Moving into a new home with few people, Shun'er and a few servants could not help but worry about this and that.

Shi Zhongkui is fine. He is not worried about any ghosts appearing at all. If I can't win, I can't run away. Besides, this is the capital, not the end of the dynasty. There are so many ghosts.

Early the next morning, Shi Zhongkui's ears twitched and he heard a group of footsteps and noises in the distance. They must have come to announce the good news and ask for rewards.

By this time, the mood is inevitably filled with anticipation and excitement.

In ancient times, there were many idle men, and rogues would come to announce good news on this day. However, if these people had poor eyesight, they would definitely be beaten up by the government officials afterwards.

The reason is very simple. For today, Xue Pan actually had 1,000 silver ingots weighing one penny specially made, and each one was engraved with the words "prosperous official career and good fortune".

These silver melon seeds alone cost a hundred taels of silver, plus 5 taels of crafting fee.

He also prepared ten 50-tael silver ingots for the government officials to report the good news. According to him, if his brother-in-law can get the first place, then every government official who comes to report the good news will have a silver ingot in hand.

If this is done by idle men and rogues, those who reported the news to the government officials would have the intention of killing someone.

And those who came to see the visitors could still grab three or five silver melon seeds no matter what.

Seeing this, Shi Zhongkui shook his head, but had no intention of stopping Xue Pan.

If you are a scholar, you will live in a big house with a salary of 30,000 taels, but in fact it is at least 20,000 taels of silver. If you spend some money and go out, you can also create in advance that your wealth is not small and you are willing to go out.

As for whether outsiders would say that the house and money belonged to the Xue family, Shi Zhongkui didn't care.

Anyway, the Xue family knows that they are not short of money, and they just need to have enough confidence to speak in front of Xue Baochai and Xue Pan.

Not long after, Xue Pan suddenly turned his head and looked at the courtyard wall in shock. After a few breaths, the sound of gongs and drums outside finally came in.

"Coming, coming", Xue Pan slapped his thigh and shouted excitedly to Shun'er and his new servant, "Hurry, get the wedding money ready, and then go to Rongguo Mansion immediately to tell his wife and

Girl."

Shi Zhongkui didn't stop him either, because he had already heard the words "Master Shi, the head of the Shuntian Prefecture's trial case" shouted outside.

The only people around him were him and the Duke of Tui, whose surname was Shi. Shi Guangzhu had a wooden head, so he was the only one left.

Sure enough, not long after, the servant of the Xue family who was watching at the gate of the house ran in with a surprised expression on his legs and legs, and shouted, "Uncle, uncle, you are the head of the case, Xiao Sanyuan, Xiao Sanyuan ah

."

When Xue Pan heard this, he burst out laughing, and then he knelt down facing the south, "Dad, I don't treat my sister badly. We also have a Wenquxing in our family."

Shi Zhongkui immediately rolled his eyes, he was just a scholar, and his surname was Shi, not Xue, let alone marrying into the Xue family, so he became a member of the Xue family.

Fortunately, Xue Pan was not confused and pulled him to kneel in the south to pray to his father-in-law, otherwise Shi Zhongkui would have kicked him over.

Shi Zhongkui did not object to kneeling when visiting graves during the Qingming Festival, but he had ancestral tablets in his home.

"Brother, let's go quickly. How can I miss you on this happy day?"

Shi Zhongkui shook his head with a smile, put his hands behind his back, and walked slowly through the front yard. He saw that there were already people outside the door, and the whole street was packed.

Moreover, in addition to the common people who were clearly dressed to watch the excitement, there were also many scholars wearing scholar's robes or even Confucian scholar's robes, waiting eagerly for me.

"Come out, Sanyuan Gong is out."

With this shout, the already lively street suddenly became noisier.

Shi Zhongkui hurriedly saluted everyone, saying that he was lucky, and reminded that it was just a small Sanyuan, and he was not even qualified to erect a monument in the Confucius Temple.

At most, you can just erect a memorial arch for your ancestor's tomb. Except for the descendants of the Shi family who will go and see it, no one else will care about you as a scholar.

But the people present didn't care about this. Many scholars probably wanted to gain some literary talent and luck.

They all congratulated in unison, "Congratulations to Brother Shi. Congratulations to Brother Shi for being promoted to the Little Sanyuan of Shuntian Prefecture. He is famous in the capital and is famous in the history of Qing Dynasty."

At this point, Shi Zhongkui finally couldn't help but smile crookedly.

It's easy to say that the famous biography of Gyeonggi has many people who can do this, but there are really only a few who can write historical records.

It will definitely be written in the state annals of Shuntian Prefecture that on the eighth day of the eighth month of the Bingzi year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Daxing scholar Shi Zhongkui and Shi Boqian came first in the courtyard examination, becoming the first person in the north of the Great Zhou Dynasty to win the Xiao San Yuan.

By the way, here is a list of personal biographies specifically to introduce his life. Of course, if it stops here, it will only be three to five sentences at most, and the total may not exceed 20 words.

While Shi Zhongkui was thinking about this, he suddenly noticed that there were several groups of people clearly wearing servants' and servants' clothes behind the crowd on the street, and they were constantly squeezing toward him.

Before he could figure out what these people were going to do, he heard shouts from a distance, "Brother Pan, be careful, someone is coming to snatch Bo Qian's son-in-law."

Damn it, Xue Pan suddenly became furious and roared angrily. A dozen Xue family servants with sticks in their hands quickly rushed out of the house and surrounded Shi Zhongkui.

A few smart people immediately grabbed the silver melon seeds that everyone carried out and scattered them on the street.

For a time, under the sunshine, the sky was filled with silver light. Those who were watching the excitement had no intention of watching the drama of snatching the bride, and they crowded forward in a noisy manner.

In an instant, several groups of servants from other families were squeezed out of the crowd.

"Throw it quickly, then throw the money," Xue Pan shouted immediately when he saw this, "One penny of silver melon seeds each are all thank-you gifts given to you by my son-in-law of the Xue family."

Now the people behind me wanted to fly into the sky and rush over to grab the money.

"Hahaha", Xue Pan was so excited that he almost went crazy when he saw that some of the servants leaned over to pick up the money.

He grabbed the silver melon seeds with both hands and threw them specifically at those groups of people.

While throwing it away, he shouted, "Grab it, don't let these people get the money first."

However, the more Shi Zhongkui looked at it, the darker his face became. If there was a stampede and someone was injured or killed, he would be the unlucky one.

He quickly grabbed Shun'er and asked him to lead people to scatter the money far away. The area where the money was scattered was large, and the crowd finally no longer just crowded towards the gate.

Moreover, the group of servants were also on the outside, and the crowd dispersed immediately.

The thousand silver melon seeds were scattered quickly, and the atmosphere slowly calmed down. Then the servants brought by Jia Lian, Feng Ziying and others took the opportunity to squeeze over against the wall, and the situation was finally stabilized.

Looking at Xue Pan who was laughing loudly, Shi Zhongkui knew that Xue Pan was not to blame.

Only then did the four government officials have the opportunity to deliver the good news to Shi Zhongkui, and each of them had a 50-tael silver ingot, which once again heated up the atmosphere.

After greeting many scholars who were a little disheveled in their clothes and sending them away politely, the announcement of the good news was over.
Chapter completed!