Chapter 6: Returning home, Winnie the Pooh is born
"Well, it's all there, it's all there." Xu Qilin dotingly scratched the girl's little face, although this sister is small, she is quite good at handling things.
You must know that the little sister of the Xu family in history will become the Jieyu of Gaozong Li Zhi, and she is also a very talented woman.
After the sister's interruption, Xu Qilin didn't want to think about it anymore. It's said that the talent is not agile enough, can the old lady still punish herself for not succeeding?
After grinding for a while, the palace people brought the book, and Xu Qilin said goodbye and went back.
Although he is still underage, he doesn't have to be too formalistic in front of his sister, but in the end he is not as loose and free as his family.
Xu Hui really didn't ask about making poems, presumably because he was afraid that his younger brother would be embarrassed in front of everyone. just carefully instructed a few more words, and took out two small gold cakes and gave them to his younger brother.
You must know that the nine concubines are the second grade, and they are also rich. Nine yuan per month, four hundred and seventy stone per year.
Although you don't have extra income like a normal Beijing official, you have extra income such as job fields and power classes, but as an emperor's woman, you eat and drink in the palace and pay for it, aren't you burying His Majesty the Emperor?
It doesn't cost money to eat and drink, and it usually rewards the palace people with a small amount of money, and the emperor can also have a reward from time to time.
Therefore, Xu Hui took out two small golden cakes at once, about four taels, which was more than enough and without pressure.
It's better to be an old lady, give the gold cake, it's easy to take! Xu Qilin sighed with emotion and thanked him.
According to the exchange ratio at that time, one tael of gold could be exchanged for six pieces of money, and the consistent money was made of 1,000 coins, which weighed about eight or nine catties.
These two golden cakes are equivalent to twenty-four yuan, multiplied by eight - this, this, almost two hundred catties!
Xu Qilin, this little Zhengtai, let alone carrying 200 catties out of the palace with a sigh, even if he presses his body, he will have to become a dead dog!
Xu Hui must have thought of this too, that kind of scene is too much. Besides, the concubines did not receive wages to make money, but were converted into gold cakes or silk.
Picking up the golden cake, Xiao Zhao had already jumped on the couch, and his calves were stretched out and eager to try.
Xu Qilin smiled and turned his body into a monkey, and the little girl had already giggled and jumped on his back, wrapping her hands around his neck.
Xu Hui shook his head with a smile and didn't say anything serious. Although it is not in line with the etiquette system, but both parents are dead, this brother and sister are affectionate, which makes people feel warm when they look at it.
Xu Qilin walked to the door of the hall with his sister on his back, only to get a reminder from his sister, and hurriedly turned around and said goodbye to the two little princesses.
The little princess is still just playing, and she can't put down the newly arrived rag dolls.
Princess Jinyang raised her little pink face and stared at the ground cutely. Watching her brother carry her sister on her back, talking and laughing while walking away, she couldn't help but have a look of envy in her eyes.
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My sister is a concubine, is she a national uncle? Isn't it awesome?
Don't be deceived by those things in the play, at least in the early Tang Dynasty, it's really not something worth boasting about, being held and offered.
Besides, the uncle in the real sense should be the brother of the queen or the queen mother. Like the eldest grandson Wuji, he is a veritable uncle of the country.
The concubine's brother, a very small number of sycophants may call you uncle, but the most is still your official position.
In other words, Xu Qilin is nothing now, and can only be called "son" by others.
Now, Xu Gongzi, who persuaded his sister and was determined to do a great career, has returned home, that is, Xu's mansion.
Xu Qilin's father, Xu Xiaode, officially entered the Tang Dynasty from about the first year of Zhenguan. At first, he served as the lieutenant of Mianzhou Brazil County, and the Cheng of Yique County, Luoyang Prefecture, all of whom were petty officials of the eighth and ninth grades.
Later, due to his excellent work, Xu Xiaode was successfully promoted to the chief of the right guard of the prince's mansion, stepped into the ranks of Beijing officials, and was later appointed as a supervisor.
Soon after Xu Hui entered the palace, Xu Xiaode was promoted to a member of the Ministry of Rites by Taizong, and he was ranked from the sixth rank.
Originally, with the favor of his daughter, Comrade Xu's career was quite bright. is different from history, Lao Xu and his wife suddenly contracted diseases one after another and died.
The so-called people take tea and cool, and the same is true in ancient and modern times.
Although Xu Hui was promoted to one of the nine concubines, the family had no pillars, and only a few hundred acres of land purchased by the old Xu outside the city after becoming a Beijing official were left, and the life was not very comfortable.
As for the eldest brother Xu Qidan, he is only seventeen years old. Although he was named a Hongwen student by Li Er, he was only exceptionally admitted and was able to enter the aristocratic school of Hongwenguan to continue his studies. In the future, I still have to enter the government through the imperial examination.
Of course, Hongwensheng did not have a salary, but the requirements for the imperial examination were lower than those of ordinary commoners, and that's all.
Therefore, Xu Hui gave Xu Qilin gold cakes, not to let him spend them indiscriminately, but to let him take them back to supplement the family.
It's just that Xu Hui didn't know that this little brother had already started earning money to support his family and earned his first pot of gold.
When he returned home, Xu Qilin asked the servant woman to sew another rag doll for his sister. As for the one to give to the little princess, Xu Qilin felt that it would be more effective to design a few new styles.
Sitting in the study, I took the paper and charcoal in my hand, thought about it a little, traced it, and a kitty cat jumped on the paper. After a little revision, he took out another piece of paper and asked for a Winnie the Pooh......
Then, he painted Winnie the Pooh in a red coat and a blue apron, and his skin was pale yellow, and his mouth was turned upturned to make him smile happily.
Seeing the cute Winnie the Pooh on the paper, even Xu Qilin couldn't help laughing.
Then I painted the kitty cat pink, although the color is not very positive, but you can see that it is a little girl, and the bow is proof of that.
In his study, Xu Qilin felt relaxed and comfortable. Tables and chairs, but they are all styles of later generations, also known as high-legged furniture.
If Xu Qilin makes some high-foot furniture, or even soft sofas and the like, isn't it a way to make money?
Xu Qilin thought so at first, but the power of custom made him quickly dispel this idea.
What to sit and how to sit, it's not a question of comfort or not. It is a system of etiquette, a concept of etiquette that has been formed over a long period of time.
For example, although the couch is short, it can also sit with its legs down, and when its legs are bent, it can be regarded as a matza or a small bench.
But your relaxed and casual sitting posture may make people feel that the relationship is very iron, and they are familiar and informal; But more often than not, it will be seen as rude and offensive.
Therefore, Xu Qilin can only be comfortable first, and in his own little world.
Outside, I can only endure and feel uncomfortable, trying to pretend to be dignified and polite.
Moreover, Leng Buding crossed over to Datang, and Xu Qilin was really confused for several days.
recalled all the invincible deeds of the protagonist in the novel, and then analyzed himself up and down thoroughly, Xu Qilin felt very inferior.
How powerful those who have crossed the predecessors, ancient poems are at their fingertips, not eight hundred, but also a thousand; wrote the books "Three Kingdoms" and "Red Mansion" backwards; Cement, glass, and steel smelting set off a frenzy of the industrial revolution.
What's even more awesome is that Wang Ba is angry, worships the son, accepts the younger brother, and the beauty is like a cloud, pointing out the country, unifying the earth, and rushing out of the solar system......