Chapter 23 The 22nd Recognition of Grandfather and Grandson Yupu Lianzong Loves to Make Friends with Xuezhai to Stay Guest

It is said that Mr. Bu was sleeping on the bed, saw the Gou sign in person, and knew that he was going to die, so he called his two sons and his wife to him, gave him a few last words, and then said what he had just seen Gou sign, saying: " Quickly put on the old clothes for me, I'm going right away." The two sons were crying and hurriedly fetching clothes to put on.Putting on his clothes, he said to himself: "I am glad that my in-laws and I are on the same ticket. He is the first and I am the last. He has gone far. I want to catch up with him." Then, he struggled his body and fell headlong on the pillow. The two sons couldn't hold back, and when they were busy watching, they were already out of breath.The funeral affairs are all ready-made, and it is necessary to practice the seven rituals, report the funeral and start hanging, all of which are accompanied by Niupu.

There are also a few scholars in Niupu who get along with him, taking advantage of the chaos of the crowd, they also come and go.At the beginning, the Bu family also thought it was new, but later they saw it more often. As a businessman, they found it disgusting to see these "Zhihuzheye" people talking nonsense, and it lasted for more than a day. That day, when Niu Pu went to the nunnery, the nunnery door was locked. When he opened the door, he saw a post on the ground with many characters sent in through the crack of the door.Picking it up, it reads: The younger brother Dong Ying, who was in the capital examination, was able to read a masterpiece at Feng Zhuo'an's younger brother's place. He was eager to meet him so that he could know Jing.It's not worth visiting Zunyu, so I'm so sad!Fortunately, I will stay for a while tomorrow morning in order to learn from you.Prayer!Prayer!

After reading it, I knew that it was Niu Commoner who visited.But when I saw the words "thirsty to know the thorns" on the post, I had never met him before, "Why don't you just meet him as Niu Buyi?" Then he thought: "He said that he will have an exam in Beijing, so he must be a master, let's call him Why not come to meet me at the Bu family and scare him and the two brothers of the Bu family?" Having made up his mind, he took a pen and paper and wrote a post in the nunnery, saying: Recently, Niu Buyi has been staying at Sheqin Bu's house. If you want to ask questions, you can go to the Bujia Rice Store on Nanshou Street of Fuqiao.

After finishing writing, I took it out, locked the door, and pasted it on the door.Going home, he said to Bu Cheng and Bu Xin: "Master Dong will come to pay respects tomorrow. He is an official. We should not take it lightly. Now we have to borrow from Mr. Dong to clean up the guest room tomorrow morning, and we must take care of it." Second master, bring me two cups of tea. This is a matter of honor for everyone, and I need to help you." The two brothers from the Bu family were overjoyed when they heard that an official came to pay their respects, and they agreed together. In the early morning of the second day, Bu Cheng got up, swept the floor in the living room, and moved the rice-storage bag under the eaves of the porch outside the window; took six chairs and placed them opposite, and asked his wife to light a charcoal stove and simmer a pot of tea; He bought a holding plate, two teacups, and two teaspoons, peeled off four round eyes, put two in a cup, and served.Until breakfast time, a man in Tsing Yi held a red card and asked along the way, saying: "Is there a Mr. Mou here? Mr. Dong is here to worship." Bu Cheng said: "Here." After receiving the card, he ran in and said.He went out to meet him, and saw that the sedan chair had landed at the door.Dong Xiaolian got out of the sedan chair and came in, wearing a gauze hat, a light blue satin round collar, powder-soled soap boots, a three-strand beard, fair skin, about thirty years old.Come in and salute, divide the guests and hosts to sit down.Dong Xiaolian first said: "I have admired the great name for a long time and read excellent works. I really admire it! I only suspect that Mr. Teacher lives in school, so it is more respectable to be such a young man!" Mr. Meng and Feng Zhuoweng have won the award, and I am really ashamed." Dong Xiaolian said, "I dare not." Bu Xin took out two cups of tea, walked down from the top, and gave them to Dong Xiaolian.Dong Xiaolian took the tea, and Niu Pu also took it.Bu Xin stood upright in the middle of the main room.Niu Pu bowed and said to Dong Xiaolian: "The people of the cheap villages don't know etiquette. Don't laugh at the old man." Dong Xiaolian said with a smile, "Mr. , the head and shoulders were all red, and when he took the tea tray, he went in with his mouth open.Niupu asked again: "Where is the old man driving this time?" Dong Xiaolian said: "My brother has been appointed as the county magistrate, and now I am here in response to the lack of weather, and my luggage is still in the boat. I am eager to meet once, so I come twice I have been interviewed. Now that I have been taught, I will sail to Suzhou tonight." Niu Pu said: "I was born late, and I have never fully enjoyed the friendship of a landlord. How can I go?" Dong Xiaolian Said: "Sir, we are friendly in writing, why should we stick to these common customs! If you go here, brother, if you get a place early, you can welcome Mr. to the office and ask for advice sooner or later. " After that, he got up and went.Niu Pupan couldn't stay, and said, "I'll come to the boat as soon as I'm born." Dong Xiaolian said, "I don't dare to bother. I'm afraid that as soon as my brother goes out, the boat will leave, and I won't be able to wait for you." , Wu Pu sent it to the door, and went to the sedan chair.

When Niu Pu brought him back, Bu Xin blushed with anger, and said to him, "Uncle Niu, I'm not good at all, but I'm also your uncle, eldest relative! You asked me to hold tea, there's nothing I can do, that's all." Why are you ashamed of me in front of Mr. Dong? This is where it comes from!" Wu Pu said: "Whenever the government comes to worship, the rule is that the tea should be changed three times. You only give it once, and then it disappears. I don't want to talk about you. It's ridiculous that you still come to ask me these words!" Bu Cheng said, "Grandpa, that's not what you said, although my second child should not walk down from the top when holding tea, and you shouldn't just sprinkle it in front of Mr. Dong's eyes." Come out. Don’t provoke Master Dong to laugh?” Niu Pu said: “Master Dong saw you two dusty people, it’s enough to laugh, why wait for you to go wrong with the tea before laughing?” Bu Channel: "We are a businessman, and we don't want this old man to come and walk around. He didn't borrow a lot of money, but made him laugh!" Niu Pu said: "I didn't say a bold word, if I wasn't in your house, your house Even for a hundred or two hundred years, no master will come into this house." Bu Cheng said, "No nonsense! Even if you meet the master, you are not a master after all!" Niu Pu said, "It depends on what you tell that person. Go! Is it better to sit down and bow to the master, or to hold tea for the master, go the wrong way, and make the master laugh?" Bu Dao said: "Don't be disgusting! My family doesn't care for such a master!" Niu Pu said: "No Do you wonder? Tomorrow, I will say to Mr. Dong: Take the post and send it to Qianghu County, and beat the board first!" The two shouted together: "Reverse! You’re not good enough this year! I’ll go to the county with you to talk about it, and see if it’s against that?” Niu Pu said: “That’s afraid of you! I’ll go with you!”

At that moment, the two dragged Niupu to the gate of the county, and the county magistrate only issued a second bang, and never sat in court.The three of them were standing in front of the screen wall, and happened to meet Guo Tiebi approaching, and asked why, Bu Cheng said: "Mr. Guo, since ancient times, 'a bucket of rice raises a benefactor, and a stone of rice raises an enemy', that's why we raised him. !" Guo Tiebi also really said that Niupu is wrong, saying: "It is natural to respect the elders and young. This is not acceptable! But it is not indecent to meet an official with close relatives." Pu poured a cup of tea and sat down.Bu Cheng said: "Uncle Niu, that's not what he said. Now that my father has passed away, the family has a large population, and I have two brothers, so we can't recruit them. It's rare that we are here in front of Mr. Guo. Let's talk about it. My niece is young It's not that we keep it, Mr. Niu should also make up his own mind, as long as he doesn't feel embarrassed, it's not a problem." Niu Pu said: "Why do you say that? It's easy to say, I'll start from today I just moved my luggage out and lived on my own without bothering you." The tea was finished immediately.After persuading the trouble, the three thanked Guo Tiebi again.Guo Tiebi don't go there.

Bu Cheng and Bu Xin go home.In a fit of anger, Niupu came home, took a quilt, and moved to live in the nunnery.I didn't have anything to eat, so I pawned the old monk's cymbals, cymbals, and jingle bells. I had nothing to do, and went to visit Guo Tiebi.When Niupu opened it, he saw Dong Ying, the county magistrate of Andong County, Huai'an Prefecture, named Yanfang, from Renhe, Zhejiang.Said: "Yes! We're not looking for him?" He hurried to the nunnery, rolled up the quilt, and pawned an incense burner and a pan of the monk for more than two taels of silver, but he didn't go to the Bu family to tell him. , I took a river boat, just met the favorable wind, and arrived in Nanjing in one day and one night. Yanziwan wanted to take a Yangzhou boat, and came to a restaurant. The owner said: "The first boat has already left today. There is no boat, so I have to stay overnight. Embark tomorrow afternoon."

Niu Pu put down his luggage and walked out of the shop. Seeing a big boat tied to the river, he asked the shopkeeper, "Can this boat be sailed?" The senior official is here to make a reservation before leaving!" After saying that, he walked in.The walker took a pair of chopsticks, two small plates, another plate of cured pork head, another plate of fried tofu with artemisia reeds, a bowl of soup, and a large bowl of rice, and brought them up together.Niu Pu asked: "What is the calculation of this dish and rice?" The walker said: "Rice is a bowl of two cents, one portion of meat dish, half of vegetarian dish." Niu Pu ate all the dish and rice, and went out of the shop again. At the gate, I saw a ride, three loads of luggage, and four attendants resting on the edge of the river.A man came out of the sedan chair, wearing a square scarf, wearing an agarwood-colored silk gown, powder-soled soap boots, holding a white paper fan, and a white beard. He was about fifty years old, with piercing eyes, and two storks. bone gills.The man walked out of the bridge and told the boatman, "I'm going to talk to the master of Yangzhou Salt Courtyard. Please wait carefully. I will reward you when I go to Yangzhou. If there is any negligence, I will send it to Jiangdu County. place!" The boatman Wei Wei repeatedly said, put on the handrail, and invited him to board the boat.The boatman helped carry the luggage.

Just as the moving was busy, the owner of the shop said to Niu Pu, "Hurry up and go!" Ann sat under the awning.Niu Pu saw all of them carrying their luggage onto the boat, and the captain took out the "Two Huai Official" lantern clips in the cabin and hung them on the hatch.Ask the boatman to take out the stove, light a fire on the bow, simmer a pot of tea, and send it to the cabin.It was already dark, so the lanterns were lit, and the four captains all went to the aft boat to set the dishes, had a meal of wine on the stove, and when the cooking was done, they all fell into the middle cabin, and lit a red candle.When Niu Po ​​sneaked a glimpse of the man in the crack of the board, he saw the candle. There were four plates of dishes on the table, a wine glass in his left hand, and a book in his right. He nodded and looked at it carefully.After watching it once, I took it in and ate it.After a while, I fell asleep with the light on.Niu Pu also quietly fell asleep.It was the night when the northeast wind was strong, and in the middle of the night, it began to drizzle lightly, and water leaked from the reed mat under the smoke awning, and Niu Pu rolled over and couldn't sleep.At five o'clock, I only heard shouts from the cabin: "Boatman, why don't you sail?" , which one dares to open?"

Don't stop, it's bright.The boatman boiled face water and sent it to the cabin, and the captains all went to the back cabin to wash their faces.Waiting for them to finish washing, they also handed over a basin of water and Niupu to wash.I saw two captains go ashore with umbrellas, and one captain took a piece of Jinhua ham and washed it in the harbor by the side of the boat.After washing for a while, the two captains bought a fresh fish, a roast duck, a side of meat, some fresh bamboo shoots and celery, and brought them on board together.The boatman measured the rice and cooked the rice, and a few captains came over to pack up the delicacies, put them in order and pretended to make four large plates, and boiled a pot of wine, and brought them into the cabin to have breakfast with the man.After eating the rest, the four captains took it to the backboard of the boat and sat together to eat for a while.After eating, the boat board was wiped clean, and it was the boatman who took out a plate of dried radish and a bowl of rice under the awning to eat with Niupu, and Niupu also ate.

Although the rain stopped a little bit, the wind never stopped.At noon, the man opened a door at the back of the cabin, saw Niupu at a glance, and asked, "Who is this?" The boatman said with a smile on his face, "This is a penny for the wine brought by the young ones. "The man said: "You young man, why don't you come into the cabin and sit down?" Niupu couldn't help but get into the cabin from behind, and bowed and knelt down to the man.The man raised his hand and said, "The cabin is narrow, so there is no need to perform this ceremony, just sit down." Niu Pu said, "Don't dare, may I ask the old master's name?" The man said, "My surname is Niu, and my first name is Yao, the word Cao is called Yupu, and I am originally from Huichuan. What is your surname?" Niu Pu said: "The surname of late students is Niu, and the ancestral home is Xin'an." Niu Yupu didn't wait for him to finish, then continued: "You both The surname is Niu, it was a family five hundred years ago. Let me be called your grandson. We in Huichuan call our uncle uncle, but you just call me uncle from now on.” Hearing this, Niu Pu was also stunned. Seeing that he was so respectable, he dared not disobey him, so he asked, "What business does uncle have in Yang this time?" Niu Yupu said, "I'll tell you the truth, I'm from Baqiao. I don't know how many times I have been with the officials. Does he want me to go to his yamen? I am lazy to go out. Now in the Wan Xuezhai family of this owner, he is not an important person. Invite me here, give me a few hundred taels of silver, and leave me as a ghostwriter. Ghostwriting is just for fame, and I don't mind living in that vulgar place of his house. I live in the Meridian Palace. Now that you recognize me, I It’s up to you.” Then he said to the boatman, “Bring his luggage into the cabin, and I’ll pay for the boat.” The boatman said, “My lord has recognized another family member, so I’d like to reward you guys more. A few drinks money." This day, I ate dinner with Niu Yupu in the cabin.When the night wind comes, the sky is already dark.The fifth watch drum has arrived in Yizheng.After entering the yellow mudflat, Niu Yupu got up and washed his face, and took Niupu ashore for a walk.Going ashore, he said to Niupu, "It's a lot of trouble for them to pack the meals on the boat. There's a Daguan building here, and the vegetarian dishes are very good. Let me go and eat vegetarian meals with you." Turning around, he told the boat, "You cook your own breakfast, and we go to Daguan. Come upstairs for dinner, don't let anyone follow you." As he spoke, he arrived at the Daguan Tower and went up the stairs, where he saw a man wearing a square scarf sitting upstairs. When the man saw Niu Yupu, he was startled and said, "So It's brother!" Niu Yupu said, "So it's brother!" The two kowtowed.The man asked, "Who is this?" Niu Yupu said, "This is the grandnephew of She." He said to Niu Pu, "Come here and kowtow. This is my old brother who has worshiped the League for twenty years. He often works together in the big yamen." Mr. Wang Yi'an, please come and kowtow." After the ceremony, Niu Pu sat down as the host and guest, and Niu Pu sat on the head.The walker brought the rice, a bowl of fried gluten and a bowl of fried beancurd skin, and the three of them ate.Niu Yupu said: "You and I still saw each other in the yamen of Lord Qi that year, until now." Wang Yi'an said: "The Lord Qi?" An Dao: "Master Qi has nothing to say to the two of us!" Just as he was talking a lot, he suddenly saw two or two scholars wearing square scarves coming up the stairs: the one in front was wearing a cocoon silk gown with oil on his chest, the one behind was wearing a plain gown with torn sleeves Unsteadily, he walked up.The two scholars saw Wang Yi'an at a glance, and the one in cocoon said: "Isn't this the tortoise Wang Yi'an who is the shopkeeper of the bitch's house in Fengjia Lane?" Playing nonsense here!" Without any explanation, he walked up, tore off his square scarf, opened his face with a big mouth, and the beaten turtle knelt on the ground and kowtowed like garlic, and the two scholars became more and more imposing.Niu Yupu went up to persuade him, but was spat on by two scholars, and said: "You are a man in clothes, sitting at the same table with this turtle to eat! You don't know, but if you know, you will come to persuade him, even you You should die too! Hurry up and leave, you will lose face here!" Niu Wangpu saw that this was not good.Quietly pulled Niupu, went downstairs, paid the bill, and hurried back.The two scholars here beat the tortoise to death.People in the store do good and bad things, tell him to admit it.The two scholars always refused to live and wanted to send him to the government.The tortoise who was beaten behind was in a hurry, and took out three or two or seven pieces of silver from his waist, and gave it to the two husbands as a good-looking money.That's all, let him go. Niuwangpu and Niupu boarded the boat, drove to Yangzhou, and went all the way to the lower part of the Meridian Palace. The Taoist priests came out to continue, put their luggage, and went to sleep that night.The next morning, he took out an old square coat and a blue silk gown, handed them to Niupu, and said, "Today we are going to Mr. Wan Xuezhai's house together. You wear this coat and hat." After getting into two sedan chairs, the two sat down, followed by two long followers, and one carried a felt bag all the way to the bottom of the river.I saw a big tall gatehouse, with seven or eight court priests sitting on the bench, with a nurse in the middle, sitting and gossiping.The sedan chair arrived at the door, and the two got out of the sedan chair and walked in. The court servant recognized him and said, "Master Niu is back, please sit in the study." Immediately, they walked into the gatehouse of a tiger seat, and passed through the brick courtyard. , to the hall.Looking up, there is a large plaque hanging in the middle, with the words "Shen Si Tang" in gold, and a line in the middle that reads "Salt Transport Envoy of Lianghuai River and Huaihe River Xun Meishu".There is a couplet on gold paper on both sides, which reads: "It is good to study, it is good to cultivate the land, and it is good to learn well; it is difficult to start a business. It is difficult to maintain success, but it is not difficult to know the difficulties." Hanging in the middle is a painting by Ni Yunlin.There is a large piece of raw material that has never been cut on the desk.Twelve rosewood chairs.On the left stands a six-foot-high full-length mirror.Walk in from behind the mirror, two doors open, the cobblestone ground, along the edge of the pond, vermilion railings along the way.Walking in, there are three flower halls, with bamboo curtains hanging in the middle of the partitions.There are two young children waiting there. Seeing the two relatives, they opened the curtain and let them in.Looking up, all the tables and chairs are polished nanmu, and there is a small plaque with white paper and ink characters hanging in the middle.It is the four words "excerpts from class flowers". The two sat down to have tea, and the host Wan Xuezhai Fang came out from the inside, wearing Fangzhong on his head, shaking a golden fan in his hand, wearing a straight gown of Chengxiang cocoon silk, with red shoes on his feet, and came out to bow to Niu Yupu.Niu Yupu called Niu Pu to come to see him, and said, "This is the grandnephew of She. I have met the old man!" The three of them sat down as guest and host, and Niu Pu sat down.He took out another cup of tea and ate it.Wan Xuezhai said: "Why did Yuweng stay in Beijing for so long?" Niu Yupu said: "It's just because my reputation is too great. As soon as I arrived in Beijing and lived in Cheng'en Temple, many people came to beg and send Dou Fang Those who came, some sent fans, some sent albums, and they wanted me to write and make poems, and there were those who asked for advice after dividing the topic and rhyme. I couldn’t get rid of it day and night. Only then did I get rid of it. The Second Young Master Xu in the Duke’s Mansion knew that the younger brother had arrived for some reason, so he sent the butler twice to invite him. His butler was the commander of the Jinyiwei. The future of the fifth rank came to my place a few times, and I only got his house. I lingered for a few days. Before leaving, I refused to let go. I said that Xue Weng had something important to wait, so I reluctantly resigned. The second son also admired Xue Weng, and I respected the poems written by him, "because it was on the sleeve. He took out two books of poems and handed them to Wan Xuezhai.With the poem in hand, Wan Xuezhai asked, "This nephew and grandson have never met before, how old are you? What is the tuba?" Niu Pu refused to agree.Niu Yupu said: "He is only 20 years old this year, and he has never had a title yet." Wan Xuezhai was about to open the poem book to read, when a young servant flew in and said, "Master Song is here." Wan Xuezhai Zhai got up and said: "Yu Weng, I should have been with you. Because the seventh concubine is sick, I asked the doctor Song Ren to come and see me. My brother is going to discuss it with him. I will tell you for now. You actually ask me to sit here for a while. After dinner, sit till late." After that, he went. The butler brought out four small dishes, two pairs of bowls and chopsticks, lifted the table, and set the meal. Niu Yupu said to Niu Pu: "They still have a while to prepare the meal. You and I will walk over there. There are still a lot of people there." A tidy house looks good." He then led Niupu across a small bridge, followed the path, and saw many pavilions up and down over there.The edge of the pond was slightly narrow, with more than a dozen willow trees planted along the way. Niu Yupu stood still, turned around and said to him, "The master just spoke to you, why didn't you agree?" Niu Pu stared at Niu Yupu's face and said—— Unconsciously, he sighed empty with one foot, and half of his body fell into the pond.Niu Yupu hurriedly came to help, but thanks to the willow tree blocking him, he pulled up, his shoes and socks were soaked, and half of his clothes were dripping with water.Niu Yupu was annoyed, and said with a sullen face, "So you are the one who can't be on the platform!" He hurriedly asked the boy to take out a piece of clothes from his felt bag to change with him, and sent him back to the next place first.Because of this, there are different teachings: