[Red Mansion] When Zhen Shiyin was reborn

The style of writing in Jiangnan and other places is at its peak, and Anding Academy in Yangzhou is a sacred place for all students to yearn for reading. Unlike many academies today that only require proficiency in stereotyped writing, Anding Academy also requires students to learn the six arts of gentlemen. The founder of Anding Academy is He believes that the stereotyped selection of officials discards the essence of Confucianism, so he requires the students of the academy to learn the six arts required by orthodox Confucianism in addition to being proficient in the classics and articles. Every year, some poor students with excellent grades and outstanding temperament will be exempted from Shu embroidery to study in Anding Academy.

Therefore, all the previous headmasters of Anding Academy are great Confucians in the world.The current head of the mountain is naturally highly respected.

The current head of Anding Academy, named An Yu Shiping and styled Ziming, is a scholar admired by most scholars today, and his character is beyond reproach, old but not pedantic.In the past, Li Shiyin once read his articles on Gewu Theory, and the reading was clear and catchy.Shi Yin himself admired him very much. Now that he has this opportunity, why not go there?

It was not until the banquet that I found out that Anding Academy is full of talents. Even the professors of subjects such as Yushe, which are not popular in the eyes of contemporary literati, are not only excellent professionally, but also have a literary talent above ordinary people. Talented people come to teach, as for the classics and righteousness, the number of rites and music books, not to mention, they are all outstanding people.

After Su Xiuyuan introduced Shi Yin to Shan Chang and others, most of them just nodded to Shi Yin in return. Since ancient times, literati have looked down on each other, and at this moment it is vividly reflected, but Shan Chang An Ziming is approachable. shelf.Shi Yin knew that it was because they didn't really accept him, but because of Su Xiuyuan's affection, he was polite to him on the surface, but in fact he didn't care much about him, a fellow Jinshi who was nearly fifty years old and had no reputation at all. , and some may even look down on their title of "same Jinshi". Although ordinary people think that both of them are masters of Jinshi, in fact, only they know that they are not the same as Jinshi and Jinshi. Some people even ridiculed that " "Same Jinshi" and "Ru Furen" are the same.But he doesn't care much about it. If you know how to read and write, you will have a lot of opportunities to prove your talent with you.

When the literary meeting started, Shi Yin couldn't help sighing that these feasts were exactly the same as when he was still studying in the academy, just throwing pots to the left and right, drinking orders, and the more elegant ones were Qushui Liushang.

The head of the mountain saw that the atmosphere on the student side was lively today, but his own side seemed a little deserted, so he proposed to couplet the poem. The Hongmei, the location of today's Wenhui is not in other places, it is still in the back mountain of Anding Academy. It is just after the first month at this time, and it is still a bit cold, and some of the snow has not yet melted, but the Hongmei has fully bloomed. Against the background, quite interesting.Then blurted out "Treading snow to find plum night"

Immediately, someone answered, "When looking for Fang. I don't want to struggle for spring,"

"One Ren Qunfang is jealous. The broken snow gathers in a trickle,"

"Chun Xin locks the branches. A flower is enough to refresh the mind,"

"Thousands of springs are slanted horizontally. Its flowers are like oirans,"

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When it was time for Shi Yin to pick it up, the first couplet was: Mei Han Jinchun Shu

This sentence is quite interesting, Shi Yin thought about it and replied: "The flowers are blooming in the old years. The Qing Dynasty does not know the cold."

All the audience applauded for a while, the Shanglian was right, the Shanglian was well written, the confrontation was neat, and Mei Zhixin was written. From the perspective of Shi Yin's age, there was a sense of old age. It's good, I like the plum blossom's Gao Jie.

"There is a unique rhyme in the fragrance. Let Yingchun Terrace first," although this person picked it up, it was only a lower level in terms of conception.

After the joint poem was finished, no one got any good lines, everyone was convinced, General Shi Yin praised him, An Ziming also expressed his favor, and the others from the beginning did not want to respond to the current one A brother Shi Yin, very affectionate.

This is where the loveliness of a literati lies. As long as you surpass him in writing, you will be accepted by him sincerely. Of course, this is only because everyone sitting that night is a gentleman.

After the collection of the Literary Society came out that night, all the students in Yangzhou City knew his poems about plum blossoms, and Shi Yin's literary name gradually spread in Yangzhou City.

Because the poems written by scholars from Anding Academy were applauded by everyone, they published a collection of essays (ancient banquets would publish collections of essays, such as the preface to the Lanting Collection), which made many literati in Yangzhou know about Zhen Shiyin's essays. Shi Yin was invited to participate in many banquets among Yangzhou literati, big and small. Shi Yin asked Su Xiuyuan, and after knowing some taboos, he chose some banquets to attend, and at the same time invited some like-minded people, gradually. Naturally, he broke into the core circle of literati in Yangzhou City. For example, An Shanzhang of Anding Academy invited him to join Chuoxue Poetry Club.Only after this did Shi Yin truly settle down in Yangzhou City.

After the first lunar month, and about a month later, the manager of Gusu Zhuangzi went to Yangzhou to talk back and forth, and brought the prospects of last year's Zhuangzi and some skins, melons, fruits and poultry, etc., because Gusu is a bit far from Yangzhou. , I'm afraid it will be broken on the road.

At this time, Shi Yin remembered that Yinglian was lost a few years later in his last life, and his home was burned to rubble by the fire caused by the bombing of the confession because it was next to the Gourd Temple. Floods and droughts are not harvested, rats and thieves are rampant, and the people are not safe. At the same time, officers and soldiers are suppressing and arresting them, making it difficult to settle down.

So he thought of selling those houses and farms early, and then set up some fields near Yangzhou. It's just that Shi Yin was a scholar, and he was not used to physiological and crop affairs. And the honest farmer went to Suzhou with him to deal with these matters.But he was afraid that he would not be able to find a reliable person, and that the kind-hearted person would collude with the buyer to deceive him, so he asked Chen Wu to find an honest farmer to go with him, and promised the farmer The ten taels of silver in the Han Dynasty was worth half a year's income, but the farmer was so happy that he only knew Xie Shiyin.

He also entrusted Chen Wu to help him find some farms near Yangzhou City and recruit a housekeeper, who must be literate.Just because Gusu's original old housekeeper was too old, he didn't come with him, but went home to take care of the elderly. When he first came to Yangzhou City, his family was simple and had no contacts, so he let the Feng family and the scholars hermit The two dealt with it. Recently, due to some communication with those literati in Yangzhou City, the affairs have become complicated. Gradually, they were unable to do what they wanted, so they thought about hiring a housekeeper.

After four months, it was early summer before I finished handling these matters and returned to Yangzhou from Suzhou.

He just came back, and after a few days, Chen Wu came back and said that there was a Zhuangzi in the southeastern suburbs, but the young master of that family didn’t live up to expectations, and his parents left long ago. It is selling fields or pawning some old things to make ends meet, but he still cares about face and refuses to be frugal, so he spends money like running water. When the servants see the situation of the master's house, they deceive him when he is young and ignorant, so they lie about it The price of the field, which is originally a top-notch field, is only sold at an ordinary price, but it is necessary to give some kickbacks to the servants.After Shi Yin heard this, he was not happy, and he was afraid that even if he paid the full price, it would be in the purse pockets of those slavish slaves, so he had no choice but to keep silent.

A few days later, after Shi Yin completed all the formalities for the farm and put it under his own name, he sent someone privately to deliver the silver taels of the price difference to the young master. Know Diao Nu's true face.Unexpectedly, after this incident, the little son grew up, worked hard to get into Juren, and sent those unreasonable slaves away, which became a good story of the prodigal son returning for money.

It's just that Yangzhou is a big city after all, and the price of the farm is more than double that of Gusu. This time, the purchase of the land actually spent all the money from selling the house and land, and even posted the future of the farm last year. The economy is tight.He had to pawn some of the dowry left by Li Shiyin's mother in the past to barely make it through this year, and forget it when the newly bought Zhuangzi in the coming year paid off, and then redeemed those dowry and other things one by one.

Another year passed like this, and when Yinglian was three years old, Shi Yin personally enlightened her, taught her some enlightening three-character scriptures, thousand-character prose, etc., and she could learn them all at once, which made Shi Yin feel uncomfortable. Yinglian is lost, so why should she learn poetry from Miss Lin, I am afraid that she will be able to export it long ago.

Yinglian herself also loves reading very much. When Su Xiuqi came to visit her home and casually asked Yinglian what she had learned, she solemnly recited something about the mystery of the world and the prehistoric universe.It made Shi Yin and Xiu Qi laugh, of course they still praised Yinglian on the surface, and they looked at each other and smiled when the wet nurse hugged her down.

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