The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

As Ouyang Xiu said, not long after Ouyang Xiu took Huanniang to Yan's mansion, the horseshoes won, and three fast horses came galloping.

"Wai Lang Lu Suiyuan, member of the Ministry of Rites, congratulations to your master, Su Jin High School, the No. 1 Jie Yuan in the Beijing East and West Road Examination, and the Beijing News has won the yellow armor!" The leading chubby official yelled loudly as soon as he entered the courtyard .

The two accompanying officials from the Ministry of Rites had already held up the happy news and walked forward slowly.

Su Jin rushed out to greet him, and stepped forward to receive the good news. Lu Suiyuan coughed seemingly inadvertently. Su Jin immediately understood, and quickly put his outstretched hands together in a bow, and said loudly: "Thank you, my lord, everyone. Your Excellency has worked hard, please sit down in the hall and come to watch tea!"

After finishing speaking, she blinked at Xiao Sui'er, Xiao Sui'er understood, and hurriedly went to the inner hall to get 50 taels of silver, divided into 30 taels of silver, and took out twelve taels of silver wrapped in small floral cloth. After brewing, Su Jin and Lu Suiyuan talked harmoniously. b travel through novels: sj131netb

Su Jin took the three packages, handed them over with both hands, and said, "Master Lu, in order to work hard, I am a little bit interested, and the three of you are going to buy some tea on the way."

Lu Suiyuan didn't give up, and said haha: "I don't want money for hard work, but I definitely want the happy money that Xie Yuangong rewarded. We are also happy, and maybe there will be a solution in the house." What about Duke Yuan?"

Su Jin laughed and said, "That's for sure."

Lu Suiyuan weighed the burden, stuffed the big one into his bosom, threw the two small ones into the hands of the two tolerances, and said, "Next, this is the happy money that Xie Yuangong rewarded."

The two tolerances smiled brightly, and stretched out their hands to take it. When they squeezed it outside, they knew that it was silver taels instead of copper coins. They were happy and cupped their hands to express their thanks.Immediately without Lu Suiyuan's instructions, he picked up the happy announcement, and directed Chao Chao and others to hang it high above the main hall in the hall.

Lu Suiyuan looked up at the happy news and said with a smile: "Su Jieyuan is worthy of being a talented person in Yan Sansi's examination. With a move of his little finger, he trampled under the feet of eight thousand candidates from the east and west of Beijing; Words are purely superfluous, once Duke Xie Yuan participates, he must win three yuans in a row, and the officials will come to Duke Xie Yuan's mansion to announce the good news when the Ministry of Rites will take the exam."

Su Jin laughed and said: "Mr. Lu's praise is so great, and somehow he was hit by mistake. Thanks to the blessing of the emperor and the blessing of our ancestors."

Lu Suiyuan laughed and said: "Don't be humble. If you can do it, you can do it. If you can't do it, you can't do it. When the exam starts, our Ministry of Rites has predicted who will get Jieyuan flowers on Jingdong Road this year. They all say that Han Jiang from Kaifeng Prefecture is the best." There is hope, but I personally determined that Mr. Su must be the leader, and now it seems that I am right, haha... I, Lao Lu, still have vision."

Su Jin knew that this kid was bragging, and said with a smile: "It seems that I borrowed a third of Lu Yuanwai's auspicious words; the Han Jiang mentioned by Lu Yuanwai just now is 27 or [-] years old, with a delicate and calm appearance. That Han Jiang from Zhailang?"

Lu Suiyuan smiled and said, "Huh? You know him?"

Su Jindao: "When he and I took the exam, we both took the exam in shed No. 88. I was in house No. [-], and he was in house No. [-]. They happened to be next to each other."

Lu Suiyuan laughed and said, "Sure enough, the shed number is auspicious, and he's also in high school."

Su Jin said: "But I don't know where he is?"

Lu Suiyuan said: "Thirdly, his old master is going to die of anger now. Before Han Jiang took the exam, he swore to seize Jieyuan. Now it's all right. Not only Su Jieyuan is above him, but also a leader from Yingtian Academy." My son is also one rank taller than him, hahaha."

Su Jin was startled and said, "A student from Yingtian Academy? But his surname is Wang and his name is Anshi?"

Lu Suiyuan was shocked again: "Hey, how do you know?"

Su Jin laughed and said, "Which student of Yingtianfu Academy is more talented than Wang Anshi? Who else is there?"

Lu Suiyuan shook his head and said, "Wrong, there is someone who is much smarter than him."

Su Jin said: "Who is it?"

Lu Suiyuan smiled and said, "How come you forgot yourself? Aren't you also a student of Yingtian Academy? You are No.1 Jieyuan and he is No.2. Aren't you smarter than him? "

Suddenly, Su Jin laughed and said, "I forgot about myself, so I am indeed a little bit smarter than him."

Lu Suiyuan twisted his beard with a smile and said: "It's not just a little bit smart, the world will only remember who is No. 1, and after No. 2, it's much inferior."

Su Jin thought, this is also the reason; No.1 is the most attention-getting, No.2, No.3 and the following rankings must be less concerned, but fortunately Wang Anshi won, I don’t know if the others won, Wei Songhe He also has the ability to win the exam, so Wu Hengxin dare not say it. This guy who likes to eat chicken butts is really not very knowledgeable.

The two chatted for a while, and heard another noise outside the door, but it was Fu Bi who came to congratulate with the officials who had been friends with him; Lu Suiyuan got up to leave when he saw this, Su Jin asked to stay again, and Lu Suiyuan said I'm going to No.2No.3 to deliver the good news, and I'm in a hurry.

Fu Bi looked at his back and scolded: "This old man is here to make money again. He is the only one who earns more during the imperial examinations."

Su Jin smiled and said nothing, and let seven or eight officials into the house to have tea; from morning to noon, more than ten groups of people came to congratulate, all of them were officials of the court, of course they were very low-ranking, Fu Bi was the tallest, and the oldest was Su Jin's immediate boss, Zhang Fangping, editor of the History Museum.

It continued to be noisy until noon, Ouyang Xiu fulfilled his mission, the matchmaker went well, and came back with a smile. Su Jin hurriedly ordered someone to go to Fanlou to book a banquet, and ordered Chao Dynasty to take care of the neighbors who drank wedding wine in Linshuiju. Then he took all the officials to Fanlou for a banquet.

The bustling banquet lasted until the end of the day before leaving. On the way back after the banquet, Su Jinfang had the opportunity to ask about Ouyang Xiu's going to the Yan Mansion to propose a marriage.

Ouyang Xiu said with a smile: "Fortunately, you have saved a few procedures. Originally, you had to perform the six rituals of Nacai, asking your name, and Najib. Forget it, going today is the ceremony of accepting the levy, the dowry has already been handed over to Lord San Si, Miss Yan also came out to thank you in person, and when the Yan mansion returns the gift tomorrow, the ceremony of accepting the levy will be considered complete."

Su Jinxi said: "Miss Yan can get up?"

Ouyang Xiu said: "Didn't you get up? Seeing the improvement, I seem a little haggard."

Su Jin said: "She was still sick in bed yesterday."

Ouyang Xiu laughed and said, "Is it going to be hard to get this good son-in-law? Besides, when you know about Yuan, Lord Sansi suddenly felt proud and even praised you; I think Miss Yan is also very happy. Afternoon, you This new son-in-law can come and have a look. I drank a lot, and I was very worried when I went to the Yan Mansion to propose marriage. I am dizzy now, so I have to go back to rest; Then help you come forward to perform the ceremony of questioning period, good things are coming, haha."

Su Jin was very grateful, and asked Xiaozhuzi to take Ouyang Xiu back to the mansion in a carriage to drink away the alcohol, and he took the horseman Zhang Long to Yan's mansion; he knew Yuan, so if he didn't share this joy with Yan Biyun, who would he share it with?

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In the next few days, there were constant guests in Su Jin's house; Su Jin won Xie Yuan in one fell swoop, and the whole court exploded. Even Zhao Zhen was extremely surprised, not to mention Lu Yijian, Du Yan, Xia Song and others.

"It must have been cheating!" Du Yan yelled in the court room.

Lu Yijian frowned and said, "Don't make random guesses. Today's scientific examinations are not only single-person and numbered, but also heavily guarded, and the test papers are all affixed with names first, and then handed over to the chief examiner to judge after being transcribed by a special person. Exam paper, how to cheat?"

Du Yan spread his hands and said: "This kid is obviously not an academic person, how could he understand Yuan? There is no one who writes better articles than him? I don't believe it."

Xia Song pondered: "Believe it or not, you can tell at a glance."

Du Yan said: "Lao Xia, what do you mean?"

Xia Song said: "Let's take a look at the answers of Su Jin and the top ten, and compare the pros and cons. Can't we judge who is better?"

Du Yan said: "That's right, let's see why Su Jin won the first place."

Lu Yijian was silent, so he didn't want to get involved in this matter. Although he also expressed doubts about Su Jinzhong's understanding of Yuan, as a prime minister, he must be cautious in his words and deeds. How can he say casual words so easily.

Du Yan has some skills, so he quickly transferred Su Jin and other top ten test papers from the Ministry of Rites. Lu Yijian opened the book first without hesitation. When he saw Su Jin's "Niannujiao Chibi Nostalgia", Lu Yijian jumped up, Called: "Whose paper is this, who wrote this poem?"

Everyone quickly checked their names, and when they saw the word Su Jin, Lu Yijian sat down slumped.

"But with this poem, you can sit firmly on the leader's seat, and the old man below doesn't need to read it."

The crowd rushed forward and read the poem through, all dumbfounded.

Xia Song and Du Yan are not idiots either, both of them were born in the imperial examination, and there is some ink in their stomachs.

In a few days, the words of Lu Xiang in the imperial court spread throughout the capital, and this heroic style of "Da Jiang Dong Go" quickly became popular in every corner of the capital. At that time, someone compared Su Jin with the deceased master of lyrics, Liu Yong, and commented: "Liu Ci is a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, with red mouth and white teeth, the qin and the zither are singing, singing the willow bank, the wind and the moon, the words of Su Jieyuan, a big man in Kansai, holding an iron plate, beating drums and singing "Da Jiang Dong Going."

Everyone in the literary world thinks that the evaluation is very appropriate.

Su Jin's "Great River to the East" was sung for a while, and Zhao Zhen had already taken Su Jin's test paper into the palace and read it several times, but Zhao Zhen liked Su Jin's policy theory more. Strategy theory is the main reason why Su Jin finally became the top solution test.

The three master examiners who came to judge the test papers asked, and it was true; Pan Guangqi, the master examiner who supported the Beijing East-West Road transfer envoy this time, wrote the comments on the paper as follows: The superficial and difficult style, with plain and rigorous theory, explains the difficult principles thoroughly, and reading it is like drinking ice in summer, and it is extremely hearty; It is really rare to have a good article.

Zhao Zhen went on, and added a sentence after this comment in a chic way: I deserve this comment, and I deserve to be the number one.

Su Jin received two evaluations from Zhao Zhen. The first time was that Zhao Zhen, who was widely rumored outside, said in private that Su Jin was "a top scholar, a hero with courage, and a face with thick walls." ', and now there is the phrase 'the first deserves its name'.

So far, the name of Su Jin has spread all over the capital and spread to all states. This man is young but sophisticated in writing, talented but said to be lazy and thick-skinned. In addition, it is even more shocking to hear that he has entered into a marriage contract with the remarried daughter of the Yan family. , There is a lot of discussion.