This place is very large, covering an area of four to five acres.
At dusk, the courtyard is covered with pines, cypresses and ancient locust trees. The deep courtyard has the style of an official's house, which is not inferior to that of Ouyang Xiu's house.
Zhang Yue also asked: "Old Du Guan, did your uncle buy this house?"
The old man laughed and said: "Yes, it cost a lot of money. The master also sold his house in Suzhou and raised a lot of money, and then he settled in Bianjing."
Zhang Yue sighed again, the housing prices in Bianjing are really extremely expensive!
But seeing that there is a half-acre square pond in the backyard of the house, with pavilions and water pavilions beside the pond, and the pond is full of lotus flowers, Zhang Yue, who lives in the inn, deeply feels that it is good to be rich, even if the rich people now want to
It is impossible to have a house of several acres in the third ring road of Beijing.
With Lao Duguan leading the way, Zhang Yue walked into a side hall and saw a middle-aged man with a good manners peeling oranges.
Zhang Yue thought to himself, isn’t this the season for eating tangerines? Are you still eating them when they are shriveled like this?
But I saw the man saying to the servant: "This spring, this mandarin orange was sweet and full of flavor, but now I can't eat it. But don't throw it away. Leave the core and plant it in the backyard. After planting it for more than ten years, there is this orange again.
Eat the sweet and plump mandarin oranges.”
The servant looked like he wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, but saw that the middle-aged man peeled a few of the out-of-season oranges, ate them, spit out the cores, and put them on the plate and said, "I can eat it, and so can you.
Eat, these will be given to the people below to eat, and the seeds will be planted beside the courtyard."
Having said this, the middle-aged man looked at Zhang Yue and said with a smile: "These servants are probably laughing at me from the bottom of their hearts, saying that at my age, after more than ten years, I am afraid that I will not be able to wait for the day when the tree will bear fruit."
, let alone eat this mandarin orange.”
“Don’t you know that when Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Liuzhou, he planted 200 yellow tangerines on his own. He didn’t necessarily expect the tangerine trees to blossom and spray the snow, and to pick the fruits with hanging beads. However, he said that if you just sit and wait for the forest to grow, the taste will be enough to support an old man. How open-minded!”
Zhang Yue laughed in his heart. Not only did he give such a shriveled tangerine to his servants to eat, but he also collected the cores to plant tangerine trees. Such operations made Zhang Yue laugh in his heart.
Stingy is just stingy, and you still put money in your own face, and you also said a lot of truth, you are really shameless!
Zhang Yue said: "This is "Planting Orange Trees in the Northwest Corner of Liuzhou City" written by Liu Zongyuan when he was demoted to Liuzhou."
Zhang Yue chanted: "I planted two hundred yellow mandarin oranges in the spring, and the new leaves came all over the city. Fang and the guests from Chu pitied the imperial tree, but did not imitate the Limunu of Jingzhou. How old are the flowers that bloom and smell the snow, and who picks the actual weeping pearls? If
Sitting and waiting for the day to grow into a forest is as good as raising an old man. However, there is a sentence in Liu Zongyuan's poem that I cannot agree with."
“Oh? You actually questioned Liu Hedong?”
Zhang Yue said: "Exactly, if you don't follow the example of Jingzhou Limunu, you can say that it is Li Heng, the former governor of Danyang."
"Li Heng, the prefect of Danyang, was an honest official. In his later years, he planted thousands of orange trees in Sizhou, Longyang, Wuling, and left them as property for his descendants. Before he died, he said to his son, I have thousands of wooden slaves in the state.
It’s enough.”
"As a prefect, Li Heng was honest and self-sufficient. He did not manage the family and finances, and only left thousands of citrus trees for future generations. Such a good deed can't be compared to a tree. With several acres of citrus groves, he can sit in the shade and shelter from the rain, and he can produce a lot of fruits.
, wouldn’t it be a good idea to have the best of both worlds? It’s not a gentleman to avoid speaking out about profit and justice!”
The middle-aged man smiled when he heard this.
The old man on the side reported: "Master Qi, this is Mr. Zhang Sanlang."
Zhang Yue was "surprised" and said: "I didn't know that my uncle was here, so I just talked nonsense. Please forgive me."
There is a lie called, I am lying, you also know that I am lying, I also know that you know that I am lying. But I still lied.
Zhang Yu waved his hand and said: "It doesn't matter, what you said makes sense. I heard that when you were in Pucheng, you were uneducated and had no skills, eating, drinking and having fun all day long. I was really worried, but now that I see that you have become a talented person, I have put my worries aside.
.”
Speaking of this, Zhang Yu smiled and said: "Otherwise, it wouldn't even make sense. Wouldn't it be beautiful?"
“My uncle has asked me to ask for my advice. Please make it clear that my nephew wants to take a look at the night view of Bianjing later.”
Zhang Yu nodded and motioned for the boss to take charge.
Zhang Yu said: "Sanlang, please sit down. You and I are uncles and nephews respectively. Your parents and I are much closer than you think, so you don't have to be so defensive about me. It's your first time in Bianjing."
How about witnessing its prosperity?”
Zhang Yue sat down and said, "I have been studying in the inn these past ten days and haven't had time to go shopping yet."
Zhang Yu praised: "You can turn a blind eye to the prosperity of Bianjing, but you can study in an inn. This can be called seeing the garden without seeing. With this determination, I also understand why you can enter Bianjing in just two years."
coming."
"I still remember that you told Du Guan that although the mountains in Fujian are high, they are not as high as the sky. Now you have come here by your own ability."
Zhang Yue said: "What I said back then was ridiculous."
Zhang Yu said: "I underestimated you when I asked you to go to school in Suzhou. But now that you have come to Bianjing, I still asked the old governor to invite you here. Do you know what I mean?"
Zhang Yue said: "It's still Brother Dun's business!"
Zhang Yu said: "It is true, Sanlang, do you know what I care about most now? Although my age, official position and money are not much lower, it is difficult for me to go further. As for Brother Dun, I have watched him grow up.
But it’s not what I care about most, so I might as well tell you these things.”
Zhang Yue said: "Then what does uncle care about?"
"What I care about is the family fortune! You also know that Brother Dun has a younger brother who was born to me as a concubine. What I regret most is that I did not give him to your aunt to discipline him. Now he is ineffective and extremely naughty. In the future, the family fortune
Delivered into his hands, it will be destroyed.”
Zhang Yue thought to himself, "Of course, why don't you call me a little mother-in-law?"
"If he had the appearance of 10% out of 10 Dun brothers, or if he was as ambitious as you, I would never do this. My uncle and I studied for most of our lives and wasted half of our lives before we were lucky enough to win the Jinshi.
How can I be willing to surrender this family fortune that I have saved up after becoming an official to this useless ruin?"
Zhang Yue said: "So uncle will take care of this matter?"
Zhang Yu said: "It's not a matter of course, but everyone gets what they need. Isn't this the same between people in the world, even between brothers? Can you listen to this?"
Zhang Yue said: "I can't refute what uncle said, but..."
Zhang Yu interrupted Zhang Yue and said, "Your aunt and Brother Dun don't know anything about what I asked you to come here today. These words are only between you and me. God knows that you know that I know that, is that okay?"
Zhang Yue said: "I won't say it."
Zhang Yu said: "Okay, Brother Dun gave up his official position last year and now he plans to take the exam again. He has been admitted to the Kaifeng Prefecture. If as expected, the court will hold a tribute examination next year, then the Kaifeng Prefecture Examination will be held in a few months.
Okay. This explanation is very important to Brother Dun and me. We must not make any mistakes."
"But you happened to come to Bianjing at this time. Whether you are taking the imperial examination or demonstrating to Brother Dun, I don't care. But since you have come to Bianjing, uncle, I only ask you one thing.
, get back together with Brother Dun!"
“Brother Dun and I have reconciled, what does it have to do with his interpretation of the test?” Zhang Yue asked rhetorically.
Zhang Yu said: "Of course it has something to do with it. He abandoned the order and refused to accept it. Some people have said that he has no action. If you say that to him again...he will not inform his family and change his residence to my family. Once this word spreads, his reputation will be ruined."
It’s extremely disturbing.”
Zhang Yue said angrily: "I have never said that! Even in the countryside, my brother and I covered him up."
Zhang Yu said: "Of course it's good that Sanlang doesn't say anything, but what if someone asks you? There are people with sinister natures in this world! So the best way is to get you back together with Brother Dun, so that outsiders can see everything.
The rumors are self-defeating."
Zhang Yue stood up angrily and said: "It's not that I don't get back together with my second brother, but that my second brother hasn't even sent a letter home so far. If he sends a letter, even if he doesn't say the original reason
, I want to say hello to my family, why is it like this today?"
Zhang Yu waved his hand and said, "I know the reason why brother Dun didn't send letters home. I don't blame him for this."
“Oh? Please ask uncle for instructions.”
Zhang Yu sighed and said, "You also know that by recognizing relatives by birth, we have become two families at least in name. You are still young and it is difficult to explain the truth to you in detail."
The more Zhang listened, the more he seemed to understand.
Zhang Yu said: "I didn't want Brother Dun to still have contact with your family at first, but now I have figured it out. Brother Dun has married a family, and I plan to give him half of the family property. As for you,
It’s okay for his biological brother to take away a little bit..."
"Of course, you and I are tacitly aware of this matter. You don't have to come here to report it to me. I just pretend I don't know. It's not easy for you when you first come here. Living in the capital has not been easy since ancient times. It's good to have brothers to support each other. So today
Everything I say is only known to you and I don’t need to tell your second brother.”
"Besides, you don't have to doubt my sincerity. Money has always been tight for me, so I can say that it's not easy to get this job. If you succeed in the future, I'll have the heart to work with Brother Dun to help you."
My incompetent cousin, I can't thank you enough even if I'm under the spell of Jiuquan."
Zhang Yue nodded and said: "Uncle, I understand, this is what you said about everyone getting what he needs. Is this how even brothers settle accounts?"
Zhang Yu nodded and said: "That's right. You can express your feelings by settling accounts. If you think it's not enough, I will compensate you more. If you think the money is not enough, there are other things. As long as brother Dun successfully passes the Jinshi examination, you will also be able to do it in the future."
But you can stand firm in Bianjing. I have always been a villain before being a gentleman. What I said before was a bit unpleasant, but it doesn't matter. You can think about it however you want, it doesn't matter."
"The important thing is that you are now helpless in Bianjing. You don't even have enough money to stay in an inn for how many days. If you have today and no tomorrow, how can you talk about anything else? You may not be deeply involved in the world now, or you may be young and ambitious.
, I don’t quite understand what I said today, but I am someone who has been there, and if I were you, I would never hesitate at all.”
Zhang Yue hasn’t spoken yet.
At this time, the old governor had walked in, and Zhang Yu said displeasedly: "Didn't I tell you not to disturb me?"
The old governor looked a little unhappy and said: "Master Lang, there is a message from Ouyang Xueshi's Mansion... Invite Mr. Zhang Sanlang to come to the house!"
ˆps: Thanks again to Nanmeng for the 300,000 reward!
