Only when Zhu Pingan returned to his seat, Fatty Xuechi was grinning like a bulldog at Zhu Pingan, obviously discovering that Zhu Pingan had just gone to pay the bill.
“Brother Xue you are really,” Zhu Pingan shook his head slightly.
“We brothers, everything is in the wine, come.” Fatty grinned as he stretched his wine glass over.
The hospitality is hard to resist, Zhu Pingan had to hold up the glass and clinked it, the cup of wine into the throat, spicy and choking, only after the aftertaste with a soft and sweet. Wine is good wine, but do not be greedy ah.
Zhu Pingan can still self-control, but uncle Zhu Shouren and other townspeople, as well as fat Xue Chi are not self-control, are the kind of half a catty improper wine a catty full of spit the Lord.
“Yo-yo deer singing, eat wild scuttle. I have guests, drums and qin. Drums and qin, and music and zhan. I have a purpose wine, to Yan music guest of honour’s heart” drink to the sound, eldest uncle Zhu Shouren and fat man with bamboo chips knocking wine cups sang the song “Xiao Ya Deer Song”, joyful.
Cups and plates in a mess, Zhu Pingan slightly drunk, the eldest uncle fat man and others have been drunk four or six, who do not serve on the wall.
“Dang! Knock!”
“Knock! Dang!”
Outside came the night watchman to play the second shift of the clapper sound, playing a bit and a bit, even playing many times. One shift at three o’clock to sound the twilight drum on the night ban, now the second shift, if you are walking on the street, caught by the government officials, may not care if you are a scholar or not, come up and have to hit forty boards.
Zhu Pingan looked at the table across a few people with big tongues, a speechless face.
However, the scholar building restaurant business, often encounter this situation, there is a solution that is connected to the back of the restaurant is their own inn. Zhu Pingan called the shopkeeper to ask for a big bunk, paid the money, and let the shopkeeper help to busy the big uncle fat man and other people all stuffed on the bunk.
The night is a mess, lying on the bunk, from time to time to perform the fountain of spitting stunts so that Zhu Pingan paid the restaurant another hundred yuan.
When he woke up on the second day, Eldest Uncle and the others went to the other side of the Qinhuai River to meet up with the friend who had bid farewell to his mentor yesterday. The fat man said to Zhu Pingan after the eldest uncle and the others left, “Brother Zhu, you need to be more careful of your eldest uncle in the future.”
“Why?” Zhu Pingan asked casually.
“It’s just a feeling. Being careful is a good thing.” Fatty shook his hungover head and spoke incoherently.
This fat man looked like a big talker, but unexpectedly, he was still a rough and tumble person like Zhang Fei, who was able to perceive the essence of the eldest uncle after drinking once. Reminding himself without making people feel that he was stirring up trouble, this made Zhu Pingan a little surprised, he had thought that this bast*rd belonged to the heartless kind of people.
“Hmm.” Zhu Pingan responded noncommittally.
Returning to the inn from the restaurant, passing through the Jiangnan Tribute Courtyard, in front of the Tribute Courtyard satchel swordsmen and government officials set up a barrier at the entrance. And cautioned every passerby not to make any noise, the second batch of other candidates from various provinces who took part in the courtyard examination also started their journey to the courtyard examination, just don’t know which unlucky ones will have their number room next to the dung number.
Fatty passed by the Jiangnan Tribute Academy and dry-heaved a few more times, purely as a reflex.
Because the list will be released in one decennary, Zhu Pingan did not rush home and waited until the list was released. So, daytime practice, read a book, dispensed from the pharmacy mosquito repellent medicine is very effective. Installed in the purse, reading in the woods is also less mosquito infestation, and the time has passed so slowly.
Exciting time, finally arrived.
Waiting for the second batch of hospital test candidates after the test a ten days, the hospital test release time will come. The hospital test release list is different from the county test and the government test, the hospital test is divided into fourteen list, each a separate list of the government, each high school in a list of the government, each government will also have a head of the case, the head of the case is also the real head of the children’s test.
On this day, Zhu Pingan came back from studying and practising calligraphy. Before he arrived at the inn, he saw a group of familiar people standing in front of the inn, including his eldest uncle Zhu Shouren and other townspeople, as well as the fat man who was laughing and joking with a few people.
Seeing Zhu Pingan. Several people swarmed over, tugging on arms, pulling hands, pushing from behind, Zhu Pingan did not react before being pushed and shoved by the crowd in the direction of the Fu Zi Temple.
“Hurry up, we’re waiting for you. The Academy Examination has released the list.”
“Hurry up, this year the list will be released at the Fu Zi Temple, if you go late, there will be no good place.”
The crowd of people talked and talked and pulled Zhu Pingan and started to run all the way, every one of them was full of confidence, and on the way, they also envisioned each other the scene of the Hairpin Banquet after they won the exam, and discussed one or two of them from time to time.
Zhu Pingan listened to their scenarios of the Hairpin Banquet with a pained face, silently counting down the time for their final revelry.
It was hard to imagine how they would feel when they saw the list.
In front of Fuzi Temple, there was a sea of people, the crowd was surging, in addition to the candidates, there were also many parents who had come a long way, and all fourteen lists were surrounded by people.
“Brother Zhu, all of you, I’m going to look at the list first, we’ll meet up here later.” As soon as the fat man arrived in front of the Fu Zi Temple, he couldn’t wait to say goodbye and go look at their House’s list.
“Well, don’t get too excited,” Zhu Pingan hesitated, but still didn’t say anything.
“How can I not be excited, my old man failed the exam for so many years, when I fling the list in front of him, it has to be such a great joy.” Fatty is excited, thinking of his old dad who stinks and curses himself daily, excitedly the gold locks on his neck are shaking with a clatter, after saying that the fat man can’t wait to squeeze towards the front of the list of their Fengyang Prefecture, still as if he is fat, moving like a fat rabbit.
Looking at the fat man in the crowd left squeeze right rush, Zhu Pingan can only hope that the fat man heart to withstand strong.
Uncle Zhu Shouren and other people also can not wait to pull Zhu Pingan to Anqing House before the list squeezed over, Zhu Pingan can not help but be uncle and other people with crowded into the crowd, do not know the inside story thought it was Zhu Pingan excitedly rushed in it.
That’s right, that’s what it looks like from the outside.
Just like the Tongcheng Xia Luoming, the Susong Feng Shanshui, and the Guo and Liu brothers, who are surrounded by the crowd, in their eyes, Zhu Pingan is the kind of cat that is as excited as the cat that sniffs fishy fish, and has no image whatsoever of squeezing into the crowd, and he is a commoner.
In their eyes, Zhu Pingan is how ridiculous, wrote the chrysanthemum poem, but also presumed to want to dye the courtyard examination list.
“It’s really ridiculous,” said Guo, who used to write poems about Zhu Pingan in front of the window of the elegant room, looking at Zhu Pingan, who was rushing in, and letting out a scoff from his mouth, “Rushing is fine, slowing down is fine, the list is right there, and it won’t change. Why bother to make yourself grey, a great man doesn’t do that.”
“Precisely, what brother Guo said is very true, a gentleman’s style.” Feng Shanshui waved his folding fan and agreed.
“That’s right, how ridiculous is he, Zhu Pingan, the poem has run off the topic, and he couldn’t even find the clue in it for more than ten days, and now he still thinks he can make the list, hehe” Several people in the crowd laughed together and agreed.
These people walked unhurriedly towards the front of the list, laughing recklessly at Zhu Pingan whose clothes were all messed up in the crowd.
Under the list, either crying or laughing, all the human beings are all kinds of things!
