Xie Mulin struggled to maintain a calm face and accepted Song's examination.

Fortunately, she has a good memory in this life. In addition, in the past few months, in order to repair the old house, as well as take care of Mrs. Xie, and practice female red weaving, she has been busy non-stop, and she has not much spare time to come to the Song family to borrow books, so the books in her hand are still the two books that she borrowed at the beginning. She read it a few times, and she was quite familiar with the content inside, so she wouldn't forget it.

Therefore, Xie Mulin successfully answered many questions from the Song family about the history of the founding of Beiping City, festivals and customs in the Beiping area, eating habits, wedding and funeral etiquette, etc., only in some specific numbers and names, which was a little difficult.

But this is also a helpless thing, the book records the size and area of Beiping City and Wangcheng, the quantity unit used is "step", and the number is a long list, how can she remember it clearly? She didn't know that she had to take an exam to read an idle book, and of course she wouldn't memorize it by heart.

As for the names of people, people who have been famous in both lifetimes, she naturally remembers; People with nice and chic names, she also remembers; Only those who use rare words as their names, she really can't help it, she can't even read it, how can she remember it?

Fortunately, Song was not much annoyed by her failure to answer everything, but just reminded her: "Read more carefully." If you don't pay attention to the details, how can you compare the size of Huyin County or Jinling City, and deduce how big Beiping City really is? ”

No, even if I don't memorize those numbers and don't compare Jinling City with Huyin County, I know how big Beiping City is, and I've visited the Forbidden City more than once.

Xie Mulin showed a dry smile to the Song family, and didn't dare to say what was in his heart.

Song didn't hold on to this matter, and said: "If there is a word you don't recognize, you can take it to your brothers and ask me, or come and ask me directly." It's better not to know half of what you want to read. I see that you remember everything else carefully, but you don't pay much attention to some details. If you go to Beiping City in the future, how can you immediately remember the past of his family if you meet the descendants of a former sage? Wouldn't it be a big deal if you accidentally committed a taboo? ”

The Song family selected a more famous official of the Yan Wangfu during the Zhu Yunjiong period from that book as an example. This subordinate official is very famous, and he is also a well-known minister in the history books, but for the sake of official business, he made an example of a subordinate who made a small mistake, and he was also rewarded by Zhu Yunjiong. Naturally, the family members of the deceased could only endure this breath and help the coffin to return to their hometown. This is regarded by the author of the book as an example of Zhu Yunjiong's clear rewards and punishments, fairness and strictness when he was the king of Yan, and he wrote a special book.

However, what the author does not know is that after two more Yan queens, the family of that virtuous minister has taken root in Beiping and become one of the prominent local families, but it has gradually declined because of the mediocrity of his descendants. However, the deceased of that year had outstanding descendants, who once again won the favor of the then King Yan and made a comeback. This man, in turn, took revenge on the virtuous minister's family, causing the death of one of his most outstanding juniors. Since then, the two families have been fighting each other openly and secretly, and they have not stopped.

Although after the change of several Yan queens, the two families have stopped a lot, but they are still in a state where the king does not see the king. If any foreign official who went to Peking to take up a banquet and entertain guests, but invited people from these two families to the door at the same time, it would be a big taboo, and it would be tantamount to offending two families at the same time. It is common practice for insiders to set up a two- to three-day banquet and arrange for the two families to come to the door at different times, or even invite only one of them and ignore the other, but this may offend the latter very much.

Xie Mulin suddenly realized, she really didn't expect that there could be so many allusions to any name in that book. It seems that the water in Beiping City is also quite deep......

I don't know if Cheap Daddy Xie Pu will accidentally make such a mistake?

Song smiled and said, "It's okay, I've already written to remind him." Mo Yanke, the guest next to him, was born in the old family of Beiping, and he knew the big and small things in Beiping City. The details of these interpersonal exchanges, Mo Yanke will take care of them for him. ”

Xie Mulin was relieved when he heard this.

She originally wanted to return those two books to the Song family, so that she could borrow a few more to read back, but now she was a little hesitant. Shouldn't she continue to read these two books a few more times and remember all the details written on them?

Song took the two books disapprenosingly, and pushed the two new books that had already been prepared on the table in front of her: "It's okay, you continue to read these two books, if you don't understand anything, come and ask me again." In the future, every time you come back to school, after having lunch at home, you will come to me to talk, and I will tell you about the people and things in Beiping City. In the future, when you go to Beiping, if you meet the corresponding person, tell your mother the allusions, so that she can pay more attention. ”

So good? Then why didn't Song just tell Wen about it?

Xie Mulin had some doubts in his heart, but he quickly agreed, and thanked the Song family obediently.

Song waved his hand and paused again: "And your female red ......"

Xie Mulin's heart suddenly became weak, and his back didn't seem to be able to straighten up: "I haven't learned weaving before, and the elders in the school say that this is the most important, so I've been a little wasted about needlework recently......

Song smiled slightly: "You don't have to be afraid. The girls in the boudoir school teach the girls in the clan to weave skills, because they were born in Jiangnan, grew up in Jiangnan, married in the future, and are also in Jiangnan, can be proficient in textile skills, they can make people look at a few times, if they are good at embroidery, they are the best girls. But your sisters are different from the girls in the clan, and the people you meet in the future and the places where you live will be different. You can learn to spin and weave without having to focus too much. If you can put some effort into embroidery, it may be more beneficial for you in the future. ”

She mentioned Xie Mulin again: "The female dependents in Beiping, although they are very different from the customs and preferences in the south, are very yearning for the Jinling style, and they also pay attention to the girls in the boudoir who embroider well, and they have to be elegant and different from others." ”

However, the daughters of high-ranking families, high-ranking officials, and the kung fu of embroidering women, of course, cannot be the same as the girls of ordinary rich and noble families. What is rare is not that the girl embroiders many flowers and is true, nor does she like the complicated and gorgeous, colorful color matching, but the pursuit of a more tasteful temperament, more preference for plum orchid chrysanthemum bamboo, landscape and pastoral, and the peony moon season is too vulgar, butterflies and birds are slightly frivolous.

Song pointed to the four small screens in the corner of his wooden kang and said: "These four glass kang screens, the embroidery in them was embroidered by my own hands when I was young, Meilan Juzhu, what do you think?" ”

Xie Mulin looked carefully, and only felt that these four embroideries had slender lines, simple pictures, and elegant color matching, and indeed had a sense of literati painting, which was very different from the common boudoir embroidery.

Song smiled: "I just embroider one or two pieces a year for people to see, in addition, that is, on the birthday of my father and mother, I personally make a set of clothes for them, as a filial piety, and never exchange needles and threads with people on weekdays as a courtesy." But even so, whether it is in Beiping City or Jinling City, no one has ever said that my female popularity is not good. ”

After finishing speaking, Song smiled at Xie Mulin.

Xie Mulin instantly understood. Is this a cheap grandma teaching her face-to-face?