Dress to be a celebrity

No matter how euphemistic Song Shi's words were, just because he rejected the invitation of Jiangnan famous scholars to give lectures, Xu Zhen's heart was already overwhelmed.

Why!

A Fujian student who has no talent, no writings, and no reputation for raising his son to become a Jinshi, but only gained a little fame through a lecture, why would he dare to refuse the invitation of the top literary club in the south of the Yangtze River? Invitations handed over?

This invitation was written in his own handwriting, and this stroke of Chu script alone overwhelmed his printed Song style characters by a large amount.What's more, when he wrote this invitation, it was when he was full of emotion and creative ideas. The words were picked out of the void. People who read them all praised the words for their beauty and majesty, and there was no word that could be changed. ?

...Could it be that he already knew that they were going to test him at the meeting, and he knew that he was not good enough in knowledge, so he dared not go to the meeting to meet people?

Xu Yu secretly laughed, and said proudly: "Since Mr. Song is shy and dare not go to the Suzhou Lecture Conference where the real style of writing is flourishing and famous scholars gather, I have nothing to say. Mr. Huan, Mr. Song, Mr. Xu today I came here to invite people to participate in the seminar, and since the matter has not been accomplished, there is no need to waste time here, so I will leave.”

Huan Ling frowned and said, "Why did Xu Sheng say that? Ziqi has never seen anyone shy. It's just that he is busy with his studies and can't go to Suzhou. A gentleman should be cautious in his words and deeds, and don't judge others lightly."

Xu Yu told him to turn red, but because he was a Jinshi, he naturally had the right to give advice to the younger generation, and what he said was serious and instructive, and he couldn't refute it, so he had to hold back his tone.Before leaving, he couldn't help but said something to Song Shi: "That invitation card was made by Xu himself. The calligraphy and words are quite impressive. After this Jiangnan famous lecturer meeting, it will be over. Song Jun might as well stay." For collection."

hehe.Extinct sound?

Invitation cards in the Song Dynasty were just like postcards. The name, location, and inviter were written on a piece of paper, and a few more sentences were written on the invitation card.This post almost copied him from the appearance to the text of the inner page, and it was sent to him in such a careless manner, and you told him that it was a unique story?

Buy Zhang Dahong Sprinkle Gold post for two coins and come back, write a random prose, and you will be at this level.

Song Shi unceremoniously said "Wait a minute", put the post back into the post letter and handed it back to Xu Yi: "Mr. Dressing yourself up with virtue, you don’t accept such precious gold-sprinkling posts, and you don’t dare to participate in the first-class luxury gatherings where gold is piled up with silver and Zhang women’s music is held, so you have to live up to Mr. Xu’s good intentions.”

Xu Yu couldn't even lose face this time, and said angrily, "What do you mean?"

Song Shi asked him indifferently: "Mr. Xu invited me to participate in such a banquet. I just thanked him bluntly. What's the point? Could it be that what was written on Mr. Xu's invitation was in a Suzhou garden where a square brick is worth a thousand dollars?" ZTE organizes this meeting? Isn’t it setting up rare delicacies to serve the guests? Isn’t it a famous prostitute serving the banquet and wine?”

Xu Yu said: "Exactly, I am no different from other places in Suzhou. Since I want to hold a seminar, I must work hard, be considerate, and teach guests and friends from afar to have fun."

Song Shi smiled slightly, and said in the most heart-warming direction: "If it's a poetry meeting for gifted scholars and literati, it's fine to do it this way. Drinking alcohol and coercing prostitutes is the nature of romantic talents, and people will only admire them when they see it. But you have to do it Lectures, the debate is about the laws of nature and human desires, how can it be done like this? Zhu Zi once said: Diet, the laws of nature;

"In the garden with every inch of land and every inch of gold, eating delicacies from mountains and seas, hugging girls and demon boys, and then talking about how to be rational and get rid of human desires? Everything you step on, drink in your cup, and embrace in your arms is all human desires. Why? Do you dare to say that what you are talking about is the true principle of heaven?"

Cold sweat dripped down Xu Yu's back, his tongue was numb, and he couldn't utter a single word, only one thought lingered in his mind—wrong, they went in the wrong direction!

In order to overwhelm the Lecture Conference held in the Song Dynasty, they specially borrowed famous gardens, invited famous prostitutes, and raised hundreds of dollars to prepare banquets. theme.

If on the day of the lecture, talented people from all over the world gathered in Suzhou, they talked about "removing human desires" on the stage, but the audience was drinking wine and drinking money, and their clothes were fragrant and their temples were shadowed. What kind of absurd scene would it be?At the meeting, there must be no second person who can see the problem like Song Shi?

As long as someone raises this point, their reputation at the Lecture Conference in Suzhou will be ruined, and the Confucian scholars in Suzhou will definitely have the reputation of "teaching is inferior to Fujian"... Aren't they eternal sinners!

Just as he was regretting himself, he heard Song Shi say forcefully in his ear: "Wouldn't Wuping County be short of knowledgeable and capable celebrities, so we can't hold a luxurious lecture meeting? Of course not! We're not here to show our strength and style. The purpose of holding this conference is to allow more students to hear the lectures of famous scholars, so that Confucian scholars with real talents can pass on their own theories to more students!"

"I can also borrow famous gardens, invite officials and prostitutes to accompany me to drink, and prepare a feast of forty courses, but what is the benefit of this for my studies? It is worse than a simple stone platform, Mr. on the platform, Students under the stage. You can see the sun, moon and stars from above, mountains, rivers, grass and trees from below, and people farming, weaving, fishing and animal husbandry when you look around... Where is it not the law of heaven?"

His voice was quiet and gentle, and his words were not sharp, but it was like a blow to the head, and suddenly woke up Xu Yu: "Xu Jun, there is a place of happiness in famous teaching, why do you need to ask for external things?"

Xu Yu closed his eyes abruptly, squeezed out the bitter sweat that was flowing into his eyes, took a few deep breaths, opened his red eyes again, and sighed: "Thank you, Brother Song, for your guidance. It was Xu Yu who was rude, please accept me. A salute. But I still have to go—Since brother Meng Song made a mistake, I have to go back to Suzhou as soon as possible to dissuade everyone."

He took back the invitation card, tore it into shreds, and said shamelessly: "I still want to be proud of this post, but I don't know that this article is just a famous proof of my own lack of talent and virtue. For today's matter, please respect Mr. Huan." Brother Song, don't tell others that it's okay for me to lose face, but I shouldn't hurt the name of Suzhou genius..."

Don't worry, you won't be troubled, later generations won't mention your name when they talk about talented scholars in Suzhou, they all refer to your grandson and his little friends.

Song Shi thought a little harshly, but because he gave birth to a good grandson, he nodded and said: "Brother Xu, don't worry, Mr. Huan and I are not the kind of people who talk about people's right and wrong behind their backs."

Xu Caizi, who not only talked about people behind his back, but also cooperated with his companions to suppress people, was shot in the heart again, and left Tingzhou in despair.

After he left, Huan Ling was full of creativity and wrote an article on why it is better to be frugal than abundant, quiet rather than chaotic, and ancient rather than fashionable when running a seminar.It didn't mention the word "Su" in it, but it just explained the policy of organizing the conference in an orderly manner, as well as how to choose the venue, invite teachers, and make good friends, so as to make the conference a professional academic conference with a strong academic atmosphere.

Naturally, his articles are not inferior to others. The thick and broad Yan style and Xu Yu's weak Chu style are both good at winning. The articles written in Beijing back then were copied everywhere.Now there is the blessing of the princess's brother and the judge, and the writing is still the key points of how to hold a lecture conference, so naturally more people copy it.

Even Mr. Zhu, the governor of the government, has read this article, and asked him behind his back: "Baifeng wrote this article, is it because he wants to hold a seminar in our Tingzhou government?"

Huan Ling couldn't laugh or cry and said: "There is no such thing, it's just that a student from Suzhou came to the door a few days ago and said that Suzhou will also hold a lecture conference. Ziqi taught him a few essentials, and the officials felt it."

Zhu Fuzun was greatly disappointed, and sighed: "So that's how it is. We have such a great Confucian event in our mansion, and other places have to learn it in order to invite fame. Bofeng also wrote a model for them, he is really a kind person."

So kind, so honest!

He knew how much good reputation this conference had brought to their mansion.Don't mention it, Mr. Tixue, the officials from Xunkan and Bu, and the officials from the two prefectures, and colleagues from those prefectures also wrote letters to inquire about this matter. By the end of the year, it will be enough to write it into the performance appraisal form. His grades may also allow him to move up a level.

But others have learned it, and their brilliance here will inevitably be taken away.What's more, Suzhou is a prosperous place in the world, and their Tingzhou is not as good as Fuzhou, and the scale and content of the lecture conference can't match that of Suzhou, right?

Zhu Fuzun was deeply depressed because of this, Huan Ling, who wrote the article, seemed to be okay, so he left him and went back to investigate the case with his junior brother.

Song Shi taught him a special algorithm, asking him to calculate the person's height based on the size of the shoe prints recorded on the mortuary table, and also to infer the person's figure, physical strength, and which hand-held weapon he used by looking at the direction of entry and exit of the knife, the force, and the rolling of the edge of the wound. knife……

As a result, it was inferred that there were two murderers: one was a strong man who was more than five feet five inches tall, and he should have stabbed the two deep and sharp incisions on the chest and abdomen of the deceased; the other was less than five feet tall and had shallow footprints But thin and weak, the wound in the deceased's throat that was slanted upwards and rolled up should have been done by him.

Without the help of the famous detective Song Shi, Assistant Huan deduced the truth by himself: "The thin and weak person may be a woman. If a robber kills someone, he should not use such a thin and weak person. This matter may involve love murder. Ask his servants to take Compare it with the widow's shoes, and then ask him if he has occupied the outer room or been a prostitute when he is out!"

It will be much faster if you have the direction.

The deceased's wife was an honest woman, and when she heard that the verdict depended on her footprints, she asked someone to bring a pair of newly made high-soled pink shoes and a pair of ordinary mille-soled shoes. Let adults compare.His family members and neighbors know more. When they come to court, the master will confess all the concubine, the brothers he made, and the Qier he raised. He confessed everything about his brotherhood.

Huan Ling was filled with disgust when he heard that, and almost wanted to leave these people behind and go back for the autopsy.

But these are the breakthroughs in the case, and this case is really a murder of love.He issued arrest warrants, released two teams of guards in the hall to arrest relevant personnel, compared them one by one when he came back, and solved the case in a blink of an eye——

Two days ago, the deceased returned from selling goods in other places, and when he arrived in Fucheng, he brought money to meet a beloved Qizi.At that time, Tong'er was having an affair with a new boy he had befriended, and when he saw him coming back, he hid his lover behind the bed to receive him, but when the deceased fell in love, he found a stranger's clothes in the corner of the bed, and suspected that Qizi was having an affair, so he went He took a knife from the kitchen and looked around for someone to kill him.

Just when he was looking for the adulterer, he was about to slash him with a knife, and told him to grab his wrist to confront him, but his Qizi helped the newcomer, took the knife and slashed it on his throat.

His body softened immediately, and a slanting knife cut was formed on his throat.But the knife was not deadly enough, he could still shake Qizi and call out "Kill", Qizi was so frightened that he stabbed him a few more times, the adulterer saw that he was powerless, so he grabbed the knife and stabbed him deeply twice , before killing the merchants.

The two men were afraid of killing someone and greedy for his money, so they secretly threw the body into the well in the middle of the night, thinking that no one would find out.But I didn't want Xia Tian's body to rot quickly, the putrid smell would disperse, and a passerby would report it to the police within two days.

They didn't even have time to spend money.

The police found the murder weapon from the well behind the adulterer's house, and the case was closed.If a woman cooperates with an adulterer to kill her husband, it must be a capital offense, but there is no such thing as child molestation.Huan Ling could only plan a robbery and murder, and sent him to Tingzhou Mansion for imprisonment, waiting to be reported to the imperial court, and asked to be executed after autumn.

A murder case was easily solved, and the expected robbery case did not happen, which is a happy event worthy of celebration for the two government offices in the prefecture and county.

Many people went to congratulate Huan Ling, and the widow was grateful for the money back, and wanted to give him money and set up a longevity tablet for him.Of course Huan Ling refused, and to those who came to congratulate him, he also said that he did not decide the case on his own initiative, but that he had a good junior to help him with the details, which made it so easy to close the case.

Shi Guan'er is much better than him in autopsy and case resolution.

When he first took office, he also borrowed a few books such as "Winning Injustice Records" to read. The book only said that Xia Yue's body changed color in one or two days, his body swelled and maggots grew in three days, and his hair changed in four or five days. Falling off, but not as subtle a change as Song Shi could tell.And the book only writes how to detect various causes of death such as knife wound death, drowning death, strangulation death, poison death death, soup death death, beating death, etc., but it does not teach people how to infer the shape, movement and Strength and the like...

The TuiGuan and Wu Zuo in the mansion don't understand these things, but his younger brother knows many novel autopsy methods at a young age. If he didn't learn it from some Ji Zuo in Guangxi who has accumulated many years, it must be a gift from God!

No matter how you look at it, it still looks more like a godsend.After all, Guan'er was a child prodigy who was famous in Baoding Mansion back then, so his father caught his eye and brought them back to Beijing to be students.

Although he compared the footprints, calculated the height, sent the police, and tried the case, in Huan Ling's heart, he only felt that all this should be attributed to Song Shi's good autopsy.

Song Tixing, who was not inferior to the previous dynasty.

Song Tixing was from Jianyang, and he served as the magistrate of Changting County. Song Shi was in Changting at this time. Perhaps there was a definite number in the dark. Autopsy, verdict?Maybe they should also publish a book that teaches people to solve crimes and clear up injustices?

Shi Guan'er is busy with his studies now, and he will be a pillar of the imperial court after two years of ascending the rank. Maybe he doesn't have time to write about these general affairs. As a senior, he can write down the methods he uses piecemeal, and after many years, he will compile a book for his junior. "New Record of Cleansing Injustice"?