Chapter 136 Meeting
Wu Anchi is not a good person, but the sincerity of the invitation can still be seen.
Seeing that Zhang Yue was a little hesitant, Wu Anzhi couldn't help but ask, "Sanlang, have there been any changes?"
Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Thank you, Erlang, for your kind invitation, but in the past few days, it's still a little... 'harm'."
The more I wanted to mention "sense wind", but this word was used badly in the Taixue School. Now it seems that I am hypocritical when I mention it, so the more I changed it to "harmful".
Zhang Yue also touched his stomach, and it seemed to be true.
Wu An changed his color and said, "Oh, Sanlang, what should I do...I have already..."
Seeing Wu Anzhi's expression, Zhang Yue turned to smile and said, "But don't worry, Erlang, I will take a few more medicines and will definitely go there when the day after tomorrow."
Zhang Yue thought to himself that he was going for Wang Anshi, so there was no reason to go back on his word.
Besides, the one who was in the wrong position from beginning to end was his second brother, but why did he become the guilty side? He was so shy that he didn't dare to see others. What's the difference between this and my mother?
When Wu Anzhi saw Zhang Yue's appearance, he realized that he was joking. He immediately patted Zhang Yue on the shoulder and said, "Sanlang, don't joke, otherwise my brother would think that I am not good at Taixue, and I will blame me at that time."
Zhang Yue laughed and said, "How dare I take this? If I don't go, I will feel that I'm separated from him."
The two laughed loudly.
The next day, Zhang Yue had to consider what clothes to wear to the banquet.
Zhang Yue brought a lot of clothes from Fujian, but one thing he didn't think carefully about is that he was fourteen or five years old and had been growing up all the time.
Therefore, the clothes I brought in before were much shorter, but there is no need to pay attention to these clothes in the Imperial College on weekdays. But it is not appropriate to wear them to the banquet. As for the clothes you wear outside on weekdays, you can’t wear ‘school uniforms’ to the banquet.
Fortunately, Liu Ji gave him this robe on his body and even fitted together, and Zhang Yue liked it very much. It just so happened that after the autumn of Bianjing, it was a bit cold, so the robe in the cotton wool was more than ordinary clothes to block the wind.
Zhang Yue borrowed ironing in the vegetarian house, and just ironed the new robe that Liu Ji gave him.
Zhang Yue washed the boot paste that he had bought for only two months ago.
Don’t look at the matter of clothing, it takes such a long time to wear cloth shirts and hemp shoes to go to someone else’s house to have a drunk and shocked celebrity.
As the saying goes, "When speaking, you will be a gentleman, and you will be a villain."
Except for a few people, most people still depend on their attitude towards you based on their clothes. If you wear cloth shirts and hemp shoes, you are deliberately planning to be angry with other people's servants.
Of course, it doesn’t mean that you can wear it on your body if you have money.
There is an old saying that "the robe is not ashamed of", that is, the robe. Compared with brocade robe, it is enough for the students of the Taiyang school to wear a robe on weekdays. If it is not the children of officials who wear brocade robes, they will be a little dressed.
After leaving the Imperial Academy, Zhang Yue hired a car to go to the Wu Mansion.
Zhang Yue took the car and left Mai Straw Alley. After passing Yu Street, he walked straight west through West Street, and then turned north after Mai Qu Bridge.
Then the carriage headed north, after passing the bustling Xuanqiu Gate, it headed north along the inner city wall of Bianjing, and finally arrived at Jinliangqiao Street.
Even though he was in the carriage, he had been walking along the way for half an hour. He had been with Tang Jiu once when the Wu Mansion was located. However, he had only met Wu Anshi in a hurry and did not enter the mansion.
Now we are really visiting.
Although Jinliangqiao Street where Wu Mansion is located is located in the outer city and is not as lively as the inner city, when Wu Anshi talks, it is better to be spacious and live in peace.
Zhang Yue thought about this roughly meant that he couldn't afford a big villa within the Third Ring Road, but he could still afford it outside the Fifth Ring Road.
When Wu Chong bought a property, Wu Yu, as his elder brother, was naturally helping him and gave him a lot of money.
Later, Wu Chong was an official for twenty years and continued to buy flower stones and repair pavilions. In addition, the four houses and two palaces of the Wu family are connected together, which is also a famous garden among the princes and ministers of Bianjing.
Of course, the only drawback to the Wu brothers is that the journey to court is much longer.
However, Zhang Yue strangely is that it is less than half a year since Wu Yu passed away. Logically speaking, it is not appropriate for Wu’s family to hold this banquet.
So what is the purpose of Wu’s mansion?
Soon the carriage stopped and the coachman said, "Does the official stop like this?"
Zhang Yue lifted the curtain, but met with two large stone lions standing on the street, behind them were three large doors with ebony red paint, and on a bench on the stone steps were several brightly dressed slaves.
It is indeed a family of rituals. Although Wu Chong is not as good as Ouyang Xiugao now, he can see that his background is better than that.
Ouyang Xiu's father Ouyang Guan passed the imperial examination at the age of 49. When he was appointed as the Mianyang Promoter, Ouyang Xiu was born, but Ouyang Guan died of illness soon after. Not only did Ouyang Xiu lose his family, but he also lost all his connections and had no money to buy paper at a young age. His mother's "drawing reeds to teach her children" left a good story.
Therefore, in historical books, Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan can only be regarded as "cold scholars".
Wu Yu and Wu Chong's father Wu Tiewen were also from a poor man at that time. He visited Yang Yi, the minister of his fellow townsmen, several times to ask for teaching questions.
However, Yang Yi's students looked down on Wu Tiewen's background. Yang Yi said to his disciples: "What you enjoy other days is not as good as Cao Kewang."
Later, Wu Dawen was admitted to the Jinshi in the third year of Xianping, and was appointed as the county magistrate of Wanshou County, Yingzhou, and finally retired as the Minister of Rites.
Wu Daiwen's three sons, Wu Yu, Wu Jing, and Wu Fang passed the imperial examination at the same time in the fifth year of Tiansheng. Among them, Wu Yu even became the only third-class founding class in the founding of the Song Dynasty.
When he arrived in Wu Chong, he became a Jinshi in the first year of Baoyuan. Since then, the Wu family has completed the "Five Jinshi in One School".
Although there is no Jinshi in the third generation of the Wu family, the imperial court will sooner or later, so it is not an exaggeration to be called the official of the three generations, and it is not an exaggeration to be a family of talents.
Faced with the groom's inquiry, Zhang Yue looked at the plaque of Wu's mansion and nodded, "It's true."
Zhang Yue paid for the carriage and just got off the carriage, the servants at the gate of the mansion came up to him.
Zhang Yue took out the invitation, and the other party smiled and said, "It turns out that they are officials from the Zhang family. Our two men have been waiting for the grand ceremony for a long time."
The main gate is closed, and the servant leads Zhang Yue into the left corner gate.
Zhang Yue entered, and the servants in front of the Wu Mansion could not help but whisper.
"He came in a carriage in a robe?"
"She is a scholar, so what if she wears a robe?"
“That’s true.”
"The man in charge often tells you not to be able to beat others with clothes and clothes."
Zhang Yue entered the Wu Mansion servants. Although he could not describe the words "Qiongshu Yutang, carved walls and embroidered hubs" wherever he saw, he could not describe it as a young man who had lived in a "city village".
If you really want to describe the atmosphere of wealth and honor.
Zhang Yue remembers that someone said, "Gold, jade, and brocade are used to describe wealth and honor, but I can only describe the poet's stupidity. It is better to say, "The music and singing return to the courtyard, and the lights go down to the stairs" to express the atmosphere of wealth and honor."
And at this moment, Zhang Yue felt like "the music returned to the courtyard, and the lights came down to the stairs."
There were indeed music and singing between the towers and courtyards, as if there were women singing a light string, as if the soft words of Wu and as if they were soft Cantonese songs.
Zhang Yue thought to himself that Wu Erlangjun lives here, no wonder he doesn’t see his classmates in the Imperial Academy on weekdays.
And... Although the seventeenth lady of the Wu family knew that she was born in a wealthy family, she still didn't expect her to be so rich.
What do you say?
Zhang Yue felt a slight idea that he was instantly cut off by himself.
Zhang Yue suddenly remembered that he asked a senior brother in his previous life. When he met a girl he didn't like during a blind date, how could I act so that the girl would look down on him? The senior brother put out the cigarette butt, patted his shoulder, and said earnestly: "You will behave normally."
Speaking of senior brother, Zhang Yue couldn't help but think of Senior Brother Guo, who is already in Nanjing Imperial College.
I wonder which one is more concerned about whether he is his wife or Miao Sanniang?
He and his second brother were both descendants of "beating to death and not telling each other".
And now it is time for me to perform normally.
While Zhang Yue was thinking about it, he heard someone laughing and saying, "Isn't this Saburo?"
Zhang Yue looked back and saw that it was Liu Ji.
Liu Ji looked at Zhang Yue up and down and smiled, "Sanlang, this robe fits very well!"
Zhang Yue smiled and was about to speak and see Liu Ji wearing a brocade robe, but he compared himself. However, he remembered that Liu Ji was obviously from the Han family. Maybe he bought a brocade robe after the second examination of the Imperial College. This is understandable.
After Ouyang Xiu got the provincial capital, didn’t he customize a ‘top scholar robe’ for himself?
Zhang Yue said: "Thank you for Zhai's appearance, which is very suitable for you. It's just that I'm here to attend the banquet today. I don't have any good clothes, so I'm wearing this gift from Zhai."
Liu Ji smiled and said, "It's a big deal, why don't you thank Sanlang for being happy. But Sanlang came to the Wu Mansion to attend the banquet without telling him in advance. In this way, you and I can come together in the same car. Yes, I remember Sanlang hasn't married yet!"
Zhang Yue said: "It's true that why did the Chief Zhai ask about these things? By the way, Chief Zhai is not married yet. But I heard in the Chief Zhai that there was a good woman in the house who was ordered by her parents to marry her? "
Liu Ji smiled and said, "Sanlang found out very clearly, but this happened many years ago. Our two families have not had any contact for many years, and they don't know whether to count."
"So that's it." Zhang Yue nodded with relief.
"Let's go! I'll introduce you to a few young talents in Bianjing today."
At this time, I heard the singing of the music and singing again, and it sounded like a fairy music. The two of them couldn't help but stop to appreciate it.
After the music stopped, Liu Ji said to Zhang Yue: "This must be the music and dance of the Wu Mansion, let's go and take a look."
"good!"
Zhang Yue and Liu Ji walked through the rockery and waterfront together, walked around several corridor courtyards, passed through several gates, and passed several curved bridges to finally reach a pavilion covered by bamboo forests.
But I saw someone playing drums and music directly above the pavilion, and several singers sang on the strings.
Several scholars from the audience admired each other with their hands behind their backs.
Zhang Yue saw a very tall man among the crowd, and couldn't help but stop and stop in his heart.
Zhang Yue rubbed his eyes and looked again.
But when he saw the man turned his head and said a few words to others, he just saw his face clearly.
Chapter completed!