Records of the Lost Cases of Helaitang in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 3 Qingyun goes straight up
After driving all night on the mountain road in the wind and rain, Ye Hongzu returned to his house in Changle Village.

At this time, the rain stopped and the wind stopped, and it was the dawn of dawn.

Ye Hongzu carefully placed the silver-foil ingot in his arms on the central hall for confession. The ingot was plump and upright, intact.

Ye Hongzu was so happy that he borrowed it.

At noon, two people who looked like followers came to see him carrying four-color gifts. It turned out that they were sent by his sworn brother, the uncle of the Zhang family.

Uncle Zhang's letter said that he had been doing business in other places and was seriously ill. He had just returned home and heard that his family had neglected Ye Shengduo. He was really ashamed, so he sent his confidant to accompany him. Gifts of four colors and 100 taels of silver are given, hoping that the relationship between the two families can still be as good as before.

100 taels of silver solved Ye Hongzu's urgent need. He was unwilling to marry the Zhang family, so he told the Zhang family that he would visit his sworn brother in a few days.

The next morning, while Ye Hongzu was still lying down, he suddenly heard a noise of people and horses neighing. He went out to look, but he saw several village children leading a man and a horse to stop in front of his house.

The guest who came on horseback was his good friend Lu Sheng in the county town, who was several years younger than him.

Lu Sheng complained to him why he checked out of the inn in Fucheng without saying a word.

Lu Sheng found out a piece of good news in Fucheng. Zhang Jiehe, the current leader of the Zhejiang Party in the court, took office at the beginning of the year. Because he was a classmate of Chen Shanchang from Lanxi Academy in their county, he invited him to give lectures for half a year.Chief Shen Shante specially renovated the Minglun Hall of the Academy as a place for lectures and debates.

Zhang Jiehe was born in Tanhua, and being able to listen to his lectures will definitely be helpful for the scientific examination. Moreover, Zhang Gong is a famous figure, the leader of the Zhejiang Party, and has countless disciples. If he can give him some advice, the benefits cannot be overemphasized. And metaphor.Therefore, scholars from all over the world went to Lanxi Academy to sign up for additional studies.

As soon as Lu Sheng got the news, he went to find Ye Hongzu, but Ye Hongzu had already checked out and returned to his hometown. Lu Sheng was young and enthusiastic, and felt that the opportunity was rare, so he rode a fast horse and drove for half a day before finding the old man of the Ye family in Changle Village. House.

Ye Hongzu was also overjoyed when he heard this. With the 100 taels of silver given by the Zhang family, he could fully afford the expenses of the academy.

Since I still had some matters to deal with at home, I couldn't go to the county seat early the next morning, so I made an appointment with Lu Sheng to register at Lanxi Academy together at noon the next day.

Ye Hong's ancestor went to ask his third aunt from the same clan to help him take care of the house. He would come every few days to open the door to ventilate the house, dust the eaves, and so on.

Originally, his house had only four walls, and General Tie locked the door and left. Now, there are silver foil ingots enshrined on the table. They are damp and moldy, which is disrespectful.

The next day I went to the Zhang family to say goodbye to my sworn brother, and Mr. Jin, the accountant, accompanied me to have tea, saying that the Zhang family's uncle was sick and couldn't afford to go to bed.

Ye Hongzu then told Mr. Jin that he was going to Lanxi Academy to study. Mr. Jin went back to the Zhang family and ordered someone to give him 50 taels of silver Cheng Yi and two sets of fine Hu silk clothes.

Ye Hongzu thanked him slightly, packed his bags and set off for the county seat.

When they arrived at the county, Lu Sheng had already asked clearly about the things needed for registration. On that day, the two of them were registered as expected and moved into the studio of Lanxi Academy to study.After listening to Zhang Gong's class, Ye Hongzu felt that he was completely reborn and his knowledge had greatly improved.

Zhang Gong also noticed him and praised him: "Ye Sheng is determined and eager to learn."

After half a year of teaching, Mr. Zhang accepted Lu Sheng as his disciple and took him back to his hometown in Shanyin to continue teaching.

Ye Hongzu could not help but feel envious and jealous, but Lu Sheng treated him as before. Therefore, the exchange of poems and letters continued, and the friendship was maintained for a long time.

At the beginning of the new year, I took the college examination again. I ranked so high that I was selected as a scholar and entered the school.He passed the A-level examination every time in school, so he went to the provincial urban and rural examinations that year. In Qiu Wei, he succeeded again and was admitted to the imperial examination.

The next year was the year of the Grand Competition. Ye Hongzu went to Beijing to take the examination in one go, and won the No. 90 Eight Tribute Scholars in the Apricot List. Today, he was awarded the second-class Jinshi status in the Shengshang Palace Examination, which is very glorious.

Lu Sheng also passed this subject, and his ranking was Sandingjia, the Tanhualang appointed by the Holy Emperor.

Lu Sheng entered the Hanlin Academy as an editor, and Ye Hongzu was sent to Fujian as a county magistrate.

It is the custom of this dynasty that those who are not members of the Imperial Academy will not be admitted to the cabinet.

Apart from being in the center of the Imperial Capital, where else can you sit in a city and view the world, and develop the magnanimity of a minister with a universal mind?
After bidding farewell to each other in the ten-mile long pavilion, Ye Hongzu sadly left the imperial capital and thought that when we meet again, our identities will be completely different.

What is unbelievable is that decades later, he was promoted to Shaozongbo and returned to Beijing to report on his work. It took a lot of effort to find the whereabouts of his good friend Lu Sheng. Lu Sheng had been out of Beijing for many years and had gone to Nanjing to work as a secretary in the Imperial College. , worthy of a sixth-grade official.

On that day, Zhang Jiehe, the leader of the Zhejiang Party, retired from office because of incompatibility with the chief assistant, Yan Ge, and was forced to step down.

As a disciple of Duke Zhang, Lu Sheng was marked by the Zhejiang Party as soon as he entered the official career.In the past few years, the Strict Party has become more and more powerful, and the Zhejiang Party has almost no place to stay. Lu Sheng was suppressed, so he had to save money and move out to teach in Beijing to avoid trouble.

Ye Hongzu was secretly surprised, thinking that the Great Immortal in his heart had indeed blessed me to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune, and to turn misfortune into good fortune.

The ingot of silver foil ingot was solemnly placed on the incense table in the old house of the Ye family. Every day, members of the Ye family offered incense and knelt down to worship.

Recalling the day when he was poor and depressed, and went to the Great Immortal Meeting on Mount Cuiping, Ye Hongzu felt like he was dreaming.

He always thought of the saying left by the old people, "The foxes in Cuiping Mountain have become spirits." But he forgot that there was another saying passed down by the old people, "The debts in Cuiping Mountain can never be repaid."

(End of this chapter)