Chapter 18: Six Feet Lane
Zhang Tingyu and Mingde talked for a while, and it didn't take much effort for Mingde to enter the house and take Zhiyun and his daughter-in-law to Zhang's house to 'visit the door'.
Zhang Ying and Mingde Weng's son-in-law have a good relationship, and Mrs. Zhang's wife Wu has no elders in Mingde's family, especially pity the two brothers and sisters for being lost since childhood, and care for them both very much, so they are like sons and daughters.
Mingde is also worried that there are no female elders in the family, and it is inconvenient for his sister to say something to him as a big man, so he often takes his sister to Zhang's house to hang out, and sometimes puts her in Zhang's house for a few days.
It's just that sometimes the old lady of Niu Co Lu Mansion can't see it, and always persuades Ming De to send Zhi Yun to Niu Co Lu's house to be raised, but unfortunately, Zhi Yun is not interested in facing her aunt's increasingly complicated face, she always feels that her own aunt can't wait to eat her alive, besides, how comfortable the home is, how can she take the initiative to come up and find it uncomfortable......
After entering Zhang's Mansion, the men went to the living room, but the women did not enter the back hall, but sat in the back through the screen to watch the excitement.
This is not once or twice, although the rules of the Zhang family are strict, but the relationship between the family has always been relaxed and friendly, and the upbringing of the boudoir women is also very open-minded, and the daughters are not detained in the house, Zhang Ying is at home, and it is also very different from the kind of cautious and serious and old-fashioned outside, and from time to time he will joke with his son and daughter, as long as it is not a major matter of the court, he never shy away from his wife and daughter.
Zhiyun sat quietly behind the screen painted with Guanyin sitting on the lotus, with Zhang Ying's wife Wu on the upper hand and Zhang Tingyu's wife Li on the left.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law got together and whispered gossip, holding embroidery work in their hands, but they didn't even embroider a leaf for most of the day, probably just put on a show, and didn't embroider seriously.
Zhiyun held a travelogue by herself, picked up a few pieces of plum blossom cake by herself, crushed them into small pieces, and handed them to her pet Yangyang who was nested in her arms to eat.
Sister-in-law Ruyan prepares snacks in the back, and two little girls in October and July help.
The women get along very harmoniously, and even Zhiyun enjoys such a loose atmosphere
In the front hall, Zhang Ying, the old man of the Zhang family, Zhang Tingyu, the second son, and Zhang Tinglu, the third son, faced the old housekeeper who was crying with a handful of snot and tears, everyone's expressions were different, Zhang Ying had a little crying and laughing on his face, Zhang Tingyu held his stomach and smiled, Zhang Tinglu was ignorant and at a loss.
Only Mingde put on an expression of great admiration, and said to his father-in-law: "A paper book is only for the wall, so why not let him be three feet." The Great Wall is still there, and Qin Shi Huang is not seen. Good poetry, really good poetry, father-in-law, you always treat people with virtue, you can really support the boat in the prime minister's belly! ”
His words made Zhang Yingmei smile, but Zhiyun blinked, glanced at this scholar Zhang, and said in his heart: This eldest brother is still a little tender.
The cause and effect of this matter, listening to the old housekeeper nagging for so long, Zhiyun also understood-
A few days ago, Zhang Ying's family was going to renovate the old house, and the land boundary was close to the neighbor Ye family.
Ye Xiucai, the head of the Ye family, looked at the courtyard wall that the Zhang family wanted to repair, and saw that it was close to his own house, and he was not happy, so he proposed that the Zhang family leave a road in the middle to facilitate their entry and exit.
But the old housekeeper of the Zhang family is not a fuel-efficient lamp, he is nothing else, he is so greedy for a little cheap on weekdays, and the baht must be compared.
I wondered in my heart, what is wrong with them now beating the wall according to the title deed? Even if you want to leave a way, you should both of them take a few feet back, which is only fair.
At this time, Zhang Ying is an official in Beijing, and the second son Zhang Tingyu is also promising, and the old housekeeper is very nervous. He is the head of the dignified prime minister's family, and it is reasonable to build a wall like this, and the opinion of a poor talent in the Ye family is worth dealing with.
So, a new wall was soon built along the root of the Ye family wall. This Ye Xiucai is also interesting, he actually ignored it, started his own pen, sent a paper to the county office, and started a lawsuit with Zhang Ying.
At this moment, the old housekeeper was angry, and at that time a letter came to the capital, wanting to find Zhang Ying to be the master, but he never thought that the master wrote a crooked poem, so he sent him away, and asked his son to tear down the courtyard wall and stand back three feet back. At this moment, the old housekeeper was not angry, and regardless of his own old bones, he actually ran to the capital and cried in front of Zhang Ying's eyes......
Zhiyun looked at Zhang Ying with a smile, seeing that he was pretending to be deaf and dumb, the old housekeeper said, but he didn't speak, but he understood in his heart that Ye Xiucai's careful thinking could hide from a kind person like Mingde, but he definitely couldn't hide it from Zhang Ying, an old fox.
To say that Ye Xiucai is just a poor Xiucai, and he actually fought a lawsuit with a high-ranking and powerful official in the court, just for a road, such an unreasonable thing, is it possible? , and now there are a few stupid people who can get into the show.
Of course, this is a trivial matter, not to the point of conspiratorial theory.
In Zhiyun's view, what the literati want most is just a 'name' word, this Ye Xiucai, probably because of repeated failures, wants to make a strange move, and make a name for himself in Zhang Ying, you see, he is so angry with the prime minister of the dynasty, this reputation will definitely be spread to the capital, maybe it can reach the heavens, during the imperial examination, in case of meeting an examiner, looking at him is very familiar, thinking of this thing, his heart is happy, let go, he can pass.
This is very likely, you know, the Ye family and the Zhang family live next to each other, Ye Xiucai must know the Zhang family's old and young people, and he probably knows very well in his heart that Zhang Ying can't get along with himself because of such a trivial matter.
The worst result is just that Zhang Ying ignores it, this matter is not over, and the best result is likely to make himself famous, if Zhang Ying is really the kind of temperament that is legendary in the township, he will even turn enemies into friends with the Zhang family, and the relationship is intimate, no matter how it is calculated, it is also worth taking a risk.
Zhiyun took a piece of plum blossom cake, chewed it carefully, looked at the smiling Zhang family father and son in front of him, and said in his heart: Zhang Ying probably understands Ye Xiucai's thoughts, but Zhang Ying is open-minded, how to say that he is also an old neighbor, and if he is used, he will not lose a piece of meat. It's just a sesame thing...... So simply fulfill this Ye Xiucai, write poems to give land, and he can also get a good reputation for magnanimity.
came out of Zhang's house and got into the carriage, Mingde also praised his father-in-law's open-mindedness, and also said that Ye Xiucai was very upright, to the point that he was not afraid of the powerful, Zhiyun just listened, and did not explain to him, anyway, he had been in the court for a long time, and he could naturally see these doors clearly, and it was useless to say it now.
Sure enough, within a few days, I heard that Ye Xiucai saw Zhang Ying's poems, and he was very emotional, so he demolished the wall of his house and retreated three feet, forming a six-foot alley, and personally wrote down this matter, carved it into a stone tablet, and stood at the mouth of the alley.
This matter spread so widely and for a long time that even the saints knew about it.
However, these have nothing to do with Zhiyun, she is now thinking about how to carve out the basic magic circle of the Floating City, and there are many materials needed to build the Floating City, relying only on the storage in her own half-plane, Zhiyun is reluctant, how can she get some from the outside world, it's just that no matter which dynasty or generation, it is impossible for metal deposits to be mined by private individuals, and there are no large collection vehicles, relying on those small sneaky collections, it must not be delayed for ten or eight years, how can she wait.
Zhiyun sighed, I'm afraid my plan will be carried out quickly, but once it is done, then I will be in the eyes of the person above......
Tell me, there are some women in clean clothes who are engaged in wind and rain, that is to fall in love with the princes, mixed with the matter of winning the heirs in Kowloon, and there are also some women in clean clothes, like the heroine in "Ordinary Qing Wear Days", who just want to live a low-key and stable life...... What kind of person are you?
The first one is definitely not, she is not interested in who is the emperor, and she does not care about anything else.
The second, it doesn't seem to be. She is a mage, or a mage obsessed with alchemy, for her own practice, she needs a transcendent status, an undisturbed environment, wealth, and countless resources, which is destined for her to be low-key, but in the same way, if she wants to be detached, she must not be involved in the royal struggle for power, otherwise, she will be passive, so in a certain aspect, low-key is still needed.