Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

After returning from Commander Wang, Cui Xie considered how to send the letter to Xie Qianhu.

Although Xie Qianhu knew that he was the owner of Zhirong Bookstore, he also knew that Xie Qianhu knew, but when Xie Shan came to Qian'an, he changed his clothes, hidden his name, and pretended to be a rich man from outside. . This is obviously because he doesn’t want him to know his identity, let alone his master’s identity, so he can be smart and ran to the door and said to others: "I know you care about me. I donated the store. I’m afraid you are worried. Do you say "?

More than just saying that he didn't have a reason to ask for leave to see Xie Qianhu, but he wanted to call Cui Yuan or the treasurer of Ji, but he was not enough.

Jin Yiwei Qianhu's official position is only five grades, and it is equal to Cui Langzhong, but can Cui Langzhong easily enter the gate of Jinyiwei's house with a post?

Stop dreaming!

Cui Langzhong couldn't, and he, the son of the Langzhong, couldn't. Or how could he want to send a festival gift last year, he had to let Prince Wang carry it for him? It is really people like his family, it is estimated that even Xie's door can't be knocked open.

Besides, he is not sure whether Xie Qianhu bought his slow-moving book because he had a good impression of him or simply wanted to help the poor. If this is a modern day, one of his donated students will be able to contact the leader of the donated school by calling; these days, he can only sit at home and think about it, and even send a letter to the post office!

The express delivery shop only sends official documents from the court!

But human nature is so, the more difficult things to do, the more I think about it. Cui Xie, a poor teenager in the village, thought about it, and couldn't find the leader of Xie who donated to school, so he had to ask Yuan Shu to contact Xie's nanny Xie Shan. As long as Xie Shan knows, Xie Qianhu will know, and there is no need to worry about him—if this is not his own passion.

Even if it is affectionate, it doesn't hurt to send it off.

He made up his mind and wrote a letter to Xie Ying on plain paper with the simplest frame, telling him that he was going to open a new study. However, he never mentioned Zhi Rong Shufang, just as there was only a superficial contact between the two, Xie Qianhu had not checked him, and he did not know what Xie Shan did.

After installing the letter, he personally went to the studio to clean up 20 sets of more than one hundred books, a box of Three Kingdoms refill papers with a full range of categories, and asked someone to prepare some fresh fruits and a whole piece of honey from the mountains. . In mid-September, Sanlihe was producing big crabs. He also asked someone to buy a basket, which was **** with hemp rope one by one, covered with a piece of wet linen and stuffed into the basket one after another.

At this time, the weather in Jibei is not too hot, but crabs are not long-lived, so he asked someone to find saltpeter and teach the young man how to make ice saltpeter. First, he made a pot of crushed ice and poured it into a basket to cool down. .

These foods were presented to Xie Shan under the guise of giving them to Xie Shan. Cui Yuan escorted the car and took a few guys all the way to Beijing. The rest is up to Xie Shan...or Xie Qianhu is worthy of cooperation.

He didn't want to think too deeply, and the next morning he hired a cart to take Cui Yuan and the others out, and then went back to the king's command house, where he began to practice horseback riding and firearms under the guidance of the military.

...... Very good exercise method, with a dozen kilograms of flower guns brought down, he can't feel he is holding a pen when writing, and the handwriting is extremely light and flying.

Mr. Lin said angrily: "The most important thing for candidates is the handwriting. A few years ago, there was a student in this county who called the county Zunchuzhong with a round light and black body. The handwriting is so important, if you hurt your hand. What can I do!"

Cui Xie didn't want to make him angry, but was even more worried about the stalwart figure of 1.8 meters in the previous life, so she had to coax him with a gentle voice: "The students are afraid that they will have to write seven essays a day in the exam room and their arm strength is not enough to practice martial arts. For these two months, I waited for the Chinese New Year and rested, not dare to make accidents before the exam."

It's not appropriate to practice now! Mr. Lin looked at his slender wrist and imagined him wielding a big gun that was more than ten feet long. He felt out of breath.

But this student is also stubborn, otherwise how could he change from a Mengtong who had never even studied "Mao Shi" to a primary school student who can write articles in just a few months? As long as he makes up his mind, 80% of the things are done, and others can't control him.

Mr. Lin has been reading "Mencius" intensively for many years, and he has cultivated the awe-inspiring spirit in his chest. Knowing that he can't control him, he simply waved his hand: "If you can't do well in these two days, you can dictate it to me. If your arm hurts, I can't spare you!"

Cui Xie seemed to be gentle but did not repent and said: "Don't worry, sir, I won't delay practicing calligraphy for this matter." Now that the pen is flying because of less practice, it's better to practice more.

However, because his arms were shaking so badly, he couldn't write good words for a while, let alone draw. After he got home, he simply started planning to renovate the library.

After dinner, he shut himself into the small study room, locked the door from the inside, closed his eyes and opened the hard disk-document-foreign language-English-library English. He took up a strong will to see the structure and arrangement of the bookshelves inside. The way and the arrangement of tables and chairs in the reading room.

He didn't know how much the floor slab bearing load in the Ming Dynasty, so to be safe, he chose not to arrange the rows of bookshelves in a common pattern in modern libraries, but to stick to the wall, with a wall full of bookshelves on each side. Between the bookshelves there are four rows of eight long tables, each with two benches, which can accommodate up to twenty people to read or copy.

The small courtyard behind the bookstore is also two-story. The main courtyard is a layout of three main rooms and two wing rooms. According to the classification of Sikushu, Jingshiziji occupies two each, and one more can be used as a lounge. The three inverted rooms in the small backyard are arranged as copy rooms. In the corner of the room is a bookcase with pens, inks, papers and inkstones for the copyists to use. If the borrowed book is defaced or torn, the borrower must buy or copy a copy to make up.

Because the bookstore on the front has a small second floor, the upper floor is dry, so it is used to store wealthy books. The book-sale lobby downstairs was changed to a registration office, where you can register your identity and go through the borrowing procedures. The interior rooms on both sides of the lobby are transformed into staff lounges, equipped with sofas, coffee tables and desks, and a small bookcase of several sizes on the wall is placed on the wall. There are some entertainment books printed by him. It is quiet and comfortable. It can also be used as a living room reception. The leader who came up to check.

He also designed a small borrowing card for the library, printed on light blue pine flower paper, with a small five-petal white plum printed on it, and printed on the bottom with a vermilion-green two-color "Qianyun" "An County Library Lending Card". To apply for a library card, you need a deposit of two taels of silver, and you are allowed to borrow one book at a time; if you don’t have a deposit, you can copy books for the library in exchange for the right to read, and you can borrow which book you copy.

Out of anti-piracy considerations, he finally asked people to come up with the technique of arranging flowers that he was not willing to take out.

The pigment of the plum petals is mixed with muscovite powder, and the print has a layer of luster. The outlines of the flower stamens, petals and fonts are all printed with concave and convex two plates to form a three-dimensional convex shape. The book-sized card is clamped in translucent white oil paper, which looks very delicate and can be used as paper at any time. Write.

It is ensured that ordinary people cannot imitate it at home, and those who imitate do not have to spare the deposit for applying for a card.

County magistrate Qi also admired his anti-theft technology. He took the borrowing card and said, “You have never printed such a delicate note before. If you had such a plum blossom note earlier, I’m afraid the palace will go to your bookstore. I bought it."

Forget it, it is not a good thing to ask those eunuchs to come to buy them. There are too few workers in his shop, and he really made a special confession for the palace, and he couldn't do much to take out. This is the rhythm of Qing waiting to close down.

Cui Xie looked down and listened. When he finished speaking, he told him about the borrowing regulations that he remembered: For example, after each borrowing card, the card holder's name, age, and general appearance should be written; a small paper inside the book is sealed. Article, stamp the loan and return time with a seal; compensation for damaged or lost books...

The county magistrate Qi had already studied the case of controlling borrowing books, and even thought of reorganizing the yellow books by applying for library certificates to find out some hidden populations. But these are not things that can be done in a rush in a few months. If he can be re-elected, he can try to handle the matter after next year; if there is no such opportunity, he will just run the library and leave the rest to the next. Right.

He sighed as he thought, and said, "You think that's a good idea. The name of the library is also good. We really don't count as a building. First print out a hundred cards and call them the county students, scholars, etc. Let’s register. This county will gather rotating craftsmen to paint the outside of this library and start borrowing books when all the donated books arrive."

When Cui Xie went back, he arranged for the craftsman to print the card.

Because he has unlocked the arching technique, he simply asked the craftsmen to use this technique on the new Three Kingdoms character dressing card. The outline of the armor of the military commander, the clothes lines of the ministers and the beauties are all printed with a concave effect. Even Xu Chu carved two sets of plates according to the law, creating a feeling of slightly bulging muscles.

But the **** of beauties are absolutely not printed!

He is such a man of integrity!

Here he is pushing the renovation of the library and preparing a new bookstore step by step, and his days are busy, but Jingli has caused an uproar for his bookstore——

Zhirong Bookstore is closed!

Zhirong Bookstore, famous for its beauty and beauty, is closed!

It drove vigorously, but silently. It wasn't until the bookstore really closed that the booksellers in Shuntian Mansion and Tongzhou hurriedly spread the news into Beijing, and those customers who were looking forward to the publication of "Six Talents Criticize the Three Kingdoms" did not learn about it. Suddenly, how many powerful and wealthy book fans wanted to go to Qian'an, tied Cui Meiren and forced her to reopen.

——It’s best to drive in Beijing, because Qian’an is far and remote, with many mountain roads, and it’s not convenient to buy books.

Fortunately, these bookstores have also entered the inventory left before the closing of Zhirong Bookstore. Although the price has risen a lot, there are still books to read. There are even two new volumes of "Three Kingdoms", and the reader's mentality is slightly less anxious. Later, there were rumors that the color printing technology and all the engravings and atlases of the Three Kingdoms were bought by another bookstore. The Three Kingdoms would be published as scheduled, and the mentality of ordinary customers would be more stable.

Although a few merchants regretted that they were slow to start at the beginning and did not buy the bookshop technology, the situation was similar to when the Zhirong Bookshop family had color printing technology in their hands. Anyway, the color printing technology allows artisans to figure out a few points slowly, and what really makes people want is the painting skills of Cui Meiren's.

The painter can't **** it back to the house, so as long as the painting is still there, it's not bad for them to make a handful of money.

The one who was really anxious to get angry for the closure of Zhirong Bookstore was the one who hadn't even bought a book there.

The manager of the Cui family's outer courtyard inquired that the bookstore was down, and rushed to the backyard to talk to Mrs. Xu's confidant mother. When she said that, she smiled, thinking that the lady heard that Cui Xie's business was making people run the yellow, and she was unlucky since then, and the anger in the lady's heart would be smoother.

What's wrong with Mrs. Xu's anger than before.

If the news came a few months earlier, Zhirong Bookstore would not be so popular, and Cui Mansion would not be short of money to move the small shop of Ann. She would probably be happy that Cui Xie had returned to the point where she had nothing, but not now!

The time is wrong! Now Zhirong Bookstore is not the lonely bookstore in the small county town!

After the autumn test, Cui Que mentioned to her that in the next year's bureaucratic plan, his review comments will probably only be "normal", not "competent", and it is difficult to get a promotion if you stay in Beijing. Although Cui Que used to study the heirlooms, and the court was clear and expensive, he was always delayed in the position of the fifth-ranking doctor, and there would be no chance for the third-ranking in this life, and it was inevitable to be anxious at this time.

And to go up, he still has some shortcomings based on his eunuchs, and he has to take the path of Wanshoufu or the Ministry of Education. But these also have to have enough money to manage-his family's business in the capital and the country's fields add up to only a thousand taels of silver each year. Over the years, I have to manage senior officials and raise a family. The savings in the house are only more than one thousand taels. It is not enough to find a good place for the prefect.

If Cui Xie's bookshop was still there, or if he sent it to Wanshoufu, or asked him to send pen and silver to Beijing, he would be able to give them a good place, but he was taken away!

At this moment, Madam Xu hated Cui Xie's incompetence. However, this incompetent kid is extremely capable of her family. She can't reach out to control him. When Cui Que came back at night, she went straight to the foreign study room, said about it, and asked him: "Your kind son lost the bookstore, what can we do!"

Cui Que's face was also extremely ugly, and he said with a sullen face, "What should I do? Am I going to file a lawsuit with someone for a shop, and then take it back? Where can I put the face of my fifth-grade doctor?"

Mrs. Xu angrily said: "Face is more important or your future is more important? If others can take the face for a royal history, then you can't? If you are willing to give up that stinky face, let alone get the first grade, in the future, you will be promoted by Master Wan, and you will have the third and second grade! Others robbed our shop, isn't it because of this? Master just watched others step on your head with our stuff?"

Cui Langzhong's face paled, and he said heavily: "Women's opinion! What do you know! Don't say it, I can still seek a job as a foreigner. I will stay in Fuzhou for a few years, and also published a few volumes to analyze classics The book, when the age is reached, you can naturally return to the court!"

Keep hope! Keep hope! Yangwang again!

Since she married into Cui's family, Cui Langzhong is not a doctor, but a pedestrian who needs her family's support; she must raise hope when she is in the position of her family; after so many years, she still cannot be promoted. , And also want to find a job to raise hope!

Her father couldn't get promoted because his old man was from Mingjingke and he was destined to have a limited future. But the husband she married was admitted to the Second Grade Jinshi, and had ten thousand head assistants as a seat teacher. How could he be in the circle of subordinate officials, saying nothing to get up! She is a yellow-flowered girl who marries a widower with a son, and the picture is that he can look forward to 20...30 years and 50 years. Only when she enters the coffin can she be awarded a first-grade wife by the court?

Cui Que waved his hand and left. Mrs. Xu watched him go away, only to feel that his back was really an eye-catcher--the awkward look of her who didn't even dare to ask where her things were, it reminded her of Cui Xie who was expelled from Cui Mansion that day... It is worthy of being a father and son, both of whom are generally incompetent to the outside world, and can only be used against the family.

But she is a conscientious woman in the house, but as long as she is a man, she has cleaned up the house well, and the court affairs have been properly done!

She stood in the night breeze for a long time, and her clothes were so cold all over her body, and her heart was still hot. Cui Xie gave the property to others, so she just looked at the Cui family and lost everything for nothing?

The stepson disobeyed, and the husband was unreliable, so he had to go back to her natal house and ask.

She stared at her and stayed up all night, then went back to her family's house and said this disappointing thing. Her father was a humble official and didn't recognize any comrades. It took a lot of effort to give his daughter Zhang Luo a son-in-law who was an assistant student. When it comes to retaking the shop, it is even more difficult to reach out.

He could only persuade him: "Then Cui Xie is your husband's eldest son, and the bookstore is well-known in Beijing. If it is not for a high authority or someone behind it, who would dare to seize his shop? This is Cui Que. It’s right not to do it yourself. Even if you rush to file a lawsuit and ask for the things back, you can give them to the Shangguan. How do you know that the person you want to send them away?”

Mrs. Xu told him to talk more and more angry, and resisted the tears and said: "Father, you said, I am a fifth-rank official wife, do you only have to be angry in this life? After being affected by insiders and outsiders, how can I get ahead..."

This daughter was married very well, her husband and son-in-law were well-known and well-known. Master Xu was particularly spoiled for her. Seeing her crying, he couldn't bear to say, "What can you do with crying? I don't have the ability to replace her. You regained the bookstore. If you have the time, it’s better to check who bought the bookstore and gave it to someone or something. What if it is also going to be given to Shangguan? If Yushi knows it, someone from you Your under-age son is forced to buy your property, so he should always take care of it."

...

Mrs. Xu lowered her head to think for a while, and gave a low "um".

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Cui Yuan entered Beijing quickly and came back quickly. The letters and books that should be sent were delivered, and he brought a box of good Buddha incense. He said that Xie Qianhu remembered that his yuan was coming, and it was time to send cold clothes to his ancestors. Some Buddha incense for him.

Choi Xie asked, holding the incense box, "Xie Qianhu still believe in Buddha?"

Cui Yuan smiled and said: "That's not the case, not only believe in Buddha, but also hang the Guanyin you gave him in the inner hall. I looked at it from a distance, and the painting is vivid and true. Avalokitesvara looked like the world, with incense candles underneath it, which shows that he believed extremely truely. It is a pity that we did not bring him a few printed volumes of Diamond Sutra when we entered Beijing."

Fortunately, Xie Qianhu reminded him that Cui Xie remembered that October 15 is also a day when he can sell Buddhist scriptures. The pile of stock left in Curry was originally waiting to be released again during the Chinese New Year. It seems that it can be sold for a wave at this time, with the sign of "traditional color printing, loyalty and devotion" to fill the closure of Zhirong Bookstore and Ju'anzhai. The empty space before opening.

Cui Xie was holding the incense box in his hand, and his thoughts seemed to be clear. The vulgar thoughts of making money in his heart only turned a little, and quickly gathered it back, and fell on the sandalwood box of the carved Buddha with his eyes. He didn't know if it was the scent of Buddha incense or woodware that faintly spread to his nose, he couldn't help but opened the box and sniffed it, then took out three incense sticks and put them in front of the imperial decree of the main hall.

The strong and quiet Buddha incense spread all over the room instantly. He stood at the table and watched the incense ash burn white a little, and fell into the same snow-white ash pile, enjoying the rare ethereal tranquility in his heart. He was reluctant to burn the rest so easily, so he put them all in the box, and waited until the next Yuan Festival to go to the ancestral grave to sweep the sacrifices and burn the paper clothes before lighting a few branches.