[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

Du Ruozhao looked at the letter written by Zhu Houzhao, and smiled happily. Why did Zhu Houwei learn to speak and call his elder brother "De", why did he learn the Analects of Confucius and put his old life into it.

Just smiling, maids Lingcao and Xianghe came in carrying a lot of books, and put them lightly on Du Ruo's desk, "Master, all the books sent by Mo Xiangzhai are here."

Seeing Du Ruo's dumbfounded smile, Lingcao smiled and said, "Sister, look here, what a goose." Du Ruo was watching intently and didn't know that they were making fun of him. Laugh, "What are the two sisters laughing at?"

Among the four big maids Liuzhi, Xianghe, Lingcao, and Wintersweet, only Liuzhi used to dress Du Ruo, and the others were served by Du Ruo's mother, Jiang Shi.After Jiang's death, Yingchun, the eldest of the four girls around her, was taken away by her parents because her wedding date had come, and the other three continued to follow Du Ruo.Although these four are servant girls, they have taken care of Du Ruo since childhood.Du Ruo has always treated them as sisters.

"Look at a little goose here." After Lingcao finished speaking, she pursed her lips and smiled.

"No, it's a letter from a beautiful woman, which makes our young master as happy as a goose." Xiang He also teased Du Ruo.

Du Ruo just smiled and ignored them. If no one answered, they would naturally calm down. "These are delivered from the shop?"

"That's all for today. The people in the shop said that someone will deliver it tomorrow."

"Did the people in the shop say anything else?" Du Ruo flipped through the books, and found that most of them were collections of poetry and anthology. There were only two legendary novels and one travel book.

"The people in the store also said that since the notice was posted in the store, more and more people have signed up to participate in the activities in the store. There are more than 30 copies today."

With Zhu Youtang's approval, Du Ruo naturally let go.When he and Zhu Houzhao started the company, Zhu Houzhao was in charge of research and development, and Du Ruo was in charge of marketing.It was just an advertisement for a stereotype printing machine, which was a piece of cake for Du Ruo.

Moxiangzhai organized a Huiwen activity, and posted notices in various places in central Beijing: If there are any books that have not been published, please send them to Moxiangzhai. On the display board at the entrance of Moxiangzhai, if anyone supports it, a note will be made.Finally, the judges and vote scores from all parties will be combined to determine which books to print.After these books are published, they are sold in stores, and Mo Xiangzhai does not take a cent of the proceeds from the sales, half of which is donated to Shantang, and the other half belongs to the original authors.

This news has been released for seven or eight days, and most of the capital has already known it.Nowadays, teahouses and hotels can hear the news of this incident.

Although there are few finished products, the ancient people are not like the modern people. They are young people who love code words. Even scholars rarely own books, not to mention that there were very few people who studied in the Ming Dynasty.It is not bad that Du Ruo expects to have [-] books, and the current results are much higher than Du Ruo's expectation.

After delivering the things, the two went outside to do needlework outside the study and waited for orders.Du Ruoze sat there alone and read a book.At noon, I saw the mother in charge in front of me calling back. It turned out that Xu Beiniang sent someone to say goodbye the day before yesterday. Now that the family members of the family have gone to Beijing, she can't come to the door in person. What happened to her family.

The Three Law Departments have planned to sentence Ma Ji, Ma Cong and others to be hanged for rape.At the same time, Chen Yun, the commander of Jinyiwei, was impeached for dereliction of duty and accepting bribes.

Because this matter involved Du Ruo, Hou of An Ding, after Xiaozong found out, he decreed that Ma Ji should be "extremely vicious and despise the law, and he will be executed immediately, and he will be killed in the city." Side, forever exiled to the army.Ma Cong and others were regarded as coerced accomplices and sentenced to hang.And Chen Yun was dismissed and investigated, waiting to be convicted.

The criminal has been put to death, and the people from the clan have arrived, so she and her elder sister Fu Ling have returned to their hometown, and now let someone come to inform them.After hearing this, Du Ruo asked Lingcao and Xianghe to pack up some ordinary things as a gift in return. Du Ruo felt that it was unknown, so she gave the golden order from the Marquis of Lingcao's mansion, and asked her to secretly give it back when returning the gift with the people from the Xu family. Then Xu Bei Niang, let her do something urgent.

Lingcao led the order to go.The Jin Ling also has some backgrounds. Du Ruo's father led the Jinyi Guard, served as the military commander of the Five Cities, and finally ended up in the Habayashi Guard. He protected his subordinates in his post and was capable of doing things that few people could match.If someone is holding a golden order in this Gyeonggi area, it will still be of some use.

The young grass is gone, and it will return at dusk.

"Ms. Xu's place is also in a hurry. Her mother is still sick in bed, her elder sister is careless, and Ms. Xu's brother is so vicious. It doesn't matter which family comes to visit, so it's too much to break into the girl's boudoir. I don't know how to be polite." Lingcao went back to the mansion and babbled there, picking out Xu's mansion.

"Then Xu's mansion is well received by rich and wealthy people, how can it be as unbearable as you said?" Xiang He was taking care of the work done today, when he heard that Lingcao seemed to have eaten a firecracker, he smiled lightly.

"It's not that I said, after all, it's a businessman's family, which lacks some background. When encountering something, it's like the sky is falling, and all rules and taboos are ignored. I said it's a pity that Miss Xu's character, born in such a family, met It’s better to live a lifetime in peace and security in a small household with such a thing.”

"Shhh, you're the one who talks too much." Ageless Grass spoke louder and louder, Xiang He hurriedly stopped her, "The one inside is tired of watching and sleeping, why are you making a fuss here?"

After hearing this, Lingcao stopped, and after being quiet for a while, she whispered to Xianghe: "I don't know which kind of god our young master is, and he is a bit more magical than that child prodigy. I don't know anything about this world."

As soon as Xianghe heard it, she punched her immediately, looked around carefully, and saw that there was indeed no one who taught her in a low voice: "Usually you have no way to control your mouth, but now you are talking about it." The young master is here. Even if they don’t know it, you must know it. The Marquis will not let any of his actions be revealed, what are you talking about here.”

When Lingcao saw Xianghe admonishing herself, she was angry and annoyed. One was that she was indeed wrong, and the other was that she couldn't get over her face after being taught by Xianghe. Just don't annoy me."

Xianghe saw that she was indeed regretful, so she let it go lightly, "Don't allow it next time. If there is any more, I will go back to the housekeeper and ask him to kick you out."

Lingcao promised again and again, and the matter passed.

On the [-]th day of the eighth month, it was the Huiwen Conference. Mo Xiangzhai had set up a whole teahouse to entertain the literati from all walks of life. Everyone entered with a ticket.

Zhu Houzhao still went on tour in micro-clothes.After breakfast early in the morning, Zhu Houzhao took the chief eunuch Gao Feng, and two young eunuchs Liu Wei and Zhang Yong to the Marquis of Anding.When he arrived at Andinghou's Mansion, Du Ruo was practicing boxing with the martial artist there. Although his arms and legs were small, there was a kind of momentum in every move and every move. Zhu Houzhao looked so cute, and he felt a strong sense of pride in this is my man.

Seeing Du Ruo exercising there, Zhu Houzhao also hurriedly went to his outer shirt and ran to follow the practice.Followed by Gao Feng there to persuade.

There is a saying in the Book of Songs: "July is full of fire, August is still young, and September is when clothes are given." At this time, it has cooled down in the middle of Beijing, and the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus is pervasive in the Hou's mansion, and dew rolls and rolls off the petals of chrysanthemums.There were a few birdsong in the floating air.The morning sun shines through the woods, casting mottled spots of light on the ground.

Du Ruo saw that Zhu Houzhao came running over wearing only a single shirt, and said sullenly, "How old are you? It's been so cold these days, you dare to wear it like that."

Zhu Houzhao couldn't refute, sticking out his tongue in embarrassment.Du Ruo thanked the martial artist, let him go back, and hurriedly put on Du Ruo's clothes.Seeing that Du Ruo was serving carefully and attentively, Gao Feng laughed at the side and said, "Only Young Master can persuade His Highness the Crown Prince."

Du Ruo didn't face the eunuchs day and night like Zhu Houzhao did. His impression of the eunuchs was still a treacherous image that would harm the country and the people, so he didn't have a good look at Gao Feng.Only Gao Feng hooked the corner of his mouth, and took it as a response.

Gao Feng didn't know why Du Ruo didn't have a good face towards him, so he forced a smile, watched Du Ruo dress Zhu Houzhao and adjusted his clothes, and stopped talking.

The two wandered around the Hou's mansion for a while, and as the sun was getting brighter, they went to the study to sit for a while.Seeing the two people coming in, Liu Zhi ordered the little girl to brew a pot of fruit tea made the day before yesterday to entertain the guests, and personally took all kinds of mooncakes and desserts made the previous day and put them on a plate for the two to use.

The eunuch who followed over there was also greeted by Du Lin.

After lunch, the two changed into ordinary cloth clothes, Gao Feng and Du Lin pretended to be adults, and the others pretended to be attendants and got up to the Spring Mountain Tea House.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has just passed, and the aroma of mooncakes on the street has not dissipated. People have changed their light summer shirts into autumn shirts.When I came to the Chunshan Teahouse, I saw the sound of people, and the teahouse was crowded with people inside and outside.

Tickets are required to enter the conference. Du Ruo, as the owner, naturally has as many tickets as possible. Under the envious eyes of everyone, a group of people swaggered in and went to the private room on the second floor.

It was the first time that Zhu Houzhao saw so many ordinary scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and he kept pulling Du Ruo to chatter non-stop, and Du Ruo listened to him patiently.Among them, only one person knows how intimacy falls in the eyes of everyone.

Soon, a storyteller hired by Mo Xiangzhai came to the stage to open the show. Although he couldn't compare to the aura of modern professional hosts, he still had an old-fashioned charm.

Chen Baisha, a Hanlin scholar from the Imperial Academy, came to the stage to present awards to the literati. Chen Baisha is an official of the fifth rank, and being able to participate in this Huiwen conference, one is the meaning of the emperor, and the other really shows the influence of this matter in the literary world. .

In ancient times, it was very difficult for a person to publish his own works. Now that Mo Xiangzhai has opened the door of convenience, many people will naturally flock here, unwilling to let such an opportunity go by.

There are ten books shortlisted this time, including four anthologies, four poetry anthologies, one travel note, one agricultural book and one legendary novel.The first few looked like elderly people over half a century old, and the oldest one was supported by his grandson.Some of them spoke like Fan Jinzhong, and Du Ruo and Zhu Houzhao laughed happily.