Volume 1: Dan Feng Welcomes Autumn

On the day of Cold Dew, Huiyan squatted on the bluestone steps to pick up maple leaves. Yesterday's newly dyed lotus seed colored skirt swept the ground with broken gold, and she specifically picked the leaves with insect eaten small holes - such leaf veins soaked in alum water can show a transparent and cicada like appearance.

But do you want to make Xue Tao's paper? "Came a voice like a clear spring washing stones from behind.

Huiyan turned her head and saw the bamboo green hem of the clothes, with a double crane pendant hanging in front of the visitor's lapel. Under the jade pendant was the yellowed "Selected Poems of Xiang Cheng". She hurriedly stood up and saluted, but the maple leaf in her arms fell to the ground with a rustling sound.

Zhang Zhuyu bent down and picked up a intact five lobed maple, gently rubbing her fingertips on the broken stem. "If we were to write 'Leave the withered lotus to listen to the sound of rain' here, it would complement the beauty of this incomplete piece

Volume 2: Adding Fragrance to the Red Candle

On the day of the Winter Solstice wedding, the ancestral hall of the Zhang family offered a pair of twin lotus flowers carved from green jade. Huiyan touched the flowing cloud pattern on the sleeve of her wedding dress, recalling the day when Zhang Zhuyu came to propose with a maple leaf note. He said, "Zhang has been a widower for ten years, and he shouldn't have delayed his beauty. However

The words after the words were transformed into autumn rain, while the thrushes and birds under the corridor sang, 'I wish I could have one heart.'.

After drinking the Hejian wine for the third time, Huiyan suddenly pointed to the red candle on the table and said, "Master, look, the tears of the candle have condensed into small rabbits." Zhang Zhuyu held up the silver scissors to correct the wick of the candle, and as the flames flickered, the shadows on the wall looked like two cranes crossing their necks.

He took her hand and pressed it onto the "Jade Terrace New Ode": "It's time to call him sir." Huiyan smelled the fragrance of water mixed with the clear air of maple leaves in his sleeve, and the snow outside the window fell even gentler.

Volume 3: Yan Gui's Painting of Liang

The following spring equinox, Huiyan taught the little maids under the corridor how to make maple leaf bookmarks. Suddenly, a dispute came from the study: "What kind of etiquette is it to hire an embroiderer as a string extender

Before the rain fell, Longjing stopped and Zhang Zhuyu responded in a warm voice, "Brother Yan, do you know the postscript to the Jinshi Lu? Zhao Mingcheng only found out that there is a true confidant in the world when he meets Li Qingzhao

The hot air rising from the spout of the purple clay teapot blurred my vision. Huiyan lowered her head and looked at the floating tea buds in the celadon cup, recalling the "Maple Forest Ode" she had completed for her last night. When she finished writing the last word, he took a sip of the warmth from the ink stains on her nose.

Volume 4: Pine Age and Crane Longevity

On the day of her 62nd birthday banquet, Zhang Zhuyu still insisted on personally painting Huiyan's eyebrows. I first met you under the maple tree, and my wife had a golden leaf on her forehead, "he said with a smile, dipping his wolf's hair into the snail's bud

Two swallows flew past the window, carrying the feathers of unknown generations of chicks. Huiyan looked at the old man with white hair like snow in the mirror and suddenly turned her eyebrows and said, "Sir, it's time to finish the postscript on the painting 'Twin Cranes' today

The Chengxintang paper on the desk has turned slightly yellow, and in the unfinished painting from thirty years ago, the wings of the two white cranes remain blank. Zhang Zhuyu held Yun Xiu's hand and added the last stroke, and He Yu was actually painted with the gold powder on the wedding letter from that year.

Volume 5: Deer Cry and Sudden Change

In the autumn of the 19th year of the Guangxu reign, the osmanthus fragrance of Jiangning Gongyuan soaked the blue silk basket of Crane's Song. When Huiyan put the purple brush made by her husband into the box, she found that there was a hidden copy of the "Sea Kingdom Atlas" on the bottom. This child ultimately replaced his father's compilation of the "Annotations to the Four Books" with banned books.

On the day of the announcement, the Hezui incense burner in the Zhang family ancestral hall suddenly broke. The good news officer didn't arrive, but the miscellaneous staff from the academy brought Zhang's exam paper, which was surrounded by cinnabar. Zhang Zhuyu was holding a piece of paper with the four characters' deviation from the norm 'when she suddenly coughed violently, with blood like red maple floating in her spittoon.

My child just wrote the truth, "Heming knelt on the bluestone board, his spine as straight as a bamboo forest." When I asked about the drawbacks of water transportation, I wrote down the income I earned from helping my father organize the river workers' account books last year

Huiyan caressed the familiar handwriting on the exam paper in a deeper voice. At the third moment of Yin Shi, she unfolded her husband's exclusive Chengxin Tang paper and rewrote the strategy with the intention of He Ming. When the imitation reached the last touch of the character "zhi", the sound of dead branches breaking could be heard outside the window - the husband stood under the plum tree with frost on his face, his eyes reflecting the girl who made maple leaf paper thirty years ago.

Volume 6: Ode to the Thunderstorm

In the 23rd year of the Guangxu reign, during the Grain Rain, the weeping crabapples on the banks of the Qinhuai River bloomed brilliantly. Zhang Xueqing put her mother's bamboo fracture fan into a sandalwood box and replaced it with the moon white straight robe that her brother wore to the exam. In the bronze mirror, the young man's Adam's apple was glued square with ointment, except for two small needle holes on the earlobes, which were painted by Huiyan as ink plum blossoms using snail shaped jade.

The cultural gathering is located in the Zhanyuan Water Pavilion, with a rosewood desk adorned with the crown of the previous dynasty's top scholar. When Xueqing read in his "Cao Yan Ce Lun" that "officials and merchants collude like salt in boiling water," the Jilan tea cup in the hands of the governor suddenly exploded with cracks. Amidst the crowd's uproar, she caught a glimpse of her mother nodding slightly behind the screen - that was the secret code Huiyan taught her to hide thread ends when she was a child learning embroidery.

The incident occurred while wandering on the hairpin flower street. A playboy who had once proposed to the Zhang family but was rejected suddenly pointed at her double crane pendant and shouted, "This is clearly the accessory of Miss Zhang and the wedding ceremony!" The crowd was dripping like oil pots, and Xueqing felt that the chest tie was being soaked in cold sweat.

Everyone, take a look! "Huiyan's voice came from the painting boat. She stood at the bow of the boat holding the marriage certificate from the past, and the golden notes rustled in the late spring wind: "Yun Xiu, the 36th generation head of the Zhang family in Jinling, now recommends student Zhang Xueqing to take the imperial examination at the Jiangnan Gongyuan under the name of the mountain chief of the White Egret Academy

The lights on the river suddenly dimmed, and only the back of the marriage certificate appeared with cinnabar and red marks - it turned out to be the "Women's Examination Permit" specially approved by the Governor General of Liangjiang ten years ago. Xueqing suddenly realized that her mother went to Purple Mountain every month to offer incense, but in fact, she was copying the scientific research strategies of previous years at the top of Bao'en Temple.

Volume Seven: Startling Waves

In the year of Wuxu, when the Awakening of Insects occurred, all the copper bells on the ancient cypress trees in the academy were replaced with Western self ringing bells. Huiyan placed her own annotated version of the Taixi Water Law next to her husband Zhenruo's "Zhu Zi Yu Lei". During the morning reading, Zhu Yu led the students to disassemble the sundial and modify the sextant. The sound of the bronze component falling to the ground startled Gu Qingwu, causing him to drop his blue and white pen wash.

You're going to ruin the hard work of three generations! "The usually gentle teacher blushed at his wife for the first time. He trembled as he picked up the book "Enlightenment in Astronomy and Mathematics", only to find an old maple leaf paper between the pages - the same one that Yun Xiu had secretly added with vermilion marks when he imitated his handwriting to revise the book. In addition to the phrase 'the intention is still acceptable', there is also a line of small regular script in the faded ink: 'The way to break through the topic is to refer to' Dream Creek Essays'. '.

On the day when the reform edict arrived, the rainstorm destroyed the Sutra Collection Building of the Academy, and Huiyan stood in front of the fallen plaque of "Minglun Hall", and put the "Current Affairs News" sent by her daughter from Shanghai into her husband's hands. Next to Kang Youwei's "Please Abolish the Eight legged Fold" on the front page, there is a prominent print of Xue Qing's "On the Promotion of Women's Education", while the editor's note quotes from Zhang Zhuyu's old work "New Meaning of the Four Books".

That night, the couple lit over a hundred red candles in the pile of leftover books. Zhang Zhuyu held a knife and carved the rules of the academy. Amidst the flying sawdust, she suddenly laughed and said, "Back then, you said that candlelight tears were like rabbits, but now this room is in chaos, as if I had knocked over the Milky Way." Huiyan overlaid the steam engine blueprint designed by Heming on "River Defense Overview," and in the firelight, the two patterns overlapped to form a complete Jiangnan water system.

When the rooster crows on the fifth day, people see Zhang Shanchang carrying his sleeping wife out of the ruins. She was still holding half of the "Zhou Bi Suan Jing" in her hand, with rain stains soaking through the cover, faintly resembling a crane flapping its wings.

Volume 8: The Return of Yan from Japan

During the season of white dew sticking to clothes, a girl in a dress came down from the dripping eaves of the Zhang family's old house. The cherry blossom stickers on the rattan box in her hand have not faded yet, but she spoke in authentic Jinling Mandarin: "Grandmother, this is the 'Women's Education Theory' that my grandson brought back from Waseda

Huiyan rubbed the golden lettering on the spine of the book and suddenly heard the sound of tea cups shattering from the study. Zhang Zhuyu held the torn "Shi Wu Bao" and his aged fingers were pressing on the line annotated by Liang Qichao, which read "The imperial examination system for the husband is filled with wisdom, bad heart skills, and wandering hands". Seventeen year old Zhang Nianzhen was already kneeling in front of her grandfather, with a pearl hairpin reflecting the gilded book cover of the "Sea Kingdom Atlas" in her hair.

My grandson saw Mr. Kang in Yokohama, "the girl untied her hair and revealed her short hair behind her ears." He said that the New Four Books annotated by my grandfather are a model of high school education

Volume IX wutong Night Rain

At the Chongyang family banquet, there was a half pond of withered lotus in the crab eye courtyard. Zhang Nianzhen used a projector to create the "Complete Map of Kunyu" on a pink wall, and the steam engine model emitted smoke with the accompaniment of a Western music box. The eldest son of Heming suddenly overturned the sour twig wooden table and said, "Our ancestral legacy will be defeated by your strange and lascivious skills

Huiyan picked up a green cup after the rain, and the bottom of the cup was covered with maple leaves from thirty years ago. She caught a glimpse of her husband dipping silver chopsticks into wine and sketching an improved dragon bone water wheel pattern on the tablecloth. When Nianzhen's demonstration of a chemistry experiment at a girls' school caused a small-scale explosion, Zhang Zhuyu burst out laughing and said, "Back then, your grandmother made maple leaf paper and also burned through my 'Chunhua Ge Tie'

Volume 10: The Frost of Stars flies by

In the first year of Xuantong, the first snow fell on the coffin of Zhang Zhuwu. Huiyan placed half of the unfinished maple leaf note into her husband's folded hand, and on the paper was the postscript to the "Double Crane Picture" that he had completed before his death, trembling with fear: "Heaven and earth are like furnaces, nature is like work, yin and yang are like charcoal, and all things are like copper

Three years later, the plaque of Jinling's first girls' high school was erected on the site of the White Egret Academy. Zhang Nianzhen helped Yunxiu through the campus full of French wutong, and opened the dusty wooden box under the bell tower dome. Four hundred and twenty-six maple leaf notes fluttered like butterflies, each one inscribed with Gu Qingwu's annotations on new and old knowledge.

Grandfather had anticipated it long ago, "Nianzhen pointed to a small piece of paper with a red pen and added a note next to" The spread of Western learning to the East ":" Let maple leaves be used as a boat to carry the message across the ocean

Final Chapter: Maple Fire Passing on Salary

In the autumn of the 16th year of the Republic of China, the sound of the Northern Expeditionary Army's hooves woke up the maple trees in Jinling City. Seventy eight year old Huiyan was lying on the sickbed while Colonel was reading the "Gezhi Book Series" when she suddenly saw a flash of fire outside the window. She struggled to push open the Xuan window and saw a sky full of red clouds rising from the direction of the girls' high school.

Nian Zhen rushed into the house covered in smoke and dust, tightly holding a burnt maple box in his arms: 'Grandmother, the library... but they took the carved version of the New Four Books Annotations...' The old man smiled and pointed towards the sky. The blue sky and white sun emblem on the flag of the Northern Expedition overlapped with the double crane jade pendant, and the maple leaf veins could be faintly seen between the crane feathers.

When the morning light is dim, the last maple leaf falls between Huiyan's frosty white temples. In the newly opened Commercial Press in the north of the city, apprentices are reprinting "Zhang Shi Ge Zhi Enlightenment". The title page features two cranes holding a burning maple leaf, and the copyright page is printed with "Zhang Zhu Yu Hui Yan".

枫烬鹤鸣（小说）

卷一·丹枫迎秋

          寒露那日，惠颜蹲在青石阶上捡拾枫叶。昨日新染的藕荷色裙裾扫过满地碎金，她专挑那些带着虫噬小孔的叶子——这样的叶脉浸过明矾水，能显出蝉翼般的通透。

          “可是要制薛涛笺？”身后传来清泉漱石般的声音。

          惠颜转头望见竹青色衣角，来人襟前悬着枚双鹤佩，玉佩下压着泛黄的《项诚诗选》。她慌忙起身行礼，怀中的枫叶却扑簌簌落了一地。

        章珠玉俯身拾起片完整的五裂枫，指尖在叶柄断裂处轻轻摩挲：“此处若题‘留得枯荷听雨声’，倒衬这残缺之美。”

卷二·红烛添香

          冬至成婚那日，章家祠堂供着对青玉雕的并蒂莲。惠颜摸着嫁衣袖口的流云纹，想起那日章珠玉捧着枫叶笺来提亲的模样。他说：“章某鳏居十年，本不该耽误佳人芳华，然……”

          然字后的话化在秋雨里，倒是廊下的画眉鸟啭了“愿得一心人”。

        合卺酒饮到第三巡，惠颜忽然指着案上红烛：“老爷快看，烛泪凝成了小兔子。”章珠玉执起银剪修正烛芯，火光跃动间，墙上影子竟似双鹤交颈。

        他执起她的手按在《玉台新咏》上：“该改口叫先生了。”惠颜嗅到他袖中沉水香混着枫叶清气，窗外的雪落得更温柔了。

卷三·燕归画梁

          次年春分，惠颜在回廊下教小丫鬟们制枫叶书签。忽听得书房传来争执："纳个绣娘为续弦，成何体统！"

        她端着雨前龙井停在章珠玉温声应答："严兄可知《金石录后序》？赵明诚得遇李清照，方知人间有真知己。"

          紫砂壶嘴腾起的热气模糊了视线。惠颜低头看着青瓷盏中浮沉的茶芽，想起昨夜为他补全的《枫林赋》，最后一个字收笔时，他替她抿去鼻尖墨渍的温热。

卷四·松龄鹤寿

        六十二岁寿宴那日，章珠玉仍坚持亲自为惠颜描眉。狼毫笔尖蘸着螺子黛，他笑说："当年在枫树下初见，娘子眉间沾着片金叶。"

        窗外掠过双燕，衔着不知第几代雏鸟的绒羽。惠颜望着镜中白发如雪的老者，忽然将眉笔一转："先生今日该补完《双鹤图》的题跋了。"

        书案上铺着的澄心堂纸已微微泛黄，三十年前未完成的画作里，两只白鹤的羽翼始终空白。章珠玉握着云岫的手添上最后一笔，鹤羽竟是用当年婚书上的金粉所绘。

卷五·鹿鸣惊变

        光绪十九年秋，江宁贡院的桂花香浸透了鹤鸣的蓝绸考篮。惠颜将丈夫亲制的紫毫笔放入匣中时，发现底层藏着本《海国图志》。这孩子终究还是把他父亲编纂的《四书集注》换成了禁书。

        放榜那日，章家祠堂的鹤嘴香炉突然断裂。报喜衙役没等来，倒是书院杂役送来张被朱砂圈烂的考卷。章珠玉握着"离经叛道"四字批语的纸张，忽然剧烈咳嗽起来，痰盂里浮着血丝般的红枫。

        "孩儿只是写了实话。"鹤鸣跪在青石板上，背脊挺得比竹林还直，"策问题问漕运之弊，我便将去年帮父亲整理河工账册所得写上..."

        惠颜在更漏声里抚摸考卷上熟悉的字迹。寅时三刻，她铺开丈夫专属的澄心堂纸，就着鹤鸣的立意重写策论。当模仿到"之"字最后一捺时，窗外传来枯枝断裂声——丈夫披着霜露立在梅树下，眼中映着三十年前制枫叶笺的少女。

卷六·咏絮惊雷

        光绪二十三年谷雨，秦淮河畔的垂丝海棠开得正艳。章雪卿将母亲那柄竹骨折扇收进檀木匣，换上了兄长赴考时穿的月白直裰。铜镜里少年郎的喉结用膏药贴得方正，唯有耳垂上两点细小的针眼，被惠颜用螺子黛绘作墨梅。

        文会设在瞻园水榭，紫檀案头供着前朝状元冠。当雪卿的《漕盐策论》念到"官商沆瀣如盐入沸水"时，布政使手中的霁蓝茶盏突然炸开裂纹。满座哗然中，她瞥见屏风后母亲微微颔首——那是幼年学绣时，惠颜教她藏线头的暗号。

        变故发生在簪花游街时。某个曾向章家提亲被拒的纨绔，突然指着她腰间双鹤佩高喊："这分明是章家小姐及笄礼的佩饰！"人群霎时如油锅滴水，雪卿感觉束胸布带正被冷汗浸透。

        "诸君且看！"恵颜的声音自画舫传来。她手持当年婚书立于船头，洒金笺在暮春的风里簌簌作响："金陵章氏第三十六代家主母云岫，今以白鹭书院山长之名，保荐学子章雪卿入江南贡院备试。"

          满河灯火骤暗，唯见婚书背面浮出朱砂批红——竟是十年前两江总督特批的"女子参试特许状"。雪卿这才惊觉，母亲每月去紫金山进香，实则为在报恩寺塔顶摹写历年科考策论。

卷七·格致惊澜

        戊戌年惊蛰，书院古柏上的铜铃铛全换成了西洋自鸣钟。惠颜在丈夫珍若性命的《朱子语类》旁，摆上了自己注解的《泰西水法》。晨读时分，珠玉领着学生拆解日晷仪改装六分仪，青铜构件坠地声惊得顾清梧摔了青花笔洗。

        "你这是要毁了三代人的心血！"向来温润的夫子首次对妻子红了眼眶。他颤抖着捡起《天文算学启蒙》，却发现书页间夹着张陈年枫叶笺——正是当年云岫模仿他笔迹为子改卷时，被他悄悄添上朱批的那张。褪色墨迹间除了"立意尚可"，竟多了行小楷："然破题之法，当参酌《梦溪笔谈》"。

        变法诏书抵达那日，暴雨冲垮了书院藏经楼的鸱吻惠颜立在倾颓的"明伦堂"匾额前，将女儿从上海寄来的《时务报》塞进丈夫手中。头版康有为的《请废八股折》旁，赫然印着雪卿的《兴女学论》，而编者按竟引自章珠玉旧作《四书新义》。

      当夜，夫妇俩在残籍堆中点起百余支红烛。章珠玉执刀刻改书院训规，木屑纷飞中忽然笑道："当年你说烛泪像兔子，如今这满室狼藉，倒似我打翻了银河。"惠颜将鹤鸣设计的蒸汽机图纸覆在《河防一览》上，火光中两种图纹竟重叠成完整的江南水系。

        五更鸡鸣时，人们看见章山长背着昏睡的夫人走出废墟。她手中还攥着半部《周髀算经》，封皮上浸透的雨渍，依稀是只振翅的鹤。

卷八·东瀛燕归

      白露沾衣时节，章家老宅的滴水檐下来了个穿洋装的少女。她手提藤箱上的樱花贴纸还未褪色，开口却是地道的金陵官话："祖母，这是孙儿从早稻田带回的《女子教育论》。"

        恵颜摩挲着书脊烫金字体，忽听得书房传来茶盏碎裂声。章珠玉握着撕破的《时务报》，苍老手指正按在梁启超批注的"夫科举，锢智慧、坏心术、滋游手"一行。十七岁的章念真却已跪在祖父面前，发间珍珠钗映着《海国图志》的烫金书封。

        "孙儿在横滨见到康先生了。"少女解开发髻，露出耳后短发，"他说祖父注解的新四书，正是中学为体的典范。"

卷九·梧桐夜雨

        重阳家宴上，蟹眼天井积着半池枯荷。章念真用投影仪在粉墙上打出《坤舆全图》，蒸汽机模型在西洋八音盒伴奏下突突冒烟。鹤鸣长子忽然掀翻酸枝木案几："祖宗基业都要败在你们这些奇技淫巧上！"

        惠颜端起雨过天青盏，盏底沉着片三十年前的枫叶。她瞥见丈夫正用银筷蘸酒，在桌布上勾勒改良后的龙骨水车图样。当念真演示女校化学实验引发小规模爆炸时，章珠玉然大笑："当年你祖母制枫叶笺，也烧穿过我的《淳化阁帖》。"

卷十·星霜荏苒

        宣统元年的初雪落章珠梧棺椁上。恵颜将半片未写完的枫叶笺放入丈夫交叠的手中，纸上是他临终前颤抖着补全的《双鹤图》题跋："天地为炉兮造化为工，阴阳为炭兮万物为铜。"

        三年后，白鹭书院旧址升起金陵第一所女子中学的牌匾。章念真扶着云岫穿过种满法国梧桐的校园，在钟楼穹顶下打开尘封的木匣。四百二十六张枫叶笺如蝶纷飞，每张都写着顾清梧批注的新旧学问。

          "祖父早料到了。"念真指着某张笺上朱笔小字，在"西学东渐"旁竟有批注："当以枫叶为舟，载道过重洋。"

终章·枫火传薪

        民国十六年秋，北伐军的马蹄声惊醒了金陵城的枫树。七十八岁的惠颜在病榻上校对《格致丛书》，忽见窗外掠过流火。她挣扎着推开轩窗，望见女子中学的方向腾起漫天红霞。

        念真满身烟尘冲进屋内，怀中紧抱着烧焦的枫木匣："祖母，藏书楼...但他们抢下了《新四书注》雕版..."老人却含笑指向天际，北伐军旗上的青天白日徽竟与双鹤玉佩重叠，鹤羽间隐约可见枫叶脉络。

        晨光熹微时，最后一片枫叶落在惠颜霜白的鬓间。城北新开张的商务印书馆里，学徒们正在翻印《章氏格致启蒙》，扉页双鹤衔着一枚燃烧的枫叶，版权页并排印着：章珠玉 恵颜 合著。