But said that Yin Lu entered the courtyard, and suddenly heard the laughter and noise in the hall of the main house at the time, so he turned west, passed through the two porches, and the laughter gradually disappeared, but the timbre of some bamboo pipes and sheng flutes faintly came. Yin Lu listened carefully, but suddenly a sound broke, and then a boy laughed: "You are useless! ”

Yin Lu followed the prestige, and saw that under the dripping eaves of the porch of the west courtyard, two little girls in blue clothes wrapped in cotton balls were talking and playing together. One of them held a short bamboo flute in his hand, and the other was gathering some dead branches and grass leaves and hugging a small cluster of fire, and there were a few hairy chestnuts piled up next to the fire. The boy who spoke first said, "Look at it, it can't blow the sound by itself." And put it away. We still roast chestnuts to eat. ”

The boy with the flute seemed to hesitate. But the other was already busy picking up chestnuts and throwing them into the fire. Yin Lufang was about to open his mouth to shout, but the boy with the flute was already busy stopping it, and said, "You can't do this!" It's just too late, the chestnut shell has already dried out, and it burst out instantly when it encounters fire, crackling, and even one jumped up and hit the head of the boy who made a sound. The boy suddenly wailed, jumped back, wiped the fire with another kick, and said hatefully: "Jinbao, why didn't you say it earlier!"

The boy with the flute called Jinbao said, "How do I know that Ah Fu is so fast with your hands and feet?" He picked up the flute and rubbed his forehead with him, "It only exploded once, but fortunately it wasn't very hot." Look, it's not going to be red. ”

Ah Fu suddenly glared: "You two eyes can see your forehead!" Seeing that Jinbao smiled and ignored it, he put up the fire again, picked up the scattered chestnuts, and said, "You should be careful." ”

Jinbao smiled: "I can save it." You haven't done this before, and stand on the sidelines, don't come back and grab your hands and feet. ”

Ah Fu was said like this, and his face suddenly disliked, but when he saw that Jinbao was moving neatly, it was not good to really step forward again, and his eyes rolled around, as if he wanted to find something to cause fire. I happened to see Yin Lu at a glance, and I was immediately shocked: "Grandpa Yin, why are you standing here?"

Yin Luqiang couldn't hold back a smile and stepped forward: "If you don't stand here, I don't know that you, a little monkey, are lazy and run out to roast chestnuts to eat in the winter! Then he smiled at the boy named Jinbao, "It's cold, why don't you play in the house, but play outside? He glanced at the main house in the small courtyard and asked, "Are the sons and gentlemen in it?"

Jin Bao smiled and saluted first, and then said, "Grandpa Yin is good." My son-in-law and Xie Xianggong are both in the house. It was brought out for them. said that there were many people in the house, and Mr. Li was noisy to recuperate and watch the scene, and asked us to go to the side hall to find a small partner next to us to play. But we didn't know how to start the game over there, and we didn't have any money, so we had to turn back here and play around, but let your grandfather hit the point. ”

When Yin Lu heard this, he smiled and said, "In this case, go in with me." Then the two boys had gathered the chestnuts and put out the fire with snow, and then they took them with them to the main house in the courtyard. As he walked, he asked, "Are you saying that Mr. Li is sick?" I remember that he was unhappy years ago, but he hasn't gotten better?"

Ah Fu said: "Isn't it? I couldn't stay up and lay down at the beginning of the month, and Zhang Xianggong used to serve the decoction every day, but he didn't go home for many years." Young Master Kai also went to see it once a year ago, and at that time he told him to move here, and it finally got better day by day. ”

Yin Lu smiled: "I see. Why is it that my young master Daokai is not at home all his years, and the old lady and the old lady don't ask, but it is for this. Respect the teacher, and serve the gentleman is also the right thing to do. ”

Ah Fu made a bitter face when he heard this, and said, "Grandpa Yin, don't say that." Where is Young Master Kai who is the one who serves people? Zhang Xianggong still does some work, but it is not very easy. ”

Jinbao was not happy when he heard this, and said: "Where is it not possible? It's not like your family, but you can spill the clothes of three people with a medicine, and you want me to wash two bodies!"

The two little scholars were noisy, but Yin Lu was not too noisy, so he only slowed his pace. After a while, I came to the main hall, lifted the thick curtain of blue cloth, and heard someone in the room laughing loudly: "Sir is naughty again! I said that it was cold outside, I couldn't open the window, I didn't listen, and I had to look out secretly, but this time I can take it! Huaiying come quickly, the bowl of good bitter juice on the table, this time just pour it down in one go!"

Yin Lu walked in, first felt a medicinal fragrance of heating coming to his face, and then saw a warm couch covered with four or five layers of thick felt under the east windowsill, and two copper braziers in front of the couch, in which the silver charcoal was burned red. On the couch, an old gentleman of seventy or eighty years old was sitting cross-legged in a large bearskin, but his body was leaning back, and next to him was a young man in an apricot-red robe, holding a celadon medicine bowl that was eight points full, and sent it to him with a smile.

At this time, Ah Fu and Jinbao hurriedly rushed up, one supported the old gentleman on the couch, and the other snatched the medicine bowl from the young man's hand, and shouted in unison: "Oh, my good thank you, I sprinkled the medicine carefully!"

The young man Xie Kai was caught off guard, and immediately asked the two to grab the bowl, Mr. Li on the couch waved his hand, and Ah Fu put the medicine bowl back on the table. Xie Kai pointed at a few people, and said angrily: "Who called you here?" Seeing Yin Lu in a blink of an eye, he was stunned and asked, "Why are you here?"

Yin Lu saluted and said with a smile: "The third lady sent me on a business trip, passing by here, naturally I want to come to salute the sixteenth young master." He greeted Mr. on the couch and said, "The old man and the wife of the family heard that Mr. Li is not in good health, and they are very worried. There was also a cold in the academy, and he was afraid that the charcoal made by Mr. would not be useful, so he ordered to choose two hundred catties of high-quality silver frost charcoal to be sent here, and the little girl would bring it in after a while. ”

Mr. Li sighed: "But I suffered it again." Xiang Yin Lu said: "Go back and say thank you to your old lady for your trouble." It's just that I'm already good, and I don't have to work Mr. Nest anymore. It's a thing, and there's enough to do here, so don't dare to be more. ”

Yin Lu smiled: "Mr. Li is polite. You are the young master's teacher, so you can't do anything. On the other hand, Xie Kai also smiled: "What my father Yin said is true." These things are not worth anything, why should they not be unbearable? It is that Mr. is too much, and he can't do it for a while, and Huaiying and I also live here, and we have to make it on weekdays. ”

Mr. Li smiled helplessly: "You just want to pull Huaiying in everything." Anyway, as a master's distressed disciple, I just have to accept it, so that I can teach my own good students to be useful. As he spoke, he saw the door curtain of the wing room move, and a young man in an azure robe came in with a medicine bowl, and couldn't help sighing: "It seems that this bitter juice can't escape today." So he stretched out his hand, took the young man's bowl, brought it to his mouth, and drank it dry, and took the first and drank half of it. The old man is tired, and he will be crooked here for a while. If you have something to do in your house, go to the next room. ”

Xie Kai suddenly laughed, pulling the young man in the azure robe with one hand, and swinging towards Yin Lu with the other, and the three of them went to the side room. Here, Ah Fu and Jinbao are careful not to mention it.

Xie Kai and the three of them went to the wing room, and Xie Kai first looked for a chair to sit on. Yin Lu saw that Zhang Huizhang, a young man in a blue robe that day, first went to move the charcoal stove for decocting medicine in the room to the window, opened the window by half an inch, and then lifted a copper water to hang on the stove to boil water; Yin Lu hurriedly stepped forward, intercepted Zhang Hui's cup and pot, and said with a smile: "Don't you dare to be the labor of Xiao Zhang's father." Sit down! I'm here to make sense. ”

Zhang Hui smiled, not very snatching, let him pour a cup of hot tea with himself first, then a cup with Xie Kai, and finally his own cup. Xie Kai pinched the cup and smiled: "Daddy Yin sits." Yin Lu then sat down on a square stool.

Xie Kai said: "What's the matter? Dare to make a ghost in front of Mr. Li, didn't you provoke anyone's seven aunts and eight aunts outside, you have to come to me for help?"

Yin Lu smiled and said, "Young Master Kai made fun of me again." I just said it, the third lady sent me on an errand to go out, knowing that the young master was here, how could I not come and ask An Xingyu. In addition, it is also good to help the young master to bring accurate words, and he has been serving Mr. Li here for the past few days, so the old lady and the old lady are also happy. ”

Xie Kai said with a smile: "As far as you are shrewd, you know that I don't like the excitement at home, but this side is quiet, and you can do your duty as a student disciple." That's all there is to it. By the way, ask the master to ask for a post, and if you really invite Mr. Chao over, you will be considered a meritorious achievement. ”

Yin Lu hurriedly said: "This is not necessary for the young master to order, I will go to Gu'an Hall first on the way back in a while." In addition, the rice charcoal was also sent to the boys immediately, no, I sent it myself. Young master, do you think this can be done?"

Xie Kai nodded: "That's good." Otherwise, let Huaiying see the joke. Saying that, Chao Zhang glanced back and said, "What's the matter?" Although I always help in this room, this idea can't go wrong in the end, right?"

Zhang Hui smiled: "If you have this heart, Mr. Li will be happy, which is a great help." ”

Xie Kai was overjoyed when he heard this. After taking a sip of tea at will, he said to Yin Lu again: "If I think well, you should come out today for the sake of the old lady's Buddhist wishes." But are you all right?"

Yin Lu said: "Sure enough, the young master is the clearest, although he didn't go to Dinglin Temple that day, but he guessed it in the end." That's what I came out for today. Because the third lady said that the sesame oil of the 'Youtou Huo' family in Youfang Lane is the best, and it has always been used by the house, this time they still use their family. Now that I have agreed with the shopkeeper Huo, the first batch of 240 catties will be delivered on time on the 14th day of the first month. ”

Xie Kai thought about the Huo family for a while, and said with a smile: "Mother has these things, I can't tell if these things are good or bad." But if it is the custom of the house, it will not be bad. He replied to Zhang, "If it's really good, we can also ask for some here, can we make it?"

Zhang Hui said with a smile: "Bao'en Temple is not a permanent residence, but in winter, there is a fire path underground, which is more comfortable than that of Jilong Mountain, and it is also conducive to Mr. Li's recuperation." When spring is ready, it is natural to move back to the academy over there. In addition, the academy uses oil and has its own offerings, so what is the matter if there are many more? It is better to save this effort. ”

Xie Kai said: "Also, I don't need a few catties if I think about it." That's it. He also persuaded Yin Lu to eat tea.

Yin Lu had a cup of tea, and when he saw that Xie Kaizhang had nothing else to do, he smiled and said, "I went to find the shopkeeper of Nahuo today, and I found a story." It's also strange to say. Can the young master and Xiao Zhang hear each other?".