He Huishu sent Sister-in-law He with two coachmen to take all the Li family over and place them in a separate courtyard specially bought for Qin Minye to study in the Guogong Mansion of Tanzhou Academy, instead of the Guogong Mansion.

It turned out that Ming's was old and had little spirit, so he was a very unsophisticated person, the weather was hot, and he couldn't wait to wear only a shirt and pants in the house, and he didn't like to see guests.

There are few serious relatives living in Tanzhou Guogong Mansion, and He Huishu doesn't want to let the simple-minded Li family contact the people of Guogong Mansion so early.

He Huishu only bowed to Ming's family, saying that she was a relative, but she didn't say that He was her own sister.

The Ming family was confused, where did he remember that the second granddaughter-in-law had no relatives for so many years, and suddenly a relative popped up, and he didn't feel puzzled, and nodded disapprenorantly and agreed to the Li family to live in another courtyard twenty miles away from the Guogong Mansion.

The area of the courtyard is one acre, the courtyard of two entrances, two rows of houses sit north and face south, the two ends are the passage corridor, each row of houses is nine, behind the house is the kitchen, miscellaneous room, stable, the backyard has a pond of two points, the pond is planted with water lilies, lotus, and the pond is raised with hibiscus flowers and weeping willows.

He Huishu matched Qin Minye with two down-to-earth and steady scholars, four powerful and martial servants, and two mothers-in-law with excellent cooking skills.

The Li family is coming, and He Huishu temporarily adds two mothers-in-law and four middle-aged slaves to the courtyard.

When the Li family arrived, it was the hottest time of the day, He Huishu was telling a little story to the Ming family in the Guogong Mansion, Qin Minye was still studying in the academy, and the servants in the other courtyard were headed by Sister-in-law He, and listened to her arrangement and command, unloading the luggage of the Li family from the carriage and placing it in the designated guest room.

The Li family washed their faces in the guest room, walked around the courtyard to recognize the way, and then came to the hall.

Ice cubes are available in the courtyard all year round, and Sister-in-law He asked the mother-in-law in the kitchen to mix the ice crushed with the freshly cut fruit and serve it to quench the thirst of the Li family.

Since Li Jingjing was born, for the first time, she has eaten fruity and cold, sweet and sandy fruit ice, and this time she found that the fruit was actually lychee, banana, pineapple, and longan that were not sold on the market in Tanzhou Mansion at all.

"It's delicious!" Li Yunxiao ate two bowls more, but He was afraid that he would eat too much and cold his stomach, so he didn't let the slave and maid serve it to him.

Li Yunqing received Li Quai's eyes and said, "Mother, my little uncle and I will go to the academy to have a look." ”

"Don't go far." When He got off the carriage just now, he had already seen the famous Tanzhou Academy with white walls and green tiles looming in the verdant and majestic Yuelu Mountains not far away, and he yearned for it, but she was a woman, so she still didn't want to show her head.

Sister-in-law He arranged for a middle-aged slave to lead the way for Li Yunqing's uncle and nephew.

Qu's, He's, and Li Laoshi were laughing in the hall, Li Jingjing thought it was hot outside, and didn't want to follow Li Yunxiao to the pond to play, so she went to the study.

He Huishu had specially instructed before that the children of the Li family liked to read, so they could go to Qin Minye's study to read.

The slave maid in the courtyard didn't dare to stop Li Jingjing, she swaggered into the study, looked up at the four bookshelves full of books, and looked through the essays and paintings written by Qin Minfeng on the desk and paintings, and secretly marveled at the strength of her cousin.

"Mochizuki, you take down the third, fourth, and fifth books from the left in the second row of the bookcase." Li Jingjing pointed to the three travelogues on the top of the bookshelf.

She is not interested in political history, she only knows that the new dynasty is a fixed dynasty, what the emperor and empress are called, and the rest are too lazy to remember.

She likes to read relaxed and lively travelogues, through the author's words, imagine the beautiful mountains and rivers, understand the folk customs and humanities, so that the mood is comfortable, the vision is broad, and the life is relaxed and easy to drill and develop medicine.

Li Yunxiao was catching dragonflies by the pond to play, a red ball flew in from outside the wall, fell to the ground in front of him with a plop, and rolled towards the pond.

"Second young master of the Li family, you can't fall into the water and get wet. You're really scared of the slaves. The middle-aged slave who was guarding him screamed, losing some effort, and was in a hurry, picked up Li Yunxiao, and quickly kicked the ball that was about to roll into the pond to the side.

Li Yunxiao ran over to hold the red ball and ran up, and said kindly and loudly in the direction where the ball flew over: "Whose ball is this, do you need me to throw the ball over?" ”

For a long time, no one answered. Li Yunxiao kicked the red ball as his own toy, and played sweaty in the backyard.

After a while, a slave came from the front yard and said, "Second Young Master of the Li family, Fifth Young Master Niu of the dean's family said that he kicked a red ball into our courtyard and wanted to take the red ball back." ”

Li Yunxiao was already addicted to playing with the red ball, and reluctantly went to the front yard hall with the red ball, and saw that it was a five or six year old boy, wearing a half-arm blue shirt and blue pants, white lips and red teeth, and a very beautiful child, followed by two twelve or thirteen-year-old slaves, and said: "Your red ball, return it to you." ”

The fifth young master of the Niu family didn't go to catch the ball, his lips hooked into a smile, and he said in a Chang'an accent: "This little man looks like a good man, I have several friends, can you go outside with us to play the ball?" ”

The doctors and teachers of Tanzhou Academy all speak the official Chang'an dialect. Their children have been learning Chang'an dialect since they were young, and their accents are very positive.

Li Yunxiao giggled with joy, but he didn't forget to say hello to He.

The fifth young master of the Niu family walked forward and bowed to the He family, and said, "Auntie, please rest assured, we will not cause trouble, nor will we bully your family's Xiaolang." ”

He praised it and said that it was not a loss that it was cultivated by the Niu family for hundreds of years, and it was so one-sided at a young age. smiled: "What a smart little man." When my family Xiaolang first came here, he didn't know the place well, he went out to play with you, you take care of him more. ”

The fifth young master of the Niu family took Li Yunxiao's hand and went out. It was still the middle-aged slave who knew how to martial and followed.

Outside the courtyard is the avenue to Tanzhou Academy, the road is lined with green trees, seven children of the same age are standing under the tree and waiting, seeing that the fifth young master of the Niu family not only asked for the ball from the courtyard of the Guogong Mansion, but also brought out a child with a tiger's head and a tiger's brain, and they all gathered around to talk.

Li Yunxiao was the least timid, and said: "My name is Li Yunxiao, I am more than five years old this year, born in Layue, you are younger than me, you have to call me brother!" ”

Without the fifth young master of the Niu family to speak, a handsome boy surnamed Li said slowly: "We don't rank the size by age here, but according to knowledge." ”

The boys in Qujia Village play together, which is to climb trees, fish in the creek, pick rice ears, pick wild fruits, and pick firewood.

The Li family has no rice fields, so they can't pick rice ears. Qu valued the child, and did not let Li Yunxiao climb trees, did not let him go to the creek to fish, and did not allow him to go to the mountains, so he could not pick wild fruits or firewood.

Li Yunxiao asked curiously: "How can you arrange according to knowledge?" ”

The Li family boy said: "We each give you a learning problem, you give each of us a learning problem, and the person who loses to you is called your brother, and if you lose, you are called the other party's brother." ”

The fat Dong family boy said: "If you are not good at learning, it doesn't matter, just call us all brothers." We're playing with you just like that. ”

Li Yunxiao lost to Li Jingjing in the return of his knowledge at home, thinking about Fang Dao: "My knowledge is learned from my mother, I don't know if it is good or not." Let's try it today. ”

The youngest four-year-old boy in rice was the first to ask, "What is the twelfth sentence of the three-character classic?" ”

Li Yunxiao memorized the three-character scripture upside down at the age of two, and it was his turn to test the rice clothes boy, and he also came out with the three-character scripture, but he asked the meaning of the two sentences in it.

Miyi Xiaotong only replied one sentence, and the second sentence would not be, so he happily admitted defeat and shouted: "Brother Xiao." ”

Li Yunxiao answered and asked, "How old are you this year?" ”

Mi Yi Xiaotong smiled: "I just passed my third birthday last month. ”

Li Yunxiao said in his heart: It's a shame that my knowledge is better than him. I'm over five years old, he's only three, and it's a shame for me to call him brother.

The gray-clothed boy and the blue-shirted boy both lost to Li Yunxiao, and it was the turn of the Dong family boy, and said: "Listen, how many articles are there in the "Book of Songs", how many are there with titles and no content, what kind of poems are they called?" ”

Li Yunxiao opened his mouth and replied: "There are a total of 305 works in the Book of Songs, of which 6 have titles but no content, which are called sheng poems. (Excerpt from Baidu)

The Dong family boy stretched out his right thumb and said, "You answered correctly." You can test me. If I'm out too, I'll be ranked by age. ”

He had just learned the "Book of Songs", thinking that he could stump Li Yunxiao, but he didn't expect that the young master from the Guogong Mansion was so powerful, and he was worthy of being a relative of Qin Minye, a genius of the academy.

Li Yunxiao asked the Dong family boy to explain the meaning of the two poems in the Book of Songs.

The little boy of the Dong family blushed and shook his head, called his brother vaguely, and said, "Your knowledge is really good." I'm two months older than you, so I don't know as much as you do. ”

Li Yunxiao chuckled, won two more people, and only the fifth young master of the Niu family was left.

The fifth young master of the Niu family asked with a smile: "Tianxingjian, the gentleman is self-improving, and the gentleman is virtuous." Where does this phrase come from, and what is the truth? ”

Li Yunxiao thought about it and shook his head, but he was not discouraged, and said, "It's my turn to ask you." The gentleman is also the mean, and the gentleman is in the middle; The villain is mean, and the villain is unscrupulous. What does this phrase mean? ”

The beautiful little face of the fifth young master of the Niu family had an embarrassed expression and shook his head slowly.

Li Yunxiao smiled: "Call Brother Xiao!" ”

The fifth young master of the Niu family was only three days younger than Li Yunxiao, and said helplessly: "Brother Xiao." ”

When Qilang saw that the fifth young master of the Niu family couldn't answer Li Yunxiao's question, he admired Li Yunxiao and called his brother's voice louder.

The fifth young master of the Niu family said: "Brother Xiao, this is the avenue, it is not safe for the carriage to drive back and forth, let's go to the back mountain to find an open place to play football." ”

"Okay." Li Yunxiao and eight children went to the back mountain.

Nine children are divided into two groups to grab the ball and play.

Two groups of children stand facing each other fifteen feet apart, put the ball in the middle, start with a slave shouting, the two groups of children run to grab the ball, and finally put the ball on the opponent's territory to win.

Li Yunxiao and the fifth young master of the Niu family each brought a group.

The three-year-old Miyi boy was divided into a group of five led by Li Yunxiao, and in the past, eight children played this game, but he always dragged his feet, and no group wanted him. Now that Li Yunxiao has come, he has become nine people, and he has become a fragrant glutton, and only one group member is willing to ask for him.

"Let's go!" The servant gave an order, and the nine little boys spread their calves and ran forward desperately to grab the ball, in the past, the fifth young master of the Niu family and the little boy of the Dong family were always the fastest runners, but now they were compared to Li Yunxiao, who was the most capable of running.

Li Yunxiao ran fast and fast, picked up the red ball and rushed forward, and the fifth young master of the Niu family took three team members to grab it.

Li Yunxiao shouted: "You guys run forward, I'll throw the ball to you!" ”

The two groups competed seven times, each time it was Li Yunxiao's group victory, the fifth young master of the Niu family proposed to regroup, Li Yunxiao felt that the old win was not interesting, so he nodded in agreement.

The children of the Dong family returned to the group of the fifth young master of the Niu family.

Nearly the end of the application, the academy was dismissed, and the students went down the mountain to eat at the school house one after another, and the children had been playing for more than an hour, and their stomachs were hungry, so they made an appointment to play again tomorrow afternoon.

When Li Yunxiao returned to the courtyard, he heard laughter in the hall from a distance, and exclaimed excitedly: "Aunt! ”

He ran into the hall like the wind and threw himself into the arms of He Huishu, who squatted down to meet him.

He Huishu's fragrant clothes were stained with Li Yunxiao's sweat, and instead of being annoyed, she smiled and said, "My Xiaolang, where have you gone to play, covered in mud." ”

Li Yunxiao was happy and said, "Auntie, I play ball with a few children in the back mountain. ”

He Shi said with a straight face: "You made your aunt's dress dirty and smelly, come down." ”

He Huishu said: "It's okay. ”

Li Yunxiao was surprised: "Auntie, you have become younger!" ”

He Huishu's smile is even better, since applying the goat milk jade skin cream, her skin has changed day by day, and in less than a month, it has returned to the state when she was twenty-two or three.

She had heard a lot of praise these days, but she still believed the child's words more, and asked, "Then which young do you think I am or your mother?" ”

Li Yunxiao said: "My mother." ”

"It turns out that I am not as young as your mother. I'm so sad. He Huishu pretended to be sad.

Li Yunxiao didn't know how to coax her, and said hurriedly: "Aunt, don't be sad, you will be as young as my mother." ”

Li Jingjing sat on the side eating grapes and said, "Xiao Lingzi is really stupid. My mother and aunt were born on the same day, the same month, and the same youth. ”

Li Yunqing took Li Yunxiao to the guest room to scrub and change clean clothes and pants.

He Huishu called the middle-aged slave maid and asked, "Which young master is playing with Xiaolang just now?" ”

The middle-aged slave and maid stood with the slaves and servants of the children and asked each other just now, and replied respectfully: "Back to the second lady's words, the fifth young master of Dean Niu's mansion, the seventh young master of Vice President Dong's mansion, the second young master of General Li's mansion, the fifth young master of Dr. Ding's mansion, the sixth young master of Dr. Liu's mansion, the second young master of Dr. Hong's mansion, the third young master of Dr. Lin's mansion, and the second young master of Mr. Deng's mansion. ”

He Huishu said to the Li family: "Tanzhou Academy has a total of one president, two vice-presidents, three deans, twenty-two doctors, sixty-seven gentlemen, 2,700 students, and more than 10,000 family servants of teachers and students. His Majesty set up 2,000 officers and soldiers in the academy as protectors. ”

Qu Shi exclaimed, "There are so many people in the academy. ”

He Huishu said: "Almost all the young talents in the provinces south of the Yangtze River are studying in Tanzhou Academy, and there are more people. ”

The middle-aged slave reported the mutual examination between the eight children and Li Yunxiao.

Qu's face was full of pride, and he said: "Xiao Yanzi is very smart, and his mother understands every time she talks about it." ”

He said: "It's good for other Xiaolang to test him." Otherwise he will be proud. ”

He Huishu smiled: "Don't worry. Xiao Lang won those Xiao Lang today, and soon the Xiao Lang of Beppu will come to him to compare his knowledge. ”

Li Quzhi said curiously: "Sister, here is more knowledgeable?" ”

He Huishu nodded and said, "Tanzhou Academy is more than learning, from childhood to old age, everyone loves to learn. A few years ago, Ye Lang just lived in the other courtyard, and Xiao Lang from the nearby house came to him to compare his knowledge. ”

Li Jingjing asked: "In addition to learning, what is it more than learning?" ”

He Huishu said: "If you are older, you will be able to compare martial arts, archery, and horsemanship." ”

Li Jingjing was puzzled: "Isn't it better than qin, chess, calligraphy and painting?" ”

He Huishu smiled lightly: "Only celebrities and women in the academy compare piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and young men compare knowledge and martial arts. ”

As he was talking, a young servant walked in quickly and saluted and said, "Second lady, the young master and a few students were left behind by Dr. Qi, and they want to come back later, so send the younger one to bring a message." ”

"Most of the students who are left by the Ph.D. are problem solving, not a bad thing but a good thing." He Huishu explained to Qu who was worried, and felt that Qu was pure and kind.

As the sun set, Qin Minye finally returned.

He is half a height taller than Li Yunqing, with a stout body, a Chinese-shaped face, dark skin, and a delicate outlook that follows He Huishu, with long hair in a bun, wrapped and fixed with a black ribbon, wearing a royal blue satin shirt, a light blue belt around his waist, and beige satin trousers.

At the age of eleven, he is not the youngest talent in Tanzhou Academy, with a lot of studies, fierce competition among students, and very strict requirements from his biological mother, which makes his face look young and old, and he looks fifteen or sixteen years old.

"Min Ye has seen his aunt, aunt, uncle, little uncle, brother, younger brother, and sister." As soon as Qin Minye entered the hall, he first bowed to the Li family, and then called out to He Huishu, "Mother." ”

"Jingjing has seen Brother Ye." Li Jingjing was shocked. The heart says: The skin is really dark. If my aunt gave birth to him at night, if there was no candle, would the midwife still be able to find him?

Qin Minye said gratefully: "Sister, Xie Lu thanks you for curing my mother's illness with your medicine." ”

Li Jingjing smiled: "Auntie is my aunt, I will cure her, I don't need you to thank you." ”

As soon as He saw Qin Minye's black skin and stout figure at the bottom of the pot, he imagined the appearance of his brother-in-law, and it was rumored that the ancestor of Qin Guo was a robber, which was true, and said softly: "Ye Lang is tired of going to school, right?" Go to the bedroom, wash your face, drink some water, and then go back to the hall to talk. ”

He Huishu smiled: "Your aunt feels sorry for you." You go. ”

Qin Minye soon returned, and this time Li Yunqing and Li Yunxiao were here, and they recognized all the Li family.

He Huishu said: "Your father just received an errand yesterday, and I don't know how many days it will take to come back." I have been in the house in the morning and evening for the past few days, and I am only in the courtyard at noon and afternoon. You will go to school tomorrow, and classes will be suspended from the next one, except for listening to the lectures of famous people in the morning and evening, you will stay in the other courtyard to accompany your aunt's family. ”

Qin Minye replied, "Yes, mother." ”

The dining room was located next to the hall, and the strong smell of food had already wafted from it, and He Huishu invited the Li family to dinner.

Wanglian and Mochizuki, who accompanied them, went to the backyard kitchen to eat with the slaves and maids according to the rules of the Guogong Mansion.

Tonight was the first meal that the Li family had in the courtyard, and He Huishu had already instructed the kitchen to make dishes according to the preferences of everyone in the Li family.

Six cold dishes, eighteen hot dishes, two soups, four kinds of wine, and five kinds of staple food.

Cold vegetable shredded chicken mixed with shredded melon, spicy belly slices, refreshing sesame oil radish strips, spiced pigeon, sesame wild cress, golden dates.

Hot vegetables stir-fried beef tenderloin with green onions, chicken with oyster sauce, fresh mushroom and choy sum, stir-fried field chicken, potpourri duck tongue, mountain bracken, salt-fried pork, fragrant roe deer spine, lake rice and white, assorted tofu, braised and spicy dog meat, etc.

The soup is crab soup and three fresh mulberry soup. There are rice wine, osmanthus wine, white wine, and wine. The staple foods include rice noodles, Yangzhou fried rice, steamed rice with lotus leaves, braised noodles, and steamed dumplings.

Qu Shi looked at so much uneaten food, his heart was overjoyed, and he said, "Drink some wine." ”

He smiled and asked, "Mother, what kind of wine do you drink?" ”

Qu said bluntly: "I haven't drunk osmanthus wine or wine, but I'll try them all today." ”

Xiao Qing put another wine glass in front of Qu's side. The two wine glasses in front of Qu Shi were poured with osmanthus and wine.

Li Laoshi, Li Yunqing, and Li Quzhi learned Qu's. He drank these two kinds of wine when he was a child, and felt that it was not as good as osmanthus wine, so he asked for osmanthus wine.

Qin Minye saw that even the dragon and phoenix fetuses were allowed to drink rice wine, so he looked at He Huishu.

He directly made the decision to his nephew, saying: "A small drink is pleasant, but a big drink hurts the body." Whatever Ye Lang wants to drink, pour Ye Lang's cup full. ”

"Aunt Xie Lu." Qin Minye smiled, his teeth were snow-white, and his skin was even darker.

He Huishu took the medicine given by Li Jingjing for a month, and she was able to drink a small amount of wine, so she was really happy today, and drank several glasses with He.

The He family is beautiful and smart, He Huishu is charming and charming, and the sisters sit together, as if the fairy concubines have descended to earth.

While everyone was eating happily, the slave guarding the door walked in and saluted and reported: "Second lady, someone from my family has come to ask to see you." ”

He Huishu asked, "Who is coming?" ”

The servant replied, "It is the seventh uncle of the family and his eldest son, who said that he wants you to be the master of his family." ”

He Huishu looked impatient, pointed at Qin Minye and said: "You go and tell them that the Guogong Mansion did not give them the decision to let the nine girls marry into the Changshi Mansion at the beginning, and now they will not make the decision to go to the Changshi Mansion to get the nine girls back." ”

Qin Minye wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and got up, came back with a straight face after a while, walked behind He Huishu, leaned over to whisper in her ear.

He Huishu didn't squint and said, "There are no outsiders here, you just say it." ”

Qin Minye stood up straight and said slowly: "Mother, Uncle Qizeng said that it is not for the ninth girl, this time it is for the family affairs of the tenth girl, and the family wants to give the tenth girl to the governor as a concubine, and the lady over there in the governor's mansion will hand over the word, as long as you agree, you will carry someone." ”

He Huishufeng's eyes widened, and she said, "A daughter who is born is so good, she has to be sent to someone to be a wife and a concubine!" You replied to them, and I still disagreed with them as much as the last time. ”

Qin Minye went and returned: "Mother, they left without saying anything. ”

He Huishu waved his hand to let Qin Minye take a seat, and said to He's family: "I told you in the mansion, but I don't see the seventh uncle's family." The seventh uncle found it here. ”

He reminded: "You have returned to the Guogong Mansion at this point, if we hadn't come today, we wouldn't have had dinner in the other courtyard." ”

He Huishu disagreed, and said: "My car has a sign, and everyone in Tanzhou recognizes it." Uncle Seventh should have sent someone to follow my car. Don't worry, give them a hundred guts, and you won't dare to harm me. ”

After dinner, He Huishu talked to He's and went back to Guogong Mansion.

Li Yunqing had long heard from He Huishu that Qin Minye had been practicing martial arts since he was five years old, and asked him to compete in front of the pond in the backyard.

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