at home helped me set up a marriage. I heard that it was the family who took the initiative to invite me. Yes, as for which family brother looks like, I really don’t know at all. Later, my grandma was seriously ill and took me back to my ancestral home, and that family came to withdraw the marriage. So, I decided inexplicably I got married and then got divorced for no reason, and now I still have to be brought up and talked about by people for no reason."

"The family who resigned from your relatives, I'm afraid their stomachs are green with regret now, right?" one of them jokingly said.

These words were terrific enough, and immediately caused everyone below to roar with laughter.Even Zhong Yiwen couldn't help laughing.

"Zhong Jieyuan, I heard that you didn't have a good relationship with your husband in the past, and you even had an affair with other brothers outside?" Another raised his head and raised his voice. There is no doubt that this one must be from Yangzhou.

Zhong Yiwen looked helpless: "I didn't expect everyone to care about my feelings and life so much, thank you in advance. But, brother, you must have never heard the correct version, right? This matter has already been clarified OK? You're here to settle the old score!"

"What's going on?" Someone below shouted, "We want to listen to the correct version!"

"Correct version!"

"Correct version!"

The people below yelled directly, making Zhong Yiwen really dumbfounded, you are new imperial examination candidates, you are not gossip people, is it necessary to be so dedicated?

"Brother Zhong, we are also very curious, what is going on with this matter, can you explain to us?" Li Zhang wrote two words directly on his face, gossip.And behind him, several other people had similar expressions, the meaning couldn't be more obvious, please explain.

Zhong Yiwen raised his hand helplessly, quieting the entire court, and then said: "I really don't want to explain this matter, after all, it is related to many people, and it is also related to the reputation of our clan."

"What is so serious that it has already affected the reputation of the Zong family?" Suddenly someone interrupted from outside, and then a dozen people followed in.

All the students immediately stood up and bowed their hands in salute: "See you, my lord!"

It was the host of the banquet tonight, the examiners of the Qingzhou rural examination, the prefects and co-prefects of Qingzhou, Yangzhou, and Xuzhou, and the one who had just spoken was the inspector of this year's rural examination, Mr. Lu Bonian.

Mr. Lu is in his fifties, short and thin, but he is very energetic. His eyes are piercing, as if he can penetrate into people's hearts.Master Lu is just, honest and upright, with a decent style and great talent, and has a very high influence among the students of Yan State.It was only because Mr. Lu was originally from Qingzhou that he agreed to attend the new imperial examination banquet in Qingzhou Township Examination.

Lu Bonian glanced at Zhong Yiwen and other top ten candidates in this subject, and then nodded to the people behind: "The talents selected this time are very good, let's all sit down first!"

After Mr. Lu spoke, everyone took their seats again, but this time they all sat upright, not at all like before, with no image at all, and now they didn't even dare to make unnecessary movements Yes, the atmosphere in the entire arena suddenly became more rigorous.

Mr. Jiang, one of the examiners, usually has a good relationship with Mr. Lu, and his official position is not low, so when Mr. Lu didn't speak, he took the initiative to ask: "Aren't you guys talking about something just now? Why did you suddenly stop and talk?" Let’s listen to what we’re talking about.”

The audience was silent, Zhong Yiwen couldn't take the initiative to mention his own affairs, he just wanted to quickly get rid of this topic.However, more than a dozen adults obviously don't want to let him go.

Finally, Li Zhang couldn't hold himself back and got up and explained: "My lords, just now we were asking Xie Yuan Zhong Yiwen Zhong Yiwen from Jinke to explain the correct version."

"What correct version?"

Li Zhang, what you said was simply to keep suspense and ask others if it was okay, and now Mr. Jiang and the others are all really interested.

Zhong Yiwen knew that he couldn't hide any longer, so he simply stood up and replied: "My lords, it's about me and my husband, Lang Qin, so everyone is interested to know more about it. Because there were rumors that the two of us were not in love. Okay, I said that there is a correct version, but everyone wanted me to explain it clearly. But this matter is related to the reputation of our clan, so we really can't just talk about it casually."

"It's okay, just tell me, let's just listen to a story!" Mr. Jiang really refused to let this matter go.