"When dealing with government affairs, it is inevitable to encounter such a dilemma, and to compromise with the eunuchs will offend colleagues. If you don't compromise, you offend the eunuch again. This kind of hot hand problem, if you push it up, you have to offend your boss. Shen said softly.

"Yes." Lu Kun nodded and said: "If it is not handled well, it may be that Zhu Bajie looks in the mirror and is not a person inside and out." Saying that, he smiled slyly and said: "But I believe in one, everything in the world, since it has happened, there must be a solution, don't you come to Brother Qin to ask for a plan." ”

"In this case, if you don't want to be bō, don't take the initiative to intervene in the conflict and disputes, especially don't take a public stance on non-issues." Shen said slowly.

"Can you get out of the way?" Lu Kun frowned and said, "The first stop of those weaving eunuchs is Shanghai Beach. ”

"How many days are left in Shanghai?"

"Ten days and half a month."

"There's enough time, you get the word out." Shen Mo smiled and said, "As long as those silk merchants hear the news, they will be sure to clear the goods as soon as possible." ”

"Then how do you deal with the weaving eunuch?" Lu Kun said: "You tell me more details, we have always walked sideways in Siam, and we have not crossed the river with eggs like now." ”

"First of all, I must sincerely express my full support for the errand in the palace and never let my father-in-law down." Shen Mo smiled: "On the basis of expressing my position, when I talk about specific things, I will tell them with regret that because it is too late to receive the holy decree, Shanghai's silk has already been exported, and we have to wait until the spring of next year to draw silk and spin silk." ”

"They are definitely going to go crazy, and you come again to "clear the heat and disperse" to imply that they are rude and unconvinced by Wang Hua, and do not use jī Lie means unless they have to. In the end, I want to give them a "reassuring pill" and tell them that everything is under their control, and the major silk factories in Shanghai next year will definitely give priority to completing the tasks in the palace. After a pause, he continued: "Stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person, how to have a good relationship with the eunuch, I believe I don't need to say much." But pay attention to the difference between inside and outside, you are a civil official, don't get too close to the eunuchs, contact should be less and fine, you might as well spend a full amount of money at one time. ”

"In short, one purpose, to invite these plague gods out of Shanghai." said silently: "Let them go elsewhere to make trouble, there must be explosive wars elsewhere, and when things get bigger, they will have a high top, and there will be nothing to do with you." ”

"Listening to you, it's like an old fritter who has been in officialdom all his life." Lu Kun's eyes straightened when he heard this.

"This is just saving Lu Xiong alone, but it doesn't help the overall situation." Shen Mo said with no joy on his face: "Last year's draft, this year's weaving, the eunuchs can't eat the fat of the southeast, and they won't stop." ”

"Can't you cure those eunuchs?" Lu Kun said indignantly: "In the peaceful and prosperous world, Jiangnan Heaven, why did you break into such a group of wolves? ”

"Yes, as long as Brother Lu is not afraid of getting into trouble." Shen Mo said lightly.

"Uh" Lu Kun smiled a little awkwardly, "You know, I have to listen to the Han family." ”

Shen Mo smiled and nodded, and didn't say anything more. If it weren't for the fact that these big families always want to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and never have a firm attitude, why would they hide their names and lie dormant here?

…… One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One ......, one ...... One............ One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... The visit of the prefect of Yilu broke the silent and peaceful life, and from time to time celebrities and literati came to visit him and talk with him. There are often invitations sent to him, inviting him to attend tea parties, poetry clubs, etc., for such invitations, Shen Mo has always ignored them.

But that night, he found a special dress with white cloth and black edge, and compared it in front of the mirror, and the third lady asked curiously: "Is this a deep coat?" "I see all kinds of fancy clothes all day long, and this kind of clothes with a strong classical charm is not common.

"Yes. This is the deep coat of the Zhou Dynasty. You see, this is the round coat, this is the square neck, this is the belt, this is the gentleman," Shen Mo explained as he straightened his clothes.

"Oh" Zizhang Shu Zhugentry, it is written on this. After that, he picked up the eyebrow pencil from the case and wrote two neat words on it: "Sè difficult,."

Shen Mo looked at the ivory-white beam of gentry, two black words were written, and he couldn't help but glare: "Zhang Yi returned the book back then, do you want to try?" ”

"Shame on you!" The third lady couldn't resist it, so she quickly dodged.

After a silent brush, it was still not clean, and I couldn't find another one at home, so I had to tie it on the other side.

Seeing that he was a little depressed, the third lady hurriedly came over and said, "At most, when you come back, let you read that...... Not yet? ”

Shen Mo shook his head and sighed lightly...... It is difficult to say that you are filial to your parents. I still can't go back to Shaoxing to kowtow to my father's grave" In fact, he thought about it and secretly went back to take a look, but Tieshan told him that next to the ancestral hall and ancestral tomb of the Shen family, there is a resident of Dongchang Fanzi, and as long as someone comes to worship, he will be interrogated and silent.

Having a home and not being able to go back makes him sad every time he thinks about it.

The third lady didn't want to see him sad, so she changed the topic and said, "What are you going to do wearing this?" ”

"I'll go to Huangpu Academy tomorrow." Shen Mo whispered.

"I'll go too, I'm going to suffocate to death by looking at the store all day." The third lady immediately said happily.

"I'm going to worship the ancestor Confucius, what are you going to do as a fù person." Shen Mo shook his head.

"What's wrong with the woman? I'm also a protégé! The third lady said unevenly: "I still advocate in the newspaper all day long that everyone is equal, and my own thoughts are more stubborn than anyone else!" ”

"I'm fasting for two days." Silent said helplessly.

"I'm eating the same as you."

"I just bathed."

"I am a fù person, and my body is self-inflicted." Saying that, she proudly sent Bai Shengsheng's arm to his nose.

Shen Mo pushed away and said, "Wow! It's because of your fragrance that you are not allowed to go! ”

"Why?"

"Lingsè! The teacher hated it. ”

"Nonsense! The doctor is seventy, gives a few sticks, takes a car, and serves as a fù person, and the gift of the Duke of Zhou is also.

Is not the Master a doctor, less than seventy? fù people are so safe also. The three ladies said with words.

Shen Mo really regretted teaching her to study, and when it came to reasoning, she could not bring the same thing all night, so she had to surrender and said: "If you don't want to be bombarded, just wear men's clothes." ”

The next day, the business of the store was handed over to the buddy to take care of it, and the two took a carriage to Huangpu Academy.

Huangpu Academy is located in a secluded place on the outskirts of the city, and the carriage went out of the city for more than ten miles to see this whitewashed wall and tiles, the stone square is towering, the pines and cypresses are verdant, and the quiet environment of the academy stands on the bank of the Huangpu River.

The layout of the academy adopts the "left temple and right learning, the shape, without entering the gate, a memorial arch stands. The two sides of the archway are inscribed with "Whampoa Academy" and "a hundred schools of thought, the inscription, when the three ladies look carefully, they find that it is a silent inscription, and they can't help but laugh and say: "Someone really loves the inscription." ”

Shen Mo couldn't help but blush, and before he could speak, he heard someone scold: "You dare to be disrespectful to Mr. Jiangnan in your later life!" But the guests who arrived together were all wearing the deep clothes of the Zhou Dynasty, and they couldn't listen to the three ladies' teasing, so they reprimanded.

The third lady glared, and she was about to have a seizure, but she was silently pulled and said: "The dog has not gone out of the door, I have to follow today, and I hope that you gentlemen will teach!" ”

"It's good to know that mistakes can be corrected." Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling man, the man also slowed down his tone and said, "Today's children are really disobedient to discipline." The two exchanged names, and silently knew that the other party's name was Xu Sicheng, and he was a person among the clouds.

"Brother Xu is here alone?"

"No, there's Inuko and his group of parishioners." Xu Sicheng pointed to a few Confucian scholars in the pavilion on the left and said, "They are reading the inscription there." As he spoke, he shouted, "Zixian, we should go in." ”

One of them, a slightly shorter Confucian student, turned his head and beckoned to the other three, and the four of them walked out of the pavilion together.

Shen Mo found that except for Xu Sicheng's son, the other three turned out to be foreigners.

"Come and see Mr. Qin." Xu Sicheng silently introduced: "This is the dog Guangqi, and the other three of his parishioners, Guo Jujing, Matteo Ricci and Xiong Sanba, who are from Taixi. ”

In this era, at least in Shanghai, it is common to see foreigners, but Shen Mo still couldn't hide his surprise, he actually saw the legendary Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci, so he looked at it twice.

The rest of the people thought that he was surprised to see the Taixi people wearing Confucian clothes, and they didn't care, and greeted him with the most standard Confucian etiquette, and his mouth was in very standard Chinese, hoping to surprise him to the end, but Shen Mo quickly regained his composure and paid a cordial salute to everyone.

When he walked inside, he asked Xu Sicheng silently and curiously: "Looking at Linglang's suit, he should be the prisoner of Beijing Guozijian." ”

"Yes, I'm back to prepare for the imperial examination." Xu Sicheng was a little sad and said: "But I only know that I don't do my job all day long, and if I go on like this, my career is worrying." ”

"Dad, how can you say that you are not doing your job?" Xu Guangqi looked like he was about thirty years old, not tall, but very energetic, he retorted with a smile: "I'm studying things, learning about things!" ”

"I've read your Physics book too." Happy, Lao Xu was very sad about this son: "It is true that there is a university question, but the problem is that the imperial examination is not Western!" "Anytime, anywhere, as long as you find an opportunity, you will teach your son.

Xu Guangqi was embarrassed, and smiled and didn't answer.

One-one-one-one! When I entered the gate, the altar had been erected, and the atmosphere became solemn. When they were too late, they stopped talking, and each of them looked for a place to stand.

Everyone looked at their noses and noses, and their noses and hearts meditated silently, so that they could be sincere and respectful when they sacrificed later. The third lady peeked curiously, and she saw that the venue was densely covered with banners, candles, and crowds. On the altar table were whole pigs, oxen, sheep, and melons.

Fruits, vegetables, vegetables, fish, meat, rice, grains and other foods are packed in ritual vessels and neatly placed in order in front of Confucius's spiritual seat. The chief priest, the attendant, the consecrated officer, and the general praise, the introduction, the praise, the

Reading Zhusheng and music and dance students and others are already in place. The heart said obediently, Confucius is really amazing, I don't know if my master will pay tribute to him like this after a hundred years......

If Shen Mo knew what she was thinking at the moment, he would definitely turn his back on her.

As soon as the auspicious time comes, the bells and drums on the field begin to sound in unison, and the participants in the solemn ceremony of sacrificing Confucius under the guidance of Tongzan, the whole process is divided into six steps: welcoming the gods, first offerings, sub-offerings, final offerings, revoking and sending gods, implying to welcome the gods of Confucius and worship the gods of Confucius, including offering silk to the spiritual seat of Confucius, offering wine, reading the blessings, and sending off the gods of Confucius.

The ** of the ceremony is the "three offerings" of the chief priest of the whole robe, after cleaning his hands in the copper basin, he bows to the incense table in front of the incense table, and performs three offerings, which are divided into the first offering, the second offering and the final offering of the first offering of the silk jue, the silk is the silk of the yellow sè, and the sacrificial text is written on it, and the jue refers to the ancient wine cup. After the sub-offering official enshrined the silk lord to the incense case, the chief priest read out and offered the sacrificial text, and then all the participants bowed to the tablet of Confucius and recited "Confucius Praise" together. Both the sub-offering and the final offering are incense offerings and wine, and the sub-dedication officials and the final offering officials respectively offer incense and wine on the incense table, and the procedure is equivalent to the initial offering.

When the third lady saw Lu Kun standing in front of the stage, she thought that he was the chief priest, but who knew that she would come to the stage at the end of the ceremony. After Lu Kun presented the knighthood, offered silk, and bowed, the music and dance students began to dance the "Six Dances." These music and dance students are all students of the academy, and they sing and dance in the music, and the Wen and Wu students hold the birds in their left hands and the feathers in their right hands, symbolizing Wende, and the Wu Wusheng holding the Gange, symbolizing martial virtue. The steady and condensed, vigorous and stretched dance posture, the simple and elegant, graceful and luxurious clothes and tenons and dances, make the first sight dazzled.

After the ceremony, the people of the academy distributed the offerings to the guests, which was said to be protected by Confucius and increased in wisdom.

This can be said to be the most sacred and solemn activity of the literati in China, so when it comes to distributing offerings, there is silence on the field. At this time, a Tessie speaking yelled and shouted, attracting everyone's attention.

I saw a young Tessie man in a deep robe, clinging to a Tessie man in his forties, wearing the clothes of a college teacher, and shouting at his companion with a moving expression. The other two Tessie people were also shocked.

"What did he say?" The third lady asked in a low voice, knowing that her husband was fluent in Western dialect.

Although Shen Mo has studied Western seriously over the years and has no problem reading, he heard that it was his weakness, tilted his head and listened for a while, and coughed a little embarrassedly: "It seems that I have caught a traitor." ”

The three troublemakers were the friends brought by Xu Guangqi, and he hurriedly went over to signal the quiet man named Xiong Sanba, and asked in a low voice about the cause of the incident.

Although the ceremony can be said to be over, it always seems a little imperfect to make a few Taixi people make a fuss, so the head of the academy brought people over and asked the reason with a sad face.

The teacher Tessie, who was in her forties, sighed, "They say I'm a wanted criminal in the Holy See. ”！。