Chapter 931: Jinshi Banquet (1)
After the stele erection ceremony, a banquet for the successful candidates was held.
Sun Shan sent wedding invitations to all his relatives and friends, but people from all over the town just wanted to join in the fun.
If you want to attend the wedding banquet, please bring a gift and take a seat.
If you are from a poor family, you can go to the village entrance to get sugar cakes.
This kind of pastry is sweet, refreshing, chewy and light. It is made by grinding rice into a slurry, fermenting the rice slurry, adding white sugar and steaming it.
The recipe is simple and delicious, and it is made during every festival and wedding.
White sugar cake I ate when I was a child
The banquet for the Jinshi scholars was held in the ancestral hall.
On the male side, the village chief, Sun Bomin, led Sun Shan to stand in front of the ancestral hall to welcome the guests.
Uncle Sun Er was in charge of the kitchen, while Uncle Sun San was in charge of entertaining the guests.
As for the chief welcoming steward, it is naturally De Ge'er. There is no other reason for this. He has a good image, good temperament, experience, and the ability to talk big.
As for the female members, Sister Yun accompanied Huang and Su to welcome the guests.
However, the situation for the female relatives was relatively simple. Generally, the female relatives who came to the banquet were acquaintances and were greeted more casually.
By noon, the first wave of important figures to arrive were the acting county magistrate of Huangyang County, or the county magistrate.
The county magistrate, Zhang Zhubo, and the clerk brought a group of colleagues from the yamen to the wedding banquet and of course presented generous gifts.
The county magistrate of Huangyang County was from another place, and Sun Shan was not very familiar with him.
However, as we are all officials, we should greet each other with a smile even if we are not familiar with each other.
The county magistrate cupped his hands, bowed and said hello: "Congratulations, Mr. Sun, congratulations, Mr. Sun."
Sun Shan pretended to support the county magistrate and made a gesture of invitation: "Mr. County magistrate, please come this way. It is a great honor for you to visit us today."
Sun Shan then led Zhang Zhubo and others to take their seats.
These are the most powerful people in Huangyang County and the highlight of the banquet, so Sun Shan’s focus must be on them.
Sun Shan was going to leave Huangyang County to serve as an official in another place. His family would definitely need to be looked after by people from the yamen, and these people must be treated well.
If you are good to me, I will be good to you, and that will be good for everyone.
Zhang Zhubo brought his son, who once made all the candidates "terrified", to the banquet.
To be honest, if Zhang Zhubo's son was not a well-known cheating scholar, Sun Shan would not have entered the examination room early.
Perhaps the butterfly effect makes what happens next completely different from what was expected.
Sun Shan was very enthusiastic about Zhang Xiaolang and made a point of chatting with him.
Zhang Xiaolang worked at the "Ethnic and Religious Affairs Commission". Seeing Sun Shan's enthusiasm, he was flattered and thought that Sun Shan had a crush on him.
Chief Clerk Zhang nodded with satisfaction. Sun Shan’s enthusiasm must be the friendship between fellow villagers.
Haha, Sunshan High School has improved the status of the locals.
From now on, no matter whether it is a newly arrived county magistrate or a county magistrate from another place who has been entrenched in Huangyang County for more than ten or twenty years, they will not dare to do anything too harsh to the people of Huangyang County.
Haha, if things go too far, even if Sun Shan is not in Huangyang County, he can still suppress the anger of outsiders.
Zhang Zhubo stroked his beard and said in a very good mood: "Mr. Sun, you are the first Jinshi in our Huangyang County, and even more so in Zhangzhou Prefecture. Our Huangyang County is very famous in Zhangzhou Prefecture, and the education of our Huangyang County immediately jumped to the first place in Zhangzhou Prefecture. Haha, all this is thanks to you, Mr. Sun."
In fact, Huangyang County still ranks the lowest in terms of success rate, but because of Sun Shan's sudden success, Huangyang County's education was artificially promoted to the first place.
There was no other way. No other county, including Zhangzhou Prefecture, had a Jinshi from Daqian. Only Huangyang County had one.
Haha, if they are not first, who is first?
Nowadays, when people in Huangyang County meet strangers outside, they will talk about the Jinshi Grandpa Sun Shan.
Other counties could only laugh dryly.
Sun Shan said modestly, "Master Zhang, no, no. It is only thanks to the grace of the Emperor that I have the opportunity to pass the palace examination and become a Jinshi."
The two exchanged pleasantries, and to outsiders it looked like they were old friends who had known each other for years.
Sun Shan also asked the village chief, Sun Bomin, to come over and meet the county magistrate, Zhang Zhubo and others.
The people in the yamen were all shrewd people. They praised Sun Shan like a flower, and the village chief and Sun Bomin smiled so hard that their teeth were showing.
Sun Bomin smiled naively and said, "Thank you all for coming to have a drink. If I can't welcome you, please forgive me."
The people from the county government came quickly and left quickly. They ate the banquet quickly and left quickly.
It takes half a morning to walk from Huangyang County to Sunjia Village, and half an afternoon to walk from Sunjia Village to Huangyang County. The round trip only takes one whole day.
The county magistrate, Zhang Zhubo and others got there in a hurry, ate in a hurry, and were able to return to Huangyang County before the sun set.
Sun Shan continued to entertain guests, many of whom were small landowners from nearby.
Speaking of Huangyang County, there are really no big landlords.
Perhaps because there are many mountains and little land, he can be considered a big landlord in Huangyang County, but would be considered a small landlord outside.
Many small landlords came with gifts or gifts to ask for a glass of wedding wine.
Some landlords with their own minds would even let the landlady engage in lady diplomacy.
Strangers become friends twice, and as you chat, you might be able to get to know Sun Shan.
In fact, it doesn’t matter if they can’t climb up. They will be thankful as long as Sun Shan doesn’t hurt them.
Now times have changed, and gentry have begun to appear in Huangyang County. Many prominent local people in Huangyang County feel threatened.
In the past, Sunshan was ordinary and everyone lived peacefully. Now that Sunshan has become a giant, everyone feels a strong sense of crisis.
The only thing to be thankful for was that Jinshi Sun's family was quite peaceful. After he passed the imperial examination, they did not do anything to them, nor did they try to seize their land and property.
I hope Mr. Sun will not forget his original intention and remain true to himself.
Sun Shan had no idea what the rich people in the surrounding area were thinking. Even if he knew, he would just laugh it off.
What is there to seize in Huangyang County? Sun Shan doesn't care about these three melons and two dates.
If you want to make plans, you have to go outside. As the saying goes, a rabbit doesn't eat grass near its burrow. Sun Shan is a very principled person.
Sun Shan was moving around among the male guests.
Su held the little fat girl in her arms and sat in the main seat, holding her head high like a victorious rooster, looking down at the group of flattering women.
Su exposed her wrist intentionally or unintentionally, and raised it high intentionally or unintentionally, stroking the big gold bracelet inlaid with gems in her hand.
Su's hands were dark, thin, and shriveled, and the big gold bracelet looked extremely out of place on her hands.
But it didn't stop Su from showing off desperately.
The little kid Xiaoxiao in Su's arms rolled his eyes around, but when he saw Su's big, shiny gold bracelet, his eyes remained motionless.
He looked very curious.
Su raised the corner of her mouth slightly, tapped the little girl's round nose and said, "Granddaughter, do you like grandma's big gold bracelet? Your father bought it for me specially from the capital."
Su told it openly to the fat girl, but actually told it to the neighbors.
Such a big golden bracelet, shining with jewels, it seems that I am the only one in Huangyang County who has it.
Humph, you poor fellows can never envy it.
Su curled her lips, and felt even more proud when she saw that Xiaoxiao was still looking at her big gold bracelet with shining eyes.
I thought to myself: Little girl, just look and see. You can only look at it. Grandma won’t give it to you. All my things are left for your brother.