lied to Kangxi

Chapter 509 The Bullish Ghost Li

Dai's mansion suddenly sent out flowers, inviting celebrities from all over the south of the Yangtze River, as well as their wives and daughters, to enjoy the "Caisi Begonia" together.

Because Dai Youqi is not only a celebrity in the south of the Yangtze River, but also a former number one scholar, his status is particularly prominent.

Half a month later, celebrities from all over the south of the Yangtze River, bringing their families, arrived in Jiangning in an endless stream.

On the day of viewing the flowers, the Begonia Courtyard in Dai's Mansion was full of traffic and talented people.

Because they are all celebrities with status, status, and wealth, Dai's mansion did not pay too much attention to etiquette and taboos, and allowed celebrities to bring their families into the garden to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Begonias in full bloom.

In fact, the arrangement of the Dai Mansion is quite problematic.

Just because, according to the etiquette system, men and women are not allowed to sit at the same table from the age of seven, not to mention that so many noble ladies, big girls and daughter-in-laws want to meet outside men by chance?
However, Dai Youqi's identity and status determine that his words carry a lot of weight, even if they are not in harmony with the etiquette, it is understandable.

Society is so real.

People in the circle can understand and tolerate the unruly behavior of successful people in the upper class.

If a poor scholar arranged this way, he would definitely be denounced as insulting and polite. How decent is it?

When the grand event was about to start, Yuzhu took Qingwen into Dai's Bieyuan through the back door.

"Mei'er, you are the cousin of Dai's mansion today, and you have beautiful handwriting, and you will show off your unique skills to celebrities later?" Yu Zhu deliberately praised his women.

Women in this era have no words at all, Qingwen learned a lot of poetry and songs from Confucianism, and Yuzhu simply bestowed the word Meixian.

Even with the table characters, Qingwen simply called herself Yumeizi.

However, a woman's appearance is so easy that outsiders can't see her whole picture. Yuzhu is usually called Mei'er.

"Master, my concubine just knows a few words. How dare you play tricks in front of celebrities from all walks of life?" Qingwen has been working behind closed doors. How is her own level.

Yuzhu doesn't have the talent to recite poems and write lyrics, but he still has the basic appreciation ability.

Qingwen did have a talent for poetry, but as for her level, it was above average, not yet top-notch.

However, what women want to hear is often not the truth, but flattery with or without traces.

The reality is often cruel. Scumbags are never short of beautiful women to accompany them, while honest people with stupid mouths can't even catch up with girlfriends.

With the assistance of Dai's housekeeper, Yuzhu and Qingwen quickly sneaked into the garden.

Although it is mixed sex, the identity check at the gate of the garden is extremely strict.

All in all, no one is allowed to enter without an invitation from Dai's mansion.

This also ensures that as long as the people who enter the garden are members of the upper class, they are not nameless rats.

In the garden, Yuzhu didn't know anyone, so there was no need to greet anyone.

Yuzhu led Qingwen to enjoy the scenery while whispering.

Strolling in a garden full of flowers, accompanied by a handsome man, talking some indecent little things from time to time.

Such a pleasant spring outing, Qingwen is already in full bloom.

"I heard that Layman You'an's daughter is engaged to the Yang family in Suzhou?"

"That's what happened."

"The Yang family in Suzhou has quite a lot of promising young masters. I don't know which young master finally won the oiran?"

"Who else can it be? It can only be the famous Jiangnan Jieyuan Yang Sanlang."

When passing by a bush of flowers, Yuzhu overheard several women gossip about others behind their backs.

Yuzhu heard from Zhou Quan that the rumored No. [-] beauty in the south of the Yangtze River has always been Liu Taiqing, a layman from You'an.

It's just that Jushi You'an has married Yan Zhen, a famous scholar.It is said that his son is still young and his daughter has reached the age of Ji.

At that time, Zhou Quan mainly introduced Liu Taiqing's daughter, talking about the hype and talking about it.However, Yuzhu is not very interested.

What does green apple mean?
Ripe red apples, take a bite and your mouth will be full of juice, that's interesting!
Tired from walking on the way, Yuzhu led Qingwen and sat in the corridor by the lake.

Dai's mansion has maids and women who serve tea and wash in various places in the garden.

Seeing Yuzhu and Qingwen coming, the two little girls quickly squatted down to salute.

Yu Zhu waved his hand, motioning for excuses, Da Ma Jin Dao sat down.

After serving the tea, Yuzhu held the cup of tea in his hand, admiring the beautiful scenery by the lake.

Gardens in the south of the Yangtze River pay attention to uniqueness and exquisiteness, and do not pay attention to the so-called beauty of symmetry.

Yuzhu's auxiliary state mansion was arranged by the old emperor himself, and it is also a picturesque Jiangnan landscape.

Rehe Mountain Resort, in addition to the main palace complex, is also mostly a copy of the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River.

However, the Old Summer Palace is different. There are many elements of Western architectural art in it.

While Yuzhu and Qingwen were talking softly, another young couple came in from outside.

According to etiquette, those who come in later must greet those who come first.

"Brother, you met Song Cheng in Xiasongjiang River, it's polite here." This Song Cheng bowed politely to the ground.

Yuzhu got up quickly, bowed to the ground, and introduced himself politely, "I'm in Suzhou Jinshan Wei Dai Qingshan, and I met Brother Song."

Songjiang is the prefecture of Songjiang, and Nanhui is one of its counties.

Jinshanwei is very close to Nanhui County, only more than 100 miles away.

The Song family and the Dai family are not only very close, but also communicate frequently.

However, Song Cheng had never seen Yu Zhu before, so he asked very curiously: "Please forgive me for taking the liberty, I don't know Brother Dai and Duke Dai Long..."

Yuzhu cupped his hands and smiled, and said, "Brother Song, to tell you the truth, Duke Dai Long is my cousin."

"Oh, so that's the case, then Brother Dai is not an outsider." Song Cheng heard the word "Tang Bo" and guessed that Yuzhu must be Dai Youqi's distant relative.

Both parties brought their family members, so Qingwen also greeted each other with Song Cheng's wife, Mrs. Zhang.

After sitting down with each other, Song Cheng and Yu Zhu gradually got to know each other after some chatting.

"Brother Li Qing is a talented person with extraordinary conversation, so he must have already made a name for himself?" Song Cheng seemed to be very sincere, but in fact he had the intention of showing off. He introduced himself, "It is very lucky for me to win the 44th year of Kangxi. Yiyouke Jiangnan Township Examination No.5."

Among cultural people in this era, there are two kinds of comparisons with each other, one is literary fame, and the other is fame.

Silver is indeed a good thing, and it is common for a penny to stump a hero.

However, Confucian disciples are all ashamed to talk about money, thinking that it is too stinky.

These days, only lowly merchants or peddlers will keep talking about the cheap business of making money.

Yuzhu thought to himself, what a coincidence, the year before he was selected as the No. [-] scholar by the old emperor, Song Cheng was elected in Jiangnan.

Many things, in fact, cannot stand scrutiny.

These days, in order to facilitate the formation of cliques, as long as the Jinshi is in the same year, the same year record is compiled.

If Yuzhu remembers correctly, Song Cheng's name was not included in the Jinshi Tongannian in the 45th year of Kangxi.

It is conceivable that Song Cheng lost his name to Sun Shan after passing the Enke Meeting of the Ministry of Rites that year.

It has been more than eight years since he was the number one scholar in Yuzhu, and Song Cheng is still a master of juren.

This shows that Song Cheng probably failed the ranking twice.

Because, in the past eight years, there has been no Enke, and only two ceremonial examinations have been held in total.

Yuzhu pretended to be annoyed, and sighed: "After passing the Shuntianfu Township Examination in the 44th year of Kangxi, so far, I have failed the exam twice in a row. I am really ashamed."

Where there are people, there is society, and there are rivers and lakes.

This person is afraid that others will be better than himself.

Song Cheng heard that Yu Zhu had also won the exam, and failed in two consecutive exams, so he couldn't help feeling empathetic.

"Brother Dai, don't be discouraged, given time, you will surely be able to get high in the imperial list." Song Cheng subconsciously comforted Yuzhu.

In today's social atmosphere, if a man talks and a woman interjects, it is a very uneducated disrespectful act.

Qingwen knew the family name of her man very well.

Now, Yuzhu deliberately hides his clumsiness, and makes Song Cheng believe it.Qingwen thought it was funny, subconsciously raised her sleeves to cover her face, wanted to laugh, but tried not to laugh out loud.

It would be a great disrespect to laugh out loud.

After the men's deep-dive communication with each other was over, Qingwen also chatted with Mrs. Zhang.

"Sister Zhao, your family must be a big farmer and student." Mrs. Zhang made a very firm conclusion.

Qingwen asked Mrs. Zhang very curiously: "How do you see it?"

Mrs. Zhang raised her finger to Qingwen's ear, and said with a smile, "Your pair of emerald-inlaid jewel bee pattern earrings alone are worth a lot. Oh, no, there is no price."

Qingwen was startled, as she was not qualified to wear this earring.

Only because the noble concubine Tong Jia in the palace knew that Qingwen was Yuzhu's favorite concubine, she rewarded a pair of emerald-inlaid jewelry and honeycomb pattern earrings that only concubines in the palace are eligible to wear.

In Fuguo Duke's mansion, with Xiuyun guarding her head, Qingwen only dared to wear this pair of earrings in private, admiring herself alone.

If Qingwen, a concubine of this concubine, wears this kind of precious and showy item to show off openly, it's like sending meat to the chopping block. Xiuyun doesn't even need to find an excuse to punish her.

Qingwen hurriedly explained, "This item is just an imitation, and it's not very valuable."

Mrs. Zhang raised her fan to hide her smile, only her eyes were exposed behind the fan, and she deliberately joked: "Sister Zhao, why should you be so self-effacing? I don't want to ask you to borrow money. Presumably, Sister Zhao's family has at least tens of thousands of fertile fields." mu?"

As soon as Qingwen heard this, she knew that the earrings had been exposed and were considered extremely valuable by Mrs. Zhang.

In this era of antiques or jewelry, the competition is based on everyone's knowledge and eyesight.

To put it bluntly, if you mistook something and mistook Li Gui for Li Kui, you must admit that you are unlucky.

In the antique world, what is played is the heartbeat and the superb means of counterfeiting.

The two young couples were having a good chat when they suddenly heard that Zhang Boxing, governor of Jiangsu, had arrived.

Naturally, it was impossible for Yuzhu to meet Zhang Boxing, but Song Cheng couldn't sit still, he wanted to join in the fun, but he was afraid that Yuzhu would poke him in the back and say he was snobbish.

For a moment, Mr. Song, Juren, was extremely entangled!

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