Daming Yinghua

Chapter 36 I want to embroider them

Ma Xianglin led the team and within a few days of leaving Songjiang Mansion, Wu Zhifu came back and sent the scribe Weng Yuansheng who framed Dong Qichang and his son to Yingtian Mansion.

A month later, Wang Yinglin, the right deputy governor of the Nanjing Procuratorate, sent officials to Songjiang to announce the court's attitude, changing "civilian copying Dong's house" to "scholar copying Dong's house", saying that it was Weng Yuansheng, Fan Chang, etc. As a scholar, because of jealousy and hatred, he seized small incidents, turned black and white, took the opportunity to incite and manipulate the villagers, and almost caused a catastrophe that shook the southeast scholars.

Fan Chang died of illness for no reason and will not be held accountable.

Weng Yuansheng stick leather.

Wu Zhifu was fined with a salary, and then retired from office due to old age, and went back to Zhenjiang to build his retirement garden.

Tongzhi and Tongju were evenly transferred to neighboring states.

Such a result made the gentry and celebrities in Songjiang City see it in their eyes and understand it in their hearts.

It is said that the Holy One has favored the third prince for decades, and even made enemies with many courtiers for the establishment of the crown prince, but the prince's teacher has been wronged in his hometown, and there will be big disturbances in Beijing.

It can be seen that in the capital, above the imperial court, neither the Prince nor King Fu has an absolute advantage.

After this battle, Huang Zunsu was quickly recognized by Songjiang officials and gentry groups.

Officials and gentry, officials first and then gentry, their elegant and unrestrained style is the skin and the inside, it is all about studying the officialdom.

During their routine social interaction, they reached a consensus on Huang Zunsu: It doesn't matter how knowledgeable this newcomer Jinshi is, and it doesn't matter whether he will be sentenced to prison after hearing the lawsuit; When Barbarian Fu and Jiexiang Qingpi were besieged, Master Huang immediately went to bring in rescue soldiers, who were elite soldiers in flying fish uniforms.

It can be seen that Mr. Huang, who has just put on the blue robe, can stand out for the officials and gentry, and even has someone in the court.

When there was a report from another mansion in central Beijing that Governor Shen, who bribed the bandits to kidnap Huang Zunsu, was dismissed for investigation, even the prefect of Suzhou sent a general to Songjiang, telling Songjiang to take good care of Huang Zunsu's family.

Therefore, when Huang Zunsu's wife and children came to Songjiang from Yuyao, Songjiang changed them to a house adjacent to the yamen, and there was an endless stream of gentry who came to congratulate and give gifts.

The Han family is naturally among them.

But the second master Han Zhongwen's way of doing things is even more delicate than that of the Dong family who has been greatly favored by Huang Zunsu.

Others inquired that Huang Zunsu knew quite a lot about painting skills, and they sent them paintings by Shen Zhou or Tang Yin one after another.

What Han Zhongwen sent was Xia Gui's "Dwelling in Yanxiu Forest".

Xia Gui is a painter at the Academy of Painting in the Southern Song Dynasty, and he is as famous as Ma Yuan.

Huang Zunsu saw that this was a Song painting, how can it be compared with the recent Wumen painting school, and repeatedly said that he dare not accept this great gift.

Han Zhongwen explained sincerely that he and his wife regarded their niece Han Ximeng as the apple of their eye, and Huang Zunsu helped Han Ximeng stop the bandits' swords in a dangerous situation. If he didn't appreciate this kindness, how could he be worthy of his brothers and sisters under the yellow earth.

When mentioning the dead, the dead are the most important, so Huang Zunsu couldn't refuse anymore.

Han Zhongwen also mentioned loosely that his ancestors, after all, traveled south to Hangzhou with King Kang. It's easier for the wealthy families in the Susong area, Master Huang from Zhejiang must understand, don't think this gift is too heavy.

When Han Zhongwen sent the painting to Huang Zhai, he ordered Zheng Haizhu to follow him.

Zheng Haizhu listened to Master Han's words from the side, and was amazed in his heart.

After all, he is from a scholarly family, who knows the contempt chain of literati related to artworks like the palm of his hand, and is also a businessman, so smart, what he says, on the one hand, he draws closer to the other party, and on the other hand, he shows his confidence.

A few days ago, when Zhuang Yuqing, the new prefect of Songjiang, came to office, Huang Zunsu mentioned to the Zhuangfutai at the reception banquet of the officials that the Han family had a maid named Zheng who came from Zhangzhou and had made great contributions to the court's suppression of bandits.

Zhuangfutai is also from Fujian, so he made a special promise with Han Zhongwen that there will be rewards in the mansion.

Therefore, when Han Zhongwen came to visit Huang Zunsu, he also brought Zheng Haizhu with him.

One is to ask her to thank Master Huang for helping her speak well in front of the mansion, and the other is to ask her to take a face-to-face with Huang's wife and children on behalf of Han Ximeng and exchange a few words of greeting, to see the figure and dress of the mother and child, and to prepare rouge, gouache and There are a lot of brocade robes.Let's send another gift specially for the Huang family's back house, so that the female relatives of the two families can move around.

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Zheng Haizhu returned to the Han Mansion and told Han Ximeng that Huang Zunsu's wife, Yao Shi, was about 25 and six years old, quiet and reticent.At first glance, from makeup to hairpins, to clothes and shoes, they all look pure and quiet, like plum blossoms in a pale moon.

However, if you look closely, the utensils in Yao's hands are delicate and gorgeous.

For example, Yao shi is shaking a round fan, on which are gorgeous crabapple flowers, like clouds.

Another example is the silk handkerchief covering the dowry box, which is also more colorful than the spring scenery.

After hearing this, Han Ximeng pursed his lips and laughed.

For a moment, she revealed her daughter's temperament of guessing other people's love affairs, and said to Zheng Haizhu: "I thought she was a lively woman, but she was always chilled by the rigid and rigid Mr. Huang."

After thinking for a while, Zheng Haizhu and Zheng Haizhu arranged a few pieces of embroidery that could be given to the female relatives, plus two bellybands, one for the eldest son of the Huang family and one for the newborn second son.

The eldest son of the Huang family is Huang Zongxi.

Zheng Haizhu saw the six-year-old boy Huang Zongxi in the Huangfu today, and thought of the old master with a bitter face and hatred in the illustrations in the middle school textbooks of later generations, and it was quite interesting at that time.

At this moment, when I heard the order to embroider a bellyband worn by a famous thinker in the late Ming Dynasty, I couldn't help but laugh even more.

But in the end, he held back his laughter and went to see a new painting that Han Ximeng put beside the embroidery frame.

It was Tang Yin's painting "Shu Ji" copied by people at that time, and it was placed side by side with the Japanese Ukiyo-e brought back by Zheng Haizhu.

Han Ximeng came over with an embroidery thread box, and said to Zheng Haizhu, "Look, Azhu, does this woman in the Japanese painting look alike or not like the person in Tang Ziwei's painting?"

Tang Yin's "Shu Ji" depicts the geisha in Wang Yan's Palace, the former Shu king of the Five Dynasties, but actually represents the general aesthetic standards for women in the Jiangnan area of ​​the Ming Dynasty.

As a later generation, Zheng Haizhu can easily discover the six prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty, where the commodity economy has been quite developed.

Even for a painter like Tang Yin who still has a literati background, the women in his works actually have a very strong atmosphere, which is in line with the taste of the new world.This, of course, has something in common with the ukiyo-e style that began to appear in Japan at the same time.

Therefore, Zheng Haizhu expressed restraint: "Miss, it's a bit similar. Look at these two Sichuan prostitutes, the smiles on the corners of their mouths, the charming eyes, they are all alive, and the beautiful woman in the Japanese painting is also alive. Same."

Han Ximeng nodded: "But the details are different. The women in Tang Ziwei's paintings were drawn by scribes, and they were waiting in the Imperial Palace. They always kept their postures, but the women in the Japanese country were more beautiful. Very flamboyant and frivolous, I think it came from such a beautiful place as Shili Qinhuai, but it is really cute."

Zheng Haizhu was a little surprised by Han Ximeng's candid comments.

At the beginning, Han Ximeng's ability to explain Japanese troubles without looking at appearances was enough to make Zheng Haizhu, a modern person, look at her with admiration.

Even today, she did not expect that she, a lady from a great family who has not yet left the court, did not speak ill of the women in the brothel, but instead stamped the words "true and lovely".

Zheng Haizhu hurriedly acted like he was taken aback, looked back at the ladies and maids sweeping outside the door, and reminded softly: "Miss, stop talking!"

Han Ximeng glanced at her sideways, and said disapprovingly, "What's the matter? How many orchards were written in the poems of the Tang people? How many brothels and singing girls were written in the poems of the Song people? To criticize the beauties of the Fengyue place openly and aboveboard, we women can't even mention it?"

She took a sip of tea, and said: "Besides, when those men look at them, the top-rank ones are because of love, and the low-rank ones are because of desire. But when I look at them, they are admiring the beauty of heaven and earth, and the gracefulness of Jianghu tempering. Given their innocuous vitality, isn’t it better than those literati and poets? I, not only want to criticize them, but also embellish them!”

Zheng Haizhu gave the hostess of this world a big praise in her heart.

Compared with those grandmas and ladies who rely on their father, brother or husband to live a life of luxury and wealth, but regard the low-level women who are struggling to make a living as lowly and unclean, Han Ximeng can be called a real celebrity.

(End of this chapter)