Chapter 21: Early Morning Tea Ceremony
The morning breeze blows, accompanied by the scent of flowers, wafts into the room, and the wind chimes hanging under the windows gently shake and jingle and play a light music that awakens the sleeping people.
The person on the bed moved, as if he wanted to wake up, Zhong Xuanlan frowned slightly, opened his hazy eyes, looked down at the person in his arms, and said, "Are you awake?" ”
Wang Xuannian blushed slightly and nodded.
In fact, he woke up early in the morning, but he didn't move, for fear of waking up the people around him, so he kept looking up at her quiet sleeping face until his body was a little numb, and he didn't expect to wake people up.
Zhong Xuanlan shouted outside the door, "Someone." ”
After speaking, Zhong Xuanlan let go of Wang Xuannian and quickly got up, and Wang Xuannian also got up.
A few maids walked in under the leadership of Chun Zhi and began to change and freshen up the two of them.
A quarter of an hour later, Zhong Xuanlan led Lu Xuannian out of the courtyard, walked straight all the way, passed through the Hanging Flower Gate, walked to the right along the bluestone road, came to the mouth of the hand-copying verandah, walked up the steps, went to the left of the copy-hand verandah, passed through the corridor, and came to a hall.
Along the way, Xuan Nian looked at the pavilions and pavilions in the Zhong Mansion, carved railings and paintings, majestic and magnificent, trees, mountains and stones, and Wei Wei Run, very elegant, not like a merchant family at all, but like a scholarly family.
Zhong Xuanlan led Wang Xuannian into the hall, only to see Zhong Xuanli, who was leaning on a chair and not sitting, resting with his eyes closed.
After the two sat down, the slave maid served tea, and Zhong Xuanlan asked Chunzhi to find Zhong Tinghao.
Wang Xuannian looked at Zhong Xuanli carefully, his hair was tied with a ribbon and draped behind him, with the same eyebrows and eyes as Zhong Xuanlan, Zhong Xuanlan's sharpness, and his gentleness, dressed in a red robe embroidered with a gorgeous pattern of gold wire, was uninhibited and close to the people.
The corners of Zhong Xuanlan's mouth hooked slightly, and he said with a wicked smile: "How was Xuanli doing last night?" ”
Zhong Xuanlan heard the voice, quickly opened his eyes, and said angrily: "Sister, I am your own brother." ”
Last night, Zhong Xuanli took advantage of Zhong Xuanlan to greet guests, and everyone in the house was too busy to take care of him, so he planned to go out to play for a night and come back, but he was tied to a tree and slept overnight by the winter solstice.
Zhong Xuanlan thought that Zhong Xuanli didn't help her block the wine yesterday, and wanted to sneak out of the door, so he was very angry in his heart, and said in a bad tone: "Yes, my brother, you don't take my words seriously." ”
Zhong Xuanli snorted, pretending to be aggrieved and said: "Hehe, isn't that because you have a good amount of alcohol, I'll go back to my room to rest, I thought that the winter solstice thought I was going to sneak out and tied me up." ”
Zhong Xuanlan said in disbelief: "Really? Do you want me to compensate you? ”
Zhong Xuanli immediately shook his head and said, "Sister, I don't have to compensate, as long as you have to figure out the situation next time, just don't wronged me again." ”
Zhong Xuanlan said: "Well, since I wronged you, then stay at home obediently and accompany your brother-in-law to familiarize himself with the mansion." ”
Zhong Xuanli was disappointed and couldn't go out. frowned slightly, thought for a while, hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled, and said, "Sister, brother-in-law has never been to Kyoto City, do you want to take him shopping?" ”
Zhong Xuanlan said: "Yes, but you can only go for an hour." ”
Zhong Xuanli was happy in his eyes, his face was flat, and he said: "Sister, you need silver for shopping, that, brother, I am shy in my pocket, you." ”
Zhong Xuanlan raised his eyebrows and asked, "How much do you want?" ”
Zhong Xuanli raised a right index finger, Zhong Xuanlan raised his eyebrows and said, "One hundred taels?" ”
Zhong Xuanli nodded hurriedly, he wanted more, but looking at his sister's expression, it was better to accept it when he saw it.
Zhong Tinghao walked into the hall and saw that the three of them were there, and said, "Daughter, son-in-law, stinky boy, you are all so early." ”
Hearing the sound, Wang Xuannian raised his eyes and looked at Zhong Tinghao, who had just walked in the door, about forty years old, with the same eyes as Zhong Xuanlan's sister and brother, handsome facial features, and wearing a dark blue brocade robe, the whole person looked chic and uninhibited.
Zhong Xuanlan held the teacup on his left, crossed the tea surface with the tea lid in his right hand, blew gently with his mouth, and drank the tea slowly, ignoring it.
Zhong Xuanli pursed his lips, closed his eyes and rested, ignoring it.
Only Wang Xuannian stood up and saluted, "Father-in-law." ”
Zhong Tinghao stretched out his hand to support Wang Xuannian and said, "We will be a family in the future, call your father, and call your father-in-law more strange." ”
Wang Xuannian thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay." ”
Zhong Xuanlan put down the teacup and ordered the spring solstice to prepare tea, and she and Wang Xuannian toasted tea.
Zhong Tinghao took two cups of tea, took a sip, said a few words of blessing, and gave each of them a red envelope.
After Zhong Xuanli and Wang Xuannian greeted each other, Wang Xuannian gave Zhong Xuanli the jade pendant that Zhong Xuanlan had prepared for him.
Seeing this, Zhong Xuanlan said, "Let's eat." ”
The family of four went to the dining room next door for dinner.
After the family had breakfast, Zhong Xuanlan took a sip of tea, put down the teacup, and said, "Xuan Li, you take Xuan Nian to walk around at home and familiarize yourself with the situation at home." After saying that, he got up and left.
Seeing this, Zhong Tinghao proposed: "That, daughter, I want to take my son-in-law out for a walk." ”
Zhong Xuanlan nodded, turned around and was about to leave.
"Wait, daughter, you didn't give the money."
Zhong Xuanlan looked at Zhong Tinghao and said, "Ask your son for it." With that, he left.
"Son, how much money did your sister give?"
Zhong Xuanli shook his head and said he wouldn't say anything.
Zhong Tinghao saw that his son couldn't get through, so he started Wang Xuannian's idea and said, "Son-in-law, who do you want to take you out to play?" ”
Zhong Xuanli listened, blinked his eyes, and looked at Wang Xuannian pitifully.
Wang Xuannian looked at the two of them with some embarrassment and said, "Why don't you go together?" ”
The father and son glared at each other with disgust, "hum", and turned their heads to look at Wang Xuannian at the same time.
Zhong Xuanli said: "Brother-in-law, I don't have a good relationship with him, and shopping is easy to cause trouble." ”
Wang Xuannian looked at Zhong Xuanli in puzzlement, Zhong Tinghao stretched out his right hand and patted the back of Zhong Xuanli's head, and said to Wang Xuannian: "We often cause trouble when we go to the street alone, and there will definitely be accidents when two people go to the street." ”
Zhong Xuanli pursed his lips and turned back in time......
When they were six years old, the father and son were out shopping together when he accidentally knocked off the vendor's clay figurine, which shattered.
The hawker wants to pay compensation, and the compensation will be compensated. But the peddler lion opened his mouth, and they disagreed, so they made a fuss, and the father and son smashed the vendor's stall, not to mention, and also smashed the stalls of others on the side.
When he was seven years old, Zhong Tinghao took him to see a cockfight, he saw that the chicken was thin, and he was afraid that it would be killed by the powerful chicken opposite, so he ran into the cockfighting competition field, picked up the chicken and wanted to take it away, but the owner of the chicken did not let it.
Zhong Tinghao paid for it, but the price was too high, so Zhong Tinghao asked him to put down the chicken, he held it, Zhong Tinghao asked the man to lower the price, the man didn't do it, and the two had a dispute.
Zhong Xuanli saw that no one cared about him, so he let go of all the chickens that were kept aside, making the chicken feathers fly all over the sky.
Seeing this, the man asked the thugs to stop their father and son to ask for compensation, but Zhong Tinghao refused to pay compensation and started fighting.
The father and son escaped from the cockfighting ring, ran around the street, and were taken to the official mansion, where the old lady Zhong went to ransom people.
When he was nine years old, he was going to go to the street, and Zhong Tinghao was going to the opera garden to listen to the play. The father and son didn't let anyone, so they argued on the street, and the two ended up drawing lots and went to the opera garden.
As soon as he heard the old-fashioned attitude in the opera garden, he bumped into Zhong Tinghao, and in turn said that Zhong Tinghao bumped into him.
So the father and son duo who were not afraid of things began to reason with others, and the other people couldn't listen to the play, and they asked to blast them out.
The three of them went out of the theater garden and had a fight at the gate of the theater, the father and son were fine, but the man was beaten and his nose was blue and his face was swollen.
Since then, that person and Zhong Tinghao's Liangzi have been married, and that person is Liu Xu.
"Hey, what do you want?" Zhong Tinghao saw that Zhong Xuanli was distracted again, and slapped it and landed on the back of Zhong Xuanli's head.
"Ouch," Zhong Xuanli rubbed the back of his head, turned his head to look at Zhong Tinghao and said, "Dad, why are you beating me again?" ”
Zhong Tinghao said: "Who let you get distracted." ”
Zhong Xuan didn't continue to pursue the loss, and asked, "Say, what's the matter?" ”
Zhong Tinghao suggested: "Today you take your son-in-law out, tomorrow I will take my son-in-law out, and we will divide half of the silver given by your sister." How is it? ”
"Brother-in-law, do you agree?"
Wang Xuannian nodded.
Seeing this, Zhong Xuanli compromised and said, "Okay, I'll go to my sister to get the silver." Brother-in-law, we'll get ready to go out in a moment. ”