The biggest indicator to measure the success of a literati gathering is how topical it is. The more the gathering can arouse discussions among scholars, the more successful it will be. [This article comes from] If no one pays attention and the gathering is unknown, then this gathering will be a failure.
From this perspective, the West Lake Elegant Gathering in mid-May of the 16th year of Chenghua, as the first elegant gathering after entering the examination season, was a successful elegant gathering and a victorious elegant gathering.
But the main organizer of this gathering, the West Lake Society, no, one of the principals of the West Lake Poetry Society, Yi Yuan Zhou Xiucai, sat in the Shao Mansion and sighed. The sunlight shone into the hall from the patio, and fell mottled on him.
Zhou Xiucai felt a touch of bright sadness.
Shao Chen, the young master of Shao Mansion, sat next to Zhou Yuan, relatively speechless. His face was filled with anger and resentment, and was a bit ferocious. He was not at all the humble and jerky look of Yazhu.
Zhou Yuan was also helpless. This gathering was not a failure in terms of momentum. It promoted a newcomer and caused a lot of discussion among scholars. However, this newcomer was not that newcomer. The original protagonist was supposed to be Shao Chen and Shao Xiao.
Young Master, who knew that someone else would appear out of the blue and steal the show like a road robbery, disrupting all his plans.
The situation is more than that simple. The key is how to explain it to Mr. Shao?
Zhou Yuan understands very well that if a society wants to develop and grow, it must firstly have momentum, and secondly, have a large number of people, but it cannot do without money. Without money, it is impossible to hold big activities, and there are not enough activities to create momentum and attract scholars.
There will be no development if you join the society.
The wealthy businessman Mr. Shao is the one who gave the money. The West Lake Poetry Society has received Mr. Shao's huge financial support for several consecutive years. Now it is the critical moment to praise his son. But it has failed.
Raising an army for a thousand days cannot be used in one moment, so what is the difference between it and waste? If Mr. Shao withdraws in anger, where can he find such a big benefactor who is willing to spend money and support his work?
When Zhou Yuan was thinking wildly and worrying about the future of the club, Mr. Shao said bitterly: "That Yuan Fengxiao is particularly hateful! We spent money, but she is still as listless as Qiao Na, looking half asleep and half awake.
His laziness is simply extremely disrespectful!"
Why do you care about such minutiae? Although Zhou Yuan complained, he continued: "It's not that you don't know that Miss Feng Xiao has always been so lazy and tickles people. She is called Begonia and can't wake up. She is not deliberately treating Brother Shao Xian poorly.
Besides, she relies on this unique reputation. It would be strange for anyone to be able to cheer her up and deal with it enthusiastically. As far as I know, those who can do it are either famous people or high-ranking officials. The rest are just people who like to answer questions.
It's reasonable. That's why it seems that the oiran's enthusiasm is precious. It's not an overabundance of raw and cooked Wei."
Shao Chen snorted coldly. Isn't he worthy of being dealt with seriously by the oiran lady? Of course, a person who thinks highly of himself will feel very humiliated when meeting such a woman.
What's even more shameful is that when the court lady was in high spirits for a short moment, she was talking to that person named Fang. I wonder what's so good about this person named Fang?
A steward came out and said to Zhou Yuan: "But my master said, please don't worry about temporary gains and losses. If it doesn't work this time, there will be another time. There is no need to meet today."
People under the eaves had to bow their heads. Zhou Yuan stood up and thanked him: "Thank you very much, old gentleman, for your magnanimity. I'm really ashamed of myself."
Walking out of the five-bay wide door of Shao Mansion, Zhou Yuan let out a long sigh. Did Shao Yuanwai really not care? If he really didn't care, why didn't he even show his face? But the result was good, at least Shao Yuanwai didn't say he would cut off his money.
As a scholar who is already in his thirties, Zhou Yuan is destined to have little future on the road to fame. Even if he can win the imperial examination and enter the officialdom, he will already be 40 years old. How many more years can he be an official? At the same time, he has not earned much property.
, the family wealth can only be considered as enough to have enough to eat, so Zhou Yuan's life is frustrated and unambitious.
Only by sitting in the position of the leader of a large society, making a wide network of contacts, and occasionally responding to a hundred calls, can Zhou Xiucai find some spiritual comfort. This is his new career. Without the financial support of Mr. Shao, the consequences would be disastrous.
Two flowers bloom, one on each branch. Today's Qingyun Street is filled with scholars who come from all over the province to take the exam. If a brick falls from the sky, it will hit at least ten or eight scholars.
The literati gathered together, of course, to discuss the scholar's affairs. The West Lake Elegant Gathering held a few days ago was one of the topics. If we talk about this elegant gathering, we can't help but talk about a man named Fang Yingwu.
They are almost like the legendary high-ranking officials in Longzhong and ministers in civilian clothes who offered peace policies and conquered tens of thousands of troops in the north. Everyone is envious of them. Who among the scholars does not have the dream of strategizing and directing the country?
It can be said that "Jia Sheng's talent is even more unethical". As long as he does not encounter the cheating "poor person who sits in front of the table in the middle of the night and does not ask the people or ghosts and gods", his future is still very secure. After all, the meritorious service has been registered. I heard that even the Tartar chieftain
It also collapsed (Fang Yingwu said that it actually had nothing to do with him).
As a scholar, Fang Yingwu was already many positions ahead of them on the road to fame. Most people had never thought that there was such a crouching dragon hidden in this province.
In the corner of the lobby of Chunfeng Tower, someone broke the news: "I heard that when you came out of Yuewang Temple and were planning to get on the boat to swim around the lake, a beautiful lady who came all the way from Suzhou took the initiative to show her kindness, but he actually
He didn't care, he waved his sleeves and left after saying a few words."
Every scholar has a complex about talented scholars and beautiful ladies. Otherwise, the pornographic literature about talented scholars and beautiful ladies would not have become the mainstream of secular literature. Therefore, scholars must be inexplicably emotional when they hear this kind of news. Immediately, the scholars around him began to talk about it.
"This Fang Yingwu is not very old, so he is not a Lu man who does not understand the style? That would be a pity, it is really disappointing."
"Impossible. How could Mr. Lu be so provocative that the beauty would never forget him? It is said that we met in Suzhou two years ago. I think Fang Yingying may be more fond of the new and dislike the old."
"The person who was talking to Fang Yingwu at that time was the courtesan Madam Yuan. Could it be that Fang Yingwu fell in love with the courtesan, so he gave up on the beauty from Suzhou?"
"Pah!" Another person nearby took notice and corrected the rumors: "You guys guessed wrong! It's not that Fang Yingwu fell in love with the courtesan's wife, it was the courtesan's wife that fell in love with Fang Yingwu!"
Everyone laughed together, "Even if this friend speaks for Fang Yingwu, he can't be so ignorant. It's not like we don't know how far the courtesan's vision is. Fang Yingwu is so powerful right now, and his identity is just an ordinary scholar.
That’s all, it’s better to fall in love with him than with his father!”
The round-faced scholar turned around and said to everyone: "Do you know? The oiran lady took the initiative to send a message and invited Fang Yingwu to Tianxiang Tower as a guest!"
"Really or not?" Everyone was surprised by this new information. The round-faced scholar cupped his hands and said, "I am in Chun'an, Xiang Chengxian, I have met you all. I am Fang Yingwu's friend from the same hometown, and we are like brothers on weekdays.
, this post is naturally something I have seen with my own eyes!”
There was an uproar in the lobby. Anyone who knows anything knows that someone who invites someone to the door must be provided with free food and housing. How can ordinary people get such treatment?
"Being a guest is nothing more than a guest entering the curtain." Some people are envious.
A local person familiar with the story immediately pulled out the record in his mind, "I heard that the last person who received such treatment as Yuan Huakui was Huizhou Bachelor Cheng! Two years ago, Bachelor Cheng passed by Hangzhou, and Yuan Huakui also kindly invited him
.”
Some ignorant people asked in confusion: "Who is Bachelor Cheng?"
The local explained: "He is Cheng Min from Huizhou, a bachelor of political science. He was a high school scholar in the second year of Chenghua when he was the youngest in the high school. He was the youngest among the 350 people in that subject. Now, bachelor of Cheng Min is a member of the Imperial Academy.
As an official in the East Palace, your future is limitless!"
Some people couldn't help but exclaimed: "Can this Fang Yingwu be compared with Bachelor Cheng? Impossible, his father Fang Jieyuan is about the same."
If Fang Yingwu were here, he would definitely say from the bottom of his heart: "Don't compare him with Bachelor Cheng."
One of the most well-known things about Cheng Xueshi in history is that he was suspected of helping Tang Bohu cheat in the imperial examination. After the matter got serious, he was suspected of being used by political opponents, which led to his complete defeat in the officialdom, and his future prime minister was imprisoned.
He died when he came out. Fang Yingwu didn't want to become such a person.
The person who first broke the news smacked his lips and said leisurely with great yearning: "No matter whether they can be compared or not, in the mind of the courtesan, they are compared. I think that Fang Yingwu is very blessed. In Tianxiang Tower, I am afraid that the wind and moon are boundless.
, it’s still free of charge.”
But Xiang Chengxian said with a strange expression: "Wrong, wrong, wrong, you are wrong again! Who do you think my brother Fang Xian is? I also saw with my own eyes that he has returned the post of the court lady as it is!"
This news was even more surprising than the news just now, and everyone couldn't believe it. Nowadays, unlike Hongwu, during the Yongle period, the trend became more and more popular. Scholars did not taboo about beauty. Talented scholars and beautiful women were a fashion. In the story, Lian Ge's husband's banquet was also
Jiaofangsi prostitutes accompany the wine.
The good thing that the oiran actively invited was actually pushed forward. How upright and gentleman must this person be? It is simply awe-inspiring and should be looked up to.
Just when everyone was sighing and unable to replace themselves, a new person came in from the outside and joined the gossip circle. After sitting down, he said to everyone: "Your news is out of date! I was watching on the corner of the street just now.
When I arrived at Yuan Huakui's sedan chair, I went to inquire about it out of curiosity. It seemed that she was going to visit Fang Yingwu in person."
Everyone who was enthusiastic about the gossip of talented men and beautiful women was once again surprised. Fang Yingwu's refusal to fly to Yanfu was enough that they didn't expect it, but they didn't expect that there would be something unexpected later! This soap opera actually had twists and turns, and it has evolved to this point.
It became door-to-door delivery.
The few tables that were bustling with activity just now were a little quiet. Everyone was speechless. A question couldn't help but arise in their minds: What's so good about Fang Yingwu that he can make the oiran lady who should be so self-proclaimed be so aggressive?
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