Chapter 13: Such a hobby, cause and condition (this chapter is free)

The content of the letter was thanks. Luo Binwang said that Tang Daxin was a good merchant of the country, and praised him for his actions of donating five hundred pieces of cloth to make up for the shortcomings of cold clothes in the army, and repeatedly encouraged Tang Daxin to donate generously again.

Another letter was after this letter. According to the meaning of the letter, Tang Daxin refused to donate again, but wanted Luo Binwang to give him a poem, and said that the title of the poem would be best if his name was best. If there was another preface before the poem, it would be even better to mention him in the preface. Luo Binwang only recorded a work of the old year in the letter, and he also recruited and persuaded Tang Daxin to donate another thousand pieces of cloth. Not to mention a small poem, he would personally record this matter so that Tang Daxin's high righteousness would be passed down to future generations and a role model for merchants for thousands of years.

Perhaps Luo Binwang was too ruthless, and Tang Daxin felt sorry for the cloth and never donated it again, so the return of the letter was interrupted.

To put it, Tang Daxin exchanged these two letters from Luo Binwang with five hundred pieces of cloth, and a song "Singing the Cicadas in Prison" recorded by him personally. It is hard to say whether this deal is cost-effective or not.

In later generations, I studied Tang poetry and studied Tang poetry anthology for many years. This is the first time I saw a famous ancient poet personally record his famous works. Whether it is this poem or the calligraphy of poetry, Tang Song was fascinated by it. If it were placed in later generations, it would be an important document in literary history, and its value could be much higher than that of 500 pieces of cloth.

"Ode to the Cicada in Prison" was done by Luo Binwang after being falsely convicted. Later generations praised him as the leader of the three great poems and deeds of the Tang Dynasty. It is believed that Luo Binwang had suffered cruel corporal punishment in prison. It was shortly after he was falsely released from prison, that is, he joined Xu Jingye's anti-military camp.

By time, in May of the first year of Guangzhai, although Luo Binwang had not been officially recruited as an art and literary order by Xu Jingye, he had indeed worked under Xu Jingye. With his position in the poetry world at this time, he was responsible for contacting literati and merchants to raise military supplies. He was the only one who could do his best to contact literati and merchants.

After appreciating the calligraphy of the two letters again, Tang Song carefully picked it up. Then he smiled brightly, "Tang Daxin, Tang Daxin, what do you want me to say to you!"

After carefully examining the content of these two letters, Tang Song had guessed the whole story.

Tang Daxin is a famous cloth merchant in Xiangzhou. Together with his elder brother, Tang Dali, the largest fish merchant in Xiangzhou, he was called the "Two Tangs" in the market. These two people are topics that the people of Xiangzhou are very talked about. The reason is not only because they are doing big business, but also because these two have distinct characteristics. The eldest Tang Dali is deeply thoughtful and fond of money, while the third Tang Daxin is very good at art and elegance. There are many jokes about the two people in the city of Xiangzhou.

I think that eight years ago, Tang Daxin had gone to Jiangnan East and West to do cloth trade. When he passed by Yangzhou, Huainan Road, he happened to meet with Luo Binwang for conspiracy to rebel against martial arts and raise military funds. At this time, Luo Binwang was already a famous poet and the merchants could not make friends with him at all. Since he had such an opportunity, Tang Daxin inevitably had a habit of being artful and elegant. He spent 500 pieces of cloth to make friends with Luo Binwang and exchanged these two letters.

Later, just four months later, Xu Jingye raised an army to fight against the military in Yangzhou and was defeated. Tang Daxin must have been frightened. Although he could not have known that the cloth was for Xu Jingye to rebel, and he would not have thought that people like Luo Binwang would become rebels, but his behavior was objectively a real enemy. This was a crime of "Ten Rebellion" in Tang Rule. With such a serious crime, Wu Zetian hated Luo Binwang and the thunderous means, once this letter fell into the government, Tang Daxin was destined to be a genocide.

But somehow, perhaps because this guy is so ill that he did not destroy these two letters. Not only did he keep them for eight years, he is still brought out by Liu Ye for some reason. This... this is really speechless!

When Tang Daxin saw the letter that Tang Song took out, he regretted it. He had a lot of talent in business and trade since he was a child, but he failed to study. However, he gradually developed the habit of arts and elegance. Especially after marrying the daughter of a local famous scholar, the disease became more and more serious, and arts and elegance gradually became a special habit that could not be removed and could not be removed.

After so many years of art and elegance, what he could do the most was the two letters he had returned to Luo Binwang. Who is Luo Binwang? He is the four masters who are famous all over the world! Even though he eventually became a thief, no one questioned his literary achievements and his once-poetry status.

As a merchant from Far North, Tang Daxin knew that he would never have the chance to make friends with such famous poets. So even after the news of Luo Binwang's failure to rebel with Xu Jingye, he was still reluctant to destroy these two letters. Although his wife urged him with all her strength, she just agreed beautifully and never burned these two letters.

Slowly, the matter passed, but no one came to investigate him. Tang Daxin was lucky and secretly thanked that it was really right not to burn these two letters at the beginning, otherwise it might have been a great regret in life! But he did not dare to keep these two letters by his side, because his wife was too strict with him. If she stayed by his side, she would be discovered sooner or later. Then, it would be a roar of a lion in the east of the river.

Tang Daxin also used his brains to settle this deadly object. He had to keep the letter well without letting his wife notice it, and he had to read it himself. After thinking about it, he finally made up his mind to his wife's personal maid Liu Ye.

Liu Ye is a girl who bought since childhood. She has always been well-behaved and obedient. Her wife likes and trusts her very much. The wife must have never imagined that this girl is very meticulous and will not ruin the letter if she loses it. In addition, this girl is serving in the inner house, and it is convenient for her to read it when she has time. More importantly, she is illiterate, and even if she gives the letter to her, she doesn't worry that she will notice anything. With her identity as a inner house girl, she has few opportunities to leave the house on weekdays, so there is no need to worry that the letter will be leaked.

He thought so and did this. In the past few years, it was indeed An Ruo Taishan. Whenever he had the opportunity to drink alone, Tang Daxin must burn incense and cleanse his hands and take the letter from the willow leaves and read it carefully countless times. He read it countless times. The expression on his face was really more proud than how big a business he had done.

After all the calculations, he didn't expect that the girl would be moved when she grew up, and he didn't expect that Liu Ye had already planned to elope, and even sent all the small fortune he had accumulated over the years to Zhuang Haishan. His two deadly letters happened to be in the wooden dressing box where Liu Ye put them in the furniture, and was seen by Tang Song, a scholar.

If it weren't for the delay of Liu Mei's participation in the Longhua Society, Liu Ye might have run away long ago. Perhaps today's events would have disappeared. In short, everything caused by these two letters can only be attributed to chance. Tang Daxin's fate should have had such a disaster.

Literary youth is a disease that needs to be cured! This fake literary youth is even more deadly. But thinking about how many people in history are about to starve to death and are reluctant to sell their ancestral antique calligraphy and paintings, Tang Daxin's actions can be understood.

For a person who has become a habit of being a hobby, how spiritual satisfaction is it to be able to hide such objects? It is really impossible to exchange for no amount of money. No wonder, a person who has always been afraid of others, dares to conceal himself in such a fatal matter.

Not to mention the whole story, Tang Daren and Tang Xu, who were so stupid in front of others, had already finished reading the letter. For a moment, the quiet needles in the hall could be heard, but the atmosphere was extremely depressed.

Everyone stared at Tang Song, and Tang Song sipped the tea in small mouthfuls with a pottery bowl without half a piece of tea, without any intention of talking.

At this moment, silence is better than sound. The more he has no intention of speaking, the more others have expressed it.

After a long silence, the eldest Tang Dali looked at Zhuang Haishan and Liu Ye and slowly stood up, "Fourth brother, find another place to talk." After that, he walked out first.

Tang Song then stood up and walked to Tang Xu, looking at the letter he was holding, stretching out his hand.

Tang Xu was the last one to read the letter. After reading the letter, he held it tightly in his hand. Because he used too much force, there were two damages on the letter.

Tang Xu stared at Tang Song in front of him with a wolf-like look, and refused to hand over the letter for a long time, and his hand became tighter.

Tang Dali, who was walking in the front, suddenly turned around and shouted angrily: "Give it to him!".

Tang Song didn't want it anymore, stared at Tang Xu's eyes and smiled slightly, "Since you can't bear it, then keep it." After saying that, he ignored him and turned around and went out.

Even Tang Yuan did not let him follow him. The four brothers of the Tang family and Tang Xu and Tang Song came to another even more dilapidated wing room. As soon as several people entered the door, the eldest Tang Dali suddenly turned around and then slapped Tang Daxin in the face.

With a crisp "bang", five purple-red marks from the tomb suddenly appeared on Tang Daxin's fat round face.

Tang Dali didn't say anything after slapping this time, but turned around and glanced at the fourth brother Tang Daren.
Chapter completed!