Chapter 48: Dragon Boat Festival 2

On the morning of the fifth day, he accompanied Wang Shouren around the street. Wang Shouren did not plan to be idle on this day, but went to fulfill his view that "people's life is reasonable". Cao Muwen wanted to dissuade him. There is a banquet in the evening, so naturally you have to drink. Now it's better to take more rest and make some preparations. Speaking of drinking, Cao Muwen is a good player. Even when he was drinking with those bastards, he was still the best. As long as you don't meet those gods in the wine market, you can still run unimpeded. Although there was distilled wine in the Ming Dynasty, brewing wine was still very common among the people. And the southern boundary is later milder than the north, and dignitaries are also elegant people. Drinking skills are naturally not for drinking for wine fighting, so the wine at the banquet is naturally low in degree, characterized by mellow and rich brewing wine. Cao Muwen is already immune to this kind of wine, but for Wang Shouren, he is still in The servant's professional ethics suggested that it was best to take a nap during the day, fill in some rice porridge or something before going to the banquet, protect his stomach first, and it is not easy to get drunk. These are very common winery experiences.

Wang Shouren laughed and said, "You are kind, but you are too worried. Naturally, I will go to the banquet. If you don't go to the Longtan Tiger Cave, you don't have to make so much preparation for this." Wang Shouren said that today's government is also a holiday. There are many people on the street, and pedestrians are complicated, and people come and go, which is very lively. Therefore, Master Yangming is going to "mix" among the people so that he can learn the philosophy of life. Cao Muwen naturally couldn't resist this stubborn middle-aged man, so he had to go shopping with him first.

In the afternoon, after some preparation, it was time to go to the banquet. At this time, there were not many people in the government office. Most of the servants serving in the government office were also natives in Nanchang. Many people returned to their homes for the Dragon Boat Festival in the morning. In the afternoon, the government office was "rare". Wang Shouren did not disturb the sedan chairmen, and let them get home early. Wang Shouren also planned to go to the banquet alone, but even planned to let Cao Muwen go home... As soon as he said a word, Wang Shouren suddenly remembered that Cao Muwen's home was far away? There are few steps to sleep in the room. Now the government office is almost empty...

Cao Muwen looked at Wang Shouren in front of him with some bad intentions and knew that he just wanted to send himself back. Although he knew that Wang Shouren didn't want to bother to affect too many people, Cao Muwen is now idle.

"Your excellency..." Cao Muwen said, "I'd better accompany you... I just want to go back, but there is no place to go!" Wang Shouren also knew and agreed.

Nanchang City is quite large. If the two of them walk, it will take a lot of time, so they can transfer two horses from the stable and take a horse.

The two came out of the side door and rode on the horse. Wang Shouren whispered "hush" and urged the horse to move forward, and Cao Muwen followed him. After all, Wang Shouren is a feudal official and a governor of southern Jiangxi. He rode a horse to the banquet alone, and there was no follower behind him. After all, it was inappropriate. There are some things that adults have to do in person, which can also be despised. Cao Muwen held a worship post, and there was a dagger in the middle, not for anything else, just for safety, just in case, and also caused by professional habits.

When the sky in the west was near dusk, the two rode to the Xie Street, and the mansion of the governor Yu Fu was here. This person has been the governor of Jiangxi for four years. I am also from Jiangxi. My hometown is not far from Nanchang, and it is in Jiujiang in the northeast. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang also formulated the rules for officials to serve, stipulating that officials should not go to their place of origin. This is also to prevent officials from favoring their local fathers and elders. First, they deceive the court, second, they seek personal gain with power, and thirdly, for the tax revenue of the imperial court. After all, the parents and officials responsible for collecting money are their own children. Female, it's hard to collect money in this way. However, with the passage of time, this office rule has become a dead letter. The appointment and removal of officials has long been not in accordance with this regulation, and even the emperor has turned a blind eye. After all, although this regulation is to prevent favoritism and fraud, it is too inhuman. "Returning to their hometown" is also an important reason why many people work hard to study and become officials. Yu Fu is from Jiangxi and came to Nanchang as a governor. Although he is not in Jiujiang, he is in charge of Jiangxi affairs, which can also be regarded as "coming home". This person is interesting. He is a believer. His original name is Yu Zhiyuan. Since a Taoist priest from his family came to visit when he was young, he believed in Taoism and became more and more pious. Later, he felt that his name was not appropriate. The word "Zhiyuan" was persistent in the past, and he lacked the meaning of Taoist "free and free" and thought about it over again. Then he changed his name from three characters to two concise characters, which became "Yu Fu". The main hall of the house is dedicated to Sanqing, and the incense and worship are continuous every day. I also burn incense, meditate every day, and practice very heartily. The rest of the time is to deal with official affairs, and this aspect is also the essence of the Taoist indoing. Basically, they also go through the motions. Most of the subordinates themselves approve, and less personally explore and refute them. They give all their errands to their subordinates, so that they can free up most of their time to concentrate on practicing Taoism. Because of him, even his wife and concubine followed him to practice Taoism and converted to the mantel of the Taoist family. Of course, these women who have long hair and knowledge and are jealous all day are naturally unlikely to sincerely understand the mystery of Taoism, sincerely accept the "doing" and cultivate the mystery devout. The real reason is also to be jealous and please the master. A group of side rooms planned to do their best. After pleasing the master, they kicked the yellow-faced woman out. The old lady of the main room also thought about how to find a way to kick those dead fox coquettish buns out of the house without telling the master. Lord Yu Fu turned a blind eye to this bad thing in his family, and also implemented "nothing to do" about it, as long as "it's good that the group of stinky women didn't demolish the house", this is Lord Yu's real idea. On the contrary, since this Yu Fuyu Avenue chief fell in love with Huang Lao's study, how could he marry a few wives? Yu's "Taoist priest" naturally has a very good answer. Naturally, it is the "harmony of Taoist yin and yang". What is the art of double cultivation, prolonging life, picking yin and nourishing yang and other divine words. Naturally, others don't say much, but the bad things in Yu's family have become the discussion after tea and dinner. First of all, the governor was called the "Taoist master"; then the eldest lady quarreled with which aunt in the house today; finally, the "Taoist priest" who devoted to cultivation went to which lady's room last night and other topics such as "double cultivation" were moved to the table and became a talk. Of course, Yu "Taochang" is still unconscious, and the people below naturally dare not tell each other. However, whether Lord Yu doesn't know or pretends not to know, no one knows.

Yu Fu goes out to like Taoism, but there are not many things left, but every time there is a good day, guests are invited to do it. It's not impossible for officials to invite each other to have a banquet. It's good for colleagues to get together after many busy days to drink and enhance their feelings. And Yu Fu, as the chief official of Jiangxi, was also willing to accept his invitation to all his colleagues, so this habit lasted for several years and became a common practice. The Dragon Boat Festival is still quiet. The Zhongyuan Festival in the first month is not only the day that the year is about to pass, but also a major festival of Taoism. This day is a good day for Lord Yu Fuyu to treat guests to drink, and Yu Fu prepares early. From the fifth day of the first lunar month, I began to fast and bathe. I was a vegetarian for ten days. I didn't eat meat until the morning of the Zhongyuan Festival. There is also a way, which means that in the new year, you should first clean up the intestines and stomach of all kinds of diseases. In the next year, you will naturally be invulnerable, and others will be puzzled. In this year, you can eat and drink righteously, wine bags and rice bags. This is such an important festival for rice buckets. Some people However, it is also incomprehensable to spend the meal. However, Yu Fu has really practiced Taoism for so many years, and he really has some way. Since eating some vegetarian food in the first month, there have been almost no gastrointestinal diseases in a year, which adds to his respect for Taoism, and he has to be a vegetarian at some time throughout the year. With the development of time, from this year, It's time to break the valley.

Whether Yu Fupi Valley or not, vegetarian food or not, these have nothing to do with others. Anyway, he will definitely not be vegetarian today, and he will not be in the middle of the Valley, or he will not invite people to have a banquet. You can't invite a large group of people to watch everyone eat and drink, but your host is watching.

When they marched to the front of the governor's mansion, Wang Shouren and Cao Muwen saw that there were many sedan chairs walking from far to near. There were many sedan chairs on the street that were not very large for a while. The door of the mansion is now open, and there are many servants greeting guests at the door. A group of middle-aged commanders in gray-blue gowns and subordinates seem to be housekeepers. The housekeeper saw a sedan chair stop and one came out of it, so he hurried forward to greet him. It seemed that there were no small officials invited today, and the guests at the meeting were all officials of each governor's platform.

The adults who came got off the sedan chair at the gate. From then on, there will be servants in the house to guide the sedan chair man from the side door to rest in the side courtyard, where some food, wine and vegetables were also prepared. Although the sedan chair man was a servant, on this good day, a special side courtyard was opened for the servants who came with the invited adults to receive some Hospitality, adults can't eat and drink in it, and people just wait outside the gate. Seeing two more sedan chairs coming to the gate of the mansion and put down the sedan chair, the curtain of the sedan chair opened, and a person came out of which looked rich and tight. The man looked at the person in the other sedan chair and hurriedly showed a smiling face and arched his hand to say hello. The man opposite was the same. The two of them were so lively. At this time, the housekeeper came forward and introduced the two into the door of the mansion. Through the courtyard that had been newly decorated, the owner first set up tea and snacks in the main hall to respect the adults present.