Shen Muqing smiled and returned the salute.

The maids brought a small pestle to sit on the big house, and Li asked the big house a few words, such as "whether you eat well", "sleep well", "remember to dress when it's cold" and so on.

Dashe spoke very clearly, and responded to Li's questions in a clear manner, Aunt Chen served with a smile, serving tea and snacks from time to time, and the room gradually had a warm taste of joy.

Li seemed to like this atmosphere as well, and she rarely stayed in the house for breakfast.

The maid's daughter-in-law next to her listened to it and was busy delivering a message to the kitchen. After a while, the rough mother-in-law moved the Peng Ya square table and placed it in front of Li's bed. First put on the osmanthus hot sauce mustard, purple fragrant dry, coriander, oil cucumber four small plates, and then on the spice sauce chicken, salted water loin, red oil duck, spicy strips, osmanthus sauce chicken, tomato water chestnut, braised straw mushroom, pepper oil white fungus eight plates, and then on two large plates of sauce meat lotus roll and walnut melon seed chicken cake, all with white inside and outside pastel disk.

Orange Xiang served three cups of Ma Nai seeds boiled in ghee and white sugar, one each of Li's, Shen Muqing and Dashe, drank it, and gave Li's wolfberry lily wheat winter porridge, Shen Muqing cooked vegetarian porridge in August white, and yam mutton porridge to Dashe.

The maids stood aside with gargles and towels, and Aunt Chen stood at the head of Li's bed to help her make vegetables.

Li smiled and said, "You can sit down too—it's not someone else!" ”

Aunt Chen excused herself, and later saw that Li was sincere, so she sat on half of the small pestle, and when Orange Xiang saw it, she took Aunt Chen's place to serve Li for breakfast.

The eunuch's house, pay attention to "eat without speaking, sleep without speaking", everyone quietly ate breakfast, the rough mother-in-law came in and removed the table, the maids served tea, and Wang's mother came.

She is the same year as Lee, and her medium stature has been slightly fat. The round face is slightly powdered, and a pair of eyes with loose eyelids are blazing, solemn and capable.

Wang's mother was originally Li's roommate, and later married a steward of the Shen family. Now the husband and wife are in charge of the inner house and the outer courtyard, and they are the most decent servants of the Shen family.

With a smile on her face, she saluted the Li family, Shen Muqing, and Dashe, and said, "Madam, the red basket of charcoal has been sent." ”

The weather is cold in the north, and as soon as October, the kang, warm pavilion, brazier, and hand stove are used intermittently. The charcoal smoke on the market is big, and it smells, and it is nothing to burn the kang and warm the pavilion, but it is absolutely impossible to use it on this brazier and hand stove. At this time, people will be sent to the north to buy some red basket charcoal that cannot be smoked.

Li asked the maid Cui Wei to open the cabinet with purple purlin wood and gilt corners in front of the bed, took the red camellia carved lacquer box, and took the pair of cards to Wang's mother. Mother Wang took the pair of cards, but she was not in a hurry to leave, and said with a smile: "Lord Huang of Hanlin Academy will leave early tomorrow morning, and I will wrap a piece of Duan inkstone, four bags of bud tea, twelve towns and rice paper according to your instructions." Look, do you want to send some silver taels to make a ceremony? I heard that Lord Huang lives on all his money, and he has been in Beijing for seven or eight years, and his family is still ...... in Hainan."

Li Shi waved his hand: "Lord Huang is no better than others, and his temperament is a little stubborn, you just do what I ask!" ”

Mother Wang curtsied and respectfully answered "yes".

Shen Muqing saw that his mother was about to start handling housework, so he got up with a smile and said goodbye.

Li knew that Mr. Min's class was at the beginning of every morning, and said, "What time is it?" ”

Orange Xiang hurriedly went to the west to see the big clock on the floor, and came back and said, "There are still two quarters of an hour left at the beginning of the year." ”

Li Shi hurriedly said, "Then go quickly, be careful if you go late, it's always not good." After speaking, he instructed Li's mother, "You sent the girl to Mr. Min." ”

Mother Li is another housekeeper mother by Li's side, although she is not trusted by Li like Mother Wang, but she can be regarded as a favored person by Li's side.

Mother Li responded with a smile, Orange Xiang went to fetch Shen Muqing's cloak and served Shen Muqing to put it on. Li instructed Tian's mother to say a few words like "serve my brother carefully", Shen Muqing was in front, Dashe was behind, and the two people went out of Li's main house.

They went along the verandah to the hall, bypassed the interstitial screen of the purple purlin carved tooth Sanyang Kaitai in the middle of the hall, and faced the open hall on the top of the five intermittent hills, and the horizontal lintel of the open hall hung with three large gilt black lacquer plaques of "Chaoxi Hall". Under the plaque is a purple purlin with eight purple purlins inlaid with wenge ivory landscape screens, and the left and right side halls are placed by leaning against the powder wall with a Taishi chair, which looks spacious and sparse.

Out of the open hall, there is a large courtyard outside, and there are all kinds of towering trees on the left and right, and the front is a double-eaves dripping and hanging flower door. Out of the Hanging Flower Gate, one of them faced east and the other west, and they dispersed.

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The place where Shen Muqing took classes was called "Jingshun Zhai". It is a three-room main house, planted with green bamboo, which was originally Shen Zhen's study in the inner courtyard. After Mr. Min came to sit in the museum, Shen Zhen asked people to open a corner door, and personally carried a plaque of "chaste and quiet and supple", and rewarded it to Shen Muqing for reading.

The portrait of Confucius Zhang hangs in the middle hall of Jingshun Zhai, and the right couplet reads "Near Knowledge, Near Benevolence, Near Yong", and the left couplet reads "Xi Xian Xi Shengxi Tian". Under the portrait is a black lacquered square table with a tooth passion pattern, with pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and two books. On the left and right sides of the square table, there is a black lacquered marble heart Taishi chair, and under the chair is placed a foot stumbling.

That's where Mr. Min lectures.

The western room is a bookshelf against the wall, full of books.

In the middle of the east room and the hall is a four-fan Hanmei Ling stacked yarn painting screen, behind the screen is a black lacquer bookcase, on the desk are placed the four treasures of the study, behind the case is a Taishi chair, and a big red makeup satin cushion is placed. That was where Shen Muqing listened to the class.

When they arrived, Mr. Min had not yet arrived.

Shen Muqing took off his cloak under the service of Jinxiu, and sat on the Taishi chair in front of the bookcase behind the screen of the pile of yarn paintings, Luomei looked at the self-striking bell on the large kang bar in the window of the east room: "Girl, there is still a quarter of an hour left!" ”

Since it was still early, Shen Muqing picked up the "Analects" on the bookcase and began to review what he had talked about in the past few days.

Speaking of which, this Mr. Min is really a very individual person.

He has a single name of "Luan", the word is not mountain, born in the dynasty out of twenty-four people, seventeen Jinshi, six Xie Yuan, two Tanhua, one Bangyan, two champions of Zhoushan Min - it is said that the archway in front of their ancestral hall stretches for dozens of miles, is a scene in Zhejiang.

After arriving at Shen's house, Mr. Min began to enlighten Shen Muqing from the "Three Character Classic", and told her "Women's Commandments", "Women's Training", "Women's Internal Training", and "Filial Piety" according to Shen Zhen's requirements. On the contrary, he often did not do his job, and took the opportunity to instruct Shen Muqing to write, and asked Shen Zhen to discuss the paintings of famous artists collected by the Shen family in the past dynasties, so that Shen Muqing could come to Mo and tell her to paint. Among them, he is the most admired plum blossom, but Shen Muqing loves the peony of Bian Luan Xu Xi and others, Mr. Min saw it, and he was not reluctant, always laughing at Shen Muqing: "After all, it is a rich and noble family, and it loves to be lively......

He also taught Shen Mu Qingyin rhythm. Teach the piano first, Shen Muqing learned very seriously, but he was never able to connect Gongshang Jiao Huiyu with Dolai Mi's trembling, and the more Mr. Min talked about her, the more confused she became; Mr. Min had no choice but to change his religion to Xiao. She is small, her lung capacity is not enough, she whimpers, she can't find a tune, and it's uncomfortable to listen to; I changed the pipa again, and after a few years, it is no longer a problem to play a few minor tunes.

He also taught Shen Muqing to sing small songs, this Shen Muqing was most interested, but he didn't teach for two days, and he was known by the Li family, and of course there was no follow-up.

Among them, the most satisfying thing for Mr. Min is Shen Muqing's words.

The rules are upright, the size is lawful, the staggered is staggered, the elegance and beauty are full of thinness and handsomeness, Mr. Min praised and praised, and once specially showed it to Shen Zhen.

Shen Zhen was quite surprised: "It's only been ...... practice for five years"

Mr. Min was a little proud: "There is always a strength!" ”

Shen Zhen couldn't help laughing, with a look of honor between his eyebrows, but he said modestly: "Girls, spinning and sewing, making tea and cooking...... Piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, feel free to learn a little bit. ”

"Shiming, don't listen to Wang Shengyun's nonsense that 'a woman is virtuous if she is not talented'." Mr. Min shook his head again and again, "Women have no talent, how can they be reasonable, how can they be reasonable, how can they know loyalty, and if they don't know loyalty, how can they become a woman's virtue......"

This topic is a bit too far.

Shen Zhen hurriedly interrupted Mr. Min's words and said with a smile: "I see that Mu Qing's peonies are also well painted, why don't you draw a few and hang them in Chaoxi Hall?" ”

"The penmanship is still too tender, so it's better to hang a few words." Speaking of which, Mr. Min had regrets, "It's a pity that the girl has to learn acupuncture every afternoon, otherwise, you can follow me to learn "Sound Rhyme Enlightenment"...... Lest there be no words without connection! ”

Shen Zhen saw that his daughter, who was still staring at Mr. Min curiously with a pair of big eyes before, lowered her head when she heard this, pretending not to hear it, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl slightly, and said: "Beishan is a famous person in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is naturally good to be able to learn poetry and songs from you......

Lin Daiyu in the Dream of Red Mansions told Hongling that when she was learning to compose poetry, she once said: 100 poems of the five words of the king of the Maha Jie, 100 of the seven words of Lao Du, and 1200 of Li Qinglian's seven words quatrains...... But Shen Muqing didn't like endorsements the most, and when he heard Mr. Min say this, he couldn't help but look at Shen Zhen pitifully with his eyes.

Shen Zhen smiled and said, "But this also has to be a little talented...... I think it's better to study the Analects first, and then talk about ......"

Shen Muqing hurriedly nodded to Shen Zhen and made a gesture of gratitude.

When Shen Zhen saw it, he couldn't hold back a smile and greeted Mr. Min for a few words, and then said goodbye.

Mr. Min listened and looked disappointed. But he was still kind and flowing, and after he finished talking about the "Book of Filial Piety", he began to teach her the "Analects".