Chapter 41 – Poetry Book and Words on Paper

“What is the Semi-Idle Lodge?”

“It’s this study, father said that in the future, this study will be given to you alone, and you will discuss it after your marriage. I’ve already asked Boss Seven Leaves to order a horizontal plaque for the Old Henge Residence, and the name will be Half Idle Zhai.”

Fan Xian sensed a hint of something wrong and pressed, “Then what is the Half-Idle Zhai poetry collection?”

“Hm? It’s the poem you recited at the temple the other day, which has already been compiled into a collection by the Imperial Bachelor. His Majesty was going to have it printed in the name of the Wen Yuan Pavilion, and it was I who begged father to go and beg this errand over.”

After the theft of the Xishan Paper Mill, those royal merchants were removed from their positions and investigated, and did not recover for a long time, plus the inner treasury was warned by the palace, and did not dare to target the Tanyu Po Book Bureau again. Tanya bookstore finally slowed down, naturally, to prepare for the big picture, the seven leaves of the big shopkeeper, Si Zhe small shopkeeper two eyes on this imperial poetry collection, the palace allocated money is part of the palace, and the palace allowed to print after the private sale, which is a large sum of money.

Who wrote this poem? Fan Xian. Who is Fan Xian? Fan Xian was the proprietor behind the Tanyu Bookstore. Whether it was the Seven Leaves Shopkeeper of Qingyu Hall or the grinning Fan Sicheng behind the shopkeeper, there was no way that this lucrative business would be given to the court. Fan Sicheng had already hated his elder brother’s refusal to hand over the last ten times of the Stone Records, and now that he had obtained the collection of poems, he was unwilling to let it go.

Fan Xian wrote down the five words Half Leisurely Zhai Poetry Collection on the paper, and then wrote down his own name, but in his heart, he was laughing bitterly. That night, in order to cover up the whereabouts of the latter half of the night, he pretended to be drunk in the temple, and as a result, his madness was so great that he didn’t keep his mouth shut for a while, and in these poems, I don’t know how many allusions I can’t say, and if I were to say them clearly, I would have to write I don’t know how many history stories I would have to write.

If you want to make these allusions clear, you will have to write many books of history and stories. You’d have to come up with a copy of the Shishu Xinyu, right? The Analects? Poetry? Hey, don’t be too short. A hollowed-out version of Zizhi Tongjian? A cross-country version of Sima’s History? No one would have a problem with writing them all.

Thinking of this kind of workload, Fan Xian was scared and shivered, if it really expands, I’m afraid that this Tanyu Bookstore will really become the spreader of advanced culture in the past life, which should be his own wish in Tanyuzhou. Said: “Wen Yuan Ge school does not work. You have to take back, I myself recalibrate once again, that day drunk, who knows what blindly said.”

He made up his mind, can fool the past to fool the past, really can’t, then only bear the pain, to drunkenness as an excuse to delete all, anyway, drink too much people the next day is easy to suffer from amnesia.

“This is out of print ah.” Fan Si Zhe shook his head, “I see that in another five years, when your own words about not writing poetry fade, you’ll make another comeback to the poetry scene, and it’ll probably be another large sum of money.”

Fan Xian smiled and shook his head, his eyes suddenly fell on the pink paper in a corner of the study and asked curiously, “What’s that?”

Fan Si Zhe said, “A gift list.”

Fan Xian was slightly stunned, then remembered that the day of his wedding was near, but so many things had happened recently that, needless to say, his mood was already subtly different from when he first celebrated the temple. He and her mother could not coexist after all, the current emperor was still in control of everything, once His Majesty did not want to be in control anymore, at that time, the Eldest Princess would definitely kill herself.

Or rather: one would definitely kill the Rapunzel.

The long awaited wedding was approaching. Fan Xian’s heart was filled with anxiety and sadness.

A few days later, the Tanya Bookstore’s main collection of Half Idle Zhai poems finally came out, and this time the Tanya Bookstore got the right to print it, so Fan Xian personally deleted a lot of it in a big way. He thought he was at ease, but unexpectedly, the bookstore organized a ceremony, and in Fan Xian’s name, invited King Jing’s son and Xin Qimo, the junior secretary of the Honglu Temple, to the ceremony.

Fan Xian was shocked, only willing to let the talented sister Fan Ruo Ruo to go to the head as the image of the spokesman, feverishly began to sell, while he himself on the pretext of maintaining a generation of poetic fairy mystery, hiding in the royal family’s courtyard, and Lin Wan’er fall in love to go.

The story of the eighth-ranked conciliator spraying a hundred poems on the spot, shocking a generation of great Zhuang Mo Han to vomit blood and disappear, has long been spreading in the Kingdom of Qing, and although some of the poems have already been circulated to the folk, this time the collection of poems is claimed to be the author’s own proofreading version, so it is naturally very unusual. As expected, the collection of poems was published in Kyoto, and Fan Xian’s reputation was immediately dipped to a new level.

Last night, there was an autumn breeze in the small building.

Fan Xian gently looked at his fiancée and said with a smile, “That method you said doesn’t work.”

Lin Wan’er looked sad, her lips pouting adorably, “I haven’t gone out for some days.”

In fact, this little girl also knows, recently those things in Kyoto, although she grew up in the palace, those ladies all hold herself in the palm of their hands, on the one hand, she is weak and gentle, it is impossible to cause harm to those ladies, on the other hand, it is because His Majesty the Emperor seems to be extraordinarily loved by himself.

About the Princess of those “words paper”, she naturally did not see, but gradually also heard some rumors. Later, before the Princess left Kyoto for Xinyang, she once came to the courtyard, and the mother and daughter sat together for a while in a strange manner, before the Princess got into her car and left Kyoto.

Although Lin Wan’er didn’t know what relationship there was between Fan Xian and her mother’s departure, the sensitive her still sensed that Fan Xian’s mood was not as relaxed and fastidious as in previous days, so she proposed to find a day to go out again to enjoy the fall scenery, the red leaves of the western mountains of Kyoto were very famous.

But when he heard the word “West Mountain”, Fan Xian thought of the paper mill that monopolized the paper used in Kyoto, and he thought of the Rapunzel who seemed to be looking at himself in an eerie and timid manner behind the paper mill.

Fan Xian knows clearly, the Princess left Kyoto, the most fundamental power is still the emperor, his “speech paper” is just to give the emperor a reason to convince himself, to convince the empress dowager.

Here I would like to explain, nowadays, the Qing dynasty and the countryside call the leaflets like snowflakes “speech paper”, because it is considered as a kind of paper path for the people to express their opinions after they have no way to do so.

In these days, Kyoto actually repeated several times such a “speech paper” throwing action, so that the Procuratorate nervous for a while, one of the piles and so on after catching only to know, the original is the Taiyuan Road copper mines hard laborers to the capital to sue the Royal Court, but simply can not get into the Dengwenyuan, so learned such a method.

Supervisory Yuan chased the root, actually finally found to these hard laborers to provide paper, actually still Xishan paper mill!

But to help these hard laborers to write the grievances of the people, but how to dig out, only know the incomparable soft handwriting is from the Qing Temple next to a fortune-teller’s hand. But when the Procuratorate went to the Qing Temple to search, they realized that there was no fortune-teller in the place – except for that great priest in the temple who never seemed to come out in his life.

The matter of the copper mine was naturally left to one place. Soon arrested a string of officials from Taiyuan Road back to the capital, only to wait for the beheading in January. Just for this kind of speech paper action, the court can no longer tolerate, strengthened for the management of paper, but the Supervisory Yuan’s Lord Chen Dean, but did not punish those few copper mountain drudgery. In the eyes of the officials, Lord Chen seemed to have become much softer-hearted.

He came back to his senses, looked at the slightly worried Wan’er, smiled and walked forward, gently stroked her rounded jaw and said gently: “What are you thinking about? The eldest princess has returned to Xinyang, when we have the opportunity after marriage, we naturally have to pay a visit.”

This was naturally a lie, Fan Xian hoped that he would never go to Xinyang in his life, and hoped that the Eldest Princess would die of old age in Xinyang from then on. Of course, he also knew that before truly shaking the power of the Eldest Princess and that mysterious partner, His Majesty the Emperor liked to play the trick of luring snakes out of their holes, and the Eldest Princess would always come back one day.

Lin Wan’er reluctantly smiled and said, “See, I entered the palace yesterday, and you know all these things in the capital lately, the ladies are fine, but the empress dowager’s body seems to be a bit uncomfortable, and his majesty is not treating me as kind as in the past.”

Fan Xian sighed in his heart, thinking that the emperor is having a headache and your mom collusion prince is who, how can still like the old days.

The two of them made some small talk, and then they suddenly heard the sound of a grandmother coming up the stairs. Fan Xian reflexively, very dashingly, climbed on the edge of the window, ready to flip out of the window. Lin Wan’er giggled and said, “You’re really used to it, aren’t you?”

Fan Xian laughed with some embarrassment, looking at Wan Er’s slightly whitened face, his heart softened, and he stepped forward to take her into his arms, saying in a low voice: “Don’t get tired before the wedding. As for the disease ah other things ah, don’t be afraid, everything has me, there will be me.”

The green tree branches outside the window stubbornly kept their vivid colors in the autumn wind, trying to prove that no matter how depressed the external environment was, it still had a yearning for beauty.

At the corner of the staircase, the eldest maid, Siqi, watched the aunt and the young lady embracing each other, and couldn’t help but stick her tongue out playfully, thinking that the Fan family’s aunt had been a talented man for a long time, but she still didn’t know how to be shy like this.

The wedding is approaching, the entire Fan House action, the Princess is not in Kyoto, so the arrangements for the work, surprisingly, by the Shu Guifei horse secretly pointing. The entire Fan House in addition to feel the glory, more careful, afraid of where to do not meticulous enough, with the rules have fine Xu inconsistent.

But the rule itself is an extremely difficult thing. Lin Wan’er’s county princess identity, only in the palace to play a role in the world outside the palace, her identity is still Lin Chancellor’s illegitimate daughter, early in the year was forced by His Majesty to recognize each other. So this big wedding, whether to use the rituals of County Lord Shang, or the normal specifications of the marriage between the children of ministers, could never be confirmed down.

Liu went to the palace once more, finally got the empress dowager’s clear instructions, although the empress dowager extremely do not like the Lin family to get involved in their own baby granddaughter’s marriage, but still have to bow to the world’s norms and acquiesce to the Lin family’s participation, but also announced that the big wedding is no longer in accordance with the rituals of the county lord’s marriage.

Although Fan’s senior aunts who knew the inside story were a little disappointed, they thought that the marriage with the prime minister’s family was also a very honorable thing, so they again made preparations in an uproarious manner.

However, everyone did not realize that the scenery of Fan Xian and Lin Wan Er’s wedding was more worthy of remembrance for years than the marriage of a princess and her extra horse harnessed by the side of a team.