Zhang Guangwei was very smart, and immediately understood the meaning of Zeng Yu's words, turned around and asked Zhang Yongxu if he still remembered the "first in Xijiang" couplet in front of the door.

Zhang Yongxu said: "It is a joint handbook prepared by Fang Hanlin during the Zhengde period, you ask what this work is, do you think that couplet is also a showmanship?"

"Okay." Zhang Guangwei said: "Let me ask you again, do you know the year of birth and death of Fang Hanlin, what official he resides, and the recent situation of his juniors?" ”

Zhang Yongxu frowned and said: "Nonsense, who is going to remember this, people from forty or fifty years ago." ”

Zhang Guangwei asked again: "So how many people in Shangqing Town know who the couplet of Lu Dao is?" ”

Zhang Yongxu only thought that this little aunt was unreasonable, very impatient, and it was not easy to attack in front of all the officials and gentry, so he ignored Zhang Guangwei with a cold face.

Zhang Guangwei was very touched by the eloquence of the Empress Dowager Zhao, and said: "You are a real person in charge, even you can't remember who the person who inscribed the couplet at your own door is, let alone the general public, so the official position and fame of the inscriber can only be boasted for more than ten years, and no one remembers it at all after that, and a good couplet is to be passed on for hundreds of years and thousands of years - Yongxu, the vision should be broad, the vision should be long-term, we are all people of cultivation, the vicissitudes of life, the rise and fall of the world, wealth and glory, passing by the clouds, you are so entangled in the title of the person is a talent or a championbut foolishness. ”

Zhang Yongxu felt that what Zhang Guangwei said was quite reasonable, but he was disgusted by the ridiculous tone of the aunt who was five years younger than him, which made him lose face, so he still kept his face calm and did not speak.

Zhang Guangwei was also very annoyed when he saw that he was so eloquent but couldn't convince this stubborn nephew, and said: "You really insist on doing your own thing."

At this time, Lu Hanlin and Lin Governor's Mansion came over and said that this couplet of "the fairy guest on the Qilin Palace, the prime minister's house in the Dragon and Tiger Mountain" is a heavenly design for the Dazhen Mansion, and there is no more appropriate than this couplet in the past and in the future, but Zeng Yu's calligraphy is good but it is still not hot, and he has to ask someone with exquisite calligraphy to write it-

Zhang Yongxu felt that he had found the bottom of the steps, and immediately said, "Then please show the ink treasure to the old gentleman here." ”

Everyone recommended the original Nanjing Hanlin Academy palm print bachelor Lu Huai to write this couplet, Lu Huai and Zeng Yu are fellow villagers, joint inscription, can be described as a good story.

Lu Huai was no longer humble, and asked someone to take a pen with a bucket pen, replaced it with a long scroll of Jingxian rice paper, and wrote this couplet in Zhao Songxue's large block letters.

Everyone was amazed, Zhang Yongxu was very satisfied at this time, and said, "Mr. Lu hasn't paid yet." ”

Lu Huai said with a smile: "There is no need to settle the payment, can the old man be cheeky to write the question of Lu Huai in the year of Jiajing Gengshen?" Ha Luha, Brother Hong talked about the story of King Teng's Pavilion in Nanchang, imagine if it weren't for Wang Bo's "Preface to King Teng's Pavilion", who still remembers who was the Taishou of Hongzhou at that time? A good article and a pair of famous couplets can be passed down for a long time, not comparable to decades of high-ranking officials, and this pair of good couplets will definitely be able to add color to the Dazhen Mansion. ”

Zhang Guangwei on the side saw his nephew Zhang Yongxu with a smile and said yes, and said in his heart: "This Lu Hanlin said the same truth as what I just said, I said it more thoroughly, but Zhang Yongxu just didn't listen to me, it's really annoying." With a flick of the dust, I went to the flower pond to see the lotus.

Zhang Yongxu ordered the servant to move two chairs to let the two Xiucai sit, this is courtesy, otherwise Xiucai does not have to kneel but can only stand, Zheng Shi quietly laughed: "The light of the nine carps is stained, and it is fortunate to be able to sit in front of Zhang Dazhen and the prefect and the prefect of the county." ”

Guangxin prefect Lin Guang's ancestors heard Lu Huai say that Zeng Yu was a native of Yongfeng County, and the process of studying was quite tortuous, so he asked Wen Yan, Zeng Yu said his life experience, falling first, leaving home, and the experience of making up the examination one by one.

Zhang Yongxu saw that the officials and gentry were very appreciative of Zeng Yu, and suddenly thought of something, walked to the side of Lao Dao Yuangang and asked: "Uncle, how is this Zeng Yu's life, has Uncle Shi used Ziwei Doushu to calculate it for him?" ”

Old Dao Yuan Gang said: "Why do you tell him fortunes for no reason, do you have any plans to teach real people?" ”

Zhang Yongxu was deflated and said unhappily: "Guangwei said that Uncle Shi told Zeng Yu's fortune, and said that Zeng Yu wanted to win the champion." ”

Lao Dao Yuangang "hehe" and smiled: "Although fate has a fixed number, but it can not be changed, this fixed number is not immutable, like easy to have three meanings - easy also, change also, not easy also, when the fate is fixed, it is not easy, the past can not be traced, commonly known as the coffin theory, hehe, as long as it is still in luck, there are always unpredictable things happening, for it is easy and changeable, so it is natural to say that Zeng Xiucai wants to win the champion is not nonsense, and I look at Zeng Xiucai's face, the eyebrows are hidden pearls, the brilliance is contained, there is a person who is blessed, Otherwise, how could he come to the Dazhen Mansion and draw up a good alliance that would impress everyone, this seems to be a coincidence, and there is also a definite number. ”

Zhang Yongxu was dizzy when he heard it, Uncle Yuangang said a lot of things but didn't say anything, and waited until something happened to say that it was a fixed number, which was both a fixed number and unpredictable, mysterious and mysterious, almost nonsense, or swordsmanship and room in the room were real.

For Zeng Yu and Zheng Shi, who were careful with them, such a banquet would not be enjoyable, and they had to pay attention to rank and rules everywhere, but the lunch was really rich in variety, all kinds of vegetables and fruits and delicacies from the mountains and seas, and the luxury was better than the prince

After the meal, Zhang Yongxu led everyone to move to the small pavilion in the Baihua Pond to taste tea and discuss, Zeng Yu and Zheng Shi finally waited until two old gentlemen yawned and wanted to take a nap for a day, so they hurriedly said goodbye to Zhang Zhenren and Lin Zhifu, Lu Huai asked Zeng Yuchu to wait for him at Yingtanfang Wharf before noon on the fifth day, and he also had to take a sedan chair to Yingtan and then get on the boat to return to Yongfeng.

Zeng Yu and Zheng Shi resigned, and the two of them went to the mansion the same way, Zheng Shi smiled and said: "Jiu Li, you are going to be famous now, the gate couplet of the Dazhen Mansion is actually your question, this is only Hanlin is qualified to ask, but your couplet is indeed wonderful, could it be that you dreamed of it in the Wenchang Hall the day before yesterday?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "I'm just taking it." ”

The two of them bypassed the lobby, and before they reached the Yimen, they heard someone coming quickly behind them and shouted, "Zeng Xiucai, please wait a moment." ”

Zeng Yu and Zheng Shi stopped and turned around, and saw two Taoist priests hurrying over, and the Taoist priest in the back was holding a small camphor wooden box, and when he came to Zeng Yu, the Taoist priest in front of him said: "Zeng Xianggong, this is a gift from the real person in charge of the sect to Zeng Xianggong, please accept it." ”

Zeng Yu was not humble, smiled, asked for fame and asked for profit, put the small camphor wooden box under his armpit and went out of the instrument door with Zheng Shi, but saw the Taoist Yu Xuan coming out of the Xuantan Hall on the side of the Yongdao to greet the two of them, and asked how the couplet would be, Zheng Shi smiled and pointed to the small box under Zeng Yu's armpit: "Zeng Jiu carp won the championship, this is the silver that the heavenly master thanked him for." ”

Yu Xuandao was overjoyed, that is, he went to the master of the Xuantan Hall to take leave, and went out of the Dazhen Mansion with Zeng Yu and Zheng Shi, Zheng Shi couldn't wait to say: "Jiu Li, open the box and see, how much silver did Zhang Dazhen give you?" ”

The third idiot brother has the curiosity of a child who generally does not have the city government, Zeng Yu said with a smile: "We look sneaky like this, we must be suspected of stealing." ”

Zheng Shi and Yu Xuan both laughed.

When the three of them walked past Huang Laohan's tofu shop on Shangqing Street, Huang Laohan was sitting on the bamboo chair by the door and napping, the dog was lying on the side of the bamboo chair and sticking out his tongue, and Yu Xuandao approached and called: "Huang Lao, Huang Laopa-"

Huang Laohan woke up and saw that it was Yu Xuandao and the two talented people, so he hurriedly got up and beckoned the three of them to come in to drink tea, and said: "It's a pity that I and my old wife went to Guanyin Nunnery to chant early in the morning, and I haven't come back yet." ”

As soon as Yu Xuandao heard this, his brows furrowed, the Yang nun in Guanyin Nunnery had a bad reputation, and it was a pity to go there to recite what scriptures, so he said: "Three idiot brothers, the two of them drink tea here, and the poor Dao went to Guanyin Nunnery to welcome Aunt Huang and cherish it back." ”

Zheng Shi and Zeng Yufang just drank tea in the Dazhen Mansion, and said that they would follow the Yuxuan Dao people for a walk, and the camphor wooden box would be stored in Huang Laohan

At this time, it was about the end of the afternoon and the beginning of the Shen hour, the three of them went all the way out of Shangqing Town to the east, Yu Xuan Daoist felt panicked for no reason, and walked faster and faster, when there was still a mile away from Guanyin Nunnery, he suddenly heard someone shouting: "Help, help——"

Yu Xuandao's expression was awe-inspiring: "It's Aunt Huang." He flew towards the scream, and the cry for help came from the bank of the Luxi River.

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