The night swallowed the last bite of the remaining sunlight, and the night fell so slowly like a black curtain on a theatre stage.
In view of today’s poor state, Zhu Pingan left the word Quit Drinking at the desk, and then returned to bed to sleep.
At the end of the night, everything goes to sleep.
The next day Zhu Pingan was woken up by a banging sound, rubbed his eyes, yesterday’s slightly drunken head finally regained its sobriety at the moment, a long-lost sense of clarity, in the future do not dare to drink like that again, at least before the crown ceremony can not be like this drinking.
The Ming Dynasty still attaches great importance to the Chinese etiquette system, Ming Hongwu first year imperial edict set the crown ceremony, from the emperor, the crown prince, the emperor’s son, the character of the official, down to the common people, have formulated a crown ceremony ceremony of the rituals, in general, the Ming Dynasty, the crown ceremony is more prevalent. In particular, all the scholars had to go through the crown ceremony before they could be declared recognised, at which time they would be given the epithet.
Just not knowing why there was this pounding outside, Zhu Pingan got up and put on his clothes, scooped a ladle of fresh water from the bucket and poured it into the water basin, preparing to wash himself. Only after placing his hands in the water, Zhu Pingan heard knocking on the door mixed with noisy banging sounds coming from the door.
Who was it that had no sense of decency and was so messy early in the morning.
Zhu Pingan shook off the water droplets on his hands, walked to the door and opened the door to his room, then he saw the shopkeeper looking at himself with a delightful smile on his face, and behind him were two police officers with big red uniforms, one holding a red paper, and the other holding a small gong.
“The two errand boys, this is Zhu Pingan, Zhu Gongzi.” The shopkeeper nods his head and introduces himself to the two errand boys, then he clasps his hands together again and congratulates Zhu Pingan with a smile on his face, “Congratulations to Duke Zhu, congratulations to Duke Zhu.”
The Child Examination went through three levels of rigorous examinations, and only those who were successful in the examination could obtain the title of Xiu Cai. It was indeed not easy to be a Xiu Cai, so after a child student was successful in the Xiu Cai Exam, there was a special person, the Newspaper Man, who came to report the good news.
Zhu Pingan was slightly surprised when he looked at the announcer. Although he knew that there would be annunciation, but the annunciation is not always to the home annunciation, how this to the inn to come?
“Zhu Gongzi don’t be surprised, the person who announced the good news has travelled from Yingtian to your mansion yesterday, our brothers are also going through the motions to congratulate Zhu Gongzi on his high school Anqing head of the case. Your son is young and promising, his future is certainly unlimited.”
The one holding the red paper amongst the officers was an eloquent one, arching his hand and saying his congratulations.
“Thank you both for your kind words, thank you both for making the trip, a small token of appreciation. Please buy a cup of tea to moisten your throat.” Zhu Pingan smiled nervously and returned the salute, then took out two dimes of silver from the sleeve corset and slipped it into the hands of the two agents without any trace.
The two agents took it after a few false excuses, touching the broken silver in their hands, their faces smiled even more broadly, this young gentleman deserves to be the head of the case, and his hand is generous.
“Then the two of us will not be complacent, oh. Almost forgot the main thing, the gentleman in today’s noon also to go to the Jiangnan Tribute Court writing pro confession, that is, write their own age, place of origin, three generations of biography. And to indicate the figure, colour, beard and so on, this is the annual practice. After the prince has written his affidavit, the instructor will review it and stamp it with his seal, and then it will have to be sent to the Lord Tishekan, but of course the prince only needs to finish writing his affidavit.” After receiving the broken silver into his sleeve, the officer holding the red paper patted his head. Then he carefully explained to Zhu Pingan again.
“Your Excellency is already a Xiu Cai, so you might as well change into student attire when you head to the Jiangnan Tribute Academy at noon. Lest someone find fault with Gongzi.” The other errand boy holding a small gong was an attentive one and reminded.
“Thanks for the reminder.” Zhu Pingan arched his hand and thanked him.
In the early days of the establishment of Ming. In order to consolidate the rule, measures were taken to restore the Han tradition and remove the influence of the Yuan Dynasty in the clothing system. A full restoration of Han clothing and crowns. At the beginning of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang took the Zhou and Han from above and the Tang and Song from below, and established the Ming dress system mainly from four aspects: fabric, style, size and colour. Seng member is also the costume of the show also has a detailed system, “Seng member shirt, with jade-coloured cloth and silk for the, wide-sleeved soap edge, soap bar soft towel hanging belt. Where lifts the person supervisor, unchanged clothing.” Readers did not test on the show before is not allowed to wear show dress, just after the Hongwu year is not so strict.
Mother Chen’s robes made for himself is also a scholar, but after all, it is not the standard student dress, where Zhu Pingan in the send off the shopkeeper and the two happy servants, then go downstairs to the street to look for a ready-made clothes shop, buy a set of student clothes to respond to the emergency, don’t want to become a student of the first day of the person to leave a bad impression.
Zhu Ping’an always paid attention to restaurants and the like some days ago, and never paid attention to clothing shops.
Zhu Pingan came out from the inn, then randomly found a direction to look for a clothing shop, the street shops are many, but the clothing shop is very rare.
After walking for a long distance, he found a cloth shop, and the business was not good, the door was crowded.
Zhu Pingan walked into the shop, the shop mate over to greet is also listless, “what do you need, we shop all kinds of cloth damask silk satin everything.”
“I want to buy a set of ready-made clothes.” Zhu Pingan opened his mouth.
“Ready-made clothes, this shop also has them.” The shop mate led Zhu Pingan inside, “Please take a look, sir, do you have a favourite?”
“I would like to buy a set of raw clothes.” Zhu Pingan looked at the clothes recommended by the shop chap and shook his head slightly, none of the sets were student uniforms.
The shopkeeper sniffed and waved his hand, “I’ve never done any student uniforms before, I won’t hide it from you, I’m afraid that there won’t be any student uniforms that you need in the vicinity, if you really need them, you might as well go to the other side of the Qinhuai River and take a look, the scholars over there are frequent visitors, so maybe there are some student uniforms that you need.”
Zhu Pingan came out of this shop and looked for another one, getting the same answer.
Well, it seemed that he could only go to the other side of the Qinhuai River.
Zhu Pingan smiled bitterly and walked towards the other side of the Qinhuai River. There was only one bridge connecting to the Qinhuai River in the vicinity, and it was the one with the words “A gentleman does not cross a bridge, and crossing a bridge is not for a gentleman”.
Zhu Pingan walked across the bridge, only on the other side of the bridge to see the name of the bridge “Wende Bridge”. Wende bridge, might as well call the gentleman bridge better. The north side of the bridge is the Fu Zi Temple, which honours teachers, while the south side of the bridge is the Willow Lane, which is indeed a measure of a gentleman.
Zhu Pingan had just crossed the bridge when he heard a delicate laugh.
“Cluck cluck cluck. Thought you, a half-grown scholar, was much more noble, but you still sneaked across the bridge.”
Zhu Pingan looked up and saw a fifteen or sixteen year old girl wearing a bun that was teasingly looking at himself and laughing.
This girl’s appearance was pretty. Her eyes were big.
“Why, don’t you recognise me?” The young girl snapped, “I had wanted to invite you to play in my room.”
Zhu Pingan was somewhat speechless and slightly arched his hand, “Thank you for your kind words. I wonder if the girl knows if there is a ready-made clothes shop near here?”
The young girl smiled and covered her lips, blinking her big eyes, the teasing flavour became even stronger, “A ready-made clothes shop, giggle giggle giggle you’ve crossed the bridge, what are you still shy about. This is the worst excuse I’ve ever heard, but you’ve crossed the bridge to find me?”
Zhu Pingan did not want to tangle with her more, so he arched his hand and said, “In that case, I won’t bother you.”
After saying that. Zhu Pingan then bypassed the teasing young girl and went on his own to find the ready-made clothes shop.
“Hey, where are you going, is there another sweetheart of yours here?” That young girl saw Zhu Pingan bypassing her and couldn’t help but stomp her foot and chase after her.
Other? Speaking as if brother heart how you!
Zhu Pingan ignored it and continued on his way, and before long he saw a ready-made clothes shop. The style is not bad, from time to time there are people dressed as scholars coming in and out, far from the few cloth shops that he just looked at can be compared.
“Is this gentleman buying cloth for this young lady?” The shop chap looked at Zhu Pingan. He also looked at the young girl who was chasing after him, and thought for sure that it was a certain scholar who was buying a flowery cloth to please the young girl, so he asked enthusiastically.
Upon hearing this, the young girl had a smug look on her face, “This half-big scholar is quite naive, and he even thought of sending me cloth to please me.
Zhu Pingan shook his head. Speaking faintly, ”Not really. This young lady is not related to me, why would I buy cloth to send to her. I heard that you have student uniforms here. Specially came over to buy a set.”
The young girl’s face darkened at the words, clenched her teeth, and mumbled something about Zhu Pingan, which was probably something about being a nerd with no sense of humour and so on.
“Oh, it’s my eyes that are clumsy. Please come inside.” The shopkeeper said that he was wrong, and then reached out his hand to invite Zhu Pingan to enter the shop.
Inside the shop, there were quite a lot of student clothes, so it was assumed that the readers frequented the ready-made clothes shop here when they went to the Golden Pink Jade House.
“Hey, you this person is not wanting to be a Xiu Cai want to go crazy right, this is a student member can only wear, you wear it indiscriminately, you will be beaten by the officials.” The young girl also followed in, seeing that Zhu Pingan really wanted to buy the student uniform, she couldn’t care less about being angry and hurriedly reminded Zhu Pingan.
“Thanks for reminding the girl, but this time, I was lucky to win the courtyard examination.” Zhu Pingan did not return his head, while looking at the clothes, he opened his mouth indifferently.
“Come on, less daydreaming, you’re only how old!” That young girl didn’t believe it and scoffed again.
Whether you believe it or not, it’s none of my business, Zhu Pingan didn’t say anything more.
Most of those who passed the Xiucai exam are adults, the shop never thought there would be a student of Zhu Pingan’s size, so the clothes in the shop are not suitable for Zhu Pingan, take them down and compare them, they are much bigger.
This was not a good thing to do.
“If you beg me, I will cut and modify it for you.” Seeing this, that young girl came up to Zhu Pingan and said with a wink.
Right, you can cut and modify it, the young girl reminded the dreamer with a single word.
“Thank you for reminding the girl. Shopkeeper, please help me wrap up the smallest one.” Zhu Pingan thanked the young girl and asked the shopkeeper to wrap up the clothes.
After paying the money, Zhu Pingan took the clothes and walked straight towards the other side of Qin Huai, there were also cloth shops over there, surely they could cut them, the big deal was that he would just pay more for them himself.
“Hey, you, are you looking down on me!” That young girl saw Zhu Pingan crossing the bridge without even looking at her, she couldn’t help but clench her teeth, her face turned a little white, after a second’s pause she shouted at Zhu Pingan’s back, her tone also carrying a grudge.
I’m not looking down on you? How can, to look down on is also look down on those who read the book but stay in love with the wind and moon forget to return to the scholar.
“No, it’s just that the paths are different.” Zhu Pingan stood still, turned to the girl and arched his hand, “Thank you for reminding the girl just now.”
After saying that, Zhu Pingan left straight away
