On the twenty-fifth day of March in the fifth year of Zhongping, it is the day when Wei Ning, the son of the Wei family, and Zhao Ji, the daughter of the great Confucian Cai Yong, invite the wedding to eat and drink before the wedding.

Although Cai Yong's house in Hedong is not small, but there are not many places available, because of the entire Cai Mansion, most of the places are used by Cai Yong to collect books, the books in the late Han Dynasty are all rolls of bamboo slips, with a collection of 4,000 volumes, and the area to be occupied is very large, so most of the places in Cai Mansion are occupied by Cai Yong's book collection.

And Cai Yong as a great Confucian, friends, protégés are very many, although some far away from all over the country can not come, but Hedong is very close to Luoyang, Cai Yong's friends in Luoyang basically came, and some families are also good friends with Cai Yong, but because they are far away to come, they also sent their juniors to come to send congratulatory gifts, so today's Cai Mansion can be described as a city in front of the door.

Fortunately, the Wei family had already prepared for this, and rented the two big mansions next to Cai Yong's house, so that Cai Yong had a place to entertain the guests, which shows that the Wei family arranged it very thoughtfully.

Zhang Xiu's time is not too early and not too late, too early to come to his performance for a while, no one will see it, if it is too late, it is too arrogant image, but it is not good, and the object of Zhang Xiu's performance this time is not Cai Yong's friends who are now high-ranking officials in the court, but now they still belong to the younger generation, and they will be talented in the late Han Dynasty in the future.

Today, Zhang Xiu and Zhang Ji are dressed as scribes in robes, and Hu Che'er follows as a guard, Zhang Xiu, Zhang Ji and Jia Xu are mainly Zhang Ji today, only to see Zhang Ji hand over the wedding card first, and the housekeeper of Caifu was about to come forward to receive the gift, but saw that the three of them were empty-handed, and the housekeeper was stunned for a moment.

Zhang Ji took out two pieces of silk cloth from his arms with some embarrassment and said, "This is a congratulatory gift." ”

The housekeeper glared at the three of them with some annoyance, Zhang Ji was even more embarrassed, but Zhang Xiu said on the side: "It's okay, you can just read it out loud." ”

The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, then smiled coldly, and read aloud: "General Pi Zhang Xiu, Fenwei Captain Zhang Ji and Lord Bo Jiaxu will send two pieces of congratulatory silk cloth. "Silk cloth is generally counted in horses, but Zhang Ji handed it to the butler really can't be called a horse, and the housekeeper is angry and naturally calls it a block.

After the housekeeper read it, Zhang Xiu and a few people strode into Cai's mansion, but Zhang Xiu walked in front, Zhang Ji shrank behind, and Jia Xu followed Zhang Xiu silently.

After the housekeeper finished reading the congratulatory gift, he ordered a small servant to follow the four people into the house with two pieces of silk cloth, but the housekeeper looked at the backs of the four people but it was very strange, if it wasn't for the wedding card handed over by Zhang Jifang but it was sent by his own master, I'm afraid the housekeeper would not let the four people in.

After the housekeeper read the congratulatory gift aloud, everyone in the hall naturally heard it clearly, and after listening to the congratulatory gift reported by the housekeeper, the audience was in an uproar, after all, they are all representatives of various families or important ministers of the court, no matter how shabby they are, they will not only send two pieces of silk cloth like Zhang Xiu.

Yuan Shu, who had already arrived, sneered: "A martial artist is really a martial artist, and he doesn't know anything about etiquette." ”

This time, Yuan Shao also nodded in agreement, but Cao Cao was thoughtful and silent on the side.

Cai Yong didn't think it was allowed, and when he saw that Zhang Xiu and the four of them had already entered, he stepped forward to greet him and said, "Brother Yuanjiang and Lord Zhang and Brother Wen He, a Xiliang scribe, came together, but they are full of brilliance." Here Cai Yong was talking politely, but the little guy holding the congratulatory gift over there was not very interesting, so he directly stepped forward and handed two pieces of silk cloth to Cai Yong, and said: "Master, this is a congratulatory gift, but the tone is very annoyed." "Obviously, Zhang Xiu's move of sending only two pieces of silk cloth angered the entire Cai Mansion.

Cai Yong didn't think so, and ordered: "And put it away carefully." ”

The little guy replied helplessly: "Yes." Just as he was about to leave, Zhang Xiu suddenly said, "Mr. Cai, don't you want to look at the congratulatory gift?" ”

Cai Yongqi said: "Could it be that there is another mystery in the silk cloth? After speaking, he took the silk cloth handed by the little servant, opened it to take a look, and then looked up and down, no matter how he looked at it, it was just an ordinary silk cloth. This time, no matter how good Cai Yong's temper was, he was a little annoyed, and asked Zhang Jidao directly: "What does Yuanjiang mean by this?" ”

Zhang Ji looked at Zhang Xiu, meaning to let him stop selling Guanzi, Zhang Xiu smiled slightly, and said: "Xiu heard that Mr. Cai loves books, and the collection of books in the house is 4,000 volumes, so Xiu presented two articles for Mr. Cai to collect, as a congratulatory gift." Although the puzzle of sending the silk cloth was solved, Zhang Xiu's words caused even greater waves, and the children of the family and some court ministers who arrived early to see the excitement behind them all said: "Don't be ashamed." Everyone knows that Cai Yong loves books and has a lot of books, but Cai Yong's collection of books is all high-quality, Zhang Xiu threatened to write two articles for Cai Yong to collect, obviously saying that his articles are high-quality and worthy of Cai Yong's collection, such a tone naturally makes a group of family children and court officials feel that Zhang Xiu is not ashamed of his words, after all, Zhang Xiu's image has always been a martial artist, and it is already a miracle in their opinion to be able to write one or two words, let alone write a peerless good article, it is simply a wild talk.

Yuan Shuxian couldn't help but sneer: "The people of Kansai are vulgar and unbearable, I can't imagine that they are so ashamed, and they have seen it today." Yuan Shu's words made everyone nod their heads one after another, either explicitly or secretly.

Zhang Xiu asked Yuan Shu with a smile: "Haven't asked for the name of Brother Tai yet?" ”

Yuan Shu said proudly: "Under Yuan Shu, the grass word road." ”

Zhang Xiu smiled and said, "It turned out to be the son of the Yuan family of the fourth and third dukes, and I am fortunate to meet him." After speaking, he arched his hand.

Yuan Shu arched his hand casually, which was regarded as a return salute.

Zhang Xiu said: "Yuan Gongzi has not read the article of embroidery, so it is too arbitrary to comment on the good or bad." ”

Yuan Shu sneered and said, "What kind of good article can a vulgar person in Kansai write." ”

Zhang Xiu also sneered and said: "The first article written by Xiu today is to tell you and others, don't underestimate the people in the world, you must know that there is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the world." I also want you to understand what the Holy Master said, and the deeds of the three people must have the truth of our teacher. Hu Che'er, take pen and ink. ”

Hu Che'er behind Zhang Xiu answered, then opened the basket he was carrying, put the pen and ink on the table not far away, and then quietly sharpened the ink. Zhang Xiu said to Cai Yong with a smile: "Mr. Cai, please ask for a piece of silk cloth." ”

Cai Yong smiled and handed the silk cloth to Zhang Xiu, Zhang Xiu only took one of them, spread it flat on the table, and after Hu Che'er polished the ink, Zhang Xiu took the brush and wrote it on the silk cloth, and read while writing: "The ancient scholars must have teachers, teachers, so it is ...... to teach and solve doubts" is obviously to steal the famous article "Shi Said" in later generations, of course, this is after Zhang Xiu's small modification, delete the last paragraph of the original version.