Ruan Dacheng, who loved opera, forced his sick body to drink medicinal soup in Zhang Yuan's room. Hearing that Li Cao Yu had sent a maid over, he couldn't help but perked up. It was the custom of ancient heroes to heal their illnesses with sound and color, so he used his hands to heal his illness.
Rubbing his forehead, he closed his eyes and listened to Zhang Yuan's reply——
Zhang Yuan is not as innocent and lustful as Ruan Dacheng. The things he considers are much more complicated. The beautiful dancer's decisive blow and bloody and tearful accusation at last night's banquet gave him another idea about his trip to North Korea. Of course, this is just a thought.
Whether the idea is feasible or not depends on the development of the situation. At this time, if you keep two North Korean maids around, you will be asking for trouble, so he refused, and by the way, Ruan Dacheng was also represented——
The Jinyi Guardsman left and came back, saying: "Yu Shenpan and Jin Shenjun would like to come in to check on the condition of the two angels."
It is different for the Celestial Kingdom. Foreign envoys stay in the same pavilion in Beichu and are not allowed to go out for leisure, while Zhang Yuan lives in Datong Pavilion in Pyongyang. North Korean high-ranking officials must first obtain Zhang Yuan's permission to see him——
Zhang Yuan thought to himself: "It's not good if you don't see anyone all the time. That would be equivalent to putting yourself under house arrest." He nodded and said, "Please."
After a while, Yu Yan, the counselor of the Korean National Ceremony, and Jin Zhongqing, the petitioner, came in. Zhang Yuan stood up and greeted them with dull eyes and said: "I suddenly feel dizzy when I wake up in the morning. I am obviously down to earth, but I feel like I am flying through the clouds -
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Jin Zhongqing was very familiar with Zhang Yuan, so he hurriedly stepped forward to help him and said: "Zhang Xiuzan, please sit down quickly, please sit down, Mr. Ruan, please sit down, please sit down." He turned to Yu Yan and said, "It has been really hard to travel for more than a month.
Thank you for your hard work. Zhang Xiuzuan is from Jiangnan. I used to go out by boat, but this is the first time I have traveled a long distance by horse like this."
Judge Yu expressed his understanding and said: "It's hard work. The two angels have indeed worked hard. Let's take a good rest first. Uncle Liu Guo will come to greet the two angels in the afternoon and explain the accident at the banquet last night."
Zhang Yuan said calmly: "Uncle Liu Guo, please come back tomorrow. I'm not in good spirits today. I might be rude."
Judge Li Cao Yu and Judge Jin Zhongqing looked at each other, and Judge Yu said: "Then this is how I will reply to Uncle Liu Guo."
At this time, the medical officer of the Pyongyang Prefecture said to Zhang Yuan and Ruan Dacheng: "Two angels, please drink this medicinal soup while it is hot." After saying that, he gave Zhang Yuan a bowl of medicinal soup and another bowl.
To Ruan Dacheng——
Yu Shenpan shook his head and said: "The two angels are unwilling to ask girls from Xiaobang to serve. It is really inconvenient to live there. I am a courtesy to Cao Shenpan. I feel that the reception is not good and I am frightened. I beg the two angels to allow the female musicians to serve."
How about being entertained for several generations?" He added: "Although these four women selected to serve the angels have low status, they are all pure virgins——"
Zhang Yuan thought: "So what if I am an innocent virgin? How can I take it back to Beijing after I go to bed? A memorial from Yao Zongwen and others will get me into trouble. How can officialdom not act arbitrarily? And I, Zhang Jiezi, am not like that."
Hungry and thirsty.”
Zhang Yuanjun resigned, and Yu Shenpan and Jin Shenjun had no choice but to say goodbye and leave.
After the medical officer also left, Ruan Dacheng put the bowl of medicated soup on the small table in front of him and said dissatisfied: "The famous recipe left by Da Jang Geum is simply difficult to eat."
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "Brother Ji, is there a Korean beauty who feeds you with a spoon one by one and you are happy with it?"
Ruan Dacheng laughed and said: "It's hard work, hard work." He shook his head and went back to his room.
Zhang Yuan did not drink the bowl of medicinal soup, and poured it outside the window to nourish the flowers and trees. Outside the window, there was a row of hibiscus planted as a fence. The hibiscus was only three feet high. It was the end of April in the lunar calendar. Some of the early-blooming hibiscus had already bloomed with buds and petals.
White, with bright red stamens. There is a saying in "The Book of Songs" that "there is a girl riding in the same car, her face is like Shunhua." Shunhua refers to the hibiscus flower, which shows the beauty of this flower. But at this time, Zhang Yuan looked at the hibiscus flower with white petals and red stamens, and thought
What he saw was the blood-stained thin blade stuck in the dancer's white chest——
"My regrets are resolved by my own plan, and I have experienced rugged and winding roads. The mountain stream is clear and shallow, and I can wash my feet..."
Someone was singing poetry outside the west courtyard wall of Datong Hall. His voice was old but penetrating. The sound of poetry was accompanied by the sound of bamboo sticks hitting the ground. Zhang Yuan stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back and listened -
"My newly cooked wine is soaked, and a chicken brings closeness. When the sun enters the house, it is dark, and the thorn bushes replace the bright candles. The happiness comes but the evening is short, and it has returned to the rising sky."
This is the fifth poem in Tao Yuanming's famous poem "Returning to the Countryside". Zhang Yuan has always liked Tao's poems. He felt very warm when he heard someone singing Tao's poems in Chinese in this foreign country. He thought to himself: "This is the poem of the pastoral hermit."
, is the person who recited the pottery poem a Korean hermit?"
The hibiscus blossoms bloom lonely, and the sound of poetry reciting outside the wall has been silent. Datong Hall is located at the northeastern end of Pyongyang City, not far from the Daedong River. If you listen carefully, you can seem to hear the sound of the rushing river.
Zhang Yuan spread his paper and polished his ink to write "Journey of Dingsi to Korea". The incident of the dancer stabbing herself last night was so unexpected that he did not record it immediately. Now he can start writing——
Just after polishing an inkstone, the guard in Jinyi and a North Korean general came to report that Longshan Jin Chushi asked to see Mr. Zhang. Zhang Yuan thought to himself: "My name is Longshan, why is there a Longshan here?"
Just listen to the North Korean general explain: "Master Zhang, this Kim is a very famous hermit in our country and a famous figure in the Tangun religious sect. He comes from a famous family and does not care about fame and fortune. He has lived in seclusion in Yongsan, west of Pyongyang for many years.
Among them, he lives in seclusion and travels erratically. He has three major abilities: divination, acupuncture and swordsmanship. This golden virgin is blind, but the people of our country say that the golden virgin is better than the discerning man. The golden virgin is counting in the mountains.
I knew that the two angels were ill, so I came here to relieve their pain."
The surname Kim is one of the eight major surnames in North Korea. It is said that it originated from the ancient Silla royal family. Its status in North Korea is slightly higher than that of the cultural Ryu family. The Tangun religion is a national religion in ancient North Korea——
Zhang Yuan thought to himself: "Blind people are good at fortune-telling, and there is massage. But if you can identify acupuncture points, acupuncture is more magical. Can you also do swordsmanship, like the skill of listening to the wind and distinguishing weapons in Liang Yusheng's martial arts novels?"
Zhang Yuan asked the North Korean general: "Did uncle Liu Guo and the others invite this golden virgin?"
The North Korean general said: "Uncle Liu Guo didn't know that Jin Chushi would come. Jin Chushi has a lonely and arrogant temperament. If he didn't want to come, Uncle Liu Guo wouldn't be able to force him. Jin Chushi has the style of an envoy from the Heavenly Dynasty, so he came from the mountain.
come out."
Zhang Yuan said: "Okay, please Zhen Qianhu to go and welcome the Jin Chushi on my behalf."
About half the time for tea, the sound of bamboo sticks tapping on the ground was heard. Zhen Zidan accompanied Jin Chushi and Zhang Yuan came out of the corridor. Only then did he learn about Ruan Dacheng. Ruan Dacheng did not get the North Korean virgin to serve him.
I was dissatisfied. I heard that a blind virgin had come, but he refused to come out of his room to meet him because he was ill.
Kim Chung-sik is of medium height, nearly fifty years old. He wears a traditional Korean black gauze hat and a high-waisted white robe. He has a high forehead and protruding cheekbones. He has an ancient appearance. He looks up at the sky and holds a yellow-spotted bamboo in his hand
The staff struck the ground in a fan shape, and he followed Zhen Zidan with small but fast steps——
Tai Chi master Wang Zongyue said softly beside Zhang Yuan: "Sir, this blind man is a practitioner, please be careful." After the dancer stabbed herself last night, Wang Zongyue became more vigilant. Du Shen will spend two hundred taels on him.
Wen Yin was hired to protect Zhang Yuan on his mission. If something happened to Zhang Yuan, his reputation as a master of internal boxing would be ruined, and he would no longer be able to serve as an escort.
Zhang Yuan had just heard from the North Korean general that this Kim was good at swordsmanship. At this time, he squinted at the approaching Kim. Because of his optic nerve atrophy and sunken eye sockets, blind people all over the world had similar looks. Zhang Yuan didn't notice.
What is the difference between the golden virgin who used the bamboo stick to explore the road and other blind people? At this time, he had no time to ask Wang Zongyue, and stepped forward to welcome the descender——
Zhen Zidan said: "Jin Chushi, our Lord Zhang has come out to greet you."
Zhang Yuan bowed his head and said: "Mr. Jin, Zhang Yuan, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, is very polite."
The golden virgin took a few steps forward, held his bamboo stick and bowed to Zhang Yuan, saying: "Jin Shiyi, a common man, pays homage to the angel."
Just now, he was reminded of the art of listening to the wind and distinguishing instruments in Liang Yusheng's novels. Then he heard the name Jin Shiyi. Zhang Yuan also found it interesting and said: "Jin Chushi, please come to the small hall to talk."
Jin Chushi said: "The angel of the heaven, who is said to be the leader of the country, has a good reputation all over the world. Now he has traveled thousands of miles to come to our country. The common people are as honored as the officials and gentry of our country."
This Jin's fluent Chinese is not inferior to that of the generals in North Korea. In North Korea, proficiency in Chinese is a symbol of noble status, except for the generals, of course, who make a living in this way.
Zhang Yuan smiled, and he recognized that Jin Chushi was the man who was chanting pottery poems outside the west wall of the Caiguan courtyard, and immediately entered the hall.
While Jin Chushi was talking, he followed Zhang Yuan up the hall with three steps. Although he used a bamboo stick to explore the way, his movements were not slow. Only then did Zhang Yuan see a beautiful girl beside Jin Chushi, who was also
The black gauze hat and high-waisted white robe are the attire of a North Korean man, but they do not deliberately conceal his female appearance. The eyebrows are thin and raised, the eyes are black and white, the nose is tall and delicate, the eyelashes are long, the chin is pointed, and the expression is charming.
The bright sunshine in May shines through, and you can see a layer of fine and soft cold hair on the girl's neck——
Zhang Yuan sometimes has very good eyesight.
The golden virgin sat down, and the girl stood behind the golden virgin.
Kim Chushi got straight to the point: "The common people are well versed in the medical skills of the ancient country. When they learned that the angel was ill, they did not hesitate to recommend themselves for diagnosis and treatment. Can you take the angel's pulse?"
Zhen Zidan, Mu Jingyan, and Wang Zongyue shook their heads at Zhang Yuan together. Although they guarded Zhang Yuan strictly, it would be difficult to guard against him if he had bad intentions as Jin Chushi was close enough to take Zhang Yuan's pulse.
Zhang Yuan said that everyone should not worry. The Korean country is not a dragon's den or a tiger's den. Even if the Li family is fighting for power, there is no reason to harm the Ming envoy. This Jin Chushi did not come to see him just to treat him. There must be another reason.
He said: "Then I have Minister Lao Jin. Please ask Master Jin to sit on my left."
The golden virgin came over with a stick, and the girl followed closely.
Zhang Yuan rested his left hand on the ebony coffee table, with a cloth bag under his wrist. Jin Chushi took his pulse. Zhang Yuan knew that he was not sick. Let's see what Jin Chushi said... Restored updates, thank you book friends for your concern
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