Outside the hospital, Cui Liangdong had already reported to the old lady that the Daxing magistrate was here. At this time, the paper pavilion at the door was pushed open, and an old woman greeted him from the inside, and moved towards Jiang County magistrate and asked them to enter.
After entering, he found that the paper pavilion had doors on all sides, and only the front and rear doors were open for ordinary people to come in and out, and the left and right were closed tightly to prevent the wind from entering the corridor. Although the main entrance of the hall was blocked by the paper pavilion, I didn't feel stuffy inside. The back hall and the doors on the left and right sides were open, and the wind was slowly drawn from the outside. As cool as ice elsewhere.
The old lady was still changing clothes inside, so Cui Liangdong asked him to sit down in the hall first. After a while, the foster mother brought iced milk tea and snacks for him and the bookstores to taste—all made in the morning, and Cui Xie didn’t bring them with him when he left. So much to go, and the rest is just used to entertain guests.
Jiang county magistrate is from Jiangnan and is not used to eating dairy products. He always thinks it has a fishy smell. When drinking milk tea, I only feel fragrant and creamy, the tea has a mellow taste, and a slightly bitter sweet fragrance, which is different from the ordering and brewing of tea in ordinary people. This Chaben County has never tasted it before, so it must be a family secret recipe?"
Cui Liangdong smiled and said: "There is no secret recipe, the old parents laughed. This is just because my son and Huihui ordered some milk and goat milk to come back to nourish the family. He thought it was not good to drink alone, so he asked someone to add tea. It's boiled. But the stuff with milk is easy to break, so it's called Bingbing."
The taste of the double-skinned grandma is slightly strong, and the magistrate Jiang eats it in general, but the bookstores he brought are all locals in Beijing. They love to eat cheese and milk snacks. Cheese is more affordable.
Cui Liangdong made a few polite words on behalf of the host, and the county magistrate said: "When will Cui Jiansheng of your house come back? This county is here to celebrate the days when their imperial guards are off. One is to reward him in person for donating to the nursing home, and the other is to come here. I also want to meet the prodigy."
It was only then that Cui Liangdong understood his purpose - he personally escorted the old goods donated to the nursing home, and behind the car was a row of idle people watching the fun, so much that half of Beijing could see it!
On the way to the nursing home, I don’t know how many people praised their family for their generosity, benevolence and righteousness. People who accumulate good deeds will have good news... Hearing that his bones were light, and he almost signed his name Cui Liangdong when he signed the donation book. Fortunately, the person in charge of registration said, "It turns out that your family's surname is Cui." He was clear in his mind and changed back to the word "Xie" in time.
That truckload of dry goods, sweets, and wine vinegar sauce added up to more than 80 taels of silver. Although it was not food, most of them were things that the kitchen could use. The quality of the items sent are all good, and there is no rot or mold. Not only can they give meals to the officials below and the orphans in the courtyard during the New Year's festival, and if they are sold, they can also be exchanged for dozens of stones of rice and wheat. If it is replaced with coarse grains such as beams, millet, millet, and beans, there will be more than one hundred stone, ten thousand kilograms of grain, enough for the elderly in the whole hospital to eat for a while.
Good people and good deeds were made under the rule, and Daxing County was commended and commended.
In general, the magistrate would give a few words of praise to such a wealthy household, exempting his family from the three-year service of money and grain, and then symbolically giving several worthless Daming Treasures. But the current head of the Cui family is from the fourth rank. No matter where he is an official now, the family does not have to pay food and taxes, and the village farms in the countryside can also be exempted from paying horse grass and raising horses, and the family members can also be exempt from corvée .
Cui Xie was another child prodigy whom the emperor had met and ordered to be put into the Imperial College. Jiang county magistrate thought about it and decided to give his family some face, so he took thousands of newly issued treasure notes, asked a craftsman to make a plaque of "Ji Shan Ren Jia", and took it to the Cui family in person.
It's a pity that Cui Xie was not at home today.
Cui Liangdong asked Jin Yiwei to come to the house to frighten him once. Although he was afraid that the county magistrate would be dissatisfied, he did not dare to ask someone to pick him up at Xie Qianhu's house, so he could only apologize on behalf of the host: "I'm afraid it's unfortunate today, wait for my family to be less. When the master comes back, the little one will definitely persuade him to go to the county office to thank the lord."
Fortunately, the old lady changed her clothes at this time, and brought a few adoptive mothers and daughters-in-law to greet her. She was invited by her son, and the county magistrate Jiang had to bow to her. This time, Cui Liangdong didn't need to serve outside, so he went out to help push Mrs. Cui into the inner room, and urged the kitchen to prepare lunch.
Jiang county magistrate told the old lady about the future, and the old lady Cui also sighed regretfully: "He made these meals just to send his benefactor, and he went straight to the house after school. I didn't know the adults wanted it. Come, or I'll persuade him not to go out first."
The magistrate Jiang smiled generously: "The benefactor of your house? Of course, it is the benefactor that matters. This county is only here to send the plaque, so I don't have to ask him to come back to see this side."
He stood up and waved to the back, and the book office who came with him raised the plaque, rubbed the red silk above his head and said, "Since Ling Sun is not here, then ask Lao Yiren to lead the way, and I will hand this plaque to the old lady. And the old pleasant is."
Mrs. Cui beamed with joy, and immediately ordered someone to go into the house to add some more incense to the house, helped her husband sit up, and personally led him into the house.
Jiang county magistrate said: "I heard that the old lady Weng had a stroke. I am afraid that he will not be able to sit up easily. Just tell him to lie down and rest. There is no need to lift him up."
He thought that Mrs. Cui had to be helped by someone, or leaned against a pile of quilts, or was still in a wheelchair, but he didn't want to go into the inner room and saw a four-poster bed with a half-slab suspended from it. There were nooses on both sides of the bed, and the maid shook the pole under her head and pulled up the bed board together with the old man.
This bed is really amazing. Magistrate Jiang and Mrs. Cui saw the ceremony, and their eyes were glued to the chain of the bed that kept rising, tsk tsk admiring: "Where is the craftsman who made this, it's really ingenious."
If such a practical thing is popularized, many people who are bedridden for a long time can get up and sit often, or just lie down and lean back, which is more comfortable than lying in bed all day.
Taigong Cui showed a bit of pride on his face, and the old lady also smiled and said, "It's not what my eldest grandson asked people to do. I was afraid that his grandfather would be uncomfortable lying on the bed, so he came up with these ways to get him up. Song Fan Song Fan. My old wife didn't even think of this, he is so considerate as a child."
Although Magistrate Jiang hadn't seen Cui Xie, he had a good impression of him first, and he didn't care about the fact that he was away from studying at home for a long time, so he praised him a few times. Then he asked someone to carry the plaque, took off the red silk covering it, revealing the four characters "Ji Shan Ren Jia" inscribed in his own hand, and said with a smile: "There must be Yu Qing in the Ji Shan family. There is a memory of good deeds in the dark, and the blessings will be rewarded in the future, and teach your family Taiweng to get healthy as soon as possible, and the descendants will be able to become talents."
The old lady was most worried about her husband and children. She was so happy that she almost burst into tears when she heard this. After chanting a few words of Buddha, she quickly thanked her fortune and thanked the county magistrate for the auspicious words, and asked someone to carry the plaque out and hang it in the main hall. outside the hospital.
When hanging the plaque, Mr. Lu also changed his clothes to meet the guests and brought the primary school students to the main courtyard. When I came in, I bumped into Jiang County magistrate looking at the hanging plaque, and hurriedly saluted him, and asked Brother He to make a big salute, and took him to the hall to sit down and talk.
Jiang county magistrate likes to communicate etiquette with his brother at a young age, and he picks him up with his own hands, and gives him a purse with an incense blade for him to play with. He and brother saluted and thanked him in a proper manner, holding his purse and standing behind Mr.
Lu Juren looked at his words and deeds and corrected them at any time, teaching him more than his own mother and father. Magistrate Jiang also liked his dedicated teacher, and saw that he was wearing a round-necked tee with sleeves, a square gauze, and a soft sash. He heard that he was still a gentleman, so he was a little more polite, and sat down and talked for a while. , Wen Yan asked him where his name was from and which list he was from.
Lu Juren is a few years older than Kong Kong, but his background is one level lower. In front of the county magistrate who is a serious scholar, he is considered a junior, and he bows and salutes, saying: "Late born Lu Boshan, the character is very useful, he is the ninth in the Henan list in the 16th year of Chenghua. Twelve juren have been teaching several students at Cui's house. Today, the little master of his family is not here, so he came to accompany his old parents for the late born."
Jiang county magistrate heard that he was a concubine and claimed to have always taught Cui Xie. He couldn't help thinking of some rumors and asked, "How many years have you taught in Cui's family? Are your brothers taught by you?"
Mr. Lu stood there firmly and said, "Exactly, before Cui Xie returned to Qian'an, I had taught him for two years, but we had a short relationship between master and apprentice, and we never taught him anything."
He was the one who taught Cui Xie later! He had delayed Cui Xie's schooling, how could he still stay at Cui's house and teach this child again
But judging from his appearance, he was very devoted to the little disciple, and the children he taught also knew how to advance and retreat.
Jiang county magistrate was puzzled and couldn't help but teach him a few sentences, but found that he not only knew the history and scriptures, but also answered the rare questions in the Song Confucian books fluently. He was really learned.
He asked unconsciously, "I think your knowledge is good and your temperament is rigorous. Why don't you have a mentor-disciple relationship with that Cui Jiansheng, so you can't teach him?"
Lu Juren couldn't find faults in himself. Seeing Cui Xie's prosperous appearance, he also forgot the days when he was not very smart. After thinking about it, he pushed the faults to others: "I heard that his stepmother was jealous. I hate him, maybe it's because he was blocked from studying? I didn't realize anything at the time, I just remember that when he was studying with his second brother, he didn't come for half a day, so he could learn something."
As he spoke, he pulled Brother He to his side, stroked the top of his head and said, "Brother Xie has grown a lot since he came back from his hometown. He is also strict in disciplining his younger brother, and he is not allowed to skip school easily. I just know that his second younger brother has gone out to practice and can come back. Let's take a long time."
Jiang county magistrate almost forgot that there was a second son in his family, so he reminded him that there was such a wife in the Cui family, and sighed inwardly: "A kind mother has many ruined children, and an unkind mother thinks about the law even more. It's not something a gentleman can teach you to teach a child in the front room."
Thinking about it this way, I feel a little sympathetic to Mr. Lu: Cui Xie has two gentlemen who have only been taught for two years, so he can't be blamed for not teaching him well. It must be the stepmother who didn't let her stepson An Sheng study. The husband he hired before was a bad teacher. He broke the foundation. He has only taught for two years, so what can he teach
He comforted him: "There is a fate between master and apprentice, and so is the imperial examination. At the beginning, your fate did not arrive, but now that you have arrived, he is not willing to study with peace of mind, and asks you to continue to teach his brother? Maybe you will be in the next year. The fate here has also arrived, and your master and apprentice can still be on the laurel list together and make a good story."
Mr. Lu's thin face spread with a smile, showing a bit more radiance than usual. He bowed his hands and thanked: "I will bear the auspicious words of my lord, I will teach my disciples in my late life, and strive to gain a reputation as a scholar."
Jiang county magistrate said with a smile: "I heard some rumors outside, and only when I saw the real person know that the rumors are unbelievable, and you are also a drag on people. I will talk about this with the same year in the future, so that you will not be affected by the rumors in the future. disturb."
Lu Juren said: "It's good if your lord has this heart, but I'm not afraid of those words. Now Cui Xie is learning to write poetry with me. I don't think he is very spiritual, but fortunately, he has a high-mindedness and an upright spirit in his heart, and he may not be in the future. I can't write good poems. If he has a future, he can naturally wash away my reputation, so I don't need to bother the adults."
He has an arrogance of his own, he gets up wherever he falls, and he won't say anything if he doesn't teach Cui Xie a specialty that can show his teaching ability.
Seeing that he had this kind of spirit, the magistrate Jiang smiled and said, "Then the county wishes you to teach him as soon as possible."
He just wanted to come to see Cui Xie today. Since the person he wants to see is not there, the plaque has been hung up, so he has to go back to the yamen first. Lu Juren was struggling to keep him, so he asked someone to go to the inner room to tell the second elder that Mrs. Cui was not good at keeping guests, so he asked someone to pack a box of iced snacks and a jar of good wine from Xie Ying. , sent it out in person, and asked him to take it home to taste.
Jiang county magistrate politely declined, but made another request: "This county has an unkind request - can the old lady tell me where the craftsman who made the movable bed is? I think I will also build a few in the nursing home. The bed, so that the lonely and poor old people there live more comfortably."
Mrs. Cui recited the Buddha's name: "My lord is doing this kind of good governance, how can my family not cooperate fully? The craftsman who made the bed is an old craftsman we used, just in Nanguan, the old lady asked someone to lead the people around the lord to find it. He. His family will also make narrow beds with thick backs, large wardrobes that can be dressed up, and those kind of rustling soft feather cushions. They just look simple and not fancy, but they are very practical.”
Mr. Jiang heard the narrow bed and the feather cushion familiar, and asked, "But that kind of Qian'an-like furniture? I heard from a person who came to Qian'an in the same year that these kinds of household goods are fashionable in their villages, and even rich and famous people do it a lot. Yes. I just heard it, I don't know what it is like, I didn't think he could do this, if it's cheap and suitable, it would take a few more sets."
It was my grandson who drew a picture and instructed him to fight.
The old lady was proud of her heart, and her face was full of brilliance. After Jiang County Magistrate left, she talked for a long time, wanting to wait for Cui Xie to come back and talk to him about what happened today. Lu Juren taught the county honoree to encourage him for a long time, and he also gave birth to a lot of ambition. Thinking that Cui Xie has not been very eager to learn poetry from him these days, he is still eight feet away from becoming a poet, and he is also gearing up for it. Immediately teach him to be a genius.
The two sides were looking forward to it, looking forward to it from noon to afternoon. It wasn't until the time of application was over that Lu Juren hurriedly added three big characters to He Gelian, and Cui Xie was wearing that dazzling green dress, with his hair that was only washed and still a little dry, and he took the car back in a radiant manner. to the Cui family.