At the end of noon, the boat arrived at Xuedian Lake, Zhang Yuan and his entourage had lunch in Zhujiajiao Town on the east bank of the lake, Wang Wei refused to get off the boat, only let Uncle Yao go to buy some wine, food and vegetables and fruits to eat on the boat, wine and meat are eaten by Uncle Yao and the little maid with the hair, Wang Wei asked the little maid to move out of the luggage a red clay stove, ignite the charcoal, cook Qingpu japonica rice porridge with a clay bowl, Wang Wei personally took charge of the spoon, fried a plate of bitter gourd and a plate of green lotus root, two side dishes, a bowl of japonica rice porridge, this girl's diet is very simple, pay attention to fresh and clean.

Wang Wei ate two small bowls of Qingpu japonica rice porridge, rinsed his mouth and cleaned his hands, took a volume of "Yinxiu Xuan Poems" and read it under the canopy window, "Yin Xiuxuan Poems" is a collection of poems by Jingling Zhongyu, Wang Wei read a poem "Under the Leaves of Tinggao Wood", and recited lightly: "How to make a shadow of the deceased, but also a frost day, is a chrysanthemum outside the evening light, and the twilight is shining together." The more I feel that Qingxiu is gratifying, the more I disagree with Zhang Yuan's criticism of Zhong Yu before, and I really want to debate with Zhang Yuan again - the afternoon is long, the wave boat is moored under the willow shade by the Cao River, the wind on the water surface comes, and I don't feel the summer heat, except for the two boatmen who stayed on this boat, it is Wang Wei and the others, everyone else went to the shore to eat - Wang Wei read a poem, thought for a moment, saw the willow branches hanging low on the shore, lightly touched the water surface, it was very quiet, but there were two cicadas suddenly chirping, one after another, noisy, Wang Wei put down the poem scroll in his hand, and said: "Xue Tong, get the slingshot."

Xue Tong is the little boy with the mole between his eyebrows, and quickly took a cow tendon slingshot, as well as a bag of selected small stone pills, and sent them to Wang Wei, Wang Wei looked at the quasi-willow cicada, the slingshot band, the cicada that was screaming vigorously stopped abruptly, the willow leaves fluttered, and a black cicada fell to the shore and ground, tossed a few times, and did not move.

There was also a cicada, Xu was frightened by this girl's slingshot skills, and was silent and silent.

Xue Tong praised: "Aunt Wei played so accurately. ”

Wang Wei handed the slingshot to Xue Tong and said, "Compared with Granny Xue, it's far behind." ”

At this moment, I heard the sound of the boat, and a small boat docked by the wave boat, and saw a taxi man in his thirties wearing a jade shirt coming ashore and said, "Let's have some tea and rice here and then go to Qingpu." ”

Wang Wei heard this voice a little familiar, when he raised his eyes, he recognized it as Suzhou Fan Xiaolian, a few years ago to the old courtyard of Nanjing "Youlan Pavilion" to visit her fake mare Xianglan, when she was only thirteen years old, Fan Xiaolian was entrusted by Suzhou Wang Xudeng to Ma Xianglan to send his new legendary "Cai Pao Ji", Wang Xudeng is Ma Xianglan's favorite talent, but at that time it was already seventy years old, gray hair - Wang Wei likes to travel the most, and called: "Fan Xiaolian, the little woman Wang Wei is polite." ”

Fan Wenruo on the shore turned his head and saw that the canopy window of the wave boat revealed the upper body of a beautiful girl, smiling and smiling, Fan Wenruo felt that his face was raw, and he said: "Does the little lady recognize Xu Wenruo in Changzhou?" ”

Wang Wei said: "Three years ago, in the Youlan Pavilion of the Old Courtyard of Jinling, the little woman listened to Fan Xiaolian's words. ”

Fan Wenruo thought about it for a while, and suddenly said: "Oh, you are Miss Wang Wei - why is the girl here?" ”

Wang Wei said: "The little woman visited Chen Meigong in the clouds, and now she is taking a boat back to Jinling." ”

Fan Wenruo said "oh" and said: "Mr. Wang Baigu also passed away the year before last, and the name of the talented man turned into a butterfly. ”

Wang Wei said gloomily: "Yes, my adoptive mother has been infatuated with Mr. Baigu all her life, and she still recites the poems written by Mr. Baigu to her on her deathbed. ”

Fan Wenruo suddenly remembered something and asked: "Miss Wang Wei is from Sheshan, do you know if Zhang Jiezi from Shanyin is still in Qingpu?" ”

Wang Wei was surprised and said: "Are Fan Xiaolian and Zhang Jiezi old friends?" ”

Fan Wenruo said: "Zhang Jiezi is my friend, I heard about him and Dong Hanlin in Changzhou - I heard that he came to meet in Songjiang Zhusheng at the Shanghai Yuyuan Conference, so I was afraid that I would miss it." ”

Wang smiled and said: "That's really a coincidence, this is Zhang Jiezi's boat, Jie Zixianggong is going to Nanjing Guozijian to study, and he said that he was going to Suzhou to visit friends, but it turned out to be Fan Xiaolian, what a coincidence." ”

Fan Wenruo was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Where is Zhang Jiezi now?" ”

Wang Wei said: "Have dinner in the restaurant in the town, will Fan Xiaolian wait on the boat?" ”

Fan Wenruo said: "I went to the town to look for him." "I took a servant and a servant to the town, and met the three brothers of the Zhang family in a restaurant in Dongshi, Fan Wenruo saw Zhang Dai and Zhang Cao in Shanyin last year, and it was very happy to see each other again - Zhang Yuan greeted Fan Wenruo to have wine and dinner together, and said: "What a coincidence, I met Brother Fan here." ”

Fan Wenruo said with a smile: "I came to Qingpu from Changzhou to visit Xian Kunzhong, if I hadn't met Miss Wang Wei on the shore, I almost missed it." ”

Zhang Cao hurriedly asked, "Does Brother Fan recognize that Aunt Wang Wei?" ”

Fan Wenruo said: "The three of them are in the same boat with the beauty, but they don't know the origin of the beauty?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Chen Meigong entrusted my brother to let her take a boat to Nanjing together, she is Meigong's female disciple. ”

Fan Wenruo nodded and said: "Wang Wei is the adopted daughter of Ma Xianglan of the Youlan Pavilion of the Old Courtyard of Nanjing, she can be good at poetry and painting, and since last year, she has been famous with Li Xueyi, the famous Ji of the old courtyard. ”

Zhang Dai said: "Sure enough, she is a girl in the song, and she is indeed a talented girl, and she is also a Xue Xiaoshu today." ”

Fan Wenruo came to see that Zhang Yuan was not talking about Wang Wei, so he changed his words and said, "Brother Jie Zixian, your reputation is going to spread to the Jingshi this time——"

Zhang Yuan said: "I'm ashamed, my brother just didn't resent the Dong family's misdeeds, so he and Songjiang Zhusheng accused the Dong family, and now the notoriety is far away, which is really not what the younger brother wants." ”

Fan Wenruo said with a smile: "Why is this, since the foolish brother has seen and heard, for what the virtuous brother Jie Zi did in Huating, the reputation is more and less ruined, so the disciple of Jie Zi does not need to worry, there is no reputation in the world, the reputation is prominent, and slander will follow, this is inevitable." ”

Zhang Cao said: "Brother Fan is right, Dong Qichang is half dead, I'm afraid of what he will do, come and drink." ”

Fan Wenruo asked about Dong Yuan's passage this time, Zhang Yuan said everything except for the sunken ship and the box, Fan Wenruo sighed: "I also heard in Suzhou that Dong Xuanzai's two sons were harming one party, but I didn't expect to dare to force the living to die, and I also wanted to burn the house to frame the living beings. ”

After staggering and eating more than half of the food and drink, Fan Wenruo said with a smile: "Last year, I wanted to invite the virtuous brother of Jie Zi to join my Fushui Mountain House Club, and now I know that the virtuous brother of Jie Zi has more ambitions. ”

Zhang Yuan said bluntly: "Brother Fan, you and I have a lot of friendship, so I said it bluntly, I was going to visit Brother Fan in Suzhou this time, for the sake of the Han Society——"

Fan Wenruo asked with a smile: "Do you want to merge the Fushui Mountain House Society into the Han Society?" ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "Those who know me, Brother Fan is also - if Brother Fan refuses, he will never dare to say more, we will still be friends in the future." ”

Fan Wenruo said: "I want to ask, can I participate in both the Fushui Mountain House Club and the Han Society?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Of course you can, the Han Society is inclusive, there will be no door views, as long as you are willing to abide by the three rules of the Han Society, you can join the society." "Immediately told Fan Wenruo about the three rules of the Han Society.

Fan Wenruo said: "Whether the Fushui Mountain House Club will be merged into the Han Society, I can't be the master, and I need to discuss it with my colleagues in the society, but I can join the Han Society first." ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "Brother Fan is already famous, and it is really condescending to join the Han Society." ”

Fan Wenruo said with a smile: "It's so dangerous, I am thirty years old this year, and if it is next year, I will not be able to join the Han Society." Suddenly, he asked: "You won't expel me from the Han Society next year because of overage, right?" ”

Zhang Yuan, Zhang Dai, and Zhang Cao all laughed, and Zhang Yuan said: "How can this be reasonable, how can this be reasonable!" ”

Fan Wenruo asked some more about the Yuyuan Elegant Gathering, and learned that the Hanshe Society Gathering would be held in Shanyin in March next year, and said happily: "Then I will come, it will be a grand event." ”

Because of the hot weather, Zhang Yuan and the others did not continue to rush in the afternoon, and wanted to rest overnight in Zhujiajiao Town, and set off early tomorrow morning - at dusk, Zhang Yuan and Fan Wenruo were walking by the Cao River, Zhang Yuan remembered an important matter, he asked a few students in Qingpu and no one knew, Zhang Yuan asked: "Brother Fan, I have something to ask you——"

Fan Wenruo said: "I know everything. ”

Zhang Yuan said: "The former Liaodong General Soldier Du Song resigned and returned to his hometown, does he live in Kunshan now?" I have a servant who wants to join the army, and I want to be under the door of General Du. ”

Fan Wenruo said: "I have heard of this Du Zongbing, he is from Kunshan, but he migrated to Yan'anwei, he is from the general's family, that is, a military household, a senior military household——"

Zhang Yuan's heart was cold, Yan'anwei, where did he get Yan'anwei at this time, so he couldn't do anything about the battle of Salhu?

But I heard Fan Wenruo say again: "This Du Zongbing's brother lives in Kunshan Zhenfengli, died last month, Du Zongbing has been dismissed, there is no military affairs, I think he will come back to pay tribute to his brother - the reason why I know about his brother's death is because there is a child of the Du family who worships under my friend Wang Huanru to study, because he is a child of a military family, he is quite cold by his classmates, Wang Huanru is one of the four people who came to Qingpu with me last year, does Jie Zixian still have an impression?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Remember, the one with plump cheeks and beautiful hair and dignified appearance." ”

Fan Wenruo said: "Zunjie wants to join the army, this Jinshanwei is very close, why bother to ask for a dismissed general soldier!" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "My servant is from a pariah, and I want to go to the north to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and earn a clean background - Nadu General Soldier has been through a hundred battles and is temporarily dismissed, so he will be able to recover soon." ”

Fan Wenruo nodded and said: "Mongolian Tatars are indeed rampant, and they have repeatedly committed crimes, and it is easier to make military achievements in Datong-" There is a sentence that is not said, that is, "die quickly".

Zhang Yuanxin said: "The Ming Dynasty still only knows that the Mongolian tribe is a threat, but they don't know that Nurhachi is already sharpening his sword. Then he thought, "I don't know if I can meet juniper this time, if not, will I be resigned to fate?" In the forty-seventh year of Wanli, I was already in Beijing at that time, how could I sit back and watch the fiasco that changed the fortunes of the Ming Dynasty! said: "Then Ming said that he would take a detour to Kunshan Zhenfengli first." ”

Fan Wenruo said with a smile: "Why take a detour, I came from Cheung Chau, and I passed through Zhenfengli, which is also a famous place, with the former residence of Shen Wansan, a wealthy man at the beginning of the country. ”

Zhang Yuan was surprised, isn't Shen Wansan's former residence in Zhouzhuang, is Zhouzhuang now called Zhenfengli?

(To be continued)