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Chapter 45 The forty-fourth round of Tang Zongzhen's successful return to his hometown, Yu Mingjing asked the wine about the funeral

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It is said that Tang Zhentai discussed with the two young masters, packed up and went home.Taishou Lei sent four taels of silver to the representative, and asked Tang Yapao to prepare a banquet, and invited Tang Zhentai to his government office for a farewell party.On the day of departure, officials from Hecheng came to see him off.Pass through Changde by water, cross Dongting Lake, and return to Yizheng by the Yangtze River all the way.Nothing to do on the road, ask the two young masters about their studies and see the scenery on the river. In less than 20 days, they have arrived at Shamao Island. They sent their family members to go home to prepare and welcome them. The sixth master found out, and went all the way to the yellow mud flat. We greeted each other, and the brothers also met and talked about things in our hometown.Seeing his glib tongue, Tang Zhentai was annoyed and said, "I have been away for more than 30 years, and you have grown up, how did you acquire such an obscene demeanor!" Tai said angrily: "You're obscene! Nonsense! I'm your uncle, why don't you call me uncle?" When talking about the two young masters, he also called "Old Master" and "Second Master", Tang Zhentai said angrily "You bastard! Damn it even more! Your two brothers, if you don't take care of them, how can you call them uncle and second master!" The sixth master scolded him so dejectedly.

All the way home.Tang Zhentai paid homage to his ancestors and settled his luggage.His elder brother Nai, who is the magistrate of Gaoyao County, is already at home. The old brothers met each other, enjoyed each other, and drank wine for several days in a row.Tangzhentai didn't go to the city, nor did he know the government. He only built a few villas on the Linhe River, where he studied and taught his children.After three or four months, I was not very happy when I saw the essays written by the young masters, and said, "How did this article win! Now that I am here, I need to invite a gentleman to teach them." He hesitated every day. this thing.

On that day, the person at the door came in tremblingly and said, "Mr. Xiao Er from Yangzhou came to worship." Tang Zhentai said, "This is brother Xiao Shi. I can't recognize him even if I know him." He hurriedly asked to come in.Xiao Baiquan came in to greet him.The town hall saw that he was as beautiful as a crown jade and elegantly dressed, and sat down with him.Xiao Baiquan said: "Uncle Shi congratulates you on your return home, and my nephew should come to pay his respects. Because Mr. Gao, the attendant of Nanjing Hanlin, went home on leave and spent in Yangzhou, how long did my nephew accompany him, so I came late." Tang Zhentai Said: "Brother, congratulations on entering school?" Xiao Baiquan said: "My former great master was admitted to be a doctor's student. It's not uncommon to get a green jacket, but I'm glad that my nephew's article was spread all over the city three days ago. Appreciation by the great master, it can be seen that the selection is not bad."

Tang Zhentai saw that he spoke smartly, so he left him to eat in the study and asked two young masters to accompany him.In the afternoon, Zhentai himself came out and said that he would invite a gentleman to speak for the two young masters.Xiao Baiquan said: "My nephew recently had a gentleman who reads the text. He is from Wuhe County. His surname is Yu, his first name is Te, and he has a good character. He is not very proud of being a museum. If Uncle Shi wants to invite a husband, he is the only one who is good. Uncle Shi writes a letter of appointment and asks a brother and nephew to meet Mr. Yu, and they can come together. There are only five museums per year. Sixty gold." Hearing this, Tang Zhentai was overjoyed, stayed with Xiao Baiquan for two nights, wrote a letter of appointment, and then ordered the eldest son to call a grass fly to Yangzhou with Xiao Baiquan to pay homage to Mr. Yu from the Wu family who sells salt down the river. .Xiao Baiquan asked him to write a late student post, and when he entered the library in the future, he would change the post for the late student.The uncle said: "Half-teacher, half-friend, I have to write a 'classmate's younger brother'." Xiao Baiquan couldn't help it, so he had to take the post and go there.The post is uploaded by the door, please sit in the study.

I saw that Mr. Yu was wearing a square scarf on his head, wearing an old sapphire blue straight gown, red shoes on his feet, fair skin, three mustaches, nearsightedness, about fifty years old, came out and sat down with the two of them.Yu Youda said: "Brother Boquan, you went to Yizheng the day before yesterday, when did you come back?" Xiao Baiquan said: "I went to Yizheng to see my uncle Tang, and stayed for a few days. This is Brother Tang." He took out Uncle Tang's name card from his sleeve and handed it over.Mr. Yu then looked at it on the table, and said, "How dare you take this?" Xiao Baiquan said once again that he was going to be asked to be his husband, and said, "I'm here to pay homage today. If you get permission from Tai, I will send you money." "Yu Youda said with a smile: "The old man is a great man, and the young master is a talented man. I am old and incompetent. How can I live in a day? I will give you an answer after I think about it." The two said goodbye and left.

The next day, Yu Youda went back and forth to pay homage to Xiao's house, saying: "Brother Baiquan, what happened yesterday cannot be obeyed." Xiao Baiquan said, "What's the reason?" How do you write a post of "late brother" to ask me? It can be seen that it is not sincere to ask for advice. That's all, because the younger brother has an old friend who is the governor of Wuwei State, a book came to me the day before yesterday, and I want to go there. If he helps I have a beard, it's better than sitting in a hall for a year. I will say goodbye to my boss in the next few days. Brother Baiquan actually recommended someone else for the table in the Tang Mansion." Xiao Baiquan couldn't compete, so he replied to Uncle Tang, and another Ask someone else to go.

In a few days, Yu Youda really resigned from his master, packed his luggage and went back to Wuhe. His house was in Yujia Lane. When he entered the house, his brother came out to meet him.His brother's name is strong, his characters are heavy, and he is also a well-educated scholar in Wuhe County. At this time, Wuhe County sent a family surnamed Peng, won several Jinshi, and selected two Hanlin.The people of Wuhe County have small vision, so the people of He County went to flatter him.Another family, from Huizhou, surnamed Fang, opened a pawn shop in Wuhe for salt, so they pretended to be registered and wanted to marry the local people.At the beginning, the Yu family in Yujia Lane was married to the Yu family of an old squire, and the two families refused to be married to the Fang family.Later, a few shameless and incompetent people came out of these two families, who wanted to compensate the Fang family for compensation, married his daughter, and became close to each other.After doing more, the Fang family not only did not give extra compensation, but said that the two families admired him for being rich and begged him to marry him, so there are two kinds of people in these two families who don't care about the face of their ancestors: one is idiots , the idiot has the eight-character behavior: "If you are not Fang, you will not be close, if you are not Peng, you will not be friends." One is the good boy, and the good boy also has the eight-character behavior: "If you are not Fang, you will not be hearty, and if you are not Peng, you will not talk." This is to say that those stupid and shameless people, if there is no one with the surname of Fang in Wuhe County, they don't need to have relatives, and if there is no Jinshi surnamed Peng, they don't need to have friends.Such a person feels that he is snobbish, but in fact he is lying.Those treacherous people wanted to marry Fang's family, but Fang's family refused to do it with him, but he refused to say it. He just lied and frightened, saying: "Mr. Peng is my teacher, and Mr. Peng San invited me here Talked to me in the study for a long time." Then he said: "Mr. Peng Si brought me books in Beijing." When people heard what he said, they often invited him to have a glass of wine and asked him to say these things at the banquet. The words scare the people who are drinking at the same table.Its custom is so bad.

The two brothers, Yu Youda and Yu Youzhong, abide by the family precepts of their ancestors, study behind closed doors, and don't talk about these snobbish neighbors.Mr. Yu Da visited various prefectures, prefectures and counties, and met with many prefecture and county palaces, but he never dared to speak when he came to this county.Because Wuhe people have an unbreakable insight, they always say that anyone who is a juren or Jinshi is the same person as the magistrate and county magistrate.If someone said that the county magistrate respected that person's character, or said that the person was a famous person, and wanted to meet him, all the people in the county would smile crookedly.Just like a person who has never won an exam, if he wants to take a post to visit the magistrate, the magistrate can cross his arms and cross his arms.Always so knowledgeable.There are two brothers in the Yu family, and there has never been a good character. Because his family has never seen the magistrate of the county come to worship, and he is not related to the Fang family, and he is not friends with the Peng family, so although his relatives and friends dare not treat him lightly, they don't know. respect him.

On that day, Yu Youzhong came in after his elder brother, met him, prepared wine to welcome his elder brother, and talked about what he had said for more than a year. After eating, Mr. Yu Da did not go into the room, and the old brothers shared a bed in the study. asleep.At night, Mr. Big told Mr. Er that he would go to Wuwei State to see his friends.Mr. Er said: "My brother is staying at home for a while. I want to go to the mansion for a scientific examination. When I come back from the examination, my brother will go." Mr. Yu Da said: "You don't know, I, the owner of Yangzhou, have already It is used up, and I have to rush to Wuwei Prefecture to get a few taels of silver and come back to spend Changxia. You might as well go to the scientific research, and your sister-in-law and sister-in-law are at home. My two brothers used to live behind closed doors. What's the matter at home?" Mr. Er said: "Brother, if you go here, if you get a few dozen taels of silver, you can come back and bury your parents. Lingshu has been at home for more than ten years, and we are not at home." Mr. Da said : "I think so too, I will do this when I come back." A few days later, Mr. Da went to Wuwei State.

After another ten days or so, the grand master's card arrived, and he pressed Lin Fengyang.Mr. Yu Er pretended to live in Fengyang and rented a place to live.It was the eighth day of April.On the 9th day of the lunar new year, the master made an incense stick, on the 10th day of the new year, Guipai received the certificate of speech, on the 11th, the students of Fengyang eight genus Confucianism students were listed for examination, and on the 15th, students were issued re-examination cases. Mr. take it inside.On the 16th, he went in for a re-examination. On the 17th, the case was issued. Mr. Yu Er was ranked second in the first class and lived in Fengyang until the 24th.

Mr. Da came to Wuwei state, that state respected the old days, stayed for a few days, and said: "Sir, I haven't been in office for a long time, so I can't give you more money. Now there is one thing, just tell me something, I will agree to it." It’s yours. This family can give 400 taels of silver, and three people will share it. The husband can share more than 130 taels of silver, and he has the right to take it home to do the big things of the old man and the old aunt. I’ll be sorry in the future "Mr. Yu Da was overjoyed, thanked Zhou Zun, and went out to meet that person.That person's surname is Feng, and his name is Ying. It is a matter of life and death.Mr. Yu Da said on his behalf that Zhou Zun approved, came out to exchange the money, bid farewell to Zhizhou, packed his luggage and went home. After walking through Nanjing, I thought: "Tianchang Du Shaoqing lives in the river room of Lishe Bridge in Nanjing. He is my cousin. Why don't you stop by to see him?" Then he went to the city and came to Du Shaoqing's house.After Du Shaoqing came out, when he saw his cousin, he was overjoyed, sat down with a salute, and said that he had been away for more than ten years.Mr. Yu Da sighed: "brother, it's a pity that you have abandoned these good foundations. You are a senior official, and now you sell your writing for a living. How do you get used to it?" Du Shaoqing said: "I am here now, I am used to the joy of having friends in the mountains and rivers. To be honest with my cousin, my stupid brother has no hobbies. The husband and wife bring a few sons, live in common clothes and eat vegetables, and are indifferent. I will never regret what happened in the past .” After finishing speaking, serve tea with my cousin.After eating, Du Shaoqing went in by himself to discuss with his wife, and wanted to serve wine to welcome his cousin.At this time, Du Shaoqing was poor and couldn't afford it, so he had to pawn things when he thought about it.It was the third day of May, but Zhuang Yaojiang's family sent a load of gifts to celebrate the festival with Shaoqing.The boy followed the gift and came in together with a worship box. The gift was a shad, two roasted ducks, a hundred rice dumplings, two catties of foreign sugar, and four taels of silver in the worship box.Du Shaoqing wrote a reply saying thank you, and accepted it.The boy has gone.Du Shaoqing said to his wife, "This master has done it." Then he added a few more dishes, and the lady prepared the food and wine herself.Chi Hengshan and Wu Zhengzi lived close to each other. Du Shaoqing wrote a post asking them to accompany his cousin.The two came, talked about mutual admiration, and ate wine together in the river room. During the meal, Mr. Yu Da talked about finding a place to bury his parents.Chi Hengshan said: "Sir, as long as the ground is dry and warm, there is no wind and no ants, and the ancestors are safe, that's enough. I don't listen to those who say that they will get rich and expensive." Mr. Yu Da said: "Exactly. The most important thing in my town This matter. Because of the difficulty of finding the land, people often delay the burial of the ancestors. But my younger brother has never paid attention to this. I would like to ask the two gentlemen: what is the origin of this Guo Puzhi theory?" Chi Hengshan sighed: " Since there are no officials in the cemetery of the grave people, and the method of family burial is not good, gentlemen are confused by the theory of dragon's cave and sand and water. If they want to prosper in their hearts, they don't know that they have fallen into great rebellion." Mr. Yu Da was surprised: "How can you be born? Is it a big treason?" Chi Hengshan said: "There is a poem that I read to my husband: 'When the air is scattered and the wind rushes, you can live there. How can you manage the bones? The deserters have not yet been resolved in the middle of the day, and people in the world still believe in the "Funeral Book"!" This is The predecessors hang the poems of the Guo cemetery. My younger brother hates the words of the warlocks entrusted to Guo Puzhi the most, and he often says: "This place can make a tripod, and you can get a number one scholar." Ask sir: The number one official title began in the Tang Dynasty. Guo Pu was born in Jin. He Knowing that Tang has such an official title, let's make a law first, saying that what kind of place is this thing? This is ridiculous! If it is said that the ancients can be seen geographically, how about Huaiyin burial mother? , camping on a high and open land, and the Huaiyin princes are so expensive that they will inevitably be punished by the three clans. Is this land a good or bad place? It is even more ridiculous for these ordinary people to say that the Xiaoling Mausoleum of this dynasty was the place chosen by Mr. Qingtian. Soldiers, farmers, rites, and music, there is no time to spare, so how can you have time to do this? When Hong Wu came to the throne, the auspicious land for ten thousand years had its own warlocks to manage it, so what has it to do with Qingtian!" Mr. Yu Da said: "Sir, your remarks are really shocking." Wu Zheng said: "Mr. Hengshan's words are not wrong at all. There was a strange event in my city the year before last. Let me tell you all about it." Mr. Yu Da said: "I would like to hear, I would like to hear." Wu Zhengzi said: "It is Shi Yushi's family in Shijia Lane, where I am going down the pontoon bridge." Chi Hengshan said: "I have also heard a little about Shi Yushi's family. I don't know the details." Wu Zheng said: "Shi Yushi and Kunyu. Mr. Shi Er said that brother Nai won the Jinshi, but he never won. They are all buried in the Da Furen's place. The second room, because there was a Fengshui master at home, discussed moving the grave all day long. Shi Yushi said: "I've been buried for a long time, I'm afraid I can't move it." Crying and begging him, he decided to move. The Fengshui threatened him with words He said: "If you don't move, the second room will not only not be an official, but also blind." He became more and more panicked, and asked Feng Shui to look for land everywhere. There is a Feng Shui at home, and how many Feng Shui have met outside. This Feng Shui is looking for a Land, let those Fengshui come back. Those who know Fengshui are called: the father laughs at the son, and the son laughs at the father. There is no one the same. But when they found a piece of land, they were told: "It is not necessary." At home The feng shui of the residence was urgent, so I donated another piece of land, and on the left side of the new land, I bought a relative and said that at night, I dreamed of the old lady Fengguan Xiapei, and pointed to this land to him, and I was going to be buried here. Because of this piece of land It was the old lady who found it herself, so other Feng Shui couldn't overturn it, so she forced her mother to be buried. On the day of moving the grave, the two brothers Shi Yushi knelt there, dug up the grave, and saw the coffin. A gust of heat rushed out of the grave, rushed to Mr. Er's eyes, and immediately blinded both of his eyes. Mr. Er became more and more convinced that this Feng Shui was actually a living god of the present, who could know the past and the future. I thanked him several hundred taels of silver." Mr. Yu Da said: "We also like to pay attention to the burial. Shaoqing, is this possible?" If you want to be relocated, ask him to go to the Yamen of Yousi to hand in a paper. Feng Shui has a sweet knot: there are several feet of water on the coffin, several buckets and several liters of ants. When it is opened, it is right, and that’s it; if there is water, there are ants No, it was dug up, that is, when digging, bring an executioner, and chop off the slave's dog's head with a knife. Those who want to move the grave will be executed immediately in accordance with the law of children and grandchildren murdering grandfathers. This wind may die soon. "Yu Youda, Chi Hengshan, and Wu Zhengzi clapped their hands together and said: "Speak freely, speak freely! Bring a big glass to drink!" After eating for a while, Mr. Yu Da talked about Tang's family asking him to cook A passage from the museum was said once, and he said with a smile: "Warriors can see nothing more than that." Wu Zhengzi said: "There are some martial artists who are more elegant than others." After telling Xiao Yunxian's affairs in detail, he said to Du Shaoqing, "Young Master." Mr. Qing, show that paper to Mr. Yu." Du Shaoqing took it out.Mr. Yu Da opened and looked at the pictures and the poems of Dr. Yu and several others. After reading them, he took advantage of the wine and composed a poem by Yi Yun.The three praised it very much.Now I ate wine at midnight and stayed for three days in a row. That day, a duck seller in Wuhe Township brought a letter from his family, saying that Father Yu Er had brought it to Father Yu Da.Mr. Yu Da opened it up and saw that his face was earthy.Because of this, there are different teachings:
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