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Volume 6: Yin Whip Points to the East to the End of the World Chapter 492: Autumn Night

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    When I came out of Wu Ge's old residence, dusk had slowly enveloped me. There were still sparse chirping of cicadas in the tall red walls of the Imperial City on the east side of Huichang Street. The so-called "There are no tall trees in the Forbidden City" refers to the palace city.  This area of ??Xiyuan is full of flowers and trees. When the evening breeze blows, Zhang Yuan can smell the water vapor of Taiye Pond in Xiyuan and the flowers of autumn chrysanthemums and begonias.

    Early autumn in Beijing seems to be a bit hotter than midsummer. This may be because Zhang Yuan has just returned from the north and feels particularly muggy; perhaps it is the situation in Beijing that makes Zhang Yuan feel pressured. Nurhachi announced the "Seven Hatreds"  The day to raise troops to invade Liaodong is coming soon, but Ming officials are trapped in party disputes and lack of awareness of internal and external troubles——

    It’s not a good feeling to be awake alone when the whole world is drunk. Zhang Yuan looked up to the sky and let out a sigh of relief. No matter what, the trip to North Korea was fruitful. Now, he just wants to see his wife and children as soon as possible, but his teacher Yang Lian  But he has no intention of returning to his dormitory -

    Yang Lian felt that there were still many things to discuss with Zhang Yuan, so she followed Zhang Yuan from Huichang Street into Lige Old Alley without waiting for Zhang Yuan's invitation. Zhang Yuan was helpless. He wanted to enjoy his family with his wife and children behind closed doors.  It's a pleasure, but Yang Lian is a room teacher in a foreign country, so it's hard to turn the teacher away.

    Laifu ran home first to report the news. Shang Danran, Shang Jinghui, Mu Zhenzhen, Su Zhi, Li Keer and other female relatives who were waiting in the front hall all went into the inner courtyard. Zhang Dai shook his head and said with a smile: "This teacher Yang  It's really unkind. He dragged meson away in front of his house, and now he's following him again. Do you need to be so worried about the country and the people? I don't want to think that meson hasn't seen his lovely wife and child for four months. He just left his neighbor.  When Sun Zhisheng, a concubine of Zhan Shifu, came to visit Jie Zi, I blocked him from driving——"

    While talking, Zhang Yuan accompanied Yang Lian in. Zhang Yuan said to Zhang Dai: "Brother, please accompany Master Yang for me. I will go in to see my wife and children and then come out." After that, he confessed to Yang Lian.

    Yang Lian chuckled and said, "I'm the one who interrupted you." Although he said this, he didn't mean to say goodbye.

    Zhang Yuan entered through the inner courtyard's ceremonial gate with windy footsteps, and suddenly felt a stumble on his leg.  He hurriedly put his feet back and heard a sound of "ah". In the dusk, he caught a glimpse of a child not much taller than his knees falling backwards. He hurriedly reached out and reached for it——

    Zhang Yuan had practiced with Wang Zongyue for a while, and he was very agile. He grabbed the child's front when the back of his head hit the ground, and then picked up the child. The child cried "Wow!" Zhang Yuan whimpered: "Hongjian. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."  I’m afraid, it’s daddy, daddy is back.”

    Who could this child over two feet tall be but the one-year-old Zhang Hongjian? Zhang Yuan almost knocked down his son as soon as he came home.

    "Hongjian—younger uncle—"

    "Young Master, Young Master——"

    Eleven-year-old Shang Jinghui rushed over.  Xiao Hongjian's nanny Zhou Ma also ran over in a panic.

    Xiao Hongjian in Zhang Yuan's arms cried "Wow wow" for a few times and then stopped crying. He looked at Zhang Yuan curiously with his bright black eyes. Zhang Yuan pinched his son's little face and said with a smile: "Look carefully.  Look, do you still recognize daddy?" Looking sideways at Shang Jinghui's dim face in the dusk, he asked, "Xiao Hui, are you feeling better?"

    Shang Jinghui lost a lot of weight.  But his eyes were still lively and clear. At this time, he stepped forward and took Xiao Hongjian's hand. He raised his eyes to look at Zhang Yuan and said with a smile: "It's been much better these past two days. My uncle has worked hard on his mission to Korea." He gave a blessing salute.

    Shang Danran, Su Zhi, Li Kou'er, and Mu Zhenzhen all gathered in the large courtyard. A maid hung two red lanterns high under the eaves of the west wing. It was already time to light the lanterns.

    When Xiao Hongjian saw Shang Danran coming over, he reached out for a hug: "Mom, hug." He tilted his head and looked at Zhang Yuan.

    Zhang Yuan smiled and handed Xiao Hongjian to his wife Shang Danran, and said: "I am tired from all the work. I am covered in stinky sweat, and Hongjian dislikes me."

    Shang Danran hugged little Hongjian and said, "Hongjian, this is daddy. Call me daddy. Aren't you always looking forward to daddy's coming back?" When talking to his son, Shang Danran's eyes were constantly looking at her husband Zhang Yuan. The light was not very bright.  , but it can still be seen that Zhang Yuanhei has lost a lot of weight, and his eyes can't help but become misty.

    Under the guidance of his mother, Xiao Hongjian finally started calling "Daddy" several times, getting louder and louder.

    Zhang Yuan laughed and was elated.

    Xiao Hongjian kept shouting, and Shang Danran said hurriedly: "Okay, okay, stop shouting." He turned around to find Mu Zhenzhen, nodded and said: "Zhenzhen, come here, let Zhang Lang take a look at Qian'er."

    There were many people crowding in front of Zhang Yuan. Mu Zhenzhen stood behind with his baby in his arms and watched Zhang Yuan. Today, his father and young master Zhang Yuan came back together. Mu Zhenzhen was really overjoyed. Just now his father hugged Xiao Mingqian.  Shi Xiaomingqian laughed out loud and stretched out his hand to tug at his father's yellow beard——

    Mu Zhenzhen stepped forward, but Zhang Yuan had already walked over and looked at Mu Zhenzhen with a smile. Mu Zhenzhen was still a little shy and said hurriedly: "Master, Ming Qian is asleep again." Mu Zhenzhen is used to calling him "Master"  , couldn't change his words, and Zhang Yuan didn't even remember.To correct it, the title is just a formality. For example, in later generations, married women in mainland China no longer take their husband's surname, but the social status of women is not higher than that in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, which maintain tradition.

    Zhang Yuan looked at the little baby who was sleeping on Mu Zhenzhen's shoulder. He had a very cute head and a big head, and there was a trace of drool hanging from the corner of his mouth. He said, "Qian'er has passed a hundred days." He stretched out his hand to wipe it off for Xiao Mingqian.  Drool at the corner of the mouth.

    Mu Zhenzhen said with a smile: "He just drools a lot, we call him the King of Drool."

    Zhang Yuan smiled heartily.

    Zhang Dai's concubines Suzhi and Li Kouer were both in the inner courtyard. They saluted Zhang Yuan together. A maid next to Suzhi held Zhang Dai's son Zhang Biao. Zhang Yuan hugged his nephew and teased him. The half-year-old Zhang Biao  Zhang Mingqian is two months older, but smaller than Zhang Mingqian. As the saying goes in Shaoxing, "the mother has a bigger room", which means that the children born to taller mothers will be bigger. Mu Zhenzhen is taller than the petite Su Zhike.  Big cut.

    Zhang Yuan exchanged a few words with his wife and children, then went to the front hall to accompany his teacher Yang Lian and his eldest brother Zhang Dai. He also invited Wang Zongyue, Mu Jingyan, Hong Ji and Hong Xin to attend. Wang Zongyue and the four of them said they did not dare and sat down to sue.  .

    Zhang Yuan heard that his eldest brother Zhang Dai said that the talented Sun Chengzong had come to visit him, so he personally invited Sun Chengzong to have a drink with him. Sun Chengzong lived next to him, and they were both official officials in the East Palace, so they had a good relationship on weekdays.

    Sun Chengzong is one of the few officials in the court who is pro-Donglin. His ability to survive the three-party control of the capital this time has a lot to do with Wang Dazhi, the doctor of the Civil Affairs Department, who did not want to expand the scope of the party struggle. The reason why Wang Dazhi was like this was obviously influenced by  Due to the impact of the secret conversation with Zhang Yuan, there have long been rumors about it among the officials in the capital.  Sun Chengzong knew it well.

    During the banquet, Zhang Yuan naturally talked about the twists and turns and risks of this trip to North Korea, and took out the diary booklet of "Ding Si's Journey to North Korea" for Sun Chengzong and Yang Lian to read——

    Sun Chengzong had inspected the border town of Datong for several years twenty years ago, and was familiar with the conditions of the border guards. He saw a large number of records of Liaodong military affairs in Zhang Yuan's diary, and he was very knowledgeable. He couldn't help but admire him; Yang Lian was certainly a loyal and upright man.  Although he was not familiar with military affairs and border preparations, Yang Lian believed that the top priority was not border preparations but party struggle. No matter how strong the border preparations were, it would be useless if the treacherous party invaded the country.  Therefore, the traitors cannot be allowed to wipe out all the honorable men, especially Zhang Yuan, a figure who has influence on the East Palace and the world's scholars. He must not be demoted from the capital, otherwise, even if the East Palace ascends the throne in the future.  But at that time, there were traitors in the middle and left, and it was extremely difficult for the new monarch to activate the party of gentlemen——

    Yang Lian's idea is certainly reasonable, and Sun Chengzong also agreed. Sun Chengzong said about the Ministry of War's arrears in paying Liaodong troops mentioned in Zhang Yuan's diary: "The arrears in military pay certainly shaken the morale of the military, but Liaodong has the same shortcomings as Yansui and Datong.  'There are too many soldiers but no training, too many pays but no nuclear weapons.' No matter how much military pay is allocated, it will not be able to satisfy the greed of the civil servants and generals at the border."

    Yang Lian nodded and said: "Master Sun is absolutely right. The right time, place and people are the most important thing. Without loyal ministers and good generals to protect the country, even if you control millions of strings and have mountains of food and grass, it will only be enough to support the enemy. The governor of Liaodong and the commander of the capital  "We are all mediocre people, so Governor Li's memorial to impeach Jiezi is extremely ridiculous, but there are people in the court who want to use this to cause trouble. I think the worry of the Ming Dynasty is not natural disasters but corruption."

    Zhang Dai said: "If you want to use this kind of thing to slander Jiezi, you are just a fool of Guizhou people. What is there to be afraid of?"

    The four of them were drinking and discussing government affairs, when the curfew drum sounded.  Zhang Dai and Yang Lian stood up to say goodbye. Su Zhi, her mother and her son, and Li Kou'er in the inner courtyard had also finished their meal. They took the car back to the Paozi River with Zhang Dai, and Yang Lian returned to the same hall.

    Sun Chengzong lived next door to Zhang Yuan. After Yang Lian and Zhang Dai left, he sat for a while. He couldn't put it down Zhang Yuan's diary "Ding Si's Journey to Korea" and asked to take it back to his apartment to read it carefully. Zhang Yuan said: "To show his innocence."  , to dispel the rumors, I will publish this diary as soon as possible, so that all the sergeants and common people in Beijing will know what I, Zhang Yuan, did when I went to North Korea. Is it harmful to the country and the people? - I will make a copy of this diary overnight, and I will make a copy of it tomorrow.  Leave it to the publishing house to make a plate and give it to Mr. Sun for reading in a few days." The advantage of the late Ming Dynasty is that the literary network is very sparse and there are not many taboos. Even radical thoughts and speeches like Li Zhi's are forbidden.

    Sun Chengzong admired Zhang Yuan's method of publishing books to guide public opinion, but asked: "Who in the house will copy it on your behalf?"

    Zhang Yuandao: "Only my wife and I copied it."

    Sun Chengzong flipped through the diary book in his hand and said: "Your diary "Ding Si's Journey to Korea" has nearly 40,000 words. It is difficult to copy. It is better to divide it into two. I will take one half back and copy it. I have two family members who are proficient in writing.  Please do it for me and return the original book early tomorrow morning."

    Zhang Yuan said happily: "Thank you very much." He immediately split the book into two, and Sun Chengzong took the first half and took it back to his apartment to copy.

    Zhang Yuan arranged for Wang Zongyue, Mu Jingyan, Hong Ji, and Hong Xin to stay. When they returned to the inner courtyard, it was already the end of Xu. The two children, Hongjian and Mingqian, had already fallen asleep in their respective gauze tents and bamboo mats.  Dan Ran and Mu Zhenzhen are both still thereWith Zhang Yuan.

    When Zhang Yuan went to the backyard to take a bath, Mu Zhenzhen came over to serve him. Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "You don't need to wait on me. I have been on a mission for more than a hundred days and you are used to taking care of yourself." Seeing that Mu Zhenzhen was a little unhappy, he added, "Don't worry about it."  My heart is indeed used to it, isn’t it the same for Uncle Mu outside, just take good care of Qian’er now.”

    Mu Zhenzhen has always taken care of his son by himself and has not hired a nanny. Shang Danran asked the girl Yumei to help Mu Zhenzhen take care of Xiao Mingqian, but Yumei was rarely able to intervene.

    Mu Zhenzhen said: "Dad is used to hardship, and the young master is pampered."

    Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "I am also very hard-working - well, if you like to wipe my body, then come."

    Mu Zhenzhen felt embarrassed again after hearing what Zhang Yuan said. While chatting, Zhang Yuan had already finished bathing and returned to the courtyard. The weather was still sultry and hot. Dark clouds accumulated in the sky above the courtyard. There were no stars, no moon, and no wind. Mu Zhenzhen  Seeing Zhang Yuan holding the folding fan in his hand, he said, "It's extremely hot today, and there may be heavy rain at night."

    Zhang Yuan stood by the patio to get some air. It was a large patio three feet long and two feet eight wide. Some herbs and flowers were planted in front of the steps of the main room facing south. There were two large lotus vats under the steps of the east and west wings. Zhang Yuan looked at  He looked familiar and asked, "Are these two tanks moved from the merchant's house in Dongsi Archway?"

    Before Mu Zhenzhen could answer, Shang Jinghui's crisp voice came from the first room on the left side of the main room: "Uncle, the jar was moved from there."

    The first room on the left is Zhang Yuan's study. When Zhang Yuan walked into the study, he saw Shang Danran and Shang Jinghui sitting side by side at the desk copying half of the "Journey of Ding Si to Korea". Two maids were fanning them behind them.

    Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "Ah, Dan Ran hired a little book writer."

    Shang Jinghui smiled "gege" and said: "My handwriting is not good, uncle, please don't laugh at me."

    Zhang Yuan stood behind Shang Jinghui and watched her copy. Shang Jinghui was sitting upright, his neat forehead hair not moving at all, and the small pieces of hair in his hand were flowing out of neat regular script. He couldn't help but praise: "Xiao Hui's calligraphy has made great progress."

    Shang Jinghui twisted his body, turned his head and glanced at Zhang Yuan, his eyes were really bright, and he pouted slightly and said: "Uncle, please don't stand behind me, otherwise I will copy wrongly."

    Zhang Yuan walked away a few steps with a smile and asked Shang Danran: "What disease did Xiao Hui get some time ago?"

    Shang Danran said: "Lung heat and cough have only gotten better in the past two days."

    Zhang Yuan frowned slightly and said, "I will find a famous doctor to diagnose and treat Xiao Hui another day."

    Shang Jinghui kept writing without raising his head and said: "I have recovered from my illness."

    Shang Danran said: "Xiao Hui is going to have a rest after finishing copying this page."

    Zhang Yuan said: "Well, don't be tired. In autumn, the air is dry and coughing is easy to happen again."

    Shang Jinghui agreed, and after copying a page, he went back to her bedroom. When Shang Zhouzuo and his wife left Beijing, they left an old Shaoxing woman and a maid to wait on little Jinghui.

    Zhang Yuan sat in the seat where Shang Jingwei had just been sitting and continued copying. Mu Zhenzhen could only write big characters and could not help. Zhang Yuan said to Shang Danran: "Copy for an hour and then rest. Let's compete to see who can copy more."

    Shang Danran smiled sweetly and said: "I can't write as fast as you. You don't have to read the manuscript at all. You write silently." He added, "Xiu Wei hasn't come back yet, otherwise you can rest."

    Zhang Yuan asked: "Wang Wei went to Nanjing, why hasn't he come back yet?"

    Shang Danran glanced at Zhang Yuan and asked with a smile: "Miss her?" Without letting Zhang Yuan answer, he said: "Xiu Wei went back to Shanyin to visit the second elder on our behalf. Isn't it your twentieth birthday on June 19th, second elder?  I want to celebrate my ancestors at home, and at the end of last month I received a letter from Xiu WeChat telling me about this."

    Zhang Yuan hit himself on the head with the pen holder: "I have even forgotten my twentieth birthday - look at my diary, where was I on June 19th?"

    Shang Danran said: "Xiao Hui just looked through it and found that you were still in Guangning City on June 19th."

    Suddenly there was a flash of lightning outside the house, and the whole room was bright. Then thunder sounded, the night wind blew, and heavy rain was about to fall on this sultry autumn night.

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    I have a dog named Laifu at home. Now when I write about Yasao and Laifu, I feel a little weird. If Laifu in Yasao does not have any lines in the future, book friends, don’t be surprised.
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