The scroll in Xie Ying's hand was wider than the usual scroll, and it wasn't neatly bundled into a scroll, but scrolled from both sides to the center, rather like a scroll that was rolled up at will. He spread the painting on the table, turned the scroll with both hands, and slowly revealed the splendid hall in the center of the painting.
The four-character plaque of "Lingxiao Treasure Hall" is hung under the eaves on the top of the hall. The hall is covered with purple gauze like clouds and smoke, and the incense burner and beasts are displayed on both sides. The Jade Emperor in golden crown and brocade suit sits in front of the uppermost painting screen, behind him is a fairy with a high-haired fan holding a fan. The further you look down, the wider the space between the jade pillars on both sides of the hall, as if you were standing outside the hall in person, looking at the throne through the huge tall and spacious hall.
On the main hall between Yu'an and him, the painter, there are two groups of gods and Buddhas who came to celebrate their birthdays. Carrying a basket full of peaches.
Although the immortals and Buddhas were walking towards the temple, the Tathagata and the Queen Mother both turned their heads and seemed to be talking to the people behind them with a smile. But those two pairs of eyes were not looking behind, but outside the screen - Eunuch Gao looked at the painting from the front, and there was an illusion that two immortals and Buddhas were looking at him with a smile, greeting him to enter the temple together.
Eunuch Gao stared at the picture intently, and said, "This painting is still painted by that genius last time, right? This hall is well-painted, as if inviting people to ascend to the sky and enjoy the feast of immortals!"
Xie Ying smiled but did not say a word, stood behind the table and unfolded the scroll with both hands, spreading out the whole painting, revealing the immortals lining up on the clouds on both sides of the palace:
An Antarctic immortal with a tall skull and a longevity peach in his hand rode down on a deer, Fu and Lu looked back, holding Ruyi and Yugui with a smile; there were dragon kings of the four seas driving Jiaolong through the sea of clouds, each holding coral treasures. , the dragon queen, the dragon girl, Yan Xiaoyan, and Yan Yan accompanied him; there are also the eight immortals in Shangdong, blowing the flute and shaking the fan. air…
The immortals are surrounded by clouds and mist, and the immortals in the painting are divided into several parts, showing the immortal posture of immortals.
And these immortals who came to offer their birthdays also looked back, their eyes wandered, as if they were looking at people outside enjoying paintings. The treasures in the hands of the immortals are slightly out of the painting, and they don't know whether they are dedicated to the Jade Emperor in the hall or to the emperor who is about to open the painting.
Eunuch Gao held his breath and watched for a long time before he sighed deeply and patted the table: "Okay! Good intentions! So chic! This is the god's birthday! Xie Zhenfu, where did you find this painter, how can you be so good? It hurts!"
It really hurts. These days he watched Cui Xie running around, staying up late to paint, and writing arguments for the teacher and sending it to the General Secretary, and he felt distressed to death.
Xie Ying smiled slightly, and said to Eunuch Gao: "The painter must be lovely, but this painting is not lovely enough. After all, it lacks some literary and interesting, and it is really a masterpiece that is good for the emperor's birthday."
Eunuch Gao leaned over and read the picture carefully from beginning to end, looking at the large blank space beside the inscription and the Zhu Yin on the left side of the screen, he smiled and said, "Well," such a wonderful picture should also have a good inscription and postscript. Ordinary people But it is not worthy to inscribe this painting, I have to go to the first talented master, and write a wonderful poem and inscribe it on this painting dedicated to the birthday of the Son of Heaven.”
Xie Ying bowed his hands and thanked: "It's still arranged by the Gao Gong Guild. In this way, Li, Liu, and Yang Sangong rely on their husbands to rescue them. Husbands are willing to save Sangong regardless of profit or harm, and in the future, in the minds of scholars all over the world, under the thousands of years of history, he will definitely be Just like Zhang Gongdeqing who saved thousands of people with Li Tangshi's words!"
Eunuch Gao told him to be a few pounds lighter than his bones, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Sir Xie. If you want to be a loyal person, will our family be willing to be a villain? Then Li Xueshi's disciple Xiao Cui Juren also joins us. There is some fate in the family, I know that he will definitely beg at your door, although he didn't come to beg me, I still feel sorry for him, and if I can help, I will always help him."
Xie Ying said: "Why doesn't he want to ask her husband? It's just that he is young and shy, so he doesn't dare to go to the house easily. The lower official dare not hide from his husband. This painting was made specially when he heard that I was going to ask my husband for help. It's for my husband."
Eunuch Gao was really surprised and looked up at Xie Ying: "He can still paint? I know he has a study under the hands of servants, so he can paint himself?"
Xie Ying nodded: "Father-in-law doesn't remember that picture of "Antian Conference"? Xiaguan asked him to draw it. Fortunately, Cui Xie is a person who repays kindness, otherwise Xiaguan would find a scholar who would be willing to do it. We Jin Yiwei decided to study painting? It’s just that he is a young man, and he is somewhat involved with Cui Meiren. I am afraid that people will know that he has learned that kind of painting, talk behind his back, and never admit it.”
Eunuch Gao recalled the past and laughed, "No. A Cui Meiren, a Cui Scholar, even an incomplete person like me can't help but think elsewhere. It's strange that he hides it tightly and refuses to speak. That's all, he It's hard enough at this time, but I don't dare to add such a glamorous name, and our family will hide it for him."
He looked at the picture scroll in his hand, and the more he looked, the more he felt that the immortal was painted vividly, and that Asgard was more realistic than others. Sure enough, what a scholar draws has aura, and is better than that of a painter... Tsk tsk, maybe the one who helped Su'er play with the stage set was actually himself, not the shopkeeper used by his old servants, right
Eunuch Gao realized that Cui Xie was more and more attentive, rubbed the smooth fragrant wood shaft, and nodded to Xie Ying: "You can go back and wait for my news. He also told Xiao Cui to stop asking for trustees, this is not his child. things you can manage."
Xie Ying was calm in her heart, smiled gratefully, and bowed deeply to Eunuch Gao: "It's all thanks to my husband."
Eunuch Gao rolled up the scroll in the same way, and asked someone to take the gift he brought. In the palace, it was given to Eunuch Tan.
Although he is the eunuch of Sili Bingbi, the second person in the Sili eunuch, but Qin Chang is the current eunuch in charge of printing. He wants to check the staff of Sili Jian, or push people out to frame Liang and Wei, but he can't get around this boss.
He used Xie Ying's words to persuade him of "admiration of literati" and "fame forever" to persuade Eunuch Tan, asking him to help him check in the Sili prison. Qin Chang pondered: "How do you know this was done by us? If it's the outsiders..."
It won't be Wan Guifei's house anyway. The two of them knew very well that if Wan Niangniang wanted to dismiss the minister, she would just ask the emperor for a while.
"Even if the elders did it, they wouldn't be at odds with Eunuch Tan because of Liang Fang and Wei Xing, the two fallen villains." Eunuch Gao resolutely persuaded him: "Liang and Wei, they emptied the inner treasury earlier. Being fat is already the crime of hanging one's head. It's just that the emperor is kind and generous, and he doesn't want to care about them. Duke Tan is a righteous person, how can he allow this generation to continue to cause chaos in the palace?"
If these two people are not blamed, the civil servants will impeach them day and night, and the nobles of thousands of families will cry in the palace.
Eunuch Gao analyzed the points and finally persuaded Qin Chang to order his confidants to secretly investigate those who were in cahoots with Yumajian.
There are records on duty in the prison, and the two of them began to investigate the inmates who were on duty that day to investigate those who might have changed the memorial without authorization.
In fact, as a foreign minister, Li Dongyang is more likely to have a grudge with the center, and he asked someone to revise the report when he sent it to the cabinet. Their eunuchs are used to calling ministers to impeach, and the emperor has always protected them, so there should be no need to do such things. However, after investigating layer by layer, they actually found Li Gong, an eunuch who had been in constant contact with the Imperial Horse Supervisor, in the Slijian.
Eunuch Li usually looks inconspicuous, but he was transferred to Sili Jian because he could write a good character, and he also has the ability to change the character.
Li Dongyang and others' memorials were submitted to the inside. At first, because the emperor did not read them, those who were not impeached did not pay attention to them, so they were piled up there, and they were not intended to be published. However, Eunuch Li was close to Liang and Wei, so he told them about the matter. The two then ordered him to revise the memorial, each adding and modifying the words that offended the imperial name and temple name. Eunuch Zhou discovered this.
But these are all their inferences, because the revision of the memorial is only a matter of one person and one stroke, and there is no evidence. The only evidence they have is that Eunuch Li had several contacts with Wei Xing, and that he had approached Eunuch Zhou when he was not supposed to be on duty.
These are all their inferences, without actual evidence, but the palace never needs evidence to investigate a case, and only needs a word from a person in power.
—Even if not, he has to be!
Behind the two of them, he made friends with Liang Fang and Wei Xing, and even told outsiders the contents of the memorial at will. Such people cannot be kept!
Tan and Gao secretly sent their confidants to stare at Eunuch Li, and while he was on duty, they checked his residence and found some treasures that were not in the palace register and did not fit his identity. They were even more certain that Eunuch Li was the one who revised the memorial .
Sitting in the duty room, the two sighed that they had loosened the supervision of the Sili Jian, making the inner court a mess. When the matter is over, they must be reorganized. After comforting each other, they also asked people to restore Li Gong's house as it was, so that the matter could not be brought up, and wait for the right time.
As the Longevity Festival is approaching, congratulations from all over the world are sent to the palace like flowing water. Liang Fang and Wei Xing also took the opportunity to present treasures, ancient calligraphy and paintings collected by their adopted sons from Jiangnan, hoping to win the favor again. Although the emperor was still angry with them, he still liked the things presented.
In particular, there is an authentic landscape painting of Fan Kuan in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is very much in the mind of Emperor Chenghua. The emperor enjoyed the game for a long time, and sighed to the eunuchs Tan and Gao Gao who served by his side: "Liang, Wei, etc. were able to find this painting. It can be said that they know my heart."
Eunuch Tan looked like a woodcarver, silent, but quietly gave Eunuch Gao a wink. Eunuch Gao nodded slightly and walked in front of the emperor to give a big gift, and said with a big smile: "Congratulations to the emperor! Congratulations to the emperor! This treasure can enter the palace, it is the emperor's great virtue, which is a clear proof of the emperor's great virtue and the people's admiration for the saint! "
Heavenly, I disliked that he was too exaggerated to take pictures of Ma Pi, glanced at him, and said lightly: "How do you say?"
Eunuch Gao didn't seem to see the disdain in the emperor's eyes, and said with a smile: "Fan Kuan's landscapes are worth a thousand pieces of gold, and my life as a servant belongs to the emperor, where can the money afford such an antique? Eunuch Liang can offer this treasure. It must be because the people of the Quartet are grateful for the grace of God, know that the holy birthday is coming, and want to repay the kindness in case, they choose to pick up the treasures treasured at home and ask the hands of the palace people to present them!"
The emperor thought of his empty inner library again, and the joy of seeing Fan Kuan's landscape faded a little.
Eunuch Gao added: "Actually, I am also pushing myself and others - I also have a picture of an immortal congratulating him that someone from outside asked me to present, but because I thought that it would be more appropriate to present it for him on the holy birthday, I didn't let the emperor know about it earlier. ."
The emperor put down the landscape map in his hand and asked, "Who is it, who sent it?"
Eunuch Gao replied with a smile: "It's Xie Ying, the sovereign envoy that the emperor proposed a few months ago! Xie Zhenfu is grateful for the picture, and specially asked someone to draw a birthday picture for me to present. He is a small sovereign envoy. , I can't come up with such famous paintings as Fan Kuan's landscapes, but my heart is the same as others."
After watching "Wang Yaoniang" for a long time, the emperor of Chenghua was quite familiar with Xie Ying's handsome, handsome, smart and decisive image; and because he had made a face for himself when he decided the case, he also had a good impression of him, so he was willing to admire him. His birthday picture.
The emperor only said the word "Cheng", and Eunuch Gao immediately turned out of the hall door and told his apprentice to go to his room to get the painting, hold it with both hands, and spread it out in front of the emperor.
The gods and Buddhas in the painting are like living creatures, and the immortal spirit is vague, as if to welcome the spectator to the immortal world, and also like to come down with treasures to celebrate his birthday. Although it does not have the refined artistic conception of the landscape painting, it seems to have brought a fairyland to the world, and there is another fascinating point.
The emperor watched the immortals and Buddhas in a trance, as if watching the immortals in action through the gate, and the immortals also saw him and smiled and called him to enter the heavenly palace together.
The painting is good, Xie Ying who presented this painting is also sensible. And this Gao Liang, who does not hide the true identity of the artist and does not greed for credit, is an honest and useful person.
Emperor Tian glanced at Gao Liang and nodded slightly: "Go and reward him."
Eunuch Gao saluted and came down. Eunuch Tan also came up and pretended to look at the painting, praising it for its exquisiteness and novelty, and it was truly a masterpiece in the world. After complimenting a few more words, staring intently at the left side of the picture, he suddenly sighed again: "This painting is generally good, but there is too much white space in this corner, which makes it look lighter."
In fact, the blank space there is not too much, and the picture is more light. Before Xianzong pointed out the fault, Eunuch Gao happily admitted: "There should be an inscription here to suppress it, but Xie Zhenfu is just a warrior after all. , although I could find a painter to paint, but I couldn't find a good inscription and postscript by a talented scholar and literati. When he gave this painting to me, he also asked me to find an article for everyone to inscribe, and then present it to the emperor after finishing it. It's a pity... "
It's a pity that Li Dongyang, the first person in the article, is still in prison.
Emperor Chenghua thought for a while following his words, and immediately thought of Li Dongyang.
There are many excellent articles in the Hanlin Academy, but when it comes to contemporary famous poets, he is still the first. When Emperor Chenghua thought of him, he thought of the memorials that were rushing outside. He frowned in annoyance, and said lightly: "Li Dongyang, it is rude to write the memorials by mistake."
Eunuch Gao sighed: "Li Xueshi and Liu Yang, the two censors, are both great writers, and they have been in the court for so many years. They have always been respectful and courteous, but it is strange that they have committed a holy taboo at the same time. Could it be that the ghosts and gods have sent them..."
The words of ghosts and gods were forbidden in the palace, Xianzong frowned slightly, and glanced at Eunuch Gao displeasedly. Just as he was about to beat him, a young eunuch who was accompanying him suddenly knelt down and kowtowed, and said loudly: "Master Hui Bing, this is definitely not caused by ghosts and gods, but a man-made disaster! The small found that someone in the palace had privately changed three of them. The memorial of the adults, the adults have no intention of being disrespectful!"
After the little eunuch shouted, he knelt on the ground silently and persistently. Emperor Chenghua's face turned pale, staring at the little eunuch on the ground, but he was too anxious to speak for a moment.
Eunuch Gao looked at the emperor's face, and he also looked horrified, and asked eagerly: "You don't want to make false accusations, how can there be such a bold person in the palace! If this is the case, today he dares to act arrogantly, and tomorrow he will not be able to do so. Even the imperial pen approved by the sage... dare to change it without authorization?"