In the fourth year of the eighth year of Hongzhi, the first assistant Liu Ji and the fourth assistant Qiu Jun came to office at the same time. The emperor gave chariots, horses, servants, gold, silver, and silk, and sent two hard-working patriarchs home.
Although they both went to work at the same time, the two separated from the capital: Qiu Ge went first, and Liu Ge called his disciples to recite poems and say goodbye. Only then did the car and horses leave Beijing.
On the way back to his hometown, he looked in the direction of Qian'an and complained that Cui Xie didn't have him in his heart.
If the old lady of the Cui family had told him when he passed away, asking him to write a tomb table, epitaph, etc., wouldn't he also borrow Cui Xie's fortune? Moreover, he has always been the first assistant in power before, and he is also a person who is good at poetry and prose. Many people ask him to write these things, but Cui Xie never asks him—
Alas, who taught him to be in the cabinet, to be obsessed with the dust, and to have a lesser literary name than Li Dongyang
Liu Shoufu returned to Baoding sullenly, and followed the old path of his predecessor and in-law Wan Shoufu. Every day, he went on stage to look at the capital, hoping that the emperor would think of him again as an old minister and call him back. He is younger and in good health than Wan Ge when he left the field. He is exercising like this every day. From time to time, he writes a few poems of Sijun to send to friends and juniors in Beijing, and occasionally sends them to Yongping Mansion next door. Choi Xie's house.
It's a pity that Cui Xie already has Big Brother Li, and he has a red heart toward the future patriarch, and he has never been spared on him.
The two patriarchs went to work one after another, and Li Dongyang immediately entered the pavilion as a bachelor's student and right servant of the Ministry of Rites. The three patriarchs Xu, Liu, and Li are all honest and capable, willing to help the younger generation, and then the personal use of the old Liu pavilion can be regarded as "beautiful and impressive".
Moreover, the configuration of these three patriarchs is also closer to the "Li Gongmou, Liu Gongduan, Xie Gongyou" in Cui Xie's memory. Only one more old and new pavilion is needed to alternate, and the best chancellor team of the Hongzhi Dynasty can operate stably. .
Although Cui Xie was guarding the double filial piety in the countryside, first Liu Ge sent someone to ask him for articles and good seeds, and then he followed the news sent by Xie Ying and Li Dongyang, and he knew about the change in the DPRK immediately. .
He immediately sent a letter to Jingli, congratulating Mr. Li for becoming a patriarch, and took the opportunity to ask him to write an epitaph for his grandmother, and then help to invite a patriarch or a minister to write a tomb table; he wrote a farewell letter to patriarch Qiu, recalling old memories. He received the favor of studying in the Imperial College, and he benefited from his support in the DPRK. I hope he can spend his old age in his hometown; only Liu Ge is not familiar with him, and he is a sixth-rank junior official who guards the system at home, so he does not join in the fun to write. Farewell letter.
Li Ge Lao received his letter and sighed: "Although I have entered the cabinet, the Cui family has added a funeral. He Zhong is the great grandson, and he will not be able to return to the court for another twenty-seven months."
Cui Xie joined him shortly after he entered Beijing. The master and apprentice were all in Hanlin later, and they met each other in the morning. They have never been separated for so long...
No matter how he thought that his apprentice would not be able to go out to see people in Beijing, he invited acquaintances in the Wenlin of the Hanlin Academy to write a tomb table for the apprentice, and when he returned, he asked his son to send him to Qian'an.
When Wang Zhuangyuan heard about this, he took the job on his own initiative and said to Li Ge, "Isn't nephew Zhengbo going to take the imperial examination? Why did he have to go to Qian'an at this time? The article, by the way, take a look at Harmony.”
The eldest son Li Zhaoxian has been tempered for a year in the Cui family's small black house. It is no longer a matter of life to spend a day in the examination room. Last year, he was successfully admitted to the scholar. This year is the year of the autumn exam. He wants to take the exam. Next year, it will be Wang Shouren's turn. The two children should actually review at home with peace of mind.
Li Dongyang said: "Zhaoxian has been to Qian'an once, and he is familiar with the door and the road, so he won't be delayed. Bo An Mingchun is going to take the exam for the champion, so let him study with peace of mind."
When Wang Shouren fell off the list, and when the elders came to comfort them, he also fooled the children into writing an article "Fu of Lai Ke Zhuang Yuan". That fu is well written and full of talent, but when the champion's rhetoric is released, it won't look good if you don't take the top three exams. Wang Shouren's pressure on this subject must also be very big, so don't add trouble to him, call him Let An Ansheng review at home.
Wang Zhuangyuan smiled wryly: "I can't wait to see what he will do in this subject. This kid's reading is a good one. Previously, he was unable to make a bamboo block for seven days, and then for some reason, he looked at Mr. Xiangshan again. Is it not even more deviating from Neo-Confucianism? Which examiner chooses him!"
Li Dongyang said in amazement: "Why did you fall into this crazy Zen Tao again?"
Wang Hua waved his hand: "This kid has an idea since he was a child, how can I control him? Anyway, he is not the kind of kid who can't stand a blow. I simply indulge him in another subject, and after he falls off the list, he will understand what the right path is. All right."
Li Dongyang looked at his distressed and helpless appearance. He didn't care to pity his son, so he pityed him first: "Then I will write a letter to Hezhong and ask him to persuade Bo'an. This child is the best at teaching people. First, I asked him to adjust it. Although he is in filial piety... "
To teach a student with a dutiful son whose grandmother Sanqi has not yet passed his grandmother, Mr. Li also felt strange, shook his head, and said in a consultative manner, "I'll just mention it to him and ask him to persuade the uncle. An. These two children have been friends since childhood. Didn't He Zhong always value Bo An, thinking he could be a great person? He must not be willing to watch him go down the wrong path."
Wang Zhuangyuan deeply thanked Mr. Li Ge, and the two went home to write a tomb table and epitaph for Mrs. Cui Song. Their Hanlin wrote this full-time, and whenever there was an accident in the court, they were asked to write it with money. Therefore, they are all written like flying, and it doesn't take much time to swipe them. The two texts are written in a clear and fluent manner, which is enough to be included in their own collections and passed on to future generations.
The written articles were given to Wang Zhuangyuan, and Wang Hua wrapped the manuscript in layers of oiled paper and white satin, wrapped it up, and handed it to his son, who was studying Lu Xiangshan hard at home and did not read the imperial examination notes properly, "Hey" a sound.
"Your brother Cui Shi's family has a new mourning recently. Your grandmother, Mrs. Song, passed away. You asked Mrs. Li Ge and your father to write a tomb table for Mrs. Run for me and Duke Xi Ya, and send these to you, Cui Shixiong."
"it is good."
Wang Shouren was reading "Ming Benxin", and asked Brother Lu Xiangshan to go out the door very often, but when he heard that there was something serious, he immediately went to pack his luggage and went to Qian'an to see people.
Wang Hua was a little satisfied when he saw that he knew that people were the most important thing. He stroked his beard and said, "The Cui family is guarding two layers of filial piety. You can stay there for a day or two and then return. Don't disturb the harmony." If I have the heart to mention him, I will mention him a word. If not, I will tell the child to come back sooner. If he suffers a setback in the field next year, he will have a long memory.
Wang Zhuangyuan still has confidence in his son's ability and mind. He is not afraid that he will grind a lot in the field, so he can calm his mind and wait for him to return from Qian'an with peace of mind.
Not only did Sage Wang go this time, but Li Ge finally sent his son out. He only said that he had traveled to Qian'an once and knew the way, so it would be more convenient to take him with him. The two young talents, Mingru Yi, had known each other for many years, and they were not unfamiliar, so they set off on the road with their companions. Li Zhaoxian's foundation was not good, and he had to take a car to walk a long way. The two spent an extra day on the road, and they arrived at the Cui family's ancestral house outside Jiaxiang Tunnel in the afternoon of the fourth day.
The Cui family had also passed March 7 at this time, and fewer people came to express their condolences. The two young people asked Cui Xie to rush to the back to rest, and he was the only one in the hall to entertain guests.
Wang and Li first came forward to burn incense in condolences, and after the guest of honor saluted, they gave him the manuscripts of their fathers. Cui Xie opened it on the spot and read it again, and was moved to tears. He even gave the two sons the same reward, and praised him: "It looks like my grandmother Yi Xing is right in front of me, these two articles are great, and they should be golden and jade. Voice!"
The two geniuses took over the manuscript, one by one. Li Zhaoxian had read his father's poems and articles, looked at the wrong inscription at the back of the epitaph and sighed: "It's so beautiful and beautiful, it's really my father's handwriting..."
He glanced at Wang Shouren, who had a complicated face, and asked, "Brother Wang also feels a little bit? Can you lend me a look at Lord Ling Zun's article?"
Brother Wang... I feel that the tone of the tomb table is vertical and horizontal, which is the same as the number of Jinyiwei's way of winning people with love, and Li Dongyang's epitaph is also very beautiful and beautiful like those written by "Mr. Shuixi". This Jinyiwei.
Poor Li Zhaoxian still thinks that there are some comic strips like his father's handwriting, just because Xi Ya has been in charge of writing for many years, and Confucian scholars all over the world want to learn his articles, and writing them is just a little bit of his samadhi.
Wang Shouren couldn't bear to wake him up, handed over the tomb table, took the epitaph, and read it silently with his head down.
The two of them were reading the article, and Cui Xie was also reading the letter. Li Dongyang wrote in the letter a dangerous sign of Wang Shouren's shift from Zhu Xue to Lu Xue, and asked him to help persuade the child to change his mind and study for a year, and then pass the jinshi examination first.
Wang Zhuangyuan is really painstaking.
But Lu Jiuyuan's theory is full of subjective idealism, very similar to Wang Yangming's view of "nothing outside the heart". Maybe this is the origin of the sage's enlightenment of the mind, how can he stop it
Cui Xie put away the letter and saw that the two talented people had also read the article in exchange, so he asked them to stay and asked someone to take the article and find a craftsman to carve a monument.
Li Zhaoxian came to visit Cui Xie specifically for his father, so he settled down at ease, and even arranged to help their family with the funeral; Wang Shouren remembered his father's instructions and did not dare to disturb them, and he would leave after a day's stay.
Cui Xie grabbed Wang Shouren and said directly, "Next year is the year of the Great Competition. Both Lord Zun Wang and tutor Mr. Li are worried that you will be obsessed with easy and simple work and delay the study of classics. Brother Bo An, what do you think about the spring test next year? Do you not care about a gain or loss, or would you like to spend some time on the imperial examinations for a while and come back next year?"
Only then did Wang Shouren understand why his father looked at him so complicatedly when he was leaving, and he repeatedly emphasized that he should not disturb the Cui family's filial piety.
It turned out that he had given up his old face and asked Cui Shixiong to remind himself in the letter.
Over the years, he has been studying the "mindfulness of the original mind", and he has only learned from those comic strips that his father loves the king and serves the country, misses his hometown, filial piety to his parents... and likes a man to disguise himself as a woman.... I didn't know until today that my father More for his son.
How could he indulge himself in the study of Xiangshan and make his father worry
Wang Shouren already had an idea in his mind, and bowed his hands to give a deep salute: "Shouren understands the teaching of Cui Shixiong. Shouren will not let down the heart of his father and Li Ge Lao. After returning, he will study hard, and he will definitely fight next year. The champion comes back to reward everyone!"
Do not!
and many more!
He hasn't advised anything yet!
He didn't pour chicken soup for the soul, why was Wang Shengren suddenly persuaded by him to change to Lu Guizhu!
What about psychology
Cui Xie was about to roar in his heart, and he had to maintain the same demeanor that Mount Tai had collapsed in front of him, and said lightly: "Actually, Lu and Zhu Zhixue both originated from the line of Lianxi, and they also contain the human heart of heaven. Gongfu, if it weren't for the imminent examination of the virtuous brother, I would not advise you a word. Even if I persuaded you to pay attention to the Spring Festival, you still have to read one more sentence. Now, let it go when you want to let it go."
Lu Xue is not as orthodox as Zhu Xue. If he changed others, he would have to persuade him to go back to study Hui'an. Only Cui Xie supported him to learn what he wanted to learn with his heart. Wang Shouren almost took him as a confidant, and said with shame and gratitude: "I shouldn't have asked Shixiong to bother me at this time... Shixiong, don't worry, I have passed this subject with all my heart, and I still have to study Lu Xue later."
Cui Xie breathed a sigh of relief.
"In this way, I can write to my teacher and senior Wang. If my virtuous brother is not in a hurry to return to the capital, he will spend a few months studying in my village; Next year, my two younger brothers, Qi Shui Xiaoman, will go back to Beijing to live, and I will count on my virtuous brother to take care of them for me."
He is the great-grandson and has to keep his grandmother for 27 months, but Cui Heng, Cui He and the brothers are grandsons, and one year is enough. Although the two of them had to miss this year's exam, Cui Heng didn't have a good reputation, and he and his brother were still young, so they could afford to delay.
When these two children come back to Beijing next year, I will ask Mr. Li to choose a good marriage for my brother and brother. The brothers will share... Forget it, we will not separate the family. With these two younger brothers, he will have an excuse not to get married. where. However, he and his brother have also become a family, and his obligation to raise his younger brother has been completed. In the future, he can concentrate on his objects and careers, and he no longer has to worry about the Cui family.