happy event

Chapter 64

Soon, a small steward called him into the inner hall to interrogate him. The county magistrate Xu and Xuejian Wei already knew it well. They also saw that Dong Ping's calligraphy was neat and beautiful, his poems and paintings were excellent, and he was obviously familiar with "The Analects of Confucius".What's even more rare is that this young man is tall and handsome, and although he is wearing a very simple royal blue gown, he stands in the middle of the lobby with a neither humble nor overbearing posture, responding respectfully and politely, no matter how you look at him, everything is pleasing to the eye, and everything is pleasing to the eye.So, the two of them spoke a few words of praise one after another.

Mr. Yang also has a few proud disciples who are officials in the court, so he said half-jokingly and half-seriously with a very strong waist, "How can my disciples not be outstanding?"

Superintendent Wu and County Magistrate Xu have been in the officialdom for many years, and they are too handy to send favors along the water. After hearing this, they immediately accepted Dong Ping as a new student.

Dong Ping was overjoyed, thanked everyone with a salute and rushed out of the door excitedly.But he was still sober, and soon restrained his joy, and when he met his classmates waiting in the porch, he only said a few words, and hurried to the main entrance of the academy.

Outside the main gate, many men, women and children gathered, and someone saw him coming out and asked loudly, "Young master, have you seen my young master?"

That one also asked, "Young master, my son's name is Du Qiusheng, how did he do in the exam?"

Dong Ping looked around while trying to deal with the crowd, but fortunately, Xizi quickly got through the crowd to pick him up and rushed into the teahouse.

When Dong Xiucai saw his son coming upstairs, he was so anxious that he asked, "Are you picking up the student?"

Dong Rong pulled the younger brother who was going to salute, first handed him a bowl of tea to moisten his throat, and then asked warmly, "The question is not difficult, is it?"

Dong Ping tried his best to endure the joy, nodded and said, "It's not difficult."

When Dong Xiucai saw that his son announced the good news without opening his mouth, he thought he hadn't picked it up again, so he sat down on the chair in disappointment and said nothing.On the contrary, Niu regained his energy, and taunted with his mouth curled up, "Dragon begets dragons, phoenix begets phoenixes, and the son of a mouse can make holes. My father is incompetent, what kind of big waves can my son make. Hmph, what a waste!" It’s better to go home and farm the land than Yinzi’s studying.”

The eavesdroppers lost interest when they saw Dong Xiucai and Niu's appearance, and looked at Dong Ping from time to time with a bit of pity.

On the other hand, Dong Rong instinctively felt that her younger brother would not be missed, so she reached out and pressed Dong Ping to sit down, poured tea for him and comforted him in a low voice, "Brother Ping, you only saw muddy legs when you got out of the water, let's wait and see. Elder sister believes in you." After she finished speaking, she pulled Shazhu to testify again, "Zhuzi, do you also believe in Brother Ping?"

Silly Zhu nodded, and said seriously, "I believe." Dong Rong was delighted that he helped her, and took a piece of walnut cake as a reward.

Dong Ping's hands under the table tightly clutched the front of his clothes, his heart was burning hot...

Dong Xiucai sighed enough and wanted to get up and go home, but Niu planned to wait for the academy to come out and roll his name, and then he would taunt Dong Ping. It would be even better if he could take him home to do some work.So, she begged desperately to stay.Dong Xiucai had no choice but to sit down again.

Finally, more than half an hour passed, and all the candidates came out one after another. Some looked happy, some were depressed and refused to look up, and some were beating their chests and feet and crying loudly.

After a while, the gate of the academy opened again.County Magistrate Xu and Superintendent Wu walked over together. After giving in to each other, County Magistrate Xu unfolded the red paper in his hand, coughed twice, and was about to read out the results.

The people in the teahouse sat empty all morning just waiting for this moment, so they swarmed to the window to listen carefully.Niu's seat was close to the window, and the railing was extremely short. She felt uncomfortable being squeezed by the crowd, and wanted to turn around to hide, but she tripped over the leg of the chair, and she fell down before she could scream. .

On weekdays, this would be a great excitement, but at such a critical moment today, no one has the time to pay attention to it.County magistrate Xu took a good posture and finally started to read.The first one is, "South of Qingxian County, Huaishu Village, Dong Ping and Dong Juncheng, take it!"

Mr. Dong didn't go to the window at all, but it was too quiet inside and outside the house. The autumn wind sent these words to his ears clearly, and he was so startled that he yelled out, "What, why don't you?" ……got it?"

Dong Rong hugged her younger brother happily, and said with a sob, "Brother Ping, you got it, you are a scholar! My brother is a scholar!"

Dong Ping also had tears in his eyes, hugged his sister tightly, and responded in a low voice, "Sister, I promised you, I will protect you in the future!"

The siblings cried into a ball, and Sha Zhu felt pantothenic acid in his heart. He looked up at the roof, wondering if the position of the purlin was wrong.

Master Dong also wanted to go forward to congratulate, but he stretched out his hands in the air and shrank them back.The son was also selected as a scholar. In the future, if the relationship between father and son is ignored, the two will be on equal footing.If his son's fame was obtained with his strong support, it would be better to talk about it, but unfortunately he only found out now that it has nothing to do with him at all.

Fortunately, as County Magistrate Xu read out the names of the newly promoted talents, everyone upstairs and downstairs were discussing and cheering, which barely relieved his embarrassment.

Over there, Dong Rong's sister and brother also wiped their tears.Dong Ping bowed to Dong Xiucai with a calm face, and said calmly, "Father, I have been selected as a scholar."

Master Dong answered blankly, "Oh, good." He wanted to say a few words of encouragement at first, but those words couldn't come out after gurgling in his mouth.In the end, he let out a long sigh, and wanted to drag Niu back to the village with him in desperation.

However, he turned his head and searched for a while, but he couldn't see Niu's figure.At this time, everyone downstairs had watched the excitement, and suddenly remembered that there was another joke waiting for them to discover.

"Oh, whose wife is this, why did she fall downstairs?"

"That's right, I didn't make a sound. Could it be death?"

While everyone was discussing like this, a man stretched out his hand and turned him over. Niu, who was half-suffocated, finally took a breath and cried, "Oh, I fell to death!"

Everyone roared with laughter, Master Dong rushed to the window to have a look, the woman lying sprawled on the ground with her dress turned upside down revealing her red trousers was not his daughter-in-law.He immediately rushed downstairs, pulled Niu up and cursed, "You shameless woman, don't let me go home!"

The tea house was not very tall, and Niu, relying on his extremely fat body, was caught and shaken a few times without feeling any pain, so he cursed loudly, "You heartless, I'm going to fall to your death , you are still not willing to send me to the hospital for money!"

When Master Dong heard her yelling, he was full of anger, so he didn't want to stay any longer, he dragged her desperately and left, leaving everyone behind after laughing.

Standing by the window, the Dong Rong siblings naturally saw all this in their eyes, and at the end they looked at each other and forgot all about it.For them since they were young, the only ones who could be called relatives were each other, and the others with the same surname Dong were just familiar passers-by.

Dong Rong slapped her hands with a smile, and announced boldly, "Today is a great day, we must celebrate with wine, and go shopping now!" Sha Zhu and Dong Ping both laughed and ordered.Dong Rong simply agreed, and the three of them walked downstairs quickly, talking and laughing.

It was night, and the small courtyard outside the city was as bright as day.More than a dozen big red lanterns are hung high under the corridor, and the golden tassels dance happily with the evening wind.

In the kitchen, Dong Rong wore an apron around her waist, frying and cooking deftly, with beads of sweat dripping down her hair from time to time from her busy head.Stir-fried shredded chicken with shiitake mushrooms, fried river prawns with leeks, diced hawthorn meat, emerald bitter gourd cup, braised lentils with sliced ​​meat, cold lotus root slices, and of course the most important thing is a large pot of braised pork. This dish has become a favorite of all Dong Rong's relatives and friends favorite.

She can't wait to present all the good dishes she knows how to cook, and reward her brother who studies hard and finally takes one step closer to becoming a master.

Second Sister Cao happily shuttled between the kitchen and the yard, helping to serve dishes and set the table. Du Juan’s sister-in-law walked up and down with her big belly, telling her to be careful on her feet from time to time, but in the end she stumbled from time to time, which made Wang Lu tremble with fear .

Finally, the dishes were complete, and the Yuhuachun wine bought in the restaurant was also unsealed, and everyone sat around, one of them brought the wine bowl, of course the cuckoo was not counted.

Dong Ping looked at everyone for a long time before saying, "Today I got the student qualification, all thanks to my sister's hard work to earn money for my study, I will study harder in the future, and I will definitely give my sister an imperial order when the high school champion comes back!"

Dong Rong was relieved and amused at the same time, and joked, "When you win the first prize in the exam, first earn yourself a good wife."

Everyone burst out laughing, Dong Ping blushed, and took a sip from the wine bowl first.As a result, needless to say, his face turned red in an instant.

Everyone applauded loudly, and then cheered to the end.I don't know if this body is inherently resistant to alcohol, or Dong Rong's alcohol tolerance from previous life is at work.After drinking a bowl of wine, she didn't feel drunk at all, and happily poured wine for everyone.On the other hand, Second Sister Cao's eyes soon became blurred, and the chopsticks that pinched the braised pork always fell through.

Dong Rong was so funny that she set aside half of the bowl for her, and then her little face was almost buried in the bowl.Men usually drink a few sips when they have nothing to do, so naturally they won't get drunk so quickly.

Manager Zhang took out a piece of residual ink from his pocket and gave it to Dong Ping as a congratulatory gift. Dong Ping could faintly smell the special fragrance emanating from the ink stick, so he guessed that the congratulatory gift was not simple. .

Steward Zhang hurriedly returned the gift, and said with a smile, "I came back alone, and I can afford this piece of ink with me, as long as Second Young Master doesn't dislike it."

Seeing this, Wang Lu also smiled and looked at his mother-in-law. Du Juan glared at him and said angrily, "You are impatient!" After speaking, he turned to Dong Ping and smiled, "Brother Ping, I have nothing good with your cousin. , I only prepared a set of clothes, shoes and socks for you. Try it on tomorrow when you have free time, if it doesn’t fit, sister-in-law can just change it.”

"Thank you, cousin, sister-in-law. Cousin's sewing is the best, and it must fit you well." Dong Ping thanked him sincerely, and even complimented her, which made Du Juan's sister-in-law squint her eyes when she smiled.

After eating the braised pork, Second Sister Cao pouted and retorted, "No, my needlework is better!"

Everyone turned their heads to see that her face was flushed, her mouth and nose were covered with oil, she looked like a greedy little cat, cute and naive, so they all laughed.Dong Rong regretted letting the little girl drink, and persuaded her to eat a few chopsticks dishes before helping her to sleep in the room.

Guanshi Zhang watched the sister-in-law and sister-in-law pass through the corridor, and there was a strange flicker in his eyes.Not wanting to suddenly feel the extreme coldness on his back, he subconsciously turned his head to look for it, and saw Silly Zhu hiding in the shadows with a wine bowl in his hand, with the corners of his lips slightly curled up, staring at him with slightly closed eyes.He immediately bowed his head respectfully, ate and drank honestly, joking and joking from time to time.

(End of this chapter)