The Eighteenth Century of Xuyang in the Red Chamber

Although Ji Shanchang has retired, Xu Yang still goes to Chongya to take classes from time to time. Now he is famous and popular enough, no one cares about his taking classes—Xin Shanzhang Liu Guang is Ji Shanzhang’s It's no wonder that student Lin Ruhai's senior brother would make trouble for Xu Yang.

Lan Jihe went to Chongya to give lectures every ten days, and they came more frequently than Lin Ruhai.He is a truly selfless person. He is an official in a different place, so there are no relatives and friends of his juniors in the school. It is purely because he is an official in one place that he wants to do more for the local area. The inspector does not care about civil affairs and cannot directly benefit the people. Then simply teach these future pillars of the country!

To be honest, Lan Jihe is not a suitable person to be a teacher. His class is really much more serious than Lin Ruhai's, and he often doesn't even show a smile on his face after an hour.But after all, he has been an official for many years, no matter how upright he is, he still knows a lot about the officialdom. Where the grade is, the knowledge will naturally be wide. Although the students do not dare to breathe in his class, they really benefit a lot.

Lan Jihe's official reputation is very good. Although he doesn't care about civil affairs, Yangzhou is a major commercial city with a large number of salt merchants. Most of the salt merchants are wealthy. The influence in Yangzhou is really not small. Chongya's Juren is not doing it at home. The business is not a salt merchant, but either has contacts with the salt merchant or has relatives with the salt merchant, and there are several children of the salt merchant.Lan Ji and Bu Lao You Shui acted impartially, who wouldn't know?What he has to do is related to Yanzheng, so it is easy to see what kind of person he is.

Therefore, although some people complained about Lan Ji and Youyan because he didn't enter, most of the salt merchants who did business seriously had nothing to say to Lan Ji and him!People in Chongya think that he is not as approachable as Lin Ruhai, but as a man and an official, he really deserves to be called a pillar of the country!

This day happened to be Lan Jihe's official class again, Xu Yang ran to the auditorium with everyone early to take up a seat and waited, but there were hundreds of people waiting in the room, and after half an hour, Lan Jihe was still waiting. come over.Some of them couldn't sit still anymore, and quietly went out to inquire, but one of them ran in panting and said: "It's amazing! Mr. Lan was arrested by the Holy Order! The whole family will be escorted to Beijing for trial. I heard people say that Chunwei was surrounded by soldiers sent by imperial envoys, and forced Chunwei's mountain chief to send the girl from the Lan family away..."

There was a sudden chaos in the classroom, everyone here respected Lan Jihe very much, and now the court came to arrest him, and the students didn't know what was going on, so how could they not be surprised or flustered; There are a few sisters or juniors who go to school in Chunwei. Whose girls are not pampered, how can they stand such scares?Immediately, some people were discussing and whispering to each other to ask what happened to Mrs. Lan, but at this time the imperial power is supreme and no one dares to make a fuss, and everyone in the younger half hastily left to go to Chunwei to appease their own girl.

Xu Yang felt his head was buzzing, he didn't care much, he hurried to Chongya's stable to lead the horse, jumped on the horse, and rushed towards Chunwei.From a distance, I saw a lot of people at Chunwei's gate, squeezed in and saw Chunwei's mountain chief, Mrs. Jiang, with an angry face, talking to Zheng Zhihe, the magistrate of the government.

"Is there any law in this world! Even if Mr. Lan is guilty and his relatives are involved, he should wait until after school, or send a letter to come in. He even sent troops to surround the school. If Mr. Zheng was not in time, I'm afraid I'm going to rush to the school to take people! The school is full of girls from good families, so he dares to do this! This is also a fourth-rank official of the imperial court!"

Zheng Zhihe's face was not good-looking, but he still comforted him: "Shan Zhang, don't be angry, don't be angry, I think it's because the superiors are urging me hard, Mr. Zhou is messed up!"

"Hurry up? Who dares to urge Uncle Zhou!" Mrs. Jiang was really pissed off: "A little girl, how much relationship can she have, just locked up like that..." Lan Mengru is her proud student , Mrs. Jiang's distressed tears were about to fall.

Xu Yang felt that his forehead was sweating, but he suppressed his restlessness and anxiety. He searched for the noisy people first, and after a while, he saw his own car to pick up his sister, so he hurried forward to let Chun Xianer Go in and bring the lady out.After a while Lin Daiyu really put on the conical hat and came out with two maidservants, Xu Yang didn't say much, and hurriedly asked someone to close the curtain to put Daiyu into the car, and hurried home.

Back home, Daiyu took off her conical hat, and Xu Yang realized that her eyes were red from crying. The little girl was stunned for a while, and then burst into tears: "How could Uncle Lan be a corrupt official? No more It's even simpler than his house, all sister Lan's is just a gold bracelet, I've been wearing it for more than two years and I can't bear to blow it up..."

Xu Yang felt even more uncomfortable hearing that, he had seen the simplicity of the Lan family a long time ago, Chunwei's female student Li Lan Mengru was second only to Daiyu in birth, but her hairpin and ring jewelry was the least in Chunwei.It's not that Master Lan treats her badly, on the contrary, he loves his daughter very much, and spends time every day giving lectures to her... Otherwise, why is Lan Mengru's knowledge so good?It's just that their family is used to simplicity.Maybe some people deliberately pretend to be poor to gain fame, but Xu Yang knows that at least Mr. Lan is not, he is really dedicated to the public, this is what Xu Yang and many others have witnessed.Even in Yangzhou, no one can tell if Master Lan is wrong. When Xu Yang went to paint the portrait of the old lady of Hu Baotang, their boss, Hu Sigou, the old cunning, said bluntly: "The appearance is as good as Master Lan. Those of us businessmen who are used to seeing corrupt officials have to admire them." Even such a person, how could he be a corrupt official?

Xu Yang felt so sad that he seemed to see the beautiful face gently turned around from the dimly lit place before his eyes, and then the pink face and peach cheeks were replaced by Lan Ji's upright and resolute face...Suddenly heard Daiyu Said: "In this life, I don't know if I can see Sister Lan..."

In this life, in this life...Xu Yang suddenly felt his blood surge, if he didn't see him today, would he never see him again in this life?Xu Yang stood up abruptly: "Sister, you have to rest, I'll go out for a while..."

Because of the existence of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, people usually travel to and from the capital by boat, but at this time, the river in the north has already frozen, and the escorting sergeants may not take the boat anymore, and they should take the dry road.

Xu Yang rode his horse and galloped all the way out of Yangzhou City, and walked for more than 20 miles. When it was dark, he finally saw a group of people resting outside a ruined temple from a distance.Because the imperial envoy Zhou Haihua had other affairs in Yangzhou, it was convenient for Xu Yang to let the sergeant detain the Lan family first. He found the leading officer and said that he was the son of an old friend of Mr. Lan, and only wanted to see him. If it's really impossible, it would be good if I could see his wife or girl, after all, he secretly stuffed the officer with two silver ingots, the officer was not a bad person, so he quietly collected the money, seeing Xu Yang's miserable face, he guessed how much Point: "It's so bright, many people are watching, it's not a big deal for you to see Mrs. Lan, but since you are an old friend, if you sneak a look at him, you can have a few words with that Miss Lan! She looks like that I'm afraid you can't think about it, so go and persuade me!" On the one hand, this officer is really kind, and on the other hand, he really doesn't want to have any accidents on the road, and he has an advantage, but she is just a little girl, so what can I do if I meet him ?

The officer took Xu Yang into the ruined temple. Xu Yang saw Lan Jihe at a glance. He was wearing shackles and sitting in front of a pile of fire with his eyes closed. A decently dressed man dozing off.Xu Yang looked very sad, and wanted to call Uncle Lan, but the officer pulled the corner of his clothes vigorously, suppressed his tears and quietly retreated, and then secretly went to a small room next to the ruined temple.

As soon as Xu Yang entered the room, he was stunned. He thought that at least Mrs. Lan would be by Lan Mengru's side, but unexpectedly there was only Lan Mengru in the small room.This dilapidated temple was not considered serious. Lan Mengru was taken away directly from Chunwei. The weather was much warmer during the day, and she was not wearing thick clothes. She was still shivering with the cold even though she wore a cloak.At this moment, she was sitting on the ground curled up with her legs crossed, when she heard the voice and raised her head, she was stunned when she saw Xu Yang.

The officer said in a low voice: "I'm waiting outside, you speak quickly, it's too long for people to see..." After saying that, he backed out and gently closed the door.

"It's...Brother Xu?" Lan Mengru asked with some uncertainty.

"It's me, Sister Lan, I'm here to see you off." Seeing the tears on her face, her voice was trembling, and her eyes were erratic, Xu Yang tentatively asked, "Where's Aunt Lan? Why isn't she with you?" Together."

"My mother is gone..." Lan Mengru said blankly: "Just in the morning, the imperial envoy came to my house to arrest people. My mother didn't come up, so..." Before she finished speaking, she was already sobbing.

Xu Yang never expected it to be like this, and he didn't know what to say for a while. Although he was not eloquent in normal times, he was definitely not a dull person who couldn't speak, but at this moment, he really I don't know what to say to comfort the other party.

Xu Yang stared blankly at Lan Mengru crying for a while, and seeing that she was shaking even more, he said, "Sister Lan, please forgive me." Turning his head, Xu Yang took off the cloak to cover it. , but inside it was a short jacket with cotton. Xu Yang always rode a horse when he went out, and the wind was very strong, so he put on the cotton before it froze. The cotton-padded clothes are separated from the top and bottom, and they don't wear very long cotton robes.Xu Yang took off the cotton jacket, put on the outer robe again, handed the cotton coat to Lan Mengru's hand and said, "It will only get colder and colder if we go to the capital, at least add a cotton coat, even though it's a bit big Fortunately, it's a short jacket, so I can always make it into a half-sized dress... I just put on this dress yesterday, so don't think I'm dirty..."

Xu Yang knelt down and stuffed the cotton-padded clothes into Lan Mengru's hands, only to see that she was just in a daze after taking the cotton-padded clothes, there was no trace of life in her eyes, and she looked completely hopeless.Xu Yang became ruthless, stretched out his hand to press her shoulder, and whispered in her ear: "Even if you die now, what can you do? It can only make Uncle Lan even more sad! If he is sad, he will be cruel If I go with your mothers, I will die for nothing, and I will bear the name of a corrupt official until I die!"

The sound of the officer knocking on the door came from outside: "Young master, hurry up, it will be inconvenient after a long time..."

Xu Yang lowered his voice and said: "Even if your whole family is dead, you still have to live well. As long as there is one person in your Lan family alive, there is still hope for Uncle Lan's grievances, but you are all dead. Now, who else will help you a group of dead people come forward? You are not afraid of death, are you still afraid of living?"

After Xu Yang said these few words, he let go of his hands and stood up, and walked slowly towards the door, but suddenly heard Lan Mengru say behind his back: "I remember." Xu Yang stopped by the door, and a voice came from behind him. There was a rustling sound of dressing, but Lan Mengru said softly: "No matter what happens, I will live well, Brother Xu, take care!"

Xu Yang's eyes became hot, and he almost shed tears.He didn't dare to look back, he only supported the door frame and said, "Sister Lan, take care!"