Chapter 219 Zhang Chengwang who sold him the poems
"The above is what the master asked me to pass on to you." Li Lou said calmly.
Li Jian was stunned. Yuan Suijun actually refused to admit that he wrote the poem and asked him to find Zhang Chengwang.
Wait, Yuan Suijun means that this poem was written by Zhang Chengwang?
Could it be that it was Zhang Chengwang who had been cooperating with him, not Yuan Suijun?
Zhang Chengwang didn't even pass the exam, and even the scholar was just lucky enough to pass. Does he really have this ability?
Because Zhang Chengwang passed the college entrance examination last year, Li Jian couldn't help but look down on Zhang Chengwang deep down in his heart. Rather than having it written by Zhang Chengwang, he would rather it was sold to him by Yuan Suijun, so that he could still have control over him.
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Li Lou saw that his face turned pale for a while, so he ignored Li Jian and left quickly. He still had to help, so he couldn't waste all his time on Li Jian.
"Jian'er, what's wrong?" Li Yuanwai frowned, "Is it because he has become rich that he no longer wants to recognize you as a friend?"
The Li family was somewhat of a prominent figure in the county town, but this was how the Yuan family treated them. They had no respect for the father and son, and did not even invite them into the house, but allowed them to sit with the poor people.
Li Jian still had a blank expression on his face and said, "I have to go investigate."
If it was really Zhang Chengwang, then the other party deliberately misled him! If he hadn't believed that the person selling poems was Yuan Suijun, why would he have come here today to humiliate himself?
When Li Yuanwai heard this, he knew that his son might have had some misunderstanding.
He didn't want to continue sitting here with a group of people he usually looked down on, "Then let's go back now."
He didn't want to sit at the table outside.
The father and son looked full of confidence before they came, and before they left, they looked unswerving, as if someone owed them ten thousand taels.
Other people who came over for the banquet looked at their expressions and felt that the father and son were really greedy. The banquet prepared by the Yuan family was so good, and it was full of delicacies that they would never dare to think of. Such hospitality was enough.
Although they are sincere, Li Jian and others are still not satisfied.
When he returned home, Li Jian realized that he might have been deceived by Zhang Chengwang.
He remembered that in July, Yuan Qian specially sold him some poems for fifty taels of silver.
If it were Yuan Suijun, he had Su Yueling, a virtuous wife with a huge fortune, and any jade pendant he wore might cost more than that. There would be no need to sell his poems for such money. But Zhang Chengwang is different.
He happened to move to the city right after selling these poems.
Maybe the house he lives in now was bought with this money.
It's hateful. Although Zhang Chengwang's works did make him famous among the literati circles in Guangning County, he was particularly disgusted by the other party's method of framing the blame. He was almost fooled, and almost turned against Shangyuan Suijun. If it had been
If you really offend Yuan Suijun to death, if the other party wants to crush the Li family to death in the future, it will not be much harder than crushing an ant to death.
When he arrived home, Li Jian sent someone to find Tong Xiucai, a master who was good at identifying handwriting.
This young scholar took the provincial examination at least six times and failed every time. Later he gave up and opened a school and recruited some disciples. Because of his good calligraphy, some wealthy families occasionally liked to polish their pens.
Fei asked him to write inscriptions. In addition, he was also good at identifying handwriting. Every time there was such a task that required identification, Magistrate Yao would ask him to help.
Before going to the Yuan family, he should have asked Tong Xiucai for an appraisal. Unfortunately, at that time, he was too confident in his own judgment, so he took his father to the Yuan family in a daze, and was happy that he had Yuan Suijun's handle.
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In the final analysis, this is all Zhang Chengwang's fault, and he maliciously misled him.
In addition, he also asked his servant to go out and help him find the calligraphy of Yuan Suijun and Zhang Chengwang. It was not difficult to find their usual handwriting. Yuan Suijun was not stingy about lending his used books to others for copying.
.As for Zhang Chengwang, he used to copy books and sell them for money in the bookstore.
Li Jian has silently recorded this account to Zhang Chengwang. Of course, Li Jian has no intention of breaking up with Zhang Chengwang. If they break up, Zhang Chengwang's reputation will be tarnished, but his reputation as a plagiarist will not be forgotten either.
But he could handle this matter and let Cheng Wang become his full-time writer, specifically writing poems and songs for him to create an image of a talented man. If nothing else, the poems he wrote were indeed not bad.
The boy quickly took back Yuan Suijun's and Zhang Chengwang's calligraphy books. The one on rice paper was Zhang Chengwang's, and the one on cotton paper was Yuan Suijun's.
Just flipping through these two books and letting Li Jian judge for himself, he couldn't make a judgment.
Li Jian waited at home for another half an hour, and finally Tong Xiucai arrived.
Li Jian said to Tong Xiucai: "Please ask Mr. Tong to help me find out who copied this Yongqiu poem?"
"Is it one of the owners of these two books?"
In front of outsiders, Li Jian was still good at pretending to have a gentle attitude, and even offered him the appraisal fee - a piece of good ink worth ten taels.
Tong Xiucai held the book in his hand and began to read it carefully.
After a while, he pointed at the rice paper and said firmly: "The owner of this book copied it."
Li Jian asked again: "Really? I thought it was the owner of another book, because the handwriting looked somewhat similar."
Tong Xiucai said: "That's because this person deliberately imitated himself, but he only imitated the most basic form to fool outsiders, and didn't even learn 10% of the other person's character." There was a touch of disdain in his words.
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"Although he deliberately studied the writing and finishing of the pen, because the other party's style was so different from his, he had to try his best to control his usual writing habits. But even so, he still managed to master a few words.
He unconsciously continued his own style. He probably didn't have too many calligraphy treasures from the other party, so he couldn't copy every word completely."
He pointed at the two words "Zang" and "se" and said, "Look, if you cover up the words "Zang" on top, the writing on the bottom will be a blur, and the placement of "se" will not change."
When he said this, even a layman like Li Jian saw it.
Sure enough! The real owner who sold him the poems was Zhang Chengwang!
Tong Xiucai held the cotton paper in his hand and said with a hint of admiration, "Whose calligraphy is this? From what I see, it must be that of a gentleman with a glorious future."
It gave him the idea of making friends.
Li Jian shook his head, "I'm not sure either."
After confirming that Yuan Qian was not Yuan Suijun, Li Jian did not dare to involve Yuan Suijun.
Tong Xiucai looked regretful and said, "If you find out one day, remember to tell me."
"sure."
Li Jian sent Tong Xiucai away. As soon as Tong Xiucai left, his expression changed. He held the rice paper in his hand and showed an expression of gritted teeth.
He and Zhang Chengwang have been friends for a long time, so it's time to pay him a visit.