"It's been a long time."

Pingzhang Mansion is the same as before, but Han Gang has not been here for half a year since he left Beijing. After entering the house, I looked left and right, and looked at the scenery with great interest.

"Hmm." The king answered very calmly, and his mouth did not open.

"It's still so quiet."

There are few people in the Wang family, and there are few servants running in the big courtyard. There is no majesty of the hairpin family at all.

"Hmm."

"It's lively outside, probes and sneaky, so you didn't send anyone to catch up?"

"Hmm." The king still only replied with one word, as if he had not heard anything.

Han Gang looked sideways at his second brother-in-law, and said: "Singing and dancing in Bingzhou is a must, Feng Dangshi [Feng Jing] was doubly admired back then. When the younger brother came back this time, someone sent a pair. How about sending it over to entertain your ears and eyes? ”

"Hmm......" Wang Bei, who suddenly reacted, was shocked, "Yukun! ”

Han Gang laughed narrowly: "It's just a joke, little brother doesn't want your sister to turn around and blame me." ”

Wang Fang frowned, "Yukun, didn't the second sister complain about you when I went back yesterday." ”

"I married my husband thanks to my father-in-law and mother-in-law." Han Gang laughed twice, and when he saw that the king had a straight face, he restrained himself and said, "I know my father-in-law's thoughts." My father-in-law should also know my mind. Everyone in the world thinks that the father-in-law is advancing by retreating, but the younger brother understands that the father-in-law really wants to retreat. If it's all just for fame and fortune, how can there be so many things? ”

Even though the imperial court has now rejected both his and Wang Anshi's resignations, Han Gang knows that Wang Anshi really wants to resign, and he himself doesn't want to be used as a weapon to attack him with the position of privy deputy envoy. The position of power is a tool, and when it doesn't fit, it must be simply thrown away.

The battle for the avenue has reached this point, and there is no room for retreat. The official position can be granted, but how can the Taoist system let it? For the sake of fame, in order to better compete for the unification, the most important thing for Han Gang to do now is to give up the power in his hands. If there is no Liao State to join the Kou, Han Gang will not accept the appointment of the Privy Vice-Envoy, and his resignation now is just a return to the right path.

Han Gang was privately ready to recommend Su Song to take his place, and at the same time pushed Shen Kuo to the position of the third envoy. As long as one of them can succeed in the position, it can be regarded as achieving the goal. Of course, Han Gang trusted Su Song a little more. After all, Shen Kuo is a famous wall grass, and he has always had a soft waist.

Wang Fang was a little unaccustomed to Han Gang's attitude: "This time Lu Jifu is coming back." Yukun! ”

"If the younger brother can come back, of course Lu Jifu can come back." Han Gang didn't care, he retreated more and farther than people guessed: "If my father-in-law wants him to come back, come back." ”

If he really used his resignation as a threat, what did Wang Anshi recommend Lu Huiqing to do? Han Gang is also ready to recommend people, this is what he really wants to resign.

"Yukun, you can see it."

"Does Zhong Yuan still think that the younger brother's resignation is a disguise, and he still loves the power position in his private heart?"

Han Gang didn't care about a cool umbrella, and Wang Anshi didn't care even more, but he didn't believe that Lu Huiqing could think like him. Han Gang wanted to talk openly and honestly with Wang Anshi, with the current situation, of course, the sooner the better.

In the study, Wang Anshi was sitting at the table, flipping through the new books that had just arrived. The huge table was completely covered by books and paper, and many books even fell to the floor.

Seeing this, Wang Bi hurriedly walked over and helped clean it up.

"Father-in-law is so interested." Han Gang stepped forward with a smile and saluted.

Wang Anshi, who also resigned from the official list, did not mean to be hostile to Han Gang, turned around and faced Han Gang: "Yukun, you are here." ”

"Yes, Han Gang is here." Han Gang bowed again.

Wang Anshi is getting old, wrinkles and age spots are becoming more and more obvious, and from the outside, he is at least five or six years older than half a year ago. It can be seen how much Wang Anshi has paid for the government in the past six months.

"Jiangzhou Sima Qing's shirt is wet, and the Liyuan disciple has white hair." Han Gang walked to the table and looked down at the text that Wang Anshi put on the table, "Father-in-law is making a collection of sentences again?" ”

Wang Anshi likes to collect sentences, that is, to compose other people's poems as lyrics, pull a sentence in the east and pull a sentence in the west, and piece together a poem, or just make up a couplet. It's a play on words. However, Wang Anshi has a high level, and the poems that make do with it often exceed the original ones.

It's just that Wang Anshi is a famous two-legged bookcase, when writing poems, allusions, rhymes, etc., he doesn't need to turn the book at all, it all depends on his own accumulation. It is very rare to have books spread all over the table. Sentence by sentence, it was put up to make up, and the bitter groaning was even more flavorful of Jia Island.

Are you ready to take a leisurely trip to the underwoods? It is impossible to really entrust everything to Lu Huiqing. Han Gang muttered in his heart.

Wang Anshi sighed abruptly: "The day before yesterday, I made a couplet, this sentence is always wrong, fortunately Cai Tianqi came." Got his advice. ”

"Cai Tianqi?" Han Gang had never heard of this name.

"Cai Ziyong's son, Mingzhao. In the last subject, I won the Jinshi. These two years have been in the Guozi Prison. ”

Han Gang was surprised: "Cai Yuan's sons are all Jinshi?!" ”

Cai Ziyong, Han Gang is acquainted. His name is Yuan, and he was a jinshi in the sixth year of Xining with Han Gang, but he was older, a full forty. There is a son of Yuanfeng in the second year of Jinshi, and it is not surprising to think about it now.

Cai Yuan is a native of Danyang, and he once listened to lectures under Wang Anshimen, so it is no wonder that Cai Tianqi can enter and leave the Han family at will.

Wang Anshi's eyelids drooped, and he didn't have much energy when he looked at it, only sighed loudly: "People are old, and their memory is poor." It's getting harder and harder to put together sentences. ”

"How can my father-in-law call me old now?" The sentence 'The wind sets the flowers and falls', if it is not the father-in-law, others can't be right, how can it be compared today? ”

The wind sets the flowers and the flowers are still and moving, and the world used to think that it was absolute, and it is difficult to find a suitable lower couplet in the past poems. But Wang Anshi found it easily, and it was a widely sung song. 'Birdsong Mountain is more secluded' is dynamic and quiet. The juxtaposition of the two sentences is more neat than 'the cicada noise forest is more quiet, and the birdsong mountain is more secluded'.

"Speaking of neatness. I remember that there was an absolute in the past, and the last one was given by Shi Manqing [Shi Yannian]. ”

"Is this it?" Wang Anshi reached out to turn over the table, and turned over a piece of paper for a long time, which was full of poems, probably made up when he was collecting sentences. One of the sentences pointed to him was very familiar to Han Gang.

"If there is love in the sky, the sky is also old?"

"Exactly." Wang replied: "I remember Shi Manqing said right, 'The moon is like no hatred, and the moon is always full'." ”

Wang Anshi shook his head: "The righteousness is very shallow, and the difference can't be calculated in the Dao ......" Turning around, he said to Han Gang: "Most of the sentences are hundreds of clothes, and you can play words." It's a place where no matter how well it is done, it is a little abrupt. ”

“…… That's right. Han Gang somehow took a step late to react, "But the "Eighteen Beats of Hu Ji" sent by my father-in-law before was like a natural success. ”

"Yukun, when will you comment on poetry?" Wang asked with a smile.

"The gentleman is far away from cooking, and the little brother still knows that the wine and food are delicious and unpalatable......" Han Gang laughed. Looking at Wang Anshi, the smile floated again, "Father-in-law is an exception." ”

Wang Anshi has always stared at the plate of dishes in front of him to eat, and everyone in his relatives and friends knows about this matter. Once Wang Anshi went to a banquet, he only stared at venison to eat, and some people thought that he liked venison. However, Han Gang's mother-in-law asked the venison to move away and replace it with another dish in front of him, and Wang Anshi only stared at that dish and ate it again. and made imperial poems in front of Renzong, and inadvertently ate all the fish food under bitter groaning. Whether he eats well or badly, these examples cannot be counted in a day and a half.

"The old man is no exception. Yukun, you are the exception. ”

Han Gang doesn't understand poetry, and he has always been like this propaganda to the outside world. However, many people think that he actually doesn't want to mess with the right path because of poetry, so he deliberately hides his true level, and he is still very talented.

Wang Anshi didn't see it that way. After all, whenever he encounters the topic of poetry, Han Gang often avoids it. Not only did he not compose poems and lyrics, but he also did not comment on poems and lyrics. From his usual articles and recitals, it can also be seen that Han Gang lacks literary talent. Completely not doing poetry, it is an outlier among the other.

"Poetry and words, songs and words. The poems are heartwarming. Han Gang only needs to look at the ambition in the poem, and he doesn't need to be talented. ”

"Ambition? Cheng Hao's ambition, Yukun, do you know Lu Dao? ”

"Mr. Bochun has been in Beijing for half a year, and his father-in-law doesn't mind. Han Gang wanted to come back, but he was not polite at all. Han Gang lowered his face and asked, he really wanted to know what Wang Anshi was trying to prevent him from entering Beijing, "Why are you so favoritism?" ”

"This generation is not to be worried."

Han Gang arched his hand: "Thank you father-in-law." ”

Han Gang and Wang Anshi had a verbal dispute as soon as they met. You come and go, so that outsiders are very enjoyable.

It's just that Wang Anshi became impatient: "Qian is called father, Kun is called mother." What is heaven and what is earth? ”

'Qian is called the father, Kun is called the mother' is from "Ding Stubborn" [Ximing], which is the general outline of qi science written by Zhang Zai himself. But this text cannot be integrated with the way of Gewu advocated by Han Gang. From Han Gang's theory, it is completely impossible to deduce that the Son of Heaven is the son of heaven and earth, and the minister is the son of the Son of Heaven: 'The great monarch is the son of my parents; Its minister, the prime minister of the Zongzi family'—is too far away. The gap between the theory of heaven and man and the knowledge of things is too big to be bridged. The world's view of the world has diverged, which is the biggest loophole in qi.

"Heaven and earth, nature. To exist in heaven and earth is to live in nature. As for the sky you can see when you look up, the near ones are the extraterrestrial clouds, and the far ones are the stars in the void. ”

"I don't see the words of the saints."

"Han Gang never thinks that there is a way to be easy for eternity. Even if the theory of the ancestors is in line with the Tao, it will be inherited, and if it is contrary to the Tao, it will be abandoned. has been copied for thousands of years, who knows how many contradictions there are in the original text? ”

"Yukun, that's what you told the prince?" Wang Anshi's tone was relaxed, but his expression became serious.

"How not?"

"Grandpa! Daddy! It's time to eat. The soft and glutinous voice interrupted the argument between Han Gang and Wang Anshi.

His daughter appeared at the door of the study at the right time.

Han Gang couldn't help but smile. My daughter always appears at the right time. Wang Anshi's expression also softened.

Every time Han Gang came to visit, as soon as he entered Wang Anshi's study, the last person who was sent to eat with Weng and his son-in-law was a timid little girl standing at the door.

The only girl among Wang Anshi's grandchildren is not only at home, but also the most favored one on the side of Wang Anshi and his wife. Wang Anshi and Han Gang met in private, and they inevitably had to fight for a few words. The only one who can ease the tense atmosphere is the eldest sister of the Han family.

"Zhilu Dao." Han Gang immediately put aside all the arguments with Wang Anshi, walked over and hugged his daughter.

Wang Anshi also straightened out the table, and was not ready to fight with Han Gang. There is Lu Huiqing in the court, Zishantang and himself, there is always a way to suppress Han Gang.

"That's right, father-in-law." Han Gang turned back before going out.

"What?"

"Shi Manqing is right about that couplet, in fact, the son-in-law also has a couplet."

"Oh? Then you have to listen to it. ”

"If there is love in the sky, the sky will be old, and the right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life."

Han Gang left with the words, and there was silence in the room.

The right path in the world –

Han Gang and Wang Anshi fought for this matter.

When he reached the end, he refused to let him go half a step.

Wang said with a dry smile: "Yukun's sentence is not neat at all." ”

"Neat?"

Wang Anshi snorted and stood up. Holding the back of the chair with his hand, the rickety waist rod was straightened, the stiff joints made a few muffled sounds, and the whole person suddenly became refreshed.

"He's talking about we'll see!" The voice of the crown prince and the prince was louder than ever, shouting at his son: "Let's see! ”