The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

(Today's fourth update is too tired to collect.)

Several people in the small room got up and saluted one after another, although they didn't meet each other, they didn't know each other, they didn't even know their names, but the polite words of "Long admiration, long admiration" were smooth.

Su Jin and Xia Silin, the youths in brocade clothes, sat down on the chairs at the side and ordered the servants at the door to add two sets of cups, chopsticks and chopsticks, and then said: "I'm afraid the two young masters are students from the academy, but they are interested in sneaking into the small restaurant in their spare time. Tasting poems and admiring the scenery is very elegant; I dare to ask your surnames."

Su Jin smiled and said: "Brother, you are welcome. My two brothers are indeed academy students named Su Dan and Jin, this is my next cousin named Xia and named Silin."

Young Master Jinyi smiled and said, "If you two don't sign up, it seems that you are young and weak. I think you didn't choose your number."

Su Jindao: "Is such a gentleman also a student of the academy?"

The young man in brocade clothes looked around and laughed, an old-fashioned old man in soap clothes next to him twirled his beard and said with a smile: "I'm afraid Yingtian Academy can't accommodate this big Buddha little brother, it's really funny."

Su Jinxin said: "I was just answering casually, don't I know that you are a high-ranking official? It's just that you don't report your number, so I have to imply you to do so."

Sure enough, the young man in brocade clothes stopped laughing and said, "The surname is Zhao, this is Mr. Tang, and this is Mr. Qin. There are two young masters, one surnamed Liu and the other surnamed Su, but one of your relatives is here."

Su Jin and Xia Silin greeted the ceremony again and were busy. Then they sat down again. The shopkeeper of the hotel had already received news to ask Su Jin where to put the cooked dishes. Those few dishes are added to the banquet here.

Mr. Liu lifted the jug and filled the wine glasses for everyone. Su Jin carefully observed the order in which he poured wine. First Mr. Zhao in Jinyi, then Mr. Tang, then filled himself and Xia Silin, and then poured Mr. Qin, Mr. Su, and himself in turn. In his heart, he immediately had a preliminary understanding of the dignity and inferiority of the seated people.

Mr. Zhao raised his glass and said: "Today we have a chance to meet and drink this glass before we talk."

Everyone picked up their wine glasses to drink, but Xia Silin reached out and tugged at Su Jin's sleeve, pointed to the wine glass, and pointed towards the academy, making a pouting mouth. Su Jin immediately understood what she meant, so he put down his wine glass and said, "If you forgive me, I will be the next one." The two brothers still need to go back to the academy in the afternoon to listen to the lecture, so it doesn't matter if you don't drink the wine, if you get drunk, don't you disrespect your husband and replace wine with tea?"

Mr. Zhao was taken aback for a moment, then he raised his head and said to the servant outside the curtain: "Take my famous post and go to the academy to find Professor Cao, ask Mr. Su and Mr. Xia for leave, and then say that the two Mr. went."

The servant promised to leave with a single step. Su Jin hurriedly said: "No need. When I arrived at the academy for the first time, I knew that my studies were lax and I was going to work hard. How could I just be absent from the lecture?"

Mr. Zhao was taken aback for a moment, obviously he didn't expect that someone would disobey him, he was a little embarrassed for a while, Mr. Liu observed his words and said: "Mr. Su, why should you be so eager to study for a while? Is it a day's work? If you don't study for half a day, it may not be affected. Why bother to spoil everyone's interest?"

Su Jin hurriedly sued Su Jin again: "Although this is the case, don't you hear that 'if you don't accumulate silicon, you can't make a river." Knowledge is accumulated in this day and a half. There are so many ri fuming ri ming ri."

Mr. Zhao clapped his palms and said with a smile: "It's a wise saying that there are so many days in a good tomorrow. If so, I don't want to force you to drink tea."

After finishing speaking, drink up the cup and show the bottom of the cup to Su Jin's heart, "Are you kidding me when I drink tea? Show me the bottom of the cup." He picked up the teacup and drank the tea with Xia Silin in one gulp .

The people mentioned that although the dishes were not exquisite, they were better than the original taste, light and delicious, and they praised Su Jin hungry for eating.

Mr. Zhao put down his chopsticks, and everyone hurriedly put down their chopsticks and stopped eating. Xia Silin, being polite, also stopped eating. Only Su Jin took two river prawns, bit them, shelled them, threw them into his mouth, and chewed.

Everyone looked at him in surprise, Mr. Zhao's face also flashed a trace of displeasure, but he immediately returned to normal. He wiped the oil-free corner of his mouth lightly with a snow-white brocade handkerchief and said:

"Just now I listened to the two talking about poetry, but they are very insightful. I also like poetry, so I took the liberty to invite you; just now, Mr. Su's evaluation of Liu Mengde's poem "Borrowing things to express one's will to vent your emotions" I deeply agree with you all." But do you know why Liu Mengde was jailed?"

Su Jin knew that this was the original intention of Mr. Zhao to invite the two of them to come to the same seat to talk about poetry and writing. If he was not allowed to meet this demand, the free lunch would be boring, so he cooperated. He said: "It's also very interesting for you to give me some explanations."

Mr. Zhao laughed and said: "This is the disaster of the party struggle in the previous dynasty. Liu Mengde was slandered by the Yongzhen party and relegated to the middle of Shu. This poem was written by a petty official to see the gold diggers. There is resentment."

Mr. Tang, who was sitting next to Mr. Zhao, suddenly interjected: "Liu Mengde's participation in the party struggle and his relegation are also his own fault. His behavior should not be taken. Poetry is good, but it is full of complaints and disturbs people's hearts. It should be punished."

Su Jin's eyeballs almost fell off, what kind of bastard is this Tang guy? He can even be accused of crimes? If this person is an official, wouldn't he be as bad as Zhu Shiyong?

Mr. Zhao said noncommittally: "Today, let's talk about Fengyue and other matters. It is not appropriate to say that Mr. Qin took out the banner that we were watching just now and let the two young masters read Liu Meng's poems. I am not inferior to him in this poem." .”

The old man who was replaced by Mr. Qin nodded hurriedly and agreed, took out a rolled up vertical scroll leaning against the corner of the wall, hung it on the wall lightly, and slowly unfolded the first sentence of the small half of the long and short sentences that only saw one line of cursive script. Jump into the eyes of everyone.

Su Jin just glanced at it, then was dumbfounded and speechless; Mr. Zhao smiled and said: "Let's say that the reason why we only let you two read one sentence is that the content of this poem will affect your comments on it." How about the two young masters commenting on this cursive style?"

Su Jin was still in a daze, tongue-tied and speechless Mr. Tang and Liu Su saw his stupid look with contempt in their eyes and said in their hearts: "My lord is also free-spirited. These two people know what to appreciate, but they just talk nonsense next door." Fan happened to say something like that, you're sorry, the two of them came over and now they showed their true colors.

Seeing that Su Jin was in a daze, Xia Silin had no choice but to bite the bullet. Fortunately, she had done some research on this and could tell who she was copying at a glance, so he said, "This seems to be a learned face...it must be because the structure of this painting is true. It's the body."

"Not bad." Mr. Zhao smiled excitedly, clapping his hands, "Mr. Xia has some skills. This is indeed a record of learning how to write. Can you comment further?"

Xia Silin looked at the hanging scroll carefully, shook his head slightly, and frowned slightly.

Mr. Zhao hurriedly said: "What? Is there something wrong?"

Xia Silin pointed to that line and said: "In addition to the vigorous and vigorous style, the face style is exquisite in strokes, such as falling stones, such as Xia Yun's hook, such as Qu Jinge, such as crossbow, vertical and horizontal, and low and high; and the four words in this sentence It’s not bad at first glance, but it’s more than 01:30 when it looks like it looks like it does not look like spirit.”

Su Jin recollected what Xia Silin had said, and after that, Mr. Zhao's expression became very awkward Mr. Zhao hurriedly made Xia Silin shut up with his eyes.

Xia Silin's mouth was so hot that he didn't even notice Su Jin's eyes and chattered endlessly: "If I have to comment, I can only say that it is like a chaotic stone painting, like a dark cloud, like a curved iron sword, like a bad bow. It seems that it can’t be talked about cheap and expensive, it’s even more extravagant.”

Xia Silin's crisp words instantly changed the eyes of everyone in this extremely unbearable picture from contempt to hostility.

Su Jin hurriedly said to smooth things over: "My virtuous brother always likes to go to extremes when talking. This picture has slight flaws, but it doesn't hide its beauty. The person who wrote this picture must have a broad mind and must be an elegant person."

Xia Silin gave Su Jin a blank look and said, "How can you say that Mr. Zhao wants me to criticize you? You have to tell the truth. Why do you come up with such hypocritical words? What are the slight flaws and what do not hide their beauty? You don't understand what you said. nonsense."

Su Jin smiled wryly and couldn't help but yell in her heart: silly girl, why offend people, why is she such a silly elder sister who can't even read her words.