This Hong's house is really not far from here, just in an alley behind the street. It was a five-entry house, and the door was not large, but there were four or five boys at the door from time to time looking at the probe. As soon as Zhang Hui's car turned into the alley, he recognized the clothes of the driver and the people who followed him, and immediately shouted: "It's coming! The young master of my aunt's house has arrived! Open the main door!

The kid over there ran and shouted happily, and the head chapter had already arrived at the door, so he jumped down, dressed properly, and waited for the critics to get out of the car, so he raised his feet and went to the door. The subordinates of the Hong family hurriedly came up to say hello, beat thousands of people, and walked inside together. As soon as I entered, I saw a pair of Weng concubines in the main house happily greeting them, it was Zhang Hui's maternal grandfather Hong Gang and maternal grandmother Feng. The two were followed by two couples, Zhang Hui's two uncles and aunts.

Seeing the elders come out, Zhang Hui caught up with two steps, bowed his head, and said: "Grandfather, grandmother Wan'an!" Before the words fell, he was pulled up by Hong Geng earlier, and laughed loudly: "It's good to come home, it's good to come home! What do you worship?" Then he was pulled into Feng's arms again, and said with distress: "Heart, liver, and meat, why did you lose so much weight? Eating outside is not good! Don't be afraid, you have prepared food here, go and eat with your aunt." As he spoke, he tugged his hand and went straight into the house without touching the ground.

When he entered the main house, Feng called for the food box and fruit plate one after another, and asked the maid to serve the tea quickly. Zhang Hui hurriedly seized this vacancy, saluted his two uncles Hong Yi and Hong Liang, and then greeted his two uncles Yao and Hu. Within three words of his uncle and nephew, four maids came with a food box, a fruit bowl, a blue and white wide-mouthed flat round jar with a lid, and a crystal glass pot, and stood in front of Feng together.

Zhang Hui saw that the fruit bowl was full of red apples, golden fragrant pears, yellow and clear citrus, green and crisp dates, and purple diandian cherries, and the crystal glass pot was full of rose wine red, and he was thinking about what was in the food box and the blue and white jar, when he saw Feng personally stepped forward and lifted the lid of the food box, revealing six white porcelain plates inside, but they were pig's head meat, beef mouth strips, sauce donkey meat, fried tofu balls, fried quail eggs, and boiled peanuts in salted water with shells. Feng Shi took a look, took a pair of silver-tipped chopsticks, and stuffed a tofu ball into Zhang Hui's mouth, while saying, "I made this new one today, try it quickly, and see if it tastes right?"

Zhang Hui was busy eating the tofu balls in his grandmother's hand, and after tasting them in his mouth, he knew that there were a lot of whitebait, shrimp and water chestnuts chopped in it. Hurriedly smiled: "It's fresh, fragrant, smooth and crispy, it's really delicious! How did my grandmother make it? I can copy a recipe for my grandson and get it at home." ”

Feng laughed and replied, "If you like to eat, you can bring you the recipe too." Seeing that you are so thin, you don't have any meat on your face, you must eat more!" and pointed to the blue and white jar and said, "In that is a few kinds of dried apricots, snow plum slices, hawthorn cakes, and persimmon cakes made by your uncle." After a while, you go to the study and bring food to eat. If you want it to be delicious, you can bring some home to eat. ”

Hong Gang smiled and said: "He has eyes and a mouth, what do you just have to tell him?" He rushed back in the past two days, and he was tired early, so it was serious to go to the study to eat and read for fun. ”

Feng Shi nodded after hearing this, and immediately asked the maids to hold the things, and then pulled the chapter back and walked out of the main room, and walked to the study at the back. This study is in the west of the house, it was originally a piece of land that was built by the original builder to exhaust the land of the river beach, so although it is an independent courtyard, there is only a main house and a check-out room, but a half-moon pond with a diameter of more than two zhang on the side of the house has a few differences. Because of the water from the river outside the pond through the pond, the spring cold is steep at this moment, the frost marks on the pond are still there, but a few green pings have been seen in the pond. However, Zhang Hui called Feng to take it, and he couldn't take a closer look for a while, so the group entered the main hall of the study. The room has already been warmed, and it is sweetly smoked with spices, and there is an ebony case on the bed under the pane, and the three-layer fruit box on the table is full of melon seeds, peanuts, chestnuts and other snacks to eat, as for the brocade quilt on the couch, the soft pillow on the side of the case, and the stove under the foot are more colorful. Feng Shi took a look, then asked him to take two or three square tables and put them on the side of the couch, put the food box, fruit plate and the like on the table, and replied to Zhang: "You are comfortable reading and eating." I asked Mrs. Fang to bring a small tea stove again, and looked at the hot water under the porch. You have to use it, raise it and shout it. ”

Zhang Hui hurriedly smiled: "Grandmother's arrangement is naturally the best." ”

Feng rubbed his head and said, "Eat whatever you want, if it's not enough, ask Mrs. Fang to hand it over to the kitchen." If you want to eat and drink, tell your uncle. There is only one, and you are not allowed to be polite here. Otherwise, we will not follow. ”

Zhang Hui heard about it and responded again and again. Feng Shi was satisfied, and when he left the study, he first ordered the whole house not to disturb here, then turned back to the main room of the upper room, called Lai Yu and Yu Pingjia, who came back from the same chapter, to talk, and then sent the housekeeper's daughter-in-law to follow them to the Zhang Mansion without mentioning it.

But he said that on the side of the study, Zhang Hui and the others went out of the courtyard, and immediately closed the door, and then looked at the bookshelves in the room, and they didn't distinguish the four, and the first one looked at the new and old skin. First take out a few copies of the slightly old skin, sure enough, they are "West Chamber", "Pipa", "Sea of Evil", "Burning Incense" and the like, and there are many "Journey to the West", "Water Margin", and "Three Kingdoms"; and then draw two new ones, which are "The Legend of the Western Regions", "Sketches of the East Journey", and "Overseas Knowledge"; and the semi-new and not old "The Story of the Cave", "The Story of the Tiantai", "The Collection of Talking Ghosts", and so on -- it turns out that although the Hong family also went to school, they did not study as a profession; and in the market, the three favorite works of Hong Geng's father and son in their lives are these legendary plays. Miscellaneous words, strange notes, etc., every time there is a new book or a new work, or copy or buy, be sure to get a set to your home. At this time, I first went to the shelf and searched for a bag of books, and moved them all to the couch; then I shook off the quilt on the couch and piled them up on one side of the wall with two large pillows; I removed the three-layer fruit boxes on the couch and replaced them with the food box and fruit bowl brought by Feng, and took a large crystal glass, and poured a full glass of rose wine and put it aside; at the end, I took out a new hand towel from the dark cabinet at the end of the couch and put it on the several cases together. At this point, I breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the front of me and smiled, then loosened my hair, untied the straps of my robe, took off my outer clothes, shoes and socks, and jumped on the couch with bare feet. Scoop up a booklet in your hand, open it in your hand, it is a book of "Seeking Immortals", Zhang Hui nodded, leaned on the soft pillow of the brocade quilt, held the book in one hand, and pinched the meat and meatballs from the dishes on the case with the other hand and sent it to the mouth, eating and reading, very leisurely.

Kankan finished reading the first two articles of the book "Looking for Immortals", and Zhang Hui heard a knock on the door, and then a teenager slipped in. He was also seventeen or eighteen years old, and he was clean and fat, and when he entered the door, he raised his nose and sniffed vigorously, and after a few breaths he turned to the east side of the couch, and his eyes were fixed on the food. When Zhang Hui saw his shape, he couldn't help but laugh, but he didn't get up from the couch, and only greeted: "Cousin." ”

It turned out that this young man Hong Da was the only son of Zhang Hui's uncle Hong Yi, who was only three months older than Zhang Hui. At the age of 14, he entered the school and just passed the college examination last year. It's just that he himself knows that his talent is mediocre, and he is already satisfied with the identity of a showman, so he puts aside his books and is unwilling to go to school anymore. And that Hong Gang and Hong Yiyuan didn't pursue their studies together, but they all went with him, so they only ate, drank and lay down at home every day. Because the two are close in age, Zhang Hui has played with this Hong Da since childhood, and the brothers are very good. Zhang Hui greeted in his mouth, but the person didn't get up on the couch, Hong Da didn't say much, he sat down on the other end of the couch, stretched out his hand like an iron hook and eagle claws, pinched a piece of sauce donkey meat and stuffed it into his mouth to eat. While eating, he praised and exclaimed, "It's delicious! It must be Mrs.'s craftsmanship!" He turned his head to look at Zhang Hui and said, "Sure enough, Mrs. still loves you the most!"

Zhang Hui couldn't help but shake his head, picked up a few cases and threw the handkerchief into his arms, and asked, "Have you wiped your hands? ”

Hong Da muttered, "You are exquisite." Then you should bring me a new veil. What do you mean by just letting me use what you have leftover?" Even so, he picked up the handkerchief and carefully wiped his ten fingers one by one, and then threw it back to Zhang Hui. Then he rubbed his fists, rubbed his palms, sat cross-legged on the couch, looked back and forth two or three times with his eyes, and finally selected the plate of pig's head meat, moved the plate to the front, opened the bow left and right, and put his fingers together, but after four or five breaths, he ate the bottom of the bowl to the sky, and then took a plate of donkey meat with sauce, and ate nothing left over three or five times. When I raised my head, my mouth, face, and even my hands were shiny with oil.

Although Zhang Hui was familiar with Hong Da's temperament and knew that this uncle and cousin were the most generous, he couldn't help but be stunned when he saw his posture. Seeing that he took the plate of fried quail eggs again, he grabbed one and was about to throw it into his mouth, so he had the intention of swallowing it straight, and hurriedly shouted: "Ah big and slow!

Before he could say a word, Na Hongda really called the quail egg stuck in his throat, and immediately held back his face and thick neck, and his eyes rolled wildly. Zhang Hui had to get up and turn to his side, slapped him in two places on the back, and spit out the egg. Hong Da grabbed a few more cases and poured a lot of air into the cup, then he relieved himself and smiled at him: "Thank you, thank you!"

Zhang Hui asked: "Why are you in such a hurry? Who in the family is hungry for you? You look like a hungry ghost, and you have never seen these in your life?"

Na Hongda said: "I haven't seen these for a month." Since the Lantern Festival, Mrs. was angry with her aunt, and when she turned around, she had a big fight with my mother, and she has never cooked since. So when you came, I came with me, knowing that she would do it for you. ”

Zhang Hui was suddenly surprised when he heard this: he went to Zhang Wang's room with Hong's house early this morning to report on the matter of visiting his grandfather's house. Zhang Wang and Hong both had words to order, but they didn't show anything abnormal, and they couldn't think of why their mother could not tell their grandmother Feng. So he asked, "What the hell is going on, why is the family quarrelling? I just came back, and I don't know the slightest thing." You sue me, and I'll help you say yes. ”

Hong Dadao: "I don't really know about the affairs of the woman's family. Always for the first two sisters in the family. Suddenly raised his head and asked Zhang back: "Do you know that Xiuting has wanted to marry you since she was ten years old?"

Zhang Hui was taken aback, almost jumped up from the couch, and shouted, "What nonsense are you talking about?" ”

When Hong Da heard this, he was dissatisfied and said: "Who is talking to you about stubborn things? That's it, as soon as the second aunt told her aunt during the family banquet, her aunt's face changed on the spot, and they were all eating in the same room at the time, and I couldn't see it more clearly at the table next to me." ”

Zhang Hui frowned and asked, "Could it be that my grandmother is angry with my mother for this?" But this kind of thing is not something that my mother can call the shots alone. ”

Hong Da shook his head: "Mrs. is not angry about Xiuting's matter, she was still helping her aunt at that time, scolding the second aunt and Xiuting for not being reasonable, and actually making up your mind about you." Mrs. was annoyed, probably because after my aunt rejected the second aunt, she rejected my mother's idea of telling Sister Feng to your eldest brother. ”

Zhang Hui was really frightened this time. The big sister Feng that Hong Da said is Hong Da's sibling sister Hong Xiufeng, who is 19 years old this year. Because Hong Yi and Yao were picking and choosing between their sons-in-law and refusing to marry lightly, they have dragged on until now. Zhang Hui has always known that his eldest uncle and eldest aunt love his eldest daughter, but he never imagined that they would have the idea of their own brother. So he said to Hong Da: "If it's just about age, my brother and my eldest cousin are still comparable. But after all, there was a sister-in-law in front of me, so I really wronged my cousin. And you also know in my family, not to mention the elders of the third or fourth floor, everyone with hundreds of people is the most trivial in their rules. My cousin has been here since she was a child, how can she live in the future?"

Hong Da said: "Auntie, and my old son also said the same. But my wife was not happy when she heard this, and said that my aunt had also grown up here, so why did everyone live the same life. If you hurt your aunt, you will go back angrily. The old man was not happy, so he said a few words to his wife, and the wife turned to my mother, saying that she was greedy and tried every possible way to climb the lintel, but the thing did not work out and she was ashamed. Mom was not happy, saying that my aunt was still kind, but my wife said a few words. The wife is also critical of the second aunt, saying that they are all mothers with low backgrounds and poor upbringing, and the daughters they raise are disgusting. The three of them were really angry, and they didn't stop making trouble for a month. If you hadn't come, I'm afraid that the three of her girls would not stand in the same room. ”

Zhang Hui listened to Hong Da's words, and felt that his scalp was cramping and his temples were jumping. However, for a while, he also tasted the little bit of the wrong taste when he was in the front hall. After thinking about it, he was about to talk to Hong Da, but as soon as he looked up, he suddenly realized that he couldn't do anything out of his mind, and the six plates on the several cases were all empty, even the peanuts boiled in salt water were all gone, and there was not a single peanut shell left. Hong Da grabbed a handful of cherries and ate them until the sides of his mouth turned red. Zhang Hui couldn't help but be angry and funny: "You are a swill bowl together, and you are not afraid to hold on to such a wild meal?"

Hong Da bit the cherry and replied vaguely: "I'm not afraid." Besides, I've told you everything I should have told you, and this food should be mine. ”

He said it so confidently that Zhang Hui couldn't help laughing, but he threw away the troubles of those sisters and sisters, and said: "It's not good for you to be like this, hold it for a month, and stuff it into a lot again." None of this is a long-term strategy. Otherwise, the next time you want to eat, send me a letter, and I will ask my mother to do it, and then invite you and me to eat at my house? ”

When Hong Da heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly asked: "If you invite me to your house, are you in Changzhou and not going to Nanjing?" Yes, you are already a lifter, so if you don't read at this time, you will have the same future. ”

Zhang Hui couldn't help laughing when he heard this, so he said, "What Big Brother said is that I will be at home this year, playing with my brothers, and I won't go to the academy again." ”

When Hong Da heard him say this, he naturally knew that it was a joke, so he asked him what was going on. Zhang Hui Shao must not tell all the things such as going to school and ending up one by one. The cousins talked and gossiped, and Chenguang passed quickly. After a while, they will eat day's meal. The amount of food did not decrease at all, but he took advantage of his happiness to eat more and more bowls. Zhang Hui had no choice but to keep an eye on him, and asked his grandmother to prepare a tea soup to consume food and prepare it to drink at any time. In the second half of the day, Zhang Hui and Hong Da continued to nest in the study, and caught the novel reviews and embroidered albums from the market, or talked or discussed, or tasted or commented, and laughed in unison when they talked about it.

Just listened to Hong Da talk about his cousin, Zhang Hui had a heart in the end, and quietly sent the little girl home to ask for the letter during the day. So Shen Shi passed, and his grandmother Feng Shi led Yin Chun, the chief steward of the Zhang family, to the study, only saying that Wu Taijun had an important guest from afar, and he must have seen Zhang Hui, so he sent Yin Chun to bring a carriage to pick him up in person. Zhang Hui said goodbye and went with Yin Chun's family.

As for whether Wu Taijun really has a guest, Zhang returned home to ask his parents about the situation, what happened next, and see how it will be broken down next time.