Zhang Hui waited for another round of laughter, and then said goodbye, and was led to the garden by the grandmother beside Mrs. Tai. Out of the weeping flower gate, not long line, then through the instrument gate into an independent small courtyard, around the verandah, grass and trees shaded by the flower wall partition, although it is the first month, but there are still pineapples green into the eyes, or the dead vines are dotted with coral-like red fruits, very lovely. Zhang Hui smiled: "Last year was not such a scenery, isn't it the handiwork of the eldest uncle?"

The grandmother hurriedly replied: "It was the master who ordered the rebuilding of the house in September last year. Only this one place came according to the drawings of the fourth young master. ”

Zhang Hui nodded. And stepping, look up to see the two big words on the door bucket of the main room "no work". When I entered the room, I saw that there were many large and small ship models, either wood or bamboo or gold or wire, or the whole ship was cut in half, or there was only one keel, or there was no mast and sail rope, but none of them were complete; Zhang Hui suddenly laughed: "Where did the evil wind come from in the first month of the year, and let Qingtang suffer this robbery?" while the grandmother also said loudly: "The boys will only be lazy and die!

Before he could finish a sentence, he heard a voice in the room: "No one is allowed to move!" Then footsteps sounded, and a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy turned out, with thin eyes and square jaws, clear eyebrows and handsome eyes, but his robe was extremely untidy, the hem was lifted and tied at the waist, the sleeves were stacked on the shoulders, revealing two bare arms, and in his left hand he carried a delicate saw knife, and he looked at the two of them with his eyes glared.

When the grandmother saw it, she immediately shouted: "My lord, why do you expose your arms in the winter! The wind is not stubborn when the wind is cold!" But when the young man glanced at him coldly, he was nailed, and his feet were ground and grinded, and he couldn't take a step.

Zhang Hui said to the grandmother: "There is Mama Lao to send it." Then please go back to my aunt and grandmother, and I will laugh with my cousin, and come over to serve later. When Mama heard this, she was like being pardoned, and she hurriedly saluted. Zhang Hui smiled at his cousin Huang Xiang and said, "What's the matter?

The yellow elephant glanced him up and down, and asked, "How long have you been here?"

Before the words fell, Zhang Hui smiled and said, "Forty-one." ”

The yellow elephant asked again: "There are chickens and rabbits in the same cage, the head is twenty-six, and the foot is sixty-four." Then how many chickens and rabbits are there?"

Zhang Hui thought for a moment and said, "Twenty chickens and six rabbits." ”

Huang Xiang asked again: "Today, there is a tank with a capacity of 100 catties of water, and the water surface is just the same as the edge of the tank." A stone ball fell in, and it was taken out again, and the remaining water was seventy-five catties and five taels and three dollars. Then what is the spherical diameter?"

Zhang Hui lowered his head and calculated, and said for a moment: "Eight inches and six minutes, right?"

Huang Xiang laughed at this time: "It's not bad to make a mistake, but the answer is more than three beats slower than usual." But since you came from your grandmother's compartment, you can barely fold. As he spoke, he took Zhang Hui and walked back to the house, regardless of the scattered objects on the ground, until he came to a large case. At the head of the case, two ruler-long bronze ship mold keels are placed, and at the other end there are seven or eight sets of sails of different styles. Zhang Hui recognized four or five kinds of cloth at a glance, each with a different combination of sail shapes. On the large sheet of paper spread out on the desk, the ink pen was painted like a ghost drawing, and thirty or fifty numbers were circled with cinnabar. Huang Xiang said: "I have been calculating for more than a month, and there are still a few places that have not been calculated. Except for his father, no one in the family can count this. Cousin, take a look at it for me. As he spoke, he handed over a bound blue booklet.

The chapter was picked up, and after only turning two pages, he was speechless, and said: "You are so bold, you dare to copy the work book of the Longjiang Shipyard privately! If the eldest uncle knows, no one will be able to save you." ”

The yellow elephant was completely fearless, and pouted: "Who is patient to copy it, but while he has taken advantage of his leisure, he has swept his eyes twice, picked up one or two interesting ones and painted them in the same way, what is it worth! ”

Zhang Hui smiled: "Cousin is so ambitious. Seeing that Huang Xiang was unhappy when he heard this, he glared at him, and hurriedly said, "Cousin Fool should also serve with all his heart." As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves, stretched out his paper, and helped his brush, and asked: "If you have not yet obtained the numbers, point them out and we will calculate them together." ”

Only then did the yellow elephant show joy and stepped forward to explain one by one. The two brothers said that I wrote, analyzed and discussed, and suddenly forgot the machine, and did not know that time had flown by. It wasn't until Mrs. Zhang ordered her grandmother to urge her in that room, and she knew that it was daytime and dinner. After a hurried meal at Mrs. Tai's place, Huang Xiang hurriedly retired with Zhang Hui, and hurried back to his unworking workshop. Mrs. Tai looked at the backs of his two brothers and smiled: "I have never seen such a child, and I don't know what is so busy, I don't even teach to eat well." The eldest daughter-in-law told the kitchen to make a few more snacks and send them over later. You go too, and watch them eat as much as they have before they come back. ”

Mrs. Wang smiled and said, "Master Fang Cai sent someone back to say that most of the affairs in the palace have been decided in the first half of the day, and you must return early in the afternoon, please rest assured." There was another case, the old man asked the old lady to tell the old lady, saying that Yangzhou Lin Yan Zheng should be discussed by the government department to build embankments, repair ponds and other things, and went to Nanjing the day before yesterday. After today's work, I came home with my lord to visit my aunt and kowtow to the old lady. ”

Mrs. Zhang listened to her daughter-in-law's relays of her eldest son's words, and she was smiling, but when she heard the words "Yangzhou Lin Yanzheng", she smiled, and after a while, she said lightly: "Since his cousin of the Lin family is here, you can just rectify the banquet according to the routine." I'm tired, and I have to be crooked. ”

Mrs. Wang was busy, and she and the two concubines, Cui and Chai, helped their mother-in-law to the back room, and served and rested, and then went to work elsewhere. Here, the Cui family and the Chai family withdrew from the lady's room and slowly walked to their own courtyard. Chai Shi is young, as soon as Fang left the main hall, he asked Cui's family: "This Yangzhou Yan Zhenglin is actually the old lady's nephew and cousin? ”

Cui Shi glanced at her and said gently: "I have only heard of it once, and I have never seen this Uncle Lin. The brothers, except for the uncle in Changzhou, the second master has never mentioned it much. ”

Chai smiled: "However, since they are relatives, they have a relationship." I was young, but I was afraid of losing my manners, so I begged my sister-in-law to teach me. Saying that, he held his hand affectionately and said, "I just got two catties of good persimmons yesterday, and my sister-in-law loves sweetness, why don't I eat them in my room?"

Cui Shi said apologetically: "The second sister has a low-grade fever in the morning, although she has asked the doctor to use medicine, she is a little worried in the end." The younger brother and sister are kind, but they can only understand it. ”

Hearing this, Chai Shi hurriedly said: "It's mine, no, I forgot Sister Rong for a while." Sister-in-law, please just go. I'm going to change my clothes, and I'm going to see her. While talking, a small servant had already arrived with the green car, and the two of them boarded the car and went home.

This Chai sat in the car, thinking about the behavior of his mother-in-law and the two sisters-in-law for a moment, and he couldn't help but think a lot in his heart for a while. It happened that her husband Huang Nian also came back from outside, and when he saw her description, he hurriedly asked, "Why is this face so pale? Chai Shi stopped in a panic, said the reason, and asked: "Since you are relatives, what is the matter of this Lin family to teach your mother to be so cold?"

Huang Nian said: "I don't know much about the inside story. There are always two generations old. In the Xiheshu case that year, my father was falsely convicted and sentenced to death several times, which was the edict drafted by Uncle Lin. Thanks to the full efforts of my grandfather and several uncles, the sentence was changed to exile in the northwest. Since then, there has been no contact between the Huang and Lin families. It wasn't until the unjust case was revealed that my father was summoned back to the court, and it was just then that my uncle wrote to say that Uncle Lin had passed away, and my father sent my eldest brother to Gusu to pay tribute - I was three or four years old at that time. Over the years, I have listened to some words in bits and pieces, and my eldest brother has also said that 'the Tao is different'. Just the mother...... My first two sisters died when they were in the Northwest. ”

Chai Shi was shocked and said: "That's so! It's just that after a long time, this Lin family uncle is also an official of the imperial court, and now he is in the same column as his uncle's colleagues." Coming today, the Great Bert ordered to inform his mother. I don't know-"I didn't finish speaking, I just looked at Huang Nian."

Huang Nian sighed: "Don't think about it. There are brothers and sisters-in-law in front of us, and we just follow the action. Then he asked, "I hope my cousin's nephew has arrived?" Seeing Chai nodding, his face was slightly relieved, and he said, "Fortunately, with him, my mother can also be happy when she misses her grandmother and uncle." Over the years, my nephew has been studying in Nanjing alone, and it has been very hard, but he has not forgotten to visit and honor his mother in the season. Although the days when we came back were shallow, as uncles and aunts, we should also care about taking care of the juniors. Besides, my cousin's birthday is approaching, so you should prepare carefully, but it's good to show your heart. ”

Chai Shi hurriedly smiled: "This is natural. I've drawn up a list here, let's take a look?" said he beckoned the maid to take the gift list from the lacquered and gold-painted box on the makeup cabinet in the room. The two discussed adding or subtracting without mentioning it.

It was dark. There was a sound of footsteps outside, and the servant reported: "The eldest master and the old man Lin have returned to the house, and they have arrived at the main hall and are going to the old lady." Huang Nian hurriedly greeted his wife's room and rushed to Mrs. Zhang. When he arrived at the foyer of the main hall, he heard the man's voice clear and upright: "My nephew visits my aunt, and my aunt is safe." "--It is the cousin of the two aunts, the former detective and the hand-picked re-elected salt patrol imperial history, Lin Hailin bowed like the sea and saluted.

If you want to know how Mrs. Zhang should be right, what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition.