The stolen books were closely followed

Wives and concubines fought each other and swore ruthlessly

Yang Yuandao, the Langzhong of the Ministry of Works, suddenly made an astonishing move, and asked to go to the state and county to serve when he was very likely to be promoted to the Ministry of Works. Influenced by his father and father-in-law, he lost his passion for promotion in his early forties and became obsessed with calligraphy.

As a young child, he used a brush to write, and learned the general style of officialdom, which is horizontal and vertical, paying attention to black, dense, square and tight, giving people a sense of standardization and neatness, delicate and beautiful. The fly in the ointment is the rigidity and rigidity, a thousand hands? Similar, lacking artistic interest and personal style.

During his tenure in Ouhai County, someone sent three drafts of Yan Zhenqing's book to his father, who was the secretary of the ministry. Let him love it, often copy, Yan Zhenqing's real calligraphy is dignified and dignified, vigorous, spicy and fresh and lively, showing a simple and dense style in the sparseness, which opens up a broader calligraphy world for him. Yang Yuandao quickly became a huge fan and die-hard admirer of Yan Zhenqing.

More than 400 years have passed, and Yan Zhenqing's poetry and essay collections are mostly scattered and incomplete. Yang Yuandao was determined to collect them, and compiled his poems and scrolls and tablets into the "Collection of Yanlu Gongwen".

From the text to the people, Yang Yuandao has great respect for Yan Wenzhong's personality and agrees with his ideas very much. I am not used to seeing the government and the opposition "receiving rewards for no merit, and not persuading for goodness; impunity, impunity"; As an official in the court, the high place is unbearable, and the usher is sent, you fight for me, and you can't do what you want to do with peace of mind; Hence this move.

There is also a secret that outsiders don't know, that is, when the concubine Sun of his father-in-law Xu Pingyang escaped, he stole the genuine "Wangjiangdong Word Scroll" from the Yellow Valley.

In December of the first year of Shaosheng (1094), Huang Tingjian was demoted to Fuzhou (now Fuling County, Sichuan Province) and Qianzhou (now Pengshui County, Sichuan Province) to resettle, and he was miserable and uneasy, but he calmly dealt with it, and lived in the Mowei Pavilion of Kaiyuan Temple for four years in Qianzhou, still reciting and writing, and enjoying himself in intoxication. "Wangjiangdong, Jiangshui West End Smoke Tree" was written at this time, although it is only a short fifty-five words, but it is a representative of its line.

Speaking of the origin of the scroll, there are still some years. Huang Tingjian's wife's surname is Sun, and Xu Pingyang's grandfather is his nephew. Xu Pingyang Jinshi and the first, his uncle gave it to him.

At the beginning, Xu Pingyang did not find out about this, and the calligraphy and paintings in the study were not touched. A month after Sun's escape, when he showed it to his old friend, he found a problem. The books and calligraphy and paintings he kept were usually stamped with his own seal in a fixed position. The seal of this scroll is affixed to the lower left corner of the reverse side. Now the scroll seems to be still there, but it is a fake.

Father-in-law Xu Pingyang said that since you love calligraphy, you will find a way to recover the real thing, and I will give it to you.

Since studying calligraphy, Yang Yuandao has a natural affinity for the works of calligraphers, not to mention that Huang Tingjian has also learned Yan Ti.

This time, he was transferred to Pingjiang Prefecture (now Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province), just in time to investigate the matter.

According to investigation, Sun and the chef are both from Taicang County, Pingjiang Prefecture. Sent Sihu to join the army and two officials, went straight to Taicang, and within two days, he found Sun's maiden home. Sun's father reported that the cook's surname was Chen, and his home was in the town of Pontoon, thirty miles away.

Although the surnamed Chen and Sun returned to Pontoon Town, they did not stay long and went to Kunshan. I don't know what to do in Kunshan or where to live.

Sihu joined the army and went to Kunshan and handed over the matter to the magistrate. The two analyzed: This pair of men and women are from the capital, no matter how they dress and behave, they should be different from the locals, and they have some money, so they will not live in the countryside. In addition, for fear that the Xu family would track him down, he may have changed his name.

According to this judgment, the magistrate ordered the officials to search for the county merchants and the homes of the newly purchased houses, and five days have passed, and no one has been found, but there is a clue. There is a teahouse in the west of the city that is transferred to the outside world, and there are foreign couples who intend to lease it, and they talked about it a few times, and it was basically settled, but suddenly there was no news. The man said that his surname was Yang, and the woman did not say it, but the physical characteristics were somewhat similar. Half a year ago, the shopkeeper of the teahouse, I saw it in Changshu, and it seemed that he had opened a snack shop.

In the meantime, another earth-shattering incident happened in Yang Yuandao's home.

Wang was originally a maidservant in the family, and because of her lovely appearance, she was accepted as a concubine. It turned out that Wang's mother's family was in Beijing, and they were also ordinary citizens, making a living by selling pastries. After the Wang family got married, Yang Yuandao naturally stepped in to support it, and in less than two years, the Wang family became rich. Wang relied on his young and beautiful family to be a little arrogant. Sometimes, even the main house Xu didn't pay attention to it.

On this day, the second room of the Li family of the Yang family returned to his mother's home Huzhou. Wang slept until noon before getting up lazily, Xu muttered a few sentences, Wang ignored it, and after half an hour of eyebrows and eyes, he went out again with fancy branches, and did not come back until Shen Shi.

According to the rules of the Yang family, Mrs. Xu is in charge of housework, focusing on children's education and financial expenditures, the second aunt Tai Li is responsible for sending people to clean and hygiene, and the third aunt Tai Wang is responsible for arranging meals. The second aunt returned to her parents' house, and the affairs of the family mainly fell on the Wang family, of course, things do not have to be done by themselves, there are outsiders to do it, but someone has to command.

Regardless of the things at home, he went out to spend money to buy things without being asked, and saw that the old man had come home, and he hadn't even prepared dinner.

Xu couldn't help but blame: Third sister, you don't care about it like this, and you still spend money indiscriminately, you can't live this life?

Wang doesn't care, eldest sister, aren't you at home, just arrange it.

Oops, you've grown up, and you're still commanding me! No one gives you money for what you buy!

Don't worry, this girl's mother's family has money, not your Yang family!

You and I don't give in to each other, from arguing to scolding, and almost moved.

At this time, Yang Yuandao came back. Shouted: Okay, stop me.

After asking the reason, Yang Yuandao criticized the Wang family: Ah Fang, you too, you have to arrange for your subordinates to do things at home, and you have to say something when you buy things.

Originally, the little money I gave was not enough to buy rouge, I was given by my mother, or the prefect.

Yang Yuandao was angry when he heard it, what's wrong? Still back! Such a big yard can't hold you anymore. Don't want to get out of here!

When Wang heard this, tears came down the ground. Last night, the two of them returned you and me, loved you to death, and wanted to become a person, and said such ruthless words in the blink of an eye, how could it not make people despair.

So he ran to the backyard with his feet up and jumped into the lotus pond. Thanks to the servant, he followed and went into the water and fished it up.

When the Pingjiang Prefecture Sihu joined the army and learned the news of Kunshan, he went to Changshu County and explained the matter to Changshu County. Chang familiar with the county immediately confessed, and it didn't take three days to bring the two to the county office.

As soon as Chen and Sun walked into the lobby, they thought that the Xu Mansion had sent someone to arrest them, so they were shocked and their legs and feet were weak.

Chang Shuxian did not let them kneel down and told them: Lord Zhang of Pingjiang Mansion has something to ask you.

Zhang Senjun asked the woman first:

Honestly, what is your surname, where is your surname, where is you, how old is you, and what have you done in the capital?

The woman bowed her head and replied: The slave family's surname is Sun, the name is Cuicui, a native of Sun Zhuang, Taicang County, four in Chinese New Year's Eve this year, and was previously at the home of Xu Shilang of the Kyoto Criminal Department.

Really?

Seriously, there is no lie.

Then let me ask you again, you are a servant in the Xu family, did you inform the master when you left?

Sun was surprised, obviously she was a concubine in the Xu Mansion, how could she say that she was a servant? Oh, it must be that Xu Fu is afraid of losing people to say so.

My lord, the slave family left in a hurry and did not inform the master.

Did you take anything you shouldn't have taken when you left?

Tell your lord, when the slave family left, they took away my clothes, some gold and silver hand ornaments, and more than 100 Jiaozi from the master's study.

In addition to these, I didn't take other things in the study, such as inkstone calligraphy and paintings.

There is a good inkstone in Xu Pingyang's study, which is said to be worth thousands of taels of silver, but the Sun family did not dare to take it. Then he replied, my lord knew that the slave family did not take the inkstone, but only took a poem manuscript.

Master Zhang asked the man again: Honestly, what is the surname, where is it from, how old is it, and what has he done in the capital?

Tell the adult, the villain's surname is Chen, the single name is Fei, there are six out of thirty, a native of Pontoon Town, Taicang County, and he used to be a cook in Lin'an Cyclamen.

So what is your relationship with Sun? Why did you leave?

Sun and I are husband and wife, and I heard that my father was sick and secretly left the capital.

It turned out that Yang Yuandao only told Zhang Senjun that Sun was a servant of the Xu family, eloped with a cook, and stole a very valuable scroll. Now the Xu family doesn't care about anything else, they just want to get back to the book.

Zhang Shenjun's tone was aggravated: Chen Fei, you are not honest, you said that you are husband and wife, and the official asked you, who is the matchmaker? When did you get married? Who testifies???

Back to the master, the little one should be damned, I met Sun in private and got married secretly.

Have you seen what Sun stole back? Tell a lie, but you will be punished.

To tell me the truth, Sun took the scroll to me, saying that it was very valuable, and he was afraid that the master would find out, so he spent two hangings of money to make people copy one and put it back in the study.

So really?

Let's sell it.

Well, you two dogs and men, unmatched, unlicensed, hooked up and adulterated, and stole the owner's valuables, what crime should you be guilty of?! If it is not recovered, the magistrate will be convicted of the crime.

But he said that after the Wang family was rescued, Yang Yuandao patted her and said something to say, don't be like this, it's scary. Although Xu didn't say anything, his disgust always came out unnaturally. Seeing this, Wang went back to his parents' house.

A few days later, Wang's father and brother came, and after paying the loss, he put forward a condition to Yang Yuandao: the Wang family paid for the purchase of a house in Pingjiang Mansion, and let the Wang family live in it, and Yang Zhifu often went to spend the night.

Yang Yuandao refused: The family lives in two places.

Seeing that my father-in-law's expression was unnatural, I slowed down my breath, and it was not that the five-grade prefect couldn't take out the money. Mainly for the long term. When a family is together, it is inevitable that there will be contradictions, don't take it to heart, it's over when it's over, and don't meet after you separate?

The father-in-law said apologetically, my daughter was used to being bad when she was a child, and she said that she couldn't get along with her eldest sister, and if she didn't live separately, she wouldn't come back.

Yang Yuandao was angry, and if he didn't come back to pull it down, my Yang family had no precedent for several generations.

Afterwards, Xu complained that her husband would not be flexible, and Yang Yuandao said: How can you be flexible? If there is one, there are two, and some people just don't know what to do. Remember, in this life and this life, I, Yang, will never marry a concubine again.