Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 19
The middle-aged man is called Liu Hongyun. His family is very well off in Jiangwan Village, and he even opened a grocery store in the town.

In order to give their son a better education, they moved their family to the town three years ago, and his son entered a well-known elementary school. His son also worked hard and was admitted to Yanying Academy last year.

Liu Hongyun laughed and said, "It's rare to see you today, let's go to lunch, and I'll treat you."

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, ordinary people only ate two meals a day, one early and one late.

In the Song Dynasty, due to the great development of commerce, the abundance of food, and the proliferation of small restaurants, the eating habits of ordinary people began to change to three meals a day.

But this transformation is not achieved overnight, but a gradual transformation process. The era of Song Renzong happened to be the era when two meals and three meals coexisted.

Those from poorer families, such as Fan Ning's family, eat two meals a day, while those from richer families, like Yuanwai Liu, have entered into a well-off life where they can eat three meals a day.

Under Fan Tiezhou's repeated insistence, they came to a restaurant near the pier.

Of course, this kind of small restaurant is not as grand as a big restaurant. In fact, it is a straw shed built against the wall, with four or five tables placed under it, with ventilation on three sides.

Although the conditions are a little rough, the advantage is that the quantity is sufficient and the price is very affordable, and it is very popular among ordinary people.

The four of them sat down at a table. Liu Hongyun ordered two plates of steamed pancakes stuffed with mutton, four plates of refreshing side dishes, one steamed white fish, one plate of mutton soup, one pot of roasted hoof, and four bowls of haggis soup. .

These dishes cost at least five or six hundred Wen in a big restaurant, but in this small restaurant, only a hundred Wen is enough.

Liu Hongyun greeted everyone, "Eat it while it's hot! Don't be polite, everyone."

Fan Ning was really hungry, so he reached out and picked up a big steamed bun and gnawed on it.

In the Song Dynasty, as long as the food was made of noodles, it was called pancakes, baked pancakes were called sesame pancakes, boiled pancakes were called soup pancakes, and steamed pancakes were called steamed pancakes. Steamed pancakes were called steamed buns in the north and steamed buns in the south.

The Taihu sheep in Pingjiang Mansion are quite famous all over the world. Eating mutton in winter has been the custom of Pingjiang Mansion since ancient times.

Fanning drank the delicious haggis soup again, and his whole body warmed up.

Only then did Liu Kang continue to talk about the topic just now.

"I only found out after entering the school that there are four levels of interview questions, the easiest is to memorize "Hundred Surnames", followed by "Thousand Characters", and the second is to memorize large sections of "The Analects" or "Mencius".

But the most difficult thing is that the examiner randomly cites a scripture, which usually has no beginning and no end. You must accurately state its source. This question is called tracing the source. If you get this question and answer it well, Then your interview score will be high. On the contrary, no matter how well you memorize "Hundred Surnames", even if you pass the interview, your score will not be too high. "

It was only then that Fan Ning realized that the topic of his interview was called tracing the source. He thought for a while and asked, "Is there any scope for this tracing?"

Liu Kang laughed, "Of course it's "The Analects" and "Mencius". Can the elementary school learn other things?"

Fan Tiezhou quickly asked: "Ning'er, what question did you get?"

Fan Ning smiled, "The one I got was to trace the origin. I was asked about a sentence in "Mencius". I happened to know it very well, so I answered it."

Fan Tiezhou was overjoyed, "That's great!"

Liu Kang also gave a thumbs up, "You are lucky!"

Fan Ning thought of this and asked again: "Who is the chief examiner for the interview?"

"But an old man with a fair complexion and a long beard. He seems to be wearing a black gauze hat today. He looks very refined?"

"This is the person." Fanning said
Liu Kang laughed and said, "He's not the professor of Yanying Hall, but Zhao Xiuwen, our Wu County academician."

Everyone was taken aback, why did Xuezheng come here to be the chief examiner?
Fan Ning was also very curious. Xuezheng is equivalent to the director of the county education bureau, but came to Yanying Academy as the chief examiner. What is the reason?
"I don't know the specific reason, anyway, he has come to Yanqing Academy every year as the chief examiner for interviews, at least five or six years."

Fan Ning was eating happily, when he suddenly felt something sharp and hard poking his back again, he suddenly became unhappy, and turned around and said angrily: "You never finish..."

He didn't go on with the rest, it wasn't a little loli behind him, but two long legs, he slowly raised his head, and it really was the Great Swordswoman.
She stood outside the thatched shed, holding a three-foot long sword, with an indifferent expression on her face.

Fan Ning suddenly understood where little Lolita got her bad habit of poking people's backs with daggers.

Fanning snorted, turned and continued to drink his haggis soup.

The other three people on the table looked at each other, and couldn't help but marvel in their eyes that there was such a tall woman.

It was Fan Tiezhou who realized first that he was looking for his son!

He hurriedly asked: "Is there anything this girl wants from me?"

"My master asked him to come over."

The heroine pointed at Fan Ning with the big sword, and Fan Tiezhou's face twitched. Although the sword was sheathed, it was too much to point at people with it.

He hastily cupped his hands and said, "May I ask what advice your master has for my son?"

"Don't pay attention to her, Daddy, her master is that little girl on the boat."

Fan Tiezhou was a little confused, which little girl?At that time, he didn't recognize that little loli was a woman disguised as a man.

"It's the one who got into the carriage. You said that rich people have nothing to do with us."

Fan Tiezhou suddenly realized that the child was actually a little lady, and he really didn't realize it. When he heard that it was a little girl looking for his son, he immediately felt relieved.

"Since the little lady came here to invite you, you should go there. You are a scholar, and a scholar should not be rude."

It's also fortunate that Zhang Sanniang is not here, otherwise she would definitely ask someone for the horoscope to count the marriage.

Fan Ning really didn't want to go there, but this heroine of swordsman was the bodyguard of little Lolita, and if he started to fight, he might suffer a disadvantage.

Forget it, a hero doesn't suffer from immediate losses, so it doesn't matter to go and have a look.

Fan Ning reluctantly said to the heroine: "I didn't want to go, but my father's order cannot be violated, so I will go with you."

Fan Ning stood up slowly, put on airs, and walked towards the opposite restaurant with splayed feet.

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The restaurant opposite is called Shuntian Restaurant, which is the largest restaurant in the town. It is three stories high and there are several yards behind it.

At this time, the exams were all over, and the restaurant was full of guests, all candidates and their parents. They gathered in small groups, drinking and chatting.

Fan Ning followed the Great Swordswoman to the second floor, and saw little Lolita standing alone in front of the stairs. Fan Ning stepped forward and asked with a smile, "Could it be that the little official wants to invite me to dinner?"

Little Loli curled her lips, "Don't be sentimental, okay, I'm not looking for you!"

Fan Ning was taken aback, "Who is that?"

"Just come with me!"

Fan Ning followed her up to the third floor, and when they came to a private room, little Lolita pushed the door open and went in.

Fan Ning followed her into the private room, only to see a huge screen dividing the private room into two, and there were five or six people sitting inside, seemingly discussing something?
Standing at the door was a young scholar of seventeen or eighteen years old, very handsome, his name was Xu Shouchun, and he was No.3 in this year's examination.

Seeing him, little Lolita immediately smiled and said, "Cousin, I have found him."

"Shh!"

The young scholar raised his fingers and whispered: "Wait a minute, they will finish their discussion soon."

He smiled apologetically at Fanning again, and Fanning also had a slight liking for him.

Behind the screen came the voices of several old men discussing, one of them seemed to be the voice of the chief examiner Zhao Xuezheng, and it turned out that he was looking for him.

"The name Taihuchun is not very good. Although it has characteristics, it is too common and not elegant enough. Let's change it."

"How about Pingjiang Xiaomei tea?"

"It's not too good, it's a bit petty, and our Pingjiang mansion has always been called Suzhou or Wujun. This Pingjiang is not enough to represent it."

"Cousin, what are they talking about?" Little Loli asked in a low voice.

"They're giving Sharenxiang a new name!"

Fan Ning immediately understood that it was the tribute tea that Fan Zhongyan brought to Ouyang Xiu. It was called Biluochun in Ming and Qing Dynasties, but in Song Dynasty it was called Xinxue tea, and the locals called it Sharenxiang.

The name New Blood Tea is indeed not very elegant, and Scary Sharenxiang is even more vulgar, so it is understandable that the famous local gentry want to change the name.

At this time, an old man with a scorched yellow skin stroked his beard and smiled: "It should be named after the place of origin. Hangzhou Baoyun tea, Baiyun tea, and Xianglin tea are all named after the place names. Our tribute tea is grown in Dongting Mountain. I suggest it be called Dongting. spring."

Another old man shook his head, "But the name 'Dongting' already exists. Isn't the tea grown in Yuezhou and Changsha called Dongting tea?"

"I think it's better to call it Biluochun!" A clear and clear voice of a young man came from outside.

(End of this chapter)