Zhang Yuan did not worry about the drought in Shanyin, otherwise he would not be able to live when he thought of it in 30 years, he could only do this step in disaster relief, he had tried his best and had a clear conscience - the summer wheat harvest made the people of Sanyin underestimate the serious consequences of the drought, especially the rich landowners, who did not think that the drought would last long, They are not very interested in Jianyi Cang, but they are very keen on praying for rain, and they are very enthusiastic about praying for rain, and the suburbs are also villages and villages praying for rain, pretending to be tide gods and sea ghosts, and the people are competing for it, Zhang Rulin's third son Zhang Bingfang is especially happy to be lively and loves to compare, and his two nephews Zhang Dai and Zhang Cao want to organize a grand rain prayer club, and they want to race the temple fair of the Sea Dragon King of the Temple of King Qiansu of the Temple, just like the Longshan Lantern Festival crowns Shaoxing, Zhang Bingfang's uncle and nephew want to have a different chance, choose 36 Tiangang and 72 earth demons, and perform one hundred and eight generals in "Water Margin", sent more than a dozen domestic slaves who were familiar with "Water Margin" to visit the villages on the outskirts of the city, looking for beautiful bearded customers, looking for black dwarf men, looking for vicious heads, looking for fat monks, looking for red-faced and red-bearded men, looking for blue scarfaces, looking for strong women, looking for tall and good-looking women, anyway, the Liangshan heroes in "Water Margin" must be found according to the faces described in the book, and the county will not go to the neighboring counties to find them, it is estimated that it will take two months to find all these people, and then they will have to buy clothes and utensils and canes, and they can't do it without more than 100 days - Zhang Yuan has no time to participate in this matter, just watch it when there is excitement at that time, This is also what the villagers like to see, can they use these Water Margin characters to raise some money and food to help build a righteous warehouse?

Although Zhang Rulin is the head of Yanghe Yicang, he doesn't care about the specific affairs of Yicang's preparation, which has to be managed by Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan is the Shezheng of Yanghe Yicang, and the Shezheng needs to be fair and convincing, although Zhang Yuan is only sixteen years old, but he is the head of the county test and the government test, and he has defeated Yao's lawsuit, and his reputation is very loud and good in Shanyin, Zhang Yuan can also serve the public, Lu Yungu is busy practicing medicine, so Lu Yunpeng will assist in the affairs of Yicang, more than ten years ago, Lu Yunpeng's family property was robbed by Yao Fu and went to Yuyao to make a living, and learned to count, will plan to plate, this time to get back most of the land, Lu Yunpeng is also a small landlord with more than 100 acres of fertile land, more leisurely, Zhang Yuan let Lu Yunpeng and lame Liu Xiucai do the two vice presidents of Yicang, in charge of Yicang key and account book - Yang and Yicang according to the scale of grain storage 12,000 stone to build, according to Zhang Yuan's design, Yang and Yicang are divided into two warehouses A and B, because the money is limited, this year to build a warehouse, the foundation of B warehouse will also be built together, Hou County ordered to appoint the county government to assist Zhang Yuan to supervise the construction, the county engineering room requisitioned ten craftsmen, After the construction of the county government does not participate in the management of Yicang, this is Zhang Rulin and Hou Zhihan agreed, because many Yicang is often occupied by the government later, and the private Yicang finally becomes the reserve warehouse of the government, if it encounters a clean county order, it will be just a corrupt official, and it will be all embezzled when encountering a corrupt official, Zhang Rulin does not distrust Hou Zhihan, but for the long-term, and Hou Zhihan has less than two years in Shanyin's term, so he does not force to take over Yicang - April 27, Zhang Yuan's trust to his father Zhang Ruiyang was sent by his uncle Zhang Rulin to the Kaifeng Zhou Palace, in which Zhang Yuan explained to his father that he went to Qingpu to celebrate his brother-in-law's birthday, came back to participate in the government examination and won the first case, Zhang Ruoxi also sent a letter to his father, asking his father why he returned to Shanyin?

Zhang Yuan wrote a letter to Yang Shixiang and his brother-in-law Lu Tao in Qingpu, reporting the news of his own government's trial and winning the championship, and inviting Yang Shixiang and his brother-in-law to come to Shanyin as a guest - on the first day of May, Yang and Yicang broke ground in the north city wall, Shaoxing prefect Xu Shijin and Shanyin County Linghou Zhihan came to congratulate in person, and most of the well-known squires in Shanyin also came to take a look, at this time it was just a pile of rocks.

Zhang Yuan entrusted the construction of Yicang to Liu Xiucai and Lu Yunpeng, only Liu and Lu could not be the master of the matter to ask him, so Zhang Yuan was much easier, every time he still read, learn words, only in the evening with Wuling or Mu Zhenzhen to the north of the city to see the progress of the construction - Wanli forty-one years of the fifth day of the fifth day of the Dragon Boat Festival, and the summer solstice of the twenty-four solar terms, Shanyin and Huiji junction of the Fuhe River as usual to hold a dragon boat race, this early in the morning, Lu Yungu asked the little maid to send Zhang Yuan's family ten male yellow sachets, Wearing the insect snake that can be avoided, Zhang's mother Lu asked Yiting to buy the heavenly master tiger pattern carved from the calamus grass from the cross street, put it in the big plate, surrounded by five-colored pu silk, cut orange peel to make the image of a hundred insects spread on the plate, this is also to ward off evil spirits, run around purely, clean and happy, children like the festival, and wait for the mother to take them to see the dragon boat race - Zhang Yuan ate two zongzi, and then took Wuling and Shishuang to Huiji to give gifts to Wang Siren teacher and Shang, Wang Siren is a teacher, Shang is an in-law, This New Year's holiday gifts are indispensable, horn millet dumplings, oil dumplings, north and south fruits, bad fish, anchovies, Magu wine, given to the Shang family also added red and yellow summer cloth, yarn fan, sweat towel, and two big white geese, Shaoxing people are more fashionable to send geese, especially the Dragon Boat Festival, the son-in-law to the father-in-law to give gifts to the white goose - cross the king bridge, but see that there are dragon boats on the Fu River rowing around, there are already a lot of people on both sides of the river to see the dragon boat, the water source of the Fu River is relatively abundant, the mash river behind Zhang Yuan's house has almost dried up, this Fu River can still sail, Zhang Yuan's master and servant three people watched at the bridge for a long time, the hour was still early, and before the dragon boat race, the three masters and servants went to Xinghua Temple, first went to Wang Siren's teacher, the old man saw Zhang Yuan come to the door, and said happily: "Zhang Gongzi has a heart, so early in the morning to give a gift to my master." ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "Teacher Wang is my mentor, this is just a little bit of the student's heart. ”

Shi Shuang put the two big white geese outside the wall door "smack", the old man heard it, and said: "Zhang Gongzi also sent a goose, the old man and the second lady love to eat goose neck." ”

These two big white geese were sent to the merchant by Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan did not plan to send geese to Mr. Wang, so he asked Shi Shuang to put the goose outside the wall door, but the goose kept crowing, and the old man said so, so he said: "Yes, I didn't know that Mr. Wang still likes to eat goose necks." "Let Shi Shuang bring the two geese in.

A small novice of Yanqing Temple was ordered by the master to send a golden cylinder wheel to Wang Siren's house, which is to ward off evil and evil, the monks of the temple in the Dragon Boat Festival gave some Tanyue donors a golden cylinder wheel, and the Taoist priest of the Taoist temple sent the believers to ward off evil spirit talismans - Wang Siren and the small sand paper asked a few questions, sent the little novice back, leaving Zhang Yuan to drink tea and talk in the front hall, Zhang Yuan sat for a while, and then said goodbye, Wang Siren expected that Zhang Yuan would also go to the merchant to send the Dragon Boat Festival ceremony, and did not leave him, just said: "Zhang Yuan, I know that you are busy preparing for the establishment of Yicang now, but your studies must not be neglected, The four book questions and eight shares are now not able to stand you, but the Taoist test is a four-book question and a five-book question, your book is the "Spring and Autumn Period", the Taoist test will have a Spring and Autumn question, you now have to work the "Spring and Autumn" scriptures, I can't give you any guidance, because my book is the "Book of Rites", in the "Spring and Autumn" is not deep, there are not many Cheng Wen about the "Spring and Autumn", you can carefully search out and figure out the study, you write two articles for me to see after a while, although the five classics and the four book questions are different, but the method of making eight shares is the same. ”

After sending Zhang Yuan away, Wang Siren was about to enter the inner courtyard, and the old man came over with two geese and said: "Master, this goose was sent by Zhang Gongzi, and the two of them are about 20 catties." ”

Wang Siren said: "The son-in-law gave a gift to his father-in-law for the Dragon Boat Festival before sending a goose, why did Zhang Yuan send a goose on purpose?" He asked about the situation at the time, laughed, and said to the old man: "This pair of geese was given to the merchant by Zhang Yuan, and when you said that, Zhang Yuan had no choice but to give it to me." ”

Lao Menzi recalled the scene just now, and the goose was really placed outside the wall door, and said with a smile: "Zhang Gongzi heard that the old man and the second lady like to eat goose throat, so he was very willing to give it away." ”

Wang Siren shook his head and smiled, and went into the inner courtyard to tell his wife about it, and he wanted Mrs. Bo to smile, but Mrs. frowned and said sadly: "Last year, Chen Shuxing also sent a servant to send goose wine during the Dragon Boat Festival, and this year, it will be——"

Wang Yingzi on the side said: "Daddy, take Sister home in a few days." ”

Wang Siren said: "I have to wait until the period of Qiqi has passed, and I will pick it up at the end of this month." ”

…… Zhang Yuan asked Shi Shuang to buy two big geese in the Huiji bazaar, the price of the goose rose sharply, two big white geese cost seven dollars in silver, Shi Shuang carried two geese at one end, and one end with gifts such as zongzi and Magu wine, Wuling also carried a gift box, followed Zhang Yuan to the north on the left bank of the East Pond, and went to the Shang Mansion, along the way and Zhang Yuan made greetings and many people, Shanyin, Huiji County, no one knew Zhang Jiezi - came to the Shang Mansion, and he was received by Shang Ran's cousin Lao Xiucai, this old Xiucai was quite surprised that Zhang Yuan was the head of the government test, He thought that Zhang Yuan's eight-strand essay of "Zhao Mengzhi's place" was quite non-standardized, and it would be good to pass the government test, but he didn't expect to be the head of the case, but this is his cousin's son-in-law, and he is also honored to be the head of the government test.

Lao Xiucai accompanied Zhang Yuan for lunch, drank a few glasses of wine, and sighed that he did not meet Huaicai, saying that Zhang Yuan was lucky, but he was lucky, Zhang Yuan listened with a smile, occasionally echoed a few words, and thought: "With this old gentleman here, I don't want to come here to spend the summer studying, I have to wait for the second brother Shang Zhoude to come back from Beijing, and the second brother Shang Zhou De should come back at the end of this month or the beginning of next month." ”

Shang Ran must have thought the same way, this time he didn't invite Zhang Yuan to go to the back garden to meet her, but only asked the maid to give her hand-embroidered sachet to Zhang Yuan to wear——...... Zhang Cao sent a mirror craftsman and two Xizhang slaves to Haizhou to purchase crystal stones on May 19, two months back and forth, with the ship back about thousands of pounds of large and small crystals, are carefully selected suitable for polishing into the lens of the kind of colorless transparent crystal, in Haizhou, the most expensive is amethyst, this colorless pure but cheap.

Zhang Yuan asked three mirrorsmiths to use this crystal stone to make incense glasses, faint glasses and myopia glasses, skilled skills, improve light technology, to be able to make suitable lenses according to the degree of presbyopia and myopia, and teach the three mirrorsmiths concave lens and convex lens principle and imaging rules, these three mirrorsmiths originally also made concave lenses and convex lenses, but they knew it but did not know why, now listening to Zhang Yuan's careful explanation, it was really open, and admired the young scholar of the double case head is five-body throwing, The vulgar clouds know astronomy and geography, and the three religions and nine streams know everything, which refers to people like Zhang Jiezi Gongzi.

When Zhang Yuan taught the three mirror craftsmen optical knowledge, Zhang Cao was also listening, Zhang Cao was smart, the three mirror craftsmen didn't understand him first, and immediately started experimenting, both positive and negative, virtual and real are as Zhang Yuan said, happy to say: "Jiezi, could it be that you made glasses in your previous life!" ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "Haven't the third brother heard the Buddhist scriptures say that the end of the knowledge contains all the memories of a person's past life, I remember my previous life, I was a disciple of Mo Zhai, a disciple of Kongqiu, I saw Xizi holding the heart and Dong Shi Xiaofeng in Guyue, I was in the Three Kingdoms to meet Zhou Lang and Xiao Qiao of the Lupine Scarf, I met Concubine Yang in Tianbao, I saw Ji Kang striking iron, I was drunk with Dongpo, so I know a lot-" I said in my heart: "I still live four hundred years later." ”

Zhang Cao was dumbfounded, half-believing or not, and asked, "How can you remember your past life?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "It's the Su Hui aura that was opened when I had an eye disease. "I've said this many times.

Zhang Cao said with annoyance: "I also sat in silence for a long time last year, but I got nothing. ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "This also pays attention to chance, there is no one in ten thousand, and the envy of the third brother cannot be envied." ”

Zhang Cao suddenly asked: "You said that Tianbao met Concubine Yang, is it really stunning?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Of course, plump whitening is incomparable." ”

Unexpectedly, Zhang Cao's next question was: "That meson, have you ever been with the plump and white-looking Yang Guifei?"

Zhang Yuan was speechless, Zhang Cao thought that he acquiesced, and said with envy and jealousy: "Could it be that you were the An Lushan in the Tang Dynasty!" ”

…… Yanghe Yicang is under construction, the telescope is grinding, Zhang Yuan's "Spring and Autumn" is reading, Bagu Wen is writing, it is June in a blink of an eye, because the climate is hot, and it does not rain, the water in the river evaporates quickly, the mash river behind Zhang Yuan's house is broken, completely dried up, a few days ago Wuling and the stone brothers carried bamboo baskets barefoot, rummaged in some wetlands in the middle of the river, and they could find the dying fish casually, the anchovy was the most, and it took two days to turn out more than 20 catties of fish from the wet mud puddle, and they couldn't finish eating, Cuigu pickled them with salt, While pickling the fish, he sighed: "I'm afraid that this shadfish thrown into the Moromi River will become extinct, and there will be no next time if you eat it this time." ”

On the evening of the fifth day of the sixth lunar month, a Shang steward came from Huiji to inform Zhang Yuan, saying that their second master had returned from Beijing and asked Zhang Gongzi to meet him tomorrow.

Zhang Yuan is very happy, the second brother Shang is back, he can finally go to White Horse Mountain to spend the summer studying, well, calm down and read some books, will Miss Ran accompany him to study?

(To be continued)