Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

In the next few days, the Cui family rehearsed wine at home to celebrate Cui Zhuangyuan's return home. The county also sent a civilian husband to build a memorial archway for the three jinshi. A street was very lively inside and outside. The music of silk and bamboo drums kept on day and night, and officials from the county often came to enjoy the drum music.

Although Qian'an has many mountains and dangerous places, the trend of the troupe is not slower than that of Beijing. As soon as Jinyiwei Dalian Huanhua was released, the Jinyiwei dramas performed by the various teams have changed their makeup and clothing according to the comic strips. Especially in the drama of An Qianhu, the artists have been asked to add the plot of men disguising themselves as women. , It is almost to grab the limelight of Jin Yiwei's big movie.

It's a pity that the makeup techniques and stage special effects here are not as good as Jingli. Many of the props are made of wood, which is not as cheap and convenient as the wax products used in Jingli, and it is easy to introduce new ones.

The Cui brothers usually study and have not watched a few scenes. Regardless of the makeup and special effects, they watched them fully. The two uncle Zhang Guoxun are people who have seen the world. Seeing that the makeup here is not exquisite, and the stage props are not realistic... while watching and boasting to the neighbors about the good theater troupe that they have seen in Beijing, they called the host again. , And give instructions on how to arrange it, and I want to put it up and play it myself.

Cui Xie allowed them to dance like flowers and butterflies, as long as they didn't pretend to bully their neighbors, he wouldn't restrain them.

After all, he himself has more important things to do.

When watching the play, he closed his eyes and shook his head like a human, as if he had been deeply involved in the play. In fact, he had opened the ancient chemistry book in his mind, and he carefully studied how to show some ancestral miracles.

It is a pity that the book summarizes most of the ancient working people’s production and living techniques, and the only thing that seems to be the most bluffing is a very mysterious trick-the pseudo-circular light method.

There are some chemical formulas involved in the circular light method. The principle is that the gall water contains tannic acid, which can turn black when encountered with soap alum solution, which is an application of dyeing and weaving technology. Cui Xie couldn’t understand it anyway. He jumped over and only saw the specific method of implementation: using Galla water to draw on the back of the paper. When the water dries, the drawn things disappear. Pour the ferrous acid solution upward, and the previously blanked screen will be revealed by itself.

This technique is similar to the technique of writing secret reports on paper with invisible potions in very war dramas, and the handwriting is displayed as soon as the fire is scorched, but it is more convenient and natural to use water instead of fire.

In the play, An Qianhu sang the song "Gu Meijiu", and the neighbors who listened to the play cheered loudly and untied An Qianhu's dress, revealing the red shawl wearing it, and holding the pretend monk. The chants of the thief cheating on women applauded. Choi Xie also opened his eyes and looked at the stage, pretending to like the scene as others.

In the evening, the guests dispersed, and the four children went back to write their opinions honestly. Cui Xie also took the opportunity to take the opportunity to walk outside and bought some gallnuts for frying. Soap alum is easier to get. There are new pigments in the bookstore. He pretended to paint, so he asked someone to send a whole set of pigments, picked them out and hydrated them, and tried them on the spot.

The effect is good.

He wrote the words "Don't Get Married" on the paper with diluted Chinese Gallbladder water. After drying, only a faint yellow mark can be seen; spray it up with soap and vitriol water, and the ink words are revealed. obvious. If the edge of the paper is immersed in water, and the capillary effect is superimposed on it, the ink characters slowly appear on the piece of white paper, it really looks like it was written by a ghost...to make the child rich!

He burned the snow-white pelt paper used for the experiment, prepared a dozen of light yellow bamboo paper, and wrote the reverse "Don't Get Married" on the back of the top sheet of paper. The words were randomly picked from the PDF and described. Without his own characteristics. Although a little mark will be left on the paper after the water dries, the bamboo paper is a bit yellow and it is written on the back of the paper. If you look closely at it, you can't see anything.

Get these things ready, and you're almost ready to have a drink. Cui Xie looked for someone to find a time to break the ground, and took two family members and four children from Beijing to Jiaxiangtun in the west of the city, preparing to sacrifice to the ancestral grave.

Jiaxiangtun went thirty miles to the city, and the ancestral grave was halfway up the mountain. They opened the city gate in the morning and went out. They were afraid that they would hurt their children when they walked so fast. They swayed slowly until nearly noon before rushing to the bottom of the mountain. It’s not easy to walk the carriage on the mountain road. Cui Xie asked his family to go to the Zhuangzi first to hire powerful workers, and unload the horses of the cart with three sacrificial gifts, yellow paper, firecrackers and other things. The remaining two horses were divided among the four children. Ride, lead them up the mountain with a horse on foot.

On the mountainside is the Cui family ancestral land, hunters, woodcutters, etc. seldom bother to go up, and the mountain begins to become quiet and quiet from a certain branch of the path. The mountains are deep and lush, with various birds and insects inhabiting the branches and leaves. The chirping sounds of each other, and the rustling sound of the branches being blown by the wind, it is a place where there is no moment of purity, but it gives people a strange quietness. sense.

Brother Zhang Heling rode on the horse and felt that the wind in the mountains was much colder than at home, and his bones became overcast. He couldn't help asking: "Why is it so quiet here? Can we wait for the family to come up together?"

Cui Xie smiled and said: "What are you afraid of? You are the relatives of the country. You can be infected with the royal majesty and dragon spirit. No strange things can entangle you. Don't be afraid. Brother Heng and Brother He don't have to be afraid. These are the ancestors of our Cui family. You are sincere. Worship and worship so that your ancestors will bless you with sincerity in your studies."

Cui Heng told him to train him so long that he didn't expect to escape his clutches. He didn't care if he was successful in his studies, and he was just cold-hearted when he heard the words. Brother He envied the achievements of his eldest brother, and wanted to get a scholar like a father and brother. He nodded very vigorously, and secretly prayed that his ancestors could bless them.

The four children took the courage to follow him up the mountain, and then saw the small ancestral land of the Cui family. There are not many tombs, and they are connected to each other. Most of them are small mounds with a blue stone tablet, and a few simple inscriptions are written, but they are all clean, as if they have just been cleaned for a few days. One of the most glamorous graves is written "Cui Liu's Tomb", which is the grave of Cui Xie's birth mother.

Cui Heng took a look, his eyes became hot, and he didn't know whether it was hatred or regret.

I hate myself for failing to prevent my mother from falsely accusing the county magistrate in his early years. If he could prevent his mother from thinking about it, now he will not be a woman, and his mother will not be exiled to the wild land, and will not be buried in Cui's grave after death.

Cui Xie didn't look at him. Instead, he immediately took off his broom, took off a few rags and a bag of water, and told the Cui brothers to get off his horse and clean up with him.

The two of them told him to study in circles at home. They really didn't do much work. They didn't know that they had to moisten the cloth and then wipe them, so they wiped them clumsily with a dry cloth. Cui Xie used a big broom to sweep the ground before the graves of the emperor, great ancestor, etc., and took a water bag to pour water on a rag to wipe the bluestone tombstone. The two uncles of the Zhang family also looked at them eagerly, and asked Cui Xie if he could do anything—it’s better to burn paper money, use a stick to pick up the confetti, and then they would just Good at doing this.

Cui Xie didn’t even think about letting them touch the fire. Seeing that they weren’t the ones who could sweep, he found a roll of bamboo paper and a pen ink cartridge from the cloth bag on the horseback, and asked them to find a large, flat stone, and start today’s travel notes. Write it out and check it at night.

The faces of the two Uncle Zhang were darker than the ashes in an instant, and the Cui family brothers, who were working, also fought a cold war.

He actually came out to sweep the grave with pen and paper!

There is such a big thing as a grave sweeping, and you can't stop your homework!

There is nothing to write about when you go to sweep the graves and burn the paper in such barren mountains and forests. Is this something written by their literati?

The Zhang family brothers took the paper in grief and frustration and reluctantly, turning around looking for large stones that could be used to spread paper and writing. When they found it, they found faults, either because the stone was angular or it was too dirty and stained the paper in their hands.

The saints said that they should respect the calligraphy paper, how can they write on such a dirty stone?

At this time, the family who went to call the Zhuanghu had already caught up. Seeing the Zhang family brothers circled around a very dirty stone, they wanted to clean up a place for them to write. The Zhang brothers watched that Cui Xie had placed three sacrifices and put incense candles in them. They were taking their two younger brothers to greet their ancestors, and they said that they would not be allowed to sweep anything, and just spend time there.

Those family members and dealers couldn't manage them, so they separated two people and stared at them, and the rest knelt in front of the tomb.

Cui Xie first memorized one of his own semester articles in front of his grave, and reported to his ancestor Zhu that he was admitted to the champion, and vowed to do his best to serve the country, and to spread the branches and leaves for the Cui family. Zong Zi.

He is the eldest grandson of the Cui family and has the responsibility to succeed the patriarch. This is the responsibility he cannot escape.

Cui Xie vowed to continue the glory of the Cui family, and took two younger brothers to take yellow paper to burn. Burning it, he gave the paper to the Cui Heng brothers and the family behind him. He stood up and said: "Our fathers and ancestors can't come here. We can't satisfy our ancestors just by burning incense and offering sacrifices. You and I burn Paper money, I will write a few sacrificial articles and burn them together, so that the ancestors will be glorified underground."

He personally took a used water bag, shook out a small pack of pre-prepared soap alum from his sleeve, and quietly poured it in, intending to wipe the tombstone and write on it. But when he got up, he saw that the Zhang brothers were still dawdling beside the boulder, making the paper dirty and crumpled, and hadn't written anything yet, so he immediately narrowed his eyes and came up with a better technique.

Close-range magic master Choi Xie is going online!

He deliberately pressed the corners of his mouth, frowned slightly, walked to the two brothers, and asked, "Why are you still rubbing? This stone is so dirty, you write on it without rubbing it?"

The family members came over to wipe. He waved his hand and sighed with a smile: "Where can you control him. Let me serve these two little ancestors."

The two little ancestors yelled and dared not speak. Cui Xie asked his family to remove the old paper, poured out the alum water, and carefully wiped the stone. He deliberately soaked the stone surface wet, and threw the paper with the words on the back on the water.

The soap vitriol and gallnut reacted quickly, and the black writing gradually came out of the stone surface.

Cui Xie pretended to be a piece of paper glued together, it was not easy to twist it, missed his body slightly, and concentrated on uncovering a stack of paper between his arms. The Zhang brothers stared bitterly at the piece of paper that needed to be written on by themselves, wishing to stare through it, staring at it, and then they saw the three words on the paper from shallow to deep, from vague to clear.

Don't get married.

The Zhang brothers screamed and turned to run. The dealers stared at the two little nobles and quickly stopped them from running into the mountains.

Cui Xie turned around and did not look at the stone face. He stretched out his hand and grabbed the two brothers first: "What are you doing! This is the tomb of your husband's family, and it is also a place to respect. Although you are a relative, you should not be too much. ..."

The two children pointed to Shimian and stammered, "Word! Word..."

The family members also saw the words on the paper and gave a "Huh" in surprise. Cui Xie lowered his head to look at the stone surface, pretending to be frightened, and dropped the bag of alum water on the ground. The pale soap and vitriol water soaked into the ground. He lowered his body and lifted the piece of paper from the stone. He glanced at it slowly and carefully, then folded the paper suddenly, and clenched it in his palm.

Zhang Heling said tremblingly: "The stone, the stone..."

Cui Heng and Cui He also rushed over from the grave, looking at the bluestone—there was a little black shadow on the stone, Ying Ying Chuo Chuo could also see the three words "Don't Get Married".

Just now Cui Xie swore to his ancestors to open up branches and leaves, and to prosper the Cui clan, why did the three words "Don't Get Married" appear on the bluestone just cleaned?

The Zhang brothers were afraid and expectant to change a piece of paper and threw it on the bluestone, but unfortunately the alum water has dried up, and the paper has not been written with gall water, and nothing is displayed.

Cui Xie put on a calm expression of rejecting superstition, took the rag and wiped off the compound, and said to the Zhang brothers: "Don't be afraid, this should be dirty on the bluestone. I can't wipe it cleanly, and the paper shows up. . Looks like words, but in fact they are not real words."

He saw that everyone didn’t believe it, and he felt satisfied. He threw the paper into the fire and destroyed the corpses. He said lightly: "Even if it is really a word, it is also a warning sign given to me by my ancestors of the Cui family. Harmful. I am the current champion, which ghost dare to invade? You two are precious, don’t worry. You first live in Zhuangzi tonight. I live in the mountains. If there is anything, the ancestors of the Cui family will naturally look for them. I say."

After coaxing the child, he called his family to his side and whispered: "You will clean up the next room for me and take the sons back to live. Tomorrow, find some masters and Gao Gong to do the dojo and see how to resolve it. This is a weird thing."