freenovelworld Chapter 317 Good boy
Chapter 317 Good boy
"I hope it's successful." Grandpa Shen Shanyou turned around and looked for his youngest son: "Let's go and pick up your eldest brother."
"I'll join in too." Shen Xiaoye stepped forward to join in the fun, but Shen Changsui pushed her on the forehead and asked her to step back. "It's noisy outside, wait."
After saying that, he helped the old man open the door, and Lu Guan followed swiftly behind him. He was already proposing marriage to the Shen family, so how could he not act nice and show his courtesy?
Shen Xiaoye could only turn around to amuse her little cousin who was being held by her aunt. She looked at the two windows from time to time, hoping that the little black cat would come back soon to report the news.
At this time, my uncle Shen Changshou squeezed out of the crowd to see the list. He even lost his new Tianxia Yitong Liuhe hat and one of his shoes. He happily ran towards the teahouse.
Fortunately, he was more patient than the other person who was jumping and shouting "My brother passed the exam, my brother passed the exam", and did not get crazy.
The little black cat, who arrived a little later than him, jumped down from the top of the wall, rushed past one long leg after another like lightning, and came to the teahouse and slid into the window of the box from the roof.
"Where did the little black cat jump from?" My second cousin, who was accompanying the two grandmothers at another window, caught it quickly.
Lin smiled and touched it and said, "It must have come back with Changshou from looking at the list."
"This cat is very clever and understands human nature." Village Chief Qian didn't even stop to look at the list.
He and his great grandfather Shen Shanxin were guarding the other window. He lowered his head and said, "I saw Changshou coming in."
"Brother Hui is back too," Shen Shanxin ran towards the door of the box, opened it and went downstairs. His action was so sudden that Shen Xiaoye didn't even have time to call out to him. Everyone couldn't help but smile knowingly.
"Meow." The little black cat meowed to Shen Xiaoye who was walking over: "Your uncle said that Shen Changsui won the 180th place."
As soon as it finished speaking, there were anxious footsteps outside, and in the blink of an eye, the grandfather with a happy face pushed open the door and said, "I won, I won."
"How many?" Mr. Pan clenched his fist and shook it. A sixteen-year-old juren.
Mr. Cheng stroked his beard with pride: "After all, it won't be the last one."
Since the emperor moved the capital, the number of successful candidates in the Shuntian Prefecture provincial examinations has been the highest in the country, with around 200 candidates passing each time, and last year the number was 198.
Almost as soon as he finished speaking, Shen Changshou, who was in a mess and was helped in by his brother, said, "One hundred and eighty."
"Thank God." Lin's heart finally settled down. She grabbed Mr. Pan's wife's hand and kept saying, "It's all thanks to Mr. Pan's support."
Everybody was delighted, and Wang Chi started to cheer for Mr. Shen Changsui, the Juren scholar, and asked him to distribute the lucky money and share in the good fortune.
Although Shen Cungeng and others who came back one after another had their clothes in disarray, they still had all their sets of clothes on. The worst off was Shicun. He was caught crying when someone failed the exam, and he managed to get away and come back.
He wanted to report to his master and go back to change clothes, but unexpectedly his master asked him to wait for a moment.
"Hengnian, what was the address you left when you reported your background?" Mr. Pan suddenly remembered this when he heard the noise of music and dance downstairs announcing the good news.
Shen Changsui understood instantly: "There are both in Jiuli Village and Juxianfang.
Sir, I'm afraid we have to rush back to our home in Juxianchang." Because when he was in Beijing, he often stayed with Mr. Cheng to learn, so there was no one guarding the house in Zhenjiang Hutong.
Upon hearing this, Cheng Laosheng said anxiously, "What are you waiting for? Let's go quickly.
Most people who report good news will report from the lowest to the highest. This year, there are 192 winners, and your turn will be soon." He just pulled Shen Cungeng aside to ask how many people were on the list.
When the group hurriedly left the teahouse, good news was delivered to the lobby.
The classmates who had failed the exam when Shen Changsui came down before were nowhere to be seen now, which avoided any embarrassment again.
Lin saw the big red envelope handed over by the new candidate, and she grabbed Shen Xiaoye's hand and asked, "There are more than one wave of people announcing good news. Do you have enough copper coins at home?"
"That's enough, grandma. A red envelope of one or two taels of silver is enough." But she had plenty in her space. She would not deposit the cash she received in the past year into a money shop if she could exchange it for gold and silver.
Nowadays, money houses are not banks. If you deposit money in them, you have to pay insurance and supervision fees.
Fortunately, Mr. Pan remembered it quickly. As soon as their cars entered the door, the sound of gongs and musicians announcing the good news came from behind.
Spend a lot of money as a gift and everyone is happy.
Over the past year, the neighbors have become familiar with each other, and when they learned that Shen Changsui had passed the imperial examination, everyone came to congratulate him.
No one came empty-handed. Fortunately, Shen Xiaoye had made preparations in advance. She arranged for all the cousins to be registered one by one on the prepared paper on the table, and each visitor received a gift in return.
There were wealthy businessmen in the area who heard the news and directly gave real gold and silver.
Of course, it was impossible for my grandfather to accept all this money, but he did not refuse it all. Instead, he praised the other party's box for its exquisiteness. He only accepted the box but not the money, and treated all the return gifts equally.
Shen Xiaoye secretly gave the old man a thumbs up. Once her uncle passed the imperial examination, her grandfather looked rejuvenated again, and he enjoyed welcoming and seeing off guests.
The rest of the Shen family, young and old, spent most of the day greeting guests with smiles. Even Wang Chi and Lin Erniu privately told Shen Xiaoye that their faces were almost stiff from smiling.
Fortunately, as time went on, fewer people came to visit. When everyone had a chance to catch their breath, grandpa said, "After the wine party in the village, we should also host a buffet to entertain the neighbors here."
"Grandpa, almost half of the people in the neighborhood come here to heat up the stove. Once you start the feast, the whole neighborhood will come, believe it or not?
Then the other people who have passed the imperial examination and live in the same neighborhood, should they follow suit?" Shen Xiaoye was the first to object.
Lin fully agreed: "Hurry up and ask who else has passed the exam, so we can go and congratulate them."
"Grandma, it's recorded in the book. I marked three people, and they all sent people to deliver them." The reason why Shen Cungeng came back late after checking the list was because he and his cousin Hui and cousin Erniu memorized all the names on the list.
Among them, the ones in Linghe County and Juxianfang were remembered most clearly, and they were used on the same day.
When Shen Changshou asked him how he knew, he praised him, "Good boy, you did a good job. Dad, I will take Geng Ge'er with me. You can take a break and have a drink with the two gentlemen when the banquet is served."
"A banquet? No, we have to invite you two gentlemen to the most famous restaurant." Grandpa felt that a banquet was not enough to express his gratitude.
Mr. Pan and Mr. Cheng waved their hands when they heard this, saying that it was more comfortable to eat at home, so he did not insist. When he turned around to look for his youngest son to buy some better food, he found that he was not in the yard.
It turned out that Shen Changsui was called into the house by his mother to give a thank-you gift to the chief examiner of the provincial examination, and all the things were selected by Shen Xiaoye.
She was very generous and only bought calligraphy works by famous people from a hundred years ago and rare books. Most writers could not refuse these two things.
Therefore, when Shen Changsui presented gifts, he was particularly favored by the master, and the conversation lasted longer than with others.
Well, "zuoshi" is a respectful title given by those who have passed the provincial examination to the chief examiner of their provincial examination. Sometimes this kind of relationship will form a natural alliance after entering officialdom.
While everything was going smoothly for him, there was a little chaos at home because of the visit of the second son of Mr. Lin.
"...My father said that if you can avoid it once, you may not be able to avoid it every time, so it is better to make plans early." No matter how much more, Lin Enjun was not in a position to give any advice, after all, it was related to the rest of Shen Changsui's life.