[Red House] Ban'er's Road to Imperial Examination

After sending the painting out, Wang Yue breathed a sigh of relief, this is the first money he has earned after time travel, since he has to worry about it.

Fortunately, the employer was very talkative. Not only did he not pick and choose his works, but he also paid generously.The deposit has already given more than 200 taels of silver, and after the things were handed over to them, they gave another 500 taels of silver.

This made Wang Yue secretly dumbfounded. He is not Xiaobai who just traveled over now. He thought it was very easy to get a few hundred taels of silver, just like the hundreds of dollars in his previous life. The price of a steamed stuffed bun is only a penny, and eating a big meal in a restaurant is only worth a few taels of silver. A meal is only a dozen taels of silver.

And the annual income of a poor family is only a few taels of silver, a little better than a dozen taels of silver, and a middle-level family can earn one or two hundred taels of silver a year, which is already a bumper harvest, even if they are a little richer in the capital. The merchants can earn 200 taels of silver a year, which is a huge profit. It can be seen that this silver was definitely a hard currency in ancient times, with a high gold content.

Seeing the silver ticket sent over, Wang Yue couldn't help dreaming in his heart. If he painted more than a dozen paintings a year like this, wouldn't he just collect ten thousand taels of silver?

However, this is just doing it in a dream. Wang Yue knows the market of painters. For a real top painter, the higher the price of his paintings is, the fewer the number of paintings will appear on the market. Even if there are thousands or hundreds of manuscripts in his own hands, the number of manuscripts that can be circulated from his hands to the market will never exceed single digits, and any more will depreciate in value.

This is one of the things that pay attention to is rare.

Moreover, if an artist hopes that his paintings will appreciate quickly in the future, it is best not to release too many of his paintings in the early stage. Whether it is a gift or a sale, it is best to have a limit.

Wang Yue was about to shed tears after seeing many painters who were gifted to relatives and friends or friends with ordinary relationships after they became famous.

Once I became famous, the works were looted by people, and the price went up like a rocket, rising rapidly, but when I became famous, a bunch of paintings that a certain artist had given me suddenly flooded out on the market, so that the market suddenly The house was overcrowded, and the price dropped suddenly.

To be honest, in the market of painting, ancient paintings have always been the most valuable, and few modern painters can raise the price. Those who can really raise the price, apart from their own superb painting skills, need someone to help them with money. With hot market.

Wang Yue once met a brother of his who won an award abroad. It happened that the teacher also helped to connect him and contacted him with an agent. Suddenly, there were a lot of reports about his award in China. This award seems to be the top trophy in the world, and suddenly a bunch of people waving banknotes are vying to buy his brother's paintings, and the market is heated up in an instant. Sure enough, some people think that his brother is not good. With so many talents, the paintings are very valuable for collection, and the price immediately went up.

But in fact, this is just a trick to deceive laymen. Insiders know that this award is just ordinary, and those buyers who appeared at the beginning are just trustees, and everything is just the brokerage company behind it. out of the trick.

Originally, his senior brother should be full of ambitions, but he was unlucky. As soon as the price was raised, a bunch of paintings he had given away before appeared on the market, or paintings that he sold to support his family. The market suddenly dropped to freezing point.

He was so angry that the brokerage company behind him almost terminated the contract directly and asked him to lose money. If their teacher hadn't had a big face, then the brokerage company wouldn't dare to offend the teacher, otherwise his senior brother would suffer a lot.

But even if the contract was not terminated, the brokerage company behind the senior brother still ignored the senior brother for a long time.

You must know that it takes a lot of energy and money to raise the price from zero to high, but it is just a routine for the brokerage company, and it is not too difficult to do it with practice.

However, it is very difficult to re-fry the price that has already risen but suddenly dropped.

This not only means that all the previous efforts of the brokerage companies are in vain, but also they have to spend more efforts to complete the original goal again, and there may not be a return. Who knows if there will be another batch in the market? The so-called famous paintings.

The brothers were originally successful and famous, but they returned to the original point, which left a deep impression on their later brothers, so that they will choose to sell the paintings unless they really can't live. Go out, otherwise, I would rather rot in my hands than sell. As for sending paintings, it is even more harsh.

Fortunately, after this experience, his senior brother calmed down and continued to improve his painting skills. Later, he went abroad and won a really famous award. He was the No.1 winner of this award in China and even in Asia. Only then did the agency take action to take back all the paintings he had given away or sold, and only then did they start to praise him.

After experiencing his senior brother, Wang Yue has really seen the operation process of how modern brokerage companies favor a painter.

Now he intends to put this operation process on himself.

To give a portrait of a tall and powerful person is equivalent to winning a prize in modern times. This is the first step. At that time, his painting will start to show his face in the painting industry, and he will also be among those who are really willing to spend a lot of money. He became famous among those who bought the painting.

Then there is the hype, which is well known in the whole city. At that time, countless people will follow suit and come to ask him to paint with silver taels.

But at this time, it is time to put on airs. Unless the money is delivered or invited by a celebrity, absolutely do not make a move.

This is the cultivation of the standard. Once the standard is improved, he can become a famous painter, and then he will have no worries about food and drink.

Originally, his plan was to try to get into the Imperial Academy after the imperial examination was over, but his painting was so long ahead of schedule.

However, it is better to become famous as early as possible. If you don't seize the opportunity, it will be God's will not take it, and you will bear the blame.

When he becomes famous, he will take the imperial examination and gain fame for himself. At that time, he may only have passed the provincial examination, and he will not have to go to the upper examination to become a Juren.

At that time, with the money from selling paintings, he can buy hundreds of acres of land and become a landlord with peace of mind. His parents will no longer have to worry about the family's money, and they can live their lives comfortably. Time can still travel back to modern times, maybe he won't forget to drink Mengpo soup this time.

As for other things, when Jia's family collapsed, he would have the money to settle for them so that they could live their lives in peace.

If he is destined to marry Qiaojie, they will marry over there. If not, he can prepare a dowry for her and send her off to marry in a grand manner. There is nothing wrong with that.

Compared with his time-traveling predecessor, he is probably the most ambitious time-traveler in the world, but that's not a bad thing, everyone has their own ambitions, and some people are born willing to ascend to high places and take power.

However, some people are naturally willing to be rich and idle. On this point, he and Jia Baoyu may have a lot in common, but compared to Jia Baoyu, a bastard who only knows how to enjoy life but does not know how to take responsibility, he is more comfortable with taking responsibility. Thought it was still doing well.

But when it comes to Jia Baoyu, ever since he passed the government examination and passed the No. His servants became more and more enthusiastic towards him, but the relationship between Jia Baoyu and him suddenly dropped to freezing point.

Although he still greeted Jia Baoyu with a smile and his attitude remained the same, Jia Baoyu was as cold as ice when he saw him, as if he lost his temper.

Wang Yue deliberately smiled and talked to him, but he also liked to ignore them. Several aunts in Jia's mansion took the opportunity to help them match up a few times, but Jia Baoyu only gave Lin Daiyu a little face. It is to ignore the wind, and sometimes even to throw face directly, and leave.

This made Wang Yue also annoyed.

Wang Yue originally looked down on Jia Baoyu, thinking that as a big man, he obviously placed high hopes from many people on him, but he was unwilling to take on his own responsibilities, and just blindly indulged in the gentleness of the country, muddling along.

And he was full of sympathy for the aunts in Jia's mansion. No matter whether Lin Daiyu was petty or mean, Xue Baochai was scheming, after all, they were just a few innocent women, and all their fates were attached to men, following the family. Uncertain.

Moreover, after these aunts helped him rewrite his poems, the relationship between them suddenly became much closer, and it was no longer what it used to be. The aunts coaxed him like a child, and he just treated these few aunts. An aunt acts like a little girl to coax her.

Since these aunts knew that his examination papers had been posted after the imperial examinations, and many scholars were after the poems on his examination papers, their attitude towards him suddenly became enthusiastic.

Maybe adults like the chief examiner think his poems are too weak and unavoidably feminine, but fifteen or sixteen-year-olds already prefer those gorgeous words. treasure.

Xue Baochai and other girls in the inner house didn't understand what it meant, they just thought it was because they wrote well that they were sought after by others, they were naturally complacent, and felt that their poems were no worse than men's, so they became closer to Wang Le.

On weekdays, she not only thinks about him in everything, but also remembers to leave any delicious and fun things for him, and bring them to him when he comes.

And these girls are also willing to teach him to write poems and ask questions that they usually don't understand. They also know everything and talk endlessly.

Maybe it was because Jia Baoyu suddenly found that his position in front of the sisters was suddenly replaced by someone else, and Jia Baoyu became jealous and turned his anger on Wang Yue, or it was because Wang Yue became the most despised worm, which made Jia Baoyu feel sad. In short, the relationship between the two suddenly became unfamiliar.

The only thing to be thankful for is that Jia Baoyu still has a sense of propriety, and refuses to show his clues in front of Mrs. Jia Mu Wang and Jia Zheng. Although the sisters know the inside story, they dare not reveal it in front of adults, and neither do the maids. They reciprocate at will, so that their relationship becomes very strange. In front of the elders, they are very harmonious friends, but once they leave the elder's room, they suddenly become people who hate each other worse than strangers.

The two maintained this strange relationship tacitly with each other, but Wang Yue was not affected by Jia Baoyu's attitude, and came when he should, without any reduction.

This day, he just came out of Jia's mansion, walked not far, went out of the alley, and just arrived on the street when he suddenly heard someone calling his name on the street, followed the sound, looked up, it was Jun Bowen .

Jun Bowen was sitting by the window on the second floor of a restaurant on the street, and when he saw him, he waved happily and shouted: "Ban'er, come here!"

Wang Yue couldn't help smiling when she saw him, so she lifted her legs and went upstairs. He was alone upstairs. There were only a few plates of snacks and a pot of tea on the table in front of him. He could tell he was waiting for someone.

"Who is here?"

"I made an appointment with Zhou Runxin, and I was going to call you. I sent someone to your house and said that you were not at home. I didn't expect to meet you here." Jun Bowen smiled and asked tentatively: "How did you come from that?" Come out of the alley? That’s Rongning Street, right? I remember there are only two families in it, one Rongguo Mansion and the other Ningguo Mansion. Could it be that you have some relatives here?”

Wang Yue smiled calmly, poured herself a pot of tea, and then replied under Jun Bowen's eager eyes no matter how much he concealed it: "The wife of the second room of Rongguo Mansion is my aunt who lives far away. They are far away, but their family doesn’t dislike my family’s downfall, so they are kind to each other, the old lady is a very kind person, and the aunts and uncles in the family are also very kind, so they often come and go.”

"The wife of the second room?" Jun Bowen thought about it in his heart, and suddenly remembered that his grandfather had said that the wife of the second room of the Rongguo Mansion was the sister of Wang Ziteng, the former military governor of the capital, if Wang Yue was in charge of the second room of the Rongguo Mansion The wife's name is aunt, so shouldn't he be related to the Wang family? That's right, both families have the surname Wang, so they are naturally related.

He had heard rumors that the Wang family had an extremely powerful and important relative in the capital, but he still didn't believe it. There is no shortage of such relatives in the capital, so if he pulled out a beggar, he might be able to find you in that palace. When a relative came out, they naturally didn't believe such words, and everyone just thought it was the Wang family's bragging, but they didn't expect it to be true.

What's even more rare is that the relationship between the two is extremely close, and it's not just a banner.

He had just seen clearly that the servant of Jia's family sent him out very affectionately and courteously. If it hadn't been for his refusal, he might be sent home. Only relatives have the attitude.

It seemed that his attitude towards this little junior was about to change.

In the past, it was because of his talent and virtue that he was worthy of association, but now it is even more because of the power behind him.

"By the way, what do you want from me? Let's talk about it first, I won't accompany you to drink!"

Wang Yue put down the teacup in his hand, and asked after seeing that Jun Bowen had digested the information he had spoken.

"Naturally, there is a serious business. If it's such a romantic matter, I won't be looking for you, a brat."

Ignoring Jun Bowen's teasing words, Wang Yue just said, "What's the business? Say it quickly!"

"It was the government office that sent a notice saying that the court examination would be advanced. It was originally scheduled for June, but now it is moved forward to May. You know, my uncle works in the government office, so I knew the news in advance, so I I want to inform you so that you can prepare in advance."

"Advance? Well, what to do in advance?"

"Isn't August the emperor's [-]th birthday? Although it's only in August, the [-]th birthday should be celebrated by ordinary people, let alone the emperor? Naturally, everything needs to be prepared in advance, and the court's official I also said that there will be an Enko in June, and the candidates who hear the news will go to the city to rush for the exam, and Shuntian Mansion will naturally prepare in advance. In addition, the envoys from the surrounding small countries and the governors and admirals from all over the country will also To prepare to send his subordinates to celebrate his birthday, Shuntian Mansion must manage the public security of the capital well, so that no accidents can happen before the Supreme Emperor's birthday, and then he will not have the energy to come and prepare for the examination. For the sake of the Supreme Emperor's birthday, the examination will naturally have to be compromised. "

"So that's the case, so it's no wonder." Since it's the Emperor's birthday, it is naturally ranked first, and everything has to be given in to him. Fortunately, everyone has gone through these continuous exams, and knowledge and so on have been printed on the In my mind, there is no need to hold Buddha's feet in advance, and it doesn't matter whether it is mentioned in advance or not.

"Looking at you like this, I can tell that you are confident. Speaking of which, I am really jealous. You said that the same person is so different? After all, I have studied for a few years longer than you, so why can't I compare with you? You don't know that as soon as the grades came out, I obviously did well in the exam, but I was scolded by my grandpa, which is really depressing."

Regarding this, Wang Yue could only smile helplessly. He also experienced other people's children in his childhood. Although he knew the shadow of it, now that she was replaced by someone else's child, he naturally had to keep silent. Don't be irritating.

Fortunately, Zhou Runxin came at this time.

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