The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty Chapter 31: Why do peacocks fly southeast?

The official system of the Northern Song Dynasty was relatively complex, and the common people did not know much about the key, and Yun Yanhui had no way of knowing it. Fortunately, Zhao Yunchu was very young, but he was familiar with it and knew a lot.

At this time, the appointment of an official is divided into official, post, and dispatch. The official is a virtual title representing the rank and determines the salary. The post is an honor and a virtual one. Only the dispatch can hold real power.

Take Zheng Ping's elder brother Zheng Li as an example, his Hanlin Bachelor is his job title, and the Prosecutor's Office is a dispatch, which is an actual position. ” and other words, such as the prefect, the magistrate, and the *oss governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, the position is to know Kaifeng Prefecture, which means to preside.

Therefore, it is a good thing for Zheng Li to have both powers and powers, not to mention the magistrate of his errand court, who is in charge of inspecting and promoting middle-level and lower-level Beijing officials.

After Yun Yan returned to understand clearly, she admired Zheng Ping even more. She was able to give up such an excellent family condition and chose someone she truly loved. It's a pity that Yun Dalang has died, making their love a bit tragic.

But Yun Yanhui believes that although love is tragic, life cannot be tragic.

The thought swirled a few times in her heart, and Yun Yan patted the table back, gaining more motivation.

Zhao Yunchu was frightened by his sudden arrival, "Brother Yan, what's the matter with you? If you really hate this Zheng Ling so much... I'll tell Brother Di to beat him up, and Brother Di's legs are not yet there. Well, no one dares to touch him on the street."

If it wasn't for a lady or an artist, a woman's boudoir name would not be freely publicized. Naturally, Zhao Yunchu didn't know Zheng Ping's name, otherwise she would have guessed it long ago.

"It's fine, haha, no need." Yun Yan recalled Zhao Yundi, who had touched porcelain, and laughed a few times, "You really know how to cheat."

"Brother Yan, you're so nice, just let him go." This Zhao Yunchu had some pitiful thoughts towards Zheng Ling and shared the same hatred. He didn't know that Zheng Ling had already completed a gorgeous transformation, which also led to his relationship with Zheng Ling. The tragic situation when Zheng Ling met.

"Thank you for helping me find out." Yun Yan replied, "I owe you a favor."

"I don't want it anymore. My mother said that human favors are the most expensive." Zhao Yunchu held his face and said, "Brother Yan, tell me about Duanjing, you must be able to?"

Zhao Yunchu was obsessed with Buddhism, and Yun Yanhui had cruelly rejected all his previous attempts to discuss Buddhism with Yun Yanhui. He just thought that Yun Yan was busy with logistics for the lay monks, and maybe he had also been immersed in some performance methods of teaching Buddhist scriptures. As everyone knows, it is Yun Yanhui who is training those vulgar monks.

Yun Yan listened back and smiled: "I can't tell, but I can recite a paragraph for you."

He wrote all the books, and it is possible to retell them in general, but they are not as good as the daily training of ordinary monks, but Zhao Yunchu's requirements are not high.

After a paragraph, Zhao Yunchu slapped hard, "Okay!"

Looking at Zhao Yunchu, who was so easily satisfied, Yun Yan patted his head, "Han prince, why are you so silly and sweet."

Zhao Yunchu: "What does it mean to be silly?"

Yunyan replied: "It's stupid, white and sweet."

Zhao Yunchu wondered, "Am I white? I don't seem to be as white as Brother Yan."

Yunyan sighed back: "It's really silly and sweet, it's the number one silly white sweet in Tokyo."

Zhao Yunchu was given the title of Tokyo's No. 1 Silly Bai Tian, ​​and was quite pleased. After returning happily, he said to the princess, "Mother, today Brother Yan said that I am the No. 1 Silly Bai Tian in Tokyo. "

The princess felt a pain in her heart, alas, she gave birth to so many sons, why does each one have obvious defects?

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Ever since Zheng Ling came to the house once, Zheng Ping has never forgotten to talk about him. When cooking, she would say, "This brother Ling should like it."

Seeing such a scene, Xiaobao hugged Yun Yanhui's arm jealously, "Brother Yan, will A-Niang really not adopt Xiao Yanei?"

Shuang Yi also sighed, "Brother Yan, you are not unhappy at all, Xiaoya Nei is more favored than us."

Thinking back to Zheng Ling, Yunyan said with a bit of pity: "Juniors are always favored."

Xiaobao: "Am I the youngest?"

Shuangyi and Xiaobao don't understand his deep meaning. Where is Zheng Ping's love and affection from being an aunt? It's clearly an aunt who loves her grandson. How can he be a cousin and fight with his nephew?

There are also Shuangyi and Xiaobao, who can be regarded as cousins ​​and uncles. What are they so unhappy about? If Zheng Ling knows about this, his face is still green, and he is the most unhappy. .

Zheng Ping didn't know that Yun Yanhui had already inquired about the origin of the Zheng family. Seeing that it was the day when the academy was off, Zheng Ping made some salty and sweet buttered snails, compared to making a pair of socks. Tell Yunyan to go back and give it to Zheng Ling.

This ghee bubble snail also has a salty taste, and only Zheng Ling can think of it, and Zheng Ping really made it for him.

After returning, Yun Yan took food and clothes, and went to the academy to guard Zheng Ling.

Not long after, I saw Zheng Ling and the two students walking out of a group of scholars, with a hilarious smile. I don't know where to go to play. The wound on Zheng Ling's head was almost healed, the gauze was gone, and there was still a scab on his forehead.

Yunyan shouted back: "Zheng Ling!"

Zheng Ling glanced over and his eyes lit up, "Brother Yan."

A look at his two classmates, oh, they look a lot like Brother Ling, "Is your brother? He's quite cute."

Zheng Ling said reservedly: "Yes, oh my, I won't go to drink today, my brother must have asked me to accompany him."

Having said that, Zheng Ling ignored their wailing and walked over to Yun Yanhui.

"I brought you ghee bubble snails, and my mother made a pair of socks. You'll see if they fit in later." Yun Yan returned the basket and put it in his hand.

Zheng Ling said sweetly, "I'll go to your house."

Yun Yanhui wondered, "Don't you have to go home?"

"I just sent someone to say that I live in the academy. My father wished I would stay in the academy all the time." Zheng Ling said, twisting a ghee bubble snail, "Oh, it's really salty, and it's too salty. It's sweet and not greasy at all, it's delicious!"

Zheng Ling watched Yun Yan return while he was eating. He was refuted by his father that day, saying that he didn't have an aunt at all, but Zheng Ling could see it. She herself is not happy, presumably there is a great contradiction between the two sides and the ice cannot be melted.

But Zheng Ling himself is very willing to be with his aunt, who also likes him, so he is determined to keep his contacts alone.

Zheng Lingfei went back with Yun Yanhui, but Zheng Ping didn't expect it. Seeing that Yun Yanhui sent something and took everyone back, she was surprised and happy.

Zheng Ling said what she thought of Zheng Ping very sweetly, saying that she would stay here for another night.

There is no reason why Zheng Ping should not, so she immediately said that she would go out to buy more vegetables and come back. Rice wine simmered chicken.

Shuang Yibian took Xiaobao to catch chickens and waited for Zheng Ping to come back.

Yun Yan returned to wanting to go, but was held back by Zheng Ling and insisted on caring about him. Shuangyi is too scary, and Xiaobao is too young and unfamiliar, so he can only catch Yunyan and return.

"Why are Shuangyi and Xiaobao surnamed Zheng? Are they not the same father as you?" Zheng Ling asked.

Not only a father, not even a mother, Yun Yanhui nodded randomly.

Zheng Ling asked again: "Have you read the book?"

"No." Yun Yan replied, "I read it a while ago, but I didn't like it, so I didn't continue."

Zheng Ling, a frequent truant, was so embarrassed to educate Yun Yan back, "Song Chongwen, if you want to stand out, you must study." Since I was a child, I also studied hard and practiced hard. Do you think I really only skip classes and fight? In fact, I am familiar with scriptures and poetry!"

Of course this is not the case, but since Zheng Ling knew that Yun Yanhui hadn't read the book for a long time, he felt at ease and boldly bragged, not afraid that the cowhide would be broken.

Yunyan replied disdainfully: "Familiar with the scriptures? Familiar with the scriptures is almost the same!"

Because he is a relative and nephew, it's not that he didn't inquire about Zheng Ling in the washhouse, a frequent visitor! Not to mention that the first time they met was at a temple fair.

Zheng Ling's cheeks blushed, thinking that he was his elder brother, how could he lose face again and again, and how could he establish a glorious image?

Zheng Ling stubbornly said: "My brother, I was originally, do you know what a prodigy is? You are talking about my brother, don't be misled, the first two meetings were not the real me. Brother Yan, reading is actually a good thing. It's not difficult, if you want, every time I take a break, I can come out and teach you to read."

"Don't talk to a brother, and still teach me to read?" Yun Yan gave him a pitying look back, "If you want to discuss the issue of reading with me so much, then so be it, answer me a question about poetry first. , if you can't answer it, just learn your own way."

Zheng Ling thought to himself, Brother Yan still refuses to recognize his brother, it seems that he has to show his hands, "What is the question, you ask."

Yunyan replied: "Have you read Yuefu poetry?"

Zheng Ling nodded: "I read it -- is this the problem?"

"Of course not," Yun Yan glanced back at him, always feeling that Zheng Ling's cutest appearance was still at a disadvantage, which made him very able to embarrass his cousin, "In that case, you must know about "The Peacock Flying Southeast" , I ask you, why did the peacock fly southeast?"

Zheng Ling was stunned, and plucked out his ears, "What? Why is the peacock flying southeast? What the **** is this problem!"

"Peacock Flying Southeast" is a long narrative poem, in which the first two sentences "Peacock flying southeast, wandering for five miles and one wandering" are just a kind of imagery, in order to elicit the following content. But in terms of practical significance, how could Zheng Ling know why the peacock flew southeast.

The author is going to write about flying to the southeast, maybe it's just for the sake of smoothness, and it has no practical significance at all!

Ah, there's a self-hanging southeast branch at the back, southeast, so what's in the southeast? ! The author is also not allowed to test, otherwise one can speculate from the author's life...

Zheng Ling is about to faint.

In the end, I could only blush and admit shamelessly: "I don't know."

"So you should take care of your own reading~" Yun Yan patted his face back.

This question is a well-known question and answer in modern times. In fact, it's a bit of a brain teaser, but Zheng Ling doesn't know that the answer must be a bit slanted, and it is wrong to think about the poem itself.

Zheng Ling didn't dare to persuade Yun Yan to go back to study, so he honestly tried on socks.

The next day, Zheng Ling returned to the academy, and when he met the master who taught him in the academy, he pulled the master and asked, "Sir, you said, in "The Peacock Flying Southeast", why did the peacock go southeast Fly?"

Master was furious and rolled up the book in his hand and smashed Zheng Ling, "Damn, if I tell you to read, you will play, and now you dare to attack Mr.'s idea!"

Zheng Ling hugged his head and ran away, feeling indignant in his heart. I thought about being at Brother Yan's house yesterday, I felt ashamed and didn't even ask the correct answer. Now even the master thinks he is playing tricks, so brother Yan is actually playing him, right? This kid is so cunning!

Zheng Ling thought about it, wrote a note and asked the hawker outside the academy to bring it back to Yunyan, asking him to tell himself why the peacock flew southeast.

After half a day, the reply came. This is the first time Zheng Ling has read Yun Yanhui's words, and he is shocked to realize that Yan Geer claims to have not read for a long time, but the words are written so beautifully that they don't look like a child of his age at all. Zheng Ling should feel ashamed. .

And the content of the word is: Peacocks fly southeast, just because there are tall buildings in the northwest.

"...I'm x!" Zheng Ling couldn't help cursing, why didn't he think of going there? Brother Yan really didn't make fun of him. There are tall buildings in the northwest of the Nineteenth Ancient Poem, and the clouds are on the same level. This Nima is not an uncommon sentence!

This is just a matter of mind. Zheng Ling is really ashamed of Yan Ge'er's words. The words are just like people. You can see how much work Yan Ge'er has put in. Brother Yan said that he didn't like reading, but he was much more serious than him.

It didn't take long for Zheng Ling, who was heartless, to think again that since Brother Yan wasn't playing with him, he was beaten a few times by the master. So Pidianpidian went to the Master again and told him that the question he asked last time had already been answered, and that the peacock didn't fly southeast because there were tall buildings in the northwest.

In the end, the Master scolded him after hearing the answer, "I don't know how to learn! I don't know how to respect the teacher! I just know how to be clever! If you like it so much, then go and copy "The Peacock Flying Southeast" five hundred times!"

Zheng Ling was dumbfounded, and after a while he howled: "Brother Yan mistaken me!!"