Mrs. Yan got Li Wenshan's assurance, and this heart was almost put down. The fifth brother is a safe person, and the important things in front of him are one after another, and the first thing is the fifth brother's marriage.

In another ten days, the Tang family's wife and sister will arrive in the capital.

Because many of the Tang family's girls' dowries were made in Jiangning Mansion, after discussing with her wife, she had a new yard and a new house here, and the partitions inside were all there, and then let people start construction after they had all arrived, and then let people start construction, so that the construction period or something would be all pressed on her. She has to bring in craftsmen and materials now, invite in those who should be invited, and buy in those who should be bought.

The construction of this mansion is going to start, and it can't disturb those people, such as the old ancestor, such as the sixth brother who has taken the children's exam and has to take the Qiuyu exam, it is really a lot of trouble......

The matter of the dowry of the Tang family's girl, I heard Mrs. Sui say that several elders in their Tang family's old mansion have taken out their bodies and added makeup to Sister Rui, and they don't know how much, and Mrs. Sui doesn't know, in short, the previous detailed post is definitely useless, this dowry has changed, and the various gifts she prepared before are a little less, and these have to follow the dowry and add them to the top......

There are also a few courtiers who greet their relatives, if it is low, it will definitely not work, but it will be high...... How high is it? Brother Song said that the sixth young master of the ancient family said once that he wanted to take Li Wu's kiss, is this a joke, or is it serious? Forget the joke, if it's serious, the sixth young master of the Gu family is one, then the others have to be about the same, how can this be matched? Which one is right for you? Now in the situation of the court, this person is really hard to find......

Just out of the first month, the third family took 20,000 silver tickets to her, saying that it was the fifth brother's grandmother's cost to the fifth brother's marriage, 20,000 silver, no matter how much you add and change, it is enough, and the silver is enough, and she is the one who does things, and then she doesn't do things in a beautiful and decent way, so it can't be said......

Well, this matter is important, but it can't be counted as the first thing, Brother Lan's exam is the first place.

Over the years, I don't know if it's because of her age, she has become more and more convinced of this fate, auspicious omen or something, Lan Ge'er's momentum at the beginning is too high, she has been worried that such a flat ground suddenly rises, and most of the back is not good......

"Where's Lao Liu?" Thinking of this, Mrs. Yan raised her voice, called into her confidant mother-in-law, Lao Liu's mother-in-law, and solemnly instructed: "Sixth brother will be out of the exam in two days, you don't care about anything else in the past few days, just look everywhere, and don't let anything bad come out!" Speaking and doing things, don't come out with those bad words, whoever dares to disobey, no matter who it is, is a stick to the Zhuangzi! ”

Lao Liu's mother agreed repeatedly: "Madame, don't worry, alas, in the past few days, you don't know how many times you have said this stick, don't worry, I'm with Lao Shen, and everyone Zhao, it's good to watch." ”

"Then I will tell you more." Mrs. Yan raised her hand and waved out Lao Liu's mother, and then calculated, as well as Sister Dong'er's family affairs, this is okay, marrying is much less than marrying a woman, at least there is no need to clean up the yard, and everything is busy with the dowry, but Sister Dong'er's dowry, her grandmother has already said it, and here it will be according to the regulations, and everything else will be sent over by her, and she will not prepare the dowry......

After these major events are done, it will be autumn and winter, the lord is transferred this time, directly from Jiangning Mansion to Qinfeng Road, the eldest brother wrote that he will set off in a few days, counting the footsteps, she has completed these major events, the lord should also go to Qinfeng Road, and after the New Year, I don't know if I can get rid of it, in a blink of an eye, she hasn't seen the master for several years......

Under the strict control of Mrs. Yan, and the whole house is full of auspicious signs, Li Wenlan took the first exam, and Shun Shundang took the exam and came back with the first place.

The three exams that were originally completed in two months were to be completed within a month this year, and the next day after the list was released, Li Wenlan entered the venue again with the exam basket.

This test is a whole day, early in the morning, Li Wenshan, Guo Sheng, and Xu Huan sent Li Wenlan into the venue, leaving a few small guards to guard in case anything happened, Li Wenshan, Guo Sheng, and Xu Huan went to work separately.

After lunch, Li Wenshan took Li Xia out of the Bofu, Li Xia sat in the car, the curtains of the car were lifted high, while looking at the excitement on both sides, while talking to the fifth brother Li Wenshan who followed the car on foot, crossed the West Jiaolou Street, and walked along the royal street to the Zhuquemen Street where the Gongyuan is located, not far from the Gongyuan, found a tea shop, ready to drink tea and talk, waiting to pick up Li Wenlan to appear.

As soon as he entered the teahouse, before he could sit down, Jiang Yanshi's little maid Maple Ye trotted in from outside, and smiled at Li Wenshan: "Sure enough, it's Li Wuye, our master said that it looks like Li Wuye, please say hello to the fifth master." ”

The maple leaf had just seen the ceremony, and in the back, Jiang Yanshi was wearing a thin black gray cloak, and the light cloak was raised with his footsteps, revealing the moon-white robe inside, and he was coming.

Seven or eight steps away, Jiang Yanshi gave up his hand and Li Wenshan and smiled: "These guys, they even said that I was wrong. Asha is also there. Jiang Yanshi seemed to have just seen Li Xia, showed a look of surprise, and bowed to Li Xia.

Li Xia couldn't help laughing, bending his knees and saluting while laughing.

Jiang Yanshi laughed with Li Xia's laughter, and before he stood up straight, he bowed down and bowed halfway, "If you are rude, please take care of one or two of the nine ladies." ”

"Don't dare to be, if Jiang Gongzi sees me first, it will be rude." Li Xia knew that he was accompanying the liar, so he bowed his knees and smiled back.

Jiang Yanshi's eyes were full of appreciation, turned to Li Wenshan and said with a smile: "Come to pick up the sixth brother?" It's still early. It's boring to sit down, otherwise, how about I invite the two of you to the Fayun Temple next to you to taste tea and appreciate peonies? Just paid off the tea debt I owed to the two of you. ”

Li Wenshan twisted his eyebrows and hesitated, and Li Xia's eyes flashed.

She almost forgot about the peony in Fayun Temple, she wanted to take a look, and the peony in Fayun Temple!

The peony of Fayun Temple is the same as Jiang Yanshi, and it has only been splendid for more than ten years.

The peony of Fayun Temple, she only heard Gu Yuyan say it once or twice, but she was impressed.

The first time Gu Yuyan told her about the peony of Fayun Temple, it was because of a monk who was escorted to the capital, Jin Cunyan decided to behead after the autumn, Gu Yuyan had no choice but to ask her, hoping that she could be extrajudicial and spare the monk's life.

This monk is now the presiding officer of Fayun Temple.

Yunkong is an extremely unsophisticated, strange temper monk, love to raise peonies, will raise peonies, only peonies. Gu Yuyan said that he practiced by raising flowers.

How did Yunkong know Jiang Yanshi, Gu Yuyan didn't know, when he knew Yunkong, Yunkong was already the host of Fayun Temple, and Fayun Temple was already under the protection of Jiang Yanshi.

Yunkong raises peonies, but he is extremely disgusted with peonies that others are close to him, except for Jiang Yanshi.

On the day of Jiang Yanshi's death, Yunkong dug up all the peonies in the back garden of Fayun Temple, piled them together, poured an unknown amount of oil, and burned all the peonies, and also burned half of the Suzakumen Street.

Gu Yuyan followed Jiang Yanshi and went to Fayun Temple to see the peony twice, when Gu Yuyan asked her to intercede, he said that Yunkong's sin was unforgivable, but the peony was too good, he asked her for unforgivable forgiveness for the sake of peony.

Jiang Yanshi saw the light that skipped in Li Xia's eyes, his eyebrows were slightly raised, and his eyes were full of questions, Li Xia looked at him and smiled: "I heard Mr. Guo say once, the peony of Fayun Temple is a unique in the capital, is it true?" ”

"Each flower into its own eyes, this has to be seen by the girl to know whether it is true or false, Fayun Temple is very close to here, to the front of the street, just turn a corner." Jiang Yanshi looked at Li Xia, and then at Li Wenshan, who was wrinkling his eyebrows vigorously.

"Let's go and take a look, come back after a few looks, and don't delay picking up the sixth brother." Li Xia pulled Li Wenshan's sleeve and begged.

Li Wenshan wrinkled his eyebrows, looking helpless, "Okay, then it will bother Gongzi Jiang." ”

Jiang Yanjiang didn't answer, only smiled and raised his hand, made a gesture of invitation, let Li Xia, and Li Wenshan walked out of the teahouse side by side.

The gate of Fayun Temple was closed, Jiang Yanshi led Li Wenshan and Li Xia, walked straight to the corner gate next to him, four or five steps away, the corner gate was opened from the inside, and several long entourages stood with their hands down, so that Jiang Yanshi, Li Wenshan, and Li Xia closed the door again.

The Fayun Temple was as quiet as in the Mingzhou Pavilion that day, Jiang Yanshi took the two of them, bypassed the main hall, and went straight into the back garden that looked very wide.

Only peonies are planted in the back garden, potted plants in the ground, high and low are staggered, dense turns, count how many peonies, this is the time when the peony is at its peak, look at it, delicate and dazzling, dazzling.

"The peony of this Fayun Temple really lives up to its name." Li Xia sighed lowly.

"Mr. Guo probably heard these peonies from Gu Liu." Jiang Yanshi was half a step behind Li Xia, parallel to Li Wenshan, pacing forward with Li Xia's steps, "I invited Gu Liu to come last year, it was a little late, he saw the remnants of flowers, it is not as good as this, the blooming trend will not be completed, and the peony in these days is called the national color and heavenly fragrance." ”

The garden looked wide, but it was not big, and in a few words, the three of them arrived at a grass pavilion four or five steps higher, which was four or five steps higher, enough for people to stand in the grass pavilion and take in the whole garden.

There is a tea table in the middle of the grass pavilion, a small red clay stove is placed in one corner, the grass pavilion is full of blooming peonies around it, standing, you can see the beautiful scenery of the whole garden, sit down, as far as the eye can see, it is also a flower, a plant of the national color and fragrance.

Jiang Yanshi slowly turned the folding fan, looked at Li Xia who was standing at the door of the grass pavilion, slowly turned around, and admired the peony garden with an amazed face, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

Li Wenshan looked at the peonies placed around the grass pavilion from one pot to another, and admired while looking at it, "This pot is so small, one, two, three, four...... Sixteen flowers bloomed! These sixteen flowers are so beautiful, this flower is born? ”

Li Xia turned his head and glanced at him, Jiang Yanshi followed Li Xia's gaze to Li Wenshan, and nodded with a smile: "Wulang's good eyesight is all natural." ”

Li Xia smiled, lifted his toes slightly, turned around briskly, entered the grass pavilion, sat down at the tea table, and beckoned to Li Wenshan, "Fifth brother, don't look at it, let's drink tea, save people from laughing at your good eyesight." ”

"Jiu Niangzi really wronged me with this." Jiang Yanshi sat on Li Xia's side, handed the folding fan to the little servant, and said with a smile while rolling up his sleeves slightly to prepare to make tea: "The first time I saw these flowers, I was like Gorou, I turned the pot of flowers upside down, and I thought that those flowers were cut from somewhere else and gathered together." ”

Li Xia looked at Jiang Yanshi, who was about to burn the cup when he lifted the silver kettle, "Let's let the little guy make tea, so that my fifth brother and I want to see the flowers and you again, and our eyes are not enough." ”

The silver kettle in Jiang Yanshi's hand was crooked, and the water almost poured onto the table, "Jiu Niangzi's words...... Surprise these flowers. Jiang Yanshi said as he put down the silver kettle and beckoned to the little guy.

Li Wenshan sat opposite Jiang Yanshi, looking at the little guy who cleaned up the silver pot tea filter and rearranged the tea table, and said with a smile: "Ah Xia is right, but I think Jiang Gongzi is better looking at making tea, and the flowers are dead and not good-looking." ”

"Gorou and Jiu Niangzi are here to make fun of me today, right?" Jiang Yanshi frowned slightly, putting on a distressed expression, "If you are born well, who can compare to the sixth brother of your mansion?" When it comes to aura, the nine ladies alone occupy eight or nine tenths of the world's aura. ”

Jiang Yanshi waved his hand as he spoke, "We're here to enjoy the flowers and drink tea, the fragrance of the flowers here is too strong, the fragrance of the flowers in the tea, even I can't drink it, it's my negligence, this trip is to enjoy the flowers, forget the tea, I'll look for another good place to go back, make up for the tea between Wulang and Jiuniangzi." ”

Jiang Yanshi smiled and changed the subject, "This one was newly planted by Zen Master Yunkong, there is the beauty of the red glow in the garden, and the Jiao of Zhao Fan, Yunkong asked me to give me a name before, I see ......" Jiang Yanshi stood up and looked at it, and sat down again, "Coincidentally, it is exactly nine flowers, let's call it Nine Niangzi, the flowers are like their people." ”

Li Xia's eyebrows were slightly raised, and Li Wenshan, who was admiring a pot of peonies, looked at Jiang Yanshi, who was smiling and watching Li Xia speak, and then looked at Li Xia, and asked abruptly: "The peonies here have names?" What about this one? I think this one is good. ”

"Well, that one is the Golden Pavilion, bright and yellow, and I like it too. The peonies in this garden have their own attitudes, but there are not many famous products, and Yunkong never cares which is a famous product and which is a mortal product. After a pause, Jiang Yanshi looked at Li Xia and explained: "Yunkong is the host of this temple, and he took care of these peonies. ”

"The host who will plant peonies? Definitely good at dancing with long sleeves. Li Xia turned his head to look at the garden.

Jiang Yanshi laughed, "You guessed wrong this time. If you want to say that the long sleeves are good at dancing, Yunkong is a half-arm one, and he doesn't even have sleeves. He has profound attainments in Buddhism, except for Buddhism, he only loves peonies, and his temperament is withdrawn and eccentric. The peonies in this garden, about the only time I come to see it, occasionally invite one or two friends, just now you said, Mr. Guo heard that the peonies in this garden are excellent, this person, can only be Gu Liu. ”

"It's a pity that such a good peony is locked in the inner courtyard by you and unknown." Li Xia sighed.

Jiang Yanshi's eyebrows moved slightly, and he bowed slightly and smiled: "Girl, you can't say that, Yonsei is not that kind of person." This peony is the peony of the clouds, he doesn't want to be disturbed by the world, I can do my best, I must follow his wishes, if he wants to be known to the world, I will definitely preach for him, everything is according to his heart. ”

"This Yunkong is really a weirdo, he has raised so many peonies to keep people from seeing." Li Wenshan answered.

"It's really a weirdo, people in the world only love long-sleeved people who are good at dancing and are usually easy-going, and there are very few people like Yunkong who are willing to protect him." Jiang Yanshi looked at Li Wenshan, and at the end of his words, he glanced at Li Xia, who was looking up at a peony.

The little servant served the tea, Li Xia picked up the cup, took a few sips, stood up, and admired the peonies in the garden.

Jiang Yanshi and Li Wenshan sat opposite each other, looking at Li Xia out of the corner of his eyes, and talking to Li Wenshan, "These three exams are all presided over by Tang Shangshu himself, the sixth brother took the first place in the last exam, this one must not be bad, even if it can't be the first, an inner circle is certain, the talent and character of the sixth brother, after a few years, there will be another scene in the capital." ”

"Jiang Gongzi has won the award, and the sixth brother's first place in the last game is just a fluke." Li Wenshan hurriedly treated his younger brother politely, and in a few years, he felt that his younger brother was now the Taoist scenery.

Li Xia turned a few steps, walked out of the grass pavilion, went down the steps, and walked slowly along the flower path connected by large bluestones, admiring the peonies in this garden one by one.

Jiang Yanshi drank two cups of tea and motioned to Li Wenshan, "Sister Ling is a flower lover, let's go to the garden to have a look?" ”

Li Wenshan stood up and walked out of the grass pavilion with Jiang Yanshi one after the other.

Li Wenshan absentmindedly admired the peony, looking around, now I don't know what time it is, the last game will be dispersed early, where are the little guys, there was not even a drip in the grass pavilion just now......

Li Wenshan looked at Jiang Yanshi three or five steps away from him, bent down and looked at a peony and saw his god, quietly took two steps back, turned to the other side of the fork in the road, and went to the door to ask the little maid.

Jiang Yanshi didn't seem to notice where Li Wenshan went, nor did he notice that he walked next to Li Xia unconsciously.

"This is the red glow in the garden, and the clouds and the sky think it's too gorgeous, I think it's good." Jiang Yanshi pointed to a large bush of peonies in front of the two of them and smiled.

"I also think it's good, this name is good, the garden is full of Hongxia, it should be planted in a garden, and it should be the name of this garden Hongxia."

"It's related to me!" Jiang Yanshi folded his fan and clapped his palms, "It's a pity that this is not our garden, when I am free, I will build a peony garden and only plant this one." ”

Li Xia smiled and didn't answer this sentence, "Sixth brother doesn't know how the exam went, sixth brother exam, do you know who the most nervous and worried person in our family is?" ”

"Huh? Who is it? Jiang Yanshi immediately asked, from the tone of his voice to his expression, he was full of curiosity.

"It's the eldest uncle, a few days earlier, you are not allowed to say a word, and you don't let people say more about the sixth brother's exam, you can't say more about good things, and if you say more, it will break, and the eldest aunt is looking forward to the sixth brother being able to pass this children's test this time, and the eldest aunt also said: I don't dare to think about this, just say it casually." Li Xia learned Mrs. Yan's tone, "If our Brother Lan can pass the exam, then he will be the youngest person in the past, that's amazing!" Those who can leave their names in the history books. ”

Jiang Yanshi watched Li Xia learn Mrs. Yan's words vividly, and his shoulders shrugged with a smile.

"The sixth brother is only thirteen this year." Li Xia looked at Jiang Yanshi, smiled and said again.

Jiang Yanshi smiled slightly, looked down at Li Xia, and suddenly asked, "How old are you?" ”

"Eleven." Li Xia bent his eyes and smiled.

"Oh," Jiang Yanshi took a step back and looked at Li Xia carefully, "You say that, you are indeed a little girl, and after talking too much to you, I forget that you are a little girl, such a small little girl." Jiang Yanshi pressed down with one hand lower than Li Xia's shoulder.

"Hmmm! I'm the youngest in Yongningbo Mansion. Li Xia leaned at Jiang Yanshi's deliberate downward hand that couldn't be lowered.

Jiang Yanshi patted his forehead with one hand, and sighed while laughing, not knowing what he was sighing about.

"Don't talk about this, the girl of the Tang family is about to arrive in the capital, right? Has the date of your fifth brother's marriage been set? Jiang Yanshi followed behind Li Xia, and changed the topic as he walked forward.

"Let's go to the end of the month and the beginning of the month I heard the eldest aunt say that she wanted to pick a day in May, but the eldest aunt said that she was tired and had to hurry up and marry a useful daughter-in-law. Li Xia stopped walking, talking, and looked at Peony.

"Your father is almost in the capital, right? It seems that I heard that he was promoted to Honglu Temple? Jiang Yanshi glanced at Li Xia from time to time, as if for the first time he had discovered that she was really a little girl who had just begun to grow up, just a little girl, and she hadn't grown up yet.

"Well, Daddy is coming back soon, but I don't know if he's promoted or not, Daddy's temperament, as long as he can come back, he's very happy, if he doesn't get promoted, he probably doesn't care much."

"What kind of character is your father?" Jiang Yanshi is really interested.

"What kind of temperament~~" Li Xia dragged the end, "What do you say." When we were in Hengshan County, one spring, the eldest aunt asked someone to send a little bit of Ming Qian, and Daddy returned to the back house from the yamen, and told Ah Niang that he would make him a bowl to taste before Ming Qian, which had just been sent from Jiangning Mansion. ”

Jiang Yanshi smiled and listened to Li Xia quietly with bated breath, she spoke with a sound and color, just like her eating, it was really interesting.

"A-Niang said that he had just opened a cake of tea a day ago, and he drank the cake and tea first. Daddy didn't ring anymore, just that day off, the fifth brother came back, and said to Auntie: I heard that the eldest aunt sent Ming Qian tea. A-Niang immediately said: Do you want to taste it? I'll have someone make you a bowl. ”

Jiang Yanshi's eyes widened when he heard this, "What about your father?" Absence? At? Didn't your dad hear that? Heard it? So what did he say? Didn't lose your temper? ”

"I heard it, thanks to the blessing of the fifth brother, even Daddy, we all got a bowl. What kind of temper do you have, Daddy still praises Ah Niang, she is a good wife and mother who is diligent and thrifty. Li Xia smiled and looked at Jiang Yanshi, who was staring wide-eyed.

Jiang Yanshi's widening eyes bent up a little bit, and he laughed, nodding Li Xia while laughing, and it took a while before he spoke, "I understand, your father's temper ...... I understand, I'll ask you, your fifth brother came back from a break in the middle of the year, how did he know about this Ming Qian tea? ”

"I told him, I want to try it too." Li Xia replied confidently.

Jiang Yanshi laughed again.

"What are you laughing at?" Li Wenshan said hello to the Gongyuan before the dragon gate was opened, found the two of them, looked at Jiang Yanshi who was smiling like this garden full of peonies, and Li Xia, who pursed his lips and looked at Jiang Yanshi with a smile, couldn't help but ask.

"Asha is talking about her using you as a gunman." Jiang Yanshi raised his hand and patted Li Wenshan's shoulder.

"Which one?" Li Wenshan looked at Li Xia and asked, which one is so funny? Why didn't he remember?

"Which one?" Jiang Yanshi's eyes widened and bent up, and he patted Li Wenshan's shoulder hard, "It seems that Ah Xia often uses you as a gun?" ”

"What's the solution? She is the youngest. With such a sister, I can only willingly use her as a gun. Li Wenshan spread his hands, he didn't use her as a gunman, how could their family live as well as they are now?

"If there is such a sister, I am willing." Jiang Yanshi looked at Li Xia and seemed to owe her a debt.

After laughing for a while, the little guy outside came in to report that the Gongyuan was going to open the dragon gate.

Li Wenshan hurriedly walked out, Jiang Yanshi took two steps behind, bowed slightly and Li Xia laughed in a low voice: "The war in the north, the matter of dispatching money and grain, falls on the prince and me, and after a while, I am afraid that I will not be free, I owe you a tea party, and when I am busy for a while, I will pay it back one by one." ”

"Okay." Li Xia looked at Jiang Yanshi with a smile, "If you owe too much, you can't pay it back with tea, they say that you have a wonderful flute, you can play the flute for me." ”

"Whatever the girl says, she will do." Jiang Yanshi pressed one hand on his chest and replied seriously.