Chapter Ninety-Five: Playing the Piano to the Cow? (Ask for a commuter pass!) )
But Fang Yingwu was observing Wang Zhi's appearance, and he was also thinking about it in his heart. If you want to debunk the fake Wang Zhi, then when is the most haode time?
The key is, do you debunk it yourself, or leave it to your cheap grandfather to debunk it? Who will do it, and the benefits will be greater?
Of course, there is another possibility that has to be considered, that is, there has been a change in the course of history, and Eunuch Wang really toured the south, but this possibility is almost zero.
Just when Fang Yingwu was uncertain, suddenly the government and county officials knelt down to Wang Zhi and saluted, and the people who were watching the excitement around saw this, so they also followed and knelt very quickly.
Kneeling is a very common etiquette in this era, and others are accustomed to it, but Fang Yingwu has not been very adaptable, so at this time he reacted a beat slower. At this moment, there was a group of people who knelt on the ground to greet them, only Fang Yingwu was still standing alone, which was very abrupt and conspicuous.
Fang Yingwu was stunned and decided not to worship. Everyone else is afraid, but he is not afraid, knowing that it is fake, what is there to be afraid of?
If this eunuch Wang wants to make a fuss about this, then he can't shout the truth in a loud voice, and tell him to reveal his true form on the spot.
The emperor was not in a hurry, and the eunuchs were in a hurry, and the Jinyi Wei Baihu, who was accompanied by Wang Zhi, was furious, pointed at Fang Yingwu and shouted: "Bold and rude!" ”
That Wang Zhi glanced at Fang Yingwu a few times, raised his hand to stop the Jinyi Wei Baihu, turned his head and asked Deng Tongzhi, "Who is this?" ”
Deng Tongzhi replied after thinking about it: "It's a foreign scholar, and he doesn't know the etiquette, which makes Wang Gong laugh." ”
His answer is indeed skillful, first saying that this is a foreign scholar, indicating that it is not under the control of his local officials. If you want to do it, please do it yourself in the West Factory or Jinyiwei. He, the magistrate, was not involved.
Wang Zhi asked again, "Do you recognize him?" What is the origin? ”
At this time, Deng Tongzhi couldn't avoid the serious, so he had to answer: "This person's surname is Fang." With a diploma, I heard that he lived in Suzhou Wang Futai Xingyuan for more than ten days. It should be Wang Futai's descendants and the like. ”
Even if Deng Tongzhi had a conscience, he didn't tell "Wang Zhi" that this was a little fellow of Shang Xianggong.
You must know that last year, it was Shang Zhen who took the lead and strongly demanded to the Son of Heaven to dismantle the West Factory and reprimand Wang Zhi. With Wang's straightforward temperament, it is not surprising that Fang Ying, who has already offended him rudely, has cleaned up.
After Wang Zhi heard Deng Tongzhi's introduction, he snorted lightly and ordered: "Call him to participate." ”
What does this mean? Deng Tongzhi couldn't guess Wang Zhi's intentions, but when he was ordered, he could only agree. And asked: "Please Wang Gong enter the city to rest." ”
Fang Yingwu waited. But seeing that Wang Zhi didn't pay attention to him, he couldn't help but think to himself, this fake Wang Zhi is also quite generous, is it because of his weak heart?
In fact, in history, Zhen Wang Zhi also had similar deeds. As long as they don't anger him, some people will not be humble or arrogant, but they will be appreciated by him and recommended to the Son of Heaven.
It's just that Father-in-law Wang is young and ambitious, and his temper is very arbitrary. Ordinary officials really can't figure out the law of Wang's moodiness, so most of the time they don't dare to take risks.
Fang Yingwu was about to return to the post station. But a government official ran over and said to him: "The government is about to pick up the wind for Wang Gong, Wang Gong invited you to attend by name, and also invited Fang Gongzi and his party." ”
A sentence came out of Fang Yingwu's heart - the king of Hades wants people to die in the third watch. Don't dare to keep people until the fifth watch. Could it be that this fake Wang Zhi wants to seek death quickly and force himself to expose it himself? It's really not good, and this credit will not be left to the cheap grandfather
Thoughts. Fang Yingwu followed the messenger and walked towards the city. For safety, he brought Fang Yingshi with him. And Wang Ying went to the post station to accompany Sister Lan.
At the gate of the city, it was found that a notice of Father-in-law Wang had been posted. He said that he would inspect prison cases, rectify the atmosphere, and accept lawsuits. Fang Yingwu thought, this is really the same as what is said in the history books, the fake Wang directly relied on this to wantonly extort money from the people.
After entering the city, I walked along the main road for a while, turned a corner, and saw the three-bay gate. At this time, the door was opened, and there were sergeants standing inside and outside the door.
"This is the Mansion Mansion, and Wang Gong lives here." While introducing, the official led Fang Yingwu into the gate.
Then pass through the Yimen and come to the east garden, where there is a Hongbi Lake and a water pavilion built by the lake. It's late spring and early summer, and it's cool to stand here and feel a breeze blowing from the water.
Wang Zhi has not yet appeared, but Deng Tongzhi and Yiganfu county officials are waiting here.
Seeing that Fang Yingwu was brought over, Deng Tongzhi hurriedly pulled Fang Yingwu to the side of the corner, and saw that there was no one around, so he warned in a low voice: "People's hearts are sinister, Fang Gongzi must not do what he wants!" ”
Fang Yingwu was secretly amused, pretending to be confused: "What does Deng Sima mean by this? Late life didn't understand. ”
Why is this little boy so stunned, and the elders in the family dare to let him out alone? Deng Tongzhi was anxious to jump to his feet.
"Haven't you seen it yet, Wang Gong has noticed you! At a banquet for a while, etiquette should be respectful and speech should be cautious. Just say that you are from Suzhou, don't tell your true origin, and don't mention the things in the temple casually! ”
Fang Yingwu said awe-inspiringly: "My generation of scholars, in the chest"
Deng Tongzhi's voice was a few degrees higher, "Shut up!" The big husband can bend and stretch, what's unbearable about this? Otherwise, you will die without a place to be buried, what do you have to do with this official! ”
"Taught, taught." Fang Yingwu arched his hand again and again. This Deng Tongzhi flattered to flattery, snobbery to snobbery, and it is not entirely a bad conscience, otherwise it is very simple to act for the tiger.
However, it is also very likely that it is for the sake of Wang Shu's face, holding the mind of not offending both sides to ask for haode, and human nature.
Deng Tongzhi wanted to say something, Wang Zhi had already appeared over there, he hurriedly dropped the object, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.
There were a total of more than a dozen people attending the banquet, most of them were officials from Changzhou Prefecture and Wujin County, and there were many of them. Everyone entered the seats together and sat down after Wang Zhi. Fang Yingwu sat on the outermost, face to face with a local squire.
Wang Zhi didn't speak, so no one spoke first. But I saw Grandpa Wang looking around and praised: "It's very good here, it's refreshing." The scenery is also good, very comfortable. Lord Deng has a heart! ”
Fang Yingwu was speechless, this Wang Zhi was really young and frivolous. It's too "cool" to say.
If it was a well-educated official sitting in that position, the opening sentence would have been: "I observed the folk customs of Jiangnan on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and I didn't want to disturb the place, but it was difficult for the gentlemen to resist."
All kinds of delicacies were presented like a stream without mentioning, and the accompanying guests took turns to toast the VIPs in accordance with etiquette, and Zuihou took Fang Yingwu's turn, he raised his glass and said: "In Xia Chun'an, Fang Yingwu, I saluted Eunuch Wang!" ”
Deng Tongzhi, who was sitting on Wang Zhi's right hand, immediately changed his face, and he gave him a thousand instructions. As a result, this party is still not enlightened!
Fang Yingwu smiled apologetically at Deng Tongzhi, I'm sorry, I still didn't listen to your persuasion. He thought about it carefully, and if he came up and pointed at Wang Zhi and said, "This is a liar", it would not be able to maximize the benefits.
It is still necessary to first show a look of not being afraid of power and eunuchs, and establish a tall image that others admire. Then pretend to find some flaw, and Zuihou shows his wisdom to demolish him, which is the perfect process.
To put it simply, it is to ask for abuse, to insult, to scold. Forget about beatings. At least this person is now Wang Zhi in the eyes of others, and he is fighting Wang Zhi when he fights him, so that he can reflect his integrity and brilliance, and there is no risk afterwards. Why not?
Without mentioning the gossip, in the frightened eyes of everyone, Wang Zhi stopped the wine glass in his hand. asked: "How is the minister of Chun'an Shang Gong recently?" ”
Fang Yingwu replied: "Teach and educate people, and you can travel to the forest and springs." He just spent his old age in peace, but he was worried about the temple affairs. ”
Deng Tongzhi's face changed again. Fang Yingwu actually didn't open which pot to mention! Saying that "I have a lot of worries about the affairs of the temple" is not a clear irony of Wang Zhi, who has wantonly suppressed dissidents in the past year?
But what surprised Deng Tongzhi even more happened, Wang Zhi didn't have a seizure, he just snorted coldly and glared at Fang Yingwu fiercely.
Fang Yingwu was also very dissatisfied, such a provocation didn't anger him? Let others look at it, I only think that Wang is very generous, not that he has integrity.
But he suddenly woke up, this liar is not really straightforward after all, and he can't empathize with irony? It's like listening to someone else's story, and the sense of substitution is congenitally insufficient.
I also want to do something to make him feel a sense of substitution to anger him, Fang Yingwu thought about it carefully, and suddenly thought about it again. He remembered that the person named Yang Fu, who pretended to be Wang Zhi, had been an internal supervisor in the Jingshi Chongwang Mansion, so he was also a eunuch, so he started from this aspect.
So Fang Yingwu chatted with the people next to him and asked, "What books have you been reading recently?" ”
The man replied, "Read Mencius." ”
Fang Yingwu was overjoyed, "I am also reading Mencius!" I read: The king sat on the top of the hall, and there was a cow that passed by the hall. Quite insightful. ”
The man automatically made up the whole sentence in his brain, "The king sits in the hall, and there is a cow passing through the hall" is indeed from "Mencius". The following sentence is: "When the king saw it, he said: What is the cow?" ”
However, the man stopped saying nothing when he saw that Fang Yingwu was halfway through, and asked curiously, "What about below?" ”
Fang Yingwu said with a smile: "If you have seen Mencius, you know what is below, so you still need to ask." ”
The man was slightly stunned at first, not knowing why, and then immediately understood. The following sentence is "the king sees it", which together is "the king sees it below".
Isn't this ironic castration of the fathers-in-law who entered the palace when the king sees it below?!
This person wanted to raise his head daxiao, but he thought that Wang Zhi was here, wouldn't it offend the eunuch to openly daxiao? So I had to lower my head and endure desperately, so as not to let myself laugh out loud.
Fang Yingwu's conversation was heard nearby, but no one dared to laugh, they all tried their best to hold back, and for a while, the atmosphere in the water pavilion was very strange, and most of the people were coughing or eating and drinking.
Fang Yingwu proudly raised his head and looked at Wang Zhi, sarcastic to you like this, don't you get angry immediately? Then there is the plot of the other party who is not afraid of rape and bravely fights for power!
However, he saw that Wang Zhi's face was dazed, and the hundred households on his left were also at a loss, and the two dazed people looked at everyone very puzzled, and no one really dared to explain to Wang Zhi in detail.
Fang Yingwu scratched his ears and cheeks, and had nowhere to vent his frustration, didn't these two read seriously? Doesn't that happen? Could it be that his sarcasm is too profound for them to understand?
This is really playing the piano to the cow, playing the piano to the cow! Fang Yingwu was very deflated.
Deng Tongzhi couldn't laugh when he understood, he only felt cold sweat dripping down, he just thought that Fang Yingwu was young and inexperienced, and he didn't know how important he was. Now it seems that this party should clearly be a deliberate provocation to provoke Eunuch Wang, a provocation to kick his nose and face!
This young man is too ignorant of the sky, he thinks that he can eat the powerful Wang Gonggong by relying on Wang Shu, the governor, is really frivolous and does not know the depths! It doesn't matter if he wants to die by himself, but don't involve all the Changzhou Mansion!
We can't go on like this, or we'll end up together! Deng Tongzhi hurriedly got up and said to Wang Zhi: "Xiaguan temporarily avoid changing clothes." ”
Then he walked outside, and when he entered Fang Yingwu's seat, he seemed to be too drunk to shake it, and then the other party said: "My steps are soft, and Lao Xiaoyou supports me down the steps." ”
Fang Yingwu also stood up and helped Deng Tongzhi to walk out, and the two disappeared step by step into the latrine behind the trees.
"Young Master Fang! What do you want? Deng Tongzhi asked.
Fang Yingwu didn't care and said, "Actually, it's nothing. ”
Hearing that he was still heartless, Deng Tongzhi couldn't help his temper anymore, and threatened: "Young Master Fang, if you don't listen to persuasion and deliberately provoke Wang Gong, then don't blame the old man for acting as a tiger and falling into the well!" ”
Fang Yingwu chuckled a few times and prompted: "You were all frightened by Wang Zhi's name, didn't you find anything suspicious?" ”
"What's suspicious?"
Fang Yingwu was already desperate for Jihua who was angry with Wang Zhi at this time, and that person probably had just started to deceive, and he was very weak-hearted, so he refused to make any extraneous branches, and used other Fang Yingwu to attack. So just expose his truth directly and take a lot of credit, so as not to have too many dreams at night.
Thinking of this, he explained in detail: "When I go out of the palace to the place where the eunuchs go out, there are probably only four situations, one is to be ordered to build and procure, the second is to be a lieutenant official in the provincial town, the third is to be ordered to supervise the army, and the fourth is to act as an envoy for some specific affairs.
What kind of eunuch Wang is this southward patrol this time? Looking at his actions, it is more like a governor or a governor according to the imperial history, how can there be a eunuch and a civil official, I don't know if there has been an edict to inform the place in advance? ”
Deng Tongzhi fell into deep thought, he didn't expect it to be okay, once he was reminded, it was indeed a little suspicious.
In order to strengthen his confidence, Fang Yingwu whispered again: "During the journey, I heard two travelers chatting, saying that there was a person named Yang Fu, who was an internal prisoner who escaped from the Chongwang Mansion, and he recruited some scoundrels, planning to pretend to be Wang Zhi to deceive in Jiangnan.
At that time, the late students only thought it was nonsense, but now that they have seen it with their own eyes, they can't help but doubt it. Just ask him about edicts, seals, waist cards, and the like, and everything will fall into place. ”
Even the name of the culprit? Deng Tongzhi raised his head suddenly, is this really the case?
Returning to the water pavilion, Fang Yingwu suddenly found that Wang Zhi's eyes were a little unkind when he looked at him, while the eyes of others were full of sympathy and pity.
Could it be that during the time he was away, there was a traitor who was speculating to curry favor with the eunuch to explain the joke just now to Wang Zhi? But it's better to make the storm more violent!
At this moment, a handyman suddenly broke in in a panic and knew to Deng Tong: "The urgent edict has arrived!" ”
What edict? Could it be that the edict sent by the new prefect has come down? The prefectural and county officials thought in unison.
Wang Zhi looked around and said, "You don't need to worry about it! This is the edict of the Son of Heaven appointing me to inspect Jiangnan, Zhejiang, and Fujian! It's just that I began to want to make a private visit to Weifu, so I detained the edict in Nanjing and did not issue it.
Who expected that he would be recognized when he arrived in Zhenjiang, and such an edict would not be issued to arouse suspicion and speculation. So I sent someone to Nanjing to let this edict continue to be delivered, but it turned out to be one step slower than me to get here! ”
Fang Yingwu was sweating like rain when he landed, is this really Wang Zhi? If it was really Wang Zhi, he didn't play the piano to the cow just now, but to the tiger who didn't know whether he was alive or dead. (To be continued.) )
PS: A big chapter.,I was supposed to send a part of it last night as the third update.,But it's ineffective when you look at it separately.,So I wrote another paragraph in the morning and sent it together.。 Everyone's forgiveness! In addition, the monthly pass is too pitiful, please support!