Wear ancient times with a house

Chapter 309 Appointments
Organizing a banquet may seem inconspicuous, but it takes up quite a bit of time, especially for people in the capital who are not familiar with it. It took Shen a lot of time just to find suitable hired workers and to get in touch with them.

At this time, Shen felt that the daughter was caring and reliable.

That's right, even though Mrs. Shen said that Mrs. Song was doing guidance work and that she was doing specific work, but in fact, Mrs. Song just made a statement "to let the masses leave with a good meal and drink." " and other empty talk, the rest is Shen's job.

Shen didn't have the familiar little secretary Bai Sui, nor did she have the Hu family's mother-in-law and Li mother-in-law who were easy to use, but she wished to pull out the hairs and change into three or five of herself to coordinate and arrange these kinds of activities, and finally captured Song Yun. .

To say what is the most difficult thing about hosting a banquet is not to draw up the menu, nor to purchase ingredients, but to choose a nice name for each dish that can prove that it is a Jinshi banquet, and to arrange seats.

Let’s not talk about the first one, even in modern times, after the college entrance examination, fried bitter gourd with sliced ​​soya bean meat has to be called “studying hard for ten years in the cold window”, let alone ancient times.

In order to reflect the cultural heritage, there must be ingenuity, so you can't engage in "bringing doctrine" and directly use the standard Jinshi banquet list in restaurants, but have to carry out localized innovation.

Song Yun pulled two older brothers and a cousin, and after thinking hard for several days, he came up with a menu that was unaffordable just because of the name.

When Song Jun was doing this, it was hard not to think of Ziwei's dish names like "Swallow Grass Rubisi" and "Qin Sang Low Green Branches", and then couldn't help but reminisce while telling the plot to the two brothers I said it again.

As a result, a bunch of logic bugs were picked out, Song Zhen wished he could immediately turn into a ruthless coding machine, and show Song Yun how to write the plot of the story so that it looks real and moving.

After the menu is drawn up, determining the seating arrangement becomes the top priority.

Naturally, the Shen family took the lead in this matter, and Song Yun assisted.

Considering that the Zhao family had conflicts between the two families because they missed a piece of cloth from the Li family, and considering that the Chen family was rushing to repair the porcelain in the middle of the night, which affected the sleep quality of the old lady of the Sun family, which made the old ladies of the two families quarrel, etc. In a messy interpersonal relationship, you have to be more cautious when arranging seats.

This is a banquet for entertaining neighbors in the neighborhood, relatively speaking, it is relatively easy, and what is more important is to entertain guests with higher status.

For example, the Qi family, and Zheng Hanlin's old friends who helped Song Nian.

I also have to post a post to King Jin's maternal ancestor's family. Anyway, it is because of the relationship between buying and selling alcohol prescriptions. Even if they don't come back, they have to do their best.

Song Nian thought about it, and added Tang Zhifu's elder brother's family. After he, Wang Qi, and Zhao Yanlin passed the exam, the Tang family also sent people to invite them as guests, not for the sake of wooing them, but for forming a good relationship. .

They invited them to be guests, so they have to notify them when they hold a banquet.

Also, the son of the old Juren who was treated in time because Song Nian discovered the fire was recuperating with his father in the capital. He also visited Song Nian to thank Song Nian, so he had to invite him this time.

Tongnian and professors whom Song Nian met in the school dormitory in the suburbs also had to post invitations to express their feelings.

After such a calculation, even though my family has lived in the capital for less than a year, there are quite a few new acquaintances.

Most of them are people who are qualified to make further friends with Song Nian as Song Nian's status changes.

Most of them took part in it with dignity. Although not the parents came in person, they also arranged for their nephews and wives and children to show their attitude with congratulatory gifts.

As a result, the social circles of Song Ce's three brothers and sisters all improved by coincidence. They used to communicate with friends in the neighborhood, but now they can gradually communicate with the officials' young masters and ladies in the capital following this banquet.

The same is true for Mrs. Song and Mrs. Shen. Even though Song Nian is still white and has no formal official position, he can still take the children of the family to some gatherings from time to time.

Even Huber, now that he goes out to buy ingredients and daily necessities, he can put together orders with some servants in the families of small officials and small officials, and buy some things at wholesale prices.

After waiting for his family to deal with a series of things that happened after Song Nianzhong became a scholar, Song Nian finally had to wait for the exam that was related to the start of his official career.

Different from the nervousness of the family members, Song Nian faced the exam calmly as if he knew the result a long time ago.

This time the results were distributed very quickly, there were no results, no rankings, only the final distribution results.

Song Nian became the incoming county magistrate of a small county magistrate in the northwest, rank eight.

On the day they got the results, the family looked at each other in blank dismay, wishing they could go to the yamen immediately and steal the map to find out where this Qinxi County was.

What kind of place is this?

Let's start with the location:

Qinxi County is the county seat under the jurisdiction of Qinzhou Prefecture. From the map, it is located in the northwest of the Wei Dynasty.

What kind of county is in Qinzhou Prefecture? In fact, it is difficult for ordinary people to know, even the Song family does not know, but the northwest direction is now the focus of everyone's attention. After all, there is a war going on there.

Although Song Nian explained:
"It is Qianxi Mansion that is fighting, not Qinzhou Mansion. The distance is far away."

This is true, the land is vast and the resources are not rich, which is a true portrayal of the Northwest region. Even in the same state capital, the southernmost region is thousands of miles away from the northernmost region.

What's more, Qinzhou Mansion is separated from Qianxi Mansion by a mansion.

But the family still can't accept it, and always feel that this place is not safe.

In ancient times, there were also restrictions on officials working in their hometowns. Like Wang Pu, it is possible to follow the vassal king, but if you want to be an official with real power such as a parent official in one place, you have to work in another place, except for the capital, of course.

In short, under such a premise, the Song family did not expect Song Nian to return to Jinzhou to be an official, but it is possible to work in a nearby state.

This is what the Song family is looking forward to:
Not only is it close to home, but the surrounding state capitals are relatively prosperous, which may leave less room for Song Nian to play, but it's good to be able to grow old in peace and stability.

For this, Mrs. Song and Mrs. Shen also asked Song Nian if he wanted to spend money on giving gifts to others. At this time, they are not afraid of spending money, as long as they are allocated to a good place.

Song Nian refused at the time, saying that it was useless to spend money. Now that the appointment notice has come down, Mrs. Song regrets it terribly. If she had known that she would be assigned to such a place, she would definitely use the money to clear up the relationship. I want to be allocated near my hometown, and I don't want to be in a prosperous place. I want to be safe anyway.

What's more, Qinxi County not only has a bad geographical location, but also has other disadvantages:

For example, the land is barren and products are scarce, there are no pillar industries such as coal mines, gold and silver mines, and no climate advantages such as growing mulberry and grain;
For another example, the style of writing is not strong, the customs of the people are tough, and Hu and Han live together, and small conflicts among the people often occur.

The most important thing is that the previous county magistrate was not promoted or promoted after the end of his term, but he was inferior in the annual assessment, and was finally demoted and left in despair.

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