"Master, let's get in the car." Mu Zhenzhen said, lifting the curtains of the car.
Liu Zongzhou had already walked away. Looking at the retreating figure, Zhang Yuan also sighed and said silently: "Mr. Qidong, there is no need to go on a hunger strike. It is best to be alive." After the death of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Zongzhou went on a hunger strike for twenty years.
He died in three days and fulfilled his moral ideal of being alone. This is of course something that most people cannot do, but it is definitely not Zhang Yuan's role model. Zhang Yuan never thought of being famous for future generations in that way. Therefore,
Saving the nation begins with debate——
After getting on the carriage, Mu Zhenzhen said: "Why did the young master get into an argument with Mr. Liu? My maid used to sell fruit at Dashan Temple, and Mr. Liu even scolded my maid."
Zhang Yuandao: "Mr. Liu is a decent man and worthy of respect, but he is too old-fashioned and cannot be reconciled with me. I should have invited him to a meal, but now he will definitely refuse. That's all. Mr. Liu should go back to Mount Shan to study.
"
Wang Wei handed the heater to Zhang Yuan to warm his hands and said sweetly: "I don't understand why my husband supports Catholicism. You must know that Catholicism is against concubinage -"
Zhang Yuan did not take the heater, but put his hands into Wang Wei's armpits to warm them. He seemed to suddenly realize: "Oh, I almost forgot about this important matter. I am wondering if this is why people oppose Catholicism. Then I will also oppose it."
His hand scratched the side of Wang Wei's armpit and then pulled it out. Wang Wei was already shaking with laughter.
Zhang Yuan rubbed his hands to keep them warm and said: "It's not a joke. One of the reasons why Shen Que opposed Catholicism was because Mr. Li Zhizao accused him of soliciting prostitutes and banquets. However, Mr. Liu Zongzhou worked as an official and returned home with a load of luggage. He was as poor as
Ascetic monks are also opposed to Catholicism, so it seems that this foreign monk has trouble reciting sutras."
"Master, your hands are warm."
Mu Zhenzhen put Zhang Yuan's hand in hers and warmed it. Mu Zhenzhen's palm was much wider than that of ordinary women, and was actually about the same size as Zhang Yuan's. This kind of clasping and warming hands was a common gesture for men to care for women.
Zhang Yuan laughed, feeling the warmth and roughness of Mu Zhenzhen's palms. Then he took out a hand and groped around Mu Zhenzhen's skirt——
Mu Zhenzhen blushed: "Young Master——"
Zhang Yuan asked: "You don't have the little Panlong stick anymore?"
Mu Zhenzhen said: "I haven't brought it with me since last month."
Wang smiled and said: "Do you still want to dance with a big belly and dance with a stick?"
At this time, the carriage had already entered the West Gate of the East Fourth Archway. Uncle Yao who was driving asked, "Mr. Jiezi, do you want to go to Mr. Shang's house first?"
Zhang Yuan said: "First go around to Guiyi Street on the east side of Daci Yanfu Palace. Sledgehammer will know the way."
Wang Dachui, who was sitting next to Uncle Yao, agreed resoundingly, and the carriage drove towards the Daci Yanfu Palace, passed through the alley in the temple, and came to Guiyi Street. The people of Qingmoshan pawned a place on this street with eighteen taels of silver.
The house. The front door is a fortune-telling shop, and inside is a two-story building. There is a small courtyard. Until one month before giving birth, Dong Milk Cha still took care of the housework by herself. Last month, she hired an old woman to take care of her during the confinement period——
It had only been three days since the milk tea girl gave birth. Qingmoshan people's fortune-telling shop was still open. It seemed that life was quite stressful. Seeing Zhang Yuan come to congratulate her in person, Qingmoshan people were surprised and happy, and quickly called the old lady to lure the No. 1 Duke.
The two female family members went in to visit Dong Milk Tea and his daughter——
"Mama Hou, Ma Hou——" After shouting several times but no one answered, the Qingmoshan native apologized: "This old lady from Baoding is a bit deaf and is not very easy to control." She closed the door of the shop and led Zhang Yuan and others in.
After calling "Hou Ma" twice more, a sturdy old woman came down from the second floor. The Qingmoshan native asked Hou Ma to lead Wang Wei and Mu Zhenzhen upstairs while he cooked tea for Zhang Yuan——
Zhang Yuan expressed his congratulations to the people of Qingmo Mountain, and sat and talked for a while. Wang Wei and Mu Zhenzhen came downstairs, and Hou Ma saw off the guests on behalf of Dong. Zhang Yuan heard that Hou Ma was from Baoding, and her surname was Hou.
Just ask casually: "Where in Baoding is Hou Ma from?"
The sturdy old woman was a little nervous when she saw the distinguished guest asking her something. She kept wiping her hands on her apron. She replied: "In response to your honor, the old woman is from Houjiabao, Dingxing County. Her husband's surname is Gao.
After her death, the old woman had two sons, both of whom were working as porters in Beijing..."
"Okay, okay, Hou Ma, you go upstairs." The Qingmoshan people saw this old woman nagging, and quickly interrupted, fearing that Zhang Yuan would be bored.
Ke Yinyue is from Dingxing County, Baoding Prefecture. Zhang Yuan said, "Wait a minute, does Hou Ma know that there are women in Dingxing County who work as wet nurses in the palace?"
"Yes." Hou Ma said: "Hou Er's wife, the Hakka family, entered the palace more than ten years ago. The Hakka family is Hou Er's wife. So Hou Er and the old woman are from the same clan and are from the same castle.
From east to west, the old woman went back to her parents' home to visit her father, and sometimes she would see Hou Er. Hou Er died early, in his thirties, but my father, who was eighty years old, was still in good health..."
Zhang Yuan thought to himself: "What a coincidence that I met a fellow villager from Ke Yinyue here, no, a fellow villager from Ke Yinyue's deceased husband." He asked, "Isn't the Ke family from Dingxing County?"
Hou Ma was saying that her father could still work in the fields at the age of eighty. She couldn't stop talking for a while. After talking for a while, she replied: "The Hakka siblings came from outside the country and fled to Houjiapu. The Hakka family married
Hou Er doesn't have much contact with the people in the village. Her younger brother is a hunter with good archery skills and can often catch hares and pheasants. He is usually silent. It is said that the Hakka family is very beautiful, but the old woman has not been seen.
Pass--"
The area outside the mouth that Hou Ma is talking about is the area north of the Xifengkou Great Wall.
However, judging from the reaction of the Hakka family when I questioned the identity of the Hakka family during the manna cake incident last time, I am afraid that the Hakka family is not Han, could it be Mongolian or Jurchen?" asked: "Then Hou Er is young,
Why did he die?"
Hou Ma said: "Yes, he was usually a very strong man, but he died within two years of marrying the Hakka family. We people in Houjiabao persuaded the Hakka family to be coquettish, and Hou's second wife did not control her sexual behavior, so she became a short-lived ghost.
.”
That's all Hou Ma knew about the Hakka family. Zhang Yuan politely declined the Qingmoshan people's invitation to stay for dinner, and went out with Wang Wei and Mu Zhenzhen to get into the car. In the car, Wang Wei asked quietly: "Ms. sir, what can I do?"
I thought to myself: "The guest nanny I saw outside Bei'an Gate that day was indeed tall, tall and beautiful. My husband must not have any quarrels with her. No, no, no. Although my husband is romantic, he is not blindly lustful.
.”
Zhang Yuan said: "It's okay, I just want to ask - by the way, is the little baby girl cute?"
Wang Wei said: "When Zhenzhen and I went upstairs to take a look, the baby girl was still sleeping. She had long eyelashes and a small mouth. She was very cute, just like her mother, Dong Milk Tea." After that, he reached out and touched Mu Zhenzhen's belly and said: "
I don’t know if the baby in Zhenzhen’s belly is a boy or a girl, I really envy her.”
Mu Zhenzhen said with a smile: "What's there to envy? Aunt Wei also has a big belly, maybe she's already pregnant, hehe."
When Wang Wei and Mu Zhenzhen were joking, Zhang Yuan was thinking: "If Ke Yinyue is a Mongolian or a Jurchen, it would be really worrying to sneak into the palace. Five years after the apocalypse, the Holy Lady Ke and Wei Zhongxian joined forces
The fierce party struggle in the Tianqi Dynasty greatly damaged the vitality of the Ming Dynasty. However, this was not caused by the Hakka family. The relationship was extremely complicated. Moreover, as a fugitive, how could the Hakka family think that he would definitely be able to enter the palace?
Just be optimistic that Zhu Youxiao will definitely become the emperor. Most of this is coincidence and chance. The Tianqi Dynasty also tried its best to fight against Hou Jin, so the lobbyist Ke Yinyue cannot be Nurhachi's spy. This is too unbelievable, but Ke Yinyue
Obviously the identity is mysterious, but what is the truth? There are still more than three years before Emperor Wanli's death, and I must find out the true identity of Ke Yinyue before then——"
When they arrived at the courtyard house of Zhou Zuo of Shang Dynasty, Shang Danran and the others were waiting for Zhang Yuan to have lunch. They had yellow mutton outside the Great Wall, which was very delicious.
Xiao Hongjian in his arms was staring at his father's mouth. Zhang Yuan was chewing. Xiao Hongjian's little mouth was also moving, salivating -
Shang Danran smiled and said: "He just has a greedy look. He stares at the mouth of someone else when he sees it moving."
Zhang Yuan dipped his chopsticks in yellow rice wine and put it to his son's mouth. Xiao Hongjian quickly opened his mouth and sucked the tip of the chopsticks. The yellow rice wine tasted sour and sweet. Although it was low-alcohol wine, the child couldn't stand it. Xiao Hongjian immediately opened his mouth.
He opened his mouth, exhaled outwards, and spit out bubbles of saliva, but he didn't cry.
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "Good boy, do you dare to have another chopstick drink?"
Shang Danran scolded Zhang Yuan and said, "Is there such a father? He must make his children cry, right?"
The roof is covered with white snow, the dining room smells of wine and food, and the family is enjoying themselves happily.
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At the last moment of November 18th, when Zhang Yuan rushed to the Imperial Academy to await the arrival of the Crown Prince, he heard the news that Master Lianchi had passed away in Dalongfu Temple. It happened this morning. Master Lianchi was still there in the afternoon yesterday.
Longfu Temple gave sermons to the monks. In the evening, he said: "I am like a candle in the wind. The lamp has dried up when the oil is exhausted." Then he took a bath, sat down and recited the Buddha, and the disciples surrounded the abbot's room. When the night was about to dawn, he started to pray.
The eyes warned: "Everyone should recite the Buddha's name honestly, don't be weird, don't break my rules." Facing the west, reciting the Buddha's name, he passed away——
With a sad look on his face, he told everyone the anecdote about Master Lianchi, who cherished blessings and cherished hard work. He washed himself in old age, took out a drowning vessel, did not work as a waiter, wore plain clothes all his life, and lived in Yunqi Temple for fifty years.
If there are believers who hold gold or silver as offerings, they will disperse and donate clothes and medicine to relieve the poor and sick——
Shen Que looked at the priests Zhang Yuan, Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao and Xiong Sanba, and said coldly: "Is there a practitioner in the Christian religion like Master Lianchi who can be kind and joyful, and who can overcome suffering with compassion?"
Xu Guangqi said sincerely: "Master Shen, I have discussed with Reverend Long and others that Catholicism will not exclude other religions in the Ming Dynasty. Everyone will preach their own doctrines and have freedom of belief." This is the result of Xu Guangqi's efforts to persuade Long Huamin yesterday. Long Huamin and others
People were very reluctant, thinking that this not only violated Catholic doctrine, but also violated Matteo Ricci's teaching of "replacing Buddhism with Confucianism". Xu Guangqi patiently persuaded, and Long Huamin finally reluctantly agreed.
Shen Que was supported by Fang Congzhe the day before yesterday, and his momentum became stronger. He sneered: "Where can there be any Catholicism in the Ming Dynasty? Catholicism must be eradicated in the Ming Dynasty——"
At this time, someone outside Jixian Gate said: "The Crown Prince has arrived."
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