Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 218 Publicizing the Poetry Club

Wang Pingan was taken aback, and said, "Fang Yiai? Oh, I've heard of this person. He... has a good temper and is said to be a very easy-going person!"

Zhao Bixi said: "No disease, so you have heard of the concubine. The rumors are true, he is indeed a very easy to get along with, it is really rare for a person of his status to not put on airs at us at all. !"

Wang Pingan thought for a while, and said, "You didn't mean to give him the invitation, did you, and asked him to come to the poetry meeting?"

Zhao Bi clapped his hands and said, "He gave the invitation to the concubine, but we didn't take the initiative to give it to him, but he took the initiative to take care of us!"

Lu Xiuzhi was listening at the side, and suddenly interrupted: "Today, we are going to meet some friends. These friends are very well connected in the capital. Some of them even went to Princess Gaoyang for their confidantes! No illness, Since you have heard of Fang Consort, you must have heard of Princess Gao Yang, right?"

Wang Pingan nodded and said: "Naturally, Princess Gaoyang is the emperor's favorite princess. There are few people in Chang'an City who don't know this!"

Lu Xiuzhi said again: "Brother Zhao and I were distributing invitations, and everyone started talking about Princess Gaoyang, this princess is amazing, she likes educated literati very much, everyone handed her papers, she never refused. She is both a princess and the daughter-in-law of the old prime minister Fang. If she is willing to say a word for others, it will be of great benefit. It will be a great advantage in the scientific examination. We are all talking about her. Here you come, come to talk to my friends..." He then told the whole story of today's events.

Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi had a wide range of acquaintances, and there were many friends who were truly talented and learned, but there were also many friends who were good at exploiting tricks.When the two of them were delivering invitations today, they happened to run into Fang Yiai.For some reason, this room's Yiai went to a big restaurant where scholars of literati gathered most, to find those scholars who usually liked to visit his house.

After Fang Yiai found someone, he actually invited these scholars to drink, and earnestly persuaded these scholars to study hard, and also said that he would introduce them to Fang Xuanling, his father.He said that scholars always go to the son-in-law's mansion to seek their confidants, which is a bit tortuous. After all, although the princess has influence, she can't match Fang Xuanling. Well!
Hearing what he said, the scholars were all overjoyed, and they all expressed their gratitude. If they can get Prime Minister Fang to be their confidant, this is something they can't wish for. It's much better than asking for Princess Gaoyang!

Fang Yiai said again, I did this to save everyone from taking detours, in order not to delay everyone's studies, and to prevent everyone from wasting too much time on investment bank papers.But he has a condition, if the scholars turn to Fang Xuanling as a confidant, no matter whether Fang Xuanling agrees or not, they will not be able to go to Princess Gaoyang again, so as not to disturb the princess's rest!

Scholars felt a bit embarrassed, what kind of person Fang Xuanling was, someone introduced him, and it was one thing for them to ask for it, but it was another matter whether Prime Minister Fang would agree or not.Don't let Prime Minister Fang refuse to agree, and then they can no longer go to Princess Gaoyang. Wouldn't this mean that both sides lost their chances at the same time!
No longer covering it up, Fang Yiai explained bluntly that if they go to the consort's mansion to beg Princess Gaoyang to be a confidant, then they will stop thinking about begging Fang Xuanling, and after begging Fang Xuanling, regardless of success or No, Princess Gaoyang will never see them again.If you want to seek a confidant, go to other princes and nobles, don't ask his Fang family again!

Scholars who didn't understand the matter, they all understood at once, this is jealous, the house concubine doesn't like other men looking for his wife!Where did the allusion of jealousy come from? Didn't it come from the Fang family!
At the beginning, the emperor wanted to send Fang Xuanling Meiji, but Mrs. Fang refused to agree, so the emperor gave Mrs. Fang a pot of poisoned wine, and said to her, if you promise your husband to accept Meiji, then forget it. If you don't agree, you can drink this pot of poisoned wine!As a result, Mrs. Fang drank the poisoned wine without saying a word. Even if she died, she refused to let her husband beg for a concubine, her attitude was extremely firm!The pot was not poisoned wine, but vinegar.So the word "jealousy" spread!
I didn't expect jealousy to be inherited. In order to prevent the scholars from meeting Princess Gaoyang, Fang consort came up with such a method!
Coincidentally, Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi came to send invitations to everyone at this time, and they happened to meet Fang Yiai, so they talked about the Poetry Club!What's even more coincidental is that Fang Yiai was afraid that the scholars would not count their words and continue to harass Princess Gaoyang, but she was also afraid that suddenly no one would go home to ask for a confidant, and Princess Gaoyang would see the flaw and blame him, so Very interested in poetry!
Poetry will be good, and you can see the scholars again, so that Princess Gaoyang will not feel disappointed, and in the public, Princess Gaoyang does not have to be alone with the scholars, this is a beautiful thing that kills two birds with one stone!

As soon as Fang Yiai was happy, she took the initiative to ask for an invitation card, intending to give it to Princess Gaoyang when she went back, to make her happy too. My wife is a very lively person, and she is the favorite when it comes to such elegant events of meeting friends through literature. Participated!
That's how it happened!
After Wang Ping'an listened, he didn't express any opinions, and thought: "This poetry and essay meeting is getting bigger and bigger, and even the princess and the consort are going to participate!"

He said: "There are several princesses in Jingzhong. If Princess Gaoyang participates, maybe she will bring other princesses, and other princesses will bring their sons-in-law. Every son-in-law has his own My friends, maybe I will bring another group of people to come. If this goes on, this poetry and prose meeting may become famous in the whole city, and there will be a huge crowd of guests, and the cost will be astonishing. Can you afford it?"

Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi laughed out loud, they had already thought of this!Zhao Bi said with a smile: "If everyone in Chang'an can really know about it, that would be really great. Even if the two of us have not worked in vain in this life, we will also give face to our parents!"

Lu Xiuzhi said: "Isn't it just money? I mean, even if 1 people come, we can afford it!"

Wang Pingan shook his head secretly, you two, don't be happy, this matter is serious, once the princesses and concubines know about it, maybe the prince will know about it, and once the prince knows about it, maybe the emperor will know about it.You have made a great deal of noise, if the emperor comes on a whim and wants to relax after being tired from work, and the emperor actually comes here to test everyone's talents and learning, then the matter will become a big mess!
Anyway, it doesn’t matter to Wang Ping’an. If it’s about poetry, he’s full of poetry, but it’s enough for the two hosts in front of him. If the emperor compares them and they don’t do anything, then Not seeking a confidant, but seeking to be cast aside!

Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi didn't think of this level. They were already so excited about Fang Yiai's participation, and they never thought about it at a deeper level. , will not and cannot have too much understanding.The two of them were still happily discussing how to make this poetry and essay meeting resound throughout Chang'an, and everyone knew about it!
The back gate of Ganye Temple.Seeing that Wang Ping'an had run away, Princess Gaoyang felt anxious, stomped her feet repeatedly, turned her head and saw Ma Mingmei who had just stood up, and said angrily: "It's all your fault, you asked all kinds of questions, and you ran away with a little gentleman." !By the way, why did you come to this nunnery to commit suicide? Why?"

Ma Mingmei didn't recognize her, although Princess Gaoyang was wearing palace attire, but she had no rank, she could only be seen as a woman from an official family, but she couldn't be seen as a princess.She came to Ganye Temple to commit suicide, because she didn't want to tell strangers about it, she just squatted down to Princess Gaoyang as a half-respect, and went down the mountain without saying a word!
Princess Gaoyang thought: "It's fine if you don't talk, I don't care to listen to it!" She returned to Ganye Temple and asked the presiding teacher if she had any contact with Baima Temple?

Of course the presiding teacher said no. The Ganye Temple is in Chang'an and the Baima Temple is in Luoyang. They are far apart, and one is a monk's temple and the other is a nunnery. If there is no important Buddhist event, how can there be any contact!

Princess Gaoyang felt unwilling, so she had no choice but to order her maid to copy down the poem written on the door frame of the stone room, intending to go home first and then make further calculations.She heard that the prince's brother had recently got a good poem, and she was going to show the prince's poem to the prince's brother to compare and see who got the better poem.

Sitting in the car, Princess Gaoyang took out the poem manuscript to read, thinking: "This poem is most likely written by that little man, but why did he go to the stone room in the temple to write poems? Poetry is old, but why?"

Ma Mingmei came to the front of the temple first and got into his carriage. The coachman heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that she had returned safely, but also saw that there were tears on her face, and felt sorry for her. The young lady is a good person, but her fate mistaken!
Slowly walking all the way, Ma Mingmei returned to Ma Mansion.Before entering the gate of the mansion, I saw a lot of traffic and people coming and going at the gate of the house, and countless people came to visit the house!

Ma Mingmei was puzzled, the house was always quiet, there had never been so many guests, what happened today, how could there be so many guests suddenly!After getting out of the carriage and entering the mansion to see my mother, I knew the whole story!

Seeing her coming back, Mrs. Ma looked gloomy, and said, "Daughter, what did you do, why do you dislike her so much?"

Ma Mingmei only said that she was going out to relax, and then asked her mother why there were so many guests at home?Mrs. Ma was overjoyed, and said: "Your father has been promoted from chief to doctor, and his position has also changed, so there is no need to pick up wrong words. The promotion order just issued by the Ministry of Officials today, your father has not yet graduated from the yamen." Come back, the person who gave the gift will come to the door first!"

Ma Mingmei was also happy to hear that her father had been promoted, and her depression eased a little, she said: "Father won't have to pick up wrong characters for candidates, so what will he do?"

Mrs. Ma said proudly: "In the past, it was just that others didn't dare to offend our family, but there was no need to flatter them, but now they don't want to. After your father was promoted to a doctor, his duties became easier. He was only responsible for submitting the examination papers. He will divide the examination papers into categories and send them to the chief examiner's desk."

She lowered her voice and said with a smile: "This task may seem inconspicuous, but your father can do it if you put any paper on it! Tell me, those people outside can't ask him!"

(End of this chapter)