Chapter 23: Untitled
After leaving Jinhua to guard the Thousand Households, Chen Wen lost interest in continuing to talk nonsense with Cao Conglong, and hurriedly rushed to a mansion in the east of the city.
This mansion is hidden in the small alley in the east of the city, it is very quiet, and the servants and servants in the house are no different from the subordinates of other large families in terms of dress, so that only a few people in the entire Jinhua Mansion know that it is the family of important people such as Wang Jiang's mother, wife and Wang Yi's daughter.
Even those subordinates, in fact, in addition to the ones they brought from Dalan Mountain and Tiantai Mountain, were all reliable candidates specially recruited by Chen Wen and Sun Yu, and several of the guards were veterans from the Nantang Battalion, who were responsible for protecting their safety.
After entering the mansion, Chen Wen went straight to the house where Wang Jiang's mother and wife lived. The news that Wang Jiang was captured and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty came, and somehow Wang Jiang's mother learned that he couldn't afford to be ill, and the doctor only said that it was a heart disease after seeing it, but the heart disease also needed heart medicine, and Wang Jiang could not come back, and the heart disease would sooner or later evolve into a serious disease, so that he would die.
And in history, it seems that it was because Wang Jiang's mother was captured, and Wang Jiang was forced to surrender to the Qing Dynasty that led to his mother's depression, and now Wang Jiang's mother was not captured, but Wang Jiang was captured.
When she saw Wang Jiang's mother, the old lady still had a sick look on her face, and after a few casual greetings, Chen Wen took out Wang Jiang's handwriting and handed it to his mother.
Although Wang Jiang's mother only read textbooks such as "The Female Commandment", "The Internal Training", and "The Analects of the Woman" when she was in the boudoir, she was also literate and hyphenated. Reaching out to take the handwritten letter written by Wang Jiang to Chen Wen, Wang Jiang's mother saw the handwriting of her own child at first, and tears immediately poured into her eyes, but after reading it carefully, she soon became angry. The tears of a "rebel" really scared her daughter-in-law standing beside her.
After Wang Jiang's mother finished reading it thoroughly, she raised her head and was about to ask Chen Wen where this letter came from, but she heard Chen Wen say: "The last general suggested that the old Fengjun read it again, just look at the second one, and the last line should be looked from left to right." ”
Wang Jiang's mother looked at Chen Wen with confusion. She put the other two aside, picked up the second one, and read it out word for word, which she was very unaccustomed to, but the sound was still only heard by her.
"No, I, will, don't, drop."
Connected in this way, Wang Jiang's mother reacted immediately, and tears welled up in her eyes again. It's just that this time it was a tear of relief, and it instantly infected her daughter-in-law and Chen Wen.
The characters of this era are written from right to left, from top to bottom, while Chen Wen's past Chinese characters are written horizontally from left to right, this huge difference makes him very uncomfortable at the beginning of this era, but because he cannot deviate from the times, he forced himself to get used to the habits of this era. But for others in this era, it is extremely difficult.
The reason why Wang Jiang's handwriting is like this is because Chen Wen and Wang Jiang always had something to do when they were in Tiantai Mountain. But they are not particularly busy, and there is always time to sit and chat together. And in this idle and boring situation, Chen Wen occasionally mentioned that writing from left to right once does not get ink on his sleeve......
"The last general compared the words of the governor of the king in the past, the governor is simple, the font has always been small, like this paper to write five lines, the interval between the words is as large as the situation has never been. That's why. The last general kept an eye on it when he saw it, and as expected. ”
Seeing that Wang Jiang's mother had already understood the meaning, Chen Wen continued: "The last general has a thought, and I ask Lao Fengjun to approve it. ”
Hearing Chen Wen's words, Wang Jiang's mother hurriedly got up. It's just that he was stopped by Chen Wen before the salutation began, so he had to sit down again and said: "The dog is incompetent, and he bothered Chen Dashuai." If there is anything that the old body can do, just open your mouth and follow everything. ”
With the approval of Wang Jiang's mother, Chen Wen explained the plan in detail to Wang Jiang's mother and wife, Wang Jiang's mother could still accept it, but Wang Jiang's wife did not know what it meant because she had not seen the content of the letter, but just looked at her mother-in-law and Chen Wen playing dumb riddles suspiciously, but she did not ask rashly according to the rules of women in this era.
It doesn't matter if Wang Jiang's wife doesn't understand now, because Wang Jiang's mother will definitely explain it to her after Chen Wen leaves. After solving this matter, Chen Wen's already unhappy mood became more relaxed, and Wang Jiang would definitely try to escape from the Manchu control area as he did in history, and he would definitely continue to resist the Qing.
Chen Wen is convinced of this!
With a hard-won good mood, Chen Wen returned to the camp. Some time ago, he sent someone to Lanxi County to invite the talented Li Xianlu, who was praised by the scholars of Jinhua Mansion, to go out of the mountain to serve the Ming army, but the person who went to invite him brought back the news that Li Xianlu had gone to Hangzhou.
Thinking that this guy was also like Zhu Zhixi, he would rather be a lackey for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Chen Wendeng, who failed to seek talent, was furious. It's just that the person sent there took a big breath, and after saying that Li Xianlu went to Hangzhou, he remembered after a while that he had actually gone to Hangzhou as early as the fourth year of Yongli.
And there is an even more shocking news, Li Xianlu is the name of this person before the Qing army went south, and after the Qing army went south, he changed his name and number, and now his name is Li Yu, and his name is Liweng......
Li Yu is a very famous writer, dramatist, drama theorist, and aesthete in Chinese history, and is influential even in the world, and has many reputations such as "the ancestor of Chinese drama theory", "the master of world comedy", and "Oriental Shakespeare".
He has reviewed the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and revised the "Golden Plum Bottle", and his works include famous drama scripts such as "Ten Kinds of Songs of Liweng" including "Kite Mistake" and "Sympathetic Fragrance Companion", and the classic work of health care "Idle Love and Occasional Mail" and the famous ******** "******" in later generations are even more well-known to future generations.
Moreover, as far as Chen Wen knows, Li Yu has also made achievements in gardens and water conservancy, but he is only overshadowed by his brilliant brilliance in drama.
Sun Yu and Zhou Jingting's vision is indeed good, this person is very worthy of recruitment, but the problem is that Hangzhou is still in the hands of the Qing army, and he has little chance of recovering it in the past two years, and how to get Li Yu back is a very big problem.
According to the man sent by Chen Wen. He learned from one of Li Yu's relatives that Li Yu was not very happy in Hangzhou during this time, and he "sold his endowment to make ends meet", and it can even be said that he has become the first full-time writer in Chinese history to rely on "code words" to eat and eat.
So, Chen Wen sent someone to try to send him some money anonymously, and at the same time wrote a text asking him for guidance. I plan to take advantage of this line.
Yijin is nothing, when writing that text, I considered that Li Yu's "Sympathy Companion" should have been written in the past two years, and I planned to write a text in imitation of "Brokeback Mountain", but for fear of being misunderstood by Li Yu, I still copied the plot of "Titanic". It's just that the iceberg from Britain to the United States has been changed to the iceberg from Fujian to Japan, and the aristocratic girl Ruth and the poor painter Jack have become the beautiful Zhen Huan and the poor scholar Bai Zi, and even the sketch has become poetry.
After waiting for more than a month, Li Yu's reply was delivered yesterday, but the content of the reply was vulgar. In terms of plot, it is unreasonable for everyone to go to the barbarian country of Japan with her mother, and it is unreasonable for the ice to float so heavily on the water, and in the end, there is actually a boat passing by to rescue the surviving Zhen Huan and send her back to her hometown without selling her into slavery like other maritime merchants, which is even more unreasonable, so it is recommended to rewrite.
After reading this reply, Chen Wen couldn't help but scold. It's not to recruit talents, he has a problem with wasting time writing this, and he doesn't think about the black technology that is more beneficial to the war, and now he has such an evaluation after writing an article, which is really angry.
Thereupon. Chen Wen threw the letter aside, and he happened to be in a good mood today. So he planned to change his thinking, not to debate with Li Yu about whether the plot was reasonable, but to tell him why the ice floated on the water, and set the background of the times before and after the change of Yashan Mountain......
When Chen Wen began to write hard, it was already nightfall. In Jinhua City, the Zhou family and the in-laws have already completed the move. Under the control of the servant women at home, the courtyard and rooms were also cleaned and moved in.
In a small courtyard near the left of the garden of the back house, a woman dressed in a girl's house is holding a book in the boudoir and looking through it for many years, but she is specially wrapped in good paper for fear of damage. At this moment, he is even more lazily leaning on the edge of the stepping bed and reading carefully.
At a glance, I saw that the woman was dressed in white and decorated with Su embroidered cold plums, which seemed to be the handwriting of a famous artist. A bracelet of Hetian white jade on the wrist is mixed with the skin, I don't know where it is Sheng Xue white jade, where is Qianqian's hand. Maybe it was at home, the woman didn't apply powder without makeup, but like the wind blowing the jade tree, the snow wrapped in Qiongbud, and under the eternal red face, she faded away from the cheesy and tiredness. Just look closely, only those eyes are a little too clear, as if you can see into the hearts of others.
The woman looked at it for a few more moments, until there was a sound of someone walking outside the door, and then she got up and placed the book gently on the dresser. Not surprisingly, there was a knock on her door. When the people outside the door were allowed to enter, it was Zhou Jingting and his wife.
"Your brother also said that the concubine should rest, but the concubine wanted to move, so he bothered the little sister."
"Sister-in-law, what are you talking about?"
Zhou Jingting's wife has been pregnant for a long time, and now she is even more pregnant, and she gently sat on the chair brought by the little sister of the Zhou family, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, as if she had accomplished a great feat.
Zhou Jingting turned to his sister when he saw his wife sitting down, but at first glance, he saw the books on the dresser, and he couldn't help but feel a little unhappy. At least in his opinion, his little sister is still reluctant to marry after the age of double ten, obviously because she has read too many books, and she will be bewitched by those heresies to push away those many good marriages, and she has almost become an old girl who can't get married.
At this moment, seeing the familiar cover here, I naturally feel that it is an eyesore. It's just that his little sister has always been smart and well-behaved, even if she is angry, Zhou Jingting doesn't want to sprinkle it on her, but she is even more relieved when she thinks that the author of the book was executed by the Ming Court.
Seeing that Zhou Jingting showed a little displeasure, the little sister of the Zhou family casually put the book into the drawer, and then began to change the topic. "Brother, my little sister saw that Chen Dashuai today, and she is really very human, and my brother is really a hero."
Hearing this, Zhou Jingting shook his head with a smile, changing the topic was his sister's usual trick, and he didn't know how. It's just that since Chen Wen was mentioned, he himself was very satisfied. This marshal is very different from ordinary generals, he is almost busy every day, and even the rest time seems to be thinking about how to act, I really don't know what kind of belief support this person has in his heart to be so desperate.
At least in his opinion, this is a real person, and only such a person can lead everyone to drive out the Tartars and recover the mountains and rivers of the Han family.
It's just that at this moment, I heard the little sister of the Zhou family say with some worry: "It's just that the little sister thinks that this Chen Dashuai may be far from being as simple as he shows, and what is hidden under the painted skin is likely to be dangerous and abnormal, and it is better for my brother to be careful with him on weekdays." ”
Common sense is a demon, this kind of thinking is normal, not only the little sister of the Zhou family, but even Zhou Jingting feels the same, but he has never mentioned it to others. Now that it is said by my sister who has only seen Chen Wen once from afar, this worry is immediately contagious.
"That's why little sister, you must go back to Fucheng with your family to live?"
Seeing that her sister-in-law had this question, the little sister of the Zhou family knew very well that her sister-in-law was pregnant with Liujia at the moment, and she was very unhappy about the bumps and fatigue of this road, but it was only taken by her brother that she never had a seizure. Now that she opened her mouth to communicate, she bluntly made it clear.
"Not exactly. The reason why Xiaomei wants our family to go back to Fucheng to live is just because Chen Dashuai is requisitioning wasteland now, and this Jinhua Mansion will be a big mess sooner or later. When the time comes, the countryside is not as safe as the city. ”
Hearing this, Zhou Jingting's wife stood up and immediately asked, "Then ...... your brother?"
"Sister-in-law doesn't need to worry, then Chen Dashuai is full of tigers and wolves, and even Tartars are not opponents, can a few country tyrants still be able to turn the sky? Unless ......"
When she married into the Zhou family, she heard her husband say that her sister-in-law was very smart, and she was very accurate in appreciating people and things, and the last time she went out of the city in advance to avoid trouble, it was an example. If they hadn't left the city at that time, the Qing army would have set fire everywhere to prevent the enemy from being able to evacuate, and everyone in the house would have been quite damaged. After hearing the first half of the sentence, Zhou Jingting's wife finally felt a little relieved, but the second half of the sentence re-awakened her heart.
"Unless what?"
"It's nothing, maybe my little sister is thinking about it." After that, the little sister of the Zhou family hesitated for a moment, and then asked Zhou Jingting: "Brother, I remember you said that this Chen Dashuai once lived in the house of Governor Sun, and the relationship between the two was extremely harmonious, but is there such a thing?" ”
"yes."
"So, the family members of Governor Sun's Mansion live in the back house of the government as usual?"
"Exactly."
After getting a positive answer, the little sister of the Zhou family smiled, and then said: "Then please ask my brother to convey it to Governor Sun tomorrow, my little sister wants to visit Sister Yi these days, I don't know if it's okay?" (To be continued.) )