There are two yellow nanmu bookcases placed under the south window, one for Lu Tao and one for Zhang Ruoxi. Twenty-five-year-old Zhang Ruoxi is already a mother of two children. She still maintains the habit she developed when she was her daughter, writing every day.
There are several large calligraphy tables. Zhang Ruoxi is good at the Han Li "Huashan Stele" and Zhao Songxue's regular script. The two yellow nanmu calligraphy desks are not put together, but separated by a few feet. There is an ebony short table in the gap, and two tables are listed on it.
There are two Xuande huā gobs, with crabapples and Ganoderma lucidum grass inserted respectively. Between the two huā gobs, there is a two-foot-tall Taihu stone with a solitary peak. Although it is small, it has the appearance of a soaring cloud. Ruoxi saw that her younger brother was paying attention to this piece.
Regarding the Taihu Stone, he said proudly: "Sister, I have a good eye for it. I selected this Taihu Stone when Lu Lang and I visited Taihu Lake the year before last."
Zhang Yuan praised: "My sister has always had a very good taste."
Zhang Ruoxi smiled sweetly, poured some water on the inkstone, held the cow's tongue while grinding the ink, and said: "Sister, I will grind the ink for you. If you want to attend the literary conference tomorrow, you have to bring a few of your own eight-part essays. Then you can return them."
You have to write on the spot.
Lu Tao, who wrote on another desk, said: "Meson has copied the two articles on craftsmanship in the county examination and the eight-part essay on defeating Yao Xiucai, and just take them with him tomorrow. We will make friends through writing, and it will be very lively." Zhang Ruoxi asked.
: "Will the cultural gathering still be held at Narcissus Temple?"
Lu Tao nodded and said: "Yes, there is a garden pavilion in Narcissus Temple. There are few people burning incense on weekdays, but there are many literati gatherings. Didn't you go there last time? I can't take you there this time. My father is very angry.
, don’t stroke the tiger’s beard.”
Zhang Yuan was sitting on an armchair, watching his sister polishing ink, and asked: "What did my sister go to the Narcissus Temple last time?" Zhang Ruoxi said: "That time was the Narcissus Temple Hua Note. The Narcissus Temple is the Taihu Temple. The birthday of the Taihu God is as usual.
We performed a play in the theater at night, setting up a glass lamp at night, lining up vases and flowers beside the lamp, to compete with each other. I pretended to be Lu Lang's cousin and helped arrange the vases and flowers, but no one recognized that I was a woman."
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "Sister Hua must be number one." Zhang Ruoxi shook her head and smiled: "I am a high-minded person, but my reputation has fallen behind Sun Shan." After polishing the ink, he handed a Wuxing rabbit brush to Zhang Yuan and said: "Sister is going to test you again.
, let’s see if your handwriting has improved?”
Zhang Yuandao: "Didn't I write to my sister last year? She wrote back and praised my great improvement in writing skills. I didn't hide it from my sister. The letter was dictated by me and Xiao Wu wrote it for me."
Zhang Ruoxi held back her laughter and pretended to be angry: "Don't be wordy, hurry up and write." Standing behind Zhang Yuan, she watched Zhang Yuan write down the four characters "Although I haven't learned yet" in small regular script.
The letter made progress again, and she couldn't help but feel happy. She stood and read it for a while. Her feet were a little sore, so she sat down next to her husband, Lu Tao, and smiled while reading the eight-part essay written by her brother.
Look, he asked in a low voice: "Do you think Lu Lang can still read the word Jiezi?"
Lu Tao knew that his wife was not asking for his opinion, but wanted to hear him praise Zhang Yuan, so he lowered his voice and praised Zhang Yuan. Zhang Ruoxi smiled with joy, but said: "Don't praise him like this, he is still young, and he often
I must not boast, Lu Lang's calligraphy is excellent, I need to give him more guidance."
Lu Tao said: "Jiezi's calligraphy practice is very correct. There is no vulgarity. The only difference is the accumulation over many years. In the future, I will read more famous calligraphy posts, try to understand them, and I will make further progress." Zhang Ruoxi then said to Zhang Yuan: "Have you heard that? Don't be proud.
, you have to continue to work hard to prepare the post." Zhang Yuan responded: "I heard it, isn't my sister going back to Shanyin to stay for a long time this time? She will supervise me every day from now on."
Zhang Ruoxi smiled and said: "Why, I'm afraid that my sister will take care of you when she returns to Shanyin!" Zhang Yuan said: "How come? I will never pretend to have a stomachache, my eyes hurt, and I wrote a wrong word." Zhang Ruoxi said hurriedly: "Concentrate first.
"Write, don't talk." The three eight-part essays were more than 1,300 words long and took most of an hour to record. It was already midnight after writing.
Lu Tao read Zhang Yuan's three articles on craftsmanship and said: "This kind of article" will be investigated in Shanyin and Qingpu. Tomorrow, Jie Zi's article will dominate the audience."
Zhang Ruoxi really wanted to see her younger brother proud and proud among the crowds of people, but her husband Lu Tao just said he couldn't take her there, so she didn't want to mention it again.
Zhang Yuan understood his sister's intentions. When he was a girl, his sister often took him to Chengbi Temple.
Going to Dashan Temple to play, my sister was actually quite playful, so Zhang Yuan pleaded with Lu Tao on his behalf, but Lu Tao couldn't help but said, "Father Yan is here, and if he finds out, he will probably be furious." Zhang Ruoxi didn't want to embarrass the sharp man, so she said
: "I'm not going. Just come back and tell me about the cultural conference in detail."
Early on the morning of the sixth day of the lunar month, something changed about the Shuixian Temple Cultural Meeting. The person in charge, Yang Xiucai, sent a servant to inform Lu Tao that the cultural meeting would be postponed for two days and that comrades from Su Yong's Fushui Shanfang Society would come to Qingpu.
Literary friends must have wanted to absorb the Qingpu Literary Society into their Fushui Shanfang Society. Lu Tao then said to Zhang Yuan: "It's better for Jiezi to stay for two more days. The Fushui Shanfang Society is the largest literary society in Su Yue.
There are so many talented people in China, and you just happened to get to know Su Yue, a famous scholar. Studying and making friends are important events in my life."
Zhang Yuan thought: "Zhang Pu established the Fu... more than ten years later. It was through continuous recruitment of small societies that grew up. During the Wanli period, the women's societies first emerged. They were small groups formed by local scholars to figure out the culture and customs of the time. They had quite a goal.
It was the imperial examination, and Su Yuebangshui Shanfang Society took the lead and came to Qingpu to expand its territory.
"He nodded and said: "Three or five days is still enough to wait. I have a small Kanhe Pai delivered by Yiyi. It only takes seven or eight days to go back to Shanyin from here." Lu Tao thought that Zhang Yuan's Kanhe Pai was made by Xiang Xiang Zhang.
The official's uncle borrowed it and didn't ask any questions.
Although Lu Zhaokun said angrily yesterday that he would not let his son Lu Tao celebrate his birthday, Lu Tao is a local student and still has a certain status in the county. His classmates, relatives and friends had already sent greeting cards and congratulatory gifts. Of course Lu Zhaokun had to serve the wine.
To celebrate his birthday, on the seventh day of the lunar month, after all the guests have gathered, they have to do a roll call. That is to say, so-and-so congratulates Lu Xiucai on his thirtieth birthday and rolls the names one by one. This is to let all the guests present know who has sent birthday gifts, which means showing off.
, when all the guests heard the name of Shang Zhoude from Kuaiji, they all asked who Shang Zhoude was and had he come to the banquet?
Lu Zhaokun also felt that he had gained face and said to the guests: "Shang Zhoude is the younger brother of Shang Zhouqu, the young minister of Taipu Temple. The Shang family in Kuaiji is related by marriage to the brother-in-law of my son Lu Tao."
All the guests heard that Ma Qiancheng, the Xuanfu envoy of Shizhu, Kuizhou, had sent a congratulatory gift. They were all surprised. When did the Qingpu Lu family have contact with the chieftain of Eastern Sichuan? The Xuanfu envoy was a fourth-rank official. Although he did not come,
But having congratulatory gifts would be a great honor to Mr. Lu, but could it be that Mr. Lu is bluffing and talking to himself, and there is no toast to give gifts? Lu Zhaokun has recently suffered a big loss from Songjiang Dong's family, and he wants to take this opportunity to make some recovery.
face?
Lu Zhaokun was also puzzled. He had never even heard the name of Shizhu chieftain Ma Qiancheng. Could it be that he met his son Lu Tao during the provincial examination last year?
Lu Zhaokun asked someone to call Lu Tao over to ask. Lu Tao didn't know who Ma Qiancheng was. Some of the guests laughed sarcastically. Zhang Yuan was waiting to step forward to explain, but Lu Zhaokun had already said angrily: "Bring that gift and see."
See if there is a greeting card."
Of course there is a greeting card, it is a special greeting card for the Xuanfu Department of Shizhu. In addition to six taels of silver and brocade and other items, there is also a gold longevity star holding a peach on the bottom of the lid, which weighs about three to forty taels. All the guests are present
He exclaimed, this gift is quite generous. Forty taels of gold is worth more than three taels of silver. Shizhu Chieftain is really generous!
Zhang Yuan didn't know that Qin Liangyu also ordered someone to put the golden birthday girl in the box, and smiled and shook his head.
The birthday banquet lasted from noon to evening, and some of the guests must have eaten their fill after attending the banquet for three days in one day.
At three o'clock in the morning, people dispersed in the wine stalls. Lu Tao saw off the guests and was about to return to the side courtyard. Lu Yangfang came over and said, "Brother, my father asked me to go and have something to ask." Lu Tao was worried, not knowing that his father
If you ask him what's going on, won't he get angry again?
Lu Yangfang personally carried a lantern and led her brother Lu Tao through the side alley. When they arrived at his courtyard, Lu Tao asked curiously: "Why are you here? Where is your father?"
Lu Yangfang held her brother's hand and said, "Father is happy today. He drank two more drinks and helped him in to rest. It's because I have something to do with my brother..."
Lu Tao was an easy-going man, and he was not bothered by his younger brother Lu Yangfang's false announcement of his father's fate. He asked, "What's the matter?"
Lu Yangfang took her brother to sit down in the small hall, and said to her knees: "Brother, I have something to ask of you. My brother-in-law, Zhang Yuan, has a maidservant. She is tall and strong, and looks like a good man. I have no children yet, so I would like to take her."
Zhang Yuan's maid is my concubine. Please tell Zhang Yuan that I am willing to buy her slave contract for fifty taels of silver."
Lu Tao shook his head and said, "That's not okay. If a visitor from afar comes to visit you, you will treat him like a maid. I won't say this for you."
Lu Yangfang sat there with a playful smile and bowed: "Didn't I pay to buy her? Brother, I will help my little brother."
Lu Tao said: "That is my brother-in-law's personal maid. How could I sell it to you? I won't mention it again." Lu Yangfang did not give up and said: "Then I will give you one tael. Zhang Yuan's family is not well-off. He will definitely give up his love for one tao."
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Lu Tao said seductively: "Don't pressure people with money. Zhang Yuan has superb craftsmanship. He rarely needs a family planning officer. If he succeeds in the examination, why should he be short of you for just one tael of silver?" He stood up and said again: "Chen Ming years ago."
If you defected from the Dong family, how could Chen Ming have obtained the land deed if you hadn't been entrusted by Chen Ming? Don't think that no one knows what you did. Chen Ming defected because you were in love with Chen Ming's wife. Don't be fooled.
I think about yinyu every day, and do more sericulture, so as to share my father's worries."
After that, he walked away.
When Lu Yangfang saw that her brother, who had always been cowardly, didn't listen to him and even taught him a lesson under the influence of alcohol, he became angry and said in his heart: "It was Chen Ming's wife Liu who seduced me. I fell into that yinfu's trap!" Hate!
Hatefully, he swept a tea tray on the coffee table next to him and smashed it to pieces on the ground.
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