Thank you, Ta-Jen Li, for getting through.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand and thanked Li Chunfang.
“Zi Hou and I don’t need to be polite, the auxiliary is waiting for you inside, you should quickly go in.”Li Chunfang shook his head slightly and smiled.
Zhu Pingan smiled slightly and once again arched his hand to Li Chunfang, then tidied up his instrument and stepped in towards the room where Yan Song had his office.
“Late scholar Houjun Zhu Pingan, pay respects to the auxiliary lord.”
Zhu Pingan walks into the room, without saying a word, he bends down in the direction of the main seat with a long bow and salute, mouthing the name of Late Learned Latecomer, and piling up a look of respect and respect on his face.
“Oh, Zi Hou has come, no need to be polite, quickly please rise.”Yan Song who was sitting on the main seat smiled gently and got up, his attitude was very kind, just like an old grandpa in the neighbourhood.
“That’s right, Zi Hou, why don’t you get up quickly, our Lord Yan appreciates young talents like you the most. You’re so polite, aren’t you being a stranger.”
Then, an unfamiliar yet somewhat familiar voice sounded above Zhu Pingan’s head, followed by a pair of hands helping Zhu Pingan up.
Zhu Pingan obediently got up, and only then raised his head to survey everything in the room, the first thing that came into his eyes was the kind-eyed, white-bearded old man who got up and walked on the main seat, which was Yan Song Yan Fu; and then it was the one who helped himself up on the side, the middle-aged official with a serious country-face in a gentle manner, which was Zhao Wenhua who had presided over the imperial exams in Yingtian in the same year, and is now the Right Serving Officer in the Ministry of Public Works, and the General Secretary of the Department of General Affairs, Tongzheng Envoy.
“Many thanks to the auxiliary, many thanks to Lord Zhao.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand to Yan Song, as well as Zhao Wenhua, saluting and thanking him.
“Look at you, why are you talking and being rude again.”Zhao Wenhua held Zhu Pingan’s hand, and then turned to Zhu Pingan’s shoulder and patted it, shaking his head with a smile.
“Alright, don’t all stand, let’s sit down and talk. This old bone of mine is not like you young people.”
Yan Song was very kind and flirted with a smile, waving his hand to indicate that Zhu Pingan and Zhao Wenhua should sit down and talk.
So the three of them took their seats in groups of guests and hosts, and Zhu Pingan took the initiative to sit at the bottom seat, sitting squarely on half of the chair’s surface as a sign of respect.
“Actually, speaking of which, I am also considered Zi Hou’s seat master.”After sitting down, Zhao Wenhua said with a smile.
“Oh, Wenhua, what does this say?”Yan Song was quite interested in this, stroking his beard and asking with a smile.
“Oh, righteous father does not know. The year before last, the South Zhili school officer transferred to Sichuan, I took over the school officer, mention school South Zhili, presided over the countryside examination. It was also that year that Zi Hou went to Yingtian to participate in the countryside examination, speaking of which, the imperial examination before the countryside examination, it was also me who examined Zi Hou.”Zhao Wenhua explained with a smile.
Zhao Wenhua recognised Yan Song as his righteous father, this is not a secret, the whole dynasty is well known for this matter, Zhao Wenhua has long been accustomed to calling Yan Song as his righteous father, and didn’t feel any embarrassment, Yan Song’s age is more than eighty years old, and this age is enough to be one’s own grandfather, let alone one’s father.
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Zhu Pingan heard, slightly stunned for a moment, in fact, in general terms it is so, but strictly speaking, it is not like Zhao Wenhua said so.
Seat Master, was the honorific title that lifts and jinshi gave to the chief examiners of the countryside exams and the congress exams.
However, back then, Zhao Wenhua, as a scholarly officer, was only the chief examiner of the imperial examination before the countryside examination, and the chief examiner of the later countryside examination was not Zhao Wenhua, the chief examiner of that year was the two bachelors of Hanlin, Zhang Tao and Wang Da, so strictly speaking, the seated master of one’s own countryside examination was only the two bachelors of Zhang Tao and Wang Da.
However, generally speaking, the examination is also a part of the countryside examination, Zhao Wenhua examined the examination, is also considered to be the seat teacher.
By its Zhao Wenhua in Yan Song’s face so say out, Yan Song and is happy to see it look, this time Zhu Pingan will not take the bull by the horns, engage in what the seat of the division of the debate.
Seat division on seat division it.
Lice more not pressure body, and not bad this one.
In this way, he has two seat masters in the Yan Party. One is a test when the seat teacher Yan Maoqing, the second is barely a countryside test when the seat teacher Zhao Wenhua …… Yan Maoqing is Yan Song’s competent generals, Zhao Wenhua is Yan Song’s son and competent generals, both are Yan party pillar type backbone.
Oh, how to feel that he is the root of the small Yan party, Zhu Pingan in the heart of the speechless smile.
However, in fact, Zhu Pingan also knows that because of the impeachment of Zhao Dajing case, the Yan Party people will be hating themselves to the bone.
What appeared to be such a long mental activity of Zhu Pingan was actually only a second’s time.
“What Lord Zhao has said is very true, it is Ping An who has been rude, I hope to redeem myself. Student Zhu Pingan has met the Seat Master.”
Zhu Pingan raised his head and swept his eyes at Zhao Wenhua and Yan Song, then he faintly smiled and confessed, then rose from his seat and prepared to give Zhao Wenhua a big salute.
“Look at you, I’m just joking, you’re still taking it seriously.”Zhao Wenhua shook his head and laughed, affectionately getting up from the seat, courteously stretching out his hands to hold Zhu Pingan’s arms, not letting Zhu Pingan go down to perform a great salute.
“The student is indebted to the seat of the teacher’s love, the subject of the examination for the first class on the top, to be able to advance to the countryside examination. Once a teacher, always a teacher, how could the student dare to forget.”
Although stopped by Zhao Wenhua, Zhu Pingan still made the gesture of performing a great salute to, mouth said the words against his will, face is a serious look, anyone who looks at it is a good student’s posture.
“You, it’s enough that you have this heart, why stick to these manners.”
Zhao Wenhua said with a smile, graciously pulling Zhu Pingan to the front of the seat, pressing Zhu Pingan’s shoulder and letting Zhu Pingan sit down, with a gentle teacher’s appearance.
“Oh, there’s such a thing, how come Wenhua didn’t mention it to Lao Fu.”Yan Song picks up the teacup and sips the tea, looking at the two with interest.
“Rather, it is the child’s not. The thing is that last year, I mentioned the school of southern Zhili, coinciding with the countryside examination. As a school promotion officer, I presided over the examination. At that time, ZiHou handed in the paper very early, I first saw ZiHou, I thought that such a small young boy is which family of noble donations to the supervisor it. I thought, “I am afraid that he is a person without real talent, considering his youth, I thought that if his writing was good, I would give him a second or third grade. Unexpectedly, I saw the test paper submitted by Zi Hou, but I was impressed and appreciated. Then I saw that Zi Hou was just a child, so I couldn’t help but be suspicious, fearing that he might have obtained the answers to the test questions earlier, so I fielded another question to test Zi Hou.”
Zhao Wenhua got up, picked up the teapot for yan song renewed tea, slowly for yan song recounted when the science test Zhu Pingan scene.
After Zhao Wenhua finished pouring tea for Yan Song, he carried the teapot again and came to Zhu Pingan, who hurriedly got up, took the teapot from Zhao Wenhua’s hands and refilled it for Zhao Wenhua before pouring himself a cup of tea.
“Oh, what question did you come up with?”Yan Song asked.
“What is the gift of impoliteness?”Zhao Wenhua said back.
“Wenhua, you’re being deliberately difficult.”Yan Song laughed and shook his head, for the imperial examination together, Yan Song was more than familiar with it, the imperial examination was just a walk in the park, Zhao Wenhua came out with this question of difficulty over.
“Righteous father wrongly blamed me, at that time ZiHou’s test paper was too excellent, and it is only the age of thirteen only, I am also curious about its talent, so the examination school. If the test paper really came from him, ordinary questions can’t test his talent.”Zhao Wenhua explained with a bitter smile.
“Well, Zi Hou, how did you answer then?”Yan Song nodded and turned his gaze towards Zhu Pingan and asked.
“Back to Fu, this is how Ping An answered at that time. Ancient people to be for the ritual, and I must be by it today, is not necessarily in line with the ancient ritual; ancient people to be for the righteousness, and I must be by it today, is not necessarily in line with the ancient righteousness also ……”
Fortunately, the question was asked to me, if it was someone else, I’m afraid that I would have long ago not remembered the answer at that time. Zhu Pingan has unforgettable memory, not to mention the questions he answered at that time, this kind of question is no difficulty for Zhu Pingan, Zhu Pingan made a gesture to think about it, then the answer at that time to Yan Song repeated.
“Good.”After listening, Yan Song stroked his beard and nodded appreciatively.
