Chapter 5 Drumming and Grievances

On the morning of the second day, Zhang Xun took Simei to the studio, and Simei was fascinated by herself in the painting when she saw the "Four Beauties of Peony". Even Wen Xin, who has had an experience once, is the same, not to mention the three daughters of Xinlan, Bihe, and Yuchan. After a long time, Simei came back to her senses, and said to Zhang Xun very reluctantly: "I am really reluctant to give away this "Four Beauties of Peony", if only I could keep it for collection." Zhang Xun also knew that Simei was just a regret in his heart! Seeing that Simei was a little lost, he comforted: "Xinlan, Wenxin, Bihe, Yuchan, if you encounter beautiful scenery in the future, it would be good to paint another one for your husband if he has inspiration! Okay, let's be happy!" Simei's heart slowly calmed down at this time, and when she heard her husband's comfort, she said: "That husband must take this matter to heart, we are waiting for this painting!" Zhang Xun nodded, and then said: "I should leave for Luoyang Mansion to hand over the painting to Wenfu Yin, you go and see the children reading and practicing." ”

Zhang Xun came to the Luoyang Mansion with the painting, and the official at the door said respectfully when he saw that it was Zhang Xun: "Master Zhang, hello! When I came to the gate of the backyard and saw the master, the master took Zhang Xun to the hall and served tea before asking my master to come out. After a while, Wenfu Yin came to the hall and said with a smile: "Brother Zhang, you came to me at this time, it must be that painting is finished!" Zhang Xun nodded, and then handed the long box containing the painting to Wenfu Yin. After Wen Fu Yin took it, he came to the long table and took out the painting, slowly spread it out, and waited for the whole "Four Beauties of Peony" to fall into his eyes, and was completely shocked by this painting. After watching the painting intently for a long time, he turned back to Zhang Xun and said: "Brother Zhang, your painting master who was personally given by the Holy Voice is really a saint in the painting world! Don't talk about painting art, just talking about this idea, it is extremely wonderful!" Zhang Xun said: "Brother Wen is satisfied, I won't tell you, my four ladies are also the four beauties in the painting, I am very reluctant! I can only promise them to paint another one in the future." Wenfu Yin smiled and said: "Brother Zhang is really happy! That's right, people don't be romantic! Hahaha!" The two chatted for a while, Zhang Xun was about to say goodbye, only to hear the sound of drums outside, this is someone beating the drum and complaining. Zhang Xun thought, is this the opportunity to find "seeds"?

Someone beat the drum to voice grievances, and Wen Lexing, who is the Yin of Luoyang Mansion, naturally wants to personally inquire about the grievances. Wenfu Yin and Master went to the Mansion Yashengtang to question, and Zhang Xun also followed. Anyway, once the drum is beaten, there will be the people of Luoyang who will listen, and Zhang Xun doesn't need to care about anything. After ascending to the hall, I saw the official helping the person who complained of grievances to the lobby, and it turned out that the person who was complaining of grievances had a blue nose and swollen face at the moment, and was obviously beaten up before coming to the government to complain. When Wenfu Yin saw that the wronged man was injured like this, he asked the official to bring a chair for the man to sit down. Wen Fu Yin then began to ask: "Who is the one who has complained about the grievances, and what grievances are there to tell the truth in front of the government and the people who are listening." The man opened his mouth and said, "Lord Hui, the little one's name is Bai Wen, and he is the servant of my young lady, Bai Peony." Today's drumming is to avenge the grievances of my young lady. At this moment, the white man stopped. It turned out that the injury was not light, and he rushed to the government to beat the drum and voice the grievances, which was a little unbearable as soon as he opened his mouth. Zhang Xun had just entered the jade pendant space and took out the healing medicine when there was no one in the backyard, just in case of emergency. Now seeing that this Bai Wen just mentioned the white peony, where do you not know that the original peony refers to the name of the person, then this Bai Wen is the "seed" of the Zhou Kingdom. Seeing that Wenfu Yin felt helpless that Bai Wen couldn't speak, he said to Wen Fu Yin: "Wen Fu Yin, I have healing medicine here, the effect is very good, you ask someone to take a cup of warm water to feed this Bai Wen to take it." A moment is fine. I'm now applying another ointment to his face. Wenfu Yin saw that it was Zhang Xun, so he did so. Zhang Xun walked up to Bai Wen and took the ointment to Bai Wen, and after applying his face, he took out the porcelain bottle containing the pills, handed it to the official who brought warm water, and said, "Three, feed him." He went back to his previous position and stood. After a quarter of an hour, Bai Wen really got better, at least he had no problem talking. Wen Fu Yin said: "Bai Wen, you go on. Bai Wen said: "Yes, my lord, the villain wants to sue Liang An, the second son of the prime minister of the country, for forcing my young lady Bai Peony to be a concubine." The villain tried his best to stop it, but he didn't let Liang An succeed. The wound on the villain's body was caused by the vicious servant of Liang An. Specifically, the villain wrote a complaint. After saying this, Bai Wen motioned to the official next to him to take out the complaint on the mezzanine of his jacket and then closed his eyes to rest, after all, the injuries on his body were not light. After a while, Wen Fu Yin looked embarrassed after reading the complaint, and Zhang Xun said at this time: "Wen Fu Yin, since I have encountered this incident, then I will be upset about this Bai Wen, it is better for me to be Bai Wen's lawyer." Wenfu Yin thought about it, and let Zhang Xun, an outsider, come, and he would not be embarrassed. So he said: "This government knows the facts of the case, and now we will start an investigation, and we will retry it in three days and withdraw from the court." He left the lobby.

Zhang Xun helped Bai Wen into the carriage, and was about to ask the coachman to drive to Zhang's mansion, when Bai Wen opened his mouth and said to Zhang Xun: "Please take me to Tianxianglou to pick up my young lady first." Zhang Xun asked the coachman to drive to Tianxianglou. Zhang Xun knew that this Tianxianglou was the most prestigious Qinglou in Luoyang City, and then thought that this white peony was probably a stage name, no matter how many people were brought out first.

When he arrived at the gate of Tianxiang Building, Zhang Xun helped Bai Wen get out of the carriage. The guards of Tianxianglou knew Bai Wen, so they opened the door, and then took Bai Wen from Zhang Xun's hand and helped him into Tianxianglou. Just now, Liang An made such a big noise in this Tianxiang Building, and the old bustard naturally did not rest, waiting for news in the hall. Seeing Zhang Xun, a stranger, he asked: "This master, who are you?" Zhang Xun said: "I am a former saint Zhang Xun, I just decided to be Bai Wen's teacher in the mansion, and now I am accompanying Bai Wen to pick up Miss Bai Peony to my Zhang Mansion, and this bachelor can also inquire about the case and avenge Miss Bai Peony and Bai Wen." Of course, this old bustard had heard of Zhang Xun, and coupled with her special relationship with the Bai family, she said to Zhang Xun: "Master Zhang, you sit in this hall for a while, and I will go upstairs to call the peony girl down." After a while, the white peony came to the hall, bowed to Zhang Xun, and said, "The little girl Yulian has seen Master Zhang. Zhang Xun knew that this was the real name of the white peony, and thought that this Tianxianglou was a green building after all, and it was not a place to speak. Zhang Xun opened his mouth and said to Bai Yulian: "Miss Yulian, come back to Zhang's Mansion with me! Bai Wen is also good to recuperate, if you have any grievances, you will tell me when you go to Zhang's Mansion." ”

Zhang Xun took the Bai family's master and servant back to Zhang's mansion, asked Simei to accompany Bai Yulian, and helped Bai Wen to the guest room. After dressing Bai Wen's face again, pouring water and feeding him the pills, Bai Wen lay down on the bed and rested well, and then went back to the hall.

Zhang Xun came to the hall, and after sitting on the main seat, he said to Bai Yulian: "Miss Yulian, what grievances do you have, now tell me, I will find a way to redress the grievances of your master and servant." If you want, call me Uncle Zhang, I'm not used to others calling me master. Bai Yulian said: "Uncle Zhang, Yulian's father Bai Yiqiang was originally a waiter in the Ministry of Industry of Zhou, but he was wronged and is still locked up in a prison until now. Zhang Xun saw that Bai Yulian was about to talk about her father, so he interrupted: "Niece Yulian, don't talk about your father's affairs now, for now, we should solve the matter between you and Liang An." At this time, someone outside the door knocked loudly, and a female voice shouted and scolded: "Yulian, don't think that you will be fine if you hide in Zhang Xun's room, if you know each other, get out quickly and obediently marry my young master." Otherwise, Zhang Xun would not have ended well. Before Zhang Xun could speak, Wen Xin couldn't sit still, and went to the door with Yuchan to bring in the evil maid of the Liang family. His mouth was blocked by a handkerchief, and he was kicked hard by Yuchan and knelt down in the crook of his leg. Zhang Xun opened his mouth and said: "Since her mouth is not clean, then Bihe and Yuchan will give her a good slap and teach her how to speak." So, there was a crisp and loud slap in the hall, and it was only when the cheeks of the evil maid were high and swollen, covered with red slap prints, and the corners of the mouth were bleeding, that Bihe and Yuchan stopped. Zhang Xun said to the evil maid: "You go back and tell me Liang An, this Bai family's affairs are in charge of this master, if he wants him to do anything, even if he uses it, the gentleman will still turn the sky upside down! Now, you get out of Zhang's Mansion for me. The evil maid was just about to get up, and Zhang Xun shouted: "Don't you understand? Then he said to Yuchan: "Yuchan, look, if this evil maid doesn't roll, you just kick her out." "How dare that evil maid let Yuchan move her feet, the slap just now made her hurt to death, if she really wants to let this Yuchan kick with her feet, it won't cost her own life. So the evil woman rolled out of Zhang's mansion. Zhang Xun said to Bihe: "Bihe, you dispose of the blood shed by the evil maid on this ground." lest you look at the gloom. Then he took a deep breath to calm himself down before he said to Bai Yulian: "Niece Yulian, you go on, talk about Liang An." Although I haven't heard about your father's matter yet, I am sure that it will not be solved in a while, and you will tell me when Liang An's matter is dealt with. I will stay here in Luoyang for a long time, don't worry!" Bai Yulian said: "Yes, Uncle Zhang, Yulian was originally fine, who knew that on the opening day of the Peony Festival, Bai Wen and I went to the peony garden to enjoy peonies, and met this Luoyang tyrant." This Liang An relied on his father to be the prime minister of his country, and he did everything he could to bully men and women on weekdays. When he saw that I was a little beautiful, he had an evil heart, but he was not good at the Peony Festival, so he left. My niece knew that this Liang An would never give up, and on the second day, she did not hesitate to self-destruct her name to find my father's former good friend Aunt Juan and enter Tianxiang Building, and changed her name to White Peony. Who knew that this morning, just after the Peony Festival, Liang An came to Tianxianglou with the evil maid Xiaomei and a group of thugs just now, and Aunt Juan just went up to prepare to intercede with Liang An. The evil maid Xiaomei rushed up and started work left and right, and slapped Aunt Juan to the ground twice. At this time, Liang An asked the group of thugs to forcibly snatch me away, but fortunately, Bai Wen desperately rescued me. You know what happened next, Uncle Zhang. Zhang Xun said: "I know, I will seek justice for your master and servant." Don't think about it, get some rest. Then he said to Bihe: "Bihe, you take Yulian's niece to the guest room to rest!"

Zhang Xun thought that he was an outsider after all, so he would first create public opinion and arouse public anger. Yulian, okay! Copy out the famous "Ai Lian Said". Zhang Xun is now used to plagiarism, anyway, he is not seeking personal gain for himself. Zhang Xun has never been pretentious, he only talks about doing things casually.