"Master! Who is this? As soon as Zhang Rou walked into the door, Fu Zhong greeted him and pointed at Jia Xian and asked.

"He! The newly accepted apprentice for the teacher will be your junior brother in the future, you know each other! Is the meal ready, I'm hungry for the teacher! Zhang Rou said very casually, digging up the big cow, this mentality has calmed down a lot.

"Master, how many years have your old man confiscated an apprentice, why did you think of accepting an apprentice to play on a whim today!" Fu Zhong didn't care about Jia Xian, whose face was dark, and just cared about a strong nag.

"Why are you talking so much today, don't you think it's too much! Why don't you go get the food yet! Zhang Rou roared in his ear.

"It hurts...... Hurt...... It hurts, Master, let go, my ears are going to fall off! ”

"Humph! I see that you haven't been on the house for two days, so take your junior brother down to settle down, and we'll have dinner together! ”

"Gotta do it!" Fu Zhong came to Jia Xian and pulled him as he walked, saying, "What! Brother! I am your eldest brother, and you have a second senior brother who is raising pigs, so I think you are the third. Tell me my brother, what's your name? Hey? What do you want to learn from Master? ”

"Back to the senior brother's words, the younger brother's surname is Jia Mingxian, a native of Haozhou, and now he lives in the Ship Research Institute, and he wants to learn arithmetic with the master today. I don't know what to call my brother? Jia Xian was not familiar with it when he first arrived at Zhang's Mansion, so he had to reply respectfully.

"My name is Fu Zhong, I like to cook, not as much as you know. However, let me tell you, you really found the right person this time, I followed Master when he was only eight years old, and it has been seven or eight years now. I didn't know anything before, but the master not only taught me to cook, but also taught me to take care of the restaurant, not me to blow it, now half of the restaurants in Jinling City are in charge of me! Fu Zhong finally found a person to show off, just like eating Xuanmai, he couldn't stop at all.

"Wow, that's amazing!" Jia Xian, as a younger brother, is still very responsible, there are a lot of venues that should be held, and there is no ambiguity where there should be applause.

"That's it! Our master is quite famous in this area, and I haven't found out if she can't do anything other than fighting for so many years. Let me tell you, my father used to be very opposed to me cooking, but now he wants me to stay with Master and learn more skills, but even Master has too many skills, it's really sad! He was very happy, but he had to put on an embarrassed expression, and he was not afraid of being seen by others to pump him with the soles of his shoes.

A person as smart as Jia Xian, of course, knows that this product is showing off to him, but from the information revealed in his words, it seems that his cheap master is far more ferocious than the rumors in the market.

"Senior brother, shall we bring the food to Master first, and we can talk while eating?" In order to avoid his verbal bombardment, Jia Xian decided to divert the topic.

"That's right! Master often has a bad temper, you should also pay attention in the future, don't make her angry, get up, get food! Fu Zhong patted him on the shoulder and said in the tone of an elder.

Fu Zhong took Jia Xian to the guest room first and put down the salute, and then the two went to the kitchen together to bring some food and walked to the hall.

"Senior brother, do you cook and serve food on weekdays?"

"Yes!"

"Master is such a big business, why don't you invite some servants?"

"You don't know this, Master's habits are a bit strange, he doesn't like to use servants, he likes to do everything by himself. You see that in such a big courtyard, there are only a few servants, the master and her two sisters have a maid each, the old lady has two maids, and there is also a housekeeper, we all call him Uncle Fu. ”

Jia Xian looked around and asked, "Can you guys be busy?" ”

"You'll know later, the master has set the rules, who does what work every day, except for the old lady, that is, the two young ladies have to work by themselves. Every once in a while, Master will take everyone to do some kind of cleaning and cleaning, and if you live here in the future, you will definitely have your share. Fu Zhong explained to him as he walked.

"yes, how strange are these trees?"

"Oh, the things in this small garden are all taken care of by the master himself, she said it's called bonsai or something, and I'm not interested, so I didn't pay much attention to it. Let's go! ”

"Okay!"

With the help of the maids, the meal was quickly put on two tables, and the dishes were also very simple, four dishes and one soup, two meat and two vegetables, although the quantity was small, but the portion was full, refined and delicious. After the old lady sat on the upper seat, Sister Zhang Rou and the rest of the servants also consciously did a good job in turn, just six at a table.

Although Jia Xian was also influenced by the Mohist idea of "equality", he still failed to accept the Zhang family's "weird" way of eating for a while. Although the atmosphere of the Song Dynasty is okay, it is not so that everyone can eat in the same hall, so he was stunned.

"What are you doing standing! Sit down and eat! Xiaoqian, sit down on your brother Azhong's side. Zhang Rou took her youngest sister with her and pointed to the seat opposite and said to Jia Xian.

"Uh!! Thank you, Master! Jia Xian blushed and hurriedly sat down.

"Xiaorou, who is this son?" The old lady saw that there was suddenly another person today, and asked suspiciously.

"Mother, his name is Jia Xian, his daughter's newly accepted apprentice, and he will work in the shipyard in the future." Zhang Rou first said to her mother, and then said to Jia Xian: "This is the mother of the teacher, you can call the old lady in the future." ”

"Yes, Master!" Jia Xian responded to Zhang Rou's words first, stood up and saluted respectfully to Mrs. Zhang: "Old lady is healthy!" There are many troubles among the younger generations, please Haihan! ”

"Good, good! Sit down! Really sensible! Let's eat! Of course, the old lady's concept is different from Zhang Rou's, she is particularly fond of this kind of knowledgeable person, when he saw Fu Zhong who was laughing, he couldn't help but say: "Ah Zhong, you look at how polite people are, you are such an adult, you are still so out of tune for a day, or I will be the master of the wife to find you a daughter-in-law?" ”

"Ahh Old lady! Spare me! Fu Zhong shouted exaggeratedly as he played, and his funny appearance made the audience laugh.

Jia Xian looked at the scene in front of him, feeling so incongruous, but there was an unusually warm feeling. After such a fight, Jia Xian also let go of the estrangement in his heart and quickly integrated with everyone.

After a meal, everyone was also familiar with each other and became one. After the maids cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, everyone gathered together to play or whisper, and Fu Zhong pulled Jia Xian to continue his braggart career. Zhang Rou took the hands of her two younger sisters and spread them around the courtyard, telling the stories of the adaptation of the future generations. The old butler looked at the young man in front of him with his pipe in his mouth, and his face was wrinkled with a smile. The old lady sat on the Taishi's chair, holding a string of Buddhist beads in her hand, and chanting words in her mouth......

The light of the setting sun shone on them, and they all seemed to be covered with the glow, and everything looked so peaceful and natural.

"Oh ~ Oh ~ Oh ......" The industrious roosters opened their singing voices on time when the light of the morning sun sprinkled on the earth, regardless of whether humans could understand it or not.

The rooster crow trance is a start switch, and the Zhang Mansion has been resurrected from the quiet night at this moment, and the lights are lit up and out.

"Oh my god! I bragged too much yesterday and forgot to tell him the rules. Fu Zhongyi, who had just gotten up, slapped his head and said with annoyance.

"Bang bang bang......" Fu Zhong ran to Jia Xian's door and knocked on the door, shouting loudly: "Senior brother, get up, get up!" ”

"Squeak" Jia Xian opened the door and bowed to Fu Zhong before asking, "Senior brother, what's the matter so early?" ”

"Yikes! You're up! That's good! I forgot to tell you yesterday that we are going to have morning exercises...... Yay, that's not right! Why do you wake up so early? Fu Zhong suddenly remembered something, turned his head and asked in surprise.

"Senior brother doesn't know, the Mo family doctrine says, we and other ink people must be diligent, so I have to get up very early. But I didn't expect you to get up so early! ”

"Don't say it! It's all tears! Do you think I don't want to sleep more, it's all Master who said that the plan of the year lies in the spring, and the plan of the day lies in the morning, and that we should get up early in the morning to do radio gymnastics and run, and I don't know where the master learned, I am so miserable! Fu Zhong pretended to have a nose and a handful of tears and said, seeing that there was one to cushion his back soon, his heart was already happy.

When the two came to the courtyard, the rest of the people were wearing tights and had already put on a posture. I saw that the old housekeeper and the old lady were holding a wooden sword and were dancing in a simplified version of the Tai Chi sword, and the rest were also standing in front of Zhang Rou in two rows, doing some simple stretching exercises.

"You two came just in time, hurry up and stand up, Xiao Jia, you will follow the comparison first, this is very simple, I believe you will be soon, let's start!" Zhang Rou saw Jia Xian and the others coming over, so she ordered.

"Yes, Master!" The two of them hurriedly ran over and stood up.

"Ready, go! 12345678, 22345678......" Zhang Rou shouted the rhythm while doing radio gymnastics from the cottage, her two younger sisters and maids were also familiar with this, and it didn't take much to do it with their eyes and brains.

Of course, it is impossible to make simple body movements like radio gymnastics, how can Jia Xian, as an ink master, say that people at least know a little bit of martial arts, coupled with his extraordinary wisdom, he can play it completely after watching it once, which makes Fu Zhong, who just wanted to show off, hate it.

After the morning exercise, it was a routine morning run, except for the two older ones, everyone else lined up in two teams and went out of the gate, running slowly along the Qinhuai River. As they ran, from time to time, some young people, both men and women, came out of their homes and lined up to run along.

At the beginning of the term, Zhang Rou just took her family and servants to run. After a long time, some subordinate clerks either ran along for the sake of closeness or fun. Later, some people who had received favors from the Zhang family also wanted to show their closeness to the eldest lady of the Zhang family in this way. Of course, there are some admirers, Wang Xuanen is one of the best, he not only ran by himself, but also pulled a group of brothers to help, and from time to time in front of Zhang Rou to show his strong physique. Zhang Rou saw that he didn't have any excessive actions, and even had the function of shielding himself from the magic skill of attracting bees and butterflies - driving away other treasure donors, so he let it go.

Over time, this morning run has become a special scenery in Jinling City, this habit has also been maintained, in this process not only exercised the body, but also created opportunities for many young men and women, a lot of good fate are tied here, a good story for a while. Many years later, the people of Jinling City even spontaneously set up a living Mazu ancestral hall for her, no matter what good or bad things are, they must pay respects.

Today, Wang Xuanen still brought a group of brothers to the scene as usual, but the sudden appearance of Jia Xian made him very unhappy. Before this, under his coercion, no one dared to compete with him for the limelight, and the only man who could follow Zhang Rou was Fu Zhong, but he didn't regard Fu Zhong as a threat at all. But Jia Xian is different, looking at his handsome appearance and dressed as a scholar, Wang Xuanen knows that the lethality of such a guy to a girl is quite large, and why can he follow the beauty he fancies.

So, Wang Xuanen snorted at his brothers, and the others slowly approached Jia Xian's side with understanding, inadvertently separating him from the others.