The teacher Xu step are going to sell the bath bucket to help themselves to pay the fine silver, Zhu Pingan how can not “fearful”, “grateful” it.
“Once a teacher, always a father, to say, you are also counted as my half brother, with our own old man polite what.”Xu Gan patted Zhu Pingan’s shoulder in a self-conscious manner, acting as if he was an elder brother.
Ahem ……
You’re still really talking out of your arse ……
Zhu Pingan listened to the words of Xu Fan, almost did not card a heel, how to turn into your half brother, this slope is too anxious, did not keep up with the foot ……
“Zihou is here, you sit down first, wait for the old man to finish writing this character.”
When Zhu Pingan entered the study to visit Xu Shi, Xu Shi was writing, wearing a set of grey and white rosary regular clothes, wearing a black square soft hat, a common dress of a Confucian virgin. Upon seeing Zhu Pingan enter, Xu Shi nodded his head for Zhu Pingan to sit down, then lowered his head to continue writing.
“En-Sensei you are busy.”
Zhu Pingan arched his hand in salute before sitting down.
“Father, your writing is really good, quite like Wang Xi Yan Zhen’s style.”Xu Fan saw Xu Shi like a mouse saw a cat, his butt went forward to help ink and play a hand, took a look at the words written by Xu Shi, and began to pat the fart.
When he stopped writing, he glanced at him, and he smiled and shrank his neck.
It took only three to five minutes, but he finished writing, put the brush on the pen holder, and beckoned Zhu Pingan to come closer.
Zhu Pingan approached, and saw that Xu Jie had just written a pair of couplets:
A body of righteousness, the world is peaceful;
Sleeping peacefully in the clear air with two sleeves.
Xu step is written in regular script, regular script neat, fit couplets, Xu step’s regular script writing is very good, calligraphy is no less than Yan Song, as Xu Fan said, Xu step’s words have Wang Xizhi and Yan Zhenqing feeling, Yan Zhenqing regular script bone, Wang Xizhi regular script of God.
“How does Zi Hou feel about this couplet of the old man.”Xu step stayed close to Zhu Pingan before and after, letting Zhu Pingan comment on the couplet he wrote.
“The couplet is like his person, all righteousness. The words are full and vast, and the bones of the face are Xishen.”Zhu Pingan said in a serious manner.
Zhu Pingan’s critique fit the couplet well, and was not a believable boast. The content of the couplet is clean and honest, and the regular script font has the elegance of Wang Xizhi and Yan Zhenqing, exactly Yan Zhenqing’s bone, Wang Xizhi’s God, the whole with a vast and righteousness.
After Zhu Pingan finished his critique, Xu Ji smiled and shook his head.
“Father, look, Zi Hou said the same thing.”Xu Fan, however, was overjoyed at his words, Zhu Pingan’s comment about Yan Bone Hsi Shen was similar to the ass he had just patted, so he excitedly said to Xu Hui, “It wasn’t that my son was talking nonsense just now.”
“If you are half as good as Zi Hou, old me will be saved.”Xu Shi glared at Xu Gan with a look of disgust.
“Ahem, when Enshu said that, the student is ashamed to be ashamed of himself.”Zhu Pingan said with an embarrassed face.
“The one who is ashamed should be him.”Xu Shi smiled faintly.
Xu Fan was indifferent, presumably he had long been used to being struck down by Xu Stairs.
Well.
Hitting is kissing and scolding is loving.
Zhu Pingan could see that, don’t look at Xu Hui’s disdain for Xu Fan, but in his heart, he was definitely very satisfied with his eldest son.
Next, Zhu Pingan commented on the couplet again, this time more attentively. Still, Xu Shi smiled and shook his head.
“The student is foolish, I still ask for guidance from the benefactor.”Zhu Pingan looked at it for a few more moments, shook his head, and said frankly with a look of frustration.
“Oh, I found it, Ping An, the end of the couplet is the word ‘Ping An’.”Xu Fan’s eyes suddenly lit up as if he had discovered a new continent, pointing to the end of the upper and lower couplets and said aloud.
A body of righteousness is peaceful in the world;
Sleeping peacefully with two sleeves in the breeze.
Only then did Zhu Pingan notice that the couplet written by Xu Jie had a “Ping” at the end of the first line and an “An” at the end of the second line, which was really the word “Ping An”, implying his own name, and that this was the couplet Xu Jie had written for himself? Zhu Pingan raised his head to look at Xu Shi.
“You Taicang check is very good, beyond the past, let the old man face also add light, this pair of couplets is the old man wrote with you. I wanted to have someone send it to your residence, but since you are here, it will save you the trouble, take it back directly later.”Xu Yi nodded with a slight smile, looking at Zhu Pingan with great satisfaction and said.
“The student is ashamed to be the teacher of this couplet.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand and said.
“You did a good job, Taicang has been accumulating evils for many years, it is the time when you need to scrape the bones and heal the poison. You this some check the library, a knife to the blood, so that the disease-ridden Ming finance, to be able to wonderful hand back to spring.”Xu Yi stroked his beard, appreciating Zhu Pingan’s errand of checking the treasury.
“The student is ashamed, this time is just the right time to meet, but also even dragged the benefactor innocently fined six thousand taels of silver, the student is really no face to see the benefactor.”Zhu Pingan pleaded guilty.
“Money is something outside the body, not to mention six thousand taels, is the old man’s entire body so what. Taking from the old man, benefit the world, this matter salty and honourable.”Xu step waved his hand unconcernedly.
“Moreover, it is an indisputable fact that the treasurer and the imperial historian are taking bribes for favouritism and enriching their own pockets. Back then, I also have heard, but the routine check library, Jiangnan floods, mourning, I was the master of Xia Gong seconded to Jiangnan disaster relief, failed to participate in the check library, such as the old man back from the disaster relief, the silver library has long been finished checking. Although so, I also have the crime of negligence, this should be fined silver, and you have nothing to do.”Xu step then said.
Things are indeed so, when xu step also had seat check library make, but not wait for xu step to office, Jiangnan occurred a serious flood disaster, xu step’s teacher, at that time served as the chief minister of the XiaYan’s hometown of jiangxi, it is in the impact of flooding. Their hometown floods, certainly to special care ah, so Xia Yan their most trusted student Xu step to transfer to the old home relief went.
So, this should check the library of the Xu order has not yet to Taicang office it, was a paper to the official document to the Jiangnan disaster relief to go. Waiting for Xu Shi disaster relief back, the rest of the checking library has been checking the silver library.
So, realistically speaking, xu step this time was fined silver really belongs to lie shot.
“Oh yes, Zi Hou you were also fined more than a hundred taels of silver, can you make it up?”Xu step looked at Zhu Pingan with concern and asked, before waiting for Zhu Pingan’s reply, Xu step turned his head to Xu gem and said, “gem son, you go to the account to spend one hundred taels of silver, later let ZiHou bring it back together.”
“Thank you, En-Sensei, the student is grateful. However, I don’t dare to trouble En-Sensei again, Ping An has already put it all together.”Zhu Pingan thanked Xu Shi.
“Well, it’s good that it’s all put together.”Xu step nodded, “You have made a great achievement this time, but you are still fined silver, I know you are wronged, but you also do not blame the saint, this is also for the sake of the overall situation, once the precedent is set, this recovery of fines can be difficult to carry out.”
“Student understands.”Zhu Pingan nodded his head.
