Except for Wu Shiliang, the bureaucrats present in Guangxin Mansion were surprised that Lin Fuzun greeted a student, and asked who this is, and the student is not worthy of such respect, it must be that the origin of this student is extraordinary-

Zeng Yu took two steps forward and said: "Zhisheng came back from the same boat with Lu Hanlin the day before yesterday, and he was just in time for yesterday's school monthly exam. And he bowed to all the officials present.

Governor Lin asked Professor Zhang Guangtang: "Master Zhang, the official document for Zeng Sheng's admission to school has arrived, right, how did he do in the monthly exam yesterday?" ”

Professor Zhang saw Lin Fuzun personally ask Zeng Yu's student status and studies, and he was also a little surprised in his heart, it seems that this Zeng Yu does have a background, and the strange Taoist scholar is willing to let him take the make-up examination to enter the school, and replied: "Zeng Sheng's official document for entering the school arrived half a month ago, and Zeng Sheng came to the government yesterday to take the monthly examination, and the exam was in the first class, especially the four books and eight shares, which can be described as profound and talented, and it is really a rare handsome man in my Guangxin Mansion, and Lin Fuzun is a talent under the rule of Lin Fuzun." ”

Since he is a person valued by Lin Fuzun, Professor Zhang He is stingy with two words of praise, Lin Zhifu is really very happy, and said to the officials: "You don't know this Zeng Sheng, I just said that 'the fairy guest on the Qilin Palace, the prime minister's house in Longhu Mountain, is what he asked, only to surprise the four, that day, many old Hanlin and big squires in the Dazhen Mansion are 'There is a scene in front of you, Cui Hao's inscription poem is above, I really can't come up with a more appropriate couplet." ”

Zeng Yu said modestly: "Zhisheng is also a whim, so how dare the four of them, the boss is too famous." ”

The master who played the Ruan Qin has been playing the piano "murmuringly", not disturbing foreign objects, several female singers all looked at Zeng Yu, seeing that Zeng Yu was young, he was already a student of the house, and he was valued by the lord of the house, and the female singer's eyes looked forward to the life, hoping to attract Zeng Yu's attention, especially the female Dan who was ready to play "The Pipa Story" "Zhao Wuniang", her eyes were even more affectionate, this female Dan was too deep into the play, and she fantasized all day long like Zhao Wuniang in "The Pipa Story", there was a scholar husband who went to Beijing to take the exam and asked her to wait, although she is poor now, Once the husband returns, it will be time to raise his eyebrows......

Governor Lin said: "Zeng Sheng, sit here." "Let the servant set up a pistle beside his bed—

Zeng Yu gently tugged on Wu Chunze's sleeve and said, "Yufu Zun, this Wu Sheng is a friend of Zhisheng and a student of Fuxue. ”

Wu Chunze hurriedly greeted the salute, and with an "oh" from Governor Lin's mansion, he asked the servant to set up another pestle and asked Zeng Yu: "Zeng Sheng likes to listen to Southern Opera?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "Zhisheng loves opera. ”

Lin Zhifu smiled and said: "Then you tell me the origin of the "Pipa Story" to be performed today. ”

Zeng Yu said: "Zhisheng can borrow a poem by Lu Fangweng to talk about the origin of "Pipa Legend"-", and chanted: "Xieyang Guliu Zhaojiazhuang, the blind man with a negative drum is making a scene." Who cares about right and wrong after death? Mancun heard about Cai Zhonglang

Governor Lin and all the officials laughed, and Wu Shiliang smiled: "Cai Yong is a figure in the Eastern Han Dynasty, how can there be any examination champion at that time, the Song script "Cai Zhonglang Lives Up to Zhao Zhennu" wrote Cai Yong as a heinous person, fortunately, two hundred years ago, Caigen Daoist wrote "Pipa Ji" to correct Cai Zhonglang's name. ”

Lin Zhifu said: "Caigen Daoren's "Pipa Story" is far from being comparable to the Song script, the spoken language is vivid, the lyrics are clear, and the description of the state of things is like life

A group of actors retreated to the back of the big screen to dress up, leaving the blind master alone, all the officials stopped talking, waiting for the good show to be staged, the blind master stopped playing the ruan qin, took out a transverse flute, and played it leisurely, most of the listeners upstairs turned their heads slightly, enjoying this melodious flute-

Hearing the cloud board behind the screen, Xiao Dan, who played Zhao Wuniang, appeared on the stage, with a cloth skirt and bamboo hairpin, Chu Chu was moving, posing in the makeup mirror, and singing:

"Cui minus auspicious Luan Luo, incense sales treasure duck gold furnace. Chu Pavilion is idle, Qin Lou is cold, and moving is to leave people with sorrow. Seeing that the end of the world is far away, and the relatives are in the high hall and the snow is sparse, why are there no books? Obviously in the mirror, Ying Yingxiao comes to makeup. Reminiscing about the past, the rooster crows and gets off the bed. In the mirror, he asked Gao Tang. Once far away, the mirror box hides the blue light. The dust is dark and sparse, and the moss grows into a cave room. Scattered golden hairpins, bleak clothes. Sad, but melancholy, there is no recovery of Hui Lanfang. There is a sad heart, and there is a long road. The concubine sighs about this, and the worry is in the aunt. Thinking of the ape is far away, and the mulberry elm light is attached to it. May the words be exhausted, and the wanderer must not forget. Don't play the green qin, the strings will definitely hurt. Don't listen to the white-headed groan, the mourning sound breaks people's intestines. There are many mistakes in personnel, and I am ashamed of the two mandarin ducks——"

As soon as the lyrics stopped, the support board sounded softly, and the flute of the blind master rose slowly, and the officials turned their heads to each other and praised in low voices.

Zeng Yu listened to the Yue opera "Pipa Story" in later generations, and was quite familiar with this play, Zhao Wuniang's character image is extremely vivid and touching, and now when he hears such an original Haiyan singing, he can't help but pay attention to it, and he is intoxicated-

That Xiao Dan also looked at Zeng Yu, and said crisply:

"The slave family married Cai Bojiao, only two months ago, counting on his colleagues and parents, together for a hundred years, who knew that his father-in-law was strict and forced him to go to the election. Since I went, there was no news, so I left my in-laws at home and taught the slave family to answer alone. The slave family must become the name of the husband, and the second must do the way of a wife, do their best, and support them day and night. Exactly: when there is poverty at the ends of the earth, there is only no end to this love. ”

As soon as the sound of the flute changed, Xiao Dan changed the song card and sang: "Spring is urging, and the beginning of the beginning is brought with one heart." Sigh the sound of the sun is broken, and bid farewell to Nanpu. It has long been an obstacle. Tear stains, tear stains, and the dust of the Bao Se, brocade is shamed. Lonely Qiong window, depressed Zhu Hu, empty flow year-"

The officials upstairs are listening leisurely, the direction of the ring stone pavilion in front of the gate of the government suddenly came to the sound of drumming, the drum came abruptly, "dong dong dong" a burst of random knocking, the flute master ears are the most intelligent, immediately shut up and do not blow, Xiao Dan does not sing, the officials upstairs look at each other, Guangxin Mansion pushes the official and says: "This is the drum of injustice." ”

The imperial city of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty has a drum of filing a lawsuit, and the local yamen also has a drum for the people to report their grievances, but it is mostly a formality, and the state and county officials will sit in the hall every two days to accept civil lawsuits, and the general people will not go to the drum to complain, you can go through the normal litigation channels, the drum is not satisfied with the verdict, and you have to go to the higher yamen to accuse, all of which are big cases and bloody cases, the drum of grievances in front of the Guangxin Mansion has not been beaten for decades (in fact, the drum is broken), Lin Guangzu repaired the government when he first took office, Seeing that the cowhide of the drum was rotten and couldn't be knocked at all, he asked the craftsman to cover the cowhide again, but he didn't expect to be knocked up today-

Lin Zhifu was a fan of the theater, and he was listening to the port, but he was disturbed by the drums, and he was disappointed, and asked Chen Tianxiang, who was present, "What are the recent unjust cases?" ”

Chen Zhixian frowned and said: "There have been no homicides this year, they are all small cases. ”

Wu Tong sentenced: "Maybe it's the people of the other four counties who come to cry out for injustice." ”

Governor Lin asked people to ask about the situation, waved his hand to let the troupe retreat first, and the people beat the drum and shouted that the grievances should be accepted in time, otherwise if they were visited by the supervision of the imperial history, they would be impeached.

Wu Chunze whispered to Zeng Yu: "It can't be Jiang Yuanrui beating the drum to voice grievances, right?" ”

Zeng Yu said quietly: "It's hard to say, if it's really him, then he threw himself into the net." ”

The official soon came back and reported that there was a student with a blue nose and swollen eyes, and a bloody body on his body, and he wanted to ask Lord Fuzun to be the master of his life and severely punish the murderer—

Zeng Yu and Wu Chunze glanced at each other, Zeng Yu said in his heart: "It's really Jiang Yuanrui, in Jiang Yuanrui's opinion, he has suffered a great shame, this is a big case, a strange injustice through the ages, so Xiu Muri also has to sue the official for trial." ”

Governor Lin asked the officer: "Did you kill or injure people?" ”

The official said: "The student did not say his life, only that he was beaten and seriously injured. ”

Governor Lin asked, "Is it the student himself who is playing the drum?" ”

The official said, "Yes." ”

Lin Zhifu said angrily: "If you can beat the drum by yourself, it is not a serious injury, and a small brawl also has to beat the drum of injustice, so how can we deal with official business." ”

Shangrao Zhixian Chen Tianxiang echoed: "This wind must not grow, and this student must also be punished." ”

Zhang Guangtang, a professor of Guangxin Fuxue, thought to himself: "It won't be a student of Fuxue, then I also have a responsibility for not being strict with discipline." He asked the officer, "What is the name of the student, and does he have a certificate?" ”

The official said: "I didn't see him presenting the paper, I only claimed to be a student of the government, surnamed Jiang." ”

Professor Zhang's slender neck stiffened, and he said to the officials led by Governor Lin: "This person should be beaten." ”

Governor Lin hurriedly asked, "Why did Master Zhang say that?" ”

Professor Zhang said: "There is only one surname Jiang who is enrolled in the school, and that is Jiang Yuanrui, a member of Yongfeng, who is a new student this year, and you must have heard of the fraud case in the Yuanzhou Academy——"

The officials nodded one after another, and Governor Lin suddenly came to his senses and said: "The old man remembers, the day before yesterday, the official document of the School Administration mentioned that this Jiang Yuanrui was one of the three fraudsters in Guangxin Mansion - hasn't Professor Zhang removed his reputation?" ”

Zhang Guangtang said: "Huang Xuezheng said that he would come to this mansion in October or November, and the fame of those three scum should be removed at that time. ”

Governor Lin asked: "So Jiang Yuanrui still doesn't know that the case of Lu Dao has been revealed?" ”

Zhang Guangtang said: "I shouldn't know it, I came to take the monthly exam yesterday, the composition is a mess, it can't be written, what is especially ridiculous is that the thief shouted to catch the thief, falsely said that Zeng Sheng was a fake student, and I have been punished, but he did not repent, and he didn't know where to cause trouble, he dared to come to beat the drum of injustice, and the government should severely punish him." ”

Zeng Yu saw that the fire was coming, and if he didn't explain the matter clearly, he would go too far, got up and bowed to Lin Guangzu who was sitting on the bed and said, "Lord Fuzun, then Jiang Yuanrui's beating of the drum of grievances is really related to the management of life. ”

At the moment, Zeng Yu was a classmate of Jiang Yuanrui in Dongyan Academy, Jiang Yuanrui ridiculed him in every way after he entered school by cheating, and insulted his mother outside An Minmen, and he beat Jiang Yuanrui in a fit of anger-

The Guangxin Mansion official on the side said with a smile: "Yes, this Jiang Yuanrui did come to sue the official two months ago, saying that there was a person surnamed Zeng who beat him, but it turned out to be Zeng Sheng." ”

Lin Zhifu smiled: "It turns out that Zeng Sheng is a fugitive from the case, oh, is it because of this that you are angry and want to rush to Yuanzhou to take the make-up exam?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "Yes, Zhisheng was forced by Jiang Yuanrui to be unable to do anything, so he had to avoid Yingtan friends, fortunately Lu Hanlin recommended him, Huang Tixue allowed me to retest, so I was able to go to school, I met Jiang Yuanrui in Fuxue Street yesterday, Jiang Yuanrui insisted that Zhisheng was a fake student, and also led Soap Li to arrest Zhisheng, fortunately reprimanded by Professor Zhang—

Lin Zhifu thought that Jiang Yuanrui himself was a student who was obtained by fraud, and he dared to lead the soap to catch others and fake students, which was really ridiculous, and asked Zeng Yu with a smile: "You beat him again later to vent your anger?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "How dare you treat life." He took out the paper from his sleeve and presented it to Governor Lin: "Zhisheng was originally going to hand over the paper to Chen Xianzun tomorrow, but since Jiang Yuanrui is the wicked person who sues first, Zhisheng must also explain the reason for the matter." ”

Governor Lin looked at Zeng Yu's paper, shook his head and said: "There is such a thing, Zeng Sheng's sister is also unladylike." "Hand the paper to Chen Zhixian.

Zeng Yu told everything about last night's incident in Zhujiajia, and Wu Chunze could testify about what Zeng Yu said.

Governor Lin said: "Jiang Yuanrui should have been severely punished for a scum like Jiang Yuanrui, I took off his clothes today, and then reported to Zhixuezheng, as for that Zhu Dedong-", he looked at Zeng Yu and said: "Sister Ling still wants to get back together with him, right?"

Zeng Yu said: "My sister and Zhu Dedong have two daughters, and I can't bear to divorce and hurt the children, and I want to give Zhu Dedong a chance to repent and reform

Governor Lin nodded, and said to the officials: "Today's listening to the drama is to let that scum stir up, then let's judge the case, and see what kind of face that Jiang Yuanrui is-Zeng Sheng, you also go together, and this Wu Sheng." ”

Zeng Yu followed the officials downstairs, and Xiao Dan, who played Zhao Wuniang, suddenly walked behind him and said: "Zeng Xianggong, the slave is called Xia Wan, the Qiantang people's family-"

Zeng Yu was stunned, and the little Dan named Xia Wan also woke up from a dream with a look of shame, turned around and fled back upstairs.