And Lin Yanchao and Hou Zhongshu have no intention of staying here. The three of them spread their feet and ran towards the social school.

When I entered the village, I hadn't yet arrived at the gate of the social school, but I saw that there were many people in the village.

When the villagers saw Lin Yanchao and them, someone shouted from afar: "A few proud disciples of Xiucai Gong have returned." ”

The three of them were very happy to hear this. The villagers immediately got out of the way.

Zhang Haoyuan and the others strode into the door with a look of pride. But when I saw the lecture hall on weekdays, the newspaper post had been hung up, and it read, "Good news to the lord of your mansion, Lin Chengyi, Meng Governor Fujian Xuedao Hu, took the middle as the first talent in the first year of Wanli in Min County's annual examination, and the township test Lianjie." ’

"Really, really!" Zhang Haoyuan suddenly burst out laughing.

Hou Zhongshu also said: "Great, my teacher is the head of the college examination!" ”

Lin Yanchao was infected by this festive atmosphere, and he didn't feel that he was a little tearful.

"Where's the gentleman?" Zhang Haoyuan couldn't help asking.

In the hall, Zhang Zongjia and Lin Chengyi's mother were talking to the reporter and the old master, and when they saw their son coming, they immediately laughed and got up and said to Zhang Haoyuan: "Why are you so late, and you are covered in black mud." ”

Zhang Haoyuan replied: "When I saw someone falling into the water, I went into the water to save it, and I was already rescued." Zhang Haoyuan gently revealed the fact that they went down to the river to touch the clams.

Mr. Zhang was overjoyed when he heard this: "Well done." ”

The old master on the side also said to Mr. Zhang: "These disciples of Lin Gong are really enthusiastic. ”

The reporter asked: "Yes, after talking for so long, I don't know where Lin Gong is, so we can say hello in person." ”

Zhang Zongjia said with a smile: "Lin Gong, I don't live here now, but he has already sent a message to me, after going to the hairpin banquet of the old man, he will go back to his hometown, and he will come in a few days, you can rest assured that the money is indispensable to you." The reporter couldn't hear Lin Chengyi was slightly disappointed, but he was relieved to have happy money to take.

While he was talking, Zhang Songming on the side rushed with a big red post and said: "Xie Juren from the township has come to greet Mr. ”

Mr. Zhang and Zhang Xiang all stood up, and Lin Chengyi's mother heard that someone was coming, and she also supported herself regardless of the old body of Long Zhong. The reporter on the side did not dare to sit on the table.

Zhang Zongjia smiled and said: "This is not here yet." ”

"It's okay, just get closer." Zhang Xiang smiled faintly, but his face was also bright.

Soon, a sedan chair arrived at the door of the social school, and as soon as the sedan curtain was lifted, a middle-aged man wearing a black veil and a round-necked robe walked out of the sedan chair.

This middle-aged man is very rich, his face is ruddy and glowing, and he has a sense of nobility when he looks at it. Lin Yanchao also knows what a poor talent is, a rich person, and when he reaches the level of lifting people, he has completely said goodbye to the word poverty. Originally, Lin Chengyi fell for Xiucai, so he would not visit Xie Juren in person, but the other party was the head of the case of the superintendent, how could this be an ordinary Xiucai.

The villagers all stepped aside and bowed their hands one after another: "Thank you, Master!" ”

In the face of the villagers' hospitality, Xie Juren just nodded, and Zhang Xiang and Zhang Zongjia went out together. Zhang Xiang and Zhang Zongjia made a salute, Xie Juren returned a salute to Zhang Xiang, and Zhang Zongjia replied with a half-salute.

Zhang Xiang said: "Master Xie can come to social studies, it is really brilliant, but unfortunately Mr. is not there, only the old lady is in the hall!" ”

Xie Juren smiled and said, "It's okay, it's good to meet the old lady." ”

Saying that, Xie Juren stepped forward to bow to the old lady, and the old lady hurriedly avoided and didn't dare to say anything.

Xie Juren said to Zhang Xiang: "Since Mr. Lin is not here, I will come to visit another day." ”

Zhang Xiang and Xie Zongjia said: "Where do you dare, Mr. Rilin, he will visit in person." ”

Xie Juren said with a smile: "It's okay, Mr. Lin has just entered the school, and his money will not be loose, both in Sangzi, and with twenty taels of He Yi, talk about his heart." ”

As he spoke, he offered a piece of silver.

Twenty taels of silver! The villagers all gasped.

Zhang Xiang and Xie Zongjia both smiled and accepted it for Lin Chengyi. The villagers were about to stare down when they saw the snowflake silver, how good it would be if this silver were their own.

Lin Chengyi's talent show spread in Hongtang Township, and the social school teacher won the case, which was enough for those women in the village to talk for three days and three nights.

Stimulated by twenty taels of silver, the social studies students all suffered. When they returned home, they were ordered by the family, such as studying hard, and so on, that their ears were calloused.

After a few days, Lin Chengyi finally returned to Hongtang Township. The township suddenly became lively.

On weekdays, the neighbors and villagers in ten miles and eight towns, who know Lin Chengyi or not, are all here.

Before the school in Hongtang Society, there was a long queue, and everyone was busy giving gifts. Those who had students studying in social studies were given white money and silver cakes, and those who did not have students studying in social studies were also given eggs, liquor, rice noodles, and dry goods.

For Hongtang Township, it has been a long time since there has been a show. In the eyes of the people, Xiucai is high, and when encountering local disputes, if you want to deal with the government, you have to go through the students. In the event of a wedding or funeral in the family of ordinary people, or a New Year's holiday, they also ask the village Xiucai to help write couplets and sacrifice accounts.

These are the people who want to trouble Xiucai, and now they have formed this friendship, and they will definitely have a place in the future, so the villagers are also shrewd and come early to build a relationship. And after Lin Chengyi showed his talents, he was also refreshed on happy occasions, a little less restrained and wooden, and he was also a lot more open-minded, chatting and laughing with the villagers of Daohe.

Lin Chengyi received so many favors, and decided to set up a banquet to thank the villagers.

So the ancestral hall set up a village banquet, set up a shed, set up a stove, and invited the most famous chef in the township.

This village banquet is far less exquisite than when Hu Ti learned, but the countrymen pay attention to the five big and three coarse, and the banquet is fine or not fine, and the main thing is that the bowls should be large and many, and they must be full. According to the rules of the Fujian feast, there must be leftovers after eating, and the villagers pack them home, which is called a wine bag.

The wine bag is distributed to the family to eat again, and the joy is brought to the children of the family, which is good to show the host's hospitality, if there is no food left, others will say that the host is stingy.

Lin Yanchao and a group of disciples were also invited to the table.

Boiled prawns, steamed crabs, clams stewed in old wine, one dish after another are put on the table.

The feast is a flowing water feast, eating one dish at a time, and the schoolchildren at a table can't care about the friendship of their classmates, but when they saw that the chairman Shanglin Chengyi swept over at a glance, they had to restrain themselves.

However, the schoolchildren still didn't pay so much attention to it, and after a while, they were debauched, Hou Zhongshu directly broke the crab legs and gnawed them, while Lin Yanchao took a plate of ginger vinegar unhurriedly, plucked the shrimp skin, picked out the shrimp line, dipped in vinegar and ate it slowly.

This is the original ecological pollution-free river shrimp, which is not fishy in the mouth, but very sweet. And the bamboo-colored clams, after being stewed in old wine, are full of umami. The schoolchildren are free of their hands.

Lin Chengyi glanced at it, and it was hard to say anything.

Chairman Zhang Xiang smiled and said to Lin Chengyi: "After Mr. is a showman, if he lives in social studies with his mother, it is both inconvenient and undignified. I made my own decisions in the east of the village, and I had already cleaned up a two-entry residence for my husband, and I also found a handyman to serve Mr., mother and son. Mr. can study in it with peace of mind and prepare for the township examination in two years, and occasionally come to the social school to guide the schoolchildren. ”

Lin Yanchao nodded when he heard this, thinking that this is really good, with Lin Chengyi's first guidance in the hospital examination, to be his own business teacher, and to take the county test by himself, the certainty of the government examination is greater.

Lin Chengyi got up when he heard this: "Thank you Young Master Zhang for your kindness, the people in the clan have already made arrangements, and my mother and I are ready to move back to our hometown in the near future." ”

Everyone was disappointed when they heard this.

Zhang Xiang smiled dryly and asked: "I don't want Mr. to have this arrangement, I have been with Mr. for so long, but I don't know where Mr. is from, dare to ask where my hometown is?" ”

"The original place of origin is Lianpu Village in Kaihua, Chongshan Dongxiang."

"Chongshan Dongxiang, isn't that in the city gate, what's wrong?" One person said to himself, but saw the surprised looks of the people on the side.

Hearing Lin Chengyi say this, the people on the stage who knew the key put down their chopsticks.

On the side, Lin Yanchao also put down his chopsticks, although he didn't know the situation, he could see the looks of others, and Hou Zhongshu still didn't know anything, holding half of the crab in his hand and gnawing on it.

Zhang Xiang asked with a surprised face: "It's Lianpu, so Mr. is also a child of the Lianpu Lin clan?" ”

Seeing that the villagers showed such a look, Lin Chengyi hurriedly said: "Don't misunderstand, in the side branch of Donglin, there are more than a thousand children like me in the clan, which is insignificant. But this time, after taking Xiucai, after hearing about the clan elders, he allocated 20 acres of clan land to me, let me go back to the old house to live, and told me a family matter, so I was ashamed of my kindness to Zongjia. ”

"It doesn't matter! Anyway! ”

Mr. Zhang and Mrs. Zhang shook their heads together. The old man said: "I don't know that Mr. is from the Lianpu Lin clan, it really makes me ashamed, our Hongtang Township is fortunate to invite the children of the eunuch family to teach here." ”

"Ashamed, ashamed."

Hou Zhongshu listened to it on the side, and asked Lin Yanchao: "What is the origin of the Lin clan in Lianpu, and why is Zhang Haoyuan and his father so respectful." ”