A few days later, when Song Shi sent back a thick price list and handed it to Lin Ruhai, Lin Ruhai's anger can be imagined, but Lin Ruhai did not make a noise, and called Lin Zhong to send the big and small maids and daughters-in-law in the house, and the little maid chief followed the steward to investigate carefully.

When it comes to the Twelfth Flower Festival in February, this day is the day of apprenticeship agreed by Lin Ruhai and Huang Jiyun, and it is also Daiyu's fifth birthday. This apprenticeship is not the last time I worshiped Luo Sujuan as a teacher, and it was over with a kowtow. This is the auspicious time, following the ancient rites. The apprenticeship ceremony was not set in the mansion, but in the ancestral house of the Lin family.

Early in the morning, the Lin Mansion opened the middle door, and the eight small houses were all brand new. On both sides of the gate, they are lined up outside the door, and their faces are full of joy. On the left hand side of the door, there is a row of upside-down seats with tea and snacks, and on the right-hand side there is also a row of upside-down seats, which are also filled with melons and fruits. Servants of the servants who entertain visitors. Walking inward, magnolia blooms among the green willows, and there is a red lacquer corridor between the blue and white that leads to the inner door, and the inner family members all enter the inner courtyard through this door. At this time, two mothers-in-law in new scarlet clothes stood in front of the door. Greetings to the girl, Miss, Grandma, and Mrs.

After the carp swings its tail and shines on the wall, several poles are trimmed, and the bamboo stands upright, corresponding to the red azalea, in a circle under the moon gate. The golden spring flowers on the moon door are hanging down, and the end is beautiful. Four small guys with the same new clothes, new pants and new shoes and hats stood in front of the moon gate under the leadership of the second housekeeper Song Shi. Inside, the five main rooms were opened, and Lin Ruhai and Huang Jiyun entertained guests here. Even the wings on both sides have also been opened, and there are people inside, as if this is a rare event.

From time to time, news came from outside the door that Qiu Lao, the head of Taowu Academy, had arrived, Lin Ruhai and Huang Jiyun hurriedly came out together, and as soon as they turned around the wall, they saw Qiu Lao wearing a moon-white wide-sleeved robe, and a piece of Hetian white jade carved from his waist was tied to his waist. The silver hair is only covered with jasper hairpins, and there are not many ornaments but it looks more elegant. Lin Ruhai and Huang Jiyun both stopped three steps in front of this person, and bowed deeply and said in unison: "Old Man Hardship Qiu is here." ”

It turned out that this Taowu Academy was where Huang Jiyun studied when he was a teenager, and Lin Ruhai also studied here for half a year. At that time, Qiu Lao was not in charge of the academy, and his deceased teacher Huang Jiyun was close friends, and they often discussed doctrine together. Back then, it was Qiu Lao who witnessed the apprenticeship of Huang Jiyun and others. And Lin Ruhai took his class for half a year.

Today, Lin Ruhai's daughter worshiped Huang Jiyun as a teacher and invited him to testify, and Qiu Lao was very happy in his heart. smiled and said: "It's not hard, it's not hard, you two are in the same department, and you have been friends for many years, and you have both studied in my Taowu Academy, and the old man is very relieved to be here today!" With that, he entered the main hall under the guidance of the two of them, but did not sit down, but sat down on the first seat on the left.

The two students who came with Qiu Lao did not sit down, but only stood behind them, Lin Ruhai looked up and down and asked, "These two are junior brothers." At the end is a table of talents. The two of them were overjoyed but silent, and only bowed and saluted, and Qiu Lao smiled: "Compared with Ruhai, it is far behind." That said, his face was full of smiles. Taowu Academy has countless students every year, and there are countless talents, even Jinshi cannot be enumerated. All of a sudden, everyone gathered to talk to him. Lin Ruhai and Huang Jiyun also kept circling between classmates and colleagues in the same year.

The auspicious time is approaching, Lin Zhongfang came to Lin Ruhai's side and whispered: "Master, the auspicious time is coming, but there is no news from the Rongguo Mansion, and most of the rest have arrived." Even those who couldn't be in person also sent their families over, and even the Jinling Zhen family also sent their uncle over. Lin Ruhai frowned when he heard the Zhen family, and asked, "Who is this uncle of the Zhen family?" Lin Zhong replied: "Zhen Baolin, the eldest son of the president of Jinling Tiren Academy." Lin Ruhai waved his hand and said, "The hour is almost up, go and invite the girl to come out and salute." ”

Lin Zhong retreated to the door of Neiyi and said to the mother-in-law guarding the door: "The auspicious time is coming, and the master ordered the girl to come out to salute." Go quickly, don't miss the auspicious time! When a woman heard this, she hurriedly ran to the courtyard.

Daiyu got up early this morning, put on a specially made red leather silk jacket, with a moon white embroidered plum blossom skirt waist, two pink pearls to fix the double bun, it looks like the face is white and the lips are red, it is very cute. Standing beside Jia Min, he was silent, but his eyes were shining like stars. Jia Min also changed his clothes, put on the rouge, smiled and talked with the ladies and wives, and heard that the ladies were full of praise for Daiyu's appearance and demeanor, although Jia Min was polite, his expression was also honored.

I heard someone talking outside while talking and laughing, and called to ask if it was an auspicious time, and I hurriedly called Mama Sun to lead Daiyu out, and Daiyu went out of the inner door to the wall, and knelt down and bowed in the direction of the moon door, which was a bow. Then he led the two little girls who followed behind him, the snow goose and the green crane, in the direction of the main hall, and heard the voices of people inside outside the moon gate. Although I knew when I was a child in the inner courtyard that there were many visitors today, I didn't think that the actual number of people coming to the outer courtyard was several times more than I imagined.

Daiyu had just passed the Moon Gate courtyard and suddenly quieted, which really scared Daiyu, fortunately, Daiyu had also experienced some scenes in her previous life, and Fang quickly stabilized her mind. Go forward to the main hall gate railing and kneel down again to bow down and perform the second bow. After getting up, she noticed that the red Ruyi brocade pattern velvet carpet had been spread from the main seat to the door railing, and Daiyu couldn't help but guess that this was the carpet used to welcome guests in later generations. I didn't feel that there was a three-point smile on my lips. Crossing the door railing to the middle, kneeling down again and bowing to the three bows, I didn't want Daiyu not to get up, only stretched out his hand to take the apprenticeship post in Xue Yan's hand, and said loudly: "Mr. Huang Jiyun, student Lin Daiyu, Mr. Yougan is knowledgeable, informal apprenticeship is not enough to achieve academics, ask your parents, parents have already had this heart, and ask students to do discipleship early." Therefore, it is now submitted to the teacher, and the knock is listed under the door. This heart is sincere, I hope the teacher accepts me! After speaking, his hands were raised high, and his front body was prostrate, Huang Jiyun and Lin Ruhai were stunned, neither of them thought of this. Because Daiyu was young, Huang Jiyun suspected that Lin Ruhai did it, who wanted to turn his head and look, Lin Ruhai was also at a loss. Knowing that this was done by Daiyu, he smiled in his heart and nodded to the scholar next to him, the scholar Fang stepped forward to take the apprenticeship post, and came to Huang Jiyun's side, Huang Jiyun was happy to see it, although the handwriting was clear, but I don't know what kind of bamboo skewer was used to write it in ink, and it was eccentric, and I couldn't help but look at Daiyu with a smile and smiled: "Your sincerity, I know everything." Please ask Mr. Qiu and all the guests of Taowu Academy to testify that this trip will be a gift for the disciples, for the sincerity of the teacher, and the way of the teacher, and live up to your expectations. After speaking, he helped Daiyu to get up.

After getting up, he heard Qiu Lao and said: "We are witnessing Huang Gong Jiyun today, although you are a woman, but if you don't know, you will ask, if you can't learn, you can be diligent and not embellished, so you can learn." Daiyu knelt down and kowtowed again, then got up and took the six-color apprenticeship in Qinghe's hand and presented it in front of Huang Jiyun and said: "Student Lin Daiyu has heard Mr. Tao's moral articles for a long time, and he looks up and watches. Thanks to Mr. Permission, I am willing to perform the gift of the students and abide by the teacher's teaching. Huang Jiyun took it and looked at it, and he was even more happy, only to see that the quaint ebony hexagonal box contained celery carved from jade, lotus seeds carved from white jade, red beans polished with red agate, longan polished with beeswax, and bacon polished with colored nepheline. smiled and said to Lin Ruhai: "Brother Lao Ruhai has broken the bill." Lin Ruhai's eyes were also full of strangeness, and he forcibly wanted to play with his hand and said: "These are not for my brother." As he spoke, his eyes were still glued to the box. When the people on the side heard this, they all began to look at the box.

Huang Jiyun looked at the box and saw that Daiyu was still kneeling on the ground, so he got up, and Daiyu knocked three times before getting up. Seeing Huang Jiyun staring at him, and seeing that even his father and everyone else were curious, he explained crisply: "Celery is easy to wither, lotus seeds, red beans, longan is changeable, and bacon is even more perishable. Daiyu looked for this unchanging and incorruptible one. Huang Jiyun glanced at Lin Ruhai after hearing this, and laughed: "Okay! Very good! Hahaha" got up with a smile and bowed to Daiyu, which was considered a courtesy. Huang Jiyun took a box from the scholar's hand, which was lined with red brocade, containing an engraved auspicious cloud inkstone, a set of lake pens, four pieces of painted plum orchid, bamboo chrysanthemum, incense ink, and a knife of rice paper. There is also a magpie Dengmei paperweight carved with bloodstone, which is delicate and lifelike. Daiyu bowed down and listened to Huang Jiyun and said: "From now on, the two of us are commensurate with each other. Now give you the wisdom of learning, and hope to be diligent. Since then, Daiyu has had the name Lin Hui.

Then naturally I wanted to worship Confucius, and I worshiped Huang Jiyun's teacher's tablet and was busy until noon, Daiyu felt that she should really learn from "Huanzhu Gege" Xiaoyanzi to make a "kneeling easy", but fortunately, now even when eating, there is no need to kneel anymore. Because Daiyu is apprenticed today, and she is really young before the age of seven, she did not return to the inner courtyard, but only added wine and cloth dishes to Huang Jiyun in the main hall, and listened to their talk, and knew some things about this era.

Until Daiyu didn't come back during the meal, Jia Min knew that Daiyu stayed in the front yard, so he beckoned all the female guests to eat in the garden. For a time, the spring laurel is fragrant, the green willow swings its waist with the wind, the spring orchid is indisputable, the begonia is shy, and the peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze. The garden is full of flowers, the sun is just right, and the ladies are not in a hurry, so it is convenient to walk slowly in the garden.

Seeing such a beautiful scenery, some people complimented: "I heard that the girl was born in the Flower Dynasty Festival? It's a good day, looking at the scene of flowers in full bloom. Another person said: "No wonder the girl looks so bright, even if she doesn't open it now, she can see that she is a beautiful embryo." There were also familiar ladies who looked at Jia Min and said: "No wonder they say that blue is better than blue, and your daughter will be much stronger than you in the future." Everyone agreed, and the smile on Jia Min's face never disappeared.

After eating in the front courtyard, everyone either said goodbye and left, or went to the guest house to freshen up, Daiyu followed Lin Ruhai, Huang Jiyun and Qiu Lao into the study. After everyone sat down, Huang Jiyun leaned on the back of the chair and took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Who taught you that apprenticeship today?" After speaking, I remembered the handwriting drawn out with a bamboo skewer, and I couldn't help but laugh again. Seeing him smiling strangely, Qiu Lao couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with the apprenticeship?" As soon as Daiyu heard the apprenticeship, she knew what was going on, and suddenly blushed, and looked around with big watery eyes, as if she hadn't heard the question. Lin Ruhai saw Daiyu's expression and knew that the apprenticeship post must have another reason, and also looked at this Daiyu with a curious eye, Daiyu finished reading the coffee table, looked at the window lattice, but didn't look at the three of them, thinking that he couldn't always consume it, even if he consumed it, he would consume it himself.

I didn't want Huang Jiyun to be a playful person, so I casually took out the apprenticeship card that Daiyu saw and put in the scholar's place, and threw it to Qiu Lao, Qiu Lao was also stunned when he saw it, Lin Ruhai couldn't help it, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? Show me. Although Qiu Lao also smiled and handed it to Lin Ruhai, his eyes were full of appreciation, and he was a smart girl, who lived up to Huang Jiyun's fame. Lin Ruhai saw that Jun's face also showed a suspicious crimson, and he hurriedly brought tea to cover up.

Daiyu couldn't help it now, staring at her moist eyes, bending her thin eyebrows, pouting her cherry red mouth, and said angrily: "Laugh!" Laugh! What's so funny? Didn't you just write an apprenticeship post?! After saying that, she turned her head to look at the ceiling very arrogantly. As soon as these words came out, Lin Ruhai, Huang Jiyun and Qiu Lao were all stunned, and Qiu Lao asked repeatedly: "Is this really written by yourself?" Daiyu secretly hated in her heart, didn't she just can't write calligraphy? Worth being so surprised? Is it worth holding on to like this? Hum! Thinking about gritting his teeth, he returned: "I know it's ugly, I don't have to laugh!" After saying that, he couldn't hold on anymore and turned around and strode out. Leaving a room of three stunned old men, a moment later there was a loud laugh. Since Daiyu had left, she had never heard of it, but she also had some guesses, so she ran faster and faster.

Daiyu ran away with a temper here, but Old Qiu over there sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity!" If the man doesn't say that there will be another champion, at least he will be a tanhualang" After speaking, he looked at Huang Jiyun and Lin Ruhai with regret. Huang Jiyun only reacted at this time and asked: "Brother Ruhai, this is really not your ......" Before the words were finished, Lin Ruhai smiled bitterly: "I only found out about this today, if it were me, I wouldn't have asked her to use a bamboo skewer to pull, there is no shame." After speaking, I read the apprenticeship post again, and it was clearly organized and the sentence structure was neat. It's those few words, like an earthworm crawling over, not without regrets. Huang Jiyun heard this and said even more happily: "Don't get in the way!" How old is this? Brother Ruhai is still afraid that I can't teach her to write a few words? As he spoke, he snatched back the apprenticeship post from Lin Ruhai's hand, the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he felt, Qiu Lao sat aside and didn't know what to think, he didn't speak for a while, and after Lin Ruhai and the two talked about it again, he suddenly said to Huang Jiyun: "Ji Yun" and Huang Jiyun looked back at him before he said: "Why don't you let this disciple be my disciple?" Lin Ruhai was just stunned, and his face was full of relief, but Huang Jiyun looked at Qiu Lao with a defensive face and said: "Qiu Lao, your old man is full of peach and plum all over the world, and I am such a disciple." Old Qiu said without concession: "Ji Yun, you are still young, and you will meet good seedlings, old man, I am about to enter the earth, I am afraid that it will be difficult to meet again." After speaking, he shook his head self-deprecatingly. Huang Jiyun saw this appearance and hurriedly defended: "If such a good quality jade is so easy to meet, I will not accept the apprentice today." Without waiting for Qiu Lao to say anything more, he continued: "Anyway, no matter what, I have already accepted this apprentice, and the scientific name has been given." You have become a witness to me today. "The argument in the study is beyond expression, and the conclusion is already predestined.