Chapter 11 The Tenth Chapter: Lu Han and Lin Liancai Choose Son-in-law Peng Gong and Sun Fu's Family to Recruit Marriages

It is said that the two sons of Lou's family were on board, and a big official boat came behind, called to gather the boat, and came on board alone to invite them.The two young masters recognized him as the steward of Lu Bianxiu's family from the same village, and asked, "When did your master come to the house?" : "Now on the big ship, please two masters go over." The two young masters walked over the boat and saw the seal of "Hanlin Academy" pasted.The editor was originally a student of the Taibao. When he saw him, he smiled and said: "I just saw the fourth brother standing on the bow of the boat from a distance. I was wondering why you are on this small boat. I didn't want the third brother to be here too. It's interesting." It's tight. Get in the cabin, please."

Let them enter the cabin, greet each other and sit down.The third son said: "The capital is farewell, and it's been half a year before you know it. Why did Mr. Shi ask for leave and go back to the mansion?" Lu Bianxiu said: "Old brother, as a poor scholar, he only looks at a few errands. Nowadays, fat and fat The missions were all tricked by others, and they sat in the capital for nothing, losing money to live. Besides, my younger brother is about 50 years old and has no children. He only has a little girl, and he has never been married. Reasonable. Why are the two senior brothers driving a small boat in the river? What are you doing without taking one with you?" The fourth young master said: "The younger brother is always a person with nothing to do. My brother is out for a walk, and he has nothing to do." Lu Bianxiu said: "I went to see an old friend in the town over there this morning, and he wanted to keep me for a meal. I had to leave him in a hurry, but he Send a table of wine and food to my boat. Today, I am happy to meet two senior brothers, and I just want to talk about the old wine." Because I asked the servant, "Has the No. 2 boat ever arrived?" " Lu Bianxiu said: "That's all." Call the family: "Put the luggage of the two masters on the big boat, and the boat will tell him to go back." The details of each yamen.

Editor Lu asked about the age of his hometown, and how many famous people he had recently.Because he asked this question, the third son said that Yang Zhizhong was a person of extremely high moral character, so he took out this statement and showed it to Lu Bianxiu. After Lu Bianxiu read it, he said with a frown: "Old brother, what you have done, I am afraid that you are not a virtuous young man from ancient times to the present? Even Lord Xinling and Lord Chunshen are nothing more than that. But such people. There are many people who steal false voices, but few real scholars. I To be honest: If he is knowledgeable, why didn't he win the prize? What is it worth to write only these two lines of poems, as the old brother condescends to a good man, and this is the first good encounter in this brother Yang's life. It is conceivable that he hides and does not dare to meet him. In my humble opinion, such a person does not need to deal with him very much." The two young masters were silent when they heard this, and they drank for a long time and chatted some gossips. When they arrived in the city, Editor Lu decided to send the two young masters home and then go back by himself.

When the two young masters entered the house, the doorkeeper reported, "Young Master Yun is here, and he is sitting in his wife's room." The two young masters went into the inner hall and saw that Gongsun was there, accompanied by the third wife, and Gongsun met his cousin. Come, salute in a hurry, the two young masters support them and invite them to the study.Yun Gongsun presented Naizu's letters and brought gifts.Each of the engraved poems and words, the two young masters flipped through a few pages of the book, and praised: "The young nephew is so talented, we all have to stay away." Uncle Biao give advice." The two young masters were overjoyed, and they set up a banquet that night to catch the wind and stayed in the study to rest.The next morning I got up early, met with Gongsun Yun, changed my clothes, asked my family to hold posts, and took a sedan chair to visit Lu for editing.After paying homage and going home, I ordered the cook to prepare the table, and please edit and edit the post, so that I can meet the wind tomorrow.Walking into the study, he said to Gongsun with a smile, "We will invite a guest tomorrow, and nephew Lao Xian will accompany you." Gongsun asked, "Which one is it?" It was also selected by the Taibao as the president of the general examination." The fourth son said: "After all, he is also a vulgar person, but because we and his brothers met on the boat the day before yesterday, we disturbed him for a drink first, so we invite him tomorrow. Come and sit."

With that said, the gatekeeper came in and said, "Mr. Niu, surnamed Niu in Shaoxing, is called Niu Buyi, two masters who are outside the marquis." The third son said, "please sit in the hall." Sir, but he was in the curtain of Fan Xuetai in Shandong?" The third son said: "Exactly. How did you know?" Gongsun Yun said: "I used to work with my late father, so my nephew knows." The fourth son said: "We will I forgot that your grandfather is there." Then he went out to meet Niu Buyi, talked for a long time, and went into the study with Niu Buyi.Gongsun Gongsun came up to meet him, and Niu Buyi said: "I just met my cousin Ling, and I realized that the lord has thanked the guests, which made me very sad. Today, I am lucky to see my elder brother who is so heroic, and he can be called an heir. Laugh." Because he asked, "Is Mr. Lingzu in good health?" Yun Gongsun replied: "Take care of your care. My ancestor always misses the old man." Niu Buyi said again: "Fan Xuetai checks a child's paper on the screen. Mr. Zun said a passage about Si Jingming, which is really "talking in a small way, celebrities are romantic"." After repeating that speech again, the two sons and Gongsun laughed.The third son said: "Mr. Niu, you and I have been friends for decades, and forget everything about everything. Now I am so happy to give up my cousin and nephew to receive a university education, but I sit here until late." .After eating until sunset, Niu Buyi bid farewell, and the two young masters asked where they lived, and sent them out.

The next morning, I sent my family to invite Lu Bianxiu, and he didn't come until midday. He wore a gauze hat and python clothes.The two young masters resigned again and again, then undressed and sat down, offering tea.After tea, Yun Gongsun came out to see him.The third son said: "This is my nephew, the grandson of the uncle of Nanchang's prefect."Lu Bianxiu said: "Old brother, this is not the case. You and I are old friends, why do you have to do these polite things! In my humble opinion, this hall is too generous. If you want to take advantage of the feast, you only need a feast of wine, the four of us It's just a heart-to-heart talk." Seeing this, the two young masters did not disobey their orders, and immediately let them go to the study.Lu Bianxiu saw that the vases, flowers, stoves, and furniture were in a suitable position, and he felt happy.After sitting at the banquet, the young master ordered "burn incense", and saw a boy with eyebrow-like hair holding a bronze incense burner on the table and going out, and then two housekeepers came in, put down the warm curtain, and went out.For an entire hour, the wine poured three rounds, and the two butlers came in again to roll up the warm curtain.But when he saw the walls on both sides of the study room and the cracks in the boards, there were fragrances coming out, and the strange fragrance filled the room, Lu Bianxiu felt fluttering with the thoughts of Lingyun.The third son said to Lu Bianxiu: "The incense must be burned like this, so that there is no smoke."

The editor admired for a while, talked with Mr. Yun about Jiangxi, and asked, "Mr. Lingzu, Nanchang, is Wang Yuhui's successor?" Gongsun Yun said, "Exactly." The Daoist king is great, but it is very important for the court to capture him now." The third son said: "He is the one who surrendered to King Ning." Lu Bianxiu said: "He is the most capable person recommended by Jiangxi, and he will be the first to meet the deadline. It's surrendered." The fourth prince said: "He's surrendering, but it's not right after all." Lu Bianxiu said: "The old saying is good: 'There is no soldiers and no food, because you don't surrender', but the false officials also escaped a lot. He was the only one who led all the counties in Nangan to surrender, so the court charged him severely and offered a reward for his arrest." Hearing this, Gongsun dared not mention a word about the past.Editor Lu also told the story of his invitation to immortals, but the two young masters didn't know about it.Editor Lu elaborated on this matter, read it over, and explained what happened next sentence by sentence.He said again: "The fairy is also weird. He only said that he surrendered, and he will not be judged after that. Good or bad is still uncertain." It's just a coincidence. It doesn't matter whether there are gods or ghosts."

After changing the seats, the two young masters asked Yun Gongsun's poems and his engraved poems for advice, and praised the young man's beauty.Lu Bianxiu admired it for a long time, then asked the two young masters, "Your cousin Guigeng?" The third young master said, "Seventeen." Lu Bianxiu said, "When is the celebration of hanging arc?"Gongsun said: "My nephew was born on the sixteenth day of the third lunar month." Editor Lu nodded, remembering it in his heart.At the end of the evening, the two young masters saw off the guests and rested separately.

A few days later, Yun Gongsun said goodbye and went back to Jiaxing, and the two young masters stayed for another day.On this day, the third son wrote a letter in reply to the prefect in the inner study.Just after writing, the bookboy came in and said, "The gatekeeper enjoys his business." The third young master said, "Let him in." The gatekeeper said, "There is a gentleman outside who wants to see two masters." The third young master said: " You go back to him and we're not at home, just leave a note." The gatekeeper said: "He doesn't have a post, and he doesn't want to tell me his name. He just said that he wants to meet the two masters to talk." The third son said: "What kind of man is that gentleman?" said the gatekeeper, "he is fifty or sixty years old, and he also wears a square scarf on his head, and a cocoon silk gown, like a gentleman." The third young master said in surprise: " I think Yang Zhizhong is here." Hastily lost the book, and invited the fourth son to come, and told him so and so, it seems that Yang Zhizhong's behavior, because he called the doorman: "Go and sit in the hall, we will come out for a meeting." See The doorman promised to go, and invited the man to sit down in the hall.

The two sons came out to meet each other. After the ceremony, they sat down. The man said: "I have admired your name for a long time, and it is like thunder. It's just that I don't know it." The third son said: "Sir, what is your surname?" Chen, Caozi Hefu, has always been a Taoist in the capital. Yesterday, I visited Guixiang with Mr. Lu of Hanyuan, and now I can see the beauty of the two masters. The third master's ears are white on the face, and he is famous all over the world'; There should be the joy of being promoted." After hearing this, the two young masters realized that it was not Yang Zhizhong, and asked, "Sir, are you good at learning from the wind?" Chen Hefu said, "Bu Yi, Tan Xing. Phenomenology, fortune-telling, internal medicine, surgery, etc. The inner alchemy, the outer alchemy, as well as asking immortals to judge matters, and the transcripts of the shackles, the late students all know a little bit. Ask the masters of the capital, the Mongolian ministries and the old gentlemen of the four yamen, and the late students have promised him promotion. To tell you the truth, the two masters said that late life is just a blunt statement, and he is not willing to flatter, so these adults in power are all in love with each other. The day before yesterday, I was joking with Mr. Lu that since I left Jiangxi, I came to Guizhou this year and donated two In the past ten years, I have traveled through nine provinces!" After saying that, he laughed.Left and right holding tea to eat.The fourth son asked: "Are you here on the same boat with Mr. Lu? Brother Yu met Mr. Lu on the road that day, and spent a day on the boat, but he never met him." Chen Hefu said: "That night I was born on the second night On the ship, I didn't know that the two masters were there until late at night. It's a late birth and I didn't have a chance, and I only got to see you a few days later." The third son said: "Mr.'s words are very good, and Brother Yu also feels that we hate meeting each other late." Chen Hefu Said: "Mr. Lu has a saying to ask Wansheng to meet the two masters, you can use Zunzhai to say a word." The two young masters said: "It is best."

At the moment when he was let into the study, Chen Hefu raised his eyes to look around, saw the deep courtyard, and the piano and calligraphy were elegant, and said: "It's really 'the palace of the gods in the sky, the home of the prime minister on earth'!" After speaking, he moved the chair closer to him and said: "Mr. Lu There is a daughter-in-law, young and young, who was born in his family at the end of her life. I know that this lady is gentle in character and outstanding in talent and appearance. Mr. Lu and his wife love each other like a pearl because they have no children. Many people propose marriage, but they don’t Yun. I met the grandson of Grandpa Yun of Nanchang at the Zun Mansion yesterday, and I really love his talent, so I asked Wansheng to ask, has he ever been married?" The third son said: "This is the cousin who gave up his nephew, but he has not yet married. Mr. Lu loves each other very much, but I don’t know how old this young lady is? Does life interfere with it?" Chen Hefu said with a smile: "Don't worry about this, Mr. Lu has already asked his nephew in his heart at the banquet in Zun's mansion Now, when I get home, I will do the calculations for the late student, and we will marry the two of them: the young lady, the grandson, is one year old, and he is sixteen years old this year. They are a natural couple. The year, month, day, and hour are all compatible, and they will have a long life in the future. There are many descendants, and some of them have no flaws." The fourth son said to the third son, "It's strange that he asked the date of his nephew's birth at the banquet the day before yesterday. "It's so good. Mr. Lu fell in love with you wrongly, and Mr. Chen came to attack you. We will write a book with my uncle immediately, and choose an auspicious central media to come to the mansion to ask for it." Chen Hefu said goodbye: "Come again to ask for advice, let's say goodbye for now. Go back to Mr. Lu and live first." The two young masters sent Chen Hefu off, and when they came back, they told Gong Gongsun what they had said, "Nephew, since we have this matter, but we don't want to, we will go back to Jiaxing. We will write a book and send Sheng Cong back. Get the reply, and then reason, "Yun Gongsun stayed there according to his order. The family went there for more than ten days, and came to see the two young masters with the reply letter from the prefect of Qu, saying: "The grand master was very happy when he heard this, and told the villain: I can't come far, this matter will always bother you two." The master is the master, and the central media asks for permission. One is the master's choice; whether to marry in the past, or to recruit here is also the discretion of the two masters. Submit a letter of five hundred taels of silver as a betrothal gift, and the prime minister does not need to return Home, live here to hold this happy event. The old man is in good health, so don’t worry." The two young masters took back the books and money, chose an auspicious day, and asked Chen Hefu to be a matchmaker, and here is a matchmaker, Niu Buyi . On the same day, the two old men went to Loufu Township to host a banquet to entertain them. The two sat in the sedan chair, and the housekeeper held the invitation card, and went to Lu Bianxiu's house to ask for marriage.Editor Lu also set up a table to stay with him, returned Yuntie, and brought Gengtie over.On the third day, the Lou Mansion collected gold, silver, pearl and emerald jewellery, clothes filled with python, silk, satin and silk, goat wine, and fruit, a total of dozens of loads. Twelve taels of silver for clothes and hats, four taels of silver for fruit wine, everyone is happy.The two sons asked Chen Hefu to choose the date of the flower candles. Chen Hefu chose not to send the auspicious day to the auspicious date on the eighth day of December.Editor Lu said that she only had one daughter, and she was reluctant to marry out of the house, and wanted to marry her grandson.Lou Fu also agreed. On the eighth day of December, the Lou Mansion is decorated with lanterns and festoons, and the two elders are first invited to eat for a day.At dusk, the fanfare began.There are more than 80 pairs of official lanterns in the Lou Mansion. Adding the lanterns of the prefect of Yun, they can be placed for three or four streets, but they can't be placed.There are all deacons, another group of fine music, and eight pairs of gauze lamps.At this time, the weather was fine and the clouds had not receded. The lamps were covered with green silk rain curtains, leading four people in a sedan chair, and Gongsun and Gongsun sat in it.The next four sedan chairs are the two sons of the Lou Mansion, Chen Hefu and Niu Buyi, who are sending Gongsun into the family together.When I arrived at the gate of Lu's house, I sent a few letters of opening money, and saw that the heavy door was opened, and there was a group of music inside, and they came out. The four got out of the sedan chair first and went in.Lu woven and repaired gauze cap python robes, satin boots and gold belts, greeted them, and bowed to advance; it was a group of fine music, eight pairs of crimson gauze lamps, leading the grandson, gauze cap palace gowns, hairpins and red hairpins, bowed their heads to enter the hall. , First laid the geese, and then met with editor Lu.The editor-in-law sat down in front of Feng's new son-in-law, and the two sons, the two Shanren, and the editor Lu accompanied each other in two rows.After offering tea three times and setting up a banquet, each person has a table, there are six seats in total. Lu Bianxiu first served Gongsun's table, and Gongsun also returned.There is fine music playing below.Editor Lu went to serve the seats of all the guests.When Jian Gongsun peeked at it, it was an old house with three halls. At this time, dozens of large candles were lit, but it was extremely brilliant. After a while, the music stopped after the seat was settled.Yun Gongsun came down and told the table of his father-in-law and his two cousins, and then he and the two mountain people paralleled the ceremony, and sat down at the table.The actor came up to join the hall, kowtowed down, beat the gongs and drums, danced "Jia Gong", performed "Zhang Xian Sending a Son", and performed "Feng Present".At this time, it had rained for two days, and the underground was still not dry. The actors wore new boots and walked up from the porch.After singing in his early 30s, the deputy Mo insisted on ordering some plays from the playlist, and then walked to the Gongsun table and knelt down, just as the butler serving the table brought the first bowl of bird's nest and put it on the table.The housekeeper called out "Wan", and the deputy stood up, presenting the play list.Suddenly there was a sound of ping-pong, and something fell from the roof beam, neither left nor right, neither up nor down, and fell right into the bird's nest bowl, knocking the bowl over.The hot soup splashed all over his face, and the dishes in the bowl spilled all over the table.When I looked closely, it turned out that a mouse slipped from the beam and fell down.The mouse fell into the hot soup, was startled, jumped over the bowl, got up and jumped off the groom's body, staining the brand new scarlet satin mending gown.Everyone turned pale, hurriedly removed the bowl, wiped the table clean, and exchanged a round collar with Gongsun.Gongsun was modest again and again and refused to order a play. After discussing for a long time, he ordered "Three Generations of Glory", and the deputy took the order. After a while, after a few rounds of wine, two sets of food were served, and the cook brought soup.The cook was hired by a small country envoy. He wore a pair of spiked shoes and held six bowls of vermicelli soup. He stood in the cave and watched the show with pointed eyes.The butler only brought four bowls up, and there were still two bowls left unavailable. He watched the play with his hands in his hands. When he saw Xiao Dan pretending to be a prostitute and singing coyly on the stage, he became dizzy and forgot why. He only said that the noodle soup bowl was finished, he lifted the plate to the ground, and wanted to pour out the soup feet in the plate, but there was a clanging sound, breaking the two bowls and the noodle soup on the ground.He panicked for a moment, bent down to grab the noodle soup, but was fought by two dogs, smacking their lips and tongues to grab the underground noodle soup to eat.He got angry from the heart, and with all his strength, kicked one foot up and down, but the dog had never kicked it before, the force was too strong, and he kicked a spike shoe off, and kicked it up to a height of ten feet.Chen Hefu sat in the first seat on the left.Two plates of dim sum were served on the table, a plate of siu mai with pork heart, and a plate of dumplings steamed in goose fat and white sugar. The hot offering was placed in front of them, and a large deep bowl of Suofen Eight Treasure Soup was waiting to be lifted. When it came to the mouth, suddenly a jet-black object rolled out of the mouth, and with a ping-pong sound, it smashed the two plates of dim sum into pieces.Shocked, Chen Hefu stood up in a panic, and his sleeves overturned the bowl of noodle soup, spilling it all over the table.Everyone sat in surprise. Editor Lu felt that this was not very auspicious, and was annoyed for a while, but it was hard to say.Then he quietly called the housekeeper to come to him and scolded him a few words, saying: "What are you all doing? It's extremely abominable to ask such a person to flatter you! After the happy event, everyone will be held accountable!" The family held candles and sent Gongsun Yun into the new house.All the guests in the hall changed seats to watch the play, and they didn't leave until dawn. The next day, Yun Gongsun went to the hall to thank his relatives and held a banquet for drinking.At the end of the banquet, they went back to the new room, set up wine again, and the husband and wife raised their eyebrows together. At this time, Ms. Lu took off her heavy clothes and changed into some elegant and light clothes.Three or four maids and adoptive mothers serve in turn, and there are two personal maids, one named Caiping and the other named Shuanghong, both graceful and light, very colorful, at this time Yun Gongsun seems to be in Penglai, Luopu, Wushan. .Because of this, there are different teachings: