Chapter Ninety-Six: Yan Shigu's Intentions
"Jingshi, your lectures sound much more interesting than the masters' lectures, I always fall asleep when I listen to the masters' lectures, but I feel much more interesting when I listen to your lectures just now, and I don't have any sleepiness at all." After sending off a group of students from Guozijian, everyone gathered around Xia Hongsheng, and Fang Yiai, the big man, said to Xia Hongsheng.
"That's right, Brother Wei never thought that the class could be like this, and the gentlemen know all day long that shaking their heads is really tasteless." Li Yexu also said on the side.
"Uh, is it really good for you to talk about Mr. behind your back?" Wei Shuyu's character is relatively positive, and he said to Li Yexu and Fang Yiai, and then looked at Xia Hongsheng: "However, Jingshi's lectures are really attractive, and my brother's mind has been following Jingshi's words, hehe, I have a feeling of being quite addicted." ”
While everyone was talking, they saw Li Gang and Yan Shigu coming over, and everyone quickly stopped their mouths and greeted the two together.
Li Gang wisped his beard and said, "Jingshi taught this method of punctuation and sentence breaking, can you remember it with your heart?" ”
"Students take it to heart!" The crowd answered.
"Well, not only do you have to remember, but you also have to start using it in the future, add punctuation marks between the lines to break sentences, don't forget." Li Gang said again. Again, they agreed.
Yan Shigu also nodded and said: "This method must be mastered well, after you are all nobles, although you don't need to participate in the imperial examination, this method must not be ignored." ”
As soon as Xia Hongsheng heard this, his heart jumped, and he raised his eyes to look at this group of students, and sure enough, a few awake people raised their heads in surprise. Yan Shigu stroked his beard with a smile, and then turned around and left with Li Gang.
Thinking about Yan Shigu's meaningful smile, Xia Hongsheng quickly figured out why Yan Shigu revealed the news of adding punctuation marks to the imperial examination. This news is not revealed to these students, but to those families through their mouths. These noble children, relatives and elders in their families, and even their mothers, may be members of the clan, this is a big net, and there are not a few people who marry the nobles and nobles. In the early Tang Dynasty, the family enjoyed high prestige and status in the society, with five surnames and seven hopes, and was the most powerful and famous family in the early Tang Dynasty. And many nobles also marry with the family because of their status, for example, Cheng Biting Jin and his wife, who belong to the Qinghe Cui family, one of the five surnames. These clans almost monopolized the entire cultural group, and it was very difficult for the scholars of the Han family to come out, and it was only possible to defeat the children of those clans in the imperial examination. Yan Shigu revealed this to these students, and after these students went back, they would naturally inform the elders in the family, and I believe that soon, the news would spread throughout these clans in advance. Since the imperial examination should be added to this content, although the family can enter the official with the shadow of the door, there is no need for the imperial examination, but the countless scholars who are attached to the various families have to participate in the imperial examination, this news is known in advance by the family, and it will certainly be revealed to those scholars who are attached to them, and those scholars will inevitably learn this method as soon as possible for the imperial examination, so that it is conducive to the promotion of the method of punctuation and sentence breaking.
Guozijian sent students to study, which means that Li Gang and Yan Shigu have already made sense of Kong Yingda, the descendant of Confucius who is in charge of Guozijian, and they are not afraid that the world will oppose this law, and when Kong Yingda comes out to implement this law, the reputation of Confucius's descendants is the biggest driving force, and these families are always unable to stop it.
However, this punctuation method is beneficial and harmless to the clans, and they can also use it to reinterpret ancient texts, which is not difficult for the clans who have almost monopolized the cultural group, so it is a good opportunity for them to increase their reputation, and there will not be much resistance, right?
The Zhu Zi nobles of the Manchu Dynasty, six or seven out of ten are related to the world, and many of them are directly from the family. This also led to the arrogance and self-restraint of the later clan, as well as Li Shimin's jealousy and disgust, so that Li Shimin suppressed the clan.
Xia Hongsheng doesn't say it thoroughly, the world clan is an unlucky thing, once it is touched, there will definitely be no good fruit in the end. Especially now, Li Shimin is still staring at himself from the side, and he must not let Li Shimin feel that he is beyond his control, otherwise it will be the time for him to suffer, which Xia Hongsheng already knows.
"Jingshi, my uncle ordered me to ask you, don't be late for the court meeting tomorrow." Before leaving, Xu Qixian said to Xia Hongsheng.
Xia Hongsheng nodded and said, "Brother Xu, do you want to go to my place to eat, sister-in-law will make oily noodles to eat today." ”
Xu Qixian's eyes lit up: "Yes!" Definitely! Wait for me to come and talk! Haha, the taste of oily noodles is what my brother thinks about day and night! ”
Soon, Xu Qixian came back again, followed by two people, Xu Hui and Li Liqing.
"Brother Xia, your family is delicious, why don't you call me?!" As soon as Xu Hui came over, he said to Xia Hongsheng.
"Didn't you let your brother call you?" Xia Hongsheng grinned and looked at Li Lizhi next to him.
"Hello Xia Gongzi." Li Lizhi looked very embarrassed, and asked hello in a little panic.
Look at the princess, how polite! Xia Hongsheng also gave a salute: "I have seen Her Royal Highness Princess Changle." ”
"Sister Changle was brought here by me, and she hasn't eaten your food yet!" Xu Hui took Li Lizhen's hand and said to Li Lizhen: "His family's food is delicious!" ”
"I ...... I'm still ......" Li Lizhen was very embarrassed to go to Xia Hongsheng's house to eat: "Mother is still ......"
Xia Hongsheng saw that the little princess wanted to go a little in her heart, but she couldn't wipe off her face. So he stepped forward and said: "Your Highness, please don't be polite, and you don't need to worry about the queen's reprimand, I have a way." ”
After speaking, Xia Hongsheng looked back, then went into the Hongwen Pavilion again, and pulled Li Ke when he came out.
"I'm cooking and eating at home, Xu Hui wants to take your sister to eat, will you go?" Xia Hongsheng said to him while pulling Li Ke out.
"Go! Of course go! Li Ke's eyes were also bright, and he had seen Xia Hongsheng's methods when he was hunting, so he was looking forward to Xia Hongsheng's cooking.
In this way, Xia Hongsheng took Xu Qixian and Li Ke and Li Ke back to the house together.
When you arrive at the house of others, you must first meet the elders and say hello to the elders, which is an indispensable etiquette, but Xia Hongsheng's elders are only left with his sister-in-law, so Xu Qixian and Li Ke went to meet Xia Hongsheng's sister-in-law. The woman had never been courteous like this, she was a little flustered and a little overwhelmed, but she knew that Xia Hongsheng's classmate was here, and she was also very warmly entertained.
"You guys talk here, I'll go and help my sister-in-law Zhang Luo eat." Xia Hongsheng said a word to Xu Qixian and Li Ke, and went to the back kitchen.
When the woman saw Xia Hongsheng coming in, she immediately hurried him out: "Hongsheng, you are a classmate!" How dare you come in here? It's good for my sister-in-law to do it! ”
"Don't worry, they're not the ones who care about this." Xia Hongsheng didn't listen at all, washed his hands, rolled up his sleeves, and went in to pick up the kitchen knife: "There are a lot of people, I'll get a few more dishes, sister-in-law make oily noodles, don't have too much, leave them some appetite to eat." ”
"How can this work? The visitor is a guest, and even if there is something left, the guest cannot be left without food! The woman's position on this matter suddenly became very resolute: "Now that you are also a person with a knighthood, our family is also doing well, if you let the guests not have enough to eat, others will talk about you behind your back!" ”
Seeing that the woman took out the sea bowl when she was making a food stall again, Xia Hongsheng was startled, the business of the food stall was left to his sister-in-law's younger brother Lin Ergou and his wife, but why did his sister-in-law still have a bowl? ! Hurriedly went over and changed the bowl with two smaller ones, and said to the woman: "Sister-in-law, you listen to me, just the size of this bowl." There are several other dishes in front of me, and when you finish eating, you will not be able to eat so much when you finish eating oily noodles! ”
"No! Don't be stingy! The woman's attitude was unswerving: "Now that you are an official, you can't be stingy and provoke others to laugh at it for nothing!" ”
Xia Hongsheng reluctantly let go of his hand, his sister-in-law is a generous person, and when she goes out of the food stall, it is common for people to increase the amount and invite people to eat for nothing, Xia Hongsheng saw that she was so resolute, so he let the woman do it.
A few dishes came out, and the oily noodles over there were ready. A subordinate went out with something and sent it to the court, and when Xia Hongsheng passed, the four of them were sniffling around the larger folding table.
"Hahaha, Jingshi is really good at craftsmanship......" Li Ke praised when he saw Xia Hongsheng entering, but his eyes couldn't take his eyes off those dishes, and his mouth kept swallowing, revealing his thoughts.
Xu Qixian was also urging on the side: "Hurry up, hurry up, just wait for you to come to the banquet!" ”
"Where there are so many rules, let's eat quickly, and it will be cold later. These are the first dishes, and the main dish is at the end. Xia Hongsheng sat down, his sister-in-law didn't want to come out to sit and eat together, and Xia Hongsheng was only one person who came.
These two can still take care of their own identities, and when they heard Xia Hongsheng's words, they each sandwiched something for their sister first, and then started eating by themselves. The four people on the table, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as the remnants of the wind, one by one, as if they had never eaten, they began to grab it as they ate. Even Li Liqian, who is usually the most quiet and polite, is also flushed at this time, and the chopsticks in her hands are flying.
Xia Hongsheng basically didn't move his chopsticks much, he was waiting to eat oil and splash noodles.
Soon, the dish bottomed out, and everyone wiped their mouths unsatisfied, looking at the clean plate with pity, so delicious, how could it be over?
Just as they were thinking about it, they saw the next person come out with a pot, and someone put it in front of them with a bowl of thick and strong lasagna on a white background, with onion and garlic side dishes and dark red dogwood powder on top.
"See." Xia Hongsheng smiled, took the iron spoon, scooped out a hot oil and poured it into the bowl.
"Zilalala......" suddenly overflowed with a strong fragrance, everyone's eyes straightened, and saliva poured out instantly.