The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

The location of the Mincemeat Banquet is very interesting. It is a spacious bright hall that combines the characteristics of a water pavilion and a pleasure boat.This hall is built on the lake, with low walls on all sides and high windows, which are about five feet long and wide.

Except for the main entrance to allow people to enter and exit, there are three rows of seats on each of the other three sides, and each row of seats has five long tables, each table can seat three people.

In the middle of the Ming Hall, there is a round platform surrounded by a flower pond that is more than a foot wide, facing three sides.The round platform is not high and has a radius of more than ten feet. It is a place for performances.

What is planted in the flower pond is not fresh flowers, but delicately carved ice flowers of four seasons. The layers of petals of the ice flowers borrow the skill of ice lanterns, making the humble flower pond look colorful and eye-catching.

Perhaps the room temperature is still relatively high, and there is a slight chill in the flower ponds around the round platform, which adds to the color of the stage.

Sheng Yuan and An Yu Lu Sheng filed in with the team. Since there were adults at the front and back of the team, they were the only three little people standing in the middle, so everyone was afraid of stepping on them, so they stepped forward and back, leaving room Space.

The three of Shengyuan didn't notice everyone's kindness, and their attention was all on Mingting Hall.

The guide found this out, and he was relieved. After all, the three little ones were the smallest of the foreign visitors who participated in the minced fruit banquet this time. Whether it was the academy's request or his instinct, he had to take extra care of these three.

He led the three of Sheng Yuan to sit in the first row of seats facing the stage, and pointed to a lantern on the table and said: "If you need to pay respects, you can use the light in the drawer to light the lamp. At that time, I will arrange a maid to accompany me."

The three of Sheng Yuan nodded and agreed.

"puff!"

The sudden laughter made Sheng Yuan couldn't help but look over, and saw a few mid-teens about fifteen or sixteen years old laughing.

"Sister Yuan, is he laughing at us?" An Yu was a little embarrassed by the people on the left. She wanted to lose her temper but was afraid of affecting the atmosphere, so she couldn't help shaking Sheng Yuan's sleeves and muttering softly.

Brother Sheng on the side also blushed, he was already five years old, and he could tell good from bad early, so he naturally knew that the other party was laughing at them and they were specially taken care of by the guide.

Sheng Yuan didn't care about such a naive reaction at first, but she couldn't help but care about her little friend who was made uncomfortable by their laughter.

Immediately, she put on a cute look and looked at the guide, and said loudly in a childish voice: "Don't worry, little sir, we are all big children who can control themselves, and we can take care of ourselves. If we are like those who laugh at others at will You're just like a guy, and the adults won't let us come here by ourselves!"

"Hey!" The half-grown boys realized that Sheng Yuan was pointing at them, and immediately became unhappy.When he was about to talk about it, he saw three chubby guys looking over.

Sheng Yuan looked at them, put his little hands on his hips, and raised his head to grab the words: "The sage teaches gentlemen to be cautious about independence, but these gentlemen laugh at children wantonly in public, and they have no virtue of a gentleman. It can be seen that they should re-read the sages' books!"

"That's right! It's already rude, but you still have to fight back. This is wrong and wrong! Why are you staring at us? You can't even listen to the teachings of the sages!" An Yu immediately followed, imitating Sheng Yuan's akimbo, domineering He stared back, trying to make his eyes bigger.

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Sheng answered quickly: "You want to hit someone, don't you? The three of us stand here and wait! If you bully Baizhou Academy, a place of scholarly education and a place for educating people We don't need to leave!"

The leader was already dissatisfied with those few provocateurs. As soon as Lu Sheng said this, his complexion became more and more unsightly. If the other party hadn't been sensible and muttered and sat away with his sleeves thrown away, he would have asked someone to take them away. Please get out.

When the three children in Shengyuan saw each other's defeat, they clapped their hands together and cheered triumphantly, and happily sat down on their seats one by one.

The crowd watching the whole process found it quite funny, if the banquet was not important, they would all want to surround the three festive dolls to make them talk.

Especially the young men dressed as Confucian scholars at the head, they were about to stand up when those worthless guys wanted to threaten the children just now, but these three little guys jumped out faster one by one, and they themselves If the problem is solved, they will not be given a chance to be a hero.

When the people who sat down were waiting for the fruit to be served, they always unconsciously turned their attention to the three little guys in the front row.

Originally, Sheng Yuan wanted to sit outside, after all, it was cheaper to get in and out, but An Yu and Brother Cheng tacitly reserved the most spacious seat in the middle for her.

Well, this is also very good, a good friend on the left hand and a good friend on the right hand, how wonderful it feels!
Sheng Yuan cheerfully turned to the table, only to see that this table can accommodate three people, divided into three parts by two arch bridge models as a partition.

There are three medicine powder bags the size of hand stoves on each of the arch bridges, which are used by guests to wipe their hands before meals.

Sheng Yuan took out one and opened it, and mixed her two little paws in the bag, letting the medicine powder inside keep her paws cool, until she counted a hundred or so before pulling her hand out.

Although it was her first time to use this unknown medicine powder bag, she was not unfamiliar with it. The guide introduced how to use it before, and she wrote it down after hearing it.

There is also a medicine powder bag distributed to her on this table. It has not been touched, so it can be taken back.

"Sister Yuan must take it away, there is no one for sale outside." Lu Sheng thought his father had mentioned this, so he was in a hurry to tell Sheng Yuan.

"Yeah!" Sheng Yuan nodded, and said to herself, even if she couldn't research the prescription after taking it home, she could ask the system to analyze it for her, and she might be able to reproduce a useful dry cleaning powder.

She doesn't use the medicine powder from Baizhou Academy to make money, she just takes her family for her own use.

"Why don't you have dessert yet!" An Yu couldn't sit still, and after hearing the whispers from the crowd behind, they all said that they had been waiting for a long time for dessert, and suddenly became irritable.

"Yes!" Lu Sheng also nodded, he wanted to stand up and take a walk, "Dad never mentioned before that it takes so long to wait for snacks."

"..." Sheng Yuan tilted his head up and looked back and forth, feeling that something was wrong.

It takes half a day to serve snacks?
Sheng Yuan murmured in his heart, his eyes unconsciously looked at the table.

Although the table is spacious, there are plates containing pen holders, pen holders, paperweights, seals, and inkstones on the table, occupying one-third of the space.

"Huh?" Sheng Yuan stared boredly at the Four Treasures of the Study at first, but his nose was so sharp that he couldn't help twitching.

"What's the matter, Miss Yuan?" An Yu saw that Sheng Yuan's head was about to hit the inkstone, and hurriedly followed, sniffling like Sheng Yuan.

"Why are you doing this?" Although Lu Sheng asked, he leaned over and sniffed it.

Well, it smells so good!
I don't know whether it's because their movements are conspicuous, or some people have good noses, but before Sheng Yuan picked up the brush on the pen stand, someone said loudly: "The brushes, ink, and paper on this plate are all snacks!"