Zhao Ji left the palace today, not to do anything unseemly, but directly with the guards and eunuchs, although they are all in civilian clothes, the team is also huge, there are dozens of people in the open and in the dark.

The group went out of Donghua Gate and went straight to the mansion of Wang Hao in the inner city. Zhao Ji was on the horse, but Wang Hao could only sit in a sedan chair.

In the inner city, there are either yamen or Taoist temples everywhere, or the mansions of dignitaries. It's not that the inner city is full of people, naturally there are many domestic slaves and ordinary officials.

When Zhao Ji arrived at Wang Huang's mansion, his mood was not so bad, especially when he saw that there were plaques written by himself everywhere, and his mood was also very good. As he walked inside, he said, "If you really grow Yuzhi in your house, why don't you stew a pot of Ganoderma lucidum white fungus soup today?" ”

Wang Hao said with a smile on his face: "The official family has ordered." ”

When he arrived at Wang Huang's house, his title changed, from His Majesty to an official family. In fact, the official family also contains the meaning of the divine authority of the monarch, but the word "official family" actually also contains the meaning of selflessness. Of course, all this is just a good wish.

The other explanation may be more apt and a little more practical. Those who are "official" cover the public. It is to govern the people.

Wang Hao took Zhao Ji through the outer courtyard, which is the middle courtyard, and the left side of the courtyard has recently added a path leading directly to the courtyard wall on the side, and the courtyard wall is naturally a small door, and on the other side of the small door is the mansion of the eunuch Liang Shicheng.

After Zhao Ji passed through the middle courtyard, his eyes stared at the small door at the end of the path for a few moments, and his face suddenly changed greatly. It's not the first time that Zhao Ji from Wang Huang's family has come, and Zhao Ji knows who is next door, but it is this path leading to the small door of the courtyard wall that has caused waves in Zhao Ji's heart.

Wang Hao didn't notice the change in Zhao Ji's complexion, he only led the way on the side, and said with a smile: "Official, you still need to go forward, in the inner courtyard, no one has noticed it for a long time, and it was only seen by the subordinates today." ”

Zhao Ji didn't say anything, his face became more and more ugly, and he went to the inner courtyard with Wang Haozuo's invitation.

Entering the inner courtyard, walking to the side of the courtyard wall, at the end of a path that had just been cleared, there was a pine tree, and under the pine tree, the jade lingzhi really grew there.

Zhao Ji glanced at it a few times and said, "Well, it's really strange. It's just a matter of seeing, I will go back to the palace today. ”

After saying that, Zhao Ji turned around and left, Wang Huang's face was stunned, and he hurriedly followed a few steps and asked, "The official family doesn't have more time today?" The minister also prepared many programs to relieve the boredom of the officials. ”

Zhao Ji didn't look back, but said: "Don't stay more, you are at home, you don't need to send more, there will be a holy decree to your home tomorrow." ”

When Wang Huang heard this, he didn't think much about it, and thought that this holy decree was probably related to this jade lingzhi, and the emperor Zhao Ji was the leader of the Taoist Monarch, and he was more enthusiastic about things like auspiciousness.

"Respectfully to Your Majesty." Wang Huang followed the side road, and sent Zhao Ji out of the door.

It wasn't until the door that Zhao Ji got into the carriage without looking back, and Wang Hao felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong.

Cangzhou Qingchi City.

Zheng Zhi took Li Shishi and Lao Hu and several other retired veterans from Jingluo Mansion to the Hawker Inn in the south of the city.

Lao Hu stepped forward to ask Xiao Er, knowing that this Yi'an monk was meeting guests in the hall on the second floor, and led Zheng Zhi to the second floor.

On the second floor, there were more than 20 people sitting upright in the hall, all of them talking and laughing, and a middle-aged couple was sitting at the head, and there were Confucian scholars and literati on the left and right.

Although there is no silk and bamboo music, and there is no other luxury, only a few cups of tea, the atmosphere is even more good.

The couple in front of the head are naturally Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao, Zheng Zhi just went up to the second floor, and heard Zhao Mingcheng speak: "I have seen Cai Xianggong's Cao E monument with my own eyes, and the handwriting is powerful. It's just a little bit worse. ”

"Oh? Cai Xianggong's handwriting is a little worse, where has Brother Zhao seen a better inscription? One asked.

Zhao Mingcheng picked up the tea and took a sip, nodded and said, "The word of the book saint, how is it compared to Cai Xianggong?" ”

Cao E, the filial daughter of the Eastern Han Dynasty, her father was full of drowning, Cao E cried by the river for 17 days, committed suicide by throwing herself into the water, and five days later, Cao E's body surfaced with her father's body and moved the world.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Emperor Yu ordered to thank him for his filial piety and asked someone to make an inscription for him. Cai Yong, the father of Cai Wenji, wrote the text in handwriting, engraved on the inscription, and Cai Yong was the first person to write calligraphy at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. This inscription is a masterpiece of gold and stone, but it has since been lost. Then to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the sage Wang Xizhi copied the text as a monument, which was also a superb work, and later it was also lost. In the eighth year of Yuanyou in the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi's son-in-law and Cai Jing's younger brother Cai Bian rewrote the text again as a stele.

The Cai Xianggong that Zhao Mingcheng said is naturally Cai Bian, not Cai Jing. Cai Bian's calligraphy is also excellent, not much worse than Cai Jing.

Zheng Zhi saw that everyone was talking very engagedly, but he didn't bother with anything, and only sat down at the end of the hall.

Zhao Mingcheng's words shocked everyone on the left and right, and the person who spoke in front of him asked again: "Brother Zhao, haven't you even seen the inscription of the book saint Wang Xizhi with your own eyes?" ”

Zhao Mingcheng has a deep attainment in the way of gold and stone, for which the family wealth of the couple is scattered, and he is the author of "Jinshi Lu" handed down for thousands of years, leaving extremely important historical materials for later research. I only heard Zhao Mingcheng reply: "I didn't have a chance to see the inscription of the sage, but it was a rubbing silk book that happened by chance, and I was lucky enough to be included in my home, and I was very lucky." ”

The people on the left and right were shocked when they heard this, and someone hurriedly said: "Brother Zhao can bring this silk book?" ”

The silk copy of Wang Xizhi's Cao E tablet handwriting is also handed down for thousands of years, and it is also collected in the Liaoning Museum in later generations. Zhao Mingcheng is the proudest thing in his life is the matter of gold and stone, seeing the left and right surprised, he said proudly: "This time to Cangzhou, but did not bring, if you have time, he is in Qingzhou, you can go to your home to admire, if you also have fine products in your hands, you can bring them to Qingzhou, and copy a few pictures below, which can be exchanged with it." ”

Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao are not much now, and the only way to collect is to barter.

"Brother Zhao is copying, he must have won a few of them, and he will not lose anything, and he will bring some gold and stone beauties to visit Qingzhou every day. If you can see Cai Yong's handwriting, you will have no regrets about dying. "The person who spoke was in high spirits, and he thought that he was also a person in the way.

"Cai Yong's handwritten book is afraid that he will not have the opportunity to see it in this life, and he has traveled all over the place, but there is no news, and he is a big regret in his life." Zhao Mingcheng heard Cai Yong with a look of regret.

Another person asked: "Brother Zhao, I heard about it now, saying that Wei Wu Cao Cao and Yang Xiu had seen the Cao E inscription in Cai Yong's handwriting, but they didn't know whether it was true or not. ”

Zhao Mingcheng shook his head when he heard this, and said: "I have also heard about this matter, that is, Yang Xiu and Wei Wu still have a dispute over anagrams, which is really a human fabrication, Cao E's tablet is in Huiji (Suzhou to Shaoxing and other places), Wei Wu has never been to Jiangnan in his life, how to see this inscription." ”

When this person heard this, he suddenly realized and said: "Brother Zhao is still a profound attainment, and the original way is made up by people. Thank you, Brother Zhao, for your doubts. ”

Zheng Zhi had been confused all the time, and only then did he understand what was going on. It turns out that this Cao E monument is an allusion to Yang Xiu's quick thinking and fast Cao Cao thirty miles in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Cao Cao and Yang Xiu passed by Cao E under the stele together, there are eight big characters on the stele "yellow silk young woman, grandson Yan mortar", it is an anagram, Yang Xiu immediately solved, Cao Cao did not solve the anagram until he walked out of thirty miles.

Yellow is the color, silk is the silk, and the color is the "absolute". A young woman is a maiden, and a maiden is "wonderful." The grandson is the son of a daughter, and the woman is "good". Mortar is a tool for grinding spices, spicy, bitter and sweet, bitter and bitter for "words", and ancient "words" are also used as "relic".

It's a "great word".

Zheng Zhi always thought that this allusion in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was true, and only after listening to Zhao Mingcheng's words did he know that this allusion was originally made up. In fact, this story was first published in "The World Speaks New Language", and "The World Says New Language" was written in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the original inclusion was also wrong.

Zheng Zhi had no impression of Li Qingzhao's husband Zhao Mingcheng, but at this time, he was a little overlooked, and the attitude of the ancients was really charming.

After the topic was almost discussed, Zheng Zhi got up and arched his hand and said: "Under Zheng Zhi, I have seen Brother Zhao and Yi'an Jushi." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Mingcheng hurriedly stood up and saluted respectfully: "I've seen Zheng Xianggong." ”

Li Qingzhao also hurriedly got up and said, "Zheng Xianggong is polite!" ”

To say that the two of them are now one in forty and one in thirty and eight, and most of their lives have passed. It is also a great fortune in life to study so freely. However, there is also the Jingkang disaster, which is really rain and duckweed, and he has been exiled all the way south from Shandong, and the hardships are also innumerable. Zhao Mingcheng became an official again not long after, and before Jingkang, he also served as the governor of Laizhou and Zizhou, and then the Jin people were raging.

The local literati in Cangzhou on the left and right all got up to pay their respects, and Zheng Zhi bowed politely. Zhao Mingcheng hurriedly gave up the first seat and Zheng Zhi.

Zheng Zhi was naturally disrespectful, and after sitting down, he spoke: "The virtuous couple arrived in Cangzhou, and they were disappointed in the future, so please forgive me." ”

Zheng Zhi unconsciously has more respect for literati like Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao. This couple also deserves the respect of Zheng Zhi and the respect of Chinese for thousands of years.

In Zheng Zhi's heart, there are only two kinds of literati, one is to be successful in learning, such as Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao, "Jinshi Lu" has been inherited for thousands of years, providing important historical references for future generations of scholars, and the lyrics are more moving. The other is to have good governance, such as Wang Anshi. Only these two literati can be called literati, and the rest of the literate people are like thieves.

Zheng Zhi's etiquette made Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao a lot less restrained, and the two also exchanged a few words.

After greetings, Li Qingzhao opened his mouth and said: "I often hear that Xianggong is a masterpiece, and I have the heart to visit early, and I don't leave until I smell a golden thread again. The little girl also likes to write a lot of words, and often comes out, and asks the minister to give advice. ”