Chapter 19 The 18th round invites celebrities from the Poetry Club and Kuang Er visits a friend's bookstore and Pan San

It is said that Kuang Chaoren ate wine that night and went back to his apartment to sleep.In the early morning of the next day, the owner of Wenhan Building came upstairs, sat down and said, "Sir, there is something about Yangshang today." Kuang Chaoren asked what it was.The host said: "Today, a friend and I have a joint copy. We want to carve an examination paper and sell it. It takes Mr. Fei's heart to approve a batch for me. It must be approved well and quickly. There are more than 300 articles in total. I don't know how many days it will take to get it approved? I'm holding on to my days now, and I'm so lucky to sell it with customers from Shandong and Henan. If it's late, the customers from Shandong and Henan will wake up and sleep late. This book When it is engraved, the name of Mr. will be engraved on the cover, and how many taels of selection gold and dozens of sample books will be given to Mr. I don’t know if Mr. can come in time?” Kuang Chaoren said: “It will take about how many days to approve it. Mistakes?" The master said: "It must come out within half a month, and I think the days are longer; otherwise, it will be 20 days." Kuang Chaoren calculated in his mind, and he expected to do it in half a month, so he agreed in person.Immediately, the master brought a lot of papers and articles upstairs, and prepared four more dishes for lunch. He asked the gentleman to sit down and said: "Please ask again when the samples are distributed, and please ask again when the book is published. Usually, it is a dish every day." Small dishes, on the second and sixteenth day of the junior high school, follow the store to eat "tooth sacrificial meat"; tea and lamp oil are all provided in the store."

Kuang Chaoren was overjoyed. He lit up the lamp that night, and approved fifty articles for him.Kuang Chaoren said happily: "Like this, it will take half a month there!" After blowing out the lamp and going to bed, he woke up early and approved again, one day at midnight, and a total of seventy or eighty articles were approved. On the fourth day, when I was criticizing articles upstairs, I suddenly heard a cry from downstairs: "Is Mr. Kuang at home?" , holding a Dou Fang scroll in his hand, saw him and said, "Hou Chi is guilty." Superman Kuang let him go upstairs, he let Dou Fang on the table, and said, "This is the banquet hall of the day before yesterday." "It's rhyme. My colleagues have already written about Dou Fang. Brother Zhao Xue saw it, and was very disappointed because he didn't get it. He also wrote a poem because of Zhao Yun. We wanted him to write it first, so we had to write it again. , that’s why I had to send it here for advice today.” Kuang Chaoren saw that on the inscription it said “Small Collection of Qiting in Late Spring, with the word ‘lou’”, and each person had a poem, followed by four names: ", "Jingben Huilanjiang Manuscript", "Zhie Jianfeng Shougao", "Puyufang Moqing Manuscript".Seeing the bright white paper and bright red books, I thought they were cute, so I pasted them on the wall upstairs, and sat down.Kuang Chao said humanely: "I was so disturbed and drunk that day, I came back late." Jing Lanjiang said: "Have you not gone out these days?" It’s a moment, so I’m sorry.” Jing Lanjiang said: “It’s good to choose articles. Today I will go with you to meet someone.” Kuang Chaohumane said: “Which one is it?” Jing Lanjiang said: “Don’t worry about it P changed clothes soon P, I'll know when I go with you."

Immediately changed clothes, locked the door of the building, and walked down to the street together.Kuang Chao said humanely: "Where are you going now?" Jing Lanjiang said: "It's Mr. Hu San, the son of Mr. Hu who used to be a housekeeper here. His birthday is today, and everyone gathers there. I'm going to celebrate his birthday too. That's why I took you there, and I can meet a lot of people there. Just now, several people in the fighting party were there." Kuang Chao said humanely: "I haven't paid homage to Mr. Hu San, but I want to bring a post?" Jing Lanjiang said : "This is what I want." We went to the wax shop together, bought a post, and borrowed a pen to write on the counter, "Waiting for the late students Kuang Jiong".After writing, I was caged and left again.Jing Lanjiang walked and told Kuang Chaoren, "Although this Mr. Hu San is hospitable, he is a cowardly person. After the death of Mr. Zhong Zaigong, he never dared to see a single person with the door closed, and was always deceived by others." On the one hand, there is nothing to say. In the past few years, thanks to the befriending of us, getting along with each other and helping the door for him, it became lively. No one dared to bully him." Kuang Chao said humanely: "He is a housekeeper. How can someone dare to bully you?" Jing Lanjiang said: "Zai Zuo? It's a thing of the past! He has no one in court now, and he is just a living being. As the saying goes: 'A dead magistrate is not as good as a live mouse.' That Pay attention to him? Now people are snobbish! On the contrary, I, Mr. Xuezhai, who is famous in poetry, government, department, court, and Taoism, who doesn’t come to worship him? People only see his gate, today is a yellow Umbrella's sedan chair comes, and tomorrow seven or eight red and black hats will come to drink. The blue umbrella official is not counted, so I can't help but not be afraid. That's why recently people saw his sedan chair and went to Hu Sangong's house in just three or two days. Go, I suspect that the third son also has some influence. Even the house that the head of the third son lives in, the rent will be given more conveniently. The third son Hu is also sensible."

Just as they were talking lively, they met two people in square scarves and loose clothes on the street. Jing Lanjiang greeted him and said, "Both of you also went to Mr. Hu San's house to pay birthday wishes? But you still want to make an appointment with that one, go to that end?" The two said: "I'm here to make an appointment with the eldest brother. Since we met, let's go together." Because they asked, "Who is this?" Jing Lanjiang pointed to the two people and said to Kuang Chaoren: "This is Mr. Jin Dongya , this is Mr. Yan Zhizhong." Pointing to Kuang Chaoren, he said to the two, "This is Mr. Kuang Chaoren." The four of them bowed together and walked together.Walking to a huge gatehouse, I knew it was Zaidi Zhong, and handed over the post to the gatekeeper.The gatekeeper said: "Please sit in the hall." Kuang Chaoren raised his eyes and saw the words "Zhongchao Xiangshi" on the imperial plaque in the middle, and nanmu chairs on both sides.The four sat down.

In a few moments, Mr. Hu San came out, wearing a square scarf, a brown satin gown, powder-soled soap boots, and three mustaches. He was about forty years old.The third young master is really humble, and bows to you at the moment.Everyone congratulates the birthday, the third son dare not be, thank you again, and sit down.Jin Dongya was the first to sit, Yan Zhizhong was the second, Kuang Chaoren was the third, and Jing Lanjiang, a local, sat in the main seat with the third prince.Jin Dongya thanked the third son for his disturbance the day before yesterday.The third son said to Yan Zhizhong: "I have always been driving in the capital. When did you arrive?" Yan Zhizhong said: "I just arrived the day before yesterday. I have always been a butcher at the house of Mr. Siye Zhou, my relative's family in the capital. We will get together in the next day. Today, Tongzheng announced a false tomb-sweeping, and asked my younger brother to go with me, and I will go back to the house." Hu Sangong said: "Where is Tongzheng's apartment?" Yan Gongsheng said: "Tongzheng is on the boat and has never entered the city. But three or four days, my younger brother went to the city the day before yesterday and met Brother Xue and said that my third brother is today's birthday, so I come to congratulate you and tell you about my heart." The third son said: "When will Mr. Kuang come to the province? Where is your place? Where?" Jinglan Jiangdai replied: "Your place is Yueqing, and I arrived in the province not long ago. I came here with my younger brother. Now I live in Wenhan Building, and I choose the examination papers of the calendar." The third son said: "I have admired you for a long time. "Speaking, the family brought tea up to eat.The third son stood up and asked everyone to sit in the study.The four of them walked into the study room, and saw two people sitting at the banquet above, with square scarves and white beards, looking big, and seeing the four of them coming in, they stood up slowly.Yan Gongsheng recognized it, so he stepped forward and said, "Mr. Wei and Mr. Sui are here, we bow to each other." After bowing, please sit down.Mr. Wei and Mr. Sui were not humble, and they still sat at the table.The family came to report to the third son and there were guests, so the third son went out.

Sit down here, Jing Lanjiang asks the two gentlemen Guixiang.Yan Gongsheng replied: "This is Mr. Jiande Wei Tishan, who is on the list of Jiande Township; this is Mr. Shimen Suicen'an, who is the old Mingjing. The two gentlemen are veterans in Zhejiang for 20 years. The selected articles are from overseas." Jing Lanjiang bowed earnestly, expressing his admiration.The two gentlemen did not ask the names of the people.Sui Cen'an recognized Jin Dongya, who met him when he paid tribute to Beijing and went to prison that year.Yin chatted with him and said: "Dong Weng, it's been a few years since we left Beijing. Why did you come back to the mansion? I think it's time to be appointed at the end of the year? It's time to be elected." Jin Dongya said: "No. Recently There are also many people who come to the Ministry to vote, and because the official Wang Hui went out to be an official, King Ning was demoted. Later, the court questioned Eunuch Liu and often went to the Ministry to search and pick up files. I am afraid that I will cause trouble there for a long time , so I took a leave of absence and came out of Beijing.” As he spoke, he brought out his hands to eat.

After eating, Mr. Na Wei and Mr. Sui sat around and talked about Wen.Mr. Wei said: "Recent elections are getting worse!" Mr. Sui said: "Exactly. The two of us should choose one of the previous convictions, and cheer up." Mr. Wei appraised his eyes and said: "There is no article in the previous convictions!" Kuang Chaoren Couldn't help but stepped forward and asked: "Mr., there are engraved copies of the previous ink scrolls everywhere. Why are there no articles?" Mr. Wei said: "What is the name of this elder brother?" Jing Lanjiang said: "This is Deqing Kuang Sir." Mr. Wei said: "So if there is no article, there is no law of article." Kuang Chao said humanely: "Since the article is in the middle, there is a law. Is there another law besides the Chinese style?" Mr. Wei Said: "Brother, you didn't know. The article is to speak on behalf of the sages. There are certain rules, which are not as good as those miscellaneous books. You can do it casually. Therefore, an article not only shows the wealth and blessings of this person, but also reveals the wealth and blessings of this person. See the ups and downs of the fortunes of the country. Hong and Yong have the laws of Hong and Yong, and the laws of Cheng and Hong have success and Hong. They are all passed down in one line, and there is a lantern. There are also lucky ones, it must be approved by our selectors, and this article will be passed on. If there is no entry for this subject, it is just called no article!" Mr. Sui said: "Brother, so we are not afraid of failing, just If you find out that these three articles are not ugly, otherwise they will be regarded as a fluke, and you will be ashamed for the rest of your life." Then he asked Mr. Wei, "Have you seen the "Three Subjects Cheng Mo" recently selected by Ma Jing?" Mr. Wei said, "It was he who ruined the election! He walked around the home of the prefect of Yuntan'an in Jiaxing, and he talked about miscellaneous learning all day long. It would be good to hear him miscellaneous, but he didn't know the rationale of the article at all, and kept making noises. The ink scroll was also critiqued by him! So I saw his anthology and asked my disciples to write out his comments and read it."

With that said, Mr. Hu San came in with Zhi Jianfeng and Pu Moqing, set the table and had dinner together.Until late at night, he was not allowed to attend the table and had to wait for Zhao Xuezhai.On the first watch, Mr. Zhao carried a sedan chair, followed by two bearers, and came flying forward with four torches in front and behind.After getting out of the sedan chair, he bowed to everyone and said, "I'm offended, I'm tired of waiting for a long time, gentlemen." Many relatives and family members came to Hu's house again, and changed the two seats into three seats, and everyone sat around.Xi scattered, each went home.

Kuang Chaoren went to the apartment and approved some articles before going to sleep.Within six days, more than 300 articles were approved.Just perfunctory the words I heard at Hu's house, and made a preface.He also secretly went to pay homage to these friends who were drinking at the same table.The anthology has been completed, I took it to the bookstore to read, and came back and said: "Mr. Xiang Ri Maer is in Wenhailou, my brother. It takes two months to approve 300 articles, and I will get angry if I am urged. I don't want Mr. to approve it so quickly! I Show it to others, and say it quickly and carefully. This is excellent! Mr. lives here, and every bookstore will invite Mr. in the future, and there is a lot of business!" Because of the seal of two taels of gold, he sent it and said: " When the engraving is finished, I will give you fifty sample books." I prepared wine and ate upstairs.

While eating, a young man outside brought a leaflet.Kuang Chaoren then opened it to see that it was a piece of Songjiang paper, folded into a full post, and it read: On the fifteenth day of this month, there will be a feast at the West Lake, and poems will be divided into rhymes, and each person will give two stars on the head of the staff.The titles of the gentlemen present at the meeting are listed below: Mr. Wei Tishan, Mr. Sui Cen'an, Mr. Zhao Xuezhai, Mr. Yan Zhizhong, Mr. Pu Moqing, Mr. Zhi Jianfeng, Mr. Kuang Chaoren, Mr. Hu Mizhi, Jing Lanjiang Sir, there are nine in total. The next line reads "Tongren Public Tools", and another line reads: "The respect and distribution are equal, and send it to Master Hu San in the Yushutang." Kuang Chaoren saw that everyone had drawn the word "Zhi" under their names, so he did the same, and immediately Weighed two silver coins in the selected gold, and handed over the leaflet to the emissary to take it.I had nothing to do at night, because I remembered that I had to write poems on the West Lake tomorrow. If I don’t know how to do it, I don’t want to look good, so I took a copy of "Introduction to Poetry" in the bookstore and lit the lamp to read it.He is extremely smart. After watching it all night, he has already learned it.The next day, I watched it for a day and a night, picked up a pen and started to make it, and I thought it was better than the ones posted on the wall.Look at it again on the same day, if you want to be refined and strive for perfection.

On the morning of the 15th, I was picking out my clothes and hats, and was about to go out. I saw Jing Lanjiang and Jianfeng, the same branch, coming to make an appointment.The three of them went out of Qingbo Gate together, and saw all of you sitting in a small boat.When I boarded the boat, I saw that Zhao Xuezhai hadn't arrived yet, but Yan Gongsheng was nowhere to be seen.Because he asked Mr. Hu San, "Why didn't you see Mr. Yan?" The third master said, "Because Fan Tongzheng was going to sail yesterday, he sent the elements and he has gone back to Guangdong." Immediately got on the boat.Shaking in the West Lake.Pu Moqing asked the third son: "Mr. Yan Da, I heard that his family has some family troubles and official affairs for the establishment of an heir, so he ran around, and now I don't know what's going on?" The third son said: "I asked him yesterday, and the matter has already passed In Pingfu, it is still his second son who will divide the family property, and he made his brother's concubine divide the family property into three shares to live on. That's all." Arrived at Huagang in a moment.Everyone leaned on Mr. Hu and went up to borrow the garden to drink.Mr. Hu San went to borrow it, but the door was closed and he refused.Mr. Hu San was in a hurry, but the man ignored him.Mr. Jing pulled the man to ask behind the scenes, and the man said: "Mr. Hu is notoriously stingy! How many banquets does he have to take care of me a year? I flatter him! Besides, he borrowed this place last year to set up two banquets for a fee. No! When he went, he didn’t ask anyone to sweep it, and he said that there were two liters of rice left over from cooking, so he asked the servant to carry it back. I don’t flatter him like a senior official and a squire!” Therefore, everyone had to go to a monk's house in Yugong Temple and sit there.The monk made tea. The elements were all on the third son Hu, so the third master took Jing Lanjiang out to buy things, Kuang Chao said humanely: "I will go with you too." Now he walked to the street and went to a duck shop first.The third son was afraid that the duck was not fat, so he pulled out the ears and dug it to poke it. The meat on the breast was thick. He asked Jing Lanjiang to bargain for the price and bought it. Because of the large number of people, he bought a few more catties of meat, and bought two chickens and a tail. Fish, and some vegetables, I asked the boy to take them first.I also want to buy some meat buns, which are used as snacks.So he went into a steamed bun shop and looked at thirty steamed buns. The steamed buns cost three dollars each, but the third son only gave him two dollars each, so he quarreled with the steamed bun shop.Jing Lanjiang persuaded him nearby.After a while of persuasion, I stopped buying steamed buns and bought some Suo Nian to eat. It was Jing Lanjiang who took it.I went to buy some dried bamboo shoots, salted eggs, cooked chestnuts, melon seeds, etc., thinking that they would go with the wine.Kuang Chaoren also helped to get some.Come to the temple and hand it over to the monk to clean up.Zhi Jianfeng said: "Third master, why don't you ask a cook to serve you? Why are you so busy?" The third son stuck out his tongue and said, "The cook will be charged!" He weighed another piece of silver and asked the boy to buy rice . It was not until the afternoon that Zhao Xuezhai's sedan chair arrived.When he got off the sedan chair, he called to fetch the box, and the bearer brought the box. He opened the box and took out a medicine seal, two cents and four cents, and handed it to the third master for collection.The kitchen has all the food and wine, and everyone has brought them up to eat.After dinner, bring wine.Zhao Xuezhai said: "Today's elegant collection of our generation, we must have poems." At present, the rhymes are divided by lottery. Mr. Zhao chooses "Four Branches", Mr. Wei chooses "Eight Qi", Mr. Pu chooses "Yidong", Hu Mr. Jing chose "Second Winter", Mr. Jing chose "Fourteen Cold", Mr. Sui chose "Five Wei", Mr. Kuang chose "Fifteen Delete", and Mr. Zhi chose "Sanjiang".The rhyme has been set, and I ate a few more glasses of wine, and then scattered into the city.Hu Sangong asked his family to take the food box, put the remaining bones, bones, brains and some fruits in it, and sure enough, he asked the monk how many liters of rice was left, packed it up, and gave the monk five cents of incense as a gift ,--the family members are carrying them, and they also go into the city. Kuang Chaoren traveled with Zhi Jianfeng, Pu Moqing, and Jing Lanjiang.The four of them were happy, talking and laughing all the way, hanging around to play, and they entered the city late, already dark.Jing Lanjiang said: "It's getting dark, let's go quickly!" Zhi Jianfeng was already very drunk, and said wildly: "Why not! Who doesn't know the celebrities of our West Lake Poetry Society! Besides, Li Taibai is wearing a palace brocade robe, Let’s go at night, let alone it’s late? Don’t worry! Who dares to come!” I was dancing and dancing happily, when suddenly there was a pair of high lights and a pair of lanterns in front of me, and the words on them were "Yantao Branch Office".Sitting in the sedan chair of that sub-fu, at a glance, he recognized Zhi E, asked someone to pick him up, and asked: "Zhi E! You are a patrol merchant in the salt affairs of this sub-fu. Why are you so drunk at night? Playing around in the street?" Zhi Jianfeng was drunk, his feet were unsteady, he stumbled forwards and backwards, and said, "Li Dabai's brocade night tour." The branch office saw him wearing a square scarf, and said, "The yamen patrols the merchants. , there has never been a student or a supervisor, why do you wear this hat! Left and right! Go away! Lock it up with a chain!" Pu Moqing went up to help a few words, and the branch office angrily said: "Since you are a student, how can you Drinking too much in the dark? Take him to Confucianism!" Jing Lanjiang saw that it was nothing to do, so he quietly pulled Kuang Chaoren in the shadows, and the two slipped into the alley.Go downstairs, open the door, and go upstairs to sleep.When they went out for a visit the next day, the two of them didn't suffer too much, and they still wrote all the poems in the rhyme. Kuang Superman did too.And looking at the poems of Mr. Nawei and Mr. Sui, "Qifu" and "Taste Wei" are all written in it, and the rest are just a few words picked from the article's commentary.Comparing his own poems, he is not necessarily inferior to him.Everyone wrote this poem on a piece of paper, and wrote seven or eight sheets in total.Kuang Superman was also attached to the wall.After more than half a month, the bookstore examination papers were engraved, please sir, I was very drunk that night.The next time I slept on the bed early, I only heard the shout from below: "Mr. Kuang has a visitor."