What is a middle-aged youth is an extremely self-righteous being who doesn’t know what giving up is.
The oldest member of the Li Clan was only frustrated with the loss he had just suffered for a few moments, and then he continued to fight with Zhu Pingan with high spirits, throwing out what he considered to be very difficult questions one by one to make things difficult for Zhu Pingan.
For example, the crossword puzzle: “The top goes to the bottom, and the bottom goes to the top. Two heads go to the middle, and the middle goes to both heads.”
Zhu Pingan had already seen these puzzles on the internet, so he could give the answer without even thinking about it.
“It’s ‘to’, because the upper end of ‘to’ is the lower end of ‘go’, and the ‘to ‘ bottom is the top of ‘to’. The middle of ‘to’ is the two ends of ‘to’, and the two ends of ‘to’ are the two ends of ‘to’. The two ends of ‘to’ are the middle of ‘go’.” Zhu Pingan also pretended to think for a moment before giving his answer bashfully, and he also explained the answer.
However, this had greatly exceeded the expectations of the Li Family’s Elder San, so much so that the Li Family’s Elder San racked his brain to come up with a few more questions to make things difficult for Zhu Pingan, but sadly, none of the questions were able to make things difficult for Zhu Pingan.
In the end, the Li family’s old man had to come up with a question that was almost a rascal: “If you jump into a big pit, very deep, and there is no one inside, the walls of the pit are very slippery, and also very strong, can’t be scratched by hand, and can’t be climbed up with bare hands at all, but do you have any tools in your hand, no ropes, knives, or anything else. There is no one outside the pit either, and there is nothing inside the pit, so what do you do?”
The oldest member of the Li family removed all the favourable aspects that could be envisaged, and looked at Zhu Pingan in a very self-satisfied manner after he finished speaking.
“Can you swim?” Zhu Pingan asked indifferently.
“It’s not like there’s any water in the pit, I just said that there’s nothing in the pit.” The oldest member of the Li family emphasised once again.
“I can pinch a hole in my head with my hand and let the water flow out, that way I can swim and float and get out of the pit.” Zhu Pingan said in a serious manner.
The Li family’s oldest three shook his head like a rattle drum, “How can there be that much water in your head!”
“I don’t have water in my head, why would I jump?” Zhu Pingan glanced at the oldest member of the Li family and said indifferently.
Li family’s oldest three
In the end. It was only when Li Shu, the dark-hearted maiden, brought out the name of Li Dazhong that she was able to drive the Li family’s oldest three out of the study right.
“Many thanks to Miss Li for relieving the situation.” Zhu Pingan arched his hand and thanked the ventriloquist girl, if she hadn’t kicked her brother out of the study, it was estimated that his brother would still have to come up with some strange and weird things to make things difficult for himself.
“Narcissist, which one relieved you. I’m just afraid that my third brother will get angry and ruin my book, humph.” The belly girl looked up at the sky at forty-five degrees, and at the end of the day, she gave an arrogant cold snort.
What a problematic young girl.
Borrowing two more books back from the Li family, the idea of reading miscellaneous books was put aside for now because the Encyclopaedia was approaching. The two books borrowed this time are both books related to the countryside examination, to be precise, one curricula and one eight stocks.
The family was excited about the news of the Enke, as to whether or not Zhu Pingan could pass the exam was not something the family considered, anyway, they were just excited about the Enke.
Early in the morning of the second day, Zhu Pingan wore the clothes that his teacher’s mother had made for him, and walked from the house towards the Enke’s house in Shanghe Village.
The clothes made by the teacher’s mother fit well, the clothes are made of Zibu, four shorts, vermilion trim, wide and large activities are very convenient, four shorts without a belt. Two lapels have a few straps, but tied.
Master mother also made a pair of shoes, shoes standard name is called Cai Cui, that is, coloured shoes, Zhu Pingan feet on this pair of shoes is red shoes, a bit like embroidered shoes, but there is no embroidery only, feel strange.
The townspeople they met on the road greeted Zhu Ping An with a very strange look of puzzlement. Zhu Pingan explained that the reason he was dressed like this was because he was going to the husband’s house. Crowning Ceremony.
Crowning Ceremony?
The villagers don’t understand, what is a crown ceremony or not, we village people don’t talk about this. This is how most of the villagers feel, so it’s no wonder that Old Master Sun wanted to go to his home to add the crown ceremony.
Sun old master’s house is still the same as usual. The night is not closed, the door is not closed at all, Zhu Pingan walked straight in.
“Good morning, En-Sensei.” Zhu Pingan looked at Old Master Sun when he entered and bowed from afar.
“Well, not bad.” Old Master Sun was tidying up the tables and chairs in the courtyard, arranging the tables and chairs, wine and wine lamps, hats and headscarves and so on. Seeing that Zhu Pingan had come over early in the morning, he nodded with satisfaction.
Zhu Pingan want to go forward to help, but was heard out of the teacher mother pulled to the room, without saying will give Zhu Pingan re-change a hairstyle, uh, very shameful total angle shape, both sides of the head by the teacher mother was painted as two buns, into a ring, and the teacher mother also use red tapestry tie tie into the “message”.
When she was changing Zhu Pingan’s hairstyle, the guests came to Sun Laofu Zi’s house, all of them were Sun Laofu Zi’s old friends, including the two granary students who worked together as guarantors during Zhu Pingan’s examination at the academy, and there were about seven or eight people who came, bringing brushes, ink, paper and inkstones, etc., as the congratulatory gifts for Zhu Pingan’s coronation ceremony.
They were all invited by Old Master Sun to observe the ceremony.
Zhu Pingan was then called by Old Master Sun to the main entrance, facing east, to greet the friends of Old Master Sun. Old Master Sun greeted his friend with a smile, Zhu Pingan greeted him with a long bow, Old Master Sun’s friend looked at Zhu Pingan and nodded with satisfaction, then after exchanging pleasantries with Old Master Sun at the gate, he followed him into the courtyard.
Master Mother made a pot of tea and placed it on the table outside the courtyard along with the teacups, then turned around and went back to her room. Zhu Pingan picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea before placing it on the table.
When Old Master Sun’s friends entered the courtyard, they washed their hands in the water basin and then took their seats to watch the ceremony.
Zhu Pingan’s coronation ceremony then officially began.
“A certain student, if the lower river village Zhu Shouyi’s son, Zhu Pingan, the year is growing up, will be crowned at its head today, I would like to ……” Sun old master to observe the ceremony of friends, arched his hand and opened his mouth.
“Praise.” Old Master Sun’s friend nodded and praised.
Then, Old Master Sun took the turban from the table and walked to Zhu Pingan, exhorting with a serious face, “Auspicious month and order day, the beginning of the yuan suit, abandon your young ambition, follow your Chengde, Shoukou Weiqi, in order to intermediary Bifu.”
“Many thanks to the benefactor.” Zhu Pingan knelt down and thanked his benefactor.
Old Master Sun obediently put the turban on Zhu Pingan’s head, and then warmly spoke to Zhu Pingan, “You go to your room and seek your teacher’s mother.”
Zhu Pingan nodded his head, got up, and with a long arch to the people watching the ceremony on the side, he headed to the room.
“Come here, go to the bedroom and change into these clothes.” Master Mother smiled kindly and placed a bag of clothes in Zhu Pingan’s hands.
“Thank you, Senior Mother.” Zhu Pingan took it and smiled nervously as he expressed his gratitude to the Senior Mother.
“Silly child, what’s the point of being polite with Senior Mother.” Master Mother smiled and urged Zhu Pingan to quickly go to the bedroom to change his clothes.
The crown ceremony was rather trivial, and the clothes needed to be changed around. Walking to the bedroom, Zhu Pingan took a look at the clothes given by Master Mother, a set of dark coloured clothes with a brocade belt and a pair of black cloth shoes. Zhu Pingan then took off this set of four slit shirt on his body and changed into the set of clothes given by his senior mother.
After changing his clothes and thanking his senior mother, Zhu Pingan once again walked to the courtyard.
Old Master Sun let Zhu Pingan stand in the courtyard for a while before starting the next process. After Zhu Pingan stood for a while, Old Master Sun took another hat from the table, walked to Zhu Pingan, and once again exhorted, “Auspicious month, ordering the hour, is Shen’er clothing, honour your majesty, Shushun Erde, eyebrow life forever, enjoy hu fu.”
Zhu Pingan knelt down to thank his benefactor, and Old Master Sun added the hat to Zhu Pingan, and then told Zhu Pingan to go to his room to find his teacher’s mother.
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Crowning ceremony is so troublesome, Zhu Pingan muttered in his heart.
However, he still obeyed his master’s order and headed for the room once again
