What are the images of the two young masters of the Lou family in The Scholars?

The main content of the ninth chapter of "The Scholars"

In the ninth chapter, Yang Zhizhong, the steward of the salt store, was sued by his boss for missing seven hundred taels of silver and was sent to Deqing County. He has been imprisoned for a period of time. More than years. After the third and fourth sons of the Lou family learned the truth, they spread their wealth and did good deeds without leaving their name. But the person they saved was not worth it at all - Yang Zhizhong was simply a fool and a fake celebrity! Moreover, the Jin Jue they sent to do the work was also a man who was lining his own pockets - the two young masters used 750 taels of silver to let Jin Jue go to Yang for help. Mr. Yang paid off his debt, but he only took 20 taels and sent it to the clerk's office, and Mr. Yang was released. "The more than 700 taels of silver were all accepted by Jinjue." But Yang Zhizhong heard that it was Jin Jue who protected him. The Lou brothers do not know people, abuse their kindness, and encounter many bad people!

Character analysis of the two Lou brothers outside The Scholars

Who is the grandfather of the two Lou brothers? Taibao Gong, his father was a master who had been in charge of the government for more than 20 years. After his death, the court gave him a funeral and a posthumous title of Wen Ke. The author did not mention anything about the grand occasion of the two generations of Lou Taibao and Lou Zhongtang when they were in power. When talking about the third generation of the Lou family, only the eldest brother of the Lou brothers was an official in the court and was the current " "General Affairs Department Lobby" is just an ordinary government office. It seems that the Lou family is in decline, but even in the generation of the Lou brothers, their family still has considerable social influence and power in their hometown of Huzhou.

Childish and kind-hearted Mr. Lou San and Mr. Lou Four. If we use a number to describe what these two young masters have done, it would be 2. As the prime minister's master, he holds a good deck of cards, but plays badly, so here we will jokingly call them "Sophomore" and "Big Two" respectively. "Xiao Er". Liang Er was full of complaints against the court because of his failure in the imperial examination. He often said, "Since Yongle (Zhu Di) usurped the throne, the Ming Dynasty has become a world-famous one." Gongsheng Yang Zhizhong developed a feeling of admiration, which triggered a series of jokes.

Liang Er met Yang Zhizhong through an old man named Zou Jifu. Lao Zou was an old servant of Prime Minister Lou's Mansion. After the death of the prime minister father of the two Lou brothers, he was buried in his hometown. Lao Zou was responsible for guarding the tomb in his hometown. Although visiting the tomb is lonely, the income is not low. In addition to the generous money and rice provided by the prime minister every month, there are also coins from the county officials when they pass by the tomb.

After Lao Zou accumulated a certain amount of wealth, he handed over the painful but beautiful job of visiting graves to his younger brother, while he bought another house to live in. Later, his widowed daughter brought him, his wife and his unmarried third son to live together in the new town. At this time, Liang Er happened to pass through Xinshi Town on his way home from visiting relatives, and he happened to be recognized by Lao Zou's son, so Xiao Zou enthusiastically took Liang Er home to meet Lao Zou.

Of course Lao Zou wanted to entertain the two of them with good wine and food. During the dinner, he started talking about the tasteless rice wine, the declining world, and the unsatisfactory people, and then talked about Yang Zhi, who was also from Xinshi Town. Zhongchang said, "The world of this dynasty wants to be as good as Confucius's Zhou Dynasty, but it was ruined because of the appearance of Lord Yongle."

It is necessary to explain here why Lao Zou associates the quality of wine with Zhu Di, because when he lived in Zhu Yuanzhang's hands, two buckets of rice made of wine could make twenty kilograms of wine lady (sweet with lees) Rice wine), after Zhu Di took charge of the country, he could only make fifteen or six kilograms of wine from two buckets of rice.

One kilogram in the Ming Dynasty is the current 0.5946 kilogram, and two buckets of rice is the current 18.2542 kilogram. Therefore, twenty kilograms of wine is the current 11.892 kilograms. If fifteen or sixteen kilograms are calculated as 16 kilograms, it is the current 9.5136 kilograms. . In other words, for the same rice, the wine yield and alcohol content are reduced at the same time. The reason is that the rice used for brewing is provided by the customer himself, and the brewing fee is fixed. By reducing the amount of koji used for fermentation before fermentation, The amount, increasing the amount of cold water and reducing the fermentation time can greatly reduce the cost of raw materials and time, thus increasing profits.

Getting back to the subject, Liang Er felt that Yang Zhizhong was a close friend and wanted to meet him, but he was squatting in the prison at the moment. Then why did he go to jail? Because of dereliction of duty.

It turned out that he did not manage the salt shop properly for the shop owner. He only went out for leisurely walks and read books in the shop behind the curtains. He did not take care of any accounts. As a result, he managed a deficit of more than 700 taels of silver. The shopkeeper questioned him, but he still refused to accept the offer, so the furious shopkeeper sued him.

This shop owner was also blind. He thought he had found an upright and reliable person to take charge of everything in the shop, but unexpectedly he found a rotten scholar who was ignorant of the world. Old Yang's family is so poor that they can't even open the pot. He has such a good opportunity to improve his family life but doesn't know how to take advantage of it. He is really stupid in reading. No wonder people give him the nickname "Old Dumb".

The two decided to "rescue" Lao Yang, so they gave the slave Jinjue 750 taels of silver and asked him to redeem Lao Yang. How else to say that Liang Er is naive and kind-hearted? How can we spend so much money to redeem Lao Yang? With the trump card of the prime minister's office in hand, we still worry about the county magistrate not letting him go? In the end, Jinjue only gave the county government secretary 20 The matter was settled with two taels of silver, and the remaining 730 taels of silver fell into Jinjue's own pocket. As for the shopkeeper's shortfall, the county magistrate naturally has a way to make up for it. If the county magistrate wants to get money, where can he not find it?

It’s ridiculous that they thought that Lao Yang would come to thank them after being rescued. Who knows that Lao Yang didn’t know that they were the ones who rescued him? I only knew that a man named Jin had bailed him out, and I didn't know that Jin Jue was from the prime minister's house. The two couldn't wait for Lao Yang to come, and they felt more and more that Lao Yang was a respectable scholar, so they went to the countryside to look for him. It turned out that Lao Yang went out to watch people fishing. The one who opened the door was Lao Yang's crazy and deaf wife. I just heard "Mr. Lou" as "Mr. Liu" and "Grand Scholar" as "Dajue Temple". After Lao Yang returned home, what he heard from his wife was that two men named Liu who lived in Dajue Temple came to see him.

Old Yang searched through his mind and only remembered that the police officer who arrested him and sent him to jail was named Liu. Because he was afraid that the officer named Liu would come back and cause trouble again, he cursed his wife as "an old fool, an old fool". I blamed my wife and asked those two people to come back another day. The wife refused, so she talked back to Lao Yang, and Lao Yang actually hit her in the mouth and kicked her several times. In today's terms, Lao Yang is a scumbag who neither earns money to support his family nor is violent to his wife. Later, the two of them came to the door again, but as expected they still missed Lao Yang because Lao Yang had deliberately hidden away.

Later, after many twists and turns, the two finally met Lao Yang, and Lao Yang naturally became a guest of the Prime Minister's Mansion. In order to show that he knows people well, Lao Yang introduced Quan Wuyong to Liang Er. Quan don’t use the homophonic pronunciation of “totally useless”, he is a useless waste. Because he owed money to the salt store, Lao Yang went to collect the debt when he was the manager of the salt store. That’s how the two met.

Lao Quan also studied, and he failed to pass the scholar examination for more than thirty years. He could neither farm nor do business. When he was in poverty, he gradually began to deceive and kidnap. It's like "You and I are close friends, how can we distinguish each other? What's yours is mine, and what's mine is yours." It's true that gangsters are not to be feared, only that they are educated.

After Lao Quan became a guest of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he introduced Zhang Tiejui, a "chivalrous man", to the two of them. "Xiashi" Zhang used a pig's head as a human head and defrauded the two of them of five hundred taels of silver. When he was running away, he also tricked the two of them into gathering all the "celebrities" for a meal and watched him perform a miracle of turning the human head into water with powdered medicine when he came back. Of course, the result was that Liang Er and the others did not wait for him to come back from morning to night, but waited until the "human head" stunk. The two bravely asked the servant to open it and found that it was actually a pig's head. Zhang "Xiashi" is secretly scolding the two of them for being pig-headed!

Zhang Tiejui is a big liar, Quan Wuyong is a small liar, Yang Zhizhong is a thirteen-pointer, these weirdos have become knights and celebrities. , became Liang Er's guest. I can only say that Liang Er didn't know people well, was stupid and naive. However, if you often walk by the river, your shoes will get wet, and there will always be times when the secret is revealed. The two of them finally recognized the true colors of these people and "tied the housework behind closed doors", which was somewhat hopeless.