Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 71 Dare to Snatch People (Please collect and recommend monthly tickets)

Living in a new home with few people, Shun Er and a few servants inevitably worried about this and that.

Shi Zhongkui was fine, he wasn't worried about any ghosts appearing at all, I can't run if I can't win, and this is the capital city, and it's not the end of the dynasty, so there are so many ghosts.

The next morning, Shi Zhongkui moved his ears, and heard a group of footsteps and noise in the distance. It should be that they came to announce the good news, and by the way, the servants who passed the news to ask for rewards came.

At this time, the mood is inevitably expected and excited.

In ancient times, there were many idlers and hooligans who would come to their homes to announce the good news on this day, but if this group of people had poor eyesight, they would definitely be beaten up by the government officials afterwards.

The reason is very simple. For today, Xue Pan had someone make 1 silver ladles weighing one renminbi, and all of them were engraved with the words "prosperous official fortune and good luck".

These silver melon seeds alone cost a hundred taels of silver, plus 5 taels of manual fee.

Moreover, ten silver ingots of 50 taels were prepared for the yamen servants to pass the news. According to him, if the brother-in-law can get the first place, every yamen servant who comes to announce the good news will get a silver ingot.

If this is caught by idlers and rogues, those who report that the yamen servants kill people will have the heart.

And those who came to see the visitors, no matter what, they could grab three or five silver melon seeds.

Shi Zhongkui shook his head while watching, but he didn't intend to stop Xue Pan.

I am a scholar, so I live in a big house that is obviously 3 taels, but in fact it is at least 2 taels of silver. If I spend some money, I can also create in advance that my family's wealth is not small.

As for whether outsiders will say that the house and money belong to the Xue family, Shi Zhongkui doesn't care.

Anyway, the Xue family knew that they were not short of money, as long as they had enough confidence to speak in front of Xue Baochai and Xue Pan.

Not long after, Xue Pan suddenly turned his head to look at the courtyard wall in a daze. After a few breaths, the sound of beating gongs and drums finally came in from outside.

"Here we come, here we come," Xue Pan slapped his thigh, and excitedly shouted to Shun'er and his new servant, "Quick, get ready the wedding money, and go to Rongguo Mansion immediately to tell the wife and girl."

Shi Zhongkui didn't stop him either, because he had already heard the words of 'Master Shi, the chief trial officer of Shuntian Mansion Court' shouting from outside.

Only myself and Shi Guangzhu's surnames were around, and Shi Guangzhu had an elm head, so I was the only one left.

Sure enough, the servants of the Xue family who had been staring at the gate of the house for a while ran in with a surprised expression on their legs and feet, and shouted, "My lord, my lord, you have won the case, little Sanyuan, little Sanyuan! .”

When Xue Pan heard this, he burst out laughing, and then knelt down facing the south, "Father, the boy did not treat my sister badly. Our family has also produced Wenquxing."

Shi Zhongkui immediately rolled his eyes, he was just a scholar, and his surname was Shi not Xue, and he didn't join Xue's family, so he became a member of Xue's family at some point.

Fortunately, Xue Pan was not confused, and pulled himself to kneel down to the south to pray to his father-in-law, otherwise Shi Zhongkui would definitely kick him over.

Shi Zhongkui didn't object to kneeling when he went to the grave in Qingming, but there was an ancestor tablet in his home.

"Brother, let's go, how could you be missing on this happy day."

Shi Zhongkui shook his head with a smile, put his hands behind his back, and walked slowly through the front yard, and saw that there were already people crowded outside the door, and the entire street was crowded.

Besides, besides the common people who were clearly dressed to watch the excitement, there were also quite a few scholars wearing scholar robes, or even Confucian scholar robes, waiting for me with anticipation.

"Come out, San Yuangong has come out."

With this shout, the already lively street suddenly became noisier.

Shi Zhongkui hurriedly bowed to the crowd, saying that it was a fluke, and reminded that it was just a small Sanyuan, and he was not even qualified to erect a monument in the Confucius Temple.

At most, a memorial archway can be set up in the ancestral tomb. Except for the descendants of the Shi family who will go to see it, no one else cares about you as a scholar.

But the people present don't care about these things, many scholars probably want to get a taste of culture and luck.

They congratulated in unison, "Congratulations to Brother Shi, congratulations to Brother Shi for being honored as a small Sanyuan in Shuntian Mansion. He is famous in Gyeonggi and famous in history."

At this moment, Shi Zhongkui finally couldn't help but smile crookedly.

It is good to say that there are many people who can do this in Gyeonggi, but there are not many biography in Qing history.

From now on, it will be written in Shuntian Prefecture Chronicles that on the eighth day of the eighth month of the Bingzi year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Shi Zhongkui and Shi Boqian, a student of Daxing, came first in the college examination, and were the first person in the northern part of the Great Zhou Dynasty to win the Little Sanyuan.

By the way, a series of biographies are specially introduced to introduce his life. Of course, if it stops here, it will only be three or five sentences at most, and the total may not exceed 20 words.

When Shi Zhongkui was thinking about it, he suddenly noticed that there were several groups of people obviously wearing the clothes of servants and servants behind the crowd on the street, and they were constantly pushing towards him.

Before he could figure out what these people were going to do, he heard a shout from a distance, "Brother Pan, be careful, someone is coming to snatch Boqian and come to him as his son-in-law."

Grandma, Xue Pan suddenly became angry and roared, and a dozen servants of the Xue family with sticks rushed out of the house and surrounded Shi Zhongkui.

A few clever people immediately grabbed the silver melon seeds carried out by everyone and sprinkled them on the street.

For a moment, under the shining of the sun, the sky was filled with silver light. Those who watched the bustle did not have the heart to watch the drama of snatching the marriage, and rushed forward.

In an instant, several groups of servants from other families were overwhelmed by the crowded people.

"Sprinkle quickly, and then throw money," Xue Pan shouted immediately when he saw this, "Silver melon seeds for a penny are a thank you gift from my son-in-law of the Xue family."

Now the people behind are eager to fly to the sky and rush over to grab the money.

"Hahaha", seeing that among the group of servants, there was someone leaning over to pick up money, Xue Pan was so excited that he almost went crazy.

He grabbed the silver melon seeds with both hands and threw them at the group of people.

While throwing it, he shouted, "Grab it, don't let this group of people get the money first."

However, Shi Zhongkui's face became darker the more he looked at it. If there was a stampede and people were injured or killed, he would be the one who was unlucky.

He hurriedly grabbed Shun'er and asked him to lead someone to scatter the money far away. The area where the money was scatter was large, and finally the crowd no longer only crowded towards the gate.

Moreover, the group of servants were also on the periphery, and the crowd dispersed in an instant.

The one thousand silver melon seeds were quickly scattered, and the atmosphere gradually calmed down. Afterwards, the servants brought by Jia Lian, Feng Ziying and others took the opportunity to squeeze over the wall, and the situation was finally stabilized.

Glaring at Xue Pan who was laughing loudly, Shi Zhongkui himself knew that Xue Pan was not to blame for this incident.

Only then did the four yamen servants have the opportunity to hand over the big red news to Shi Zhongkui, and each of them had a silver ingot of 4 taels, which once again stirred up the atmosphere.

He also greeted many scholars with disheveled clothes, and after politely sending them away, the good news was over.

Shi Zhongkui hurriedly bowed his hands to Jia Lian and Feng Ziying to thank him. While he was talking, he heard a commotion outside.

(End of this chapter)