Chapter 9 The sixth session of Mrs. Xi Tingshen's help to perform ceremonies and officials sent servants to respond incorrectly

Guangyuan's mother, Mrs. Li, went back and forth because of her son's arrival. Mother and son had been separated for eight years, and now they only met each other. They just stayed for one night, and he left again.The old woman's heart can't be sad, so she cried to death.But Zhicheng understood, and persuaded: "Forget it, it doesn't matter if you want a son like this, I am very willing for him to go, and I will feel sick when he leaves." Li cried: "A son like you Heartless old man, rare in the world. It is so easy to expect your son to come back, but you are willing for him to go. If you hadn’t persecuted him, how would you be today? I just ask you for my son!” And wept again.Zhicheng said: "Your wife doesn't understand foreign affairs. When I tell you in detail, you will naturally miss him. You have to know that he is not a student, he is a revolutionary party. A revolutionary party is a rebellion, just like the long-haired boy back then. It's the same. He doesn't want to be an official when he comes back this time, and he doesn't want to miss you and my old couple. He is preparing to come back to rebel. As long as he has the opportunity, he may cause some kind of disaster. I told him last night His heart was moved when he heard the same set of words, and his conscience has not been exhausted. I am afraid that it will make you, me and his two brothers tired in the future, so he ran away quickly. Please think about this. My son stays at home, and your and my brains are all gone. Holding it in his hand, is that just a joke? From now on, he will go far away, the farther the better, I hope he will never go home, it is our good fortune!" After hearing this, Li suddenly realized, and Those who hated once and scolded once were slowly thrown away after everyone persuaded them.

After a month, Quan Wu sent someone to inquire, and according to the two sons' ideas, he only said that he had not returned home.The old gentleman said: "No way, he came back to China this time with a group of people. If he said he didn't go home, he would be suspicious of the authorities. It must be said that our family is secretly hiding him to plot evil, which leads to right and wrong. No If you tell the truth, if you submit the letter he left for me to the magistrate and ask him to forward it to Gongbao, you can get rid of the relationship." The two sons thought that this was right, so they replied to the police.They sent someone to ignore the report, and it was too difficult to ignore it, and then reported to the master according to the master's words, and within ten days, he was dismissed by Xiang Gongbao, and another major demerit was recorded.He said that he was doing things in Zhuan, and he despised telegrams.The other counties are not under the jurisdiction of Zhili, and all the students are sent to him. He is close to the provincial capital, but he doesn't know the whereabouts of Zhang Sheng. It can be seen that he has never visited in person, but he used clever words to prevaricate, which is really stupid.In a hurry, he was dismissed, investigated and dealt with in the province, and the vacancy was replaced by Songnian, the magistrate of the county.The old gentleman confessed in a bewildering manner, but kept silent.

However, among the six overseas students, one Zhang Guangyuan left, leaving only five people, Jin Guoan, Cao Yulin, and Zhang Jingzong, all in Tianjin.Yang Xiu and Gu Yan, one lives in Hunan, and the other lives in Hubei.In Yang Xiu's family, there is only a widowed mother Bai Shi in her fifties, and his wife Zhao Shi.Although Mrs. Zhao is Xiaojiabiyu, she is quite pretty, and the village gave her a nickname, Yu Tianxian.Originally Mrs. Zhao was good at combing her hair and looking good at dressing up, but because her husband's family was not well off, and there was no money left for her to wear, she often quarreled with her mother-in-law.Her mother-in-law was old and kind, and she let everything go to her, and she became more and more satisfied. Every time she went outside to see someone wearing a new dress, she would gossiping to her mother-in-law when she came back;The old lady couldn't bear it anymore, so she had to stay at the house of her daughter who was out of the cabinet.Her daughter's family name is Zuo, and she is from Zuo Wenxiang's family.Son-in-law Zuo Baozhen is studying in the army in Germany. There are no parents or brothers in the family. Only his wife Yang and his sister are left, and they are very quiet.Therefore, Mrs. Bai was at odds with her daughter-in-law, so she went to live with her daughter. There were more than ten acres of rice fields in the house, which were completely handed over to Zhao's management, and she didn't care about it.Mrs. Zhao hired another maid to eat, drink and dress alone at home. Although she was not satisfied, she was unrestrained and free.Yang Xiu wrote letters from time to time saying that he would be able to become an official after graduation, and Zhao's airs followed suit.Some neighbors in the neighborhood called her a lady, so she cursed at them, saying that they deliberately underestimated her and lost her official status.Later, she changed her name to young mistress, but she was still dissatisfied, so she must have signaled to others to call her wife.A lot of talkative neighbors asked her: You still have a mother-in-law now. If you want to call you wife, what do you call your mother-in-law?She also answered well, saying: "Since ancient times, it has been said that a husband is more honorable than his wife, and no son is more honorable than his mother. Mother-in-law is just another name for an old woman. How can you compare with me. You just call me wife, that mother-in-law, you Call it whatever you like, old woman, old beggar, old Qiulian, whatever you like." Everyone heard this, and they all made it a laughing stock.Those who make fun of her call her Mrs. Guan, and she is proud of herself.The maid at home, Mrs. Sun, didn't dare to be rude, and called the word "wife" all day long.When Yang Xiu came back with a letter, her wife's heart became even hotter to the highest degree.The husband and wife had separated for five or six years, and Yang Xiu's behavior was particularly European.When he was in Japan, he was good at dancing, and whenever there was a ball, he would show off his skills.Therefore, he often communicates with Western women, such as shaking hands side by side and kissing on the neck.

On this day, when I returned to my house, I brought two carts of luggage. It was rare for country folks to say that Young Master Yang came back after making a fortune and becoming an official.Men and women, old and young, one or two hundred people gathered in front of his door to watch the fun.His wife, Mrs. Zhao, had just had dinner, and sat in the room calculating the itinerary, thinking that it was time to arrive today.Just thinking about it, I suddenly saw Mrs. Sun running in with a smile and said, "Madam, the master is here. Both cars are parked in front of the door, and there are many things! Madam, hurry up and have a look." After hearing this, Mrs. Zhao took three steps and two She ran out of the gate, looking for her husband with staring eyes.Suddenly, a foreign devil jumped out of the crowd. He was bald, wearing a short jacket and two yellow leather shoes. He hurried up to her, wrapped his hands around her neck, and stretched out his mouth to kiss her.Zhao Shi was so frightened that he howled strangely, and couldn't dodge in time, with a lot of saliva on Gao Low's face.Mrs. Zhao took a closer look and realized that it was her husband Yang Xiu. Because he was fatter than when he was at home and had changed into short clothes, he couldn't recognize him in a hurry, which almost didn't scare her to death.At this time, the people who watched by were also stunned with fright, not knowing what was going on.When I realized it when I was young, all the young boys applauded and laughed.The young women all wiped their heads and ran away in shame.All the elderly people got angry, called him a beast in a low voice, and walked away slowly without shame.Only this Mrs. Zhao is ashamed and angry, angry and frightened at this moment, her unknown fire is so high, how can she hold it down?Then he pointed at Yang Xiu and scolded: "I'll take you, a heartless and shameless thing. You only came back after five or six years away from home, and left your wife out of the sky. I was a widow when I was young, and I saved your face. I'm treated like a prostitute, and humiliating me like this in front of the public, I'm not alive today, I have to jump into the well!" After saying that, she turned her head and went straight to the public well outside the village.This made Yang Xiu terrified, he hurriedly chased him to stop him, but Mrs. Zhao bumped his head violently, but he was not willing to listen.Yang Xiu begged several old ladies in the crowd to come out to mediate, but Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Li in the neighborhood couldn't stand it, and they all came up and dragged Mrs. Zhao into the house.Yang Xiu first watched the driver finish unloading the luggage, paid the fare, and then came in and explained to his wife: "This kissing ceremony is the most common gift among Eastern and Western couples. It is not to look down on others and insult you." Still crying and not answering.The old lady in the neighborhood couldn't persuade her well, and then Yang Xiu practiced the Chinese kneeling ceremony again, and the anger of Mrs. Zhao finally subsided.Yang Xiu asked why his mother was not at home, and Mrs. Zhao said that her mother had a bad temper and always felt that I was not doing enough to take care of her, so she went to live with her aunt in a fit of anger.I sent people to pick her up over and over again, and then went to pick her up in person, but the old man insisted on not coming back, what can I do?

The next day, Yang Xiu personally took his mother back, and even his younger sister was brought back to her natal home.The old lady of the Bai family came back only after seeing her son, so it was inconvenient to say anything about her daughter-in-law.A few days later, the magistrate of Xiangyin County came in person and urged him to leave early.First went to Nanjing to meet Zhuang Gongbao, and then went to Tianjin to meet Xiang Gongbao.Another three hundred taels of silver was sealed as a disk fee, please don't delay.Yang Xiu discussed with his mother and wife, and they will get up within a month.Although his mother was reluctant to part with her son and changed her mind to fame and career, she had no choice but to let him go.Only Mrs. Zhao cried and shouted that she must go with her husband.Because of Yang Xiu's face, because he has a mother, he always refuses to agree.The old lady agreed very much, saying: "I am still healthy, and I don't need anyone to take care of me. Tell her to go with you. After you leave, I will actually move to your brother-in-law's house. Mother and daughter are together. You still have What are you worried about?" Yang Xiu agreed, so he packed his luggage and picked a date, and the husband and wife went to Nanjing together with the maid, Mrs. Sun, and his brother-in-law Zhao Xiaoer.The old lady cleaned up the house, rented the house to the neighbors, and rented more than a dozen acres of rice fields to the neighbors to plant. She lived in her daughter's house wholeheartedly, which saved a lot of sulk.

Besides, Yang Xiu brought his family to Nanjing and stayed in Shengguandian in the city, occupying two houses.After resting for a day, he took the name card and went to see Zhuang Gongbao.But seeing that the governor's yamen is full of traffic, it is very lively.I first went to the registration room to register, and accidentally ran into a Wen patrol arrester, also from Xiangyin, Hunan, named Qin Wenlu.Talking about each other is not only from the same hometown, but also has some relatives involved, so naturally they are very affectionate.Yang Xiu gave him another ten taels of silver as a respect, and Qin Wenlu was even more friendly with him, so he instructed him to go back quickly to change clothes, learn official etiquette, and then come to see him again.Said: "This Kung Pao has a very temper. He doesn't like foreign clothes the most in his life. If he wants to cut his hair again, he hates him even more. Needless to say, when your brother cuts his hair and foreign clothes, he must bow when he sees him." That’s it. Just like this, I’m going to smash the pot at the beginning, and at least I’ll be reprimanded by him. It just so happens that I’ve lost my fame. Go back to the shop and buy a robe, a big hat, official boots, and a golden top. Get everything ready, and then buy a wig Braids on, I learned court rituals in the store, and then I came to see you, so as not to run into trouble. The two of us are close friends, you lose face, and I don’t have brilliance on my face. You should go back and deal with it.” Yang Xiu Thanks for the advice, I hurried to the clothing store to buy all the gowns and gowns, and asked the shopkeeper to buy a boot hat and a wig for him.Telling his wife Zhao the reason for the above item, Zhao said: "Originally, a good person wants to pretend to be a foreign devil. How can you complain about it? But haven't you found out how this court ginseng works?" Yang Xiudao: "I'm so embarrassed. It's so embarrassing to ask people to say that if you want to be an official, you don't even know how to attend court ceremony. It's too embarrassing." Zhao said: "This is a grand ceremony for court participation. Can you pretend to be smart? You go abroad After five or six years, is it the same as learning to kiss? After meeting the majestic governor, do you also perform the kiss ceremony? If you can’t kill you, I will send you! Where in the world can you find a trash like you.” Yang Xiu said: "You know how to complain, but you don't know about the officialdom. You're so stupid. You're a smart person. Think about it for me. What should be the posture of this court ceremony? Let's practice it in private first, and wait Go to see me after the exercise, so as not to lose the appearance. My wife, why don't you help me with this." Mrs. Zhao said with a smile: "It's hard for you to understand this matter at all, you didn't Have you ever seen our women worshiping Guanyin in the temple? The governor must be more powerful than Guanyin, and you can never go wrong if you follow the way we visit Guanyin Bodhisattva." Yang Xiudao: "I have never seen worshiping Avalokitesvara? In that case, I’ll pretend to be Avalokitesvara first, and you pay homage once. Let me see, I’ll learn how to be good.” Mrs. Zhao curled her lips when she heard this, and snorted, “You’re so good! You do four ups and downs and eight prostrations, and you sit on it and enjoy it peacefully, and you are not afraid of breaking the fodder?" Yang Xiu said: "This is a serious matter, not that I am taking advantage of you, you have too many people's hearts." Zhao said : "If you want to say this, I will be a Guanyin first, and you will worship me first, okay?" Yang Xiu said, "What's so difficult about this? I invite you to sit on it and be a Guanyin. Put on the top hat, put on the boots, and put on fake braids. Let's try it out for a while. If it's not in the ritual, try to improve it. You have to be dignified and serious, don't make jokes." Zhao said: "Naturally, I'll do it first. I will help you get dressed." As he spoke, he took out the gown and put it on for Yang Xiu, then put on his boots, tied up his wig, and put on his hat.Mrs. Zhao looked at it for a while, and said with a smile: "With the airs of being an official, this big-looking man looks like a high-class person, isn't he much better than a foreign devil? But I have to dress up, I can't just pretend like this." Guanyin." After thinking for a long time, what should I wear?She suddenly remembered that there was a big red crepe fox fur cloak on the bottom of the box, which was snatched from her brother when her father died.Because in the countryside, I have never worn it once, but now I take it out and wear it on my body to pretend to be Guanyin, which is similar to the Bodhisattva on the stage. This is an excellent outfit.Immediately, I found it out of the sky and wanted to put it on my body.Yang Xiu stopped her and said, "Forget it, it's July and it's so hot that you're panting and sweating. Don't you want to die from the heat if you put on a fox fur cloak?" What does it look like, look at the people on the stage, are there any people who are afraid of the heat?" As he spoke, he shook the cloak and put it on his body, stepped on the chair and got on the table, sat down upright in the middle of the table, clasped his hands together Chest, drooping eyebrows and closing eyes, filled with Guanyin.Sure enough, Yang Xiu bowed down and said that Guanyin Bodhisattva is above, and his disciple Yang Xiu saw it.Then I thought it was wrong, what I learned was court attendance, the etiquette of meeting the superior, not the etiquette of meeting Guanyin, if it is easy to say, when I meet the governor in the future, I will call him Guanyin Bodhisattva, wouldn’t it be a big joke?It can be seen that although she is pretending to be Guanyin, I want to treat her as my superior, so as not to lose my manners in the future.Thinking of this, he changed his words and said: "The commander-in-chief, the students will see you." Then he knelt down.One head hadn't finished kowtowing, suddenly there was a creaking sound, the door opened, and a person walked in, the couple were so frightened that they rolled and crawled.Do you know who this person is? It turned out that Qin Wenlu was arrested by Wen Xun of the Supervisory Office.The room where Yang Xiu lives is far away from Mrs. Sun's sister-in-law Zhao Xiaoer's apartment. Personally happy to hide downstairs to sleep.Because Yang Xiu is a fellow countryman, Qin Wenlu paid homage back and forth. When he went to the accountant of Shengguandian, he asked Mr. Yang in Hunan which room he lived in. The accountant saw that he was the supervisor of Mr. Qin, how dare he neglect him, so he personally led him upstairs.Wen Lu said: "No, we are fellow countrymen and relatives. You tell me which room number I will find myself." The gentleman said: "Upstairs, Room 14, please master Qin." After staying, he went up the stairs by himself, counted to Room 14, and saw a bamboo curtain hanging outside the door. He didn't know that Yang Xiu came with his family, and thought he was sleeping alone in the room. Then he pushed the door open with all his might, still shouting Yang Xiu's name, and said, "Wake up, Zizeng, I'll come and see you." Stepping into the room, he raised his eyes and frightened himself to death. I was dumbfounded: I saw a gorgeous woman sitting on the table of the Eight Immortals, wearing a big red crinkle fox fur cloak, and kneeling on the ground was an official with boots, a hat, a robe and a golden crown, as if he was still listening to him. Say what the handsome is above, see the students.At this time, Wen Lu made a fuss and couldn't advance, and couldn't retreat.Seeing someone coming in, the woman on the table fell off the table in a flash of fright, and screamed strangely.The underground officials were so ashamed that they had nowhere to hide, so they had no choice but to stand up and say hello with a blushing face.After all, Wen Lu is an old cunning man in the officialdom. Looking at this situation, he knew it in his heart, so he had to smear his face and said with a smile: "Zeng Zeng, please help your wife up first, and then speak slowly when you have something to say." Yang Xiu hurriedly Come over and help Zhao Shi up, take off the cloak for her, and put it on the bed.Fortunately, there was a leather jacket on it, so the fall was not heavy.Wen Lu asked Yang Xiu to take his wife for a walk on the ground, and then asked the shop assistant to make sugar water, and asked Mrs. Zhao to drink a few sips to calm himself down, and then Yang Xiu introduced him, saying, "This Mr. Qin is the one I just bought. The fellow from the village you mentioned. Speaking of relatives, he is also a grandson of the Zhao family, but the branch is too far away, so you don’t recognize him.” Then he said to Wen Lu, “This is your younger brother and sister, the Zhao family.” Wen Lu said "We are cousins, so there's no need to judge from you." Seeing that he was a relative of her natal family, Mrs. Zhao was naturally very affectionate, so she called her cousin "Shan Xiang".He also said that he just made a fool of himself, which is really a joke for his cousin.Wen Lu said with a smile: "What's the matter, you and your wife practice official ceremonies for the sake of fame and fame. Who would be so troublesome at the beginning! I have learned this way before. I still can't laugh, but I dare to laugh at others! I always blame the morning I was so busy, I didn't make it clear to Zi Zeng that I had to explain the word Ting Shen, so there would be no more jokes." Yang Xiu took advantage of the situation and asked him for advice.Wen Lu said: "It's not worth half a penny to say it. This is an official ceremony that has been practiced in our country for thousands of years. When you see the emperor saluting, it's called the Court Attendant; when you see the Prime Minister saluting, it's called the Court Attendant; When you see the governor saluting, it is called court gin. When you see each other, you don’t need to bow to say goodbye. In the middle of the room, you lie down on the top and kowtow. When you kowtow, you only nod your head three times, and stand up to greet An Ann, the sooner the better. This is the current popular court ceremony. When you meet your boss, he will kowtow along with you. Proudly grow old again, but you just need to bend over. It’s very unimportant, you It’s making a big deal out of a molehill.” Yang Xiu was so embarrassed by what he said, and after striking up a few more words, Wen Lu left.Before leaving, he said to Yang Xiu: "The palace guard has not woken up these few days, so he can't meet the guests. You can wait for a while. When there is a chance to see you, I will send someone to inform you." Yang Xiu said in surprise: "Did Gongbao sleep for a few days?" Wen Lu said with a smile: "How do you know? This handsome man has a very strange temper! He can do business, meet guests, read exercises without closing his eyes for ten days and eight days." , he also wrote poems and drank wine with a group of friends, exhausted the spirits of others, and made them sleepy, but he was still talking and laughing, and his spirit was radiant. When he was going to sleep, it would take ten or eight days at most, or three days and three nights at least. , either leaning on the table or sitting on a chair, then fell into a drowsy sleep. He didn’t drink tea or eat food, and he would wake up naturally when he was full of sleep. Even if he waited on people, no one Dare to call him. Do you think this kind of person is weird? The night before yesterday, he was losing his temper. He had one of the most proud leaders of the military patrol, named Zhang Bao. For some reason, he offended the old man and slapped him twice He was also punished to kneel on the ground. He fell asleep while sitting on the chair and was angry. It may not be until a few days before he woke up. Poor Zhang Bao didn’t dare to get up, and was still kneeling on the ground. Wake up, he can’t see anyone when he wakes up, that’s a serious crime.” After hearing this, Yang Xiu stuck out his tongue and said that a governor, with such great prestige, would be the emperor, and he would kill seven or eight in a day ah!Speaking of sending Wen Lu out of the store, he saw the noise of cars and horses outside the door, which was very lively.

After watching for a while, he was about to come in when he heard someone shouting, "Brother Zizeng, do you live in this store?" Yang Xiu raised his eyes and saw a person sitting on a foreign car, followed by a car behind him. Luggage followed like a servant, leather bags, net baskets, suitcases, a lot of things, stopped in front of the shop.Yang Xiu took a closer look and recognized it was Gu Yan.Because he changed into Chinese clothes, he couldn't recognize him at first sight, and when he came to him, Yang Xiu greeted him and called the shop assistant to come out and carry the luggage.The two shook hands and said hello, checked out the size of the eight pieces of luggage, and paid for the car from the shop.Yang Xiu dragged Gu Yan up the stairs, and it happened that the 17th and 18th buildings on the upper floor were vacated, tidied up, Gu Yan lived in No. 18, and told him to live in No. 17.He also told him the price, saying that this is Mr. Yang, and this is Chen Gui, the servant.Chen Gui made a big bow to Yang Xiu, bent his waist, curled his legs, and really bowed to the ground.Gu Yan scolded: "Stupid thing, I told you to bow to the master when you saw the master, what is it like?" Looking carefully at his family, he saw that he was only in his thirties, with a dark face, long hair, wearing a blue coarse cloth gown, and two blue cloth shoes on his feet. He looked like a farmer.But his demeanor was a bit sour, he didn't look like someone who served others.Gu Yan pointed at him and sighed again: "Brother, I'm not afraid of your jokes. This is the teacher in our village. If you don't teach in the village school, you must come out to serve me. He is stupider than a cow and a horse. He won't listen to anything he says. I understand, I really suffered." Yang Xiudao: "I can't complain, he is a gentleman, it's your fault why you subjugated him to serve as a servant." Gu Yan said: "How dare I subdue him, he will definitely be happy. What are you talking about, the seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister's door, after a long time, he will make a fortune in the future, which is much better than teaching. He was in trouble at my house for several days, and the family strict said, so I had to take him out. On the way, I can’t even tell the difference between east, west, north, and south, and I have to teach everywhere. It’s him who serves me, it’s me who serves him!” Yang Xiu nodded, and hurriedly asked the shop assistant to slap his face and ask for food.After eating, he asked him what happened after the farewell, Gu Yan sighed: "The two of us made an extra trip to Nanjing for no reason. In fact, the six people summoned this time were all advocated by Xiang Gongbao, and Zhuang Gongbao was just one of them." I don’t care about the title. Lao Xiang, because we two were sent by Lao Zhuang when he was the governor of Huguang, we can’t discredit him, so he asked us to come to see him first. In fact, it was just a perfunctory, and he didn’t see him either. I have to keep it, but we are still told to go to Tianjin. Isn’t it tasteless to spend dozens of taels of silver for nothing?” Yang Xiu said: “After all, it’s not in vain, so I can gain some knowledge.” Then he told Gu Yan what he had said when he met Qin Wenlu. Having said that, Gu Yan said with a smile: "Looking at it this way, I have to do it in the same way!" Yang Xiu said: "That's natural."

The next day, Yang Xiu accompanied him to the clothing store and bought the same set. When he came back to the store, Yang Xiu taught him how to wear it, how to wear it, and how to perform court ceremonies.After Gu Yanquan learned it, he was naturally very grateful to Yang Xiu, so he asked Chen Gui to go to the street to buy some fresh food, and gave it to Yang Xiu's wife as a thank you.Unexpectedly, Chen Gui went for half a day and just came back. The food he bought was either big cakes or steamed buns.When Gu Yan saw him, Wuming became furious, pointing and cursing: "You bastard, what do you call this?" Chen Gui stared and said, "Second brother, didn't you tell me to buy food? I bought these Food, may I ask which one is not edible? Why are you swearing at people when you open your mouth?” Gu Yan became more angry when he heard it, and said, “Okay, it’s wrong! Pianzi, sending this slave to Shangyuan County to make boards and deport him back to his native place will really piss me off." Yang Xiu heard the noise in his room, so he hurried over to persuade him and asked him why.Gu Yan told the matter just now, Yang Xiu complained: "Why do you do this! Our own brother, what kind of gift did you give?" He turned to Chen Gui and said: "You are a servant who serves others, how dare you follow me? The master retorted? Send you to the county, two hundred boards and a yoke, and after the yoke number passes, you will be deported back to your hometown. Not only will you suffer in flesh and blood, but what face will you have to see your fellow countrymen? Think about it yourself, aren't you looking for hardship?" Chen Gui listened He said that he was going to send the official to beat the board, and he was frightened in his heart. He hurriedly made a big bow to Yang Xiu. , is also a decent person, and has never been hit by a buttocks board. How can I bear these two hundred blows? You are not good at accumulating virtue, please beg the master for me!" He said and asked for a big peace.Yang Xiu interceded for him, but at first Gu Yan refused to agree, but later, because of Yang Xiu's face, he was not sent to the official, but he couldn't be allowed to stay, so he told him to go home immediately.Chen Gui was so anxious that he cried, and said: "I'm less than two thousand miles away from home, and I have nothing on me. I can't go back even if I beg for food! Anyway, I beg you to be kind and let me stay." Yang Xiu Interceding for him again, Gu Yan pondered for a moment and said: "It's not that I will not keep you, you don't understand a little bit of official etiquette and rules, and you call me too shameless under the eyes of everyone, what do I want you to do?" Chen Guidao "From now on, I'll do whatever you tell me to do, isn't that okay?" Gu Yan said, "You don't need to say anything else. It's not like a human saying. From now on From now on, if you open your mouth, you must first call out the master. No matter what I tell you, you can only answer the three words 'the master is', and it is considered rude to say anything else, can you remember it?" Chen Gui said: "The master is , It’s the master, I remember everything, so I beg the master to give you a meal.” Yang Xiu laughed and said: “It’s done, it’s hard to say for you, it shows that you are not that unbearable. People, I have to accept you because of this sentence." He called Gu Yan's number again, and said: "Zhongmian, forget it, don't be idle, you have a promising future." Gu Yan also laughed, and said: "Chen Gui, if you don't look at Master Yang's face today, I will definitely not forgive you. You can take that big bun and eat it, don't show it in your eyes and make me angry." Chen Guidao: "Master is." He quickly picked up the food he bought and took it to his house.Gu Yan asked Yang Xiu and his wife to go to Chunfan Building to have a big meal, and the three of them returned to the restaurant after eating. Qin Wenlu had been waiting in the restaurant for a long time.Yang Xiu hurriedly introduced Gu Yan, exchanged a few pleasantries with each other, Gu Yan also took out ten taels of silver as a respect, Wen Lu would definitely not accept it.Mrs. Zhao said: "Cousin, why are you being polite? Just accept it. Mr. Gu is a sincere person. If you don't accept him, you will say that you look down on him." Wen Lu accepted it with a smile and said: "I am a night owl and come into the house. I have nothing to do. No. The commander-in-chief just woke up this morning. He had a day's work and will meet with guests tomorrow. You two should go tomorrow afternoon. He is very happy to wake up this time, and you two should not miss this opportunity." The two expressed their thanks again and again. Wen Lu went.

The next day I had dinner early and was going to meet Gongbao in Duyuan.Yang Xiu's gown was naturally helped by his wife, and he was very neatly dressed.Gu Yan put on the robe and asked Chen Gui to pinch it for him so that he could tie the belt. He pinched it for a long time, but he couldn't pinch it well.Gu Yan was so angry that he yelled and yelled, he went up and down to Yang Xiu's room, Mrs. Zhao tied it up for him, put on his coat, then put on a wig and braided hair, and put on his hat.Looking at each other for a while, they actually completely took off their foreign student faces and replaced them with the majesty of a county magistrate. Naturally, they were very happy in their hearts.Gu Yan said: "After all, I still want to be an official. What's the point of being a student for a lifetime?" Yang Xiu said with a smile: "Don't forget your roots. If we don't be students, we will clamor for revolution all day long, and we are afraid that the rain of officials will not be our turn. Come on." Gu Yan nodded in agreement.At this time, the shop assistant has hired two sedan chairs and waited outside the door.The two of them went downstairs and got into the sedan chair. Chen Gui and Zhao Xiaoerquan followed the sedan chair with their book protectors in their arms.The store also lent them two red tassel hats, and they wore them on their heads, and they also had the air of a long shift.Carry it to the governor's office, get off the sedan chair far away from the lobby, and go straight to the patrol room.When Wen Lu saw that the two of them had arrived, he greeted them naturally and took them to the state and county government halls to sit.It turns out that the governor's yamen is unusual, and there are eight clean government halls.The first class is the Si Dao Guan Hall, which is specially prepared for the three divisions of the feudal school to sit with the current alternates, and the arrangement is not extravagant.The second is the official office of the prefect, which is specially prepared for the current Taizun to sit with the alternate Huang Tang.The second is the official office of Zuo Er, who is specially prepared to sit in Tongzhi Zhili prefectural judges and other officials.The third is the state and county government offices.The lowest rank is the Zaza official hall, and the servants of the same servants are about the same.In addition, there are Tizhen Official Hall and Jiangbian Official Hall, which are reserved for warriors, and no one is likely to sit there.Yang and Gu were just students and had no official positions, so Wen Lu let them go to the county government hall, thinking that they were neither humble nor overbearing, and they fit their identities.The two entered the official hall, and saw a person sitting inside, wearing a four-pin blue top, a blue solid gauze gown, a cool belt, and no outer jacket. He was about forty years old, with a pockmarked face, and he looked very good. Formidable, stand beside someone to fill him with cigarettes.Yang and Gu came in, but he didn't stand up.Later, when Wen Lu came in, he bowed to greet him, called Wen Lu's number and said, "Has Ziyuan eaten? You are very busy today?" Wen Lu hurriedly introduced them, saying, "This is also ours. He is from the same township as Macheng, Hubei, he was born as a Jinshi in two lists, and now he is registered as Chen Jianchi in Shangyuan County, and he has an official seal." He gave the first and last names for Yang and Gu, and Gu Yan said: "We are close fellow villagers, brother I'm also from Macheng. I knew Mr. Jianchi's literary name when I was a teenager, but unfortunately I never met it. Today it can be called a godsend." Chen Li naturally responded with a few words, and at this time only Chen Guizhi said two words. He looked at Chen Jianchi with only one eye, as if he wanted to speak, but after several times, he stopped talking.Chen Li also took a look at Chen Gui, and continued to deal with Yang and Gu, asking them how many years they had studied abroad, and what achievements they had.Yang Xiu said one by one, and Chen Li showed a particularly affectionate look, and said: "The promotion of the two palace guards must be given by the Imperial Academy. If it is used externally, at least it will be the magistrate, and sooner or later it will be my boss. "The two said modestly: "We are newcomers, and we have to rely on our seniors for guidance. How can we say such a thing?" The more they talked, the more they agreed.It deserves to be a joke, Gu Yan is obese, and the weather is hot in early July, so he is wearing a gown and a belt.This is the first time I have entered the officialdom, and I have tasted it for the first time. Compared with being naked and wearing only a kimono when I was a student, it is much more sad.He was so hot that his head was covered with sweat, and his heavy clothes were drenched. He couldn't bear it anymore, so he had to stand up and shake his clothes to cool off.Chen Gui stood behind him, seeing his master standing up, he didn't know why, so he pulled himself together and opened his eyes to look around.Seeing the owner's coat drenched with sweat from sitting too long, rubbing it for a long time, clinging to the flesh, sandwiched between the two fat buttocks, looking at it from behind, it is not very elegant.Chen Gui was shrewd and meddlesome for a while, and quickly stretched out his hand to pull his clothes out for him.Gu Yan suddenly felt that someone was touching him from behind, and quickly dodged. At this time, Chen Gui didn't pull his clothes, but pulled his wig.He hid that side forward, and pulled this side back, and the braid of the wig was neatly pulled off by him.This time, Gu Yan was really anxious, looked back viciously, and cursed: "You bastard!" Chen Gui replied tremblingly: "Master is." When Gu Yan heard this, he became even more angry, and cursed loudly "You idiot!" Chen Gui replied again, "It's the master." This made Gu Yan's eyes red and his face pale with anger, and he rushed over to beat him, not afraid of losing the official ceremony. , still cursing: "I'll kill you, you decapitated dog!" Although Chen Gui was afraid, he kept saying, "Master is, it's master." At this time, Yang Xiu and Chen Li had no choice but to come over to persuade He said, "Calm your anger for now, and deal with him after the Gongbao meeting. What's the point of yelling at the Gongbao yamen?" Gu Yan had no choice but to hold back his anger, Chen Guiming Weeping and saying: "It's either scolding or beating. People say other things, and they say they violated the official regulations. If you teach me face to face, you must say that the master is and is the master. Now I say it like that, no Dare to add one more word, it’s wrong again. How can I handle this job?” Gu Yan immediately jumped up and was about to explode after hearing this, but Chen Li hurriedly made a rescue and said, “Let’s do this, you don’t respect your value too much. Rules, leave it to me to take it back to the county for discipline, and then send it to your husband, what do you think?" Gu Yan was very willing.Chen Li asked his followers to take Chen Gui out, and sent the accompanying guards back to the county office to wait for his punishment, but he was not allowed to make things difficult for him.He promised to lead Chen Gui out.Suddenly he heard a shout from inside, calling for Young Master Yang and Young Master Gu, and saw Wen Lu come in in a hurry, and said to the two of them: "Gong Bao sees you." Staring, he hesitated.To know what happened to him, let's see the breakdown in the next chapter.