Chapter 702： Meet Yan Song

Chapter 702 Meet Yan Song

"Thank you, Mr. Li, for your report." Zhu Pingan cupped his hands to thank Li Chunfang.

"Zi Hou and I don't need to be polite, the chief assistant is waiting for you inside, you can go in quickly." Li Chunfang shook his head slightly and smiled.

Zhu Ping'an smiled slightly, bowed to Li Chunfang again, then tidied up his appearance, and walked into Yan Song's office room.

"Enter Zhu Ping'an after the end of school, and pay homage to Lord Shoufu."

Zhu Ping'an walked into the room, and without saying a word, he bowed and bowed in the direction of the front seat, saying that he was an underachiever, with a respectful look on his face.

"Hehe, Zihou is here, don't be too polite, please get up quickly." Yan Song, who was sitting upright in the front seat, smiled gently and got up, with a very kind attitude, just like the grandfather next door.

"That's right, Zi Hou, hurry up and get up, our Master Yan admires you the most for a young talent like you. You are so polite, don't you think you're out of touch."

Then, a strange but somewhat familiar voice sounded above Zhu Pingan's head, and then a pair of hands helped Zhu Pingan up.

Zhu Pingan stood up, and then raised his head to look at everything in the room. The first thing that caught his eyes was the kind-eyed, white-bearded old man who got up from the front seat, and he was Yan Songyan's chief assistant; The middle-aged official with a serious face in the Chinese character is Zhao Wenhua who presided over the scientific examination in Yingtian back then, and is now the right minister of the Ministry of Industry and the chief envoy of the General Administration.

"Thank you first assistant, thank you Mr. Zhao." Zhu Pingan bowed his hands to Yan Song and Zhao Wenhua, and thanked him.

"Look at you, you are so polite again." Zhao Wenhua supported Zhu Ping'an's hand, then turned to pat Zhu Ping'an's shoulder, smiled and shook his head.

"Okay, stop standing, let's sit down and talk. I am an old bone, not like you young people."

Yan Song was very kind, laughed and teased, and waved for Zhu Pingan and Zhao Wenhua to sit down and talk.

Then the three of them divided the seats between the host and the guest, and Zhu Pingan took the initiative to sit in the lowest position, sitting upright, taking up half of the chair to show respect.

"Actually, speaking of it, I can be regarded as Zihou's tutor." After sitting down, Zhao Wenhua said with a smile.

"Oh, Wenhua, what do you say?" Yan Song was very interested in this, and asked with a smile while stroking his beard.

"Hehe, my adoptive father didn't know something. The year before last, I was transferred to Sichuan from Nanzhili's academic officer. I took over as an academic officer, studied in Nanzhili, and presided over the provincial examination. It was also that year that Zihou went to Yingtian to participate in the provincial examination. Speaking of which, the scientific examination before the township examination was exactly Zihou who was in my school." Zhao Wenhua explained with a smile.

It's no secret that Zhao Wenhua recognizes Yan Song as his adoptive father. Everyone in the civil and military courts of the Manchu Dynasty knows about this matter. Zhao Wenhua has long been used to calling Yan Song his foster father, and he doesn't feel any embarrassment. Yan Song is over eighty years old. It's enough to be my grandfather at this age, let alone my father.

Uh

Zhu Ping'an was slightly taken aback when he heard the words. In fact, this is generally speaking, but strictly speaking, it is not like what Zhao Wenhua said.

Zuoshi is the respectful title of Juren and Jinshi to the chief examiner of the township examination and general examination.

However, Zhao Wenhua, as the academic officer at that time, only took the examination before the provincial examination, and the examiner of the subsequent rural examination was not Zhao Wenhua, but the two examiners of the Hanlin Academy, Zhang Tao and Wang Da, so strictly speaking, he himself The teachers of the rural examination were only two bachelors, Zhang Tao and Wang Da.

However, generally speaking, the scientific examination is also a part of the rural examination, and Zhao Wenhua, who takes the main examination, can be regarded as a teacher.

Because it was Zhao Wenhua who said this in front of Yan Song, and Yan Song seemed happy to see the result. At this time, Zhu Ping'an would not go into a corner and engage in any debates between teachers and teachers.

Teacher, let's take a seat.

There are too many lice, but this one is not bad.

Calculated in this way, I have two teachers in the strict party. One is Yan Maoqing, who was the tutor in the general examination, and the second is Zhao Wenhua, who is barely the tutor in the rural examination...Yan Maoqing is Yan Song's capable general, and Zhao Wenhua is Yan Song's adopted son and capable general. Both of them are the backbone of the strict party.

Hehe, why does he feel that he is a strict and strict party member? Zhu Pingan smiled silently in his heart.

However, in fact, Zhu Ping'an also knew that because of the memorial to impeach Zhao Daying, everyone in the strict party would hate him to the bone.

Zhu Pingan's seemingly long mental activity was actually only a second.

"What Mr. Zhao said is very true. It is Ping An who has been rude, and he hopes to make amends. The student Zhu Pingan has met the teacher."

Zhu Pingan raised his head and glanced at Zhao Wenhua and Yan Song, then confessed with a slight smile, then got up from his seat, ready to salute Zhao Wenhua.

"Look at you, I'm just joking, you take it seriously." Zhao Wenhua shook his head and smiled, and got up from his seat affectionately. The corporal stretched out his hands to support Zhu Pingan's arm, and did not let Zhu Pingan bow down. Great gift.

"Thanks to the great love of the teacher, the students were able to enter the provincial examination with the first-class test in the subject test. A teacher for one day is a teacher for a lifetime. How dare the students forget it."

Although Zhao Wenhua stopped him, Zhu Pingan still made a big salute gesture, said something against his will, and looked serious on the surface. Anyone who looked at him looked like a good student.

"You, it is enough to have this kind of heart, why bother to stick to these etiquettes."

Zhao Wenhua said with a smile, kindly pulled Zhu Pingan to the front of the seat, pressed Zhu Pingan's shoulder, and asked Zhu Pingan to sit down, looking like a gentle teacher.

"Oh, there are such things, why didn't Wenhua mention it to the old man." Yan Song picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and looked at the two of them with interest.

"It's my fault. The thing is that last year, when I proposed to study in Nanzhili, it happened to coincide with the provincial examination. As the promotion officer, I presided over the scientific examination. At that time, Zihou handed in the papers very early. When I first saw Zihou, I thought Who is such a young boy donated by a noble family? I thought to myself, I am afraid that he has no real talent and learning. Since he was young, he thought that if he could write well, he would be given a second and third class. Unexpectedly, when I saw the test paper submitted by Zihou, I was very impressed and admired it. Seeing that Zihou was just a child, I couldn’t help but feel puzzled, fearing that he would get the answer to the test questions early, so I asked another question on the spot thick."

Zhao Wenhua got up, picked up the teapot and poured tea for Yan Song, and slowly told Yan Song about the scene of Zhu Ping'an in the scientific examination.

After Zhao Wenhua poured tea for Yan Song, he brought the teapot to Zhu Pingan. Zhu Pingan got up quickly, took the teapot from Zhao Wenhua, filled up the tea for Zhao Wenhua, and then poured himself a cup of tea.

"Oh, what question did you ask?" Yan Song asked.

"What's wrong with the etiquette?" Zhao Wenhua replied.

"Wenhua, you are making it difficult on purpose." Yan Song smiled and shook his head. Yan Song is very familiar with the imperial examination.

"Father wrongly blamed me. At that time, Zihou's test paper was too good, and he was only thirteen years old. I was also curious about his talent, so I took the exam. If the test paper was really written by him, I would not be able to test the general questions. Only." Zhao Wenhua explained with a wry smile.

"Well, Zihou, how did you answer?" Yan Song nodded, looked at Zhu Ping'an and asked.

"Looking back, Ping'an answered like this at the time. People in ancient times regarded it as a ritual, but I must obey it today, which may not be in line with the ancient ritual; people in ancient times regarded it as righteousness, but I must obey it today, which may not be true. In line with the ancient meaning"

Fortunately, I was the one who asked the question. If it was someone else, I am afraid that I would not remember the answer at that time. Zhu Pingan has a vivid memory, not to mention the questions he answered at that time. This kind of question is not difficult for Zhu Pingan. Zhu Pingan pretended to think about it, and then repeated his answer to Yan Song.

"Good." After hearing this, Yan Song stroked his beard and nodded appreciatively.

(end of this chapter)