In a tea room in the courtyard, Yu Shu and his party of four sat and waited for a while, and the tea was changed twice, before a middle-aged steward with hair and a brown fur collar around his neck hurriedly walked in, quietly swept around the house, wiped a handful of sweat, and secretly wondered that so many people came, and he didn't know that the other two were coming to join in the fun, he bent down towards Xue Rui, and apologized:

"The villain is late, Lord Xue, please don't be surprised."

Xue Rui waited for a while, but his expression was not unhappy, he raised his hand, and said, "It's okay, how about it, do you have a number of people who let you pick a good one?"

Yu Shu often heard people outside call Xue Rui respectfully "Xue Dagongzi", of course, there are also people who call him "Xue Dagong", and it can be seen that Xue Rui prefers the latter.

"This is natural, the adult asked people to give instructions yesterday, how dare the villain slack off." The middle-aged housekeeper hurriedly took two steps forward, took out the booklet under his armpit, stuck his fingers and spitted, and confessed while turning the page:

"These days, there are not many children in the courtyard, who are knowledgeable and sensible and well-behaved, there are only four people in the Manchurian Republic, and the villains have been selected. According to the background, the best is the grandson of the former Jiangzhou Festival envoy Bai Wei, the little son of the Bai family just turned twelve last month, good at painting, and can be literate and martial, a set of long fists in the family, the birth date is smooth, and the appearance is also beautiful, disciplined in the courtyard for a year, the temperament is tame, if there is anything wrong, but there are fewer words. ”

Listening to the report of the steward, Jing Chen and Shui Yun did not have anything unusual about the two people in the Daomen, only Yu Shu showed a hint of surprise on her face, she came to pick a slave, how could this person babble about the talent, after the official eunuch, it is not like the material for others to be a scholar, enough to take it back to recognize a godson.

How much does this cost?

Actually, it was Yu Shu who didn't have knowledge, and the usual family servants referred to the subordinates who sold their bodies. But there are also high and low people, and the better ones are the children who grew up in large families. He was raised since he was a child, but not much was released.

The almost poor ones were the poor who were sold into slavery because of poverty and famine.

In addition, there is also a kind of slave, who is not low-born, educated, and innocent, but his family is decaying, and he is reduced to slavery because of his sin. Those who have been registered as slaves in the household department, taken into custody by the imperial court, and are not allowed to get out of trouble, can only serve as slaves, and this kind of subordinates can never be bought outside.

No matter how cheap it is, it is the prostitute in the Qinglou kiln.

"Alright. You don't have to read them one by one," Xue Rui interrupted the middle-aged steward's words, "First bring all the people you just talked about, and let me pass by." ”

"Yes, my lord, wait a minute," the middle-aged steward closed the booklet, turned his head to Yu Shu and said, "Childe, Xiu also wait."

Then he withdrew to the door and commanded.

After a short time, a servant came in with two small tables, but the four treasures of the study room were placed. A pair of cushions were placed on the ground, and Yu Shuzheng wondered what this was doing, so he saw the steward who had just left leading a few people to walk in again.

When I looked closely, there were four teenagers, who were not of ordinary size, but they all had a good skin, with their heads down, and they couldn't see clearly. But he was about a few years old, and he was wearing a cotton robe of one style. The color varies. The most striking thing is the blue robe in the middle, with red lips and white teeth. If it is not a child raised by a large family, no one believes it.

Maybe it's a preconceived notion, seeing that they are all full of complexion, Yu Shu's cold heart, he doesn't have much sympathy to pity their past encounters and become slaves, just thinking about how much silver such a scholar will have to spend to buy it, and the money he brings with him is no longer enough, and he has to borrow it from Xue Rui.

"My lord, these are the few people," the middle-aged steward stretched out his hand to lead Xue Rui, turned his head to the four teenagers behind him and said: "This is Lord Xue of Dali Temple, and he is also the eldest son of Shangshu Mansion, and there are a few sons of the show, you still don't want to see it."

"Xiaosheng has worshiped Lord Xue, and has seen Gongzi, Xiu."

I don't know if the steward has explained before, the four young men have politely bowed to a few people here, if it weren't for Yu Shu's previous hearing that they were either from a scholarly family or an official eunuch and then fell here, he would have thought that the four young masters raised by the family were called out by their parents to show off in front of the guests.

"Click", Xue Rui wiped the tea cup in his hand, looked at them one by one, and said to them: "Reading and writing should be all right, one person can make a poem casually, and write it for me to read."

"Yes."

Yu Shu watched the four teenagers in front of him sit in front of the small desk one by one to write, and only then did he know what the four treasures of the study room were used for.

"Take their eight-character and four-pillar over," Xue Rui took a piece of paper from the steward of the courtyard and gave it to Yu Shu, "Look, what's wrong." ”

Yu Shu nodded, carefully checked the few eight characters in his opponent's hand, and secretly calculated, but there was no restraint with Yu Xiaoxiu's life.

These teenagers didn't ink, and soon one of them wrote a poem, which was presented to Xue Rui by the maid who served the tea, Xue Rui read it at a glance, nodded, handed it to Yu Shu, and joked casually:

"It's better written than you, you see."

Yu Shu glanced at him and took a serious look, although she didn't know much about poetry and songs, but she could see it smoothly and fluently, at least these five-word sentences, Yu Xiaoxiu, who had only been in school for a few months, couldn't do it.

"Miss Yu, show me too." Shui Yun stretched out his hand and asked Yu Shu with some interest.

Yu Shu passed it to her and asked casually, "The water girl knows poetry?"

"A little more understanding, my father has taught," Shui Yun nodded, and glanced at Jingchen with a side smile: "But it's not as good as my senior brother's learning, Miss Yu doesn't know, my second uncle said, if my senior brother enters the Beijing scientific examination, maybe he can win the top prize."

"Oh, really?" Yu Shu turned his head to look at Jing Chen, his mood was a little delicate, and he couldn't help but say: "I've known you for so long, but I didn't know that you still knew poetry."

After speaking, I felt that my mouth was fast, and when I heard this sentence, it seemed like complaining, and it was somewhat depressed. But this is inevitable, no matter how you say it, Jingchen is the person she likes with all her heart, and a man who has had the idea of living hand in hand, how can he say that he doesn't care, he doesn't care.

Jing Chen looked at Yu Shu, didn't know if he noticed anything, and said seriously: "At that time, I lost my memory, and even martial arts and Taoism could forget, not to mention these." I don't remember, how do you know the Tao? ”

Yu Shu's eyes moved, and he said in a low voice: "That's what I said."

Jingchen wanted to say something, but Shui Yun pulled his sleeve to read the poem and turned his attention.

Yu Shu looked at the pair of brothers and sisters in front of him who had a good relationship, couldn't hold back a little uncomfortable, turned his head, and just met Xue Rui's dark and shiny eyes, and suddenly his eyelids jumped, afraid that he would see that she was uncomfortable, so he coughed in disguise and said:

"Didn't you say this place was interesting, why didn't I see it?"

Xue Rui looked away, pointed at a young man below, and said softly, "Tell me about your life experience."

The one who was named was the most beautiful boy in the blue robe before, who glanced at him stewardly, he hesitated, put down the brush in his hand, got up and saluted Xue Rui, lowered his head slightly, covered the bitterness of the corners of his mouth, and said:

"Xiaosheng Bai Ran, born in Layue, my grandfather was the former Jiangzhou Festival envoy, my father was the second son, I was enlightened at the age of four, I entered the sect at the age of six, and my mother passed away due to illness when I was eight years old."