Soon after the carriage of the silver bell departed, the cleaned lifters came out of the bathhouse one after another, dressed in new clothes. In order to wash the dust for them, Wang Xian specially chartered the entire bathhouse, and prepared brand new clothes, shoes and hats according to everyone's size, all of which were produced by the most famous Fu Ruixiang in the capital, and they immediately looked new when they were put on.

There is a way that the Buddha relies on gold, people rely on clothes, and after taking a bath and wearing clothes, they finally got rid of the bad luck when they were just released from prison, and restored a little bit of the **** freedom of the past, but their gratitude to Wang Xian has not decreased but increased, and they have become more and more respectful to him. This is not difficult to understand, the icing on the cake is not as good as sending charcoal in the snow, and now they are in trouble, although others will not avoid them, but like Wang Xian, undress me and push me to eat, few people are willing to do it. What's more, with Wang Xian's current status, there is no need to please them at all, on the contrary, they should be able to curry favor with him.

Zhongju and Wang Xian talked for a while in front of the bathhouse, and when Yu Qian, who was the last to enter, also came out, Wang Xian smiled and said, "Get in the car and go back to the hall." The lifters boarded the carriage when they came, and Yu Qian was still looking around before getting on the car, and was teased by Wang Xian: "Don't look at it, I've already gone back." ”

"Then I'll be relieved." Yu Qian smiled and got into the carriage......

Zhejiang Hall is located on the bank of the Qinhuai River, originally a barracks of the Yuan Dynasty, abandoned after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, bought by Zhejiang merchants, rebuilt into the Zhejiang Hall, for the merchants who entered Beijing to do business and the use of the exam. There are a lot of Zhejiang businessmen in Beijing, this hall is naturally built large and decent, usually Zhejiang businessmen enter Beijing, or Zhejiang officials in Beijing to wait for vacancies, etc., all live here, only need to pay a small amount of rent. However, every **** time, the businessmen and the like who live in the hall consciously move out and vacate their residence for the children who enter Beijing to take the exam.

The carriage drove straight into the hall and stopped in the courtyard, and when the curtain was lifted, the lifters found that the courtyard was full of people. These are all waiting there to greet them, in addition to Lin Rongxing, Li Yu and others who have just returned from the Gongyuan in the same year, there are also the personnel of the guild hall, merchants from Zhejiang, and officials from Zhejiang...... Although Shangshu Shilang did not come in person, the arrival of Wuxuan Shilang Zhongchaiche and others had already given these frustrated people enough face. However, the lifters also have self-knowledge, knowing that they actually came for the sake of Wang Xian's face.

As soon as the children got out of the carriage, they surrounded them, greeted them with affectionate language, and surrounded them into the hall of the guild hall with a cordial gesture. Ten large tables of eight immortals have been set up in the hall, and the tables are full of melons, fruits, seasonal vegetables, wine and delicacies, but the hot dishes have not yet been served.

Wang Xian and the chai car invited a group of people to sit in the main hall, in front of the senior officials of the same township, the posture of the people was very low, naturally disadvantaged, but they could not stand the enthusiasm of Wang Xian and others, saying that they were the protagonists today, insisted on pressing them on the seats, and the people were a little worried about sitting.

Waiting for the people to be seated, all the fellow villagers were divided into the main and secondary seats, Wang Xian and the firewood car such high-ranking officials naturally sat at the main table, originally here Wang Xian, the four products of the north town Fusi Zhenfu respected, but he insisted on not overriding the firewood car, which had been favored by his predecessors, not the firewood car pressed on the main seat. The diesel car was not good at grinding with Wang Xian anymore, so he had to reluctantly sit on the main seat, but he only picked up his wine glass and said a few words of comfort, and then gave up the right to speak to Wang Xian.

Wang Xian did not pick up the wine glass, but left the table and walked to the hall, bowed deeply to the crowd, and the Zhongju people were so shocked that they stood up, and they all turned sideways and did not dare to accept his big gift, and said in their mouths, 'I can't help it, I can't afford it.' ’

"You can afford it." Wang Xian said with a guilty face: "Because you have suffered this unwarranted disaster, you even missed the test, but you are actually implicated." He said deeply: "Although no matter how much I apologize, I can't make up for you, but I still have to sincerely apologize to you, I'm so sorry for you!" ”

The "......" hall was quiet, everyone was not blind and deaf, Wang Xian and Ji Gang were-for-tat before, although the contradiction was not made public, but everyone still heard of it, and it was naturally not difficult to think that this time Zhejiang was reorganized, and it was Wang Xian who affected the pond fish. However, Wang Xian didn't mention this, and he wouldn't say anything in front of him, after all, no one wanted to offend this 'noble fellow countryman'.

Generally speaking, this kind of thing will not be mentioned again, after all, people love face, the bigger the official, the better the face, at most, the big man remembers this favor in his heart, and tries to compensate for it in the future. Wang Xian actively campaigned for them before, picked them up from prison in front of the criminal department, thoughtfully arranged for them to take a bath, and also held such a grand banquet in the guild hall to greet them.

But Wang Xian is different from others, he not only took the initiative to mention it, but also apologized to them in front of all his fellow villagers in front of the public, which made the only remaining resentment of the people disappear, and the mood was also agitated, and he hurriedly helped Wang Xian up, and wept and said: "Why should adults be like this, there is a debtor who is wronged, we hate and hate Ji Gang, how can we not blame you?" ”

"Don't comfort me." Wang Xian also said with tears in his eyes: "If it weren't for my fellow villagers, how could you be remembered by Ji Gang?" Whether you blame it or not, I owe it to you this time! ”

"Okay, okay, today is a big day, don't be a child." At this time, the role of the firewood cart was reflected, he pulled Wang Xian up, and asked everyone to sit down and said: "Zhongde is responsible, and he is unwilling to shirk responsibility like some people." Xiao Qian and they value affection and righteousness, and they don't want Zhongde to have a psychological burden. This kind of friendship is really the blessing of our fellow villagers in Zhejiang! ”

Everyone also echoed: "Yes, yes, this is the original intention of the predecessors to establish this guild hall, that is, to let our fellow villagers love each other and work together in this Beijing!" The atmosphere in the hall was much warmer, and the feelings of the people in the countryside seemed to have warmed up a lot.

After pushing the cup and changing the lamp, Wang Xiancai said again: "You don't care about me, it's a lot of you, but if I don't try my best to compensate you, I really don't belong to the son of man." He waved his hand and asked the crowd to listen to him first. The hall fell silent for a while, and only Wang Xian said loudly:

"In any case, if you delay this subject, you will have to wait another three years. If you want to stay in the capital and work hard, I can find a way to let you enter the country to study, and regularly invite famous teachers and hold literary meetings for you to increase your knowledge! ”

As soon as these words came out, all the people exclaimed, even though they were originally frogs at the bottom of the well, but after this trip to the capital, they also knew that the cultural center of the Ming Dynasty was in Jinling, and those scholars gathered in the capital, and all kinds of literary and poetry would emerge in endlessly. Only by staying in this circle can you always experience the latest policies and policies of the imperial court and the latest ideological trends and literary styles of Shilin, which is the only treasure place to broaden your horizons and follow the trend for those who have not heard anything outside the window and only read the books of sages and sages.

If you can study in the capital for two years, it will inevitably bring about qualitative improvement, which cannot be achieved behind closed doors in the local area. However, Kyoto rice is expensive, and it is not easy to live for a long time, even if they are now a master, if they live for several years, it will be very difficult...... But if they can enter the country to study, even if they are zengguangsheng, they don't have rice, at least they don't spend money on food and housing, which can greatly save their expenses. This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that sitting in the prison can always get the orders of famous teachers, and there is a chance to make friends with the children of high-ranking officials and nobles...... The children of the nobles and high-ranking officials in the court, as long as they want to study, they can be imprisoned, for example, Nahu is a prisoner. If you can take the opportunity to make friends with the children of several high-ranking officials, it will naturally be of great benefit to their future careers.

However, the Guozijian is only a convenient door for the children of noble and high-ranking officials, at this time, the Ming Dynasty's discipline has not been lost, and there is no opening for donating prisons, for them, who are from civilian backgrounds, it is not easy to enter the prison, and they have to be recommended by the academic administration of their respective provinces to be eligible. However, Xuezheng can't arbitrarily recommend so many people to prison, how many old-fashioned guys in those prefecture and county schools are waiting in line to be imprisoned, how can they let so many people interject?

So Wang Xian's mention was so tempting that as soon as he brought it up, most of the people were tempted, but the problem came again, the other people Wang might just mean to arrange a few people to be imprisoned, and dozens of them rushed up, wouldn't it make Wang embarrassed?

It was because people looked at each other, and they all wanted to open their mouths, but they were afraid that people would feel too selfish, and no one said anything for a while.

"Why, I'm not interested in going to prison?" Chai Che smiled: "You should know how good it is to study in prison, right?" That's the best place to go for someone who can try to get the first place. ”

The crowd laughed, but there was still a straightforward one who expressed their concerns: "It's because everyone wants to go that they are embarrassed to speak." ”

"Hahaha, that's the reason." Chai Che laughed loudly and said, "It's better to put your heart in your stomach, since Zhongde dares to say such things, it is sure to get you all in." ”

"Really?" The crowd was overjoyed, although they all knew that with Chai Langzhong's identity, they would definitely not lie to them. But you still have to hear Wang Xian's personal confirmation to be completely relieved.

"Of course we're going to go together." Wang Xian finally smiled and said, "If you want to go, go back and tell me, and then just go to prison, and leave the rest to me." ”

Wang Xian's words are simple, but everyone knows that in order to do this, he doesn't know how much he has paid and how much he owes him? And he didn't have to......

"Thank you, sir." All the people got up together to salute, although some people still wanted to go back to Hangzhou, but it did not affect them to express their admiration to Wang Xian.