Chapter 40: Swear to be like a jade
It started at the beginning of the year.
Wang Yan's cousin, Zhang Jinyan, the son of King Xuanwu, worshiped under his uncle Wang Heng, and studied and learned mechanics with Wang Yan for five years. At the end of last year, Zhang Boyuan, the king of Xuanwu, sent people to Beijing to take his son to Xuanwu Pass in the northwest.
Zhang Jinyan went to the frontier, and Wang Yan couldn't stay.
After discussing with Liang Xinming, Wang Heng decided to arrange for his son to travel abroad instead of immediately participating in the imperial examination.
Liang Xinming ordered his son to travel lightly.
No matter how light you travel, you have to make some preparations. The eldest sister Chaoyun prepared many bottles and jars for her younger brother, all of which were all kinds of medicines.
Liang Xinming also has a lot to tell his son.
On this day, she specially left the government early, but she couldn't find Wang Yan, and asked the housekeeper, saying that she had gone out and hadn't come back.
Liang Xinming couldn't help but be depressed: It's really a big deal! Seeing that he is about to leave home, it stands to reason that he should be reluctant to be close to his relatives, why don't you see anyone?
Lord Liang waited in the outer study.
I don't go back in the first class, and I don't go back in the second class.
Lord Liang held a book in her hand, page by page, looking at it expressionlessly, and those who were familiar with her knew that she was angry.
It wasn't until dinner that Wang Yan came back with his father Wang Heng.
Yi'an hurriedly replied: "My lord is waiting in the outer study." ”
His father and son limped to their feet and went to the outer study.
Liang Xinming raised his eyes and watched two men, one big and one small, walking in. The black-gauze purple-robed official who walked in front was the left minister of the dynasty and her husband Wang Heng. followed by a young man with hanging hair wearing a silver crown, dressed in an azure brocade robe, like a green bamboo that has just faded the skin of bamboo shoots, with a long body and a jade body; Jian Meixing's eyes are very similar to his father, but his eyes are not as sharp as his father, but as calm as Liang Xinming, looking at the deep and bottomless, the straight nose and red lips and white teeth are also like Liang Xinming. Both father and son had smiles on their faces.
Wang Yan said first: "Mother is back." ”
He stepped forward and saluted.
Wang Heng smiled: "You came back early today." I was stumped. - The emperor suffered from the cold, and there were a lot of big and small things, and Cui Xiang and I were busy. ”
As he spoke, he sat down in his chair.
Liang Xinming turned his face and asked Wang Yan: "What about you?" ”
Wang Yan said: "My son watched a lively scene. ”
Wang Heng also looked at him when he heard this, waiting for him to say that it was lively.
Wang Yan said: "In order to compete for a Qinglou woman, the two gentlemen made a big fuss about the women's hall and went to the Kyoto Mansion. Jian Zhifu was promoted to a public trial. ”
He didn't hide it, but told the truth.
The life of the powerful in the capital became more and more extravagant, and the trade in Flower Street and Willow Lane became more and more prosperous, and he knew that his mother hated officials and prostitutes the most, and he had made great efforts to rectify them several times in his early years. In recent years, my father and mother have become more cautious in the DPRK because of their political opponents, and my mother has easily refrained from taking action. Later, he wrote to the emperor, took the initiative to resign from the post of Zaifu, and went to the country to teach and educate people. Emperor Jing Kangdi refused to let her be idle, retained her official title of prince and teacher, and entered the palace every double day to teach the prince.
As the son of a famous family, Wang Yan is by no means a well-behaved and obedient child, when the children of other powerful people fly eagles and lackeys, looking for flowers and asking willows, he is also curious about Flower Street and Willow Lane, and once secretly visited Qinglou with his cousin Zhang Jinyan.
He didn't go to prostitution, he was just curious about what was so special about the women in the Qinglou that the men flocked to her? Many powerful families have groups of wives and concubines, and even the maids are very beautiful, but they are still happy. Moreover, the Qinglou gambling house was stared at by his mother, and of course he liked to fight wits with his mother the most.
To his surprise, knowing that he went to the Qinglou, his mother did not punish him heavily, and asked him that he did not mess around with the dusty woman, but only punished him for aggravating his schoolwork.
Wang Yan secretly thought to himself: Doesn't his mother want him to stand out among the children of the powerful in the capital, afraid that he will be "destroyed by the forest wind", and wants him to be with the light? I don't want him to become a scholar who reads dead books and doesn't know the world.
But it is not good to ask my mother face to face.
If you ask, you won't be pleased.
As a result, the elite circles in the capital laughed and said: Lord Liang is most disgusted with prostitutes, and her son is not the same as visiting the Qinglou? I can't even control my son!
So, everyone said that Lord Liang raised a gentleman.
Only a few people can see it clearly: Wang Yan is mixed in the squirry, but he rarely causes trouble, and asks his parents to come forward to clean up the aftermath for him; In other words, even if there is something, he can solve it by himself, and he doesn't need his parents to come forward at all.
Besides, in front of him, Wang Heng listened to his son's words and said to Liang Xinming: "Nowadays, literati are all like this. In the court, which official has not drunk flower wine! ”
Liang Xinming asked: "Are you envious?" ”
Wang Heng smiled: "I don't envy. It is enough to have you for the husband. ”
He just wanted to lure his wife to confess himself.
Liang Xinming said quietly: "The most tragic life of a woman is 'a pair of jade arms and a thousand pillows, and half a piece of red lips and ten thousand tastes'." The men are happy to do this, and they think they are dashing. As everyone knows, in my eyes, they were slept with by the Qinglou woman...... Tsk tsk, I really don't know what they are proud of! ”
Slept with by a woman in the green building?
Wang Heng coughed violently, "Madam...... Takami! ”
Wang Yan kept his mouth shut.
Liang Xinming turned to him and said seriously: "Son, when you go out, you can't care about you as a mother." There's a quote for you to remember. ”
Wang Yan said vigilantly: "Mother, please speak." ”
Liang Xinming said: "Men also have chastity. Remember that you are Liang Xinming's son, if you are ruined by any woman, you will lose face for your mother! ”
Wang Yan's face trembled three times, he couldn't bear it anymore, and finally endured it, smiled at his mother, and promised: "Please rest assured, my son, my son will be as guarded as a jade, and he will never let the wild bees and butterflies be insulted." ”
Liang Xinming nodded and said: "In this male-dominated society, it is not easy for a woman who dares to show her face, even if she is a vegetable seller. Your mother's experience is exemplary. So—" she sang softly, "the woman out there is a tiger, so be careful when you meet her!" ”
Wang Heng coughed "cough, cough, cough".
Wang Yan said solemnly: "My son has written it down!" ”
In this regard, he and the mother hero see a little bit in common.
His life experience in the past thirteen years has taught him: women are definitely tigers! He had already experienced it from his mother and sister.
Liang Xinming looked at his son, with mixed feelings, relieved and sour, and a trace of reluctance - only a trace, a little more and it was gone.
She has worked hard to raise this son, and now the older she gets, the more difficult it is to discipline, and she doesn't know how to discipline her. Many powerful families with daughters in the capital have expressed their intention to marry her; Every time the Wang family holds a banquet, even if it is a simple birthday, it is a gathering of noble women. She picked and chosen, but she didn't pick a single one that could match her son. It's "matching", not "unworthy"! Lord Liang did not look down on other people's daughters, on the contrary, she was very worried, lest she choose inappropriately and harm other people's daughters.
When the son travels, the family can be postponed for a few years.
This time, how many girls in the boudoir are going to be melancholy!
Liang Xinming told her son not to provoke women outside, but in fact, she hoped that her son could bring a daughter-in-law back, so that she would not have to worry about it. Knowing her son is like a mother, she is not afraid that her son will be confused by any woman. By virtue of his son's temperament and means, a woman who can enter his eyes and be accepted by him must be good.
Without further ado, that night, Wang Yan said goodbye to his grandfather and grandmother. Early the next morning, he left the capital with a package and the old servant, except for his grandparents, father, mother and eldest sister, no one else was alarmed. If you call a slave and a maid, it is not the original intention of traveling.
He was thirteen years old, and this was the first time he had left the capital. After leaving the city, the sky in front of you is wide and the mountains and rivers are far away, and you are full of expectations for the future. He was very familiar with the vicinity of Gyeonggi, so he didn't need to stop, so he let his horse gallop and headed towards Jiangnan.
Staying overnight all the way, there is nothing to say.
Seven days passed in a blink of an eye, and he entered the boundary of Jingzhou.
In the evening they came to a town and prepared to stay overnight.
The old servant calmly told Wang Yan: "There is no more entanglement. ”
Wang Yan asked incredulously, "What did you say?" ”
The old servant said, "There is no silver." ”
The king asked, "Where is the silver?" ”
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