Chapter 41: The sign written by Su Yu
Yao Huan was just about to blurt out the sentence "This is not Bachelor Su's 300 lychees a day", but suddenly thought about it, no, this is the perspective of future generations.
"300 lychees a day, don't quit being a Lingnan person" is written by Su Shi after being demoted to Huizhou, according to his aunt, Su Shi only went out of Beijing last year to go south, to Huizhou, he still don't pretend to be smart, in case the time is slightly wrong, it is not good to provoke the doubts of the listeners.
She only pursed her lips and smiled, and said to her aunt: "This word is really beautiful, what this sentence means, after eating my family's chicken feet, do you need to wrap 100,000 yuan around your waist and ride a crane down to Yangzhou?" ”
Shen Fuzhi did not hide his confidence: "As long as the things are delicious, what if the tone is exaggerated." Huan'er, do you know who your aunt asked for this calligraphy? ”
Yao Huan shook his head knowingly, with a look of eagerness to hear about it.
"It's the second son of Master Su, Su Yu and Su Zhongyu. Three days ago, he personally came to our restaurant to thank him. ”
Yao Huan said: "Su Erlang knows that his aunt has begged the Zeng family? ”
Shen Fu said: "The Zeng family does have some bullying in the matter of marrying their grandson, which is also the usual practice of the Zhu Zi family, which is not unusual. But since Zeng Shuxiang promised to help Su Erlang stay in the capital, he will not break his promise. ”
She paused, changed her consideration, and said, "However, it is even more expected that the Zeng family will teach Su Yi to know." ”
Yao Huan thought about it for a while, and then understood why Shen Fuzhi said this.
Zeng Bu started as a confidant of reformist Prime Minister Wang Anshi, and was used by Song Shenzong to suppress the overly arrogant New Party in the City Change Law Incident.
Then, the bird was hidden, and Shenzong wiped his face and allowed the new party to "clean up the door" and degrade Zeng Bu from the core of power. Until the death of Shenzong and Zhao Xu's accession to the throne, Zhao Xu's grandmother and Shenzong's mother, Empress Dowager Gao, controlled the government. Sima Guang asked Zeng Bu to revise the new laws that had already been implemented, but Zeng Bu refused, so he was released again.
It wasn't until Xiao Tianzi was in power that Zeng Bu finally ushered in the real spring of his career.
In a series of white-hot old and new party disputes, although Zeng Bu was a subordinate of Wang Anshi, he was most hurt by the Shenzong and the New Party who led the reform of the law.
Even if he is now valued by the new emperor Zhao Xu, do you know that this is not a repeat of the previous emperor's method of checks and balances, and use Zeng Bu to check and balance Zhang Xuan?
Speaking for the Su family, Zeng Bu generally did not have much taboo. When Su Shi almost died in the Wutai poetry case, Empress Dowager Cao said that "the Holy Dynasty must not kill celebrities".
Su Shi is a celebrity, his second son Su Yu, who is Ouyang Xiu's grandson-in-law, can be called a little celebrity, Zeng Bu originally wanted to draw a clear line with the new party like Zhang Dian and Cai Jing, and it was appropriate to say a word to the Son of Heaven for the little celebrity of the old party.
But remember not to be the old fox Zeng Bu of the little white rabbit anymore, and he also knows that the holy will is unpredictable, especially today's little official Zhao Xu, who has been suppressed by his grandmother for many years, and when he used to go to court, he could only look at the buttocks of the ministers (the ministers all played to the Empress Dowager Gao behind the curtain), and the original injury on the throne may make him unable to deal with the relationship between the monarch and the minister rationally in the years to come.
Therefore, Zeng Bu must disclose Shen Fuzhi to the outside world, mainly to disclose the ancestor behind Shen Fuzhi - Shen Kuo. Su Shen's old love continues among future generations, and the businesswomen in the market also have chivalrous and enthusiastic hearts...... These brushstrokes and inks are rendered in place, and Zeng Bu can avoid being attacked by political enemies for "actively sympathizing with the old party and the reputation of bad officials and setting up their own archway".
Shen Fuzhi waited for Yao Huan to come back to his senses and continued: "That day, I was behind the restaurant and talked to Su Erlang for a while. Alas, he also grew up from a bumpy child, he had been displaced with Bachelor Su when he was a child, and finally settled down in the capital a few years ago, and married Bachelor Ouyang's granddaughter, I didn't want the lady to have a difficult birth, and his father was degraded again. However, Su Erlang said that when Mr. Su arrived in Huizhou, he still adapted to the water and soil there. In the letters sent home around the beginning of summer this year, he also joked that he had arrived at Huaguo Xianshan and had eaten many novel fruits. ”
Although Yao Huan can't memorize a few lines of Su Shi's poems, he has always admired this model of a literati who has had several ups and downs in his life and is still open-minded and optimistic.
She then praised from the bottom of her heart: "Bachelor Su's bearing is like a river and a sea, and he is in the rain of smoke and rain." Huangzhou has endured such hardships, and in Huizhou, bamboo canes and shoes will be able to beat horses. ”
It seems to be mentioned casually: "Auntie, Huizhou, but where is the lychee abundant?" Last time, I saw the brother of Chen's carpenter's family in the alley, and the candied fruit that he twisted and ate was the red salt lychee that was pickled in Huizhou and transported to Kaifeng. ”
Shen Fuzhi sneered: "Carpenter Chen is now making a piano for Cai Jing, and the cubs in the family can afford to eat red salt lychees." ”
She stopped talking, laughed at it, stared at the first half of the banner on the banner, and said to Yao Huan: "Su Erlang said that Master Su is still making poems in Huizhou - the fourth spring under Luofu Mountain, Lu Tangerine and Yangmei are the newest. Eat 300 lychees a day, and do not hesitate to be a Lingnan person. This poem is indeed vivid and flavorful, but it is best to only write it in family letters, otherwise if it spreads, it will teach Cai Jing to be a young man, and go to the Son of Heaven to chew his tongue in words, saying that Bachelor Su is bitter and mean, and he uses poetry to satirize. ”
Yao Huan said in his heart, sure enough, this poem will be memorized by primary school students in later generations, and it has not yet been published publicly.
Fortunately, I didn't tell this poem stupidly to recite it to my aunt.
Then, she was happy and suddenly realized: "300 lychees a day is the origin of this banner!" ”
Shen Fuzhi said proudly: "What kind of person is your aunt, she never eats reserved food. Su Erlang just finished chanting in the breeze and moonlight, I had an idea, Su Erlang owes me a favor this time, your chicken foot stall is going to open, why don't you let her write you a signboard? Where can the Yangzhou crane in the world, this is a sentence in Mr. Su's "I would rather eat no meat, not live without bamboo", the left and right are written to eat, and the chicken feet are three or two catties and one match, regardless of its flat rhyme feet, the vulgar birds have suppressed the fairy birds, and there is no vain head and eight brains of the vassal elegance, is it not in line with the true meaning of the world's deliciousness? ”
Yao Huan grinned: "Aunt is transparent, but Su Erlang is willing to write this bragging sentence for us?" He wouldn't think it was an offense to Master Su's elegant work? ”
Shen Fuzhi waved his hand: "Hey, what kind of elegant and vulgar work, it is precisely because my aunt and I respect Bachelor Su from the bottom of my heart that I know how to treat these good sentences for writing pork, mountain flavor, melons, fruits and vegetables." Is lychee nobler than chicken feet? It's all a feast, you can eat 300 lychees, but you can't eat two or three catties of chicken feet? Su Erlang is not as hypocritical as you think, in fact, I originally only asked him to write a sentence, three or two catties of chicken feet a day, he also said it was funny, and took the initiative to send another sentence with a smile, why do you need Yangzhou cranes in the world, and today I will send this written banner to the shop"
Ha, this Su Yi is also quite funny. The open-mindedness of parents is likely to be passed on to their children.
However, what is even more amusing is that the aunt, whose strength interprets the true character of a businessman, and it is true that she took the initiative to help the Su family, but it is also open to ask for a welfare feedback.
Shen Fuzhi yawned and explained to Yao Huan: "Tomorrow, I will go to the framer in the alley next door, install a frame, and hang it on the new stall." Kaifeng City is the ink soaked out of the scribes, no matter what is sold, there is a shop plaque written by a famous artist, which can always attract some customers. “