Chapter 294: Old Mr. Bai (II)
The boy came up with tea, and several people sat around the table. Mr. Bai brought down the tea bowl from the tray in Xiao Tong's hand, probably because he was too old and his hands were shaking all the time, Jiang Yu looked a little afraid that he would spill the water in the tea bowl.
Mr. Bai finally brought the tea to Yu Wenhong and said, "Holy Lord, please use tea." He also said: "The tea is the wild tea grown by the back mountain, and the water is the mountain spring water of the back mountain, hoping to enter the mouth of the saint." ”
As he spoke, he brought another bowl and put it in front of Jiang Yu, and said, "Niangniang, please use tea." ”
Yu Wenhong didn't sweep his face, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip. Jiang Yu also smiled at Mr. Bai, and also took a sip of tea.
Tea is good tea, Jiang Yu can't drink what kind of tea, there is a sweet fragrance of mountain streams when drinking, just like the leisure given by this mountain village, forgetting worries and sorrows and calming and happy.
Yu Wenhong put down the tea bowl, and then pointed to Jiang Yu and introduced him: "This is Ah Yu, my wife." ”
Jiang Yu was stunned for a moment when he listened, his title was somewhat deliberately vague, Jiang Yu was a little confused whether he was calling Meng Yuyu's "Ayu" or her Jiang Yu's "Ayu", but what made Jiang Yu even more stunned was the sentence he introduced later.
He was speaking of "my wife" and not "my concubine." ”
Mr. Bai naturally didn't know that the current queen's surname was Cui, and the emperor in front of him would definitely not be a woman from the Cui family, but he didn't seem to hear anything wrong with his words, he looked at Jiang Yu with a smile, and said softly: "She is a good girl, she looks very beautiful, like a virtuous concubine, and she is also very compatible with the emperor." ”
Jiang Yu laughed twice with some embarrassment, and said, "Mr. Bai has won the award." ”
Yu Wenhong just introduced it so simply, and then he didn't explain too much, and looked at Mr. Bai and said, "The old man's hair is much grayer." ”
Mr. Bai seemed to like to laugh very much, he was always smiling, his eyebrows and eyes seemed to be smiling, and he replied to Yu Wenhong's words: "When people are old, how can they not change their silver hair when they are full of green silk." It's the saint, I haven't seen him for many years, but I'm already an adult......" said as if he missed something, and gestured with his hand: "I remember when the virtuous concubine Niangniang took the saint to visit Lao Suo, the saint was just such a big child, innocent and lively, and he was making trouble here in Lao Suo to catch rabbits......
Then there was a deep sigh, and that was the first time her daughter had come back to visit him since she had entered the palace, taking her only grandson with her. But who knows, after she left that time, it was goodbye, and he never had the chance to see this daughter again.
Old Mr. Bai said: "If Concubine Xian Niangniang is still alive, she will be very pleased to see the Holy Lord grow into such majesty as she is now. ”
Yu Wenhong didn't speak for a while, probably thinking of Concubine Bai Xian, the expression on his face was gloomy, and then he picked up the tea bowl and took another sip of tea, and then continued after putting down the tea bowl: "How has the old gentleman been doing all these years?"
Mr. Bai said: "Very good, very good!"
Jiang Yu listened to their conversation, and only felt that the atmosphere between them was very strange, saying that the monarch and the minister were a little close, and that the relatives were close and a little alienated from the monarch and the minister.
Yu Wenhong seems to have a lot to say with Mr. Bai, but what they talk about is useless.
Lunch is naturally used here, and the food is coarse tea and light rice, and there is nothing to entertain in the countryside, but even if this table of light tea and light rice, it may also take a lot of effort.
When it came to the evening, Jiang Yu thought that Yu Wenhong would go back, but he didn't expect him to directly plan to stay here.
Jiang Yu was very depressed, and couldn't help but complain to Yu Wenhong: "You didn't say anything when you went out in the morning, I didn't bring a change of clothes or anything." ”
Yu Wenhong said: "This is simple, just let someone go to the village and borrow a dress for you." ”
Although Jiang Yu was very dissatisfied, there was no better way, this day was dusty, and he couldn't help but change his clothes.
Zhu Hong went to find clothes for her and came back, Jiang Yu came out after freshening up and changing, and Yu Wenhong had already gone for a walk with Mr. Bai. Only Zhu Hong was left in the courtyard, leaning on a mulberry tree in the courtyard to watch the moon in the sky.
Jiang Yu has been pampered for many years, and he is not used to wearing this coarse cloth clothes, and he always feels abrasive. Jiang Yu couldn't help but tidy up his uncomfortable clothes from time to time while walking out of the room, and then saw Zhu Hong in the courtyard.
Jiang Yu asked strangely: "Why are you here, why didn't you follow the emperor." ”
Zhu Hong smiled and said, "The emperor has Wan Zhonglang and Wan Gonggong around him, and he has left his ministers here to protect his mother." ”
Jiang Yu nodded when he heard this, bored for a while, so he simply stood next to him, leaned against another tree and clasped his hands, and chatted with Zhu Hong: "Don't you think it's strange here, this old Mr. Bai seems to be only one person, and he didn't see any other relatives." ”
Zhu Hong replied to him with a soft smile: "Mr. Bai's wife died early, and there is only one daughter left under his knees, which is the first emperor's concubine Bai Xian. Later, Mr. Bai never remarried, and now he naturally has no other relatives except the emperor. ”
Jiang Yu nodded and said, "This old Mr. Bai is also infatuated with his wife. He said again: "This old gentleman Bai should have good knowledge, and he has a lot of books hidden in his house, even some solitary books. ”
Zhu Hong smiled when he heard this, and asked, "Does Niangniang know who Mr. Bai is?"
Jiang Yu asked, "Who?"
Zhu Hong said: "His name is Bai Jing, and his name is Zhongqing." ”
Jiang Yu nodded "oh", and asked shamelessly: "Who is that?"
Zhu Hong said: "He is the champion of Emperor Taizong Jingyou in the twelfth year, and he won the first place among the scholars by virtue of his humble background, and his articles made Emperor Taizong praise in public, and his reputation was almost unknown in those years. ”
Jiang Yu rolled his eyes and said, "Jingyou has been twelve years, that is more than ten years before I was born, how can I know." Said and said strangely: "He is also very strange, since he won the championship and didn't go to the court as an official, since he didn't want to be an official, why work hard to take the championship, and the champion is playing." ”
With his background, if he is an official in the court, maybe he will also make a career in the court now.
Zhu Hong said: "This minister is not clear, the minister only knows that Mr. Bai won the top prize in the examination that year, and the news of his wife's death came from the family. After the filial piety period passed, he did not want to enter the court as an official, but took the first emperor's concubine Bai Xian to live incognito here. Until the first emperor later submitted to this, he met Concubine Bai Xian. ”
Jiang Yu shook his head when he heard this, and said, "The mind of a scholar is really incomprehensible. ”