The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 436 Appointment [Part [-]]

At noon on the sixth day of the lunar new year.

Xue Biao rode his horse in front, led the team out of Rongguo Mansion, and rushed to the old house on Zijin Street.

In the carriage, Aunt Xue was leaning wearily on the cushion, her beautiful eyes slightly drooping and her brows frowning from time to time.

Last night, she was tossing and turning and almost didn't close her eyes all night. When it was dawn and she was physically and mentally exhausted, she finally made a decision: When she saw Jiao Shun this time, she must clarify the misunderstanding in person, so as to completely cut off the young man's delusions. And my own ridiculous thoughts that I can't explain clearly.

After making up her mind, she thought that she would be relieved, but the feeling of loss prevailed instead.

But even so, she didn't change her mind.

In the end, although Aunt Xue is innocent, fantasizing, and has a thrill-seeking nature hidden in her bones, she is by no means a promiscuous woman. What's more, her children are about to get married, so at this moment, she will be even more embarrassed to have sex with her nephews and nephews. Here comes Jiao Shunhu.

But she said that she mustered up her spirits and was thinking about how to speak when she saw Jiao Shun at night, when she suddenly heard someone chasing after her on horseback and shouting loudly, and the carriage under her stopped not long after.

Aunt Xue straightened up suspiciously, and asked the maid beside her, "What happened?"

The maid took a look through the car window, then turned her head and said, "It's Manager Li who came after me. Could it be that something happened to the Rongguo Mansion?"

This Manager Li is now in the outer courtyard with Xue Pan, so Aunt Xue specially told him to take care of his son before going out, but now he suddenly came after him, could it be Wen Long...

Aunt Xue hurriedly sent someone to get out of the car to ask, but after a while, the servant woman led the frowning Xue Biao back to the carriage.

Seeing Xue Biao's appearance, Aunt Xue became more and more panicked, she leaned out of the car with half of her body and said, "But your brother got into trouble?!"

Xue Biao was stunned for a moment, then quickly shook his head and said: "Auntie misunderstood, it was Zijin Street who sent a message, saying that Uncle Mei Shi had important business to attend to, and he would not come to the appointment until nightfall."

Aunt Xue breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the words, and then frowned.

Even if she doesn't care about outside affairs anymore, she still knows that the civil servants are in conflict with Jiao Shun recently, especially the noble places such as the Imperial Academy and the Procuratorate, who regard Jiao Shun as a thorn in their side.

If Jiao Shun and Namei Hanlin collide...

Thinking of this, Aunt Xue couldn't help complaining: "Because the Mei family was in a hurry, I deliberately put them in the first place, but this Mei Hanlin has an important official business again—isn't the Imperial Academy a noble yamen?" , why can't you even take half a day off?"

Why isn't Xue Biao annoyed?
The Mei family seemed to be urging their fate back then, even though their mother was ill, they insisted on forcing their younger sister to go to Beijing to get married; now they are asking the two brothers and sisters to move out of Rongguo Mansion within a time limit, it can be said that they are not showing any mercy to the Xue family.

Also considering that this marriage was arranged by his father before his death, he chose to swallow his anger.

Who would have thought that the Mei family was pushing ahead!
He, Mei, is just a seventh-rank editor, and he is not an outstanding figure with outstanding talents. What kind of important business can he have, even taking half a day off to discuss the marriage of his children?

When he first heard the news, Xue scorpion was so angry that he wanted to take his sister back home, as if there was no such marriage.

But this is my father's will after all...

What's more, before leaving, my mother also explained that she should not be impulsive, and everything should focus on the happiness of the younger sister in the rest of her life.

Therefore, after calming down, Xue Biao still chose to compromise, holding back his resentment and suggested: "Why don't you push back Brother Jiao's matter first? If so, my nephew will go to the Ministry of Industry in the afternoon. Make an apology to Big Brother Jiao in person.”

"This……"

This time I came to Jiao Shun, originally there was nothing important, just to thank him face to face, and then ask what is missing in Jiao's new house, so as to make up for it as a thank you gift.

If it's just these things, it's fine to push back and down.

But Aunt Xue had a hard time making up her mind to kill her love with a sword. As the saying goes, "one effort, then decline, and three exhaustion", she can't guarantee that her determination can last for a long time.

Therefore, after hesitating for a while, he shook his head and rejected Xue Biao's proposal: "It doesn't have to be like this, brother Shun is not an outsider, so I will send someone to guard the intersection to guide him in through the back door, just keep him away from Mei's house."

"This……"

Xue Biao hesitated and said: "Brother Jiao, if he knows the reason, he won't be upset, right?"

"rest assured."

Aunt Xue took care of everything: "Brother Shun's mother is as close as a sister to me, and besides, he is not the kind of person who waits for a small belly."

At the same time, he thought to himself, when he sees Jiao Shun and speaks clearly, he will hurt his heart anyway, and these details are not bad.

Seeing that her aunt was resolute, Xue Biao didn't say anything else.

…………

Just as Aunt Xue's convoy was starting again.

Zhao Yan, the deputy of the handyman's office, also excitedly found a room in the Secretary's Office.

"grown ups."

After entering the door, he gave a deep salute first, and before Jiao Shun could open his mouth, he handed over a thick stack of rice paper.

"Did you find it so soon?"

Jiao Shun was overjoyed, hurriedly put down the official document in his hand, took it and flipped through it, but saw that it was full of poems, most of which were about love and love.

"My lord has a life, I must go all out for my humble job!"

Zhao Yan straightened up, with a proud expression on his face, he said: "After getting the letter, I immediately found a few old acquaintances of my classmates who are outstanding in writing, so I managed to gather these poems."

As he said that, he stared at Jiao Shun with burning eyes.

Jiao Shun knew that he was thinking about getting a position in engineering, but he was unwilling to make a promise easily. He only flipped through the poems while making vague and perfunctory words.

Aunt Xue was really shy, and she lacked important handles. She might be more difficult to deal with than Li Wan (with the help of Youshi) and Wang Xifeng (with the help of Ping'er), so naturally she had to prepare some trump cards in advance.

And what is more expressive than poetry these days?
Therefore, he specially asked Zhao Yan to find acquaintances, to find the poems of these down-and-out literati and officialdom officials, intending to find some poems that match the artistic conception, and after patching them together, they used them to borrow flowers to offer Buddha.

Of course, he didn't intend to pretend that he did it in front of Aunt Xue. After all, his rough image of ignorance and skill is well known. It is inevitable that people will be suspicious when he suddenly writes poems. If it has the opposite effect Not good.

At that time, just say that I searched secretly and revised it with all my heart, which is enough to show my sincerity.

but……

After flipping through more than half of it, Jiao Shun couldn't help but frown.

Although he asked for love poems by name, the choice of words and sentences are too explicit!
If I copied it and gave it to Aunt Xue, I'm afraid that instead of going further, I would be kicked out as a disciple.

Hey~
The word 'Sao Ren Mo Ke' is really apt!
Among them, there are a few implicit ones, but even with Jiao Shun's level of appreciation, they feel that they are not satisfactory.

It wasn't until I turned to the back that I suddenly found a few good songs, but the problem is...

This is not a love poem, is it?
Jiao Shun looked up at Zhao Yan suspiciously. Zhao Yan first stretched his neck to look at the poems on the paper, and then explained: "Most of the classmates and old acquaintances in the humble job are just fake people, without much talent, so the humble job deliberately I went to the National History Museum to proofread Gong Zizhen and asked for a few miscellaneous poems—he was selected in the same year as the humble one, so it can be regarded as some kind of friendship.”

The so-called selection refers to the selection of officials from among the unsuccessful candidates.

Seeing Zhao Yan's smug face, this Gong Zizhen is obviously a celebrity.

And this name, Jiao Shun vaguely remembers that he has heard of it, but he can't remember whether it is this life or the last life. After all, he didn't study it very seriously when he was a child. Maybe he can remember some of the poems he memorized back then, such as the author and year. The basics are all forgotten.

Who cares, it doesn't matter who the author is, as long as it works.

After Jiao Shun sent Zhao Yan away, he spent another afternoon, and finally extracted four relatively consistent sentences from the two seven-character quatrains that Gong proofread.

The first song is: The young man takes the bridle to clarify his mind, when he is tired, he should pity and shrink his hands.Don't shed tears today, cross the river and only complain about goodbye.

Jiao Shun intercepted the first two sentences. The original poem said that when he was young, he had high aspirations and rode his horse and raised his whip.

As a result, what he smeared and changed into: The young man clasped his wrist to clarify his mind, looked into the distance and felt pitiful when he retracted his hand.

According to the scene of the birthday, the meaning becomes: the boy grabs the woman's wrist to clarify his mind, and after the woman fled away, he still feels sorry for her shy appearance when she shrinks her hands to avoid it.

The second song: The weak crown seeks the party for several years, and the exquisite Wan Yumao is intertwined.Unforgettable drizzle at the Hongni Temple, drenched in spring and leaning on this flower.

Jiao Shun intercepted the last two sentences. The original poem said that the poet forgot the weather when he was admiring the flowers, so his robe was wet by the rain and dew.

He changed it to: Unforgettable autumn waves on the red mud bank, and the light fur coat leaning on this flower.

The general meaning is: Unforgettable on the red mud bank with rippling autumn waves, the beautiful figure of a woman hidden in a light and warm leather jacket leaning against the flowers and waiting, alluding to the fact that people are more delicate than flowers.

Jiao Shun once wanted to change it to "rely on this rock" or "rely on this mountain", after all, there seemed to be no flowers growing near that big rock at that time.

But after changing it, I always feel bad, the accent of 'shi' and 'time' in the first half of the song is accentuated; let's use mountains, it doesn't fit the terrain, and it lacks the charming charm of people than flowers.

After much deliberation, Jiao Shun decisively sent someone to send a message to Yu Chuan, asking her to take a flower hoe and flower basket to the garden, shovel a few chrysanthemums from nearby and plant them quietly. Or if you pass by inadvertently, you will only think that there is a problem with your memory.

After getting rid of this small flaw, Jiao Shun quickly called the imperial painter of the Ministry of Industry, and used a few strokes to describe the scene in the poem simply and vividly.

Then after carefully practicing a dozen times, I copied the poem I had rewritten on it with a splash of ink.

After carefully blowing it dry, he shamelessly admired his 'masterpiece', thinking that everything was ready and he only owed it to the east wind.

It's easy to get to Sanya.

If he is really a brat, he may wish to fly to Zijin Street immediately to show off.

But Jiao Shun took his time, had dinner casually near the yamen, and sat in the private room for another quarter of an hour. Seeing that the sky was getting dark, he drove to Zijin Street.

The night can always contain more filth than the day.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at Zijin Street, he was stopped by the steward of Xue's family, saying that he was asked to detour and open the back door on the back street.

This made Jiao Shun frown.

On the surface, entering and exiting through the back door is a standard configuration for private giving and receiving.

But how can such things be entrusted to the servants?

Especially not one servant, but several!
This can't all be Aunt Xue's confidant, can it? !

After careful analysis, Aunt Xue let her go in and out through the back door. There must be other reasons, and most of them have no intentions of sacrificing anything. Otherwise, it would be too late to avoid taboos. How could she arrange so many people to stop her halfway?

Jiao Shun felt three points depressed at first.

But when he thought of the trump card in his arms, his confidence immediately recovered a lot, and he asked the steward with a pleasant face: "Dare to ask, but what kind of distinguished guest has come to the house, and I need to avoid it for a while?"

"This……"

The steward thought about it, and the mistress didn't seem to want to hide it from Uncle Jiao deliberately, so she said, "To tell you the truth, it was the Mei Hanlin couple who came to discuss the second young lady's marriage, so..."

After a pause, he hurriedly added: "Madam originally wanted them to come in the afternoon, but who would have thought that they would have to change it to the evening."

Jiao Shun was stunned.

Immediately, he speculated about Aunt Xue's intention of meeting him.

If it was an ordinary matter, since he was worried that he would run into that Mei Hanlin, he should postpone it.

Now I would rather let myself go through the back door to see myself...

From an emotional point of view, Jiao Shun naturally expected that Aunt Xue's heart would be greatly moved; but from a rational analysis, this might not be a good sign.

tsk~
He smacked his lips, touched the scroll in his sleeve, and then raised his voice and said, "Lead the way."

But at the same time that Jiao Shun turned to the back door of Xue's house, the talks between Xue's family and Mei's family came to an impasse.

The beginning of the matter was that when Mei Hanlin was in the yamen today, he and his colleagues talked too much together, but in the end, he didn't know who suggested it first, and finally wrote a bloody letter in a fever, vowing to fight the national traitor Jiao Shun.

At that time, Mei Hanlin was still complacent because he was ranked fourth, and it was only when he got home that he realized something was wrong.

I had just written a blood letter to swear, and in a blink of an eye, I was married to the Xue family related to the Rongguo Mansion, and the national thief happened to live in the Rongguo Mansion—although there are two floors in between, who knows if someone will catch rumors and say that I am in person. One set behind the other?
My dear mother, it may affect my official career!

So after arriving at Xue's house, he firmly demanded that everything in the marriage be kept simple, not extravagant and wasteful, let alone grandiose.

Being urged to send my younger sister to the capital to get married is already enough to accommodate the Mei family, but in the end, getting married is like being a thief...

How could the Xue family agree to such a ridiculous request? !
Not to mention Aunt Xue, even Xue Biao, who wanted to compromise, couldn't help but look down on the spot.

Seeing that the scene froze, the petite Mrs. Mei was about to say a few soft words to ease the atmosphere, but as soon as she opened her mouth, Mei Hanlin gave her a gouging look, and she had to lower her head timidly.

Seeing that Mei Hanlin was so domineering and domineering, it seemed that the married daughter of the Xue family wanted something from him. Aunt Xue's chest swelled out of anger, and she simply gritted her teeth and said, "If it has to be like this, I'm afraid I can't make up my mind. , Mrs. Mei still give it to my brother and sister..."

"aunt!"

Xue Biao hurriedly stopped her, and reminded in a low voice with a bitter face: "My mother is still ill, so what should I do if I get angry."

Aunt Xue had no choice but to stop talking, but she really couldn't see Mei Hanlin's arrogant and arrogant face, so she said with a straight face: "Master Mei may as well discuss with Xue Biao again, I still have some housework to deal with, please stay with me."

With that said, he left Mei Hanlin and his wife and went out of the hall.

As a result, as soon as he went out, he got a report from the servant woman, saying that Jiao Shun was already waiting in the back flower hall.

[After looking up the poems all afternoon, I finally found one that fits the occasion and the background of the times, so I couldn't help but sigh.

Gong Zizhen (1792-1841), a thinker, poet, writer and pioneer of reformism in the Qing Dynasty, advocated abolishing bad governance and resisting foreign aggression. He once fully supported Lin Zexu's ban on opium.

Due to repeated failures, he was selected to become an official in 1820. He successively served as the secretary of the cabinet and the proofreader of the National History Museum. He finally passed the examination in 1829. The current background in the book is about 1828, because the Xia Dynasty was more powerful. , foreign trade output increased substantially, so the war was induced in advance.

The background of the times and political tendencies are all in line, and it is only natural to have friendship with Zhao Yan.

As for the first half of the poem, which is suspected to have been made in his later years, and the discrepancy caused by Lao Ao's random tampering, I can only ask everyone not to delve into it. 】

(End of this chapter)