Chapter 16: Competing for favor
Zhao Yanheng came uninvited, the two were already talking harshly to each other, Lu Yinglin didn't want to entertain him, and the servant brought tea, Lu Yinglin didn't say please, picked up the tea and didn't drink, just waited for Zhao Yanheng to consciously leave.
Rivals in love are very red when they see each other, and there is nothing to say.
Zhao Yanheng was reluctant to delve into what Lu Yinglin and Li Fei were doing before he arrived, it was not a good thing anyway, as for after he arrived, he didn't want to do anything again, so knowing that he was not treated by the head of the family, Zhao Yanheng slowly picked up the teacup and drank it slowly, looking like he was dead.
Lu Yinglin secretly clenched his fists, and said with a proud look on his face: "Brother Zhao, today is a small gathering between Lu and his brothers and sisters, and it is inconvenient to entertain foreign guests. โ
Zhao Yanheng sneered and said, "Lu Qianhu lives in an official residence......"
Zhao Yanheng was about to show his hole cards, the first number of the Son of Heaven was opened by his family, and all the official residences were branches of his family, behind Lu Yinglin, Long Wenxiu came out: "Brother, this son smashed a gold ingot at the doorman, it is better to stay for a light meal." โ
Long Wenxiu walked around just now, and happened to see Zhao Yanheng throwing a piece of gold to the Lu family's doorman with a anxious face, and then took a closer look at Zhao Yanheng's appearance, his face was like a crown of jade, his eyebrows and eyes were picturesque, better than any man Long Wenxiu had seen in his life, Long Wenxiu was completely beautiful, so he said to keep it. But a piece of gold was exchanged for the sneering sneer of the doorman just now, Zhao Yanheng showed a sneer, the Lu family's background is really shallow.
Lu Yinglin lost face slightly, didn't say much to Zhao Yanheng, turned his head to Long Wenxiu and said: "You go to stay with Wuzhou for a while, or go to accompany the third girl, I will come when I send a guest." โ
"Wuzhou is writing, Sister Feifei seems to have gone to the study, they teach one to write, holding a soft brush is boring. "Long Wenxiu's chest has no ink, and Long Wenxiu's hobby is not here.
Zhao Yanheng got up and bowed to Long Wenxiu and said, "Thank you, Miss Long, for please." โ
Knowing that Lu Yinglin's sister's surname is Long and not Lu, whether the person who comes is an enemy or a friend or a strong enemy, rather than living next door to the Li family by him and offering courtesy to Li Fei when he can't see it, Lu Yinglin's mind turned a corner, but he still maintained a cold face and said: "It's too early for dinner, Brother Zhao might as well move to the study with me to talk." โ
Zhao Yanheng knew that Lu Yinglin wanted him to retreat despite the difficulties, but Lu Yinglin didn't know that Li Fei had become his wife in his previous life, and Zhao Yanheng didn't mind, so he happily went.
In the study, Long Wuzhou is very careful in writing, stroke by stroke, more attentive than in front of Mr., and so write a small letter, dry the ink, and show it to Li Fei with a nervous mood, Li Fei held the pen at the age of three, studied under his mother, and copied a lot of calligraphy in Wenlan Pavilion, and pointed out that it is more than enough for a young man of different races.
Luo Luo has his own language and writing, Chinese characters are the second type of writing written by Long Wuzhou, compared to the same year in Lin'an, Long Wuzhou's Chinese characters have been written well, but in Li Fei's eyes, Long Wuzhou's characters still need to improve. Li Fei regarded Long Wuzhou as the Tusi of the Shama tribe in the future, and became a Tusi in the future, who needed to read and write the official documents of the imperial court, and could write beautiful Chinese characters, which would always be beneficial when he befriended Hanchen in the future.
Li Fei made a mark under the words that Long Wuzhou couldn't write well, Long Wuzhou is still an old problem, a word is taken out alone, and it has been written very well one stroke at a time, but when it comes together, especially when it encounters too many words, it is not stable, and if you look at it throughout, the structure is a little crooked.
Li Fei took out another piece of white paper and rewrote it by copying Long Wuzhou's immature penmanship, the brushwork was fluent and tactful, and the Chinese characters were round and plump, and the structure was square. It was like a group of rabble, and after Li Fei's reprimand, they all stood in a standard military posture.
Long Wuzhou reported his shame and said in a low voice: "Sister Feifei's handwriting is better than that written by the gentleman invited by my family." โ
Li Fei smiled casually and said: "My grandfather used to be the head of civil officials, no matter what his merits were, no good handwriting can be unaffordable, and my handwriting can be regarded as a family history." You don't have to be ashamed, for if I had been born in another family and had no one to teach me since I was a child, I wouldn't have been able to understand it. โ
"So someone taught me that no matter how hard I study and practice, I can write as good as Sister Feifei!" Long Wuzhou took Li Fei's words and put them in his left hand, and the words he wrote were placed side by side in his right hand. Long Wuzhou lowered his head, so Li Fei didn't see Long Wuzhou's resolute face.
"Brother Zhao, please!" Lu Yinglin deliberately said loudly, the people in the ward study. Long Wuzhou admitted that his handwriting was clumsy, and hurriedly put away his words.
Li Fei raised his eyes and looked, Lu Yinglin and Zhao Yanheng came side by side, in terms of body shape, Lu Yinglin was tall and straight, Zhao Yanheng was tall and long; in terms of appearance, Lu Yinglin was resolute and square, Zhao Yanheng was delicate and handsome; in terms of temperament, Lu Yinglin was a good man who was bold and rough in the southwest, and Zhao Yanheng was a noble son nourished in the pile of gold and jade.
Li Fei stood up slowly and did not retreat.
"This is my brother. Lu Yinglin introduced Long Wuzhou to Zhao Yanheng, and naturally saw the character written by Li Fei, picked it up and said affectionately: "Are you teaching Wuzhou to write?
Between the words, he revealed his friendship with Li Fei for many years.
Li Fei smiled at the nervous Long Wuzhou and said: "I have made a lot of progress, but the merit is constant, and Wuzhou still needs to practice more." โ
Zhao Yanheng approached and wanted to reach out and grab Li Fei's writing and ink, but Lu Yinglin was a person who practiced martial arts, so he turned sideways when he saw his intentions, Zhao Yanheng couldn't blatantly use force, so he could only look at Lu Yinglin's hand and commented: "Miss Li's handwriting is written in a regular manner, it is written for beginners to practice, not the style that she has learned." โ
In his previous life, Zhao Yanheng had seen Li Fei's words, in short, one word: beauty; the font written by Li Fei, and the calligraphy that has always been particular about the hidden peak to the back, with excessively tight lines, all the edges of a word have been released, hard and sharp, without a trace of compromise, it is like a โกโก of the sun, a butterfly lost in the rich fragrance of flowers, brilliant to dazzling, gorgeous to mournful.
As a lover of calligraphy, Li Fei's handwriting is admirable, but as a man who loves her, that kind of uncompromising style makes Zhao Yanheng spend the rest of his life in regret.
The love and pity on Zhao Yanheng's face made Li Fei both strange and compassionate. Zhao Yanheng is just a new neighbor to Li Fei, in fact, Li Fei feels that Zhao Yanheng is a little weird, as if Zhao Yanheng is not just facing her every time he faces her. But today, it is not uncommon to look at people by words, and it is not uncommon to look at words by people, but Zhao Yanheng is so sure that words are not words, people are not people, if it is just a few sides and snooped on, Li Fei felt that he had neglected him before. Therefore, Li Fei couldn't help but glance at Zhao Yanheng deeply, and said humbly: "Zhao Gongzi's words are serious, the little girl is just passing the time in the boudoir, copying the handwriting of her predecessors, and the word style is not daring." โ
Lu Yinglin is just a military general who is coarse and well-versed, and he has one less previous life than Zhao Yanheng, so he didn't hear the mutual appreciation of the two of them at all, and just asked Li Feidao: "Third girl, Brother Zhao is a guest when he first comes, can you have a drink with us?"
Whispered to the inquiry, completely putting Li Fei in the position of the hostess, Li Fei said with shame: "The guest is as you please, I don't have a beak." โ
"Then let's drink together!" Lu Yinglin said boldly. As an iron-clad southwestern man, Lu Yinglin did not expose Zhao Yanheng's thoughts in front of Li Fei and the Li family, as Zhao Yanheng said, the famous flower has not yet had a master, Lu Yinglin has such a bearing, and also has such a mind, let Li Fei think clearly, who she will marry in the future.
The five of them sat at a cedar cloud pattern square table, Lu Yinglin and Zhao Yanheng sat facing each other, the dishes were served, the wine was drunk, Lu Yinglin was a good amount of wine, Zhao Yanheng was not bad, Long Wenxiu and Long Wuzhou could accompany the drink, it was Li Fei, who seemed to be a Qianqian woman, weak and boneless, and drank a few cups between pushing the cup and changing the lamp.
Kaoru seemed to be drunk, and the matter was provoked. Lu Yinglin picked up the box of ginseng, pushed it in front of Li Fei and said, "Third girl, this is a thank you gift from Brother Zhao to the old lady, saying that he went out and urgently got it to me, since he took it all, he also had to take it to the right place." โ
Lu Yinglin didn't make his hands and feet behind his back, and stumbled Zhao Yanheng in person. Since Zhao Yanheng told him that he took the wrong gift, Lu Yinglin wanted to sue Li Fei, and Zhao Yanheng would even take the wrong gift to the Li family.
Zhao Yanheng had nowhere to redress his grievances, so he could only take back the box of mountain ginseng, and held the wrong one in front of Li Fei and said: "Be careful, I hope to accept it!"
The ginseng that Zhao Yanheng took out can be bought on the market for more than twenty taels, and twenty taels is enough for an ordinary family of five to be rich for a year in Kunming City, Li Feiqian said: "In the future, the Li family and the Zhao family will be neighbors, and it is appropriate for neighbors to help each other and remind each other." โ
Zhao Yanheng was not drunk at all, but showed an intoxicated smile: "Dr. Xiao Xu has come to see it, compared to Dr. Sun's prescription on the front street, the one surnamed Sun is a quack doctor, and he almost mistook my sister." My sister's life is more than a mountain ginseng, it is nine cows to one dime, Miss Li should not be too polite. โ
Li Fei is not a person who has never seen the world, and a mountain ginseng is not worth pushing around, since she has resigned, Li Fei accepted it calmly.
Lu Yinglin got up suddenly, said to wait a while and went out, came back and carried a long strip of huge things, wrapped tightly with cloth strips, Lu Yinglin gradually removed the cloth strips, it turned out to be a complete yellowish ivory, seven feet long, weighing fifty catties, Lu Yinglin put this tusk that was still stained with blood stains in front of Li Fei, and said stupidly: "Third sister, in two months it will be the old lady's seventieth birthday, and I don't have any expensive gifts, this is the trophy I won from Zhengluchuan this year, and it is the most valuable thing I have at hand." I thought that I would have to hire a ivory carving master now, and I would have to hurry up for two months, and I had to ask my third sister to give an idea to the old lady, and I don't know how to carve it. โ