This last bit of obstacle has been completely cleared, and everything is ready, only to mention that you need to see Geng Ti.

Shang Zhoude was in a good mood, and put away the picture of the girl bowing with a smile, but Zhang Yuan said: "Uncle Shang, if you can, the younger generation wants to ask Uncle Shang for this painting." ”

Shang Zhoude smiled and said, "I can't help this, but I can ask you if the owner of the painting is willing to give it away." Then he stepped out of the study, summoned a servant, whispered a few words, and the handmaiden took the order and hurried away.

Zhang Yuanxin said: "This painting is really made by Shang Tanran, talented girl, I am ashamed of myself, and I have to learn more in the future." ”

Shang Zhoude returned to the study and said: "Gongzi Zhang, I won't be polite with you, in the future, I will call you Jie Zi Xian, you will call me Second Brother Shang, what Uncle Shang, the younger generation, it sounds so awkward." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and said yes.

Shang Zhoude said: "It's not yet the right time, it's still early to eat, why don't you go and enjoy the chrysanthemum?" A little away, at the southern foot of Hakuba Mountain. ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Great, junior-I am here to enjoy the chrysanthemum." ”

Shang Zhoude laughed, walked out of the study with Zhang Yuan, and just walked to the side alley, the maid from before trotted over and blessed, and said: "Second master, the eldest lady said, that painting is at the disposal of the second master." ”

Shang Zhoude said "um" and said to Zhang Yuan: "I'll bring that painting to you when you go back to Shanyin." ”

Zhang Yuanxi said: "Thank you." When he went back and showed it to his mother, she was overjoyed.

A teenage boy came over and said to Shang Zhoude, "Father, where are you going?" ”

Shang Zhoude said: "Yi Ru, come and see Brother Jie Zi, no, no, Uncle Jie Zi, this is the Zhang Jie Zi of the Famous Shanyin School Department yesterday, you have to call Uncle Jie Zi." ”

This boy is Shang Yiru, the son of Shang Zhoude, Shang Yiru looked at Zhang Yuan, and saw that although Zhang Yuan was a few years older than him, he was only a young man with no beard, but he asked him to call him uncle, Shang Yiru was a little reluctant, and called out vaguely: "Uncle Jiezi." Then he said, "Mother has called the child", and ran away.

Shang Zhoude shook his head and said to Zhang Yuan: "This is a dog, he only knows how to play, he is ten years old, and he has not finished reading the "Book of Filial Piety", Jiezi, you should have read through the "Five Classics" when you were ten years old." ”

Zhang Yuanxin said: "Half a year ago, Zhang Yuan was only more naughty than Shang Yiru, and he didn't enter social studies at the age of fifteen, and he just finished reading the "Four Books". He said: "Children are greedy for play, and I was the same earlier, and I later learned that I am motivated to study." ”

Talking out of the side alley, came to the back garden, the south bank of the river section of the East Pond is all the back garden of the Shang family, but the ten acres of chrysanthemums are not here, but two miles away at the southern foot of the White Horse Mountain, this section of the road to the White Horse Mountain is overgrown with weeds and is not easy to walk, but the waterway is extremely convenient, and the East Pond is bypassed from the bottom of the White Horse Mountain.

A two-foot long canopy boat was already waiting at the small dock in the back garden of the Shang family, and the two Shang family servants who were supporting the boat stood at the bow of the boat with their waists bent.

Shang Zhoude asked Zhang Yuan to get on the boat, Zhang Yuan jumped on the boat, but when he turned around, he saw a little servant running over to Shang Zhoude and said, "Second master, second grandmother, please go back-"

Shang Zhoude said unhappily: "I want to accompany the guests to the chrysanthemum garden, and I will talk about anything when I come back." ”

The little maid said: "It's the cousin of the second grandmother's mother's family who is here, named Qi Huzi Young Master Qi." ”

Shang Zhoude said "oh" and said: "Qi Huzi saw it yesterday, but I didn't hear him say that he was coming today, what's the urgency?"

The servant shook his head and said he didn't know.

Zhang Yuan said: "Second brother Shang, don't need to accompany me, I'll go to the chrysanthemum garden by myself, and it's more free to walk around alone." ”

Shang Zhoude said with a smile: "Okay, let's go first, I'll see if there's anything important about Qi Huzi, and I'll come to accompany him later." Let a steward who has been following him accompany Zhang Yuan, and this steward is the one who went to Shanyin to pick up Zhang Yuan.

After Shang Zhoude left, Zhang Yuan and the steward sat in the cabin, the canopy boat swayed leisurely, the two-mile waterway soon arrived, there was also a small dock paved with bluestone paving, the tube jumped on the dock in advance, and came to help Zhang Yuan diligently, Zhang Yuan said: "No, no." "Jump ashore.

In front of the clear water and clear stream, on the left is the white horse mountain at the northwest end of Huiji City, a large area of garden land at the southern foot of the white horse mountain is owned by the Shang family, about two or three hundred acres, planted with camellia seed trees, the tea oil boiled by this camellia seed smells fragrant, the price of a pound of pure camellia oil is about four cents of silver, this large piece of tea trees can bring hundreds of taels of silver income to the Shang family every year - in the middle of the mountain, there are ten acres of chrysanthemum garden surrounded by tea trees, there are three huts and a bamboo pavilion built on one side of the chrysanthemum garden, and the steward led Zhang Yuan to walk up from the tea garden path, I looked back at the open space by chance, stopped and said, "Zhang Gongzi, my second master is here." ”

Zhang Yuan looked back at the Dongda Pond at the bottom of the mountain, and another canopy boat was rowing leisurely towards the side of the tea garden wharf, and said, "Then let's go down and wait first." After the canopy boat stopped, an elderly servant woman first came out of the cabin, and it was the Liang mother who had seen it in the Tao Garden-Liang Ma nodded and smiled at Zhang Yuan, then turned around and said, "Come, be careful." ”

A cute little girl came out, with her front hair and eyebrows, her eyes were like paint, and she was wearing a thick brocade mink fur, and when she saw Zhang Yuan at a glance, she immediately smiled and squinted, and said crisply: "Brother Zhang Gongzi, I'm here." ”

Zhang Yuan grabbed a few steps, stretched out his right hand and said, "Come, be careful at your feet." ”

Shang Jinghui stretched out his hand and grabbed Zhang Yuan's hand, jumped on both feet, jumped ashore, didn't bother to talk to Zhang Yuan, turned around and bent over, and shouted into the cabin with his little head: "Auntie, aunt, come up, come up." ”

Liang's mother and maidservant Fanghua both went up to the shore, and both of them couldn't help laughing, staring at the cabin, to see how the eldest lady Shang Yanran came out to meet Zhang Gongzi - Shang Jinghui saw that her aunt still hadn't come out, so she shouted even louder: "Auntie-aunt-", and wanted to go back to the boat to call.

Zhang Yuan hurriedly grabbed her and said, "Don't worry, your aunt will come out soon." ”

Shang Ran in the cabin finally couldn't sit still, this very grinding little niece was going to pester her and ask her to take her here to find Brother Zhang Gongzi, she didn't know how to bring her here in a moment of confusion, at this time it was really embarrassing, embarrassed to death, and the little grinding spirit was urging again-"Stop calling, okay?" ”

Shang Ran bent down slightly and walked out of the cabin, wearing a Zhaojun hat, wearing a sable cold fur, covered with Su embroidered armor, his face was like the morning glow, his eyes were like autumn water, his expression was half ashamed and half annoyed, he was happy and disgusted, and he went ashore lightly with the hem of his skirt, and he was ashamed to give Zhang Yuan a blessing, and said something lightly and quickly, with Zhang Yuan's ear power he didn't hear clearly, Shang Xianran had already led Shang Jinghui and walked up the mountain quickly, Xiao Jinghui turned his head and shouted while walking: "Brother Zhang Gongzi is coming-" and asked her aunt: "Auntie, what are you laughing at?" Then the figures of the two were obscured by the camellia tree.

Liang's mother and maidservant Fanghua hurriedly followed, the original steward who accompanied Zhang was dumbfounded, I don't know what to do, the eldest lady is on the mountain, of course he is inconvenient to follow, what should Zhang Gongzi do? Asked: "Zhang Gongzi, you see-"

Of course, Zhang Yuan will not dare to go up the mountain because of what men and women do not kiss, how can the etiquette be set up for my generation, this Shang girl is almost his fiancée, why not see it, it is about to develop and develop feelings, otherwise it will be necessary to meet in the cave room with candles!

"If the housekeeper doesn't go up, then wait here, I'll go up the mountain to enjoy the chrysanthemum." Zhang Yuan said naturally.

The steward nodded again and again: "Yes, Zhang Gongzi, please." ”

Zhang Yuan stepped up the mountain, meandered up to the chrysanthemum garden through the stone steps under the camellia tree, did not see the chrysanthemum, felt the cold fragrance first, it was the end of October, the winter was cold and heavy, many varieties of chrysanthemums have withered, only the cold-tolerant varieties of "green peony", "bead curtain", "scaly claw chrysanthemum" still bloomed.

Ten acres of chrysanthemum garden is very broad, for a while did not see Shang Ran, where is Shang Jinghui, Zhang Yuan is not in a hurry to find, wandering in the path between the flowers, looking at the branches of the chrysanthemum remnants of the frost, more like the evening chrysanthemum in full bloom, the sun shines near noon, I feel that the body is warm, when watching by a "bead curtain", I suddenly heard the little Jinghui not far away happily called: "Brother Zhang Gongzi, we are here, you come to us." ”

Zhang Yuan responded, followed the sound and walked to the bamboo pavilion, didn't see Xiao Jinghui, only saw Shang Ran sitting in the bamboo pavilion, facing him sideways, Zhaojun hat had been taken off, revealing the kind of three small buns combed by the girl in the room, Shang Ran bit his lower lip lightly, and laughed - "Haha, Brother Zhang Gongzi, I'm here." ”

Six-year-old Xiao Jinghui suddenly ran out of the side of the pavilion and ran towards Zhang Yuan, and the maidservant Fanghua chased after him and shouted: "Be careful, be careful not to fall." ”

Liang's mother threatened: "Miss Jinghui is disobedient, go back and ask Mrs. to wrap her little feet, and see that she is still running around." ”

Shang Jinghui ran around the bamboo pavilion and said with a smile: "Don't wrap your little feet, don't wrap your little feet, and my aunt doesn't wrap me either-"

Liang's mother and Fanghua both stopped together, looking at Zhang Yuan in some surprise, Xiao Jinghui suddenly called out this secret, I wonder if Zhang Yuan will be very displeased when he hears it?

Zhang Yuan approached with a smile and said: "It's not good to wrap your feet, you can't walk or run, it's equivalent to being half-disabled, and the most beautiful thing in the world is to burn the piano and cook the crane, and the beautiful woman wraps her feet." ”

Xiao Jinghui trotted to Zhang Yuan's side, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhang Gongzi is so good, just help Xiao Hui speak." When he turned around, he saw his aunt Shang Ran sitting quietly in the pavilion, so he said, "Auntie, why don't you speak, my aunt is very good at talking." ”

Shang Ran was really made big by this little niece, he didn't leave, he didn't stay, he was in a state of confusion, but he saw Zhang Yuan stepping up to the pavilion, and gave her a salute and said, "Miss Tanran, it's polite." ”

Shang Ran hurriedly got up and returned the salute, I don't know why, this meeting made her more flustered than the last time she met on the island in the middle of the lake in Taoyuan, was it that she didn't pay attention to it at first last time, but now she is interested?

(To be continued)