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Chapter 581: The beginning of the scandal between the young governor and the princess [asking for monthly votes! ]

"I heard from the maid Xiaofang that Tan Lang didn't come back until after five o'clock... Why did he get up so early? Doesn't he have another day off today?"

In the morning, when Ouyang Rong was rubbing his eyes and drinking porridge, Zhen Shuyuan asked curiously.

The beautiful woman in silk skirt did not ask Ouyang Rong what he did last night.

"Um, I have to see the teacher off later, and then I have to go to the Overwatch Council, Lantern Festival..."

Ouyang Rong covered his mouth and yawned.

Zhen Shuyuan glanced at him and asked, "Was this hairpin given to Wei Lai by Tan Lang?"

"Ah."

After a pause, Ouyang Rong raised his eyelids and asked, "Aunt likes it too?"

"It's pretty, but it's only worn by young people. Why should I wear it..."

Zhen Shuyuan nodded, but before she could finish her words, she noticed a mandarin duck jade hairpin in front of her.

After Ouyang Rong skillfully fiddled with it, Zhen Shuyuan looked stunned and reached out to take it and examine it.

"Send auntie away. You don't have to wait for your nephew to come back for lunch."

Ouyang Rong held a piece of steamed bread in his mouth and walked out with his hands behind his back.

But when he reached the door, he, wearing an ice-white jade hairpin, suddenly stopped and asked:
"By the way, Auntie, you seemed to have said that this hairpin came from my mother's family and was given to her when she got married... Is it true that all the married daughters of the Zhao family in Nanlong will have a similar one?"

"Why is Tan Lang interested in this?"

Zhen Shuyuan looked strange and shook her head and replied:
"Not all of them. The Zhao family girls who were able to receive hairpins from the Nanlong Zhao family when they got married were all legitimate daughters, a minority, such as Sister Zhao. Most of the daughters of concubines could not receive this treatment."

Ouyang Rong asked:
"When the child bride my mother chose for me was brought to our home, did Nanlong Zhao give her this hairpin?"

"You must be joking. How could she possibly have that? She was originally a dumb girl who was not welcomed by the concubine. If it weren't for Sister Zhao's kindness, she wouldn't have had the chance to come to our house and enjoy the good life.

"But Sister Zhao seemed to have said that she would give this hairpin to her in the future, but later on there was no chance. Besides, because of that incident, it was even more impossible for the Nanlong Zhao Clan to give her a hairpin...

"Hey, these are all old calendars. Why did Tan Lang bring them up today?"

"Curious." He lowered his eyes: "I want to hear more about mother."

Zhen Shuyuan's eyes were filled with sadness, but before she could feel herself disappointed, Ouyang Rong had already strode out the door, and her expression could not be seen clearly.

"I see. Thank you, Auntie. From this perspective, this relic of my mother is indeed precious..."

……

Xunyang ferry terminal.

The early morning sun dyed the river water lapping against the embankment orange-yellow.

Ouyang Rong and Xie Lingjiang stood side by side in the crowd on the river bank, seeing Xie Xun and Xie Xue'e off on board.

This was what the two of them agreed on before they parted last night.

Xie Xue'e was directing the servants to carry the luggage, while Xie Xun was bidding farewell to several of his literary friends from Jiangzhou.

Xie Lingjiang turned around and glanced at Ouyang Rong's expression.

"Big Brother, didn't you sleep well last night?"

"I ate too much, feeling a bit full."

"Liang Han."

At this time, Xie Xun said goodbye to other old friends and walked forward, holding a memorial in his hand, with a look of regret on his face:
"The east wind blows thousands of flowers into bloom at night, and blows down stars like rain... Was this poem "Qingyu'an Lantern Festival" written by Liang Han? I didn't expect that my teacher left the Lantern Festival banquet early last night, and missed it in vain."

All the scholars and men of letters who were seeing him off looked at him with admiration as he yawned.

"After saying goodbye last night, did Senior Brother go to Xunyang Palace to write Lantern Festival poems?"

Xie Lingjiang took the letter from his father and asked with a curious look on his face.

Ouyang Rong said calmly to Xie Lingjiang:
"I didn't go to the palace. I asked Dalang and the princess to bring it back... It would be a bit unreasonable for me not to express my gratitude for the Lantern Festival banquet held by the prince this time."

He explained vaguely.

However, Xie Lingjiang no longer had time to ask more questions. His originally puzzled eyes had been attracted by a poem "Qing Yu'an: Yuan Xi" on the memorial paper, and he could no longer look away.

"Liang Han, I was originally worried about what gifts to give to the Master and Brother Shen when I return to Luoyang."

In front of the group of prominent figures who came to see him off, Xie Xun was radiant. He pointed at the memorial, clapped his hands and said with a smile:
"That's unfortunate. Then I'll use the Liang Han etiquette instead of the teacher etiquette. Haha, I'm sure they will like it."

His face was full of satisfaction.

Yes, by the time Xie Xun reached this stage, many of his personal achievements and honors could already be seen to have come to an end.

At times like this, only the talents of one's own students and apprentices can be used to joke and show off to friends in the surrounding circle. It is one of the few funny things that can make one laugh heartily in the dull life.

Commonly known as sunbathing.

"Liang Han's reputation as a scholar of Xiuwenguan is indeed well-deserved."

After Xie Xue'e instructed the servants to carry the luggage onto the boat, she walked off the boat leisurely again, smiling and saying:

"I will also bring him back to show to Ling Jiang's uncle, so that he won't sit alone in his study every day writing poems without reason and admiring himself. Let him see Liang Han's talent and unique poems..."

Ouyang Rong waved his hand modestly.

After some words of praise, Xie Xun and Xie Xue'e boarded the ship and left.

Ouyang Rong put down his hand waving goodbye and turned to look at his junior sister who had been quiet since just now.

I saw that she was still holding the copy of "Qing Yu'an Yuan Xi" in her hand.

Ouyang Rong had seen this memorial, which was copied and distributed uniformly by the Xunyang Palace, in the hands of many people this morning. At the Lantern Festival dinner at the Xunyang Palace last night, the guests who left should have received a copy when they left.

Ouyang Rong and Xunyang Palace share the same fate, so Li Xian and the others were of course very enthusiastic and proactive in helping him become famous. Moreover, with the great response this poem "Qingyu'an·Yuan Xi" had, many people took the initiative to ask for a copy to take away as a souvenir.

"I searched for him among the crowd for hundreds of times. Suddenly I turned around and found him there, in the dimming lights... Senior Brother's words are not simple, they are really profound and contain true feelings."

Xie Lingjiang suddenly looked up and said.

"What do you mean?"

Ouyang Rong asked calmly, glancing at his junior sister's serious and focused face.

Xie Lingjiang's eyes narrowed:
"In the first stanza, the eldest brother describes the grand Lantern Festival with dazzling lanterns and melodious music. In the second stanza, he describes the protagonist's search for a lonely woman standing in the dim light among the crowds of beautiful women, but he cannot find her...

"On the surface, it is so, but in fact it is subtle and euphemistic. The real core of this poem is not some low-level love story, but the elder brother compares himself to a beautiful vanilla, describing his lofty character of not wanting to be tainted by the world when he failed in his career...

"Big Brother, I guess you were already thinking about this Lantern Festival poem when you were ostracized by Lin Cheng and Wang Lengran and demoted to Sima of Jiangzhou. Am I right?"

"Uh... No, this is actually from my dream..."

"Okay, Senior Brother, it's in my dream."

Xie Lingjiang put away the letter and held it to his chest. A considerate smile appeared on his oval face, and he nodded and said:

"I hope I can dream something new next time, and Senior Brother can tell me about it."

Ouyang Rong coughed and covered his mouth.

"Okay, of course." After watching Xie Xun and Xie Xue'e's boat sail away, Ouyang Rong and Xie Lingjiang turned around and left Xunyang Ferry.

"Where are you going, Senior Brother?"

"The Overwatch Council."

"and then?"

"Go back... to Huaiye Lane."

"Then I'll go with you. It's just right for us to go see Aunt Zhen."

"it is good."

Ouyang Rong nodded and glanced at his junior sister's hair, only to see that she was wearing a mandarin duck jade hairpin.

The two of them were riding in a carriage, passing through the downtown area. When they were halfway through, Xie Lingjiang's wandering eyes were suddenly attracted by something and he looked at it fixedly.

I saw a plump woman with a happy smile walking out of the door of a jewelry store on the street, and the waiter politely and respectfully escorted her out.

Xie Lingjiang's eyes fell on the jeweled hair of the plump woman, who was stroking the new hairpin in her hair with a look of satisfaction.

"Wait, the carriage stop for a moment." she couldn't help shouting.

……

The next day after the Lantern Festival dinner at Xunyang Palace, a poem “Qingyu’an Lantern Festival” went viral among scholars in Jiangzhou.

The influence of this word has been fermenting all the way, and it has just begun now. The final influence will definitely be far more than this.

Another object that became popular along with "Qing Yu'an Lantern Festival" was a mandarin duck jade hairpin worn by the little princess of Xunyang Palace before the end of the Lantern Festival dinner.

According to the little princess, she won it while visiting a lantern riddle gallery... and the shop owner said there was a love story behind it...

The next day, an old jewelry store in the East City of Xunyang City immediately opened up to sell this type of hairpin, which was exactly the same.

For a time, this mandarin duck jade hairpin of the same style became a popular piece of jewelry among the ladies and nobles in Jiangzhou, and they bought it one after another.

It has become a fashion.

What Ouyang Rong didn't know was that on the evening of the next day, a grandfather and grandson surnamed Sun walked out of the bustling East Market with stunned expressions. They kept looking back at a jewelry store in the East Market where mandarin duck jade hairpins were being sold for thirty or forty taels each.

"Ah, that young master named Yuan Huaimin didn't lie to us!"

"Yuan Huaimin...wait, I remember now, is this the current...Chang Shi of Jiangzhou?"

"That's not right. The Chief of Jiangzhou is already in his thirties or forties. How old is that young man with a folding fan? He looks to be in his early twenties..."

"The age does not match. Wait, early twenties. Could it be that he is..."

The fat old man Sun Ze suddenly fell silent.

"Who is it, Aong?"

"Grandson, wasn't there a rumor in the past that this Yuan Changshi and the acting governor Ouyang Sima had a very good personal relationship, and there was also a rumor that they never slept together? It was about the two of them staying up late at night and fooling around."

"It seems to be the case. Could it be that Uncle Weng means..."

Sun Ze frowned and said nothing for the time being. With a serious face, he took his grandson Sun Xing to the East Market to inquire carefully.

It was immediately known that the hairpin became popular because a certain princess wore it at the Lantern Festival banquet and made it famous. Later, the princess also published an excellent Lantern Festival poem called "Qingyu'an Yuanxi", signed by Tan Lang. It is well known that Tan Lang is the current acting governor Ouyang Lianghan.

Walking out of Bagua Teahouse, Sun Ze's eyes were already wide open, and he clapped his hands and said, "This time it's almost certain."

The fat kid named Sun Xing pointed his index finger at his chin, his focus shifted strangely:
"Wait, Uncle, could this princess be one of the girls he took away? One of the three? Hmm, I didn't expect to meet so many distinguished people in one night."

Sun Ze was stunned when he heard this... Yes, didn't the noble little princess say at the Lantern Festival banquet in Xunyang Palace that she won this mandarin duck jade hairpin in a lantern riddle gallery? The story she told was that "Master Yuan" asked him for it, so it is very likely that she was there last night.

What Sun Ze couldn't understand was why this "Master Yuan" and the little princess wanted to help them become famous with this hairpin. Could it be that there was some unspeakable secret between the two that needed to be covered up?

The grandfather and grandson looked at each other.

But soon, Sun Ze became silent.

The fat old man said seriously, "My dear grandson, don't talk nonsense about this matter. We know nothing about it. Do you understand?"

"Uh-huh."

"Okay, let's go. While the trend is high and there are no counterfeit goods, let's go to the East Market to set up a stall. Hehe, we're going to make a fortune this time. We've really met a noble person this time..."

Sun Xing said proudly, "Aunt, I'll tell you, this noble man just wants to give the poor women in the world a home."

"Okay, okay, it doesn't matter how many families he gives us. We're all welcome. Let's go set up the stall and find a good location..."

……

Ouyang Rong didn't know that in some people's minds, he and Li Guoer were already involved in gossip.

Just now, after asking around, the junior sister discovered that the mandarin duck jade hairpin on her head had become a hot item of the season, and her expression was very interesting.

Finally, Miss Xie looked helpless and spat:
"The owner of the riddle stall is really a profiteer."

"Little Junior Sister, don't bother with them."

Ouyang Rong was very calm and comforted.

"Those young ladies are the same, trying to be cultured... Well, Senior Brother is still better at cultivating his Qi."

"I'm just afraid that my junior sister will be disappointed because the hairpin has become a passing fad."

"No, at least our hairpins are different. I won it because of my senior brother's talent."

Ouyang Rong nodded vigorously: "It's best if Junior Sister can think this way."

After Xie Lingjiang accompanied Ouyang Rong to the Supervisory Office, he did not follow him anymore and went back to find Li Guoer, apparently to ask about what happened last night.

However, there is the original manuscript of "Qing Yu'an Yuan Xi" to gag him, and Li Guo'er is a smart man, so he probably won't let anything out. Besides, he performed in public last night, so he can't possibly ruin his own performance, so he will definitely keep his mouth shut from now on.

At the Supervisory Office, Xie Lingjiang and Rong Zhen did not meet. Xie Lingjiang was waiting at the door, and Rong Zhen did not go out either.

Ouyang Rong breathed a sigh of relief, but even if the two girls met, it should be fine.

After all, the hairpin had been resolved after Li Guoer brought the goods.

Inside the carriage, Ouyang Rong rubbed his face and went to find Pei Shisan Niang first.

"Master, up to now, in half a day, we have sold 112 pieces in the East Market, with a total profit of 3,172 taels...Master, you are really a genius..."

"Okay, no need to tell me this... You did a great job today."

"Thank you for the compliment, young master." Pei Shisan Niang looked delighted.

Without chatting with her for long, Ouyang Rong got on the carriage and headed for Xingzi Lake.

"I slept so late, I don't know if the embroiderer has woken up yet, and what she is doing now..."

As he was muttering, he heard a series of crisp wooden fish sounds in his ears and was slightly startled.

"Is the Qingyu case brewing, or is there someone to thank me..."

Ouyang Rong was curious, and after a while, while still on his way, he closed his eyes and entered the Merit Tower...

(End of this chapter)