The ultimate rebirth of the abandoned woman

Chapter 158 A happy event ([-])

Wei Yuan is a student of the Imperial College, which was once his most proud identity, but at the moment, he feels extremely depressed because of it.

There is no other reason, it is really... Well, speaking of it, the Imperial College is the highest institution of learning at the moment, and it is also a shortcut to officialdom. Being able to study here basically has one foot on the official career.

The problem Wei Yuan has to face now is that his other foot can't get in.

Speaking of this, some people are wondering, didn't you also say earlier that if you enter the Imperial College, you can get a lot of fame and fame.No matter how you put it on Wei Yuan, it won't work. Is the author deliberately embarrassing him?

The answer is of course not. It is the "rules" of the Imperial College that make things difficult for Wei Yuan.

In order to urge the students in the prison to study hard, the imperial court stipulated:
[-]. Supervisors are not allowed to be greedy for pleasure, misbehavior, and those who are "wandering in different places, playing in the wild, drunkenly advocating disputes, abusing others, and not following the law" will all be expelled;
Second, those who have poor grades, "there are articles and essays, and there is a limit for failing. After five years, those who are unfit for application, please return." .

That is to say, entering the Imperial College does not mean that you have full official status. As long as you have poor moral character and poor studies, you will still be sent home to eat yourself.

Wei Yuan encountered such a difficult situation at this moment. He failed the assessment in the Imperial College last year, not only failed to be recommended as an official, but faced the danger of being expelled.

In order to stay in the Imperial College, he had to come to take the imperial examination.

He came to the examination room with a sigh and saw rows of exam candidates, his heart was even heavier.

The only thing I feel fortunate is that Wei Yuan is a nobleman, and his wife is a princess, so he can enter the main hall for the exam, instead of having to take the exam under the verandah of the capital hall like ordinary candidates.

However, when Wei Yuan sat down, he was surprised to find a strange person, and he was stunned to see the leisurely fried tea and hot rice... Your sister, are you sure you are here for an exam, not to play in Qujiang? !
Cui Ba didn't know that there was a person on the right looking at him burningly. At this moment, the spring water in the copper kettle had boiled away, and he was carefully moving the brazier and copper kettle to the desk.

After finally moving the pot of gurgling boiling water aside, Cui Ba hurriedly pulled the single seat back to its original place and spread it, then knelt down gracefully on the single seat.

Uh~~ It's so warm, it's as if a hot stone was placed under the single seat, which made his legs warm.

Just sat down, the examiner has walked into the main hall slowly.

Seeing the chief examiner coming, everyone in the hall and under the verandah stood up, adjusted their clothes, and bowed to the chief examiner.

After saluting, the chief examiner ordered someone to hand out the test questions.

Today is the first session of Jinshi, and the test is Tie Jing, which is the ancient version of filling in the blanks.

Basically, the test is all about rote memorization, which is not difficult for Cui Ba, who has a solid foundation in classics and literature.

After receiving the test questions, Cui Ba was not in a hurry to unfold them. Instead, he prepared the pen, ink and inkstone, ground the ink, dipped the brush in the ink and put it away. Then he carefully removed the string from the paper roll and unfolded the test paper.

After general browsing, Cui Ba's nervous mood suddenly relaxed, hehe, that's great, he has memorized most of the scriptures involved in these exam questions, and it is estimated that he can complete seven to eighty eight.

Picking up the brush, Cui Ba began to answer the questions vigorously.

Other examinees also began to write, and there was a sound of grinding ink and writing in the hall and verandah.

Time passed quickly, and it was noon in a blink of an eye.

There are still a lot of exam questions, and many candidates have already started to put down their pens, pick up the food prepared in advance, heat it up with the charcoal fire and cooking utensils they brought, and hold the cold and hard steamed cakes or The stuffing started to eat.

The imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty were not as strict as those of later generations. You could even talk in a low voice, get up and walk around in the examination room, and if you disagreed with or didn't understand the test questions, you could ask the examiner on the spot.

As long as it is not too outrageous, blatantly exchanging test questions and openly cheating, neither the chief examiner nor the officials patrolling the field will stop or reprimand them.

At this moment, it was lunch time again, and when the candidates were eating, they also began to whisper with the candidates on the left and right.

After working all morning, Cui Ba's stomach growled with hunger.

Putting down the pen, he carefully rolled up the completed test paper and put it in the roll. Cui Ba opened his huge test box, opened the drawer, and looked at the rich food. After thinking about it, he still chose the simpler one. Group oil rice.

The charcoal in the brazier next to the desk was still burning, Cui Ba added a few more pieces of charcoal into it, and the water in the copper kettle had boiled more than half, leaving only the bottom of the pot.

Cui Ba used burlap towels to pad the handles on both sides, carefully carried the hot copper kettle outside the hall, found a secluded corner, and poured out the remaining hot water.

Back at his seat, Cui Ba poured some clear spring water from the green-glazed four-series lidded pot, scooped a spoonful of crushed tuancha in the silver tea drawer with a silver long-handled teaspoon, added the tea leaves to the copper kettle, Add some seasonings such as salt, ginger, green onion, etc., and then put the steamer.

On the steamer of the steamer, a group of oily rice and a bowl of windproof porridge have already been placed.

After thinking about it, Cui Ba brought out a small dish of preserved deer and put them together in the steamer.

The charcoal fire was very hot, and after a while, heat came out of the small holes in the steamer. The aroma of tea mixed with rice, fresh shrimp, chicken soup and various seasonings slowly wafted out, attracting the attention of people around.

Especially Wei Yuan who has been following Cui Ba for a long time.

"Dare to ask Mr. Lang's name?"

Endured and endured, Wei Yuan was really too curious about this magical 'neighbor', especially after smelling a strong smell of rice and tea, he couldn't help it anymore, and said politely.

Cui Ba raised his head, followed the prestige, saw that the other party was a handsome young man, and immediately felt good about him.

He also saw that although he was also dressed in linen, the accessories around his waist were extremely exquisite, and the brushes, ink and inkstones placed on the desk were not of ordinary quality, so he must be the son of a noble son in Jingzhong, so he said with a smile: "A certain surname is Cui, my dear." Cui Qu Cui Ba in Renfang. I don’t know how to call your husband?”

Wei Yuan was taken aback, this is Cui Yulang Cui Youbo from the legend, the unlucky guy who married the shrew of the Xiao family? !

However, Wei Yuan is worthy of being Jingzhao Wei's disciple, he is best at superficial skills, he was stunned for a blink of an eye, and soon returned to his usual smile, saying: "So it's Cui Jia Yulang, disrespectful and disrespectful. Speaking of it , we are still relatives by marriage, a certain one is the son of Jingzhao Wei, his wife is Princess Antong, and he and the eighth lady of your house are cousins."

Cui Ba has studied genealogy and memorized clan annals, so he naturally knows what Jingzhao Wei's family is.

Just this Princess Antong?
After thinking about it carefully, Cui Ba suddenly remembered, isn't this the eldest daughter of the prince's uncle, a royal daughter who is four years younger than Xiao Nan?
"That's right, Princess Antong is Zhuojing's cousin, so please call Wei Lang a cousin, okay?"

Cui Ba smiled gently and said slowly.

Wei Yuan was waiting for this sentence, he quickly straightened up and rubbed his hands, said: "It should be so. My cousin obeys the rules, and my cousin-in-law can tell me to obey the rules."

Cui Ba hurriedly returned the gift, "I haven't yet lost the crown, so I have no words. Is it to obey the rules or to be a supervisor?"

"Shouru is studying in the Imperial College now," Wei Yuan exchanged a few words, the scent on his nose became stronger and stronger, and he couldn't help bringing the topic to him: "My cousin-in-law is well prepared and ready to give birth."

Cui Ba noticed that the other party's eyes were too fierce, and immediately understood, and hurriedly greeted, "If you don't give up on obeying the rules, let's use it together."

Wei Yuan was really rude, put away the exam papers, moved his food box to Cui Ba's side, and made room for a while: "Your cousin is welcome too, let's go together!"

Cui Ba glanced at Wei Yuan's exquisite food box, feeling pitiful, tsk tsk, this Wei Shougui is also a son of a noble family, and his wife is a princess, and for such an important matter as tribute, he actually brought such simple food.

Comparing the rich meals prepared by his wife, Cui Ba didn't like the steamed cakes in Wei Yuan's food box, and a plate of cold dishes made of lamb, pig, cow, bear, deer and other minced meat ( Also known as Wusheng plate), and a few meat bream and shrimp broil-eating cold dishes in cold weather is, really easy enough.

Shaking his head secretly, Cui Ba said in a compassionate tone that he didn't realize, "Follow the rules, just eat, I still have some here."

At this time, more and more steam came out from the cauldron and steamer. Cui Ba counted the time and felt that it was about the same time, so he put on a linen towel, carefully took off the steamer, and put all the food in the steamer one by one. Release it.

Wei Yuan was very discerning, and hurriedly handed over his own teacup.

Cui Ba didn't say anything else, first scooped up a cup of tea soup for Wei Yuan, and added another bowl for himself.The copper cauldron is not big, and after removing the two bowls, there is only a small half of the tea soup in the cauldron.

Cui Ba added some more spring water, and Fu took some food from the test box and put them on the steamer of the steamer, and then put the steamer back on the copper kettle.

During this period, Wei Yuan actively helped add a handful of charcoal.

In this way, the two in-laws who met for the first time sat opposite each other in the examination room and ate lunch together.

"Huh~~ Such a fragrant tea, Cui Lang really deserves to be a descendant of the Boling Cui family, the kung fu of roasting tea is really amazing."

Holding the teacup in his arms, and drinking hot tea in small sips, Wei Yuan felt his cold body warm up again.

It's not that he hasn't had a good tea soup, but he doesn't know if it's a psychological effect. The tea he drinks from Cui Bajian is particularly fragrant, and there is always a faint sweetness lingering in his teeth and throat, with endless aftertaste.

"It's good spring water."

Cui Ba knew that the level of his fried tea was only average, but he could have such a delicious taste. He made a lot of calculations, and finally attributed the credit to the 'water', "This is the mountain spring water that my wife specially brought from the farm. It is sweet and clear, and it can be used to brew tea to fully induce the mellow aroma of the tea."

"Princess Xiangcheng?" Is she so virtuous?Wei Yuan's handsome face was full of disbelief.

Seeing this, Cui Ba hurriedly spoke good words for his wife, "Yes, all my preparations for the exam today were prepared by my wife. Oh, by the way, and, do you know why I put the brazier on the single seat just now?"

Wei Yuan shook his head.

Cui Ba put down the teacup and got up, "Come and sit with me!"

Wei Yuan was puzzled, but he walked over obediently, flicked his sleeves, and sat down on his knees.

As soon as his knee touched the ground, he let out a 'huh', "This, this... Cui Lang is actually hot here?
PS: Hey, catching bugs...

(End of this chapter)