Shang Jinglan smiled and said, "Xiao Hui, she lost a front tooth today, Xiao Hui, let my uncle take a look-"

Xiao Jinghui's fleshy little hands covered her mouth, rolled her eyes at her sister, naturally blamed her sister for revealing her shortcomings, and after losing her front teeth today, she took a look in the mirror herself, ah, it's so ugly - Shang Jinglan wanted to tease her sister, and said: "The people of the capital are hateful, and the laughing people lack teeth and say that the dog's sinus is wide open——"

Xiao Jinghui couldn't just cover his mouth and not fight back, his little hands were clasped together like a small trumpet, and he couldn't say clearly: "My sister was still a dog last year, but now she is laughing at me, hum." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled: "What's so strange about changing teeth, everyone has to change teeth, by the way, Xiaohui, I still have a gift for you, I promised you before-"

"It's a clairvoyant, isn't it?"

Xiao Jinghui immediately screamed with joy, and forgot to cover her mouth, Zhang Yuanneng could clearly see that she was missing a front tooth in her mouth, and other neat little white teeth lined the gap, looking black and hollow, as if there was some secret.

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "Xiao Hui remembers it so well, you really can't make promises to children." As he spoke, he took out a rectangular wooden box from the book, and took out the tube of white copper binoculars from it, "It's dark now, and you can't look far, so I will take you outside to play, and how about going to the Baozi River to sit on the ice bed?" ”

Xiao Jinghui was overjoyed and said happily: "Great, Brother Zhang Gongzi is so good." He pouted again and said: "In the past, in my hometown, my little aunt would often take me and my sister out to play, since I arrived in the capital, three years, I have only been to the City God Temple and the Sanguan Temple near here a few times, sister, isn't it?" ”

Shang Jinglan agreed with her sister's words, nodded and said, "That's it, my little aunt is not here, and no one takes me and Xiaohui out to play." "Obviously stuffy, too.

Xiao Jinghui said diligently: "Now there is Brother Zhang Gongzi who will take us out to play." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "I can't take you to play often, occasionally." ”

Xiao Jinghui stretched out a finger and said, "Once a month, okay, Brother Zhang Gongzi?" ”

Xiao Jinghui's eyebrows are very beautiful, his eyes are shining, and there is a faint shadow between his eyebrows, this girl has to beg if she wants to go out once a month, it's pitiful to think about, Zhang Yuan is about to speak, Xiao Jinghui saw him hesitate a little, and quickly lowered the price again, and stretched out two fingers: "Then once every two months, okay?" ”

Zhang Yuan smiled: "I will take you out to play when I have the opportunity, but I have to ask your parents to agree." ”

Shang Jinglan was very smart and said: "My uncle just convinces my father, my mother is indispensable." ”

Xiao Jinghui was a little worried: "But, Daddy is so strict." ”

Shang Jinglan was more shrewd than her sister, and said: "In the past, my father favored my little aunt the most, and my little aunt always followed what my little aunt said—" When she said this, her eyes looked at Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan smiled: "But your little aunt is not here." ”

Xiao Jinghui was inspired by his sister and said: "Daddy also likes Brother Zhang Gongzi very much, and I often hear Daddy praising Brother Zhang Gongzi when talking to his mother, saying that my aunt married a good husband." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll try, you two will read the book on the side first, and I'll write a letter." ”

Shang Jinglan looked through Zhang Yuan's book and pulled out a volume of "Tang Poetry Explanation", and it seemed that Shang Jinglan liked poetry very much.

Xiao Jinghui played with the white copper telescope, turned the telescope long, glanced at his sister Jinglan who was reading, and deliberately asked: "Brother Zhang Gongzi, this clairvoyant mirror was specially given to me, right, my sister didn't have it, right?" ”

Zhang Yuan shook his head and smiled: "Do you want your sister to rob you?" ”

Shang Jinglan looked at "Tang Poetry Commentary", did not raise her head, and pouted: "Children's toys, I don't want them." He said sarcastically: "Say a few words, wait until the front teeth are good before talking, do you really think the dog is very good-looking." ”

"My sister didn't change her teeth the year before last, and she kept talking." Xiao Jinghui grinned, the two sisters often quarreled a few words, but they were rarely really angry, and they were fighting to relieve boredom.

Xiao Jinghui fiddled with the telescope for a while, got up and went to the door to try the telescope, put on a cold coat before opening the door, and in a blink of an eye, he came back again, gasping and said: "Brother Zhang Gongzi, it's snowing heavily, it's snowing so much." ”

Zhang Yuan put down the pen and went out to see, the quadrangle sky separated by the courtyard, the goose feathers and heavy snow are blowing, the snow in the south of the Yangtze River is like a white moth flying like poplar flowers scattered, how can there be such a large area of snow, Yanshan snowflakes are as big as Xi That is the poet's exaggeration, the goose feather snow is really true, a moment of work, the ground is a layer of white, the two big lotus pots are inlaid with a white edge along the edge, which is very eye-catching in the night - Xiao Jinghui said with his hand: "It's cold, it's cold." ”

Shang Zhouzuo from the West Courtyard walked over from the ring corridor wearing a big hat and said, "Xiaohui, why did you come to my uncle's side." ”

Xiao Jinghui was very in awe of his father, shrank back slightly, and said, "My uncle is writing a letter to my little aunt, and my uncle also gave me a clairvoyant mirror." ”

Xiao Jinghui obediently called his uncle at this time, and presented the white copper telescope in his hand to his father.

"Meson, is this made by you in the mirror workshop?" Shang Zhouzuo took the white copper telescope, his tentacles were cold, and he hurriedly said: "Go indoors and talk." They went into Zhang Yuan's bedroom together.

Mu Zhenzhen heard the voice of Shang Zhou Zuo outside the door, and quickly avoided the inside to tie his skirt, pulled up his hair, and tied it with a silver hairpin, and then came out to salute Shang Zhou Zuo, Shang Zhouzuo nodded, sat on the side of the bookcase and asked Zhang Yuan about the telescope, Zhang Yuan said that the Hanshe Mirror Workshop has been successful in imitating Western clairvoyance in the past two years, this telescope can be used for scout reconnaissance in the military, and it is very important to be able to find the enemy early on the battlefield, and he got two flintlock pistols from Western missionaries this time, If the firearms of the Ming army can be improved in this way, then the combat effectiveness of the Ming army will be improved - Shang Zhouzuo smiled and listened, Zhang Yuan presented to Qi Chengjiao on behalf of the "On the Establishment of the State of Jianzhou Old Slaves" last night to show him first, he came back from the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the evening and went to the military department to see Qi Chengjiao, Qi Chengjiao was very appreciative of Zhang Yuan's performance, Shang Zhouzuo was of course very happy, this sister-in-law has the ambition to govern the country and level the world, and he is also steady, it is very appropriate to write a book for disaster relief today, remembering Zhang Yuan's dinner at Eunuch Zhong's place, and asked: " Eunuch Zhong is the one from the Hangzhou Weaving Department before, and he asked me about your wedding date at the beginning of the year, and he also sent gifts, right?"

Zhang Yuan said: "Yes, Eunuch Zhong had some friendship with me when he was in Hangzhou. ”

Shang Zhouzuo asked: "I heard that Eunuch Zhong has a shrine in Hangzhou, have you made suggestions?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "The ancestral hall was built by the stone pillar people for Eunuch Zhong, and it has nothing to do with me, I just asked my teacher Jiao Taishi for a record of the Jewel Mountain Nursing Home, and Eunuch Zhong was willing to pay 10,000 taels of silver to build the nursing home for this 'note', and the drought in Zhejiang the year before last, the nursing home helped a lot of poor people. ”

Shang Zhouzuo nodded and said: "You have to be cautious in dealing with internal officials, you are not an official now, and it doesn't hurt to communicate, if you become an official in the future, someone will be watching, but Eunuch Zhong has no power or position in Ciqing Palace, and you will not be jealous when you associate with him." ”

Zhang Yuanxin said: "If one day Eunuch Zhong becomes the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch Bingbi, someone will be jealous of me, right?" He said, "Thank you for the reminder." ”

Shang Zhouzuo hesitated for a moment, but still asked, "Did Su Weng ever tell you about the party dispute between the DPRK and China?" ”

Zhang Yuan nodded and said, "I talked about it briefly." ”

Shang Zhouzuo laughed: "Jie Zi, you are now messing up the Zhejiang Party and the Donglin Party, you are the grandson of Su Weng and the fast son-in-law of my Shang family, so naturally it should be the Zhejiang Party, but Zou Yuanbiao and Gao Panlong, who appreciate you, are the leaders of the Donglin Party, and even your township teacher Qian Qianyi and Fang Shi Yang Lian are also Donglin Party, which party should you be?" It seems impossible for you to stay out of the party struggle, you yourself have a lot of controversy, Yao Zongwen is my Zhejiang Party cadre, and he used to have a good relationship with me, but now he is angry with me because of his cousin Yao Fu, and he ignores me, of course, I don't ask him, the Zhejiang Party is no longer united, and that Dong Qichang, although he is not a member of the Donglin Party, has always been friendly with the Donglin Party, but now he is conspiring with Yao Zongwen to impeach Qian Qianyi, a member of the Donglin Party, you see what this mess has become! ”

The water is muddy, Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "It's better not to be too clear about the party barriers." ”

Shang Zhouzuo asked again: "How many people from Hanshe went to Beijing to participate in the examination this time?" ”

Zhang Yuan replied, "There are fifty people." ”

"There are so many of them!" Shang Zhouzuo was taken aback, a literary society can have fifty people, this force is not small, if one out of ten of these fifty people can be taken out of ten in the spring next year, there will be five Jinshi in the Han Society, and it is a force that cannot be ignored in the government and the opposition.

Zhang Yuan said: "There is something to ask my brother-in-law, there can be a spacious and clean place near here, it is best to be somewhere between this house and the imperial city. ”

Shang Zhouzuo pondered for a moment and said: "I have some friendship with the abbot of Dalongfu Temple, Monk Xufan, Dalongfu Temple is less than two miles away, how about going there to borrow a side hall to give a lecture to you?" ”

Zhang Yuanxi said: "Thank you, eldest brother, the eldest brother will take me to visit that Xufan monk." ”

Shang Zhouzuo said: "Okay, I'll go early tomorrow morning." ”

After another conversation, Shang Zhouzuo got up and prepared to go back to the room, and asked Jinglan and Jinghui to go back with him, Zhang Yuan saw that Xiao Jinghui couldn't help but look at him with his eyes, his eyes were shining, as if he could speak, so he smiled and said: "Big brother, I want to take Jinglan and Jinghui sisters to Baozi River to sit on the ice bed for a while and play, Qi Huzi is also going to Baozi River, Ming said that we will visit Teacher Qian together, and by the way, we will take a break——"

The two sisters, Shang Jinglan and Shang Jinghui, looked at their father Shang Zhouzuo's face nervously, and saw that their father muttered: "It's such a heavy snow, it's inconvenient to play tomorrow." When the little sister heard this, her heart suddenly sank, and Xiao Jinghui's little mouth turned up.

Zhang Yuan said: "If the snow is inconvenient to go out, just do it, if you can, then I will take them out, and I will send them back in an hour at most." ”

Shang Zhouzuo said "um", and Jing Lan and Jing Hui were suddenly full of joy.

Shang Zhouzuo said again: "I'll go back to the room now to write a letter to my second brother and Tanran and send it together." ”

Jing Lan and Jing Hui said: "We also have to write letters to our uncle and aunt." ”

After Shang Zhouzuo's father and daughter left, Zhang Yuan continued to write letters to Ran, and after writing, he wrote to Qingpu's sister, and the letter to Wang Wei was also sent to his sister, because Wang Wei said that he was going to Qingpu for the New Year, and finally wrote a letter to his uncle Zhang Rulin, got up and paced indoors. ”

Zhang Yuan nodded, continued to pace, heard the second drum, sat on the side of the bookcase, picked up the pen to write a letter to the younger sister of Yingzi, the night was very quiet, you could hear the sound of heavy snow falling, and occasionally there was a crisp sound of "pop", which was the flower branch in the courtyard was crushed by the snow - the footsteps were broken, Xiao Jinghui knocked on the door outside, and said softly: "Brother Zhang Gongzi, I have written a letter to my little aunt." ”

Mu Zhenzhen went to open the door, Xiao Jinghui jumped in all of a sudden, and said repeatedly: "It's so cold, it's so cold, the yard is all white, and the snow is still falling." Saying that, he gave the written letter to Zhang Yuan, and he had to come over to see the letter written by Zhang Yuan - Zhang Yuan had already put the letter away and said, "You can't read other people's private messages." ”

Xiao Jinghui said: "Then I won't show you the letter I wrote to my little aunt." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled: "I don't look at it." ”

Xiao Jinghui felt that his letter to his little aunt was well written, and he wanted Zhang Yuan to read it, so his mouth leaked and said: "I saw it a long time ago, and I love my wife like a meeting, hehe-hee-okay, I'll show you the letter." ”

Zhang Yuan knew that he couldn't read it, so he took it and praised it: "Xiaohui writes a good hand, is it Tang Xiaokai?" ”

Xiao Jinghui responded happily: "Yes, Brother Zhang Gongzi has good eyesight, but I am here every day." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Okay, persevere." I saw that Xiao Jinghui's letter read: "Aunt Fangjian-"

Zhang Yuan finished reading the letter with a smile and said: "It's very well written, your little aunt will definitely smile from ear to ear after receiving the letter, okay, hurry back to the room to rest." "Let Mu Zhenzhen send her back to the bedroom of the West Wing.

The next morning, when Zhang Yuan went out to see, there was a foot of snow in the courtyard, so he went to the front yard to get a shovel to shovel the snow, piled it aside, Wuling and Wang Dazhui shoveled snow in front of the gate, with breakfast, Zhang Yuan instructed Wuling and Wang Dazhui to buy 500 catties of charcoal and send it to the boat outside Chaoyangmen, Laifu and the boatman and his wife should also make a fire to keep out the cold, the severe cold of Yanjing is not comparable to the winter of Shanyin.

At the end of the hour, Zhang Yuan and his brother-in-law Shang Zhouzuo came to Dalongfu Temple, this Dalongfu Temple is strange in the Lama monk and Zen monks coexist in a temple, Lama monks live in the East Temple, Zen monks live in the West Temple, each has its own Buddha hall dojo, Shang Zhou Zuo acquaintance of the Xufan monk is a Zen monk, I heard that there are dozens of lifters want to borrow a side hall to teach, Zen Buddhism does not have so many rules, Xufan monk readily agreed.

Out of the Great Longfu Temple, Shang Zhou Zuo got on the car to roll the ice and snow to the Ducha Yuan, today is the twenty-sixth of the lunar month, it is the last official time of the Beijing official in the forty-third year of Wanli, and it is said that in addition to the officials on duty, they will have to take annual leave.

(To be continued)