Chapter 601: Gathering in the Empty Courtyard
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Ruan Qiqi walked out of the alley of the Li family, stood and waited for Xu Huan to follow.
"You're too ruthless." Xu Huan followed, thinking about the tragic situation of Mrs. Guo's second wife, and sighed.
"One of the little guys in the South China Sea died and one was seriously injured, and my guards, at least a dozen more people died, all of whom had been with me for ten years." Ruan Qiqi had a calm face, "I won't hide it from you, she will either die or go crazy, otherwise," Ruan Qiqi snorted coldly, "How can I be worthy of the South China Sea, worthy of my loyal guards?" β
"What about the Chen family? That's a lady with a title. Xu Huan frowned.
"Don't worry." Ruan Qiqi smiled gloomily, "People who dare to mess with me......" Ruan Qiqi's words choked violently, "Except for those I can't afford to provoke, I haven't let anyone go." β
Xu Huan leaned at him clearly, "It's good that you know it in your heart, I'll go back first, and I have to tell my wife quickly." β
"Thank you, thank you." Ruan Qiqi said goodbye to Xu Huan, took a few steps forward, motioned to the little servant Dongshan to step forward, and lowered his voice and said: "The matter of the master stripping Guo Du's clothes and whipping him was sent to the Chen family, and told the person surnamed Hu to listen to it, and add another sentence, if the master didn't see the face of the Shen family's filial piety, he would have to whip her to death." β
"Yes." Dongshan responded, came out of the team, and found the third aunt and six mothers-in-law to talk to the Chen family.
Ruan Qiqi returned to the mansion, did not enter the inner courtyard, first went to the courtyard of his study, which never studied, washed it four or five times in a row, and then changed his clothes and came out, before he felt that he was really clean.
Xiao Nanhai stood under the porch, stretched his neck, and saw that the seventeenth master of his family had finally washed out, and hurriedly stepped forward, "Seventeenth master, Guo Ye sent someone, please go to him, and say that I will talk to you." It's been a quarter of an hour. β
"What's wrong with a quarter of an hour?" At the mention of Guo Sheng, Ruan Seventeen was a little angry, and while hurriedly walking out, he reprimanded Nanhai, "Are you in a hurry?" What about the yield? It's only a quarter of an hour, not to mention letting him wait for a quarter of an hour, it's an hour, what's the matter? Look at you like this, the face of the master has made you lose everything, are you the first day to go to the master's side on an errand? Go to someone and tell your grandmother, Guo Ye invited me, don't wait for me to eat at night. β
Nanhai trotted all the way to follow, and couldn't help it, and behind Ruan Seventeen, he gave him a blank look.
If you're not in a hurry, what are you running!
Ruan Qiqi walked all the way, went out, got on the horse and went straight to Guo Sheng's small courtyard.
Guo Sheng was holding a lamp, looking for wine with Fugui in the five connected east wings full of wine jars, when he heard Ruan Qiqi's voice, he probed out, "Wait a while, this will be found." β
"Looking for what?" Ruan Seventeen rushed into the wing room with an arrow, "Oh, why is there so much wine!" Are they all good wines? Where did it come from? β
"Don't make up your mind, it's not your share." Guo Sheng replied unceremoniously, and in the innermost part of the room, Fugui's voice came out, "Found it!" β
"What?" Ruan Seventeen's neck stretched out.
"Thirty years of good winemaking. Move two jars out, be careful, don't shake sour. Guo Sheng said, took a few steps in, and took a wine jar of only ten catties from Fugui's hand.
"Good winemaking? These are all Shaoxing wines? By the way, you are from Shaoxing, rich, find me two jars of fragrant snow wine, your seventeenth master I like the fragrant snow wine of your Shaoxing Mansion the most. Ruan Shi leaned sideways against the wine jar, letting Guo Sheng not see the wealth who was still moving wine inside.
"Xiangxue wine is so sweet, why does the seventeenth master love to drink this? Exactly, twenty years will work? One jar or two? Fugui and Ruan 17 are the most familiar with each other, so without Guo Sheng's nod, he moved two jars of fragrant snow wine for Ruan 17.
"Two jars, two jars! Your seventeenth master and I have loved to drink sweet wine since I was a child, this is Boss Hu's filial piety to you and your Guo Ye? "Ruan Seventeen got the wine, and his words were very good.
Fugui was happy, "Seventeenth Master, don't lift me up, if Xiao Hu hears your words of filial piety to me, he has to fight with me, and I can't beat him." This is the wine I brewed in the old winery in Shaoxing, the seventeenth master tasted it, not that I boasted, full of Shaoxing Mansion, if any wine can be better than my wine......"
"You smashed someone's winery?" Ruan Qiqi happily answered.
"Look at what the master said, we have never done such a tasteless thing, full of Shaoxing Mansion, just count me as the best wine, this is what Guo Ye said." Fugui picked out the jar of rice wine for 30 years, put his own rice wine aside, and tied the two jars of good wine together.
Guo Sheng looked at Fugui tying up the wine jar, and said to Ruan Seventeen: "Let's go and talk to General Lu, he is okay with lychee wine there, do you bring this wine over, or do you have someone to send it to your house?" β
"Bring both jars, and I'll take them myself." Ruan Qiqi heard that he was going to find Lu Yi to speak, and his heart moved slightly, Xiao Lu was the same as him, he loved to drink sweet wine like lychee wine and fragrant snow wine, Guo Sheng loved Zhuangyuan Red the most, who is this good winemaking for? Look at Guo Sheng's posture, he loves to drink and make good wine, and he is the host and guest.
"Let's go?" Ruan Qiqi looked at the rich and neat and neatly tied his two jars of wine together, and lifted them up and weighed them.
"Let's go." Guo Sheng picked up the two jars of good wine bundled by wealth and wealth, and motioned to Ruan Seventeen, Ruan Seventeen also picked up the wine, and while following Guo Sheng out, he gave Nanhai and the others a look, signaling that there was no need to follow.
Guo Sheng didn't bring anyone with him when he carried the wine, and it was best for him not to bring a small entourage.
Guo Sheng and Ruan 17 each carried two jars of wine, and the two of them walked to the Lu Mansion, and when they saw the wall of the Lu Mansion, they did not go to the gate, but turned into a narrow alley that could only accommodate one person, and when they arrived at the small corner door, Guo Sheng pushed open the corner door, and walked through the garden and entered the empty courtyard.
Ruan Qiqi entered the empty courtyard, raised one eyebrow high, and looked around with the wine jar, "Is there such a place in the Lu Mansion?" ...... in this yard."
Ruan Seventeen rushed to one room, glanced at it, and then rushed to another, and even sighed, "Nothing, this empty, how can it be so empty?" Nothing, what is this yard for? β
Ruan 17 retreated to the middle of the large courtyard, and looked around at the four empty houses, as well as the ancient ginkgo trees that were already thick green in the corners, the surprisingly wide eaves, and a fat, fire-burning red clay stove under the eaves, and the five most common broken bamboo chairs in the market were placed next to the stove, and not far away, there were tea tables, small tandoors, large copper kettles, wine jars, wine glasses, ginger threads, snowflakes, rock candy, and so on.
"Put the wine here, and it will be sour if you shake it again." Guo Sheng had already squatted under the porch, and while relieving the hangover jar, he motioned to Ruan Seventeen.
Ruan Qiqi kept snorting, took a few steps up the steps, put down the wine jar, first surrounded the red clay stove and a few chairs, and then saw the tea table and so on, everything was carefully watched, even the dish of ginger shreds, all picked up and smelled, looked good, retreated to the side of the chairs, picked a handful of leaning together, the most convenient to see the courtyard door, the chair farthest away from the tea table, sat down, and the chair that shook was clucking.
Ruan Qiqi laughed, "Old Guo often comes here, right?" Xiao Lu is a particular person, and he definitely can't let this chair sound like this! β
Just laughing, the door of the small courtyard was pushed open, and Jin Shuyan carried his bag without knowing what and entered the courtyard.
"Huh!" Ruan Qiqi's eyebrows fluttered, and he pointed at Jin Zhuoyan, "Look at you, you are familiar with the way, could it be that I haven't been to this courtyard before?" β
Jin Shuyan only glanced at him, walked next to Guo Sheng, and handed him the cloth bag in his hand, "A Zhuangzi in the north of our house has just come over with filial piety, and I have tasted it, and it tastes good." β
"What's that?" Ruan Seventeen leaned and stretched out his head.
"Have you washed it yet? As soon as I entered the courtyard, I seemed to smell something. Jin Shuyan turned around at this time, looked at Ruan Seventeen, and said with a smile.
The smile on Ruan Qiqi's face suddenly froze, he jerked off his shirt, snorted, leaned back into his chair, and didn't answer Jin Clumsy's words.
The courtyard door was pushed open again, and Lu Yi and Bai Qiao came in laughing.
Ruan Qiqi whistled in a low voice, leaned at Guo Sheng, lowered his voice and smiled: "This person likes to drink good wine? β
Guo Shengzheng grabbed peanuts one by one from the cloth bag brought by Jin Zhuoyan, spread them around the red clay stove, and ignored him.
Jin Cunyan poured the rice wine that had been boiled next to him into the silver wine jug, slapped open a jar of good wine, looked at Bai Qiao, who was already approaching, and asked, "How do you usually drink this good wine?" β
"Add more shredded ginger." Bai Qiao sniffled, smelled the aroma of wine gushing out of the jar, and showed a bit of gluttony, "It's really good wine, Lao Guo brought it?" β
"Rich and filial." Guo Sheng replied casually.
Jin Zhuoyan poured most of the pot into the big copper kettle, and put two chopsticks and ginger shreds into it.
"Sit as you like." Ruan Qiqi squeaked and shook the chair, enthusiastically let Bai Qiao, Bai Qiao looked at him, looked here, looked there, weighed, picked a chair farthest away from Ruan Qi, and pulled the chair back before sitting down.
"What do you mean?" Ruan Qiqi said that he was talking to Bai Qiao, but he looked at Lu Yi.
Lu Yi smiled, "I reminded General Bai a few words. β
Guo Sheng chuckled, pulled a chair and sat down, and said with Bai Qiao: "You didn't see it, it's a pity, don't say it, it's really ......."
Guo Sheng glanced at Ruan Seventeen, who was crossing everyone one by one.
Bai Qiao arched his hand at Ruan Seventeen, "If you can hold it down, you can still be idle at this time, on this one, I admire you, it's not simple." β
Jin Cunyan put everyone's wine jugs next to each person, and while passing the cups one by one, he smiled and said: "I also admire it very much, if you don't accept it, you and the prince heard General Lu talk about this, just a few words, the prince sprayed a sip of tea on the table, I almost spit it out, and it took my true qi to suppress it." By the way, the prince rewarded a lot of good soap beans from your house, did you use it? β
"Look at the moonlight today, how good, this ginkgo tree is good, male and female? This wine is good, what do you drink? You taste this, it's better than lychee wine. Ruan Qiqi raised his voice, first praised the moonlight and then let Lu Yi drink.
Jin Cunyan laughed, Bai Qiao also laughed non-stop, Lu Yi raised his glass and signaled Ruan Seventeen, what he drank was Xiangxue wine, Guo Sheng waved everyone, "Peanuts can be eaten, you can't say it anymore, otherwise you will be sorry for this peanut, this peanut is really good, you can taste it." β
Guo Sheng pinched a peanut, threw it a few times in his hand, quickly peeled it off, kneaded off the skin and threw it into his mouth, his mouth was full of fragrant aroma and then took a sip of hot champion red, exhaled comfortably, and waved his hand to signal everyone to taste it.
Lu Yi and Jin Cunyan are familiar with eating peanuts, Ruan Qiqi is proficient in these things at a glance, picked a peanut, threw it back and forth with both hands a few times, peeled it off and threw it into his mouth, and then took a sip of wine, his comfortable eyebrows and eyes moved, "Oh, it's really enjoyable!" β
Bai Qiao also took a peanut, threw it on his clothes with a hot hand, picked it up again, peeled it off, and didn't even have time to rub the peanut coat, so he threw it into his mouth, and then took a sip of wine, his eyebrows raised, "This must be Lao Guo's way of eating, the wine is mellow and peanut fragrant." β
"It's really not my method, this is what I learned from Uncle Xu." Guo Sheng picked peanuts, peeled peanuts, ate peanuts, and drank wine, extremely happy and comfortable.
"Mr. Xu?" Bai Qiao was a little surprised, Mr. Xu is such an elegant person, shouldn't he enjoy the plum and snow if he wants to drink.
"Uncle Xu is really a rare elegant person." Ruan Qiqi hurriedly praised him, and his impression of his Uncle Xu was very good at this time.
Jin Cunyan laughed, looked at Ruan Qiqi, and swallowed back what he wanted to say, forget it, the lady of the Chen family who has a seal, thinking that he is measured.
After gossiping for a while, Guo Sheng looked at Bai Qiao and asked, "Sister Nan'er is okay?" β
"Hmm." As soon as he said something, Bai Qiao, who was smiling, smiled with a smile that curled up.
"I said, let's get married, my brother Yan'er, what do you think? Smart and clever, sensible and courteous, beautiful and heroic, to have good looks, to be talented and talented, to have a family background, by the way, in the future, it will definitely be gentle and considerate, not to mention the first one in the capital, it is almost the same, and it is not easy to find a lantern. Ruan Qiqi immediately answered.
Jin Cunyan choked on a sip of wine and coughed violently, Guo Sheng turned around violently, and a sip of wine finally didn't spray on the red clay stove, Lu Yi was calm, and only pouted at Ruan Seventeen, this is how he praised himself back then.
"Don't." Bai Qiao's face was speechless, "I can't look at it." β
"You see that you don't want to be like this, or like this, from tomorrow, I will send Brother Yan to you every other day for a day, and you will come to train, how about it? What kind of son-in-law do you want, you can teach him what he is, you can rest assured, your son-in-law, I don't care what you teach, Maomao's mother must think that you teach better than me, you can rest assured and bold and only discipline, how about it? That's all right, right? "Ruan Seventeen is really generous and considerate.
At this time, even Lu Yi choked, Bai Qiao's upper body leaned back hard, and waved his hand again and again, looking like he couldn't get rid of it if he was afraid of getting it, "Don't!" β
"Look at you." Ruan Qiqi waved his hand, "Okay, okay, let's not talk about it first, this matter has to be considered in the long run." β
"Don't mess with your sister's idea." Bai Qiao's expression was solemn, "My sister was going to marry into the Su family, but Daddy and Auntie didn't take a fancy to the Su family, not for anything else, just because the Su family was in the mud." Our Bai family has never been contaminated with this kind of thing, and A-Niang also said a sentence before, when Sister Nan'er grows up, she will choose a family like the Mizhou historian. β
Bai Qiao's sister Bai Xiang married into the Mizhou historian.
"How to raise my sister, have you thought about it? Do you want to practice martial arts? Lu Yi looked at Bai Qiao and asked vaguely.
Bai Qiao lowered his eyelids, "A-Niang doesn't want her to practice martial arts, but I think ...... Let's talk about it. β
Guo Sheng, Jin Cunyan and Ruan Qiqi were all confused.
"What do you mean? What's wrong with whether you practice martial arts or not? Ruan Qiqi asked unceremoniously and unobtrusively.
"It's nothing ......" Lu Yi didn't finish his words, and was interrupted by Bai Qiao, "There is nothing that can't be said, there are many rules in our family, one of which is that the concubine and the concubine can't be the same upbringing, if it's a concubine, you have to be sent to the clan in life, you can't grow up at home, you don't practice martial arts, you can't be surnamed Bai, you are all with your mother's surname." The concubine was raised at home, like ordinary people, learning needlework, not practicing martial arts, nor being educated like the men of the Bai family, Sister Xiang had never practiced martial arts, and grew up in the inner house with A-Niang. β
"Then you don't have to take a concubine." Ruan Seventeen answered.
"I don't know why we don't just don't allow concubines, but because of this, our family rarely takes concubines."
"No wonder people are thin." Guo Sheng poured a glass of wine for Bai Qiao, "If you let the child take care of her upbringing, it will be too wronged for her." β
"I think so too." Lu Yi answered.
Jin Chuyan nodded, Ruan Qiqi looked at everyone one by one, and then looked at Bai Qiao.
"A-Niang is still sick." Bai Qiao hung his head and slurred, "Let's say this first, the rules of my family...... Don't talk about that. β
"Mrs. Wang is sick? I didn't know. Lu Yi was surprised.
"I don't want people to know, please ask the doctor to quietly enter the back door and exit the back door." Bai Qiao took a sip of wine, "A-Niang said it several times, saying that if it weren't for my sister's upbringing like a boy since she was a child, she would have to make her own decisions about everything, and she wouldn't have married into the Su family in the first place, and she wouldn't have ......" Bai Qiao's throat choked.
Guo Sheng sighed.
"When I'm alone, I often think that if I let my sister choose by herself, would she be willing to be like her or like Ah Xiang."
"What about you?" Guo Sheng stirred the fire and glanced at Bai Qiao, "You Bai family men, you died in battle at a young age, I heard a lot, are you willing to be like a concubine...... Like the children of ordinary people, reading and writing, or are you willing to be like now? Your sister grew up as a boy, and what she thinks and thinks must be like a boy, just think about yourself. β
"Hmm." Lu Yi nodded, "I think so too." β
"People don't live to live long, at least I live, not to live long." Bai Qiao turned the cup in his hand, "Since I was a child, my sister and I have been very able to talk, alas! Bai Qiao sighed, "If Sister Nan'er grows up like Ah Xiang, my sister will probably be very unhappy." β
"That's it!" Ruan Qiqi raised his glass to Bai Qiao, "This person is alive, the head is the same, agreeable!" You can't be the master of what you want to eat, you can't be the master of what you want to wear, you can't be the master of what you want to do, who you want to marry, who you want to marry can't be the master, this life is not the same as the finches raised by others? So what's the point? β
Bai Qiao leaned at Ruan Seventeen and snorted.
Ruan Qiqi's smile was very modest and kind, "Your sister is about the same age as our family Maomao, this child has to have a few friends to grow up with, and there will be a helper in the future fight, Ming'er, I will let Maomao and her mother take Maomao to your house to play with your sister, by the way, take a look at Mrs. Jiang, Maomao and her mother can talk to your mother, Maomao and her mother are the most persuasive, let Maomao and her mother enlighten and enlighten your mother, the heart is clear, and it is stronger than any medicine." β
Jin Cunyan smiled and pointed at Bai Qiao, "I can remind you, this, you have to guard against it, there are many tricks......"
"But Seventeen is right, a child has to have a few friends to grow up with. If I hadn't had a rock, I don't know how many times I would have died. Guo Sheng laughed and raised his hand to pat Ruan Seventeen.
"No, you don't! There are many friends, and you don't need your family! Bai Qiao stared at Ruan Seventeen with a wary face, and flatly refused, "You don't have to make up your mind!" β
"Look where you want to go!" Ruan Qiqi had a good temper on his face, "Forget it, let's talk about it later, come and come, drink and drink, Fugui This wine is really good, after drinking Shaoxing Xiangxue wine for so many years, this taste is the most mellow." β
A few people changed the topic and talked about the wine in various places.
Until midnight, several jars of wine were drunk, and the sound of the third watch came from afar, and everyone got up and went back.
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