But he said that Huang Xing arrived in the study, and saw Zhang Hui waiting in the room in the morning, and he didn't wait for him to come forward to greet him, waved his hand casually, and said, "I have something to say to you." Your father's birthday gift, I've got it ready. I was thinking about someone to send to Changzhou. You have been visiting in the city for a few days, and there should be a lot of people who have accepted it on behalf of you and asked your family to hand it over, so you might as well make it up together, and I will send it with you, which is cheap. ”

Zhang Hui smiled: "Uncle said this, my nephew just can't ask for it." Originally, I came to ask my uncle for one or two people to help him send these congratulatory gifts home, but not necessarily with me. Uncle had already thought of this layer. ”

Huang Xing nodded and said, "If you think of one place, then do it." After thinking about it, he said, "I sent Zhang Meng to go, the person is proper, and he is familiar with the way back and forth in Changzhou." He immediately raised his voice and called the chief steward Yang Zhenglin and coach Zhang Menglai and instructed them: "This road must be safe and careful, not the slightest mistake." He said to Yang Zhenglin again, "Today, you will prepare all the inventory and booklets, and tomorrow please ask the young master to inspect them one by one and then seal the box so that it can be shipped." In addition, the people who go to Changzhou also draw up a list first, and ask your cousin to read it one by one. ”

Yang Zhenglin and Zhang Meng responded with their hands. Zhang Hui arched his hand to Zhang Meng again and said, "There is Coach Lao Zhang." Zhang Meng hurriedly bowed down to thank him, and said "no" in his mouth, and then slowly withdrew from the door without mentioning it.

Huang Xing looked at the door and replied to Zhang: "He has always been a careful person. It is also a person under the old man of the Wang family, and there is no place where he can't go on land and water, so these things can be entrusted to him to take care of and escort, so he can rest assured. ”

Zhang replied: "Yes." I also heard that Coach Zhang had already accumulated enough merits and was able to change his background, but he refused to take up the official position, so he resigned from his military post and stayed by the old master's side. ”

Huang Xing smiled: "It's about the same." But the important thing is that he refuses to read, so he suffers from this. Otherwise, with military merit qualifications at this age, let alone a six-pin cloud cavalry captain. Only he begged in front of the old man, and now he is at home. Speaking of it, they all use cattle slaughtering knives to kill chickens, but in the end, they are also looking for ideas to do. ”

Zhang Hui shook his head when he heard this, and said: "Uncle has a heavy responsibility, and General Wang asked Coach Zhang to follow him at any time, which is also well-intentioned. ”

Huang Xing smiled: "You know his intentions." Then he asked Zhang about the situation at his father-in-law's house in the past few days. I only heard Zhang reply: "The old general is generous and righteous, and he actually gave the natural jade texture interstitial screen of Huanghuali wood to my father as a birthday celebration. Although it was a gift from the elders, I knew that it was General Wang's lifelong favorite, so how could I accept it lightly? I also want to ask my uncle and me to give me an idea, how to thank the boss in return. ”

Huang Xing nodded: "You did the right thing." The elder gives, not the resignation. What's more, he values your father's heart, and it's not good to stir up the old man's interest. After thinking about it for a while, he said, "Fortunately, there is still some time before Yangzhi's birthday, so you can stay in Nanjing for a day or two more and carefully copy some Buddhist scriptures and scrolls." I will prepare some fine incense here, and when the time comes, I will bring you with me, and I will give it to him, which is a little return gift from our juniors. ”

Zhang Hui hurriedly responded "yes". The two talked a few words about the birthday gift given by Wang Shaokun, the old general of the loyal Bofu, to Zhang Wang, Zhang Yangzhi, the father of Zhang Hui, and confirmed the gifts for a few days later, and then made up their minds. Zhang Hui then got up, took a teapot and a cup from the study table, poured a cup first, and offered it to Huang Xing with both hands. Huang Xing nodded and took it, accepted his thanks, and asked, "This time I went to the house over there, what about the others?

At this time, Zhang Hui was pouring tea with himself, and when he heard this, he immediately laughed, and said, "Uncle said this, what can I do with my cousin?" and returned to his seat, and then replied: "Like my cousin, who is gentle and polite, and behaves politely, everyone in the house is full of praise." ”

Huang Xing sighed: "Amitabha, if it is true as you say, I don't have to worry about it all the time. I'm afraid it's your cover again. Seeing that Zhang avoided his gaze, he snorted, shook his head and smiled: "That's it, I can know how much I pretend to be outside, and I have finally made some progress." ”

Zhang replied: "Actually, my cousin hasn't done anything these days, just to talk with the old general." He didn't pay much attention to this before, but this time he seemed to have some interest, and after a few rounds, he was able to ask only three sons to be able to deal with it. ”

Huang Xing was slightly surprised when he heard this, because he knew that his father-in-law was self-conscious, so he paid attention to the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, especially the most profound attainment. But when he learned of his young son's intelligence, he was very relieved, and his face couldn't help but show a little bit of praise. said: "He is also a little clever, these games can't be real, just a filial piety with the elderly." He also said, "The old man likes to talk about the past and the present when he is playing chess, and when he asks about the military books and military books, he probably can't answer them—if he doesn't want to do this, he can't force it." ”

Zhang Hui smiled: "Uncle doesn't have to say that. Cousin Xiang became more and more interested in the boatmen, and this time he also brought the drawn pictures of the sea ships to the old general. In the past few days, we have learned a lot from explaining and arguing several pictures one by one, but the old general also said that my cousin has many new ideas, or he may be able to open up a big pattern that is completely different from today's naval army and water warfare. ”

Huang Xing was about to shake his head and wave his hand, but when he heard him say solemnly, he couldn't help but pause, and thought for a moment before he said: "It's not that I'm stubborn, I also know how much matters here, it's just that people like us don't rely on this background." Even such a penchant for studying, in the eyes of others, is also clever and distracting, not into the right business. Xiang'er has a lonely personality since she was a child, although she is smart and has some thoughts in her heart, but it is not my father who can turn it around with just a few words. You are his cousin, and it is rare to have a match in the family, so you should talk to him more when you have time. ”

Zhang Hui hurriedly responded "yes", and said: "My cousin actually understands his mind, and he also told me that he is still young now, so he might as well do something that ordinary people don't do as he likes." After two or three years, I can't do this anymore, and I should turn my mind to studying for the academic examination. ”

Huang Xing nodded and said with a smile: "Your words reassure me." Looking at Zhang Hui, he said: "I only have one son like Xiang'er, and you are the only one born in front of your father." Thinking that we are the best among all brothers, and now I am happy to see your little match. In the future, if the two families can support each other, it will be you. Sure enough, there is nothing I can't get in this life. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Hui hurriedly got up, saluted Huang Xing, and said, "Uncle's expectation is also the nephew's wish. ”

Huang Xing was satisfied, had a cup of tea, and then carefully asked Zhang Hui about his homework and the opinions of the gentlemen in the academy on the current examination, and pointed out the changes in the preferences of the test questions in recent years. It wasn't until the sky was getting dark and the night was drooping that Mrs. Zhang came to urge dinner, and the uncle and nephew stopped talking. After the meal, they went back to the house, Huang Xiangyin lived with Zhang Hui, and joked on the way back: "I often think that you should be my family, and you are my father's son." Not only is there no one else who can talk to him for a long time, but when you usually talk, you often come out of the same mold with him, but just change some words and phrases. ”

Zhang Hui smiled and said: "What's so strange about saying that I think the same thing as my uncle? Those who have seen me and my father often say that my father and I are not only in appearance and demeanor, but also in the way we think about everything, there is little difference in the way we think about everything. It's just because he was in front of him when he was young, so he just thought the same. And my uncle and my father have been together since childhood, and their thoughts and thoughts are close. In this way, it is only natural that I agree with my eldest uncle on some things. On the contrary, it's you, the eldest uncle, who is busy with official business, and it is because he has spent more time with his aunt and grandmother and General Wang, and when he is younger, he will feel the difference between father and son. But in my eyes, there is no longer anything like it. ”

Huang Xiang pouted and said: "Son Xiao's father, what must be good? ”

Zhang Hui smiled: "The meaning is right, it's not good." The latter sentence is good, but if you dare to say it in front of your uncle, you can't cry and call your mother after a meal. ”

Huang Xiang said: "That's it, I look down on it the most." It's a pity that when you are in the world, you can't do what you want. He sighed heavily. Zhang Hui couldn't help laughing, and he didn't want to say more, so he only pushed and shoved, urging him to go back to the house quickly. The two brothers walked all the way laughing. But Lin Ruhai and Huang Ping were still standing under the porch at the moment because of the new sprouts of the remnant snow, and they were seeing all the words and deeds of the two of them.

So Huang Ping smiled: "It can be seen that this time my brother is young, and he is a little lively from time to time." Of course, the book is the best he reads the most, but the outside character here has not yet been harmonious. ”

Lin Ruhai nodded and smiled, and suddenly turned to ask: "I remember that Yang Zhi has an heir, who is four or five years older than Zhang Hui, although he is not born to his husband and wife, but is the successor of the clan, but he will inherit it in the future?"

Huang Ping sighed: "That's good. This is also the only foolish thing that Cousin Wang has done. After all, the doctor's consultation back then did not say that the cousin-in-law's heirs were hopeless, and then this chapter came back. Hurriedly chose an heir to succeed, sued the ancestors, and went on the family tree, so that the biological ones were outstanding, and they had no relationship with the patriarch of the Zhang family, wouldn't it be a pity! I heard that the two brothers Zhang You are also very close to his heir, and in the past few years of studying in Nanjing, the two of them will have to exchange letters in three or five days, and they can talk about tea and dinner, grass and paper for half a day. ”

Lin Ruhai said: "That's fine. Brotherly harmony is a sign of prosperity. ”

Huang Ping said: "Who said it wasn't. I've seen that chapter a few times, and although it's not very clever, it still gives me a little more peace and composure than my cousin. Because he said that he was not very clever in writing, Xiucai had a difficult career after that, but now he is helping his cousin Wang take care of the family property quite well. It's just that the marriage luck is not good, but the wife died of illness in half a year. Now that the days are full according to the rules of my grandfather's family, my cousin and sister-in-law should worry about their children. ”

Lin Ruhai nodded and said: "Yangzhi and his wife are extremely kind, and the heirs are like parents and children, and there must be no difference between thick and thin." ”

Huang Ping hurriedly smiled and echoed a few words. At this time, the cold air came up more and more in the night, and although both of them were wrapped in thick coats, they did not dare to stay any longer, and went back to their rooms while talking.