Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

The emperor's likes and dislikes are the top priority in the hearts of the eunuchs.

Although Father Gao never received a gift from Cui Xie personally, even the beauty picture dedicated to the emperor was won by his nephew based on real money and learning, but caring for Cui Xie is no less than caring for him. Goddess of silver.

In order to ask Cui Xie to meet the emperor’s expectations, the **** Gao himself inquired about the Cui family from the Daxing county magistrate, while adjusting his papers from the Hanyuan, he also called Gao Su privately and asked the nephew and son to leave. When visiting Cui's mansion, please remind Cui Xie to take care of the family affairs-especially after his step-brother comes back, pay attention to discipline him, and don't leave such talkative handles.

Gao Su smiled at him, patted his chest and said, "This is a trivial matter, dad don't worry, I promise to teach that Cui case chief to do it properly!"

He speaks casually, but he is not inferior to his father in his devotion to the Holy Mandate. Because of this leak of the forbidden Chinese language, I didn't dare to do anything about it. After dark, I changed my body to Tsing Yi and took a car to Cui Mansion and knocked on the mansion door.

Cui Xie was leaning on the sofa at the time, looking at Xue Hedong's "Reading Record".

When he was in the county, although Mr. Lin explained the "Poems" through Zhu Zi's "The Anthology of Poetry", he was not a master of Neo-Confucianism himself, so he emphasized exegesis rather than rationality. It's different when it comes to Guoxue. The exegesis is something that students should thoroughly understand before entering school. The instructors are all Jinshi and Confucian scholars, and they emphasize the principles.

And this rationale is not simply to memorize Cheng Zhu's works. Although Zhu Xi’s commentary was respected in the Ming Dynasty, every master of the classics privately developed some of his own philosophical theories through Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. Although the philosophy of the Ming Dynasty really developed by leaps and bounds and got out of the Neo-Confucianism, it would have to wait until Wang Yangming enlightened Tao and the birth of Xinxue, but before the birth of Wang Yangming's "A Thousand Years of Heroes", there were also many "temporary" theories to learn.

When Lin Jiancheng talked about a poem, he had to quote the notes made by Song Ru and the sages of his dynasty. He could not just write down the scraps of his notes, but also borrow the books of those people to see their overall explanation.

While looking at the book, Xiao Songyan suddenly pushed the door and walked in and said tremblingly: "My son, a Jinyiwei official came to you, saying that he has something important to say."

Cui Xie's waist straightened up immediately, and people will also follow to get up from the sofa, his eyes scorched, and he closed the book and asked, "Jin Yiwei? But an adult named Xie?"

Komatsu Yan shook his head: "Not Xie, but Gao."

Cui Xie's interest fell all of a sudden. Komatsu Yan remembered how many people were thrown out of the house when the whole family knelt outside to welcome the order, and asked him: "This is not the adult that the son knows well, right? Could it be that something happened to our house that caused Jin Yiwei to check it?"

Cui Xie didn't know it, but it wasn't a big deal to think about it. I really wanted to copy Jia Tiqi and broke in long ago. As for the little senator with no background like theirs, Jin Yiwei did not have the face to wait in the living room.

Since I made a special trip to find him, is it related to Xie Qianhu?

He had just confessed these days, and his mind was about to turn to Xie Ying. He couldn't control it, and he simply dared not control it. He threw down his scroll and went to meet guests in the outer courtyard.

He recognized Gao Su as soon as he saw Gao Su-Gao's eunuch's nephew, won over the idler in the book room where Da Qiao hangs a picture! Did he know the relationship between the Cui family and Ju Anzhai, and wanted to buy or order original paintings from here?

He had many thoughts in his mind, but his face was calm, he walked in and said with a smile: "Under Cui Xie, I have seen Master Gao."

Gao Su was drinking his milk tea and eating milk and pastry. When he saw him come in, he set down the tea bowl, straightened up and arched his hands, pushed the four-color rituals he brought over, and said politely: "Cui Jiansheng doesn’t need much Li, I also heard your name a long time ago. It is my honor to meet. I heard that you are a gentleman with filial piety and righteousness. You donated to the Daxing County Nursing Institute and became an elderly grandfather. Bed, I'm here to see you."

Cui Xie couldn't understand his intention for a while, was taken aback, and showed a professional smile: "I'm sorry. I just follow my heart when I do those things. It's not a big deal. You shouldn't be praised like an adult."

Although Gao Qianhu came to mention him, he couldn't reveal the forbidden Chinese. He made the matter of the sacred investigation too clear, so he could only treat him as curious and asked him: "What is the old man's bed like? I look at it?"

Although Cui Xie was a little jealous of him, he still couldn't retreat from the principle problem. He shook his head and said, "If it's too late today, the second elder at home should also rest. If you want to see it, I will ask someone to order one and send it to the house tomorrow. Go on. Although this bed is called a bed for the elderly, most people can actually sleep. The matching goose feather cushion on the bed is soft and breathable. When you want to sit, ask someone to lift half of the bed with a chain, so you can sit without moving. Lean, it's most comfortable to sleep when you are lazy."

When Gao Su listened, he felt sore in his bones, wishing to lie down on that bed for a day.

However, he is here to do business, carrying the emperor's intentions and adoptive father's instructions on his back. It must be done neatly and Cui Xie's goodwill must be formed. How can he want something from him? Therefore, I shook my head and said, "No matter, I just listened to the magistrate of Daxing County, Jiang, who praised you for serving your grandparents with filial piety, so I took a look at it. You don't need to send that bed. ."

Cui Xie didn't hear him for calligraphy and calligraphy, nor did it seem like there was any business, but as if a reporter came to the house to dig into the story behind it after the superiors commended good people for good deeds. Think about the foster father of a hundred households again...

Could it be that the magistrate of Daxing reported him, and the court sent Jinyiwei to investigate, and then wanted to erect an archway for him?

——But he didn't know, this time the emperor thought of him, and it wasn't just a dead thing to reward him.

Cui Xie was thinking about Gao Baihu, and Gao Su was also thinking about him. Although he did not see the bed, he also saw Cui Xie's filial piety towards his grandparents.

If you don't raise the eunuch, just his status as Jin Yiwei who is the one hundred households, but if it is not the pedantic clear stream who will be smashed to death when talking to Jin Yiwei, whoever sees it will have to give three points of face? Don't talk about stopping him to see his grandparents, I'm afraid they will have to rush to let their grandparents come out to see him. Cui Xie, a helpless supervising student, was able to stop him in order to get the two elders to rest. It must be extremely filial.

He nodded slightly, and then asked, "But I don't know how many princes and daughters are in your house? I came in and looked at it. How many people live in the outer courtyard, but I don't know which relatives live?"

Cui Xie came back to his senses, and hurriedly showed the attitude of going to the stage to give reports and accepting interviews with impoverished students, and his manners were correct, and he smiled sincerely and generously at Gao Su: "The person living in the outer courtyard is the teacher Lu that my father had invited our brothers earlier. Sir, and my righteous brother Cui Qi, who grew up with me since he was a child, and now he also studies with Mr. Lu."

The Shaodong of Ju'anzhai lives in the Cui family. The relationship between the master and servant of this family is really good.

Gao Su deliberately took a look at Cui Qiyuan for pictures of beautiful women, manuscripts of the Three Kingdoms, etc. Unfortunately, the timing was wrong, so he had to let go of the matter first and asked Cui Xie: "I heard that you have two younger brothers, why don't you see them?"

"My brother in my family is still young. Although he has officially studied with her husband, he still cannot live by himself. Sooner or later he will still live with his biological mother in the backyard." Cui Xie's face showed a bit of pain at the right time, looking into the distance and said: "Also There is an ex-stepmother, the second younger brother of the Xu family, but because of the crime of her biological mother, she was sent away by order, I am afraid she will not return until the second half of the year."

Gao Su specially ran this trip from the eunuch's mansion to remind Cui Xie to care for his younger brother. He quickly said: "I heard how hot and severe the epidemic is in the south. The journey is long and the escorts are rushed. He Even when he comes back alive, I am afraid that his body will be completely empty. When he comes back, you can take more care of him. Don't be too strict."

Cui Xie's heart lit up and finally understood his intention.

He looked at Gao Su, smiled and said, "Don't worry, my lord, Cui is not the one who is such a mean family member. Two brothers and sisters who are born in the family, I will ask them to ask for a husband for them to study. This brother who is born is back, naturally It’s the same care. It’s just that he is getting older and I can’t let him go out to play like before. I must ask Mr. Haosheng to teach him to read.”

Gao Su felt wide and smiled: "Okay. This is what you look like as a elder brother. But I heard that your family sells a shop. Is it still going on at home now? Are there any difficulties?"

There are enthusiastic leaders to help poor families.

Cui Xie is very familiar with this pattern, and shook his head with a smile: "That's not necessary. Although there are only two small shops in the house, but because of the help of Ju'anzhai, the goods are packaged with color-printed drawing paper in his house. Some buyers. And there is another clever guy in my family who has learned to steam flower water, and in a few months he will be able to make a fragrant flower water like a foreign flower water, and the shop itself will be able to support it."

Their toiletry is definitely not comparable to imports. To sell it depends on packaging, but the packaging costs are high. Unlike the high-quality and high-price route of perfumed soap, there is probably no advantage in selling it. It would be much easier to ask the female relatives of the Gaobai households to recommend it among those noble ladies than they worked hard to publicize.

He gently slapped his palm, got up and said, "My lord, wait a minute, I'll ask someone to bring a bottle."

Gao Su realized that the fragrance of their home was not the right incense, but the smell of steamed flower dew. He couldn't help but feel a little interested: "You steam it yourself at home? Can you take me to see the steamed flower dew local?"

Cui Xie said hesitantly: "It's in my yard, but the place is narrow and sultry, so I dare not condescend..."

What are you afraid of? What is hot? Just look at something new!

This Supervisor Cui is really a wonderful person, not only sensible, able to study, but also capable of doing such good things. Last time Xie Ying wore the new clothes he made and he was in the limelight for several months. If he could get this new flower water, wouldn't he have to envy the people in Weisuo for months?

Gao Su excitedly asked Cui Xie to lead the way to watch the steamed flower dew in his yard.

Since the Chinese Valentine's Day, Cui Xie tried to use flower water. When he returned home, he took Cui Liang to find the flower water in the cellar, tasted them one by one, and found out three bottles with fragrance. These are all steamed first, some steamed in water, some steamed in water, and some are steamed. They are all the same floral and pure, but the taste is slightly different in different steaming methods.

They compared it with the flower dews on the market, and felt that the steamed in their home was not strong enough, and the others were not bad, so they began to study how to concentrate the fragrance.

Cui Liang is trying to throw dried petals into the already scented flower lotion and extract it many times. Cui Xie couldn't help him at all at this stage, so he could only raise his grades, raise his salary, and send a few more handy family members to help him, so that he can study as much as he can.

Gao Su entered the kitchen without seeing anyone, so he was smoked back by the steam filled with flowers in the room, and ran outside, slapped his nose and took a deep breath: "The incense is killing people, you don't let me see it. I used it all these years. The flower water is not so fragrant, why do you live in this yard?"

Cui Xie rubbed his nose and said with a smile: "It is the hot smoker in the kitchen. It is actually good to smell outside, not much stronger than the ordinary incense. This was originally what I wanted to make on a whim, so I asked someone to come over. I did it, and I got used to it later, and I didn’t bother to move the place. It’s uncomfortable to stay here. Should the tall master go back to the hall to rest?"

Gao Su said "nothing", waved his hand, and was about to leave directly, when suddenly he saw a wall of large bookshelves from the open window of the main room. The shelf was actually very pale yellow and white, like a willow or elm wood, not the mahogany color they saw in the hall, it looked shabby.

He couldn't help but glanced twice and walked towards the window.

The closer you go, the more you can see that the house is indeed a mahogany house and there is nothing, it is made of cheap boards. The style is not bad, there is a "qian'an-like" narrow bed and a large wardrobe, but no matter how you choose, you can't pick a good one.

Gao Su is used to seeing good things and has excellent eyesight. At a glance, he can tell that the furnishings in this room are cheap, not even a look. The hall in his house is clearly not like this. Why is the person in charge of the house now using such inferior furniture?

Gao Su couldn't help asking: "Your father and mother... did the stepmother who had divorced live in such a house for you?"

Cui Xie shook his head again and again: "No, no, I changed it later. My family originally gave me good furniture, but later my stepmother returned home and took away the main house. I don’t think the main house is empty. Looks like, the family can't afford anything for the time being, so I moved the furniture that my mother gave me in the early years."

Gao Su looked at him dumbfounded.

Cui Xie thought he didn’t believe it, but didn’t want to misunderstand this kind of leader’s mouthpiece, so he smiled bitterly and said, "If you don’t believe me, you can let me go to the main house. Although my father is an official outside, he is still in charge of this house after all. How can we as children just live comfortably and leave our parents' houses empty?"

Gao Su shook his head, the muscles on his face twitched a few times, and shook his head and said, "I'm not suspicious of you, I really... I didn't expect my Ming Dynasty to have a dutiful son like you."

He patted Cui Xie on the shoulder, and said with deep sympathy: "I should have thought that your family has reached the point of selling properties. Naturally, the mountains and rivers are almost exhausted. What else are you demanding. It doesn't take too much for your brother to come back. Get used to him, if someone wants to accuse you, I will speak for you! After all, your home is different from before..."

No, he was really not trying to sell miserably!

What he wanted to show in front of comrade reporters was actually an image of an aspiring young man who was actively struggling!

Cui Xie was silent for a while, wiped his face, and tried to explain: "Thank you for your care, but my family is also decent, at least it is easy to eat and drink. In fact, this kind of furniture is very popular in Qian'an County. Many people like to use this. It just looks worse and sits very comfortable. If you don't believe me, you can sit and try it?"

Gao Su glanced at him sympathetically, and couldn't bear to say that even though the big families also use this kind of narrow bed with thick duck and goose feather cushions, the bed frame is made of fine mahogany carved, no one really likes Xiaxiang Xiaoxian. Inside, sleeping on a willow bed.

He has said what he should say this time, and he has asked what he meant. He has already lived up to his uncle's intention. He is afraid that it will be late at night and it is inconvenient to stay, so he has to get up and leave.

When Cui Xie sent him out, he asked someone to bring a bottle of freshly steamed jasmine water, told him to smell it, and said, "This flower water is not fragrant just after it has been steamed. A few steps are required. I will be here. A red string is tied to the bottle, telling them to be more careful when doing it. It will be done in mid-October, and then they will be sent to the house. What do you think of them?"

Gao Su usually lives in the house of the high eunuch, but this address can’t be vented lightly, so he said, “You just give it to the shopkeeper at Jinyun Tower in the north of the city and ask him to give it to me. I’ll ask someone to give you money later. ."

Cui Xie pointed to his family as the spokesperson, there is no reason to charge him money, because he said: "My lord has also seen how I steamed here. It is all my own stuff, and it is not the fine and expensive goods from foreign countries. What kind of silver. Adults just keep it, my house still has a shop, and I can afford a sir, it’s not a poor family."

Gao Su pushed back a few more times, and accepted it happily.

In fact, flower water is not a rare thing now. It’s rare that he watched the steaming with his own eyes, smelled the freshly steamed flower water, and tied a red string to the bottle by himself, waiting for a few months to brew the real fragrance before he can get it. Something unique.

When the time comes, the person who is in the limelight in Beijing and is envious of Jin Yiwei, isn't it his turn?

A few days after he returned, it was the Zhongyuan Festival.

The fascinating Qingzhutang also published the "Diamond Sutra" and the new "Great Compassion Mantra", printed with the statue of Guanyin in white, and sold it on the stalls outside the temples of various sizes, provokes people from Beijing, Tongzhou, and Qian'an. The faithful are vying to go home.

On such days when everyone has to look for mountains to worship temples, take to the streets to invite Buddha statues, and buy incense flowers and candles for offerings, Cui Xie has to draw a clear line from these feudal superstition activities. He put on the Qixi Festival and walked briefly, was forced to wash a white straight body, sprinkled with mature gardenia perfume, dangling out of the city in a carriage, and once again to the Xie Family Courtyard.