There are numerous restaurants in front of the Fuzimiao Temple, about the same as in modern times, students make good money. The Scholar’s House does not stand out among these many restaurants, the building has no unique style, just a sense of historical precipitation.
Zhu Pingan stood in the scholar building downstairs, looked at the upstairs of the dragon flying “scholar building” three words, a cultural atmosphere came, suddenly feel not bad.
Although the scholar building is inconspicuous, but the flow of customers is relatively large, in Zhu Pingan stopped this moment there are three or two people from which in and out.
“Let’s go, today Fatty has to eat you poorly!” Fatty still had the grudge of not being able to go to the other side of the Qinhuai River, gritting his teeth, he took the lead and stepped into it.
Zhu Pingan smiled faintly and paced up the stairs as well.
Scholar building outside nothing, but in is felt a stream of elegance, mahogany furniture, wooden floors, around the walls are full of ink calligraphy and painting, in the centre of a calligraphy and painting is particularly eye-catching, the dragon flying four like words and words of the word “Scholar in this”.
“Such a big mouth, I wonder how it tastes.” Fatty Xue Chi walked in front and glanced at the painting in the centre, and flattened his mouth.
“If the guest is not satisfied with the food here, we will not charge.” A cleanly dressed shop chap owed a little, his face full of smiles.
“That’s what you said haha.” Fatty Xue Chi said as he waved his fat paw and pointed at the shopkeeper.
“Since the little one said so.” The shop chap said with a smile, then stretched out his hand, “The two of you, please come inside.”
Zhu Pingan patted the fat man’s shoulder from behind and took the lead towards the table that the shop chap was guiding.
The Scholarship House was also divided into elegant rooms and lobby, only at this time, the elegant rooms were all full, only the lobby still had a few tables, the shopkeeper guided exactly one table by the window, which made Zhu Pingan very satisfied.
On the wall hung a long wooden sign, on which was written the name of the shop’s dishes, which was clear at a glance.
“The lion’s head you have here, give us a plate.” Zhu Pingan casually swept a glance at the wooden plaques, there were too many of them on the walls, making it a bit overwhelming. However, Zhu Pingan still remembered the lion’s head that he had heard about some time ago, so he ordered one.
“Alright, table Azi 3, one lion’s head alone.” The runner who followed sniffed. Shouted in the direction of the kitchen.
Scholar’s House is worthy of being Scholar’s House, the braised lion’s head can be called the exclusive head.
Just after the shop boy shouted, the fat man on one side slammed the table, the meat on his face shaking, “Good. Good omen.”
“Give us a whole order of cold pig’s ears and the best wine in your shop.” The fat man seemed to have been excited by the shopkeeper’s exclusive title, and flung his fat face bulldog-like as he began to order.
“One serving of bull’s ear, and one jar of Scholar’s Red.” The shop boy was a man of many words, hearing the fat man ordering, he shouted in the direction of the kitchen.
All of them spoke to Fatty’s heart, making Fatty so happy that he couldn’t even close his mouth.
The roast goose which is not a hit, the fish head and bean curd soup which is brave, and the four happiness pills which are three in a row filled up a table.
It seems that the fat man is good at this kind of good luck things, looking at a table of food listening to the shopkeeper’s singing. A fat face satisfied chrysanthemum bloom.
“Swine, what a coincidence.”
The table full of dishes and rice had just been served, and before Zhu Pingan could move his chopsticks, he heard a familiar call. Looking up, he saw his eldest uncle, Zhu Shouren, and other townspeople coming in a line, a table full of people smiling with chrysanthemum blossoms, only the eldest uncle’s fat friend was missing.
“Eldest uncle, uncle,” Zhu Pingan got up and saluted from afar.
“Brother An.” Several townspeople slightly arched their hands, their faces full of smiles.
“It’s better to meet by chance, on the occasion of the completion of the examination, why don’t we celebrate together.” Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren stroked his beard and smiled brightly.
Fatty Xue Chi had also met his eldest uncle and the others. Moreover, this goods can’t wait for more people to show off his chrysanthemum poem, also warmly arching his hand to invite a few people to be seated, and then waved his fat hand to instruct the shopkeeper to watch and add six more of the shop’s signature speciality dishes. In addition, then on.
“This little brother is too polite.” Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren smiled and praised after taking his seat.
“Where where, you are all Brother Zhu’s family and friends, naturally you are also my family and friends.” Fatty Xue Chi casually waved his hand.
Zhu Pingan waited for them to finish exchanging pleasantries, then stood up and introduced them to each other. Letting them get to know each other a bit. The first two times he was in a hurry to take the exams he didn’t have time to introduce them to each other, this time when he had the time, he introduced them all together.
After the wine and food were served, wine was poured and dishes were pinched, and the crowd ate happily.
“Ahem, that retake that exam.”
“The one where the yellow flowers are like loose gold.”
After drinking a cup of wine, the fat man just opened his mouth to find an excuse to mention his poem about chrysanthemums, then he heard a voice and he coincidentally up, formally Zhu Pingan’s eldest uncle, Zhu Shouren, the two men looked at each other and coincidentally laughed.
After that, Zhu Pingan was listening to them bragging about each other’s chrysanthemum poems, including a few of his fellow villagers chanting out their own chrysanthemum poems, all of them with a smug look on their faces.
The more pleased they were, the more Zhu Pingan’s face hurt.
After a few cups of water were downed, the eldest uncle, Zhu Shouren, and a few other townspeople were so tipsy that they slapped the table and bragged to Zhu Pingan with their tongues wide open, “Swine child ah (Ange’er ah), it’s such a pity that you didn’t join your eldest uncle in meeting my friend’s benefactor, really, it’s such a pity.”
“Oh, how do you say Brother Zhu is a pity?” Fatty’s chubby face came over.
“You guys don’t know ah, that day we drank wine with our friend’s benefactor, during which he pointed to the chrysanthemums outside the window and asked us to compose a poem tsk tsk, do you think it’s a pity for the swine” Eldest uncle sipped his wine and looked at Zhu Pingan tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk and sighed.
Hearing this the fat man also looked at Zhu Pingan with a sympathetic face and shook his head, “Brother Zhu is really a pity, if he had gone with your eldest uncle, he wouldn’t have been able to outperform my chrysanthemum poems in the test post poems”
Hearing this, Zhu Pingan was even more egg-crazy.
“Well, swine child, next time, although elder uncle and the others will not need to take the academy examination in the future, but you don’t need to worry, in the future elder uncle will introduce you to friends and mentors”
“That’s right, don’t be remorseful Ange’er.”
Eldest uncle and the others took for granted that Zhu Pingan’s egg-ache look as a remorseful demeanour and spoke out to comfort him.
As a result, Zhu Pingan had even more egg pains and had to bow his head and deal with the table of good wine and good food wholeheartedly.
In the third floor elegant room there is a room sitting Tongcheng Xia Luoming, Su Song Feng Shanshui and other people, in addition to always together with a few people there are a few unfamiliar faces, one of them is exactly that day in front of the Jiangnan Tribute Academy to the crowd of scholars singing chrysanthemum poems disdainful face of that imposing brother.
Looking out from the elegant room, the scene inside the lobby was clear at a glance, and the voices could be heard faintly.
“Chrysanthemum poem huh, this year’s head of the government case skill is not this ear, you guys are exaggerating about him.”
In front of the window of the elegant room, a scholar with an unassuming air through and through, turned to leave the window to return to his seat, and laughed at Xia Luoming and the others.
“Yesterday I have already heard of his review of the chrysanthemum poem, I did not think that today is still the same,” the imposing brother played with the wine cup in his hand, said faintly.
“This is our not, which thought he was so bad, brother Liu, brother Guo forgive me, it seems that this year’s real head of the case is from the two brothers.” Su Song Feng Shan Shui held up his wine cup and got up, looking as if he had quite a lot of respect for these two people.
“If it wasn’t for brother Liu’s filial piety period and brother Guo’s travelling, how could we have the honour of going to the examination with brother Liu and brother Guo.”
Even Xia Luoming, who had always been conceited, collected his arrogance and rose to raise his glass.
Other people present also raised their glasses together, many people had a shameful look on their faces, I guess they also wrote the chrysanthemums and autumn poems.
Upstairs, downstairs, raise a glass, its happy.
Zhu Pingan was not able to drink and took advantage of the urine to go to the counter to pay the bill in advance, but was told that the fat man at the same table had already paid. In response, Zhu Pingan could only shake his head with a faintly bitter smile
