Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 333
Ouyang Xiu was well-known in the Song Dynasty for supporting his younger generations. Whenever he met young scholars with outstanding talents, he would take special care of them. This has been the case for more than ten years, which made him always admired by the young scholars of the Song Dynasty.

But any rumors are more or less exaggerated. It is true that Ouyang Xiu likes to support the younger generation, but he will not receive any young scholar who comes to his door. The scholars were too late.

Of course, Ouyang Xiu didn't accept anyone at random. If he wanted to gain his favor or the opportunity to receive him, he had to be introduced by someone, and the introducer must also be his close friend or have sufficient status.

If it is his junior, and he does not have enough status, Ouyang Xiu will generally not give this kind of opportunity.

But Fan Ning was an exception, not because Fan Ning's fifth-rank official rank made him value it, nor because Fan Ning was Fan Zhongyan's grandson, but because he had always felt guilty towards Fan Ning.

He promised to accept Fan Ning as a student, but he failed in the end.

It was Ouyang Xiu who felt a little guilty, so today Fan Ning brought someone to ask him for advice for the first time. He took Su Shi's manuscript and read it carefully without any excuses.

First, Ouyang Xiu's eyes lit up with an extremely elegant calligraphy, and he secretly praised, "Good calligraphy!"

He read the following two poems again.

"Pond"

There is no way under the emerald wall, what year will the thunderstorm wear through.

The light shakes the rock to go to the temple, deep into the shadow of the sky.

I want to see the rhinoceros, and the dragon should hug Baomian.

Who can sit on a lonely rock and try monk Zen.

The other song is "South Temple"

Go east to worry about climbing rocks, and come west to cross bridges timidly.

Bitan is like a test, and Baita is struggling to recruit.

The wild feed is meager, and the village is lonely.

The road is poor, but the pine and osmanthus are dry.

These two poems were written by Su Shi along the way after he came out of Sichuan. Although they are far from his later masterpieces, they have faintly revealed extraordinary talents.

Ouyang Xiu had already secretly praised in his heart, this young man is quite consonant, he is definitely a malleable talent, Ouyang Xiu looked at the two essays written by Su Shi again, and immediately praised them, the prose has lofty intentions, but the writing is simple and unpretentious, in line with the gorgeous genre that is popular nowadays Quite different, it is the new prose style advocated by Ouyang Xiu.

When Ouyang Xiu looked up at Su Shi again, his eyes were already full of smiles and undisguised admiration.

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In the following time, Fan Ning was basically ignored. Ouyang Xiu actually took Su Shi brothers to his study to talk. Although he also called Fan Ning, Fan Ning was not interested in studying with the prince. Walked around in the atrium.

The skirt when he came in reminded him of Ouyang Qian. Of course, that woman was definitely not Ouyang Qian. Ouyang Qian was married long ago and should have children, so she wouldn't be in Ouyang's mansion.

But Fan Ning still wanted to know about Ouyang Qian's recent situation. I was embarrassed to ask Ouyang Xiu just now to see if he could meet a maid or something.

Fanning walked to the round door of the atrium, where he saw the skirt just now, but at this time, there was no one here, and in front of it was a yard full of plum trees, the plum blossoms had withered, and the branches were full of flowers. small fruit.

Just as Fan Ning was about to go in, someone behind him suddenly called him, "Officials, please stay!"

Fan Ning turned his head, and a middle-aged man came running in a hurry. It was the housekeeper he met at the door just now. Fan Ning stepped back and pointed to the plum tree in front of him and smiled, "I want to see the green plum!"

"I'm sorry, officer, that's the inner house!"

Fan Ning suddenly realized that it was actually an inner house over there. Usually, when visiting someone else’s house, one cannot enter the inner house casually, just like a guest can’t just enter the bedroom of the host’s house casually. This is a guest rule, although there is no sign of the inner house , but no one will walk around casually, an unspoken rule that does not need to be spoken constrains the guests.

Fan Ning quickly apologized: "I really don't know, I'm sorry!"

"It's okay, the officials definitely don't know, I just remind you."

The steward knew that the person in front of him was a high-ranking official of the imperial court, not a student who came to ask his master for advice, and he was not something he could easily offend.

The butler smiled and turned to leave, but Fan Ning quickly stopped him, "Please wait a moment!"

"Is there anything else the officer needs to do?" the butler stopped and asked with a smile.

Fan Ning hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Miss Qian, how are you doing now?"

The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, but Fan Ning explained, "I haven't heard from Miss Qian for five or six years. I don't know if she is married?"

The butler patted his forehead, "You are talking about the eldest girl, the villain came here three years ago to be a housekeeper, and it happened that the eldest girl got married and married Yun Shangshu's second son, but..."

"But what?" Fan Ning saw a gloomy look in the housekeeper's eyes, which made him feel a little bad.

The housekeeper sighed regretfully, "One month before we got married, Yun Ya Nei fell ill and passed away the day before we got married."

"Ah! Why is it during the wedding period?"

Fan Ning exclaimed, the timing of his death was too unfortunate, the three days before and after the marriage are called the wedding period, if the husband died during the wedding period, this Kefu will be blamed.

"That's not right! Speaking of it, this Yun Shangshu is really unkind! His son saw that he was seriously ill, and the master asked to change the date of marriage, but Yun Shangshu refused desperately, and insisted on using happy events to heal the illness. In the end, his son died. This is not a harm. girl?
Not only that, Yun Shangshu also blamed my daughter Kefu for killing his son, ran to the door and made a big fuss, demanding that the master compensate his son, and the two families turned their faces over this. "

"Did Sister Qian remarry?"

The Song Dynasty did not encourage widowhood. The Song Dynasty encouraged widows to remarry. Unmarried widows like Ouyang Qian can remarry. They are only in their early 20s, and they will have a long time to come!
"Master also had this idea. He wanted to marry Mei Hanlin's son the year before last. The Mei family was willing to marry this in-law, but after hearing about Yun Shang's family, they were about to give a gift, so they canceled the marriage.

Last year, Lu Shilang of the Ministry of War originally wanted to marry the master, but the Yun family found out about it, and they sent people to spread the word everywhere, and the Lu family was so frightened that they took back their son's wedding stickers. Now everyone in the court knows about it Things, the three marriages can't be done, hey!The eldest girl will probably be ruined by this marriage of the Yun family in her entire life. "

Fan Ning was also saddened by it. Although Ouyang Xiu is very famous, his family background is actually not very good. In addition, his current wife is not Ouyang Qian's biological mother. She has several children of her own. How could she be willing to give it to Ouyang Qian? With a large dowry, Ouyang Qian's life is difficult.

At this time, Fan Ning's heart suddenly moved. Could it be that the skirt he saw just now is really Ouyang Qian?
"Does your eldest daughter still live in the house?"

"Of course, this is her natal home, where else can she go?"

After the butler finished speaking, he bowed his hands to Fan Ning and left.

Fan Ning felt extremely sad. He wanted to help Ouyang Qian, but he didn't know how to help?
After hesitating for a long time, he could only sigh. Ouyang Xiu has many students, and there should be many students who are willing to marry Ouyang Qian. Her father will consider this matter, and there is no point in worrying too much.

Thinking of this, Fan Ning turned around and wanted to leave Ouyang Mansion. Ouyang Xiu had no rules for the junior disciples, they came and went more freely, Fan Ning was considered a junior, otherwise, Ouyang Xiu would not have left him alone.

As for the Su brothers, they will not easily forget the favor I gave them today.

Just as Fan Ning walked to the gate, someone shouted from behind: "Mr. Fan!"

It was the voice of a little lady. Fan Ning turned around, and saw an eleven or twelve-year-old maid rushing towards her, holding a hat in her hand.

Fan Ning stopped, and after a while, the little servant girl ran up panting, and said to Fan Ning, "Mr. Fan is leaving now?"

"I still have something to do, what are you?" Fanning looked at him suspiciously.

"My girl asked me to give it to the officials!"

The little maid handed the hat to Fan Ning. Fan Ning took the gauze veiled hat and looked at it. He suddenly remembered that this was the hat he bought for Ouyang Qian back then. Although the gauze was a little yellowed, it was well preserved. Very well.

Just what does it mean that she returned the hat to herself?Returning the old things to the other party is usually done when the relationship is broken. Ouyang Qian probably didn't mean that.

"Why did your girl give me back her hat?" asked Fanning, puzzled.

"It's not returning it to the officials, but just showing it to the officials. The girl has always cherished this hat and never wanted to wear it."

"Take a look?"

Fan Ning suddenly understood a little bit, did Ouyang Qian tell him not to forget her?Then why didn't she come to see me?

Fan Ning's emotional intelligence is not low, he faintly realized that Ouyang Qian wanted to see him, but he didn't want to see him, the reason was self-evident.

Fan Ning sighed softly in his heart, he took out a superb pearl from his bosom, and handed it to the little maid together with the hat, "This pearl is for your girl, you tell her, I have never forgotten the promise to her. "

"Thank you officer!"

The maid took the hat and beads, and gave Fanning a Wanfu gift.

"Wait a minute!"

Fan Ning took out half of the jade pendant from the leather bag and handed it to the maid, "This jade pendant is for your girl. If she has difficulties in life, she can take this jade pendant to the Zhuji Money Shop in Yujie Street to get money."

Fan Ning remembered that Ouyang Qian had said to herself that her stepmother was not good to her, that she could not get married these few years, and that the family was not well-off. Let her be financially independent, have a lot of money in her hand, and live without looking at other people's faces.

But with this jade pendant, you can directly withdraw 5000 taels of silver without any password, and that top-quality pearl is also worth several hundred taels of silver.

Fan Ning looked at the little maid again, and saw that her eyes were pure and her eyebrows were straight. As the saying goes, appearances are born from the heart, and a person's character can basically be seen from the appearance.

This little maid should have no problem, so Fan Ning knelt down and said softly to the little maid again: "Give the beads and jade pendant to your girl, and tell her my exact words, and I will reward you heavily in the future, remember Are you staying?"

"Little maidservant, remember, I will definitely hand it over to the girl!"

She gave another Wanfu salute to Fanning, turned around and ran towards the inner house.

Fan Ning had been watching the little maid disappear at the door of the inner house, then sighed, turned and left Ouyang Mansion.

(End of this chapter)