Jia Cong, the God of Dancing Through the Red Mansion

The first time Jia Cong entered the palace, he got a meal of imperial food. When he went back and told Jia She, Master Jia, who had never tasted the taste of imperial food at such an age, had a look of envy and pride.

Chasing after the youngest son, he asked what the royal meal looked like, how many dishes there were, what were their names, and what ingredients were they made of?

Jia Cong never knew that his father could burst out with such great enthusiasm for things other than ancient fans and concubines. He was a bit overwhelmed by the question, and wanted to tell him the truth. In addition to being smooth, there are really no more features.

It's okay to eat once in a while, but if he eats it every day, he thinks he will never be able to bear it.

But after thinking about it, it's better not to say too much, who knows if it will be spread, it's better to be more careful in everything!

He talked to his father in detail about the royal meal he was thinking about, and finally changed the topic to other things, but Jia Cong didn't dare to relax at all.

He didn't understand, what did the emperor mean when he was about to leave? Did he have confidence in him being a Jinshi?Or is there another arrangement?

"Brother Cong is a little younger, but he is very talented. It would be a pity if he has been among the people!" What do these words mean today?

He clearly said that he wants to take part in next year's scientific examination, why does His Majesty still say these things?

Jia Cong pondered for a long time but couldn't figure it out, and the name, they don't seem to be that familiar with each other, what does it mean to be called "Brother Cong" when they meet?

And Cong → Chong is the most annoying thing, when the father chose the name, he really didn't care about it!

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but glared resentfully at the opposite father who was still silly and happy. I don't know what word I will pick up in the future. Should I think about it first by myself, or ask Mr. Qiao to pick it up?

I really don't believe my father's level!

Jia Cong hadn't finished wrestling with the name here, the emperor's imperial decree had already been issued over there, and Yubi appointed him to accompany the eldest prince to read.

It's a good will, can't you accept it?

The eldest prince is the eldest son of the emperor. Even if he has not been crowned prince, he is still a natural target. Putting his name together may be of some benefit for the time being, but it is difficult to say about future misfortunes and blessings. He is a little upset.

I don't know what His Majesty thinks, isn't the selection of the prince's companion reading already over at the beginning of the year?

If he remembers correctly, the places of the four companions around the eldest prince have already been set, and they are all hand-picked by the emperor's imperial pen. They are either from a famous scholarly family, or from a family of powerful officials, and all of them are the emperor or the emperor. confidant of the minister.

Jia's mansion is not good enough in front of those people. Is this considered to be special treatment?

Also, the eldest prince is only eight years old, so the age of choosing a companion is limited to six to ten years old. What's the matter with adding him who is more than 12 years old and soon to be 13 years old?

I felt uncomfortable, but when I turned around, I saw my father's smiling, wrinkled chrysanthemum face, and the poisoned eyes of Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang.

For the first time in my heart, I was a little worried about the future. My father was too simple, and he would never think of anything beyond one meter in his mind. It was really worrying.

After being stimulated by this decree, it is estimated that Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang will join forces again, and they will allow Jia Amnesty to be an official, especially the officials of Sinong are not so popular, because they deal with low-level farmers all the year round. Or they are good at farming, so they are likely to be looked down upon after they go out.

Jia She is getting older, and they can tolerate such a small official and such a little limelight, after all, Baoyu is a lucky person, and sooner or later he won the first prize, so naturally he can suppress Jia She at any time.

However, Jia Cong violated their taboo when he came out. He was younger than Baoyu. , He will be respected in front of outsiders.

This is even more true for human relations. The Jia family has so many connections. Of course, whoever comes first will be able to get them in their hands. At that time, there will not be much left for Baoyu.

In anxiety, let these two people put down their disputes and join forces again.

However, even if they want to use some means, it will be a matter of the future.

Jia Cong doesn't have time to worry about these things now, the next morning, he woke up early, and from this day on he will enter the palace to accompany the prince to read, and the happy days will be gone forever.

Get up, wash up, do morning exercises, eat breakfast, and when Jia Cong arrived at the gate of the palace, he found that there were already many officials waiting there for the morning court, but the sky had not yet seen the light.

It is hard enough for the emperor to spend his whole life like this every day in this evil court time!

The gate of the palace opened soon, logically, he only needed to thank him at Qianqing Palace, and have someone take him directly to the library where the First Prince studied.

But he didn't expect that the eunuch who led him directly handed him over to Su Jiu, and arranged for him to wait in the small room next to Qianqing Palace, which made him a little puzzled.

I couldn't figure it out, so I could only calm down and read a book.

Not long after, when he looked up again, he found that Tu Su was sitting next to him again, he was a little too idle as a prince, right?

Obviously it's early court time, not going to court, but wandering here, just wandering around, why are you standing next to me like this?He has nothing good to search for!

Jia Cong pretended not to see this person, lowered his head and continued to read his book, and refused to glance over him for the rest of the time.

Enduring the air-conditioning that the person on the opposite side began to radiate, even slammed the teacup on the table with a bang, but refused to pay attention to him.

It wasn't until Su Jiu came to tell him to go to the main hall that he pretended to open his eyes wide and looked at Tu Sui opposite.

"Students don't know that the prince is here. If there is any disrespect, I hope that if the prince does not know, he will not be guilty!"

Tu Su felt depressed, he had been sitting here for so long, how could this person not know that he was sitting across from him?

But when he came in, he wasn't notified, and after he came in, he didn't make a sound, and if he said he didn't know, he couldn't do anything about him.

He is usually the one who is angry at others, and when he is so humiliated, he has long forgotten the guilty conscience of stealing people's books a few days ago, and he is only thinking about how to get this place back.

Jia Cong didn't take this matter to heart. He ignored people because he didn't want to. It had nothing to do with revenge, so he didn't think much about it.

Seeing that Su Jiu was still waiting at the door, after saying that, she turned around and walked out regardless of His Royal Highness's expression.

When Jia Cong arrived at the main hall of Qianqing Palace, not only the emperor was there, but also several civil servants who looked old at first glance, all sat respectfully at the emperor's lower head.

Jia Cong only knew most of the courtiers by name, but had never seen their faces, so he couldn't recognize any of them.

However, although the court respected the elderly, not all veterans could have a seat in front of the emperor.

Wanting to get that honor depends not only on age, but also on qualifications, otherwise, when the age is almost reached, the emperor will naturally let people go home to provide for the elderly, otherwise how can he feel comfortable sitting in front of him all the time? !

Seeing four people who could sit in front of the emperor at once today, Jia Cong was also a little startled, wondering why the emperor summoned him at this time.

He paid homage to the emperor here, and said some words of thanks, thinking that he should be able to leave now, but he heard an old man next to him suddenly ask, "Then what punctuation marks were invented by this young man?"

This question was obviously not about Jia Cong, and sure enough, the emperor over there laughed and said, "That's what this young man did!" After speaking, he turned to Jia Cong, "You also met a few elders."

The emperor spoke, and Su Jiu beside him introduced the identities of several people to Jia Cong one by one with good eyesight. The surname of the one who spoke was Zhu. , although he was not appointed as the emperor's teacher by the Ming decree, he has also taught the princes in the book garden, including the current emperor of course.

The remaining three, one surnamed Zhang, one surnamed Cheng, and one surnamed Qi, although they did not teach the princes, they stayed in the Imperial Academy for most of their lives.

Although there are no outstanding political achievements, he has written books and lectures for decades, taught his disciples, and spoken out is also a meritorious service.

If Jia Cong wanted to take the imperial examination, he would inevitably enter the Imperial Academy in the future. These few people should not be offended.

Seeing Li respectfully, Cheng Hanlin was delighted to see that he behaved elegantly and politely. Although he was still young, he didn't have the exaggeration of today's young people.

He also praised, "The old man has read your handwriting, and he really is a hero out of a boy!"

Jia Cong quickly thanked him humbly, but Zhang Hanlin next to him snorted coldly, "It's too unprofessional to be distracted by tricks like punctuation marks at such a young age."

This remark was obviously based on old age, and Jia Cong was taught as a junior. Before Jia Cong could express his position there, Qi Hanlin retorted from the side, "Brother Zhang passed, this punctuation is not counted. It’s a trick, but it’s still very useful when you think about it.”

"Extremely extremely, especially the few examples that this child gave at the beginning of the volume of "Annotation and Outline", which are really thought-provoking. I didn't realize before that sentence punctuation is so important."

The older you get, the more stubborn you become. Since Zhang Hanlin believes that Jia Cong didn't study the Four Books and Five Classics at such a young age, but fiddled with them, which is too irresponsible, he won't change his mind just because someone else said a few words.

What's more, they didn't say that the punctuation was bad, they only said that Jia Cong shouldn't focus on it at such a young age, and he had good intentions.

Jia Cong rubbed his nose, leaned quietly to the side, let these old people argue, he is just a small person, it is not good to be caught in the middle.

But the emperor refused to let him stay out of the matter, "The reason why I specially summoned a few elders today is to promote this punctuation mark, and this matter will trouble a few of you."

Although a few old people think that this punctuation mark is a bit troublesome for them, and it is a bit tricky for new students, but after thinking about it, it is not difficult to understand its benefits, so no matter whether they can use it or not, they are still willing to promote it. Approved attitude.

Seeing the emperor's amiable attitude, he didn't dare to take it seriously at the moment, so they all stood up and expressed their determination.

Unexpectedly, after the emperor asked them to sit down, he pointed to Jia Cong and said, "Although this little Jia Aiqing is a little younger, the method of reading this sentence comes from him after all, so I have to trouble a few elders to bring it to me." Let him do it together."

Jia Cong was stunned for a moment, didn't he enter the palace as a companion for the eldest prince?Why let him follow several old Hanlin again?

For him, this was a good thing that he couldn't even ask for, and he was overjoyed, so he thought of thanking him earlier and making this matter a reality.

But he didn't want anyone to be faster than him, and the one who spoke out was the most powerful elder among them, "Your Majesty, we naturally know that this sentence comes from Young Master Jia, even if it is promoted, his name will be put on the list." It's in the front, but it's better not to add him to the participation.

After all, he was young, so he still focused on studying, and the decent fame he got earlier is the seriousness. "

In a word, Jia Cong was ashamed. Originally, his father didn't allow him to go to Jinling's ancestral home to rely on scholars. He wanted to donate a supervisor to him and directly take the exam in the capital.

But I didn't expect that this time the emperor ordered him to be a companion, and he even directly gave him the status of a supervisor. This made his father happy for a while, and he said that his son was promising, and he had already passed the emperor's exam before entering the examination room. I've got the number, so I still have to worry about my future.

At that time, he didn't directly refute like Mr. Qiao, on the one hand, he was concerned about his father's face, and on the other hand, he was happy that he would no longer need to call himself a grassroots man.

Moreover, in his opinion, it's really okay not to take the Tongsheng Examination. As long as Qiu Wei and Chun Wei have passed the test by then, and they didn't take the Tongsheng Talent Examination, what are those early exams?

But I didn't expect that it was brought up by several old Hanlin here, and the meaning in those words clearly pointed out that the supervisors who were rewarded by the emperor were nothing like Ben, and those who were not serious enough to be admitted to the Tongsheng scholar, in their I'm afraid that even if he becomes successful in the future, there will still be stains on his body!

Jia Cong was a little unconvinced. He wanted to take the imperial examination next year. Although it was too late to go back to Jinling to take the county examination, he still had to travel in winter and spend the New Year in Jinling. How could he want to?

Originally, he acquiesced to what the father said to donate a prison student, but now the emperor's reward is so much better than that, and he is still disgusted by others, isn't it too picky?

Apparently the emperor also thought that these people were too disrespectful to him, so he couldn't help but help Jia Cong and said, "I didn't give this supervisor for nothing, the reason why I gave it to him was because of his ability." Looking at several The old Confucian stared at him, and the emperor said directly, "If you don't believe me, why not try to teach him now?"