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Chapter 37 Thirty-sixth Changshu County True Confucianism Birth Taibo Temple Famous Sage Priest

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It is said that there is a village in Changshu County, Suzhou Prefecture in Yingtian, called Linfu Town. There are more than 200 families in the town, all of whom are farmers.There is only one surnamed Yu, who studied and went to school during the Chenghua period. He has been a senior scholar for thirty years and only teaches in this town.This town is fifteen miles away from the city, and Yu Xiucai never went to the city except to take the exam. Later, he lived until he was more than eighty years old and passed away.His son has never been to school, and he also teaches for a living.When they reached middle age and had no heirs, the couple went to the Emperor Wenchang to beg. They dreamed that Wenchang handed him a note with a sentence on it: "A gentleman cultivates virtue with fruits." Immediately, she conceived.At the end of ten months, Dr. Yu was born.Tai Weng went to thank Wenchang, and named the newborn son Yude, with the word Guoxing.

Dr. Yu lost his mother when he was three years old, and Tai Weng was teaching at other people's house, so he took him with him in the library.When Dr. Yu was ten years old, there was a Mr. Qi named Mr. Qi in the town who bought books for Mr. Yu's family to teach his son. The host and guest got along very well.After teaching for four years, Taiweng Yu fell ill and died. Dr. Yu was entrusted to Taigong Qi when he was in danger. At this time, Dr. Yu was only fourteen years old.Qi Dagong said: "Mr. Yu is different from all other children. Now that Mr. passed away, I will ask him to be the book that Mr. taught his son." At that moment, he wrote his own Qilian name card, and came to worship in the study, and took it with him. My nine-year-old son came to pay homage to Dr. Yu as his husband.Dr. Yu has been teaching at the Qi family ever since.

Changshu is an extremely humanistic place.At this time, there was a Mr. Yun Qingchuan, who was the best in ancient poetry and poetry in the world. When Dr. Yu was seventeen or eighteen years old, he began to study poetry and prose with him.Qi Taigong said: "Yu Xianggong, you are a poor scholar. It is useless to learn these poems and essays alone. You need to learn two skills to find food. When I was young, I also knew geography, fortune-telling, and choices. I have taught you all of them now. , keep it for emergency use." Dr. Yu listened wholeheartedly.Qi Taigong said again: "You should buy two exam papers and read them. In the future, you will go out to take the exam and enter a school. It will be easier to sit in the hall." At the age of fourteen, I went out to take the exam, and then entered school.The following year, a man surnamed Yang from Yangjia Village, twenty miles away, was hired to teach, and he received thirty taels of silver every year.I go to the museum in the first month, and I still go back to Qi's house to celebrate the New Year in December.

Two years later, Qi Taigong said: "Your old man is in Japan, the marriage in Huang's mansion that was arranged for you at the beginning, and now you should marry." Next year's more than a dozen taels of silver for the museum will be married.The couple still live in Qi's house.After the full moon, go to the museum.After working for another two years, I saved up twenty or thirty taels of silver for the house, found four houses next to Qi's house, moved in, and only hired a young servant.Dr. Yu went to the museum, and this little boy went to the market outside Sanli Road every morning to buy some food, rice, oil, salt and other side dishes, and went home to live with his wife.The lady gave birth to a child, and she was very sick, so she couldn't buy medicine with the museum money, so she only ate plain porridge three times a day, and then her body gradually got better.Dr. Yu is thirty-two years old, and there is no museum this year.The lady said: "How is this year?" Dr. Yu said: "It's okay. Since I came out to sit in the restaurant, I have about 30 taels of silver every year. If it was only a few dozen taels in the first month of that year, I was not worried enough. In May, I had to add two more students, or read articles, and some taels of silver made up the amount. If I had a few more taels of silver in the first month of that year, I said happily: "Okay, more this year." .' When something happened at home, he came out and used up the few taels of silver. It can be seen that there is a certainty, so don't worry about him."

After a while, as expected, Taigong Qi said that there was a man named Zheng in the distant village who invited him to see the burial.Dr. Yu brought a compass and went to look at the ground for him with all his heart.After the grave was buried, the Zheng family thanked him twelve taels of silver.Dr. Yu called a boat back.It was mid-March at that time, and there were some peach blossoms and willow trees on both sides of the bank, and there was a slight wind blowing. Dr. Yu felt at ease.I went to a secluded place again, and a boat of ospreys was catching fish in the river.Dr. Yu looked from the window of the boat.Suddenly, I saw a person jumping into the river on the other side of the bank.Dr. Yu was startled, and hurriedly asked the boatman to rescue the man.After being rescued on the boat, the man was dripping with water.Fortunately, the weather was still warm, so Dr. Yu told him to take off his wet clothes, and asked the boatman to borrow a dry one for him to change into. Please come in and sit down on the boat, and asked him why he committed such a short-sightedness.The man said: "The villain is the farmer's family here. He worked a few fields for them and harvested some rice. They were all taken away by the landlord. His father died of illness at home, and he couldn't afford to buy a coffin. I think I What do people like this do if they are still alive in this world, it is better to find a dead end!" Dr. Yu said: "This is your filial piety, but it is not a matter of seeking death. I have twelve taels of silver here, and it was given to me by someone. Here it is, I will keep it for a few more months. I will give you four taels of silver now, and you can talk to your neighbors and relatives. Naturally, everyone will help. You can go and bury your father, and that’s all.” At the moment in the luggage He took out the silver, weighed four liang, and handed it to the man.The man took the silver and thanked him: "What is the benefactor's name?" Dr. Yu said: "My surname is Yu, and I live in Linfu Village. You can take care of your business quickly, and don't just talk." The man thanked him and went .

Dr. Yu went home and opened a museum again in the second half of this year.At the end of winter, a son was born. Because these things were done in Qi Taigong's house, he was named Ganqi.He worked in the museum for another five or six years. Dr. Yu was forty-one years old. This year, Taigong Qi came to send him off for the provincial examination and said, "Mr. Yu, you think you will go to high school this year." " Qi Taigong said: "What you do has a lot of sinister virtues." Dr. Yu said: "Old man, where can I see any sinister virtues in me?" Qi Taigong said: "It's like you buried someone's grave, sincerely. I heard it again People say, you saved the man who buried his father on the road. This is all sinister virtue," Dr. Yu said with a smile, "Yin stallion is like ringing in your ears, but you only know it, and others don't. Now the old man knows about it. Where is Yinde?" Qi Taigong said: "It is Yinde after all, you are going to pass this year." When he came home from Nanjing Township Examination, Dr. Yu caught some cold and fell ill.On the day when the report was released, the reporter arrived in town, and Taigong Qi came with him and said, "Mr. Yu, you have won." Dr. Yu heard it when he was ill, and discussed with his wife, pawned some clothes, and asked Taigong Qi to send them away. the person who reported.After a few days, when I recovered from my illness, I went to Beijing to fill in a confession and came back. My relatives, friends and employers all sent some congratulatory gifts.The cooking went to Beijing for a test, but he was never selected as a scholar.

It just so happened that an old man in Changshu, Mr. Kang, released the governor of Shandong, so he asked Dr. Yu to go out of Beijing together, live in the yamen, and do some poems and essays for him.A colleague in the yamen, surnamed You, surnamed Zi, with a senior character, saw Dr. Yu's articles and conduct, and was willing to worship him as a student, live in the same room with Dr. Yu, and ask for advice day and night.At that time, the upright emperor was looking for a virtuous person, and Mr. Kang wanted to recommend someone.You Shishi said: "At the current imperial court ceremony, the students want to ask Mr. Kang to recommend the teacher." Dr. Yu smiled and said: "I dare not take on this matter of expropriation. Mr. Kuang wants to recommend someone, but it is based on Mr.'s idea. We If you go to ask him, this is not conduct." You Shishi said: "The teacher just doesn't want to, and when he recommends him to the emperor, the teacher will either see the emperor or not see the emperor, and come back after resigning from the official position, let alone the teacher's favor. High place." Dr. Yu said: "You're wrong again. I begged him to recommend me, recommended me to the emperor, and I resigned from office. It's not sincere to ask him to recommend me, and it's not true to resign. Sincerely. What is this called?" After saying that, he laughed out loud, and after more than two years in Shandong, he went to Beijing to try again.Never again.Just board the boat and go back to the south of the Yangtze River, still in the church.

Three years later, Dr. Yu was fifty years old, and he borrowed a housekeeper named Yan from the Yang family to accompany him, and then went to Beijing for a test.He won the Jinshi in this subject, and he was in the second class in the palace examination. The imperial court wanted to select him as a Hanlin.But these Jinshi, some are fifty years old, some are sixty years old, and the resumes often state that they are not their real ages.Only he wrote that he was actually fifty years old.The emperor saw it and said: "This Yu Yude is old, let him be an idle official." Immediately, he made up the doctor of Guozijian in Nanjing.Dr. Yu said happily: "Nanjing is a good place, with mountains and rivers, and it is close to my hometown. I will go this time and bring my wife and children together. It is better to be a poor Hanlin." I went to bid farewell immediately. Fang Shi, Zuo Shi and fellow villagers.There was a Mr. Wang, an attendant of the Hanlin Academy, who entrusted him with a request: "Old man is going to Nanjing. There is a nobleman in the Imperial College, surnamed Wu, famous book, and orthographic characters. This person is very filial to his mother and very talented. Take care of him." Dr. Yu agreed.Pack your luggage and come to Nanjing to take up your post.Send Mendou to Changshu to pick up his family.At this time, the son Yu Ganqi was eighteen years old and went to Nanjing with his mother.

Dr. Yu went to see Mr. Li, the Imperial College Jijiu, and came back to sit in the public seat.The disciples in the prison came to see him one after another.Dr. Yu saw a book on martial arts on the post. Dr. Yu went out to meet and asked, "Which one is written by brother Wu Nian?" A dwarf came out of the crowd, came over and replied, "Student It's a book of martial arts." Dr. Yu said: "I have long admired my brother Ke Dun in the capital for his filial piety and great talent." After a new meeting with him, please sit down.Wu Shu said: "Teacher's essays are in the mountain, and the disciples are lucky to be exposed to the rain today." Dr. Yu said: "I have just arrived here, and I look forward to advice on everything. How many years has Brother Nian been in prison?" Wu Shu said: "No secret The teacher said that the head of the door was young and lonely, and lived in the countryside with his mother in service. He was alone and had no brothers. The clothes and food were all arranged by the head of the door. All the mothers were still alive and could not study and take exams. Unfortunately, the mother saw her back, All the funerals are thanks to the help of Mr. Du Shaoqing, the head of heaven. My disciples learned poetry from Shaoqing." Dr. Yu said: "Mr. Du Shaoqing, Brother Xiang Ri once saw his poetry collection at You Zishen's desk. He is really a genius. Shaoqing Is Qing here?" Wu Shu said: "He lives in the river house at Lishe Bridge." Dr. Yu said: "There is also Mr. Zhuang Shaoguang, the emperor gave him Yuanwu Lake, does he live in the lake?" Wu Shu said: "He lives in the lake. He doesn't know people easily." Dr. Yu said: "I'll go see him tomorrow."

Wu Shudao: "Students don't know how to write stereotyped articles, because they were poor and helpless later, and they couldn't do it when they asked for a library. Later, for some reason, when these masters saw the name of the disciple, they decided to take it as the first class and make up for it. The student's essay was actually not good; they always took the first class in the poetry and Fu examinations. The last time A grand master took the combined examination of the eight subjects, and his student was the first in the eight subjects, so he was sent to prison. The student felt that he was not good at Shiwen." Dr. Yu said: "I am also impatient with doing Shiwen. Wu Shudao: "So students don't ask for advice with current prose. The poems and prose that are tested on weekdays, as well as the "Easy Interpretation of Ancient Prose" and various miscellaneous theories, are all written and come to ask the teacher for advice." Dr. Yu said: "It shows that the year Brother's talent and name are convincing. If there are poems, ancient proses, which are even better, I will read them carefully. Has the Lingtang ever passed it?" Wu Shudao: "My first mother is in accordance with the law. The student's country is cold, and all the yamen envoys There is no fee, so it is late to this day. The disciple is really guilty." Dr. Yu said: "How late is this?" He asked someone to fetch a pen and inkstone, and said, "Brother Nian, just write a summary of the letter. " That is to say, the biography office came to the front and said, "this matter of the filial piety of Mrs. Wu's old lady, you have done it quickly, so that you can prepare the documents for details. I will use it in the house. I will do it here." The book office promised to go down. .Wu Shu thanked the teacher.Everyone thanked Wu Shu a lot, and said goodbye and went out.Dr. Yu sent it back.

The next day, I went to Yuanwu Lake to pay homage to Zhuang Zhengjun, but Zhuang Zhengjun never met.Dr. Yu went to Hefang to pay homage to Du Shaoqing, and Du Shaoqing would meet him.Speaking of the fact that Duke Yuan of the Du Palace was in Changshu at the beginning, he accepted Dr. Yu's grandfather as a student.Dian Yuan was the great-grandfather of Shaoqing, so Shaoqing called Dr. Yu Shishu.They talked about the past with each other.Dr. Yu also talked about his admiration for Zhuang Zhengjun, but today he has no chance and never met him.Du Shaoqing said: "He doesn't know, my nephew will tell him." Dr. Yu bid farewell and went. The next day, Du Shaoqing went to Yuanwu Lake, looked for Zhuang Zhengjun, and asked: "Dr. Yu came to worship yesterday. Why didn't you miss him?" Zhuang Zhengjun smiled and said: "Because I declined these crowns, although he is a small official, I'm too lazy to meet him." Du Shaoqing said: "This NPC is different, not only has no knowledge, but especially no morale. He has a weak heart. At the top, there are Boyi and Liu Xiahui, and at the bottom, Tao Jingjie is a first-class person. You will meet him I'll know." After Zhuang Zhengjun heard this, he went back to pay homage, and the two hit it off right away.Dr. Yu loves Zhuang Zhengjun's comfort, and Zhuang Zhengjun loves Dr. Yu's Qingya, and the two became close friends of life. After another half a year, Dr. Yu wanted to complete the marriage for the son.The young master hired was Taigong Qi's granddaughter, originally a student of Dr. Yu, and later became his in-laws to repay Taigong Qi's love for him.The Qi family sent their daughter to the office to complete the marriage, and paid another girl. From now on, the child will have a servant girl to listen to.After the happy event was over, Dr. Yu married the maid to a housekeeper named Yan, and the housekeeper took ten taels of silver to pay the maid.Dr. Yu said: "You also need to prepare some bed tents and clothes. The ten taels of silver are mine and yours. You can take it and prepare it." Steward Yan kowtowed and thanked. In the blink of an eye, in February of the Chinese New Year, Dr. Yu planted a tree of red plum blossoms after he took office last year, and now several branches have bloomed.Dr. Yu was overjoyed and asked his family to prepare a banquet of wine. He invited Du Shaoqing to sit under the plum blossoms and said, "Shaoqing, how much spring has seen? I don't know how the ten-mile Jiangmei is going. When will I take a jar with you to visit?" " Du Shaoqing said: "My nephew has exactly this intention and wants to invite my uncle to have a day trip with brother Zhuang Shaoguang." As he spoke, two more people came in.These two people live at the gate of the Imperial College, one surnamed Chu, named Chu Xin, and the other surnamed Yi, named Yi Zhao.Seeing the two people walking in, Dr. Yu offered to sit down with him.Those two people did not assume Du Shaoqing's seat.Sit down, serve wine, and eat two glasses.Chu said: "On the head of Huangchun, the teacher should have a birthday, and I will accept some gifts from him to celebrate the spring." Yi Zhao said: "I have reported to the teacher, and the disciples will pass it on." Dr. Yu said: "My birthday is eighth. Yue, how do you do it at this time?" Yi Zhao said: "It's okay, we can do it in February, and we can do it again in August." Dr. Yu said: "It's unreasonable! This is a joke! Please drink wine, both of you." Du Shaoqing also Laughed.Dr. Yu said: "Shaoqing, I have a word to discuss with you. It was said in the palace of Zhongshan the day before yesterday that there was a strong woman in his family who asked me to write an inscription. I folded a cup of satin and mounted it with eighty taels of silver as a gift. I entrusted I'm leaving you, and you take this money to buy flowers and wine." Du Shaoqing said: "Don't you know how to write this article? Why do you entrust it to me?" Dr. Yu said with a smile: "I'm as talented as you! You take it and do it." Because he took out an abbreviation in his sleeve, handed it to Du Shaoqing, and called his family: "Give those two letters of silver to Mr. Du's family." The family took the silver and came out, and said: " Mr. Tang is here." Dr. Yu said: "Please come and sit here." The family handed the money to the servant of Du's family and went in.Dr. Yu said: "This is my cousin. When I arrived in Nanjing, I entrusted him with a few houses, so he came to see me." With that said, Tang Xianggong came in, bowed and sat down.After gossiping for a while, he said, "My cousin's house, because I have no money for the past six months, I sold it." Dr. Yu said: "No wonder you. There is no business this year, and the family has to eat, so there is no way to sell it. Now, come all the way to tell me what to do?" Tang Xianggong said: "I demolished the house, so I have no place to live, so I came to discuss with my cousin, and borrow some money to live in a few houses." Dr. Yu said again He nodded and said, "Yes, if you sell it, you will have nowhere to live. I happen to have thirty or forty taels of silver left here, so I might as well take it with you tomorrow to live in a few houses." Tang Xianggong remained silent. Du Shaoqing finished his drink and bid farewell to go.The two were still sitting, and Dr. Yu came in to accompany him.Yi Zhao asked: "What is the relationship between Teacher and Du Shaoqing?" Dr. Yu said: "He is our family friend, and he is very talented." Yi Zhao said: "It's hard to say about the master. Everyone in Nanjing knows that he was originally a A rich man is now poor, hiding in Nanjing, and specializes in lying and defrauding money. He has the worst morals!" Dr. Yu said: "What's wrong with him?" Yi Zhao said: "He often goes to taverns with Naijuan He eats wine, so everyone laughs at him." Dr. Yu said: "This is exactly where he is elegant and elegant, how do ordinary people know." Chu said: "That's all, but next time the teacher has some rich poems, don't Find him to do it. He is a person who should not take the test, and the things he makes are limited in quality, and I am afraid it will damage the teacher's name. Good." Dr. Yu said solemnly: "That's not the case. Everyone knows his talent and name, and the poems he composes are not dissatisfied. Every ordinary person asks him to write poems here, and I still stick to him. Light. Just like today, the silver is one hundred taels, and I will leave twenty taels for my cousin." The two fell silent and said goodbye. The next morning, Ying Tianfu sent a prisoner over to beg for punishment for committing a gambling crime.Mendou and the yamen guarded the prison student in the gatehouse, came in and reported, and asked, "Master, where is he locked?" Dr. Yu said, "Please invite him in." Come in, with tears in your eyes, and on your knees, tell these unjust things.Dr. Yu said: "I see." He left him in the study, ate at the same table with him every day, and took out his luggage to sleep with him.The next day, he went to Fu Yin to explain these injustices for him, and released the prison student.The head supervisor kowtowed and said, "Although a student is smashed to pieces, it's hard to repay the teacher's kindness." Dr. Yu said, "What's the matter? Since you have been wronged, I should have defended you." The supervisor said: "Defense is of course The great kindness of the teacher is just that when the student first came to the custody, he was confused. He didn't know how the teacher would deal with it, how the door fights for money, and where to lock the student to suffer. How can the teacher treat the student as a guest. The student is not here to take care of , I came here to enjoy the blessing for two days! The disciples are so grateful for this psalm!" Dr. Yu said: "You have filed a lawsuit these days, go home quickly and have a look, don't gossip too much." The prison student said goodbye. A few days later, a post with the full name of Dahong was posted on the door, which read: "The late students Chi Jun, Ma Jing, Ji Cui, Yun Laixun, disciples Wu Shu, Yu Kui, and nephew Du Yitong bowed their heads together. " Dr. Yu looked at it and said, "What's the reason?" He hurriedly went out to meet these people.Because of this, there are different teachings:
After all, what are these people here for, let's listen to the next chapter.
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