Chapter 12: Slowly

The next day, Zhu Miaohua dressed up in front of the mirror as in her previous life, her eyebrows were inverted, her two eyebrows were trimmed into a broad moon shape, the end of her eyebrows was blurred from deep to shallow with rouge, her lips were cherry lips, she used facial fat close to her skin color to modify her lip shape, and then used red lip grease to point out her sandalwood mouth, wearing a set of newly made white jade inlaid ruby head, and hanging on her waist was a gold leaf gourd sachet that she had embroidered for half a month, Zhu Miaohua looked at the mirror and showed a gentle smile.

In order to marry King Xiang smoothly in this life, in the past few months, I will still go down from the trajectory of my previous life, and wait until I am safe and stable to become Princess Xiang...... Thinking of her wolf bèi unbearable wedding night and Zhao Yanheng's eyes looking at Li Fei in her previous life, Zhu Miaohua narrowed her eyes slightly, in this life, she not only wants to be famous, but also to be favored by the emperor.

Zhu Miaohua walked towards the court with greater ambitions than in his previous life, and thousands of miles away from the Li family, Li Fei wore a silver-red plain coat, combed a snail bun, and looked at miscellaneous books comfortably by the window.

A crisp silver Ling sound mixed with the girl's laughter, two little girls about three years old walked in with little hands, one of them carved pink, round face and fat child, naturally their own child Li Qi'er, the other, wearing a brand new yellow-white embroidered vine Su Jin jacket, gave birth to a thin and delicate little face, fair skin, smart eyes, combed two buds on the head, a string of silver bells wrapped around the bun, a silver collar around the neck, a piece of peach-colored jade pendant fell in the middle, and a pair of fish scale silver bracelets were set on the wrist。

In this neighborhood, there are no children who are dressed so richly at a young age, Li Fei put down his book and asked with a smile: "Whose child are you?"

The child who came didn't recognize his life, and said in a soft and glutinous voice: "I am a child of the family next door, and I am a child of the Tang family." ”

Li Fei was confused, and the painting screen came in and explained with a smile: "It's Zhao Gongzi's little cousin." ”

Li Fei looked at the little girl's eyebrows again, and Li Qi'er said happily: "Little aunt, I want to take Sister Qiaoqiao to see my brother." The little girl was rare with her little brother who had only been around for a few days, and one of the friends in the neighborhood pulled her home, and said that she stretched out the osmanthus halva that she had bitten into in front of Li Fei, and said sweetly: "This is the candy that Sister Qiaoqiao gave me, my little aunt tasted a little, but it was delicious, and I also took a piece for my younger brother to eat." ”

Li Fei hugged Li Qi'er's chubby little body, did not dislike the child's saliva, took a small bite, and said: "Your mother and brother are sleeping, since they are children from the next door, I will come to see it when my brother wakes up later." ”

Can't show her brother, Li Qi'er was a little disappointed, but she quickly became happy, took Li Fei's hand and said coquettishly: "Little aunt, you take out my sugar, and I will also invite Sister Qiaoqiao to eat sugar." ”

Li Qi'er was greedy and sweet and had a tooth decay, and the sweets were locked up to eat a little bit according to the amount of the order, Li Fei smiled and nodded Li Qi'er's little head, got up and went to the cabinet to take out a white porcelain round belly jar, grabbed a handful of milk nest silk candy wrapped in glutinous rice paper, and counted them one by one to Li Qi'er, and said: "You have already eaten two pieces of candy this morning, and you can only eat two more pieces today, and you have to invite Sister Qiaoqiao to eat the rest, do you know if you want to rinse your mouth carefully after eating?"

Li Qi'er nodded her little head and grinned, Li Qi'er ate Tang Qiaoqiao's candy, Tang Qiaoqiao ate Li Qi'er's sugar, Li Qi'er was going to leave the sugar for her younger brother, but she couldn't help but eat it with her mouth, frowning her little eyebrows as if she had made a lot of determination, and pushed her two milk nest silk candies to Tang Qiaoqiao, and Tang Qiaoqiao bit her ear and said, "I'll exchange my sugar for ...... with you."

The painting screen soaked the mint water for gargling, Li Fei touched the edge of the cup, let it cool and asked them to rinse their mouths, hearing Li Qi'er's greedy words, but there was no sound, and quietly called the painting screen to inquire where the Zhao family's osmanthus halva was bought, the two little girls rinsed their mouths, and played hand in hand next door.

Li Fei picked up the book again and continued to look down.

Separated by a wall, the men at the wine table pushed their glasses and changed their lamps, so it was not lively.

Zhang Baochang on the seat received twenty taels of silver from Cheng Anguo yesterday, and today at the wine table, Zhang Baochang followed the routine pointed out by Cheng Anguo yesterday and said: "Little brother Chu Bi is from Huguang, and listening to your accent, he looks like a person from the capital. ”

Zhao Yanheng said casually: "My father is from the capital, and my father is old, so I can't avoid that our brothers are not harmonious, so we divided some of the family's properties in advance, let the brothers run it, and the income is their own, and there is no compensation for the loss. ”

"This is modesty, your medicinal materials, ginseng, tiger bones, leopard gall, the capital has also gone down tens of thousands, as soon as you buy the house of the old Liang family, except for the beams of the house, the others have all been replaced, such a delicacy, it looks like the son of a big family. Zhang Baochang sang according to the script, thinking of the four daughters in the family, the second of which is similar in age and looks pretty enough, he asked with the mind of a matchmaker: "Brother Chu Bi, at your age, there is a young grandmother in the family?"

Zhao Yanheng smiled with a little shyness: "A few years ago, I was busy studying hard, and I wanted to come out to practice all these years, but I didn't care about starting a family. ”

Zhang Baochang was about to speak, and after reading the sage books for 20 years, Zeng Xiucai, who won the show talent last year, first smiled and asked: "Brother Zhao can be famous? "Ask is ask, Zeng Xiu is a talent in his thirties, looking at Zhao Yanheng's young appearance, and doing businessman's business, I don't think I have read it yet, and I can also walk around in the future by pointing out articles.

Zhao Yanheng heard Zeng Xiucai's show-off, but said casually: "The year before last, I raised fifty-three people and accompanied the last seat, which is really not enough to worry about!"

Zhao Yanheng didn't make it up, two years ago, sixteen-year-old Zhao Yanheng mixed in with a group of scholars, and relied on his own ability to really pass the exam. It's just that he used to be a prince in the palace, and later became a prince in a fiefdom, and what he pursued in his heart was never to learn literary and martial arts and sell them to the emperor's family, he used the mentality of the future master to take a look at the place of the imperial court.

Zeng Xiucai's face drooped uncontrollably, and Zhang Baochang's eyes brightened even more when he looked at Zhao Yanheng, but he didn't forget the benefits of jΓ¬ twenty taels of silver, and motioned to Li Su, who had been silent, and said: "I'm a rough person, I don't know about reading, Li Erlang has been on an errand in Wenlan Pavilion for more than ten years, if you want to talk about reading, no one in this place has read more books than Li Erlang, of course, Li Erlang has also studied the imperial examination article, but his family background is tired and he has lost the qualification for the imperial examination." ”

Li Su waved his hand, pursed his lips and said: "My life is given by my parents, but I am not qualified to say 'tired', Uncle Zhang's words I dare not be, when it comes to imperial examination articles, there are many knowledgeable people in the city, Brother Zhao is not bad There are no people who study together, I just waste my time, read more miscellaneous books, and talk with the talented master, is Uncle Zhang going to shame me!"

"Wen Ji don't be presumptuous!" Zeng Xiucai thinks very highly of himself, but he also sincerely admires talented people, and says: "It's a pity that Wen Ji can't end up, otherwise he will also be a young man." The Li family is a family history, Wenji's grandfather and father are all rare talents. ”

"Brother Wen Ji......" Zhang Baochang and Zeng Xiucai's words are all appreciation for the Li family, Zhao Yanheng also wants to use this reason to express his appreciation for the Li family, but Li Su did not give Zhao Yanheng this opportunity, Li Su was mentioned by Zeng Xiucai The old man of the Li family and his face was sad, he drank a glass of wine, choked and coughed a few times, coughed crimson, and then got up like everyone arched his hands and said: "I am not strong enough to drink, I will leave first, you have fun!"

Zhao Yanheng waited to get up and stay, and Li Su said a word of rudeness and had already left his seat.

Just a few steps, Li Su returned home, there was no drunken posture on his face, and went straight to the study, Li Fei just finished reading the book in his hand, walked over to return the book, saw Li Su thinking alone in the window, and turned back with a light foot. Li Su saw Li Fei's figure and said, "Third sister, come in." ”

Li Fei said as he walked: "Is the seat dispersed over there? ”

Li Su walked to the desk to sort out the recent manuscripts, all of which were scientific research materials written by Li Su himself, or annotations to the Four Books and Five Classics, or annotations to a certain imperial examination article, Wenlan Pavilion's salary was meager, and the money of the readers was the most profitable, Li Su wrote these things for the purpose of making money, but this is not a kind of resentment, he is not qualified for the imperial examination, but those who are qualified for the imperial examination, how many of them are mediocre people, and they are not enlightened after reading books for decades.

Li Su had such ridicule in his heart, but he couldn't amplify the resentment in his heart, the Li family was already like this, exiled in the southwest, and the brothers were not allowed to be free, and then they were depressed and uneven, it was a day of self-suffering.

Li Fei saw Li Su sorting out the manuscript with a heavy and complicated mood, and he didn't ask about this matter, but asked, "Why does Zhao Gongzi have a little cousin here?"

Li Su said: "I heard Brother Zhao say that it was a cousin's child, and his cousin died of illness, and he entrusted his mother to take care of the child before leaving. Brother Zhao will take care of it for a few days, and then he will send it to his mother. ”

Li Fei smiled and said, "So that's the case, it's very good." I see that the child is exquisite, his demeanor reveals the delicate spirit raised by the rich and polite everyone, and the official language is also pure, and the two children can just play together. ”

The brother and sister did not have any suspicion of the pair of cousins next door, and at the same time they were not at all wary of Zhao Yanheng's true purpose, and when the night fell, the Li family was ready to rest, Jiang Bo came in and said to Le's: "Third wife, there is an old woman visiting you!"

Because Le's relationship is a stable woman, if there is a tricky birth, he will be called in the middle of the night.