In a blink of an eye, it was the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Yu Shu went out from Ji's house early in the morning, and when she went to find He Langzhong to get medicine the day before yesterday, she was told by Zhao Hui to go over early today, and they wanted to celebrate her birthday a day earlier.

Ji Xingxuan threw enough hexagrams and eight elephants yesterday, and learned the first step of "starting hexagrams", Yu Shu then taught her the "hexagrams" of the six hexagrams, but only said that there were two steps of Najia and Shiying, and did not explain the two steps of hexagram palace and using gods, this time Yu Shu didn't let her throw copper plates, and taught a half-hanger, so he asked Ji Xingxuan to go back and load two hundred hexagrams, and find something for her to do in a different way, so as to free up a few days of free time.

Yu Shu saw Yu Xiaoxiu standing at the door of Zhao Hui's house waiting for her from afar, and called him, and the child ran over excitedly, and saw Yu Shu happier than anyone else.

"Sister, have you had breakfast?"

"No, do you have food at home?"

"Well, Aunt Hui asked the cook to boil you sweet porridge with red beans and boiled a pot of eggs, waiting for you to eat."

Yu Shu was pulled home by Yu Xiaoxiu, and first went to the backyard to see Zhao Hui, in the hall, He Fangzhi was pinching Zhao Hui's morning pulse, and when the two children walked in, he smiled and asked them to come and sit down.

Because Zhao Hui was inconvenient to move, the family moved the dining table to the house for breakfast, and Yu Shu drank two bowls of porridge and swallowed three eggs under Zhao Hui's expectant gaze.

There is a saying in the Da'an Dynasty that the boy's birthday is not known, but the unmarried daughter's birthday must drink sweet bean porridge, symbolizing a happy marriage in the future, and the eggs boiled in the middle of the night symbolize more children and more blessings, and the more you eat, the better.

After breakfast, Zhao Hui kicked He Fangzhi and Yu Xiaoxiu out of the house, let Kidney Bean come out of the house with a new set of clothes, and pulled Yu Shu to his side to compare, the darker blue fabric was very flattering to Yu Shu's not too white complexion.

Yu Shu liked Zhao Hui's attitude of treating her like a daughter, and called out sweetly in her mouth, "Xie Lu Xie Ganniang", and went into the house to change with her new clothes

After changing into new clothes, Zhao Hui added a white hosta with a little green on Yu Shu's head, saying that it was given by He Langzhong.

"How good is this, more and more like a girl's family, and tomorrow she will be a sixteen-year-old girl." Zhao Hui cupped Yu Shu's ears and temples lovingly, feeling very sorry for this child with twists and turns in fate, every time she saw her, it was as if she saw that she was helpless and could only live hard by herself.

In the past, she lived a hard life, and she couldn't do anything more for her, but now everything is fine, and she wants to do everything she can as an elder.

When it was almost noon, Pei Jing also came, but he was empty-handed, making Zhao Hui laugh:

"Why is my brother stingy today, you didn't take anything from the child, did you bring a mouth?"

Pei Jingha smiled, "Who said I didn't bring courtesy, isn't it." ”

As he spoke, he took out something from his back waist and handed it to Yu Shu, "Take it, don't say that your uncle is not good to you, I have wasted a lot of effort for this gift." ”

What was handed to Yu Shu was a slender horsewhip wrapped in red skin, which made Yu Shu confused, and He Fangzhi and his wife were also puzzled.

Yu Xiaoxiu was still smart, stood up with a slap, and said excitedly: "Are you going to give my sister a horse?"

Pei Jing reached out and touched his head, and said with a smile: "Isn't it."

Yu Shu had long been thinking about buying a horse to ride, and asked Pei Jing about buying a horse a few years ago, Pei Jing paid attention, and just happened to run into the door, and a few days ago he heard that Yu Shu was born and took the opportunity to take it as a gift.

When a few people heard this, they were dumbfounded, because Pei Jing's cheap uncle was more generous than his father.

"We Taiheng Chamber of Commerce is in charge of a few horse dealers, a few days ago sent a batch of good horses into Beijing, I rushed to pick you a gentle mare, just three years old, originally wanted to bring it this morning, because it had a stomach and had to give up, you will lead it in two days."

This gift is too thick, Yu Shu is embarrassed to accept it, the horses that can be sent to the capital to sell, I think it is not cheap, especially the mare that can be matched, if there is no two or three hundred taels, just touch the horse's butt.

Although Zhao Hui and He Fangzhi also felt that this gift was too heavy, it was not easy to interject, Pei Jing was a good person, and when he saw their thoughts, he said to Yu Shu:

"Why don't you want to accept your uncle's affection? Silly boy, I didn't see that this was my uncle stammering you, and when I turned back to the list, how many people were scrambling to get a big arithmetic at your age, and my uncle couldn't stammer even if he wanted to, so it's not too early. ”

As soon as Yu Shu heard this, she immediately laughed, didn't she know that Pei Jing was a person, even if what he said was true, the affection in his words was not fake, and she refused with a twist, but it didn't seem frank enough.

"Uncle Xie Lu"

"Ha Luha, that's right."

Zhao Hui saw that they were willing, so she didn't interject, Yu Xiaoxiu was the most happy, and sat down next to Pei Jing and asked about the horse.

Kidney Bean went to the kitchen to look around and came back, telling that the meal was ready, He Fangzhi looked at the sun outside and asked Yu Shu: "Why haven't you seen the shopkeeper Cao coming?" Didn't you say the wrong day?"

In order to give Yu Shu a lively life, Zhao Hui wanted to invite more people, but there were few people in Anling, so she invited Pei Jing, and waited for Yu Shu to invite "Cao Zixin".

"Tell him it's today," Yu Shu stood up and looked outside: "You go to the living room to sit first, and I'll go out and take a look."

After paying the account on the ninth day of the first month, Yu Shu didn't see Xue Rui's people for several days, and the forgetting machine building will officially open tomorrow, Xue Rui only showed up in the restaurant yesterday afternoon, came in a hurry, and left in a hurry after explaining a few things to Lin Fu, Yu Shu had time to say two words to him, one to say hello, and the other was to say that she invited him to come on Zhao Hui's birthday on the fourteenth day, and Xue Rui was there at that time.

But it's almost time for lunch, and I haven't seen anyone yet.

Yu Shu waited outside the gate for a while, and saw a horse shadow running from the street, and it was Lao Cui, who usually drove a carriage, who stopped in front of the door and dismounted, and shouted to Yu Shu out of breath, and saluted first:

"Girl, say hello to girl."

Yu Shu saw him coming alone, and guessed that Xue Rui couldn't come because of something, and sure enough, Lao Cui gasped twice and continued:

"The eldest young master asked the younger one to come and talk, he can't come today, so the girl doesn't have to wait for him."

Yu Shu was a little disappointed, but he didn't show it, "I know, Lao Cui come in and sit, the meals are all set, and it will be lively with us."

"The girl is kind, I have other urgent matters," Lao Cui hesitated for a moment, looked left and right at no one, leaned forward, and whispered to her:

"Tell the girl the truth, the young master really can't get out of his body today, the Nine Emperor Princes returned to Beijing the day before yesterday, and this morning he went out of the palace to meet his relatives at the palace with the order of the noble concubine Niangniang, and the family followed it."

This inside story made Yu Shu stunned when he heard it, the Nine Emperors, which one is it?

"Also, the eldest young master told the girl to go to the Wangji Building as soon as possible tomorrow, it can be sooner rather than later, the little one will leave, you can go in."

Lao Cui took the words, and left in a hurry, Yu Shu stood alone at the door for a while, thinking about it, and felt that this Nine Emperors should be the son of the Xue family's noble concubine.

"Sister, is Brother Cao here?"

Yu Xiaoxiu's shout sounded behind him, Yu Shu stopped his thoughts, turned around and walked towards the courtyard:

"No, Lao Cui came to send a message just now, and he can't come today."

Yu Shu stayed at Zhao Hui's house until the afternoon, Zhao Hui intended to keep her for dinner, but Yu Shu found an excuse to refuse, Zhao Hui was afraid that she would go back late, so she didn't keep it, wrapped a few eggs, a box of moon cakes and poured a pot of rice wine, and asked her to take it back to Aunt Cui.

Yu Xiaoxiu sent Yu Shu out, stopped at the street entrance, took out a small bag from his arms, twisted it, and handed it to her.

"Give."

"Yo, you got a gift for me, too?" Yu Shu took it with a smile, touched the bag and seemed to contain some strips, untied it, who would have thought that it would be five or six polished charcoal.

Look at the thickness of the willow branch burned, it is rare that there is no crack, and the tip of the pen is carefully sharpened, and the pen body is also covered with a delicate and small cloth pen sleeve to prevent the fingers from being stained with black when holding the pen.

"Ah, you did?"

Seeing the surprise on Yu Shu's face, Yu Xiaoxiu said shyly: "It's not good to start burning a lot, so I asked Uncle He for help, the pen sleeve is to ask kidney beans to sew, I know that you don't like to use a brush, writing is slow, it's nothing to use this occasionally, sister, don't always study late at night, go to bed early, Uncle He said that staying up late is not good for your body."

Hearing this, Yu Shu was so relieved that he almost shed tears, only to feel that the bag of charcoal nibs in his hand was the best gift she had received today, and she didn't change ten horses.

couldn't help but reach out and hug Yu Xiaoxiu, Yu Shu said: "Good brother, my sister likes this gift very much, and it will be used well."

Yu Xiaoxiu was hugged by her on the street, twisted his body embarrassedly, and said awkwardly: "It's serious for you to make the brush as soon as possible, how can you see people with this handwriting."

Yu Shu grinned, patted him on the shoulder and let go of him, and said, "Tomorrow I will buy a calligraphy book to practice calligraphy."

The sister and brother were tired of it for a while before saying goodbye, and Yu Xiaoxiu waited until Yu Shuren disappeared on the street corner, then turned around and went back.

Yu Shu changed directions on the next street, took advantage of the dawn to walk to the south of the city, passed by the market along the way, entered a few shops, and had more and more large bags in his hand, and when he arrived at Huixing Street, he couldn't carry it in his hand.

Familiar with the door into the alley, stopped in front of a locked courtyard door at the end of the alley, no one around, Yu Shu took out a hand from his neck to pick the key, opened the door, "squeak" pushed the door in, backhanded the door closed, and dropped the latch.

There was a cold atmosphere in the small courtyard that had not been inhabited for a long time, Yu Shu entered the big house and put down the big bags and small bags, choked on the ashes twice, waved his hand in front of his nose, frowned, Jingchen will come back tomorrow, she has to clean up this place first.

Yu Shu retreated to the door of the house, looked around at the cobwebs and dirt ashes, rolled up his sleeves, stuck them on his waist, and took a light breath, full of energy