Prime Minister

Chapter 92
After Zhang Youzhi taught, he met Zhang Yue in the study next to Zhoujin Hall, and he couldn't help smiling when he saw him in a tee shirt: "I used to meet in the old man's private residence, you never wear a tee shirt, why did you wear it when you came to Nanfeng Courtyard? Got a tee?"

Zhang Yue knew that Zhang Youzhi would ask this question earlier, so he said with shame: "Everything can't be concealed from Mr.'s eyes. The student's careful thought made Mr. laugh."

Sometimes exposing some small shortcomings in front of teachers will make them feel that you are a lovable student.

Guozhen Zhangyou shook his head, and said in a tone that seemed displeased but not displeased: "Yu, Ru, I don't know how to say that you are, but you brought the manuscript?"

Zhang Yue quickly took out a few volumes of manuscripts from his book bag and presented them.

Zhang You saw that he had drawn a few points on the manuscript, and then said, "Your seal script is still a little too deliberate."

Zhang Yue saluted, "Students don't understand."

Zhang You said straightly: "Do you intend to breathe every day?"

Zhang Yue was stunned for a moment, and then said: "The student understands. Breathing is unintentional. When the students wrote, they had the idea of ​​writing the words well, so they intended to be in the words, and they melded unconsciously."

Zhang You said straightly: "That's right. What's true? It's true if you don't include the words in it. But it's really not easy for Ru Zhuan to write today, otherwise I wouldn't regard you as a successor. I teach you Can you practice your method of blending your breathing every day?"

Zhang Yue said: "Students practice every day. When practicing calligraphy, they can first meditate, and then vomit and accept, so that the pen will not shake."

Zhang You nodded straightly and said, "You can't deviate in the slightest since the seal technique has reached the depths. The slightest bit of breathing will shift your characters a little bit. Ordinary people can't see it, but the Fang family can."

Zhang Yue realized that this is full of details, so he respectfully said: "The breath is coherent, the pen does not move, and the students have been taught."

Zhang Youzhi looked at Zhang Yue's calligraphy again, and continued to review it with a pen.

Really, what he drew and outlined were the things that Zhang Yue wrote too deliberately.

Zhang Yue couldn't help but ask again: "Sir, practicing calligraphy is intentional, but writing good calligraphy is as unintentional as breathing. How can you be intentional to unintentional?"

Zhang You didn't even look at the tunnel and said, "If you don't have him, you can only practice more, so you are familiar with it."

Zhang Yue thought to himself, it was Ouyang Xiu's words again.However, Zhang Yue also knew that Ouyang Xiu and Zhang You had a very good relationship.

Ouyang Xiu once called Li Gou's Yuanzhou Xueji, Hedong Liu Qishu, and Jingzhao Zhangyou Zhizhuan as the three masterpieces in the world.

Mi Fu, one of the four Song families in later generations, once said something like this.

Zhang Youzhi's writing is like a palace maid's flower arrangement, concubines and concubines have their own attitudes, who will follow?Xiangyang Mi Fu.

Therefore, Zhang Yue's direct guidance from Zhang You is also a blessing.

After some guidance, Zhang Yue took out a few things from the bag and said with a smile: "Sir, this is taken from Fuzhou by a student entrusted by a student, do you close your eyes?"

Zhang You saw it and nodded, "Good stone."

Zhang Yue showed a happy expression, this is the Shoushan Stone that Peng Jingyi received from Fuzhou on a special trip to entrust the head of the restaurant.

Zhang Youzhi was good at seal script, as well as seals.

In the Song Dynasty, seals were mostly made of jade and copper, but both of them were valuable.

But unfortunately Zhang Youzhi likes it on weekdays, he likes to carve Xianzhang.

Xianzhang is also a kind of seal that is not the name and number of the book seal. Especially in the Tang and Song Dynasties, many literati liked to make one or two lines of poetry into Xianzhang.

For example, there is 'Bantan Qiushan Yifang Mountain'.

For example, Song Huizong, an official who can do everything but not be a king, has idle chapters 41, and one of them is the idle chapter of Shuanglong Xiaoyin.

Some idle chapters are a sentence, while Qi Baishi's idle chapter is 'Old man Baishi is really interesting'.

Zhang Youzhi has a lot of free chapters. He is good at seal script, and whenever he likes a poem, he will engrave it on the seal.

But jade and copper were too expensive, and he was not like Hu Xuezheng who would not refuse anyone who came, so Zhang Yue took the trouble to collect Shoushan stones for Zhang Youzhi to make a seal.

In the Song Dynasty, the Shoushan Stone was only used by masons for carving. It was presented to the palace for the dignitaries to enjoy, and some people used it as a play for elegant scholars, but no one used it for carving.It was not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties that it began to be used for engraving seals.

Zhang Youzhi saw that this Shoushan stone was so beneficial as a seal, and it was not as valuable as jade, so he used the Shoushan stone sent by Zhang Yue as a 'free seal'.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Yue originally sent Shoushan Stone to Zhang Youzhi to express his gratitude to his teacher, but Zhang Youzhi taught himself how to engrave chapters.

So in addition to seal art, Zhang Yue actually learned another craft.

After chatting from yin and yang to the back, Zhang Yue finally raised the topic and said, "Sir, are there any children from the clan included in the clan this year?"

Zhang Youzhi was playing with a few Shoushan Stones that Zhang Yue had given him in the past, and said with a smile, "Why do you intend to re-enter the clan school? Now this old man is fine, I'm afraid Hu Xuezheng from the county school won't let him go, right? !"

Zhang Yue said quickly, "Mr. made fun of it."

Zhang You said straightly: "Before it was because of your second brother, but now your second brother is a jinshi... I believe that the clan will not use the escape from marriage as an excuse, otherwise it will offend your uncle, and your second brother is now The nominal father's counselor (Zhang Yu)."

Zhang Yue said: "Sir, I am not begging for myself, but for my nephew..."

"Oh?"

After listening to what Zhang Yue said, Zhang You couldn't help caressing his beard and smiled slightly: "Your brother, son and nephew of Erlang Saburo, where will there be Xun's Eight Dragons in the past, and now our Zhang family is also prosperous together."

"Come to my house with your nephew tomorrow, and I will ask myself."

Zhang Yue said happily, "Thank you sir."

Zhang Youzhi said slowly: "Since the Kingdom of China, fathers, sons, brothers, uncles and nephews have been famous for their fame, and they have recommended each other among officials and gentry. I don't know how many people called them at one time, such as Erlu (Lu Duan, Lu Yuqing), Er Song (Song). Xi, Song Qi), and Sansu, who are known for their literary talents in Beijing recently, are all like this.”

"Although I have no intention of becoming an official, I should try my best to help my sons and nephews!"

Zhang Yue bowed and thanked him on the face, but he said in his heart that there may not be two words.In the end, Zhang Yue calculated that there was not enough time, so he had to ask Ce Wen again next time.

The next day, Zhang Yue and Zhang Qiu visited Zhang Youzhi's house with gifts.

Zhang Youzhi and Zhang Qiu used small talk to test their talents, but when they saw the other party's response, they were very happy.

Zhang Yue asked Zhang Youzhi for advice on policy questions, and Zhang Youzhi taught him carefully, explaining that Zhang Yue should not just rely on empty words, but should help the world and be safe, and focus on practical words.

Although the words of policy ask for advice, the most important thing is to be honest.

As for Zhang Yue's failure to get started, Zhang Youzhi taught him a few words, thought about it, studied it in detail, made plans for it, and re-phrased it when he was familiar with it.Zhang Youzhi gave Zhang Yue a few questions, and asked him to read the history books by himself. After reading it thoroughly, he would write the questions, and finally show him to him.

Zhang Yue read the title and felt that there was no problem. He used to go to the starting point of the forum all day long, but he had read a lot of research on this brick house and that brick house, and his historical knowledge was not bad.

When Zhang Yue and Zhang Qiu returned home, they saw Zhang Shi standing at the door of the house with his head raised and waiting.

At this moment, several neighbors are chatting with Zhang Shi.

"Sanlang is a sensible person. I think he can like the daughter of the Lu family."

"Sanlang is not too young."

"People are too student, how can they look up to the daughter of the Lu family, I think at least..."

While they were talking, Zhang Yue and Zhang Qiu had already arrived.

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "The neighbors are talking about my life-long event again!"

Laughing for a while, one person said: "That's not it, Saburo is so talented, and he is a student..."

"Hold on, I'm not too student."

"Hey, sooner or later? A student will be able to become an official in the future."

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "Then it's up to you, Uncle Chen, can your teeth grow back after you fall out?"

"Ah? How can you grow at a certain age?"

Zhang Yue said: "Yes, Uncle Chen also knows that he can't grow his teeth when he is old, so we can't say that there is no such thing, right?"

The neighbors burst into laughter.

"Sanlang really has a clever mouth."

"I will be able to coax my daughter-in-law in the future."

Zhang Yue immediately brought Zhang Qiu into the house, and said to Zhang Shi: "Brother, you are true, in the past, when the second brother was in the county school, you bragged about how good the second brother was, and what you said was easy to become a Jinshi and the champion. It's also within reach. Now it's my turn, isn't it?"

Zhang Shi said with an unhappy expression: "My brother is very promising, but I'm not allowed to praise you two things for you."

Zhang Yue said: "Brother, you are not boasting, you are flattering and killing me, which will make me jealous. The second brother who just thought about it has not sent a letter to the family so far, I think it is all for you to force. "

Zhang Shi couldn't help his face when he heard it: "What did you say? After all, it's not that you didn't live up to your expectations when you studied before..."

At this time, Mrs. Yu came over with the tea soup and handed it to Zhang Yue: "You two brothers should say less, yes, uncle, how is Xi'er's study?"

Zhang Yue took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "It's better for my sister-in-law to cook the tea soup."

"Uncle likes it in the future and will burn it for you every day."

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "Good teacher sister-in-law knows that although Mr. Xi'er is a little younger, he is more talented and smart. He has already taken him. After the spring snow melts next year, he can study at Nanfeng Academy."

"Really?" Yu's surprise added, "There won't be any more mistakes this time, I really don't know how to thank Uncle."

Zhang Yue waved his hand and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law doesn't have to be like this. For the sake of Xi'er's cleverness, Mr. also said that our children are all the seeds of reading."

Yu was overjoyed when he heard the words, and tears flowed from his seat while sitting on the chair.

Zhang Shi said calmly: "Isn't that right? Xi'er is the eldest son and eldest grandson of the Zhang family."

Zhang Yue sneered secretly when he heard the words.

Zhangqiu looked at Zhang Yue and said, "Third uncle, did you really praise me as a reading seed before? What does a reading seed mean?"

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "It means reading materials, just like beautiful jade, but any kind of beautiful jade needs to be polished."

"Well, this is the principle of 'you can't make a tool if you don't cut it.'" Zhangqiu nodded again and again.

Zhang Yue said with a smile, "Yeah, so you have to study harder and practice harder, don't let it go."

"Third uncle, I can save it. In the future, I will be like you and second uncle." Zhangqiu said in a childish yet firm tone.

When the family was talking, a carriage from Suzhou had stopped far away outside Zhang's house.

(End of this chapter)