Chapter 18: Meeting Friends Again
Zhang Yuan stepped forward and knocked on the door, and after waiting for a long time, an old slave slowly opened a crack in the door.
"Ladies and gentlemen, what are you doing when you come to the Li Mansion?"
Although these poor scholars behind Zhang Yuan are all in the middle of the road, the current poor family is obviously different from the stereotype set by later generations.
These people are poorer than those noble families, who do not have thousands of acres of fertile land and hundreds of servants to serve.
Most of their families are landlords and some down-and-out nobles, and it is nothing to lose some wealth, the most important thing is that they lack the opportunity to be promoted, and this is such an opportunity given by Wen Weng at the moment.
Luo Hong must be plotting the collection of books in the school palace, and the others are ninety percent to be officials.
Therefore, Zhang Yuan and his party were gorgeously dressed, so that the old slaves in the Li Mansion felt that they were all nobles at a glance, after all, the Li Mansion was also noble, not what the nobles did when they knocked on the door of the noble family.
"Old man, I don't know if you still remember me, I'm Zhang Yuan, and I came to the house a few times a few years ago with your son-in-law Li Jian."
If it was just Li Jian's ordinary friend, this old slave might not have much impression, but Zhang Yuan also stuffed more than ten maidservants into the house.
At the mention of his name, the old slave patted his head and opened the door.
"Look at the villain's memory, it turns out that Zhang Gongzi is back."
When Zhang Yuan left, he promised Li Jian that if he could come back one day, he might come to the Li Mansion, although those maids were bought by Li Jian, but as long as they entered the door of the Zhang Mansion, they were all family members.
"Zhang Gongzi, you sons, wait in the living room, the head of the family and our son are now in the house, I will go and spread the word to them."
It just so happened that Li Jian was here, and Zhang Yuan also happened to meet old friends for a while.
"I'm sorry for the old man."
Zhang Yuan gave the old slave a slight gesture.
The elders are the greatest, no matter what the identity of the other party is, and no matter how others think of Zhang Yuan, this is one of the bottom lines that Zhang Yuan abides by.
Not long after the old slave of the Li Mansion left, some maidservants came into the living room and presented Zhang Yuan with some wine.
Although Shu produces tea, it is mainly used as food and medicinal materials, and when there are guests, the bold Han people will only serve wine to the guests.
"Xiaoya?"
The maidservant who presented Zhang Yuan with the wine saw that Zhang Yuan's whole body was trembling a little, and the wine in the wine bottle spilled a little.
Zhang Yuan recognized at a glance that this was Xiaoya, who brought him food every day when he lived in Chengdu before.
"Childe."
Xiaoya nodded.
The loss is that if Xiaoya had changed to anyone else, maybe he really didn't have any impression, this little girl had teased herself at the beginning.
A few years have passed, and Xiaoya can still be in the Li Mansion, which is enough to explain some problems.
"Li Li has seen the messenger of the Son of Heaven."
At this time, Li Li, the head of the Li family, took Li Jian into the living room and bowed to Zhang Yuan. 110 eBooks
The name of the messenger of the Son of Heaven is really a bit heavy.
"Uncle Li, Brother Li doesn't have to give this big gift, it's only Zhang Yuan who came to the Li Mansion today, not some messenger of the Son of Heaven."
Li Jian smiled heartily and said to his father Li Li.
"Father, I'll just say it, Zhang Yuan is not a layman who is bound by etiquette."
Li Li glared at Li Jian fiercely.
"What do you kid know, the honor of the envoy is the glory of the Li Mansion here, no matter what the identity is, we must abide by the etiquette."
The time was close to noon, Zhang Yuan brought such a large number of followers, Li Li bowed to Zhang Yuan, and went down to prepare food for such a group of people, leaving space for such a group of young people.
After Li Li left, Li Jian pulled Zhang Yuan to sit down on the upper seat.
"Zhang Yuan, don't you know, since the documents of the imperial court were sent to Shu County, saying that there should be an envoy from the Son of Heaven to appease the people, this person is still you, we blew up in Qiong, how many years have we produced such a character as you."
Zhang Yuan took a slight sip of the somewhat bitter wine, which made his face cramp a little, and his smile turned into a bitter smile.
"What do you mean by that you and your uncle came to Chengdu from Linqiong to see me?"
Maintaining a good friendship requires being honest with each other, and Zhang Yuan is the object of Li Jian's current efforts to maintain the relationship, so it is even more impossible to lie and destroy this friendship that many people can't ask for.
"It's not just our family, the goods that I drank and ate meat together in Wangjiang Pavilion before have all come, didn't Zhuo Wenjun return to Linqiong a few years ago, and now Zhuo Wangsun's profiteer also brought her."
The smile on Li Jian's face can only be said to be one word, that is, cheap.
At the mention of Zhuo Wenjun, the living room suddenly boiled.
The story between the literati and the beauties was even more widespread in the circle of scholars, and they all longed to have such a story to tell others.
"Honorable envoy, the student took the liberty to ask, are you really like the legend, and the eldest daughter of the Zhuo family secretly fell in love and then eloped to Chang'an, and finally you empathized with the eldest daughter, the eldest daughter of the Zhuo family was resentful, but then returned to her parents' house."
Zhang Yuan now has the heart to kill Li Jian, what is this, Zhang Yuan was about to explain, and another scholar stood up and said to the scholar just now.
"Don't talk nonsense in front of the envoy, it's obvious that the eldest daughter of the Zhuo family met Sima Langguan again in Chang'an City, and the envoy found that her relationship with the eldest daughter of the Zhuo family was not stable, so that the eldest daughter of the Zhuo family returned to Linqiong, in order to leave some space between each other and be calm and calm."
This remark was immediately supported, and everyone wanted to pat Zhang Yuan's ass, and it was obvious that they couldn't do anything to slander Zhang Yuan's reputation. Besides, anyone with an eye can see that there is probably nothing between the two, otherwise they would not have been separated for such a long time.
"Brother Xian is right, distance produces beauty, this is the experience of the next few days.
Keeping some distance between people who love each other can make both parties look at such a relationship more rationally. ”
Ancient people gossiped about it, and there was nothing to do with modern people, and now Zhang Yuan feels like this.
Gossip is probably the two most popular forms of entertainment at the moment.
Go or something is something from the Zongheng family, and the Zongheng family is not popular at all in the peaceful and prosperous era and is spurned by the scholars, although the last Zongheng family master Yan changed his way to learn Confucianism, but in the end he also died of his Zongheng art.
Since Go is not popular, Zhang Yuan feels that he has to get out of chess when he has free time, and the game technique with obvious killing spirit will definitely make the Han people have more entertainment.
"Although the eldest daughter of the Zhuo family once lived in Zhang's Mansion, Zhang Yuan has always treated her like a friend, you are all scholars, don't be mistaken by these gossips."
Zhang Yuan looked at the chaotic living room and shouted loudly.