Liaozhai: A scholar should draw a sword

Chapter 114
When the drink reached its peak, Cuiyun laughed and said, "The three young masters probably haven't heard Yuniang play and sing, have they?"

"The three of us are here for the first time, of course we have never heard of it."

"Those three sons must listen to it. Not only does Yu Niang play the piano well, but she also sings beautifully. Even the girls in our workshop like to listen to her singing."

Upon hearing this, Sun Li couldn't help laughing and said: "Hahaha, that's great, then Lao Yuniang will play a piece, and I'll definitely listen to it."

"Young master speaks a lot, and Yu Niang only has a little understanding of the rhythm. It's all about the love of the sisters..."

After a few words of modesty, Yu Niang walked to the side of the piano and sat down, adjusted the strings, and then began to play.

After a burst of melodious and melodious piano sounds, Yuniang gently opened her red lips and sang softly:
"When will the bright moon come? Ask the blue sky for wine. I don't know the palace in the sky. What year is it?
I want to return by wind, and I fear Qionglou Yuyu, the heights are too cold.

Dancing clear shadow, like in the world.

Turn Zhuge, low tenants, and sleepless.

There should be no hatred, why is it going to other times?

People have sorrows and sorrows and joys, and moons have yin and qing, which is difficult to complete.

Nung, moon and new moon……"

Sun Li, Fu Congzhi and Wei Yishan were fascinated when they heard that the piece played and sung by Yuniang turned out to be a poem written by her husband.

Actually this is not surprising.

This song "Water Tune Getou When Will the Moon Come" has long been popular all over the country, and it is also one of the favorite golden songs of Goulan girls.

"Wonderful, really wonderful! The people are beautiful, the music is beautiful, and the music is beautiful!"

When Yuniang finished playing, Sun Li couldn't help clapping his hands loudly.

Fu Cong said with emotion: "That's right, this is the first time I've heard someone interpret Mr.'s Ci Pai so touchingly."

Wei Yishan nodded in agreement: "Well, the poems written by the master are indeed far-reaching, and almost every poem can be called a famous poem handed down to the world."

Hearing the conversation between the two, Bai He was pleasantly surprised, and couldn't help asking: "Could it be that the three young masters are all students of the Marquis of Jing'an?"

"Yu Niang, Du Yuniang, come out to me..."

At this moment, a loud shout came from outside the courtyard.

"Mr. Wu calm down, Yu Niang is accompanying the guests now, why don't I help you find two other girls..."

"Fuck off! I came here tonight to find Du Yuniang, let her come out!"

Hearing the noise, Sun Li couldn't help but frowned: "Who is this? So rude?"

Lily sighed: "This man is called Wu Zhijie, a student of the Imperial College, I heard that he also participated in the current subject examination, and his father is the Minister of the Household Department..."

Hearing this, Wei Yishan couldn't help but sneered: "The superintendent of the Imperial College, the son of the household secretary's family, no wonder he is so arrogant."

At this time, Du Yuniang frowned, obviously not having the slightest affection for Wu Zhijie.

Sun Li heard that the commotion was still going on outside, so he couldn't help but glance at Du Yuniang and said, "Yuniang, you don't need to pay attention to this person, with the three of us here, you don't dare to mess around with him."

"Yes, no matter who he is, we must follow the rules in everything..."

As soon as the voice fell, the other party had already rushed into the courtyard, and he was not the only one, there was another man following him, who seemed to be a student of the Imperial College as well.

An old lady in a flowered jacket hurriedly followed in, and said with a bitter face: "Mr. Wu, I didn't lie to you, did I? These three young masters have already arrived."

It seemed that Wu Zhijie had already drank a lot of wine, so he glanced at Sun Li and the other three with his drunken eyes, and then said arrogantly: "I don't care how long they come, anyway, Yuniang must accompany me, and you can help them find another Come girl."

"This……"

The old lady glanced helplessly at Sun Li and the other three.

Fu Congzhi couldn't help but sneered: "Hehe, since Xiongtai is a student of the Imperial College, he should know etiquette better than others, why is he so rude?"

Wei Yishan also said: "Everything has a first come, first served, brother, don't you understand this truth?"

For ordinary people, when they heard that the other party was the son of the Shangshu family, they would probably swallow their anger.

After all, offending a Shangshu is no joke.

However, since Fu Congzhi, Wei Yishan, and Sun Li were able to become Zhou Yu's students, they have naturally passed many tests, so how could they bow down in front of the powerful?

Not to mention the young masters of Shangshu's family, even if Shangshu himself is here, they will never bow their knees to please each other.

When the six of them first arrived in the capital, many examinees were running around, trying to do everything they could to get under the court's important officials.

This can be regarded as a long-standing tradition.

Officials in Beijing and China usually have factions, such as fellow countrymen, academics, political opinions, etc., forming different circles.

Some candidates with no background will often choose to join a camp as soon as they enter the capital, so as to gain network resources.

At the same time, each faction will also recruit talents in advance, especially some outstanding candidates are the targets of competition among various factions.

This is actually the same reason as some rich people in the countryside subsidizing poor scholars to study.

If you win the bet, you will surely get rich returns.It doesn't matter if you lose the bet, cast the net widely, if the east side is dark and the west side is bright, there will always be a time when the bet is right.

However, Sun Li and his party of six never took the initiative to visit anyone, because there was no need for that, and the husband was their biggest backer.

Hearing the words of Wei Yishan and the two of them, Wu Zhijie couldn't help snorting: "I am lazy to argue with you, there are many girls in the Jiaofang Division, do you really want to make things difficult for me?"

At this time, the accompanying scholar walked over involuntarily, and bowed his hands at the three of them: "No, Xu Dongnan is a classmate with Mr. Wu.

From the looks of it, the three brothers must be candidates for the general examination in Beijing, right? "

"So what if it is? So what if it's not?" Sun Li replied lightly.

"The three brothers may not know something, but Mr. Wu and Yu Niang are old acquaintances, and today they made a special trip to meet Yuniang.

Therefore, I would like to ask the three brothers to help me a lot, I will be grateful..."

Hearing this call, Sun Li subconsciously glanced at Du Yuniang, but found that Du Yuniang's expression was somewhat resistant, even disgusted.

It seemed that it was not what the name Xu Dongnan said at all.

So, Sun Li shook his head: "I'm sorry, if Mr. Wu is really a kind and righteous person, then he should find a way to redeem Yuniang's body instead of letting her forcefully smile here.

The next sentence is still the same, everything has a first come first served. "

Upon hearing these words, Xu Dongnan immediately darkened his face: "I would like to advise you to think about it more, and not to miss your own future."

Sun Li couldn't help laughing angrily: "Hahaha, are you threatening me?"

Before Xu Dongnan could answer, Wu Zhijie snorted heavily: "So what if I threaten you? If you have the ability, you can name me!"

"It's easy to say, I'm the next grandson!"

"Follow it!"

"Wei Yishan!"

Not to be outdone, Fu Congzhi and Wei Yishan declared their names respectively.

Du Yuniang hesitated for a while, but finally said nothing.

She didn't want Sun Li and the others to argue with Wu Zhijie because of her, but if she took the initiative to follow Wu Zhijie at this time, it would definitely make Sun Li and the others lose face.

Therefore, the best way is to wait and see what happens and let nature take its course.

"Okay, you guys are kind, I will remember you guys."

Wu Zhijie looked at Sun Li and the other three coldly, then squinted at Du Yuniang and shouted, "Yuniang, my master's patience has a limit, if you are sensible, follow me now."

Du Yuniang bit her lip and didn't answer.

The old lady was in a hurry, and hurried to Du Yuniang to bow in front of her: "My little aunt, please let me beg you, okay?"

"Hey, what do you mean?" Wei Yishan yelled at the old lady, "You mean you don't take us seriously?"

"I……"

The old lady didn't know how to answer.

At this time, Wu Zhijie finally couldn't bear it anymore, and took advantage of the strength of the wine to grab Du Yuniang's hand: "Let's go!"

"You let me go..."

Du Yuniang was ashamed and annoyed, struggling desperately.

"Let go of her!"

Sun Li got angry, so he had to go forward and push Wu Zhijie away.

This push was a bit heavy, and Wu Zhijie drank a little too much, his footsteps were unsteady, and he staggered two steps before falling to the ground.

"Young Master Wu..."

Xu Dongnan couldn't help but turn pale with shock, and hurried forward to help him.

In the end, Wu Zhijie didn't appreciate it. He slapped Xu Dongnan's hand away, stood up slowly, and stared at Sun Li as if he wanted to eat people.

"Okay, very good, you dare to do anything to me. Your name is Sun Li, right? Let's wait and see!"

After finishing speaking, Wu Zhijie laughed grimly a few times, and walked away in a huff.

After all, this guy is also a student of the Imperial College, so he won't be so hot-headed and reckless in doing things like some ignorant dandies.

Including his father Xu Yonghe, Minister of the Household Department, is the same, he likes people behind his back.

As soon as the two left, the old lady couldn't help but shook her head with a wry smile, and said to Sun Li and the other three: "Young masters, I know that you scholars talk about integrity.

But sometimes for the sake of the future, you have to be soft and have to be soft, otherwise what are you studying hard in the cold window?
No matter what, Mr. Wu's father is the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs... that's all for now, you can figure it out for yourself. "

When you're done, turn around.

As soon as the old lady left, Du Yuniang also saluted Sun Lifu and said in a sobbing voice, "Thank you, Young Master, for your love. In fact, Yuniang doesn't want to drag you down, just, just..."

"Okay, Yuniang, you don't have to blame yourself, it's not your fault, and you don't have to worry about the three of us.

By the way, the person surnamed Xu said that you and Wu Zhijie were old acquaintances, what happened? "

When this matter was mentioned, Du Yuniang couldn't help feeling sad, and the tears couldn't stop flowing down.

At this time, Cuiyun couldn't help but sighed, "The reason why Yuniang became the secretary of Jiaofang is all thanks to the father and son surnamed Wu..."

That's it!

Now, Sun Li finally understood why Du Yuniang looked at Wu Zhijie with disgust and hatred in his eyes.

Du Yuniang sobbed for a while, and finally talked about her experience.

It turned out that she and Wu Zhijie were really old acquaintances.

Du Yuniang's father's name was Du Zhengyi, and he lived up to his name. He was a clean and upright official, and he was promoted all the way to the servant of the household department.

And Wu Zhijie's father, Xu Yonghe, is the Minister of the Household Department, that is, Du Zhengyi's immediate boss.

Since it is a superior-subordinate relationship, there will inevitably be contacts between the two families.However, the relationship between the two parties is not very good.

Xu Yonghe and Du Zhengyi are completely two types of people.

Du was righteous and upright, and focused on his functions.But Xu Yonghe is a veteran in the officialdom, oppressing his subordinates, currying favor with his superiors, and courting the powerful.

At the beginning, Wu Yonghe wanted to pull Du Zhengyi into his camp, so that he could let go of his hands and feet to make money.

For this reason, he even asked his son to get close to Du Yuniang on purpose, hoping to become a family with Du Zhengyi, which would be safer.

Wu Zhijie had always liked Du Yuniang. After all, Du Yuniang was beautiful and talented, and the two families were well matched.

As a result, Du Yuniang didn't have any feelings for Wu Zhijie, and even deliberately avoided him.

Even Du Zhengyi didn't like Wu's father and son, so it was naturally unlikely that he would agree to this marriage.

For this reason, the Wu family father and son held a grudge.

Later, one of Wu Yonghe's confidants made a big mistake and was caught by Du Zhengyi. He followed the vine and found out many clues about Wu Yonghe's cooperating with his subordinates to embezzle and pervert the law, amounting to several 10 taels of silver.

Seeing that he was about to find out the truth, he was framed by Wu Yonghe instead, and all the losses were blamed on Du Zhengyi.

Wu Yonghe already has a wide network of contacts in the court, and has a close relationship with the sixth prince.

Coupled with the fact that Du Zhengyi was an upright official, he offended many people. These people also took the opportunity to add insult to injury, and wrote letters to participate in Du Zhengyi's black complaint.

Although there are people in the DPRK complaining about Du Zhengyi's grievances, they can't stop Wu Yonghe's party from being so powerful and menacing.

In the end, Du's house was confiscated, Du Zhengyi was exiled at the border, and finally died on the way.

Du Yuniang was also implicated in this case, and was sent to the Jiaofang Division to become a member of music, and she could not be a good man without an amnesty.

"After being sent to the Jiaofang Division, the little girl was completely hopeless, she would not eat or drink, and wanted to die.

Fortunately, a group of sisters took turns to take care of me every day, and tried hard to persuade me to cheer me up. Maybe I would have the opportunity to clean up my father's grievances.

Although, the little girl knew that this was just the words of reassurance from the sisters, but it finally sparked a glimmer of hope.

Unexpectedly, that Wu Zhijie came here from time to time to humiliate the little girl..."

When she said this, Du Yuniang couldn't help sobbing again.

Wei Yishan said angrily: "That kid is a scholar in vain, to do such a despicable thing."

Fu Congzhi sighed: "In the past, I was very envious of the students of the Imperial College, but now it seems... that's the same thing."

Sun Li shook his head: "You can't say that. There are actually many excellent students in the Imperial College. It's just that some powerful disciples don't cherish opportunities, which ruined the reputation of the Imperial College."

Du Yuniang hesitated for a while, but couldn't help but said: "Although the three sons don't care, but Yuniang still wants to remind you kindly, it's better to be more careful."

Sun Li smiled and said, "Thank you, Yuniang, for reminding me. However, if that Wu really dares to play dirty tricks, I will accompany him to the end."

At this time, Baihe remembered the previous question again, and couldn't help but ask again: "I heard the three young masters address Jing'an Hou as Mr., could it be that the three young masters are all students of Jing'an Hou?"

Wei Yishan nodded: "Not bad!"

Du Yuniang was pleasantly surprised: "I didn't expect the three sons to be students of the Marquis of Jing'an, no wonder they have extraordinary bearing..."

"Yes, yes, I have heard a lot of legends about the Marquis of Jing'an on weekdays. Can you tell us three sisters what kind of person the real Marquis of Jing'an is?"

Hearing the words "the real Marquis of Jing'an", Sun Li couldn't help being happy.

"Actually, sir is a scholar, but his ability is much higher than that of ordinary scholars..."

As soon as Mr. Sun was mentioned, the three of them talked a lot, and each of them was beaming with joy.

Du Yuniang, Cuiyun, and Baihe listened with great interest, asking a few questions from time to time, completely forgetting the unhappiness that happened before...

……

The next day, as soon as Wu Yonghe returned home from court, Wu Zhijie came to find him.

"Father, help me check the details of the three candidates."

Wu Yonghe was stunned: "What's the matter? What are you doing to check the candidates' details?"

"They're crazy..."

Wu Zhijie elaborated on what happened last night.

"It's fine if they don't take their children seriously, but you don't even take your father seriously..."

Wu Yonghe is not stupid, he knows that his son's words are definitely exaggerated.

But after all, he was still protecting the calf, so he snorted coldly and said, "I really don't know the heights of the heavens and the earth, what are the names of those three people?"

"Sun Li, Wei Yishan, Fu Congzhi."

"Well, I see, father will send someone to investigate soon..."

That afternoon, the father and son obtained the basic information of Sun Li and the other three.

Wu Yonghe flipped through it for a while, and couldn't help but frowned: "Why are all three of them students of the Marquis of Jing'an?"

"Student of the Marquis of Jing'an?" Wu Zhijie was stunned for a moment, and then smiled coldly: "No wonder you are so arrogant, and you have something to rely on if you dare to be affectionate."

"Jie'er, don't do anything stupid, the Marquis of Jing'an is no better than ordinary people."

Wu Zhijie replied with a disapproving expression: "Father, you are the minister of the household department and hold the financial power of the court.

The Marquis of Jing'an is just the Marquis of a small place, what are you afraid of him doing? "

Upon hearing this, Wu Yonghe couldn't help but slapped the table and said angrily: "Bastard! Is this something to be afraid of?

In the officialdom, if you can make fewer enemies, you will make fewer enemies. To offend a Marquis because of such a trivial matter, do you think your father is out of his mind?
In short, you better restrain yourself from now on, kid, and stop causing trouble outside. "

"Yes, the child knows."

Wu Zhijie agreed, but he was still a little bit dissatisfied...

(End of this chapter)