But it was said that when Lin Ruhai saw his aunt, bowed his head and bowed, and waited for the salute to be complete, Mrs. Zhang hurriedly called out and said, "Nephew Lin is also old, why bother." While looking at Lin Ruhai's posture, he was shocked when he saw it, and asked, "I haven't seen you for a few years, how can you be so thin?"

It turned out that this Lin Ruhai had a clear demeanor, long eyes and long eyebrows, but he was extremely thin. Seeing Mrs. Zhang's concern, Lin Ruhai hurriedly replied with a smile: "Aunt cares." The nephew was like this, which made the elders worried. ”

When Mrs. Zhang heard this, she smiled and said, "Yes." I remember your mother, who was the most delicate when she was not out of the cabinet. Seeing your description, it also reminds me of how sisters got along with each other back then. One sentence made both of them so sad that they were about to cry. Left and right hurriedly persuaded him. Mrs. Zhang said to Lin Ruhai: "It's just that now you are not a young man, you must also take good care of yourself and cherish your posture." Lin Ruhai was busy. Mrs. Zhang let her sit again, and Lin Ruhai said a few words, and then took a seat. The maid in the room brought tea.

When Mrs. Zhang saw Lin Ruhai bowing her head to eat tea, she turned to her eldest son Huang Xing and smiled: "Today your brother is a coincidence. It's just that since I'm home, let's talk about it first, and all the business in the yamen will be put away. Teach me to listen to one more sentence, I don't want to follow. ”

Huang Xing hurriedly smiled: "Mother's orders, how dare you not obey." Besides, when I invited Cousin Lin to my home, it was originally for the sake of the relatives of the Xu brothers, where is there anything else?" and asked, "Why haven't the second and third brothers come yet?"

A grandmother and servant woman had already replied: "The third master and the third wife arrived early and are waiting under the foyer outside." The second master and Uncle Su of the West Fourth Archway are talking about poetry in the back study, and they have already gone to apply, and they will arrive soon. ”

Huang Xing bowed his head and said to Lin Ruhai: "It's Huang Su, and now he is teaching in Mingyang Academy." Usually with the end of the best. ”

Lin Ruhai said with a smile: "Duan Zhi has always been erudite, and Huang Yanxi is discerning the world, so it's no wonder that he is good." He also said, "There are many great Confucians in Yangming Academy, and there are many bachelors. It's a pity that this has always been busy with official business, and although Huaiyang Jiangning is close at hand, he can't get there. It was an unexpected joy to see Huang Yanxi today, and it can also relieve my regret of coming and going in a hurry. ”

Huang Xing said: "But I lifted him." But there is only one idler, the last person in the academy. If you really want to, simply ask him to quit the museum here and go to Guangling Academy, so that he can be with you every day. ”

Lin Ruhai laughed: "Cousin said this, I have thanked the head of Baishi Mountain of Guangling Academy on behalf of me. It's just that Cheng Ruiqiu's side will annoy me. ”

Huang Xing said: "It's okay. Just put it with Cheng Ruiqiu, and you can barely fold it. He turned his head to Mrs. Zhang and said, "The second brother has always been unintentional on the way to the eunuch, and he is not interesting to follow the ya. simply jumped out and devoted himself to the way of learning, or returned his appetite. ”

Mrs. Zhang feigned anger and said: "I just said it first, I don't want to listen to anything outside today." If your brother is a magistrate or a scholar, what is the use of asking me? It's just that speaking of Huang Su, have you forgotten that Brother Ying is now worshipping him as a teacher? You let the teacher go to Yangzhou, can the disciple not be called to follow? I got the boy's flattery for a few days, so I didn't want to let him go. ”

Huang Xing was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "If it weren't for my mother to talk about it, I would have forgotten it for a while." "Busy with Lin Ruhai," is the nephew of Changzhou's uncle's family, Yangzhi's son Zhang Hui, nicknamed Brother Ying. ”

Lin Ruhai said: "Brother Ying'er, didn't you enter school at the age of fourteen, and you will be the nineteenth in the next year? ”

Huang Xing smiled: "It's him." Since then, he has been studying at Mingyang Academy, and it is difficult for him to endure a lot of hardships. This child's demeanor and demeanor are the most like admiration. Come home today, too, and you'll see it later. ”

At this time, a grandmother and servant woman came in and said that the second master, the third master and the two wives, as well as Huang Su were all outside the door, asking Mrs. Zhang for her safety and asking for a meeting. Mrs. Tai glanced at Huang Xing before saying, "Call everyone in, don't freeze on a cold day." He also ordered someone to say, "Call the young master and girls in the family to come and salute the uncle of the Lin family." ”

At one time, everyone in the courtyard reported that everyone went to Mrs. Zhang's upper room. The ladies and Lin Ruhai saw each other, and they all avoided the back compartment when they saw each other. Mrs. Zhang said: "It's rare that today is complete, and you all go to other homes, so stay here to accompany the old woman for dinner." Brother Xing, please invite Cousin Lin to eat and drink in the outside room, and your brothers will accompany you. Like a boy, you and your brothers are waiting by the side, and you are pouring wine and tea with your uncle. At the end, he smiled back at Zhang Hui and said, "Back boy, my aunt and grandmother only sent you one thing, and I am optimistic about your husband." I saw that his face was a little red now, and he was not allowed to eat or drink nonsense for a while. ”

Before Zhang Hui could reply, Huang Su had already called out: "I haven't eaten a few cups, why did my aunt say that I was again? ”

Mrs. Zhang smiled and said: "Just say a word, you shouted, still thinking that you have a face but no face?

Huang Su was helpless, and saluted and said, "I remember the old lady's orders." ”

As he spoke, the seats in the outer hall were all ready. Mrs. Tai said: "Replace the screen shoji with the Huanghuali Yunjinxiu partition." Although men and women do not sit at the same table, in the end they are a family. The daughters-in-law and girls should also listen to the words and conversations of the grandfathers, open their eyes to some extent, and know what is good and bad. "The people were busy changing.

Only then did everyone sit at the table, first wishing Mrs. Zhang a cup of life, and then each of them raised their chopsticks, eating, drinking, and eating. After the meal is over, tea is sent to rinse the mouth, and then the tea fruit is eaten and relaxed. On the outside table, the unfinished food utensils were removed and replaced with delicate vegetables and hot wine. Mrs. Zhang came out of the room: "We are talking freely and having fun. When you eat wine, and look at the snow, open the windows. I have asked my subordinates to fetch more braziers and stoves and wait on the edge of the porch outside, and the house has seen the hand stove. ”

Huang Xing, Lin Ruhai and others first thanked Mrs. Tai for the arrangement in the room, and then sat down, drank to help talk, commented on the history, and laughed and said angrily. Huang Su saw this table, Huang Xing was deep and meticulous, Huang Ping was well-read, Huang Nian was quick to think, Lin Ruhai was a former detective, the subset of the history knew everything, and they were all able to speak well, and they also had relatives, no taboos, and their hearts were open, and their straight mouths were like hanging rivers, their tongues were lotus, and their hands were dancing, and they had forgotten their forms. He shouted: "Hurry, hurry! A debate with Ruhai is better than a hundred times with Ruiqiu Lao'er! Huaiying pours wine! Watch me fight with Tanhuagong for another 300 rounds!"

Here Zhang Hui, Huang Xiang, and Huang Ping's sons Huang Hao and Huang Min, Huang Nian's son Huang Sheng, the five brothers of the same generation have already opened another seat, and they are free to joke and play. Listening to Huang Su's call, Zhang Hui hurriedly came over with a pot, but he didn't pour the wine immediately, looked at Huang Su's face was red, and said with a smile: "Mr. is drunk." Looking at Lin Ruhai again, seeing that his thin face was not very red, but his eyes were a little white, and said, "Uncle Lin has also drunk a lot, and I am afraid that it will not be beautiful if I drink it again." ”

Huang Su said unhappily: "You have these verbosities." The disciple took care of the teacher's drinking. The elephant boy didn't talk so much. ”

Huang Nian on the side suddenly smiled: "Brother Xiang doesn't say much about his cousin except for his cousin. Yanxi, you can be considered to find someone to compare. ”

Huang Xing said: "What Hui'er said is reasonable. Yanxi, you drank a lot, even Ruhai was afraid that he was poured down to a small half of the altar, although I have good wine here, don't be too greedy, you have to make a little trouble at a time to be happy. Seeing Huang Su's complexion, he replied to Zhang, "Pour this last cup with him." ”

Huang Su suddenly smiled. Zhang Hui poured wine with him, and poured it with the four cousins and uncles on the table. Seeing that everyone drank together, Zhang Hui turned back to his seat. didn't want Fang to sit down, Huang Su, Huang Xing brothers and Lin Ruhai took their cups and came to his table together. Huang Xing said: "Just now we are debating with our hearts, but we might as well hear your brothers talking and laughing." What the hell are you talking about?"

Zhang Hui, Huang Xiang, Huang Hao, Huang Min, and Huang Sheng all stood up. Huang Hao was the oldest, so he replied: "I didn't say anything." Just listening to Cousin Zhang's talk about the things in his academy, he laughed when he heard something interesting. ”

Huang Su hurriedly asked, "What's funny?" I know?"

Zhang replied: "It's just that Mr. Zhou, Zhou, and Li talked about composing poetry, saying that to learn Han and Du, you should learn their will, not words. For example, Du Gongbu's "Eight Songs of Autumn Xing", people say that it is good, but in the eyes of several gentlemen, it is far from the ultimate in the subtlety of his poems. If this is taken as a standard, it will inevitably be too heavy and meaningless. ”

When Huang Su heard this, he suddenly felt bored, and said stupidly: "What's so funny about this?" Seeing that Zhang Hui didn't answer, Huang Min, Huang Sheng and the others on the side kept staring at him, with a strange look of confusion on their faces. Huang Su knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly grabbed his students: "If you have anything else, say it!"

Zhang Hui only kept silent, and Huang Hao next to him couldn't help it, and said with a smile: "Cousin Zhang said that some people learn poetry, and Han Du is everywhere, but they don't know that Han and Du compose poems, and they are bored. For example, Han Changli has the sentence 'the horns of the vines shrink, and the trees peck their heads and knock on the sonul', what is the difference between 'the frog turns white and wide, and the worm dies and grows purple' in "A Night Talk"? Although it is not the Song people who write poems from time to time and everywhere, there are some ...... in the end The breath of reincarnation of grains. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately burst into laughter. Huang Ping even pointed to Zhang Hui and said: "The reincarnation of the five grains, why don't you just say it, what kind of road name do you choose! They all say that you are the most like Yangzhi, the young man is calm, and he is a naughty spirit and a ghost in his bones!"

Huang Hao said: "This is not over yet. Cousin Zhang also said that he once met an old scholar in Qixia Temple, and when he saw people, he said, 'If you can practice a sentence of the Analects, you are a saint'. So he taught his classmates to come up and say, 'Although I am only 20 or 5 years old, I have been practicing the three sentences of the Analects for 15 years, so why have I not become sanctified? The people hurriedly asked which three sentences they were. He replied, 'You don't get tired of eating, you don't get tired of being fine, and you live with the thickness of a raccoon dog.' We couldn't hold our hands for a while, and we almost laughed. ”

Hearing Huang Hao say this, everyone laughed more and more. Even in the screen barrier, there were squirming and thin laughter, and it was obvious that Mrs. Zhang and others were talking, and they couldn't help laughing and laughing.

Huang Su asked: "That classmate, it must be Xie Kai, right?" Seeing Zhang Hui nodding silently, he immediately laughed, turned to Huang Xing and Lin Ruhai and explained: "Xie Kai, it is the kid of Xie Zhun Xie Fenglin's family." The real gentleman can't pretend to be half shabby even after changing into straw shoes and cloth clothes. Over the years, I like to mix with Huaiying, but the bad water in the two stomachs is getting more and more. He added, "It's really a rare good joke, and I'll wait for it to be revealed." As he spoke, he hurriedly dragged the wine jug on the table, poured a large glass, drank it in one gulp, and urged Huang Xing and Lin Ruhai to drink it together. Everyone knew what he was thinking, laughed, and drank the wine.

Lin Ruhai said with a smile: "Academy students, it's really interesting. Interpreting the Analects in this way really makes the old gentleman angry. However, Buddhism says that one thought becomes a Buddha, and a scholar becomes holy with a word, which is not a big fallacy. How can you be tempted to play tricks? It is inevitable that a gentleman will lose his kindness. Then he asked, "There are so many scriptures and meanings that you think that you can have a word that can be used for life?"