The three of them had lunch at Zheng's house, Yang Yilin quickly cleaned up the dishes, Qiao Xiang quickly took the dishes and put them in the pool on the right side of the door, and reached out to brush them.

Qin Zixi hurriedly came over and said, "Qiao Xiang, you rest for a while, let me brush it." ”

Zheng Xiaowen came over and said: "The three of you are my family's helpers, I am the host, and I have to do my job." With that, he tossed the two of them aside and brushed up the dishes himself.

Qin Zixi saw that Yang Yilin was wiping the table, Qiao Xiang went to sweep the floor again, he stretched out his hand to brush the bowl, and whispered into Zheng Xiaowen's ear: "What is it for me to do that little work, I am not tired at all, so many plates and bowls, you wash your hands and rest, let me brush them." ”

Zheng Xiaowen said: "Then you brush, I'll put it in the cupboard." ”

These four people, you do this, I do that, after a while, the two large kitchens have been clean and restored to their original state.

Mother Zheng sat on the side and watched all this, and had another thought in her heart: Looking at this today...... The handsome boy rushed to brush the dishes and didn't let Nini brush it, which showed that he was very good to Nini, and he was still very happy to see Nini's expression.

The civil and military all-rounders helped Nini cook, which seemed to be better for Nini, and I was very happy when I looked at Nini's expression.

This dashing Confucian is also very diligent, and he looks like a very good child, and Nini looks at him with the same happy face. This......

Among these three boys, if one of them is his daughter-in-law and son-in-law, and two are his sons, every day will be like today, and the family will be lively, how good it would be!

Ahem, you old lady, you live in this deep mansion compound, and your heart feels too pure, so you can think about some lively things! If these children become your sons, what will the mother of the other family do!

Zheng's mother was imagining when she suddenly heard her daughter say, "Mom, let's go to the East Garden." ”

Mother Zheng hurriedly smiled and raised her hand at these people and said, "Go, go." Thinking about his thoughts, he got up and went to the upper room.

Zheng Xiaowen, Yang Yilin, Qiao Xiang, and Qin Zixi came to the East Garden, and Yang Yilin pointed to the jujube tree and said, "This jujube will be beaten in less than two hours." ”

"Don't talk about picking dates now," Zheng Xiaowen pointed to the upper room of the east courtyard, "Let's go, let's go to my English tutoring room to rest." ”

As soon as the four of them stepped into the threshold of the upper room in the east courtyard, they were greeted by a large Chinese painting and couplets on both sides of the Chinese painting, which attracted the eyes of these three outsiders. They all stopped walking into the counseling room, and all stopped and stood inside the threshold to look at the calligraphy and paintings.

The three of them saw that there were words on the Chinese painting 'Huazhai Xiangyuan Map'. The couplets on both sides of the Chinese painting are:

Shanglian: clear blue and green west house view,

Downlink: Yin Ziyan Red East Courtyard Spring.

Qin Zixi pointed to the Chinese painting and said: "Look at this painting, there are ancient courtyard houses, ancient streets, and a large garden near the courtyard, and the trees in the middle of the illustrations are full of spring. Hey, there's a puppy among the flowers!"

Qin Zixi looked at the painting again and said: "You see, although the painting uses ink and light color, it also sets off the courtyard of this quadrangle house to be simple and elegant, comfortable and happy, and renders the garden scenery next to the residence full of fruits and flowers.

"When I look at this painting, I feel that this painter's ink method is unique and profound, and I can't help but call it beautiful!" he said, clapping his hands excitedly.

Qiao Xiang pointed to the couplet and said: "Look at the characters on both sides of the painting, this character is written magnificently, male and beautiful, this unconventional and profound calligraphy art style, which is everyone's handwriting?"

Qiao Xiang saw that no one was talking, he looked at the Chinese painting and thought for a while, and actually sang a five-character quatrain:

Painting

The grapes weep purple bunches, and the domestic dogs stand among the flowers.

Under the winding path through the pavilion, the flowing spring falls into the green mountain.

As soon as he finished chanting, the three of them clapped their hands together and praised: "Good poetry!

Qin Zixi patted Qiao Xiang's shoulder and said, "You are really Secretary Qiao! A painting only takes a few glances, and a good poem comes out, if I can't learn it from you, you are really admirable!"

Yang Yilin pointed to the Chinese painting and said: "Zixi, Qiao Xiang, you two look hard, cough, just tell you, if you want to know where this scene is, look carefully at the foot of the couplet." ”

Yang Yilin spent so much time in the morning looking at this house and small street, and he was still in the East Garden for a while, of course he would see where the painting was drawn.

Qin Zixi said: "I only care about appreciating calligraphy and painting, yes, yes, this painting is the house and garden here." ”

When Qiao Xiang heard this, he quickly turned around and crossed the threshold, walked to the courtyard to look around, and said in his heart: Yes, there is a moon gate on the painting!

There is also the one surnamed Qin, although it is okay to talk to him, but how can there be these two people in this world, if there is, there will be it, why are they dangling in front of my eyes? Why are they dangling in front of Xiaowen's eyes? Who called them here!

Thinking of this, Qiao Xiang kicked the ground hard.

Qiao Xiang kicked this kick, and in an instant, he forgot about annoying Yang Yilin and Qin Zixi, and at this time, he only thought about the scenery of this mansion, the garden of the flower garden, and the picture of Chinese painting, so he strode over and stepped into the threshold.

Qiao Xiang said: "My eyes were full of pomegranates all morning, and I didn't care about anything else. When I was looking at the painting just now, my mind was flooding with poetry. Xiaowen, who do you say painted this picture? Is it you? And who wrote this word?"

Qiao Xiang was in high spirits, and at this time, he spoke so neatly that Zheng Xiaowen looked at him a few more times in a daze.

Zheng Xiaowen replied: "Tell the three of you, this character was also written by my father, and I painted this painting." Just because the painting is the scenery of our Zheng family, and it is hung in our own home, there is no inscription and seal on the calligraphy and painting.

"Just now you talked about me not speaking, because I am used to hearing it, all the guests who come to my house for the first time, especially my father's guests, almost everyone has to ask who painted this painting, who wrote this character, isn't it just a calligraphy and painting, look at your rarity, out of place!"

Qin Zixi picked up again: "This calligraphy and painting is eye-catching, my uncle's guests must be people who are proficient in writing and ink and can write and be good at painting, who can not ask when encountering such a good painting and good calligraphy." ”

A few people looked at the furnishings of the living room again: they saw that the front door was a rosewood table of eight immortals, and the inside was a table against the back wall. There are antiques such as porcelain and jade on the table. On either side of the table of the Eight Immortals is a pair of carved wreath chairs with armrests.

There is a double-legged coffee table on the west wall. There is a carved pot stand behind the west door.

The antique furniture in the living room is all grape black purple red, and the color is very bright.

The three of them swept their eyes over the living room, their footsteps converging on the antique mirror frame behind the east door.

When the three of them saw a carved chair with a carved back at the bottom of the frame, they all thought to themselves: These antique furniture with history may be destroyed one day, and it is difficult to see it now, let alone in the future!

Especially Yang Yilin, he carefully looked at the patterns on the drawer of the mirror frame and the patterns on the copper hanging ring, and said: "Ah, the workmanship on this is all very refined and delicate!"

Yang Yilin looked at the most exciting and storytelling part of the frame: it was the eighty-centimeter-high, five-connected transparent wood carved screen fan that slowly moved from the back to the two sides and then forward, half-surrounding the mirror base. The middle sash at the back is higher, and the four sash on both sides are in a semicircle, and the front sash is slightly lower than the other.

Yang Yilin stood forward, and looked carefully at the mirror frame, on the highest screen fan in the middle of the back, a lifelike celestial girl with her body slightly tilted to her left side was carved above, and she was scattering flowers.

The face of the goddess melon seeds is shaped, the nose is shrugged with a small mouth, and the eyebrows and eyes are clear. She wore fairy hair in a bun, her figure was slender, and her dress was embroidered with fluttering ribbons, as if she were walking in the air.

The Celestial Maiden looked down slightly, stretched her arms forward slightly, and held a basket full of flowers with branches and leaves, the basket was slightly tilted, and the flowers and branches and leaves inside were slowly falling downward, filling the five screen fans.

On the five screen fans, there are beautiful leaves, beautiful flowers, and budding buds on the sinuous and flexible flower branches about the thickness of chopsticks. The lines between the petals, the stamens, and the veins on the leaves are all carved very finely and clearly. The dense layout of its branches, leaves, flowers, and buds is also very appropriate and exquisite. With such an elegant carved frame, the viewer is amazed by its artistic beauty!

After Yang Yilin finished watching the Heavenly Maiden scattering flowers, he saw a large round bronze mirror on the frame, and asked, "Teacher Zheng, which dynasty left this bronze mirror and this frame?"

"I don't know, but my grandfather said that it was a dowry from his grandmother's family. Zheng Xiaowen said.

As soon as Zheng Xiaowen finished speaking, she suddenly remembered what happened when she was a child......

When Zheng Xiaowen was a few years old, the Scattered Flower Celestial Girl on this frame once took her to fly to play, and now she still has a little memory. At this time, she just thought about it, and felt that if she said this, these three people would not believe it, but it would become a joke, so she didn't say it.

Suddenly, Zheng Xiaowen saw that the Heavenly Maiden on the frame was colorful, and he moved to smile at her and said: "Xiaowen, I'm here, I'll still play with you, Gege!"

Zheng Xiaowen only blinked his eyes, and then looked closely, the color picture just now was gone, and the frame was the same again.

Zheng Xiaowen hurriedly looked at the three people and saw that the three were still looking at the frame. Hmmm? I was dreaming just now? No, I look at it as it is real, how can it be a dream? She thought about it again, and she couldn't tell if it was a dream or not.

After looking at the living room furnishings, the three people came into the Xili room, and they saw that there were more than a dozen sets of beige single desks, tables and chairs in the counseling room, a blackboard supported on the podium, and the large glass window was very bright.

Qin Zixi said: "Heh, your counseling room is quite like it!"

Qiao Xiang said: "This learning environment is quiet and comfortable, which is really good!"

Yang Yilin said: "The outside is the garden, the indoor is the school, the fragrance is quiet, the memory is superb, it is really beautiful!"

Zheng Xiaowen said: "I'll go to the West Mansion to pick up a pot of tea, you put the table on the table, and after a while, we will drink tea and talk, play and rest." ”

Zheng Xiaowen brought tea over, brought a tea bowl from the living room, and the four of them sat down around the right table, Qin Zixi said, "I have a suggestion, how about we play Fenlan?"

The three of them said together, "Good!"

Qin Zixi said again, "Then we have to follow the old rules of Fenlan, whose name is written on the empty number, who has to sing a song, or recite a poem, do you agree or not?"

The three of them immediately clapped their hands and shouted, "Agreed!"

Zheng Xiaowen took paper and pen from the drawer of the lectern and handed them to Qin Zixi, Qin Zixi brushed the paper a few times, and the bluegrass with four leaves was drawn.

He took another piece of paper and wrote on it: The first leaf from the left is zero.

He pressed the piece of paper on the table, pushed the paper with the bluegrass in it to the middle of the table, and said, "Write your last name on the tip of the bluegrass leaf, and the remaining leaf is mine." Choose carefully, don't write on the empty number, let's start. ”