Prime Minister

Chapter 294 and The Day
Under the stars and the moon in Bianjing City, there is still a lot of traffic, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going.

For new Jinshi, it can be described as an unforgettable night. It is not fake to catch a son-in-law under the list. Countless rich and noble families waited for the announcement of the list and gathered outside the Imperial Prison. Raw rice cooked cooked rice.

After paying homage to the most holy teacher, Wang Gui immediately led his people to hang the list outside the Donghua Gate and post it, and the other Jinshi could leave.

However, outside the Guozijian, it can be said that many families who wanted to arrest their son-in-law blocked the front and back of the Guozijian, and all of them stretched their necks and looked in.

It can be said that a group of unmarried Jinshi encountered difficulties when they wanted to go out. You pushed me and you pushed you.Jinshi who have been married or think they can be sold for a price call their friends and companions to Fanlou and Yuxianlou to celebrate their proud moments.

For many Jinshi, it may be the brightest moment in their lives to be admitted to the Jinshi, and many of them will slowly waste their time in their careers.

Zhang Yue looked at these people who wanted to refuse to welcome, and it was funny. Seeing Han Zhongyan and Huang Lu came to invite him to Fanlou, he was moved, but he remembered that his brother and sister-in-law must be waiting for him, so he declined and wanted to go home quickly. .

At this time, Zhang Yue's face changed when he heard a woman outside the Taixue calling "Zhang Lang" and "Zhang Lang", and felt that something was wrong.

He asked Fan Zuyu to borrow the carriage clothes and pretended to be a student of the Imperial Academy, and then he left the Imperial Academy.

Fan Zuyu was worried and sent his own servant to see him off.

Today's No. [-] scholar in the Golden Palace, now returning in a carriage, is still the true color of the commoner.

The carriage was driving on the bustling streets of Bianjing, Zhang Yue raised the curtain to watch the roasted meat on the street, and the smoke was coming.

To be honest, although the emperor gave food in the palace today, there were only two cakes, and besides the Golden Palace roll call, I didn't rush to eat it.

Now that he is busy paying homage to his ancestor, Zhang Yue is also tireless. At this moment, if he relaxes his nerves for a while, he will feel hungry immediately after smelling the aroma of barbecue.

Immediately, Zhang Yue stopped the carriage for a while, and got out of the car to buy beef and sheep kidneys to eat. Countless people in front of the vendors talked vividly about how they praised the officials in the imperial street today.

The scenery of the champion, the youth of the champion, the handsomeness of the champion.

Zhang Yue was eating lamb kidneys and listening with relish. Halfway through the talk, the more one person talked, the more outrageous it became.Regardless of his mouth full of oil, Zhang Yue kindly corrected some of his mistakes in details, but was turned back by a group of people.

"Look at your young age, what do you know?"

The servant Fan Zuyu was also anxious, and was about to defend Zhang Yue a few words.

Zhang Yue waved his hand back and said, you are right, in short, you are all right.

Seeing Zhang Yue admitting defeat, this person immediately showed complacency and started talking again. No one knew that the young man dipping lamb kidneys in a bowl of garlic paste was the number one scholar they were talking about.

After eating, Zhang Yue took the money and gave it to the stall owner, who said with a smile: "Young Lord, don't be angry with other people's words."

Zhang Yue laughed and said: "Old man was joking, there is nothing to be angry about, but Wangcheng is the most hidden, where thousands of people are hidden like a sea."

When others heard this sentence, they were different, they were not ordinary people at all, and they were about to get acquainted with each other, but they saw that the young man had already rolled up his sleeves and boarded the car.

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After eating and drinking enough, the carriage arrived at Zhang's house under the moonlight.

Zhang Yue saw that the house was booming, the courtyard was brightly illuminated by the flames, countless red candles were lit in the hall, and a colorful building was erected on the door, and the red silk satin was tied on the scaffolding, which looked very festive.

As for the original door of the house, it was also pushed away, and the door leaf was placed beside the road.

When you go to the Tianzi Hall in the morning and return to the farmhouse in the evening, is the gate different?

However, Zhang Yue was only wearing civilian clothes, and the official green robe cap was still in his bag.

So Zhang Yue walked to the back door with the package on his back, and neighbors passed by and talked from time to time.However, Zhang Yue usually lived in Taixue and rarely lived at home, so these neighbors did not know Zhang Yue.

Not to mention, no one would have thought that Zhang Yue should have been wearing an official uniform and walked home in style, so how could he go through the back door.

Zhang Yue saw that the back door was half-hidden and said that it was just right.

Zhang Yue pushed the door open and walked to an unoccupied room, closed the door and covered his body with a green robe, dressed neatly before going out.

Walking to a pavilion, Zhang Yue saw Guo Lin and Zhang Qiu eating soup cakes with bowls in their hands.

Zhang Yue couldn't help but said, "Why are you two eating soup cakes here?"

Guo Lin and Zhang Qiu stood up.

"Uncle Three..."

"Senior brother..."

Just as the two of them were about to change their words, Zhang Yue hurriedly said, "It's meaningless to be called the No. [-] Scholar."

Both of them laughed.Zhang Yue said: "Why are you here?"

Zhang Qiu said: "Third Uncle, the front hall is full of guests who came to congratulate you, so it doesn't matter if I go."

Guo Lin said: "Axi and I are hungry, we can eat here casually, Sanlang, you don't have to take care of us."

Zhang Qiu saw himself with a look of admiration.And Guo Lin glanced at Zhang Yue's green robe, and looked away unnaturally.

Zhang Yue remembered that it was in this courtyard that he, Huang Lu and Guo Lin rode on the wall together to watch the fireworks in Bianjing City on New Year's Eve.

Zhang Yue asked, "Is there any food left? I haven't eaten anything all day today."

Zhangqiu said: "I'll go to the kitchen to have a look."

Zhang Yue said: "Don't be so troublesome, you can even out the leftovers."

After speaking, Zhang Yue took the bowl from Guo Lin, put Zhangqiu's leftover soup cakes in, and ate the soup cakes with Guo Lin's bowl and chopsticks.

"Third Uncle, are you so hungry?" Zhang Qiu asked with a confused face.

"What do you think?" Zhang Yue chewed off the soup cakes and poured the soup into his stomach.

Zhang Yue said to Guo Lin: "After a while, the Taixue Ma will tell you that it is coming. Brother help me take Axi to meet him. Axi is young and doesn't know the rules. You can help me to remind you a little bit."

Guo Lin was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Let Sanlang leave this matter to others, I'm not very good at talking... I'll... go ahead and have a look first."

After finishing speaking, Guo Lin bowed to Zhang Yue, and then said: "Congratulations to Junior Brother for being the number one scholar."

Watching Guo Lin go away, Zhang Yue sighed helplessly, while Zhang Qiu said, "Third Uncle, I am worried about Master Guo."

Zhang Yue said: "This person has hurdles in the past, but other people can't help him, he can only get over it by himself."

Zhang Yue covered his emotions and asked: "How is your review? You will be supplementing in a few days."

Zhangqiu said: "Third Uncle, I read nine hours a day, even while eating and sleeping."

Zhang Yue nodded and said: "Diligence is good, but the most important thing is to be calm. No matter what you want, whether it is a person or a thing, it takes about [-]% or [-]% of your strength to achieve it."

"Why?"

Zhang Yue said: "There are too few things in this world that can be accomplished overnight."

After Zhang Yue finished speaking, he heard the front courtyard say: "Senior Brother Guo, Senior Brother Guo, go and see where Sanlang has gone? Could it be that he was called by his classmates to have a drink? Now that the guests are here, how impolite it is. Can you help me?" I'll try and find it."

As soon as Zhang Yue heard it, he knew it was Zhang Shi who was shouting in a hurry.

The three looked at each other and smiled, Zhang Shi walked to the backyard but saw Zhang Yue standing there.

Zhang Shi rubbed his eyes, and looked at Zhang Yue, who was in the official hat and green robe, standing by the pavilion, staring for a while with joy in his eyes.

"Let me see first, you won the first prize, and my life is considered complete."

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "Brother, don't be so, what is consummation. You will still have a lot of blessings in the future, and this is the beginning."

"That is, that is," Zhang Shi wiped his tears and took Zhang Yue's hand and said, "Third brother comes with me, all the congratulators are waiting for you in the hall."

Zhang Yue said: "My brother is not busy, let's offer incense to our ancestors first!"

Zhang Shi was stunned for a moment, and said sternly: "You're right. You're right. What you've said is the honor of your ancestors."

Come out from the shrine.

Zhang Yue said: "Brother has said several times, don't be so extravagant and wanton, many of my classmates are not in high school..."

"You have won the number one scholar, and I am not allowed to be beautiful and have a good face. Besides, your classmates failed the Jinshi exam. You not only won the Jinshi but also the number one scholar. That's too much... yes, are you hungry? The Golden Palace roll call is also praised by Yujie."

"Let me take a breath first."

"Okay, I'll just talk too much."

"Yes, all the official rewards have been sent home?"

"That's...all placed in the courtyard, I let Heke watch..."

"Don't be extravagant..."

"Why does the younger brother teach the elder brother?"

The two brothers were chattering away, Zhang Qiu Xiaobu followed behind and looked at Zhang Yue who was wearing a green robe and official hat and thought to himself, I will do the same in the future.

I don't know who said, "The number one scholar is here." All the congratulators in the hall got up...

Under the bright lights, the congratulatory guests who came to Zhang's house all had smiles on their faces...

Zhang Yu wanted to be more casual, so he said with a smile: "Zhang is late, please forgive me."

Everyone laughed, Zhang Yue said: "Today, Sanlang is the number one scholar, and he has paid homage to the ancestral tablet just now. Now the most important thing is to thank brother and sister-in-law first."

Zhang Shiyu said with a smile, "I dare not do it."

Everyone pushed them to their seats and took a futon. Zhang Yue immediately knelt down and saluted them.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, his seniority is the longest among Zhang's.

He thought it would be his turn next, but Zhang Yue said: "Thank you, Shien."

Immediately Zhang Yue thought of Chen Xiang, Zhang Youzhi, Guo Xuexue and other names, and worshiped Ma Zhidao from Taixue.

Zhang Yu was ignored.

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Then Zhang Yue entertained the guests, Ouyang Fa came with his younger brother Ouyang Fen, Zeng Gong came, Lin Xi came, Wang Anguo came, Lu Huiqing also came...

And Su Shi and Su Zhe also arrived.

After Su Shi and Su Zhe studied in the autistic hall, Su Shi and Zhang Yue also met two or three times.Su Shi liked Zhang Yue's engraved seals, and thought they were very delicate and ingenious, so he ordered two engraved seals, one for himself and one for his younger brother.

After going back and forth, Zhang Yue and Su Shi also had contacts.

Zhang Yue was very happy to see Su Shi and Su Zhe coming.

Su Shi smiled and said, "Duzhi congratulates you."

Zhang Yue said with joy on his face: "Brother Zizhan, brother Ziyou, it's really great that you can come here."

Su Shi smiled and said, "I'm here to apologize to you."

Zhang Yue asked, "Brother Zizhan, why did you say that?"

Su Zhe also smiled, and Su Shi said with a smile: "When Ziping was the number one scholar in the past, I told people that Ziping's talent has been surpassed by no one in a hundred years. Now that I have the degree, do you think I was wrong when I said this?"

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "Brother Zizhan is serious, I will still ask Xian Kunzhong for advice in the future."

Su Shi said with a smile: "I dare not be the leader. The Zhang family in Pucheng has been the leader twice within four years, which really makes me and my younger brother admire me the most."

Su Zhe also said: "Brother Du, I read the palace examination article, and he is really talented."

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "I heard that the two of you are going to university this time?"

Su Shi and Su Zhe nodded.Zhang Yuedao: "I heard that when Fu Gong (Fu Bi) and Han Gong (Han Qi) first visited the farm house, Mu Xiubo called the two princes and said: "Jinshi is not enough to make the best of a son's talent. You should be famous for your great subjects. "

"Xian Kunzhong's going here, I'm going to be surprised."

What Zhang Yue said was a good story about Fu Bi. When Fu Bi took the Jinshi examination, the examiner said that your mere Jinshi and rank are not enough to be famous, and you need a major (systematic department) to do so.

But Fu Bi had already been a Jinshi and went to serve as an official in the local area. As a result, Fan Zhongyan immediately sent someone to chase Fu Bi and said that there is a big subject in Beijing, so you should come back quickly.

After Fu Bi returned to Beijing, he said to Fan Zhongyan, I have never learned how to take a major.

Fan Zhongyan said, I have already recommended you to the emperor with all the officials, and at the same time I have prepared a room for you, all of which are written in major subjects, you go and learn.

As a result, Fu Bi really passed the major examination.By the way, introduced by Fan Zhongyan, also married the daughter of Prime Minister Yan Shu.

What Zhang Yue said meant that Su Shi and Su Zhe should be admitted to the university this time. If the ranking is outstanding, it will still be higher than his own title of champion.

After all, in the case of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were tens of thousands of Jinshi, but there were only about [-] majors, and only one person who entered the third class.

Su Shi laughed and said, "They were all recommended by Mr. Han, Mr. Ouyang, and Mr. Yang. I and my brother did not dare to resign, so I just gave it a try."

The three talked and laughed, and Zhang Yue hurriedly pulled Zhang Qiu over to recommend him to the Ersu brothers.

Of course Zhangqiu had heard of Ersu's name and also learned their articles, so he had a look of admiration.

Su Shi was very fond of Zhang Qiu and said: "Du Zhi, your nephew has the appearance of Wenkui. In the future, your Zhang family may have a third champion."

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "Don't try to praise the younger generation, Xi'er, and say hello to the two of you."

Zhang Qiu saluted according to his words, Su Shi saw that Zhang Qiu was sensible and well-behaved, and immediately took off a piece of suet jade pendant from his waist and put it in his hand.

Zhang Yue hurriedly said: "Brother Zizhan, it's too precious. This is something you have worn for many years. You can't do it, you can't do it."

Su Shi said with a smile: "How can you accept this uncle in vain? Besides, your nephew and I seem to have hit each other, so don't refuse."

Su Zhe smiled and took off the jade pendant around his waist and put it in Zhang Qiu's hand.

This gift is too big.

What else could Zhang Yue say, so he had no choice but to say 666 to the boss, and asked Zhang Qiu to accept the two jade pendants.

Su Shi and Su Zhe sat down and then left, and Zhang Yue immediately went out to see him off.

As for Zhang Yu who was always watching, he immediately talked to Zhang Qiu as soon as Zhang Yue left, and his attitude suddenly became extremely cordial and enthusiastic.This change of attitude made Zhang Qiu unable to react in time.

Zhang Yue sent Su Shi and Su Zhe out of the door.Su Shi suddenly asked Zhang Yue, "Does Du Zhi intend to go to a university?"

Zhang Yue was taken aback and said, "That's not what I meant."

Su Shi said: "Yes, but I have never heard of a champion going to a university. His essays and classics can be regarded as an example for the world. If you don't go to a university, it will be a pity for the world."

Su Zhe said: "Brother has no other intentions, but respects your talent."

Zhang Yue smiled and said: "I understand, it's rare to have a confidant in life, thank you Xian Kunzhong for taking it so seriously."

On the occasion of parting, the three of them spoke reluctantly again, showing sympathy for each other.

In the end, Su Zhe helped Su Shi get into the car. When they met just now, he always looked up to his elder brother and always treated his elder brother very respectfully.Zhang Yue couldn't help but sigh that the relationship between the two brothers is so good.

The night breeze was cool, Zhang Yue watched the Su brothers' carriage disappear on the streets of Bianjing.

After the Su Shi brothers left, Zhang Yue sent other congratulators out.

Zeng Gong brought his younger brother Zeng Zhao to come. When Zeng Gong went out, he suddenly asked, "Duzhi, let my nephew think that he is smart and stable, and he will not be a treasure in the future."

Zhang Yue was taken aback, and thought to himself, are you here to congratulate me, or to visit my nephew.

Zhang Yue said: "Editor Zeng's absurd praise."

Zeng Gong said with a smile: "I don't think there is anything wrong with people. I wonder if your nephew has promised a kiss?"

Zhang Yue's heart was like a gallop of ten thousand sheep, and he said: "Not yet, I want to study for a few more years before discussing."

Zhang Yue thought, is it possible?Did you fall in love with Zhang Qiu again?

Zeng Gong laughed and said, "Don't discuss marriage before being a Jinshi. I can see that my nephew has a bright future. Now he is still at ease with the imperial examination. Arranging a marriage now may humiliate him."

Zhang Yue thought it was so, but he had misunderstood Zeng Gong.

"Thank you for the words of editor Zeng, I will pass it on to my brother and sister-in-law."

Zeng Gong nodded and said: "Very well, Duzhi, you really didn't disappoint me, so I'm leaving."

After finishing speaking, Zeng Gong said goodbye to Zhang Yue.

Zeng Gong looked at Zhang Yue and hesitated to speak. He was the first to look up to Zhang Yue. Unfortunately, the two did not have a relationship in the end, but he couldn't change his appreciation for this young man no matter what.

Zhang Yue looked at Zeng Gong and seemed to leave with a little regret.

The others bid farewell.

Everyone was very happy to see that Zhang was more proud and not arrogant. Such a stable temperament is a sign of greatness. When they parted, everyone couldn't help but praise.

At the end, Zhang Yu, Yang Shi, Huang Haoqian, Huang Haoyi, Wu Anshi and a few other family members remained.

Wu Anshi and Zhang Shizheng chatted speculatively, and Yang Shi and Yu Shi talked arm in arm.

Huang Haoqian, Su Shi, and Su Zhe were Jinshi in the same year, and they had a very good friendship.When the Su brothers came just now, they had a chat.

Huang Haoqian's son Huang Shi also came to congratulate today.

In the end, a banquet was set up at home, and all relatives came or sat and ate wine together.Zhang Shi, Zhang Yue asked Guo Lin again.After Guo Lin arrived, the banquet began.

Zhang Yue drank several cups and was already very drunk, so he went back to his room and went to sleep.

On the way back to the room, I felt that the night was dark and the bamboo shadows were moving. I walked in the path and felt that I had a chance to concentrate and think for a while, and the joy of winning the champion finally calmed down bit by bit in my heart. .

From the month to the climax, this day will pass like this.

When you don't know how to be proud of your life, can you be like today?

Zhang Yue thought of this and pushed the door in. He was lying on the bed all over the place, and fell into a deep sleep.

That night Zhang Yue fell asleep for a long time, he didn't know if the dream was real or not, as if yesterday's first prize was just a dream.

When he fell asleep until dawn, Zhang Yue opened his eyes and saw the green bamboos leaning against the window, the breeze was blowing. Thinking of what happened yesterday, he couldn't help but feel that it was as unreal as a fleeting image.

Zhang Yue didn't make a decision until his eyes fell on the official hat and green robe.

This is really not a dream, I really won the number one prize.

(End of this chapter)