The long Lantern Festival holiday from the tenth to the twentieth of the first lunar month, plus the Zhengdan holiday from the first to the fifth day of the first lunar month, is the only rest time for Ming officials in a year. Just after returning from a rare vacation, Emperor Hongzhi threw them an inappropriate edict, which immediately smashed the ministers from a semi-casual state back to a tense fighting state.
The battle of monarch and minister, the battle of etiquette and law, the battle of ritual system.
When the Empress Dowager Qian was in the middle of the palace for fifty years, the first emperor gave the empress dowager's grand-nephew the title of uncle. Now the empress has only asked her father for the title of uncle after three years of being in the throne. Granting a certificate, this is also too much reward!
Although Empress Zhang is favored, her father can't compare with Empress Dowager's nephew and grandson, but he has to be like the Empress Dowager's brother Ruianhou, wait until the Empress has been on the throne for 20 years before sealing it up
Zhang Guozhang drew the attention of all the people away with this seal, and Cui Xie, who was given a house on the same day, was ignored.
But in this debate, there was no figure of Liu Shoufu, the pioneer of the new dynasty's admonition. He seemed to have retracted into the cotton pile again, Ren Er played the chapters and chapters, and I stood still. After Wang Shu, the Minister of Officials, saw the first assistant sitting in the cabinet, as if he did not see the special treatment of the Zhang family, he couldn't help but think of the title of "Paper-Papered Sange Lao" and cursed behind his back. "It's still that Liu Mian"!
When Liu Ge heard this, he just smiled slightly and said lightly, "Superficial theory."
This group of officials who only know how to chime in, see Zhang Guozhang being sealed, but don't think about why Zhang Guozhang was sealed. Although it was not stated in the imperial decree, he had already learned from the great eunuch Qin Chang that the imperial eunuch recommended Cui Xie to enter the palace to teach the saints health care, which made Jinshang stronger and stronger. encounter.
Then Cui Xie is not an ordinary person, and the health-preserving theory he wrote is really a good recipe that can teach people to be more cheerful and strengthen their physical strength.
It's a pity that Cui Shi said that he didn't quite understand the caring heart of his assistant, and he didn't give him a copy of the health theory he wrote. He could only ask his family to buy it in the store, but what he bought was a black and white embroidered version, which was not as good-looking as Liu Jian and Qiu Jun's color version.
Liu Ge has been working silently for Cui Xie for so long, and now he has not even gotten a color-printed health theory, which is a little unwilling to think about it.
After returning home in the evening, Liu Ge ordered the steward next to him who served him to eat: "Take a message and go to the Hanlin Cui Mansion to congratulate this official, and then invite Master Cui to come to the mansion to see me, saying that I want to Talk to him about health preservation. Remember to be polite when you go, and don't put on the air of a man from the capital to this official!"
The steward Weiwei nodded and said with a smile: "Master is so supportive of the younger generation, how can the younger ones be ignorant and embarrassing the master in front of Cui Hanlin?"
Although they are Shoufu's family, they don't have the confidence to climb up to the favored concubine's family like the Wanshoufu family in the past. Besides, now Shoufu adults want to be famous ministers and critical ministers, and their servants dare not hold back.
The Liu family steward went to Cui Hanlin's house with a gift box the next night, and politely invited Cui Xie to visit Liu's house.
Most of the masters of the Cui family moved back to the countryside, leaving few servants behind. Shoufu's family was led by the door to the east courtyard where Cui Xie was. A cook came to pour tea, and apologetically told him that there was no one at home, and asked him to sit in the guest room for a while, and wait for the master to come over in person. people entertain him.
There is only a janitor, a cook, and an old man who sweeps the yard. The owner has never been married, and there is no maid or concubine. He should be alone in the main room.
But for some reason, the Liu family steward always felt that there was someone in the yard whispering, and there was more than one person moving, as if there was no one else besides the Cui Hanlin... Just beside the young lecturer similar.
The sound of footsteps gradually became clearer, and Steward Liu couldn't hold the hot tea in his hand, and threw it back on the table with a clack. At the same time, a "squeak" sounded from the door, and a figure broke into the swaying candlelight room.
The room seemed to be lit up in an instant, and a young official who was as bright as the sun walked in, and the panic in his heart seemed to be driven away by the radiant figure.
The footsteps stopped, as did the illusion that someone was still hiding in the mansion. Liu Guanshi was relieved, and stood up from his chair: "The youngest is the family of Shoufu Master Liu, and he was ordered by Shoufu to come and congratulate him on the grace of His Majesty." He took out Liu Shoufu from his sleeve. 's post, and respectfully handed it over with both hands: "My lord Shoufu would like to ask the waiter to talk about the house and give him a lecture on "The Theory of Health Care"."
Although Cui Xie is quite familiar with Xu Pu, Liu Jian, and Qiu Jun, he has never had anything to do with the famous Sange Lao. When I saw Liu Ge's old school calling him today, I just thought that the other party wanted to take advantage of his relationship to climb up to the country's husband. He smiled lightly and said, "Master Shoufu invites him, how dare Cui Xie refuse?"
It's just that after meeting the old man, he really only talks about health preservation, and he doesn't say a single word.
Seeing that he was not very enthusiastic, Steward Liu felt a little displeased at first, but when he left the yard, he seemed to hear something walking behind him again. The cold wind blew through the miscellaneous trees in the courtyard, and the whimpering and sobbing sounded like a mix of people's voices, which made him tremble, and suddenly felt that Cui Xie lived in this kind of deserted courtyard, and it might be normal for people to be cold.
After he left the yard, the existence that frightened him for a long while pushed open the door of the main room, looked at Cui Xie who had walked into the yard, and asked with a smile, "Liu Shoufu came to show his favor to you, I'm afraid he wanted to Lend your way to please Shouningbo Zhang's family."
Cui Xie also laughed, with a warm expression, showing no indifference towards the Liu family steward: "Whatever he is, I'm worrying about how to write a speech and give the house, and if there is anything, I have to get the house. Tsk. , if you only need to write a Xie Ci Zhai Shu, it would be fine, but for such a big house, it will be criticized for not giving up once or twice. Later, Brother Xie will have to help me to see, write this Ci Zhai Shu , I'm always afraid of writing too affectionately, and His Majesty taught me to impress me, so I won't give this house."
Xie Ying thought of the garden adjacent to her own house, separated by a short wall that could be easily climbed over, and her heart warmed slightly, leaning against the door and saying, "The house that Your Majesty bestows on you is to look at the face of Zhang's family. I won’t take it back, what are you afraid of. We have to plan carefully, how can we make a good garden that is enviable when the wall is opened in the future.”
Cui Xie's eyes lit up, his mind turned to this, and then he complained a little bit about the third child-why didn't he say that he saved some useful things like Suzhou gardens on the hard drive? There are always too few sets for Hong Kong dramas, and there are European and American dramas in the courtyard. He can't push the ground into a lawn, and dig a large swimming pool in the middle to hold a party...
Forget it, he still went to write "Ci Ci Zhai Shu" and asked Xie Ying, an expert who is used to living in a big garden, to design it.
After writing two books, saying one word and one thank you, the new house next to the Xie family changed the surname to Cui. This is a mansion bestowed by the royal family. If you don’t move in, you are disrespectful to the emperor. Cui Xie naturally ordered someone to go in to clean and repair it. moved in.
While arranging for someone to clean up the house, he finally found time to hand in the post in person and visit Liu Shoufu. Liu Ji didn't despise him because of his low status and his father who had resigned for crimes. He didn't tell him to wait any longer, so he called him to meet in the main hall.
Unexpectedly, after seeing him, the first assistant did not mention his family, but took out a black and white mulberry paper print "Yue Gu's Health Management" sold by Ju An Zhai, and told him seriously. We discussed health care.
Mr. Liu, the old man, wants to borrow another five hundred years from the sky. Not only does he want to eat healthy, run and exercise, but he also wants to learn the Daoyin immortal method that "people with a foundation in martial arts" cannot practice.
Cui Xie thought to himself that Master Liu spread his legs and shook his hands in the air, imitating the gesture of cheerleading... Too, too unsightly! After thinking about it for a while, he will regret incorporating cheerleading into his gymnastics!
He couldn't help but tilt his head, not daring to look directly at Liu Ji. However, Mr. Liu Ge was very enthusiastic about him, and he took the initiative to call him "Yue Gu", showing his respect for his status as a martial arts senior - as Mr. Liu Ge, just call him by his first name. A nickname used by friends!
The eyes of the people looking at Cui Xie have changed, and he, a modern man who has just received ten years of education in the Ming Dynasty, also feels a little flattered.
But he still didn't dare to teach Mrs. Liu Ge vigorous exercise. He was really afraid that if the sixty-five-year-old man couldn't stretch well and hurt his waist and hamstrings, he would do something wrong.
When Liu Ge saw that he insisted on not teaching, he could only sigh: "This old man knows that he is old and decaying, and he has no blessings of self-cultivation and prolonging his life, so Yue Gu doesn't want to teach me. Oh, the old man is not that kind of bullying. , I was fortunate enough to see the Daoyin Immortal Technique, but I couldn't practice it, and I couldn't even see a real person try it out. I can't help but regret it..."
Choi Xie could only be silent.
It's fine if it's a disciple, but now it's the first assistant who wants to see him dance, which adds a lot of political color to it. If Liu Ji asked him to dance, he would do it right away, and tomorrow they would have to let the officials impeach them together: Liu Shoufu used his power to overwhelm others, and ordered his attendant Wenchen to dance for fun; Auxiliary, hoping to cling to each other.
Liu Shoufu is used to playing, and the more he plays, the more confident he is. And now that the Hongzhi Dynasty is over, Liu Mianhua is about to become a yellow flower of tomorrow. In the future, it will be his teacher Li Dongyang, Liu Jian, and Xie Qian. How could he fall for a first assistant who is about to die!
Cui Xie looked at Liu Ge's old face and hopeful eyes, his conscience was aching, but he still rejected him: "Xiaguan also chose pictures from many miscellaneous books on teaching health and put them together to make this shit... This guide Some of the exercises cited are from the Outer Territories, and I can't either. If you really want to see it, you might as well find someone who is really skilled in martial arts and try it out according to the picture."
He left the old Shoufu who was full of disappointment and went home, but those turbid eyes with strong hope in the loss were deeply imprinted in his mind. So much so that when he got home, it was still difficult for him to completely forget this meeting. When he went to change his clothes in the bedroom, he saw the Western-view box covered with crystal lenses by the window, and he suddenly had the idea of asking Mr. Liu Ge to take a look.
If the pictures in this box are pulled violently and turn extremely fast, they can occasionally be seen as animations. He also drew those exploded diagrams, and put them in the box to see, if he showed them to Liu Shoufu...
wrong!
His box entered the old mansion, can he still ask for it back? If he doesn't come back, with the water essence lenses inlaid on this box, which are worth hundreds of taels in Beijing, as long as they are brought into the old mansion, it is a bribe, and his reputation will be ruined.
You can't take up your own career just to sympathize with the elderly!
If it were a simple, cheap wood box without crystals and patterns...
In fact, you don't necessarily need crystal lenses. Anyway, what they want to see is the action, and they don't pay attention to the effect of magnification and three-dimensional, and they don't want any sense of mystery. Enlarge the window for viewing the picture, so that it is exactly the same size as the picture, and then the picture inside will fly like a revolving lantern. At a certain speed and angle, it should be able to achieve the effect of moving... right
He has ready-made pictures, ready-made ideas, and he has been a skilled carpenter who pulls a large number of boxes once, so he asks people to try to make a few more boxes, doesn't it cost a lot of time and money
It can be considered a good deed to satisfy the last wish of a retired old chief assistant.
The author has something to say: "The heart is brighter and the physical strength is stronger" is actually He Yan's evaluation of the effect of taking five stone powder