However, it was said that Zhang Hui followed his second uncle and grandmother Chen out of Chenghui Hall, and the group boarded the car and turned to Dongfu. It turned out that this Zhang's mansion, originally only Chenghui Hall and the long house lived in a trip to the seven, and then because of the family breeding, Dingkou gradually more, then bought a base on the east side of the house, compared with the original pattern of the house, the shadow was built again, called "East Mansion", and now the second room of the Zhang family is the Zhang Li family to live. Although there are partial corner doors on both sides, there is only one gate in and out of the West Mansion to really enter and exit the West House, and there is only one lane in the middle of the East and West Mansions, so no matter what the family is outside the family, no matter what they call it, they all know in their hearts that the two houses have one family name and one surname, and they are inseparable.

This Zhang followed Chen and went to the upper room of the East Mansion first. Sure enough, Zhang Li had already returned from outside. Zhang Hui hurriedly visited the second uncle. Zhang Li heard that he came from his mother Wu Taijun, and first got up and asked his mother how she was doing, and then smiled and asked Zhang about his relatives in Nanjing and the recent accident in Jinling City. Hearing Zhang Hui talk about seeing Lin Ruhai at Huang Xing's house, Zhang Li nodded and said, "I said! A few days ago, he sent a large boat with letters and gifts. It is said to be a celebration of your father's birthday, but no one in the family has a heart. Even in previous years, the New Year's Festival was not so solemn. provoked the old lady to sigh and sigh, and remembered that Mrs. Lin Gu was crying, laughing and laughing for a long time before she died, and shouted that there must be something wrong, so she suddenly made such an abnormal move, and she had to ask someone to go to Yangzhou immediately to ask for an understanding. Finally, on the second day, your letter arrived, saying that he was in Nanjing, and although he had some illnesses, he was fortunate to have the uncle staring at the medicine and recuperating in Yan. The old lady was relieved for the time being, but she still said that when your father's birthday is finished, the family can spare a little hand, and it is good to immediately send someone to Nanjing or Yangzhou to pay a real visit. Then he asked, "What is your Uncle Lin's illness, how is his health now, and when you come back, will he be better?"

Zhang replied: "My nephew is not very familiar with medical theory, so I don't know the details. It's just that Dr. Chao and Dr. Ma, who listened to the consultation, said that Uncle Lin had worked hard all the year round, and he had been repeatedly bereaved, worried, sad and depressed, and he didn't take care of it on weekdays, which finally caused the damage to the root. So the prescriptions are mainly based on temperature supplementation, Peiyuan nourishes qi, but the first one is still the relieved maintenance on weekdays. ”

Zhang Li listened to it and sighed: "The truth is of course this truth. However, he has been able to patrol the history of the salt administration, and this salt administration is the most complicated and has a very important relationship, and the so-called pulling a hair to move the whole body, so how can he be relieved to maintain it! Fortunately, Brother Xing'er can hold him to recuperate for 10 days and a half months, can he be escorted to recuperate for three years and 5 years? It is really worrying. After thinking about it, he replied to Zhang: "You can help me write down this matter, and when this time is over, call your father to discuss it together, and see who will go to Yangzhou for a while." Zhang responded.

Zhang Li was stunned for a moment before reorganizing the color, and began to ask about other people in the Huang Mansion, and then asked about the lecturers in Mingyang Academy, and talked about the improvement of several people's knowledge, and couldn't help but come up with excitement, exhaustive analysis-just as he was talking about it, Chen on the side finally stopped with a smile, and said: "Brother Ying'er just came back, and the master didn't care about the child's hard work, so he interrogated him viciously! The old man really wants to judge, so he has to let him take a breath and calm down first. Besides, have you forgotten that there is also the eldest lord over there in Xifu, this is his ancestor and grandson, and he must also be tried. Brother Ying is tired of being interrogated by the master this time, what should I do if I can't catch up when I go there at night for a while?"

Hearing her witty, Zhang Li couldn't help laughing. Zhang Hui couldn't help but twist his lips. Seeing that both of them were smiling, Chen first gave each a bowl of tea, and then said slowly with a smile: "I easily brought Brother Ying over from the old lady, originally just for the family to meet each other and salute each other, but I didn't bring it specially for the old man to judge, nor did I want to tire my brother." I just heard that Kui'er has finished today's business and returned home from Xifuli. It's better to let Brother Ying go to his fourth uncle to see him at this time, and by the way, I can know something about his Laozi's birthday ceremony - I will have to ask him to contribute as a son in the next few days. If the master still has knowledge to discuss with his brother, anyway, his brother has already come home, and he won't go anywhere, when will he ask again?"

Zhang Li smiled: "Okay, okay, what you said is the most reasonable, but I am too anxious." Also, anyway, I'm done with all the important things here, so I'll listen to your uncle and grandmother, and I'll go see your fourth uncle now. There is only one thing not to listen to her - the matter of your Lao Tzu's birthday, the old lady and the eldest master handed over to your fourth uncle, is his labor. He should have done more with his eldest brother. Your child has just arrived home, and it is the time to rest from exhaustion, so don't follow the labor. If you really have something, there are so many brothers in the family, just ask one to do it for you. ”

Zhang Hui hurriedly smiled: "It's all the second master's partiality." But how dare the nephew forget a word of filial piety. As long as it's what I'm supposed to do, I can't be lazy. ”

Zhang Li laughed and said, "I also know your filial piety. It's just that the old lady will not allow you to work hard. Then he turned to Chen and asked, "Kui'er, are they all at home?"

The second wife, Chen, smiled: "I just came from home." I think I'm changing clothes. ”

Zhang Li said: "Then let Brother Ying go to him." Tell him you don't have to come here. Uncle and uncle will come in the evening, and they will go to Xifu together when the time comes. ”

Chen answered, and sent someone to Zhang Kui's side to send a message, saying that Zhang Li told him not to come to the room to meet him, and waited for Zhang to return, and then called Zhang Kui's daughter-in-law Yin, who was waiting in the outer hall, to come over, handed Zhang Hui to her, and ordered him to take him to meet the fourth cousin, and he must take care of him. Yin Shi hurriedly answered his mother-in-law and led Zhang back to his house.

Here Zhang Li watched Chen's actions, only eating tea by himself, and didn't say much. Seeing that Yin and Zhang Hui left the upper room together, they looked at Chen and said with a smile: "It's not a relative's child outside, even if you study outside for three years, can there be anyone in the family who you don't know and don't know?" He also asked Kui's daughter-in-law to take him there. ”

Chen said: "Of course Brother Ying is not an outsider. But the lord also said that he had been studying outside in the past few years and was not at home. In recent years, there have been many new people in the family, both inside and outside, changing jobs, filling in vacancies, and there are too many new people. He only came back today, and he didn't recognize anyone, and he bumped into a small matter, and if others didn't recognize and bumped into him, he would be the first to upset the old lady. Therefore, it is better to take care of it in advance. Kui's daughter-in-law has always been the most secure, and she is close to his eldest brother and sister-in-law, and I can rest assured that she is taking care of her. Zhang Li listened to her, so he didn't say more.

However, he said that Zhang Hui followed his aunt Yin to visit Zhang Kui, the uncle of the fourth hall, and also said in front of Zhang Li that everyone in Nanjing was okay and the general situation in the academy, and then he bowed down and thanked Zhang Kui for his hard work in presiding over his father's birthday ceremony. Zhang Kui hurriedly pulled him up, let him sit down, and talked to him about the arrangements for his birthday. After the uncle and nephew had only been talking for a short time, deacons from all over the house heard that Zhang Kui was back, and they rushed together to ask about the number of birthday ceremonies and the arrangement of the banquet troupe. Zhang Hui saw that he had a lot to do, so he hurriedly took the opportunity to quit. Here, the Yin family came over and took him to the inner courtyard. I saw that there were already several people waiting in the room, but it was the Yin family who invited the girls and young masters from the second room to the upper room together, so that his sisters and brothers could be reunited.

Zhang Hui has been studying abroad, and he has been going back to the end for four years, and he has never returned home for the New Year for Zhang Wang's instructions. At this moment, when we first met, I couldn't help but feel unfamiliar, and a few small ones were all unrecognizable. Fortunately, among the cousins, the older cousin Zhang Yan and cousin Zhang Yan could distinguish the voice, and the eldest of the sisters, Zhang Yan's sister Shu Hui, was also familiar with each other, and the three of them introduced each other to the younger siblings.

This Zhang Yan is the same year as Zhang Hui, seven or eight months older than him, and Zhang Yan is one year younger than him, and the difference is also seven or eight months. The three of them are actually the same age, but the two of them only study at home, not to mention how much experience they have when they go out, and they have never even stepped on the boundaries outside Changzhou City. So at this moment, he just grabbed Zhang Hui from one left and one right, and asked endlessly from beginning to end, and there was a lot of envy in his words and descriptions, and the young Zhang bureaucrat even bluntly said that he asked his grandfather and Wu Taijun to study in Nanjing Academy the next day. There are also Shu Hui and other sisters on the side, although they are all girls, but the Zhang family has always asked women to study the same, and they usually can't help women to go out to socialize, and they have heard a lot of knowledge. Zhang Hui listened to it, answered patiently one by one, and immediately divided a lot of the first life. In addition, after a while, Yin Chun, the chief steward of the house, ordered someone to send a basket of all kinds of playthings such as clay figures, grass and insects that Zhang Hui bought when he was in Nanjing and Zhenjiang. Although it is a thing in the market, it is fresh and chic, and it was carefully selected at the beginning of the workmanship, even the Yin family, the older grandmother and daughter-in-law in the house watched it, and they couldn't help but praise it. Zhang Hui took it himself, and scattered it with his younger brothers and sisters as well, and suddenly screamed more and more tightly around him, talking and laughing non-stop.

In the middle of the excitement, Bai Wei, the girl in front of Chen's family, came over and said, "The second wife invites the seventh young master to return to Chenghui Hall together." Asked the fourth grandmother to watch the girls change their clothes and bring them over. Yin hurriedly agreed, and while ordering the girls to go back to freshen up and dress up, he personally brought the chapter back to the main room. After Chen and Zhang Hui left, they went back again and led a group of girls to Chenghui Hall without mentioning it.