Chapter 212: Two Old Friends
That night, Zhao Yanheng was extraordinarily brave on the bed, first he was like a bamboo, and a man's excited roar came out from the blue and white curtain, and then it was lingering, Li Fei hugged his sweaty body, buried his face in his shoulder socket, and fell into a deep sleep.
Zhao Yanheng held Li Fei in his heart in this posture, the late night at the end of July had cooled down, these two people were not ashamed to cover the quilt at all, Li Fei was naturally cold, instinctively dressed in the past, tightly attached to Zhao Yanheng's hot body, and put his hand on his lean waist and hips.
His heart throbbed fiercely, Zhao Yanheng wrapped his arms around Li Fei with one hand, supported Li Fei's neck with the other, and hugged her in a baby-hugging posture. The tide of love did not subside for a long time, his eyes were still frighteningly bright, and gradually a little water shone out, with endless hope and joy, and asked solemnly: "Give me a child?"
In a daze, Li Fei either heard it, or maybe this cherished hug was too comfortable, so he made a hum sound.
An empty part of his heart was filled a little, Zhao Yanheng was gentle like a spring breeze, put Li Fei back on the bed gently, looked at her quiet sleeping face in a daze, and said, "You agreed, then you can sleep." ”
A good night's dream, the blue and white curtain was lifted in the copper hook, Li Fei was awakened by the dazzling morning sun, first touched the bedside, the bedside was already empty, there was only a note, pressing a cup on the table, the handwriting was dragon and phoenix dancing, and vulgar: "Mother-in-law, I will take you to Tongzhou City in the afternoon to buy a big gold bracelet." ”
Li Fei smiled and folded the note flat and received it in his purse. Youlu and Dong Rang got up early, set up a ladder to pick grapes to eat, and asked and answered questions with Dong Rang.
Yulu asked, "How is this yard cleaned up, it looks very angry?"
Dong Rang sighed and said: "It turned out that there was a family of five, and now I live in the Fucheng Inn with delicious food and drink, I have changed the bed with the same person, and repurchased the same spoons and bowls, the furniture has not been changed but carefully wiped three times, and the others are kept as they are, which is much more troublesome than the guest house." ”
"This trouble, you tell your master?" Youlu smiled with a smile.
Dong Rang waved his hand, hurriedly ran away, turned around and saw Li Fei standing behind him, and said respectfully: "Grandma is up, the little one will make breakfast immediately." ”
"Wait for Grandma Cheng. Li Fei caught a bunch of grapes handed down by Youlu, peeled and ate half of the bunch, looked at the newly harvested crops in a yard, and got up happily.
Song Duofu finally came out lazily, yawning as if he had not slept enough, and ate a few unripe sour grapes, and he was so sour that he came back to his senses.
After the afternoon, the two couples went to Tongzhou City, each shopping in their own streets, not disturbing each other.
The first family really went to a jewelry store, bought a pair of gold bracelets with baby play bat patterns and put them on Li Fei's deliberately bare wrists, and then went to an antique street to shop for things.
They walked on the flat green board ground, and Zhao Yanheng said in a low voice: "Many of the things in these shops are picked up by the proprietor or shopkeeper from the pawnshops in various places. At the northernmost end of this canal, goods are collected and distributed, officials and merchants come and go, and its prosperity is similar to that of the chessboard street in the capital. ”
October 11 is the Wanshou Festival, the emperor is rich all over the world, and he has never seen any good things, so the preparation of the emperor's birthday gift is the most nerve-wracking, and even Zhao Yanheng really has to worry about it, and he looked for it more than two months in advance.
After looking at a few shops, he stepped into a painting shop, and the shopkeeper was entertaining a wealthy businessman with ten fingers and eight fingers wearing gold rings, and a fat pig was slaughtering in his eyes, so he gave Zhao Yanheng and Li Fei to the guys, and said, "Xiao Zeng, hospitality!"
A thin man with a thin face walked out in a green silk robe, and he was a former old man, Zeng Bochen, who loved painting on Xiaomu Mountain.
Zeng Bochen also recognized it as an acquaintance, and said with a dull look: "There is fate, there is fate." ”
A lot of things happened in Xiaomu Mountain, and an old man with several faces inevitably made Li Fei think too much, glanced at Zhao Yanheng, and bred the idea of retreating.
Zhao Yanheng didn't see any different colors, and asked, "Why are you a buddy here?"
Zeng Bochen said embarrassedly: "I want to do the painting of the Hanlin Academy, but I didn't choose it in the spring of this year, so I fell here to earn some silver first." Zeng Bochen wanted to ask the two of them why they were also at the feet of the Son of Heaven, he was just full of face, he understood the world, he was a buddy now, and it was important to make money.
"You have ambition!" Zhao Yanheng's words were half positive and half negative.
This dynasty is to recruit scholars with talent and skills, and put them in the Hanlin Academy, and those who are placed in the Hanlin Academy with painting skills are painting to be edicted, and the rank is from the ninth grade, which is smaller than the sesame official. However, craftsmen such as painters are already at the peak from Jiupin. Zeng Bochen was obsessed with painting and wanted to apply for this Jiupin official.
For Zeng Bochen, this road is very difficult to walk, and even Li Fei knows this. Because the Hanlin Academy is full of talents, and there are literati who are promoted to the middle school, they have that kind of artistic cultivation to study painting skills, and in order to have one more chance to get ahead, they will also apply for and lead the painting to wait for the edict, and Zeng Bochen is not familiar with the imperial examination articles. But then again, a specialist and a generalist, a single skill, it still depends on whether Zeng Bochen's painting skills are outstanding, plus a little luck.
Thousands of miles of meeting is also a kind of fate, and today Zeng Bochen's fortune is there.
Zeng Bochen has already entered the identity of a partner, and said like an endorsement: "What kind of calligraphy and painting do the two want, our store has it, and we have registered and made a picture album, and if we don't have it, we have tried our best to collect it objectively for the two of you." "If you open this kind of shop, the owner behind it either has connections or cultivation in the painting world, otherwise Zeng Bochen would not make money here. He was making money while honing his painting skills.
Zhao Yanheng and Li Fei made it down to eat tea. Zhao Yanheng crossed Erlang's legs and said: "It is to give it to a big official as a birthday gift, it is a very big official, and it is also an official who has the world in mind." You are an expert, the picture should be grand, prosperous, lively, to show the prosperous scene, do you understand?"
Zeng Bochen seemed to understand, but he didn't seem to understand, and said: "What kind of painting style is that official? Do you want landscape painting, genre painting, or character scene painting?"
Zhao Yanheng hooked his hand and let Zeng Bochen get closer before saying: "I don't care about these, the paintings I ask for should give people a sense of beauty and prosperity, and there must be a kind of sorrow that is bound to decline." ”
Zeng Bochen seemed to understand a little more, but he still didn't understand after thinking about it, so he nodded first and then shook his head: "There don't seem to be any paintings that can be objectively seen in this store." ”
"If you don't have it, I don't have to be a famous master, but this painting, this artistic conception must be shown. Zhao Yanheng had already put aside the tea and said: "There is no need to spare the silver, I will send someone to ask within a month." ”
Zeng Bochen promised again and again.
Zhao Yanheng and Li Fei have drifted away, Zeng Bochen stood dumbfounded, pondering that kind of artistic conception in his heart, with a brush, how to paint the sorrow of beauty and prosperity, and prosperity and decline?
The shopkeeper had just slaughtered a merchant with a lot of money, and he almost kept a silver ticket with a hundred hearts back and forth, and saw that Zeng Bochen had not done business again, shook his head and sighed, opened the silver cabinet and locked the silver ticket in.
Cheng Anguo and Song Duofu are much easier to go shopping. Cheng Anguo is twenty-two years old this year, it is definitely not small to be a father at this age, and he is also ready to be a father overnight, first take Song Duofu to visit the clothing store, two months in July, that is, in March next year, the melon will be ripe and give birth to a child, in March, you still have to wear thick clothes, as well as bedding and swaddling, these have to buy materials to make, of course, there is Song Duofu, pregnant with a child and when the belly grows up, the clothes on the body have to be redone, and the materials must be bought.
Because Cheng Anguo is going to leave tomorrow, his wife and children must always do their best now.
Then go to the preserved fruit shop, pickled sour plums, apricots and peaches, hawthorn strips, etc., Song Duofu also likes to eat sour, and he bought a lot of sweet and sour fruits. The two shops walked down, and the two little guys behind Cheng Anguo were full of things in their hands, and Cheng Anguo was still carrying two jars of pickled sour plums in his hands, and instructed Song Duofu as he walked, saying: "When you go back, tell your mother quickly, so that your mother will be happy." ”
Song Duofuyi nodded obediently, but said softly: "I want to sue you first, I want you to be the first to know, the first to be happy." Are you happy?"
Cheng Anguo's face was full of joy, and he grabbed Song Duofu and told her to get closer, so that she was carefully bumped into by pedestrians. Of course, Cheng Anguo's skills are here, and such a situation is almost impossible, but Cheng Anguo is a guard and is used to guarding.
The two of them chatted carefully, and Cheng Anguo still had a lot of instructions, and said: "The servants in the family are not enough, you look at it and buy two more people...... Hey, you don't have to worry about this, my mother should take care of it herself, and I will write a letter. The material is for you and your children to make clothes, but you don't use needlework and thread, and tell the maids to do more. There is also the diet above...... I don't know much about these things, but it just so happens that my mother and mother-in-law are in Beijing, so you should listen to their opinions...... By the way, when my sister was there, I seemed to have given bird's nest, you can eat it too, don't feel sorry for the silver......"
There was a burst of dark incense, Cheng Anguo stopped his instructions one by one, and turned back at dusk.
Just now a donkey cart passed by, the most common kind of flat-topped small donkey cart in the shipping terminal, when Cheng Anguo turned around, he saw a delicate and petite Rouyi put it back, the curtain of the car was lowered, and it shook gently.
"What's wrong?" Song Duofu asked, shaking Cheng Anguo's arm.
Cheng Anguo didn't know what was wrong with him, he turned back as if he had been summoned by someone, and looked back to see that there were people coming and going on the spacious road, all of them were unfamiliar faces, each with its own path.
In the donkey cart sat a master and two servants, and the master of it had a pair of wonderful eyes surging out of broken light, so that there was a kind of dreamy beauty of seeing flowers in the fog. Her posture is graceful and weak, but she sits upright, the bridge of her nose is straight, and her lips are red, so she outlines her graceful beauty.
She's Xu Min!