Shuntianfu to the public hall is seven rooms wide, five ridges hang on the top of the mountain, blue brick wall, glazed tiles, is the most magnificent building of the Shuntianfu Gongyuan, the three big characters of "to the public hall" on the plaque are the first years of Wanli Zhang Juzheng ordered to rebuild the Gongyuan when he wrote the inscription, after Zhang Juzheng died, the Wanli Emperor liquidated it, almost opened the coffin and killed the corpse, Zhang Juzheng's effective new policy was mostly abolished, but this plaque has not been replaced, and it is still hanging high - there is a black painted wall in the third room on the right side of the Zhigong Hall, and the illegal vermilion scroll is pasted here, There are about forty or fifty copies, covering most of the walls, some of these illegal volumes are because the words of the first seven articles are the same as the big knot, some are the two edicts form violations, and some are self-narrated in the volume, but the volume of the temple is the only one, Xu Guangqi bowed slightly, is looking at this volume carefully, page by page, from the second to the seventh, the sunset shines from the two persimmon trees in front of the hall with all the leaves off, Xu Guangqi looked solemn, he put down the volume he lifted, and paced on the corridor for a while, After making up his mind, he returned to the first room of the "Spring and Autumn Period" to read the papers, and invited the room official Zhang Heming to come here to see the falling papers-Zhang Heming looked at it, and said for a while: "This should be the best work in the current science and technology meeting, but it's a pity, it's a shame, if it's just a violation of smearing the dirty rolls, I will take the paper to Dean Liu to intercede, but it's a pity, it's a pity, I can't help it." ”

Zhang Heming shook his head again and again, his regret was beyond words.

Xu Guangqi refused to give up just like that, he dared to conclude that this volume was written by Zhang Yuan, and he had to help Senior Brother Zhang, and said: "Lord Zhang, please carefully distinguish the difference between the first article of this violation and the other six. ”

Zhang Heming looked at the first article carefully, frowned, and said: "This first article is much inferior to the other six, and no one knows why this candidate is so upside down and guilty of the temple!" ”

"Lord Zhang, please look at this last one." Xu Guangqi turned the volume to the last page and pointed to the missing word "Jun": "When the last article is written, it should be when the energy is tired, but I still remember to avoid the name of the emperor, how can I commit the first emperor's temple in the first article!" ”

Zhang Heming shrugged his eyebrows, looked sideways at Xu Guangqi, looked solemn, and asked, "Xu Hanlin means that there is a mistake in the transcription of the first part of this volume?" ”

Xu Guangqi said: "It should be deliberate." ”

Zhang Heming looked at the stamp on the Zhu scroll, and the transcription's name was Zhuo Xiaosheng, and said: "But the ink scroll will have to wait until after the list is released——"

Xu Guangqi said: "If you wait for the list to be released and then verify, won't it be too late." ”

Zhang Heming looked directly at Xu Guangqi and asked, "Do you know who this candidate is?" ”

Xu Guangqi shook his head and said: "I don't know, but talents are rare, and I believe that Master Zhang also thinks so." ”

Zhang Heming nodded, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Brother Zixian and I will go with me to see Dean Liu to see if we can make an exception a priori this ink scroll." Then he took down the posted, and the house official took down the illegal file that had been posted, which had to bear a certain amount of responsibility, because it was easy to be criticized and impeached afterwards.

Dean Liu is Liu Chuxian, the deputy chief examiner of the current examination, who wears many hats, is not only the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, but also a scholar of the Hanlin Academy and the head of the James's affairs, and is Xu Guangqi's top boss - in the deputy chief examination reading room, Liu Chuxian listened to Zhang Heming and Xu Guangqi's words, and carefully looked at the three Zhu scrolls. ”

So, Liu Chuxian led Zhang and Xu to the chief examiner Wu Daonan, Wu Daonan is a native of Chongren, Jiangxi, Wanli 17 years has been ugly in the first place, successively served as Shao Zhan Shi, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, last year entered the cabinet as an auxiliary minister, for the official honest and upright, approachable, does not belong to Donglin, nor does it belong to Zhejiang, Chu, Qi three parties, but because six years ago Gengxu Branch champion Han Jing was suspected of joint fraud was Wu Daonan was the first to expose, and Han Jing is the protégé of Tang Binyin, the leader of the Xuan Party, the Xuan Party naturally regards Wu Daonan as an enemy, this time Wu Daonan presided over the Bingchen Branch Examination, The officials of the Central Propaganda Party of the DPRK and China were staring at Wu Daonan, so Wu Daonan was extremely cautious in the Gongyuan, trying not to give people a handle, but something happened, and Liu Chuxian, the deputy chief examiner, and Zhang Heming and Xu Guangqi of the Spring and Autumn Room gave him a problem - Wu Daonan looked at the scroll, this craftsmanship is indeed excellent, even if it is taken as the first Huiyuan, no one can blame it, but the first volume is so clear, and the transcription student still has a supplement, which shows that it will not be the transcription's negligence and writing error, then there are only two possibilities, one is that the original ink scroll is indeed so, This candidate is meticulously crafted but has a big loophole in the most critical place, which can only be resentful; The second is that the transcription student named Zhuo Xiaosheng was bribed to deliberately write a mistake to frame the candidate, but the ink scroll was already sealed when it was sent to the transcription office, so how could the transcription student be able to identify which ink scroll was the person he wanted to frame?

Thinking about it this way, Wu Daonan couldn't help but feel terrified, if it was really that transcription student who wanted to frame this candidate, and could confirm the sealed ink scroll, it would mean that this transcription student still had accomplices in the Gongyuan, if this was involved, it would lead to a major imperial examination case, and I am afraid it would be very unfavorable for him, the chief examiner, the Xuan Party, the Qi Party, and even the Zhejiang Party would definitely make a big splash with this matter, but if it was said that if this matter was suppressed and ignored, it would be even more troublesome, and he Wu Daonan was by no means that kind of person - Wu Daonan said after careful consideration: " The original ink roll is in the outer curtain to collect the test paper officer, now the inner and outer curtains are isolated, and it is impossible to go to the outer curtain to take the ink roll to test, there is only one way now, temporarily put this paper in my place, it is considered to be taken, and now the department takes three hundred and forty-four people, I will add this volume number at the end when I fill in the red number grass list, and then hand it over to the prison officer to retrieve the ink roll to test, if the ink frontispiece art is also violated, then it will fall, and it is okay to take one less person, there is a precedent for this department, if there is really fraud and framing in it, then start from this transcription to investigate, Never let go of the culprit behind the scenes-Liu Shangshu, what do you three think? ”

Liu Chuxian, Zhang Heming, and Xu Guangqi all said: "Wu Ge's old handling is very general, and the officials are respectful. ”

In this way, the turmoil in the first room of the "Spring and Autumn Period" has temporarily subsided, the reading and recommendation of the inner curtain will continue as usual, and the writing of the red number grass list and the ink mixing volume, unpacking, and roll call will begin on the evening of 26 February, and 27 February is the official release period...... In the early morning, Zhang Yuan practiced Tai Chi between the two big lotus pots in the courtyard, Shang Zhouzuo pushed the door out and stood on the high steps to watch, Zhang Yuan closed the momentum and saluted his brother-in-law, Shang Zhouzuo smiled and said: "Jiezi, today is the twenty-year-old Sheng, do you remember?" The little sister was so young that she grew up according to her brother and sister-in-law, and Shang Zhouzuo remembered the birth of the younger sister more clearly than the birth of his two daughters.

Zhang Yuan responded: "Yes, I have been going to see her in the past few years, but this year I have been separated from the two places, and I miss her very much." Now what he is most concerned about is the delivery of the stran scarf.

Shang Zhouzuo raised his eyes and looked at the ridge of the east wing house opposite, looked far away, and said: "Huiji February, the spring flowers are blooming, the apricot blossoms of the Xinghua Temple are blooming at this time, the years are like flowing, my sister is in the blink of an eye, I haven't seen her for more than five years." His eyes moved down and looked at Zhang Yuan: "Jie Zi, this time you won the Jinshi, so you took her to Beijing, well, I went to pick her up in July and August, when the weather was neither hot nor cold." Shang Zhouzuo looked at Zhang Yuan's three crafts and said that he would undoubtedly win, depending on the ranking.

Xiao Jinghui smiled and walked out, this girl is always so happy, the maid Fanghua has been waiting for her to freshen up, the girl's front hair covers her forehead, and her back hair hangs down her shoulders, no longer wearing a bloated winter coat and cold fur, but a thin jacket and long skirt, looking petite and smart, first salute Daddy and Zhang Yuan, and then asked crisply: "Daddy, did the little aunt bring the baby when she came to Beijing?" ”

Shang Zhouzuo smiled: "Of course. ”

Xiao Jinghui asked Zhang Yuan: "Does Uncle Zhang Gongzi like baby boys or baby girls?" ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and replied, "I like them all." ”

Xiao Jinghui said: "Then let the little aunts give birth to one." ”

Shang Zhouzuo said with a straight face: "Don't rap." ”

Xiao Jinghui looked at his father's face, noticed that his father was not angry, and said: "Daddy, my little aunt was born today, then tomorrow is my birth, and I want Uncle Zhang Gongzi to take me to Manjing to play, please allow my father." ”

Shang Zhouzuo frowned and said, "Do you want to pester your uncle again?" ”

Zhang Yuan said to Shang Zhouzuo: "Eldest brother, I have promised Jinglan and Jinghui a long time ago, and I will say that my uncle, brother and Qi Huzi will go, and when the list is released, whether I am in it or not, I am afraid that I will not have time or mood to play." ”

Shang Zhouzuo nodded in agreement, Xiao Jinghui was very happy, raised his eyebrows and smiled at Zhang Yuan, and jumped to the backyard to see Mu Zhenzhen practicing the small dragon stick.

Shang Zhouzuo looked at the back of his youngest daughter and said to Zhang Yuan: "At the beginning, I was so angry that I cried in pain, I couldn't bear it, so I didn't let her wrap it, so these two little ones are just like her aunt, they are not full of enough, and I was worried that they wouldn't be able to get married, haha." ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "Big brother is wise, it's good not to wrap your feet." ”

Shang Zhouzuo said: "It's also fate, I just happen to meet Jie Zi and I don't like to wrap my feet." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "I will call on my colleagues in the Han Society to abandon this bad habit, and Qi Huzi has responded enthusiastically." ”

Shang Zhouzuo laughed, and Fu's chuckle came from the west wing.

After Shang Zhouzuo went to the Ducha Academy, Zhang Yuan also took Wuling and Wang Da Hammer out to Da Longfu Temple, he said today to convene all the people of the Han Society to gather in the Da Longfu Temple, Zhang Lianfang, Hong Chengchou, Huang Ting, Sun Yuanhua, and more than a dozen other Zhejiang people also participated, showing their respective science and field of craftsmanship, mutual evaluation, competition, and public recommendation of Zhang Yuan's craftsmanship as the first, thinking that Zhang Yuan is expected to be a first class this time, Zhang Yuan himself is of course very humble, the results of the examination are determined by the examiner, and the Han Society Gong can not be counted - at dusk, Zhang Yuan returned to his brother-in-law's courtyard, Mu Zhenzhen greeted him, holding several letters in his hand, and said happily: "Young Master, the letters from Miss Ruoxi, Aunt Wei, and Qingpu Yang Xiucai have arrived." ”

"Sister, they should have just received my letter, why did they get a letter?"

Zhang Yuan was very happy, first open his sister's letter to see, his sister's letter was written Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve night, at that time his letter had just been sent, of course my sister had not received it, just worried about the younger brother who went to Beijing, first wrote a letter, Shengmei firm has signed a cooperation contract with the Minxin Bureau at the end of November last year, for the letter or items of the Shengmei firm, the Minxin Bureau will give priority, high-quality delivery, Zhang Ruoxi reported to his younger brother Zhang Yuan in the letter about the recent development of Shengmei firm, in addition to Qingpu, the Hangzhou branch is the most profitable, Nanjing branch will be opened in early February of the new year, but also Wang Wei single-handedly prepared, Wang Wei is very business-minded, at this moment she wrote a letter, Wang Wei is by her side, at the end of the letter, Zhang Ruoxi said that he will leave in early February to return to Shanyin's mother's house, to help his mother take care of the Ran, please rest assured - and in Wang WeChat, it is not a word about the Shengmei business, full of affection, at the end of the letter attached to a poem, which was written when she docked on the bank of the Baixian River on the way from Nanjing to Qingpu, the poem said:

"A leaf floats in the air endlessly, and the cold clouds and wind cut the water to the west. The village pestle in the village of Pujia Yueli, the cricket frost is everywhere in autumn. Kesi dreams of a thousand miles at night, and the bell does not disperse. Where can the lonely place be trusted, and the desert is a fishing boat. ”

The poem is pitifully written.

Zhang Yuan smiled, and finally read Yang Shixiang's letter, Yang Shixiang reported to him the situation of the Hanshe Bookstore, the twenty volumes of "Yu Shi Mingyan" have been engraved and printed, as well as the first ten volumes of "Warning the World", the sales momentum is very good, the Hanshe Bookstore (excluding Fan Wenruo's Suzhou Branch) has made a total profit of 1,867 taels of silver, according to the contract that the bookstore's profits will not be distributed in the first three years, all these silver have been used as additional share capital for each shareholder - Xiao Jinghui came over and asked: "Brother Zhang Gongzi, is it the little aunt who replied?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "No, it's a letter written by my sister in Qingpu. Diverting the topic, he said: "Tomorrow morning to go to the Manjing, are you ready?" ”

Xiao Jinghui said happily: "Ready, will you go as soon as it dawns tomorrow?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Let the kitchen cook the plaque food earlier, and go after eating." ”

…… Early the next morning, Qi Biaojia came, hired two carriages, ate plaques in his father-in-law's house, Zhang Lianfang and Zhang Dai's uncle and nephew also arrived, all with their daughters, so they took Jinglan and Jinghui sisters to visit Manjing, Manjing is in the northeast of Yanjing Outer City, there are about twelve or three miles from the East Fourth Archway to Manjing, the carriage goes out of Dongzhimen, turns to the north, and arrives in half an hour.

In the early spring, the scholars and girls outside the Anding Gate gathered, all of them came to swim in the well, but when they saw the high willow embankment, they looked at the empty space, and were trapped in the city by the ice and snow for several months. Looking at the Guhao water closely, the ice and snow melt, the waves are bright, the willow branches on the shore will be Shu Weishu, the soft strip is blowing, and the spring is full of joy - Jinglan and Jinghui are the two girls who are the most happy, they have come to Yanjing for three years, or the first time to play outside the north city, Xiao Jinghui looked around and asked: "Where is the manjing?" ”

Zhang Lianfang is a good swimmer, and he has to swim full of wells every spring, pointing to an octagonal pavilion not far away: "The well is in the pavilion." ”

(To be continued)