Zhang Yuan followed Shang Zhoude to the small hall of the third courtyard, a partition screen divided the small hall into two parts, Shang Zhoude asked Zhang Yuan to wait here, and then walked into the screen, presumably there is a door to the inner courtyard on the side of the small hall.

The weather is cold, it is even colder to sit, Zhang Yuan stood by the screen and looked at the embroidery on the screen, the embroidery is the picture of the lady painted by Tang Bohu, the characters are plump, the skirt is bright, or the, or the piano, the beautiful eyes are looking forward to it, lifelike, this should be Suzhou embroidery, the embroidery in other places is not so exquisite - I can hear the footsteps behind the screen are dense and brisk, Zhang Yuan took a step back, and saw Xiao Jinghui wearing a children's warm hat and wearing a brocade mink fur ran out, ran too quickly, rushed over, did not see Zhang Yuan standing on the edge of the screen, and said "Huh", Standing by the door of the small hall, he muttered to himself: "Where is Brother Zhang Gongzi?" ”

"Here." Zhang Yuan jumped lightly on tiptoe and laughed.

Xiao Jinghui turned around, his bright eyes suddenly smiled into two crescents, and he blessed Zhang Yuan very politely, and then said: "Brother Zhang Gongzi, what should Xiao Hui call you, uncle said that he can't call Zhang Gongzi anymore, what is that called?" ”

Zhang Yuan leaned over and smiled: "Don't be in a hurry to change your words first, you can call it whatever you like." ”

Xiao Jinghui was happy and asked, "Brother Zhang Gongzi married my little aunt, will they all live on our side from now on?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "This and this, it's still early, it's still early." ”

Xiao Jinghui widened his eyes and said: "Why is it still early, isn't it said that you will get married today, just now I asked my aunt, my aunt turned around and ignored me, my aunt is shy, it should be a default - let me see if my aunt is here?" The little man walked but was quick, ran to the screen to take a look, and shouted: "Brother Zhang Gongzi, my aunt is here-"

Zhang Yuan couldn't help but laugh out loud, and said into the screen: "Miss Tanran, Zhang Yuan is polite." ”

I didn't hear Shang Ran's voice, but I heard Xiao Jinghui live broadcast: "Brother Zhang Gongzi, aunt, she returned the courtesy-aunt, aunt, why don't you speak?" He shouted again: "Brother Zhang Gongzi, you come in, if your aunt refuses to come out, you will come in." ”

Zhang Yuan finally couldn't help laughing, and Shang Ran in the screen couldn't help laughing, the more he laughed, the more he wanted to laugh, just like that on the island pavilion of Qitao Garden, Zhang Yuan wanted to go over and see her laughing and trembling - Shang Jinglan's voice sounded: "Xiao Hui, my mother called you to go." ”

Xiao Jinghui asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Shang Jinglan said: "If you are told to go, you will go, do you dare to disobey the military order." ”

Xiao Jinghui said "oh", walked out and shook his hand at Zhang Yuan, and said sweetly: "Brother Zhang Gongzi, I'll go in first, don't talk to the two of you first, wait for me to come, I want to hear you speak." "I followed my sister Shang Jinglan away.

As soon as the little happy bird-like Shang Jinghui left, the small hall suddenly quieted down, and the two people across the lady's screen were silent, as if people were going to the empty building.

Zhang Yuan opened his mouth and said, "Are all the people gone?" "It's like talking to yourself.

There was an "um" sound immediately from inside the screen, not to show that she recognized what Zhang Yuan said, but to show that she had been there all along, and the delicate and greasy sound between the throats was very low and tactful.

Zhang Yuan is good at tasting with his ears, and he can't help but think: "Wouldn't it be wonderful to let Tanran read to me in the future." ”

Zhang Yuan asked, "Are we really not talking?" ”

Shang Ran behind the screen laughed and said softly: "Xiaohui is so pestering, I really can't stand her." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "It's also very cute and lively." ”

Shang Ran said: "Yes." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "My mother was very happy when she saw that picture of Keju. ”

Shang Ran responded: "I am even happier. ”

The two spoke very briefly at first, and it sounded very tasteless to outsiders, but these two people spoke with relish and reluctance, well, while getting engaged, while falling in love.

After a while, Shang Ran said: "Zhang Gongzi, do you have cold hands, I have a hand stove here, can you take it to Yanyan?" ”

Because of these words, the scene of Wang Yingzi stuffing the brass stove in his hand passed through his mind, Zhang Yuan shook his head and said, "No, you cook it yourself." But I saw a pair of hands stretched out by the screen, holding a black hand warmer, the fingers were slender, like frost and snow, reflecting the black stove, even more dazzling, holding there without moving, gentle and stubborn.

Zhang Yuan hurriedly stretched out his hand to take it, and the edge of his palm lightly touched Shang Ran's hand, and there was a slight trembling feeling, this feeling is so beautiful, Shang Ran must have this feeling, and suddenly stopped talking.

Zhang Yuan was thinking about whether to break the stereotype and turn to the screen to see Shang Ran, he said everything and touched his hands, but he kept the rule of not meeting each other, it was simply self-deception, but before he moved, Shang Jingwei's footsteps came, and with a small breath, he shouted at the corner door over there: "Auntie, aunt, my mother called me and it was nothing, let me write two pages of big characters, I quickly finished writing and came again." ”

Shang Ran smiled and asked, "Xiao Hui, did you finish writing in a few perfunctory strokes?" ”

Xiao Jinghui grinned and said, "Auntie, Xiao Hui won't dare next time, just this time, Xiao Hui is in a hurry to listen to Aunt and Brother Zhang Gongzi talking-Auntie, you have said a lot of things, then I haven't heard a lot." The little mouth must have pursed.

Shang Ran couldn't help but smile and said, "I haven't spoken, I'm just waiting for you to come." ”

"Really." Xiao Jinghui was happy, and suddenly asked, "Auntie, where is your hand warmer?" ”

Six-year-old Xiao Jinghui was very careful and observant, and immediately found that something was wrong, so he hurriedly walked to the side of the screen to take a look, okay, the hand warmer was held in the hands of Zhang Gongzi's brother - Xiao Jinghui was not obedient, and jumped to his feet and said: "Auntie deceives people, aunt deceives people." ”

Shang Ran's pretty face turned crimson: "I didn't lie to you, the hand warmer was given to him, but he didn't speak, you asked Brother Zhang Gongzi to go." ”

Xiao Jinghui came to ask Zhang Yuan, and Zhang Yuan said, "I have a very funny joke waiting for you to tell." ”

Xiao Jinghui said "ha", and immediately turned his anger into joy, and said: "Okay, okay, Brother Zhang Gongzi say it quickly." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "There is a person, I feel that I am not very smart, asked the doctor to treat him, let him be smarter, the doctor prescribed him some medicine, charged him five taels of silver, although the person felt that the medicine is very expensive, but in order to make himself smarter, gritted his teeth and paid the silver, half a month later, this person found the doctor again, said that he still did not become smart, the doctor charged him ten taels of silver to prescribe more medicine, and after another month, this person came again in a rage, shouting, 'Doctor, I think I have been fooled, your medicine is useless at all, I don't believe you anymore. The doctor laughed and said, "It's useless, you can detect that you have been fooled, haven't you become wiser?" The man thought right and went back gladly. ”

Xiao Jinghui listened stunned, thought about it for a while, and "Gege" laughed: "This person is a fool, he has still been deceived, how can he become smart by taking medicine." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and asked, "Then how can Xiao Hui say to be smart?" ”

Xiao Jinghui said: "If you want to read, my aunt said, read more than 10,000 volumes, and write like a god, right?" ”

Zhang Yuan praised: "That's right. ”

Shang Zhoude walked in at this time, saw Zhang Yuan holding a hand warmer, and regretted: "I forgot to ask someone to bring a brazier—"

Zhang Yuan handed the hand warmer to Xiao Jinghui and said, "Second brother, it's almost time for me to go back, my mother is waiting for me to reply." Xiao Jinghui hurriedly broadcast live: "Auntie, Brother Zhang Gongzi has made a move for you." Xiao Xiaobu ran behind the screen and said, "Brother Zhang Gongzi, my aunt has given you ten thousand blessings." ”

Xiao Jinghui is really busy.

…… In the evening, Zhang Yuan came home and told his mother about the next Xiaohi, Zhang's mother Lu was very happy, and her son's marriage was basically decided, and said: "My son can now write to your father and your sister to surprise them." ”

Zhang Yuan went back to the study to write a letter to his father Zhang Ruiyang, first saying that he had studied and worshiped Wang Siren as a teacher, and was appreciated by the scholar, and then said that he was betrothed to the girl of the Huiji Shang clan by his mother, and asked his father not to have to run around, he could resign from the errand of the Zhou Wangfu and return to Shanyin to reunite with his family.

Zhang Yuan took the two letters he had written to the south building to show his mother, and Zhang's mother, Lu Shi, read the letter and said with a smile: "It's useless for you to attach the craft, your father is only afraid that he still doesn't believe it, thinking that you copied it somewhere, and he doesn't believe that you wrote this word alone." ”

Zhang Yuan said with a bitter face: "Was my son so unbearable before!" ”

Zhang's mother Lu laughed heartily and said, "It was good before, but now it's better." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Then I have to ask my mother to endorse these two letters, just write, 'This letter is indeed written by Zhang Yuan, and Bagu is also written by him, and no one has written it and has not plagiarized', so that my father and sister will believe it." ”

Zhang's mother Lu laughed and coughed, Zhang Yuan hurriedly stroked his mother's back, and after a while, Zhang's mother Lu barely stopped laughing, and said: "I want to write a letter to your father and Ruoxi, this happiness in my heart has to be written by myself, my son has really made his mother happy in the past few months." ”

Zhang's mother, Lu, went to Zhang Yuan's study to write a letter to her husband and daughter, and looked at it after writing: "Ah, I have written so much, it is really wordy, and the words are ugly. ”

Zhang Yuan smiled: "Mother's handwriting is very good, and my father and sister must be very willing to see my mother's handwritten letter." ”

Zhang's mother Lu smiled: "That's it, anyway, it's my own family, and I'm not afraid of showing my ugliness, so just send it like this." ”

Zhang Yuan sent the letter to his father to his uncle Zhang Rulin, Zhang Rulin can use the privilege of the official to send the letter through the post mail, and it will soon be delivered to the Kaifeng Zhou Palace, Zhang Ruiyang is the chief of the Zhou Palace, of course, he can receive the letter, as for the letter sent to Qingpu County, Songjiang Prefecture, it can only be piggybacked by the porter and pay a certain amount of silver.

(To be continued)