Du Zhongxiao returned to the capital and first visited Xia Su and gave him some wool woolen. Because Du Zhongxiao returned to Beijing to take the exam for the job, it was recommended by Zheng Jian and Ming Hao. Xia Su felt a little awkward. He was not as intimate as before with Du Zhongxiao, and he didn't even leave him to have a meal.

Du Zhong didn't care about this, and from the bottom of his heart, he didn't want to have too much connection with Xia Shu. Xia Shu's era has passed, and most of the officials in power in the court are not in dealing with him. Du Zhongxiao clearly has a grudge. He once helped him to remember his kindness, but he would not deliberately curry favor with him.

After leaving Xia Shu's residence, it was still early, Du Zhongxiao took Shisanlang to the mansion of the governor of the government official Song Dynasty.

Song Xiang was the top scholar in the second year of Tiansheng, while Zheng Jian was the third in that year. The two of them had a strong personal relationship in the same year. In the past two years, Du Zhongxiao's outstanding performance in the Volcanic Army, which brought many benefits to the Hedong Road Administration. Zheng Jian knew it. When he said goodbye in Bingzhou, he specifically told Du Zhongxiao that he could visit Song Xiang in the capital, and he would write a letter to recommend him to Song Xiang. Because Zheng Jian understood that Du Zhongxiao was good at political affairs and was not good at writing, but the exam was just articles. Without the help of a real person, Du Zhongxiao's return to Beijing this time was hard to say.

During the Kangding period, Zheng Jian was the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and Song Xiang was the chief political affairs officer. In the same year, Ye Qingchen was the envoy of the Three Divisions. In addition, Song Xiang's younger brother Song Qi of the same year was promoted to Tianzhang Pavilion to be under the control of the system, the four people were closely related. The Jinshi in the second year of Tiansheng was very honored in the court and was called the Four Friends of Tiansheng. Because he was suspected of being a clique, the four people were demoted from the capital at the same time. Ten years later, he barely returned to his position.

After the ups and downs during the Kangding period, although there were many twists and turns in the career, the friendship between the four people became deeper and deeper. At this time, Song Xiang was the political party again, Zheng Jian led Hedong, Ye Qingchen was the Hanlin scholar, and Song Qi was the shepherd's envoy. At the same time, he compiled the "Book of Tang" with Ouyang Xiu, each of them was highly powerful. If he could be appreciated by Song Xiang, Du Zhongxiao's convening exam would be much smoother.

Song Xiang was proficient in character learning, ancient and modern characters, and even common characters commonly used at this time. When he was the first to participate in politics in the Kangding period, the clerk of the Zhongshu used common characters to write his surname, but he refused to sign and write, saying that it was not his own surname. In fact, in Du Zhongxiao's eyes, the common characters Song were just to dispel the strokes and strokes below into two dots. Later generations became accustomed to them and could not be considered other characters at all.

It is precisely because Song Xiang had this hobby that when Du Zhongxiao passed by Xiangzhou, he specially collected some animal bones and tortoise shells engraved with words. At this time, there were not many oracle bones unearthed in Anyang County, and no one noticed the existence of oracle bone inscriptions, which was considered to be his preference.

Song Qi was extravagant and held banquets and dances at home every day. Song Xiang was the opposite of his younger brother. He was simple by nature and did not like to speak and speak. His favorite thing in his life was to study and study. When he was in power, one year on the night of the Yuan Dynasty, Song Xiang read the "Book of Changes" at his home. The sound of silk and bamboo in his younger brother's house was endless, which made him unable to calm down for a long time. The next day he wrote to his younger brother: "My husband sent a message to the bachelor. He heard that the night banquet was burning lanterns last night, and he was extremely luxurious. I don't know if he remembered the meal in the state school in Shangyuan when he was having dinner?" Song Qi laughed and replied casually: "But I have to send a message to my husband, I don't know why he was eating a meal back then?" The two of them had the same father, mother and brother, and their temperaments were exactly the same.

After handing over the name and stabbed in, Du Zhongxiao waited for a cup of tea outside the door. An old servant came out and brought Du Zhongxiao into it.

The Song Dynasty's mansion was clumsy, without dazzling decorations, and the flowers and trees in the courtyard were already bare, without the appearance of the current husband, and it looked like an ordinary well-off family. Of course, as a participant in politics, the government was still large enough, and this place where every inch of land was valuable is rare.

When he arrived at the side flower hall, Song Xiang sat there in casual clothes, with a kind face and no dignity as a serious official in the court.

Du Zhongxiao came forward to see the etiquette, and Song Xiang ordered his old servant to come to tea.

After drinking tea, Song Xiang said, "The doctor returned to Beijing and was exhausted, why not rest well? I live in the political affairs hall. The court has an order, and the prime minister is not good for making friends with guests. If it is spread, it will be seen by a narrow-minded villain, and it will be detrimental to oppose the doctor."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Go back to my husband, today is a day of rest, and it does not violate the ban on the court. In life, who has no relatives and friends? The court will not be unkind. This time, the subordinates returned to Beijing, and before leaving, the minister gave a special order to come to visit my husband and bring him some gifts."

Song Xiang said lightly: "Zheng Zheng is very interested. The capital is the most prosperous in the world, what can I do? Why bring gifts from Hedong Road?"

"Although Hedong Road is remote, there are always some rare things that cannot be seen in the capital." Du Zhongxiao said, while handing Zheng Jian's gift list.

Song Xiang took the gift list, but didn't even look at it, so he put it aside.

Seeing that Song Xiang was about to see the guests off, Du Zhongxiao hurriedly bowed: "My husband, the lower official also brought a gift."

Song Xiang smiled and said, "It is not easy for you to be an official outside. If you earn some salary to support your family, how can you spend money? You don't have to say what you brought. Even if you take it back, everything in the capital will become more expensive, and you will have more money in the future. I am the magistrate and the court has endlessly given it, so how can I accept your gifts?"

Seeing that Song Xiang refused to accept it, Du Zhongxiao had no choice but to take a few pieces of paper from his sleeve and hand it to Song Xiang, and said, "Mr., when the junior official passed by Xiangzhou, he saw some strange words, which looked like ancient texts. He was curious for a moment, and tried to explain it. He tried his best to understand it, but only explained a few words. He heard that his husband was proficient in graphic science and asked for advice."

This is exactly the area that Song Xiang is good at. After listening to Du Zhongxiao's words, he hurriedly took the paper he handed over. Expanded and looked, and saw dozens of words that looked like words and drawings on it. There were only about five or six words written next to the fonts used now, all of which are easy to interpret, such as carriages and horses. It seems that it is the result of what Du Zhongxiao said to rack his brains. Du Zhongxiao's level can only interpret these words in a short time, and some of them are learned from textbooks.

This is a text that Song Xiang had never seen before. It was vaguely felt that there was a connection to find. When you looked carefully, you felt very strange. After a while, Song Xiang knew a lot of the words in it and asked Du Zhongxiao: "From the shape of the characters, these words were far earlier than seal script, and even earlier than bronze inscriptions on ancient bronze ware. It is extremely rare. Where did you get it?"

When Du Zhongxiao saw that Song Xiang was extremely interested, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Returning to Xianggong was a coincidence of Xiangzhou. The local people sometimes dug out animal bones and tortoise shells from the ground, and some of them were engraved with these words. They didn't know what they used to, so they threw them away. When the subordinates saw it by chance, they thought it was an unprecedented ancient text, so they collected some. The words on them were from a piece of tortoise shell."

Song Xiang suddenly raised his head: "You mean, this kind of text is on the tortoise shell, and there are many more?"

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "Reply to my husband, this is exactly what it means. The lower officials have shallow knowledge and cannot understand most of the words. They are ashamed of the treasure."

Song Xiang said: "These ancient characters are different from the current characters, and they are naturally difficult to recognize the things of the ancients. However, the characters from ancient times to the present always have a context to follow. As long as you are familiar with seal script, it is best to recognize some bronze inscriptions, and many of the characters in them can actually be recognized."

Du Zhongxiao hurriedly bowed: "Your knowledge is not something that yourselves can do. Today I brought dozens of tortoise shells and animal bones with words received from Xiangzhou, which were regarded as a small gift, and came to visit you. If you can interpret the words in the future and send them a copy of yourselves, you will be very grateful."

Song Xiang did not expect that Du Zhongxiao was talking about these things, and was stunned for a moment. If the gold, silver and treasures he gave were given, according to Song Xiang's temperament, he would never accept them. Even if he received Zheng Jian's entrustment and helped a group of Du Zhongxiao, he would not accept his gifts, so as not to ruin his reputation. But Du Zhongxiao gave such precious antiques, which was another matter, which hit Song Xiang's itchy heart, so he hurriedly asked Du Zhongxiao to take them to watch.
Chapter completed!