Chapter 42: To Zhending Mansion

The Li family in Nanzhuang is a big family, Li Yingqiu's house is a lineage, Li Yingxue's line is not far away, and Li Yingxue is not far away, and Li Yingqiu is a family member, so Li Yingqiu is relieved to entrust some things to him, who thinks that this person is not right, and he forged accounts with Ma Liu, the shopkeeper of the Wangjia rice shop, and in only three years, he embezzled nearly 3,000 taels of silver from the Wangjia rice shop.

Li Yingxue and Ma Liushuang knelt in front of the main hall of the Li family, facing conclusive evidence, confessing to the crimes they had committed.

Li Yingqiu looked at Li Yingxue, who looked three points similar to himself, and said with a frosty face: "You and Ma Liu violated the laws of the dynasty, and the government will punish them according to the law, but you are a member of my Li clan, but today the head of the family has to ask for the family law first, and the family style is right." ”

An old man dressed as a housekeeper stepped out of the crowd, holding an ancient book in both hands, and said respectfully to Li Yingqiu: "Master, the family law is here." ”

Li Yingqiu nodded and asked, "How should Li Yingxue be punished for what he did?" ”

The old housekeeper didn't open the book, but sang fluently: "If the descendants of the Li family have evil people, the parents are sick, and the people will condemn them, and they will be punished with twenty rods, and if they do not change, they will be sent to the government to govern them, and they can be punished." ”

When the old housekeeper's voice fell, Li Yingqiu glanced at the onlookers of the clan men and women, and said angrily: "Li Yingxue is evil, and he has colluded with others many times to do evil things. The old man adheres to the family law and wants to first punish him with twenty rods and then expel him from the clan, but does anyone have any objections? ”

Clan, as the name suggests, the people in the clan are all the same ancestor, the bloodline is inherited, the bones are broken and the tendons are connected, all Han people have their own clan, if someone is expelled from the clan, it will be laughed at and spurned by countless people.

No one in the audience made a sound, Li Yingxue was a smart man, he heard that Li Yingqiu was going to expel himself from the clan, the original Mu Ran's face changed for the first time, he kneeled to Wang Ye, and cried bitterly on the ground: "Wang Yuanwai, I know that I am guilty of a lot of sin, and I dare not ask for forgiveness from the outside, but I just beg the outsider to say a word for me as a sinner in front of the head of the family, don't expel me from the clan, I am willing to be a cow and a horse to repay the outsider in the second half of my life." ”

Wang Ye was silent, Li Yingxue turned his head to look at Ma Liu, and said hatefully: "The sinner is willing to merge most of the family property into the family property, and the sinner in the place where Ma Liu hides the silver also knows and is willing to show the way for the king." ”

Ma Liu suddenly got up and kicked at Li Yingxue, but was forced to fall down by the Li clan people who were guarding on the side, he scolded while struggling: "Okay, you Li Yingxue, you black-hearted forgetful eight, if you hadn't tempted me, how could I have done such a thing, now you and I are sympathetic, but you treacherously want to use my money to make a name, you bastard, Lao Tzu will not let you go." ”

Li Yingxue did not get his wish in the end, and the elders of the Li clan unanimously agreed to expel him from the clan, and then handed it over to the government to bring it to justice.

Li Yun had already changed her clothes, and at this time she hid behind her clansmen, looking at the carriage that was gradually moving away through the gap in the crowd, thinking of the 'humiliation' she had suffered today, she couldn't help but clench her little fists tightly, and muttered in her mouth: "Dengzi, you wait for this girl, this girl will make you look good sooner or later, hum." ”

The eyes are full of March twilight, and the head is already green with a thousand mountains...... The grass does not get lost, and the weeping willows only get out of sight......

Zhao Yan didn't know who Xin Qiji was thinking about when he wrote this poem, and his complicated emotions made him even feel disgusted by this good spring, anyway, he looked around at the moment, looking at the greenery on the plain, and he only felt relaxed and happy.

Zhending Mansion City is in the west of Shenzhou, Zhao Yan and Liu Jing and several people sit in a carriage on the road to travel back and forth, and only in the second half of the fifth day can they see the towering city wall of the Mansion City from a distance.

Since the Northern Wei Dynasty, Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Jin Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, Zhending has always been the location of the county, state, road, government, county and other administrative offices, and the government offices set up in the city of Zhending in various dynasties are also different, for example, in addition to the basic government yamen, county yamen, there are also road transfer embassy, capital transfer embassy, Yannan Su Zheng Lian visit Si Zhaomo Office, Jiedu Embassy, Zhending Road Soldiers and Horses Governor's Office and so on.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, successive officials at all levels of the Zhending Prefecture have successively built and renovated the public offices and yamen in the Zhending City, and on this basis, they have increased, so that these scattered public offices and offices have become an architectural scenery of the Zhending City.

When the group arrived at Zhending City, it suddenly rained lightly in the sky, Zhao Yan lifted the curtain to see where the male of this 'Sanguanxiong Town' was, but the smoke and rain were misty, and he could only vaguely see a towering silhouette.

Zhang Wenyuan sighed beside him: "Song Qi, the red apricot book of the previous dynasty, once said that the world is fundamentally in Hebei, and Hebei is fundamentally in Zhending. Nowadays, our country enjoys the four seas, although there are Warats and Tatars in the north who do not keep their duties, but they are only the disease of ringworm and scabies, and the city of Zhending is much more gloomy than in the previous dynasty. ”

Liu Jing said with a smile: "Eager to learn and virtuous brother, the times have changed, such as today's son guarding the country, although it is really a thoroughfare of the nine provinces, it is also natural to be reduced to green leaves." Now that the rain is lingering outside, it's not good for me to go out for a walk, so why don't we take advantage of the situation of entering the city and make a poem on the theme of the ancient city in front of us? ”

Qian Liangcai and Li Xun were each shrunk in a corner of the car, originally closing their eyes and pretending to sleep, but they were all in good spirits when they heard Liu Jing say this.

Li Xun saw Liu Jing with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and asked with a smile: "Since Brother Liu has this elegance, I don't know if he has gained it?" ”

"After the history of Zhending Mansion has a pond garden, surrounded by nine miles, the ancient trees reach to the sky, the marsh faces each other, it is a pity that it is destroyed by the king of Hailing of the Jin Kingdom, in addition to the green water circulation outside the south city, the lotus is hopeful, the embankment willow is covered, the cormorant returns to Xiang, it is better than the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, think of it, not only but a little gain." Liu Jing took out a paper fan out of nowhere, shook it open with a snap at this time, deliberately made an arrogant posture, squinted at Li Xun and said slowly.

Seeing Liu Jing's posture, the rest of the people laughed secretly, along the way, Liu Jing would occasionally make a 'sickness', and after many times, they were a little numb.

Liu Jing pretended to be addicted, and after finishing speaking, he waited for a while but no one cheered, so he had to cough lightly, and then groaned: "There are 10,000 lotus flowers in Zhenzhou, and there is a restaurant facing the city gate." Dismounted, and when he was more deliberate, he was drunk and looked at Wu Wa in the mirror. What do you think of the clumsy work? ”

Along the way, Qian Liangcai often joked with Liu Jing, and said with a smile: "It is contained in "Yan Wei Miscellaneous Records", the residents of Zhending City are prosperous for thirty miles, and the Buddhist palace and Zen temple are hidden between flowers and bamboos and flowing water, and the world is cloudy in the north and south of the river. Although the text of Brother Liu's poem is 'crude', it also expresses the metaphor of 'plugging the north and the south of the river', which I think is acceptable. ”

Liu Jing knew that Qian Liang was joking, but when he heard him say that his writing was rude, he was still a little unconvinced, so he opened his mouth and said: "Since Brother Qian said so, he must have already made a bamboo in his chest, why don't you recite the masterpiece and let me wait to hear it?" ”

"This ......" Qian Liangcai has literary talents, but he belongs to the slow-burning type, and it is really a little difficult for him to make a poem in an instant, but he is still a little anxious, his eyes have turned and he has already had a countermeasure, so he pretended to be silent before saying: "Okay, I have heard the name of Zhendingyang and Lou, so I don't have to write a poem as follows for you to taste." Looking at the clouds in the north, and the stars in the east. With Yan Tianyu here, how about listening to duckweed? ”

Liu Jing was stunned when he heard this, and only after a moment did he sincerely arch his hand and say: "Brother Qian, this poem is indeed better than the next." ”

Qian Liangcai smiled and was about to speak, but Zhang Wenyuan next to him had already said: "Brother Qian, this little brother seems to be familiar, it should be made by Liu Mengxiu, a master of science in the previous dynasty, right?" ”

Li Xun also laughed and said: "Exactly, Brother Zhang Xian's statement, a certain family also remembered that the name of the poem "Dengzhen Prefecture Yanghe Gate" was indeed written by Liu Mengxiu. ”

"Okay, it turns out that Brother Qian scolded me, this poem was copied by you." Liu Jing said and reached out to grab Qian Liangcai.

Qian Liangcai was not ashamed to be exposed, and after quickly avoiding Liu Jing's claws of Lushan, he defended himself: "The world's scholars are a family, and occasionally use the learning of their predecessors, how can they say plagiarism?" ”

A few people talked and laughed, and then Li Xun and Zhang Wenyuan each made a poem, among several people, Zhang Wenyuan's seven-word quatrain was the most brilliant, and after everyone praised a few words, they looked at Zhao Yan, and he was the only one left who did not write a poem at this time.

Zhao Yan's literary skills are far inferior to others, if he said who Liu Mengxiu was, maybe he could still say one, two, three, if he said what articles Liu Mengxiu had written, what poems he had done, then he would be blind, he had to be a 'beautiful man' in a low-key manner, and at this moment he was watched by everyone, and he also knew that he couldn't do it as a 'beautiful man', so he had to scratch his head and pretend to be contemplative.

In fact, he just remembered a poem about Zhending City in later generations, which was seen in a restaurant when he traveled to Zhengding County in later generations, which is said to be written by Rong Pihua in the Qing Dynasty, but after a long time, he always has to think more to remember the whole poem.

As for whether plagiarism is a loss, he also wants to open, compared with the people of this era, he just has a few hundred years of knowledge, and other aspects are far inferior to the people of this era, and his goal is to be an official in the imperial examination, the most important thing to be an official in this era is reputation and fame, followed by talent.

"Zhending City is based on Taihang in the west, Hengyue in the north, Hutuo in the south, and Yinghai in the east, which has always been a place for soldiers to fight. When the younger brother thought of this, he had to write a poem and ask the brothers to correct it. Zhao Yan made a full gesture before he groaned: "

Undulating Shagang County Ring,

Tang Dynasty became a German Han Changshan.

Hug Hengyue in the west and a thousand peaks are steep,

South intercepts Hutuo Baidao Bay.

China's throat through nine provinces,

Shenjing lock key control three levels.

Didang Heshuo is a strong town,

The tiger is between the dragon and the swallow. ”