The good mood brought by his father's approval did not last long before he died down and gave way to irritability and hidden worries.

Zeng Wei realized more and more that as long as he didn't marry Huan'er into the door for a day, this kid surnamed Shao would not stop for a day.

Thinking that he is now close to Su Song and Su Yu, in front of Yao Huan, Zeng Wei still gave him three points of thin noodles, and praised a few words of brush crisp that is beautiful and delicious.

But I have to talk to him as soon as possible to make things clear.

A few days later, Zeng Wei paced from Guozixue to Taixue and found his uncle Cai Yingwen.

"Uncle, can you study in the school today?"

"I'll send it when I'm in, I'm here."

After Uncle Cai moved back to Shen Fuzhi, he was in good spirits when he remarried.

Seeing a prospective nephew and son-in-law who is a talent, his spirit is even more refreshing.

Zeng Wei said: "I have a poetry club in Yuxian Lou tonight, this is the way to Dongshuimen, I may not have seen Ruzhou for a long time, why don't I pick him up today, take him to visit the New Year's stall, play for half an hour and then send it back to my uncle and aunt, I will go to the poetry club again." ”

Cai Yingwen was full of promises. He sighed in his heart, Huan'er's luck is really good, a good boy like Shiro, and he can't find a second person among the sons and daughters of the Zhu Zi family in Kaifeng.

At the end of the day, according to Cai Yingwen's guidance, Zeng Wei entered Fushun Fang.

Zeng Wei has been in contact with the noble children of the capital since he was a child, and he is particularly sensitive to the manners of young men.

From the first time he saw Shao Qing, Zeng Wei felt that this person did not have the shabby appearance of a small family.

In the next few face-to-face meetings, Zeng Wei found that even when standing beside Su Yu or talking to Su Song, this kid surnamed Shao did not fall behind in terms of bearing and speech.

Just like in a painting, if Su Song is like a distant mountain, and Su Song is like a nearby pine and bamboo, then Shao Qing is that river of smoke and water, which seems to be a humble blank, but in fact it is clear and spacious?

It's not like the amount of weeds and gravel on the painting.

Zeng Wei thought while walking?

Following the clearer and clearer sound of the boy's chirping, he came to the door of Shao's house.

He didn't have time to knock on the door?

The courtyard door opened first?

Shao Qingzheng beckoned the boys who had left school to go out, and when he turned around, he saw Zeng Wei?

Before he could show his surprised gaze, Yao Ruzhou behind him had already rushed over.

"Fourth uncle!"

Ruzhou saw Zeng Wei?

Excited like a little cocoon seeing its owner.

"Good?

Today, the fourth uncle will pick you up and go to the bazaar on the bridge with you. ”

Although, after Yao Huan moved to Donghua Gate, he came back to see Ruzhou every few days?

Cai Yingwen and Shen Fuzhi have more and more feelings for this fatherless and motherless little doll?

But Ru Zhou, in the end, still has a feeling of being under the fence. From time to time, he remembered his sister's promise to marry him with him, but he often wondered if this promise would float like a paper kite in the air.

Seeing Zeng Wei at this moment, and hearing that he came to take him to play, Ru Zhou couldn't help but be overjoyed?

is going to drag Zeng Wei's robe sleeves away.

Zeng Wei patted him on the shoulder: "Wait a moment, the fourth uncle will say a few words to your husband." ”

Shao Qing heard this?

Said: "Since the boys have left school, Zeng Gongzi went to the courtyard to eat tea, right?"

Drink as you speak. ”

Zeng Wei said: "Don't be so troublesome, I'm here today?"

Is it to inform Brother Shao?

I'm not only in love with Huan'er?

The wedding ceremony is also in the preparation of my father and mother, she always wants to enter the Zeng Mansion to be my wife, how can she really linger in the market. If Brother Shao is interested in the art of cooking, he can study in the house, and do not go to Zhulin Street to do bad things. ”

Holding Yao Ruzhou in his hand, Zeng Wei consciously worded it quite politely.

Shao Qing looked at the handsome and handsome face in front of him, and he had mixed feelings for a while.

Those who conceive a beautiful picture must guard against the covetousness of others.

The relationship between men and women is even more selfish.

He Shao Qing, he asked himself if he was not a saint, he was tempted at the beginning, but when he knew that he had half hope, how could he give it up.

Therefore, at this moment, after understanding the meaning of Zeng Wei's words, Shao Qing pushed himself and others, but he didn't feel how abrupt he was.

However, Yao Huan saw that Su Song's iron bucket could bake the beans fragrantly, and that the brush crisp could be made with inexpensive ingredients, and the joy on his face was sincere and lovely.

Zeng Wei is the man who likes her, shouldn't he also rejoice?

She is a lark, not a caged parrot.

Shao Qing said softly: "Zeng Gongzi, Yao Niangzi is so good, before she gets married, it is understandable to do something that is caused by her own interest." If she's happy, you should be happy too. ”

Zeng Wei's heart was on fire.

But he still stared at Shao Qing with a smile: "How good she is, I know better than others, she is devoted to me, I will definitely let her live a happy life." ”

After that, Zeng Wei bowed his head and said to Ruzhou: "Let's go, let's go to Qiao City." ”

Two figures, one tall and one short, disappeared at the entrance of the square.

Shao Qing looked up at the osmanthus tree beside him that had lost all its leaves, turned around and closed the courtyard door.

……

The winter solstice is as big as a year.

Throughout the various festivals from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, the first day, the Lantern Festival, the Spring Society, the cold food, the Qingming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chinese Valentine's Day, the Zhongyuan, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Chongyang Festival, the most important thing for Kaifeng people, or the winter solstice.

Around the winter solstice, drop out of the dynasty for three days.

The ministers followed the queen mother and the official family to worship the sky outside the Nanxun Gate, and the city was bustling with cars and horses, the market was lively, the women and children were in bright new clothes, and the neighbors gave each other snacks.

Kaifeng proverb "fat winter and thin year", that is, ordinary people spend money on the winter solstice, buy wine and meat to buy banquets, buy brocade and satin to buy new clothes, and at the end of the lunar month, there is no money for the New Year.

Officials did not have an early dynasty, and most of the cloth clothes were prepared in the house to prepare ancestor worship ceremonies and reunion family banquets, and most of the wine shops and restaurants were closed.

But Yao Huan's shop took over a business.

Liu Xi, the young marshal of Xihe Road, who was preparing to accompany his mother and aunt and siblings for the New Year in Beijing, gave the order.

After Master Li and Yao Huan shared a small building, Liu Shaoshuai patronized several times and sent the two little girls bought by his aunt to Master Li to learn piano and song.

Although the Liu family is a military general, the female dependents stay in Beijing, and rarely interact with the ladies of the Wenchen family, but some generals who return to the front of the palace in Beijing from the border pass will occasionally go to the Liu Mansion to visit the old lady Liu.

When Liu Xi came for the first time, Yao Huan was still a little embarrassed, after all, he had scolded him.

didn't want Liu Xi to take the initiative to mention the past, and sincerely made amends to Yao Huan for his crimes, and the two of them could be regarded as meeting and relieving their previous suspicions.

Yao Huan even sighed, Liu Zhongwu's eldest son, at present, has a very good mind and ability, and after 30 years, he has repeatedly tasted defeat on the battlefield of resistance to gold, and his name is always connected with words such as "abandoning the city" and "abandoning the army", which may not be his own responsibility? If this person is really a coward, why did he still know Xiangyang until the ninth year of Shaoxing, which was the sphere of influence of the Yue family's army.

A few days before the winter solstice, Liu Xi came again.

When he said the food he was going to buy and the place he was going to send it, Yao Huan was in awe.

It turned out that the Liu family, who paid 300 yuan out of their own pocket every year, rented a large garden next to the government-run Futian Courtyard and sheltered the orphans of thirty or forty fallen soldiers on Xihe Road.

The usual expenses of this orphanage depend on the rent collection of the land property bought by the Liu family, as well as the profits raised by some senior generals of the Western Army and placed in the Kaifeng cabinet workshop.

"Yao Niangzi makes some clips, steamed dumplings and flower balls, how many are they, so that when the dolls worship their ancestors, each person's bowl looks cold, just fine. After the dolls kowtow to the heavenly father, they will eat the snack, so the tired lady makes it better, if it can be colorful, it is better. ”

Yao Huan understood.

Heaven and man are eternally separated, and a calm nostalgia may be better than a heart-rending cry.

A child who has lost his father can no longer lose the pleasures of the ordinary.