Chapter 32 The 31st round of Tianchang County co-visiting Hero Jie gave the library a drunken guest

It is said that Du Shenqing held this meeting, and Bao Tingxi saw that he used a lot of silver, and was startled, thinking to himself: "He is generous, why don't I take it easy and ask him to borrow a few hundred taels of silver, and still form a team Come on, do business and live?" The idea has been made, and Du Shenqing really doesn't like him because he works in the river room every day.That night when we talked about the secret place, it was already late at night, and most of the servants were not in sight. Du Shenqing asked: "Master Bao, how do you live at home after all? You should find a business." Seeing him, Bao Tingxi asked With this sentence, he knelt on the ground.Du Shenqing was startled, helped him up, and said, "What's the matter?" Bao Tingxi said, "I'm under the master's door, and it's really a kindness from the heavens and earth for Master Meng to ask this question. He was born in a costume, and he will not do anything else except this. Now the master is looking after the door, unless Ken En lends a few hundred taels of silver, he will still do this show with the door, and if the door finds money, he must repay the master." Du Shenqing said: "It's easy, please sit down, and I'll discuss with you. This teaching team's outfits don't cost hundreds of dollars, at least they cost thousands of dollars. There are no outsiders here. I will tell you that although my family has several I have thousands of silver coins, but I keep them and dare not move them. Why don’t I dare to move them? I want to win within one or two years, and if I win, there is no place to use them? I want to keep it for this matter. Now you get As for the team, if I transfer someone to you, it is only as if I helped you, but you can’t say that I said it.”

Bao Tingxi said: "Besides the master, where else is this person?" Du Shenqing said: "Don't panic, listen to me. My family has seven big houses, and the grand master who is the Minister of Rites belongs to my fifth house and the seventh house. The Tailord won the first prize. Later, a Tailord became the magistrate of Ganzhou Prefecture in Jiangxi Province. This is my uncle. The son of Ganzhou Prefecture is my twenty-fifth brother. His name is Yi, and his name is Shaoqing. As young as I was two years old, I was also a scholar. My uncle was an upright official, and the family still had some fields left behind by his ancestors. After his uncle passed away, he didn’t pay ten thousand silver for furniture. He doesn't even recognize silver and ninety-seven, and it's better to be a senior official. When he hears people say something to him, he will give it to others. Now you are here to help me a little longer, and when it's cooler in autumn, I'll give you some Go to him with all your money, and I'll give you a thousand pieces of silver. " Bao Tingxi said: "At that time, I beg the master to write a book and let the door go." Du Shenqing said: "It's irrelevant. This book can't be written. He To be a senior official is to be alone, to take care of others, and not to be helped by others. If I write a book, and he says that I have already taken care of you, he will get angry and not take care of you. Now go and go to someone first. " Bao Tingxi said: "But which one did you vote for?" Du Shenqing said: "There was an old butler in his family, surnamed Shao, you should recognize him." On that day, his family took over my play to celebrate the old lady’s birthday. The master of Ganzhou Mansion, I have seen it before.” Du Shenqing said: “This is so cruel. Now this grandpa Shao is dead. His family has a The housekeeper, Wang Huzi, is a bad servant. He just listens to him. My brother has a problem: Anyone who says he has seen his master, even a dog, respects him. You will meet Wang Huzi first in the future. The slave likes wine, you buy some wine to eat with him, tell him to say in front of the master that you are a person who is very happy with the master, and he will even give you three silver coins. He doesn't like people to call him master, you just call him Young Master. He has another problem. He doesn’t like people talking about being an official or having money in front of him. Don’t say it in front of him. He always says that he is the only one in the world. I am a senior official who is willing to take care of others. If he asks you if you recognize me, you will say you don't." Bao Tingxi was full of joy when he said those words.He worked here for another two months, and at the end of July, when the weather became cooler, Bao Tingxi asked Master Seventeen how much money he had borrowed, packed his clothes and luggage, and set off across the river to Tianchang.

On the first day we crossed the river and stopped in Liuhe County.On the second day, I got up early and walked dozens of miles, and arrived at a place called Pier No. 4.Bao Tingxi went in and sat down, and was about to ask for water to wash his face, when he saw a sedan chair coming down from the door.An old man came out of the sedan chair, wearing a square scarf on his head, a white gauze gown, red silk shoes on his feet, a red rosacea nose, and a big white beard like silver threads.The old man walked into the shop, and the shop owner hurriedly picked up the luggage and said, "The Fourth Master Wei is here! Please sit inside." The Fourth Master Wei entered the main room, Bao Tingxi stood up and saluted, and the Fourth Master Wei returned the gift.Bao Tingxi asked Fourth Master Wei to sit on the top, and he sat below, asking: "My surname is Wei, so I dare not ask where your place is?" Fourth Master Wei said, "My humble surname is Wei, and I live in Wuyi Town, Chuzhou. Eldest brother, where is your name? Where did you go now?" Bao Tingxi said: "My surname is Bao, and I am from Nanjing. Today I went to Tianchang Du Zhuangyuan's mansion to see Young Master Du." Fourth Master Wei said: "Which one is that?" Who? Is it Shenqing? Is it Shaoqing?" Bao Tingxi said: "It's Shaoqing." The Fourth Master Wei said: "Although there are sixty or seventy brothers in his family, only these two invite guests from all over the world; the rest are closed. The door is at home, guarding the countryside to do business, so I asked these two people when I saw them, both of them are famous in the north and south of the river. Although Shenqing is elegant, I still think he is a bit girlish. Shaoqing is a hero. I also went to his house, and went with your elder brother after dinner." Bao Tingxi said, "Are you related to the Du Mansion?" Mr. Wei Si said, "I was a classmate of his family as the Grand Master of Ganzhou Mansion since I was a child. We are very close." Bao Tingxi respected him even more after hearing this.

We had dinner together at that time.Fourth Master Wei got into the sedan chair, and Bao Tingxi hired another donkey to ride with him.At the gate of Tianchang County, Fourth Master Wei got off the sedan chair and said, "Brother Bao, I will go into the mansion with you." Bao Tingxi said, "Please get on the sedan chair first, and I will meet his housekeeper next time, and then go to see the young master." " Wei Si said: "Forget it." After getting on the sedan chair, he went all the way to Du's mansion, and the person at the door passed him in. Du Shaoqing came out in a hurry and asked to meet him in the hall. He said, "Old man, we have been separated for half a year. I have never come to the town to greet my old man and my aunt. I am always good?" Mr. Wei said, "Please take care of me. Xin Qiu has nothing to do at home, thinking that the osmanthus must be in full bloom in the garden of the Zunfu, so I came to see my elder brother and asked for a glass of wine." Du Shaoqing said: "I served tea, please sit in the study." After tea, Du Shaoqing ordered: "Please bring in the luggage of Mr. Wei Si and send it to the study. Pay him the money for the sedan chair, and send the sedan chair back." Please ask Mr. Wei Si to walk in zigzagging from an alley behind the hall. , just to a garden.As soon as the garden enters the three rooms facing east.The building on the left is the Cishu Building of Dian Yuangong. In front of the building is a large courtyard, a Peony Terrace, and a Peony Terrace.Two huge osmanthus trees are blooming well.There are three open pavilions next to each other, and behind the three study rooms facing south, there is a large lotus pond.A bridge was built over the pond.In the past, there were three secret rooms, where Du Shaoqing himself studied.

When Mr. Wei Si was invited to sit in the study facing south, the two osmanthus trees were just outside the window.Mr. Wei Si sat down and asked, "Is Lou Weng still in Zun's mansion?" Du Shaoqing said, "Mr. Lou has been sick recently. Please live in the inner study. He just took medicine and fell asleep. He can't come out to meet Mr. Wei." Mr. Wei said "Since the old man is ill, why don't you send him back?" Du Shaoqing said: "My nephew has taken his son and grandson here to serve the decoction, so I would like to greet you sooner or later." Mr. Wei said: "The old man is here The Zunfu has been in the government for more than 30 years, but there is still some savings, and the family has some property?" Du Shaoqing said: "Since the first emperor went to Ganchuan, he handed over the accounts of the fields and real estate that he left behind to Old Man Lou, and every money comes in and goes out. Old Uncle Lou is the master, but the previous emperor never asked about it. Except for forty taels of gold every year, Old Uncle Lou doesn’t get a penny. Whenever the rent is collected, he goes to the tenant’s house in the village in person, and the tenant prepares two dishes for the old man to eat. Eat the same. If his son or grandson comes to see him, he can only stay for two days before sending him back. In addition to the money, he will not have a lot of money. Before he leaves, he will be searched, lest the housekeepers will give him money privately. It's just that The harvested rice rent interest, when meeting poor relatives and friends, Mr. Lou would try his best to help. The first king knew about it and didn’t ask. Someone owed money to the first king, and when Mr. Lou saw that he couldn’t pay back, old man Lou gave up the loan. The fire is gone. Up to now, the old man's two sons and four grandsons are still living in poverty, and my nephew is very sorry." Fourth Grandpa Wei sighed: "You can be called an ancient gentleman!" He asked again: " How is brother Shenqing at home?" Du Shaoqing said: "My brother has gone to Nanjing since we left."

Just as he was talking, his family member Wang Huzi held a red notebook in his hand and stood outside the window, daring not to come in.Du Shaoqing saw him and said, "Wang Huzi, what do you have to say? What are you holding in your hand?" Wang Huzi walked into the study, handed over the book, and said, "There is a man named Bao from Nanjing who was born in an opera troupe. He has been doing business on foreign roads for the past few years, so he came back home. He came across the river to kowtow to the young master." Du Shaoqing said: "Since he is the leader, you said that I have guests at home, so you can't see him. Take the notebook and tell him to go. Forget it." Wang Huzi said: "He said that he has received so much kindness from Mr. Xiantai, and he must thank Young Master face to face." Du Shaoqing said, "Did this person be praised by Mr. Xiantai?" Wang Huzi said: "Yes. Mrs. Shao back then It has been announced that his team is coming across the river. The Grand Master really likes this Bao Tingxi and promised to take care of him." Du Shaoqing said: "Since you said so, you brought him in." Fourth Master Wei said: "It's from Nanjing. This brother Bao, I just met on the road."

Wang Huzi went out and led Bao Tingxi all the way in.Seeing the vast garden stretching as far as the eye can see, I walked to the door of the study and saw Du Shaoqing sitting there with the guests, wearing a square scarf on his head, wearing a jade-colored gauze straight gown, beaded shoes on his feet, a yellowish complexion, and two eyebrows standing upright, as if on a painting. Guan Fuzi's eyebrows.Wang Huzi said: "This is my young master, come and see me." Bao Tingxi came in and knelt down and kowtowed.Young master Du supported him and said, "You and my old man, why do you have to salute like this?" He got up and bowed, and after bowing, he saw Mr. Wei Si again.Du Shaoqing told him to sit down.Bao Tingxi said: "I have received the kindness of the old master first, and it is hard to repay the family. Because I have been poor and busy in the past few years, I have been doing small business outside, so I can't come to see the young master. I just came to greet the young master today, and beg the young master to forgive the sins of the family." Du Shaoqing Said: "Just now my family Wang Huzi said that my grandpa likes you very much and wants to take care of you. Since you have come here and lived here, I have a reason." Sit there?" Grandpa Wei Si said: "It's good here." Du Shaoqing hesitated and said, "I want to invite another guest." Because he asked the boy in the study to join him, "Go to the back door and invite Mr. Zhang to come. Let it go." Jiajue promised to go.

After a while, a man with big eyes and yellow beard was invited, wearing a corrugated hat and broadcloth clothes. Having said that, he asked, "What's your surname, elder brother?" The man said, "My surname is Zhang, and my name is Junmin. I have been under Master Du's family for a long time, and I know a little about medicine. I have met with Master Meng for several days to see Mr. Lou in the mansion." "Mr. Lou took medicine today?" Du Shaoqing asked Jia Jue to ask, and asked back: "Mr. Lou took the medicine, fell asleep, woke up, and will feel refreshed." Zhang Junmin asked again , "This is your last name?" Du Shaoqing said, "It's a friend of Bao from Nanjing." After that, put on the table and sit down.Mr. Wei Si is the chief, Zhang Junmin is sitting opposite, Du Shaoqing is the chief, and Bao Tingxi is sitting at the bottom.Pour the wine and eat for a while.The delicacies are all cleaned up in my own home, and they are extremely clean.There are hams that have been aged for three years, and bamboo crabs that are half a catty, all peeled out except for the crab soup.Everyone is eating.Grandpa Wei Si asked Zhang Junmin, "Your friendship is naturally really brilliant?" Zhang Junmin said, "'It's better to be familiar with Wang Shuhe than to be more clinical.' To tell you the truth, my grandfather said that he was born in the rivers and lakes and had never read it. What kind of medical books, but I have read a lot of diseases. I have learned from the young master recently that I know that books should be read. So I have a child, and now I don’t teach him medicine. Show it to Young Master Du. The young master usually rewards a comment, and the late students also take it home to read it well and learn some arts and sciences. In the next two years, I will ask the child to go out to take the prefecture and county exams, and cheat twice on noodle soup and steamed buns If you put up a signboard in the future, you can be called a Confucian doctor." Fourth Master Wei laughed out loud when he heard him say this.

Wang Huzi came in with another post and said: "Wangyan merchants in the north gate will pay for their birthday tomorrow. Please invite the county owner and young master to accompany guests. I will definitely ask the young master to attend the banquet." Du Shaoqing said: "Go back to my house If you have guests, you can’t get a seat. This person is ridiculous. If you want to do such a lively event, you won’t invite the juren and Jinshi who broke out in the county to accompany you? I have time to accompany the officials for others!” Wang Huzi promised to go. Du Shaoqing said to the Fourth Master Wei: "My old man has a very high drinking capacity. I had a meal with the late king in the middle of the night that day, and I should get drunk today." Your delicacies are exquisite, but this wine was bought in the city, and your status is limited. There is a jar of wine in the house. It should be eight or nine years this year. I think it is still in storage?" Du Shaoqing said: "Little nephew actually I don’t know.” The Fourth Master Wei said: “You don’t know. It was the year when your lord Lingxian took office in Jiangxi. The official came back and had a drink with you.' That's why I remember. Go ask at home." Zhang Junmin said with a smile: "Young master really doesn't know about this." Du Shaoqing walked in.Mr. Wei Si said: "Although Mr. Du is young, he is really a hero on our side." Zhang Junmin said: "Young master is a very good man, but his hands are too loose. No matter who begs, he will give you a lot of money. Use it." Bao Tingxi said: "It's under my sect, I've never seen someone who acts so generously like Young Master Du."

Du Shaoqing went in and asked his wife if she knew about the jar of wine.Later, when I asked Mrs. Shao, Mrs. Shao remembered and said: "Yes. It was the year when the master took office, he made a jar of wine and buried it in a small room behind Seventh's house over there, saying that it was for Wei Si. The grandpa ate it together. The wine was made from two buckets of glutinous rice and made from 20 catties of brewed wine, and 20 catties of shochu, without any water. Now it has been buried in the ground for nine years and seven months. This wine is drunk If you get it out, young master, don't eat it!" Young master Du said: "I know." He asked old lady Shao to open the door of the wine room with the key, brought two young men in, took it out from the ground, and even the altar. Carried it to the study, and shouted: "Old man, this wine has been found!" Fourth Master Wei and those two people got up to look at it, and said, "Yes." It's like a paste, piled in the cup, smelling fragrant.Mr. Wei Si said: "Interesting! This is not a different way of eating. Shixiong, you can ask someone to buy ten catties of wine on the street and mix it with you before you can eat it. You can't eat it today, so just put it here. Tomorrow, I will eat him for a day, and the two of you will share." Zhang Junmin said: "Naturally, I will accompany you." Bao Tingxi said: "It is a good luck for people like me to come to eat the good wine left by the old master." Said Come on, teach Jiajue to take a lantern and send Zhang Junmin home.Bao Tingxi stayed in the study with Fourth Master Wei, and Du Shaoqing waited for Fourth Master Wei to fall asleep before going in.

The next day, Bao Tingxi got up early in the morning and went to Wang Hu's room.Jiajue sat there with another servant.Wang Huzi asked Jiajue, "Has Master Wei ever gotten up?" Jiajue said, "Get up, wash your face." The young master has been up for a long time, watching and making medicine in Mrs. Lou's room." Wang Huzi said: "The young master of my family is also amazing! A father Lou is just a guest of the grand master. He is sick, but I just send him off. A few taels of silver, and send him back. Why do you keep him at home as an ancestor, and you have to wait on him from morning to night." The boy said: "Uncle Wang, you still say that, the porridge and vegetables that Mrs. Lou eats, We simmered it, his sons and grandsons have seen it, but the young master has to read it himself before giving it to Mrs. Lou to eat. Ginseng Choko is kept in grandma’s room, and grandma stewed ginseng by herself. In the evening, the young master is not allowed to deliver ginseng in person, it is grandma who personally sends people to eat with him. If you say something like this, you will have to provoke the young master to scold you." Then, the person at the door walked in and said: "Uncle Wang, come in and say something, The third master Zang is here, and I want to meet the young master sitting in the hall," Wang Huzi called the young man and said, "You go to Mr. Lou's room to invite the young master, I will not go to say hello!" Bao Tingxi said: "This is also the kindness of the young master. place." The young man went in and invited Shaoqing to come out to meet Mr. Zang, bow to him and sit down.Du Shaoqing said: "Third brother, I haven't seen you for a few days. Is your literary club very lively?" Zang Sanye said: "Exactly. I heard you talking about distant guests... Shenqing was so happy in Nanjing that he forgot to return. " Du Shaoqing said: "it's the old man Wei in Wuyi who is here. I invite him today, you sit here, and I will go to the study with you." Zang Sanye said: "Sit down and I will talk to you. The parents of Wang in the county are my teachers. He said several times in front of me that he admires your great talent, and when will I go with you to meet him." Du Shaoqing said: "For the matter of visiting the county magistrate as a teacher, I have to let the three Brother, you do it. Don’t talk about great-grandfathers and ancestors, just the king was in Japan. I don’t know how many times I have seen such a magistrate. He really admires me. Why didn’t he come to worship me first, but asked me to worship him? Besides, it’s unlucky to be a scholar, see I will call him a teacher when I come to the magistrate of this place. The Jinshi in the ashes of the Wang family, I don’t want him to ask me to be a teacher. Go." Zang Sanye said: "It is for this reason. Yesterday the Wang family explained to Mr. Wang that they invited you to accompany him, so Mr. Wang was willing to come to his house, just to meet you. If you don't go, Mr. Wang It's also disappointing. Besides, your guest lives at home, if you don't accompany him today, you can accompany him tomorrow. Otherwise, I will accompany the guest for you, and you can go to Wang's house for a walk." Du Shaoqing said, "Third brother, don't be too familiar. Your noble teacher is not a kind of virtuous and talented person, but he wants someone to worship his disciples and receive some gifts. He is thinking of me and tell him to wake up from his dreams! What's more, my family today Treat guests, there is an old duck weighing seven catties simmering, and nine-and-a-half-year-old wine is found. The Wang family has no such good food. Not much to talk about! Come with me to the Wei room to play." Pulled away.Zang Sanye said: "Stand! What's wrong with you? This old Mr. Wei has never met before, so he wants to write a post." Du Shaoqing said, "That's right." He asked the boy to come out with a pen and inkstone.Zang Sanye took the post and wrote "Zang Tu, a classmate of the family in the late year", first asked the servant to take the post to the study, and then came in with Du Shaoqing.Fourth Master Wei faced the door, bowed and sat down.The two were there first and sat down together.The Fourth Master Wei asked the Third Master Zang, "Zunzi?" Du Shaoqing said, "Zang Sange Zunzi Liao Zhai, he is a leader in my nephew's school, and my brother Shenqing is also a good friend of the same association." The Fourth Master Wei said: " Jiu Mu, Jiu Mu!" Zang Sanye said: "I have long admired the old man, luckily met!" Zhang Junmin knew each other, and Zang Liozhai asked again: "What is your name?" Bao Tingxi said: "My surname is Bao, just now. I came back from Nanjing." Zang Sanye said: "Come from Nanjing, have you ever recognized Mr. Shenqing from the house?" Bao Tingxi said: "Master Seventeen has also seen it." After breakfast at the moment, Grandpa Wei ordered the wine jar to be taken out, mixed with ten catties of new wine, and ordered to burn a lot of red charcoal, piled it up by the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, and put the wine jar on the charcoal.After a meal, it gradually heats up.Zhang Junmin led the servants, and he removed all the six panes by himself, and lifted the table into the eaves.Everyone sit down.Another table of fresh dishes.Du Shaoqing asked the boy to take out a gold cup and four jade cups, and scooped wine from the jar to eat.Grandpa Wei took a cup of Jinhuai in his hand, praised it, and said, "Good wine!" After eating for half a day. Wang Huzi led four servants to carry a box.Du Shaoqing asked what it was.Wang Huzi said: "This is a box of autumn clothes newly made by the young master, grandma, and Da Xianggong. I just finished it. I sent it in to check the number with the young master. The tailor's wages have been sent." Du Shaoqing said: "Put it here and wait for me Wine check after eating." Then he put down the box and saw the tailor come in.Wang Huzi said: "Tailor Yang answered the young master's words." Du Shaoqing said: "What did he say?" Standing up, the tailor walked into the courtyard, knelt down on his knees, kowtowed his head, and burst into tears.Du Shaoqing was shocked and said: "Siwu Yang! What's the matter?" Tailor Yang said: "I was working at the young master's house these days, and I went there this morning to get my wages. He died of illness. The younger one took his wages and went home. Unexpectedly, he returned all the money to the firewood shop, but now there is no clothes for his mother's coffin. I had no choice but to ask the young master to borrow a few taels of silver with the younger one. Yes, the little one is doing the calculation slowly." Du Shaoqing said: "How much money do you want?" The tailor said: "How dare you expect more from a small family? If you are willing, the young master, the more is six taels, and the less is four taels. That's all. You have to pay it back in addition to the wages." Du Shaoqing said tragically: "I want you to pay it back. Although you are a small business, this is a big deal for your parents. You should not be careless. It will be a lifelong hatred in the future. At least I have to buy a coffin of sixteen taels of silver, and a total of twenty gold for clothes and groceries. I have no money these days. Anyway, my box of clothes can be worth more than twenty taels of silver. Wang Huzi, You can use it with Yang Siwu, and you can use it with Yang Siwu." He said again: "Yang Siwu, you can't keep this in mind, just forget it. Didn't you take me This is a big deal for a mother, who has no mother? I should help you." Tailor Yang and Wang Huzi carried the box and went away crying. Du Shaoqing took the seat and sat down.Fourth Master Wei said: "Brother, this is really rare!" Bao Tingxi stuck out his tongue and said, "Amitabha! There are such good people in the world!" He drank wine for a day.Zang Sanye had a small capacity for alcohol, so he vomited in the afternoon, so he helped him back.Mr. Wei and the others ate until the third watch, and finished the whole jar of wine before they left.Because of this, there are different teachings: