Chapter 88 088 Watching the show with a smile on his face, but in his heart...
Because it was an honorary examination, the number of people taking part in the palace examination this time was more than in previous years, a total of three hundred people.
Also, because the first phase of the Medical Museum project was recently completed, Master Kang was in a good mood, so basically no one was eliminated. Therefore, this palace examination can be said to be the most relaxed and enjoyable one in recent years.
Wang Yao's results were good, but not amazing. In the end, he only ranked 120th in the second class of the imperial examination.
However, this is already considered a very impressive existence in the Wang family.
After all, the Wang family all came from the military, including Wang Ziteng, and none of them were serious scholars. Wang Yao was the first to enter the officialdom through the imperial examination. It must be said that this was a groundbreaking innovation.
Wang Ziteng was so happy that he wanted to have a big banquet and celebrate on the same day. The old lady of the Wang family, Li and Liu were also very happy. The whole family was in a happy mood and they couldn't keep a low profile even if they wanted to.
Then don't be low-key. It's not too late to celebrate first and then be low-key.
When Wang Ziteng told Xianyu the news, although Xianyu felt that it was a bit inappropriate, she also thought that it was really amazing that her adopted brother could stand out among so many scholars in the country, get his name on the imperial examination, and become a new Jinshi. So it would not be a big deal to just celebrate it.
After all, in this world, if a child gets into a good university through the college entrance examination, it is a big happy event and should be celebrated.
Now Wang Ziteng just wants to hold a banquet to celebrate, and it doesn't seem like a big deal.
Seeing that Xianyu had no objection, Wang Ziteng was extremely happy. After greeting Lin Ruhai, Zhang Youshi and others, and inviting them to come to the Wang family for a banquet, he hurried back to the Wang family to prepare for the banquet.
This type of celebratory banquet usually invites relatives and friends to attend.
After all, passing the imperial examination is a great joy. Since ancient times, it has been listed as one of the four great joys in life, along with rain after a long drought, meeting an old friend in a foreign land, and the wedding night. If you don't celebrate too much, you will miss it forever.
So this time, when Xianyu rushed back home to attend the banquet, she was shocked by the scene in front of her.
It turns out that the Wang family has so many relatives and friends?
Tables were set up throughout the back garden, including the main house, flower hall, side rooms and even the study. It was truly a grand celebration.
What surprised her most was that even the royal family had come.
Of course it wasn’t Master Kong who came.
A small celebration banquet for a newly-appointed Jinshi would not be enough to alarm this great Buddha, even if the newly-appointed Jinshi was from the family of the governor of the Beijing camp - but if the chief physician of his newly-built medical clinic invited him, he could take the time to come.
It's a pity that Xianyu didn't invite her. She was too lazy to bother with all the "social etiquette".
What a joke, playing with the social etiquette with Master Kang, that's just because you want to die. Besides, even if Master Kang wanted to buy into this, she was too lazy to serve him - why? She was not like Wang Ziteng and Wang Yao, who depended on Master Kang for a living. She originally only needed to lie at home and be a rich salted fish, but now she has come out to work like a cow and a horse to help Master Kang build a medical center, what else does she want?
Well, one should not be too greedy. It is not okay to want everything. Anyway, even if he wanted this, she would not indulge him.
Xianyu always does what she thinks. Although she doesn't understand why Master Kang looks at her with eyes full of expectation and desire, no one can force her to do something she is too lazy to do.
Besides, no one forced her, so that's it.
So after the time of the Wang family's celebration ceremony was set, she still paid close attention to the affairs of the Medical Institute, and then found time to report to the palace to accompany the Fifth Princess and the Queen Mother, and occasionally went to the upper study to be a vase for a while, actually just to eat melons and gossip, and she didn't want to live a very comfortable life.
After listening to Xianyu's complaints, Master Kang also felt that it was boring. Although he wanted to go to Wang's house to have some fun, this little girl didn't even invite him. Wouldn't it be embarrassing for him to go there?
I won't go. I'll just send a guy as a representative to express my opinion and that's it.
Wang Ziteng didn't know what to do. After all, he also heard his daughter's voice. Well, okay, he could only say that the emperor hadn't punished the Wang family yet and hadn't thrown their little girl out to be beheaded. That was already good enough. The most important thing in life is to be content. What else do you want when things are like this?
Wang Ziteng retreated silently, and actually felt a little sympathy for Master Kang in his heart - the Emperor was also pitiful, thinking about listening to their little girl's voice every day, but, sometimes, it was better not to hear it.
All right, we don't dare to say it, we don't dare to ask, anyway, the words have been said, and the invitation has been made. Our precious little girl just doesn't know how to deal with things, so there's nothing we can do about it, right?
Anyway, Your Majesty, you won’t blame her, right?
Wang Ziteng took his leave with a feeling of trepidation but not extreme uneasiness, and happily began to prepare for the celebration banquet.
This was not the first time that the Wang family had organized such a large banquet, and the whole family was already very experienced.
Especially Sister Feng, whether it was the birthday banquet organized for the old lady of the Wang family when she was in Jinling City, or the welcoming banquet held for the Lin family and the thank-you banquet for Wang Yao's success in the imperial examination after she came to the capital, she played a vital role in all of them.
Now that Wang Yao has passed the imperial examination and become a Jinshi, things have been raised to a higher level. The level of the guests he receives has become higher, and there are more and more people. Although there are more and more things to do and they are more complicated, Fengjie's ability has also improved, so it is not difficult to deal with them.
Even if she was unsure about something, she had the support of Old Lady Wang, Li and Liu, so she didn't need to worry or be afraid.
Sure enough, this celebratory banquet was very successful thanks to the efforts of the entire Wang family and the personal management of Sister Feng.
Except for a few people, almost all the guests at the banquet were very happy.
These few people include members of the Jia family and the royal family.
There is no need to talk about the people in the Jia family.
In fact, Xianyu thought that they would not come to participate at first - after all, their Jia Zhu and their adopted elder brother Wang Yao took part in the provincial examination at the same time. In the end, one passed the examination, while the other fell ill and failed in the examination room. Wang Yao even made a continuous effort and passed the joint examination and the palace examination in one go, and passed the imperial examination. Who could bear such a gap?
Jia Zhu couldn't stand it anyway.
So he claimed to be sick and didn't come.
But the women of the Jia family still came.
Mrs. Wang came on behalf of the Jia family, and Jia Baoyu also came with her.
After all, Mrs. Wang is the married daughter of the Wang family, so it is only natural for her to come back to her parents' home to celebrate with her nephew - never mind that the relationship between the Wang family and the Jia family is not as close as before, but biological daughter is biological daughter, and even if she is married away, she is still a daughter, and she still has to go back to her parents' home.
Otherwise, people would probably criticize her and say that she has forgotten her parents' family and has no rules after getting married.
Anyway, Mrs. Wang would never do such a thing.
Therefore, even if she was sad in her heart and secretly lamented that her son in high school was a nephew instead of a son, she still had to come and congratulate him with a pinch of her nose.
But in fact, the Wang family didn't care whether she came or not, and the reason was the same - she was already married, so it didn't matter whether she came or not. Especially, our Wang Yao won the imperial examination, but your Jia Zhu didn't and was still sick. If you got upset and started crying on the table, it would be unlucky...
This worry is not only shared by Old Lady Wang, but also by Mrs. Li, Mrs. Liu, and even Sister Feng.
Only Xianyu remained calm. After all, she was very clear about Mrs. Wang's personality. Even if this second aunt, who was known as "a snake in the heart of a Buddha's mouth", hated their family in her heart, she would not do anything to embarrass them in public.
And the sadder I am inside, the more I have to pretend to be calm and even happy for you on the surface.
It's really hard for her to do such a good job.
They've worked so hard, so why not just watch the show?
As for Jia Baoyu.
This time he was unusually obedient.
I don't know who said something to him, but this time he was as obedient as a quail. He didn't make a fuss like before, but just sat quietly at the table.
After all, he was still young, and although he sat on the side with the female guests, no one said much. At most, a few ladies of higher status secretly despised the Jia family for being unruly, and that although this second son looked good, he looked like a loser. That was all.
But although he pretended to be very honest, his eyes were not very honest. His eyeballs kept rolling around. Sometimes he looked at the little girl of this family, and sometimes he thought the little boy of that family was handsome. It was really keeping him busy to death.
This look of face successfully won the disgust of Jia Min and Daiyu, the siblings, so it was worth the trip.
Xianyu ate and watched the show at the same time and almost laughed out loud several times. It really opened her eyes.
Originally, this celebration banquet should have ended happily, but what she didn't expect was that before she finished eating, she was stunned by the royal family's outrageous actions.
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