Chapter 25: The Dwarf Pine Garden

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the poem "When is the Bright Moon" at the poetry meeting went viral in Qingzhou City, Jingdong East Road, and further away at a very fast speed. What followed was that more people knew that Qingzhou had a great talent who was indifferent to fame and fortune, hidden in the city, and had the legacy of the Wei and Jin dynasties. There are all kinds of descriptions in the rumors, as if Liu Xu is not said to be a Wenqu star, which is not enough to show his talent.

Every time Liu Xu heard the rumors, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. Brother is not indifferent to fame and fortune, brother really wants to be famous, and brother is also like jumping out to admit that he wrote the poem, but brother doesn't have the guts. With this bit of literary skills, if you really slap your swollen face and become a talent, it is estimated that it will not take a few days to be withdrawn back to its original form.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Liu Xu's life returned to peace.

still gets up early every day to exercise his body, occasionally goes to the winery to guide Erzhu and the plug to make wine, and sometimes goes to Xu Jin'er to talk, but the winery documents have not been approved, Liu Xu is a little secretly anxious.

When Liu Xu ran to the Changting every day, he would still stop and play a few games with Cui Lao. Of course, Cui Lao inevitably asked Liu Xu whether he made the lyrics. Cui Lao's question was perfunctory by Liu Xu's ambiguous answer, and Cui Lao did not ask. Of course, he will have a way to know if Liu Xu did it.

Every time he passes by the small building where Yunzhu lives, Liu Xu can't help but think of Yunzhu's wonderful singing and dancing that night, and occasionally there will be a few guzheng sounds from the small building, which is melodious and pleasant. Liu Xu sometimes wanted to go up to see Yunzhu, but remembered that his wine shop paperwork had not been approved yet, and he couldn't go to her to help sell wine, Liu Xu had no excuse to go to the small building for the time being, so he tried to hold back. Liu Xu sometimes couldn't help but feel very sorry for Xu Jin'er, he obviously had a fiancée, and the shadow of other women often appeared in his mind. Liu Xu, who came from later generations, has not yet accepted the social concept of polygamy in the Great Song Dynasty, although he will occasionally lust for a happy life full of wives and concubines, but in his bones Liu Xu still respects monogamy.

Today, Liu Xu went for a run as usual, and then played a few games with Cui Lao, and on the way back, Liu Xu decided to go to Wang Zongyuan's house and ask him to help find Master Bai to ask how the matter of the wine shop was going. So Liu Xu didn't go home, but went to Evenyuan Street to buy some gifts and went straight to Wang Zongyuan's house.

In the depths of Beigong Alley, the somewhat patina knocker in the courtyard of the Wang family is still hanging there secretly.

Liu Xu stepped forward to pick up the knocker and gently tapped the door a few times.

Liu Xu didn't wait for Wang Hao, who had two horns, to open the door as usual. Liu Xu picked up the knocker and slapped it a few more times, but there was still no movement to answer the door. Liu Xu was a little surprised, every time he came to visit before, he knocked on the door a few times, and Wang Hao would come to open the door.

Just when Liu Xu was a little strange, a somewhat old voice sounded: "Little brother, are you looking for the king's teaching?" ”

Liu Xu looked back and saw a white-haired old man standing not far away, and hurriedly said, "Dare to ask the old man, is there no one in the Wang Sect's family?" ”

"I'm afraid I'm teaching at the county school at this hour, I'm a neighbor of Wang Jiaoyu's family, it seems that I heard that Xiaohao was also taken to the county school by Wang Jiaoyu recently, and Brother Zeng seems to have gone to study in the dwarf pine garden, I'm afraid there is no one at home."

"Oh, I see, thank you, uncle."

"No thanks."

After Liu Xu waited for the old man to leave, he thought: Today, it seems that Wang Zongyuan has no time to help him ask Master Bai. It's better to go to the Dwarf Pine Garden to meet Wang Zeng, and by the way, let him give a plaque, and then see if you can meet his teacher, the cowman Zhang Zhen. His intention for today's visit is to let Wang Zeng bring it to his uncle.

Liu Xu came to this era, and his familiar friends were Wang Zeng and Ning Hao. Ning Hao hangs out in the martial arts hall every day, and he can see it every day, but Wang Zeng has not seen it since he bought a painting on Qinyuan Street last time. If Liu Xu just started to have a casual relationship with Wang Zeng, it was based on Wang Zeng's great fame in history and wanted to hug his thighs, then after several contacts and interactions with Wang Zeng, Liu Xu already deeply believed that Wang Zeng was a good friend to make. Although Wang Zeng is two years younger than himself, he is kind and straightforward, and has a wide range of knowledge, and he is involved in various families, and Liu Xu can talk to him very well.

Liu Xu said to go to the side, carrying a few tubes of xuan pens and a few pieces of ink bought on Dolyuan Street, and went straight to the dwarf pine garden.

Dwarf Pine Garden is located in Nanyang City in Qingzhou.

Although Liu Xu has been in Qingzhou for almost two months, Nanyang City has rarely come over, and after a long period of inquiry, he found the dwarf pine garden located on Yuntuo Street.

There are many famous mountains in Qingzhou, among which Yunmen Mountain and Camel Mountain are the most famous. And this Yuntuo Street in Qingzhou City is also very wide, a Nanyang Bridge spans both sides of the Nanyang River, making Yuntuo Street accessible from north to south. The widest and most important street in Qingzhou City is Haidai Street. The name of Haidai comes from "Yu Gong" "Haidai Wei Qingzhou", which used to be Qingzhou east to the sea and west to Mount Tai. The name is derived from the Yuntuo Street, which is the second street of Qingzhou. Yuntuo Street is lined with pavilions and shops, row upon row, and its buildings are all eaves and arches, carved beams and painted buildings, and the prosperity of Yuntuo Street can be seen.

Liu Xu walked into the dwarf pine garden.

As soon as I entered the dwarf pine garden, I saw two ancient pines planted together, with short stems and broad branches, and it was difficult for the two to hug each other. Liu Xu couldn't help but sigh, these two ancient pines are afraid that they are thousands of years old, no wonder this academy is called Dwarf Pine Garden. The academy has white walls and green tiles, simple and elegant, but it is a good place.

Qingzhou Dwarf Pine Garden, at this time is very famous, for the Great Song Dynasty official school, the first of the four small academies. Dwarf Pine Garden was renamed Songlin Academy during the Ming Zhengde period, and it was still named after pine, and in its own era, it became Qingzhou No. 1 Middle School. When Liu Xu went to Qingzhou for a meeting in later generations, he read the travel guide of Qingzhou, and it is said that these two ancient pines still existed until his own time. Liu Xu couldn't help but sigh, the morning fungus doesn't know the obscurity, the cockroach cricket doesn't know the spring and autumn, and the hurried hundred years of people, in front of these two ancient pines that have witnessed thousands of years, what is it.

Liu Xu couldn't help but be interested, but he was not in a hurry to see Wang Zeng, so he wandered around Shi Shiran in the dwarf pine garden.

In the dwarf pine garden, the courtyard and pavilion in the garden, the verandah path winds in the middle, and a water surrounds the garden. Liu Xu walked across the small bridge, trickling under the feet, reflecting the scenery in the garden, the breeze blowing, the reflection is virtual and swaying, it is very interesting. There are many osmanthus trees planted all over the courtyard, and August is the time when the osmanthus flowers are fragrant, and the garden is full of fragrance. Liu Xu couldn't help but sigh that the design of a small dwarf pine garden is so chic, and the prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty can also be glimpsed from here. No wonder Zhang Zhen, a bull, will settle down to teach in the dwarf pine garden, which is really good here. Liu Xu suddenly remembered that Wang Zeng seemed to have made a poem "Dwarf Pine Garden Fu" when he was demoted to Qingzhou Zhizhou later, and he didn't know how he would react if he chanted this poem with him later. But Liu Xu just thought about it, Liu Xu really didn't remember the song "Dwarf Pine Garden Fu".

The garden is very quiet, and only the sound of autumn cicadas can be heard. Liu Xu was wandering, and suddenly heard a voice coming, and only one person said loudly: "The Tao is good, the very way." The name is famous, and the name is not very famous. The so-called way of heaven and earth is actually the way that everyone can get, but all things in the world, the way of the Tao, are not the way of eternity. Everything has life, and naturally there is death. In fact, this principle of impermanence in the world is the way of all things in heaven and earth. Therefore, the so-called Confucianism is not constant, everything in the world is changing, and the theorems of the past may not all work in the present, so everyone must learn to think, have their own opinions, and live and learn according to the current situation."

Liu Xu couldn't help but be a little curious when he heard the explanation of Confucianism with Taoism, and looked in the direction where the voice came from, but saw that a small pavilion surrounded by clear water was full of people, and there were many people standing outside the pavilion, all of whom were listening to an old man in Tsing Yi. The old man was wearing a cyan robe (an ancient household robe, with large collared sleeves and a rimmed robe), with a bun on his head, dressed casually, but he looked a little fairy-like. Liu Xu glanced at the crowd listening, and found that Wang Zeng was sitting in front of the old man, listening carefully to the old man's lecture.

Liu Xu sounded that listening to this old man's explanation was a little different from the traditional Confucian teaching, but found a different way to teach everyone.

Liu Xu was about to walk towards the small pavilion, but heard the old man say: "That's all for today's class, let's disperse, Wang Zeng will stay for a while." ”

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