Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 151 Grabbing Seats

The hairpin banquet scene is a bit retro, a bit like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period when the generals and generals entertained the diners. There are several rows of short tables in the middle of the open space. There are about two hundred tables. Each table can seat one person. There are ready-made delicacies and fruit plates, and then there will be a flow of servants to add dishes to each table.

  In fact, most people don’t pay attention to what to eat. The hairpin feast is mainly for honor, of course, Zhu Ping’an is an exception.

There are a large number of new students, and the venue of the Gongyuan is limited. Not everyone can have a seat in the rows of small tables in the middle of the open space. There are several long tables in a remote place, where people can also sit at one table. There are more than ten people, but there is no central position.

After all, this is just a welcome banquet for new students. If it is a high-level banquet such as Luming Banquet (a banquet for new imperial examination candidates after the provincial examination) and Qionglin Banquet (a banquet for new imperial examination candidates after the palace examination), it must be There is no such poor arrangement.

  The rows of several cases in the middle are the best positions. On the one hand, they are closer to the important figures such as the academic officer, and on the other hand, the individual cases also faintly give people an unusual feeling.

  Zhu Ping'an is also more interested in the individual cases in the venue. It is so convenient to eat by himself at a table, and he doesn't have to worry about being drunk by his tablemate.

  Who will sit on the single table in the venue, and who will sit on the long table in the corner, there is no fixed, it depends on your improvisation. Moreover, seeing everyone's eagerness to try, they seemed to be more interested in the several cases in the field, and they walked a few steps quickly to occupy one of them. The scene was gentle but fierce.

  Although Zhu Ping'an stood in front of the queue, when he went to occupy the individual cases in the field, there were only the last few left.

  Zhu Ping'an stood in front of one of the tables. Just as he was about to sit down, he heard a "pop", a folding fan drew a parabola, and gently landed on the table in front of Zhu Pingan from behind.

   Nima, dare to use this method to grab the position on this occasion.

  Zhu Ping'an turned around and saw a new student who was unfamiliar but had a dandy air all over him. Zheng Zheng looked at himself with a smile, quite complacent, as if he concluded that facing this situation, he could only return home in defeat. Also, on this occasion, if you don't want to attract the attention of officials such as Ti Xueguan. I could only swallow my anger and let this table go.

  The behavior of the dandy student only attracted the attention of a few people around him. Among the hundreds of people, this movement was far from enough to attract the attention of the most senior academic officials and others.

   Not just a coincidence or something, among the people sitting nearby happened to be Guo Ziyu, Liu Qian and others who met yesterday when filling out the confession, and they were also watching this scene with great interest at this moment. I want to see how Zhu Pingan reacts. Let it go, it will appear a little incompetent, these few cases are gone, and you can only go to the long table in the corner; Bad impression. The dilemma is really interesting.

  Zhu Ping'an looked at the folding fans on the desks in front of him, and slightly curled his lips. Ignoring the folding fan and sitting down, he handed the folding fan on the table to the dandy scholar with a silly smile.

   "Dear man, your fan fell off."

  Zhu Ping'an's words were neither loud nor low, enough to be heard clearly by nearby jokers.

  My dear friend, you lost your fan.

   This sentence easily reversed the whole situation. In the end, the man just glared at Zhu Ping'an, took the folding fan, and went to the long tables in the corner to find a place in desperation under the eyes of everyone.

  Mencius has a saying: People must humiliate themselves and others will humiliate them. If you discuss it with me kindly, I might as well let it go to you, why use this way. This is all you asked for. You really treat me like a soft persimmon. Zhu Pingan ignored the man's gaze and sat in front of the table calmly. He took a piece of melon and fruit and put it in his mouth.

  As everyone was seated one after another, the Hairpin Banquet began.

  While Zhu Pingan was enjoying the hairpin feast, Li Shu, the eldest lady of the Li family in Shanghe Village, was also enjoying the food.

The location is Miss Li's boudoir. The young girl Li Shu is sitting lazily at the table, holding a scroll with the title page of Tianlong Babu in one hand, enjoying the service of the bun maidservants around her while reading, occasionally opening her small cherry mouth to enjoy it. Delicious food.

At this time, Li Shu was wearing a light pink dress, sitting elegantly and lazily at the table, her big eyes were as black as ink, and she was looking at the scroll in her hand, except for the scroll in her hand and the food served by the little maidservant. , it seemed that everything else could not attract her attention at this time.

"Miss, miss, how can you still see it? Xiahe Village was bragging early in the morning, saying that the bad boy got the first place in the exam again." The bun maid pouted. Don't forget to gossip.

   "Oh..." Li Shu didn't take her eyes off the scroll.

   "Miss, the villain has passed the college entrance examination, and he is still number one, so he has been selected as a child." The steamed stuffed maid puffed up her mouth.

   "Isn't it just a broken talent, what to do, it's worth you to whisper in my ear all day, and the gang of mud legs in Xiahe Village will be treasures." The girl Li Shu flattened her mouth, and her voice was very disdainful.

   "But he's only thirteen, and thirteen is a scholar, and he's still the number one. It's said that our Daming hasn't produced a few of them yet." The steamed stuffed maid boldly retorted with her mouth puffed up.

   "He's going to break the sky, he's also a toad, and he's still a gluttonous toad." The girl Li Shu was as disdainful as ever, as if Zhu Ping'an was equated with a toad in her eyes.

   "What if he wins the No.

   "What's the matter, the toad is not a carp, and it is also a toad if it crosses the dragon gate." The girl Li Shu was very disdainful.

  At this time, another maid came in with a plate of dishes.

  The steamed stuffed bun maid picked up a new dish with chopsticks and put it into the mouth of her lady.

  Li Shu flattened her cherry mouth as she was used to, then her face darkened suddenly, and she waved at the little maid who had just entered the door, and asked blankly, "Who did it?"

   "Yes, it was done by the servant girl." The little maid replied timidly.

Snapped

  The little maid had a slender handprint on her face.

   "It's really trash. You have been learning for two months from the cook that Daddy hired with a lot of money, and you made this to fool me!"

  Li Shu rubbed her slightly painful hands, and looked at the little maid kneeling at her feet with a sneer.

   "I'd like to see, this cooking skill is really so difficult," the girl Li Shu said and got up, walking out with a pretty face and anger.

"Miss, how can you go to the kitchen? If the master knows, he will beat me to death." Baozi's maid heard that the lady meant to learn by herself. Thinking of the master's love for the lady, Baozi's face turned pale immediately. Hastily yelled and chased after him.

   Dinner with the leader tonight, sorry for the late return.

  (end of this chapter)