Chapter 30 The Most Elegant Sinian Official in the Song Dynasty (Part 2)

Cheng Shuang knew that the teacher had noticed his little movements, and when he saw the teacher, he asked directly. He was so scared that he hid behind Cheng Xia and did not dare to show his head. Cheng Xia did not care. He saluted and asked calmly: "Teacher, you often say that you should be honest, but why are you so humble to a little magistrate?"

Little magistrate? He speaks so hard.

As the son of the patriarch, Cheng Xia did not go through many setbacks. In his eyes, the teacher's image was too tall, and he should not be taken into consideration by the prefectural position. But now, he saw that the teacher who had always been arrogant and dared to draw his sword to fight for a bloody path in the face of a group of bandits, he was respectful to a shabby old man. Afterwards, he calmly asked the students whether they were "shameless", which made him very disappointed.

Zhao Xing shook his head dissatisfiedly and said lightly: "How to grasp the best and wrong paths; how to choose between different paths? This is the skill of judging the situation and judging things - when to bend down, when to bend rather than bend, this is the highest knowledge in life.

When people are in the world, how to maximize their friends and reduce their enemies is also knowledge. To achieve this knowledge is to manipulate people's hearts - this is called "the art of emperors".

You are still young now, and this knowledge is too dangerous for you. If you use it improperly, this is the knowledge of being scouted and beheaded... Haven't I taught you the wisdom of wisdom? Today we will first learn how to 'treat others and yourself'. What you see now is 'treat others'... Let me do it for you again, watch, learn to think, and observe the differences in it."

Under the students' admiration, he raised his hands behind his back and looked up at the small house by the river.

The dusk was vast, and the river gradually showed a thin twilight mist. The young man who was standing on the slope had finished farming. He led the ox down the hillside. Before returning to his room, he paused for a moment and glanced at Zhao Xing who was standing respectfully by the river. Then, he walked into the yard without any expression.

After a while, a woman came out of the room. She carried an empty bamboo basket and walked to the riverside. She looked around and looked at her sad face, as if she was looking for today's wild vegetables. Looking at the woman's appearance, this kind of living situation has lasted for a long time, so the wild vegetables nearby have been picked, so you must be careful when searching.

Zhao Xing's eyes were a little wet. He called two disciples and gave a few words of low orders. The children ran away wildly, and the footsteps alarmed the woman. Only then did she realize that the person by the river was not a view of the scenery. He kept crossing his hands and looking up at the small house by the river.

The woman was generous and generous. She lifted her skirt, walked to the gate of the courtyard, and gave Zhao Xing a blessing from the door. She said softly: "The dew on the riverside is heavy, and the uncle (a respectful title for her husband and friend in the Song Dynasty) stood here and refused to leave. But when I came to visit my official family, I hope my uncle forgives me, my official family likes to say, "I am drunk and sleep, and go."

He speaks elegantly.

Zhao Xing did not dare to be rude. He bowed through the courtyard gate tied with a few firewood sticks, explaining with a slightly awkward explanation: "The ruren (a honorific title of the official wife of the Song Dynasty), I am very embarrassed. The scholar once gambled with the 'men and women' (a common man in the Song Dynasty) with poems. The wine brewed by men and women is strong. Now the scholar is drunk, and the men and women are worried that it is their own fault, so they are waiting here."

The woman smiled softly and replied: "Uncle is worried. My official family is often drunk and sleeping. It's nothing special today. Uncle, let's go back."

Zhao Xing was thinking hard there, but he couldn't remember what Su Dongpo's wife's surname was. He only remembered that it seemed that Su Dongpo had married more than once, and also had a famous poem to mourn his deceased wife - "Ten years of life and death are all in the world." Is the person in front of him the character in the poem? He bowed and asked humbly: "Is it Mrs. Su opposite?"

The woman smiled whimperingly: "There is only Mrs. Wang in the world, so how can Mrs. Su? I am Mrs. Wang."

Women in the Song Dynasty did not seem to have the habit of giving their husband's surname. Su Dongpo's poem also called his first two wives "Mrs. Wang". This woman means that her original surname is Wang.

In fact, the Mrs. Wang in front of her is Su Dongpo's second wife Wang Runzhi.

It is said that Su Dongpo also encountered a "buying cow incident". The cow he bought also started to have diarrhea and was about to die. Su Dongpo was so anxious that he couldn't do anything about it. It was Mrs. Wang who smiled and told him: "This cow has bean spots. Just pick some Artemisia annua and cook it into vegetable porridge and feed it."

Picking Artemisia annua and cooking vegetable porridge - this is actually boiling tannin from grass leaves, which is completely similar to Zhao Xing's method of curing cattle. Mrs. Wang didn't know where to understand this method, so she left the anecdotes that "Huang Lu was good at looking at dogs, and Su Dongpo could cure cattle."

In ancient times, women usually had no names, at most they had a surname. Su Shi's grandmother called Shi, and his mother was only called Mrs. Cheng, while Su Che's wife could only be content with the name "Shi" throughout her life. Only Su Shi's two wives and concubine Chaoyun both had their own names and names like men, and these names were all given by Su Shi, which was rare at that time.

Su Shi's first wife was Wang Fu. After ten years of mutual support with Su Shi, Wang Fu left him forever. After her death, Su Shi's father Su Xun ate her vegetarian food for three days and said to Su Shi: "You should bury your wife next to your mother's tomb."

Su Shi did as his father said, and planted 30,000 pine trees on the hill where Wang Fu was buried.

Four years after Wang Fu's death, Su Shi was lonely for four years. Four years later, he married Wang Runzhi as his wife. Ten years later, Wang Fu returned to his dream and wrote this poem: "Ten years of life and death are in vain.

If you don’t think about it, you will never forget it.

A lonely grave thousands of miles away, nowhere to talk about desolation.

Even if we meet, we don't know.

The face is covered in dust and the temples are as frost.

When I came to the night, I suddenly returned home.

The small window is dressing up.

Looking at each other in silence, only tears flow thousands of times.

It is expected that the heartbreaking place will be broken every year.

On a bright moon night, short Matsuoka.”

Wang Runzhi is not as talented as his sister. She has been with her sister since she was a child and admires a brother-in-law like Su Shi. She did not marry at the age of 21. In the Song Dynasty, this was equivalent to an old virgin in the 21st century. But at the age of 21, she finally married her brother-in-law and was satisfied.

This typical little woman is easily content and obeys her husband. In the ten years after Wang Fu's death, Su Shi wrote the memorial poem "Jiangchengzi" for his ex-wife. It was not unaware, but she did not blame him. When he wrote "Only tears flowed thousands of times", she looked at him and shed tears as well. Nothing else, she just wanted Su Shi to be such a affectionate man.

At this time, Mrs. Wang had asked Zhao Xing to leave twice, but Zhao Xing was still unwilling to leave. He shook his head repeatedly and said with a sarcastic smile: "Actually, I am here to pay the gambling debt - I bet with the bachelor, and I lost half a boat of mountain cargo and half a boat of wine, but I was anxious to go on the road afterwards... I didn't deceive each other and didn't hide it. My disciple was hiring someone to move goods, and I want to wait for them here."

When Mrs. Wang heard this, she looked at Zhao Xing up and down, gently pulled open the simple courtyard gate, and said to the side, "This is why uncle has spent money. I will call my youngest son out to greet the sir."

The Song people like gambling. At present, the gambling form that Zhao Xing came into contact with is called "Guanpu". The connection between "gambling" and "Bo" comes from Su Shi. Su Shi recorded in a memorial: "There are more than a hundred households in the city who open a counter, and they play the card list and recruit soldiers and civilians to gamble." As a result, the term "gambling" was officially formed.

What is certain is that the first license for the world's gambling industry is definitely not born from Su Shi's memorial, because Song Taizu was born in the market and was gambled by nature. In folk legend, he once lost to Huashan by his teacher Chen Tuan's ancestor. Another legend says that the gambling rules for dice were determined by Song Taizu.

But in Chinese history, it was Su Shi who determined the word gambling.

This created a unique phenomenon: among all the dynasties in ancient China, the Song Dynasty did not catch gambling - they were all legal taxpayers who operated under the protection of the government.

Mrs. Wang was not surprised when Su Shi was gambling with others. However, gambling usually requires gambling funds. Her husband is so poor. How can he gamble with others? So when he heard that Zhao Xing lost so much, Mrs. Wang immediately knew: this gambling has other mystery - maybe, the person in front of him lost specifically. The purpose was to give Su Shi money and also to protect Su Dongpo's face - the gambling of poetry and wine is so elegant! So she immediately opened the door and solemnly invited Zhao Xing to visit.

Zhao Xing contacted all the villagers. He did not know the etiquette among the officials of the Song Dynasty. With the attitude of "not being polite", he did not dare to look at Mrs. Wang. He only looked at the ground and looked at the corner of Mrs. Wang's skirt so that he could keep up with the other party's footsteps...
Chapter completed!