Chapter 9 Brothers on Women
Wang Pan got up early today, and he went to Wang Anshi's study with Yuan Ze. On Wang Anshi's desk, there is an appointment edict of the magistrate. He was looking at a message sent by Han Jiang, saying that he had said a good word in front of Lord Bao. Lord Bao chose a day to invite Wang Anshi to take his son to the house. Wang Anshi fell to the ground with a stone in his heart and thanked Lord Han. Wang Anshi put down his pen and looked up and saw his two sons coming in hand in hand.
The eldest son, Wang Yu, Wang Yuanze, has clear eyebrows and facial features more like the beautiful wife Wu. She is free, smart and full of poems and books. People say that he looks at the age of three and looks old at the age of seven. There is an allusion to the child's cleverness. At the age of seven, when he was seven, a guest at home brought a deer, so he asked Yuan Ze, which one is a deer and which is deer. The child had never seen this thing before. After thinking about it, he replied, "Next to the deer is the deer, and next to the deer is the deer." Such a wonderful answer attracted everyone's admiration, and Wang Anshi himself was very proud to have this son.
The second son, Wang Ruo, who has not recovered this time, is like another person. His angular facial features are clear and handsome. Recently, I am also very gratified to hear that this son is not inferior to his eldest son who has been teaching since he was a child. Both of them are as tall as adults, but after all, the child's face is slightly tender and the figure is slightly thin.
He motioned his second son to sit down, full of his father's love and asked, "I'm calling you two here today to hear what you have in your future plans for yourself in the future?"
Yuan Ze and Wang looked at each other. Yuan Ze thought that he was his brother, so he said first: "I have benefited a lot from coming to the capital this time, and I have seen the big exam. Moreover, the child also heard that Lord Ouyang tried to be talented, not a gorgeous and impetuous style of writing, and changed the previous style of talent. I also see that Jinshi's literary talent is extraordinary, and he is ashamed of himself. The child wants to continue to be deep, and when he is confident, he will definitely be on the gold list.
Wang Anshi nodded with satisfaction, which was exactly what he expected. He turned his eyes to the king again and saw that the king lowered his head as if he was meditating something.
Wang is thinking that he will die if he is allowed to enter the examination room. Not to mention these classical Chinese now, even when he returns to his predecessor, he dropped out of school in his teens. It's also a coincidence to think about it. It turned out that when I was a teenager, I lost my family and gave up my studies. Now when I was a teenager, my parents and brothers had to write four books and five classics every day. This deficit is too big.
Yuan Ze touched him with his elbow. Wang Zong hurriedly looked up and saw Wang Anshi looking at himself kindly with a warmth in his heart. The long-lost look of his family in the past life for a month: "I'm cured. I haven't read a book. It's better to learn to take care of the daily chores in the house. In this way, my father can work at ease, and my brother can concentrate on his studies.
Wang Anshi didn't expect that Wang was young, and he nodded in a down-to-earth way: "I still learn homework. I'll take you two to see Lord Bao later. If there is nothing that can be appreciated by Lord Bao, it's good to follow Lord Bao and learn to handle cases."
Wang was excited when he heard it. Isn't Lord Bao Zheng? It is said that the black man with a crescent tooth scar on the forehead. This time he could see the living, he couldn't help laughing.
Wang Anshi and Yuan Ze looked at him at the same time, saying in his heart, "Isn't this Wang side stupid again?"
What bothers Wang is that in order to see Lord Bao, he needs to make up for himself. His brother Yuanze has become his tutor. The two of them have to read during the day and read at night.
Speaking of candle reading at night and moving from Wang's side to the same yard with Yuanze, Wang Anshi sent someone to send candles and candlesticks. Originally, these lighting objects are also available at home, but they will cost much more than oil lamps, so they are not as brightly lit as Pu Mansion. They only take them out when they and their children study at night. Other family members don't need to read books, or rest early. It's just oil lamps.
There is another advantage of Wang's moving to the courtyard where Yuanze lives. There is a study in the courtyard. There is a pile of bookshelves against the wall, and two low tables are placed opposite the floor mat futons. The gentleman also has a seat in the middle, but the gentleman doesn't come every day, just like today, the gentleman doesn't come.
During the day, the two brothers read face to face. The study was spacious and bright. There was a lotus pond in the main courtyard outside the window. On that day, the king eavesdropped under the window along the stone path beside the pool and fell into the water. Although he couldn't stand reading, he also resistd drowsiness and boredom. He really didn't understand how the second son would be interested in listening and reading before he woke up.
The king walked in his mind thinking about the allusions of Bao Zheng's case. I couldn't help humming in my heart: Bao Longtu sat in Kaifeng Mansion and listened carefully. I remember that on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, I talked to you in the morning room. When it comes to the matter of trouble, you look uncertain. I expect that you will have an ex-wife in the original county. Now that his mother and son have come to look for you, why don't they recognize each other and bully her? I advise you to admit that Xianglian is right, and you will regret it when the disaster comes.
He hummed and sang. He was shaking his head happily. Hearing the laughter, he saw Yuan Ze clapping and said, "Ruo Wuyin is so interesting, but I can't hear what it means. Is it your phantom again?
Wang pang occasionally talked to Yuan Ze about some modern things, which were phantoms of Yuan Ze's disease.
The two put down the books in their hands, and Wang Bian remembered that Peking Opera was only one or two hundred years old, and Bianjing, where they were located, should now be Kaifeng, Henan Province. Peking Opera is a Beijing opera. Even if Peking Opera has a history of 1,000 years, the 16 prefectures of Yanyun belong to the boundary of Liao.
Wang Zanxin said that he didn't understand and said with a smile, "It's my fantasy of illness. Then Chen Shimei won't be the wife of the son-in-law at night when she became the champion. She was slamed by Lord Bao with a gull."
Yuan Ze laughed and said, "Sure enough, from ancient times to now, only Zheng Hao, the champion of Tang Huichang for three years, has been a son-in-law, and there is no one else. After Song Taizu, he mainly took the literary examination, and the champion was awarded the title of literary minister. Brother Xian, don't you know that Wenchen is not allowed to be killed in the current dynasty?
Wang was shocked. Fortunately, Yuan Ze reminded him that it would not be worse if he said something wrong, and he thanked his brother. Unexpectedly, Yuan Ze became serious after listening to it. "If this dream is not good, the most difficult person in the world is a woman. There is an allusion in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty ยท He Jin Biography. Does my brother want to listen to it?"
Wang saw that he actually talked about women at a young age. It was funny and simply nodded. Seeing Yuan Ze shaking his head and talking. "At the end of the Shang Dynasty, Jiang Taigong lived in seclusion by the Weishui River. His wife, Mr. Ma, disliked his poverty and left regardless of the retention of the eunch. Later, the eunch official helped King Wu, the king of literature, establish the Western Zhou Dynasty. Later, it was sealed in Qi, which was the ancestor of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period. Seeing that he was rich and powerful, Ma regretted leaving him at the beginning. He found Jiang Taigong and asked him to restore the relationship between husband and wife. Jiang Taigong had seen through Ma's person and didn't want to restore the relationship with her husband and wife, so he poured a pot of water on the ground and asked Ma to put the water away. Ma quickly lay on the ground to get water, but he could only receive some mud. So Grandpa Jiang said to her coldly, "You have left me, so you can't be together anymore. This is like the water poured on the ground, and it is difficult to get it back! Is it easy to do the so-called 'country thing'? If the water is not collected, it is appropriate to think deeply'
Huo! This horse splashed water in front of the horse, and it was hard to collect. It was also a play. Unexpectedly, Yuan Ze also knew it. It seemed that the story was old enough.
Wang clapped, "Well said!" Yuan Ze smiled. The two chatted happily. Wang Bian had already knew that Wang Anshi had been on duty in the government office for the past two days and was not in the house. He asked Yuanze to go out to play. After all, Yuanze was also a child of the fourteenth Five-Year Plan. He was about to get up and go to the street. The family said that the master had just returned to the house and asked the two princes to change their clothes and go to Kaifeng Mansion with the master.
Did you go to Kaifeng Mansion so soon? Wang suddenly felt as if he had not prepared anything. The two brothers next to the king followed the small sedan chair where Wang Anshi was sitting in the capital. Yuanze looked at this strange city. It was also the first time for him to follow his father to the capital. Although I have been here for a while, I rarely walk out of the compound on weekdays, especially on the street with my brother for the first time.
Next to the king, he appreciated the city from a different angle. After a thousand years, he came to the city more than once. The Royal Street started from the Xuande Gate of the palace and passed the Rosefinch Gate of Licheng to the south until the Xun Gate of the outer city, which lasted for more than ten miles. They walked along the streets and alleys. There were ditches dug on both sides of the imperial street. The ditches were full of lotus flowers. Peach trees, plum trees, pear trees and apricot trees were planted on both sides. On both sides of the ditches were royal corridors on both sides, which were areas for civilian activities, and various shops were opened on the street.
The four rivers of Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty pass through the capital. Among them, the Bian River connects Bianjing with the rich south of the Yangtze River, which undoubtedly adds prosperity to Bianjing. Businessmen, students, missionary monks and other people passing by this place are in and out of the capital, and all kinds of mansions are not inferior to the current express hotels.
There are five elements and eight works, such as plain words, miscellaneous dramas, dances, acrobatics, movie dramas, jokes, etc., as well as acting books, but also pharmacies, fortune-telling, gambling, shaving, and other five elements and eight works. There are also all kinds of restaurants such as "Sichuan Restaurant", "Southern Food Restaurant", "Wang Restaurant", "Wonton Restaurant", "Zhufan Tea" and so on.
The two brothers were overwhelmed and were in the interest. Suddenly, they saw a group of people around them in front of them. Wang listened to it as if it was because of the coin. The quarreling man was blushing with copper money, iron money, or even lead and tin money in his hand.
What are they arguing about? The king couldn't help but be curious.
Yuan Ze seems to have seen it strangely: "Oh, isn't it because of how to exchange this coin? Each family has its own algorithm. If the algorithm is unfair, it will quarrel!"
A few more steps away from the corner, a shop was covered with a curtain in front of the door, with two types of "xiangtang" hanging on it. The king looked around and asked Yuanze, "Do people in Bianjing have to use a curtain to cover the soup?"
Yuan Ze laughed. No wonder this demented brother had never seen it. He quickly explained, "If there is no joke, this fragrant soup is the place to take a bath." Wang also wanted to laugh when he heard it. He couldn't smell the bath water even if it was soup. It was interesting for the ancients to buy and sell.