Chapter 1014: The Most Elegant Criminal Officer of the Great Song Dynasty (II)

Cheng Shuang knew that the teacher had discovered his small movements, and when he saw the teacher's direct rhetorical question, he was so frightened that he hid behind Cheng Xia and didn't dare to show his head, but Cheng Xia had no scruples, he saluted and asked very calmly: "Teacher, you often say that you must be virtuous, but why are you so humble to a little Zhizhou?" ”

Kochishu? The breath is so big.

As the son of the patriarch, Cheng Xia has not experienced many setbacks, in his eyes, the image of the teacher is too tall, so tall that the official position of Zhizhou should not be put in his eyes, but now, he sees that the teacher, who has always been arrogant and dares to draw a knife in the face of a group of bandits, actually respects a shriveled old man, and calmly asks the student afterwards whether it is "shameless", which makes him very disappointed.

Zhao Xing shook his head dissatisfied, and said lightly: "Between good and bad, how to grasp it; There are many different paths, how to choose, this is the skill of judging the situation and measuring things - when to bend down, when to bend rather than bend, this is the highest knowledge in life.

In the rivers and lakes, how to maximize one's friends and reduce one's enemies is also a science. This knowledge is extremely high and deep, which is to manipulate people's hearts - this is called 'the art of the emperor'.

You are still young, and this science is too dangerous for you to use inappropriately, and this is the science of being robbed and killed...... Didn't I teach you the lesson of wisdom – today we will learn how to 'do unto others'. What you see now is 'treating others'...... Let me do it for you again, look, learn to think, observe the difference in it. ”

Under the admiring gaze of the students, he put his hands behind his back and looked up at the hut by the river.

The twilight was vast, and a thin twilight gradually rose on the river. The young man who was holding the ox on the slope had finished plowing, he led the ox down the hillside, and before returning to the house, he paused in his footsteps, glanced at Zhao Xing, who was standing respectfully by the river, and then he walked into the courtyard without any indication.

After a while, a woman came out of the room, and she carried an empty bamboo basket to the river, and looked around, looking at her sad face, as if she was looking for today's wild vegetables. Judging by the woman's appearance, this condition had been going on for so long that the wild vegetables in the neighborhood had been picked up, so it was necessary to be careful when looking for them.

Zhao Xing's eyes were a little moist, he called out to the two disciples, and gave a low command, the children rushed away, and the footsteps alarmed the woman, and she realized that this person by the river was not looking at the scenery, he kept his hands on the square inch, looking up at the riverside hut.

The woman was generous, she lifted her skirt, approached the courtyard gate, and made a blessing to Zhao Xing through the door, and said softly: "The riverside is heavy, and my uncle (the honorific title of women in the Song Dynasty for their husbands and friends) is standing here, but when I visit my family officials, I hope my uncle will forgive me, and my family officials like to say, 'I am drunk and sleepy, and I go'." ”

Speak very elegantly.

Zhao Xing didn't dare to be rude, he bowed through the courtyard gate tied with a few sticks, and explained with a little embarrassment: "Ruren (the honorific title of the official wife of the Song Dynasty), very embarrassed, the bachelor once gambled with the 'men and women' (the Song Dynasty civilian men's humble words) to gamble on wine with poems, and the wine brewed by men and women is strong, and now the bachelor is drunk, and the men and women are worried that they are in trouble, so they are waiting here." ”

The woman replied with a soft smile: "Uncle is worried, my family officials are often drunk and sleep, there is nothing special today, uncle should go back." ”

Zhao Xing thought hard there, he couldn't remember Su Dongpo's wife's surname, but he only remembered that it seemed that Su Dongpo seemed to have been married more than once, and there was a famous poem mourning his deceased wife - "Ten years of life and death", is this the character in the poem? He bowed and asked humbly, "Is it Mrs. Su on the other side?" ”

The woman smiled loudly: "There is only Mrs. Wang in the world, how can there be Mrs. Su?" The slave is Mrs. Wang. ”

Women in the Song Dynasty did not seem to have the habit of bearing their husband's surname, and Su Dongpo also called his first two wives "Mrs. Wang" in his poems, which means that her real surname is Wang.

In fact, the Mrs. Wang in front of her is Su Dongpo's second wife, Wang Yanzhi.

It is said that Su Dongpo also suffered a "cattle buying incident", the cattle he bought also began to have diarrhea, and he was about to die, so anxious that Su Dongpo had no choice, it was Mrs. Wang who told him with a smile: "This cow has bean spots, as long as you pick some artemisia annua, cook it into vegetable porridge and feed it." ”

Picking artemisia annua and cooking vegetable porridge - this is actually cooking the tannins in the grass leaves, which is completely similar to Zhao Xing's method of treating cattle. Mrs. Wang didn't know where to learn about this method, and since then she has left an anecdote that "Huang Lu is good at dogs, and Su Dongpo can heal cattle".

Ancient women usually did not have a first name, at most a surname. Su Shi's grandmother is called Shi, and her mother is only called Mrs. Cheng, and Su Zhe's wife can only be content with the title of "Shi" for the rest of her life, only Su Shi's two wives and concubine Chaoyun have their own names and characters like men, and these names were given by Su Shi, which was rare at that time.

Su Shi's first wife was Wang Fu, and after ten years of being with Su Shi, Wang Fu left him forever. After her death, Su Shi's father, Su Xun, gave her a vegetarian diet for three days and said to Su Shi, "You should bury your wife next to your mother's tomb." ”

Su Shi did as his father said, and planted 30,000 pine trees on the hill where Wang Fu was buried.

Four years after Wang Fu's death, Su Shi was lonely for four years, and four years later, he married Wang Yanzhi as his wife. Ten years later, Wang Fu returned to his dream, and he wrote this poem: "Ten years of life and death.

Don't think about it, it's unforgettable.

Thousands of miles of lonely graves, nowhere to talk about desolation.

Even if you don't know each other,

The face is dusty, and the temples are like frost.

Come and dream at night.

Xiao Xuan window, dressing.

There are no words for each other, only a thousand tears.

It is expected that the intestines will be broken every year,

Moonlit night, short Matsuoka. ”

Wang Yanzhi does not have the splendid talent of her sister, she has stayed with her sister since she was a child, and she also admires Su Shi as a brother-in-law, who does not marry at the age of 21, in the Song Dynasty, this is equivalent to an old virgin in the 21st century. But at the age of 21, she finally married her brother-in-law and was satisfied.

This typical little woman is easily content and obedient to her husband. Ten years after Wang Fu's death, Su Shi wrote a eulogy for his ex-wife "Jiang Chengzi", she didn't know, but she didn't blame him. When he wrote "Only a Thousand Lines of Tears", she looked at him and wept as well. Not for anything else, just because Su Shi is such an affectionate man.

At this time, Mrs. Wang had asked Zhao Xing to leave twice, but Zhao Xing was still reluctant to leave, he shook his head again and again, and said with a sneer: "Actually, I came to pay the gambling debts - I made a bet with the bachelor, and lost half a shipload of mountain goods and half a shipload of wine, but I was in a hurry afterwards...... I don't deceive each other, I don't hide it, my protégé is hiring someone to move goods, and I'm going to wait here for them to come. ”

When Mrs. Wang heard this, she looked Zhao Xing up and down, gently tore open the simple courtyard door, flashed to the side and said, "In this way, let the uncle break the bill, I will call the young son to come out to greet Mr." ”

Song people are good at gambling, and at present, the form of gambling that Zhao Xing has come into contact with is called "Guan Pu". And "gambling" and "Bo" are said together, which comes from Su Shi. Su Shi recorded in a recital: "There are more than 100 households in the city who open cabinets, and they are on the card list and recruit soldiers and civilians to gamble", and as a result, the word "gambling" was formally formed.

What is certain is that the first practice license in the world gambling industry was definitely not born by Su Shi's performance, because Song Taizu was born in the market, and he was good at gambling by nature, and folklore has it that he lost Huashan in the gambling of his teacher Chen Tuan, and there is another legend that the gambling rules of dice were determined by Song Taizu.

But in Chinese history, it was Su Shi who identified the word gambling.

This gave birth to a unique phenomenon: among all the dynasties of ancient China, the Song Dynasty was the only one who did not gamble - they were all legal taxpayers who operated under the protection of the government and had a license.

Su Shi gambled with others, and Mrs. Wang was not surprised. However, general gambling must first have gambling funds, and the husband is so poor, how can he gamble with others? So hearing that Zhao Xing lost so much, Mrs. Wang immediately knew: There is another mystery in this gambling - perhaps, the person in front of her deliberately lost the gamble. The purpose is to give Su Shi money, and by the way, to maintain Su Dongpo's face - the gamble of poetry and wine, how elegant! So she immediately opened the chai door and solemnly invited Zhao Xing to be a guest.

Zhao Xing came into contact with all the villagers, he didn't know the etiquette between the eunuchs of the Song Dynasty, in line with the attitude of "don't look at incivility", he didn't dare to look at Mrs. Wang, only looked at the ground, looked at the corner of Mrs. Wang's skirt, so as to keep up with the other party's footsteps......

This look suddenly made his eyes moist.

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