The ancestors of Confucius have been champions, Bangyan and Tanhua, brilliant for many times, and then the initiator of Confucian education, Mr. Confucius. But the Confucian family motto is like this, the children of the Confucian family are only two or three officials in the court, as a senior scholar class, the Confucian family is deeply respected by the emperor and various officials, and the talent is not pedantic, when the court uses me, I will go all out, and when I don't need me, I will retreat to the second line to cultivate more high-quality aspiring young people for the court.

After Zhang Erzhen stepped into the gate of the Confucian Mansion with a solemn and respectful heart, she felt that the Confucian family had not lived up to the trust of her ancestors. Although the Confucian Mansion is large, quiet and secluded, the flowers and birds are more poetic, and the entrance is the rockery scales, which is quite a feeling of a large view garden. There are no gorgeous carved beams and paintings, there is no exaggerated and extravagant colored satin gold hairpin, the maids and servants who come and go are all cotton shirts, there is no ring between the walks, the maids hang their heads in front of them to lead the way, the footsteps are slow and silent, and they will greet each other when they meet other maids. Zhang Erzhen followed behind, only feeling that the fragrance of books was overflowing, and she sighed that Liang Aiyuan's young grandmother's life was not as bad as she imagined. Walk through a heavy hanging flower door, walk through a long stone corridor, the main entrance is five, the barrel tile loach ridge is on it; the door railing and window maule, all are finely carved fresh patterns, and there is no vermilion powder decoration; a color water mill group wall, below the white stone platform, chiseled into passionflower pattern. Looking left and right, all the snow ** wall, the tiger skin stone below, with the momentum to build up, sure enough, not rich and vulgar.

The maid led Zhang Erzhen in, Liang Aiyuan heard the voice, and hurriedly got up to welcome the door, but saw that the eyebrows of the visitors were like a painting of water hibiscus, a large peony emerald green smoke yarn Bixia Luo, a pink narcissus scattered flower green leaf skirt mopping the floor, and a thin gold silk smoke and green veil. The low-hanging sideburns were swayed diagonally inlaid with pearls and jasper, and he walked towards him with a smile. Liang Aiyuan looked at the familiar face and wet her eyes with tears, and the delicate jade held Zhang Erzhen and cried: "Miss Zhang, I actually saw you so soon, it's so good, I can't believe it, why did you come to Shandong, are you okay in Beijing, are our little sisters okay?"

The big girl on the side persuaded her young grandmother and said: "Miss Zhang is here, don't cry anymore, you should ask Miss Zhang to sit down and talk." ”

Liang Aiyuan's posture was curling, as if she was already a big girl, the two walked hand in hand to the side and sat down on the chair with a thick soft flannel iron pear wooden circle, Zhang Erzhen said with a smile: "I should have come to see Miss Liang a long time ago, but I was a little busy when I first came to Shandong, Miss Liang don't be surprised, we haven't seen each other for half a year, Miss Liang is looking at the more and more signs, I think it is Shandong water and soil to raise people." ”

Liang Aiyuan dismissed a room of maids-in-law, leaving only the close-fitting big maid Cuckoo, and said angrily: "If I hadn't heard that your younger brother was studying in the Tangwen Pavilion, I wouldn't have known you were here." I've been here in Shandong for so long, and I don't have half a familiar person, I'm really happy that you're here today, although we've only met a few times, but I've already treated you as a friend, if you don't dislike it, call me sister too, it's always Miss Liang, I'm afraid that the people in the house won't be happy to hear it. After speaking, her face was stunned, she was already the second young grandmother of the Kong family.

Liang Aiyuan wanted to speak and stopped, Zhang Erzhen looked at her with a smile, and she didn't speak, she knew that Liang Aiyuan must have something to say. Liang Aiyuan sighed, it seemed that there was a car of things to say, but he didn't know where to start, the two were silent for a while, and then Liang Aiyuan said: "The second son's body is ...... It's better, the people of the house...... Treat me very well, the second son is good, he looks very kind, he has a good temper, and the Confucian Mansion treats me well, but I always feel out of place, Zhen Zhen, I know you don't understand, I just want to find someone to talk to, if you have time in the future, often come to see me. By the way, do you have something to do with coming to Shandong? Do you want to stay for a long time or do you want to leave after a while?"

Zhang Erzhen replied: "My father hasn't been back for a long time, so he asked me and my younger brother to come back to have a look, and it just so happened that he Ling was also sent to the Tangwen Museum to study." I'm going back in a few years. ”

Liang Aiyuan grew up in Beijing since he was a child, and he had never heard of his young children returning to his hometown to worship his ancestors, so he asked tentatively: "Isn't there something wrong in Beijing?"

Zhang Erzhen shook her head and smiled: "What's going on in the capital is just some trivial things at home." I've been confined to the house all day these days, and it's not boring, but it's really comfortable to come to Kong's house to breathe today. I just said that Shandong is a good place, there are many good people, and there are many delicious foods, Sister Yuan now knows, right? In the future, we will be with each other, and we will not be bored. I also brought things for Sister Yuan today, they are all made by the little girl in the house, Sister Yuan, don't dislike it. Mingyue held the delicate small wooden box and handed it to the cuckoo, Liang Aiyuan hurriedly got up and opened it to see, and picked up the framed picture of Mount Tai and said: "This painting is really good, the mountain peaks are steep, the valley is secluded, the strange stones are numerous, the atmosphere is magnificent, I have never been to Mount Tai, and I can feel that Mount Tai is towering from this white cloud, Zhen Zhen, this is your painting, cuckoo, put it in the room and hang it." ”

Zhang Erzhen's work was recognized, and her face was also very happy, she was really happy that she had one more technology over the years, and she seemed to be shy: "Sister Yuan likes it, I'm afraid that the painting is too bad, and Sister Yuan dislikes it." Liang Aiyuan took Zhang Erzhen's green hand and said: "What do you dislike, I am very happy if you have this heart." Come with me, and I'll take you for a walk around the house. Oh - by the way, when I came, I heard that my sister and the girl of the Li family were discussing marriage, I don't know how it is now, but has it been decided?"

Zhang Erzhen knew about Liang Ai's late marriage, but who was the girl of the Li family?" "Sister Zhuo is also going to discuss marriage?" Sister Yuan knows which family's son, I met Sister Zhuo in a hurry when I left, but I didn't hear her. ”

Liang Aiyuan's face hesitated, and Ai Ai said: "It's not necessarily a thing, I heard that the girl of the Li family and the second brother of my family ......."

The second brother of the Liang family, Zhang Erzhen's gentle and handsome face flashed in his mind, and he said in surprise: "Liang Yuliang's second son?"

Liang Aiyuan nodded and said with a smile: "Maybe the girl of the Li family is going to be my second sister-in-law, Miss Li has always been cheerful, I like her very much." ”

Well, the people of Beijing marry each other, Liang Yu and Li Zhuozhuo, it is quite suitable, and they are really a good match. But Sister Zhuo is getting married? Zhang Erzhen suddenly felt very strange, although this pair is also a good match, and the concubine is matched with the son-in-law, but Zhang Erzhen's strange sixth sense told her that things will definitely not be so easy. Liang Aiyuan looked at Zhang Erzhen in a daze, stretched out his hand and waved in front of her, and shouted, "Zhenzhen, aren't you very happy to look at it?"

Zhang Erzhen replied: "What's the matter, I think they are very suitable." Which family did my sister marry that night?" "Before I knew it, these girls were going to have husbands......

Liang Aiyuan sighed and said, "Aunt pressed it, and said...... I want to send the evening child into the palace. ”

Zhang Erzhen was surprised: "Send it to the palace and be a mother?"

Liang Aiyuan glanced at her and said: "The East Palace is also the palace, but my aunt calculated well at the beginning, but I don't know what is happening now." The great victory over Tatar in the northwest, the eldest brother happened to serve in the northwest, pacifying the displaced people, and providing food and salary for the soldiers, which was also meritorious. Under the happiness of the saint, it is also possible for the child to enter the East Palace at night, and it has not been decided yet, the matter of the heavenly family, how can we say it accurately. Zhang Erzhen nodded thoughtfully, it is because the heavenly family does not play cards according to common sense, she has fallen to this, if the saint is clearer, now the prosperous world should be more brilliant.

The two of them said a word, and walked slowly around the verdant trees of the Confucian Mansion, but they heard a shout, and the green-clothed maid ran over and gasped: "Second young grandmother, the second son is in poor health, so he vomited blood, and the lady asked the slave maid to call you over!"

Liang Aiyuan smiled bitterly and said to Zhang Erzhen: "Look, I have something to do, and I can't accompany you anymore." ”

Zhang Erzhen urged Liang Aiyuan to go quickly, and Liang Aiyuan followed the green-clothed maid away, leaving the close cuckoo to accompany him. Zhang Erzhen asked suspiciously: "Does your uncle often vomit blood like this, did Lang Zhong say that he could be cured?"

Du Juan's face was anxious, and he shook his head and said: "My uncle's body is gradually getting better, and he rarely vomits blood, and Lang Zhong is also resting in the courtyard, and he can go to the courtyard in a few steps if there is something." ”

Without the main family to accompany her, Zhang Erzhen herself is not good at wandering in other people's yards, so she went back to Liang Aiyuan's yard and waited, until the tea was changed for three cups, and a little maid ran in and apologized: "Miss Zhang, my second young grandmother can't leave the second son's residence now, send a slave to send Miss Zhang, I'm really sorry, next time I will go to the house to make amends." "Seeing that things seem to be a little serious, Zhang Erzhen is not good to stay long, with the little maid out of the yard, until he gets on the carriage back home, it is only an hour's time, it seems that Liang Aiyuan's life is really not good, always taking care of a patient, only half a year, people have changed a lot.

Mingyue on the side trembled and said: "Girl, the son of the Kong family is in such poor health, I am afraid that the life of Miss Liang San will not be easy in the future." ”

Zhang Erzhen nodded and said: "It's not that I only know it now, the son of the Kong family was not in good health at the beginning, and the third girl of Liang still came, now I can only pray that the son of the Kong family can really get better, and the third girl of Liang can live better in the Confucian Mansion." Mingyue nodded yes, and the carriage drove directly back to Zhang's mansion.

A few days later, Zhang Erzhen received a reply from Zhang Luan, which was a cliché, and only told Zhang Erzhen to rest assured, take good care of Zhang Heling, and ignore the rest. Zhang Erzhen replied that he would obey his father's words, and asked his father and mother to rest assured, so he stayed in the house all day and did not go out again. Zhang Qi also said that if Zhang Erzhen was boring, he could also move to Zhang Qi's mansion to live, but Zhang Erzhen took Zhang Heling to eat his cousin's wedding wine and dispelled this idea and politely rejected Uncle Zhang. Because Zhang Qi's mansion is full of aunts and concubines, complex personnel, and cruel wars, Zhang Erzhen doesn't want to make trouble for herself. After having the shadow of living in her grandmother's heart, Zhang Erzhen refused from the bottom of her heart to go to live in another house.

During this period, Zhang Erzhen also sent a letter to Li Zhuozhuo, but he did not reply. Yi Qian never heard from him again, as if he had never appeared. Mingyue occasionally brings gossip about some interesting things in the capital, and now the news is lagging behind, and it will be half a month before the capital reaches Shandong, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is wearing a battle armor and going to the southwest. Yao Yingcai in the northwest repelled the Tatars, and the Varat in the southwest attacked again. In a fit of rage, he sent the fifteen-year-old prince to the front line to boost morale, and he must annihilate these insects and ants in one fell swoop, so that there will be no war in the frontier for a hundred years. When Mingyue frowned and said this, Zhang Erzhen was wrapped in a plush blanket and nested by the stove, the silver silk charcoal was burning, the nurse stared at the fire in a daze, Hua Mama hooked her waist and squinted her eyes and sat on the low pier, Zhang Erzhen sighed: "The saint is like this, is it for the good of His Royal Highness the Prince, or do you want to ......" How cruel the war is, even the general's courage and good fighting cannot guarantee that he will retreat, not to mention a newcomer like Zhu Youji who has never fought a war. There are many capable people in Beijing, and the generals are all gearing up, the old general Yu Qian of the military department, General Yang Xin and Zhu Yongwei, it is not easy to take out one of them to fight Wara, no matter how bad it is, there is also the father of the military department Shangshu Wanrong. The three of them knew that there were Wan Guifei's hands and feet here. Wan Guifei's ambition has not been hidden, and since she raised the Nine Emperor Princes by her side, her methods have become more and more vicious. I don't know what happened to Zhu Youji's departure.