Chapter 6 The fifth round of Wang Xiucai's discussion on the establishment of partial housing and strict supervision of students died of illness

It is said that because of the death of the teacher and father in Tangzhi County, all the sons will make a fuss and block the water around the county government office. They keep saying that they only need to find Zhang Jingzhai and beat him to death.The magistrate was shocked, and after careful questioning in the yamen, he realized that it was the door that leaked the news; the magistrate said: "No matter how wrong I am, I am the lord of a county after all. How dare he treat me! If you come in and see Zhang Shixiong, you will be killed." It’s a bit of a big deal. Now we have to try to get brother Zhang out first, and get out of this place.” Hastily called a few confidant yamen servants to come in to discuss; fortunately, the back of the yamen was close to Beicheng, and the yamen servants slipped away first When they went outside the city, they tied Zhang and Fan out with ropes.Changed into blue cloth clothes, straw hat, and straw sandals, looking for a path, busy like a stray dog, anxious like a fish slipping through the net, looking for a way back to the provincial capital overnight.

They all came out to appease the people and said a lot of good things. The disciples gradually dispersed.The magistrate of Tang wrote a detailed report on the reason, and reported it to the inspector.According to the documents issued by the procuratorate, the county magistrate was called.When Tang Feng saw the inspector, he took off his gauze hat and just kowtowed. The inspector said: "In terms of this matter, you, Mr. Tang, are too rash; just blame the shackles. Why pile the beef on the shackles? What kind of criminal law is this?" But this unruly wind can’t last long, I have to catch a few leaders here and deal with them as best as possible. You go back to the yamen to handle affairs, you need to consider everything carefully, and you can’t be willful.” Tang magistrate kowtowed again: “This is a humble job No; it is really a kindness from the parents of heaven and earth to be preserved by the Elder Master, and he will correct his mistakes afterward. But the Elder Master has judged and understood, and these few leaders also beg the Elder Master to send him to the lower county and give him a face. "According to the inspector also agreed.The magistrate thanked him and came back to Gaoyao.

After a while, the five leading Huizi were indeed sentenced to "traitors hijacking the government and punished according to the law" and sent to the county for punishment.The county magistrate read the letter and put up a sign.The next morning, he swaggered out of the hall and sent Huizi away.Just as he was about to leave the hall, he saw two people coming in to cry for grievances, and the county magistrate asked them to bring them up to ask.One is Wang Xiaoer, who is the next-door neighbor of Gongsheng Yan. In March last year, Yan Gongsheng's family only gave birth to a piglet. When he went to his house, he hurriedly sent him back to Yan's house.Yan's family said that it is the most unfavorable market for a pig to find someone else's house, so they forced him to sell the piglet to him for eight qian.This pig has grown to more than 100 catties in Wang's house, and he didn't want to go to Yan's house by mistake, and Yan's house locked the pig.Xiaoer's elder brother Wang Da went to Yan's house to beg for a pig. Yan Gongsheng said that the pig was originally his, and if he wanted to beg for the pig, he estimated the value according to the current value, and took a few taels of silver to take the pig.Wang Da was a poor man. If he had money, he quarreled with Yan's family. The sons born by Yan Gong beat him to death with a bolt for the door and a stick with the top of the pole. His legs were broken and he slept on the bed. At home, so Xiaoer came to complain.

The magistrate drank while, brought the other up and asked, "What's your name?" The man was an old man in his fifties and sixties, and said, "The villain's name is Huang Mengtong, and he lives in the country. Because he came to the county last September There was a shortage of money and food for a while, so the people in the central government borrowed twenty taels of silver from the squire Yan, three cents a month, wrote a loan agreement, and sent it to Yan's mansion. But the young man never took his silver. Walking to the street, he met a villager He said that he would lend some taels of silver to the younger one and pay a few cents, and then go to the countryside to try to persuade the younger one not to borrow money from the Yan family. After paying the money and food, the younger one went home with relatives. So far It's been more than half a year. Thinking of this, I asked Yan's mansion to take back the loan contract. Yan squire asked the younger one for the interest money of these months. The younger one said, "I didn't borrow the capital, so how can I benefit?" said Yan squire. If the young one gets back the loan agreement at that time, he can lend the silver to others for interest; because he has not withdrawn the contract, he can't move the twenty taels of silver, and he has missed the interest for more than half a year, so it should be the small one. Knowing that it was not the case, he told the middleman that he would rather buy a hoof wine and come to the door to get the contract; the squire Yan insisted on refusing, and asked people to take home the small donkey and the same bag of rice, and did not issue an IOU. For such a matter of injustice, I beg the Elder Lord to decide!"

After hearing this, the county magistrate said, "a man who is a tribute student should wear his clothes; if he doesn't do something good in the countryside, it's really abominable to deceive people like this!" He approved both certificates.The plaintiff is out waiting.Someone reported this to Yan Gongsheng a long time ago, Yan Gongsheng panicked, and thought to himself: "These two things are true, if judged, it will not look good. Thirty-six strategies are the best policy." Luggage, hurried to the provincial capital. The county magistrate approved the case, issued the house, went on a business trip, and came to Yan's house.Yan Gongsheng was no longer at home, so he had no choice but to look for the second old official Yan.The second old official is called Yan Dayu, whose name is Zhihe, and his brother's name is Zhizhong. They are brothers, but they live in two houses.This Yan Zhihe is a prison student, and his family property is rich, with more than 100,000 silver.Yan Zhihe saw the messenger to tell the matter, he is a timid and rich man, seeing that his brother is not at home, he dare not be lighthearted.Immediately, he sent someone to eat wine and rice, and sent them away with two thousand dollars.Busyly sent Xiaosi to invite the two uncles to discuss.His two uncles are surnamed Wang, one is Wang De, who is a student of the school; the other is Wang Ren, who is a student of the county music;Hearing my sister-in-law's invitation, they came together.Yan Zhihe hurriedly told the story from the beginning: "Now I am here on a business trip, how do I deal with it?" Wang Ren said with a smile: "Brother Jin usually says that he has friendship with Mr. Tang; why is this little thing scaring you away? Yan Zhihe said: "I can't say enough. It's just that my brother is standing with his feet wide, but the messenger is making noise at my house. How can I lose my family affairs and go out to find him? He won't either." Come back." Wang Ren said: "Every family, this matter has nothing to do with you."

Wang Dedao: "You don't know, the messengers in the yamen, because my sister-in-law has a bowl of rice to eat; they only pick the hairy ones when they do things. If they say they don't care, he wants more people. Now there is a reason, It's the method of "drawing the bottom of the pot"; you just need to ask someone to appease the complainant, and everyone will give you a word, and then rest. Sorry, it's not a big deal." Wang Ren said: "There is no need to ask for help, it is our stupid brother The two went to find Wang Xiaoer and Huang Mengtong, and when they got home, they broke up for him; returned the pig to the Wang family, and took some money to heal his broken leg; One day's business is gone."

Yan Zhi said peacefully; "The old uncle said the same thing, but my sister-in-law is also a confused person, and her nephews are like wolves. They don't listen to the lesson. How can he take out this pig and the loan?" Wang Dedao: "Sister-in-law, this is too much to say. If your sister-in-law makes your nephew obstinate, you think it's bad luck, and then take out a few taels of silver, discount a pig's price, and give it to the surname Wang; the Huang family's loan contract, our middleman Make a letter to him, saying that it is useless to find waste paper. This matter must be resolved, and the ears will be clean." Now the discussion has been decided, and everything is done properly.Yan Er, an old official, spent more than a dozen liang of silver in the yamen, and the lawsuit was over.

After a few days, I had a feast of wine and invited two uncles to express my thanks; two scholars, acting as if they were in charge, refused to come in the restaurant.Yan Zhihe told Xiao Si to go and say: "Grandma is not feeling well these days. Today, one of you is going to have some wine, and the other is that grandma wants to talk to your uncles." The two of them just came after hearing this.Yan Zhihe immediately greeted him into the hall.After tea, I asked Xiao Si to go in and inform grandma, and the maid came out to invite the two uncles. Entering the room, he looked up and saw his sister, Wang Shi, with a yellow and emaciated face and a timid look.The road is not complete, and they are still packing melon seeds, peeling millet seeds, and making dishes by themselves.Seeing his brother come in, he put down what he was doing and came to meet him.The nanny was holding the concubine's youngest son, who was only three years old, wearing a silver collar and wearing a red dress, and came to call him uncle.After the two had tea, a servant girl said, "Miss Zhao came in to pay respects to uncle." The two said quickly, "Don't bother!" They sat down and said some homely things, and then asked about the illness of the sister.Always weak, more tonic should be used.

After all, the banquet was set up in the front hall and let out to the banquet; after some gossip, Yan Zhizhong's words were brought up again.Wang Ren smiled and said to Wang De: "Brother! I don't understand how his boss's writing style can be supplemented?" Wang De said: "This is what was said 30 years ago. At that time, the masters were all from the royal family. He is an official who knows what articles!" Wang Rendao: "The boss is getting more and more bizarre now. Our close relatives, we have to invite him several times a year, but we have never seen a glass of wine at his house. I remember that I paid tribute to erect the flagpole the year before last. There was a banquet at his house." Wang De said with a frown, "I never went there at that time. In order to pay a tribute, he got people to give congratulatory gifts, and sent members to Zongjia. Needless to say, the county is poor. , got one or two hundred taels of money. I still owe the cook money, and the money from the butcher's meat case, and I still refuse to pay it back. I will have a quarrel at home in two months, what will it look like!"

Yan Zhihe said: "Even I can't tell. To be honest with the two old uncles, like my family still has a few acres of Susukida, the husband and wife live at home every day, and the pork is reluctant to buy a catty; whenever the youngest son wants to eat , just buy four dollars at the cooked and cut shop to coax him. My brother has no land, and the population is large, and he can’t live in three days. Fish on credit at the door. At the time when the family was separated, it was the same land, and they were poor for nothing. Now, they have brought the pear flower chairs at home, quietly opened the back door, and exchanged meat buns for eating. What do you think about this matter!" The two laughed loudly. .After laughing, he said: "Just talk about such nonsense, we missed our drink. Get the dice bowl quickly!"

Immediately take the dice and send it to the uncle: "We will be the number one scholar. Two uncles, each will make a number one order. Each will win the number one prize once and have a big cup." The two won the number one prize several times and ate A dozen cups.But it was weird, the dice seemed to know people's affairs, Yan Jiansheng never won the number one prize, the two clapped their hands and laughed.At the end of the fourth watch, he stumbled and helped him back. Since then, Wang's illness has gradually become more serious; four or five doctors use medicines every day, all of which are ginseng and aconite, but they are always ineffective.Look at being bedridden.The concubine who gave birth to the son served the decoction by the side, and was extremely attentive. Seeing that he was not well, at night, she held the baby and sat at the foot of the bed and cried several times. That night he said: "Now I just ask the Bodhisattva to take me there and bless the eldest lady." Wang said, "You are suspicious again! Everyone's life span, which one is for you?" Zhao said "It's not like that. What is it worth if I die. If my aunt has some advantages and disadvantages, his father will have to marry another aunt. His father is in his forties, and he only has this little flesh and blood; if he marries another aunt, everyone will be raised by him. Since ancient times Said: "Wanniang's fist, the sun in the clouds", this child is not expected to grow up, and I am also doomed. Why don't you go for the old lady earlier, and save the child's life." After hearing this, Wang also agreed Do not agree.With tears in her eyes, Mrs. Zhao simmered medicine and porridge every day, never leaving her.One night, Mrs. Zhao went out for a while, but she didn't come in; Mrs. Wang asked her maid, "Where did the Zhao family go?" For grandma, just bless grandma. I saw grandma is seriously ill tonight, so I went out to pray earlier." After hearing this, Mrs. Wang seemed to believe it or not. The next night, Mrs. Zhao cried and said these words again; Mrs. Wang said, "why don't you explain to your master that if I die, I will straighten you up and fill in the house?"Say what grandma said.Yan Zhihe couldn't hear this, and said three times: "In this case, I will have to ask the two uncles to discuss this matter tomorrow morning, so as to have proof." Wang shook his hand and said: "It's up to you to do it." Yan Zhihe asked someone to invite his uncle very early, read the prescription, and discussed before inviting a famous doctor.After all, let him sit in the room, Yan Zhihe explained what Wang said, and said: "Old uncle can ask Lingmei personally." When the two walked to the bed, Wang could no longer speak. ; pointed at the child and nodded.The two uncles looked at it, their faces were stunned, and they didn't say a word. After a while, let's eat in the study, and don't mention this to each other.After eating, he was invited to a secret room again. Yan Zhihe talked about Wang's serious illness, shed tears and said: "Your sister has been in the house for twenty years. She is really my brother's helper; now that I am lost, how can I live?" That’s good! He told me the day before yesterday that the graves of his father-in-law and mother-in-law need to be repaired. He saved a little stuff for the two old uncles as a souvenir.” Yin called Xiao Sidu out, opened a kitchen, took Two envelopes of silver came out, one hundred taels each, and they were handed to the two old uncles: "Don't take it lightly." They took it with both hands.Yan Zhihe said again: "But don't worry too much. In the future, I will prepare the sacrificial table and spend money. I will prepare it here. I will invite my uncle to salute. Tomorrow, I will bring two aunts and uncles in a sedan chair. My sister still has some money." Jewelry, keep it as a souvenir." After explaining, he still came out and sat down.Someone came to visit outside, Yan Zhihe went with them.When I came back, I saw the two uncles crying with red eyelids.Wang Rendao: "Just now my brother from the same family said here that Sister She is really the husband of a woman, and it can be said that the Wang family is lucky; what I said just now, I am afraid that the old sister-in-law has no such reason in his mind, and he is still in a trance, confused, and in vain. For a man." Wang De said: "You don't know, you are like a wife, and you are related to three generations of your family; if your sister dies, if you marry another person, you will kill my nephew, and the old uncle and the old aunt will be disturbed in the sky. Even my parents are worried." Wang Ren patted the table and said: "We who study have all worked hard on the general principles; even if we write articles and speak for Confucius, it's just this principle. If you don't follow, we won't come to the door. It's done." Yan Zhihe said: "I'm afraid the Han people talk too much." The two said: "I have two people to decide. But this matter needs to be done greatly; sister-in-law, if you pay a few more taels of silver, tomorrow you will only be my two taels People come out; more than a dozen seats are prepared, and relatives from the three parties are invited, and when the younger sister sees you and the couple worshiping the ancestors of heaven and earth, they will be established as the royal family. Who dares to fart again?" Yan Zhihe took out another fifty taels of silver Come on, the two of you are overjoyed. Three days later, Wang De and Wang Ren came to Yan's house, wrote dozens of posts, and invited all relatives and relatives.When an auspicious date is chosen, all relatives are present, except for the five nephews of Daddy's next door, none of whom will be there. After breakfast, everyone went to write Wang's will in front of Wang's bed. The two uncles, Wang Yuju and Wang Yuyi, both wrote.Yan Jiansheng wore a square scarf, a green shirt, and was covered with red thick; Zhao was wearing a scarlet and a red gold crown. They both worshiped the heaven and earth, and worshiped their ancestors.Wang Yuyiguang has talent and learning, and wrote an essay for him to sue his ancestors, which is very sincere.I told my ancestors and turned down.The two uncles asked the maid to invite two uncles and grandmas in the room.Husband and wife, four, ask the sister-in-law and sister-in-law to turn around at the side of the shop together, and kowtow to show the ceremony of sisterhood; all the relatives are divided into big and small, plus the housekeeper, family daughter-in-law, maidservant and maid, a few black and white Ten people all came to kowtow to the master and mistress.Mrs. Zhao went into the room alone again and worshiped Mrs. Wang as her sister. Mrs. Wang had already fainted by then. After the salute was over, more than 20 tables of banquets were set up for male and female guests in Dating, the second hall, the study room, and the inner main room.At the third watch of the meal, Yan Jiansheng was listening to the guests.The nurse came out in a hurry and said, "Grandma is dying!" Yan Jiansheng went in crying; only saw Mrs. Zhao leaning on the edge of the bed and bumping her head, crying to death.Everyone supported Mrs. Zhao and poured boiling water.Pry open the teeth and pour down.When Guan woke up, his hair was disheveled, he rolled all over the floor, and cried so hard that even Yan Jiansheng couldn't do anything about it. The housekeepers are all in the hall, and the female guests are waiting in the main room. Only two aunts and uncles are in the room. Taking advantage of the chaos, they take some clothes, gold beads and jewelry away.Even the red gold crown that Mrs. Zhao was wearing just now rolled on the ground, and she picked it up and hid it in her bosom.Yan Jiansheng hurriedly asked the nurse to pick up his son.Take a piece of hemp to cover him with.At that time, the clothes, quilts and coffins were all ready-made; after being buried, the genius is bright.The coffin stopped in the nave on the second floor, and everyone came in to attend the coffin and dispersed. Send Xiaobu the next day, two for each family.On the third day when the clothes were made, Mrs. Zhao had to wear a hemp belt for filial piety. The two uncles refused to say: "'If the name is not right, the words are not right'. You are sisters now; the sister only wears the filial piety for the sister for one year. Fine cloth filial piety shirt, and white cloth filial piety hoop." The ceremony has been decided.Report the funeral and go out.Since then, four or five thousand taels of silver have been spent on the fasting, the seven days, the funeral, and the funeral, which has been going on for half a year. Mrs. Zhao is grateful to the two uncles for their bone marrow; the new rice harvested in the field costs two shi per family, pickled winter vegetables also two shi per family, four hams per family, chicken and duck side dishes are not counted.Unexpectedly, on New Year's Eve, Yan Jiansheng paid homage to the ancestors of heaven and earth, and packed a family banquet.Yan Jiansheng sits opposite Mrs. Zhao, and the nurse sits with her son at the bottom.After a few drinks, Yan Jiansheng shed tears, pointed to a cupboard, and said to Zhao, "three hundred taels of interest were sent from the Dian yesterday. It is your sister Wang's private house; every year on the second day of the twelfth lunar month If it is delivered on the 17th or 8th, I will hand it over to him, and I don’t care where he uses it. I will send this money again this year, so unfortunately no one will take it!” Mrs. Zhao said: "Don't say that my aunt's money is useless, I have seen it; remember that throughout the year, every time and festival, the nunnery's nuns give boxes, sell flower girls for pearls, and blind women who play the three-stringed pipa never leave the door. Which one is not favored by him? Moreover, he is kind-hearted. When he sees those poor relatives who cannot eat themselves, they will eat for others; if they cannot clothe themselves, they will also be clothed for others. What are these roots enough for? Some of them are finished. But the two uncles have never touched him. According to my opinion, there is no need to spend this money. After the new year, I will do a few good things for my grandma. I don’t think there will be much money left. Next year will be In the year of the imperial examination, it is right to send it to the two uncles." Yan Jiansheng listened to him.A cat was lying on his lap under the table.Yan Jiansheng kicked it away, and the cat ran into the room in fright and jumped onto the bed.There was only a loud noise, and something fell from the head of the bed, breaking the wine jars on the floor.Take a candle to see, it turns out that the plague cat jumped a piece of the board on the top of the bed, and a big bamboo basket fell from it; looking closer, I saw a field of black dates mixed with wine, and the bamboo basket was placed horizontally.Two people pulled it over, and under the dates, one by one, wrapped in mulberry paper; when I opened it, it was five hundred taels of silver.Yan Jiansheng sighed: "I said he would be willing to use up his money there? It seems that it has been accumulated over the years. I'm afraid I have something urgent to take it out. Now where has he gone!" Swept the floor.Put the dried dates on a plate and put them on the funeral table with Mrs. Zhao; lying in front of the funeral bed, wept again. Therefore, I don’t go out to worship the festival during the New Year, and I choke and cry at home, crying from time to time;After the Lantern Festival, it is called heartache.At the beginning, I held on and settled the accounts every night until the third watch drum.Afterwards, he gradually ate less and became skinny, and he was reluctant to eat ginseng for money.Mrs. Zhao persuaded him, "If you feel uncomfortable, just leave this housework behind." He said, "My son is young, so you asked me to entrust him with that? I have to take care of it for a day!" As the Qi gradually deepened, the liver wood suppressed the spleen soil, and he only ate two bowls of porridge and soup a day, and was bedridden.When the weather was warmer, I forced myself to eat and eat, earn money and walk around the house. After a long summer, since the beginning of autumn, I became seriously ill again and slept on the bed.Thinking of harvesting early rice in the field, he sent Guanzhuang's servants to the countryside, but he was worried, and his heart was just impatient. That morning after taking the medicine, listening to Xiao Xiao Ye knocking on the window, I felt timid in my heart, sighed a long time, and fell asleep with my face on the bed.Mrs. Zhao came in with two uncles from outside the room to ask about illnesses, then said goodbye to the provincial capital and went to the village for examination.Yan Jiansheng asked the servant girl to help him up, and he barely sat up.Wang De and Wang Rendao: "I haven't seen my brother-in-law for several days, so I've lost some weight. I'm so happy." Yan Jiansheng hurriedly asked him to sit down, said some congratulations, and stayed in the room for snacks.Speaking of what he said on New Year's Eve, he asked Mrs. Zhao to take out a few envelopes of silver, pointed to Mrs. Zhao and said, "That's what he meant. He said that something left by my sister was given to the two old uncles. I’m just asking for congratulations. I’m seriously ill, and I don’t know if you will get it when you two return home in the future! After my death, my second uncle will take care of your nephew to grow up, teach him to read, and work hard to enter a school, so as not to be like me all my life. , suffer from the anger of the big house all day long!" The two took the money, and each carried two envelopes in their arms; thanked and thanked, and said many words of comfort and relief, and said goodbye. Since then, Yan Jiansheng's illness has become more and more serious day by day, and there is no improvement.All relatives and relatives came to greet him, and five nephews came to accompany the doctor to get medicine.After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the doctors did not prescribe any medicine; they called all the family members of Guanzhuang from the countryside, who were so seriously ill that they could not speak for three days in a row.At night, people crowded into a room, and a lamp was lit on the table; Yan Jiansheng's throat was filled with phlegm, which could not stop breathing.He also took his hand out of the quilt and stretched out two fingers; the eldest nephew stepped forward and asked, "Second uncle! Don't you have two relatives who have never met?" He shook his head two or three times.The second nephew stepped forward and asked: "Second uncle! Could it be that there are still two pieces of silver there, and I didn't tell you to understand?" He opened his eyes wide, shook his head violently a few times, and pointed more and more tightly up."I think it's because the two uncles are not here, so I miss you so much," she said, holding her son in her arms When he heard this, he closed his eyes and shook his head.The hand just pointed.Mrs. Zhao hastily wiped away her tears, stepped forward and said, "Master! What others say is irrelevant, only I know what you mean!" Because of this sentence, there are different teachings: