Chapter 45: Spring Flowers
Here, the eunuchs give each other beauties, which is not counted as bribery. Besides, the beauty Xu Xi sent by others could refuse, but Xu Xi could only accept it if Emperor Zhou Hui gave it. What's even more unfortunate is that in the emperor's reward for ministers and nobles, beauty is always one of the precious and necessary.
Therefore, in the backyard of Xu Xi, one of Emperor Zhou Hui's number one confidants, although only Aunt Mo and other three concubines have given birth to heirs for Xu Xi, counting all the concubines who failed to give birth to children for Xu Xi, they are all countless beautiful girls.
And as the old saying goes, three women in one play, then count these concubines in Xu Xi's backyard, how many plays should it be? I'm afraid that if I sing every day, I can't finish singing, how cumbersome the things Pei has to deal with every day should be, this is really something that I can think of with my toes, so Xu Youshan doesn't know whether to tell Pei Shi what happened just now.
"Let's say, after all, we don't have much experience in dealing with things, and it is still up to the eldest aunt to decide. Otherwise, I'm really afraid that she will do something to harm you. ”
But Xu Youshan finally said this to Xu Yourong, because she suddenly remembered the incident of Qingyuan Pavilion back then.
And just when Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan were silent, a voice came in - "Sister Shan, who will harm the eldest sister?" ”
When boys are fifteen or sixteen years old, they will enter the period of voice change, and the voice will generally be a little harsh and unpleasant, but this sudden sound of a teenager only has a gentle feeling like the warmth of an April day in the world, which makes people wonder what kind of teenager can have this voice like jade hitting each other.
"Chen'er."
"Second brother."
Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan looked back in surprise. A thin and slender figure was reflected in his eyes, a young man dressed in a royal blue robe embroidered with ivory white spring flowers. The boy was tall, though he looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old. But he was taller than Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan. And such a tall person generally has to have a little flesh on his body to look good, otherwise he will be a little embarrassed. But such an ordinary theory is not used in the young man in front of Xu Youshan and the others.
Although this young man is very tall, he looks a little thin at a glance, giving people the feeling that he will fall down with a push. But that premise is that you don't have to look at his face, and once you look at his face. You won't be like that.
Why?
Of course, it's because he's so good-looking, just like now he's just standing in front of Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan, and he hasn't done anything yet. His delicate eyebrows and eyes are like the colorful light reflected by the ivory-white spring petals on his robe, which is so beautiful that people can't open their eyes.
But Xu Yourong called this beautiful young man "Chen'er", and Xu Youshan called him "Second Brother". Then this boy will only be alone.
The only son of Xu Xi and Pei. The son of the Xu family of Jiangzuo - Xu Chen.
"Chen'er, why are you here now, shouldn't you be studying in Taixue?" Xu Yourong looked at Xu Chen with great surprise and said.
"That's right, some people usually don't even want to go out of the door of Taixue for the sake of studying, and they don't even enter the door of their home for a long time." Xu Youshan was also very happy, and even complained about Xu Chen's recent efforts to bury himself in Taixue and not return to Dongyang Lane.
"Don't you say, I forgot. Chen'er, what's the matter with you, how can you not even come back for the Dragon Boat Festival. Xu Yourong said angrily.
"Sister, why do you still need to ask. Of course, our Dajinshi thinks that reading is more important than family. Xu Youshan said with a puffed up face.
"When you say that, it seems like ......"
"Alright, alright, alright! Xiaosheng is here to apologize to the two eldest ladies, some time ago it was really because Mr. Yi An didn't even go back to his hometown in order to give a lecture to all the students in our Taixue, so how could my eldest brother and I live up to Mr., so I sent a letter to explain the cause and effect clearly, didn't my grandfather, grandmother, father, and mother all understand. ”
Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan accused Xu Chen of not returning to Dongyang Lane recently, and there were more and more violent things, so that Xu Chen on the side really couldn't laugh and cry, and finally had to hurriedly admit his mistake first, and then tell the cause and effect again, saving these two aunts and grandmothers from settling the general account after the autumn, the more they calculated, the happier they became, and directly counted him to the end, and finally forced him to move back to the house from Taixue.
It turned out that as early as two years ago, Xu Xuan, the eldest and second master Xu Chen, of the Xu family's house, lived in the house in Taixue in order to be able to concentrate more on reading thousands of classics in Taixue. But I have to say that it seems that this is almost a tradition of Taixue, and all students who can enter Taixue almost wish that they would no longer go out of the door of Taixue before high school. And this also led to the fact that at the beginning of the construction of Taixue, it was criticized for the fact that the dormitory used for the students was too large, and it was praised the most later.
"Oh, then when you say that, it means that Sister Shan and I are too unreasonable?"
But Xu Chen is so studious, it should be something that Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan should be happy about, but the problem is that Xu Chen is also too studious, so that they don't often see him before he lives in Taixue's house. Not to mention that after Xu Chen and Xu Sui moved into Taixue together, Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan couldn't see him directly. And generally when Xu Chen is immersed in reading, he can't afford to think about anything other than books, so this also makes Xu Yourong and the others complain a lot about him. Among them, especially Xu Youshan, when he had just regarded Xu Chen as his own brother, he ran towards Taixue without looking back, which was really annoying.
"Hmph, who dares to say you're wrong, we haven't seen you for more than three months. I'm almost supposing now if Taixue is really built in the Divine Capital, otherwise how could it be so 'far' from Dongyang Lane. ”
Xu Youshan didn't even know how long she hadn't seen Xu Chen, and even so, she and Xu Yourong had people send things to Xu Chen every three days, for fear that he would be hungry, cold, and uncomfortable, after all, the rules of the world's first school are very big, and they are not Taixue scholars. No entry. Therefore, Xu Youshan and the others can only wait for Xu Chen to come back, or usually listen to his scholar Dai Zhou when he returns home, and talk about his recent situation in detail.
"Big sister, little sister. Xu Chen really apologized to you. ”
And Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan's usual caring actions towards Xu Chen, of course Xu Chen also knows, but after all, there is a giant peak in front of him that is too high, if he doesn't step over it, no matter how good he is, under the shroud of this giant peak, he is in the eyes of the world. will always be just a mediocre and inactive child of a family.
But if Xu Chen was really such a mediocre and inactive person, then Xu Chen would not be so unwilling, but he was not. Although it is not as young as his father Xu Xi, he is shocking and peerless. But Xu Chen is also a Jizi dragon writer, and he is young-hearted, so if he doesn't give it a try, he will regret it in the end. Therefore, Xu Chen wanted to fight towards the highest mountain. And such feelings. After Xu Chen did not enter the top three in this spring, not only did it not fade, but it was like throwing firewood into the fire, which made this fire burn more vigorously.
And these thoughts in Xu Chen's heart, how could Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan not know? Although some complaints caused by this were inevitable, after Xu Youshan and the two complained for a while, they finally broke into laughter when Xu Chen also admitted his mistake and had a good attitude.
"Alas. Well, who called you a little bookworm? ”
Xu Yourong has three sisters and brothers. At this time, because of the rare reunion, I was very happy, but Xu Youshan suddenly said: "Oh no, the eldest aunt will go to Princess Li's banquet in a while." ”
“……”
After Xu Youshan finished speaking, Xu Yourong and Xu Chen reacted and hurriedly walked towards the house. Previously, because of Aunt Gu's matter, Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan both instructed others not to notify the Pei family that they were coming.
And the two of them originally just planned to discuss in the courtyard for a while, and then decide whether to tell Pei Shi about the things that worried them, but who knew that Xu Chen would come back today, and the three of them forgot about other things for a while, but Pei Shi was going to go to the Liwang Mansion for a while, and this banquet was not something that could be pushed casually, so Xu Youshan and the three of them hurriedly went into the house to ask Pei Shi for peace.
And after Pei Shi saw Xu Chen, he naturally wanted to burst into tears. But in the end, Pei Shi could only tell Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan to be optimistic about Xu Chen, and he was not allowed to return to Taixue today, and he had to wait for her to come back from the Liwang Mansion. Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan patted their chests in response, and they didn't care about Xu Chen, who was laughing and laughing on the side. And Pei's family packed up and went to the Liwang Mansion for a banquet.
Pei's is gone, but Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan are still around Xu Chen, and continue to chirp and ask him if he has been in good health recently, whether he has eaten well, whether he is uncomfortable, etc., just like two little yellow warblers, Xu Chen's surroundings have been chattering and asking.
But this should have been a very irritating thing, but in Xu Chen's opinion, it made him smile and answer all the questions of Xu Youshan and the two of them one by one, without any impatience.
And when Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan pulled Xu Chen and asked more and more, Liu Yue, who stayed in the Autumn Chu Pavilion today, smiled and said: "Two good young ladies, you should let the second master go first, you look at the second master's appearance in the dust, how about letting the second master go back to the Yingqiang Courtyard to freshen up and recuperate?" ”
"Ah, yes." Xu Yourong apologized to Xu Chen: "Chen'er, you go back to freshen up first, just take a nap first, I see that before you come back, you must have stayed up late to study in Taixue, now go back to Yingqiang Courtyard to rest." ”
"I'm fine." But Xu Chen chuckled.
"It's okay, obedient." But Xu Yourong pulled Xu Chen up, and Xu Youshan also went to the other side to push Xu Chen to the door, and personally sent Xu Chen back to Yingqiang Courtyard with Xu Yourong, and also explained to Dai Zhou with thousands of instructions: "After Chen'er comes out of the bath for a while, you urge him to rest, and he is not allowed to read anymore, if he doesn't listen, you will send someone to tell me and Sister Shan'er, we will clean him up, you know?" ”
Dai Zhou replied loudly: "Got it." ”
Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan came out of Yingqiang Courtyard with satisfaction and returned to Weizhou Courtyard. But they had just returned to Weizhou Courtyard, Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan discussed sending Wan'er to the kitchen again, and asked the kitchen girls to stew a cup of swift bird's nest white fungus soup and send it to Yingqiang Courtyard, and the two of them also took a nap for a while.
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The three of them Lian and Qian, like Pei's today, are also on the invitation list of Princess Li's banquet, and today's banquet in Princess Li's Mansion has made it very clear in the post that it is just a "small gathering" for several of their friends to gather alone, so Yan and Pei also went to the banquet alone and did not bring Xu Mingwen. Therefore, after Xu Mingwen sent the Yan family out of the house, she returned to Qiaosu Courtyard alone.
Qilin Fang, Xu Mansion, Qiao Su Courtyard.
Qiaosu Courtyard is Xu Ming's courtyard, and Weizhou Courtyard and Zhengyan Pavilion are the same, and Xu Mingming's Qingzhu Courtyard is a residence next to each other, and before Xu Mingcheng married to the Beiding Palace, Xu Mingwen spent more time in Qingzhu Courtyard than in Qiaosu Courtyard. But after Xu Mingcheng got married, of course, Xu Mingwen would only spend the most time in Qiaosu Courtyard.
And today, too, originally this was Sheng Anxuan's rest day, Xu Youshan and the three of them didn't have to go to Sheng Anxuan to listen to classes, it should be the three of them to meet where to play. But yesterday, the three of them discussed for a long time, and there was still nothing in particular they wanted to go, and Xu Mingcheng in the Beiding Mansion was busy accompanying Qi Xuan, who was also a rare rest today, so in the end, Xu Youshan and the three of them decided to have a good rest in the mansion for a day.
But this should have been a rare rest day, but Xu Mingwen was in a daze looking at the blue sky in Qiaosu Courtyard.
"Ink painting, what time is it?"
"Miss Hui's words, it's not time now."
"It's not the right time...... Ink painting, ask someone to prepare the car, let's find Sister Rong and Sister Shan. ”
"Yes."
And when Mo Hua heard Xu Ming's sudden call to her to prepare the car and go to Dongyang Lane to find Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan, Mo Hua was not surprised at all, after all, Mo Hua had already calculated the time, and calculated how long Xu Mingwen would have to let her prepare for the carriage and horse in Dongyang Lane.
The ink painting went to arrange for the servants to prepare the carriage guards, and after a while, everything was in order, and a canopy carriage with purple jade carved cloud patterns drove out of the corner gate of the Qilin Fang, and under the support of the guards, he went to Dongyang Lane.
And when Xu Mingwen walked to Dongyang Lane, Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan in Dongyang Lane were still asleep, until Xu Mingwen arrived at Dongyang Lane, entered Xu's Mansion, stood in front of the main house of Weizhou Courtyard, and asked Wan'er and Yuedai, "Are Sister Rong and Youshan inside?" ”
"Back to the second miss, yes, the eldest lady and the second miss are still resting inside." Wan'er replied. (To be continued......)