It was not until Zhang Sanniang greeted Xu Zheng that Lin Wensi got rid of it. He had been studying for more than 20 years and took three scientific examinations. He still had no official position. Xu Zheng was completely unfamiliar with poetry and books. He relied on his son to offer a prescription for making sugar. He was actually appointed as a Beijing official, which made Lin Wensi sigh.

When Xu Zheng left, Lin Wensi called Xu Ping to his side and asked him: "I heard that many nearby counties have sent people to the villages to learn how to grow rice. What should you do?"

Xu Ping replied respectfully: "They teach me if they want to learn. There is nothing to hide from others in this way. However, whether they can learn it depends on themselves. Some people sent to the villages in the county drink and have fun every day, and they can't learn anything. What can I do?"

Lin Wensi nodded in admiration: "You did the right thing, can you spend more time teaching people? Whether they learn or not, they are all good relationships you have made, with only good benefits and no harm. Besides, Kaifeng Prefecture is not as good as other places. The officials here will be valued by the court in the future, and it is also your advancement."

Xu Ping also thought that this is the reason. The requirements of the county magistrates of Kaifeng Prefecture are obviously much higher than those in other places. After this position, it will take only a few years to enter the central government. Although I don’t know what my future will be like, it’s always impossible to know more people.

Lin Wensi asked Xu Ping's studies again and said to him: "At the earliest, the next year, and the latest year will be the next year. The court will definitely open a course, so you should not be careless."

Xu Ping hurriedly said yes. He was not so arrogant that he thought he could go to high school by taking the imperial examination, but even if he failed the first time, it was very important to increase his experience. He was the most impressed by the first time he participated in the imperial examination. He could understand his strengths and weaknesses at once, and it was very important for his future study.

After saying this, Xu Ping asked Lin Wensi: "Teacher, I learned that Pang Chunzhi from Xiangyi County had specially sent someone to the village and asked me to go to their place to guide ditches and flatten rice fields. I don't know what kind of person this is, and whether to go there? If you meet a mean person, it will be of no benefit if you do it well. If you are not careful, you may be punished and not a good job."

Lin Wen thought for a while before saying, "I have heard of this person. Two years ago, he worked as a wise man in Kaifeng Prefecture. Although he had never dealt with him, he was very talented when he heard the comments, but his opponents were a little harsh. You were invited by him and should not be harsh on you. Just go there. I heard that several officials in the court valued his talents, and their future prospects were limitless. It is always good to make friends at this time."

Xu Ping nodded and said yes. In fact, he was not unaware of this magistrate Pang. This person was one of the rare people who left an impression in his memory in his previous life. However, those were not good impressions, so he hesitated. Pang Ji's name was memorized and knew Xiangyi County, which was the Sui County of later generations. Xiangyi was located near the Bian River, and there were ditches in the territory, and floods were almost every year. It was a difficult place to manage. Pang Ji also attended the on-site meeting chaired by Zhang Junping last time, but he was mixed with a group of magistrates and arch-clients, which did not attract Xu Ping's attention. This time, someone was specially sent to ask Xu Ping to go to the county to guide the opening of the canal, and Xu Ping remembered.

Xu Ping's history is well learned, but it is limited to the historical trends in textbooks. The specific year and historical figures are completely distorted. Pang Ji left him the impression that Pang Taishi in Bao Gong's plays was not a casual character. Fortunately, he knew in his heart that the history in opera was unreliable. They were all compiled by lower-class literati to satisfy the tastes of the people. It would be great to be able to make people's names right. Moreover, the later the opera storytelling appears, the farther it is from historical facts. For example, the story of the Three Kingdoms appeared in the Tang Dynasty and prosperous Song Dynasty, and it was relatively reliable. By the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the long storytelling that appeared in large numbers was basically nothing to do with the truth of history. Bao Gong's plays appeared in the Yuan Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the characters in them basically had nothing to do with their original historical appearance.

When Xu Ping came to this era, he naturally knew that he could not judge real historical figures by the impressions in the storytelling. Not to mention other things, he knew very well that it was absolutely impossible for him to happen in the Song Dynasty, and that such stories were not allowed to appear in the law or morality, let alone other stories.

So after receiving the invitation from Pang Ji, Xu Ping had to ask the people around him before he could make a decision.

After a while, I set up a banquet in the living room to celebrate Xu Zhengshi's official position. This is my family's celebration first, and only after it is over will I set up a few more tables to invite neighbors. Xu Zheng has been an official for some days, and the reason why he has waited until today is because he has read the imperial calendar and is now promoted. In fact, this is a gift to an official, and he doesn't go out to take on specific duties and has never expected to be promoted in his life. He is just a good start.

Without outsiders, Zhang Sanniang and Lin Suniang also joined in the fun together. The Xu family was born in a businessman, and there was no point in not having a woman at a banquet. Lin Wensi was not a Taoist scholar, but in fact he was very rebellious in his thoughts, so he didn't care about this. Lin Suniang was a teenager and had never even read "The Women's Commandments". She was very free.

Today, Lin Su Niang looked a little strange. She walked carefully, as if her feet were injured. But she looked like she was covered in spring breeze and she was not injured.

Pour the wine, Xu Zheng stood up with the glass of wine, wanted to say a few thoughts, but after holding it in for a long time, he said: "I never expected that my old man would have a day to wear a green robe. The emperor is wise and the ancestors accumulate virtue!"

After going back and forth, I said "the emperor is wise and the ancestors accumulate virtue" several times, and there is no other saying.

After hearing this, the relatives and friends just wanted to laugh, but seeing Xu Zheng's serious look on his face, it was not easy to stimulate him, so they had to endure it.

After finally getting excited, Xu Zhengcai said, "Fuck this cup together!"

After drinking, Xu Zheng sat down and Duan Laoyuan toasted him first. After drinking, Xu Zheng pulled Duan Laoyuan and talked nonsense for a long time. He started from selling wine with a load, to opening a small wine shop next to the old yard, and finally lamenting the difficulty of his life.

The patience of the elderly is not comparable to that of young people. Even so, Duan Laoyuan couldn't stand it.

Following Lin Wensi and Li Yonghe toast, Xu Zheng was still talking nonstop. After decades of survival, today he seemed to be a new person.

Xu Ping shook his head while listening, but unexpectedly, an inconspicuous little official stimulated his father like this. In this era, the official body is indeed more cute than money.

Xu Ping is indeed difficult to understand. His previous life has had many evaluations of people. The identity of a small civil servant is not enough to be enviable. But he doesn't know that it is the result of the increase in social mobility. In an era when people are strictly restricted by the region, eating imperial grain was naturally considered superior to others.

After the elders respected him, it was Xu Ping and Li Zhang's turn. Fortunately, Xu Zheng's excitement had passed at this time. He was a little tired after talking for a long time. He let them go and did not talk about the bitterness and sweetness.

After drinking this meal for half an hour, I saw that the sun was about to fall, so I removed the banquet and set up a few more tables in the yard before I asked Baofu to invite neighbors.

Xu Ping was unwilling to join in the fun, so he rode a horse to take Li Yong and his family back.

Duan Lao's yard was riding a donkey alone, and Li Yonghe led him, and Li Zhang and Xu Ping rode together. After the move, the Xu family and Li Yonghe's family became much closer, and they couldn't take much effort, so Xu Ping rode back on a horse.

Xu Ping, the neighbors around him, didn't know each other and was too lazy to get involved with them, so he went around to the backyard.

When they entered the door, they found that Lin Suniang and Suer Dou'er were gathered in the backyard, chattering and wondering what they were saying. Seeing Xu Ping, the three of them shut up together and looked at him with a vigilant look, as if they were thieves.

Xu Ping was curious and called Su'er: "What are you doing here?"

Su'er's little head shook: "Nothing to do! Little official, go to the front, everyone is waiting for you to toast!"

The more Su'er said this, the more suspicious Xu Ping felt, but he refused to leave. Seeing Lin Su Niang and Su Er put their hands behind him, it seemed that there was something he wouldn't let him see. He couldn't help but think curiously and asked Lin Su Niang: "Su Niang, what are you good things you don't let me see? We are all a family, what are you going to see?"

Lin Suniang blushed and whispered: "How do you show the girl's things? Go ahead and help greet the guests. They are all neighbors, so you should get to know each other."

When Xu Ping heard that it was a woman's thing, he felt embarrassed to hold on. It would take two years to get married to Lin Su Niang. Xu Ping was not shameless and got into the crowd of women and said goodbye.

After walking a few steps, he was curious after all. Xu Ping suddenly turned around and looked at the three girls, but saw Lin Su Niang holding a pair of small bow shoes in her hand and was gestured to Dou'er.

Su'er saw Xu Ping turning her head and grimace at him: "Peeling at the girl's things, the official is so shameless!"

Lin Suniang beside her blushed and glared at Xu Ping fiercely.

Xu Ping didn't expect that it was just a pair of shoes, and felt embarrassed and left in a hurry.

When I walked on the road, the more I thought about it, the more wrong it became. What did the little girls do mysteriously? After entering the back hall, I suddenly remembered that the pair of arch shoes were obviously smaller than the shoes I usually wore and had special uses. I recalled the expressions of the three little girls. I slapped my head and finally realized that the three little girls were actually discussing foot binding. Such small arch shoes were obviously used to restrict feet. No wonder Lin Su Niang looked so weird when she walked today, she actually started to bind her feet by learning to be like a person!

There are many different opinions about when Chinese women will bind their feet in Xu Ping's previous life, but he did not have to think about it when he came to this world. Foot binding started at this time. Before the Song Dynasty, there was no custom of foot binding in China. In the Northern Song Dynasty, foot binding began to become popular in the palace. Of course, this kind of foot binding was very different from those in later generations, but the feet were tied thinner. The wealthy women in the capital liked to learn the outfits of women in the palace most, from hairstyles to clothing, and even some small jewelry. All of them were valued as palace styles. The same was true for foot binding. After the circulating in the palace, some wealthy families followed and pursued novelty.

This has nothing to do with the taste of the scholar-officials, let alone the psychological perversion when the small feet became popular later. In fact, the scholar-officials opposed it at the beginning, but women just followed suit to love beauty. Women would do many unreasonable things to become beautiful, such as foot binding in this era, and Xu Ping could not say anything. In his previous life, plastic surgery and breast augmentation were much more terrifying than foot binding in this era.

The Song Dynasty was not popular, that is, the little girls like Lin Su Niang loved beauty and were naturally quit. After suffering, they naturally stopped. The real Daxing was the Jurchens entering the Central Plains, which were highly praised by the Jin Dynasty. It was not until the Yuan Dynasty that it began to be popular all over the country and became more and more perverted. The Ming Dynasty became a common social custom, entangled with the decaying scholars' interests, and became one of the Chinese vulgarities.
Chapter completed!