Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen

It is said that the two sons of the Lou Mansion gave five hundred taels of silver to the knight, thanked his benefactor with him, and put the head of the leather bag at home.Although the two young masters belong to the prime minister's mansion, they are not afraid of accidents, but they are a little anxious to throw their bloody head under the steps of the inner room.The fourth son said to the third son: "As a chivalrous man, Zhang Tiebi will never break his promise to me, but we must not be ordinary people. We even held a few banquets and invited a few close friends. When he comes After opening the leather bag, it turns out that the medicine turned into water, which is not easy to see. Let's have a "head meeting" with all the friends, why not?" The third son heard this, and at dawn, he ordered the banquet to be held and the cattle Commoner, Chen Hefu, and Yun Gongsun were all invited, needless to say the three guests staying at home.Just talk about small drinks, and don't need to say why, wait until Zhang Tiebi comes, and implement it, so that everyone can be surprised.

All the guests came together and chatted with each other.I waited for three or four hours, but I didn't come. I waited until the middle of the day, but I still didn't come.The third young master quietly said to the fourth young master: "This matter is a little strange." The fourth young master said: "I think he has been delayed elsewhere. He is now at my house, and there is no reason why he will come." Wait until the next night, Never come.The kitchen and banquet are all ready, so we have to invite all the guests to sit up.The weather was very warm that day, and the two young masters were anxious, "If this person doesn't come, where will the head be distributed?" Until late in the day, the leather bag smelled, and the wife heard it and was worried, so she sent someone out to ask for it. The two masters went to see it, but they had no choice but to open the leather bag bravely, and saw what kind of head was there!There was only six or seven catties of a pig's head in it.The two young masters looked at each other, and without a word, they immediately ordered the pig's head to be brought to the kitchen to be rewarded with the family to eat.

The two young masters discussed it quietly, and there is no need for one of them to know about it, they still come out to drink with the guests.Just wondering, the gatekeeper came in and said, "There is a messenger from Wucheng County, who took the post from the master of the county, and two messengers from Xiaoshan County kowtowed to the master and told him something." said the third young master. : "This is strange again, what can I say?" Liu Sigong accompanied the guests, walked to the hall by himself, and told them to come in.The messenger came in and kowtowed, and said, "My lord, please be well." Then he presented a ticket and a dime of Tianwen.The third son asked to take the candle to see, and saw that the pass said:

Xiaoshan County Zhengtang Wu.Rape and abduction by a local stick: According to the case of Huiyuan, a monk from Lan Ruo'an, it was alleged that Xinyuan, a monk in Yituni, was occupied by a local stick Quan Wu with rape and abduction.Before the criminal found out, he had fled to Guizhi from where he was hiding. For this reason, he was moved to Guizhou County to check the documents and matters. Trial and governance.Look fast!Look fast! After seeing it, he sent someone to report: "The third master, the youngest official, knows that this man is in the mansion. Because the master doesn't know about him here, so he is kept. Now I beg the master to hand him over to the young one. He is from the county. Send someone to wait outside now, and let him take it away, so that he can feel that he has escaped, so it's not easy to reply." The third son said: "I see, you wait outside." The messenger promised to go out, in the porter's room sitting.

The third son was full of shame, and called the fourth master and Yang master to come out.The two came together, and the fourth son felt embarrassed after seeing the tickets of Guan Wen and the county.Yang Zhizhong said: "Third and fourth gentlemen, since ancient times, it has been said: 'Bees are in the arms of people, take off your clothes and chase them away'. Since he has done such a thing, the gentlemen can't help him. Now I will go to him and tell him to hand him over. Send someone, wait for him to take care of himself." The two young masters had no choice.Yang Zhizhong walked into the study room, and said everything at the table.Quan Wuyong blushed and said: "It's true, it's false, I'll go with him to be afraid of nothing!" The two young masters walked in, refused to change, said something unfair, offered two glasses of farewell wine, took out Sending two letters of silver as a round trip, the two young masters sent them out of the gate, asked the servant to carry the luggage for him, bowed and said goodbye, the two messengers saw that he had left Lou's mansion, and the two young masters had already entered the mansion, so they locked him with a chain went.

After these two incidents, the two sons felt less interested, and told the gatekeeper: "But there is a stranger visiting, and he went back to Beijing."In a few days, Gongsun Yun came to say goodbye, saying that the prefect of Yun was ill and wanted to go back to Jiaxing to serve the sick.When the two sons heard this, they went with Gongsun to Hou's uncle, and when they arrived in Jiaxing, the prefect of Yun was seriously ill.Gongsun passed on the order of the prefect, and entrusted the two sons to take Miss Lu home for him. The two sons wrote to the house and sent the servant girl to say that Mrs. Lu refused. disease.At this time, Caiping had already married, and only a girl, Shuanghong, made a gift.Call two big boats, and move all the makeup and eunuchs on the boats.When I came to Jiaxing, the prefect had passed away.Gongsun bears the burden, and Ms. Lu serves the widow and aunt, and manages the housekeeping. She is well organized and her relatives are all envious.The two sons of Lou's house have passed the funeral and returned to Huzhou.

Gongsun Chun has been mourned for three years, and because he saw the heroic deeds of his two cousins ​​for half a lifetime, he was disappointed, because he also looked down upon this fame, and stopped printing and giving away his poems.After Fu Que, Miss Lu's first-born son was four years old.Every day, the lady detained him in the room to talk about the "Four Books" and read articles.Gongsun is also giving pointers.But I also wanted to talk to some of my friends who were admitted to higher education in school to talk about their careers, but friends in Jiaxing knew that Gongsun was a famous poet, so if they didn't come to get close to him, Gongsun felt boring.

Walking through the street that day, I saw a red paper posted in a new bookstore, which read: Mufang Dun invited Mr. Ma Chunshang from Chuzhou to select Mocheng from the Sanke Township Association.Those who have the records of the same family and special volumes are fortunate to recognize Wenhailou Bookstore on Jiaxingfu Street. Gongsun thought in his heart: "This is a Chosen family, why don't you come and pay homage to him?" He hurried home and changed his clothes.I wrote a post about "classmate and mentor brother", came to the bookstore, and asked: "Is this where Mr. Ma is?" The guest is here to pay respects." The upstairs responded, "Here we are." So he came downstairs.

When Gongsun looked at Mr. Ma Er, he was eight feet long and looked very majestic. He wore a square scarf on his head, a blue straight jacket, and powder-soled soap boots on his feet. He had a dark complexion and a few beards.Let's sit down when we meet each other.Mr. Ma Er read the post and said: "I have seen the respected name in poetry, and I have admired it for a long time!" After tea was served, Gongsun said again: "Sir, you studied in Chuzhou, and I think you have passed the exam." Mr. Ma Er said: "My younger brother has reported for twenty-four years. He has been a master and has passed six or seven exams in total. In the first case, it's just that the examination field is unfavorable, so I'm ashamed!" Gongsun said: "When you meet a match, you must lose the examination." After talking for a while, Gongsun said goodbye.Mr. Ma Er asked where he lived, and he will come back and worship tomorrow.Gongsun went home and said to Miss Lu: "Mr. Ma Er will come to pay respects tomorrow. He is a professional man, so I want to prepare a meal for him." The young lady prepared it happily.

The next morning, Mr. Ma Er changed into big clothes, wrote a reply, and came to Yunfu.Gongsun greeted him and said, "I have been friends with each other for a long time, and it's not as usual. Now I'm taking care of you. Sit down and prepare a home-cooked meal. Don't think it's contemptuous." Mr. Ma Er was pleased to hear that.Gongsun asked: "I respect Cheng Mo, which kind of articles are the main ones?" Mr. Ma Er said: "Articles are always based on theory and law. Once changed, Cheng and Hong also changed again. Looking closely, the rationale is always the same. About the article, it is not allowed to add notes to expel air, especially not to include words to add energy. Adding annotations to expel air is only a loss of literary talent, and adding words to add energy is hindered Because of the tone of the sages, it is especially taboo to use words and expressions." Gongsun said: "This is for making a fuss, what is the reason for criticizing articles?" Mr. Ma Er said: "It is also absolutely forbidden to use words and expressions. My younger brother often sees the comments of seniors. , some romantic words, when those younger generations see them, they will think of the road of poetry and poetry, and they will lose their minds. The ancients said well, 'The heart of composition is like the eyes of a person'. In the eyes of mortals, dust and dust cannot Yes, gold and jade crumbs are worth it? That’s why my younger brother always adopts the best words in "Yu Lei" and "Or Jian" when criticizing articles. Often it takes midnight to write a comment, and I don’t want to write in a hurry. I want to read the article After reading this article, I realized that it would be beneficial to come up with more than a dozen articles. In the future, I will select the selected ones and send them to ask for advice." Then, there was a meal in it, and it was a home-cooked dish: a A bowl of stewed duck, a bowl of boiled chicken, a fish, and a big bowl of simmered pork.Mr. Ma Er eats a lot, so he held up his chopsticks and said to Gongsun: "You and I meet friends, don't be polite, this fish doesn't need to be moved, but the meat is good." After eating four bowls of rice, he ate a big bowl of rotten meat It must be clean, and when I heard it inside, another bowl was added, and even the soup was finished.Lift the table.Sip tea and talk.

Mr. Ma Er asked: "Sir, you have a famous family and such a great talent. It should have been a long time ago. Why are you stuck here?" Dedicated to building careers.” Mr. Ma Er said: “You are missing. The word “juye” has been necessary for everyone from ancient times to the present. Just like when Confucius was born in the Spring and Autumn Period, he used "words and deeds" at that time Being an official, so Confucius only said that "Speaking little, doing little regret, reward is among them". It is the career of Mencius. In the Han Dynasty, "Xianliang Fangzheng" was used to open subjects, so Gongsun Hong and Dong Zhongshu promoted the virtuous and square, which is the career of the Han people. In the Tang Dynasty, they used poems to select scholars. If they spoke the words of Confucius and Mencius, There were no officials, so Tang people could write a few lines of poems, which is the career of Tang people. In the Song Dynasty, it was good again, and people who used Neo Confucianism were used as officials, so Cheng and Zhu talked about Neo Confucianism. The careers of the people of the Song Dynasty. In this dynasty, it is an excellent rule to use articles. Even today, the master must read articles and do careers. Why? Just pay attention to 'speaking little, doing little regret' every day, and let your officials do that? The way of Confucius will not work, " said the words so that Gongsun woke up like a dream.He was left to have dinner again, and he became a friend of life and left without saying goodbye.Since then, we have been in touch every day. Meeting each other in Wenhai Building that day, I saw the table of contents on the engraved ink scroll on the table.Yun Gongsun smiled and said to him: "Please tell me, sir, I don't know if I can add my younger brother's name on the honor selection, so that I can be selected with the gentleman, so as to be attached to the tail?" Mr. Ma Er said seriously: "There is a reason for this. Stand on the cover It's not an easy task, but the little brother, thanks to decades of high school entrance exams, has a bit of a false reputation, so they came to invite him. Could it be that Mr. is so famous that he can't stand on the cover? It's just you and me, we can only stand alone, not together There is a reason for it." Gongsun Yun said: "What is the reason?" Mr. Ma Er said: "This matter is nothing more than fame and fortune. My younger brother refuses to ruin his reputation and thinks he is seeking profit. If your husband If it is written in the second place, those secular people will wonder if the engraved capital comes from Mr., isn’t the younger brother a profiteer? If Mr. is written in the first place, isn’t the younger brother’s reputation for decades not all fake? There is another Negative articles are so calculating. Mr. thinks he is also calculating like this." As he said, the workshop brought out Mr.'s rice, a bowl of green vegetables, and two small dishes.Mr. Ma Er said: "This rice without vegetables is not good for Mr. to use, what can I do?" Gongsun Yun said: "What's the problem with this? But I know that Mr. Eldest Brother is not used to eating vegetarian food, and I have some money here. "Hurry up and take out a piece, and Erhan, the owner of the Chuan shop, bought a bowl of cooked meat.They eat together, Gongsun don't go. At home, every night I have lessons with Miss Lu until three or four o'clock, or one day the younger son is not familiar with the book, the lady will supervise him to read until dawn, and send Gongsun to sleep in the study first.The little girl Shuanghong was serving tea and water nearby, she was extremely careful.He can read poems, and often asks for some poems, and Gongsun also speaks for him.Because I liked his hospitality, I took an old pillow box from Wang Guan and used it to hold flowers for needlework, and accidentally told him about meeting Wang Guan.I don't want to be this servant who had an appointment with him when I was young, but I went to Jiaxing boldly and abducted this girl.Knowing that Gongsun was furious, he reported to Xiushui County, issued an approval document and took it back.The couple were guarding at the messenger's house, and the begging people came to beg Gongsun, and they were willing to pay dozens of taels of silver to be a girl with Gongsun, and begged for a reward to be his wife.Gongsun resolutely refused.If someone wants to bring the eunuch back to the official position, he will have to beat the board, break the girl back, and cheat him of money once or twice.The eunuch's money was exhausted, and all his clothes were exhausted. That night in the hometown of the messenger, the couple discussed to take out this old pillow box and sell it for dozens of dollars to buy food.Shuanghong is a girl who doesn't know personnel affairs, so she said to Huancheng: "This box belongs to a master who is a high-ranking official. I think it is worth a lot of silver. Wouldn't it be a pity to sell it for dozens of dollars?" Huancheng asked: " Is it from Master Qu? Is it from Master Lu?" The girl said: "Neither. It is said that this official is more important than that of Grandpa Qu. I also heard my uncle say that this is a prince who will take over the post of Grandpa Qu in Nanchang. Afterwards, the prince became an official who did not know how old he was, and he met King Ning. King Ning wanted to kill the emperor day and night, but the emperor killed King Ning first, and then he wanted to kill the prince. The prince came to Zhejiang, but he did not know Why, he also said that the emperor wanted this box from him, but Uncle Wang didn’t dare to take it with him. He was afraid he would search it out and hand it over to my aunt. My aunt left it at home and wished me some flowers. If I didn’t know, I brought it out. I don't know how much the emperor wants. Don't you see the words written by Wang Taiye on it?" Huan Cheng said: "The emperor may not want this box from him, there must be other reasons. How much is this box worth!" The messenger kicked the door open, walked in and cursed: "You unlucky ghost! If you don't make such a fortune, you are still suffering from the plague here!" Huan Cheng said: "Father, what wealth do I have?" Humanity: "You idiot child! I'm going to teach it. It's so cheap for you! My wife will give you for nothing, and you can get hundreds of silver. Say." Huan Cheng said: "As long as there is money, it's all right to share equally. Please can't afford it, unless you sell the pillow box tomorrow to invite the old man." The messenger said: "Sell the box, pay it back! There will be no drama! You If you don’t have any money, I will lend you money. Not only will you pay for the wine tonight, but you will have to discuss it with me from tomorrow onwards. I have managed for you, and you will always have to pay me back twice.” Then he said, “I actually deducted money from it, I’m afraid Where are you going?" He sent someone to immediately take out two hundred Wen, buy wine and meat, and eat with the eunuch, which is regarded as a loan from the eunuch, and write down an account there.While eating, Huan Cheng asked, "What kind of wealth does my father say I have?" The messenger said, "Let's eat wine today, and talk about it tomorrow." Guessing three and five at night, eating in the middle of the night, and eating up two hundred wen. Huancheng, the servant, was so drunk that he and the couple slept until noon.The messenger went out early in the morning. I found a seasoned messenger to discuss and told him this: "It's better to break the matter, or 'open the bow and not release the arrow'. It would be beneficial for everyone to get some money?" The old policeman spat out: "This matter is broken! If it breaks, there will be a strong wind? Now I just talk to him dully, I'm not afraid that he won't come up with money. It's because you have been the door for decades I don’t know what’s good or bad! When you encounter such a thing, you still have to talk about it, and break your mother’s head!” The scolding officer was ashamed and happy, and ran back in a hurry. Seeing that Huan Cheng hadn’t gotten up, he said, “It’s so happy! It's like two dogs falling in love for a while. Get up and talk to you!" Huan Cheng got up in a hurry and left the room.The messenger said: "Go outside to talk with you." The two held hands and sat down in a secluded tea room on the street.The messenger said: "You stupid child, you only know how to eat and drink, and you want to sleep with women. If you leave such a big fortune, you won't make a fortune. Isn't it like a treasure mountain returning empty-handed?" Yes." The messenger said, "I'll tell you, but you don't want to say 'it won't rain after you pass the temple'." As he said that, a man passed by the door, called the messenger "Daddy", and walked over.When he saw the man in a daze, he asked Huan Cheng to sit down and quietly followed him.I could only hear the man complaining: "I gave him a beating in vain, but he was not injured. You can't complain about it. If you want to injure yourself, the government will check it out again." The messenger picked up a piece quietly. Brick stepped up fiercely and beat him on the head, making a big hole, and the blood flowed out.The man was startled, and asked the messenger: "What's the matter?" The man was really grateful, thanked him, wiped the blood with his hands, painted it into a bloody face, and went to the county to complain." Huan Cheng stood at the door of the tea room and watched, and learned a good lesson when he heard these words.He sent someone back to sit down and said, "Last night, I heard from your head that the pillow box belonged to the old man. The old man surrendered King Ning and ran away. He is a prisoner, and this box is a stolen item. If you return your head, it will be a crime of beheading and exile. How dare he do anything to you?" Huan Cheng woke up like a dream after hearing his words, and said, "Father, I will write a letter to go now. Head." The messenger said: "Brother Dumb, I have no idea. If you kill him, it will be of no benefit to you. You won't get any money from him; besides, you have no enmity with him. Now you just need to kill him." Send someone out to scare him, scare him with hundreds of taels of silver, and send the girl to you as a wife for nothing, no need for money, that's all." Huan Cheng said: "Thank you for your trouble, now I just ask you to make decisions for me " The messenger said: "Don't panic." Immediately, he paid back the tea money and walked out together.The messenger asked: "You must not reveal a word of this in front of the girl when you get home." Huan Cheng promised.From then on, he sent people to borrow money, and the officials became rich in wine and meat, and ended up happy. Yun Gongsun urged him to return to the official position, and sent people to move around to mess with him. Today he said tomorrow, tomorrow he said the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow he said it would be three or five days later.Gongsun was in a hurry and wanted to write a letter to the messenger.Send someone to Huan Cheng and say, "This matter is about to be done!" Because he asked, "Do you have a good friend, Mr. Yun?" Huan Cheng said, "I don't know." Go back and ask the girl, and the girl said: " He met a lot of people in Huzhou, but I haven't seen him here, I only heard that there was a bookstore surnamed Ma who came and went several times." Huan Cheng told the messenger.The messenger said: "That's easy." Then he went to look for the representative, wrote a picture of the rebellious prince and took it with him, and went to the bookstore along the street to ask.Ask about Wenhai Building, go straight in and ask Mr. Ma to talk. Seeing that he was from the county, Mr. Ma Er didn't know what was going on, so he had to invite him upstairs to sit down, and sent someone to ask: "Mr., can you meet with me as a family member of Nanchang Mansion?" Mr. Ma Er said: "This is this." My excellent brother, Tou Weng, what do you ask him?" The messenger looked around and said, "Is there no outsider here?" Mr. Ma Er said, "No." He moved the seat closer to him, and took out this certificate. Look at it with Mr. Ma Er, and say: "There is such a thing in his family. We are good at practicing in Gongmen, so we should send him a letter and take care of it. How can we break this conscience?" Mr. Ma Er, his face was ashen, He asked Beixi again, and said to the messenger: "This matter cannot be broken. Since Chengtou Weng is kind, he must suppress the case. But he is not at home, and he will repair it on the grave. We will discuss it when he comes." The messenger said, "He's going to deliver it today. It's a joint matter, who dares to stop it?" Mr. Ma Er panicked and said, "How amazing is this?" The messenger said, "Mr. Why do you have no idea? Since ancient times, 'money goes to business, fire goes to rotten pig's head', as long as you spend some silver and buy this pillow box, that's all." Mr. Ma Er said, "Good idea! " Immediately lock the door of the building, and send people to the hotel, Mr. Ma Er is the host, please send people to eat a large plate and bowl, and discuss this matter.Because of this, there are different teachings: