Zhang Cao came over to read the letter with Zhang Yuan, and shouted without reading a few words: "I'm angry with me!" I didn't get angry, I continued to watch, and after reading a few words, I shouted: "I'm angry too!" "Scolded Songjiang Dong - Lu Tao said in the letter that Huating Dong first instructed people to pry Lu Yangfang to stay in the scoop, Lu Yangfang and gambling, under the instigation of a few girls to squander and squander, and also owed 6,000 taels of gambling silver, writing according to the painting to repay the gambling debts with 600 acres of mulberry forest in Sheshan, Dong Zu often forced Lu Zhaoshen to admit and repay the gambling debt owed by his son, and even set up a "fire hoard" in Huating to frame Lu Yangfang, the so-called Huo Hoard is the Beauty Bureau, also known as the fairy jump, let a wife of Songjiang beat the green hand to lure Lu Yangfang, Lu Yangfang thought it was an affair, stepped into the romantic array with one foot, and was about to enter the port, the beating green hand led a group of singles rushed in, beat Lu Yangfang half to death, and dragged him to the Songjiang Mansion to kill the women of the good family to sue the official, Lu Yangfang was imprisoned, the news was transmitted back to Qingpu, Lu Zhaoshen was extremely angry, and suffered a stroke and hemiplegia, and the person who came to the door to force the debt of the Dong family was disturbed, and asked the Lu family to exchange 600 acres of mulberry forest in Sheshan for Lu Yangfang to get out of prison, otherwise he would be punished with silver humiliation of women, eighty rods, and the border guards would always be in the army- Lu Tao was originally going to leave last month to pick up Ruoxi's mother and son back to Qingpu, but now for this uncompetitive younger brother Lu Yangfang has been upset and anxious, and his father is sick in bed again, where can he still free up to come to Shanyin, this time he wrote to Zhang Yuan to ask Zhang Yuan to beg Zhang Rulin to come forward to rescue Lu Yangfang, as for Ruoxi's mother and son to return to Qingpu depends on Ruoxi's intentions, Ruoxi is willing to stay in Shanyin's mother's house for a while, after all, now Qingpu Lu's house is restless, and it is good to stay at his grandmother's house with purity and cleanliness. Lu Tao also said that if Ruoxi wants to go back to Qingpu, then please ask Zhang Yuanxiang to send it - Zhang Cao said angrily: "Then Lu Yangfang is really stupid, he is looking for death by himself, what can this kind of person do to save him!" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "It's not a pity for Lu Yangfang to die, but if Lu Yangfang is allowed to die in the hands of Dong Zuchang, I will also be aggrieved." ”

Zhang Cao nodded and said: "That's right, you must not let Dong Zuchang be complacent-Jie Zi, you have also passed the Dao test now, and you have a reputation as a student, it's time to deal with Dong Zuchang, do you have a clever plan?" ”

Zhang Yuan said quietly: "It's time." Xin said: "It's nothing to deal with Dong Zuchang, I want to make it impossible for the Dong family to gain a foothold in Huating." ”

Zhang Cao was overjoyed when he heard Zhang Yuan say "It's time", so he asked Zhang Yuan why he said to go to Huating, and he wanted to go together.

Zhang Yuan said: "Third brother, wait a minute, I'll go ask my sister." ”

Zhang Yuan went to see his sister Zhang Ruoxi with a letter, avoiding his mother, and the two sisters and brothers discussed in the study of the West Building, Zhang Ruoxi heard that there was such a big incident in her husband's family, thinking about the predicament of Lu Lang's support alone, how to stay, that is, to go back to Qingpu to help her husband - Zhang Yuan saw that his sister had made up his mind, so he didn't keep it, and said: "My sister said to my mother that Master Lu is sick, you are the eldest daughter-in-law, you must go back to visit, as for the rest, don't say more, lest -"

Zhang Ruoxi glanced at her younger brother: "I want you to teach me, I am nine years older than you." He frowned again and said: "I'm worried about my mother, Xiaochun and Xiaojie have been lively here for more than a year, now we have all returned to Qingpu, you have to send us there, my mother will be unhappy, and my father will not come back for a while." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "If there is a gathering, there will be a dispersion, and it is impossible for my sister to live in Shanyin for a long time, my father should come back in July, and my sister does not have to worry too much about her mother." ”

Zhang Ruoxi nodded, feeling faintly sad in her heart, although she is the daughter of the Zhang family, she is also the eldest daughter-in-law of the Lu family, married to her husband, this time her husband's family is in difficulty, she must go back.

Zhang Yuan said: "That sister went to tell my mother, today is April 26, we went to Qingpu after the Dragon Boat Festival, and when we went to Hangzhou, I borrowed a small survey card from Eunuch Zhong, so that the road was unimpeded, and we could go to Qingpu on the third or fifth day in the morning." ”

Zhang Ruoxi also felt that the Dragon Boat Festival was approaching, and he always had to go back after the festival, so he said: "Xiao Yuan, then you go and ask your uncle to write a letter to the Huang Governor of Songjiang to say a favor to Lu Yangfang." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Sister, don't worry, I'll take care of it." Came to the front hall and said to Zhang Cao: "Third brother, I discussed it with my sister and left after the Dragon Boat Festival." ”

Zhang Cao said: "Okay, let's go and see the telescope first, and try to see the telescope I bought from Taixi to see farther and clearer." He added: "For most of the past six months, my telescopes have been left in the mirror workshop, and those mirror craftsmen want to imitate them, so that I can't spy on other people's secrets, and I have lost a lot of fun." ”

The two brothers came to the house near the champion as a mirror workshop, three mirror craftsmen and three or two apprentices greeted them, and the two mirror workshop apprentices and two almost identical brass telescopes were respectfully presented, Zhang Cao said "ha", and asked: "The telescope is made by you?" ”

One of the apprentices of the mirror workshop held the telescope in his hand a little higher and said, "Third son, this clairvoyant mirror is newly made in the workshop. ”

Zhang Cao took the telescope, rotated it slightly, pulled out a section, and then pulled out another section, and then leaned to the right eye to see, this workshop could not look far, Zhang Cao walked outside the door to see, Zhang Yuan and a few mirror craftsmen followed out.

Zhang Cao looked at the telescope at this end of the long street, and then at the other end, kept adjusting the focus, for a long time, frowned and handed the telescope to Zhang Yuan: "Jie Zi, how about you look at this telescope?" ”

Zhang Yuan took the telescope and looked at it, looking out through several layers of lenses, foggy, the appearance of this telescope is the same, but the lens polishing of the concave lens and the convex lens is not as fine as the telescope that Zhang Cao bought, and the light refraction and imaging configuration are not precise, no matter how you adjust the focal length, it is always unclear to see the distance - Zhang Cao took the brass single-tube telescope that he bought from Macao for one hundred and eighty taels of silver, and took care of it, and he didn't feel that the gap was so big if he didn't compare, Zhang Cao was angry all of a sudden, reprimanded those mirror craftsmen: "It costs more than 1,000 taels of silver a year to make such a clumsy trick to fool me, won't you compare yourself, look at those telescopes made by Taixi, can you compare with inferior mirrors like you!" ”

The three mirrorsmiths were all very frightened, looking at each other, not daring to make a sound.

Zhang Yuan said: "Third brother don't worry, the Taixi people made this telescope is also many years of exploration, although the imaging of this tube telescope made by our workshop is not clear, but the principle is right, as long as you carefully ponder and adjust, you will be able to create a clearer telescope." At that moment, he told the three mirror makers the principle of the cooperation between the concave lens as the eyepiece and the convex lens as the objective lens, how to master the multiple of the telescope, and the most important thing is to polish the lens finely - "Next year, if you can make a telescope comparable to the Tessie telescope, my three brothers and I will reward each of you with forty taels of silver, and if you can make it in advance, each of you will be rewarded with one tael of silver for every ten days in advance." ”

There must be a brave man under the heavy reward, Zhang Yuan said this, the three mirror craftsmen are greatly encouraged, each rewarded with forty taels of silver, that is not a small money, and if it can be made a month in advance, there are three taels of silver to add a prize, it really makes people more motivated.

In the past year, these three mirrorsmiths have not only imitated this telescope, incense glasses, faint glasses, and myopia glasses have each made dozens of pieces, and these lenses made of colorless crystal are very good, Zhang Yuan tried a few pairs of myopia glasses, which are not much different from the pair of glasses that Zhang Cao gave him - Zhang Yuan asked those glasses to be busy, and Zhang Cao said: "Third brother, these incense glasses, faint glasses, and myopia glasses can be sold, and the mirror workshop should be able to make money now, at least we don't need to invest silver in it, The thousands of catties of crystal stones bought back from Haizhou last year were enough to last three years. ”

Zhang Cao was very happy, he had always squandered silver, and he had not yet earned silver, and asked, "How should this be priced?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "A pair of incense glasses, a pair of silver glasses, faint glasses and myopia glasses are four taels of silver, Ming said that I first went to Confucianism to preach it, and said that I Zhang Jiezi can learn to grow, all thanks to this pair of glasses." As he spoke, he placed a pair of myopia glasses on the bridge of his nose.

Zhang Cao laughed and said: "There are a lot of those showmen and children who are short-sighted, some of them are almost pasted on their faces, and they don't recognize people when they meet on the road, and they are not much better than the blind, and having this myopia mirror is equivalent to giving them a pair of bright eyes again, and there are many people who can afford to buy these glasses for four taels of silver——"

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "I want to make money for those wealthy students." ”

Zhang Yuan asked the glassmaker to select three pairs of faint glasses and two pairs of myopia glasses, and told the above good wenge wood to make five glasses cases, and he came to pick them up after five days, which was ready to be given away.

Zhang Cao said: "The eldest father is also old and dizzy, and this faint glasses are given to the eldest father, which also shows my filial piety." So he took out a pair of faint glasses, and without a glasses case, Zhang Yuan took out his myopia glasses case.

I saw Zhang Rulin in the study room of the North Courtyard of West Zhang, Zhang Cao presented faint glasses, Zhang Rulin was overjoyed, and asked that this was made by Zhang Yuan and Zhang Cao hired mirror craftsmen, and the late Ming scholars were everywhere in business, Zhang Rulin did not think it was different, and only told Zhang Yuan to focus on reading the imperial examination, and these side roads should not spend too much thought, Zhang Yuan of course was the only one, and said about his brother-in-law Lu Tao's family, Zhang Rulin frowned and said: "Lu Zhaoshen's second son is so uncompromising, and the Huating Dong family is also too deceitful, Zhang Yuan, there must be your sake, right?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Yes, after the Dong family knew that the Lu family was my Zhang family's in-laws, it became more and more serious, and the grandson of the clan will send my sister and two nephews back to Qingpu in a few days, and the camera will help the Lu family, and I implore my uncle to write a letter to the Huang Governor of Songjiang to be accommodating." ”

Zhang Rulin looked at this clan grandson and said slowly: "Zhang Yuan, you have to do what you can, Dong Xuanzai is not comparable to Yao Fu, and you are now a living being, you must make a name for yourself, and don't leave a bad reputation for lawsuits and troubles, you have to keep this in mind." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "The grandson of the clan remembers the teachings of his uncle. ”

Zhang Yuan is very smart and acts steadily, Zhang Rulin felt that there was no need for more advice, and said: "Are you going to personally take the letter to visit the Huang Governor's Mansion, well, I will have the letter sent to you." ”

(To be continued)