"Have you heard? A family moved to the north of Chang'an Lane, it seems to be the eldest lady of the Cui family who eloped back then, Cui Lingling. ”

"Who is Cui Lingling?"

"Look at your loneliness, Cui Lingling, a rich girl who was a sensation five years ago, you don't know that she was married to Yuen Long back then, but she broke off with her father, and everyone in Chang'an City knew about it, so the Cui family couldn't stay in Chang'an and returned to Nanling's hometown."

"Oh oh, it's Cui Lingling who eloped for thousands of miles! I heard that she is a beauty, but she is blind, and she will take a fancy to the poor family and see her family angry! ”

"But no, how many noble sons in Chang'an begged to marry her, she didn't look down on her, but she only fell in love with Yuen Long, who could compose poems, and ran away with him with a few poems, the Cui family chased her back, and she was not willing to follow the poor and white Yuen Long, and the angry Cui family didn't care about her, let her live a hard life with Yuen Long, four years ago, someone saw Cui Lingling who was tortured by hard times, and sighed that she was blind, but this time Cui Lingling returned to Chang'an with great scenery."

"Scenery, but that Yuen Long is developed? Bring Cui Lingling to Chang'an? ”

"Yuen Long developed? How is this possible, that Yuen Long died early, Cui Lingling remarried a richest man in the southwest, and the family is rich, and now she is back in Chang'an, it was the richest man who died in an accident, and there is no one in the richest man's family, Cui Lingling completely inherited the property of the richest man, and she was not familiar with the place in the southwest, so she couldn't keep those properties, so she sold them back to Chang'an. ”

"Oh, the family has a lot of money, this Cui Lingling is also lucky, she was so down-and-out to follow Yuen Long, but when she came back, she became a rich woman, do you think she still wants to marry?"

"How do you ask her if she is married? Why do you want to marry her? ”

"Yes, Cui Lingling is alone now, but she has the wealth of the richest man in the southwest, and I can't marry her, hehe, brother, you know!"

"Hehe, I understand, I understand, it's just that you are like this, you have to be unattractive, or talentless, how can you make Cui Lingling look at it? Stop daydreaming! ”

"Don't underestimate your brother, how do you know if you have a chance if you don't try! You said Cui Lingling now lives in Chang'an West Lane"

Sima Xiangru followed Zhuang Ji to sit in the teahouse, and when he was drinking tea with some literati and students, he heard two men at the other table, you and I were talking about Cui Lingling, a newly moved widow from Chang'an.

At first, Sima Xiangru listened to Cui Lingling's matter, and knew that she eloped with a poor boy and didn't take it to heart, and later heard that she married a rich family and became a widow later, and inherited all the property of the rich family, Sima Xiangru pricked up his ears very attentively to eavesdrop on the conversation between the two.

"Cui Lingling in Chang'an West Lane, is it?" Sima Xiangru looked at the two of them who left after drinking tea, and made a note in his heart that he heard something that might change his fate today, and then continued to talk and laugh with Zhuang Ji and them.

"Brother Changqing's "Zixu Fu", rich in words, descriptive and beautiful, scattered and rhymed, it is really a rare good poem, Brother Changqing can't be appreciated by the emperor, it's a pity!"

"Yes, Brother Changqing's "Zi Xuan Fu", the first time I read it, it was really amazing, I thought it was done by the ancients, I hated to be in the same period as Brother Changqing, and then I found out that "Zi Xuan Fu" was made by Changqing, it's really wonderful!"

Sima Xiangru listened to other people's praise of him with some smugness in his heart, but his face humbly said that his writing was very ordinary.

"Changqing's literary style is still ordinary, so aren't we all considered to have no literary talent! Changqing is too humble! ”

"That's it, Changqing is too humble!"

"Changqing is just short of the opportunity, and when he meets a noble person who really appreciates Changqing's literary brilliance, Changqing will definitely emerge in my Han Dynasty."

Several literati, including Zhuang Ji, all felt sorry for Sima Xiangru Huaicai and said a lot of words to Sima Xiangru, Sima Xiangru continued to be modest, but it was a 'bitter smile', showing the sorrow of Huai Cai's unwillingness to the outside world and was sympathized by many literati, and a few of them also began to give advice to Sima Xiangru.

"Emperor Jing doesn't like to give words, and Brother Changqing's literary talent is difficult to develop, but the current Emperor Wu heard that he is a good writer, why don't Brother Changqing try to find someone to help you recommend Emperor Wu, I think Brother Changqing's literary talent will be appreciated by Emperor Wu!"

"Yes, Emperor Wu is very fond of resignation, and has been promoting and reusing many talented people with outstanding literary talents, Changqing might as well ask someone to try!"

"That's so easy to find someone, but Changqing has thanked a few more for their kindness!" Sima Xiangru still had a 'wry smile' on his face, but he remembered what they said in his heart, and began to inquire about Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty from the next day, knowing that unlike Emperor Jing of Han, who did not appreciate him back then, he was an emperor who liked to give words, so he was overjoyed, but after being happy, he was suffering from having no way to catch Emperor Wu of Han.

"The palace people of these forces, even ask for tea and money, the money I saved in Chang'an is just a few words, and it will be consumed, and then I will ask for a recommendation, without tens of thousands of dollars, how can I invite them!" Sima Xiangru stood outside the palace, cursing with some resentment, very angry at those palace people who looked down on people, and at the same time very worried about how he would raise money.

He has followed Zhuang Ji to participate in many family banquets, but Chang'an is not as good as Linqiong's customs, not to mention that it is difficult for him to meet the rich girls of these families, just say that he has seen it, and he has no chance to hook up, and he was able to hook up with Zhuo Wenjun at the beginning, all thanks to Wang Ji's cooperation at the beginning.

Knowing that Zhuo Wenjun loved the qin, he not only went to Zhuo's house, but also invited him over, and deliberately asked him to play the piano.

With these foreshadowings, he can fight snakes and hit the seven-inch piano to pick up Zhuo Wenjun, who loves piano sound.

But now that he has come to Chang'an with the help of Zhuang Ji's family, Zhuang Ji is very different from Wang Ji, he never thought of letting him marry a rich girl, he only took him to meet friends with literature every day, and in order to maintain his image, he also pretended to be very indifferent to fame and fortune, and did not dare to show his desire to marry a rich lady, for fear of being ridiculed by Zhuang Ji and some literati.

Eating soft rice was not glorious in that era, even if he wanted to marry a rich lady, but he couldn't let this mind □□ naked, and he had to find a lot of names to cover up this thought, and use mutual affection to show his last behavior with the rich lady, so that he could not only have the 'backbone' of a literati, but also be a rich man.

Sima Xiangru can't show his desire to eat soft rice, and he can't get someone to match him like Wang Ji, so he can only act secretly, but it is difficult to get the information of the rich lady, and it is difficult for him to fall in love with him when he meets a 'Zhuo Wenjun'.

"It's been almost three months, and I can't marry a rich girl again, and I don't have the face to continue to stay in Zhuang Ji's house!" Sima Xiangru was upset in his heart, because he had no money to catch up with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and he couldn't find someone who could support him.

"In front of Cui Lingling's house, many people wander around again, just to let Cui Lingling meet! But Cui Lingling was high in the eye, and she didn't look down on those people at all, so her spicy maid drove these people away! But I still can't stop many people from coming to her to propose marriage! ”

Just as Sima Xiangru was sitting in a corner and feeling bitter, two men walked past him while talking.

"Then Cui Lingling was a talented woman in my Chang'an, and she liked the man with outstanding literary talent the most, didn't Yuen Long rely on a song "Beauty Fu" to impress, so that Cui Lingling abandoned the identity of the eldest lady of the Cui family and eloped? Now those who go to marry Cui Lingling are all crooked melons and cracked dates, and few of them can read all the words, and there are a few literati who are not as good as Cui Lingling, how can they impress Cui Lingling. If you can't beat Cui Lingling, how can you get Cui Lingling to marry with a rich dowry? Cui Lingling doesn't seek wealth now, only talent, those who seek wealth, how can they succeed without talent? If you want to marry the richest woman in Chang'an, you must have a talent that can overwhelm Cui Lingling's talent. ”

"That's right, Cui Lingling's own talent is compelling, how do you look at those crooked melons and cracked dates!"

"But I heard that in Chang'an West Lane, I can often hear Cui Lingling's resentful piano sound, and listen to the news from Cui Lingling's house slave, Cui Lingling has the intention of marrying another, but she has never been able to find one that suits her heart, and I don't know if she can't find Ruyi Langjun with self-pity!"

"Who knows! I'm a big rough person, and I don't have any good literary talents, otherwise I will try it at the door of Cui's house to see if I can win Cui Lingling's favor, if I can marry Cui Lingling, I don't have to worry about it for the rest of my life, and I will serve in groups of servants every day."

The two men walked while talking, and disappeared in front of Sima Xiangru after a while, but Sima Xiangru was thought of Cui Lingling's current worth by their words.

"Is love what it is?" Sima Xiangru stood up and patted his clothes, and walked towards the West Lane with a little bright eyes, wanting to go over there to personally inquire about Cui Lingling's affairs.

"This Cui Lingling is too lonely and tall, she doesn't pay attention to us at all!"

"But no, it's great to be rich, those dozens of house slaves have been driving us out!"

"I saw Cui Lingling going out shopping in a carriage yesterday, she was rich and noble in gold and silver, and I don't know what her dead ex-husband left for him"

"You said Cui Lingling's ex-husband, who is a great figure in the southwest, is said to have started as a salt seller and is the first salt merchant in the southwest"

Sima Xiangru pretended to pass by near Cui Lingling's house, listened to the discussion of Cui Lingling around him, and knew a little about the wealth that Cui Lingling had, and his face was red with excitement and continued to listen, but he heard a shout.

"Cui Lingling is out, out!"

When Sima Xiangru heard this, he planned to leave and plan slowly, but he was ready to get closer to understand Cui Lingling's worth.

And this plan made Sima Xiangru completely shocked by Cui Lingling, who was dressed in a rich and noble dress, and at the same time, he was also impressed by Cui Lingling's beautiful face and figure.

"I thought it was a faceless girl, but I didn't see a beauty!" Sima Xiangru was ecstatic at this discovery, he had heard that Cui Lingling had a lot of money, and he held that no matter what the other party looked like, he would also ask for marriage as if he was blind, get through the current difficulties first, and use Cui Lingling's money to pave the way for him to catch Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, find a good official position, and then be powerful and powerful in the future, and slowly deal with Cui Lingling.

Now he sees Cui Lingling so beautiful and moving, but she is not the faceless woman he thought, and he needs to compromise.

"In this way, I married the beautiful Cui Lingling, and no one said that I was trying to make money! Very good, very good! Sima Xiangru muttered this sentence excitedly, turned around and went back to Zhuang Ji's house, and began to think about how to design Cui Lingling to marry him that night.

***

In a two-entry house in Chang'an West Lane, Cui Lingling, who had a cold face, was stroking the piano in the yard according to her daily habits, and the maid next to her waited quietly aside, so that Cui Lingling could come forward to serve when she played the piano well, but she found that today, when Cui Lingling played the piano halfway, there were several piano sounds intermittently from outside the courtyard, and suddenly there was a piano sound that overwhelmed other piano sounds.

"Red Bead!"

Cui Lingling heard the sound of the piano playing many levels higher than other piano sounds, and did not stop and continued to stroke the piano, but she called the maidservant Hongzhu softly, and the Hongzhu heard Cui Lingling call her, and did not wait for Cui Lingling to say anything again, so she spontaneously went down and sent someone to find out who played the unusual piano.

"Miss Lingling, it's him!" Hongzhu went fast and came back quickly, and when she came back, she was a little excited and whispered this headless and tailless sentence in Cui Lingling's ear, but it was to let Cui Lingling understand the meaning inside, and hooked her lips and smiled coldly, and the hand on the strings played a difficult song more dexterously, and many of the piano players outside who wanted to use the piano to meet her couldn't keep up and didn't play the piano anymore, only a few piano players could continue to keep up, among them, the highly skilled piano watch that only appeared today was more outstanding and suppressed the remaining piano players.

"Looks like he's really capable!"

At the end of the song, Cui Lingling listened to the only piano note that followed her, and said to Hongzhu on the side, which attracted Hongzhu's mocking pout.

Cui Lingling didn't say anything when she saw Hongzhu like this, but looked at the eaves, listened to the piano sound that was still playing the tune outside, and said to Hongzhu without looking back.

"Sue Sù Zhuo Gong, the fish has been hooked!"