Shu Wangjin led Lin Mei to the Flower Hall, who knew what the people at that table were thinking, and when they finally appeared in the Flower Hall, no one was looking at him.

"This looks so handsome!"

Lin Mei hung her head and just stepped into the flower hall, when she heard the joyful voice of a middle-aged woman, she couldn't help but look up, and saw that there were four people sitting on the big table in the middle at this time, among which the woman in yellow she had seen was Shu Wangjin's eldest sister, and the other three should be Shu Wangjin's brother-in-law and father......

Mrs. Shu and Master Shu looked at Lin Mei with a smile, their faces full of love, and Shu Yujin and Zhao Yun also looked at her with a smile, looking like her.

"Lin Mei has seen Master Shu and Mrs. Shu......" Lin Mei's mind was in turmoil, and she suddenly remembered that she still had to salute, so she learned to remember Liu Yufei's appearance of giving her father a salute, and just when she was about to bow down to Shu Yujin and Zhao Yun, Shu Yujin came over and helped her up, and said softly, "If I and Xianggong, you don't have to salute." ”

Master Shu nodded and motioned to the maid behind him to hold a small box, and said loudly, "Little girl, this is a small piece carved from mutton fat white jade, and it is regarded as a meeting gift." ”

Although Lin Mei's age is indeed an old girl in other people's families, the two descendants of the Shu family are older than her, and even Shu Yujin married at the age of seventeen, so Master Shu called Lin Mei a little girl.

Lin Mei listened to Master Shu's words, and looked at the small box's eyes straightened, such a good thing as mutton fat and white jade, she had only heard it in the storytelling and singing, and in that small place in Linshan County, there was a small piece of Guanyin Bodhisattva pendant carved from mutton fat and white jade, and it was handed down from the ancestors.

"The master is so generous, how can I be stingy?" Mrs. Shu smiled, turned to the maidservant standing behind her, and ordered, "Bring up the Dongyi Kingdom Double Embroidery Fan that I received on Qixi this year, that fan is delicate and chic, it should be played by you young people, but it's a pity that my family Yu Jin has never liked such daughters' playthings, and today I see Miss Lin so stable and generous, gentle and virtuous, which can be regarded as a wish of mine." ”

"......" Lin Mei stood stiffly in place, and she had only seen one time, where did Mrs. Shu see that she was gentle, virtuous and steady? Sure enough, Shu Wangjin's excellent quality of talking to people and talking nonsense is not for nothing!

The maidservant behind Mrs. Shu heard the blessing of the words, answered the sentence crisply, and opened the heavy wooden box carved by the small leaf red sandalwood that was originally held in her hand, and suddenly a faint fragrance came, Lin Mei only felt that the fragrance was good, but she didn't know what the fragrance was.

Shu Yujin also pursed her lips and smiled at this time, sure enough, she was different from other girls, hearty and atmospheric, "I said that you will hurt people, Miss Lin, this fan is a gift sent by the envoy of Dongyi some time ago, it is said to be made of double-sided embroidery, ingenious, and the fan bone is made of water agarwood, it is rumored that the fragrance can be extended for more than ten years, and the person who hears it is relaxed and happy, and he will not be sick for a long time." ”

Lin Mei's eyes lit up when she heard this, it turned out that this inconspicuous little fan had so many origins! She slowly gave another salute and said softly, "Thank you Master Shu and Mrs. Shu for your kindness." ”

"Send it to the curtain house." Shu Wangjin stood behind Lin Mei, and commanded the two maidservants holding the brocade box in a deep voice, then stepped forward and said with a smile, "Dad, mother, since everyone has come, let's eat." ”

Shu Yujin smiled at Lin Mei, raised her hand and pointed to the empty stool next to her, motioning for her to take a seat.

There was a gentle drizzly scene at the family banquet, but Lin Mei couldn't swallow it, Master Shu and Mrs. Shu had been looking at her with very strange eyes and ambiguous looks, from top to bottom, from beginning to end, Lin Mei's right hand holding chopsticks couldn't help but tremble, and then chewed slowly and swallowed the piece of chicken in the bowl, trying to create a beautiful image of herself as a pure girl.

Finally finished a meal, Master Shu symbolically said a few words of greetings and left with Mrs. Shu first, Shu Yujin and Zhao Yun then returned to their own courtyard, and when they left, Shu Yujin also gave Lin Mei a meaningful smile.

"Daddy, sister and brother-in-law have left, and the autumn rain has disappeared at this time, why don't you take Miss Lin to this curtain house at night?" Withdrawing from the people around her, Shu Wangjin looked at Lin Mei with a light smile, her eyes full of warmth.

"Leaning on the curtain? Where is it? Lin Mei didn't know that the room where she bathed and drank medicine before was the curtain house, and she didn't know that it was the main house of the curtain house, where the future mother of the Shu family lived.

Shu Wangjin smiled brightly, held a shining lantern, and walked out of the hall with Lin Mei, "It is the courtyard that Miss Lin passed by before, called Leaning on the Curtain House, taken from the poems of the previous dynasty, which means 'Yiren leaning on the curtain to look forward to who returns', although it is now the Mid-Autumn Festival, but the evening lotus back to the lingering pond is still open, slim and jade, along the way the cinnamon is fragrant, the moon is clear, but it is beautiful." ”

Lin Mei was thinking about it when she heard it, but she remembered the strange looks of the people in Shufu who looked at her during the previous meal, and couldn't help but be a little worried, "Shu Wangjin, isn't your father and your mother unhappy that you took me in?" ”

Take in......

Shu Wangjin wanted to laugh, he carried her into Shu Mansion openly, and placed her in the Curtain House, so if it was only taken in, the young ladies who had been talking to him in the past would probably be angry, right?

"Miss Lin, don't worry, my father and mother are ...... It's just a matter of playing......" Shu Wangjin talked about his father, with a slight helplessness in his tone, but there was a faint smile in his eyes.

When Mr. Shu was only twelve years old, he took on the responsibility of the Shu family, although the Shu family was only a merchant, but it was a big family in the capital, living here for generations, intertwined, up and down, including those distant relatives, there were as many as seven or eight hundred people, so when the twelve-year-old Shu became the new head of the Shu family, he was squeezed out by a lot of sidelines, and it took ten years to finally clean up the Shu family, so Shu Wangjin has great respect for Shu Lao, even if now Shu is fighting cocks and playing crickets outside every day. Shu Wangjin's respect for him has not decreased by half a point.

While the two were talking, they had already stepped into the corridor of the curtain dwelling, where every few steps were hung with carved palace lanterns, and the flowers and plants in the distance and near were specially equipped with lamp stands that could shelter from the wind and rain, and even the osmanthus tree next to it was more than ten meters high There were palace lamps hanging on it, and the warm yellow light slowly shone down, and for a while this courtyard was as bright as the sky.

Lin Mei stretched out her hand, and the breeze was gentle, and it was covered with a palm of golden cinnamon, with a slight moisturizing feeling, and the smell was sweet.

"Shu Wangjin, how did you hang the light on this tree?" Lin Mei stopped next to the osmanthus tree and looked up curiously, in the dark night of the night, a tree was sporadically lit, looking like a fairyland on earth.

"The Shu family has a small servant who is responsible for lighting the lights at night, but the palace lamps on this tree will only be lit during festivals and New Year's holidays, and the next day those small maids will take down the palace lamps on these trees, and continue to light them at night, and the cycle repeats." Shu Wangjin walked to Lin Mei's side, stared at the tall laurel tree, and said gently, "The fire tree and silver flowers never sleep, and the full moon sings and dances; That Rong hundred ethnic groups are in Khotan, and the good night festival is unprecedented. ”

"Fire trees and silver flowers never sleep......" Lin Mei murmured, although she didn't understand the meaning of this poem, but listening to the words of this sentence, the artistic conception should be very beautiful, but ...... She had seen a flower mold made of silver, but it was ...... in this world And a tree that makes its own fire?!

Shu Wangjin saw Lin Mei's ignorant appearance and knew that she didn't understand the meaning of this poem at all, so Wen Yan explained, "'Fire trees and silver flowers never sleep' refers to the bright lights, the trees are full of lights, and the gorgeous night scene of fireworks, from a distance, it seems to be the appearance of fire trees and silver flowers, and there will be a fireworks festival in the capital tomorrow night, which is very appropriate to describe with this poem." ”

"Fireworks party? Fireworks in the capital...... Isn't it beautiful? Lin Mei remembered the fireworks set off in Linshan County every time, sparsely sparse and sparse, just a few years ago, Luo Zhenfang's shopkeeper Luo Zhenfang ordered someone to set off one hundred and eight fireworks on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and she and Lin Shi were scolded by Lin Matchmaker in order to watch the fireworks.

Shu Wangjin carefully wiped the golden cinnamon in Lin Mei's palm with a handkerchief, and walked towards her back to the direction of Yingchi, "There will be many kinds of fireworks in the capital, and they are extremely gorgeous, but ...... You can only see the grandest fireworks on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, and the fireworks of the Mid-Autumn Festival are nothing more than the fireworks on the night before the Spring Festival. ”

Back to the pond at this time calm waves, lotus branches stand, under the blue waves koi swimming, from time to time to cause ripples.

"This fish is so gorgeous!" Lin Mei could vaguely see the figure of the underwater fish swimming by the large palace lamp hanging next to the fence of the white stone carved railing, red, white, black and yellow mixed, which looked particularly bright under a pool of clear water.

"This is from the country of Dongyi, the name is koi, the color is gorgeous, and its meat is inedible." Shu Wangjin saw that Lin Mei was looking at the golden koi closest to them, and explained, "This is the mountain blowing golden koi, the one with a white body and only a bright round red spot on the top of the head is called the red-crowned three-color koi. ”

"It's so beautiful that you can't eat it......" Lin Mei muttered to herself as she looked at a pool of koi, her face full of disgust.

The corners of Shu Wangjin's mouth twitched, he really broke his brain before he really thought that Lin Mei suddenly wanted to study and ask questions, and used it to eat...... He silently glanced at the red-crowned three-color koi, when the right minister bought more than a dozen koi of various colors from the merchants of Dongyi Kingdom, he spent hundreds of taels of gold, if it was used for cooking......

Burning the qin and boiling the crane, that's probably it!

[Note] The term "fire trees and silver flowers never sleep" comes from "Huanxi Sha" written by Mr. Liu Yazi, and the author quotes here with slight changes, and all the words are as follows:

The fire tree and the silver flower never sleep,

Brothers and sisters dance,

The song sings through the full moon.

Not one person can lead,

That allows all the tribes to join Khotan?

The festival is unprecedented!