(Three chapters, 17,000 words.) The next chapter is about twelve o'clock at noon. ）

Tai'an City spring rain at the beginning of the day, the whole capital seems to be refreshing and clean a lot at once, the temple is noisy again, that is also the matter of the officials, the people should eat and sleep and sleep, most of them always have to live honestly get up early and greedy for the dark days, but there are also some idle, but these are degraded as stubborn shelf play master goods are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, have the ability to play the Oiran, is the first class, play the famous horse to play the ancient treasure is the second class, the worse should also be to play the hand plate walnut, the most bad always have to get a few fish and insects to support the scene. But a young man located in the southwest corner of the capital on the slanted eye street of the alley is completely out of the stream, but since he lives in the alley where the small people live in Shengdou, he can afford to play with good things, and he can't reincarnate well, so he has to accept his fate, right? This young man is the same as the people of the capital surnamed Zhang on the street, and he has a big surname that is among the best in Liyang, but he has not been able to make a big difference, and he does not see him doing serious things all day long, except for borrowing money from people to drink flowers and wine, he will only wander around with a pigeon whistle, but he can't even afford a decent pigeon, which is left in Tai'an City, it is called a swollen face and also has to be poor, and even the poor who don't pay attention to anything should be looked down on, Zhang Bianguan is such a prodigal son who can be looked down on by anyone, in the eyes of the neighbors, this guy is fortunate to have a little bit of blessing left in his life, and he can also marry a daughter-in-law with a good appearance, Zhang Bianguan has never known contentment, and still refuses to stay at home and roll the quilt with his daughter-in-law, I only know that I run outside every day, go out early and return late, go out empty-handed and return home empty-handed, just like this, one day is a day, for a long time, even the kind-hearted old neighbors are gradually too lazy to pay attention, not long ago, the surname Zhang seems to have been beaten, the nose and face are swollen badly, the swelling has only subsided in the past few days, and he is still laughing and laughing and saying hello when he meets people, and his uncle and aunt are shouting diligently, regardless of whether others take care of him.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the clothes are getting cooler and cooler, and the time that Zhang Bianguan is away from home is getting longer and longer, after all, the capital is so big, can there be fewer young women on the street? He just squinted at the sky. He's been laughed at for so many years and said that he can't eat leftovers and step on shit, no one knows what he's thinking, and no one is interested anyway. People who generally know his temperament only know that this useless coward should still want to play, but he doesn't dare to accompany the rich people to play those high-grade wind and snow places, and in the end he can only look at those dead things that don't cost money, colorful attic mortise and tenon, gray unknown alleys, Chongwu Gate for soldiers, Chaoyang Gate for grain, Dingshan Gate for wine, and the stone unicorn on the drum tower that has been squatting for a few years since Yang Jianchao. Wandering in the sky above the pigeon song has a beginning and an end, Zhang Bianguan is reluctant to retract his gaze, feel that it is still early, not to go home when he thinks, he ran to the slanting eye street street to take the only hand of the lock dragon well squatting, this ancient well has been dry, there is a judge made of yellow mud bricks on the side of the well, the market is rumored to be from the sun to the fire of the water of the world, this clay sculpture sitting posture is as tall as others, sitting with the chest and abdomen exposed, opening the mouth and smiling, every Mid-Autumn Festival, the common people have to add firewood to him, the fire and green smoke will emerge from the mouth and nose of the clay sculpture judge。

Zhang Bianguan squatted at the foot of the clay sculpture by the well as always, occasionally raised the cuffs to wipe the corners of his mouth, some time ago he gave a group of people a beating not lightly, probably mistakenly thought that Zhang Bianguan's father was finally going to lose power, it was time to teach this bastard who was embarrassed to the family in the capital, but the punching and kicking was too enjoyable, and the next day he found that the day of the Liyang Imperial Court was still that day, it had not changed, this kid's father was even more ruthless, and several large groups of people were cleaned up to cry dad and call mother, so the beaters who relied on these groups of people to eat and drink immediately hid, and they didn't have the courage to apologize to Zhang Bianguan, and then trembled for most of the day, and did not wait for a little revenge, then they all breathed a sigh of relief, got together, and laughed more and more at the surname Zhang is a big waste, there is a father who they can't ask for when they burn incense and worship the Buddha, and they don't know how to pull the tiger skin banner to enjoy the blessings, he deserves to be treated as a piece of rotten shit that has dirty shoes when he stepped on it.

Zhang Bianguan's only strength is to desert for thousands of miles, and when he suddenly found that there was an elegant young man beside him, he glanced at it, but he didn't speak, and after waiting for a long time, he finally asked with a smile: "You really didn't come to beat me out of anger?"

The scholar-like scholar shook his head with a smile, "How dare you beat the son of Lord Shoufu, and if you really fight, I am not your opponent, so why bother to humiliate yourself." Even if you don't fight back and let me beat and scold, you will be nothing more than a fool who is amused by you. ”

Zhang Bianguan sighed, "It turns out that you are an understanding person? You are not from the capital, are you? With your kind of vision, the locals of the capital, they will not come to see me at all." ”

The reader asked, "Do you admit that you are smart?"

Zhang Bianguan sneered and laughed at himself: "I'm a smart person, so what should my father be?"

The reader nodded, "That's right." ”

Zhang Bianguan lay on the wellhead, looking at the dark and bottomless wellhead, and no longer paid attention to this unknown scholar who was boring if he understood things.

The scholar sat by the mouth of the well and said indifferently: "I know that you like to watch the intrigue in the attic of the palace, because they will only complement each other, and they are much more amiable and lovely than the mutual disasters between people." I also know that when you left Zhangfu to stand up for yourself, you planted a peach tree at home, the people in Tai'an City, they all like to have trees in the yard, pomegranates with many sons and blessings, jujube trees with early births, persimmon trees and Tsubaki trees are also common, but the peach tree is not seen, because the peach word homonym 'escape', unlucky, Tai'an City is the root of Liyang, the tree is dead, the people of Liyang have no Tai'an City, where can they escape? You Zhang Bianguan is not stupid, it is for your father, but your father, our Shoufu Lord Liyang turned a blind eye, he did not escape, you, as a son, naturally could only continue to stay in Tai'an City to eat and wait for death, hoping that in the future, he would be able to send the end and drink in Qingming, which would be better. ”

Zhang Bianguan let out a dull sigh and continued to look at the wellhead.

The scholar smiled and said, "You must have guessed that I am the Sun Yin who came from Beiliang to ask for an official from Tantanong." ”

Zhang Bianguan turned his head, "Sun Yin, right? Then tell me, the stone unicorn on the drum tower has been silently staring at the world for hundreds of years, what are you waiting for?"

Sun Yin has now quietly entered Zhongshu Province, and successfully landed on the towering tree of Tantanong, although he is a sesame-sized loose official, but since he has entered the eyes of the old man Huan, the success is not just around the corner? Sun Yin looked at this blue-eyed young son, shook his head and said: "How do I know what a stone unicorn is waiting for, anyway, it's not waiting for the swaying wind to rise, blowing wolf smoke, and in the end, life will be ruined, if it is only exchanged for people in dragon robes, is it fun?"

Zhang Bianguan smiled and touched his chin, "It's not fun." ”

Zhang Bianguan sat side by side with Sun Yin, shook his neck, exhaled, and took another breath, then he smiled, raised his wrist, showed Sun Yin the simple pigeon bell, and said: "I used to receive a pigeon given by others, a first-class superb, black and purple, compared to the falcon of Xu Fengnian, the king of Beiliang, the price is not much different." At that time, my father had not yet become the first assistant, he was a third-grade official, and my father found me and did not scold me, you should know that my father is such a person, scolding people is to promote you, except for the old man Huan, he has hardly scolded anyone in his life. He asked me, this pigeon is my father's current value, what kind of thing are you Zhang Bianguan, worth this price? Are you stupid, or, really stupid? I was fourteen years old, and I returned the pigeon in a fit of anger, and that person, in front of me, smiled and said that he was not in the habit of taking back the gift, and then strangled the pigeon with his hand, well, he is His Royal Highness the current Prince, Zhao Zhen. From that day on, I vowed never to mess with these people again. I'd rather run to the creaking of the door than listen to their flattery and sycophancy, and I'd rather look at the dead things that no one cares about, than the sons and daughters of the powerful who can sell their farts for gold and silver. Over time, no one likes to play with me, and I am happy to be alone. ”

Speaking of his father Zhang Julu, Zhang Bianguan couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

He still remembers that after his grandparents moved from their hometown to the city early after their father stood out from the Hanlin Academy, in the hot season, the two old people especially liked to lie on the rattan chair under the shade of the trees, helping the grandchildren under their knees to shake the fan and shake it, again and again, summer after summer, shaking and shaking, only grandma was left, and then later, it was gone. Their father did not keep filial piety, the court was even more impatient than the civil official who was a son, and directly issued an order to seize the love and recover, and their children did not find anything unusual from their father's face, Zhang Bianguan clearly remembered that Tai'an City at that time was full of gossip on the street at the beginning, saying that their father couldn't care about being a man in order to be an official. It's just that as my father's official hat got bigger and bigger, such a voice became smaller and quieter, until no one mentioned it at all. He has been doing nothing for so many years, and he left home later than the eldest brother and the second brother, but he saw the family affairs more clearly than the two elder brothers. When did the family affairs of the Zhang family start to be equated with the affairs of the capital and the world? Zhang Bianguan looked lonely, the back of his head rested on the well, looking up at the gray sky in the twilight, when he was a child, there was a lion bridge not far from the house, there was a time when the family was difficult to go out to play, Dad asked them to count how many stone lions on the bridge, the eldest brother is most like Dad, what to do is serious, count a board at a glance, the second brother is a nerd, anyway, from childhood to the eldest father will do whatever he says, the eldest brother will learn to do what he does, he Zhang Bianguan is only a few months older than his sister Zhang Gaoxia, taking advantage of his father and mother to go home, directly take his sister to play on the frozen river under the bridge, tired of playing, see the eldest brother and the second brother are still there stunned counting, Zhang Bianguan directly went to the omniscient Uncle Huan Wenhuan to ask for the answer, but the eldest brother and the second brother didn't go back until midnight, and saw his younger brother kneeling on the ground. Since then, Zhang Bianguan, who has suffered hardships, knows that those little cleverness are not really smart. But afterwards, his mother secretly brought him a bowl of hot rice, and his father bumped into him, and he didn't get angry, but just touched his head and said something that he didn't understand until many years later, "You are much smarter than your two brothers, but since you have the surname Zhang with your father, this is not a good thing." ”

Zhang Bianguan sniffled lightly and covered his face with a sleeve.

Sun Yin was about to speak, when he heard a string of undisguised footsteps, and closed his mouth.

I saw a tall woman with a sword coming. Zhang Bianguan listened to the familiar footsteps, hurriedly wiped his face in a daze, smiled brightly, and sighed, "Rare guest, Zhang Da Woman, why don't you send some small pieces of silver?"

Zhang Gaoxia glared and said: "The rivers and lakes pay attention to saving the emergency and not the poor, do you think I will give you a bag of silver money?

Zhang Bianguan rolled his eyes and said, "We have the same surname." ”

The corners of Zhang Gaoxia's mouth curled, and he said, "So", and then threw out a heavy bag of silver, Zhang Bianguan was not surprised, took the silver, and laughed heartily: "This woman is really a bodhisattva! In the future, I will definitely be able to find a wishful husband who will feel sorry for his daughter-in-law in the future, and the lady will be able to take care of me, or you will take me, and drag me home, just take care of the food, it is best to have meat, and it is too good to have wine......

Zhang Gaoxia didn't go to gag with this third brother, and glanced coldly at the miscellaneous petty official of Zhongshu Province, Sun Yin, who knew her well.

Sun Yin stood up alone, leaving Zhang Bianguan to sit alone, looked at Zhang Gaoxia, the beloved daughter of Lord Shoufu, ignored her cold eyes that could tear people out of their souls, and asked, "Miss Zhang, Sun has a saying, I don't know whether to say it or not." ”

Zhang Gaoxia said coldly: "Then you just shut up." ”

Sun Yin got up slowly, threw the silver bag, gloated with a face, crossed the river and demolished the bridge and said: "Sun Yin, Sun Yin, Yao Xijiu said that you are a great talent of Lianzhong Sanyuan, but unfortunately my sister has never liked the scholar who dances and writes, so don't expect her to look at you differently." If you have to say a big truth, that is, it is your business that you are powerful, and I like it is my favorite thing, but if you really don't change your mind and want to marry my sister, I don't care, but you have to beat her first, and you have to be pleasing to her eyes, and then you have to be my father's son-in-law, such a rare young handsome, where to find it, you, who sent it to the door yourself, definitely don't count. ”

Sun Yin said a little helplessly: "What do I like to do with a woman who has long been in her heart?"

Zhang Gaoxia sneered: "Sun Yin, you know a lot. ”

Sun Yin didn't care, and said calmly: "Anyway, I am destined to say the first half of a sentence to Lord Shoufu in this life, and if I can talk to Lord Shoufu's son, I should make up for my regrets." As for you, Zhang Gaoxia and Zhang Nuxia, it's just an unexpected joy. Don't worry, I like the person you like, but I won't rob you. ”

Zhang Gaoxia sneered: "You like men?"

Sun Yin smiled, "Like is like, but it's not the kind of woman who likes men, and if you appreciate someone from the bottom of your heart, you can also like it." For example, I like that Shousuke-sama didn't write such a great poem as 'Thousands of mansions in Ande, sheltering the poor people in the world', but he did this unprecedented feat in a down-to-earth manner. Six yamen, a total of 4,000 rooms, in the future, there will be fewer and fewer children of the wealthy family, and more and more descendants of the Hanshu, which is no different from the predecessor Li Chungang's sword on the rivers and lakes to open the gate of heaven and open the mountain for the younger generations. ”

Sun Yin turned around and left, and said leisurely: "Of course, if you think that others will like something, you will give it to the other party, as if this is giving, but you never ask the other party if you want it, and if you want to accept it." This kind of person, no matter how hard he pours out his heart and lungs, is just a kind of self-righteousness, and he is open-minded and has a clear conscience, but in fact, he is still selfish. Whether it's talking about the love between men and women, or talking about brotherly relationships, you can go to it. Because it's not easy to be nice to people, but it's not too difficult, but it's hard to really put yourself in someone's shoes and respect others. The ancients used the term confidant to describe their best friends, so how to be considered a 'confidant' is a university question. Sun Yin is a stupid person, I don't know how the world will be in the future for thousands of years, but the world we are in can still see through, there are a lot of people, but there are still some people who do not value profit, do not respect their names, do not value good swords or nicknames, do not value the kindness of friends, do not value the place where death is right, do not value the inheritance of incense in one family and one surname, and even do not value the society of one person......"

Zhang Gaoxia frowned and asked, "What is this guy talking nonsense, is he scolding our father, taking care of himself and fulfilling the word loyalty, but he can't stand Uncle Huan alone? But he seems to be boasting again, isn't this a contradiction?"

Zhang Bianguan said casually: "I'm afraid he himself is confused, people are too smart, so he likes to do it against himself, tossing and turning, empty-handed." ”

Zhang Gaoxia glared and said: "What nonsense is Sun Yin talking about, I don't know, you are scolding our father, I can still hear it!"

Zhang Bianguan untied the pigeon bell, threw it into the lock dragon well, made a cynical grimace, and said with a smile: "Dad is too lazy to scold me, I will secretly scold him, and you won't sue, what am I afraid of?"

Zhang Gaoxia's tone was a little heavier, and he asked, "You really don't follow your father's wishes and go to Liaodong to join the army?"

Zhang Bianguan shook his head lightly, "As a son, since I can't help much, I have to send one to my father." Giving birth to a child is nothing more than two things to support the elderly, and my son must try his best to do one of them. ”

Zhang Gaoxia sat at the mouth of the well.

Zhang Bianguan said with a surprised face: "Tell you this kind of thing, you don't cry?"

Zhang Gaoxia said flatly: "I'm not that kind of woman. ”

Zhang Bianguan snorted, "Actually, we are not as good as your father." ”

Zhang Bianguan seemed to remember something, and said: "You are about to leave Beijing to travel the rivers and lakes, listen to my brother's words, my father said that he would not let you go anywhere, but in fact, it is the place where I want you to go the most." ”

Zhang Gaoxia lowered his head, "Don't say it, I'm really going to cry if I say it again." ”

Zhang Bianguan stretched out his palms and patted his cheeks fiercely, "Damn, you haven't cried yet, and your brother is a big man, and he can't bear it first." There is a person, there is a saying, it is really true! My brother has never heard anything more reasonable than this sentence in his life, and Zhang Shengren has to bow down when he hears it!"

Zhang Gaoxia raised his head.

Zhang Bianguan blinked, "He said that the eldest husband is a fart hero who bleeds without tears, and women in the world bleed without tears every month!"

Zhang Gaoxia took a deep breath and another deep breath, and then calmed down his desire to kill.

Zhang Bianguan said softly: "You go, the world is in chaos, and when the time comes, it will definitely be a scene of heroes and bears swarming up, don't miss it, just give our father a few more looks." ”

Zhang Gaoxia did not agree, nor did he refuse.

It's just that on this day, Tai'an City will no longer see the sword-wielding Zhang Nuxia.

Zhang Bianguan was no different from usual, walking back to Slanting Eye Street in the night, the courtyard was dimly lit, waiting for him to go home. Even if the stupid daughter-in-law who was not too beautiful was annoyed by his drinking, she still waited like this, day after day, probably she would feel that there was no hope in this life, let alone an end.

Other women, not to mention marrying the Zhang family, the only family in the entire Liyang Dynasty without a semicolon, even if she marries the children of three or four officials, it is also beautiful, not only her own brocade and food, but her future children can also have no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime, and when they grow up, they will be angry with fresh clothes and angry horses, and if they want to help the country, they will be angry with the country.

Zhang Bianguan was about to push open the courtyard door as before, shouting that his daughter-in-law was waiting for good wine and meat, but he squatted down suddenly for no reason, and then he heard the footsteps of pedestrians, and hurriedly got up and pushed the door home.

The woman, as always, was silent, serving a warm and suitable meal, eating with small chopsticks, occasionally glancing, the man who was on the bench with one foot and only cared about his own gobbling, and the man who never wanted to say a word to her was her husband.

But I never saw how she put her grievances on that clear and delicate face.

Zhang Bianguan always likes to say that the reason why she is so good-tempered is that she is afraid of his family background, the thin camel is bigger than a horse, he Zhang Bianguan is no longer promising, and he is also the son of Zhang Julu, can she serve carefully? It's just that every time he talks about this, Zhang Bianguan always has to give himself a big mouth, saying that flowers, birds, fish and insects only use these two bastard words. Then she smiled secretly, and it wasn't until Zhang Bianguan glared at her that she turned her head, but the faint smile on the corner of her mouth was gone.

Late that night, Zhang Bianguan whimpered quietly after she fell asleep.

"I'm afraid that I like you, and I'm even more afraid that you will like me, so that's it. ”

"How could I not want an obedient and sensible child, my son and daughter are very good. ”

"But I am Zhang Julu's son, and the more I do, the more wrong I become. If I tell you the truth, will you run away? But where can you flee? If you don't, you will live more easily than you are now? No matter how stupid you are, you will wake up when you die with me, but I would rather you hate me again at that time. I just want you to be confused and complain that I am not angry, unproductive, and not at home. Daughter-in-law, I owe you in this life, if there is really a next life, I will definitely pay you back......"

Zhang Bianguan's face was full of tears, and after wiping it clean, he gradually fell asleep.

The gentle woman who slept with her back to the wall and did not move all night until she heard her husband's snoring slowly opened her eyes, and her eyes were still gentle. Just like the day she stepped off the sedan chair, the moment he lifted the red hijab.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Bianguan ate breakfast again without heart and lungs, and strode out of the house and left home.

After Zhang Bianguan went out, he walked on the slanted street, looked to the northwest, and said softly: "Gao Xia, you must go to Beiliang." Only there will be chaos for a while, not for a lifetime. ”

Today's Shoufu Lord's youngest son is still the most mocking son of Tai'an City and even the world.

But what about the woman?

The woman quietly did one trivial chore after another, and when she had nothing to do, she sat on the threshold of the inner courtyard, looked at the courtyard door, and waited for him to come home.