Hearing what Ouyang Fa said, Mrs. Wu's expression changed slightly and she said with a smile: "I have been busy lately, because of Xian'er's homework and the matter of inviting my husband, I have forgotten about Zhang Jiashanlang. I blame me for this."
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When Ouyang Fa heard what Wu said, he was a little dissatisfied but now he was considerate and said: "Xian'er's homework is of course important, but the matters that dad personally confessed to him must be kept in the bottom of his heart. Fortunately, Zi Gu is not an outsider in our family. If we let him
If others say we kissed, what's the point of shame for you and me?"
Wu said apologetically: "I'm an official. I didn't think carefully about this matter. But why did Zeng Zigu fall in love with Zhang Sanlang?"
Ouyang Fa said: "Madam, you are really a noble person who forgets things. I told you before that Li Zhi in Taixue said that Sanlang's poems were not good. So Sanlang asked his father to find a famous teacher to learn poems and poems. Later, his father entrusted Sanlang to Shu Gu.
Under the door."
"It happened that Zigu went to visit Shugu and saw Sanlang, so he fell in love at first sight. It was also a coincidence. I remember that when Li Zhi taught about setting up Xujiang Academy, Zi Gu studied there. Now San Lang is famous because of Li Zhi's speech.
Knowing Zeng Zigu, isn't this marriage destined by fate?"
Ouyang Fa was very happy as he talked.
Wu looked a little unnatural, but smiled in agreement: "That's really a coincidence."
Ouyang laughed and said: "It's not only a coincidence, but also a good thing. Zigu has been my friend for many years. He is really a gentleman with good conduct."
"At first, Zigu's father and brother died early, and his family was so poor that he could not even pay for his father's funeral. In the end, Privy Du (Du Yan) paid for it. Later, he raised four younger brothers and nine younger sisters.
In a state of weakness, eunuchs relied entirely on their own efforts to learn marriage, so that they did not marry until they were thirty-two years old."
"In fact, Zi Gu was favored by Fan Xianggong and his father. Many scholars in the capital were jealous of him. That year he and his younger brother Ke Jia failed. There were scholars in the capital who wrote poems and ridiculed, "Every three years, when a public event is held, he will be killed.
The two scholars of the Tseng family are like two swallows between curtains, one flying away and the other coming. But they did not complain a single word and objected to my words. I am poor and strong, and I will not fall into the clouds."
"Last year, Zigu went to Beijing to take the exam. Before leaving, Zigu's stepmother, Mrs. Zhu, said to the Zeng brothers that it was not easy to take the exam with the Ministry of Rites because our family was poor, not to mention that you have many brothers. Now that she is older, she doesn't have much hope. As long as she
If only one person can win, he will be satisfied."
"In the end, the sixth son of the Tseng family came to the throne. He didn't get carried away or had the bad temper of the past. He just talked to me and finally made it through."
After hearing this, Mrs. Wu admired her from the bottom of her heart.
Ji Qiu will not fall, and Keshao Ji Qiu's words can inherit the career of his father and brother and keep the family business from falling. This can be said to be the duty of a nobleman's son in the Han and Jin Dynasties.
After the emergence of the imperial examination, there was also upward and downward mobility between the gentry and poor families.
If the children of officials have not passed the imperial examination for several generations, it will be difficult to maintain the original glory of the family.
Therefore, the saying that Ji Qiu will not fall has become even more rare and precious nowadays. After Zeng Gong's father and brother died of illness, he raised his younger brothers and sisters by himself, and once again made his family famous.
Now Zeng Gong, the man who made the family's "Ji Qiu never fall", favored Zhang Yue.
Wu said nothing after hearing this, but Ouyang Fa continued talking enthusiastically: "Zigu is my good friend and my father's most proud student. As for Sanlang, he is also a rising star who is favored by my father. If the two of them can
With the marriage, both Zigu and Sanlang have a closer relationship with our Ouyang family. It seems that you didn't play matchmaker for Sanlang at the beginning, but in the end it turned out to be a good thing, and it can be regarded as an unintentional intervention."
Mrs. Wu looked at Ouyang Fa's happy look and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, finally I'm not too busy and I seem to have helped Zeng Zigu."
"Of course," Ouyang said, "Zigu raised his four younger brothers, got jobs one after another, and married several sisters at the right time. He chose Sanlang because he fulfilled his responsibilities as an elder brother and it was also because Sanlang was outstanding in character, talent and learning...
Madam, why do you look so ugly?"
Wu forced a smile and said, "I must have been feeling a little tired due to the wind lately. I'll be fine after a while."
Ouyang Fa said: "That's fine, madam, rest in peace. I'm going to the study to study."
Wu nodded.
After Ouyang Fa left, soon a maid came into the room with a bowl and said: "Madam, the wolfberry porridge you ordered the small kitchen to cook for clearing the liver and improving eyesight is ready. The slave will serve a bowl to my uncle later."
Wu took one look and said, "Cleans the liver and improves eyesight? No need, empty the bowl from my uncle and feed it to the pigs!"
The maid couldn't help but look confused.
But seeing Mrs. Wu sitting on the kang, she said bitterly: "How can the wolfberry porridge for clearing the liver and improving eyesight touch the urine of a child!"
Taixue.
Zhengyangzhai.
After the dinner party, Zhang Yue took the bowls and chopsticks outside the fasting room, rinsed them clean, and then walked back to the fasting room.
At this time, the lamp was just turned on in the studio. Liu Zuo and Xiang Qi each sat on their own couches, watching Huang Haoyi sitting on the side with his rice bowl untouched.
After a while, Huang Haoyi raised his sleeves and wiped away tears.
Zhang Yue and others all knew that Huang Haoyi was not feeling well now, mainly because the marriage of Liu Jiancheng's family (a dowry of five thousand guan) was ruined, so that he had no taste for food and could not sleep at night for several days.
Not only did Huang Haoyi's marriage to Liu Jiancheng fail, Lian Yulian also left after getting his one hundred coins.
Now Huang Haoyi has just answered that sentence and lost all his wealth and wealth, and is somewhat helpless under this heavy blow.
He didn’t even go to Chonghuatang for dianmao.
Liu Zuo looked at Zhang Yue and asked him to give Huang Haoyi a few words to comfort him.
Zhang Yue walked up to Huang Haoyi and saw him looking at Zhang Yue and saying: "Sanlang, there is no need to persuade me. Now because of my marriage to Liu Jiancheng, I have become the laughing stock in Bianjing City. Not only the Liu family laughs at me
, even my brother and sister-in-law complained about me, and even my classmates in Taixue laughed at me."
"No, no," Liu Zuo and Xiang Qi said quickly, "Silang, we have no intention of laughing at you. We all feel sorry for you about this matter, so don't take it too seriously."
Huang Haoyi looked at Zhang Yue sadly and said: "Sanlang, don't try to persuade me or make me feel at ease. This will make me even more embarrassed to see you. I, Huang Haoyi, am really... really embarrassed to see Jiang Dong's father."
Zhang Yue shook his head and thought, you still know too little about Huang Haoyi.
He said earnestly to Huang Haoyi: "Don't worry, Silang, I will never advise you. So, you can't eat anyway, and I'm still a little hungry, so I'll eat this bowl of rice for you."
Seeing Zhang Yue reaching out to hold the bowl, Huang Haoyi raised his hand and moved the bowl slightly and said, "I'll eat later."
laugh!
Liu Zuo and Xiang Qidu shook their heads and turned around.
Liu Zuo ridiculed: "Silang, I advise you not to eat anymore and read a book. After all, there are thousands of bells in the book."
Xiang Qiye mocked: "Yes, Qian Zhongsu will definitely take care of you. What else do you want to eat?"
After Liu Zuo finished speaking to Qi, he saw Huang Haoyi burst into tears.
The two of them were also panicked and hurriedly asked: "Why is Shiro crying?"
Huang Haoyi shed tears and said: "You said that there are thousands of bells in the book, so I thought of Yan Ruyu in the book. When talking about Yan Ruyu, I thought of Yulian and Lady Liu. How can I not feel sad!"
"Don't try to persuade me any more. I really can't afford it! Just let me cry a lot!"
Everyone looked confused when they saw this, we really weren't trying to persuade you.
Zhang Yue also lamented, "Damn it, how did a person like Huang Haoyi get into the imperial examination? Do you really want to embarrass us Jianzhou scholars to death?"
"Is it true that there is Yan Ruyu in a book?" Liu Zuo shook his head.
Zhang Yueze said: "There are beautiful faces in the book. This is the first time I have heard someone say that reading an erotic book is so refreshing and refined."
After saying this, the four people in the studio burst into laughter.
Even Huang Haoyi wiped away his tears and said with a smile: "Sanlang, you are so kind. Knowing that I was sad, you told jokes in a different way to comfort me."
Zhang Yue also shook his head.
Liu Zuo on the side also smiled and said: "Okay, okay, Shiro also laughed, let's not talk about this anymore, I just bought some good tea, how about inviting you to drink tea?"
Several people applauded.
Liu Zuo immediately took the earthen pot and put it on the winter heating stove to boil water.
After the water boiled, Liu Zuo poured the tea from the tea bag directly into the earthen pot.
But I felt a fresh fragrance suddenly fill the whole house.
But Zhang Yue was a little surprised. This tea fragrance... isn't it exactly the fragrance of jasmine tea?
But in the Song Dynasty and in Bianjing City, where could jasmine tea exist?
How can this be?
Zhang Yue suddenly felt that something was wrong, and turned to Qi Xiang Liu Zuo and said, "This tea is not ground into powder, it is a herbal tea from Liang Zhejiang! But how can it smell like flowers?"
Liu Zuo smiled and said, "Don't you know this? This tea has a peculiar aroma. I got it at home in recent months. I drank it before and thought it was very good, so I asked someone to invite you to drink it with me."
"That's great, thanks to Brother Liu, otherwise I wouldn't be able to drink such good tea." Xiang Qida said happily.
Huang Haoyi also said with a shy face: "I shed too many tears and my mouth is a little dry. I will drink some too."
Liu smiled at both of them.
"Sanlang, you drink some too."
Zhang Yue walked up to Liu Zuo and took a sip from the tea cup he handed him. He felt that although the taste was a little different, it was generally similar to the taste of jasmine tea from later generations.
Jasmine tea is Zhang Yue's favorite tea on weekdays (it's not expensive). When working at 996 in the company, Zhang Yue would take a break to make a pot of jasmine tea to kill time, and smell the refreshing tea fragrance to relieve his tired body and mind.
But how could it be here?
Zhang Yue remembered that there was no method of brewing tea in the Song Dynasty.
Suddenly Zhang Yue remembered that when he was at Ouyang Xiu's house, he had completely mentioned to Ouyang Fa how to make this jasmine tea.
Could it be that after Ouyang Fa heard about it, he immediately took action?
Zhang Yue thought to himself that with Ouyang Fa's tea-loving temperament, it was possible for him to make this plan.
But that's not right. During the Song Dynasty, jasmine was only available in Fuzhou, and jasmine bloomed in April and May. It would take at least several months to brew this tea.
After Ouyang Fa heard the solution in Bianjing, he ordered people to go to Fuzhou to pick flowers and make tea. Then he traveled thousands of miles and sent them to Bianjing without stopping.
What a huge effort!
Zhang Yue felt strange in his heart and planned to ask Ouyang to ask. This man actually stole his patent and didn't say hello to him. This was too much.
