For a while, the uncle and nephew faced each other and were silent. Fan Shi saw the scene of the two of them on the side, so he smiled and said: "I said what is the matter with the master, and suddenly mentioned Wen Zhaogong." It turned out that the nephew didn't know the foundation of the little master of the Zhang family. However, what kind of person is Kai'er, if he doesn't mention it, how can he be willing to go to inquire into the private affairs of other people's families. Besides, I haven't seen the classmates for three or four years, and I don't want to say much about it. As the saying goes, 'He who does not know is not guilty'. Although the nephew didn't know the origin of his family, he was about to come to the door in a hurry, but he never really hit his door in the end. Speaking of which, it's always their children's own classmates' play, it's not a big deal, but it makes your uncle and nephew have a straight face, and they look really good. Saying that, he and Gu Chong served tea, and asked the girl to serve it to Xie Kai as well.

Gu Chong took the tea in his hand and said with a smile: "Are you saying that the two of me look alike? Although it is vulgar, it is often accurate. Fan couldn't help laughing, and Xie Kai also held the teacup and lowered his head and smiled. Fan called for some refreshments, and several people ate some recipes.

Gu Chong sat upright again, and said to Xie Kai: "According to what you said earlier, you don't know where Zhang Hui came from, and naturally you don't know that his father Zhang Wangzhang looks up to him." ”

Xie Kai got up and answered, "Yes." It was the nephew who was very ignorant and reckless. ”

Gu Chong nodded and sighed, "It's a little ignorant, but it can't all be up to you." Just as your aunt said, our people are different from others in the end. Not to mention your grandfather's family, just your Jinling Xie family, since the Wei and Jin dynasties, has been a real princess and a hairpin family. Your father, your father, your uncle, and your uncle have all given them knighthoods, and when you enter, you are in charge of the cardinals, and when you are outside, you are in charge of the place, and all the women in the inner house have been sealed. As far as others are concerned, who can make you bow your head and bend down to make friends? But whoever has a real eye does not care about the origin of others, but only sees personal character. That chapter looks pretty much the same in retrospect. I don't deliberately reveal my origin in front of you, but I also want to come as much as I want. ”

Speaking of this, Gu Chong seemed to remember something, laughed slowly, and turned to Fan's words: "The gift to Zhangfu prepared the day before yesterday, you pick a few pieces out and mix them with your nephew, plus two jars of my newly acquired old wine, and send them to Nafu together tomorrow." Fan hurriedly responded and personally took two maids out to cook.

Gu Chong watched her go out, and then smiled at Xie Kai: "At the latest, the day after tomorrow, that chapter hui should bring his father's post to the door and invite him to his birthday banquet." The post will naturally fill in with you. If I'm right, he'll probably invite you to his house to sit down and meet your elders. You must accept this invitation. After all, your classmates are affectionate, and your knowledge is even more of a lineage, and it is the etiquette that should be received, and there is nothing wrong with it. It's just that you don't know his origin, and you don't know the situation of his family, so it's not good to bump into someone here. ”

Xie Kai hurriedly said: "My nephew is worried about this. Although Wen Zhaogong is famous, but Nanjing and Changzhou are separated, and I am careless, I have not paid more attention to these, for fear that when the time comes, I will be ugly and lose the reputation of my family. So I have to ask my uncle for advice. ”

Gu Chong nodded and responded, "That's the truth." Maybe I have daily dealings with his family, so I know more than others. Now I'll talk to you from the beginning, listen carefully, don't be rude to someone's door, and lose the face of your parents and grandfather. ”

When Xie Kai heard this, he hurriedly stepped forward, stood next to Gu Chong, and said, "Please ask for my uncle's instructions." ”

Gu Chong took a sip of tea, and then said: "This Yanling Zhang clan, or Lanling Zhang clan, was originally a local gentry in southern Lunan. During the Yongjia Rebellion, Huaiyin ordered Xiao Cheng to lead his clan to move south, and settled in Lanling County in Changzhou; In the Song Dynasty, the imperial examination was flourishing, and in the past three hundred years, there were 770 Jinshi in Changzhou Mansion, and 25 people with the surname Zhang were all of his same clan. Although Li Zheng has only been passed down for three generations, the Zhang family has two successors in a row. As for our dynasty, the first to advocate culture and education, the opening of the imperial examination, the Zhang family also got the time, and every generation has ascended to the top. As for Wen Zhaogong, it is not only him, but also the peak of the Zhang family's imperial examination. The study of Zhang's classics was sent from Xiao Wangzhi of the Western Han Dynasty, and "Poems", "Books" and "Analects" were the most deeply studied. Wen Zhaogong also from Huang Wuxi, Qizhou Huang family learning orthodoxy, now the family is from it; the study is both profound, and widely taught disciples, and there are many gains, all those who read and know the literature, all do not want to associate with the Zhang family, so the reputation is greater - and therefore his family has not really been out of office for several generations, but also always likes to be a scholar and scattered people, the lintel is extraordinary in the end; that is, the few families who married him are also extraordinary. You should also remember what I said, don't make a mistake in half a sentence, otherwise you will laugh at the guests, be embarrassed and not be able to come to the table, hurt the reputation of the Jinling Xie and Gu families, and provoke the old lady's temper. ”

Xie Kai couldn't help but be secretly surprised when he heard this. Since he knew that Zhang Hui was from the lineage of Wen Zhaogong, his family background was extraordinary. But listening to Gu Chong's words, there are still many valuable people in Zhang's contact in-laws, and this time he will also go to Changzhou to congratulate Zhang Hui's father on his birthday, otherwise Gu Chong would not have been so specially advised. Thinking in his heart, he just responded in his mouth, while holding his breath and concentrating, listening to him talk about the Zhang clan in detail.

Gu Chong said: "Since the Zhang clan settled in Nanlanling, the tribe has flourished and there are many people. But now there is only Wen Zhaogong in the city of Changzhou. His population has never been prosperous, and his children are quite limited, and Wen Zhaogong is his only son in this house, and he only has two sisters. The eldest one left the cabinet at the age of fifteen, and died of illness in less than two years - so he loved and pitied his younger sister very much, and his brotherhood was the deepest. Zhang Wenzhao entered the department at the age of seventeen, entered Taixue, and returned to his hometown from the capital at the age of twenty on Huang Wuxi and Huang Xiang, and married his wife after returning to Changzhou, which is the daughter of Shengkang and Shengchangrong. ”

Xie Kai couldn't help but ask: "Sheng Changrong? Could it be that he and his own brother Sheng Ding Sheng Pingrong, who was in charge of the household department before and after the Shizu Dynasty, and was called 'Dianshi into Jin Shangshu' at that time? Duchess Wenzhao actually came from his family? It's just that it doesn't seem to be famous now." ”

Gu Chong couldn't help but smile and said: "Look, sure enough, I said it, the kid doesn't know how thick the sky is in his later life, and he will say terrible things if he is not careful." If you shout it out in front of others, you won't know if you really offend people. You only see that he was prosperous in the Shizu Dynasty, but you don't think that if he was not a first-class family, how could he have made an early marriage with the Zhang family; and then he gradually retreated from the court, and he was also a generation of eunuchs, a gentleman, how dare you say the word 'not obvious'? Even if you are the son of the prime minister, and the family is thriving, you have to blame a word of frivolity. ”

Xie Kai was stunned, lowered his head and did not speak. Gu Chong knew that he was still a little unconvinced, so he didn't care anymore, and only continued to say: "Duke Wen Zhao and this Mrs. Sheng have given birth to four sons successively, but Duke Rong, who has stopped the second line, survived and grew up, inherited the character and knowledge of Duke Wen Zhao, and also commented on the scriptures and made several major events, so he is the most respected in the minds of Jiangnan scholars. However, Rong Gong was quite unhappy in this marriage, and the first said a few families, but the woman died of illness shortly after the invitation. In the end, it was the youngest sister of Duke Wen Zhao, the aunt of Duke Rong, who married the grandson of Emperor Cheng and the cousin of Emperor Shizu King Heyang as a concubine. This Miss Wu family was young when she got married, but she followed her grandfather since she was a child, and she was a very virtuous person. and gave birth to three sons and three daughters. Now that Rong Gong has gone early, this Mrs. Wu is still here, and she is the great-grandmother of your classmate Zhang Hui: the most long-lived and virtuous person, and the person who respects her status for several generations. When you come to the door this time, you should kowtow carefully to her. ”

Xie Kai hurriedly responded, and said: "I have heard Zhang Huaiying talk about it several times before, when he was young, he had to be taught by his great-grandmother, and he felt that he was a very kind and generous old man. If he is lucky enough to meet him this time, the nephew will bow respectfully to the old man, without losing the face of the family. After saying this, seeing Gu Chong nodding with a smile, he asked again: "It's just that I heard my uncle say Songjiang Wu Binglin." However, this Mrs. Wu is actually the supervisor Wu Xiang and the Wu Tianguan family, who used to guard the northwest gate and made the Jin people and the Mongolian tribes famous and fearful?"

Gu Chong listened to his question, and his face finally showed relief. said, "Finally, you heard what was important." Yes, it is Wu Tianguan's granddaughter. At that time, Wu Tianguan was originally a civil official, transferred from the state capital to Shaanxi to declare political history, and later supervised the three provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Sichuan, fortified the city, organized defense, resisted the Xiongnu, and protected our northwest border for 20 years. Emperor Shizu once said to people in public on three occasions that the Cai clan had stolen the country and the Central Plains was in turmoil, but fortunately Wu Tianguan supervised the border court of the town, so that the Xiongnu would not have the slightest opportunity to take advantage of it, otherwise the 'five chaotic China' would be repeated in our dynasty! Wu Tianguan had been in charge of the northwest for 30 years, and he had been promoted to the military department until he was still in the military department, and he had won the favor and trust of three generations of kings, and the military was mighty and powerful, and he was by no means beyond the reach of others, but he always wanted to return to the right path of his civil servants. Therefore, the most proud is the eldest son Wu Binglin - rarely famous for poetry, romantic and brilliant, but sigh for a long time, because his wife Sheng died of illness, he followed less than a year, and left a daughter, who is now Wu Taijun. She has been by Wu Tianguan's side since she was six years old, and she is most loved by her grandfather. When it came to the year of the plum, the proposer only stepped on the threshold of the Wu family by two or three inches. As a result, Wu Tianguan rejected all the people in the capital, and only agreed to marry the Zhang family at the request of Princess Heyang, but it was because her parents died early, and Mrs. Wenzhao Gongsheng and her mother were cousins who had gotten along since childhood, and they were close to Jiangnan's hometown - such an arrangement was really well-intentioned. ”

Xie Kai heard this all the way, and he had already thought about Shenfei: although he is a descendant of the Xie family in Jinling, a descendant of the prince Zaifu, and a real figure from a wealthy family, after all, he is still young, and the most respectful is either arrogant and clear, or iron-blooded Yuanrong. Although the Sheng brothers live in Shangshu, they are not distinguished by his official family. This chapter Wen Zhao is the leader of the Jiangnan literary circles and scholars, and Wu Tianguan is a famous supervisor and marshal, and the story of the two of them is that Xie Kai has also heard his elders talk about it since he was a child. It's just that Zhang, Wu, and Sheng are not publicized, and they only walk around with their in-laws and old friends on weekdays, and he is limited to his age and identity, so although Zhang, Wu, Sheng, Xie, and Gu are all in Jiangnan, they have never really acquainted. Now that I have the opportunity, and my uncle Gu Chong has explained the origin of the friendship between Zhang and the Wu family, how can I not be happy? Therefore, I was silent for a long time, and finally sighed: "This article and martial arts are all the sages of the country, the emperor, and the people who were personally praised by Emperor Shizu. Such a marriage is a match made in heaven. ”。