Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Useless Scholar (1)

After last night's incident, Di Lian stayed awake in the middle of the night, and the next day it was almost noon, Jiang Ge ran to the West Chamber, shouting that Di Lian would take him to the 'Diners' Joy.

He is now nine years old, and since this year, Princess Shenghua will no longer send him to the palace, and invited Xixi to teach in the house.

Tillian was entangled by him and couldn't do anything, and remembered that she hadn't taken him out of the door for a long time, so she agreed.

The two went to the main house to say goodbye to Princess Shenghua, and then walked out of the 'Pine Garden'.

Jiang Ge is now older, and he already knows how to pay attention to his words and deeds, and today is the excited eyebrows flying, and he doesn't pull Tillian's sleeve and talk non-stop, but occasionally reciting the names of a few 'diners' dishes, saying that he will eat these dishes today.

Tillian listened with a smile, and naturally relied on him.

When the two arrived at the open court in front of the mansion, the carriage was stopping there, and Tillian helped Jiang Ge to go up first, and then heard Liu Junchen's voice coming from the mansion gate.

"Girl, third son, but you want to leave the house?"

When Di Lian turned around, she saw Liu Junchen coming in from outside the house, and the person next to her was Song Shengyue, who was wearing a simple green shirt.

Seeing that it was Di Lian, Song Shengyue lowered his eyes and made a gesture, "I've seen Miss Jiang." He said to Jiang Ge in the car again, "Third son." ”

Tilian smiled lightly, and then listened to Jiang Ge, who was leaning on the car window and poking his head out, and asked, "Mr. Liu, who is this?" “

Hearing this, Liu Junchen replied respectfully, "Third son, this is Song Gongzi, and he will live in our mansion in the future." ”

Jiang Ge's eyebrows frowned, and he was puzzled, "When it happened, why don't I know." ”

Tillian smiled, "You were still sick when you checked in yesterday. ”

Jiang Ge nodded with a look of understanding when he heard this, and looked at Song Shengyue without saying anything more.

Di Lian looked at Liu Junchen and asked, "So early, where did Mr. Liu go with Song Gongzi?" ”

Liu Junchen hurriedly replied, "Early this morning, 'Baoyu Zhai' entered a batch of gilded noodles, and my subordinates went to take a look, and when I came back, I happened to meet Song Gongzi coming out of the bookstore, so I came back together." ”

As soon as the moon's eyes moved, Di Lian looked at Song Shengyue and said, "There are many books in the 'Xuanbo Garden' taught in the house, and some of them also have Daddy's annotations, if the son needs it, you can go there to find it first, if there is no book that the son needs, go to the bookstore in the city to read it." ”

Her words undoubtedly gave Song Shengyue the right to freely enter and exit the Fuzhong Library, Song Shengyue was naturally grateful, and immediately bowed, "Thank you, Miss Jiang." ”

With a faint smile, Tilian didn't say anything more, and helped Liu Junchen's hand into the carriage.

Liu Junchen hurriedly asked, "Where is the girl going, the subordinates will look for it in a while." ”

"Ge'er wants to eat the dishes of 'Diners' Huan, Mr. Liu will take his time after handling things."

Liu Junchen responded, watched the carriage drive out of the west door, turned around and said to Song Shengyue, "Childe, please, my subordinates will take Childe to 'Xuanbo Garden' to have a look." “

Retracting his gaze, Song Shengyue bowed his head, "There is Mr. Lao Liu." ”

The two walked side by side, and then Song Shengyue said suspiciously, "I heard people praise Prime Minister Jiang Cheng for being honest and honest, and there is still an industry like 'Baoyu Zhai' in Zuo Xiangfu?" ”

Liu Junchen glanced sideways at him when he heard this, and said with a smile, "Isn't owning private property 'honest and honest'?" ”

Song Shengyue's expression was solemn, and he apologized, "Ziyue didn't mean that. ”

Liu Junchen didn't take it to heart, and said with a casual smile, "'Baoyu Zhai' is not the private property of the Prime Minister's house, but the property of my girl." ”

With a confused face, Song Shengyue said, "Is there any difference in this?" ”

Liu Junchen smiled, "Naturally, it's different, since it's the girl's private property, it naturally has nothing to do with Xiangye, and Xiangye will never ask about the girl." ”

Looking surprised, Song Shengyue pursed his lips and frowned, "The dignified left and left daughter, it is a golden branch and jade leaf to enjoy the glory, why do you want to risk being criticized to do what these businessmen do, isn't it a hindrance to the reputation?" ”

Hearing him say this, Liu Junchen was also very surprised, glanced at him sideways, and couldn't help but look indifferent, "Song Gongzi is a virtuous scholar who reads poetry and books, and he looks down on martial artists and businessmen, but have you ever thought that when the country is in danger, it is those warriors who throw their heads and blood on the battlefield to protect their families and defend the country; The people live and work in peace and contentment because those businessmen are maneuvering around the economy. The so-called useless is a scholar, you can't lift your hands and shoulders, you can't resist it, you can't use poetry to satisfy your stomach, you can't use pen and ink to feed and wear, you can't even support your wife and children, what are you doing when you study? Studying, just to rely on a little conceit, feel that one day you can become a person on the people, and glorify the ancestors and glorify the lintel, but looking at the world, how many people can become officials? Once involved in officialdom disputes, all the ambitions for the country and the family in the original chest will be wiped out in **, and one day, you will also become a hypocrite who can do it for the sake of silver. How many people can really become honest and honest officials like Lord Zuo? Some of these words are the reasons why he was moved and willing to follow Tillian into business.

Song Shengyue was embarrassed at first, and then he was speechless, looking at Liu Junchen's gloomy face and stunned.

Seeing him like this, Liu Junchen smiled lightly, "When Liu was Song Gongzi's age, he also had the same heart and thoughts as Song Gongzi, but after experiencing it, he could think it through, and being a businessman may not be worse than being an official." Song Gongzi should know that the ancestors of the Song family have experienced such rights and wrongs, and Song Gongzi wants to raise the lintel again, but it is more difficult, why not look at it, don't wait until that time to know that 'regret is not at the beginning'. At this point, he sighed and smiled kindly, "Liu said this today, but because of his fate with Song Gongzi, when he saw today's Song Gongzi, he seemed to see himself at the beginning." In fact, the heart is broad, don't stick to those rigid scriptures and morals, people in this life, the picture is to be comfortable and comfortable, as long as their hearts are upright and have a clear conscience, in fact, everything is done according to their own preferences, don't do it because you have to do it, but do it because you want to do it. “

Song Shengyue looked confused and moved, "Do it if you want to do it?" ”

Liu Junchen shook his head, pushed open the door of the 'Xuanbo Garden', and led him in, this two-story pavilion was originally a place for teaching in the house, and Jiang Ge is now studying here.

Walking to the four bookcases side by side under the east wall, Liu Junchen clicked on the stacks of neatly arranged books, and smiled at Song Shengyue, "You see, these books are read by Lord Zuo Xiang in his spare time, and all the books here have his annotations, my girl likes to stay here, she has also read all the books, and each one is in the place where Lord Zuo Xiang annotates, and the girl has also written annotations." At this point, Liu Junchen smiled confidently and said to Song Shengyue, "When Song Gongzi has read those comments, I think you will change your mind about becoming an official." ”

Seeing Liu Junchen leaving, Song Shengyue frowned and looked at the stacked bookcases in front of him, paced forward, looked hesitant, and finally chose a copy of "The Biography of the Former Dynasty".

This book records the many meetings of the emperor and his courtiers during the reign of the emperor, and the author was the grandfather of the former Zuo Minister, Tilian.

On the neatly regulated books, each page has two kinds of annotations, ink and vermilion, and the annotations of the ink pen are aimed at each emperor's words, and the words vaguely name the intention and intention of the emperor to say this sentence.

Song Shengyue nodded with admiration on his face, and then looked at the small seal grass body with a slender red pen, and couldn't help but look dumbfounded.

This article describes the period of the first emperor, the Jinjiang embankment collapsed due to heavy rain and caused waterlogging and the people of the five cities had no harvest, and the then Jinxiang Marquis entered the capital for thousands of miles to implore the emperor to exempt the five cities from paying taxes for three years; In order to rebuild the embankment and allocate disaster relief silver, the two households have allocated millions of miles of silver, and taxes cannot be exempted, otherwise the ancestral system will be violated, and it will be difficult to shake the dynasty. The ministers thought so, the Marquis of Jinxiang insisted on asking the emperor for approval, and the then Lord Chen of the Ministry of Household Affairs ridiculed the Marquis of Jinxiang in a strange manner, but in the end it was the Marquis of Yun who stood up and was willing to donate 500,000 taels to the treasury, and implored the Emperor to approve the exemption of taxes in the five cities, and the left minister reconsidered and was willing to donate 100,000 taels to the treasury, and then several ministers reconsidered one after another, and finally the emperor approved the excerpt of the Marquis of Jinxiang, and dismissed the Lord of the Household Department Shangshu Chen.

Jiang Luoxiu's annotation wrote, 'The first emperor was benevolent and merciful to the people, and the initial refutation of tax exemption was only for the trial of the ministers, Yunhou Dayi, and Chen Guan's chicken intestines. These sentences are concise and deep, pointing to the core character of the court.

However, the annotation of the Zhu pen next to Di Lian is dumb but impossible to refute, "After the millions of disaster relief, the treasury was empty, the first emperor was eager to enrich and reject the tax exemption, Yunhou was rich and the country guessed the emperor's heart, and his grandfather was wise to pave the steps for the first emperor, the first emperor was satisfied, harvested two silver taels, and allowed to play and remove the household department Shangshu, just to maintain the emperor's benevolent and good name." ’

Her annotation was very sharp, and it was condensed into one sentence, 'The emperor was short of money, so he was exempt from paying taxes and was shy in his pocket'.

Song Shengyue couldn't laugh or cry when he saw it, sighed and shook his head, flipped through the article and continued to read, but found that the more he watched, the more speechless he became, and he began to suspect that his thinking was different.

Looking at a book after reading it, I only feel that from her annotations, you can see that this woman's soul is wise and whimsical, daring to say what others dare not do, and her words are casual and indifferent, as if she sees the world through the world, and she is a little envious of her self and freedom.

When Jiang Luoxiu stepped into the door of the 'Xuanbo Garden', he saw Song Shengyue holding the book with a pensive face, and couldn't help but say, "What book are you reading?" ”

At first hearing Jiang Luoxiu's voice, Song Shengyue turned his head in surprise, and when he saw Zuo Xiang slowly stepping in, he presented the book to him with both hands, and said with admiration, "The annotations of Lord Zuo Xiang in this book are the words of wisdom, and Ziyue is deeply taught." ”

When Jiang Luoxiu heard this, he rolled his eyes, and then couldn't hide the smile and sigh on his face, "Lian'er's annotation, can you read it?" ”

Song Shengyue's thin lips pursed slightly, and he gently bowed his head.

Seeing his expression, Jiang Luoxiu shook his head with a low smile, raised his hand and put the book back, his voice was gentle and could not hide his doting, "That girl has a seven-trick exquisite heart, she has always dared to speak and do whatever she wants, and she has never been afraid to take risks, just read the annotations on these books, don't tell outsiders." ”

Seeing the unsmiling majestic and cold Lord Zuo Xiang for the first time with such a look, Song Shengyue was really surprised, and immediately realized that everyone in the capital said that 'Zuo Xiang loves his daughter and becomes obsessed', which shows that what he said is true.