Since watching the posts of the ministers before the Dragon Boat Festival, I have been thinking about reading through them, and then selecting the best sentences to transcribe and recite, but the affairs after the festival are complicated, and it was not until the end of June that I found time to go to the Book Art Bureau to find Zhang Chengzhao and ask him for the Dragon Boat Festival posts archived by the Academy.

He quickly came to me and transcribed it with me. When I was transcribing, I casually asked him: "Recently, Master Ouyang has a new work?" ”

"Ouyang Xiu?" Zhang Chengzhao said, "Isn't his latest article the one that speaks for Du Yan, Han Qi, Fan Zhongyan, Fu Bi and others?" This can poke the hornet's nest, causing a lot of annoyance, not only is it difficult to protect the black yarn, but whether the head on the shoulder can be left is another matter, it is estimated that I have no intention of filling in the lyrics recently. ”

I was very surprised: "Isn't it okay during the Dragon Boat Festival?" But where does this begin? ”

"Where to start? Speaking of which, there are still several fates on this matter, so let's count them one by one. "Zhang Chengzhao began to tell me about Ouyang Xiu in detail.

It turned out that in May, Ouyang Xiu once talked about Du Yan, Han Qi, Fan Zhongyan, Fu Bi and others should not stop, saying, "These four people can be described as the most virtuous people." If you live idlely on weekdays, you will be commensurate with the beauty, and if you are discussing matters for the country, you will be selfless in public contention. From this point of view, the ministers saw that Du Yan and others really got the so-called 'loyal ministers have discord festivals' in the history of the Han Dynasty, and the villain slandered him as a friend, which can be described as falsehood...... Once it is gone, and the evil people congratulate each other inside, and the four Yi congratulate each other outside, this minister is sorry for His Majesty. ”

Blatantly refers to the faction that excludes the new ministers of Qingli as "villains" and "evil people", and it is precisely these people who are now in power, so they will lay a bane for the future.

Ouyang Xiu's brother-in-law Zhang Guizheng died early, had no children, and only had a daughter born to his ex-wife. Ouyang Xiu's sister returned to her parents' house with this girl and was raised by Ouyang Xiu. At that time, this girl was seven years old, and when she was about to reach her birthday, Ouyang Xiu married her to Ouyang Sheng, the son of her brother. However, five or six years after Zhang's marriage, he had an affair with the domestic servant Chen Ji, and soon the incident happened and he was bowed to the right army patrol of Kaifeng Mansion.

When Yang Riyan, the governor of the Quan Prefecture, used to guard Yizhou, Ouyang Xiu once talked about his greed, and Yang already held a grudge, so he waited for an opportunity to retaliate, causing the jailer to torture Zhang and induce her to mention Ouyang Xiu. The Zhang family was afraid of sin, and in order to protect themselves, they said a lot of things about their love affair with Ouyang Xiu when they were not married, and there were many ugly details.

Yang Riyan reported accordingly, and the official Qian Mingyi then impeached Ouyang Xiu, saying that he had fornicated with his niece and fraudulently embezzled the orphan girl's family property. The military inspector Sun Kuo was ordered to retry the case, feeling that Zhang's statement might not be true, probably because of his respect for Ouyang Xiu, he did not make any more mistakes, and only pursued the case of Zhang's fornication with Chen Xiu. This method of disposition made the minister furious, and ordered Dr. Taichang Su Anshi to retry the case, intending to get rid of Ouyang Xiu in one fell swoop.

"Is Master Ouyang really having an affair with his niece?" I asked Zhang Chengzhao and felt that this matter was incredible, "Zhang's confession is strange. It is said to be for self-preservation, but the crime of adultery with an uncle is especially worse than fornication with a domestic servant, and speaking out not only does not excuse oneself, but adds another serious sin. Isn't it a trick? ”

"Bao Ouyang Xiu's people also said the same, but ......" Zhang Chengzhao immediately got up and said, "You wait, I'll find the first word for you." ”

He rummaged through a pile of papers, and finally pulled out a piece of paper with a copy of "Wangjiangnan" and handed it to me.

I unfolded it to take a look, but saw the words and said: "Jiangnan willow, the leaves are small and not shady, the artificial silk is light and forbearing, and the warbler is tender and tender, and it is left for the deep spring." In the 14th Five-Year Plan, I hugged the pipa and looked for it, and walked down the money hall in the hall, and I have paid attention to seeing each other at the time, not to mention now. ”

Zhang Chengzhao explained to me: "This is Ouyang Xiu's old work. After the news of his niece spread, he was turned out by Qian Mingyi, a member of the Qian Mingyi clan, and said with a smile: "Zhang was seven years old when he arrived at Ouyang's house, and it was when his daughter learned to make money. ’”

"Qian Mingyi, Qian Xian......" I felt different, "their surname is Qian, but they are the descendants of Qian Yu, the king of Wuyue?" ”

Zhang Chengzhao nodded: "That's right." Ouyang Xiu was compiling the "History of the Five Dynasties", and heard that there were many derogatory words about King Wu Yue, and the descendants of the Qian family were already dissatisfied with him. ”

I thought about it for a while, and then asked: "Then "Wangjiangnan" was really written by him?" He admits it's his old work? ”

Zhang Chengzhao replied: "I didn't admit it, but I didn't deny it, it should be regarded as a tacit acquiescence." ”

I was speechless, repeatedly looking at the words in my hand, my eyes wandering on the last few sentences: the hall is full of money, and I have paid attention to the time to meet, not to mention now......

My heart moved slightly. I remember that when she first entered the Princess Pavilion, she was also dusting money. I thought it was just a casual glance, but her innocent and delicate appearance seemed to have been seared into my heart, so that now when I see the word "dustpan", what comes to mind is her smiling appearance.

"Perhaps, Master Ouyang and Zhang's are just affectionate." I sighed.

"Affectionate or not?" Zhang Chengzhao raised his tone and repeated this, teasing me with inexplicable excitement: "In the end, we are just a little yellow door that can't touch a woman, can you know what love is and what rape is?" ”

I suddenly slapped my mouth twice as if someone had split my face, my face was hot, my eyes drooped, and I was speechless.

This caused Zhang Chengzhao to stroke his palms and laugh: "I thought that you entered the back province, saw the world, and were ** by the ladies, you should have grown a lot, but I didn't expect that the skin is still so thin now." ”

I forced a smile, just hoping to divert the topic away from me: "What about the official family?" What did he think of Ouyang Xiu's matter? ”

"Listening to the scholars, the officials are also very annoyed. Originally, he admired Ouyang Xiu's talent very much, and he reused him as an advisor, not to mention, but also specially instructed us that once Ouyang had a new work, whether it was an internal system or not, we would find it and present it to him. Now that this has happened, the official family can't help but be angry. It is said that when the court heard about this at the first time, the official's face sank and he didn't say a word for a long time. Speaking of this, Zhang Chengzhao asked me rhetorically: "You have a lot of opportunities to meet the official family, why haven't you seen him mention it?" ”

I bowed my head and said, "I am serving by the princess's side, how can the official family mention this kind of thing to the princess." ”

"Didn't you mention it to the ladies either?" Zhang Chengzhao suddenly became interested again, "Have you heard that Zhang Niangzi may also throw a stone into Ouyang Xiu's well?" ”

"Mrs. Zhang?" I was surprised, "Probably not." After the incident with Mrs. Combing Hair, the queen also specially warned the ladies not to get involved in political affairs, not to mention that Mrs. Zhang and Ouyang Xiu should have no suspicions? ”

Zhang Chengzhao smiled and asked me: "Do you remember that when Zhang Niangzi gave birth to the eighth princess, Ouyang Xiu was sparse, called "On the Beauty Zhang's Grace Should Be Cut"? ”

It was only after he reminded me that I remembered that this was indeed the case. At that time, the eighth princess was born in Youwu, and the official family ordered to take 8,000 horses from the Zuozang Treasury. In the harsh winter, in order to fulfill the emperor's order, the craftsmen of the dyeing institute had to knock on ice to get water during the heavy snow and bitter cold, and dye and supply it. Ouyang Xiu immediately went to the court after learning about it, not only condemned the incident, but also proposed that the favor of Zhang Meiren's relatives was too frequent, thinking that this was "a matter of degrading holy virtue" and "it is difficult to avoid the curse of heaven".

According to Zhang Meiren's temperament, it is not impossible to be obsessed with this. I asked Zhang Chengzhao: "Although this is the case, but Zhang Niangzi is in the harem, and if she wants to meddle in this matter, it will be taboo for the officials, how can she interfere?" ”

"Don't you know," Zhang Chengzhao pointed in the direction of Zhongshu, "Jia Xiang recognized Zhang Niangzi's adoptive mother as an aunt. ”

Zhang Meiren's adoptive mother is named Jia Cheng, who also lives in the palace, and relies on the beauty to be favored, so she is a fox and a fake tiger, and her words and deeds are very arrogant, and the people in the palace are called "Granny Jia". Prime Minister Jia Changchao has the same surname as her, so he recognized her as his aunt, and he has many contacts on weekdays. I knew about this, but I didn't connect it with Ouyang Xiu's matter.

"If Mrs. Zhang wants to do such a little thing, she doesn't have to do it herself, just inform Jia Xianggong through Granny Jia." Zhang Chengzhao said, "This time Jia Xianggong was so ruthless to Ouyang Xiu, maybe he didn't get Zhang Niangzi's instructions?" I heard that Jia Xianggong is now asking the official family to send Wang Zhaoming to try Ouyang Xiu's case with Su Anshi, this idea, I am afraid that it was also Zhang Niangzi. ”

Wang Zhaoming? I secretly sighed, Master Ouyang is really a disaster, in the past, he was a bad person, and he offended a lot of people, but now that he is in trouble, those potential people who fall into the well will quickly surface one by one.

Previously, Ouyang Xiu served as the envoy of Hebei Metropolitan Transport, and now he wants to order Wang Zhaoming, a close attendant, to go with him and supervise the water conservancy and transportation in Hebei, but Ouyang Xiu resolutely refused, saying that the ministers of the attendants sent envoys, and there has never been an example of the chamberlain's peers, "the ministers are really ashamed". Jinshang also invited from him, and did not let Wang Zhaoming go. This is obviously an embarrassing thing for Wang Zhaoming, and now Jia Changchao has asked to send him to try the case, obviously wanting him to declare his personal vendetta, so that Ouyang Xiu will never recover.

I asked Zhang Chengzhao: "Will the official family let Mr. Wang go?" ”

Zhang Chengzhao smiled: "You ask me? I want to ask you! Look, how did you become a senior class? I don't know about the province myself, and I came to the province to ask me! ”

I laughed and realized that I was really an afterthought about this kind of thing. The situation in the palace is changing, but I am slow to react, and I actually make it into the senior class in a daze, which is an outlier.

After copying the Dragon Boat Festival post, I said goodbye to Zhang Chengzhao and prepared to return to Yifeng Pavilion, but he insisted on sending me straight to the inner east gate. Since I was transferred to the back province, every time I came to see him, I felt that he was more friendly to me than before, with a subtle courtesy. I can't help but think that he is really a very suitable person to survive in the palace.

We met Granny Jia mentioned by Shicai near the Inner East Gate Division. At that time, she returned from outside, got off the sedan chair in front of the inner east gate, followed her little yellow door to help each other, and when she lifted the curtain, she was reckless, and her hand inadvertently touched the heavy crown on Granny Jia's head, and she was immediately thrown off a big ear scraper: "Be a little splash of death!" Dare to love your mother when she gave birth to you with her hands not wrapped properly, and gave birth to your cheap paws who committed sheep leprosy! ”

The little yellow door didn't dare to argue, and immediately knelt down to apologize. Granny Jia was still angry, one wall scolded and scolded, and the other wall stretched out her hand with two-inch long nails to pinch the little yellow door's ears. Xiao Huangmen stretched his neck and frowned in pain, baring his teeth, but he still tried his best to smile and said, "It's small, it's not right, mother-in-law is small with her own palm, don't break your mother-in-law's nails." ”

When he looked up, I was stunned and recognized him as the little yellow door that asked me to send the glass cup on my behalf.

Granny Jia finally let go, and Xiao Huangmen continued to kneel and began to slap herself in the face. Granny Jia didn't care about him anymore, and walked to the inner palace by herself, passing by me and glancing at me. I bowed slightly to her, and she smiled casually and said, "Oh, it's Liang Gaoban...... On behalf of the elder, I greeted Princess Fukang. ”

She writhed her bloated body and walked away. When she was far away, I walked to the little yellow door, which was still kneeling and clapping my mouth, and said, "She is gone, you can go back." ”

He looked up at me, was immediately shocked, got up and ran away.

Seeing this, Zhang Chengzhao asked me the reason, so I told him that this person was the person who gave me the glass cup, and Zhang Chengzhao sighed: "Fortunately, you have a good master now." You have the princess to protect you, and the princess has the protection of the officials, so they will let you go...... For the sake of our brothers, if there is an errand to do in the princess's pavilion in the future, you can recommend me to come over. The more I stayed, the more bored I became. ”