Da Cang night watchman

Chapter 549 Invitation for a Bachelor of the Imperial Academy
Chen Geng, as a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, is a high-ranking official, exactly the same as Zhang Juzheng.

It is an anecdote for a person like him to invite a fourth-rank official, but it is even more anecdotal to invite him into his home instead of the Imperial Academy.

You need to know that it is not uncommon for court officials to entertain guests and invite them into their homes!
Lin Su nodded: "Lord Li, please!"

Li Qingyang smiled happily: "Lord Lin, the carriage of the Chen family is waiting outside the door, please!"

The two came out side by side, Li Zhiyuan followed a few steps behind, Lin Su waved his hand behind, signaling him to go back on his own, and got into the carriage.

The horseshoe clattered and galloped to the south of the city.

Chen Geng's Chen Mansion is under the city wall in the south of the city, surrounded by ginkgo trees. In this season, the ginkgo trees have long since lost their verdure and golden color, but the ginkgo's tallness and order cannot be supported. There is some scenery.

The carriage stopped, and Lin Su got out of the carriage.

In front of it is a huge gate tower. On the gate tower, there is a line of large characters engraved: University Scholars' Mansion, with a Chinese character below.

The middle door opened slowly, and inside the middle door, an old man looked at Lin Su with a smile on his face.

This person was only wearing casual clothes. His hair was already grey, but his mental state was excellent. There were very few wrinkles on his face. Although the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were deeper, they were symmetrical and neat.

Lin Su strode past and bowed deeply: "Student Lin Su, please see the Great Scholars!"

He met the senior scholar with the courtesy of a literati, because the senior scholar is not wearing an official uniform at the moment, and he is meeting guests at home, so it is the etiquette to see the scholar with the courtesy of a literati.

Chen Geng replied: "Grandmaster Lin came to the humble house in person, and the walls will shine! Please!"

This is the difference between literati etiquette and officialdom etiquette.

If it was an official gift, Chen Geng couldn't give him a gift in return, the level difference between the two was too great.

But for literati, it is different. A sentence of Lin Zongshi brought the two of them to the same platform.

Lin Su felt these details.

Including the detail of opening the middle door, he also felt it.

All this points to a direction, and Chen Geng sends him a signal, or an olive branch.

Lin Su followed him through the nine-curved corridor and went straight into the study.

As soon as Chen Geng entered the study, Lin Su immediately felt that the surroundings were completely quiet.

The study room doesn't look big from the outside, but it is surprisingly large when entering the inner room.

Countless books are stacked on top of each other, as if extending from their feet to the end of the sky, they are all very old, and the whole room exudes a vicissitudes of life.

"Grandmaster Lin, please sit down!" Chen Geng raised his hand gently.

Lin Su thanked him and sat opposite him.

Chen Geng tapped his hand lightly, and the small red clay pot began to boil water, with a fragrant fragrance. This fragrant tea fragrance was also completely different from ordinary tea, and it was thick and heavy.

"Grandmaster Lin, do you feel something when you enter this room?" Chen Geng smiled lightly.

"I really feel that the study of the great scholar is full of the vicissitudes and weight of history!"

"Exactly!" Chen Geng laughed and said, "This study has been around for 300 years. The books on the shelves are at least a hundred years old. The chair you are sitting on is 400 years old. This tea set is 800 years old! The tea you smell is not what it is today. The best tea is the essence of the tea ceremony for hundreds of years."

Chen Geng gently lifted the lid of the teapot, and something surprising happened.

There is no tea in this teapot!

It’s just a pot of clear water. When the water is boiled in this pot, the tea will be fragrant. This is because the tea pot was made 800 years ago, and the tea stains inside it are accumulated day by day...

Lin Su felt his teeth hurt a little, but he forced himself to hold back.

He really wanted to tell the old man in front of him that there are some things, the older the better, but it really does not include tea, tea, I still like to drink fresh, I don’t drink tea overnight, let alone tea after 800 years .

Chen Geng raised his hand and poured the boiling water from the pot into the teacup in front of Lin Su.

A strong fragrance permeates the entire study room.

Lin Su still has to owe his ass to show his gratitude...

"Grandmaster Lin, this old man is a history writer. Those who write history are particularly sensitive to historical materials, but you know that people who write history are actually people who suffer."

Lin Su's heart twitched slightly: "Where is the pain?"

Chen Gengdao: "Eight years ago, this old man started to retreat into the world of enlightenment. In eight years, I only went out of the closed door seven times. Seven times, I only met a dozen people. I am ashamed to say that even your majesty today, the old man It’s just that I met a few times eight years ago by chance. At that time, His Majesty was still only King Ning. The world is changing, Shi Haiguo Chen, wind, flowers, snow and moon go with black hair, and endless sadness comes with white hair, isn’t it painful?”

Lin Su's heart skipped a beat.

What does this convey?
He, Chen Geng, is not from His Majesty's side, he has no contact with His Majesty at all!
It can even be said that he hates the current Chaotang!
However, in the face of such a high number of bachelors, Lin Su is not easy to test easily.

Chen Geng raised his eyes: "This time I went out of the customs, I was surprised to hear that Da Cang had a top genius in literature and dao. "

"How can a student dare to be a student if you show such love to a senior scholar? Replace wine with tea, and offer a toast to the senior scholar!" Lin Su held up his teacup, and still took a sip.

He really didn't dare to taste the 800-year-old tea carefully, but when the tea entered his throat, a completely different fragrance lingered on his tongue for a long time. It seems that the 800-year-old tea is really not what he imagined...

"People say that Grandmaster Lin's poems are peerless, but what I am most interested in is Grandmaster Lin's erudition." Chen Geng smiled lightly.

"Graduate scholar, you are welcome!"

Chen Gengdao: "Historical materials today are both lessons and revelations. Today's events will also be historical materials in the coming year. There is a new event that happened. I want to ask Master Lin for it."

"Scholar, please speak."

Chen Geng said: "In July of the eighth year of Yuanjia, the city of Helan in Dacang was lost, and [-] elite soldiers lost their souls at the border gates. On Dongyue [-]th, he was acquitted, and the official was reinstated! I don’t know how future generations will comment on this statement printed in "Da Cang Memorabilia."

Today is the eighteenth of the winter month, and tomorrow is the nineteenth of the winter month. He said that Ding Jiye was released on the nineteenth of the winter month, and he was talking about tomorrow.

"Graduate scholars don't have to worry." Lin Su smiled softly: "Da Cang's Taishi Ling is shrewd and capable, and his pen is brilliant. How could he make such a low-level mistake? The history recorded in his pen is impossible to express in this way."

Chen Geng's face turned gloomy: "How would you describe it?"

"In his writing, His Majesty made a prompt decision, killed treacherous ministers, expelled enemy bandits, restored the four towns, and saw thousands of miles away, and pardoned Ding Jiye, a virtuous minister who was imprisoned unjustly... The people of later generations were moved to tears, and everyone admired this Feng Qing In the great era of righteousness, I regret not being born in this generation."

"Shi, can you whitewash it?"

"The historian is also a human being!"

The question was short, and the answer was also short, two sentences, adding up to ten words.

There was a sudden vibration in the study...

Countless books are swaying...

There were only two of them, like sculptures, sitting quietly among thousands of history books.

Chen Geng's face was as serious as water, and his eyes were constantly changing.

He is a historian, he regards history as his life, and he dare not underestimate every word in the history book, but today Lin Su's short sentence broke his worldview!

He suddenly discovered that the history he had studied all his life might not be the true face of history at all.

This has touched his literary foundation!

He had already reached the fringes of the literary world, but now, he has withdrawn, and this retreat, the literary world is far away.

……

All of a sudden, there were many visions in the scholar's mansion, and countless phantoms of history books rolled up and down in the air, collapsing and rebirthing constantly.

In the backyard, a window was pushed open suddenly, and a young woman was surprised: Grandpa's literary world, is it going to be completed?
The eyes of the girl next to her are bright, it must be that the master has retreated to enlighten the world for so many years, it must be a good omen to have this vision today.

But in a study room in the middle courtyard, a young man's face was full of horror, because he was a literati, and he knew clearly that this was not a good omen at all, but a bad omen, and his grandfather's literary foundation suffered a fatal blow.

The situation in the University Scholars' Mansion is only a strange image, but no abnormal sound. The ordinary people around the southern city are completely indifferent, and the people in the city are also indifferent, but the top literary masters are not included.

On the back hill of Bailu Academy, an old man raised his head and stared quietly in the direction of the south city: "Historical books collapse, history is destroyed! What kind of catastrophe has Grand Master Chen Geng encountered?"

Silently, a middle-aged scholar in white clothes appeared in front of him: "Master, Lin Su entered University Chen's mansion half an hour ago!"

"Lin Su!" The old man spat out two words: "Destroy my Bailu Academy first, and then destroy the Hanlin Academy. Is this son really going to sweep the capital's literature?"

In Green Willow Villa, Zhang Juzheng and Qu Wendong were drinking tea, and they also raised their heads at the same moment. They had the same feeling. Lin Su entered Chen Geng's University Scholars' Mansion. The vision of disappearing, what does it indicate?It shows that Lin Su has already made a move. He pointed directly at the literary foundation of the scholar Chen Geng, and he wants to destroy Chen Geng!

There are four pillars in Beijing Wendao.

Three courtyards and one pavilion.

In the early days, he fought the White Deer Academy and completely suppressed the White Deer Academy. Today, the group of dragons in the White Deer Academy has no leader.

Now, he destroyed Chen Geng of the Imperial Academy again.

He wants to sweep away the mainstream of literature and Taoism in the three courtyards and one pavilion!

Could this be his preparation for Ding Jiye to leave the prison tomorrow?

He swept across the four pillars of Wendao in the capital, forcibly elevating himself to the No. 1 Wendao in the capital, and even the prestige of Gao Wendao, with the support of the people all over the city, disrupted the situation?

In Chen Geng's study, the history books collapsed in pieces, and Chen Geng's white hair seemed to have increased by half in an instant, but the two of them still sat quietly, as if they were completely blind to this spectacle, and they also ignored the countless people who came outside the study. completely blind...

"Shi Haigou Chen, everyone likes him, respects him because of his virtuousness, hates him because of his treachery, is full of enthusiasm because of his grand plan and hegemony, and sighs because of his treacherous ministers and rebellion. Countless people participated in it. The public, all living beings..." Lin Su's voice seemed to be turning back and forth in the history books, and his focus suddenly changed: "But do you know that everyone is a participant in history, and everyone is actually a participant in history? The founder, the holy master, the famous general, the celebrity, you and I, can also be!"

Chen Geng opened his eyes slowly: "What do you mean?"

"We can't choose history, but we can create history. Instead of waiting for others to whitewash the peace, why not write a history without regrets?"

(End of this chapter)