Chapter 611: What a bunch of evildoers!
Xiangzhou.
There are endless luxurious mansions, surrounded by high walls and shaded by green trees. The houses are lined up in an orderly manner, which is complex but not chaotic and gathered but orderly.
At the nine-turn point of the Qushui Corridor, the third lotus leaf lantern has just been lit.
Several scholars sat upright on green cattail mats, the corners of their white gauze shirts lifted by the early winter evening breeze, revealing the dark pattern on the lining, which was the family crest printed with madder juice.
This was a literary gathering hosted by the Cui family.
Basically, all the prominent families in Xiangzhou sent people to participate.
The owners drank tea and watched singing and dancing in the main hall.
The future heirs exchanged feelings at the literary meeting.
"Everyone, please take a look at today's lottery." The evening party invited Xiangzhou Xuepan to be the host.
He clapped his hands three times, and four servants in blue clothes brought up a rosewood table. Inside the plate and under the glazed cover was not ordinary gold and jade, but a yellowed copy of "Chunhua Ge Tie".
There was a gasp from the crowd.
"The first question is guessing the cover." The presiding judge stroked his beard and smiled, pointing his finger at the lacquered cup with handles floating in the winding water.
The bottom of the white jade cup is engraved with fragments of "Xunzi's Encouragement to Study" in tiny calligraphy, while the rim of the cup is stained with ambergris from the Western Regions - this is to encourage everyone to interpret the meaning of the scriptures through the art of incense.
Most of the participants were thinking hard, wanting to become famous at the literary meeting and also wanting to win the "Chunhua Ge Tie".
But there are still a few people who are not interested in the game of Shefu.
"Brother Lu, did your fourth brother write to you? He is your father's late son, and your father is willing to let him go to Hezhong County? Although there is a letter from Governor Song, that person is Yun Guogong Gu Nanxi!"
Huang Jincheng came close to Lu Dalang and spoke softly.
Lu Dalang was as handsome as Pan An, and just by sitting there he attracted the maids who served him to stare at him frequently.
Lu Dalang frowned, his eyes filled with worry. "How could my father be willing to give up his precious child? I am a fanboy of Duke Yun! During the Yunzhou War, he secretly helped Governor Song to raise grain."
"I finally got the chance to go to Hezhong County this time. In order to meet Duke Yun, I cried, made a scene, and even threatened to hang myself at home. My father had no choice but to agree to let him go."
Huang Jincheng looked at Lu Dalang sympathetically and said, "Every family has a troublesome younger brother! My third son really thinks going to Hezhong County is a good job and insists on going! I can't stop him."
Huang Jincheng and Lu Dalang looked at each other and sighed at the same time.
"Duke Yun should not look down on these two fools, right?"
Lu Dalang said bitterly, "I'm not worried about that. With Cui Letian, Wen Deyuan and Liu Guangxi here, Duke Yun will definitely look down on me. I'm just worried that my brother will be too enthusiastic and bring our Lu family into trouble in front of Duke Yun."
Hua Jun felt the same way and said, "Your little brother has a pure heart. How could he get into trouble? My Hua Xu is different."
Lu Dalang and Huang Jincheng thought of Hua Xu's audacity and expressed deep sympathy for Hua Jun.
"It's okay. Hua Xu is a man and likes men. He can't mess with Duke Yun."
Hua Jun frowned. For some reason, his right eyelid kept twitching. He felt like something bad was going to happen. "I hope so."
Not far from the three of them sat Cui Dalang, Wen Dalang and Liu Dalang.
The three of them formed a small group of their own, and they looked at the others with boredom.
"Song Zhizhou didn't come today?"
“No.”
Wen Dalang placed a piece on the chessboard: "He wanted to give our Xiangzhou to Duke Yun, but he kept hitting a wall. I guess he doesn't want to see us."
Liu Dalang glanced at the chessboard and continued to mix the perfume: "Although he was born in the Song family, he has been living outside since he was young. He doesn't know the complicated relationship between the family and the family. It's normal for him to make the wrong decision!"
Cui Dalang thought of his family's treasure Cui Letian, and raised his lips with a hint of disdain: "How can personal honor and disgrace be compared with family interests? Some people just like to overestimate themselves."
Aristocratic families will never easily make important decisions that affect the fate of the entire family just for the sake of one person in the family.
In front of the family, an individual is just a small stone. How can he shake the entire family?
Wen Dalang and Liu Dalang agreed with this.
Suddenly, the heads of the families in the hall came out one after another with sullen faces.
Something must have happened!
The young masters of each family followed their master very tactfully and went back to their own homes.
"What an evil creature, what an evil creature!" The head of the Wen family started cursing as soon as he sat on the carriage.
Wen Dalang looked at his father in surprise. His father never showed his joy on his face, so why was he so angry?
The head of the Wen family cursed the evil creature several times before he panted and said, "Duke Yun planned to set up a crane control office in imitation of the empress of the previous dynasty. Your brother wanted to be the crane control supervisor, so he proposed to allow students from Baichuan Academy to enter the library to copy."
"What?!" Wen Dalang's eyes almost popped out, "How can this be possible?! The library is the result of our ancestors' travels all over the Great Zhou and spent a lot of money to collect so many books! Brother, isn't this just using the family's resources to do your own thing?"
The Wen family doesn't like Gu Nanxi from the bottom of their hearts.
The books that they had spent so much time and money to collect would be priced down by Baihua Printing Factory as soon as they fell into Gu Nanxi's hands!
Wen Dalang firmly believed that his father would definitely not agree with this.
"Evil creature, what an evil creature!"
The same scene also happened in the Liu family.
Liu Dalang almost spat out a mouthful of blood: "Father, you can't spoil Guangxi anymore! The doctors and apprentices we have trained with great difficulty are going to the South Courtyard to prevent the epidemic!"
This has been a plan that the head of the Liu family and Liu Dalang have been carrying out for a long time. They want to replicate the glory of their ancestors and raise the reputation of the Liu family to a higher level.
"Evil creature, what an evil creature!"
When the head of the Cui family read the letter from Cui Letian, his face became darker than the bottom of a pot.
"Has your brother gone insane?! He insisted on going to Gu Nanxi to seek refuge. It would have been fine if he wanted to be an emperor. But now he even wants a Control Crane Supervisor?!"
Cui Dalang's dissatisfaction with Cui Letian reached its peak.
Even if the Crane Control Supervisor is a third-rank official, so what?!
Isn't he essentially a male concubine?! He has completely disgraced the Cui family!
Cui Dalang felt that with his father's temper, he would definitely kick Cui Letian out of the house.
At the same time, Lu Dalang also asked the head of the Lu family in the carriage: "Dad, what happened? Why do you all look so unhappy?"
These are a group of big shots, so big that Xiangzhou would shake with just the stomping of their feet.
They usually maintain a very high attitude, but today they all let down their guard.
The Lu family head had a look of surprise and fear on his face: "I think everyone knows that Duke Yun is going to set up the Control Crane House."
Lu Dalang blurted out: "Will this not make me get what I want?"
The head of the Lu family wanted to laugh but didn't dare to: "That's right. Your little brother asked our whole family to help you!"
For other noble families, it would be embarrassing to let their children enter the Konghe Mansion.
But the Lu family has no psychological barriers! Female beauty is lust, but isn’t male beauty also lust?
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