was framed and imprisoned

Go to the capital Jiaxuan to rescue

Raise your head to the red sun and look back at the white clouds low.

Xin Qiji knows: Chen Liang also has shortcomings, he is straightforward, open-mouthed, and does not shy away from current affairs. Thus offended some scholars.

There is a family surnamed Lu in Yongkang County, the father is called Lu Shiyu, and the two sons are called Lu Yue and Lu Hao. This Lu Yue is a student of Chen Liang.

On this day, the Lu family and the Lu family in the same village quarreled and scolded over a trivial matter. It was about the Lu family that did not take advantage, but they were angry, relying on someone in the government, so they sued the Lu family and his son to the county office. The crime is to pretend to be the emperor and be rebellious.

It turned out that a few months ago, Chen Liang, Lu Yue and a scholar surnamed Sun were drinking in an old temple, and of course there was a courtesan who accompanied the wine. After a while, Lu Yue got drunk, so he pulled **, and called Concubine Ai, the person surnamed Sun asked, since you have named her a concubine, you will naturally be the prime minister. Lu Youdao, I named Mr. Chen as the left minister, and you as the right minister. So the four drunkards put on a farce.

Lu Yue pretended to be the emperor, sat on a high place, Chen Liang and the surname Sun were the prime ministers, and played things in turn, after the end, they knelt and bowed, and the courtesans held the wine cup and sang the song of "descending the yellow dragon" to show that they were celebrating the emperor's birthday, and then, the three of them shouted "long live" together.

This was originally a joke, but the surname Sun was the son-in-law of the Lu family, so after a change, Lu Yue became a chaotic minister and thief who tried to usurp the throne.

And there is another thing that involves Chen Liang. At a previous banquet, Chen Liang, Lu Shiyu and the parents surnamed Lu sat together. The host put a dish with pepper in front of Chen Liang. This is a local custom, invite the most respected guests at the table to eat first, after Chen Liang finished using it, he put him in front of the parents surnamed Lu and invited him to taste. Half a month later, the family surnamed Lu fell ill and died. took advantage of this dispute with the Lu family to sue Chen Liang and Lu Shiyu for conspiring and poisoning the parents surnamed Lu.

So, the county government put Chen Liang and Lu Shiyu and Lu Yue in prison together. The farce in front of him was at most a drunken immorality, nonsense, and disrespect to the court. It is not a crime, and there is no evidence in the latter case of "poisoning people", which is purely a false accusation.

Later, someone reported it to the county government. said that Chen Liang solicited and accepted bribes. The reason was that he had always been poor and had no other source of income. When his grandparents and father died, there was no money for burial, but all of a sudden, he built several large houses and bought dozens of acres of land.

Chen Liang, who was in prison, couldn't help but be extremely indignant: This is the crime that he wants to add, there is no excuse for it, and it is really sad that the government and the opposition are so indistinguishable from right and wrong.

See light at the end of the tunnel. Chen Liang's brothers-in-law, brothers, and students traveled everywhere to the capital to ask for help and appeal for him, and Ye Zhengze and Wang Huai also spoke up for Chen Liang.

Lu Hao served as a county lieutenant in a county in Hunan. rescued Chen Liang and his father and brother in many ways, but the county government repeatedly shirked it. In a hurry, he turned up to plead to the emperor.

In the recital, Lu Hao said that there was a person who committed a crime in the Han Dynasty, and when he was in his fifties, he had to be punished by the army. He had no son, so the sixteen-year-old girl Ti Ying wrote to the imperial court, asking to sell herself into slavery to atone for her father's sins, and Emperor Wen of Han was moved by her filial piety and released her father. Now, his father and brother are being falsely accused and imprisoned for the villagers, and for this, he is willing to resign and avenge him. The Great Song Dynasty has always regarded filial piety as the foundation of the dynasty, and did not let a seven-foot man in a prosperous era be inferior to a girl hundreds of years ago.

Emperor Xiaozong saw the folds, and immediately asked the Criminal Department to find the case file, took a cursory look at it, and threw it aside, "Xiucai is drunk and vain, what is the crime?" ”

In this way, Chen Liang and Lu's father and son spent more than two months in prison before they were released.

Six years later, Chen Liang's bad luck struck again.

A man named Shi Keliang, who once worked in Chen Liang's house, killed someone in Yongjia County, and the person who was killed had a conflict with Chen Liang's father, and afterwards, Chen Liang also expressed dissatisfaction with the person who insulted his father. As a result, the victim's family sued Chen Liang to the county government, saying that Chen Liang was the mastermind behind the scenes and an accomplice in the murder. Chen Liang was imprisoned again.

This time he was imprisoned, different from last time, because there was a reason, and the magistrate was a student of Wu Bogang in the imperial history. It turned out that previously, during the imperial examination in the spring of this year, Wu served as the chief examiner. Chen Liang had great hopes for this exam, but he was unexpectedly knocked down by this examiner. Chen Liang has always looked down on Wu Bogang, who sees the wind and steers the rudder, and said angrily, "I didn't expect that Chen was nearly half a hundred years old, and he would still be manipulated by ignorant children. When Wu heard this, he held a grudge against Chen Liang. Chen Liang was falsely imprisoned, and he was in the middle of it. Wu Bogang greeted the relevant parties and instructed the magistrate to interrogate him strictly, in an attempt to turn Chen Liang into a trick and put Chen Liang to death.

After learning of Chen Liang's experience, Xin Qiji, although he was in the countryside and had no position or power, he still tried his best to rescue him.

A year later, Wu Bogang returned to his hometown to worry about it, and Zheng Rukai, a friend of Xin Qiji, served as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, responsible for the trial and verification of the litigation case.

Zheng Rukai loves to drink tea, and in his own words, he would rather have no oil and salt for three days than not drink tea for a day. At that time, they were all officials in Fuzhou, and one day in early summer, Zheng Rukai invited Xin Qijian to go to his home to taste tea.

The Zheng family's tea room is located in the study, and the furnishings are simple and clean.

The water on the stove is boiling. Zheng Rukai got up and carried the water filling kettle, washed the teacup, took the tea leaves with a teaspoon, and then poured a small amount of water to wash the tea, and the teapot was a white porcelain pot.

Zheng Rukai said to Xin Qiji, you see this water is mountain spring water, let people pick it up in the morning. Just rushed into the boiling water, the tea leaves are still floating on it, at this time you can neither smell the fragrance, nor drink the taste, only wait for a while, the tea gradually sinks to the bottom, the leaves stretch, and the fragrance spreads with the heat. At this time, holding a teacup in your hand and entering the mouth is smooth, you will feel mellow.

The teacups are also porcelain, larger than sake boats, and smaller than food bowls.

Xin Qiji tasted tea according to Zheng Rukai's appearance, which was indeed different.

Brother You'an, life is like tea. You see, the action of drinking tea is simple: pick it up and drink it, and put it down after drinking. Life is the same, you have to be able to take it, let it go, and float involuntarily in the officialdom, but you must learn to sink a little bit in your heart, find yourself in tranquility, and achieve relaxation, peace and purity.

Xin Qijian tasted a sip of tea, and seemed to have an understanding: a tea word pictogram and meaning, tea is not as strong as wine, people are among the grass and trees, a cup of tea, such as sitting in the mountains and forests, such as returning to the grass and trees, very good and very good.

Tang Lu Tong, known as the tea fairy, wrote a tea drinking poem that was recited by later generations, Brother You'an, do you know?

Xin Qiji really doesn't know, please let Brother Ru Kai know.

This poem is relatively long, and I will copy it with you if you want it. The poem has three parts, the first part is written about the best tea sent by Meng Zhiyi, and the third part is a deep sympathy for the tea pickers with compassion. The second part is the main event, what we call "Seven Bowls of Tea Song". The poet is full of gratitude and sincerity, focusing on the joy of sencha alone and drinking seven bowls of tea.

"A bowl of throat kiss moisturizing", moistening the throat is the basic for tea tasting. When your mouth is dry, drink a cup of new tea, which will naturally fill your mouth with relish and moisturizing.

"Two bowls break the loneliness", a sentence that breaks the sky, directly expresses the chest, tea is a thing to wake up the world rather than to relieve sorrow with wine.

"Three bowls of dry intestines, only three thousand volumes of words", drunk the mind excited, the lofty and arrogant literati and humanistic thoughts welled, searched the intestines and scraped the stomach, and wrote poems.

"Four bowls of light sweat, uneven life, all to the pores." Like a gentle wind and drizzle, like an initiation, all kinds of unhappiness and depression in my heart have been dissipated out of the clouds. How to solve worries, only tea is to seek.

"Five bowls of muscles and bones are light, six bowls are fairy, and seven bowls can't be eaten. From the fifth bowl to the seventh bowl, it is purely a feeling and sublimation from the material to the spiritual, and it is a process of mental understanding and enjoyment. From "light muscles and bones" to "fairy spirits", and then to the two armpits, it can be said that the pleasure and beauty of drinking tea are pushed to the extreme. "Penglai Mountain, where is it, Yuchuanzi, take this breeze and want to return." "Yuchuanzi" is Lu Tong's self-starting number, a few bowls of tea down, has been extraordinary, longing for Penglai Xianshan, just want to fly away with the fragrance of tea.

Good poetry, good tea. Xin Qiji applauded again and again.

In order to save Chen Liang, Xin Qiji rushed to Lin'an and expressed his grievances to Zheng Rukai. Zheng Rukai knew that Chen Liang was a fair and upright person. paid special attention to this case, and after repeated trials, he believed that Chen Liang was a genius in the world, not guilty, and could not be killed, so he specially reported the case to Guangzong and tried his best to defend Chen Liang. Chen Liang was finally acquitted.