It is said that Li You went ashore and turned around, and suddenly entered the eyes of dense trees, huge rocks, and gurgling springs.

Jiangnan gardens are generally elegant and ingenious, but the situation is so deep and secluded but very rare, with manpower to make nature, I don't know how much gold the giant merchant surnamed Jin spent.

Fang Cai's boat family introduced that it was known as Golden Million, which seems to be worthy of its reputation. At the same time, it can also be seen that the trend of Yangzhou salt merchants building gardens in this era has risen.

Li You had not yet passed through the woods, but he heard the voices of people in the garden first, and he followed the sound, and no one came out to stop him. Maybe it's because Li Youhua is dressed beautifully and has an extraordinary bearing, or maybe the host doesn't care about one more person to eat and drink.

There is a stream in the garden, more than a dozen desks by the stream, placed at will, a set of pen, ink, paper, inkstone, tea, food and fruits. Interested in the brush flying, with the writing with the school. There are also printers waiting, and the book can be published as soon as the meeting is finished.

There are more than 100 kinds of wine, delicacies, fruits and foods listed on the other side, looking at the sea and land, and the replacement of flowing water is at your disposal.

In the pavilion a little farther away, there is an orchestral silk bamboo, a silver zither and a pipa, and the beauties and scholars sit and live together, or sing or chant.

After a few glances, Li You knew that the boat family was uneducated, so it was said that the big family had invited guests to celebrate after building a new garden, but it was actually a gathering of literati to cultivate. But this repair must have been sponsored by a million dollars, and it would not be wrong to say that it was a celebration of the completion of the new garden.

The so-called repair, that is, the literati and scholars find a place with good scenery to gather together to feast, drink and give poems to carnival, and generally have to publish a collection of poems, the most famous repair in history is of course Wang Xizhi wrote the Lanting Pavilion's preface to the Lanting repair.

Li You, a fresh face, came in, and no one paid much attention to him, and they all said that they were invited by others, so they still did their own things. This is even more in line with Lord Li's wishes, he is not here to be in the limelight, just to observe the morale of Yangzhou and the legendary big salt merchants.

He walked around happily, occasionally listening to the past and the present, occasionally interjecting a few words, sometimes smiling and asking a few words about local things, and when he was enjoying himself, he suddenly felt the aroma of his nose.

looked sideways, but saw a somewhat familiar beauty staring at him dumbfounded, her eyes widened, her small mouth opened slightly, and she stammered: "Li, Li..."

This is recognized, is this person from Suzhou to walk the name of the cave? It's so hard to be a talented celebrity! Li You hurriedly whispered: "Don't make a noise!" ”

The beauty subconsciously covered her mouth again, but since then she has followed Li You step by step. With such a tail, it attracted a lot of attention, and Li You was helpless, but fortunately, no one else recognized him anymore.

At this time, a sentence floated from the pavilion not far away: "If you talk about pure poetry, Xujiang Li Youben is the head of this dynasty, and it can be the first in the three hundred years of the country, and it is not a problem to maintain elegance for decades!" ”

Seeing that some people were talking about themselves and praising them to such a height, Li Youden became interested and leaned over to continue listening.

There are four or five middle-aged people sitting in this bamboo pavilion, discussing poetry.

As soon as the person in front of him touted Li You to the first place in three hundred years, there was a humane next to him: "Brother Jiang is exaggerating!" Although Li Xujiang is outstanding and unparalleled in the world, he is not the first in three hundred years. ”

"Why not? Weather, diction, mood, meaning, rhyme, category, and even speed, in short, who else can compare? ”

The two of them discussed a few words, and it was just that, without a blushing and thick neck, Li You, who was standing outside the pavilion, was very uncomfortable.

Someone else said, "In my opinion, the completion of the garden is really a grand event. But Brother Jin Xian's repair was done earlier, so it was better to wait a few more days. ”

The person in the middle, known as Jin Xiandi, was facing away from Li You, but he was not tall and powerful, and he asked, "Why?" ”

"A few days ago, I read the Di newspaper, and I heard that Li Xujiang was demoted to Jiangdu County to be sentenced to the county, and when he arrived in Yangzhou, wouldn't it be beautiful to hold a repair again. With Li You's fame, it has become a big event, and this secluded garden has also become famous all over the world! ”

The man surnamed Jin chuckled a few times, and his tone was very loud, "There's no need to wait!" Then Li You came to Yangzhou and was just a magistrate, and it would be the same to ask him to come over and write a group of poems. ”

Outside the bamboo pavilion, Li You didn't expect to hear such words, as if he was a craftsman who came and went at a moment's notice. Although his face was expressionless, he already had great hatred in his heart, could this surnamed Jin be a million gold? It's so crazy! couldn't help but speak: "Your Excellency's words are so frivolous and rude! ”

Li You guessed well, this middle-aged man surnamed Jin is indeed the owner of this garden, known as the big salt merchant of the golden million, and there are only three or four people in Yangzhou City who can compare with him.

Jin Million stomped his feet, Yangzhou City had to tremble three times, and he really didn't take the county government too seriously. He didn't expect that someone would refute him, so he turned around and scolded: "Where did the dog bark!" ”

Li You snorted coldly: "Foul language is Your Excellency's hospitality? From this point of view, what kind of garden and what kind of cultivation to do are just vassal elegance. It can be said that Qingfeng is illiterate, why do you flip through the books! ”

Jin Million was so angry by Li You's sarcasm that he was about to attack, but was stopped by a scribe surnamed Jiang who had spoken before.

It turned out that Mr. Jiang looked at Li You and felt that although this person was young, he was outstandingly dressed, handsome, radiant, and dared to speak out, which must not be ordinary.

Besides, this quarrel is really inexplicable, and today's elegant meeting is not suitable for scolding, so he came forward to play a round, and said again: "This son's surname is big?" Where did it come from? ”

Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, Li You said proudly: "It's not enough to worry about the cheap name, come from Beijing, go to Suzhou!" ”

A few of the old and sophisticated people suddenly realized that it must be Jin Wancai's disrespect for Li You in his words, which made this Li You's fellow townsman angry. Moreover, this young noble son from a prominent eunuch probably knew Li You, so he was indignant.

At this time, a servant came to his master and asked, "The gentlemen have finished writing, can you start printing the collection?" ”

Jin Million hadn't answered yet, but Li You didn't know why he was the first to scold: "You dog slave is blind? Didn't see what I hadn't written? ”

After scolding, Li You strode to the front of the case, stretched out his hand to hold the pen and dipped it in ink, and then wrote with a pen.

Several people are a little interested in this unruly son, generally such people belong to the arrogant people, who can do this without a real battle, and see what he is capable of.

Under the gaze of several pairs of eyes, he just put down the pen and wrote a few words, which greatly surprised everyone... It's not unexpectedly good, it's unexpectedly bad. Just these few words are already extremely unsightly, like a child's first learning. Not to mention the celebrities and literati who were invited, even Jin Million's own handwriting is much better than this.

In anticipation, it turned out to be a gentleman with an empty appearance, no learning and no skills..."Hahahaha. Jin Million laughed triumphantly. It's really a useless and self-aware embroidered pillow, and the most colasy thing in recent years is nothing more than this!

It's really miserable, everyone shook their heads and dispersed, there was really no need to look at it anymore. In front of the case, only this young man, who was not afraid of losing face, was left to continue there to finish the poem one by one. His demeanor was calm, as if he had written some peerless calligraphy.

This made Jin Million look at it a little higher, although people are stupid and incorrigible, but concentration is rare. But how can he easily spare people with a million dollars?

After Li You finished writing, his own children pasted the paper on the wall and put it together with all the other poems for others to watch and evaluate.

However, the literati who attended the meeting today were quite kind, and no one was bitter and sarcastic about Li You's calligraphy, so they could only ignore it and ignore it. Only the craftsman who was in charge of the lettering didn't care whether the words were good or bad, and quickly copied Li You's words to make plates.

Li You came the latest, and he was already the last. Not long after he finished writing, Mr. Jiang announced: "The master of the garden said, the talents of all the gentlemen are not distinguished, what is the use of class, and they will be passed on to future generations." ”

He also pointed to Li You's article on the wall, "Only this article is listed as the last class, and its people are..."

Mr. Jiang looked at it carefully for a long time, but he didn't see the signature on it, could it be that he was ashamed to leave his name?

Everyone in the garden looked at Li You in unison, but saw him inexplicably looking up to the sky and laughing three times: "Ha! Ha! Ha! ”

I saw him turn around and walk towards the outside of the garden, singing as he walked: "Beiguo Qingxi is a stream, the Red Bridge is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the green Yangcheng Guo is Yangzhou." Where is Leitang in the west? The scattered incense soul makes people sad, and the light smoke and grass are old and maze. ”

Gradually moving away, the back disappeared in the green trees, and another song came over, "The white bird Zhu Lotus leads the painting tree, and the red bridge is seen in the shadow of the weeping poplar, and the soul of the past has disappeared." Pointing to the outer road of Pingshan Mountain, there are countless rivers in the broken Hong, and the new sorrow is divided into the tide of Guangling. ”

Lvyang City Guo is Yangzhou, see the red bridge in the shadow of the weeping poplar, the more wonderful the word... Everyone couldn't help but praise that it should be the best today.

Could it be that the two songs of Huanxi Sha were written by him? Looking at the text of this person on the wall, although the words are so ugly that they are difficult to see, it seems that they are indeed two songs written by Fang Cai. It's not that he's ruined on the outside, but on the outside.

How talented could this person be? When did Jiangzuo produce such a wild and uninhibited talent? Jin Million faintly felt that something was wrong, and asked left and right, "Who knows who he is?" ”

After a while, there was a reply: "The slave family knows that it is my Mr. Li Tanhua from Suzhou." ”

This name is thunderous in today's poetry world, and everyone can only argue whether he is the first in three hundred years... Everyone who heard it was shocked, he was the legendary genius Li Tanhua?

You can't go wrong! A Suzhou man may admit Li Tanhua wrong, but a Suzhou celebrity will never admit it, and even Li Tanhua's back will not be mistaken.

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other, thinking that what happened today was very strange. I don't dare to say that the poetry is the best in the world, but at least Li You, who is recognized as the leader of Jiang Zuo, ran here incognito and wrote two poems, and then was ridiculed by them and designated as the only one, which is going to be passed on... Doesn't that make people laugh off their big teeth! This is not a shame for Li Tanhua, this is a shame for their Yangzhou scholars! Not to mention that Li Tanhua is not only a talented man, but will also go to Yangzhou City to be a parent official.

Jin Million must compete without opening their eyes, they are blind and not long-sighted, and Master Li deliberately scribbles because they don't see their eyes... The printer, who didn't know what had happened, took a few books and found the owner here, Jin Million, and said, "Master Jin, this "Youyuan Yaji" has been printed, and the last one is also marked according to the instructions. ”

Jin Million angrily took the book and tore it to shreds.

What a collection! After the news spreads today, I am afraid that it will stink. What a repair event, being disturbed by this Li You, and his secluded garden, became a big joke in Yangzhou City! Is it just a fire?

In an instant, the invited literati were scattered, as if no one wanted to stay here as a background for jokes.

But he said that Master Li finished making trouble and went on the painting boat refreshed. He thought that he had a feud with the Jin family, so he asked the boat family for information about the Jin family with the idea of knowing himself and the other. I'm not afraid, but it's never a bad idea to know more.

"Jin Million is also a legend in our Yangzhou, more than ten years ago he was still poor, and even sold his daughter to a mother who raised thin horses in order to make ends meet. But today, in the blink of an eye, such a big family business has been made. ”

But he also had troubles, there was no son to inherit the family business, and he only had two daughters except for the eldest daughter who was sold. One is married to Yanyun Si Yuntong, and the other is still waiting to be written. ”

"How can you not marry the younger? In the past few years, he has married more than a dozen concubines, and according to the fortune teller, Jin Million sold a woman to lose his yin virtue and was destined to have no children. His wife misses her eldest daughter and cries so much that her eyes are almost blind. ”

It's a pity that the mother who bought his daughter has long since died, and her daughter is gone. Last autumn, Jin Million sent a reward of 50,000 taels of silver to find a girl, but he found nothing. ”

Fifty thousand taels, equivalent to the annual salary of two thousand senior weavers... Li You was a little shocked, and once again felt the strong financial resources of the big salt merchants, and couldn't help laughing: "Whoever can find this person will not become rich overnight." ”

"yes, who wouldn't want to find it? But there are not many clues, and he was only three or four years old when he was sold, and now he is ten ** years old, and he doesn't know how tall he looks or how tall he is, but he only knows the nickname Bao'er. I don't know where I went, and even she probably doesn't remember her childhood, so it's even more difficult. The old boatman sighed.

Boa? Gold? Kimbella? Li You, who was leaning on the side of the boat, was so shocked that he almost fell into the water, can't it be such a coincidence?

Xiaozhu and Zhang San obviously realized it, and looked at the old man with a disdain, only Cui Jiansheng didn't feel anything.

Calm down... Calm down... There are more people with the same name and surname in the world, Li You said to himself while recalling Aunt Jin's past words and deeds.

I remember the summer before last, the summer when he was in charge of praying for rain in the county, once Aunt Jin said to Xiaozhu: "You still have a mother, I don't even know what my parents look like, I only know that they are from Yangzhou, and I have to accept my fate over the years." ”

From Yangzhou, ten ** years old, surnamed Jin, named Bao'er, was sold around when he was young... None of Aunt Jin's conditions are met, and all of them are in control.

Li You can be regarded as a person who has experienced strong winds and waves, and now he is also a little confused.

If it is true, among his wives and concubines, is the one with the lowest background and the most backgrounded being the strongest one?

Li You remembered again that just now he had pumped Jin Million's face until it was swollen and couldn't be swollen anymore. His father-in-law, Liu, Guan, Cheng or Jin, why don't any of them have the same spleen and surname?

(To be continued)