Dong Zuyuan and Dong Zuchang went up to the second floor of Xihongtang, and Dong Zuchang shouted: "Father, it is because we have endured and endured again and again that there is today's disaster!" ”

Dong Qichang said with a calm face: "What's the matter, you can tell me in detail." ”

Dong Zuyuan told the door guest Bu Shicheng who led the house slaves to Qingpu to collect debts but was beaten by Zhang Yuan and Qingpu Lu's people, Dong Qichang slapped the small case around him hard, and the dishes on the case jumped wildly, and shouted angrily: "The deception is too much!" It's too much of a deception! ”

Dong Zuyuan said: "If my father can't severely punish that Zhang Yuan this time, my Dong family will have no face in Songjiang, and Bu Shicheng will be a member of the Tang family, and he will be beaten in public under my Dong family, which is obviously a slap in my Dong face." ”

Spanking Bu Shicheng's ass is equivalent to slapping Dong's face, which is really ridiculous, but Dong's father and son don't think it, Dong Zu often said: "Zhang Rulin's two grandsons also came with Zhang Yuan this time, Zhang Dai and Zhang Cao, it was Zhang Cao who beat Bu Shicheng at the dock." ”

Dong Qichang nodded and said: "The Shanyin Zhang clan wants to support the Qingpu Lu clan, and it is inseparable from my Huating Dong clan." ”

Dong Zuyuan looked at his father Dong Qichang's face and asked, "Does my father have a way to deal with it?" ”

Dong Qichang said: "Tell the subordinates to prepare a sedan chair, and I will go to see Huang Zhifu first." ”

Dong Qichang angrily rushed away from Xihongtang, forgetting that there is a hundred-year-old monk Chen Binzhu left here, this monk is a hungry ghost in the color, the demon king in the flowers, Dong Qichang left, this Xihongtang more than 20 Liji beautiful maids are not prepared for him, Dong Qichang originally arranged a maid thrush to wait for him, but he thought that the thrush was too old and not very beautiful, and dragged another young and beautiful Liji to the side room, that Liji shouted, the silver monk threatened: "Your master respects me very much, and the little monk is invited to come just to practice the art in the room, If you don't obey, just a few words from the little monk, you will be beaten, do you believe it or not? ”

In front of these beautiful women, this monk does not call himself an old man, this young Li Ji saw that Master Dong had previously asked the thrush and Yumo to wait for the monk's pillow, and he really respected the monk, and was frightened by the monk's words, and did not dare to refuse, so that the monk half dragged and half hugged into the secret room of the wing - the other Li Ji maids on the Xihong Hall looked at each other, but couldn't help but be curious, the thrush was abandoned by the monk, very embarrassed, and chuckled: "Look at how this bald donkey is playing, don't have to die immediately." ”

…… Songjiang Mansion, prefect Huang Guoding is drinking under the lamp with his concubine, last year Dong Zuyuan gave him two beautiful maids, one of which was especially favored by Huang Guoding, so he was accepted as a concubine, Huang Guoding was greedy for a cup, and he had to drink two glasses of Huizhou liquor before going to bed, but he listened to the servant woman to report, Dong Hanlin Dong asked to see, Huang Guoding frowned, and said in his heart: "Teacher Dong came to visit at night, but I am afraid that there will be trouble." ”

Huang Guoding repeatedly said to Dong Qichang that it was also annoying, but first, the Dong family in Huating was a big family in Songjiang, and the second was that Dong Qichang was the master of the house when he tried in another country, he couldn't refuse, and it was not easy to be a magistrate, so he had to take advantage of one party to offend the other, for Huang Guoding, of course, he would rather offend the small people than offend the Dong family - Huang Guoding saw Dong Qichang, called the teacher, and said: "The teacher has something to send someone to tell the students, so why come in person at night." ”

Dong Qichang sighed and told Bu Shicheng about it, Huang Guoding said: "Wang Zhixian respects the teacher very much, didn't he also visit the teacher at the beginning of his tenure, why is he acting so upside down today-the teacher should not be anxious, and I will send someone to ask him." ”

Dong Qichang said: "Zhang Rulin's three grandsons have all arrived in Qingpu, Qingpu Lu and Shanyin Zhang are in-laws, Wang Shanji is afraid of Zhang Rulin, thinking that my Dong family is easy to bully, so it is so." ”

Huang Guoding's teacher at the time of the examination was Li Sancai, Li Sancai had a close relationship with Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong, and the Donglin Party drove away Li Tingji and strongly advocated Li Sancai to enter the cabinet, but the factions in the DPRK and China were complicated, and Li Sancai could not successfully enter the cabinet for a while, and Li Tingji was Zhang Rulin's teacher - Huang Guoding sneered: "Li Tingji has resigned and returned to Fujian, what else does the Zhejiang Party have to rely on, Wang Shanji will not be so ignorant." He also said: "Zhang Rulin's grandson Zhang Yuan has recently become famous, and he is appreciated by Jiao Taishi and Huang Yuyong, and it is said that he also has a great friendship with the weaving eunuchs in Hangzhou. ”

Dong Qichang mocked: "Zhang Rulin is still unwilling to die in the forest, that Zhang Yuan, who became famous as a young man, is arrogant and arrogant, and sooner or later he will suffer hardship." ”

The two discussed it secretly, Dong Qichang said goodbye, returned to the house, and then remembered that there was a hundred-year-old monk in Xihongtang who was good at room art, and hurried there, but saw that the monk got the three youngest and most beautiful Liji in Xihongtang to bed, Dong Qichang was very angry, but it was not good to have a seizure, and he was not in the mood to practice any room in the room for the time being, so he called a slave to send the monk to the guest room in the house for placement, and the monk was not allowed to walk around...... Zhang Dai came to Songjiang this time, in addition to helping Zhang Yuan deal with the Dong family, but also wanted to visit Chen Meigong, originally thought that Chen Jiru was still living in Xiaokunshan, 17 at noon happened to hear Lu Tao talk about it, only to know that Chen Jiru had bought land in East Sheshan, built "East She Mountain Residence", only four or five miles away from the Lu manor at the northern foot of Sheshan, Zhang Dai said: "I knew that Meigong was in East Sheshan, I went to visit before." Asked Zhang Yuan and Zhang Cao: "Yanke, Jie Zi, how about visiting Chen Meigong with me early tomorrow morning?" ”

Zhang Cao asked: "Is it Chen Meigong who fights the autumn breeze in Qiantang County, I won't go." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "I'll accompany my eldest brother." Chen Jiru is Dong Qichang's friend, if he can get Chen Jiru's appreciation before Dong Dong, this is a big blow to Dong Qichang, Chen Jiru in addition to being good at writing and painting, he is more fond of Go and Qing Yan, the so-called Qing Yan is the witty aphorism about life perception like "Caigen Tan", now "Caigen Tan" has not yet come out, and Zhang Yuan has long been familiar with it, as for Go, Zhang Yuan feels that he can compete with the late Ming Dynasty Go players, of course, if it is Lin Fuqing, Guo Bailing such a big master, he must not be able to play, His chess strength in later generations is about four amateurs - this evening, Yang Shixiang invited Zhang Yuan brothers to his house for a banquet, Yang is also a Qingpu family, there are bookstores and paper workshops at home, Songjiang Tan Jian is also a very famous paper for the study, during the banquet Yang Shixiang mentioned that Zhang Yuan selected and commented on the eight-share anthology, Zhang Yuan asked: "Brother Shixiang's manuscript has been collected?" ”

Yang Shixiang said: "There are a total of 500 pieces of craftsmanship in the three counties of Songjiang, and they have already been collected. ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Then hand over the manuscript to me, and I will select and evaluate it before leaving Songjiang." ”

Yang Shixiang was overjoyed.

In the middle of drinking, Lu Dayou hurriedly came to report, saying that Wang County's order quietly released the eight beating singles, and was intercepted by the Lu slaves at the south dock in the south of the city, and the four green hands of Huating beat the line to meet the eight singles, there was a fight on the dock, and a Lu slave was stabbed with a sharp knife and seriously injured, fortunately Mu Jingyan arrived, six of the twelve people escaped by boat, and the other six were caught - Zhang Cao was furious and scolded: "That dog official really dares to release people, is he a dog raised by Dong Qichang!" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Immediately summon the Qingpu Zhusheng to the county office, and see how this Wang County Order answers." ”

Hong Daotai, Jin Bozong and other students rushed to hear the news, and Lu Tao, Yang Shixiang and the three brothers of the Zhang family went to the county government to seek justice, the Lu slave escorted the six beating singles, the Lu slave who was stabbed into a serious injury after the doctor's emergency rescue, stopped the bleeding, and the surname was saved, at this time they carried the people of the upper yamen - Qingpu County two said to listen to Liu Jingting's story, the evil deeds of the Dong family in Huating were filled with righteous indignation, and heard that Wang County ordered to let go of the murderer, and the people's resentment boiled, They all followed the Lu family to the county government to ask for their lives -- the Qingpu County Commander Wang Shanji received a handwritten letter from the Huang Governor's Mansion on the evening of the 16th, and the Huang Governor's Mansion asked in the letter about the beating of Bu Shicheng, a guest of the Dong family, and Wang Shanji wrote a long letter to explain to the Huang Governor's Mansion, saying that the Qingpu Lu Clan had arrested eight more people who had beaten the people in Huating, and asked the Huang Governor's Mansion for instructions on how to deal with it?

Wang Shanji wrote a good letter, sent someone to Songjiang Mansion overnight, 17 days ago, Huang Zhifu sent someone to let Wang Shanji release the eight beating singles, Wang Shanji took advantage of the night to release the eight people, there was a slight worry in his heart, at the time of the second drum, he heard the noise in front of the county office, he knew that it was not good, and hurriedly called someone to invite the county and the main book, and went out to see the outside of the hall to see, under the moonlight, there were crowds, about hundreds of people, six people with blue noses and swollen faces kneeling in front of them, and people kept spitting on these six people, throwing stones. Lu Tao stepped forward to salute Wang Shanji and asked Wang Xianling why he had secretly released eight beaten singles, so that these singles committed another assault on the dock and seriously injured one of his servants.

Wang Shanji was speechless, the people outside the hall were clamoring, and the people who were hiding behind took advantage of the chaos to scold Wang Shanji, and the loud scolding of the messenger in front of the hall could not be suppressed, Wang Shanji was ashamed and annoyed, and said: "The eight criminals are from Huating, so they naturally have to be escorted back to Huating for interrogation." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Wang Xianzun is the parent official of Qingpu, and he wants to take care of the people of a county, if these singles hurt the people of Qingpu in Huating, then of course they will be dealt with by the Huating County Ya, but these eight people are harassing and insulting the people of Qingpu in Qingpu, why should Qingpu County not care, but it should be handed over to other counties?" What's more, these eight people were not escorted back to Huating for interrogation at all, if they were escorted, why didn't they see the official errand? ”

Zhang Cao shouted angrily: "This is obviously accepting bribes from the Dong family of Huating, shielding the murderer, and completely ignoring the life and death of the people of Qingpu." ”

The people outside the hall were condemned, Wang Shanji's face was purple, he couldn't bear the huge pressure, and said: "It is Lord Fuzun who wants the county to release people, and you have reason to go with Fuzun's theory." ”

Qingpu County Chenghe, who arrived in a hurry, heard Wang Xianling say this, the two looked at each other and thought: "This Wang Shanji is a straw bag, a useless scholar." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "So it is said that the people of Qingpu have grievances, and the county lord can't redress the grievances of the people, so what should I do with these six arrested singles, please ask the county lord to speak, do you want me to wait overnight to escort these six people to the government office?" ”

Qingpu County made Wang Shanji lose his ground and was very embarrassed.

(To be continued)