Senior Gao, Senior Zhang please stay ……”
Zhu Pingan arched his hand to bid farewell to Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng who were sent out of the door and turned towards his office room.
Today’s visit to Gao Gong was ideal.
When entering the door, Zhu Pingan knocked twice and no one cared; when leaving, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng sent out the door.
The former refused but sent after.
From Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng two people before and after the attitude contrast can be seen, Zhu Pingan’s worship is quite effective.
Zhu Pingan from the high arch office out, the time is already more than half past six o’clock, about another small half an hour to start the reception banquet, time is not enough to visit the Yu Wang House of the other colleagues, and their own office has not been cleaned up, so Zhu Pingan from the office out of the high arch, directly back to their own offices.
As for the other colleagues, it would not be too late to visit them after the reception banquet.
Returning to his office in a light manner, after returning to his office, Zhu Pingan found a lot more greenery in his office.
There are eight more pots of different sizes in the room, the tallest pot is the Luohan Pine, placed on the old gnarled trunk, branches and leaves, pale ancient and delicate, with a moving posture, the other pots are a little smaller, mainly chrysanthemums of different varieties and ink bamboos.
The breeze blew, a room of greenery rippled slightly, very pleasant.
“I don’t know what kind of bonsai your honour likes, so I followed the preferences of most of the people in the mansion and chose some for you. If you don’t like what you see, I will have someone replace the bonsai for you again.”Steward Liu bowed aside and asked.
“No need to replace it, it’s very good, I like it very much, thank you Steward Liu for taking the trouble.”Zhu Pingan looked round with satisfaction, arched his hand and thanked Steward Liu.
“Your Excellency is polite.”Steward Liu hurriedly said.
Then, Steward Liu arranged for people to move a few furnishings to Zhu Pingan’s room, as well as some household utensils.
“Your Excellency should rest first, I won’t disturb you, if in the future your Excellency finds that you still lack something, whether it is a scholar’s room or daily living supplies, your Excellency will give a word of command, and my Excellency will surely give you the first time to add to the list.”Before leaving, Steward Liu said.
“Oh, then thanks to Steward Liu, in the future, Steward Liu don’t mind my trouble.”
Zhu Pingan smiled and answered, not polite again, after all, it is Yu Wang Fu’s things, and he himself is working for Yu Wang, there is no need to be polite in the sense, besides, the saint deducted so much of his salary, the father’s debt and the son’s repayment and whatnot, it is also reasonable to say so.
“How can it be troublesome, to be able to serve your lordship is a blessing for the little one.”Steward Liu hastily shook his head and said.
“Hehe, it should be Ping An’s blessing.”Zhu Pingan said with a smile.
“Your Excellency is joking, Your Excellency please rest first, when the reception banquet starts, I will come back to inform Your Excellency.”
Steward Liu bowed and left, taking the door of the room with him.
“Thank you.”
Zhu Pingan watched Steward Liu leave, then slowly paced and strolled through the outer and inner parts of the office.
Sufficient area, excellent functional zoning, perfect office supplies, complete daily necessities, and sunny greenery.
The first independent office in life, all kinds of satisfaction.
The lounge is well regulated, Zhu Pingan did not pack too much to adjust, mainly cleaned up the outer room, according to their own habits, rearranged the desk, and the books on the bookshelf categorisation, and then wiped the table and chairs and other items with a wet rag……
It took about twenty minutes or so.
After cleaning up, Zhu Pingan opened the doors and windows to ventilate the room, and he himself sat in front of the desk and set up a pen, ink, paper and ink stone, took a volume of “Lanting Preface” facsimile from the bookshelf and turned it over and put it on the desk, and recited silently while suspending his wrist and lifting the pen to practise the words:.
“In the ninth year of Yonghe, the year was in the year of Kichou, at the beginning of the twilight spring, the meeting was held at the Lanting in the Yin of the mountain in the city of Huiji, and the semi-annual ceremony of purification was also held. A group of sages were present, the young and the old gathered. This place ……”
The Lanting Preface, Wang Xizhi’s 51-year-old winning stroke, is the first post of Chinese running script, just sorted out the bookshelf, Zhu Pingan found this volume of the Lanting Preface facsimile, the book saint of the robust and ethereal calligraphy Zhu Pingan was fascinated, and so in the practice of the word will be the volume of the Lanting Preface open, try to imitate the writing up.
In the body of the Lanting Preface, there are twenty zhi characters, together with the one zhi character in the inscription, there are twenty-one zhi characters in the whole post. Twenty-one characters, twenty-one styles of writing, twenty-one aesthetics, each with a different style and beauty, none of which are repeated, and the Sage of Calligraphy has a reputation for being a master of his craft.
Zhu Pingan had only finished copying and writing the Lanting Preface, and had just put down his pen when Steward Liu came in to pass the word, inviting Zhu Pingan to a banquet – a reception prepared by His Highness King Yu.
After washing his hands and tidying up his clothes, Zhu Pingan followed Steward Liu towards the address of the reception banquet.
Yu Wang Fu’s reception banquet was placed in the garden, close to the lotus pond, the royal family’s subordinates built a huge pergola to shade the sun, said pergola, in fact, the design of the design is not vulgar, pergola was designed as a pavilion style, everywhere permeated with elegance and nobility.
The pergola is made of high-grade Xiangfei bamboo, which can be rolled and spread so as to ventilate. The pergola was surrounded by curtains, on the one hand the curtains could shade the sunlight, on the other hand the curtains could leave gaps to keep the ventilation, the curtains were also compiled with spotted bamboo and Xiangfei bamboo, on which exquisite landscape patterns were compiled, elegant and very elegant.
In the centre of the pergola, eight refrigerators are lined up, the refrigerators here are not modern refrigerators, but the ancient version of refrigerators.
Pergola placed in the refrigerator, style similar to the tripod, bronze, four feet tripod, more than twenty centimetres from the ground, there is also a bottom bracket, four waist each set a dragon head bronze ring, easy to carry. The lid of the refrigerator is made of date wood thick plate, thick plate also pressed a bronze brick, thick plate drilled nine hundred and ninety-one small holes, the cold air emitted by the ice through the small holes to the outside, to achieve the role of cooling. Of course, this is more than a hundred thousand miles away from modern air conditioning.
The ice inside the refrigerator was specially purchased from outside by the steward of Yu Wang Fu today.
In fact, it was said that the royal family had a special manufacturing office in charge of the summer ice routine of the royal family. Every year in winter time, the manufacturing office has a special ice picker ordered to pick ice in the imperial river, will be chiselled into a prescribed size of the ice in the imperial river square, pulled into the west garden outside of a royal ice cellar, to be used in summer for the royal family.
King Yu, as the son of the Emperor, was able to receive ice regulations directly from the Manufacturing Office.
However, just as Yu Wang’s Prince’s welfare benefits were stuck by the Ministry of Revenue and other departments, so were Yu Wang’s ice regulations. Every time the people of Yu Wang Household were ordered to go to the Office of Manufacturing to collect the ice regulations, they would be stuck by the Office of Manufacturing for various normal or abnormal reasons, what is the key broken, what is the maintenance of the ice cellar, what is the day of distributing the ice regulations has not yet arrived, what is the official in charge of the ice regulations went to the West Garden to deliver the ice and so on. ……
Yu Wang Fu every ten days from the manufacturing office to receive ice, ten less than one, ten copies of ice, only can receive a point only. The ice received, barely enough for the Yu Wang and concubines used in the backyard, as for the summer large banquets and other places with ice, the Yu Wang House can only spend money to go outside the procurement.
The ice used in this reception banquet is the steward of the Yu Wang Fu specially went outside to buy back.
