Chapter 173: Grinding the mirror and burning incense, saying that Concubine Yang
Life has to be lived as it should be. It is okay to worry about the world's worries first. This is a necessary awareness. It is not enough to be happy after the world's happiness. To be happy, you must be happy first. Zhang Yuan was not worried because of the drought in the mountains.
Hua is so worried, otherwise it would be impossible to live if he thinks about what will happen thirty years later. He can only do this step in disaster relief. He has tried his best and has a clear conscience. The summer wheat harvest has made the people of Shanyin realize the serious consequences of the drought.
It was underestimated, especially the rich landowners, who did not think that the drought would last long. They were not very interested in building warehouses to collect grains, but they were very enthusiastic about praying for rain. They spent money to hold competitions to worship gods. In the suburbs, villages prayed for rain and pretended to be tide gods.
Sea ghosts are detested by the people. Zhang Rushuang's third son Zhang Bingfang is particularly fond of competition. He and his two nephews Zhang Dai and Zhang E want to organize a grand rain praying competition to compete with the Sea Dragon King Temple Fair in Kuaiji Qiansu Prince Temple.
Just like the Longshan Lantern Festival is the best in Shaoxing, Zhang Bingfang's uncle and nephew had to use 36 Tiangang and 72 Disha to reenact the 108 generals of "Water Margin", and sent a dozen people who were familiar with "Water Margin"
"The slaves of the house went to various villages on the outskirts of the city, looking for customers with beautiful beards, looking for black short men, looking for vicious tutuos, looking for fat monks, looking for men with red faces and red beards, looking for green-scarred faces, looking for strong women, looking for tall and handsome women.
Good Fu people, anyway, all the Liangshan heroes in "Water Margin" must be found according to the appearance described in the book. If you can't find them in your own county, you can go to neighboring counties to find them. It is estimated that it will take two months to find all these people, and then you have to buy clothes.
It won't take more than a hundred days to finish the work. Zhang Yuan has no time to participate in this matter. Just watch it when there is excitement. This is also something the villagers like to see. Let's see if we can use these Water Margin characters to raise some money and grain to help build a charity warehouse.
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Although Zhang Rushuang is the leader of Yanghe Yicang, he does not care about the specific affairs of the preparation of the Yicang. This is still in charge of Zhang Yuan. Zhang Yuan serves as the social official of Yanghe Yicang. Social justice needs to be handled fairly and trusted by people.
Although Zhang Yuan is only sixteen years old, he was the first in the county examination and the first in the government examination. He even defeated Yao Huaguan. He is well-known in Shanyin and has a good reputation. Zhang Yuan can also convince the public when he is a social official.
Yun Gu was busy practicing medicine, so Lu Yunpeng came to assist in the matter of the free warehouse. After Lu Yunpeng's family property was invaded by Yao Fu more than ten years ago, he went to Yuyao to make a living. He learned arithmetic and abacus. This time he got most of it back.
Lu Yunpeng was also a small landowner with more than 100 acres of fertile land. He had more free time, so Zhang Yuan asked Lu Yunpeng and the lame Liu Xiucai to be the two vice-presidents of the free warehouse. They were in charge of the keys and account books of the free warehouse and the mortgage of the free warehouse.
According to Zhang Yuan's design, Yanghe Yicang was divided into two warehouses, A and B. Due to limited money, warehouse A will be built first this year, and the foundation of warehouse B will be built at the same time. The county magistrate Hou appointed the county
The Yamen Registrar came to assist Zhang Yuan in supervising the construction. The county engineering department requisitioned ten craftsmen. After the construction was completed, the county government did not participate in the management of the charity warehouses. This was an agreement between Zhang Rushuang and Hou Zhihan, because many charity warehouses were often occupied by the government later.
In the end, it became a reserve warehouse for the government. If it met an honest county magistrate, it would be fine. If it met a corrupt official, it would be embezzled. Zhang Rushuang did not distrust Hou Zhihan, but it was for the long-term plan, and Hou Zhihan had less than two years left in Shanyin's term.
Years' time, so I don't force myself to take over the charity warehouse...
On April 27, Zhang Yuan's letter to his father Zhang Ruiyang was sent by courier to the Zhou Palace in Kaifeng by his great-uncle Zhang Rushuang. In the letter, Zhang Yuan informed his father that he went to Qingpu to celebrate his brother-in-law's birthday, came back to take the imperial examination, and won the title.
Zhang Ruoxi also sent an attached letter to her father about what happened at the beginning of the case, asking him when he would return to the mountains for sex.
Zhang Yuan wrote another letter to Yang Shixiang and his brother-in-law Lu Tao in Qingpu, informing him of the news that he had won the first prize in the imperial examination. He invited Yang Shixiang and his brother-in-law to come to Shanyin as guests. When the construction started, Xu Shijin, the prefect of Shaoxing, and Hou Zhihan, the magistrate of Shanyin County, came to congratulate him. Most of Shanyin's well-known squires also came to take a look. At this time, it was just a pile of rubble.
Zhang Yuan entrusted the daily affairs of building the warehouse to Liu Xiucai and Lu Yunpeng. Only Liu
The two of them, Lu, only asked him about things they couldn't decide. This made Zhang Yuan feel much more relaxed. He still read and practiced calligraphy every day. Only in the evening did he take Wu Ling or Mu Zhenzhen to the edge of the north city to see the progress of building a warehouse in the 41st year of Wanli. During the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May, the Fuhe River at the junction of Shanyin and Kuaiji held a dragon boat race as usual on the 24th solar term of the summer solstice. Early that morning, Luyun Valley asked the children to send ten realgar incense sticks to Zhang Yuan's family. Wearing a bag to avoid insects and snakes, Zhang's mother Lu asked Yi Ting to buy a pattern of Tianshi taking a tiger carved from calamus grass from Cross Street, put it on a large plate, surrounded it with five-color pus silk, cut orange The skin is made into the image of hundreds of insects and is spread on the plate. This is also to ward off evil spirits. It is pure and clean, and it is running around happily. 1 Children like to celebrate the festival the most. My mother will take them to see a dragon boat race later. Zhang Yuanchi After buying two rice dumplings, he took Wu Ling and Shi Shuang to Kuaiji to give gifts to teacher Wang Siren and Mr. Shang. Wang Siren was a teacher and Ms. Shang was an in-law. These are indispensable gifts for festivals, such as Jiao Qin rice dumplings, Youzuo, and fruits from the north and south. , bad fish, porridge fish, Magu wine, red and yellow linen cloth, gauze fan, sweat towel, and two big white geese were also given to the Shang family. Shaoxing people are more fashionable to give geese, especially during the Dragon Boat Festival. The son-in-law gave them White goose is a must-have gift for your father-in-law~
After crossing the Yuewang Bridge, I saw dragon boats rowing back and forth on the Fu River. There were already many people watching the dragon boats on both sides of the bank. The water source of the Fu River was relatively abundant, and the Touji River behind Zhang Yuan's house was almost dry. The Fu River can still be used for boating. The master and servant Zhang Yuan watched for a long time at the bridge. It was still early and it was not time for the dragon boat race yet. The master and the servant headed towards Xinghuā Temple. First they went to Teacher Wang Siren. When the old disciple saw Zhang Yuan coming to the door, he said happily: "Master Zhang is so thoughtful that he came so early in the morning to give my master a gift." Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "Teacher Wang is my mentor, this is just a little kindness from the student. That's it." Another big white goose that Shi Shuang placed outside the wall door screamed "Hang Hang". The old man heard it and said: "Master Zhang also sent a goose. The master and the second lady love to eat goose necks. "These two big white geese were sent by Zhang Yuan to the merchant. Zhang Yuan had no intention of sending the geese to Teacher Wang, so he asked Shi Shuang to put the geese outside the wall. Unexpectedly, the geese kept crowing. After saying this, he said: "Really? I didn't know that Teacher Wang also likes to eat goose necks." He asked Shi Shuang to bring in the two geese.
A young novice from Yanqing Temple was ordered by his master to deliver a golden cylinder wheel to Wang Siren's house to ward off evil spirits.
To ward off evil, the temple monks gave some Tanyue donors gold cylinder wheels on Dragon Boat Festival, and the Taoist priests gave believers talismans to ward off evil spirits. Wang Siren asked a few questions and asked the little sandpaper, and sent the little novice back, leaving Zhang Yuan to drink tea and talk in the front hall. , Zhang Yuan sat for a while and then left. Wang Siren expected that Zhang Yuan would go to the merchant to deliver Dragon Boat Festival gifts, so he did not leave him alone. He just said: "Zhang Yuan, I know you are busy preparing for the charity warehouse now, but you must not neglect your studies." Four Books Now I can't help you with the eight-part question, but the Taoist examination is a question on the Four Books and a question on the Five Classics. Your classic is "Spring and Autumn", so there will be a question on the Spring and Autumn Period in the Taoist examination. Now you have to do more on the meaning of the "Spring and Autumn". Okay, I can't give you any advice on this, because my classic is the "Book of Rites", and I haven't delved deeply into the "Spring and Autumn". There are not many formal articles about the "Spring and Autumn". You are afraid of searching and trying to figure it out. Study, you can write two articles for me to read in a few days. Although the questions on the Five Classics are different from the questions on the Four Books, the methods of making eight-legged essay are the same. "After seeing off Zhang Yuan, Wang Siren was about to enter the inner courtyard. The old gatekeeper was carrying Two geese came over and said, "Sir, these geese were given by Mr. Zhang. They weigh about twenty kilograms."
Wang Siren thought to himself: "The son-in-law only gave the geese as a Dragon Boat Festival gift to his father-in-law. Why did Zhang Yuan specially send the geese?" Then he asked carefully about the situation and laughed, and said to his old disciple: "These geese were given to the merchant by Zhang Yuan.
When you said that, Zhang Yuan had no choice but to give it to me."
The old man recalled the scene just now and realized that the goose was indeed placed outside the wall. He also smiled and said: "Master Zhang heard that the master and the second lady like to eat goose throats, so he gave it away willingly."
Wang Siren shook his head and smiled as he walked into the inner courtyard and told his wife about it. He originally expected Mrs. Bo to smile, but his wife frowned and said sadly: "Last year during the Dragon Boat Festival, Chen Shuxu sent a servant to bring goose wine. This year it will be just one."
Wang Yingzi on the side said: "Dad, please take my sister back home in a few days."
Wang Siren said: "You have to wait until the Q7 period before I can pick him up at the end of this month."
Zhang Yuan asked Shi Shuang to buy two big geese at the Kuaiji market. Today, the price of geese has risen sharply. Two big white geese cost seven coins. Shi Shuang carried two geese on one end and rice dumplings and Magu wine on the other.
Wu Ling also carried a gift box and followed Zhang Yuan on the left bank of Dongdachi heading north to the Shang family's mansion. Along the way, many people exchanged greetings with Zhang Yuan. Everyone in Shanyin and Kuaiji counties knew Zhang Jiezi.
When he arrived at the Shang family's mansion, he was greeted by Shang Danran's cousin, the old scholar. This old scholar was quite surprised that Zhang Yuan got the top spot in the government examination. He thought that Zhang Yuan's eight-part essay "Zhao Meng's Place" was quite irregular.
, it would be good if he could pass the government examination. He didn't expect to be the first in the civil service examination, but he is his cousin's son-in-law, so he would be honored to be the first in the civil service examination.
The old scholar accompanied Zhang Yuan to lunch, drank a few glasses of wine, and lamented that his talent was not recognized. He said that Zhang Yuan was lucky, but he was lucky. Zhang Yuan listened with a smile, and occasionally echoed a few words, thinking:
"With this old gentleman here, I can't come here to spend the summer and study. I have to wait for the second brother Shang Zhoude to come back from Beijing. The second brother Shang should be back at the end of this month or early next month."
Shang Danran must have thought the same thing. This time he did not invite Zhang Yuan to meet her in the back garden. He only asked the maid to give Zhang Yuan a sachet embroidered by herself to wear personally. The sachet was embroidered with green lotus patterns with silk thread.
, with green silk tassels hanging down, elegant and beautiful, fragrant and fragrant. A mirrormaker and two Xizhang slaves sent to Haizhou to purchase crystal stones came back on May 19th. They traveled for two months and were shipped back with the ship.
There are about thousands of kilograms of large and small crystal stones, all of which are carefully selected colorless and transparent crystals that are suitable for polishing into lenses. In Haizhou, the most expensive is amethyst, but this kind of colorless and pure crystal is cheaper.
Zhang Yuan originally asked three mirrormakers to use the crystal stone to make incense mirrors, dimming glasses and myopia glasses. They should be skilled in skills and improve their light-focusing skills. They should be able to make suitable lenses according to the degree of old eyesight and myopia, and teach the three
The principles and imaging rules of concave and convex lenses for a mirrormaker. These three mirrorsmiths used to know how to make concave and convex lenses, but they knew it but didn't know why. Now listening to Zhang Yuan's careful explanation, it was really enlightening.
The scholar was so impressed that he was so admirable that he knew everything about astronomy and geography. He was probably referring to people like Mr. Zhang Jiezi.
When Zhang Yuan taught the three mirror-makers about optics, Zhang E was also listening. Zhang E was smart. He understood it before the three mirror-makers understood it, and immediately started experimenting. The positive and negative results were as Zhang Yuan said, and he said happily: "
Jiezi, could it be that you were making glasses in your previous life!"
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "Three brothers, haven't you heard of the Mana Consciousness mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures? The Mana Consciousness contains all the memories of a person's past lives. I remember that in my past life, I was a disciple of Mo Zhai and a disciple of Confucius.
In ancient Yue, I saw Xizi holding his heart and Dongshi imitating his frown. In the Three Kingdoms, I was delighted to meet Zhou Lang and Xiao Qiao in the feather fan turban. I married Yang Fei in Tianbao. I watched Ji Kang forging iron. I once shared the experience with Dongpo.
I'm drunk, so I know a lot." He thought to himself, "I'm still alive four hundred years later."
Zhang E stared, half-believing, and asked: "How can you remember your previous life?"
Zhang Yuandao: "It's the Su Hui aura that opened up when I had an eye disease." He has said this many times.
Zhang E said angrily: "I also sat in meditation for a long time last year, but I got nothing."
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "This one also pays attention to chance. There is only one in ten thousand. The third brother will not envy you."
Zhang E suddenly asked: "You said that Tianbao had good luck with Concubine Yang. Is it really true?"
Zhang Yuan said: "Of course, she is plump and white, unparalleled."
I never expected that Zhang E's next question would be: "Have you ever had sex with that plump and fair Concubine Yang?"
Zhang Yuan was speechless. Zhang Zun thought he had acquiesced, and said with envy and jealousy: "Could it be that you were the An Lushan when you were in the Tang Dynasty!"
The warehouse in Yanghe is being built, the telescope is being sharpened, Zhang Yuan's "Spring and Autumn" is being read, and the eight-legged essay is being written, day after day, it is June in the blink of an eye. Because the climate is hot and it doesn't rain, the water in the river evaporates quickly.
The Touji River behind Zhang Yuan's house has stopped flowing and has completely dried up. A few days ago, Wu Ling and Brother Shitou, carrying bamboo baskets on their backs, were rummaging through some wetlands in the middle of the river with their bare feet, and they could easily find dying people.
Among the fish, aphids were the most common. In two days, more than 20 kilograms of fish were dug out of the wet mud puddles. If they could not finish eating, Cuigu marinated the fish with salt. While marinating the fish, she sighed: "I'm afraid of the fish thrown into the river."
It is going to become extinct. If you eat it this time, there will be no next time."
On the evening of the fifth day of June, a steward from the Shang family came from Kuaiji to inform Zhang Yuan that their second master had returned from Beijing and asked Mr. Zhang to meet him tomorrow.
Zhang Yuan is very happy. Brother Shang is back. He can finally go to Baima Mountain to spend the summer and study. Well, he should calm down and read some books. Will Miss Dan Ran accompany him to study?
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