Wang Yingzi looked at it and said, "Leave a book for my father, what's the matter?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "I am going to Songjiang in two days, so I have to make it clear to the teacher. ”

Wang Yingzi exclaimed: "It's going to be tested in April!" ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "My brother-in-law's thirtieth birthday, I always have to go to congratulate him, and I can come back in time for a month." ”

Hearing Zhang Yuan say this, Wang Yingzi frowned and said: "My father also went to Xiaoshan to visit my brother-in-law, saying that he was sick, and he was not lightly ill. ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Then you have to delay the diagnosis and treatment quickly, do you want to invite Mr. Lu Yungu to go?" ”

Wang Yingzi smiled again and said: "Lu Yungu cured your eye disease, you think he can cure all diseases, Lu Yungu mainly sees pediatrics, no one knows." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled, and continued to write under Wang Yingzi's gaze, but heard Wang Yingzi say: "Senior Brother Jiezi, if you delay in Songjiang and fail to come back before the government exam, how about I take the exam on your behalf?" ”

Zhang Yuan suddenly stopped his hand, and the word "big" that he was writing paused heavily, like a woman's foot wrapped around her feet, which was very ugly, and said, "Oops, it has to be rewritten." ”

Wang Yingzi took a closer look, smiled "Gege", and said, "No need to rewrite, you wait a minute." After a while, the footsteps started again, Wang Yingzi appeared at the door of the study, raised a thing in his hand, and asked with a smile: "Do you know what this is?" ”

Zhang Yuan looked at it, the shape was like a piece of ink, but it was light yellow in color, and shook his head: "I don't know." ”

Wang Yingzi walked to the bookcase, dipped the piece of yellow ink in some water, and painted the "big" character written by Zhang Yuan, and there was a layer of pale yellow to cover the ink word, and said with a smile: "Now you know what this is, right?" ”

Zhang Yuan smiled: "Orpiment, believe it." ”

Wang Yingzi said with a smile: "By the way, it's the female yellow, my father didn't use it before, it was last year that he wrote scriptures for the old monks of Yanqing Temple, so he could use it." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "I'd better rewrite it, otherwise Mr. Wang will have to change my words when he sees me, and he will scold me." "I took a piece of paper and rewrote it.

Wang Yingzi said: "Senior Brother Jiezi's Xiaokai has grown a lot. ”

Zhang Yuan replied while copying the letter: "Thank you for the compliment." ”

Wang Yingzi said: "Senior Brother Jiezi, you said that if I take the government exam on your behalf, will I be able to win?" ”

Zhang Yuanxin said: "Why are you still talking about this." Said: "It must be hit." Then he asked: "Haven't you seen the scene of the scientific expedition?" ”

Wang Yingzi said: "When my eldest brother took the Taoist exam a few years ago, I went to see it, tens of thousands of people, two counties and two counties, eight counties in Shaoxing Prefecture, it takes four days to take the test, and you have to search the door when you enter it-" Speaking of this, Miss Wang Yingzi suddenly realized why Zhang Yuan's expression was so strange, and her face turned red in an instant.

Zhang Yuan didn't seem to notice her blushing, and he wrote by himself, and said: "Yes, this time, the two counties of Shanyin and Huiji were arranged to take the ninth exam in early April, and there are about 3,000 candidates in these two counties alone, and the examination shed will be crowded by then." Xu Yu wrote the letter, handed it to Wang Yingzi and said: "Please transfer it to the teacher, then I will leave now, and I will come back from Songjiang to see the teacher." ”

The red tide on Wang Yingzi's face had not yet faded, and she responded: "I wish Senior Brother Jiezi a safe return." ”

Zhang Yuan took a look, walked out of the study, and thought as he walked: "There is a play called "The Female Horse", a talented woman is admitted to the top prize all the way to find her husband, is this possible, it is necessary to undress and search, and the child test is just that, it is said that the township test and the meeting test are not even allowed to leave shorts during the search, and they must all be stripped naked, how can a woman mix up!" Well, there are female champions in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and that's also very messy. ”

I thought again: "It's actually okay for the baby sister to take the Xiucai test, I went to the test when I didn't develop a few years ago, the shorts are kept, the top is flat, you can mix it up, now, uh-"

Zhang Yuan shook his head, didn't think about it anymore, and if he thought about it again, he would be obscene, took Mu Jingyan and Wuling out of Teacher Wang's house, went around to the west bank of Dongdachi and walked more than two miles to the north, turned west, and soon arrived in front of the gate of the Shang family, Shang Zhoude welcomed him into the main hall, and said with a smile: "I guess you should be here at this time, I am going to send my sister-in-law and Xiaolan and Xiaohui to Beijing tomorrow, and I originally planned to send it to Hangzhou and come back, but I think that my sister-in-law is a female stream, and the two children are also young. I decided to send it all the way to the capital, it will take three or four months to go back and forth, and I am pleased that yesterday I waited for the good news of the first trial case in your county, which is very good, and I just happened to go to report the good news to the eldest brother. ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Then I will come back tomorrow to send each other." "I told Shang Zhoude that he was going to Songjiang recently, and Shang Zhoude asked Zhang Yuan when he would leave? Zhang Yuan said: "I left early on the 20th, because February 19th is my birthday. ”

Shang Zhoude said with a smile: "Jie Zi has a heart, I have forgotten my little sister's birth, and I have no one to remind me, so I don't remember it." ”

Shaoxing people call the birthday other than ten days an idle life, and do not attach importance to it.

Shang Zhoude asked Zhang Yuan to sit down for a while, he went in to say something, and came out after a while and said: "I have already told my sister-in-law, I will wait for the time before leaving, sister-in-law They will come back in an unknown year, and they will not fight for these days." ”

It was nearly dusk, Shang Zhoude stayed for dinner, and after dinner, Shang Zhoude sent a boat to send Zhang Yuan's master and servant to the Shanyin Bashi Bridge, this time Zhang Yuan did not see Shang Ran, maybe Shang Zhoude considered that the hour was late, and it was indecent for unmarried men and women to meet each other - when Zhang Yuan went ashore at the Bashi Bridge, he saw the huge and plump full moon in the bright and clear night sky, and the moon of fifteen and sixteen round, and felt a little disappointed by such a good moonlight, when can he join hands with Ran to enjoy the moon?

…… On February 19, Shang said that Zhang Yuan rushed to the Shang Mansion early in the morning, and saw that the Shang family was busy in front of the gate, and the two carriages were waiting by the wall gate. ”

Zhang Yuan asked where to go? Answer: Now it is said that the Guanyin Club of Xinghua Temple, Miss Ran was born today, and it is most auspicious to go to Xinghua Temple to incense.

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "My mother also went to Dashan Temple early this morning, and Dashan Temple also has a Guanyin Society. ”

Shang Zhoude came over and said: "Today is the birthday of Guanyin, many temples have Guanyin meeting, Xinghua Temple is just a small temple, just because the temple is surrounded by apricot trees, this February spring is warm, it is the time when the apricot blossoms are in full bloom, the scholars and girls have to go to the green to enjoy the flowers, naturally they also want to enter the temple to burn incense and rejoice, so the Xinghua Temple February Guanyin will be very famous. ”

Shang Ran came out in the company of two maidservants, the green lotus-colored spring dress skirt was new, the eyebrows were picturesque, the complexion was shining, and Zhang Yuan was blessed by the side of the carriage, his bright eyes glanced shyly, and then got on the car, Jinglan and Jinghui's little sisters also blessed Zhang Yuanfu, and Aunt Tanran was in the same car, and Fu and Qi took another car.

Shang Zhoude asked Zhang Yuan if he wanted to take a rattan sedan chair, and Zhang Yuan said: "Walking is just to watch the scenery, but it is only three miles away." He walked briskly by the carriage, and just turned to the west bank of Dongdachi, but saw a young man jumping on a black canopy boat by the pier, but it was Qi Biaojia.

Zhang Yuan arched his hand and smiled: "Is Brother Huzi also here?" ”

Qi Biaojia was slightly embarrassed when he saw Zhang Yuan, now he is still commensurate with his peers, and after two years, he will change his name to Uncle Zhang Yuan after he is engaged to Miss Shang Jinglan, this is really a generation shorter out of thin air.

Qi Biaojia returned the salute to Zhang Yuan, and then greeted Shang Zhoude and his cousin Qi Shi and others, and then went to Xinghua Temple together, on the way Qi Biaojia and Zhang Yuan said: "Brother Jiezi, Mr. Qidong is going to leave Shanyin and enter Beijing in the afternoon, won't Brother Jiezi send him off?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Does Mr. Qidong also want to enter Beijing, that must be sent." ”

Qi Biaojia said: "The official department has a document delivered, appointing Mr. Liu as the pedestrian Sizheng, as well as Ye Shoufu's handwritten letter, Mr. can't shirk it, so he has to enter Beijing." He added: "Mr. Liu will first go to Wuxi Donglin Academy to visit friends, and then go to Beijing." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Okay, I'll rush over later, is it in Dashan Temple?" ”

Qi Biaojia said: "Mr. Liu is going to cross the Yuewang Bridge, you just wait by the bridge in the afternoon, and I will wait with you." ”

Talking, early to the apricot blossom temple outside, only to see the red, red and white apricot blossoms such as clouds such as brocade, a small temple is covered with great fun, pilgrims such as clouds, Sanskrit bursts, those pilgrims from the temple into the incense after coming out of the flower tree lingering, most of them are in pairs, young scholars, rural couples have, the people of the south of the Yangtze River generally believe that Guanyin Bodhisattva is the main prayer for the birth of an heir, so Guanyin will come to the incense many pilgrims are to ask for children, Shang Zhou Zuo's wife Fu because she is about to enter Beijing to meet her husband, in order to seek an heir is more devout to bow - Shang Tanran said that he wore a wide-brimmed hat and covered the veil, presumably because he was coveted by Meng Lang's disciples in Longshan last time, so he disguised his complexion, but in Zhang Yuan's view, this kind of concealment is to cover up, Shang Tanran's beauty is not in a face, it is beautiful everywhere - after Fu and Qi bowed, he smiled and beckoned Zhang Yuan and Shang Tanran to worship the Bodhisattva, Zhang Yuan and Shang Tanran worshipped, Fu and Qi exchanged eyes, and smiled secretly in their hearts.

Out of the apricot blossom temple, watch at the edge of the flower, the apricot blossom here is quite famous, there are a few flowers mixed with five colors, gorgeous, Zhang Yuan looked at the flower tree under the Shang Ran, the spring breeze lifted a good veil corner, the complexion is more than the flower Jiao.

After a little half an hour, the group went back, Shang Zhoude of course wanted to invite Zhang Yuan and Qi Biaojia to go to the house for lunch, Zhang Yuan asked the second brother Shang to wait, he went to Wang Siren's house near Xinghua Temple to inquire, the old man said that the master had not come back from Xiaoshan, Zhang Yuan did not go in, followed Shang Zhoude and Qi Biaojia to the Shang mansion to go to the banquet, because he wanted to rush to see Liu Zongzhou, and only hurriedly used some wine and food, so he and Qi Biaojia rushed to the Fuhe River to cross the Wang Bridge, waiting for Liu Zongzhou to pass by.

After waiting for about half an hour, I saw Mr. Liu Zongzhou riding a donkey from a distance, followed by a servant, and his luggage was Xiao Ran, so he went on the road.

(To be continued)