Di Renjie's judgment was very correct, but it was used as an excuse to suspect the prince, and at that time, Di Renjie was still soft-spoken, and it was not his turn to preside over the investigation, otherwise let this famous Di Gong in history come to investigate the case, and whether he could find out Mei Zhenyi's head or not. The person sent by the imperial court to Chang'an to preside over the investigation was Prime Minister Pei Yan.

General Pei Xingjian didn't take any action after receiving Mei Xiaolang's message, he didn't want to meddle in the emperor's family affairs, and Prime Minister Pei Yan was different, he could get mixed into the position of the first assistant of the dynasty, of course, he was scheming, and after receiving Mei Xiaolang's message, he also understood the meaning of the palace, so he naturally wanted to push the boat down the river to get rid of the prince. Pei Yan and Xue Yuanchao and Gao Zhiyong, two other ministers sent by Empress Wu, came to the Chang'an Prince's Mansion together, and "sure enough", they found out that the prince was hiding soldiers in the mansion and had different ambitions.

The world is so interesting, Ming Chongyan tried to frame the Mei family's Jingwu Villa with hidden armor, in order to hook up the prince. And the crown prince was unlucky in the end because of the hidden armor, is this true or a false accusation? History has no clear record, and even Mei Zhenyi, who traveled to the Tang Dynasty, does not know the inside story. Pei Yan also has his own selfishness, he has a close relationship with Li Dan, the king of Xiang, and has the idea of supporting Li Dan to succeed to the throne, but before he returns to Luoyang, the palace has already passed a decree: abolish the position of Prince Li Xian, exile Bazhou, and establish King Li Zhe as the crown prince. In that year, it was changed to Yonglong.

Pei Yan's wishful thinking of supporting the king of the prime minister failed, but it was not without gains, at least he found out that Li Xian had made great contributions, and after returning to Luoyang, he had many rewards, and his power was even more prominent. In Chang'an, many officials related to the prince were implicated, the left concubine Zhang Da'an was demoted to Jinzhou, and the prince Xima Liu Nayan was demoted to Zhenzhou. Even Mei Xiaolang was transferred out of Chang'an and appointed as the deputy envoy of the Dingxiang Road Camp, not only demoted by one level, but also sent him to the front line to fight, which is a bit of a crime and meritorious service. - This is already a very generous treatment, thanks to Prime Minister Pei Yan's mediation.

Mei Xiaolang knew it in his heart, and he expressed his gratitude and set off to the north on the same day, and he was very calm, he didn't even bring his wife and two concubines with him when he took office. But the more Mrs. Pei Yu'e thought about it, the more unpleasant it became, the prince had an accident inexplicably, and her husband, who had nothing to do with him, was implicated, lost his phase, was demoted out of Chang'an, and had to go to the front line to fight. Father Pei Yan has made great contributions, but why is he so unlucky? Even his son Mei Zhenting has been affected, otherwise he should be under the shadow of the court like his mother's brother.

What Mei Zhenyi did in Wuzhou was absolutely confidential, Mei Xiaolang didn't tell anyone, and as for his message to Prime Minister Pei Yanchuan, it was also a secret thing, and it was inconvenient to say that Pei Yu'e knew about it. Pei Yu'e only knew that Mei Yi came to Chang'an from Wuzhou not long ago, discussed things secretly with Hou Ye for one night, and left in a hurry the next day, and the next day Hou Ye sent someone to Chang'an to deliver a letter to his mother's house, and the Mei family was unlucky in a few days! But no matter how she inquired, she couldn't find out the specific inside story, and no one would tell her about this kind of thing.

When the husband and wife talked at the bedside at night, Pei Yu'e also asked her husband what was going on? Mei Xiaolang only said that Mei Yi rushed back to Chang'an to report the news, Teng'er was all right in Wuzhou, and after waking up, he was very smart to speak, and specially asked Mei Yi to go to Chang'an to ask for peace on his behalf-this child is very sensible. As for sending someone to Luoyang Pei Mansion to deliver a letter, that is also the number of gifts before the arrival of the New Year, and by the way, talk about some affairs in the court, and Mrs. doesn't need to ask more.

Pei Yu'e said half-coquettishly and half-angrily in her husband's arms: "What does the prince have to do with you? The bitter cold land of Saibei has been burning for many years, you have always been a civil official in the court, and it is very dangerous to go to the front line, which is obviously harming our Mei family. ”

Mei Xiaolang comforted: "I was once crowned as a long attendant in front of the palace, and I also have a military position. Besides, I am conceited that I have a martial arts strategy, and this trip to the border to show my talent and ambition is exactly what I want, and my wife should be happy for me. ”

Pei Yu'e: "Look at what you said, is this a demotion or a promotion?"

Mei Xiaolang patted his wife and said: "If something happens to the prince, how can I, as a guard in Chang'an, not be implicated? This is already the most lenient disposition, if the border pass is successful, I also have a chance to make great contributions, which is also your father's ingenious arrangement." ...... It's already a month, and the income of Jingwu Villa is about to be delivered, don't be afraid to spend more money this time, you buy a generous gift to send to your mother's house, and next year's New Year's gift to your colleagues will also be extraordinarily rich. ...... I'm not in the house, so it's up to you to take care of everything. ”

In the middle of the night, Mei Xiaolang only said that his wife was worried about the pain of parting, and this night he specially performed the husband and wife etiquette in the room, flattering him, and did not fall asleep until the sky was light. On the second day, when parting, Mei Xiaolang held his hand and comforted his wife and said: "General Pei Xingjian is like a god, and the Turks are like birds with bows. ”

This sentence persuaded Pei Yu'e to feel at ease, but soon she had other thoughts. According to her husband, this trip must be to win the battle and come back, and it was arranged by his father, Prime Minister Pei, of course, there will be no mistakes. After making military merits, the imperial court will naturally be crowned again, and maybe even the son of Meifu will be rewarded with a knighthood. The first thing to reward must be Mei Zhenyi, who is hiding in Wuzhou to enjoy Qingfu, thinking about it, I feel a little unbalanced, I and my son stay in Chang'an and worry about so many things, that little cub is comfortable!

Within a few days, Jiangnan's annual income was delivered, with white silver and boxes full of copper coins, as well as various Jiangnan gadgets and local products for filial piety to Mrs., sons, and young ladies. With Mei Xiaolang's fortune, there is no problem for the family to enjoy a well-off life, but if you want to live a big life, in addition to the reward of the imperial court, you have to rely on the industrial income of Wuzhou. In addition to the annual income of Wuzhou, in addition to the self-use of Jingwu Villa, the money will be sent to Chang'an for Meifu expenses. This year's income is less than 100,000 yuan compared with previous years, not that the harvest over there is not good, on the contrary, this year's harvest is much better than last year, but because Sun Simiao came to wake up Mei Zhenyi, the expenses of Jingwu Villa are much larger, and they are clearly recorded in the account books.

This year's royal reward is gone, and according to her husband's explanation, the expenses in the house are much larger than in previous years, but Jiangnan's annual income is a lot less, which makes Pei Yu'e very unhappy. Before and after Mei Zhenyi woke up, she spent hundreds of thousands of dollars more than in previous years in just a few months? Pei Yu'e couldn't help but be a little suspicious, could it be that Jingwu Villa was engaged in fraud in the name of the little son? Jingwu Villa from the housekeeper Zhang Guo and below, all of them were old family members and locals who were married by the Liu family, Pei Yu'e couldn't get involved at all, and in previous years, Mei Xiaolang personally intervened about the affairs over there.

This time Mei Xiaolang was not there, Pei Yu'e was the master of the house, and she also began to move her mind. She is also thinking about self-preservation, if the lord's power is gone, the family may have to rely on the industry in Wuzhou to live, and if she doesn't grasp it, she will suffer sooner or later. Last time, she suggested asking Mei Zhenyi to hire a teacher, but Mei Xiaolang didn't agree, and now she still plans to send someone over to nominally be a teacher for Mei Zhenyi, and by the way, check the accounts of Jingwu Villa, and take the financial power over easily. Anyway, as a woman, there is no plan to consider to stabilize the country, and what she thinks about is this matter at home.

Mei Zhenyi, who was far away in Wuzhou, didn't know what Chang'an's stepmother was thinking, he was like a butterfly with wings, killing Ming Chongyan in Wuzhou and throwing his body outside Luoyang City, inadvertently setting off a big storm that shook the world. Now he is far away from the center of the storm whirlpool, and is enjoying his leisurely and wealthy life as a little marquis among the mountains and rivers, and all the affairs of Jingwu Villa and the Mei family in Wuzhou are all decided by him.

He lived in Qiyun Temple, the entire east courtyard in the view is now Xiaomei's mansion, and the west courtyard has become Sun Simiao's medical practice to receive villagers who came to see a doctor, and the main hall and backyard are still the Taoist temple's Taoist places, Sun Simiao led two little boys to live in the backyard, and Mei Zhenyi also sent a few servants to serve.

Mei Zhenyi's life was very luxurious, but he didn't realize it too much. Qiyunguan is far away from Wucheng next to the cliff in the middle of the mountain, the objects and fresh fruits and vegetables he usually uses are specially loaded from Wuzhou to the bottom of the mountain, and then picked up by the servants, there is also a special fishing boat in Qingyi Lake, and fresh aquatic products are brought every day for the Meifu family in the temple to enjoy. These are all Zhang Guo is in charge, Mei Zhenyi didn't care, anyway, since he woke up and became a little marquis, life is like this, and he didn't think of asking more.

The first thing that Young Master Mei remembered was that he should ask a teacher to read and write, although Sun Simiao was the best teacher, but he couldn't ask his old man to teach him to write and break sentences one by one, right? Mei Zhenyi came through to be literate, but he couldn't be too bizarre, so he pretended to learn it, and many traditional Chinese characters in the Tang Dynasty seemed to him to be very obscure, and he often couldn't read and write before, since he came to the Tang Dynasty, the basic skills should be solid.

So he discussed with Zhang Guo and invited an enlightenment teacher who taught him to read and write, and there was only one condition - it was a woman.

At that time, there were not many literate people, and there were more than 50 people in Jingwu Villa, including Zhang Guo, who only had three literate people, one of whom was Mr. Keeper, and the others could be imagined. Where can I find a woman who can still be an enlightened teacher for the little marquis? This made Zhang Guo, a centuries-old goblin, frown. As a result, Mei Zhenyi said with a smile: "Elder Zhang doesn't have to worry, I just discussed with you what to do, I have already invited someone." ”

Zhang Guo was surprised: "Who's it, I know what the little young master usually does, when will I invite a female gentleman?"

Mei Zhenyi smiled proudly: "It's the Xingyun Shitai in the Cuiting Nunnery of Jingting Mountain, the last time I went to the Nunnery to make incense and used a vegetarian meal, I agreed with the Shitai during the meal, and she was willing to go to the Mei Mansion to teach." ”

Zhang Guo: "It turned out to be her, the young master's idea is really amazing, but it is not very convenient for the monks, does the young master plan to go to Jingting Mountain often?"

Mei Zhenyi: "That's not necessary, every few days I will send a boat to take the master to Qiyunguan, and then send her back to Jingting Mountain after teaching her homework, the place I said at the beginning of the class is Jingwu Villa, the teacher is full of promises, and now there is a special boat to pick up and drop off in Qiyunguan, presumably there is no problem, you just go and arrange it." ”

Zhang Guo raised his thumb: "Young master, it's still up to you, you're really good!" That day, we did our best in the mountains to kill the demon Dao, and you had a meal to get the master done!"

Why did Mei Zhenyi have to invite a female gentleman? In fact, he learned to read and write by himself just to pretend, and his real intention was to teach Gu'er and Sui'er, two little girls, to read and write. In his consciousness, these two girls will be his own people in the future, and he is reluctant to give them away, so it is better to be knowledgeable. Invite the nun to the Taoist temple to teach the maid to read and write, that is, a modern traverser like Mei Zhenyi can do it, and because he, the little marquis, is willing to spend a lot of money, and at the same time, he also has a clever mouth of the old rivers and lakes, and he is tempted to say that the master is too much.

Why do you have to invite a nun? Teaching Gu'er and Sui'er's pair of little loli to read, it is really inconvenient for ordinary gentlemen, and it will be troublesome to accidentally invite a rogue teacher. Master Xingyun is too talented and beautiful, and Mei Zhenyi's current age naturally doesn't cause any teacher-student scandals, but sitting in the study is also pleasing to the eye.

In the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the official schools for the children of the nobles to go to school, there were still very few private schools, and most of them were still apprenticed to private schools at home, which was not something that ordinary families could afford. The ancients often had a special respect for the word "book" when they talked about it, and modern people did not understand it.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was no movable type, but there was already engraving printing technology, and printing a book had to be carved into all the book plates, and the cost at that time was huge and modern people could not imagine. Only the important scriptures that have been handed down to the world can be conditioned to open the engraving, if the printing is not official, the private engraving needs to raise a lot of money, such as the engraving of Buddhist scriptures, which requires countless believers to raise donations. What if you needed a book that you couldn't buy on the market, and you couldn't print it? The most popular way to do that was to copy it down.

For another example, the physician passed on a copy of the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon" to his disciples, many times it was dictated, explained word by word, and the disciples should be engraved in their hearts like a tablet, and neither the master nor the apprentice held the book in their hands. If the master has a book in his hand, the disciple will copy it down after learning it with the master's permission, along with the original text and commentary. If the master happens to have no books by his side, then the disciples who have a heart will also write down what they have learned completely and become a book to be handed down from generation to generation. If the master gives the book in his hand to the disciple, it is an important gift, and in most cases it means passing on the mantle.

So how did the large families have a large collection of books? One is that they have been saved through the generations, and the other is that they have been copied by others. In fact, this tradition has been there until the beginning of the Republic of China, such as Lu Xun's Kong Yiji, who can write a good hand, and someone once invited him to his home to copy books, but Kong Yiji often played with books and disappeared with others, and it was naturally a stinky beating when he was caught. Asking someone to copy books is only possible for large families with rich income, and it would be a pity that the children do not cherish it and only use it for window dressing.

Many times when we look at ancient stories, we feel incredible, whether it is a literati talking or a monk debating the scriptures, they are all quoted from the scriptures and classics, and it seems that what we have learned will never be forgotten for a lifetime. This is not an exaggeration, a truly knowledgeable person, learning is not on the shelf, nor on Baidu, but in the heart. In later generations, with the popularity and progress of printing, books gradually fell off the altar, but the traditional spirit of learning has been continuing, learning what is one thing, and the attitude of learning is another.

We can make a comparison, until the Republic of China period, the group of famous scholars around the thirties was the first group of people who came from the old era to look at the world, and the ideas they accepted were no longer fundamentally different from those accepted by modern scholars, but it is difficult for the contemporary era to produce such a group of people as they did back then. There are many reasons for this, but one of the most important points is that the foundation is different, including Mr. Lu Xun, who has fiercely criticized traditional culture, the foundation of that group of people in their early years is too solid.

Perhaps from the point of view of the content of learning, modern people naturally learn much more advanced science than the ancients, but from the perspective of the spirit of learning cultivated by contemporary education, there is a very noble tradition that has been gradually discarded or even severed. ——This is the first feeling that Mei Zhenyi and Yu officially began to study in the Tang Dynasty.

Master Xingyun came to class, of course, it was different from the routine of modern schools, she only came once every three or five days, explained and taught a text, left homework, and then let Mei Zhenyi review it by herself, and check it next time, and teach the next paragraph if she learned it. When Mei Zhenyi was in class, Gu'er and Sui'er were waiting on the side, serving tea and handing water to study ink and wash pens, which was equivalent to learning together. No matter what Shi Tai taught, he would naturally learn it as soon as he could, and Master Xingyun was too shocked to be a prodigy. For Mei Zhenyi, it is also equivalent to experiencing a classical re-education.

There is nothing to do in private, and he also tests how well the two maids have learned, and if they don't learn, they will give a few more points. In this way, the teacher tested his homework, he tested the maid's homework, he had nothing to touch his little hands and make a joke, and he had a happy life.

In addition to learning literacy, Mei Zhenyi followed Sun Simiao most of the time. The West Cross Courtyard of the entire Taoist temple is not only a Dan room, but also an "outpatient department" used to receive patients who come to seek medical treatment. Mei Zhenyi discovered a very interesting thing, that is, the actual situation of Sun Simiao's medical treatment is very different from many legends in later generations.