When it was almost dark, the two-horse carriage of the Yao Mansion sent Jia Lian back to Lin's house.
Jia Lian jumped out of the car, holding a manuscript in his arms. This was the autobiography and essays that Yao Qianzhi was compiling.
The old prime minister hoped that Jia Lian could get a summary of his many years of experience, so he took the most complete manuscript back to Jia Lian to study.
The driver also took out two jars of 25-year-old Huiquan wine from the car, which was also a gift from the old prime minister to Jia Lian.
Jia Lian is in a very good mood and has gained a lot today.
Before that, although he had been recognized by Mr. Shuyou, who was famous all over the world, and became the deputy head of Heshan Academy, the fact that he, a young man of just twenty years old, could be brothers with Mr. Shuyou was enough to shock the entire country.
Literary world.
It's just that although Mr. Shuyou has a great literary reputation, he lives in seclusion in the mountains and forests and is a white man. Now that Jia Lian has been recognized by Yao Qianzhi, the retired prime minister and senior number one scholar, Jia Lian's worth in the court is extraordinary.
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With the recommendation of Yao Qianzhi and the support of Mr. Shuyou, Jia Lian, an official who was born as a donor, has been recognized by the literary world even though he has never taken the imperial examination. Then his future promotion will be
Breaking through the ceiling of third-grade official.
What's more, in the officialdom, Jia Lian relied on the ancestral support of Rong Guogong, and his main communication partners were the four princes and eight princes. Although those officials who passed the imperial examination were very polite to Jia Lian, they did not treat Jia Lian in their hearts.
Not approved.
Now that he has this friendship with Yao Qianzhi and Luan Lin, and the scholar-friend who is about to go to Beijing with Jia Lian, I think Jia Lian will have more support from civil servants in the officialdom in the future. He will be as comfortable as a fish in water.
Much smoother.
Jia Lian, who originally had "children of meritorious officials" and "relatives", now has the support of civil servants, are you going to heaven?
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Jia Lian was in a great mood. He strode across the corridor and couldn't help humming two lines of "Little Apple" that were extremely inappropriate.
He was getting carried away when he saw Xing'er walking towards him, shaking his head and sighing. Jia Lian stepped forward and hit him on the head:
"Looking at the unlucky look on your face, if I'm not at home, who else can bully you?"
When Xing'er saw Jia Lian, he quickly knelt down and kowtowed, and then said mysteriously:
"Second Master is back. Qingwen, that little pepper, has been crying for a long time."
"Hey, Xing'er, you are very capable.
Even Qingwen was so angry that she cried. You have mastered your bad mouth. Now, from now on, all the scolding in our house will be yours."
Jia Lian walked forward laughing and joking, while Xing'er chased behind him and whispered:
"Second Master, let's leave a way for the younger one to survive.
Not to mention that the little one didn't have such great sharp teeth, even if the little one was really capable of making her cry in anger, then Dogwood would still have to beat the little one to death.
Qingwen made her cry because of the gift Mr. He gave to the second master, but she doesn’t do small things."
"What? Are you crying because of the gift? Who is Mr. He? What did you give me?"
Jia Lian stopped and the smile on his face gradually faded.
Xing'er came out specially to bump into Jia Lian, just to report the situation to Jia Lian in advance. This kid knows how to make his presence felt in front of the leader.
At this time, when he saw that Jia Lian was indeed interested, he immediately replied seriously:
"Not long after the second master went out today, more than ten people came one after another to send greetings and gifts.
I collected all the invitations and put them on the table in Erye’s study.
But the gift was so small that I didn't know its importance, so I didn't dare to keep it. Only Mr. He, the superintendent of the Grain Road Yamen, personally gave me an embroidered inkstone screen inlaid with rosewood.
The servant also said: "The second master is not here, so I dare not accept it." But the man said that he was a disciple of the Shihou family. When he heard that the second master was coming, he specially asked the second master to bring this embroidered inkstone screen to honor the old lady.
. He also said that the inkstone inlaid on the screen was some kind of 'Hui embroidery', which was our old lady's favorite, so he had to search for it in the south for a long time before he found it.
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Speaking of this "Hui Embroidery", Jia Lian immediately remembered that during the New Year's Day, Jia's mother was so happy that she specially put out a pair of red sandalwood openwork carvings, sixteen in total, all inlaid with big red gauze openwork embroidered flowers and cursive characters.
The "wisdom pattern" of poetry.
Jia Mu was in a very good mood that day, so she pointed at the necklace and praised it, saying that all the embroideries on the screen were modeled on the flowers and branches of famous artists in the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties.
The rich and gorgeous craftsmanship is comparable. On the side of each flower, there are old sentences, poems or songs written by ancient people about this flower. They are all embroidered with cursive characters on black velvet.
Grass is completely the same.
The reason why these embroideries are so extraordinary is that the Gusu woman who embroidered the necklace was named Huiniang. She was born in a scholarly eunuch family and was already good at calligraphy and painting. She did not rely on this skill to make money, but accidentally embroidered
One or two pieces of needlework are just for fun, not for sale in the market. In addition, Hui Niang died young at the age of eighteen, so although her embroidery is famous, few of it has been handed down.
Because true "Hui embroidery" is rare and precious, it is now called "Hui pattern". There are many imitations of its stitches on the market, but most of them can only resemble its shape but not its charm.
Wealthy and honorable as the Jia family, there are only three real "wisdom patterns".
Two of them had been presented to the emperor before, and the remaining pair of necklaces was loved by Mother Jia like a treasure. She refused to put it in the storehouse with various decorations for entertaining guests, and only kept it in the small storehouse beside her, only displaying it when she was happy.
Only take it out to enjoy when drinking.
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"Since the old lady likes it, and because of the filial piety of the people in the Shihou family, I'll just accept it. I'll tell the old lady later, but why did I make Qingwen cry?"
Xing'er had a stern face, but Jia Lian still saw the boy's gloating from the corners of his mouth that occasionally turned up slightly:
"I don't know about the little one. Maybe she is too ashamed because her embroidery is so good."
Jia Lian knew that although Qingwen was unreasonable and unforgiving, she was not a small-minded person. It was no small matter to make her cry for a long time.
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Sure enough, as soon as he entered the room, he saw Qingwen sitting on the corner of the bed, holding the red sandalwood inkstone in her arms. Her two beautiful big eyes were red and swollen from crying, and she was still sobbing. p>
Juyu leaned against Qingwen and just wiped her tears with a handkerchief, crying until her eyes and nose were red.
Jia Lian frowned:
"What's going on? Am I already dead? Is my soul floating back?"
"Bah, bah, bah! That's nonsense! You're dead or alive, you don't know the taboos at all!" Zhuyu wiped her tears while scolding Jia Lian.
Qingwen was still only concerned about her sadness. When she raised her eyes and saw Jia Lian, she sobbed twice and suddenly said:
"Second Master, can this...can you do this for me?"
She hugged the inkstone in her arms tighter, as if she was afraid that Jia Lian would snatch it away.