Sun Fu walked to the second gate and stopped, stopping to report: "Master Cong, there are two things, there are a few people in the bookstore who want to join, led by Sima Xianggong of Fangshan, and Wang Vicemeng sent a letter to talk about joining. ”

Jia Cong paced into the courtyard, opened the paste and sealed it, shook it out, and went to the study to write a letter, suggesting that Sima Bandit and them take a petition and enter the alliance again.

Now that the trial is imminent, the affairs of the Shanhai Alliance can be slowly postponed and discussed, there are many people, and it is not good to inherit the style of just talking and not practicing, and the people he wants are condensed under the alliance and his own alliance master. Sima Bandit Jian passed the scientific examination last year and successfully passed the same imperial examination, which made Jia Cong a little surprised at that time, and he was afraid that he would repay his kindness today.

"Another thing is not good news...... Sun Fu observed Jia Cong's face and said: "The Prince of Zhongshun's Mansion has set up a banknote customs in Chongwenmen to collect taxes, and recently, the official of the Prince's Mansion does not know how to tell people, and he also came to Xixiao Market to collect taxes......

"The commercial tax is thirty taxes and one, counting the supervision of the Terracotta Division of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the household registration management of Shuntianfu, it has doubled by about one and has become fifteen taxes and one. The group of minions in the Prince Zhongshun's mansion are very arrogant, and they will charge a façade tax, and then count the ones who stuff their teeth, eight or nine points, and they will have to collect one point, and if it goes on like this, it will be difficult to return to the original ...... over there."

Jia Cong groaned: "Let them take it first." ”

A seven-pin county prince is the county order to destroy the door, not to mention the prince who is nominally second only to the emperor, Cheng Buzhi is an old friend, not only has a holiday with Jia Cong, but the reason why Jia Baoyu was beaten is also the reason why Cheng Buzhi came to the door to ask Jiang Yuhan.

In a few months, the old accounts will be counted together.

……

Adorned brocade building and Zilingzhou next to each other, is Jia Yingchun's boudoir, the season of rejuvenation of all things, the grass and trees are fragrant, several bamboo rafts, wooden boats are fluttering on the lake.

Jia Cong grinded Shi Wen, and his second sister came in, the scenery of the Grand View Garden is pleasant, Xing Xiuyan since entering Beijing, divided into the Jin Building and Yingchun to live together, the original Xing family into Beijing, is the end of the road, the meaning of refuge in relatives is the majority, and the current situation, with Jia Cong's influence is getting bigger and bigger, they are also rich in Wujiang, but the meaning of visiting relatives is more.

The three of them took a wooden boat to sail on Zilingzhou, the water and grass rippled with the waves, because they wanted to personally feel the picturesque artistic conception on the blue waves of the boat, not to call the boat lady to take charge of the boat, the three of them swayed each other, Xing Xiuyan in a light yellow skirt had a detached temperament, tied a cloak, stood upright on the bow, and wanted to return by the wind: "What month will the test be in?" ”

"Spring, nature in spring, March. The field rules are generally the same as those of the township test, and they are also in the Chongwenmen Gongyuan. Jia Cong said.

"Are you going to take the exam in a row? Can you hit the ternary? Xing Xiuyan said lightly: "But I think this matter must not be easy, the national Zuo in the two hundred and seventy-second years of the former Ming Dynasty, even the three yuan of Zhongda is one of the few." ”

"It's very hanging." Jia Cong admitted, approached her, and asked in a low voice, "Xue Zhen didn't propose to your family?" ”

Xing Xiuyan's eyes flickered, and a faint flush appeared on her face: "What are you doing with these?" I don't know, haven't heard of it. and the Xue family's room, but they were met on the canal into Beijing, and when they mentioned their respective family backgrounds, they turned out to be relatives, they were really wealthy families, and they had relatives everywhere. ”

Jia Cong is obviously better than Xue Zhen, Shi Nong Industry and Commerce, even if the businessman is rich, his social status is not as good as that of a farmer, Xue Zhen is a white Ding, but Xue Zhen really has the demeanor of a treasure hairpin, and Xue Pan cannot be compared.

"Could it be that this cousin really likes me...... It's a pity that we must have no fate, if you are born as an official in the two lists, not to mention that there are many wives and concubines, I am afraid that the position of the main house will have to be found for a few years, how can you choose me as a people's daughter? I'd rather be a people's wife than a concubine......" Xing Xiuyan thought about it and shook her head secretly, she didn't feel so sad, she behaved very indifferently.

The heron silk feet on the surface of the lake are as long as steel wires, as if drifting sideways, rippling water and grass, pairs of mandarin ducks playing in the water, flapping their wings, Jia Yingchun on the other side wondered: "How did this pair of cousins and brothers become intimate?" Could it be that when Brother Cong went to Suzhou, the two got along well? Okay, you didn't tell me about that......"

The wooden boat is moored at the Cuidi Pavilion, the azaleas are in full bloom, the grass and trees here are luxuriant, and the plantain and spotted bamboo of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion are faintly visible. The color and scenery of Xiaoxiang Pavilion are diametrically opposed to Yihong Courtyard, which has various varieties of roses and begonias, which are gorgeous and magnificent, and the color is warm. The plantain and spotted bamboo in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion are dark in tone.

"Second sister, didn't you open a Begonia Poetry Club? I live outside the garden and don't come in often, but I heard that the third sister started and the second brother Bao was in charge. I am also a vassal and elegant, and I have formed a mountain and sea alliance for many years. Throughout the ages, poems, calligraphy and paintings, barnyard official history, notes and biographies, all of them are engraved and published, and they are passed on to future generations. Jia Cong made such a move, which can not only connect feelings, but also make some money.

Jia Yingchun was quite moved when he heard it, Xing Xiuyan already knew that his cousin had a lot of ideas, so he didn't speak, and Xue Baochai, who came over from the path outside Cuidi Pavilion, said, "How can this be done?" The pen and ink of the boudoir cannot be passed on. ”

"Where are you from?" Jia Yingchun asked.

"I came to see Feng'er, he also came, and I saw you boating and rowing from afar, it's really a good picture of the boat and the blue waves, and I asked the four girls to draw it another day." Xue Baochai held a fan in his hand, did not apply powder, and wore a yellow skirt without makeup, but that kind of extravagance, without clothing embellishment, was emitted from the inside out, and Lin Daiyu, Zijuan, and Ying'er in the back also followed.

"There is a precedent in this dynasty, the Ming Dynasty fell, and many ladies have published books, "Kindergarten Qionglin" women's chapter: Boshang Zhongshang, then called Yuexiu. is talking about Shang Jinglan and Shang Jingwei at the end of the Ming Dynasty, who said that women can't publish books, under the leadership of these two talented women, women and women come and go, chant poems against each other, and they have been famous all over the world. There are a lot of other women who have published books, private engravings, and workshop engravings, you have to push back a few hundred years, isn't Ban Zhao also writing books? Jia Cong retorted.

Later generations said that women were oppressed by feudal etiquette, which is true, but women at that time also used Confucian etiquette to win more living space, this phenomenon is called "boudoir master" by historians, that is to say, women in feudal society can also be teachers, Shang Jinglan is a typical, under her teaching, a family of men and women, are poets, well-known, and have reached the real "family of poetry and ceremony".

"Although the words are good, in the end, a woman's lack of talent is virtue." Xue Baochai gently shook the fan.

"No talent is virtue, talent is not virtue, Sister Bao Bogu Tongjin, can be described as a great talent, you say this, don't you scold yourself?" Jia Cong didn't agree, Xue Baochai was speechless, everyone laughed, Lin Daiyu looked left and right, Jia Cong was able to refute Sister Bao speechless, and found it funny: "You have to go back to the old lady." ”

Xue Baochai didn't think it was wrong, although Jia Cong's ideas were not in line with him, but he could speak for women, and he could be appreciated, and said with a smile: "Our family is in business, you can ignore these, it's best to find the housekeeper's sister-in-law Zhu, pull her to talk together, and then call the third girl and the fourth girl, the old lady pities her granddaughter, so there is some hope." ”

[Note: The author changed his vest and opened a new book "The Beauty of the Late Ming Dynasty", which has been signed, welcome to read, you can search for the title of the book "The Beauty of the Late Ming Dynasty", or the author's name "Zhuge Shuo Mouse". 】