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Chapter 20 Mr. Ovary's Descendants

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Fortunately, after the official sedan chair was carried out for more than half a street, Zhang Shitou finally had the opportunity to reveal his identity, and the Ming Dynasty finally did not have a scandal of false flower inspection after the scandal of illiterate flower inspection, but the officials sent by the Ministry of Rites hurriedly When sending Zhang Shitou back to the Liansheng Inn, Young Master Zhang, who was still sleeping on the bed with his butt naked, became furious when he heard the news, he picked up his fan and knocked on Zhang Shitou's head, "My boy, you are getting more and more courageous! Young master, do you dare to take the lead in my maiden official sedan chair?"

"Young master, please forgive me, I didn't do it on purpose, those people admitted their mistake and forced me to be carried into the sedan chair." Zhang Shitou shouted his grievances loudly while covering his head and being beaten up and down by Young Master Zhang.After finally waiting for Young Master Zhang to fight enough to calm down, Zhang Shitou apologized to Young Master Zhang and said with a smile: "Young master congratulates young master, congratulations to young master for your wish to come true, after all, you will be named on the gold list. If the master and the eleven wives know This matter, I will definitely laugh until I can’t close my mouth, the young master sneaked to the capital behind the master’s back this time, the master will definitely not mention it again.”

"Hmph, this is my predestined fame, young master. I can't run away even if I want to." Young master Zhang snorted coldly, but his heart was also very excited, and he shouted: "What are you still doing? Hurry up and help young master change clothes, and then get ready to reward money Go out and sprinkle, the young master wants the people on this street to have fun with him."

"Yes, my little one serves the young master... No, I serve the master to change clothes." Zhang Shitou agreed with a nodding and apologetic smile, and hurriedly helped young master Zhang put on the jade-colored round-neck sweater that he had bought long ago but had never worn. Put on a square scarf—not to mention, after our barely handsome Young Master Zhang puts on this set of clothes, he really looks a bit like a Confucian scholar—of course, if our Young Master Zhang doesn’t keep carrying that If you draw a fan of Tang Bohu's spring palace, it will definitely look more like it.

After changing his clothes, Young Master Zhang formally stepped out of the inn to lift his sedan chair, and the entrance of the inn was already crowded with people, densely packed with guests in the shop who watched the excitement and said auspicious words, as well as many people who failed their undergraduate courses The examinees stared at Young Master Zhang so that both eyes were spitting fire, as if they wanted to tear our Young Master Zhang into pieces with their eyes, with seven dissatisfied and eight dissatisfied expressions on their faces.And Young Master Zhang didn't care, he waved his fan smartly, pointed at the crowd who said auspicious words and shouted: "Stone, reward!"

"Little one obeys." Zhang Shitou also made some elegant promises, and took out a large bag full of copper coins that he had prepared, and threw them into the crowd one by one. It was a complete mess. Hundreds of people were fighting each other, desperately looting the copper coins spilled by Zhang Shitou. The chaos was completely messy. Those who snatched it were happy, but those who didn't snatched it went to bow in front of Young Master Zhang. He continued to talk about the New Year's talk, which made our Young Master Zhang's bone light, he laughed out of complacency, and then waved his hand and ordered: "Stone, sprinkle all this bag of copper coins..."

Young Master Zhang suddenly stopped in the middle of his words, because he suddenly saw a familiar figure out of the corner of his eyes, and when he took a closer look, Young Master Zhang's little heart began to ping-pong-pong.Outside the crowd, Xiong Hu, who was dressed in a blue coarse cloth dress, was holding a vegetable basket, and was quietly watching Young Master Zhang who was surrounded by everyone in the distance. When he found that Young Master Zhang was looking at him, Xiong Hu's pink face turned red , turned around and ran away quickly, his heart beating faster than Young Master Zhang.Young Master Zhang wanted to chase after him, but there were too many congratulatory crowds surrounding Young Master Zhang, Young Master Zhang didn't even squeeze out, he could only watch Xiong Hu run away and finally disappeared at the corner of the street.

"Haha, I didn't expect Zhang Shitou, a fool who thinks so much, to get something by chance." Although he didn't get the chance to brag in front of Xiong Hu that he would do what he said, Young Master Zhang was still secretly happy, "From Ankang Hutong to here I have to cross half of the capital city, even if the tigress buys vegetables, it is impossible to run so far. Since she is here, she must come to see if I really got in the top three in the exam. Haha, it seems that there is something interesting about this It's gone." Recalling Xiong Hu's charming face and graceful figure, our Young Master Zhang unexpectedly felt impulsive in the crowd...

Stealing fun is stealing fun, business still has to be done, and after finally distributing the wedding money, Master Zhang left Zhang Shitou to wait in the inn, while he got into the official sedan chair, was carried by the bearer sent by the Ministry of Rites, and went straight to the Imperial College .When we arrived at the Guozijian yamen located inside Andingmen, there was a huge crowd of people in front of the gate, and the officials called their names. As soon as Master Zhang’s sedan chair landed, hundreds of scholars and scholars surrounded the door, each of them shouting loudly. , "Congratulations to Zhang Tanhua, congratulations to Zhang Tanhua." It was so crowded that our Young Master Zhang couldn't even get out of the sedan chair.Seeing this scene, Young Master Zhang felt a little guilty, he said that today seemed to be a hard day, and he was afraid that his mouth would dry up just for being hypocritical and polite.

Sure enough, Young Master Zhang just stood still after entering the Imperial College, registration and registration. Just running to Young Master Zhang and introducing himself, there were as many as a hundred supervisors and officials, which made our Young Master Zhang overwhelmed and dizzy.But this is not bad, the real troubles are those Jinshi of the same discipline of Young Master Zhang, who not only introduced their name and name in front of Young Master Zhang, but also showed off their hometown and family background at every turn - in fact, the main thing is to show off how many officials their family ancestors have produced Celebrities, our young master Zhang, who was born as a local rich man in the countryside, was both ashamed and embarrassed, and even began to regret coming to test his fame.

"Brother Zhang Nian, I have admired Brother Nian's name for a long time. Ni Yuanlu, whose name is Yuru, and whose name is Hongbao, is my ancestor..." I don't know how many times in the same year we came up to show off and talk, our Young Master Zhang finally couldn't hold back his anger He said loudly: "Brother Ni Nian, I have admired your name for a long time. My younger brother Zhang Haogu, whose style name is Zhongzheng, and whose name is Zhongshan, Zhang Liang Zhang Zifang, one of the three heroes of the founding of the Han Dynasty, is my 53rd generation ancestor!"

"Mr. Zifang is Brother Zhang Nian's ancestor?" Ni Yuanlu, who was planning to show off in front of Young Master Zhang, was dumbfounded - no matter what kind of celebrity his ancestors were, they couldn't compare to Zhang Liang's little toe.And the Jinshi around who planned to talk to Young Master Zhang also changed their faces in the same year, they just looked at our Young Master Zhang with admiration, and kept exclaiming: "Is Tan Huagong the third grandson of Mr. Zifang? After a famous family! A famous family Afterwards!" The No.1 Huiyuan Liu Ruozai and the No.2 Yu Huang, although ranked ahead of Young Master Zhang, did not dare to neglect at this moment, and hurried up to salute Young Master Zhang, and paid their respects to the third generation grandson of the big man Zhang Zifang.It's just that Young Master Zhang never dreamed that his identity as a descendant of Zhang Liang would spread throughout the capital overnight, making our Young Master Zhang famous, far surpassing No.1 Liu Ruozai and No.2 Yu Huang.

"Is Zhang Tanhua a descendant of Mr. Zifang?" Of course, there are also those who expressed doubts. Just when our young master Zhang was complacent, an official of the Imperial College who was registering for the Jinshi on the list stood up, with a gloomy face, and with an extremely unfriendly expression He asked Young Master Zhang in a tone: "Zhang Tanhua, as far as I know, Mr. Zifang's descendants have always been unknown and have never seen any classics. After Zhang Tanhua claimed to be Mr. Zifang, is there any evidence?"

"Hey, who is this guy? I don't seem to have offended him?" Young Master Zhang was a little confused, thinking that this guy had eaten a cannonball, why did he show my face in public?And none of the Jinshijian students around dared to offend casually, they all shut up and waited and watched. The noisy scene just now fell silent, and the Guozijian official asked again: "Zhang Tanhua, after you called yourself Mr. Zifang, why didn't we listen to it?" Tell you?"

"Who is this guy?" Young Master Zhang became more and more confused the more he heard.At this time, a student from the Imperial Academy suddenly approached Young Master Zhang's ear, and said in a low voice, "Brother Zhang Nian, this person is Lin Xiang, Siye (Vice Principal) of the Imperial Academy, who has close contacts with the Donglin Bandit. Brother Nian's exam papers were taken care of by people over nine thousand years old when they were reviewed, so he has a grudge against you, brother Nian, so you have to be careful."

"Oh, it turned out to be Wei Zhongxian's deadly enemy, no wonder he targeted me so much." Young Master Zhang suddenly realized, and glanced at the middle-aged supervisor, and asked in a low voice: "This young brother, who are you then?" The supervisor whispered He replied: "Xiaosheng Lu Wanling admires Jiu Qiansui and Brother Zhang Nian very much." (Note)
"Lu Wanling, what are you muttering to Zhang Tanhua?" Lin So asked sharply again.Lu Wanling seemed to be terribly afraid of Lin So, and backed away a few steps timidly, while Young Master Zhang calmly clasped his fists and said, "Don't blame Master Lin, Xiaosheng and brother Lu Nian are old friends, and we reunited in the Imperial Prison today after a long absence, so Greet each other a few words, and there is no rule in the Imperial College that prohibits conversations with old friends, Mr. Lin, you are open-minded, so you will not embarrass brother Lu Nian, right?"

Young Master Zhang had a needle in his words, insinuating that Lin So was narrow-minded, of course Lin So could hear it, so Lin So inevitably blushed, and changed the subject: "Zhang Tanhua, you haven't answered my question yet, the descendants of Mr. It has not been found in the classics, after you claimed to be Mr. Zifang, do you have evidence?"

"Of course there is evidence, and Xiaosheng's family tree is the proof." Young Master Zhang said nonsense, "If Master Lin doesn't believe it, how about asking Master Lin to identify the true and false after another day when Master Lin fetches the family tree from Linqing?"——About this It is well-planned to order Young Master Zhang, as long as Young Master Zhang spends 100 taels of silver, not to mention one family tree, even ten family trees can be conjured up.And Lin Xiang naturally knew this truth, so he asked: "The descendants of Mr. Zifang have never been found in the classics, so how can Zhang Tanhua explain this?"

"It's very simple." Young Master Zhang said without blushing, "When the great man founded the country, the ancestors killed the heroes who founded the country. Officer, Xiaosheng’s ancestors of all dynasties have kept the ancestral precepts in mind, and have been farming and studying for generations. They did not seek to be famous to the princes, but only wished to hide talents in the city. Therefore, there is no record of Mr. Zifang’s descendants in the ancient books of all dynasties. Zhang’s family Is it wrong to obey the precepts of the ancestors and put filial piety first?"

Young Master Zhang's ability to argue with reasoning is really good, even Lin Xiang, who is rich in education and has no car, was speechless by Young Master Zhang at this moment, and Lu Wanling, the supervising student, simply applauded and shouted: "Okay, Zhang Tanhua! Loyalty and filial piety, comparable to the ancient sages, is really a role model for our students! Brothers, don’t you think so?” It’s a pity that there are not many supervisors and scholars in the Imperial College who dare to offend Siye in public like Lu Wanling, most of them They all nodded slightly in agreement, not daring to show it directly.

At this point, Lin So should have shut up no matter how dissatisfied he was with Young Master Zhang, but Lu Wanling had done something bad with good intentions and inadvertently reminded Lin So of something, Lin So rolled his eyes and hurriedly asked Young Master Zhang again : "Zhang Tanhua, since your ancestor, Mr. Zifang, ordered that the descendants of the Zhang family not be allowed to be officials, but Zhang Tanhua, you took part in the general examination and sought fame. How can you explain this?"

Note: Lu Wanling and Lin Sou are historical figures. In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Lu Wanling wrote a letter to build a shrine for Wei Zhongxian in Guozijian to flatter Wei Zhongxian. Lin Soo resigned in protest.

(End of this chapter)