Chapter 123 - Xinghua Temple Guanyin Association
Wang Yingzi looked up and said, "Leave a book for my father, what's wrong...
Zhang Yuan said: "I will go to Songjiang in two days, so I have to report it to the teacher."
Wang Yingzi said in surprise: "I will be in the house in April!" Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "My brother-in-law's thirty birthday is always going to pay tribute to me. I can go back for a month to go back and forth."
After hearing what Zhang Yuan said, Wang Yingzi frowned and said, "My father went to Xiaoshan to visit my brother-in-law. He said he was sick and very ill."
Zhang Yuan said, "Then you have to delay the treatment immediately. Should you ask Mr. Lu Yungu to go?" Wang Yingzi smiled again and said, "Lu Yungu cured your eye disease, and you think he can cure all diseases. Lu Yungu mainly treats pediatrics, no one knows." Zhang Yuan smiled and continued to write a letter under Wang Yingzi's gaze, but Wang Yingzi said, "Senior Brother Jiezi, if you delayed in Songjiang and couldn't come back before the examination, I will take my exam on your behalf?" Zhang Yuan did not stop and paused heavily on the stroke of the word "big" written, like the foot binding of the foot, which was very ugly, and said, "Oh no."
The cake needs to be rewritten." Wang Yingzi leaned closer and looked at the "Prince" smile and said, "No need to rewrite it, wait a moment." He quickly left the study room, and the footsteps were gone. After a while, the footsteps started again. Wang Yingzi appeared at the door of the study room, raised an object in his hand, and asked with a smile: "I know what this is?" Zhang Yuan saw that it looked like a piece of ink, but it was light yellow, and shook his head and said, "I don't know." Wang Yingzi walked to the desk and dripped some water on the yellow ink. He painted the word "big" written by Zhang Yuan, and a layer of light yellow covered the word "in the past," and said, "Do you know what this is now?"
Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "It's yellow, it's yellow."
Wang Yingzi smiled and said, "By the way, it's just yellow, my father didn't use it before. He wrote scriptures for the old monk in Yanqing Temple last year, so he could use it."
Zhang Yuan said: "I'd better rewrite one, otherwise Teacher Wang would have to change the words like me and scold me." He took a piece of paper and rewritten it.
Wang Yingzi said: "Senior Brother Jiezi's small calligraphy has made great progress."
Zhang Yuan replied while copying the letter: "Thank you for your compliment by junior sister."
Wang Yingzi said: "Senior Brother Jie Zi, can you win if I participate in the mansion test on your behalf?"
Zhang Yuanxin said, "Why are you still talking about this?", "You will definitely win." Then he asked, "Have you seen the scene of the scientific examination?"
Wang Yingzi said: "My elder brother took the Taoist exam a few years ago. There were tens of thousands of people. There were two counties and two counties. The eight counties of Shaoxing Prefecture had to take the exam for four days, and they had to search for the door." Speaking of this, Miss Wang Yingzi suddenly realized why Zhang Yuanshen was so weird just now, and her face turned red in an instant.
Zhang Yuan seemed not to notice that she blushed and wrote on her own, while saying, "Yes, this time the palace tests, Kuaiji counties were arranged to take the exam on the ninth day of the fourth month. There will be about 3,000 candidates in these two counties alone, and the examination room will be squeezed out." After a while, the letter was written and handed to Wang Yingzi and said, "Please transfer it to the teacher by junior sister, then I will say goodbye now and come to see the teacher when I come back from Songjiang." The redness on Wang Yingzi's face had not faded, and she replied, "I wish Senior Brother Jiezi a safe return and go."
Zhang Yuan bowed and left the study room. While walking, he thought: "There is a play called "The Female Prince Consort". Is it possible for a talented woman to be the top scorer all the way to find her husband? She has to take off her clothes and search. It's fine if she has a Tongsheng exam. It is said that during the provincial examination, even the short ku is not allowed to be kept during the examination. She has to take off all her clothes. How could a woman get through it? Well, there were female top scorers in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but they were messed up at that time, and there was no so-called equality between men and women...
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I also thought: "It is actually OK for junior sister in the infant to take the exam. She took the exam a few years ago when she had not developed. She kept the short ku, and the top was flat and she could get over it. Now, uh."
Zhang Yuan shook his head, no longer thought about it, and thought about it again, so he took Mu Jingyan and Wuling out of Teacher Wang's house and walked around the west bank of Dongdachi. He walked north for more than two miles, turned west, and soon arrived at the front of the Shang family gate. Shang Zhoude welcomed him into the main hall and smiled: "I guess you should be here at this time. I plan to send my sister-in-law and Xiaolan tomorrow. 1 Xiao Hui went to the capital to send it to Hangzhou and came back, but I thought that my sister-in-law was a girl and her two children were young. Although there was a housekeeper and a maid and a servant, I was still worried and decided.
It will be sent to the capital city. It will take three or four months to travel back and forth. What makes me happy is that I waited for the good news from the first trial of your county yesterday. It is very good. I happened to report the good news to my elder brother." Zhang Yuan said, "Then I will come to see you tomorrow." He told Shang Zhou De that he would also go to Songjiang in the near future. Shang Zhou De asked Zhang Yuan when he would leave? Zhang Yuan said, "Distance early on the 20th, because February 19th is Dan Ran's birthday." Shang Zhou De smiled and said, "Jie Zi is intent, and I have forgotten my younger sister's birthday. I have no reminder, so I didn't remember it.
Shaoxing people call birthdays outside of ten a day an idle birthday and do not pay attention to it.
Shang and Zhou De asked Zhang Yuan to sit in for a while, and he went in and said something. After a while, he said, "I have told my sister-in-law that I have already set off after Danran's birthday. My sister-in-law and the others will come back in the future. I don't know when they will be back here, so I won't fight for these days...
It was almost dusk, and Shang and Zhou De stayed for dinner. After dinner, Shang and Zhou De sent a boat to send Zhang Yuan and his servants to Bashiqiao, Shanyin. Zhang Yuan did not meet Shang and Zhou De. Maybe it was too late for Shang and Zhou De to consider it. Unmarried men and women met each other indecently. When Zhang Yuan came ashore at Bashiqiao, he saw the huge and plump full moon in the bright night sky. The moon on the fifteenth and sixteenth round, and felt that he was a bit disappointed with such a good moon. When can he join hands with Dan Ran to enjoy the moon?
On February 19th, Shang Danran's birthday, Zhang Yuan rushed to the Shang Mansion early in the morning. Seeing that the Shang family gate was busy, two carriages were waiting by the wall door. When the Shang family maids saw Zhang Yuan coming, they all said happily: "Young Master Zhang is here, Young Master Zhang is here, you can set off."
Zhang Yuan asked where to go? He replied that the Guanyin Club of Xinghuā Temple today is the best place to go to Xinghuā Temple to enjoy incense.
Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "My mother also went to Dashan Temple early this morning, and there is also a Guanyin Society in Dashan Temple.
Shang Zhoude walked over and said, "Today is Guanyin's birthday. Many temples have Guanyin Association. Xinghuā Temple is just a small temple. It is because apricot trees are planted around the temple. This February is warm, and it is the time when the apricot is blooming. Kuaiji scholars and women went to go outings and enjoy it. Naturally, they also had to go to the temple to burn incense and rejoice. Therefore, the Guanyin Association of Xinghuā Temple is very famous in February."
Shang Danran came out with two maids. Qinglian's spring dress was fresh, with picturesque eyebrows and looks radiant. She looked at Zhang Yuanfu by the carriage, glanced shyly with her bright eyes, and then got on the carriage. Sister Jinglan and Jing Hui also went to Zhang Yuanfu with her aunt Danran, and the other one.
Shang and Zhou De asked Zhang Yuan if he wanted to ride a vine sedan chair. Zhang Yuan said, "It's just a walk to see the scenery, and it's not a three-mile road." Then he followed the carriage and just turned to the west bank of Dongdachi, he saw a boy jumping on the side of the dock, but it was Qi Biaojia.
Zhang Yuan bowed and smiled, "Has Brother Hu Zi come too?"
Qi Biaojia was a little embarrassed when she saw Zhang Yuan. She was still a peer-like person. After he got engaged with Miss Shang Jinglan in two years, he would change his words to Uncle Zhang Yuan. This is really a generation shorter out of thin air.
Qi Biaojia returned the gift to Zhang Yuan, and then greeted Shang Zhou De, his cousin Qi and others, so he followed him to Xinghuā Temple. On the way, Qi Biaojia said to Zhang Yuan: "Brother Jie Zi, Mr. Qi Dong is leaving Shanyin to go to Beijing in the afternoon. Will Brother Jie Zi not go to see him off?"
Zhang Yuan said: "Mr. Qidong also wants to go to Beijing? You must go and send it to me."
Qi Biaojia said: "The Ministry of Personnel has sent a document and appointed Mr. Liu as the chief of the pedestrian and the handwritten letter from Shoufu Ye. The teacher refused and had to go to Beijing according to the imperial edict.
"And said: "Mr. Liu first wants to visit friends at Donglin Academy in Wuxi, and then go to Beijing."
Zhang Yuan said: "Okay, I'll rush over later. Is it at Dashan Temple?"
Qi Biaojia said: "Mr. Liu wants to pass by Yuewang Bridge. You just wait by the bridge in the afternoon. I'll wait with you."
As he spoke, he had arrived outside Xinghuā Temple early, and saw red and white apricots like clouds and brocade, covering a small temple with great interest. Pilgrims are like clouds and Sanskrit sounds. After the pilgrims came out of the temple, they lingered under the huā tree. Most of them were paired, including young scholars and women, rural husbands. People in Jiangnan generally believed that Guanyin Bodhisattva was dedicated to praying for his children, so many of the pilgrims who came to Guanyin to incense came to seek children. Fu, the wife of Shang and Zhou, was about to go to Beijing to meet his husband, and even bowed devoutly to seek children...
Shang Danran wore a wide-edged hat today, covering her veil. It must be because she was looked at by Meng Lang's disciples in Longshan last time, so she deliberately concealed her face. But in Zhang Yuan's opinion, such concealment was more obvious. Shang Danran's beauty was not in one face. She was beautiful everywhere. After Fu and Qi bowed to him, she greeted Zhang Yuan and Shang Danran with a smile. Zhang Yuan and Shang Danran also came to worship the Bodhisattva. Zhang Yuan and Shang Danran bowed, and Fu and Qi exchanged their eyes and laughed in their hearts.
After leaving Xinghuā Temple, lingering and watching it, the apricot here is quite famous, with a few mixed trees, which are extremely gorgeous. Zhang Yuan looked at Shang Danran under the tree, and the spring breeze liquefied the corner of her veil, and the bright appearance was even more beautiful than that of huājiāo.
After lingering for half an hour, the group went back. Shang Zhou De of course wanted to invite Zhang Yuan and Qi Biaojia to the house for a banquet. It had been prepared. Zhang Yuan asked Shang's second brother to wait a moment. He went to Wang Siren's house near Xinghuā Temple to inquire. The old man said that the master had not returned from Xiaoshan, so Zhang Yuan did not go in. He went to Shang's house with Qi Biaojia to attend the banquet. Because he was going to come to see Liu Zongzhou off, he only hurriedly used some wine and food, so he ran with Qi Biaojia to the Wang Bridge on the Fuhe River and waited for Liu Zongzhou to pass by.
After waiting for about half an hour, I saw Mr. Liu Zongzhou riding a donkey, followed by a servant and luggage Xiao Ran, and so on.
Chapter completed!