When the enemy comes, we will fight them.
Fu Xiaoguan put the matter of Yu Wenjun aside for the time being, and sat in his study to write a letter to Dong Shulan. He planned to send her the four chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions and two boxes of Tianchun that he had written in the past few days the next morning.
A Dream of Red Mansions has been written to 62 chapters, and Fu Xiaoguan is thinking of finishing it by the end of the year. There are great differences in details from the original work, because he really did not memorize the original work, but this still does not hinder the book's popularity. Fu Xiaoguan attributed it to the lack of spiritual food for people of this era, especially women.
I had a dreamless night and got up to dance at the sound of the cock-crow.
Fu Xiaoguan was having breakfast when Fu Daguan walked in.
"Ah, Zhang Zhice is also pitiful." Official Fu sat down and sighed.
"Zhang Zhice, the head of the Zhang family? Why is he pitiful?" Fu Xiaoguan looked up and asked.
"I only learned about this last night. His little daughter, Zhang Pei'er, is missing."
This made Fu Xiaoguan stunned, "Missing?"
"Yes, I heard she disappeared on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. It's been seven days now, and the Zhang family has been secretly searching for her. Last evening, they found a shoe she once wore by the river. I think she jumped into the river. What a pity, what a pity!" Official Fu shook his head, feeling sorry for Zhang Pei'er. He added, "This girl who has reached marriage age is committing suicide. It must be because of love. I don't know whose young master let her down. The girl is very smart, but she just can't think it through. What a beautiful woman with a tragic fate!"
Fu Xiaoguan took the egg and put it back without eating it, feeling a little heavy-hearted.
He didn't expect Zhang Pei'er to commit suicide. If he wanted to find out the truth, Zhang Pei'er's death must be related to him. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he was the one who caused it.
If I had been more tactful when we met outside Linjiang Academy, would all these bad things have happened later?
If I had told her that I wanted to cultivate the relationship first and then see if it could develop further, she would probably have accepted it.
His unintentional words had led her to extremes, and even caused her to jump into the river and lose her life - he still felt a little guilty about this.
"It's a pity."
Fu Xiaoguan put down his chopsticks. Su Mo looked up at him twice and continued to eat slowly.
"Son, do you have a girl you like? I heard that so many girls were chasing you at the Mid-Autumn Festival Poetry Festival. It shows that you are popular with women. You should find one."
Official Fu was very anxious about this matter. His son was over sixteen years old and had reached the age to get married. If he could marry a few wives of his choice and have a bunch of children, Official Fu would feel that he had done justice to Yun Qing and the ancestors of the Fu family.
"Dad, there's no rush for this kind of thing."
Official Fu sighed. It turned out that the emperor was not in a hurry to kill the eunuch. Forget it, just let him go.
"This year, there's no problem harvesting grain south and north of the Yangtze River. However, news has arrived of a devastating disaster north and south of the Yellow River. Torrential rains over a month have caused the Yellow River to overflow its banks, breaching over a hundred dikes. Several prefectures, including Ningzhou and Yinzhou, have suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties, and countless fertile fields have been destroyed. Sigh... I wonder how many more people have been displaced and become refugees."
"The imperial court will provide disaster relief, right?"
"Disaster relief will certainly be provided, but the amount of relief supplies that actually reach the refugees will be just a drop in the bucket."
Fu Xiaoguan frowned and thought about it, then he understood the reason. This has been the case in all dynasties, let alone the Yu Dynasty which had enjoyed peace for a long time.
This kind of big thing was not something that a commoner like Fu Xiaoguan could handle. He didn't take it to heart, but said to Fu Daguan: "Dad, don't go anywhere today. There will be an imperial edict coming to our house. I don't understand these rules, so you have to deal with it."
Official Fu's eyes suddenly widened. An imperial edict? When had the Fu family ever seen such a thing as an imperial edict?
This is such a great honor!
"really?"
“It shouldn’t be fake.”
Official Fu stood up and rubbed his hands, very excited. This imperial edict must be for his son. Could it be that his son was favored by the emperor and was about to rise to fame overnight?
It must be like this!
"I'll go get ready, you clean up too."
After saying this, Senior Official Fu left in a hurry. Junior Official Fu pouted. If this decree really wanted to recruit him as a prince consort, his father would definitely be very happy, but he didn't like it. It wasn't that he didn't like the girl Yu Wenjun, but he didn't like this method.
He had no objection to everyone chatting, drinking tea, and talking about love together, but he was afraid of physical problems if they were tied up in bed.
The idea of having three wives and four concubines has existed since ancient times. Fu Xiaoguan is not a saint, but he has one more condition, which is that there must be an emotional foundation. So when Yu Wenyun came, he wanted to talk reason with her.
As for Zhang Pei'er, if Zhang Pei'er was two years older, he would not have handled it that way.
…
Mr. Fu was restless the whole day, but Mr. Fu was calm. He was meditating in the yard and practicing the Pure Yang Heart Sutra.
There is still no sense of Qi in the Dantian, but every time after meditating, the body will be hot and sweaty. Su Mo said that this is the effect. Although there is no sense of Qi, there is already internal strength. It circulates in the meridians and causes the body to heat up, but because the amount is too small, it cannot be precipitated in the Dantian to form a cyclone. According to the current situation, it is estimated that Fu Xiaoguan will be able to produce a cyclone within three years, so that he can mobilize and use internal strength. In other words, in another three years, he will be able to practice Qinggong.
This is good news. Three years is short, just like the wind blowing through your fingers.
At noon, Chunxiu suddenly ran in, sweating profusely.
"Master, the imperial edict has arrived. Master asks you to go to the front yard immediately."
Senior Official Fu, along with Madam Qi and Junior Official Fu, were standing at the gate when they saw a large procession of officials approaching.
In front was a eunuch, followed by guards, then a sedan chair carried by eight people, and behind it were many messengers.
Many doors of the houses in Xishui Lane opened, and many heads popped out. People were very surprised. They didn't know whose house the imperial edict would go to, nor did they know whether it was a blessing or a curse.
It was not until the team stopped in front of the Fu Mansion and Fu Daguan and his two followers, along with a group of servants, knelt at the door that these people realized that the Fu family had received the imperial edict.
Is this farmer so good?
Then, Officer Fu led the team into the house and people gathered around them. This kind of strange thing was extremely rare in Linjiang.
In the hall of the Fu Mansion, the eunuch Zhang Gonggong who delivered the imperial edict looked carefully at Mr. Fu, then looked carefully at Mr. Fu, with a smile on his face all the time. Only then did Mr. Fu's heart, which had been hanging in the air, seem to be slightly relieved.
The sedan chair was parked in the courtyard outside the hall. The person inside did not get out, and no one knew who was sitting inside.
Eunuch Zhang stood in front, holding the imperial edict in his hand, and said loudly: "Official Linjiang Fu, please accept the order!"
Senior Official Fu nudged Junior Official Fu with his elbow and whispered, "Go and receive the decree."
Fu Xiaoguan was also confused, because the father-in-law called him Fu Daguan.
"For you."
"For me?"
"Didn't you hear?"
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