After returning to Hangzhou Academy, Xu Xian began a regular life again: reading, studying, practicing calligraphy, practicing...

There is no ups and downs, but life is fulfilling and meaningful.

What he has to do now is to constantly strengthen himself. When facing troubles and problems in the future, he can take on his shoulders and solve them by himself, rather than being a novice.

The college entrance examination has been passed, and the provincial examination will be held every three years. The next time will be until next autumn, and it is still early. Xu Xian is planning to focus on the projects to be competed in the Jiangnan Talents' Arts Association in more than a month.

In the Jiangnan Talented Men's Literature Association, Xu Xian is bound to win the favor of great scholars and strive to become a Confucian scholar.

Time passed, three days passed, and Xu Mu'e's birthday arrived as scheduled.

Xu Mu'e's birthday party was as Xu Xian expected, and many people were invited, even half of the students from Hangzhou Academy received invitations.

Because Xu Zhengqing is a scholar in Hangzhou, the students of Hangzhou Academy can barely be considered his students. In addition, Xu Mu'e has a free and easy personality and loves to study. She often goes to Hangzhou Academy to attend school. She has met many people in the Academy. For example, He Liang also received invitations.

So, a lot of invitations were sent.

Of course, there are not many people who can ask Xu Mu'e to send invitations in person. Among the students of Hangzhou Academy, there will be no more than three.

The place for Xu Mu'e's birthday party is the most famous restaurant in Hangzhou City, Louwai Building.

Today, in order to celebrate Xu Mu'e's birthday, Louwailou was directly booked down for a day, stopped operating outside the public, and made every effort to prepare Xu Mu'e's birthday party.

At noon, the banquet was about to begin, and guests continued to walk into the building outside the building.

The guests who can attend this banquet are basically not simple. After all, there are established rules in the social circle. With Xu Mu'e and the status of the Xu family, it is impossible for those who can make friends with ordinary people.

Either they are high-ranking officials, either rich or noble; or they are like many students from Hangzhou Academy and the star of the future on the road to imperial examinations.

However, when it comes to the most eye-catching guests at this banquet, they are not local officials in Hangzhou Prefecture like Yang Jianxing, but a guest from afar - Jiang Haibo, a third-rank official in the dynasty and the Minister of Rites!

Jiang Haibo and Xu Zhengqing were Jinshi of the same period, and later served in the Hanlin Academy, with excellent relationships.

Xu Mu'e and Mr. Jiang's daughter also knew each other since childhood and had a very close relationship. In the words of later generations, they were best friends who had been playing together since childhood and had talked about everything.

Even Xu Mu'e almost made a baby marriage with Mr. Jiang Yunshan, the son of Mr. Jiang!

The relationship between the two families can be seen.

A few years ago, Xu Zhengqing was sent to Hangzhou Prefecture as a scholar-official, and the relationship between the two families gradually decreased, but it was not completely cut off, and there were letter exchanges from time to time.

Originally, it was impossible for Mr. Jiang and his family to attend Xu Mu'e's birthday, but Mr. Jiang had been sent to Jiangnan for a business trip recently and happened to pass by Hangzhou Prefecture, so he came.

Xu Mu'e couldn't send an invitation to Xu Xian that day because Mr. Jiang's family had just arrived in Hangzhou City, and Xu Mu'e wanted to go to greet her with her father Xu Zhengqing.

The banquet was in full swing. Dozens of waiters in Louwailou were flexibly carrying vegetable plates and shuttled between the tables. The guests who came to congratulate him drank, ate, and joked, and it was so lively.

There are three floors in Louwai Building, and the seats on each floor have certain requirements. The higher you go, the higher your identity is.

For example, for students who came to congratulate Hangzhou Academy, the students could only sit on the first floor, and those who had scholars had a reputation and were on the second floor. As for the third floor at the highest point, only a very small number of people could sit on it.

This order of action does not mean that the Xu family is rising and falling, but that is the rules of the entire Dali Dynasty.

The Dali Dynasty is a country of etiquette, and all the rules are clearly divided. Even if the family eats in a strict order, the elders must be in the upper position, and the younger generations must sit down. If there are children at home who are ignorant and run to the upper position to sit during meals, they will probably be beaten immediately.

This is not a rare thing, but a habit that has been cultivated since childhood.

But at today's banquet, there was one person's seat that seemed to be inconsistent with the rules.

Xu Xian is a scholar. According to the rules, he should be sitting on the second floor, but now he is forced to reach the third floor. Xu Xian wants to refuse, but whether it is Xu Zhengqing or Xu Mu'e, he must sit on the third floor, and it is the closest to the main table.

The deskmates are all officials like Tongzhi in Hangzhou Prefecture, or scholars with great reputation, age and high seniority. It is difficult to have common topics when sitting with them, and they will feel a little uncomfortable when eating.

Fortunately, Fang Zhongyong was with him.

As Xu Zhengqing's closed disciple, Fang Zhongyong was considered half of the Xu family, so he naturally had to sit on the third floor.

Compared to the noisy on the first and second floors, the third floor seems much quieter.

Because the guests on the third floor are all very identities and are quite old, they naturally won’t be as noisy as young people and are used to cultivating their own character.

The one who talks the most is the main table.

Xu Zhengqing and Mr. Jiang have not seen each other for many years, so they have a lot to talk about.

During the meal, Mr. Jiang suddenly smiled and asked, "Brother Xu, didn't you say that your biggest gain in Hangzhou in recent years is to acquire a prodigy as a disciple? What about people? Why not invite me to come and see what kind of young talent can make you so satisfied and contented."

Xu Zhengqing laughed and turned around and shouted, "Zhongyong, come here to toast you Mr. Jiang!"

When Fang Zhongyong heard this, he showed a helpless expression, while Xu Xian expressed his expression of gloating.

Fang Zhongyong shook his head, then quickly corrected his expression, quickly got up and walked over with a wine glass.

With Fang Zhongyong's personality, he was less used to such occasions than Xu Xian.

When Mr. Jiang saw Fang Zhongyong coming over, he looked at him with a concentric look. He immediately showed surprise in his eyes. He obviously saw that Fang Zhongyong had already entered the Tao with his writing. He couldn't help but sigh at Chen Pang: "What a young talent. He is so extraordinary at a young age. It's really rare in the world! Even in Yingtian Mansion, it's hard to find a better peer than his age!"

Fang Zhongyong bent respectfully and bowed, saying, "Shi Bo Jiang praised me, I am ashamed of me. In our Hangzhou Academy, even if I am not the best student, I have a Xu Xian and Xu Hanwen, and my talent and knowledge are far superior to me."

"Xu Hanwen?" A strange look appeared in Mr. Jiang's eyes, and then he smiled and said, "Is this boy here too? To be honest, I heard of his name when I was in the capital. People all call him a talented man with a rare poet in a thousand years. He is called the representative of a talented man in Jiangnan after Li Pan."

Fang Zhongyong smiled slightly, and said as if the Buddha's conspiracy succeeded, "He is here, sitting next to him..."

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