Chapter 41： The second master of the Zhang family is back!

When Hua Hanyun came out of Qiugui Garden, the big girl in the old lady's room was about to go to Qiugui Garden to invite her. She saw Hua Hanyun and said with great joy:

"Mistress, your body is very healthy! The grandma is there too, just so, it saves me another trip to the orange village, just to go to the old lady's yard together!"

"Good girl, what a happy event, look at you happy?" Hua Hanyun said.

Xixiang smiled and said: "What a great thing! The second master and the second wife have arrived early, and now they are talking to the old woman together! Hearing the news, the brothers and girls of Brother Hao have gone. The elder wife and the third wife also went, and the yard can be lively!"

Hua Hanyun hurriedly said: "Oh, I can't take care of anything when I'm sick. Go, go, and I don't know who is in the yard. The old lady has a high spirits. Today is just such a joyous celebration. I’m afraid that the old lady will be dissatisfied!"

Hua Hanyun and Liu Wan followed Xixiang and went straight to Zhang's mother's yard. They were still outside the yard, and they heard that the yard was very lively, and the servants and maids who came in and out were busy like revolving lanterns.

Hua Hanyun entered the yard, and saw the old lady surrounded by a group of people from afar, and said:

"Second master, is the second wife really back?"

When she spoke, the crowd naturally let a gap open. On the side of Mother Zhang, a middle-aged man in a Confucian costume and robe stood upright. Looking at her face, his face was broad, his waist was round and his back was thick and elegant. , Who is not the second master Zhang Chengxi?

Standing next to Zhang Chengxi was a petite and exquisite woman. Looking at this woman, she was not very big. She was wearing a Sujin woven flower twill with five phoenix buns on her head. Her face was white with thin lips, her face was graceful, and her face was kind.

Hua Hanjun quickly took a step and said: "Nephew Hanjun has seen the second master and second wife!"

"Hurry up, please don't make this rule today. Chengxi and I rushed back all the way. He wished he could come back in one day. No, I walked the waterway last night, and today I rushed for another day, and finally got home. .

Seeing that our ancestors are healthy and healthy, and that the children are healthy one by one, we are truly happy! "The second wife Dao, her maiden name is Su, from a family in the capital, so she speaks differently from other people. She speaks Mandarin in Beijing film, without the slightest accent of Jiangnan Wu Nong's soft language.

Mother Zhang was in a good mood and laughed from ear to ear, and said: "Sister Hua, go to Zhang Luo, Cui's housekeeper is fine, but you can't do more than you do for Zhang Luo. Today, all of you are here to stay for dinner. Chengdong went to Zhuangzi and didn’t come back. Chengxi is still working hard in the academy. One of the others counts as one. For a drink today, you two masters have to take a test of yours to learn!"

Hua Hanyun immediately got busy without being told by Zhang's mother.

Holding a pair of cards in her hand, she called a group of maids, wives, and slaves over, and arranged their respective tasks.

The banquet was set on a meadow in the garden of the old lady. Forty to fifty lanterns were hung on the trees on both sides, and twenty large torches were arranged together, which were ready for evening use.

Then, two rows of couches on the left and right were set up in the meadow. All the couches were covered with brocade blankets. In front of each collapse, there were a few carved and lacquered cases. Looking at these cases, there were many patterns, including begonia style and plum blossom style. There are also lotus leaf styles, square ones, and round ones, which match up with a special grace and atmosphere.

The face was ready, the old lady took the table with Zhang Chengxi's support, and then the boys, girls, and grandma all followed. The eldest wife, Mrs. Gu's face was always embarrassed, and Mrs. Su asked her to sit on the head, and she refused desperately.

The old lady said, "I've said that it's not a rule! Why is Su girl still thinking about it? Do you really make the children laugh?"

With the words of Mother Zhang, the second wife sat on top of Mrs. Gu. Mrs. Gu’s face was even more ugly. At the banquet, the servants and maids pretended not to see it, while Hua Hanyun greeted the sisters to take a seat. Cover up the embarrassment at this time.

Mother Zhang is typical for her daughter-in-law. Hua Hanyun is also Mrs. Gu's daughter-in-law. Do you have to make rules when you go to the big room?

At this moment, someone heard loudly: "Second Brother Jing is here!" Zhang Tang was speaking.

Sure enough, Zhang Jing walked in from the door, and when Hua Hanyun saw him, a layer of frost immediately appeared on his face, and the illness that was just right seemed to be suffering again.

Zhang Jing did not dare to look at each other with Hua Hanjun, but ran to Zhang Chengxi and said, "Second Uncle, Second Aunt, I just came back to hear that your two elders are back, so I dare not neglect, so I immediately come over to your elders and please pay a respect... …"

Zhang Chengxi laughed loudly. Seeing his appearance, he didn't see the fatigue after being overwhelmed. He was really full of energy.

He laughed and said, "Brother Jing, you are awake now. I heard in the capital that you made trouble at home and made your ancestors angry. You are so amazing!"

Zhang Chengxi's words sounded like talking and laughing, but the meaning of blame is obvious:

"The eldest brother is going to Beijing, you have to listen to what your second uncle will say in the future! What a good girl Han Yun? Why don’t you know how to cherish it? It’s only a few years since the eldest brother set the rules for you, and you learned to drink flowers and wine and raise horns. Up?

If you really want to take a concubine, the lintel of our Zhang family is upright here. The Ming media is getting married. It's generous and generous, I support you! But what girl is in that painting boat workshop? Are they worthy of the lintel of our Zhang family? "

Mother Zhang heard Zhang Chengxi's words, her expression was very happy, and said, "Brother Jing, your second uncle has been a errand at the feet of the emperor. Listen to what he said, and see if it is the most reasonable saying? The old woman hurts. You, you take the kind of donkey's liver and lungs, and now your second uncle is in person, you let him judge the reason, let your second aunt judge the reason, and see who is right and who is wrong?"

Zhang Jing's face became pig liver-colored, and his intestines were all regretful. He had known that Zhang Chengxi would directly mad at him. How could he not come to the muddy water!

With the crowds in full view, would he dare to confront the elders?

Can he afford a charge of unfaithfulness and filial piety?

Zhang Chengxi stepped forward, patted Zhang Jing on the shoulder, and said, "Okay, the ancients said that knowing mistakes can improve the greatness. When no one made a mistake, man? Just learn the lesson! Go, sit down!"

Zhang Jing stepped back and sat next to Hua Hanyun, Zhang Chengxi said again:

"My Zhang family has always been a family of poems and rituals, let alone in the south of the Yangtze River, even if someone mentions the Zhang family in Yangzhou in Beijing, they will praise the "good family", but in recent years, the children of the Zhang family have been I relax a lot in reading.

In my generation, the eldest brother gave up writing and went into business early. I regretted half my life. I worked hard for half my life, but I got the fame of being a superintendent of the country. This time I returned to Yangzhou from the capital to take charge of our family. , Set up the ambition of making progress

In addition, I am also waiting for the vacancy in Nanzhili, striving to enter the official career in the prime of life, defending a territory for the emperor and benefiting the people..."

"what……"

When Zhang Chengxi said this, the audience exclaimed.

Dare to love Zhang Chengxi to enter the Imperial College in Beijing? And also graduated successfully?

The Guozijian in the capital is not comparable to the Guozijian in Yingtianfu, Nanzhili. The capital is at the feet of the emperor. Although the Guozijian students are not comparable to the orthodox Jinshi, they are almost the same as the ordinary Juren.

Basically, those who can enter the Imperial College to study are the nobles. Their relationship is very wide. It is difficult for people to make up for the actual shortage in the local area. However, the students of the Imperial College are often dark horses.

If Zhang Cheng could enter the official career as a prison student, wouldn't the Zhang family have a successor?

Mother Zhang was very happy and very cheerful. Brother Hao and Zhang Baoyi had triumphant expressions on their faces, Madam Gu's expression was even more ugly, and Madam Lin's face was full of disappointment.

Mother Zhang said: "Okay! My son has the ambitions of blue clouds, very good! Now we have brother Hao in the Zhang family, next year in the spring of spring, I will earn a gift for my grandmother, and my Zhang family in Yangzhou will have the scale. "

Zhang Chengxi is very good at pleasing his mother. He and Zhang Chengdong have completely different personalities.

Zhang Chengdong is taciturn, scheming, and extremely careful. But Zhang Chengxi was watching the flowers, and he was so happy. It was because he had done many wrong things in Yangzhou before that Zhang Rong called him to the capital and put him around to discipline him.

After going to the capital for so many years, he now has the status of a superintendent of the Imperial College. How can he not show off this time and create a kind of celebration of returning home?

The old lady likes this second son. She keeps saying that the Zhang family is a poem. In her dreams, she hopes that the children and grandchildren of the Zhang family can get ahead and get fame. However, the children of the Zhang family are not very competitive.

The three brothers of Zhang Chengdong's generation, and the third one, Zhang Chengbei, is a decent talent, and Zhang Chengxi is just an affiliate student. In the third generation, only Zhang Haoran has obtained the status of a child student so far.

Zhang Chengdong was very dissatisfied with Zhang's mother in this matter. Zhang Chengdong devoted herself to the business of the imperial merchants. She was full of fantasies about not being welcomed by Zhang Chengdong. Now Zhang Chengxi gave her such a big surprise on the first day he came back. How can the wife not be partial?

On Dafang's side, only Hua Hanyun knew the old lady's mind best. Therefore, the ancestors trusted Hua Hanyun the most, which was an anomaly.

Zhang Chengxi then eloquently talked about a big plan. He claimed that the Dragon Boat Festival was approaching and the Zhang family would hold the Dragon Boat Festival poems. Not only the children of the Zhang family would participate, but also outstanding students from Guanshan Academy.

The most famous in the literary world of Yangzhou is the "Zhishui Cultural Society". This literary society is based on the Zhishui Academy and gathers Yangzhou's top literati and Yitang. However, all scholars are proud to participate in the "Zhishui Cultural Society".

Now Zhang Chengxi proposes to set up a "Guanshan Poetry Society", to make the "Guanshan Poetry Society" the same as the Zhishui Cultural Society, and to let the "Gushan Poetry Society" and the Zhishui Cultural Society be parallel.

Bragging doesn't need silver anyway. Zhang Chengxi's bragging about bragging, not only is Zhang mother fascinated by him, but Hao brother and a group of young people are already at a show-off age. How can they withstand such bragging? Everyone can't wait for the poem meeting to be held tomorrow!