Chapter 3 The third time the golden thread came to the east to find the black tiger cloth sailed to the west to visit the goshawk

It is said that everyone thought it was too early, and Wang Xiaoyu would have to sing a section, but it was just his sister who came out to perfunctory a few words and it ended, and they broke up at that time. When the old man arrived the next day, he was always worried when he thought of the one thousand taels of silver left in his apartment.That is to say, I found a money order shop on Yuanqian Street, called Rishengchang, and remitted 800 taels back to my hometown in Tuzhou, Jiangnan, but I kept more than 100 taels of silver.Today I bought a cocoon silk on the street and a big wool mandarin jacket to save face. I took them back to my apartment and asked a tailor to make a cotton robe and mandarin jacket.Because it is the end of September, although the weather is very warm, if the northwest wind blows, you will have to wear cotton immediately.After paying for the ready-made garments, I had lunch, walked out of the west gate, and first went to Baotu Spring to have a bowl of tea.This Baotu Spring is the first of the seventy-two springs in Jinan Prefecture. In the big pool, there are four or five mu of land, and both ends of it are connected with the river.The water flowing in the pool makes the sound of Japanese women.There are three big springs in the middle of the pool, which emerge from the bottom of the pool and rise to the surface of the water to a height of two or three feet.According to the local people, it was five or six feet high at the time, but after the pond was repaired, it became shorter for some reason.These three strands of water are all thicker than a bucket.To the north of the pool is Luzu Hall, with a shed in front of the hall, four or five tables and more than a dozen benches for selling tea, so that tourists can rest.

After finishing his tea, Lao Can went out the back gate of Baotu Spring, turned a few turns eastward, and found Jinquan Academy.After entering the second gate, it is the toujia well, which is said to be the place where Chen Zun stayed.Looking west again, through a double gate, there is a butterfly hall, surrounded by springs in the front and back of the hall.There are many plantains behind the hall, although there are several batches of residual leaves, it is still a boundless green. On the northwest corner, among the plantain bushes, there is a square pond, which is only two feet square, which is the golden thread spring.The whole line is the second of the four famous springs.Which four do you think are the four famous springs?The Baotu Spring just mentioned, the Jinxian Spring at this moment, the Heihu Spring outside the South Gate, and the Pearl Spring in Futai Yamen: they are called "Four Famous Springs".

This golden thread spring is said to have a golden thread in the water.Lao Can looked left and right for a long time, not to mention the gold thread, not even the iron thread.Later, fortunately, a scholar came by, and Lao Can bowed his head to ask if there was any whereabouts of the word "golden thread".The scholar then took the old man to the west of the pool, bent his body, turned his head sideways, looked at the water, and said, "Look, there is a thread on the water, like a gossamer, swaying on the water. See it No?" Lao Can also tilted his head, continued to look at it for a while, and said, "I saw it, I saw it!" What is the reason for this?After thinking for a while, he said, "Could it be that there are two springs underneath, with opposing forces, so this line is squeezed out in the middle?" Hasn't there been a strong or weak for a long time?" The old man said, "Look at this line, it often swings from side to side, which is why the springs on both sides are uneven." The scholar nodded in understanding.After speaking, they parted ways.

Lao Can left Jinquan Academy and headed south along the west city.After passing the corner of the city, there is still a street market, heading east.There is a big city river outside the south gate of the city. The spring water in the river is clear and clear, and the bottom of the river can be seen clearly.The aquatic plants in the river are more than one foot long, and they are swaying by the river water, which is really beautiful.Walking and watching, I saw several large rectangular pools on the south side of the river bank, and many women sat on the stones beside the pools and pounded clothes.Going further, there is a large pond, and there are several thatched cottages in the south of the pond. When you walk to the front, you know it is a teahouse.After entering the teahouse and sitting by the north window, a teahouse made a pot of tea.The teapots are all in the shape of Yixing pots, but they are imitated locally.The old man sat down and asked the waiter: "I heard that you have a Black Tiger Spring here, do you know where it is?" The waiter smiled and said: "Sir, you lean on the window sill and look out, isn't it the Black Tiger Spring? ?” Lao Can really looked out, and there was a tiger head carved in stone under his feet, about two feet long and five or six feet wide.A spring spouted from the tiger's mouth, with great force, it rushed straight from one side of the pool to the other side of the pool, then turned to both sides, and flowed into the Cheng River.After sitting for a while, seeing that the setting sun seemed to be gradually setting down, I paid the tea money and walked slowly into the south gate to return to my apartment.

On the next day, I felt that I had enough fun, so I took a string of bells and went out to hang out in the street.Walking past Futai Yamen, at the entrance of Wangxi Yiyi Hutong, there is a medium-sized house with a gate facing south, and the words "Gao Gongguan" are pasted on the door.I saw a thin and long-faced man standing at the gate of the mansion, wearing a brown and purple ruffled cotton jacket, holding a black and white copper two-horse carriage hookah in his hand, with a sad expression on his face.Seeing Lao Can, he called out, "Sir, Sir! Can you read your throat?" Lao Can replied, "I know what is one o'clock." The man said, "Please sit inside." After entering the gate, he looked west and turned, Even the three living rooms are well laid out.The calligraphy and paintings on both sides are mostly the pen and ink of celebrities nowadays.There is only a central hall hanging in the middle, which only depicts a person, like Liezi Yufeng. His clothes and crowns are blown by the wind. Okay. Sit down, and asked each other's names. It turned out that this person is from Jiangsu, named Shaoyin, and served as a copywriter in the Fuyuan. He said: "A concubine has a throat moth, and it has been five days since a drop of water can't enter it.Please have a doctor's examination, sir, is there any help? The old man said: "You have to see a doctor before you can talk." At that time, Duke Gao called his family: "Go to the upper room to take care of him, saying that a gentleman has come to see a doctor." " Then they entered the second door together, that is, the three upper rooms. When they entered the main room, an old woman opened the curtain of the west room and said, "please sit inside." "Walking into the door, there is a large bed on the west wall and on the north side, with printed linen curtains hanging on the bed, a table and a half on the west side in front of the bed, and two machine stools in front of the bed.

Gao Gong asked Lao Can to sit on the stool facing west.A hand was stretched out from the tent, and the old woman took a few wooden books and put it under her hand, examined one hand, and then changed another.The old man said: "The pulse in both hands is heavy and stringy. It's because the fire is forced by the cold and cannot come out, so it gets heavier as you pass it. Please take a look at your throat." Minister Gao raised the curtain.Look at the woman, about twenty years old, her face is flushed, but she looks very tired.Gao Gong gently lifted him up and faced the light from the window.The old man looked down, and saw that the two sides were swollen and were about to be stitched together, and the color was light red.After seeing it, he said to Gao Gong: "The disease is not serious at the beginning. It was just a little anger. After being forced by the doctor with bitter and cold medicine, the fire couldn't get out. In addition, the liver qi is easy to move and it is caused by depression. For now, I only need to take two doses of Xinliang. Just disperse the medicine." He took out a medicine bottle and a throat gun from his medicine pouch, and blew some medicine on it for him.When I went out to the living room, I prescribed a prescription called "Added Sweet Orange Soup".The introduction is made of raw licorice, bitter platycodon grandiflorum, burdock seed, nepeta, windproof, mint, magnolia, flying talc, and fresh lotus stem.After the prescription was opened, I sent it over.

Gao Gongdao: "Extremely clever. Do you know how much to eat?" The old man said: "Take two today, and come back for a follow-up visit tomorrow." Gao Gong asked again: "How much is the medicine and gold?" Medicine gold. Sure enough, my aunt was cured. When I am hungry, I will give a bowl of rice to eat; when I can’t walk, I will give a few Panchuan, which is enough.” The total reward. Where is the respected residence, so that if there is any change, someone will come and invite you." The old man said: "It's at the Gaosheng store on Chief Secretary Street." After finishing speaking, we parted.From then on, please come every day.But after three or four days, the disease gradually receded, and he was already the same as ordinary people.Gao Gong liked it so much that he gave eight taels of silver to Xie Yi, and held a banquet in the North Pillar Building, and invited his colleagues in the copywriting to accompany him, which was also meant to be flattering.Unexpectedly, one person will pass on ten, ten will pass on to a hundred, and the officials and curtains will go both ways, and those who will be picked up in sedan chairs will gradually become overwhelmed.

That day, I had dinner at the North Pillar Building again, and it was invited by an alternate.The person on the right at the top of the table said: "Yu Zuochen is going to make up the Caozhou government." The person on the bottom left, next to the old and disabled person said: "His shift is very far away, how can he fill in the vacancy?" The person on the right said: "Because he The robbers did a good job. In less than a year, there was a scene of not picking up things on the road. Gongbao appreciated it. Someone said to Gongbao the day before yesterday: "I once went to a village in Caozhou Prefecture and saw a blue cloth bag abandoned by the roadside. No one dared to pick it up. A certain man asked the native: "Whose burden is this?Why no one put it away? The native said: "I don't know who put it here last night." "Someone asked: "Why didn't you pick it up and take it back? They all shook their heads with a smile and said, "Do I still want to kill my family?" "In this way, it can be seen that the ancients did not deceive others, and they can do it today!" Gong Bao liked it very much, so he planned to protect him exclusively." The human on the left said: "Zuo Chen is capable, as long as I think it's too cruel. In one year, more than 2,000 people died in cages, isn't there any injustice?" A person next to him said: "There must be some injustices, and there is no need to discuss them, but I don't know how many of them are not injustices?" The human on the right said: "The politics of the cruel officials are all good-looking on the outside. You remember when you used to flay and build the Yanzhou government, why is it not like this? Everyone always looks sideways and it's over." Another person said: "Zuo Chen Cruel cruelty, it is true cruel cruelty, but the people in Caozhou government are really hateful. That year, when the brothers were in Caozhou, there was almost no robbery case every day. They raised a small team of 200, like a cat that does not catch mice. Useful. The robbers caught by the counties are either honest villagers or people who were threatened by the robbers to guard the mules and horses. As for the real robbers, there are not many in a hundred. As soon as the robbery was done, the robbery case disappeared. In comparison, the brother is really ashamed." The person on the left said: "According to the humble opinion of the brother, it is better to not kill many people. This person's reputation has been famous for a while, and the future retribution may also be unimaginable. " After finishing speaking, everyone said: "There is enough wine, let's give food." After the meal, everyone dispersed.

One day later, Lao Can had nothing to do in the afternoon and was sitting idle in his apartment when he saw a blue woolen sedan chair alighting from the door, and a man came in and shouted, "Is Mr. Tie at home?" Lao Can saw that it was Gao Shaoyin, so he hurried He came out and said: "At home, at home. Please sit in the room." It's just that the place is dirty and humble. "Shaoyin said, "Say what there is! "Go inside on one side. There are two doors to enter, and there are two wing rooms facing east. There is a brick kang on the south side of the room, with bedding on the kang; a square table and two chairs on the north side; two small bamboos on the west side. A few books, a small inkstone, a few pens, and an ink box were placed on the table. Lao Can asked him to sit down first. He took the book away, looked carefully, and said in surprise: "This is The Song edition of Zhang Junfang was carved on wood, where did it come from?It has been a long time since I saw this book in the world. Ji Cangwei, Huang Pilie and others have all come to read it. It is a rare treasure! "The old man said: "But the few broken books left by the ancestors are not worth selling. "Looking down again, it is a handwritten Tao poem by Su Dongpo, which is the ancestor imitated by Mao Zijin.

Shaoyin praised him again and again, and then asked: "Sir, you are from a family of Cody, why don't you pay attention to fame, but do such a cold job? Although wealth and honor are floating clouds, it is too noble." Lao Can sighed: "Your Excellency I am honored with the word "noble". I am not without ambition and fame: one, my temperament is too loose and out of date; two, as the saying goes, "climbing high, falling hard", if you don't want to climb high, you want to fall lightly Some meanings." Shao Yin said: "Last night when we had a light meal inside, Kung Pao said: 'There are a lot of talents in the shogunate, and everyone who has heard of it is here. Here, Kung Pao came to collect it." Kung Pao hurriedly asked: 'Who is it? Yao Yunweng told you about your knowledge, conduct, understanding of people and world affairs, and so on, which made the official protector scratch his head and scratch his head, very happy.Kung Pao asked the brother to immediately write a copy letter to send off to the relatives.That was the brother's answer: "I'm afraid it's not worth it. This person is neither a candidate nor a candidate. And I don't know what fame he has. It's not easy to get a job." Kung Pao said: "Then let's go to the next Guan Shu to invite you." The brother said: "If you want to ask him to see a doctor, you will arrive as soon as you ask; if you want to incur the shogunate, I don't know if he is willing or not, you have to ask him first." Kung Pao said, "Very good."You go to find out tomorrow, and you come to see me with him. 'For this reason, my brother is here to discuss with Your Excellency today, can we both go inside and see Gongbao today? The old man said: "There is nothing wrong with that. It's just that the palace guard needs a crown, but I'm not used to wearing it. It's good to see each other in plain clothes." Shao Yin said: "Natural plain clothes."Pause for a moment, we go together.You sit in my study and wait.Kung Pao came down from inside in the afternoon, and we met in the signing room. " Said, and called a sedan chair.

Lao Can, wearing his own clothes, went to Fu's Office with Gao Shaoyin.It turns out that this Shandong Fufu Office was the Qi Wang Mansion in the Ming Dynasty, so many places still use the old name.After entering the third hall, it is called "Palace Gate".Next to it is Gao Shaoyin's study, and opposite is Gongbao's signing room.Fang went to Shao Yin's study and sat down, within half an hour, he saw that Gong Bao had come out, his body was very burly, but his appearance was still kind.When Gao Shaoyin saw it, he immediately went forward to meet him, and said a few words in a low voice.Only heard Zhuang Gongbao shouting repeatedly: "Please come here, please come here." Then an official came running and shouted: "Gongbao, please master Tie!"Zhuang Yun: "I've admired it for a long time!" Stretching out his hand and touching his waist, he said, "Please sit inside." The officer had already pulled up the soft curtain. The old man entered the door and bowed deeply.Gong Baorang sat down on the mahogany kang.Shao Yin accompanied each other face to face.Another square stool was moved between the two of them, Gongbao sat down, and asked, "I heard that Mr. Bucan is outstanding in both knowledge and economics. Brother, with my lack of education, Shengen asked me to be the official of the frontier. Don't worry about it, but it's over if you put your heart and soul into the administration. It's really difficult to handle this river project in this province, so brothers have no other way. But anyone who hears about talents and abilities, I want to invite them. It's also the meaning of brainstorming. If there is something to see If you can teach me a thing or two, you will be rewarded a lot." The old man said: "The political voice of Gongbao is well-known, so there is no need to say it. It's just about the river engineering, and the outside discussion is all about Ben Jiarangsan Ce, the Lord doesn't compete with the river for land?" Gongbao said: "It is. You see, the river in Henan is so wide, and the river here is so narrow." The old man said: "That's not the case. The river is too narrow to accommodate , only dozens of days in the flood season; the rest of the time, the water is very soft, so the sand is easy to silt. You must know that Jia Rang only did a good job, and he has never done river work. After Jia Rang, less than a hundred years later, there are This Wang Jing came out. His method of controlling the river came from Dayu's lineage, and he specialized in the word "Yi" for "Yu suppressing the flood", which is the opposite of Jia Rang's theory. Since he ruled, all There has been no river trouble for more than a thousand years. Pan Jixun in the Ming Dynasty and Jin Wenxiang in the present dynasty both imitated his intentions and enjoyed great fame. Kung Pao must have known about it." Kung Pao said: "What method does Wang Jing use?" The old man said: "He realized it from the words 'Broadcasting is Nine Rivers, and the same is Nihe', 'Broadcasting' and 'Same'. There are only two words in the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" that are "one water gate ten miles away, and the order is more reciprocal". In a word. As for the twists and turns, it is beyond what Qing Gai can do, so how about slowly making a post about it?" Zhuang Gongbao liked it very much when he heard it, and said to Gao Shaoyin: "You tell them to clean up the three rooms in the south study room, and ask Mr. Tie to move to live in the yamen, so that he can receive advice at any time." The old man said: "Gong Bao Yaai, I am very grateful, but now I have a relative who lives in Caozhou, and I plan to visit him; and I have heard about Yushou's political voice, so I want to refer to him, what kind of person he is. When I come back from Caozhou, I will Let's get Gong Bao to teach me." Gong Bao looked very dispirited.After finishing speaking, Lao Can took his leave, left the yamen with Shao Yin, and went back separately. It is not known whether Lao Can went to Caozhou or not, and we will hear the next chapter.