Sunset and sunrise, time flows; wildly kissing the years, splashing ink and orchids.
In Zhu Pingan splash ink practice shabu shabu between the quill, time is like sand in the palm of the hand, in the cracks of the fingers quietly passed, Linhuai Marquis House old lady’s birthday will come in the blink of an eye, Linhuai Marquis House lights and colours, a piece of celebration, are in the old lady’s birthday tomorrow in preparation.
Zhu Pingan also prepared a birthday gift for Marquis Linhuai’s old lady, a calligraphy and painting, written by Zhu Pingan himself. Paper is Zhu Pingan bought outside the good Chu leather paper, white and smooth as a mirror, the fibres pounded very fine, the knot even tight, exquisite as silk, this paper by the ink uniformity, with which to do calligraphy and painting, can be appreciated for a lifetime.
In writing word painting, Zhu Pingan also did the thinking.
In ancient times, this kind of bells and whistles family, whenever the old man birthday, people will always send birthday poems or couplets, most of the birthday words have been used badly, so a lyricist said the difficulty: “Difficult is not difficult in the birthday words, if all the words of wealth and riches, it is dusty and vulgar; all the words of fame and fortune, it is flattering and sycophantic; all the words of the gods and goddesses, it is pedantic and vain.” Throughout the many poems and couplets of birthday wishes, basically can not be separated from what “blessed as the East China Sea, longevity than Nanshan Mountain” and so on, this kind of birthday wishes almost all rotten street.
Zhu Pingan pondered for a moment, dipped in ink, in the good Chu leather paper wrote a word painting:
“Let’s not talk about it, it is a, living Goddess of Mercy. Even this year, looks sixty, see the bottom of the road, only sixteen.
Do not say birthday star incense and candles, do not wish the spirit of the turtle Tsubaki crane. I just need to put my pen gently and add a stroke to the cross.”
In the cross to add a skim, it became a thousand years old, this kind of birthday words really what blessed as the East China Sea life than Nanshan to be much stronger.
Of course, this vice birthday words is not Zhu Pingan’s original, this is Xin Jiaxuan has a word harmonic theatre joy is known, this is to wish him a relative of his own family eighty birthday when made the birthday words. Zhu Pingan changed the eighty to sixty, also to match the birthday of the old lady of Linhuai Marquis.
In addition to this calligraphy and painting, Li Shu also had the little bun maid send a jade carving of Magu wishing for her birthday, so that Zhu Pingan could send it up as a gift when the time came. Li Shu was very thoughtful, afraid that Zhu Pingan’s gift was light and would be despised by the Marquis’ shallow eyes.
Zhu Pingan put things in order. He picked the oil lamp and sat at the desk with his hands full.
At this time, it is already late at night, the earth has fallen asleep. Apart from the breeze blowing gently, apart from the occasional bark or two of a dog, the prosperous and flourishing Marquis Mansion was silent.
The Marquis’ Great Grandmother was in the Old Madame’s room, giving the Old Madame a lecture on the arrangements for tomorrow’s birthday. The old madam was very satisfied with the Great Grandmother’s arrangements. The main reason is still that several shops in the mansion have been making money day in and day out in the past few days, and business has been exceptionally good.
In order to expand the profits, the old madam agreed with grandma’s planning and invested all the funds the mansion could use. Although the investment is much, but according to these days’ income, the profit can be doubled several times.
The old madam felt like she was many years younger, in a good mood, almost catching up with the old third family that vixen driven out of the marquis mood.
Grandma’s mood is even better, the several shops in the mansion have so much income on the surface, in fact, the income is actually more. Only all into the big house of the waist bag only, their own big house line for the Houfu paid so much, more natural is a natural thing. Today got the old lady’s consent, will be able to move the funds into the house, the profit should at least double a few times, this back and forth, their own big house and can get a huge amount of income, no longer need to point to the third house to the house of the subsidies. With the money, you can also make connections to move your own master’s position up the ladder.
Good mood. Everything is good. Grandma cared about the old lady’s living, and the old lady was lovingly letting grandma go back to her room to rest early.
In short, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are like fish in water, a piece of harmony.
When the Linhuai Marquis Mansion was silent in the deep ink-coloured night. Far away in the southeast of the capital Shun Tian Gongyuan, but the lights are bright, reading the paper has reached the last moment, the ranking of the examination.
To the public hall, the same examiners work overtime, at this moment has been all the examination papers all graded recommendation roll finished. Examiner Xu step and Yan Maoqing also day and night will be the same examiner recommended by all the examination papers read, the examiner Xu step and Yan Maoqing even in the fall of the paper in the “search for” out of the two were buried in the paper, and finally took in the 400 points in the test paper, the Enkei will be examined in the 400 quota so far all the elected.
400 will be admitted to the examination paper, one by one row open on a number of long case. Long case on each paper has five colours of the font, this is because the marking officer in the paper on the colour of the pen also has a very strict rules, the supervisor and the supervisor, the transfer, receive the volume, Mi Feng, outside the curtain to collect the palm of the official with a purple pen, with the examiner and the inner curtain to collect the palm of the official with a blue pen, transcribing the official with a vermilion pen, to read the official with a yellow pen, the positive, vice examiner with an ink pen, and collectively referred to as the “five-coloured pen! Together, they are called “five-coloured pens”, so the 400 examination papers to be accepted have five colours of script.
The ranking of the 400 accepted papers is also a considerable amount of work.
According to the practice in previous years, the examiners would often argue over the ranking work because the ranking of the HKCEE can be said to be too important.
Why is it too important, because the ranking of the examination, almost the ranking of the upcoming temple examination. The emperor himself questions of the temple test, will rearrange the ranking of the new scholar, but there is no accident, the temple test ranking and the ranking of the test is not much difference, the emperor is only slightly adjusted according to personal preferences, generally not much change, often will be the yuan is also the scholar Lang. The first, second and third of the temple test a first, second and third for the first prize, the first prize, scout, these three people 99 per cent will be in the top ten of the test rankings.
The ranking of the examination is the last step of the examination paper, but also a step to test the quality of the examination.
Therefore, the ranking of the examination is of great importance, and the examiners, whether they are examiners or co-examiners, will often argue and express their views on the ranking.
400 test papers were placed one by one in a number of long case, there are nearly 30 test papers placed extra, these 30 test papers are the examiner Xu step in the reading of extra selected, are the top of the test, but also the focus of the ranking of the test.
Under the auspices of the chief examiner Xu Jie and Yan Maoqing, the ranking of the 400 test papers was carried out in an orderly manner. All the fellow examiners expressed their own views and argued with each other, and although there were continuous disputes, the ranking work was still carried out in an orderly manner.
In addition to the extra 30 papers, the remaining 300 papers were ranked, and in the midst of a spat, the curtain came down and all the papers were ranked.
Immediately after that, twenty of these thirty test papers were also ranked, and the remaining other ten were also determined to be the top ten, only that these top ten test papers were specific as to who would be the first, who would be the second, and who would be the third …… The examiners between the views of how can not be unified, the sword, arguing, some of the examiners are drinking two cups of tea, or feel dry mouth, on this also can not stop talking…
