Chapter 61: There is an old man in the family
In terms of etiquette, Qin Keqing is a good master.
Baoyu spent three days on the paper, classified the things about the five rites in turn, and wrote them down one by one, according to what Qin Keqing said, as long as he learned some of the things on weekdays, and the rest, he knew it.
[It took three days to learn one, and it seems that three courses are very simple, but the remaining two courses are really difficult to learn. γ
Baoyu stroked a longbow on the table and whispered: "Shu is difficult, it is difficult to go to the sky." This road to sanctification is countless times more difficult than Shu Dao, and it's just a big test for showmanship, which really makes me scratch my head and panic. β
The longbow is a three-eyed bow, one eye shoots directly and two eyes are thrown, suitable for beginners, and it was sent by Jia Tanchun. Jia Tanchun was dragged down by Aunt Zhao and Jia Huan, and it had already cost him all his net worth to make this three-eyed bow for two hundred taels of silver. I can't say it, I even sold the gold hairpin and jade bracelet I was carrying.
This point Baoyu appreciates, and in the same way, Jia Tanchun also leads him to help speak.
If you are good to others, others will be good to you, Baoyu understands this, but unfortunately Xiao Jiahuan doesn't understand. I heard that Jia Huan has been working hard recently, and he has been by Lin Xiuzhu's side day and night. The two of them worked hard to show their talents in the big exam and give him Bao Erye a good look.
The pressure is even greater, after all, he, Jia Baoyu, can't ride a horse or shoot arrows.
[Ren Er's southeast and northwest winds, but these individuals, they can't help but think too highly of me Jia Baoyu, and they have to away with a twelve-level wind. γ
Baoyu smiled, stuffed the floral soft topaz square inkstone into his sleeve, grabbed the three-eyed bow again, and walked out of the house.
Wang Shanbao and Li Gui were polishing their strength in the courtyard, and he looked at it and was envious. didn't shout these two, and went out of the yard by himself and went to the horse shed in the south courtyard.
In the dignified national mansion, no one dares to come in and spread wild.
He walked five or six miles, and along the way, the maids and maids all smiled and saluted, and some familiar ones didn't need to salute, so they came over to ask questions and curry favor. Baoyu asked them to bring the game they brought back from visiting relatives in the countryside to Qingwen, and Qingwen was in charge of this.
[These stinky boys, bad girls, know that my face is making money, that's not polite at all. Anyway, people think of my good, and want to send game, so I can't treat others badly. γ
Baoyu smiled and scolded a few of the most familiar ones, asking them to send more in the future and get more silver. He can't eat too much in this body, so he can only eat more finely, which can be regarded as making up for himself. The door face earned a lot of silver, and the consumption of ten buttons of paper and spiritual grease ink was enough to make up for it, but I heard from the attacker, that Feng Lazi had found her.
It's a matter of inquiring about the door, and to put it bluntly, it's asking how much money you can earn. Baoyu knew that he wouldn't say anything about the attack, but with Feng Lazi's ability, he would have to inquire about it sooner or later, and sooner or later he would call him to see him.
Where there is silver, there is absolutely no phoenix spicy......
The journey was a bit longer and a little tiring. As soon as Baoyu entered the stable in the south courtyard, he pulled Jiao Da's stool and sat downβJiao Da was brought into Rongguo Mansion by him, and Jia Rong and Lai Eryi didn't have the courage to say anything. His sentence 'send me to see the old lady' really frightened the two lazy things.
Jiao Da fed the horses in the stable of the south courtyard, and it was a job with the horse pen of Ning Guofu, but he was happy. He dragged a three-legged stool out of the stable, sat down crookedly, poured wine, simmered it, and exhaled with satisfaction.
"Second Master Bao, you are really a real person, saying that it is good wine and good food, that is, good wine and good food. It doesn't matter if it's a good food, I haven't drunk this good wine in 20 years. β
Baoyu said with a smile: "I thank you for saving the old lady and your decades of hard work in the house." β
"I know, your second master said that one is one, and it is good for our subordinates. Jiao Da licked the wine dripping from his beard and said, "Just Jia Dairu's old man, you can give two famous articles, what's wrong with my old bones to give some good wine and good food? If you talk nonsense again, you have to give a white knife in and a red knife out." β
Baoyu narrowed his eyes, this was the opposite of scolding him.
Jiao Da slanted his eyes to see his expression, and seeing that he had not changed, he looked up to the sky and sighed: "Okay, okay, I know, you didn't tell a lie." If I dare to spit out inappropriate things, such as climbing ashes...... Okay, okay, I won't talk about it, and then I'll talk about death. God is pitiful, a heroic character like the old lady, although Jia Zheng's kid is pedantic, but he is also a nostalgic one, how did you come out of such a little devil star? You and Jia Yucun are both well-known hypocrites. β
Look at what he said, can the two words be involved? Baoyu knew what this old fellow meant, and he was talking back to ridicule him. Ever since he came here, the old thing hasn't had a good word.
However, saying that Jia Yucun is a hypocrite won his heart.
Shaking his head, he smiled: "I didn't expect you to have some opinions." I heard that you have been doing nothing for 20 years, and you are either drinking or drunk in the stable, how do you know all these things? Now that you are old, you should retire, and don't think too much about uselessness. β
Jiao Da was stunned for a moment and asked, "You're not curious?"
"Curious about what?"
"Of course, it's curious why I know so many things. β
Baoyu shook his head and said in a deep voice: "You are a meritorious old man, you have a little channel, a little ability, that's how it should be." As long as you control your mouth, I am willing to treat you with the courtesy of your juniors until you are old, and I can also give you a good send. β
"What if I can't control it?"
"Then send you away, and then give you a good send. β
"Ruthless, hypocrite. β
"Thanks for the compliment. β
The two of them drank the wine as they spoke. Jiao shouted that the little guy came, it was specially arranged by Baoyu to send him wine and food. When the wine and food came up and drove the little guy out, Jiao Da stared at Baoyu.
"What are you looking at?"
"It's nothing, I just think that Jiafu Zhongxing is promising. In this Confucian Great Zhou, there is nothing more powerful than a literati, and if there really is, it is a literati with means. β
"Like Jia Yu Village?"
"Like yourself. β
The two laughed, especially Baoyu, how much their attitude towards Jiao Da had changed. He thought that Jiao Da was a cynical old man who didn't keep the door on his lips with merit, but he didn't expect that he still cared about Jiafu.
Jiao Da looked at the three-eyed bow in his hand and asked, "You came to pick a horse, you want to practice equestrianism, and prepare for the spring exam?"
Baoyu nodded and said, "An equestrian and a bow and arrow all need to be practiced. β
"It's too late. β
Jiao Da sighed: "If you want to talk about bows and arrows, you know that I have been in the army with the old lady, and I am a ninth-rate martial artist, so I must have some ability-then again, this is also the reason why you helped me, you want me to teach you bows and arrows?"
Baoyu nodded and said, "And equestrianism." β
"You can't teach, you can't teach. β
Jiao Da shook his head and said: "The bow and arrow are enough, you are a three-eyed bow, which can make your head more accurate, and in the near future, you should practice about it." It's just a big test for show talents, and the requirements for bows and arrows are not too high, which is enough. Speaking of this, the conversation changed and said: "But equestrianism, there are Ming and Luan, chasing water wheels, passing the monarch's table, dancing and chasing birds. The first four are enough, and ordinary equestrian skills can do it, but chasing birds to the left has to chase birds and beasts while hunting, and shoot them from the left. β
Baoyu smiled bitterly, this is difficult for him.
Ming and luan, is to cooperate with the sound of the piano when driving, just pay attention to the rhythm;
The water-chasing car is to gallop along the curved riverbank without falling into the water, and choosing a good horse is, Jiafu does not lack this;
The monarch's table is to pass through the table of the Son of Heaven and have etiquette, and Qin Keqing told him that it is not difficult;
Dancing is to cross the passage and gallop freely, and it is also a good horse's thing, not difficult.
Only this 'chasing birds left' requires the cooperation of equestrianism and bow and arrow skills, and it is really difficult to shoot equally fast birds and beasts on the back of a bumpy horse. It was almost impossible for him to practice like this in less than a month.
[I should have practiced a long time ago, but Xiao Baoyu's body bones are too poor, so it is better to light a lot of simmers and be able to practice bow and arrow equestrianism. If it had been before, it would have been impossible to even get up the horse and draw the bow.......]
Baoyu sighed twice in her heart, and suddenly saw Jiao Da with a smile on his face, and his eyes lit up.
Jiao Da looked at him with a smile, shook his head and sighed: "There is a lot of good wine, but it's a pity that it is not strong enough." β
Baoyu also smiled: "There is spirits, I'm afraid your mouth is not strict enough." β
The technology of distilling spirits, he has. However, in this Confucian Great Zhou, wine is a controlled thing, which can only be brewed and distributed by the imperial court, and at the same time, it can only brew soft liquor in the mouth - spirits need to consume too much food, which is not in line with the national economy and people's livelihood of the Great Zhou.
Jiao Da's eyes widened, his lips trembled, and he exclaimed: "Brewing spirits, this is a thing that goes against the country's roots! Second Master Bao, are you really willing to violate such a taboo for me, little old man?"
Baoyu squinted at the white-haired, white-bearded old man, turned around in his heart, and asked in a cold voice, "Do you need spirits?"
A question, an affirmation. Baoyu became more and more sure of her guess. Jiao Da seems to be a decadent wreck, but this sentence obviously shows him a little clue - this Jiao Da is still concerned about Jiafu and has a lot of skills.
Jiao Da nodded viciously, his eyes bloodshot and said, "I am a ninth-rate martial artist, but I have lived for two hundred years, Second Master Bao, don't you think it's strange?"
Speaking of this, Jiao Da was silent, just staring at Baoyu with bloodshot eyes. Baoyu looked at him for a while, called the little servant in, and asked him to call Wang Shanbao.
Not long after, Wang Shanbao arrived bare-chested, along with Li Gui and Mingyan. The three of them were covered in sweat, steaming white mist in the cold wind of winterβthey rushed here with all their strength when they heard Bao Erye's summons.
At the same time, there was also a jar of old wine.
Baoyu said the method of distilling spirits, but only said that it was for his own use and could not be passed on. He knew that there were also recipes for distilling spirits outside, but they needed the skills of literati or monsters, so they couldn't be popularized. His recipe can be popularized, and if it spreads, it will inevitably be investigated by the Great Zhou court.
Jiao Da was so happy that he smiled, this liquor was his favorite the most.
With Wang Shanbao's demonic spirit, the spirits were quickly distilled. Jiao Da stomacked seven or eight bowls first, and a misty steam rose all over his body, as if a piece of cold ice had been watered with hot water. He looked around, kicked all the stables doors shut, and laughed: "Second Master Bao, practice the bow!"
"Shoot wherever I point, shoot that bastard!"
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I had a dream, and now I collect a few thousand, and each person will be rewarded with one dollar per month, and the frog will be enough to eat instant noodles::>_<::