518 Thank you, teacher
After dinner at home, Ping An took Fu An and Zhou Heng out to send Zhiyuan and Shaoqi home, and just in time to thank the two gentlemen and the master.
Tomorrow, as the top scholar, Ping An will have to lead all the Jinshi candidates to express their gratitude, and then go to the Confucius Temple near the Imperial College to pay homage. Their names will also be engraved on the Jinshi stone tablet of the Imperial College for future generations to admire and praise forever. This is a very honorable thing.
The day after tomorrow will be the Qionglin Banquet.
This banquet must be attended. It is a banquet that the emperor has personally inquired about and will attend in person. The civil and military officials and celebrities attending the banquet are all designated by the emperor.
The venue of the banquet was the Imperial Garden. It can be said that most of the Jinshi scholars would only attend such a banquet once in their entire lives in the Imperial Garden.
After all, there are very few people who can climb to the fifth rank of Beijing official, and if you don’t even have the fifth rank in Kyoto, how can you have the opportunity to participate again in the future?
What's more, when the banquet is over, the emperor will personally escort these new scholars to the garden gate. This is simply a huge honor, enough for the emperor to show off to his descendants throughout his life.
The day after tomorrow is the imperial examination.
Ping An doesn't have to go today, but the mold cultivated on the farm that day should be almost done.
Busy, really busy.
Zhiyuan's home was nearby, so Ping'an asked Fu An and Zhou Heng to get off the car and sit together. It would be impolite to visit someone without sending a visiting card in advance, but he was Ping'an's husband, so if Ping'an said it was nothing, then it was fine.
After Sun Yat-sen came back, he sat in the front yard waiting for Zhiyuan, but unexpectedly, he was waiting for several people.
"Sir, please take a seat, Madam."
Sun Wen naturally knew what Ping An meant, and sat on the high hall with his wife.
Ping An knelt on both knees and performed the ceremony of three kneelings and nine kowtows, which was the most respectful ceremony for a gentleman in the Zhou Dynasty.
"Ping An thanks the teacher and his wife. Thank you for your kindness in educating Ping An over the years."
Sun Yat-sen's eyes were red and his voice was choked with sobs: "Ping An, I want to thank you too. Thank you for helping me realize my biggest dream as a scholar. You have also brought me a lot of happiness over the years. Ping An, get up."
Mrs. Sun's eyes were also filled with tears. What her husband said was absolutely right.
This child brought so much joy to my husband. It was also because of him that my husband took the imperial examination again and became an official.
Because of this child, my husband was transferred to the Ministry of Revenue in the capital and promoted, so the family could be together every day again.
Also because of this child, their family has an income of tens of thousands of yuan every year, which makes their family prosperous.
Zhou Heng and Fu An also saluted as students to Sun Yat-sen.
A few people talked a little.
"Sir, I will take them to the Wang family to thank the great master and the master."
"You should go, Zhiyuan should go too. If it weren't for Mr. Wang, Zhiyuan wouldn't have won this time. Even if he won by luck, his ranking would have been very low."
Zhou Heng and Fu An thought the same.
They all took advantage of Ping An's glory.
The Wang family guards didn't pick up Shaoqi, the old man said, he must have gone back with Ping'an.
The family sat in the front yard waiting for Shaoqi and Ping'an. This child would definitely come.
As expected.
Shaoqi, Ping'an, Fu'an, Zhou Heng and Zhiyuan are all here.
As soon as Ping'an enters the room, he invites the master, the mistress and the master to sit down.
He followed Fu An and others and performed the ritual of three kneelings and nine kowtows.
"I would like to thank my master, my husband, and my mistress for their kindness in educating me."
The old man burst into tears on the spot, Mr. Wang smiled with red eyes, and Mrs. Wang also laughed and cried, cried and laughed.
"Good children, get up." The master sighed, "Ping An, you are a child who always surprises us. You have brought the master indescribable happiness over the years."
He looked at the other students and said, "You guys are all good. Don't be nervous about the exam. Just follow what the teacher taught you and be careful."
"Yes." Several people answered in unison.
A quarter of an hour later, Ping An took Fu An and others out of the Wang family.
"Fu An, you and your guards should go home. Your mother is probably waiting for you at home. I will be waiting for you at home early tomorrow morning."
Fu An nodded. He had to go home today. He had been following Ping An all these years, and he always followed him subconsciously.
"Brother Zhou, should I ask someone to take you home first, or should I come with me to the Sun family?"
"Ping An, of course I will follow you to your master's house. If it weren't for the eldest son, I'm afraid I would still be a scholar."
Suddenly I thought that I would marry Xin'er next year, so I would have to call Ping'an my brother-in-law.
His handsome face turned red, but fortunately Ping An didn't notice.
When we arrived at the master's house, several men from the Sun family were discussing new medicine in the study. When they heard that Ping'an and Zhou Heng had arrived, they hurried to the main room.
"Ping'an, Zhou Heng, why are you here instead of staying at home and taking a rest?" Sun Siyuan asked in confusion.
"Second Uncle, when I just said Zhiyuan and Shaoqi were going home, I thought of Master and wanted to pay my respects to him."
After a moment of surprise, Sun Siyuan hurriedly pushed his brother to sit down in the hall.
Ping An looked at the master seriously and said, "Master, Ping An has been with you since he was seven years old. You have always loved and cared for me. This relationship is like that between father and son. Master, thank you very much."
Ping An bowed three times and kowtowed nine times, which was the greatest courtesy he had ever performed to his master.
The whole room was silent.
"Ping An, get up. You are the only disciple in my life, and the best disciple in the world. My master once said that after you, he will never accept any other disciples in his life."
Sun Siyuan sniffed: "I am so touched, why don't I have such a good disciple?"
Zhou Heng also paid a great tribute to Sun Sicheng, thanking him for helping him when he was at his lowest point and for continuing to help him until now.
"Zhou Heng, I didn't think much about it when I helped you, but now I think it's fate between you and me. Get up quickly."
Isn't this fate? Now he is his nephew-in-law, and he has been running errands for him these days.
Ping An hurriedly helped him up.
"Hahaha, Ping An, Zhou Heng, you are all good. It's getting late, so stay for dinner." The old man said with a smile.
Zhou Heng felt somewhat embarrassed.
Ping An nodded and said, "Grandmaster, of course we are staying to eat. We can't be driven away. I just sent Shao Qi home, and the old master said he wanted to live with you on the farm for a while."
The old man laughed and said, "Of course, Ping An, I will live in your farm for three seasons of the year, and in the remaining winter I will live in the hot spring villa, which is more comfortable than living in a house in the city."
Sun Yinan said, "Dad, take me with you. Siyuan and Sicheng are both in the capital, so I don't have to work so hard guarding the clinic."
Speaking of the medical clinic, Ping'an repeated the emperor's instructions in the Hall of Supreme Harmony today.
"Master, the Emperor has allowed me to work and practice medicine at the same time. I can adjust my hours by myself, half or half is fine. He said he couldn't bear to see me neglect my medical skills."
This time everyone in the room was really stunned.
Is there such a way to be an official?
There is probably no such example in the entire Zhou Dynasty, no, in the entire world.
Sun Sicheng suddenly burst into laughter and said, "Ping An, from now on, you should spend half of your time practicing medicine and making medicine with me."
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