Liyuan Garden is located beside Panggong Pool at the foot of Longshan Mountain in the west of the city. Panggong Pool is said to be the place where King Gou Jian of Yue trained his navy two thousand years ago. Now it has become an abandoned pool without an owner. Zhang Dai's eldest father, Zhang Rulin, bought more than ten acres of land beside the pool and ordered craftsmen to
Cleverly arranged, taking advantage of the power of Longshan to use the water of Panggong Pond, the garden covering only ten acres seems to be dozens of acres wide. Standing on the east bank of Panggong Pond and looking out, the lingering mountains and rivers, the pavilions and pavilions, really look like a fairyland.
Zhang Yuan asked the boy from Xi Zhang to go ahead. He and Wu Ling arrived later. "The Peony Pavilion" hasn't started yet, so don't be in a hurry and walk slowly along the bank of Panggong Pond to see more.
While I was slowly looking at the mountains and rivers, I suddenly heard someone not far away calling: "Jiezi, Brother Jiezi, are your eyes healed?"
Zhang Yuan looked back and saw a boy of fourteen or five years old running over. He had a round face, narrow eyes, and a smile. Zhang Yuan remembered that this was Dong Zhang's cousin Zhang Dingyi, who was the same age as him, but
Yue is three months younger than him and studies in the social science school behind the Fuxue Palace. The two of them used to play together.
Zhang Dingyi ran over, stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Zhang Yuan's eyes, asking: "Brother Jiezi, can you see me?"
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "I can't see, when did you learn the invisibility technique?"
Zhang Dingyi also laughed and said: "Brother Jiezi's eyes are healed. I'm so happy. Please treat me to some sweets." Zhang Yuan used to like to eat sweets and always carried desserts in his pocket.
Zhang Yuan said: "If your eyes are not good, you can't eat sweets."
Zhang Ding said "Oh" and asked, "Where are you going, Brother Jie?"
The little Xinu Wu Ling spoke quickly and replied: "The eldest son of Xi Zhang, the young master, and the young master Yan Ke invited my young master to go to the garden and watch a play." Wu Ling was very proud. When he spoke, he couldn't help but press his waist. There were two taels of silver there. Fan
Didn't Jane give the young master twenty taels of silver? The young master gave the money to his wife, and the wife asked the young master to keep five taels of silver as pocket money. He Wuling had never seen so much money before. The young master's monthly pocket money was only half of it before.
Two silver coins.
When Zhang Ding heard that they were going to the park to watch a play, his eyes suddenly widened and he shouted: "I'm not invited, but I want to go too."
Zhang Yuan said: "Then let's go together."
Zhang Dingyi was a little worried and said, "Zhang Yanke will drive me away if he doesn't invite me."
Zhang E doesn't like Zhang Dingyi. In the past, he only wanted Zhang Yuan to follow him, not Zhang Dingyi.
Zhang Yuan said: "It's okay, we are all brothers of the same clan. When you go to the garden, just don't kick the trees and break the flowers."
Zhang Dingyi followed Zhang Yuan and walked slowly. He heard the sound of tuning strings and playing strings in the garden in the distance. Zhang Dingyi was anxious and said: "Brother Jiezi, hurry up, the acting has begun." Before Zhang could wait, Zhang Dingyi walked slowly.
Yuan quickened his pace and ran first by himself, and soon he arrived outside Xiaomei Mountain.
Xiaomei Mountain is the entrance to Liyuan Garden, which is shaded by bamboo trees and made of fences. Zhang Dai, Zhang E, and Zhang Zhuoru from the west Zhang are greeting guests at the garden gate. Zhang E is shaking his folding fan and sees Zhang Dingyi probing his head and shouts: "What are you doing!"
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Zhang Dingyi had been beaten by Zhang E before. He was so frightened that he quickly turned around and ran away. He ran to Zhang Yuan and said with a sad face: "Brother Jie Zi, Zhang Yanke is hateful. He won't let me enter the garden."
Zhang Yuan said: "If you are not allowed to enter the park, then you can go back."
Of course Zhang Dingyi refused to go back and followed Zhang Yuan and Wu Ling to the outside of Xiaomei Mountain. When they met Zhang Zongzi, Zhang Yanke greeted Zhang Yuan very warmly. Zhang E noticed him and only glared at him this time.
Didn't chase him away.
Zhang Dai, who was free and cheerful and good at making friends, said to Zhang Yuan: "Jiezi, I will introduce you to some classmates and friends who are about to go to the provincial examination with me - this is Ni Ruyu from Shangyu, who is good at calligraphy and painting, and is obsessed with cleanliness.
, don’t spit in front of him, haha.”
Zhang Yuan looked at Ni Ruyu, who was in her twenties, with red silk hair and bright clothes. She looked like a beautiful woman. He knew that scholars in the late Ming Dynasty lived a flashy and dissolute life, and they also competed with women in clothing. At that time, there was a song
The limerick ridiculed this matter: "Anyone who went to the city yesterday and came back with tears in his arms and women's clothes all over his body was a scholar." So it is not unusual for Ni Ruyu to look like this.
Zhang Dai then pointed to a young scholar in his twenties and said, "This is Uncle Yao Jian of Kuaiji. He has exquisite writing and is good at painting."
The last person Zhang Dai introduced was the children of the Qi family in this county who were related by marriage to the Shanyin Zhang family, Qi Yiyuan and Qi Huzi. They were cousins. Qi Yiyuan was eighteen years old and Qi Huzi was only eleven.
Qi Huzi also wore a scarf at a young age and had a serious face. Zhang Dai held his hand and said to Zhang Yuan: "Jiezi, this Qi Huzi is the number one child prodigy in the county. He even passed the county examination at the age of nine the year before last."
, the two levels of the Taoist examination, I could have passed the Taoist examination originally, but the academic officer said that Huzi was too young and needed to be sharpened, so he agreed to admit him after passing the exam."
Qi Huzi's cousin Qi Yiyuan on the side said with a smile: "Huzi is a little prodigy, and the eldest son is a big prodigy. The two prodigies in this county are gathered together today. It is a grand event."
Everyone laughed, except Qi Huzi, the youngest.
Zhang Yuan looked at Qi Huzi and thought to himself: "This must be Qi Biaojia. I remember that he was the youngest Jinshi in the late Ming Dynasty. He was a Jinshi at the age of seventeen - how many books can he read at the age of seventeen?
No matter how much experience I have, I can only say that I have talent or knack for writing eight-legged essays."
Zhang E pointed at Zhang Yuan and said loudly: "Everyone, my clan brother is also a child prodigy. He suffered from eye disease three months ago. Unexpectedly, it was a blessing in disguise that Su Hui was opened. Now he can recite it by ear, and he can also play chess, Go, etc. blindfolded.
My eldest son and elder brother are no match."
Ni Ruyu, Uncle Yao and others all knew that Zhang E's words were not trustworthy, so they all asked Zhang Dai: "Brother Zongzi, is this really true?"
Zhang Dai smiled and nodded to confirm: "It's true."
Ni Ruyu said: "I want to try it face to face. I wonder what my brother Jie Zixian thinks?"
Qi Yiyuan also said that he would try Zhang Yuan's blind chess.
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "My dear friends, you are here to listen to music in the garden today, you are not here to take my test, right?"
Zhang Dai laughed and said: "First visit the garden, then listen to the music, and finally play chess." Then he and Zhang E guided everyone to climb Xiaomei Mountain, go to the Heavenly Questioning Platform, walk along the waterfront promenade, cross the Xiaoqu Bridge, and walk in the Yuxiang River.
Sit in a small pavilion.
On the left side of Yuxiang Pavilion is a bamboo forest, with tallow trees interspersed among the bamboos. It is early autumn, and the tallow trees are rising from the bamboo forest. There is also the sound of flutes and drums, which sounds like ethereal music.
Zhang Dai stood up and said: "The performance is about to begin, let's go over." He led Zhang Yuan and others through the bamboo forest path to Xia Shuangxuan.
Xia Shuangxuan is a place where buildings are concentrated in the Liyuan Garden. There are Xia Shuang Xuan, Shouhua Hall and a stage.
A staged opera.
Pan Xiaofei, with a painted face, came over to ask Zhang Dai if the performance should start. After receiving the reply, she hurried back to the stage. Soon, the flute, sheng, xiao, three-stringed instrument, and pipa played together, and a bearded old man came on the stage and started singing:
"A busy place leaves people to live in a leisure place. I think about everything, but there is no place to be happy. I spend the day with my heart broken, and there are only feelings in the world that are hard to express. In front of the jade tea hall, the morning and evening, the red candle welcomes people, and the handsome people are helped by the country. But lovesickness
Don’t be negative, go to the Peony Pavilion on the road to three lives——"
The flute was playing horizontally and the drums were beating. The old man changed the tune and sang:
"Du Baohuangtang, gave birth to Miss Liniang, who loved to step on the spring sun. I had a dream that a scholar was breaking willows, but it was because of his love. I left a photo and left a note, and was buried in the plum blossom Taoist temple. Three years ago, I had a dream of plum blossoms and willows, and I went to Gaotang here.
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Zhang Yuan closed his eyes, listened quietly, put his right hand on his thigh, and beat the beat gently, feeling intoxicated for a while——
On this early autumn afternoon, the sun was shining brightly, the breeze was blowing, and the pond water was slightly rippled. It was such a leisurely time.
"We are living for now, living for this moment. This is not to muddle along, but to understand the true taste of life."
At this time, Zhang Yuan felt that those major historical events were far away from him. He did not need to be anxious or anxious. He could savor it slowly and simply persist, believing that everything would be fine, because when a butterfly flaps its wings, a hurricane will rise.
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