Chapter 154: Magnificent Waves Under Calm (10)
Upper capital, university scholar's house.
If there are a small number of noble people in Shangjing, then there must be so many people among them, Li Chengde, the king of Jing'an, Pan Chunwei, the prime minister, and Chen Xian, a scholar, and the rest of the important ministers of the imperial court and business giants, compared with these three people, they always lack some heat.
Among them, Li Chengde, the king of Jing'an, is in charge of the royal treasury, and is thriving under the care of Ouyang Xiaolan. In addition, Li Chengde's "flower name" is outside, and most of the delicate and beautiful women in Shangjing have entered the palace. His Royal Highness, the only prince in the palace, was also angry, and he abandoned the glory and wealth, went to the Zhenbei Army, and won a lot of military achievements with his own hands. The little county lord of Yan'er is also famous, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, proficient in everything, other women also say "proficient in everything", but there is always a lack of something in a certain item, but this little county lord is not ordinary, not only skilled, but also each of them has a tendency to become a great success, just that one-handed book, so that the book saint Wang Youjun was amazed for a long time, and praised "There is the shape of the founding of the sect".
Prime Minister Pan Chunwei is the pillar of the country, in charge of three provinces and six ministries, and a senior cabinet member. At the beginning of the Great Wei Kingdom, in order to stabilize the hearts of the people, Prime Minister Pan Chunwei made great contributions, and in order to control the speech, he took most of the bookstores in Shangjing as his own with great perseverance, but only Lin Wan'er opened some gaps slightly. Zhao Shuo, the second prince who is most likely to inherit the unification, also married Pan Meimei, the daughter of the Pan family, and Pan Meimei has a skillful husband. The second prince has only one princess so far, and I heard that this Pan Meimei has received a lot of praise from the queen mother and queen. The Prime Minister is really the immortal pine of the imperial court.
Of course, in addition to that Pan Renmei, Pan Gongzi still owes shortcomings, and he always makes some "moths" inexplicably. For example, he hijacked the prince's master Lin Wan'er, and for example, he was scared out of feces and urine by King Xiliang with a bow and arrow.
However, if you want to say who has the most clear reputation and the most noble virtue in the capital, it must be the university scholar's mansion.
King Jing'an and the Prime Minister will still have some tongues among the people, but the university scholar's mansion has always been well-known and regarded as a holy place by scholars. Because there were two people who were not saints, but comparable to saints, one was Chen Xian, a university scholar. One is the talented girl Chen Nuonuo.
In the process of pacifying the world in the Great Wei Kingdom, Chen Xian was the backing of the imperial court and the most important person to appease the people. It's easy to destroy, but it's too hard to build. It was this scholar who used extraordinary perseverance to establish a large area of fertile land in the land filled with gunsmoke. Grain silos have been cast.
The will of the people is the foundation of society, and Scholar Chen Xian is the bridge connecting the imperial court and the people, and is a model for scholars.
Compared with the university scholar Chen Xian, the talented woman Chen Nuonuo is even more amazing, the revision of the "Siku Quanshu" is just the rhyme of this talented woman's commentary, in the Zhuque Gate Incident, it was Chen Nuonuo, who was still young at the time, led the thirteen Taibao to intercept the prince Zhao Jianye's people, so that the world was pacified for three years.
Chen Nuonuo is beautiful. It is a kind of intellectual beauty that countless young people fall in love with. Crazy about it, but ashamed of herself in front of her, I didn't dare to look at it directly.
The marriage between Chen Nuonuo and Zhao Gan is another topic that people talk about, it is such a perfect woman, the third prince Zhao Gan also escaped to Lanzhou. If it weren't for Lin Wan'er's fame, she would be considered outstanding, and she was also a wonderful person, and she would have been scolded to death by the people a long time ago.
After drinking, many scholars behave dissolutely, talk unscrupulously, and always say that this matter is, what do you say about the third prince Zhao Gan, how can it be just, hey, don't say it, I drank this glass of wine for Miss Chen, and drank all her sorrows.
This is similar to Chen Xiaoxiao and Qingzhu Niang, and their evaluation of Zhao Gan in their eyes now is also one sentence: Hmph, what is his third prince Zhao Gan, and where can he be worthy of Wan'er.
It stands to reason that there should be a group of maids in such a prominent bachelor's mansion, but in fact, there are only two or three maids, and two of them are specially used to take care of Chen Xian's wife, Chen Nuonuo's mother, who has been paralyzed in bed for many years.
On weekdays, the university scholar's house is a little deserted, and there are only two trees in the large courtyard, one is a persimmon tree and the other is a pomegranate tree. When autumn comes, the pomegranate tree bears huge pomegranates, the particles are full, Chen Nuonuo will pick one or two with his own hands, wash them, and order someone to send them to Zhao Gan in the palace, Zhao Gan loves to eat, to be precise, Zhao Gan loved to eat before, and now Zhao Gan loves to eat or not, she doesn't know, but it is not easy to change habits.
Tonight's Da Scholar's Mansion is a little different, the Hun spies sneaked into the capital, His Majesty personally inquired, and specially sent a large number of masters to ambush around the University Scholar's Mansion.
The master lay in ambush around the palace, without a sound at all, and a full moon hung in the sky, casting the shadows of persimmon trees and pomegranate trees on the ground, some like abstract paintings hanging on the wall, which could only be slightly distinguished in outline.
The three maidens have become accustomed to the quiet and quiet of the past, although those masters did not make a sound, but it always makes people's hearts dry when they think about it, such a good full moon night has been ruined. Miss is still shocked, still as usual, do whatever she has to do, if only one day I could be the same as Miss, no, it's just one-tenth of Miss Rush.
Chen Nuonuo tied his hair behind his back, rolled up half of his sleeves, and walked out of his mother's room with half a basin of hot water. She would do this every day, day after day, year after year, and would whisper something to her mother, something that only a daughter and a mother could say.
Gently pouring half a basin of hot water under the pomegranate tree, Chen Nuonuo raised his head, rubbed his sore shoulders, wiped the sweat on his brows, and asked, "Is the hot water boiling?" ”
A little maid replied, "Miss, it's already burned." ”
Chen Nuonuo nodded and said, "You are already tired for a day today, so rest early." ”
A little maid hurriedly said, "But the master and the young lady haven't eaten yet, let's make a little." ”
"No, you don't." Chen Nuonuo said with a smile. "After a while, when my father finishes reading, I'll make a little bit and eat whatever I want."
"But......" the little maid still wanted to insist. But she was stopped by another little girl, and she knew her own young lady's temper, she never liked to trouble people, and she never liked to trouble others when she could do things by herself.
The three little maids sometimes feel distressed, they feel sorry for their own young lady, they feel sorry for their poor young lady, these three little maids have never seen the third prince Zhao Gan. If you see it, it doesn't matter what kind of prince you are, you have to scold a few times before you enjoy it.
Chen Nuonuo came to the kitchen alone. Poured the boiled water into the basin, took the basin to the living room, reached out and tested the water temperature, just right.
At this time. Chen Xian, a university scholar, also walked to the hall with a book in his hand. The words on the book are too small, Chen Xian's eyes are not very good, one eye can see the words in the distance clearly, and the other eye can see the words in the near distance clearly, all of them did not pay attention to reading when they were young, one eye became short-sighted, and the other eye became farsighted, and now it is more and more difficult to read books.
Chen Xian placed the book under the oil lamp in the hall. First, he straightened his arm and put the book far away, and then put the book in front of his eyes. Finally saw the words written in the book, and nodded with satisfaction: "Nuonuo, there is a sentence in this "Huainanzi" "The king is cute", this sentence can't be solved." ”
Chen Nuonuo thought about it carefully and explained: "The word 'may' here should be worth talking about, and the meaning is worthy of praise and praise. The word 'love' is said to be respectful, and this sentence means that the king is worthy of the respect of our courtiers. ”
After a slight pause, she smiled again: "The words used by the ancients are also wonderful, and Liu An, the author of "Huainanzi", is also a naughty person, deliberately using words like this, misinterpreting their meaning, and pun intended. From this point of view, the Son of Heaven does have a very heavy weight in Liu An's heart, otherwise he would not use the word 'cute' to describe the Son of Heaven. ”
Chen Xian thought about it for a while, and nodded incessantly, Nuo Nuo's solution is excellent and wonderful, just from one or two words can solve the author's profound meaning, I think there is no second person in the Great Wei Kingdom who can solve the words like this. He is known as a model for the world, and Ji Yun's old stubbornness is very angry when he writes a book "Reading Wei Caotang", but he is not convinced in front of Nuo Nuo.
Chen Nuonuo rolled up his sleeves and tried the water temperature again, it was a little cold, and added some hot water until the water temperature was appropriate: "Father, the water is good, you can wash it." ”
Chen Xian had a bitter face, looked at the steaming water, and said with a little bitterness: "Nuonuo, is it too frequent to wash this head every ten years?" I look at it once a month and it's good. ”
Although he said this, Chen Xian still put down the book, took an apron handed over by Chen Nuonuo, tied it around his neck, and then moved a slightly lower bench by himself, sat in front of the basin, and put his head into the hot water.
"One wash is the best, it is good for the body, it activates the blood in the head, and it is good for the body." As Chen Nuonuo spoke, he bent a bay of hot water with his slender hand and poured it lightly on Chen Xian's head, and the water flowed down the scholar's hair.
Scholar Chen Xian squinted his eyes, slowly enjoying a moment of silence, and always felt a little guilty about his children. But sometimes washing your hair is a very sinful thing, and it is difficult to bend over, lower your head, and gasp.
Wet hair, Chen Nuonuo picked up a piece of honey locust, gently smeared it on his father's hair, and washed it carefully, his father's eyes were not good since he was a child, but his body has always been straight, and now that he is older, his back has begun to bend. Chen Nuonuo knew that time had left traces on his father's body, and no matter how hard he tried, it was impossible to fade the erosion of time on this old man.
After washing his hair, Chen Xian exhaled a long breath as if he had escaped death, and let his daughter Chen Nuonuo "run rampant" on his head with a towel.
Waiting for his hair to dry a little, Chen Nuonuo picked up the scissors that had been prepared a long time ago, and carefully trimmed his father's hair, the gray hair on the temples, the long hair on the back of the neck, and the bun was too long and cut short.
Although I don't like to wash my hair very much, but the university scholar still enjoys haircuts, hum, when His Majesty and the queen met in the West Lake, they fell in love at first sight, Xu Xiao saw Bai Su for the first time, and asked the other party to give birth to a son, Pan Chunwei and his beautiful wife met for the first time, it was by the spring, and I heard that Pan Chunwei was still crying.
They are all good, but they are not as good as themselves, when the Great Wei State has not yet achieved the general trend of dominating the world, Xu Xiao and Xiahou Xiangyang are tight on the front, and the supply of grain and grass is not enough, so they personally went to the countryside to prepare grain and grass, passing by a farmhouse, the big-eyed girl pointed to Chen Xian's messy hair, and said to herself timidly: "My family has no food, or I will give you a haircut, even if you pay public grain, okay?" He was stunned, then nodded, and on a warm noon, a big-eyed girl carefully cut her hair.
So, this big-eyed girl became her wife, and she was afraid at first, afraid that the two had different knowledge, vision, concepts and experiences, and that she couldn't go far with this girl, but as soon as the days moved forward, she found that she couldn't do without her.
She stood beside Bai Su and the queen, not prominent at all, timid, ordinary will not leave a little impression, even compared with the little maid Rong'er next to Bai Su, it is also a little worse. But in my heart, this girl with big eyes and eyelashes flickering like a fan is the most beautiful.
But who would have thought that she suffered misfortune in the Suzaku Gate Incident, no one died, but she was paralyzed in bed, and when she saw her again, she couldn't speak, she didn't know how to move, and at that moment she clearly felt that she still had a lot to say to her, but there was no chance.
The days are still moving forward, and so many years have passed.
"It's cut." Chen Nuonuo gently reminded his father who closed his eyes, as if he was already asleep.
Chen Xian slowly opened his eyes, reached out and touched his hair, which had been taken care of and obedient, and his hair was tightly tied.
Chen Nuonuo blew the hair on his father's head vigorously, took a towel to gently clean the hair dregs, and untied his father's apron.
Chen Xian stood up, tidied up the clothes on his body, and suddenly felt refreshed, so happy, proud, humming two ballads that his wife often hummed before she woke up, like a child.
Chen Nuonuo looked at his father like this, couldn't help but chuckle and shook his head, moved the stool, picked up the broom, and gently swept the hair on the ground.
Seeing Chen Nuonuo like this, so meticulous, Chen Xian suddenly remembered a lot of past events, vividly, he found that he had never known his daughter very well, what she had experienced, what she tasted, what she had lost, what she wanted, why didn't she cry, why she wasn't annoyed with Zhao Gan, why she always kept laughing faintly, but it always made people feel that she was crying.
Chen Xian, a scholar, was just a father at this time, and as a father, he opened his mouth and asked, "Nuonuo, you must have been very bitter all these years, right?" (To be continued......)