Coming back from the Lu Pharmacy by the Wulu Bridge, it was already the beginning of the night, Lu Yungu carried a lantern to send Zhang Yuan and Wuling master and servant to turn around the Fuxue Palace, and saw from a distance that there was also a lantern hanging by the bamboo fence door of Zhang Yuan's house, in the cold winter night, the warm light of the lantern penetrated people's hearts - Lu Yungu smiled: "Jiezi, that foolish brother is sent here, I will cause you to drink a few more drinks tonight, I am afraid that your mother will blame me." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "It's okay, it's okay, Brother Yungu, please go back, be careful on the road." Bidding farewell, he walked quickly to the door of his own bamboo fence with Wu Ling, stretched out his hand to take off the lantern inserted in the gap between the door, pushed open the bamboo fence door and entered, and saw a small figure standing on the threshold of the gate, the double bun on his head trembled, and he said: "The young master is back." He trotted over and took the lantern in Zhang Yuan's hand, and picked it high to illuminate the way--Zhang Yuan asked: "Rabbit Pavilion, why are you sitting by the threshold and waiting when it's so cold?" ”

Rabbit Pavilion said: "Mrs. ordered." ”

Zhang Yuanxin said: "How could my mother tell her to sit by the door and wait, hey, this little girl is a little stupid." ”

Big Stone also ran out of the ear room and said, "The young master is back." So he went to cover the bamboo door, inserted it horizontally with a bamboo pole, followed Zhang Yuan into the gate, closed the door again, and said: "Young master, there were several shows in the evening to find the young master, and I said that the young master went out to the banquet." ”

Zhang Yuan asked: "Did you leave a famous post?" ”

Da Shi said: "They are all Xiucai from other places, what Xiaoshan, Shangyu, Hangzhou, I reported the name, I can't remember, only one Xiucai left a famous post, I went to get it for the young master." "I ran to get a name card that was seven inches long and three inches wide--Zhang Yuan took the name card and looked at it by the light of the lantern, and there were six Qingli ink characters written on it in Chinese block letters-" Yousheng Ruan Dacheng worshipped. ”

"Ruan Dacheng!"

Zhang Yuan was surprised, how could Ruan Dacheng, a great annihilator, come to Shaoxing to come to see the Bagu Grand Event? Ruan Dacheng doesn't seem to be from Zhejiang, well, it's a native of Tongcheng, Tongcheng, Tongcheng Ruan Dacheng, and now he should still be all life, because of Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan" play, Ruan Dacheng, the widow of the eunuch party, has been notorious since then, of course, those things have not happened yet, Li Xiangjun and Hou Chaozong have not yet been born, Ruan Dacheng at this time is a merry and talented man who is proficient in opera, or a disciple of Gao Panlong, the leader of the Donglin Party, and has a good reputation - Zhang Yuan asked: "Did this Ruan Xiucai leave anything behind?" ”

Da Shi said: "Ruan Xiucai said that he will come to visit again." ”

Zhang Yuan said "um", and said in his heart: "Ming said that I have a lifelong event to do, but I can't wait for you Ruan Dacheng at home." Put the name card in his sleeve, followed the little girl with the lantern to the inner courtyard, and asked the rabbit pavilion: "Have you fed the snow spirit grass beans?" ”

Rabbit Pavilion said: "Hey, do you want to go and see, the stable has been built, and the snow spirit will not be cold at night." ”

The winter night is cold, the white mule snow spirit in the back garden is not good, Zhang Yuan asked Shi Shuang to find a stonemason a few days ago, in the corner of the back garden to build a small stable for the white mule to rest at night, the rabbit pavilion is okay to squat in the back garden to see the construction of the stable, very boring things she never gets tired of - Zhang Yuan said: "Okay, I'll go and see, I'll talk to my mother first." Standing on the edge of the patio and facing the south floor, he said loudly, "Mother, my son is back." ”

Zhang's mother Lu soon appeared on the corridor on the second floor and complained, "You came back so late, did you drink?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "I drank two glasses with Mr. Yungu, both of which were glutinous rice wine. ”

Zhang's mother Lu said: "Then hurry up and wash up, rest early, there is something to do tomorrow." ”

Zhang Yuan agreed, and saw his mother go back to the room, so he and the rabbit pavilion and Wuling came to the back garden stable, the pine door of the stable still has a pine smell that has not yet dried, push open the pine door, carry the lantern and shine, the white mule snow spirit snorted in the corner of the stable - the rabbit pavilion handed the lantern to Wuling, walked over and touched the belly of the white mule, and turned back and said: "Young master, the snow spirit also stands when it sleeps at night, it always stands, won't it be tired?" ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "Mules and horses are like this, it is rare to lie down, because you have to prepare to run anytime and anywhere." "I looked at the little stable, and it was spacious enough for only one animal.

After seeing the snow spirit, he went back to the inner courtyard to take a bath and go to bed, because he drank a few more glasses of wine, the wine was not what he coaxed his mother to say was glutinous rice wine, but Lanxi Jinpanlu wine, the wine was quite strong, he was four or five points drunk, and he couldn't sleep for a while, and then he fell asleep in a daze and began to dream, dreaming that he went to Nanjing Township to try, why not go to Nanjing Township to try in Hangzhou, I didn't think about this in my dream, I waited for the release of the list after three exams, and my classmates and friends drank flower wine on the boat of the Qinhuai River, and I met Li Xiangjun, That Li Xiangjun's eyes flowed and called him Hou Gongzi, he didn't feel anything wrong when he was changed his surname, but he felt that Li Xiangjun's appearance was quite similar to Shang Ranran, which made him very admired, when he was singing poems and wine, someone shouted that it was not good, it was not good, and the annihilator Ruan Dacheng came, he walked to the side of the boat and looked at the shore, what Ruan Dacheng, isn't this Yao Zhigang, Ruan Dacheng, who resembles Yao Zheng, was shocked when he saw him, and immediately turned around and ran, and there were cheers on both sides of the Qinhuai River, saying that Hou Gongzi drove away the annihilator Ruan Dacheng, Li Xiangjun's eyes were even more affectionate when he looked at him, and said coquettishly: "Hou Gongzi, the concubine is willing to recommend a pillow and enjoy the chrysanthemums together-"

…… When he woke up in the morning, Zhang Yuan still remembered the dream, he laughed for a while, and lay on the bed and asked Wu Ling outside to get up and tell the kitchen to prepare water, and he wanted to take a bath - Wu Ling muttered: "Didn't the young master take a bath last night, why do you want to wash it again?" ”

Zhang Yuanren smiled and said, "Don't be wordy, hurry up." Hearing Wu Ling get up, he pounded the bed board and laughed a few times, and said in his heart: "I'm Chengren, how can I be so coincidental, it's just last night, and today I'm going to visit the Huiji Shang clan, this is the will of God?" ”

I thought again: "In the dream, Li Xiangjun spoke so strangely, I would like to recommend a pillow and enjoy the chrysanthemums together, it has nothing to do with it, this and this, a bit esoteric, and the dream was also messy later, and I don't know, and I don't know how it flowed out, hey-"

Get up to take a bath, have breakfast, Dashi came to report that someone came to pick up the young master, Zhang Yuan went out to see, a carriage stopped outside the bamboo fence gate, two healthy servants with the car were with Shang Zhoude yesterday, a little familiar, and there was a person who looked like a steward with a smile on his face and said with a forked hand: "Zhang Gongzi, my master ordered the villain to pick up Zhang Gongzi to enjoy the chrysanthemum." "Shang Zhoude is really warm and thoughtful, he sent a carriage to pick up this future sister-in-law so early.

Because of last night's spring dream, Zhang Yuan felt a little strange when he heard the word "chrysanthemum" again, and said with a smile: "There is a housekeeper, let's go have a cup of tea first." ”

The steward said: "Don't dare to disturb, Zhang Gongzi, please get in the car, my master will wait for Gongzi to go." ”

Zhang Yuan asked them to wait for a while, and he went in to tell his mother, Zhang's mother, Lu, was also happy to see that the people of the Shang family valued her son so much, and reminded: "Don't forget to give the reward to the next person." "When I go to visit, I don't need to give gifts to Shang Zhoude for the time being, but these subordinates should give rewards.

Zhang Yuan ordered Wuling to quickly seal four pieces of silver, the steward three coins of silver, two servants and the coachman each a penny of silver, the four of them at first shirked, Zhang Yuan insisted a little, they all smiled and accepted, and thanked each other, and they were all happy.

Zhang Yuan was about to get into the carriage, but when he remembered something, he called the big stone over and instructed: "If that Ruan Xiucai will come today, say that I have something to do and go to Huiji, and ask him to leave the address of his residence when I come back to visit him." After that, he got into the carriage, and Wu Ling, the merchant steward, and the two healthy servants walked together and went to Huiji.

When the carriage had only gone for a moment, Hou Xianzun sent Menzi to Zhang Yuan's house and asked Zhang Yuan to go to the county office, saying that the county lord had something to discuss with Zhang Yuan. ”

Before the county yamen left, Da Shi saw that Ruan Xiucai, who had come yesterday, came from a distance with a companion, and Da Shi didn't wait for Ruan Xiucai to approach, so he jumped outside the bamboo fence door and said loudly: "Ruan Xiucai, my young master has gone to Huiji, please leave the address of Ruan Xiucai, and my young master will pay a return visit." ”

Ruan Dacheng smiled in surprise and stopped: "On the one hand, on the other hand, on the other hand." He raised his voice and said: "Tell your young master, Tongcheng Ruan Dacheng is going to leave your land today, and we will meet again in the future." ”

Big stone ears are pointed, hearing this Ruan Xiucai even said two sentences "fate saving side", I don't know what it means, I think it is more important, I looked back at my younger brother Xiaoshi leaning against the door to eat wheat cakes, and then filled the old avenue: "You know how to eat, the main family also gave you a reward during the New Year's Festival, but you didn't do anything, help my brother remember it, it's good that you remember your surname, I'm afraid I'll forget it later, I forgot the names of a few Xiucai yesterday-"

Little Stone chewed the cake in his mouth and asked vaguely, "What do you remember?" ”

Da Shi said: "Aunt Noodles Far Away, Aunt Noodles Away - that's what Ruan Xiucai said, don't patronize and eat, remember, don't delay the young master's affairs." ”

Xiaoshi swallowed the wheat cake and repeated: "I owe a life, I owe a life, okay, brother, I remember it, you can rest assured to play." ”

…… Zhang Yuan sat in the carriage, pulled up the curtains, and looked at the street scenery on both sides, as if it was a little different from when he walked by, some separated, some detached, is it because the spirit is particularly invigorated today?

Today's weather continues to be sunny yesterday, the last day of October, the late blooming chrysanthemums are also in full bloom, if the ten acres of chrysanthemums of the Huiji Shang family bloom together, what a wonderful scene?

Huiji Shang clan inhabit in the northeast corner of Huiji City under the White Horse Mountain, in front of the East Pond, the East Pond is equal to the east moat of the Huiji City, and Jianhu Lake, and the canal are connected, the boat comes and goes, it is the prosperous place of the Huiji, the carriage passes through the Huiji City from the southwest corner of the city, and travels half a mile along the East Pond, turns to the west, and soon arrives in front of the gate of the Shangfu.

(To be continued)