Survive in the world of Red Mansions

The Qionglin Banquet, the opera admiral Yulin Banquet is so wonderful, but Lin Hai told Lin Rui early on that this kind of banquet is really boring, so don't expect too much.Even if they haven't participated yet, but thinking about the banquet attended by the emperor, it is impossible to relax. These new scholars probably can only take the opportunity to meet the emperor, otherwise many Jinshi will be released all their lives, and they may never have the chance to see the emperor again in this life up.

Before Lin Rui went to the Qionglin Banquet on the second day, he didn't dare to drink water, but he ate a few pieces of snacks as a cushion.Lin Rui sat on the side, talking in a low voice with the new scholar who was sitting next to him, and finally waited for the emperor after waiting for a long time.However, after the emperor came, he only selected the first three people, and the top two asked a few words, and asked them to compose a few poems. Out of the ordinary, it is difficult to have any outstanding poems, and the emperor just drank a few glasses of water and wine in the end and left.

After the emperor left, the atmosphere at the banquet finally became a little more relaxed, but this is the imperial palace, no one dares to be presumptuous in this place no matter how relaxed it is.It is not the first time that Lin Rui has been able to participate in a palace banquet. He followed Lin Hai as the child of a court minister and attended several times before, but every time he saw the dishes on the banquet, he was speechless.

The Qionglin Royal Banquet sounds nice to say, but probably not many people can eat the dishes on the table.The dishes made in the imperial dining room may be really delicious, but the temperature in the capital is still very low in February and March. There is a long distance from the imperial dining room to the banquet hall, not to mention that these dishes must have been prepared early Put it there, and it will definitely be cold by the time it is served on the table.Vegetarian dishes and cold dishes are okay, some meat dishes even have white grease on them, even the soups are all cold, it is really hard to find those that can still be eaten.

But no matter how poor they are, few people come to such a banquet to eat. Everyone whispers to Lin Zuo or some acquaintances, and occasionally drinks some wine to pass the time. Few people would try their best to persuade them to drink on such occasions. They were afraid that they would lose their manners if they drank too much.

By the end of the banquet, although some were flushed from drinking, their eyes were blurred, and their footsteps were fluttering, they were still self-disciplined, and no one made any such disrespectful things at the banquet.

Lin Rui's capacity for drinking has always been good, and he and Xu Jingzhi walked out of the palace talking and laughing together, and when they said goodbye, they asked him and his sister to take Xiao Mingzhu to Lin's mansion when they had time these few days.

After Lin Rui returned home, he saw Li Jingya preparing a post for a few days' banquet with a smile on his face. Seeing Lin Rui coming in, she hurriedly stood up and waited for him. Pass it to him.Lin Rui looked through, most of them were relatives and friends from Li Jingya's side, and also, the relatives from the Lin family's side can't be counted, it's really not enough to read.

Li Jingya saw that he was flipping through these invitations, and asked, "The ones I wrote here are all about relatives, and those of your friends who are the same age haven't written them yet. Do you give me their names, or do you post them yourself?"

"No need, it's troublesome to invite many people. Those friends of the same age can just go to restaurants outside, so as to save you from being busy in the mansion."

"What's the matter? Husband has such a happy event, so I'm happy to be busy! Check if there are any missing posts in these posts. If so, I'll add them."

"Second uncle Jia's family has already separated, let's separate the posts!"

"Second uncle's family separated? When?" Li Jingya remembered that they were still together when they met in the first month.

"Even some time ago, my father also looked at Lang Geer's face. When Jia Huan got married at the end of last year, he went to persuade the second uncle to divide the family, but there was no movement. I thought the second uncle didn't let this matter go. In my heart. It was only when I saw Lang Geer talking about it last time that I knew it. After the first month, they will be divided. The second uncle and the others will live with Cousin Baoyu's family. Jia Huan and Lang Geer will be separated. Anyway, there are many places there. , that’s fine too, everyone in my family makes their own plans.”

Even though Li Jingya married into the Lin family for a short time, she also heard a lot about the Jia family while in the capital, but after all, she was a relative of her husband's family, so it was not good for her to talk too much as a daughter-in-law.

No matter whether Xinke Shijin works in the capital or is sent to other places, he has more than half a month's vacation. Some of them live in other places, and some have to go back to their hometown. Fan, there must not be enough time these days, so the court often does things very humanely.

Needless to say, those who return to their hometowns, those who stay in the capital just take advantage of this holiday to get in touch with each other. You can’t talk about the same year, you don’t know what you look like, and you don’t know what other people’s names are. These are not clear, even if there is a relationship between the same year, it can't be like this, the relationship always needs to be mutually maintained.

In this era, no matter whether you knew each other before or not, if you can sit in the same examination room and get fame, it is really fate. They are all in the same year, and the teacher and the room teacher will be close to each other. Connected, between the same year and the same year, between the same year and the master and the house master, mutual support, mutual care, mutual agreement, formed an invisible, but extremely strong alliance of interests.

The same year, Zuoshi, Fangshi, these will become a very useful network of contacts and political resources for many new scholars after they enter the official career.We originally came together from all over the country. We were not familiar with each other before. Because of this same-year affection, we will help and support each other in the future. It affects the support and support for each other in the same year, that is, when there are too many brothers, they sometimes form alliances and compete with each other, let alone in the same year.It is also because of this that during the more than half a month's vacation, not to mention that they can become life-and-death friends, they must get to know each other anyway, and it is even more important for some people who are born in the same year of official families to be good friends.

It is also because of this that Lin Rui has been going out almost every day for the past half month. Today, he has a party, and tomorrow he will send a ceremony for a certain year who is released, and he will send a certain year who is released to another place to go to work. .

Among the Jinshi of the current department, the three of the first grades are all from good backgrounds. The number one scholar, Fang Helin, was born in a noble family in Yangzhou. It ended up being ransacked, and almost all the children of the Fang family were slandered and returned home. However, when these aristocratic families prospered, they would buy a lot of land, and the Fang family was the same. Although there is no one in the court in Nian, the dignity of the family of the scholarly family can barely maintain.For Fang Helin, even if there is no one in the Fang family, the education he has received is not comparable to that of the children from poor families, and it is precisely because of this that he was able to win the title of champion at a young age.

During the reign of the emperor, none of the children of the Fang family became officials. Even if they participated in the imperial examination, they only took the college examination and the township examination.Until this year, Fang Helin was the most promising child of the entire Fang family in this generation, and the entire Fang family also placed their hopes for family prosperity on him. The 27-year-old Fang Helin finally lived up to the expectations of everyone in the family Yes, he won the title of champion in one fell swoop.

Xiao Zongbo, who was born in Huguang at the top of the list, came from a famous family and came from Bailudong Academy. His father was a top-ranked Jinshi in the period of the first emperor. He was promoted from a small Bapin county magistrate to the current Datong magistrate. Big, but also only 31 years old, exactly young.

Among the three, when it comes to family background, Lin Rui is absolutely superior to the other two. Although one can be regarded as a scholarly family, there are few people in the court to help him, and the other Xiao Zongbo has his father as an official, but he is released outside. Obviously, the influence cannot be compared with that of Lin Hai.

Although Lin Rui is young, he doesn't have the arrogance of being born in a wealthy family. On the contrary, he is very peaceful when dealing with others, and he is kind and gentle when interacting with others, which is very easy to give people a good impression.Although I often talk about business spirit, those who can get the Jinshi degree are obviously not nerds alone, and they are definitely not too bad in dealing with people. No matter what is said behind their backs, a person like Lin Rui who knows how to behave and has a strong personal background can stand in the crowd. In the same year, he is definitely a person worth dating.

For many other Xinke Scholars who have to make time to get in touch with the same year on the one hand, and worry about their own futures on the other hand, the three of them who are first-class have no troubles in this regard at all.

The fact is also the same. Not long after the palace examination, the appointments of the top three came down very quickly. The number one scholar Fang Helin was awarded the editor of the sixth rank of the Hanlin Academy, and the second place Xiao Zongbo and Tanhua Lin Rui were both awarded the editor of the seventh rank.Although the rank is not high, and the Imperial Academy is a Qingshui yamen, but working in the Imperial Academy, there are many opportunities to meet the emperor.

Although everyone will say that being with you is like being with a tiger, crises often coexist with opportunities, allowing the emperor to see you often, knowing that there is a person like you, and naturally there are many more opportunities for promotion than others. Because of this, the two Jia and Sanjia can't directly enter the Hanlin Academy like other Jinshi. This is the reason why they desperately want to take the examination of Shujishi. It is easy to get promoted!

Lin Rui entered the Hanlin Academy, starting from the compilation of Zheng Qipin, and since then he has officially entered the official career.