Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 530 tragedy, stigma

Zhang Pu can be regarded as extremely smart, otherwise he would not have achieved such a great achievement in learning, and organized such a large-scale rehabilitation society, which won the hearts of scholars, but his success and failure are also due to this reputation , He is too conceited, everything is self-centered, he always thinks that others should do for him, and does not consider other people's difficulties at all.

Although Zhou Yanru is a scholar of the first assistant, the first assistant also needs people to support him. Zhang Pu's list includes no less than a dozen powerful officials in the court. If he insists on squeezing these people out, he may have to step down. It was Zhou Yanru himself.

Zhou Yanru didn't come to power yet, Zhang Pu had already told him what to do, and this time he kept asking for this request and that. Zhou Yanru had already wanted to kill him, not to mention that dozens of salt merchants went bankrupt this time, and dozens Family scholar-bureaucrats jumped into the river by hanging their beams, Song Qingshu and the others could do nothing about it. Zhang Pu, the initiator of this food war, whether it was a salt merchant or a member of the Fushe, hated him to the bone. The good mountains and rivers have retreated into the rivers and lakes, but Zhang Pu doesn't know it. He swaggers through the market and wants to intervene in the government affairs.

Then his tragedy is inevitable!
In history, he was also poisoned to death by Wu Changshi because he pointed fingers at Zhou Yanru. This time, he will be even more tragic!Seeing the two ferocious faces under the torch, Zhang Pu was frightened and angry, struggling to yell and curse at them, but a few hemp walnuts in his mouth gambled all his anger back.

If it was in a movie, the two villains would probably talk a lot of nonsense, but here, Wu Changshi and Bao Lu have no intention of talking at all, anyway, they burned him alive, and all hatred is gone. Under Zhang Pu's horrified eyes In the middle, the two men raised the torch to the front of the bed net where he was sleeping, and a big fire boiled up immediately. Finally, they put the torch back into the box where the torch was placed in the house, wiped off their hands and feet, and listened to the desperate whimpering , the two exited the small building calmly.

These days, except for Song Qingshu who is willing to use blue bricks and cement, most of the buildings are still civil structures. In just a few breaths, the towering east building was burned into a giant torch that soared to the sky. Zhang Cai, who was photographed in his sleep, burst into tears The lung-cracking scream was faint, and the unwilling roar in the fire was still roaring.

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Just when half of the sky in Yangzhou was reddened by the flames, Songjiang, across the river, was shrouded in a night of black mist. Even Song Qingshu’s Shiliyangchang Everlasting City, which was built on the Bund, became dead silent and quiet at the moment. The red wine, the gentlemen and courtesans who danced for half the night fell on the comfortable big bed with their arms around each other, and they had already fallen asleep.

In the night, a figure sneaked out of the apartment like a thief.

The Songjiang University Library was originally built by Song Qingshu as the city hall, and it is located in the center of the four well-shaped streets on the Bund. However, everything has to give way to knowledge to express Song Qingshu’s respect for scholars. Anyway, Songjiang is here along with the port The prosperity of the city will continue to expand, and this place will be occupied by the library.

The three-story building was built by Song Qingshu according to the Massachusetts City Hall in Radiation 4 mile before crossing. It is surrounded by stone-bottomed iron fences to surround the main building of the library, which covers an area of ​​more than a thousand square meters. There are two entrances. A huge stone lion and a large flag with Ming characters were hung on the flagpole at the gate, and the two-meter-high wooden gate was tightly closed at this moment.

On tiptoe, Hou Fangyu slipped into the courtyard of the library from the dog hole behind the guard post, bypassed the gatekeeper and slipped to the east side of the building full of embroidered trees, on the second floor, there was still this window open in such a cold winter, faintly There were lights shining, and Hou Fangyu felt ecstatic when he saw it.

This is the code he agreed with Li Xiangjun!In this disastrous defeat in the business war, Hou Fangyu also wiped out several properties of the Hou family in Nanzhili. Unlike Zhang Pu who was still ambitious, he lost the confidence to kill Song Qingshu in the short term, and knew that the salt merchants were angry. What has become.Hou Fangyu was quite smart, so he decided to take Li Xiangjun and flee back to the Hou family's old house in Suiyang, Henan to avoid the limelight.

By the way, Song Qingshu was disgusted.

It's hard for this dude, the second floor is four to five meters high, carrying a burden, Hou Fangyu grabbed the raised prism, climbed up with difficulty, turned the window and entered the building, after falling, a dark corridor was reflected. In his eyes, at the end of the corridor, a room was still open, with a dark yellow light, and the faint sound of water could be heard.

His heart became even hotter, Hou Fangyu's blood surged, he trotted to the front of the room in three steps at a time, and squeezed in along the crack of the door. In the room, the dim candlelight became even more hazy, and a looming figure of a woman was faintly revealed. Behind the gauze curtain, it seemed that he had just finished taking a bath and was wiping his body. At this scene, Hou Fangyu's eyes burst into flames.

"Xiangjun, I'm here, I'm here to pick you up!" Impatient, Hou Fangyu pulled up the curtain as soon as he went up, but what caught his eyes was the face of a strange old woman in his 50s and [-]s. When she was in a daze, the old woman was also stunned in disbelief. Two or three seconds later, a scream that tore the eardrums shook the entire library.

"The prostitute!!!"

Song Qingshu's library is semi-open, and those who can come in and read must have a library card issued by Jiaduobao. Originally, Song Qingshu was in the north and had been robbed. A considerable number of ancient books were at least obtained from Donglin Fushe. Up to 20 volumes of Tang and Song orphans, rare books, at least [-] volumes of books attract scholars just like carrion attracts flies.

Qian Qianyi was too stingy before, and his collection of books was never borrowed. For example, Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Huai'an, Jiang Yueguang, Zhan Shifu of Nanjing Zhan Shifu, and Gong Dingzi of the three great masters of Jiangzuo, all submitted famous posts or visited them in person. A pass to the ancient books is hard to find, and the ancient books are so precious that many scholars are so fascinated by them that they don't leave at night and live in the reception room of the big library to study all night.

The library takes care of the books, and Song Qingshu also uses women. These books are too precious. In order to prevent them from being stolen, the library also has about ten veterans of the beggar army as security guards. This voice is shocking. When they came out, there were dozens of scholars, and the security guards seemed to be running upstairs in astonishment, but they saw more than two dozen little librarian girls angrily shoving down a scholar with a burden on his back, facing a laundry stick. In the back, Mrs. Qing Yang, who was doing the cleaning, was wailing loudly with her clothes on.

"Hou Fangyu?"

Among this group of people, there is also a big man, Shi Kefa, the servant of the Nanjing Military Department, who is also a member of the Donglin Party. His teacher is Zuo Guangdou, who was murdered in the Prison of the Six Gentlemen. However, compared to Fushe, Shi Kefa treats Song Qingshu even better. The Jiaduobao company is not so hostile. At least he thinks that although Song is vulgar, after all, his company has supported a large number of refugees and made a contribution to the stability of Jiangnan. He still knew it. Seeing this scene, he was the first to yell in disbelief.

Immediately, those scholars whispered to each other in astonishment: "It's really Hou Fangyu, the eldest son of Hou Xun, Minister of the Household Department!"

"What happened?" Seeing Hou Fangyu who was recognized and wanted to find a place to turn in, Shi Kefa asked a large group of female administrators in astonishment. He just finished speaking. He is the head of the library. Secretary Zhao Yan pointed at Hou Fangyu with a laundry stick and yelled angrily.

"This bastard sneaked into our library late at night, and broke into Mrs. Qing Yang's room to do something wrong. No wonder my family commander always said that you scholars are beasts in clothes, and you are such scum!"

The little girl scolded all the scholars present, but the heavy-tasting flower picking thief is here, and the group can't justify it. They can only point to Hou Fangyu's disgusting discussion. Shi Kefa is still worried about whether it is a party. He suddenly picked up Hou Fangyu, who had half of his face blue.

"Brother Hou, what's going on? Is there some misunderstanding?"

However, Hou Fangyu lowered his head in fear, not daring to look into Shi Kefa's eyes. He understood that today he has learned the truth, or that Li Xiangjun had betrayed him a long time ago, otherwise the purchase price of ten taels of silver a load would be what happened?

But Hou Fangyu couldn't argue with his own words, he and Li Xiangjun had no letter paper, they just exchanged word of mouth through an old woman who was bribed in the Song Mansion, he said that he came here to find Li Xiangjun, and he had to be believed by someone?
"Brother Hou? Well, let me tell you how an outsider could sneak into our library. It turns out that there is an insider! Security!"

Hou Fangyu didn't speak, but Zhao Yan yelled angrily. Shi Kefa almost bang his head against the wall when he heard this, he could admit everything, but this matter must be far away, and he was also disappointed with Hou Fangyu , flung off his collar like a hot hand, and the later great hero spread his hands sadly.

"Secretary Zhao, Shi Mou really knows this person, but he has nothing to do with him coming in. Shi Mou took the library card provided by your marshal and came in before your eyes, and just now he was with Brother Wu. Study the "Stone Chamber Book", Brother Wu and Brother Zhao can testify!"

"That's right, the three of us were studying together just now, Secretary Zhao, we really haven't met Hou Fangyu before!"

20 volumes of ancient books are enough for people to read for a lifetime. Whether they can come again in the future depends on the little girl's eyes. The two scholars who were named also had a bitter face, and quickly distinguished.

"What now?"

Zhao Yan is also from Yangzhou Shouma. She has been trained in management knowledge, but after all, she is young and has never dealt with this matter. Seeing the three scholars shaking their heads and smashing their clothes and pestles, she was helpless for a while. .

Seeing Hou Fangyu sighed in hatred for him, Shi Kefa immediately blew his beard in the same hatred.

"Such a madman, of course he has to report to the authorities!"

(End of this chapter)