When the twilight came out of the old residence of Wu Ge, there were still sparse cicadas in the red wall of the high imperial city on the east side of the gray factory street, the so-called no tall trees in the Forbidden City refer to the palace city, and the area of the West Garden was flourishing with flowers and trees, and the evening breeze was blowing, Zhang Yuan could smell the water vapor of the Taiye Pool in the West Garden, as well as the flower gas of autumn chrysanthemum and begonia.

The early autumn in Beijing seems to be a little hotter than the middle of summer, which may be because Zhang Yuan has just returned from the north, and feels extremely hot; Perhaps it was the situation in Beijing that made Zhang Yuan feel the pressure, and Nurhachi announced that the day of the "Seven Great Hatreds" to raise troops to invade Liaodong was coming soon, while the Ming officials were trapped in party disputes and could not extricate themselves, and lacked awareness of internal and external troubles.

The whole world is drunk and I don't feel good when I wake up, Zhang Yuan Yangtian breathed a sigh of relief, no matter what, the trip to North Korea was very rewarding, and now, he just wants to see his wife and children as soon as possible, but the teacher Yang Lian has no intention of returning to the residence of the Huitong Pavilion-

Yang Lian felt that there were still many things to discuss with Zhang Yuan, and he didn't wait for Zhang Yuan's invitation, so he followed Zhang Yuan from Gray Factory Street into the old alley of Li Ge, Zhang Yuan was helpless, he wanted to close the door and enjoy the fun with his wife and children, but Yang Lian was a house master in another country, so it was not good to turn the teacher away.

Laifu ran home first to report the news, Shang Zhenran, Shang Jinghui, Mu Zhenzhen, Su Zhi, Li Koer and other female dependents who were originally waiting in the front hall all entered the inner courtyard, Zhang Dai shook his head and smiled: "This Teacher Yang is really unkind, he dragged Jie Zi away in front of the house, and now he is still coming with him, do you have to worry about the country and the people so much, I don't want to think that Jie Zi has not seen his wife and child for four months, and the grandson of the Zhan Mansion who is the next neighbor of the Zhan Mansion came to visit Jie Zi and was blocked by me——"

While speaking, Zhang Yuan accompanied Yang Lian in. Zhang Yuan said to Zhang Dai: "Big brother will accompany Master Yang on my behalf." I went in, met my wife and children, and came out. Saying that, he confessed to Yang Lian.

Yang Lian smiled and said, "It's me who bothered." Saying this, there is no intention of saying goodbye.

Zhang Yuan's footsteps led the wind into the inner courtyard through the instrument door. Suddenly I felt a trip on the side of my leg, hurriedly retracted my foot, heard an "ah" sound, and caught a glimpse in the twilight of a boy who was not much higher than his knees falling backwards, and hurriedly leaned over and reached out to fish-

Zhang Yuan practiced with Wang Zongyue for a period of time, and his skills were agile, and he grabbed the front of the child at the moment when the back of his head hit the ground, and then picked the child up. The child cried "wow", and Zhang Yuan whimpered: "Hong Yan, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's Daddy, Daddy is back." ”

Who will these two feet tall children be except for Zhang Hongji, who is more than a year old, Zhang Yuan almost knocked his son down as soon as he came home.

"Rainbow - little uncle - "

"Little master, little master-"

Eleven-year-old Shang Jinghui rushed over, and Xiao Hongji's nurse Zhou's mother also ran over in a panic.

Xiao Hong, who was in Zhang Yuan's arms, gradually cried a few times and stopped crying, looking at Zhang Yuan curiously with black and bright eyes, Zhang Yuan pinched his son's little face. smiled: "Take a closer look, do you still recognize Daddy?" He looked sideways at Shang Jinghui's hazy little face in the twilight. Asked: "Xiao Hui, is your body better?" ”

Shang Jinghui lost a lot of weight, but his eyes were still bright and bright, and then he stepped forward and took Xiao Hongji's hand, raised his eyes to look at Zhang Yuan, and said with a smile: "The past two days have been much better, and my little uncle has worked hard to make a mission to North Korea." "One side of the blessings.

Shang Tanran, Su Zhi, Li Koer, and Mu Zhenzhen all rushed to the big patio, and there were maidservants who hung two big red lanterns high under the eaves of the west wing house, and it was already the time to hold the lanterns.

Xiao Hong gradually saw Shang Ran coming over, and stretched out his hand to hug him: "Auntie, hug." While tilting his little head to look at Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan smiled and handed Xiao Hong to his wife Shang Ran, and said: "I am dusty, smelly and sweaty, and Hong gradually dislikes me." ”

Shang Yanran hugged Xiao Hongjian and said: "Hongchuan, this is Daddy, called Daddy, haven't you been looking forward to Daddy's return." When talking to his son, Shang Ranran's eyes looked at her husband Zhang Yuan for a moment, the light was not very bright, but he could still see that Zhang Yuan had lost a lot of weight, and his eyes couldn't help but be foggy.

Under the guidance of his mother, Xiaohong finally opened his mouth to call "Daddy", and screamed several times, getting louder and louder.

Zhang Yuan laughed, his heart beaming.

Xiao Hong gradually kept shouting, and Shang Ran hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, don't shout." He turned his head to find Mu Zhenzhen, nodded and said, "Come here, let Zhang Lang take a look at Qian'er." ”

There were many people hugging in front of Zhang Yuan, Mu Zhenzhen stood behind with the child and watched Zhang Yuan, today Daddy and Young Master Zhang Yuan came back together, Mu Zhen was really overjoyed, when Daddy hugged Xiao Mingqian, Xiao Mingqian laughed out loud, and reached out to pull Daddy's yellow beard-

Mu Zhenzhen stepped forward, Zhang Yuan had already walked over, looked at Mu Zhenzhen with a smile, Mu Zhenzhen was still a little shy, and said busily: "Young Master, Mingqian is sleeping again." Mu Zhenzhen is used to calling "young master", he can't change his mouth, and Zhang Yuan didn't deliberately correct it, the title is just a form, just like the married women in the mainland in later generations no longer follow their husband's surname, but the social status of women is not higher than that of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, which maintain tradition.

Zhang Yuan looked at the little baby who was sleeping on Mu Zhenzhen's shoulder, he was very cute, and there was a wisp of saliva on the corner of his mouth, and said, "Qian'er has passed a hundred days." Reach out and wipe the saliva from the corner of Xiao Mingqian's mouth.

Mu Zhenzhen said with a smile: "He just has a lot of saliva, we call him the king of saliva." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled heartily.

Zhang Dai's concubines Su Zhi and Li Ko'er are in the inner courtyard, at this time they saluted Zhang Yuan together, a maid next to Su Zhi hugged Zhang Dai's son Zhang Bi, Zhang Yuan hugged his nephew and teased, the half-year-old Zhang Bi is two months older than Zhang Mingqian, but the size is smaller than Zhang Mingqian, Shaoxing proverb is called "mother's big family", that is, the mother is tall and the children are all big, Mu Zhenzhen is really taller than the petite Su Zhi.

Zhang Yuan and his wife and children said a few words, and then went to the front hall to accompany the teacher Yang Lian and the eldest brother Zhang Dai, and invited Wang Zongyue, Mu Jingyan, Hong Ji, and Hong Xin to attend.

Zhang Yuan heard that the eldest brother Zhang Dai said that Sun Chengzong had come to visit, so he personally invited Sun Chengzong to drink together.

Sun Chengzong was one of the few pro-Donglin officials in the court, and his ability to survive the Jingcha controlled by the three parties this time had a lot to do with the fact that Wang Dazhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Literature, did not want to expand the scale of the party struggle. And the reason why Wang Dazhi is like this. Apparently influenced by that secret conversation with Zhang Yuan. There have long been rumors about this among the Beijing officials, and Sun Chengzong knows it.

During the banquet, Zhang Yuan naturally talked about the twists and turns of this trip to North Korea, and took out the diary of "Ding Si's Journey to North Korea" for Sun Chengzong and Yang Lian to read-

Sun Chengzong inspected the border city of Datong for several years 20 years ago, and was familiar with the situation of border preparation, and saw that there were a large number of military records in Liaodong in Zhang Yuan's diary, and he couldn't help but admire it; Although Yang Lian was a loyal and upright man, he was not very familiar with military affairs. Yang Lian believes that the top priority at the moment is not the border preparation but the party struggle, if the traitorous party Yingchao is strong, it is useless, so the traitorous party cannot be allowed to wipe out the righteous people and gentlemen, especially Zhang Yuan, a figure who has influence on the East Palace and the world's scholars, must not be demoted out of Beijing, otherwise, even if the East Palace takes the throne in the future, but at that time, the left and right sides of the court and the central government are traitorous parties, and it is extremely difficult for the new monarch to use the party of gentlemen.

Yang Lian's idea is certainly reasonable, and Sun Chengzong also agrees. Sun Chengzong said about the arrears of military salaries in Liaodong mentioned in Zhang Yuan's diary: "Although the arrears of military salaries have shaken the morale of the army, the same disadvantage of Liaodong as Yansui and Datong is that 'there are too many soldiers and no training. No amount of salary can be allocated, but it will not be enough to fill the greedy desires of the military generals at the border gates. ”

Yang Lian nodded and said: "Lord Sun said very much, the time and place are favorable, people and people are the most critical, there are no loyal ministers and good generals to protect the family and defend the country, even if the control of millions of strings, grain and grass are like mountains, it is only enough to support the enemy, the governor of Liaodong and the commander of the capital are all mediocre people, then Governor Li's impeachment of Jie Zi's performance is extremely ridiculous, but there are people in the court who want to take advantage of this to make a big storm, I think the worry of the Ming Dynasty is not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster." ”

Zhang Dai said: "If you want to use this kind of thing to slander Jie Zi, that is a poor donkey, what are you afraid of." ”

When the curfew drums sounded, Zhang Dai and Yang Lian got up to say goodbye, and Su Zhi's mother and son in the inner courtyard and Li Ko'er had also eaten, and Zhang Dai took a car back to the Baozi River, and Yang Lian returned to the same hall.

Sun Chengzong lived next door to Zhang Yuan, and after Yang Lian and Zhang Dai left, he sat for a while, and he couldn't put down Zhang Yuan's diary of "Ding Si's Journey to North Korea", and asked to take it back to the apartment to read it carefully, Zhang Yuan said: "In order to show his innocence and dispel rumors, I will print this diary as soon as possible, so that the Beijing sergeant will know what I Zhang Yuan did when he went to North Korea, is it a disaster for the country and the people?" -- I'm going to make a copy of this diary overnight, and I'll hand it over to the book company tomorrow for printing, and I'll give it to Master Sun to read in a few days. "The advantage of the late Ming Dynasty is that the literary network is extremely sparse, and there are not too many taboos, even if it is like Li Zhen's radical ideological speech.

Sun Chengzong was very appreciative of Zhang Yuan's method of publishing books to guide public opinion, but asked: "Who in the government will copy it on his behalf?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Only me and my insiders transcribed." ”

Sun Chengzong flipped through the diary book in his hand and said: "Your diary of "Ding Si Joseon Chronicles" is nearly 40,000 words, and it is difficult to transcribe, so it is better to divide it into two, and I will take it back to transcribe half of it. ”

Zhang Yuanxi said: "Then thank you." When the book was split into two, Sun Chengzong asked for the first half of the book to take back to his apartment to copy it.

Zhang Yuan arranged for Wang Zongyue, Mu Jingyan, Hong Ji, and Hong Xin to stay, and when they returned to the inner courtyard, it was already the end of the day, and the two children of Hongjian and Mingqian had already slept in their respective gauze tents, and Shang Ran and Mu Zhenzhen were still waiting for Zhang Yuan.

When Zhang Yuan went to the backyard to take a bath, Mu Zhenzhen came to serve with him, Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "You don't have to wait, you have been on an envoy for more than 100 days, and you are used to taking care of yourself." Seeing that Mu Zhenzhen was a little unhappy, he said: "Don't worry about it, it's really used to it, isn't it the same when Uncle Mu is outside, you can take care of Qian'er now." ”

Mu Zhenzhen has always taken care of his son by himself, and did not hire a nurse, Shang Ran asked the girl Yumei to help Mu Zhenzhen take care of Xiao Mingqian together, but Yumei rarely intervened.

Mu Zhenzhen said: "Daddy is used to suffering, and the young master is pampered." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled: "I am also very hard-working - okay, since you like to wipe your body for me, then come." ”

Mu Zhenzhen was embarrassed to hear Zhang Yuan say this, between gossip, Zhang Yuan had finished bathing, returned to the courtyard, the weather was still sultry, the sky above the patio was dark clouds, no stars and no moon, and there was no trace of wind, Mu Zhenzhen saw that Zhang Yuan kept folding the fan in his hand, so he said: "Today is extremely hot, and there may be heavy rain at night." ”

Zhang Yuan stands on the side of the patio to breathe, this is a long three zhang six, wide two zhang eight large patio, sitting in the north facing south of the main house steps planted in front of some herbaceous flowers, there are two large lotus jars under the steps of the east and west wings, Zhang Yuan looked familiar, asked: "These two cylinders are moved from the brother of the East Fourth Pai Lou businessman?" ”

Before Mu Zhenzhen could answer, Shang Jinghui's crisp voice came from the first room on the left side of the main room: "Little uncle, the jar was moved from over there." ”

The first room on the left is Zhang Yuan's study, Zhang Yuan walked into the study and saw Shang Yuran and Shang Jinghui sitting side by side by the bookcase to copy the half volume of "Ding Si Joseon Jixing", and two maidservants fanned them behind them.

Zhang Yuan smiled: "Ah, did you hire a little bookmaker?" ”

Shang Jinghui smiled "Gege" and said: "I can't write well, my little uncle doesn't laugh at me." ”

Zhang Yuan stood behind Shang Jinghui and watched her copy, Shang Jinghui sat upright, his neat forehead hair did not move at all, and the small tube in his hand poured out a beautiful little letter, and he couldn't help but praise: "Xiaohui's words have grown a lot." ”

Shang Jinghui's body twisted, tilted his head and glanced at Zhang Yuan, his eyes were really bright, and he pouted slightly: "Little uncle, don't stand behind me, otherwise I will make a mistake." ”

Zhang Yuan walked away a few steps with a smile and asked Shang Ran: "What kind of illness did Xiao Hui get some time ago?" ”

Shang Ran said: "Lung fever, cough, these two days have been better." ”

Zhang Yuan frowned slightly, and said, "I'll find a famous doctor to treat Xiaohui another day." ”

Shang Jinghui kept writing, and said without raising his head: "My illness has been cured." ”

Shang Ran said: "Xiao Hui will go to rest after copying this page." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Well, don't be tired, the autumn weather is dry, and the cough is easy to recur." ”

Shang Jinghui agreed, and went back to her bedroom after copying a page, and when Shang Zhouzuo and his wife left Beijing, they left behind an old Shaoxing mother and a maid to wait for Xiao Jinghui.

Zhang Yuan sat in the seat where Shang Jingwei was sitting and continued to copy, Mu Zhenzhen could only write big characters, so he couldn't help, Zhang Yuan said to Shang Ran: "Copy for an hour and rest, we will copy more than anyone else." ”

Shang Yanran smiled and said: "How can I write fast with you, you don't have to look at the original manuscript at all, you write silently." He added: "Xiuwei hasn't come back yet, otherwise you can rest." ”

Zhang Yuan asked: "Why hasn't Wang Wei come back since he went to Nanjing?" ”

Shang Ran glanced at Zhang Yuan and asked with a smile, "Miss her?" He didn't let Zhang Yuan answer, so he said: "Xiuwei went back to Shanyin to visit the second elder on our behalf, isn't June 19 your twentieth birthday, the second elder wants to celebrate his ancestors at home, at the end of last month, Xiuwei had a letter and said this." ”

Zhang Yuan tapped his head with the barrel of a pen: "I forgot my twentieth birthday - look at the diary, where was I on June 19?" ”

Shang Ran said: "Fang Cai Xiaohui looked through it, you are still in Guangning City on June 19." ”

Suddenly, there was a flash of electricity outside the house, and the whole room was bright, and then thunder sounded, and the night wind was blowing, and the heavy rain was about to fall on this sultry autumn night.

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I have a dog called Laifu at home.,Now I feel a little weird when I write Yasao when I write Laifu.,If there are no lines in Yasao in the future.,Book friends don't blame.。 (To be continued.) )