On the night of the Yuan Dynasty, Bianjing City seemed to be shrouded in thin mist at night. From a distance, the lights and candlelight were swaying far and near, like a beautiful woman holding a candle behind the gauze.
Light balls are hung high in the streets and lanes, making them look like flying stars.
Zhang Yue, Zhang Shi, Zhang Qiu and Yu were walking on the street, watching people rushing to Xuandemen to look at the lanterns.
Pedestrians were rubbing shoulders one after another on the road.
Zhang Shi bought each one for Yu and Zhang Qiu, held a lantern in his hand, and walked away together.
Zhang Shi was very interested and said to Zhang Yue: "I have heard people say these days that all the sons of Yan Xianggong have mediocre officials. However, his son-in-law, Fu Xianggong, is the prime minister. Fu Xianggong's son also has mediocre officials. However, his son-in-law, Feng Xueshi, will also be in the future."
He must be the Prime Minister."
After hearing this, Zhang Yue couldn't help but think about it. In the Song Dynasty, it was hard to say whether the son of the former Xianggong could become the prime minister, but the son-in-law of the former Xianggong often became the prime minister.
However, Zhang Yue would not say to his brother like this: "Brother, where did you want to go? Although the Wu family had a prime minister, it was many years ago. In official circles, it is said that people leave after tea is cool. As for Wu Caoshuai, he has been here for a long time."
If you cannot be transferred back to the capital, it will be difficult for you to speak for me."
Along the way, Zhang Qiu walked to the studio to watch a movie, and Yu followed him.
Zhang Yue and Zhang Shi stopped by the studio, but heard a voice in the studio say, "There is a foreigner in Tokyo City, his surname is Zhang Mingjun."
... We have a daughter named Cuilian, born to a member of our staff besides Li Ji, who is twenty-eight years old. She has an outstanding appearance.
After hearing this, Zhang Yue thought to himself, isn't this Li Cuilian a fast-talking person? I didn't expect that there would be a shadow puppet play script so early.
The story goes that Li Cuilian married into the Zhang family, but ended up talking quickly and offending her parents-in-law, husband, brother and sister-in-law.
In the end, Li Cuilian was divorced and returned home. She was complained by her parents, brother and sister-in-law, and she became a monk out of anger.
Everyone laughed when they heard Li Cuilian contradicting her parents-in-law and her husband's words.
Zhang Shi shook his head and said, "This woman scolded the matchmaker, touched her husband, and ruined her parents-in-law. It would be very difficult to marry such a woman."
Yu Shi heard this and said to Zhang Shi, "What did you say?"
Zhang Shi suddenly understood, and said repeatedly: "Yes, the Wu family girl is a lady of the family, so she knows the general situation, and she won't be like this."
Zhang Yue laughed and said nothing.
After watching the shadow puppet show for a while, the family went to the Daxiangguo Temple. Poetry lanterns were hung on both corridors of the temple. Scholars dropped paper and competed to see who was the best in Lantern Festival poems.
After leaving Daxiangguo Temple, we went straight to Xuande Tower.
On the night of the Yuan Dynasty, the officials would watch the lanterns on the gatehouse.
Several children holding lanterns on the roadside clapped their hands and recited: "The trees and silver flowers are closing, the iron locks of the star bridge are opening..."
"On the top of the willow branches in the moonlight, people meet after dusk..."
"The east wind blows thousands of flowers and trees at night, and even blows them down, and the stars are like rain. BMW carvings fill the road with fragrance..."
Zhang Yue's heart was suddenly touched when he heard this.
"Third uncle, look at Aoshan!"
The family walked to the Zhouqiao Bridge and saw from a distance that the scenery of Bianjing remained the same as before. There were hundreds of thousands of lanterns near the Xuande Gate of Aoshan Mountain, and the full moon under the lanterns and torches seemed to add a circle of brilliance.
The Bianhe River flows under your feet, and the Boya Building on the riverside is full of lanterns. Countless men and women are meeting here, holding hands and swimming together.
When we walked to the two corridors of Imperial Street, there were performers performing various plays, swallowing iron swords, spitting out five-color water, etc... It was a dizzying sight.
There are always people guessing lantern riddles.
In front of Zhang Yue's stall, there were two young men and women guessing lantern riddles. The woman looked a bit like Shiqiniang and wanted the lantern very much. The man tried his best but couldn't guess the lantern riddles. The woman was so anxious.
Complain directly.
Zhang Yue saw it funny and couldn't help but feel a little melancholy in his heart.
Since men and women are not allowed to meet before marriage, Zhang Yue has not seen Qi Niang for a long time. This year's Lantern Festival will not see the beautiful woman, and they cannot go out together to enjoy the lanterns.
But then he remembered that this beautiful and intelligent woman was about to marry him, and Zhang Yue became more yearning for her.
Zhang Yue saw the troubled look on the man's face, so he whispered the answer to the riddle in his ear. The man was overjoyed and immediately won the lantern and gave it to the beautiful lady.
But here Zhang Qiu arrived at a stall and guessed three lantern riddles correctly and won a lantern.
The family visited Aoshan Mountain and ate some steamed buns at a stall before returning home.
Zhang Yue returned home and put down his thoughts, took out "The University" in his room and started reading.
"In ancient times, if you want to bring enlightened virtue to the world, you must first rule your country. If you want to rule your country, you must first regulate your family."
'Cultivation of one's character will lead to a harmonious family, a harmonious family will lead to a well-governed country, and a well-governed country will lead to peace in the world.'
After reading this, Zhang Yue had some thoughts.
He remembered that an Internet tycoon once said that no one can balance the relationship between family and work. You can't have your cake and eat it too, so he encouraged employees to do both and boil chicken soup as hard as they could.
If you give up your family, at least you still have a career. Without a career, there is no way to talk about family.
But universities teach us to manage our families and then govern our country.
In fact, both sentences have their own truths, and it is true that when a career is established, a family will be successful.
However, it is not advisable to give up the family and focus on the career. This is to use tactical diligence to make up for the strategic shortcomings, which is somewhat devoid of methodology.
How can we balance family and career?
Zhang Yue couldn't help but think of Wang Anshi's son-in-law Cai Bian.
History books say that whenever Cai Bian had state affairs, he would first plan them on the bed, and then read them out in the temple. The rulers complained: "What we do every day is just the spit of the husband and wife."
When Cai Bian became prime minister, Lianren sarcastically said in front of Cai Bian that the Prime Minister Your Majesty is paying homage today because of his wife's nepotism. Cai Bian laughed it off after hearing this. This is where the term nepotism came from.
And how does Cai Bian evaluate his father-in-law? He worked hard for a hundred generations to pursue the three generations of Yao and Shun.
Zhang Yue thought of this and couldn't help but sincerely said to Cai Bian, who had never been masked before, "I learned it!"
Wang Anshi's home.
Wang Anshi was reading the Book of Rites with his second daughter on his lap.
Although Wang Anshi was usually unkind, he was extremely filial to his mother and loved his children very much. After his eldest daughter married Wu Anchi, he now left his second daughter at home, and he loved her even more.
Wang Anshi was a Confucian scholar and had unique insights into the Book of Rites.
He believed that Zheng Xuan and Kong Yingda adhered to the ancient rules when annotating the scriptures, so that their annotations did not break the scriptures and their sparse annotations did not break the scriptures. Wang Anshi often had his own interpretation of the Book of Rites, so when he taught his second daughter the Book of Rites, he used his own opinions to speculate on the subtle words and great meanings of the saints.
After listening to Wang Anshi's explanation, the second daughter could be said to know one thing, three things, and five things. Wang Anshi was very happy.
After the instruction, Wang Anshi's wife couldn't stand it anymore and said: "My daughter's family can't take the imperial examination and become a Jinshi. You just teach her to recite, so why treat her as a boy?"
Wang Anshi said: "I don't blame her, but I hope she understands these things and can use them to support her husband and raise her children in the future."
"The women from official families in Bianjing just read some rules about women. If they read such in-depth books and understand so much, they might argue with their husbands and parents-in-law in the future, fearing that they would cause disharmony in their husbands' families."
Wang Anshi's face darkened after hearing this. He thought of the quarrel between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law whose eldest daughter married into the Wu family: "I will never choose to marry such a powerful family in the future."
"What do you want me to do?"
Wang Anshi thought for a while and said, "Isn't Chong Qing's daughter married to Zhang Duzhi? Although Zhang Duzhi is difficult to cultivate, Chong Qing still had a good idea in choosing him as his son-in-law!"
