Chapter 322: Your good news
“Good news for the exam, congratulations to the young master of your house for placing first in Enke High School in the exam.”
The sun is warm, the years are quiet, the messenger who brings the good news He repeated the words of the good news again, with clear enunciation and loud voice. The sound of the good news spread to every corner of the birthday banquet of Linhuai Marquis Mansion and reached everyone's ears.
The sound of the good news was like thunder, exploding in the sky above the birthday banquet.
The second-generation ancestors at Fatty Zhou's table were blown to pieces. They couldn't hold their tongues straight when they spoke, and their voices were trembling.
How could they not be surprised? !
Originally, Fatty Zhou was the object of their habitual ridicule. He was incompetent in literature and martial arts, and his skills were not as good as theirs. But in a blink of an eye, Fatty Zhou not only passed the examination, but also became the first Huiyuan. This is the first time this has happened in the entire Ming Dynasty’s noble circle. After the Tumubao Incident, the power of the Honorable House was greatly reduced. The power of civil servants began to expand rapidly, and the Honorable House also began to lean towards the civil servants. However, after so many years, I have not heard of any Honorable House. Someone passed the Huiyuan exam!
Now, someone has broken the deadlock, it is him, Li Yanzhou, the pride of the nobles!
Li Yanzhou, also known as Fatty Zhou, passed the Huiyuan exam. This influence is much more impressive than that of Xu Laosan from Wei Guogong's family! Thirty-eight is far different from Huiyuan. This is the difference between quantitative change and qualitative change.
Fatty Zhou and the second-generation ancestors at this table almost all looked up at Fatty Zhou.
"Fat Zhou, no, Brother Li, you are really hiding your secrets."
"Brother Li, you are too awesome. If you don't make a sound, you will be a blockbuster. Xu Laosan is only thirty-eight Ming, you, Brother Li, are Hui Yuan, number one.”
"Brother Li, please take more care of your brothers from now on. If nothing else, from now on drinking wine and playing oiran will be on your account."
The second generation ancestor who originally ridiculed Fatty Zhou They all changed their tone in unison and congratulated Fatty Zhou. At this moment, Fatty Zhou's status in their hearts slowly rose. Just now they were congratulating and surrounding Xu Laosan of Duke Wei's mansion, but at this moment they all ignored Xu Laosan and congratulated and surrounded Fatty Zhou.
Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi.
Xu Penghui, who came in 38th place in the general examination, originally came to Huaihou Mansion to stimulate Fatty Zhou Zhou, and by the way, he "shared" the good news with everyone. Everything was fine originally, but Fatty Zhou was so excited. However, who knew that in the blink of an eye, the entire plot would undergo a subversive change.
Why did I provoke Fatty Zhou just now? Did Brother Zhou’s good news come?
This is great, the most unlikely thing has happened, good news has come, not only it has come, but also good news that I am the first Huiyuan.
In the blink of an eye, Fatty Zhou went from being a failed student to becoming a Huiyuan.
The expression on Xu Pengju's face froze. His behavior of irritating Fatty Zhou just now seemed like a big clown in front of Huiyuan.
The good news came too suddenly, catching Fatty Zhou off guard. The surprise came too suddenly. I wanted a green leaf, but you gave me a whole forest. In the joy, Fatty Zhou was stunned, but he came to his senses after his fat face was moved by the congratulations of the second-generation ancestors.
Surprise, excitement
After Fatty Zhou came to his senses, he could hardly suppress the ecstasy in his heart. Is this really true? Lao Zhi turned out to be enlightened.
"Ahem, Brother Xu, the good news for my brother is here." Fatty Zhou coughed, tried hard to suppress the surprise in his heart, piled up the fat on his face into a calm expression, and said with a He looked at Xu Laosan and said in a calm tone.
Haha, Xu Laosan, weren’t you very awesome just now? You even asked me in a weird way if the good news had arrived? !
Now, you are satisfied!
Fat Zhou, don’t mention how happy I feel at this moment. He squinted his eyes and looked at Xu Laosan. Every cell in his body felt like a rush. He felt so comfortable. He felt it from the bottom of his heart. I felt so happy that I was in the clouds.
"Ahem, congratulations to Brother Li."
Xu Penghui said congratulations, but the smile on his face was a little forced.
"Same joy, Brother Xu is also very good at ranking 38th."
Fatty Zhou looked at Xu Laosan's deflated expression, not to mention how beautiful he was, and a smile appeared on his fat face. When he talked about thirty-eight, Fatty Zhou's tone specially strengthened a bit.
After looking at Xu Laosan with satisfaction, Fatty Zhou turned his little eyes to the second-generation ancestors at the same table, raised his little chubby hand, blew the unnecessary dust on his nails, and then seemed to have something to say Thinking of it, he asked: "Just now, I seemed to have heard someone say that if I won the Huiyuan, someone would eat it on the spot?"
"Li Brother, just pretend that I drank too much horse urine. Brother, I punished myself with three drinks. Didn’t you say that my black-maned lion was good some time ago? I gave you that horse.”
Listen. At Fatty Zhou's words, the second-generation ancestor who had just mocked Fatty Zhou with Chixiang had a smile on his face. He took a step forward, put his arms around Fatty Zhou's neck, and begged for mercy with a smile.
"That's not good, a gentleman will not win the love of others." Fatty Zhou became reserved, but the fat on his face was full of energy.
"Okay, there's nothing wrong with it. BMWs deserve heroes." The second-generation ancestor insisted.
“Oh, I can’t convince you, I can’t convince you, then I’ll do as you say.” Fatty Zhou shook his head and sighed with high spirits, as if he couldn’t convince you and was reluctant to accept it. .
Starting from this second generation ancestor, everyone else expressed their feelings to Fatty Zhou one by one. Like the previous second generation ancestor, they all "persuaded" Fatty who wanted to refuse, and successfully made Fatty Zhou reluctantly accept it. their thoughts.
At the Linhuai Marquis's birthday banquet, the news that Fatty Zhou had won the title of Huiyuan was arousing at this moment.
The old lady of Linhuai Marquis Mansion was so happy that the wrinkles on her face smoothed out, and her smile could not be hidden no matter how hard she tried.
When Linhuai Marquis Li Tingzhu heard the voice announcing the good news, although he looked calm and composed, the wine glass in his hand was trembling. There was only half a glass of wine in the glass, but more than half of it spilled out.
The ladies of the Linhuai Marquis Mansion who had stayed in the house to avoid suspicion, all walked out of the house excitedly at this moment, their faces flushed with excitement.
Li Shu also came out. Looking at the excited old lady and others, she also had a smile on her face, but her smile had a different meaning, like a little fox.
"Reward!" Mrs. Linhuai Hou said this word tremblingly, and then added, "Big reward."
There has been someone in charge of the matter for a long time. As soon as he finished speaking, he gave three ingots of silver as big as a palm, one ingot to each of the messengers who announced the good news. Each person received ten taels of silver. The messenger who announced the good news grasped the silver in his hand and was very happy. Those people at the intersection just now were right. The money given by the government was so generous.
Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of firecrackers and thunderclaps in the Linhuai Marquis Mansion. It was much louder and lasted much longer than the one in the Duke of Wei's Mansion just now.
After the firecrackers went off, the messenger handed the good news over with both hands.
It is better for the person concerned to receive the good news. Everyone at the birthday banquet of the Marquis Mansion gave this exciting moment to the person involved, Fatty Zhou of Huiyuan this time.
Fatty Zhou tried hard to control his excitement. He stretched out his fat hand to take the big red good news rolled up together. Under the envious and jealous eyes of everyone, he slowly unfolded the good news and focused on Good news.
Then
Then the smile on the fat man's face suddenly withered, as if he was constipated, and his small eyes that were originally squinted suddenly widened.
At the same time, the hands holding the good news started to tremble.
However, in the eyes of everyone, Fatty's reaction was normal. He was excited, which is completely understandable. This is Huiyuan. After ten years of hard work, no one asked him about it, and he suddenly became famous all over the world. Seeing that his name was linked to Huizhen Enke Huiyuan, it was normal for the fat man to be excited.
It’s just that Fatty was too excited this week, and it took too long. Why is his face deformed?
Under the gaze of everyone, Fatty Zhou finally made his next move.
"Ahem. Brother-in-law, fifth brother-in-law." Fatty Zhou took a deep breath, raised his fat face, and looked towards the corner of the birthday banquet. There was still a withered smile on his face, but the sound coming out of his mouth was like a mourning concubine. .
Hearing Fatty Zhou’s shout, Zhu Ping’an put down the tea cup in his hand and stood up. It seemed that he couldn’t drink this cup of tea. When the good news came to the Hou Mansion just now, Zhu Ping'an knew in his heart that this good news should probably be his. However, everyone in the Hou Mansion was so excited that they fenced Fatty Zhou and the messenger who announced the good news, and then there was a burst of noise and crackling firecrackers.
So much so that Zhu Ping'an tried several times but could not get close to the person who announced the good news. Even when he shouted a few times, he was drowned in the sound of firecrackers and noise, to no avail.
I couldn’t see the surrounding scene, and my mouth was dry. I had no choice but to go back to the table and drink a cup of tea to moisten my mouth. Who would have thought that Fatty Zhou would call him at this time.
Fifth brother-in-law?
Who is it? Why are you calling him? Didn't the fat man above the table just look at this fifth brother-in-law with a picky eye? How come he is so affectionate now?
A few days ago, I heard various unsavory versions of the fifth uncle of the Linhuai Marquis Mansion. He was a country bumpkin, so ordinary that he was ugly, and he was so mediocre that he couldn't make a living.
Then, everyone followed Fatty Zhou’s gaze and saw the only young man on a table in the corner of the birthday banquet, still holding a teacup and putting it in his mouth.
Sure enough, he looks ordinary, too ordinary, and he looks a bit honest.
Look at him, he is still stuffing tea into his mouth now, not even letting go of a cup of tea. He is really worthless. It seems that the rumor that everyone is mediocre is not true.
However, in the midst of everyone's disdainful gazes and mental activities, Fatty Zhou raised the red good news in his hand to Zhu Ping'an, with a constipated expression on his face, and his voice sounded like a mourning concubine again:
" Ahem. Brother-in-law, your good news is the fifth brother-in-law. "
Wait, what the hell?
Fifth brother-in-law, your good news? !
What do you mean, this good news belongs to that boy? !
That is to say, that boy turned out to be the Huiyuan who will try Enke this time? !
Xu Laosan, Duke of Wei, who was next to Fatty Zhou and had been stimulated for a long time, grabbed the good news from Fatty Zhou's hand and opened it. The words on the good news appeared in his eyes:
"Will Congratulations to Zhu Ping'an of Anqing Prefecture for winning the first place in the examination of Enke High School" (End of Chapter)