CHAPTER XXIII

The winter nights are longer, and after the end of the day, the whole Chang'an City is still pitch black.

After another hour, the sky began to light up, but the streets were deserted on a cold winter day.

Lao Zhang drove the carriage past East Street, to the most lively market on weekdays, it was too early, there was no one in the market, but Lao Zhang still carefully probed, to make sure that no one saw it, he drove the idiot out of the carriage, let him sit on a stone slab in the market.

The splash only cared about hehehe, smirked, sat on the stone slab and did not move, Lao Zhang jumped into the carriage, pulled the reins of the horse, and walked away.

By the time the sun was rising, the market on East Street was already bustling with people, and the head of the nobleman's house and the mother-in-law of the housekeeper of the small family all took advantage of this time to come out to buy some fresh food.

There was no longer the sound of bargaining in the past, and everyone was watching the excitement around Wang Hu at this time.

Wang Hu, the most shameless scoundrel on East Street, but anyone who has come to this market to buy things, who doesn't know this oil ruffian? Su Rili likes to intimidate the old woman who buys vegetables to collect protection money, and if he can't be intimidated, he will rob it, and when he is the worst, he even robs an old beggar who takes a broken bowl to beg for food, and he likes to drink a little wine and gamble a few handfuls in the casino.

I heard that he had good luck the night before yesterday and won a few handfuls, and yesterday someone saw him eating three catties of beef in the restaurant, and later he made a little lady in the broken temple, which is really romantic.

Why did you become this bear today?

It is really good and evil is rewarded, and his current demented bear appearance is better than his previous appearance of bullying weak dogs. A few old ladies who had been bullied by him, a handful of old bones, smashed his large basket of rotten vegetable leaves with great difficulty, and spat on his face.

Wang Hu only knew that he was grinning and smirking, he seemed to remember something, and he seemed to be talking, but the surroundings were too noisy to hear clearly.

Everyone instantly quieted down very tacitly, only to hear: "There is a ghost in King Qin's mansion...... There are ghosts in King Qin's mansion......" and so on and on.

After a moment of silence, the bazaar exploded!

"Presumably, Wang Hu was crazy about money, and he went to Qinwang's Mansion to steal something valuable, but he ran into an evil ghost, and he was smoked alive with seven souls and six spirits, and he became like this."

"The royal yang is heavy, how can there be evil ghosts?"

A scholar-like man scoffed and said, "How can there be evil ghosts? Don't you know what happened in King Qin's Mansion yesterday? You can still ask such a question! ”

Some of the people who were not well informed shook their heads and waited curiously for the man to continue.

The scholar said indignantly: "Yesterday, at the 100-day banquet of the prince of King Qin's mansion, a girl revealed Princess Ping's crimes. Princess Qin was domineering, ruthless, killed the maid, persecuted the subordinates, only married for a year, more than a dozen subordinates died in the firewood room, and when the family of these subordinates knew the news, there was only a bunch of bones left, you say, such a place with heavy yin and resentment, can there be no evil ghosts? ”

Another scholar stood up and said: "I also heard, not only that, King Qin also intended to murder Tongzu, fortunately, Princess Jing was talented and smart, and the song "Song of Bean Soup" resolved the crisis. ”

"Isn't it the song 'It's born from the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other?' ”

"Exactly!"

"In my opinion, the most vicious evil ghost in this Qinwang Mansion is this Qinwang couple."

"Shhhh

The people in the bazaar are still discussing what happened yesterday and today, and it seems to be an indisputable fact that there are evil spirits in King Qin's mansion.

No one doubts the authenticity of it.

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On the east side of the bazaar, a quiet carriage stopped on the side, and a meat dumpling like a scholar ran back and said breathlessly: "Old sir, old sir, I have inquired! ”

The door curtain was opened, only to see an old man with crane hair and long beard, the first feeling was that he was strict and upright, meticulous, the old man was over sixty years old, but his body was still very tough, and his eyes were bright.

"Come to the carriage, speak slowly, make it clear." The old gentleman said.

The meat dumpling climbed into the carriage and sat down, and the old gentleman asked, "Ah Kuang, who wrote those two poems?" ”

The meat dumpling known as Ah Kuang replied with certainty: "Princess Jing Tang Xiaoshi." ”

The old gentleman was taken aback, thought for a moment, and then said to himself with a smile: "A woman can write poems like 'I am born from the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other', 'My eyes grow on my buttocks, and I only recognize clothes and do not recognize people', who said that my Da Chu woman is talentless!" Interesting, interesting, straightforward, easy to understand, this woman and the old man are very like-minded. ”

The old gentleman was invited by a friend last night to hear these two poems at the poetry tasting meeting, and at first some people criticized these two poems for not being poems at all, and the words and sentences were too ungorgeous, but after reading them carefully, they felt that they were meaningful.

The old gentleman, in particular, had never advocated flowery and useless poetry, so these two poems were very much to his taste, and he could even think that it would be a pleasure to have a conversation with the author.

After returning home, he repeated these two poems over and over again, but unfortunately he forgot to ask his friends where these two poems came from, and his heart itched all night, so he came out with Ah Kuang early in the morning, and he didn't expect to pass by the market and inquire.

The old gentleman asked anxiously: "Where is King Jing's Mansion?" ”

Ah Kuang said: "If the old gentleman wants to visit Princess Jing, I'm afraid he will have to go to the Sanwei Academy in Beizhuang. ”

"Why?"

Ah Kuang replied: "The student also inquired, Princess Jing teaches at Beizhuang Sanwei Academy and does not live in King Jing's Mansion. ”

"Teaching?" The old gentleman was curious. In the Chu Dynasty, it was not uncommon for women from wealthy families to study, but this woman was teaching for the first time.

The prejudice of the world always thinks that women are virtuous if they are not talented, and they think that women can only do some short-term chores in the family, how can they take on the great responsibility of teaching and educating people.

"Which noble family are her students?" The old gentleman asked.

"There are no children of the nobility, they are all children of the farmer's family in the village, and there are orphans who have been picked up." Ah Kuang replied.

The old gentleman was shocked again, and after a moment he laughed again, how could a woman who could write such shocking verses be an ordinary woman? It seems that she is a person who, like her poetic style, is simple and bold, eclectic, and not afraid of worldly prejudices.

"Ah Kuang, everyone in the world is Taoist, read to see the bloodline, look at the inheritance, the ancestors are more likely to be geniuses, because they have accumulated profound knowledge in one line. Now the students accepted by Princess Jing are all soil babies, and their ancestors don't know a single big character, do you think she can cultivate these soil babies into pillars? ”

Ah Kuang thought seriously and replied respectfully: "The student doesn't dare to say anything, but the student remembers that the old gentleman taught the student, things are done by man, and God rewards hard work." ”

The old gentleman nodded.

Yes, things are man-made, everyone has a head, who said that a soil baby can't read? Who said that Tuwazi is worse than nobles?

"Let's go! Go to Beizhuang to have a look. ”