Returning from Lu's Pharmacy by the Wulu Bridge, it was already the first moment of the night. Lu Yungu held a lantern to see off Zhang Yuan. The master and servant Wuling turned around the Fuxue Palace and saw the bamboo gate of Zhang Yuan's home from a distance.
There was also a lantern hanging beside it. In the cold winter night, the warm light of the lantern penetrated people's hearts. Lu Yungu smiled and said, "Meson, that stupid brother sent it here. I made you drink a few more drinks tonight."
I'm afraid your mother will blame me."
Zhang Yuan said: "It's okay, it's okay. Brother Yungu, please go back and be careful on the road.
"Hands were said goodbye, and Wu Ling walked quickly to the bamboo fence door of his house, reached out and took off the lantern inserted in the door gap, pushed open the bamboo fence door and went in, and saw a small figure standing at the threshold of the door.
The bun on his head trembled and he said loudly: "The young master is back." He trotted over and took the lantern from Zhang Yuan's hand, holding it high to illuminate the road. Zhang Yuan asked: "Rabbit Pavilion,
Why are you sitting at the doorstep waiting when it’s so cold?”
Tu Ting said, "My wife ordered me."
Zhang Yuan thought to himself, "Why would mother tell her to sit by the door and wait? Hey, this little girl is a bit stupid."
The big stone also ran out of the penthouse and said, "Young Master is back." He went to cover the bamboo leaf, stuck a bamboo pole across it, followed Zhang Yuan into the door, closed the door again, and said, "Young Master, in the evening
Several scholars came to see the young master, and they all said that the young master had gone out to attend a banquet."
Zhang Yuan asked: "Did you leave a name card?"
Dashu Shitou said: "They are all scholars from other places, from Xiaoshan, Shangyu, Hangzhou. I can't remember their names. Only one scholar left a famous post. "I'll get it for the young master." He ran away.
I went to get a name card that was seven inches long and three inches wide. Zhang Yuan took the name card and looked at it under the light of a lantern. On it were written six clear and beautiful ink characters in Chinese regular script, "Yousheng Ruan Dacheng worships."
"Ruan Dacheng!"
Zhang Yuan was surprised, why did Ruan Dacheng, a great minister, come to Shaoxing to see the Eight-Gu Festival? Ruan Dacheng seems not to be from Zhejiang, right, he is from Tongcheng, South Zhili, and Ruan Dacheng from Tongcheng should still be a student now, because
Kong Shangren's play "The Peach Blossom Fan" made Ruan Dacheng, the remnant of the eunuchs, notorious from now on. Of course, those things have not happened yet, and Li Xiangjun and Hou Chaozong have not yet been born. At this time, Ruan Dacheng is a romantic talent who is proficient in opera.
He is also a disciple of Gao Panlong, the leader of the Donglin Party, and has a very good reputation." Zhang Yuan asked, "Did this Ruan Xiucai leave any words?"
Da Shitou said, "Ruan Xiucai said he would come to visit again tomorrow." Zhang Yuan said "hmm" and thought to himself, "I have important things to do in my life tomorrow, so I can't wait for you Ruan Dacheng at home." He put the name card in his sleeve.
, followed the little girl holding the lantern and walked towards the inner courtyard, and asked Tuting: "Have you fed the snow spirit grass beans?"
Tu Ting said, "I've fed it." Master, do you want to take a look? The stables have been built, and the Snow Spirit won't be cold at night."
Winter nights are very cold, so it is not feasible for White Mule and Snow Spirit to sleep in the back garden. A few days ago, Zhang Yuan asked Shi Shuang to find a mason to build a small stable in the corner of the back garden for White Mule to rest at night.
She squatted down in the back garden to watch the stables being built. She couldn't get enough of the boring thing and said, "Okay, I'll go take a look. I'll talk to my mother first." She stood by the patio and said loudly to the south upstairs, "Mother.
"My son is back."
Zhang's mother, Lu, soon appeared on the second floor corridor and complained: "You came back so late, have you been drinking?"
Zhang Yuandao: "I had two drinks with Mr. Yungu, both of which were glutinous rice wine."
Zhang's mother, Lu, said: "Then wash up quickly and go to bed early. We have something to do tomorrow."
Zhang Yuan agreed. Seeing that his mother had gone back to her room, he, Tu Ting, and Wu Ling came to the stables in the back garden. The pine wooden doors of the stables still had the smell of rosin that had not yet dried. He opened the pine wooden doors and held up a lantern to shine.
Mule Xuejing snorted in the corner of the stable, Rabbit Ting handed the lantern to Wu Ling, walked over and rubbed the belly of the white mule, and turned around and said, "Master, Xuejing also stands up when sleeping at night. He always stands.
Aren’t you tired?”
Zhang Yuan laughed and said, "Mules and horses are like this. It's rare to lie down because they have to be ready to run anywhere at any time." After looking at this small stable, he found that it was quite spacious for only one animal.
After watching the snow essence, he went back to the inner courtyard to take a bath. Because he drank a few more glasses of wine, the wine was not the glutinous rice wine he had just coaxed his mother to say, but the Lanxi Jinpan Lu wine. The wine was quite strong, and he had four.
I was half drunk and couldn't sleep for a while. Mimi fell asleep and started to dream. She dreamed that she was going to the Nanjing Provincial Examination. Why not go to Hangzhou for the Provincial Examination but go to Nanjing? I didn't think about this in the dream. After three exams, I was waiting for the results to be released.
I was drinking wine with my classmates and friends on a prostitute boat on the Qinhuai River. I happened to meet the famous prostitute Li Xiangjun. Li Xiangjun's eyes moved and she called him Mr. Hou. He didn't think there was anything wrong with his surname being changed. He just thought that Li Xiangjun looked like Shang Danran.
, which made him admire him very much. When the poems were being sung over wine and wine, someone shouted, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!" Ruan Dacheng, the minister, is here. He walked to the side of the boat and looked towards the shore, "Ruan Dacheng, isn't this Yao Yiguan?" He looks exactly like Yao Yi.
When Ruan Dacheng saw him, he was so frightened that he immediately turned around and ran away. There were cheers from both sides of the Qinhuai River, saying that Mr. Hou had driven away his minister Ruan Dacheng. Li Xiangjun looked at him with even more affectionate eyes.
Di You said:... Mr. Hou, I would like to recommend you a pillow and a mat so that we can enjoy the chrysanthemums together."
When he woke up in the morning, Zhang Yuan still remembered the dream. He laughed with his head down for a while. He lay on the bed and asked Wu Ling to get up quickly and order the kitchen to prepare water. He wanted to take a bath. Wu Ling muttered: "Master, didn't you take a bath last night?"
Well, why do you need to wash it again?"
Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "Don't be wordy, hurry up." When he heard Wu Ling got up and left, he banged the bed board and laughed a few times, thinking to himself: "I am an adult now, how could it be such a coincidence? It just happened.
Last night, today I am going to visit the Shang family in Kuaiji. Is this God's will?"
Then I thought: "Li Xiangjun's words in the dream were very strange. Recommending pillow mats and appreciating chrysanthemums must have nothing to do with each other. This and this are a bit profound. The dream was also messy later. I don't know how it came out. Hey.
"After getting up to take a bath and have breakfast, Da Shitou came to report that someone had come to pick up the young master. Zhang Yuan went out to take a look and saw a carriage parked outside the bamboo fence gate. The two servants accompanying the carriage were the same people who had followed Shang Zhoude yesterday.
Next to him, there was a familiar-looking man who looked like a steward. He smiled with his hands crossed and saluted: "Master Zhang, my master ordered me to pick up Master Zhang to go to appreciate the chrysanthemums." Shang Zhoude was so warm and considerate.
A carriage was sent to pick up this future brother-in-law so early.
Because of his spring dream last night, Zhang Yuan felt a little strange when he heard the word "appreciating chrysanthemums" again, and said with a smile, "Housekeeper, please go in and have a cup of tea first."
The steward said: "Don't dare to disturb me. Mr. Zhang, please get in the car. My master is waiting for you to go."
Zhang Yuan asked them to wait a moment. He went in and told his mother that Zhang's mother, Mrs. Lu, was also happy to see that the people of the Shang family valued her son so much. She reminded: "Don't forget to give the reward to the servants." I'm going to visit you temporarily.
There is no need to give gifts to Shang Zhoude, but these servants should reward him with money.
Zhang Yuan ordered Wu Ling to quickly seal four silver rewards, three coins for the steward, one coin for each of the two servants and the coachman. The four people resisted at first, but after Zhang Yuan persisted for a moment, they all accepted it with a smile.
Thank you profusely and everyone was happy.
Zhang Yuan was about to get on the carriage when he remembered something again and called Da Shitou over and ordered: "If Ruan Xiucai is coming today, I will tell him that I have something to go to Kuaiji and ask him to leave his address and I will visit him when I come back."
." After saying that, he got on the carriage, Wu Ling, the merchant manager, and the two healthy servants walked together to Kuaiji.
When the carriage had only gone for a moment, the county magistrate sent his disciples to Zhang Yuan's house and asked Zhang Yuan to go to the county government office. He said that the county magistrate had something to discuss with Zhang Yuan. When the disciple heard that Zhang Yuan had gone to Kuaiji, he told him to go to the county government office.
Shitou said: "As soon as your young master comes back, ask him to come see the county magistrate as soon as possible."
Just after leaving the county government office, Da Shitou saw Ruan Xiucai and a companion who had been here yesterday walking over from a distance. Da Shitou didn't wait for Ruan Xiucai to approach, and jumped outside the bamboo fence gate and shouted: "
Ruan Xiucai, my young master has gone to Kuaiji, please leave your address to Ruan Xiucai, and my young master will pay a return visit."
Ruan Dacheng burst out laughing in surprise and stopped walking: "It's a fate to save one side, a side to fate." He raised his voice and said, "Tell your young master that Ruan Dacheng of Tongcheng will leave your place today. Let's meet again in the future if we are destined."
Big Shitou had sharp ears. Hearing Ruan Xiucai say two words in a row, "We are lucky to be together," he didn't know what it meant. He thought it was more important. He turned around and saw his younger brother, Xiao Shitou, leaning against the door eating wheat cakes, and said, "Old Dao Dao".
:, "You know how to eat. My master also gave you a reward during the holidays, but you didn't do anything. Please help me remember it. Your memory is fine. I'm afraid I'll forget it later.
Yes, I have forgotten the names of several scholars yesterday."
Little Shitou chewed the cake and asked vaguely, "Remember what?"
Da Shitou said: "Aunt Yuanqian's noodles, Aunt Yuanqian's noodles are what Ruan Xiucai said just now. Don't just eat them. Remember them, don't delay the young master's business."
Xiao Shitou swallowed the wheat flour and repeated: "I owe you a life. I owe you a life. Okay, brother, I will remember it. You can go and have fun."
Zhang Yuan sat in the carriage, pulled up the window curtains, and looked at the street scene on both sides. It seemed a little different from when he walked past it on weekdays. It was a little distant and a little detached. Could it be because he was particularly energetic today?
Today's weather continues to be fine as yesterday. It is the last day of the fertile moon and the late-blooming chrysanthemums are in full bloom. What a wonderful sight it would be if all the ten acres of chrysanthemums of Shang family in Kuaiji were in full bloom together.
The Shang family in Kuaiji lived together at the foot of Baima Mountain in the northeast corner of Kuaiji City. In front of them was Dongdachi, which was equivalent to the east moat of Kuaiji City. It was connected to Jianhu Lake and the canal. Boats and boats came and went, making it a prosperous place in Kuaiji. Horse-drawn carriages
Pass through Kuaiji City diagonally from the southwest of the city, then walk along the Dongdachi for half a mile, turn to the west, and soon arrive in front of the gate of the Shang Mansion.
First time, first time, can you ask for a monthly ticket? Uh, even if I smash Xiaodao’s head, I can use the ticket to smash it.@.