At the end of noon, the boat arrived at Xuedian Lake. Zhang Yuan and his party had lunch in Zhujiajiao Town on the east bank of the lake. Wang Wei refused to get off the boat, so he asked Uncle Yao to buy some food, wine, vegetables and fruits to eat on the boat. For the children's food, Wang Wei asked the maid to bring out a red clay stove from the luggage, light the fire and burn charcoal, and use an earthenware bowl to cook Qingpu Japonica rice porridge. Wang Wei personally took the spoon and fried a plate of bitter melon and a plate of green lotus root, two side dishes, and a bowl. Japonica rice porridge, this girl's diet is very simple, and she pays attention to freshness and cleanliness.
Wang Wei ate two small bowls of Qingpu Japonica rice porridge, rinsed his mouth and hands, took a volume of "Poems of Yinxiu Xuan" and read it under the window. "Poems of Yinxiu Xuan" is a collection of poems by Jingling Zhongxing. Wang Wei read a poem "Under the leaves of Tinggao", he recited softly: "How the shadow of the old figure is even more different from the frosty sky, it is the chrysanthemum outside the sunset lamp, illuminating the late evening with the same heart." The more delicate and gratifying I feel, the more I disagree with Zhang Yuan's previous criticism of Zhong Xing. , I really want to debate with Zhang Yuan again——
The afternoon was long, and the boat was moored under the shade of willows by the Cao River. The wind was blowing on the water, and the heat was not felt. Except for the two boatmen who stayed behind, there were four people on the boat, including Wang Wei. The others had gone to the shore to have dinner——
Wang Wei read a poem and thought about it for a moment. He looked at the low-hanging willow branches on the shore and touched the water gently. It was very quiet, but two cicadas suddenly started chirping, one after another, making a lot of noise. Wang Wei put down the poem in his hand and said : "Xue Tong, get the slingshot."
Xue Tong was the boy with the mole between his eyebrows. He quickly took a beef tendon slingshot and a bag of selected small stone pills and sent them to Wang Wei. The cicada's chirping suddenly stopped, the willow leaves rustled, and a black cicada fell to the ground on the shore. After a few tossings, it stopped moving.
There was also a cicada, which was probably frightened by the girl's slingshot skills, and remained as silent as a cicada.
Xue Tong praised: "Wei Gu's shot is so accurate."
Wang Wei handed the slingshot to Xue Tong and said, "Compared with Granny Xue, it's far behind."
At this moment, I heard the sound of a boat, and a small boat of eight feet in length docked beside the wave boat. I saw a scholar in his thirties, wearing a jade-colored straight robe, came ashore and said, "Have some tea and rice here before going back." Qingpu.”
The voice sounded familiar to Wang Wei. When he looked up, he recognized Fan Xiaolian from Suzhou. He had visited her fake mare Xianglan at the "Youlan Pavilion" in the old courtyard of Nanjing a few years ago. I entrusted Ma Xianglan with his new legendary work "The Story of the Colorful Robe". Wang Maodeng was a talented man that Ma Xianglan fell in love with, but he was already seventy years old at that time and his hair was gray——
Wang Wei liked socializing the most, so he called out: "Fan Xiaolian, my little girl Wang Wei is so polite."
Fan Wenruo, who was on the shore, turned around and saw the upper body of a beautiful girl exposed through the canopy window of the wave boat. She was talking and smiling. Fan Wenruo felt unfamiliar and bowed his head and said, "Do you know Xu Wenruo of Changzhou?"
Wang Wei said: "Three years ago in the Youlan Pavilion of the old courtyard of Jinling, the little girl listened to Fan Xiaolian's clear words."
Fan Wenruo thought about it for a moment and suddenly said: "Oh, you are Miss Wang Wei - why is she here?"
Wang Wei said: "The little girl visited Chen Meigong in Yunjian, and now she is taking a boat back to Jinling."
Fan Wenruo said "Oh" and said: "Mr. Wang Baigu also passed away the year before last, and the talented man and famous prostitute turned into a butterfly and passed away."
Wang Wei said sadly: "Yes, my adoptive mother has been obsessed with Mr. Baigu all her life, and she still recited the poems Mr. Baigu wrote to her before she died."
Fan Wenruo suddenly remembered something and asked: "Miss Wang Wei came from Sheshan, does she know whether Shanyin Zhang Jiezi is still in Qingpu?"
Wang Wei asked in surprise: "Are Fan Xiaolian and Zhang Jiezi old friends?"
Fan Wenruo said: "Zhang Jiezi is a good friend of mine. I heard about him and Dong Hanlin in Changzhou - I heard that he held a gathering of Songjiang students in Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai, so I came all the way to meet him. I was afraid I would miss it."
Wang smiled and said: "That's a coincidence. This is the ship of Mr. Zhang Jiezi. Mr. Jiezi was going to the Imperial College in Nanjing to study. He said he was going to Suzhou to visit friends on the way, but it turned out to be Fan Xiaolian. What a coincidence."
Fan Wenruo was overjoyed and asked: "Where is Zhang Jiezi now?"
Wang Wei said: "We are having dinner at a restaurant in town. Will Fan Xiaolian wait on the boat?"
Fan Wenruo said: "I will go to the town to look for him." He took a servant and a boy to the town and met the three Zhang brothers in a restaurant in Dongshi. Fan Wenruo had met Zhang Dai and Zhang E in Shanyin last year. It’s a joy to see you again——
Zhang Yuan invited Fan Wenruo to have a meal with him and said, "What a coincidence, I met Brother Fan here."
Fan Wenruo smiled and said: "I came to Qingpu from Changzhou to visit Xian Kunzhong. If I hadn't met Miss Wang Wei on the shore, I almost would have missed it."
Zhang E hurriedly asked: "Brother Fan, do you recognize Aunt Wang Wei?"
Fan Wenruo said: "You three are in the same boat with the beauty, but you don't know the origin of the beauty?"
Zhang Yuandao: "Chen Meigong asked my brother to let her take a boat to Nanjing with him. She is Meigong's female disciple."
Fan Wenruo nodded and said: "Wang Wei is the adopted daughter of Ma Xianglan of the Youlan Palace in Nanjing. She is good at poetry and painting. She has become famous since last year and has become as famous as Li Xueyi, the famous concubine of the old courtyard. It is said that she has not yet combed her hair. , is still in perfect condition. At the beginning of the year, a Huizhou merchant wanted to comb it for a thousand gold but was rejected. It is as chivalrous as its fake mare Xianglan."
Zhang Dai said: "She is indeed the girl in the song, and she is indeed a talented woman. Today, Xue Xiaoshu is also the editor."
Fan Wenruo came to see Zhang Yuan not to talk about Wang Wei, but changed the subject and said: "Brother Jie Zixian, your reputation will spread to the capital this time -"
Zhang Yuandao: "I'm ashamed. I just wasn't angry with Mr. Dong for his misdeeds, so I joined the other disciples in Songjiang to accuse Mr. Dong. Now my reputation has spread far and wide, which is really not what I want."
Fan Wenruo said with a smile: "What's the matter? Since what Brother Fool has seen and heard, for what Jie Zi's wise brother did in Huating, there is more praise than slander, so Jie Zi doesn't need to worry. There is no reputation for perfection in the world. As reputation increases, slander will follow." After all, this is inevitable."
Zhang E said: "Brother Fan is right, Dong Qichang is half dead. If you are afraid of what will happen to him, come here and have a drink."
Fan Wenruo asked about the story of the coup against Dong, and Zhang Yuan told him all about it except for fishing for boxes from a sunken ship. Fan Wenruo sighed: "I also heard in Suzhou that Dong Xuanzai's two sons were responsible for harming one party, but I never thought that he would dare to force him to die. You are a member of the Communist Party of China and want to burn down your house to trap all living beings. This is really a lot of injustice and you will end up killing yourself."
After drinking and drinking, Fan Wenruo said with a smile: "Last year, I wanted to invite the wise brother Jiezi to join our Fushui Shanfang Society. Today I learned that the wise brother Jiezi has great ambitions. Hanshe has just been established, and its reputation is far better than that of Fushuishan." It’s a real estate agency.”
Zhang Yuan said bluntly: "Brother Fan, you and I have a close friendship, so let me be frank. I had planned to go to Suzhou to visit Brother Fan this time, for the sake of Hanshe—"
Fan Wenruo asked with a smile: "Do you want Fushui Shanfang Society to be merged into Han Society?"
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "The one who knows me is Brother Fan. If Brother Fan refuses, I will never dare to say anything. We will still be good friends in the future."
Fan Wenruo said: "I would like to ask, can I join both the Fushui Shanfang Society and the Han Society?"
Zhang Yuandao: "Of course you can. The Han Society is inclusive and will not be sectarian. As long as you are willing to abide by the three rules of the Han Society, you can join the society." He immediately told Fan Wenruo the three rules of the Han Society.
Fan Wenruo said: "Whether Fushui Shanfang Society will be merged into the Han Society or not, I can't decide. It needs to be discussed by colleagues in the society, but I can join the Han Society first."
Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "Brother Fan has already achieved great success, so joining Han Society is really condescending."
Fan Wenruo smiled and said: "What a risk. I will live to be thirty-five years old this year. If I live next year, I won't be able to join the Han Society." He suddenly asked: "You won't expel me from the Han Society next year because of my overage, right?"
Zhang Yuan, Zhang Dai, and Zhang E all laughed. Zhang Yuan said: "How can this not make sense? How can it make sense!"
Fan Wenruo asked some more about the Yuyuan Gathering and learned that the Han Society Gathering would be held in Sanyin next March. He said happily: "Then I will definitely come. It will be a grand event."
Because of the hot weather, Zhang Yuan and others did not continue their journey in the afternoon. They had to rest overnight in Zhujiajiao Town and set off again early tomorrow morning——
At dusk, Zhang Yuan and Fan Wenruo were walking by the Cao River. Zhang Yuan remembered something important. He asked several students in Qingpu but no one knew. Zhang Yuan asked: "Brother Fan, I have something to ask you."
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Fan Wenruo said: "You know everything you know without telling me."
Zhang Yuandao: "The former Commander-in-Chief of Liaodong, Du Song, dismissed his post and returned home. Are you living in Kunshan now? I have a healthy servant who wants to join the army, and I want to take care of him under Commander-in-Chief Du."
Fan Wenruo said: "I have heard of General Du. He is from Kunshan, but he moved to Yan'an Guard. He is from a general family, that is, a military household, a high-ranking military household -"
Zhang Yuan felt a chill in his heart. Where could he get the Yan'an Guards at this time? So there was nothing he could do in the Battle of Sarhu?
But I heard Fan Wenruo say again: "This brother of General Du lives in Zhenfengli, Kunshan. He passed away last month. Since General Du has been dismissed and has no military affairs, he will definitely come back to pay homage to his brother - I
The reason why I know about his brother's death is because a younger brother from the Du family studied under my friend Wang Huanru. Because he was a child of a military family, he was quite ignored by his classmates. Wang Huanru was one of the four people who came to Qingpu with me last year.
Do you still have any impressions?"
Zhang Yuan said: "Remember, the one with plump cheeks, beautiful beard, and a dignified appearance."
Fan Wenruo said: "Since I want to join the army, the Jinshan Guard is very close, so why ask for a dismissed commander-in-chief!"
Zhang Yuandao: "This servant of mine is from a pariah background. He wants to go north to kill the enemy and perform meritorious service to earn a clean background. General Du has experienced many battles and is temporarily dismissed. I believe he will be reinstated soon."
Fan Wenruo nodded and said: "The Mongolian Tatars are indeed very rampant and have repeatedly invaded the border. It is easier to achieve military success in Datong -" There is one sentence that was not said, that is, "die quickly."
Zhang Yuan thought: "Everyone in the Ming Dynasty only knows that the Mongolian tribe is a threat, but they don't know that Nurhachi is already sharpening his sword." He thought again: "I don't know if I can meet Juniper this time. If not, what if I can't?
I just resigned myself to fate? In the forty-seventh year of Wanli, I was already in the capital at that time. How could I sit back and watch the disastrous defeat that changed the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty!" He said: "Then I will take a detour to Zhenfengli, Kunshan tomorrow."
Fan Wenruo smiled and said: "There is no need to take a detour. When I came from Changzhou, I passed through Zhenfengli. Zhenfengli is also a place of interest. It has the former residence of Shen Wansan, a wealthy man in the early Republic of China."
Zhang Yuan was surprised, isn't Shen Wansan's former residence in Zhouzhuang? Is Zhouzhuang now called Zhenfengli?
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