The comic strip "Kuang Xiucai" was released in two parts This episode is the second part
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"Kuang Xiucai": The story describes a poor young kuang chaoren, who was originally simple and industrious, filial piety to his parents. Later, he passed the Xiucai examination and became acquainted with many deceitful pseudonyms and high-ranking officials Pan San, and under their influence, he gradually transformed into a shameless person who was unsympathetic, greedy and hypocritical. Through this story, it reflects the poisoning of the imperial examination system on people, and at the same time exposes the ignorance of the scholars.
61 The next day, he went to find Third Master Pan with Old Father Pan's letter. When he found a place to ask, Pan Sanye went to Taizhou on a business trip, and he had to come back.
62 Back in the study, Jing Lanjiang happened to send a post, about the day of the month and a half to go to the West Lake to participate in the poetry meeting. He drew the word "zhi" on the list, also called two pieces of silver as a part, and handed it to someone to bring back.
63 At night, when there was nothing to do, he remembered that he could not do poetry, so he borrowed a copy of "Introduction to Poetry" from the bookstore, lit the lamp and learned to do it while watching, and after learning all night, he felt that he could cope with it, which was reassuring.
On the morning of the fifteenth day of 64, Kuang Chaoren changed his clothes and hats, rushed to the outside of the Qingbo Gate, saw Jing Lanjiang and six other people already waiting in the small boat, and he hurriedly got on the boat to salute everyone.
65 He was about to ask the names of the people when he saw a palanquin on the shore, and out of the palanquin came a very well-dressed man, shaking a paper fan and getting on the boat. The crowd hurried to greet them again.
The 66 ship swayed on the imperial court. Jing Lanjiang introduced everyone to Kuang Chaoren. The one who shook the paper fan was called Zhao Xuezhai, the one with the mazi was called Zhi Jiefeng, the beard was called Pu Moqing, the three bearded ones were called Hu Sangongzi, and the two white-bearded ones were called Wei Tishan and Sui Cen An.
67 The boat arrived at the flower harbor, and the people went ashore and went to borrow the garden to drink and sprinkle. Because Hu Sangongzi's father had been a high official and had wealth and power, he pushed him to tell the gardener. Who knew that the gardener knew that he was very mean and simply refused.
68 The crowd had no choice but to walk together to the temple of the monks of the Yugong Ancestral Hall, and Hu Sangongzi asked his family to open the food box and take out the sprinkled vegetables, and everyone shook their heads while drinking the west and began to write poems.
69 Everyone made a poem for a while, and talked gleefully about fame and fortune. Kuang Chaoren listened to it, and only then did he know that in addition to entering the imperial examination to become an official, it was also very beautiful to be a "celebrity".
70 It was not until sunset that everyone had their best time and scattered into the city. Hu Sangongzi only gave the monk five cents of silver incense, and asked his family to take the remaining bones and bones and fruits, which Nong used to pack in a food box, and take them home.
71 Kuang Chaoren returned to the fangfang, pasted everyone's poetry on the wall, and looked at it carefully for a while, feeling that he was not smarter than himself. But when he remembered that Xuezhai was so famous, he was more beautiful than being an official, and he was very envious.
72 A few days later, Kuang Chaoren finished compiling the examination papers and won two or two silver gold, a person was bored, Pan San suddenly came to the bookstore to find him. He hurriedly invited Pan San to sit down upstairs.
73 Pan San, while drinking tea, pointed to the poetry manuscript on the wall, saying that this group of people were all fake celebrities, swindling outside, and advising Kuang Superman not to associate with them.
74 Pan San invited Kuang Chaoren to his home. Entering the double door and walking up to the hall, I saw that the hall was spaciously furnished, and a group of people were gambling money around the table.
75 Pan San pulled a chair and let Kuang Superman sit at the table, watching them gamble, and gave Kuang Superman all the money he had drawn.
At a moment's notice on 76, Wang Laoliu, who opened the casino, came to Pan San and pulled him to the eaves and whispered.
77 It turned out that Pan Sanjun himself was a squad leader in the Cloth Administration Division Yamen and had always been out there to solicit lawsuits. Because there was a village rich man who married a fugitive maid who had been taken by the government, wang Laoliu entrusted him to consult with Pan San. Pan Sanyi agreed.
78 Pan San wanted to ask Kuang Chaoren to make some money, invited Kuang Chaoren to the upstairs secret room, asked him to write a document and a Zhu signature, both stamped with a fake seal engraved on the dried tofu, and sent his men to act.
79 When the matter was finished, Pan San gave Kuang Chaoren twenty-two pieces of silver, and then put on the sprinklers and drank with him. Kuang Chaoren felt that doing such a thing would make money and save effort, and he was very happy in his heart.
80 Since then, Kuang Chaoren has not had much contact with that class of "celebrities", while nong used to compile books for the bookstore, and on the other hand, he helped Pan San to do some things on the ink. Pan San had silver distributed to him every time, and he gradually became more generous in his clothing, forgetting all the bitter days of the past.
One day in 81, Pan San came to Kuang Chaoren again and asked him to go to Shaoxing to test Xiucai for the son of a rich man. Kuang Chaoren heard that there was money to be made, and he also agreed.
82 Pan San and Kuang Chaoren went to Shaoxing together, first found Li Si who colluded with them to serve Li Si, and then Li Si brought the rich man's son Jin Yue to meet with them, and everyone discussed a good way.
On the day of the 83rd exam, at three o'clock, Pan San took Kuang Chaoren and quietly came to the class room of the Xuedao Yamen and told him to take off his clothes and disguise himself as a messenger.
84 After handing over the five drums, Xuedao set off cannons to ascend to the hall, and Kuang Chaoren took water and fire sticks in his hands and mixed in with the servants.
85 Kuang Superman and the servants stood together at the second door. After a while, the children who were taking the exam came in one after another.
The 86 children stood in front of the hall waiting for the name of the school, and then went to the home number to make a fuss. When he clicked on Jin Yue, Jin Yue responded, but quietly ran into the dark shadow behind the messenger.
87 Kuang Chao had already seen it, and quickly took a few steps back, walked to Jin Yue, hid behind the people, and exchanged clothes and hats with Jin Yue.
88 Kuang Superman held the volume back to the number of the article, and after a while, it was ready.
89 When it came time to make the list, Jin Yue really won the show.
90 The rich man sent one thousand taels of silver, and Pan San took out two hundred and two cents to Give Kuang Chaoren. Kuang Chaoren had never seen this much silver, and he danced with joy and could not express his gratitude to Pan San.
91 Back in Hangzhou, Jiusan learned that fuyuan was going to recruit a son-in-law, so he introduced kuang chaoren. In the auspicious period, Pan San personally sent Kuang Chaoren into the money. Kuang Chaoren met with Zhangren and his mother-in-law, and only then did he know that Zhangren was Zheng Laopa, who was in the same boat when he returned home that year.
92 Night cave room flower candles, Kuang Chao saw the bride look good, he did not spend a penny, got such a wife, it is really overjoyed.
After the 93 marriage, Kuang Chaoren felt that Zheng Jiaxing was inconvenient to live in, so he spent forty taels of silver, pawned four houses near the bookstore, moved in, and gave birth to a daughter after a year, and the husband and wife were very happy.
Soon after 94, Kuang Chaoren knew from his brother's letter that the trend of retaining Zhi County had dissipated, so he went to Wenzhou to take the examination.
95 This time, he won the first Gongsheng (excellent Xiucai), and the grandmaster praised him and told him to go to the Capital Taixue to study. He thanked him happily.
96 Kuang Chaoren still returned to Hangzhou, consulted with Pan San, planned to go back to Yueqing Township to hang a plaque, erect a flagpole, and asked Pan San to accompany him to the brocade shop to weave three pieces of supplementary clothes; he was pregnant with himself, one for his mother, and one for his wife.
97 When he saw that the silver was not enough, he thought of an idea and made an appointment with each bookstore, three or two for each family. The bookstores sent additional congratulatory gifts.
98 Jing Lanjiang also came to he and invited him to the hotel for a drink. After eating for a while, Jing Lanjiang told him that Pan San had been arrested by the government last night and was already in prison. Kuang Chaoren listened and was surprised, but his heart was half-convinced.
99 Jing Lanjiang repeated Pan San's guilt in detail, and the more Kuang Chaoren listened, the more frightened he became, and his face was like earth, and he no longer had the heart to drink Xi.
100 He was afraid that the government would pursue him and implicate himself, so he hurriedly bid farewell to Jinglanjiang, left the hotel, wanted to go home to pack his bags, asked his wife to move back to the countryside, and sneaked out of Beijing by himself. Just walked to the alley, suddenly saw a man in green clothes and a big hat, asking the neighbor about him.
101 Kuang Superman was so frightened that his legs trembled, his heart jumped straight, and he stood there frozen. The neighbor saw him all the time and told the messenger, and the messenger turned and walked toward him.
102 He just wanted to escape, but he was dragged by someone and handed him a letter before he calmed down.
103 He invited the messenger to his home, opened the letter and looked at it, it turned out that after his teacher Li Zhixian was involved, Shangfeng investigated and said that he had a good official reputation, so not only did he not have an accident, but he was transferred to Beijing and promoted to a high official. The letter told him to go to Beijing as well.
104 Kuang Superman was overjoyed, and he took a piece of silver and sent the messenger back.
After 105 Kuang Superman sent away the messenger, he hurried to the bookstore and transferred the house to the owner of the bookstore.
106 He took the silver home, and Li Lai forced Lady Zheng to pack up her things and send her back to Yueqing's house. The lady refused, and the two men quarreled.
107 Kuang Chaoren asked his father-in-law to persuade him, and When Father Zheng heard that his son-in-law was going to become an official, he blamed his daughter for not knowing what to do. Zheng's wife could not help it, so she had to cry and cry, bid farewell to her parents, and was accompanied by her brother to the boat.
108 Kuang Chaoren came to the capital and met Teacher Li. Teacher Li heard that he was already a gongsheng and was about to enter Taixue to study, and he was even more attentive, and he must live in his own home.
109 Two days later, Teacher Li asked whether Kuang Chaoren had ever married a relative. Kuang Chaoren secretly thought: "My wife is the daughter of a servant, and it is not decent to say it." He replied that he had not. Teacher Li had a heart in mind.
On the night of 110, the housekeeper came to the study to tell Kuang Chaoren that Teacher Li had a niece and wanted to recruit him as a nephew. Kuang Chaoren was surprised and delighted to hear it.
111 He remembered the instructions of the prince when he was dying, and remembered the mother-in-law in the family, and his heart was secretly troubled, but when he thought of being promoted to a higher rank and getting rich, he felt that this was an opportunity, so he agreed to it.
112 Teacher Li picked an auspicious day, zhang lanterns, and married his niece to Kuang Chaoren. Kuang Chaoren saw that Miss Xin was beautiful and the dowry was neatly forked, and he had left the lady behind and single-mindedly pleased Miss Xin.
After two months of 113, Kuang Chaoren was admitted to the teaching school (a teacher in the university), and to return to the province for a while, he bid farewell to Miss Xin and went back to the river.
114 arrived in Hangzhou, first to the home of the old father-in-law Zheng Laopa. When he entered the door, he saw his brother Kuang sitting there in a daze, his mother-in-law crying loudly on the side, and Old Father Zheng's eyes were red. He couldn't help but be surprised and rushed forward to shake his father-in-law.
As soon as the 115-year-old mother-in-law saw Kuang Chaoren, she immediately knocked on the table, hit the bench, and counted him. Kuang Chaoren knew that the lady was dead, and secretly rejoiced, but had to pretend to be sad and take the sleeve to desperately shave his eyes.
116 Kuang Chao took out a few thousand taels of silver, asked Kuang Da to return to his hometown to bury his mother, and instructed him to establish the system of the official family. When Kuang Da heard him say it, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he said yes again and again, and took the silver and went back to him with joy.
117 Jing Lanjiang heard that Kuang Chaoren had returned, and Jiang Shuban, who was with the execution room, came to him. When the two met, Jing Lanjiang wanted to invite him to the tea shop to talk, but he pushed and shoved and refused to leave. Jing Lanjiang guessed his thoughts and invited him to the restaurant.
118 The three of them went to the restaurant, and Kuang Chaoren ate while boasting of his prestige as a teacher, and said very proudly.
119 Jiang Punishment Room waited for him to finish, and slowly brought up the matter of Pan San, saying that Pan San hoped that he would go to the prison to see him once and tell about his bitter feelings. Kuang Chaoren listened and hurriedly pushed back.
120 Then he falsely promised to send some silver to Pan San in the future. Jiang Fang saw that he was so unsympathetic and righteous, and knew that it was useless to talk more, so he went to the prison himself to reply to Pan San.
121 After a few days, Kuang Chaoren completed the closing procedures and took a boat into Beijing. He and the two readers in the same boat talked about Mr. Ma Er's compilation of books, commenting on Mr. Ma Er on the one hand, and blowing himself up on the other.
The 122nd boat headed north along the canal, and Kuang Chaoren stood on the bow of the ship with a spring breeze on his face. He thought about going to the capital to become an official this time, and he would make a fortune in the future, Tian Lian was strange, and there were groups of slaves... The more he thought about it, the more proud he became, and he almost laughed out loud.
To be continued, please enjoy the next episode of "Shen Qiongzhi"