Chapter 12: The Bamboo Horse Comes Around the Wall

This is the second day back to Jiankang, after sneaking around the fourth brother, Xie An ushered in the night boredly, and after Xie's father came back from the ministry, he brought back a few pens to him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

For dinner, he ate with Xie's father, and his eldest brother Xie Yi and cousin Xie Shang both went out to meet friends.

Although the food is silent, but when he was in Yan County, Xie Yi talked and laughed with him during the meal, and the stories in the Four Books and Five Classics and Lao Zhuang Culture were at his fingertips, which was not only not boring, but also easy to remember.

Thinking of the matter of the fourth brother during the day, Xie An couldn't help but mention it euphemistically to Father Xie, Father Xie put down his chopsticks and sighed, "Your fourth brother acted out of the ordinary, knowing that there was only one goose breeder in Wuyi Alley, but he still wanted to annoy people." ”

Listening to Father Xie's words, he was afraid of the Wang family, and it was also true, after all, the Wang family was the leader of the scholar clan and the pillar of the country, and the Wang family was neighbors, so they couldn't be out of proportion and appear to be careless.

"The fourth brother is still young." He replied, "And this goose belongs to the little lady of the Wang family, right?" They are all children, and the crying has passed for a while, and I saw her carry a new goose yesterday. ”

Father Xie's eyebrows locked slightly, "Wang Xizhi, this girl...... Ahri, the child next to her laughs at her, or your fourth brother deliberately eats her goose and bullies her, this has nothing to do with you, you must remember, don't provoke her, and don't laugh at her. ”

Xie An saw his father's troubled appearance, and asked strangely, "Why?" ”

Father Xie was silent, with a deep meaning in his eyes, but when he was a child, some words were inconvenient to speak.

Xie An is even more strange, the Wang Xizhi I saw today is sweet and cute, in addition to being a little stupid, he is still very cute, and he also promised to bring her delicious food.

Seeing that Father Xie didn't say anything, it really whetted his appetite.

If he was older, the adults would not hide a lot of things from him, but he thought that his cousin Xie Shang was a brother, and he didn't treat him as a child at all, and said that he would be trained secretly, as if he took him very seriously.

But the more Father Xie wanted to hide from him, the more challenging he felt, how to coax adults to tell the truth in a child's tone, he ate silently and thought of a way, after biting a piece of chicken wing, he had an idea, "Daddy, I want to admit my mistake!" ”

What's wrong? Father Xie looked dazed.

"Daddy said that he couldn't provoke Wang Xizhi, but I had already provoked it in the afternoon." Xie An parroted and said, seeing that Father Xie's face sank, he hurriedly said, "Her baby goose came to the house again, I held the goose and gave it back to her, but I entered through the back door, there are rude numbers, please Daddy punish." ”

“…… What can be said? ”

Xie An replied, "She asked me to come and play often, because she didn't seem to have any friends." ”

Father Xie stared at him for a while, silent for a long time.

Xie An was furious by his father, "Situ Mansion is a big family, and Ahri knows how to measure." ”

Father Xie touched his head, "Daddy is ashamed, but he is also pleased, I have placed you in Yan County for the past two years, and it is my Xie family's luck that you can study quietly." ”

"Daddy, I like to practice calligraphy."

If you want to be famous in the future, calligraphy is the top priority, and you have already crossed the basic threshold, and it is a matter of course to be more diligent in the future.

As for the other meanings of his father's words, as a four-year-old child, he smiled and pretended not to understand.

Even if Father Xie prefers the Jiao family and the fourth brother, he is not jealous, because Father Xie does not have the weight in his heart as much as the eldest brother Xie Yi.

I think that Father Xie grounded the fourth brother for his own good, so that the fourth brother remembered not to provoke Wang Xizhi in the future, so as not to displease Wang Situ.

Even if Wang Xizhi is no longer treated well, he is still a member of the Langya Wang family.

Xie An thought about the lonely goose idiot little Lori, and secretly decided in his heart that no matter whether she was a real book saint or not, he would often go to see her and tease her to talk.

It can be regarded as passing his "childhood" time.

Speaking of which, in his previous life, he lived with his grandfather, and there was no little girl of the same age in the neighborhood, so it was really difficult to get along with a little girl.

Especially Wang Xizhi, a little Lori who seems cute on the surface.

Since then, Xie An's childhood life, in addition to practicing calligraphy, reading, and bullying his younger brother, has one more task to feed Lori, such as telling the cook what she wants to eat in advance, leaving half of the food the next day, secretly looking at whether the back door of the Wang family is open, finding the right time when there is no one, and sneaking over familiarly.

Sauce duck wings, osmanthus honey sugar cakes, dried meat, etc., Wang Xizhi loves meat very much, probably because the Wang family didn't eat it much.

sent it a few times, and the two got acquainted, but there were still not many words, first, Wang Xizhi's reaction was slower than ordinary people, even if Xie An told a joke, she would have to wait a moment to react; Second, his cousin Xie Shang watched it closely, and when he was free, he caught him to endorse and practice calligraphy, and he didn't dare to stay in the Wang family's courtyard for long.

Xie Shang is about to come out of the new year, and now that the winter solstice is approaching, he won't have so much free time to teach him patiently in the future.

On this day, the snow was falling quite heavily, and after Xie An dealt with Xie Shang, he planned to sneak away to the door to deliver some small dried fish, and when he opened the door of his backyard, he saw that the back door of the Wang family had been opened, and there was a little girl squatting in the snow at the door with a skin color whiter than snow.

The little girl wore a silver cloak with a red background, and was piling snowballs with interest.

Xie An was wearing a small smoke-colored cloak and a cotton sleeve for his fingers, he walked through this short snowy road with difficulty, and the little girl raised her head in response, her eyebrows and eyes were bright, even if her pupils reflected the gloomy sky, it was difficult to hide the joy in her eyes.

Xie An gently patted the snow on the cloak for her, "Ah Suo, is it cold?" ”

Wang Xi seriously proposed, "Ahri, let's take a walk?" ”

The eaves corner wall hung a slip of ice edges, the wind blew out a thin clear sound, the two of them walked slowly in the snow one after the other, here is the back alley, there are almost no traces, the two families of the wall have planted plums, the Xie family is red plum here, the Wang family is wax plum, red and yellow glowing, extremely happy.

The water of the Qinhuai River flowed through the ice floe, and the tiny sound of ice water rubbing was carried into the ears by the north wind.

Wang Xizhi is one year older than Xie An, Xie An was born in May, Wang Xizhi was born in August, and girls develop earlier than boys, so she is a little taller than Xie An, and her legs are naturally faster.

The pinna and earlobes of the little girl were frozen red, and Xie An looked at her from behind, laughing out loud for some reason.

"Ahri laughing at what?"

"Ah Su is like a tumbler."

"What is a tumbler?"

It seems that this gadget has not appeared in this era, Xie An thought for a while, and explained: "The tumbler is a gadget that will not fall down no matter you push it left and right, just like Ah Suo walked just now, and he was about to fall, but he still staggered to his feet." ”

"It's interesting, Ahri?" The reaction is that the cute child who is slow and half-beat is attracted by the novelty.

"Well, this gadget is made and played by yourself when I'm bored in Yan County, and it's very simple, wait for me to make a few and send it to you."

Xie An recalled the eggshell tumbler he had done in the handicraft class, and felt that he could still make it now.

Wang Xizhi stopped and looked back at him, his eyes lit up again, "Ahri, thank you." ”

It made him a little embarrassed.

The two short-legged children couldn't go far, and they were worried that their families would find them, so they started to walk back after walking not far, this time, Xie An was in front, he thought about it, and took the little girl's hand.

"Although I am smaller than Ah Su, I still have more strength than you, so that you will not fall."

And after the two of them walked for a while, the snow was piled up all over their bodies, like two little snowmen.

Wang Xizhi shook his hand, "But I still want to play for a while, I don't want to go back." ”

Is this awkward? Could it be that staying at home is really left out, and it is rare to have a friend to play with, so I don't want to go back?

He sighed in his heart, "Your family will look for you, so it's not good for them to worry." ”

"No, they don't care about me." Wang Xizhi hung his head, his forehead was bright, his cheeks were slightly red, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Xie An felt more and more pitiful for her, "What about your father and mother?" ”

Wang Xizhi said, "Daddy is recuperating in the countryside, he doesn't like Jiankang, and Auntie accompanies Daddy." ”

has attracted attention and disappointed hopes, sent people under the fence, can't even eat meat on weekdays, is still a goose idiot who looks stupid, and even her fourth brother Xie Wan has bullied her, not to mention other family bear children...... Even if he is in the highest gate valve family, he lives like a subordinate.

My heart moved.

Xie An asked, "Ah Su, do you know how to write your own name?" ”

Wang Xizhi thought for a while, "Uncle taught me, but I ...... Didn't write about it. ”

Wang Xizhi didn't know what he meant, he thought he would laugh at himself like others, but he didn't, why?

Xie An found a branch and leveled the snow, and wrote the words "Wang, Xi, and Zhi" in block letters step by step. He thought to himself, sure enough, as the rumors said, Wang Xizhi read Penglai Fati when he was one year old, and he didn't write a word for the next four years.

"Asu's name is so pretty." Xie An said, "Everyone should be able to write their own name, so if you want to learn it, I will teach you how to write in the future." ”

Wang Xizhi wrinkled his nose, his eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and the corners of his mouth slipped over a smile that was not easy for others to detect, and then nodded, "If you teach, then if you laugh at me like a tumbler, I won't care." ”

What kind of reflection arc is this little girl...... Xie An supported the forehead.

The snow fell heavier, Xie An gave her the red bean cake that she had been carrying for a long time, and helped her pat the snow off her cloak, and went back to their respective homes.

Wang Xizhi walked through the bamboo forest and returned to the familiar pond courtyard, a small lump, looking at the back with an indescribable loneliness.

She sat still for a moment, and then stretched out her finger and scratched in the air, and the big white goose swam up and down in the pond, and her finger followed wherever it swam.

After a long time, she touched her shriveled stomach, walked to the pavilion by the pool, picked up a stone on the stone table, and threw it outside the courtyard.

There were two servants waiting outside the courtyard, listening to the stones falling, one of them hurriedly brought in the small red clay stove that had been prepared for a long time, and the other followed with a food box.

The small stove was placed on several tables, the olive charcoal was burning very strongly, and a cup of old hen soup was simmering on a low fire.

Wang Xizhi asked, "What's the dish?" ”

"Sea bass soup, fragrant rice, cheese."

Cheese is the food of the north, after the clothes crossed to the south, Situ Wang Dao used it here to entertain the southern scholars, but the southerners did not eat it, the stomach was uncomfortable, and there were jokes. But after all, in the south, the supply of dairy products is extremely difficult, and now Jiankang can only afford the palace and Situ Mansion.

Ulva sea bass soup and fragrant rice are dishes that will only be served at the time of the banquet.

Wang Xizhi bit his lip, "It's still so light." ”

Servant A replied cautiously: "Master Situ instructed that the small kitchen is carefully cooked, this cheese has been small recently, and only our small kitchen has it, so it is specially reserved for you." ”

"I don't even eat meat." Wang Xizhi knew that the opposition was invalid, and muttered quietly.

Servant B smiled, "Didn't the little man next door bring you meat every day, Master Situ said, you can't use more meat, and in terms of health, the amount of vegetables and meat should be balanced." ”

Wang Xizhi frowned and frightened the servant, "You are not allowed to scare him." ”

Servant B couldn't help but laugh, "The newcomer to the weak fish pond list, the talent of the future pillars, the neighborhood has spread all over recently, and the little ones don't dare to be scared." ”

Wang Xizhi scooped up a mouthful of perch soup, put it to his mouth, his small and round lips pursed slightly, and muttered: "The writing is as ugly as Hu Zhi." ”

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