Zhang Yuan read through Wang Yingzi's eight-part essay "A gentleman is a metaphor for justice" and he really felt that his writing style was very similar to his own. The writing style was clean, the writing was thoughtful, far-reaching, fresh and moving, and rich in literary color.
Among those who received the true biography of Wang Siren, the difference between Zhang Yuan and Zhang Yuan lies in the ideological nature of craftsmanship, but the independent thoughts that craftsmanship can express are limited, and they all have to speak through the body of a saint. Therefore, when it comes to this craftsmanship alone, it is not inferior to Zhang Yuan.
If Wang Yingzi can really take the test next month, the head of the case dare not say, but he will definitely win——
Zhang Yuan took up his pen and wrote the word "ke" on the paper. During the county examination, when the county magistrate judged the paper, he wrote the word "ke" on the ink paper he thought he could pass.
"Can", when I heard Teacher Wang's voice coming from the hall, I put away the ink scroll and put it back in its place, got up and walked to the study door to wait.
Wang Siren, wearing a Xiaoyao scarf and an ivory straight-leg Taoist robe, came in with a boy. When he saw Zhang Yuan, he smiled and asked, "When did you come back?"
Zhang Yuan crossed his hands and said, "The student arrived yesterday." Wang Siren sat down in the small hall before entering the study, and said to Zhang Yuan, "You came back just in time. On the 23rd of this month, I will invite Shaoxing celebrities and two people from Yifu.
The county officials are visiting the Kuaiji Mountain Resort. They were supposed to invite people to visit the park in February, but they were delayed due to the illness of Chen's son-in-law in Xiaoshan. I have already posted an invitation to Mr. Suzhi, and you will come as well."
Zhang Yuan responded: "Yes."
Wang Siren casually asked Zhang Yuan how his trip to Qingpu was. Zhang Yuan told him about the Qingshou fight in Hangzhou. Wang Siren sighed: "The world is difficult and the network of human connections is dense. Even such a Yao litigator can rely on his cousin's power to achieve his goals."
Hiding someone with an arrow in the back is like meeting you, and someone else would have fallen into his trap. How can you take the government examination with a broken leg? I will first delay you for three years, and then seek revenge. This is because I am afraid that he will not accept you if you have the honor of being a member of the army.
Good deeds.”
Zhang Yuandao: "Students will be more careful in the future."
Wang Siren asked Zhang Yuan about his experience in Hangzhou in detail. Except for the secret conversation with Eunuch Zhong, Zhang Yuan told everything else. Wang Siren smiled and said: "Zhang Yuan, you have become an eunuch before you even entered the county school."
, Aren't you afraid of being criticized by the disciples of Donglin in the future?" Wang Siren always spoke sharply and jokingly, which offended many people. At this time, he also called Zhang Yuan an eunuch.
Zhang Yuandao: "Make friends with people worth making friends with, whether they are internal officials or Donglin."
Wang Siren said: "It is often easy to make friends with internal officials, but it is difficult to make friends with Donglin, and it is difficult to make friends with internal officials."
Zhang Yuan understood the meaning of Teacher Wang's words. Eunuchs often reveal their thoughts more directly, but the scholar-bureaucrats represented by Dong Lin are much more complicated. He nodded and said: "Thank you for your guidance, teacher. Students know how to measure. At present, students only ask for
Regenerator."
Wang Siren smiled and said: "If your craftsmanship can't make up for the students, then what's the point of Emperor Gao's selection of scholars with eight-legged essay writing?" He also said, "Are you still insisting on craftsmanship and studying ancient prose these days?"
Zhang Yuandao: "It was quite tiring traveling and traveling back and forth from Qingpu, but the students still wrote more than 20 articles on craftsmanship, and there are also about 20 pieces of ancient prose that have been tried out since the beginning of the year. The students selected five articles on craftsmanship and five articles on ancient prose, and asked the teacher for advice.
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Wang Siren browsed through the five articles on craftsmanship and found that Zhang Yuan's eight-legged essay was now beyond reproach. Compared with last year's eight-legged fight with Yao Fu, he was still more mature and mature. Wang Siren only made a few comments and then took a closer look at Zhang Yuan's eight-legged essay.
Ancient essays, these five ancient essays are "Longshan Snow", "Lamp View of Shanyin", "Night Sailing", "Spring Dawn on Su Di" and "Sunset on Xuedian Lake" -
The so-called ancient prose is relative to parallel prose. Prose prose that does not pay attention to rhythmic duality is all ancient prose. In fact, eight-legged prose can be said to be a variant of parallel prose. Parallel prose has gorgeous words and sentences, flashy and empty content, and most of them are restricted in thought.
The same is true for eight-legged essays, while ancient essays are of random length, simple and smooth, and can better express temperament. These five ancient essays by Zhang Yuan are very interesting. Wang Siren smiled and said: "Your writing style is like Yuan Zhonglang, clear and clear, and this is what a beginner learns of ancient essays can do."
The situation is really rare.
Zhang Yuandao: "Students writing ancient prose are just moved by their emotions and express their feelings. They are not forced to do it. It is considered a kind of preference. This is not the case with eight-legged writing. In fact, they don't like it."
Wang Siren smiled and said: "You have to do it if you don't like it. You can put it aside after you have passed the palace examination."
The teachers and students talked all morning. Wang Siren left a meal, and Zhang Yuan did not refuse. After the meal, he tasted West Lake Longjing tea. Eunuch Zhong gave him two pounds of West Lake Longjing tea. One pound was given to his uncle Zhang Rulin, and one pound was given to Wang.
Teacher.
At dusk, Zhang Yuan returned to the rear residence of Fuxue Palace. Wu Ling said that the third young master Zhang E had been here. The third young master said that a mirror maker and two servants who went to Haizhou had already set off. Zhang Yuan went into the inner courtyard to meet his mother and sister, and then went to the rear residence.
I watched craftsmen building a house in the garden. If you have money, it's easy to do things. The three-foot-long low wall has been demolished and the foundation of the house is being excavated——
Zhang Yuan asked Wu Ling to bring out the white mule Xue Jing, and ran for a while by the Touji River. Two brothers, Lu Chun and Lu Jie, saw them and shouted to ride. Zhang Yuan could not resist the two nephews, so he had to take Mu Jingyan away.
Called over to control the reins, he helped Lu Chun ride on the saddle. After walking dozens of steps, Lu Jie, who was waiting behind him, was already shouting impatiently: "It's my turn, it's my turn, I want to ride even more."
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The two brothers kept fighting, one getting off and the other getting up. Finally, Zhang Ruoxi came over and dragged the two of them back to the inner courtyard, and Zhang Yuan was freed.
The setting sun falls over Longshan Mountain, and the sunset is as brilliant as a brocade. The twilight has not yet set, and there is no sound in the river.
Zhang Yuan suddenly remembered that since the heavy snowfall last winter, there had been only one light rain in the following four months. Looking at the clear sky and sunset, it seemed that there were no signs of rain in the near future. Is there going to be a severe drought in Shaoxing this year? In the past, the sky was several feet wide.
Now there is only a trickle like a small stream in the middle of the river. If it doesn't rain again, the water in the river will stop flowing at the end of April. In May and June, most of the rivers in Sanin City will be unavailable for boats.
The autumn wheat harvest is about to fail——
After Lu Chun and Lu Jie returned to the inner courtyard, the riverside suddenly became quiet. Wu Ling led the white mule Xue Jing back to the stables. Mu Jingyan was packing up the wood and stones for building the house. The craftsmen had already gone back.
Craftsmen in the suburbs of Shanyin come early and return late——
Zhang Yuan wandered alone by the river and walked to the big locust tree. The big locust tree used to be less than ten feet away from the water. Now the river has dried up and a large area under the tree is a river beach. Hey, Mu Zhenzhen squatted on the river
What is the central government doing, other than doing laundry?
Zhang Yuan walked down the river beach, where there were stones of all sizes, and between the stones there was hard river mud. Zhang Yuan had to walk carefully, naturally with gentle steps, but Mu Zhenzhen was very alert, and Zhang Yuan did not take a few steps closer.
She turned around and saw that it was the young master. She quickly stood up, threw a willow branch in her hand on the ground, her face turned red, and she said happily: "Young master."
Zhang Yuan frowned slightly. Mu Zhenzhen put on her old dress again. The cuffs of the long-sleeved short-sleeved dress were frayed into raw edges. The skirt was patched at the knees. Her feet were wearing open-toed straw sandals. She must have worn them just now.
After washing my feet in the river, my feet were washed very clean, my toes were slightly bent, and I was holding on to the straw sandals firmly, looking like I was gathering strength——
It's strange that the old clothes and tattered skirts have a special charm on this fallen girl. The rough fabric only reveals the delicate skin. The restrictive and small skirt reminds Zhang Yuan that she has grown up, and the rags are tattered.
Long legs and slender waist, uh, did Mu Zhen really realize that she could impress Master Zhang Jiezi by dressing like this?
Obviously not. This fallen girl just couldn't bear to wear those two sets of new clothes. She went to Qingpu to save face for the young master and couldn't wear them in tatters. Now that she's back, she can still wear these old clothes, so she put them on again, Mu
Is it true that I don’t like the new and dislike the old? I don’t know if it’s because of nature or because I was suppressed by poverty and suffering since childhood.
Now that the weather is getting hotter, if you really want to wear it like this, just let her go. Well, old clothes are cool, and celebrities in the Wei and Jin Dynasties still wear old clothes. Zhang Yuan asked: "What are you doing with a willow branch, brushing your teeth or writing?"
I walked over and took a look. The river water receded. The river mud was half dry and half wet. It was close to the middle of the river. There were few pebbles and the river mud was relatively smooth. I saw a writing on the river mud: "It is the end of October, and I am walking on the snow."
The hall will be returned to Lingao. The two guests followed me and crossed the yellow mud slope. As the frost and dew fell, all the leaves were peeled off, and the figures were on the ground. They looked up at the bright moon, looked at it with joy, and sang songs to each other - "
The willow branches were writing on the river mud, which was just scratching. However, Mu Zhenzhen's writing style was quite majestic and could be called graceful, which was very different from the humble and shy temperament of this fallen girl.
Zhang Yuandao: "The writing is very good, why don't you go to the study to practice calligraphy on paper?"
Mu Zhenzhen lowered her head and did not answer. On the boat to and from Qingpu, she and the young master lived in the same cabin. She waited on the young master while he read and wrote. There was nothing on the boat, so she just wrote a few words. Now that she is back, how can she be a maid?
How about sitting in the study and writing like that?
Zhang Yuan knew what she was thinking and said: "Your father has been helping to build a house for the past three months. I will go to He Dianshi and ask for two more months of tolerance. It is just to pay some labor money. You can live here with peace of mind."
, when I practice calligraphy every afternoon, you can sit next to me and practice calligraphy using the back side of the calligraphy paper I have written on, okay?"
Mu Zhenzhen was overjoyed and said repeatedly:
"Thank you, Master. Thank you, Master."
Zhang Yuandao: "Zhenzhen, as long as you can recognize and write this word, it will be fine." When he said this, he thought of Wang Yingzi. Wang Yingzi's eight-part essay was good, but it could only be used to kill time, and troubled times were coming.
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Mu Zhenzhen said shyly: "I don't think about anything else. I just want to recognize and learn to write."
Zhang Yuan picked up the willow branch that Mu Zhenzhen had left behind and wrote on the river mud: "Today at dusk, I caught fish with a net, with a big mouth and thin scales, like a perch in the Songjiang River. Did Gu An get the wine?"
" He stood up and threw the willow branches into the water, and said with a smile: "My sister's house has Songjiang four-gilled bass, and the wine is like Hantanchun, haha - go back, it's time for dinner."
Mu Zhenzhen followed Zhang Yuan to the east bank and looked back at the words on the river mud, feeling very happy.
At night, Zhang Yuan went to the south building and asked his sister Zhang Ruoxi to read to him for half an hour. What he was reading now was the 60-volume "Selected Works of Zhaoming". This set of books was also borrowed from the collection of Zhang Rulin, his great uncle, and came from the pre-Qin Dynasty.
Until now, most of the outstanding poems, prose, and poems by famous Southern Dynasty writers have been selected and collected. Only after reading the "Selected Works of Zhaoming" can I say that I have some background——
Lu Chun and Lu Jie were also sitting on the side listening to their mother Zhang Ruoxi reading. At this time, they did not dare to make any noise. As they listened, the two little brothers fell asleep leaning on their chairs. The two brothers Zhang Ruoxi brought from Qingpu
A maid hurriedly took the two of them to sleep. Zhang Yuan also got up and went back to the west building. Zhang Ruoxi followed him to the corridor, looked at the moonlight in the corner of the patio downstairs, and said, "I don't know how Lu Lang is doing now. In a few days,
A letter will almost come, but he always wants to hide it from me even if he is wronged."
Zhang Yuandao: "After my brother-in-law writes and my sister replies, I will also write a letter to Yang Shixiang in Qingpu to ask about the situation."
Zhang Ruoxi nodded and said yes.
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On March 20th, the trial of Yao Fu and Yang Shangyuan was reopened. Yao Xin was also escorted back from Hangzhou Prefecture as evidence of the crime. Yao Fu and Yang Shangyuan's homes were ransacked, and thousands of taels of lead-filled counterfeit silver were found from Yang Shangyuan's home. Yao, Yang
All the properties of the two families were confiscated. Lu Yungu's cousin Lu Yunpeng, the lame scholar Liu Yingcai, Fang Xiucai's son, and other victims who had been defrauded by Yao Fu's son and mother's money and whose families were ruined were all confiscated this time.
In exchange for compensation, most of the fields that Yao Fu had seized from the Fang and Lu families were returned, and the remaining fields were harvested as official fields and school fields to be used for the expenses of the county government and county schools——
Yao Fuzhang moved to Xuanfu at the age of 40 to surrender his army.
When the tree fell and the monkeys dispersed, all the slaves of Yao Fu and Yang Shangyuan's families were gone. Yang Shangyuan's wife Pan went back to her parents' home in Yuyao, and Yao Fu's several-room childless concubine had been involved in the crime as early as last year when Yao Fu was imprisoned.
Xinruan escaped first, but they were quick to seize the opportunity——
On the afternoon of the 22nd, Zhang E came to see Zhang Yuan in the study room in the west building. He clapped his hands and laughed and said: "Happy, happy, Yao's lawsuit stick has finally fallen. Jiezi, you have missed the good show. When the Yao brothers and Yang Shangyuan received the stick,
The people watching were roaring with joy, which shows how much Yao Heixin is abandoned by God and hated by others."
While they were talking, Da Shitou came in and reported that an official named Liu wanted to see the young master. Zhang Yuan and Zhang E went out to the front hall and saw Liu Biqiang, the head of the county government office, folding his hands respectfully and saying: "Master Jiezi, Yao Fu has already arrived."
Convicted, Yao Fu collected twenty taels of silver from Zhang Dachun last year. I have reported it to the Ming County Lord. Now I will return the twenty taels of silver to Master Jiezi."
Another officer brought four ingots and five taels of silver. Zhang Yuan asked Wu Ling to collect the silver. He also rewarded Liu Biqiang and two of them with one tael of silver and treated them to a drink. How could Liu Biqiang dare to ask for it? He bowed down with another officer.
quit.
Zhang E smiled and said: "Jiezi, you can be called the tyrant of Shanyin now. Who dares to offend you? Yao Yigun is a lesson learned from the past."
Zhang Yuan refused to talk about these things with this clan brother who was talking nonsense, and asked: "Brother Zongzi, why haven't you seen me these days? He is my guarantor. The trial registration in this government requires not only a guarantor, but also a guarantor.
He is a Linsheng, so I have to ask Brother Zongzi to help me find another Linsheng to be my guarantor."
Zhang E said: "Brother went to Shangyu to visit Ni Ruyu at the beginning of the month. It's the mysophobic Ni Ruyu. Before leaving, he said he would be back in a few days. Registration is not until the end of the month. What are you in a hurry for?"