Chapter 19: The Leftover Men of Ancient Times
Xuan Liu secretly pulled Xuan Wuyi and whispered: "She is such a confused character, don't you know it?" ”
Xia Ruixi listened to everything in his ears, turned his head and smiled: "What are you two brothers and sisters muttering behind my back?" "She doesn't want to have any cousins and cousins, the consequences of inbreeding are very scary, Xuan Wu just doesn't accept concubines, no matter how handsome she is to the sky, she doesn't have the courage to try. Happy to pretend to be dizzy.
The three of them arrived at the Hanlian Courtyard, and sure enough, the singing and opera in the front yard could be heard clearly. Hanlian Courtyard, as the name suggests, is naturally a large lotus pond, but in this winter, the residual lotus leaves are really nothing to look at.
Xuan Liu pointed to a pile of tall and ingenious Taihu Lake stones in the middle of the pool: "Do you see it, there is a small pavilion on it, it is really wonderful to enjoy the summer heat and lotus in it, and I will invite you to play when the time comes." ”
Xuan Wu smiled and said, "When is it? When the lotus blossoms bloom, you don't know where and with whom to enjoy the lotus. ”
Xuan Liu blushed and took a sip, Xia Ruixi estimated that she must be about to leave the cabinet. Sure enough, Xuan Liu said, "Don't you let me come back?" ”
A small guy ran over and saluted the three of them, and Xuan Liu asked, "Are you ready?" ”
The little servant replied: "It's ready, but when the little ones came, there was a distinguished guest in the pavilion, and this is not the inner courtyard, so it's not good to drive him away." When he saw the coals, he was very happy, and only asked which master was so attentive that he sent it to him. The little ones are getting harder and harder to speak. ”
Xuan Wuqi said: "Who is it?" How can you not listen to the drama and watch the excitement in the front yard, and run here to blow the cold wind? Still so self-inflicted? "A feast he had carefully prepared was actually disturbed by an uninteresting outsider, and his heart was extremely unhappy.
Xuan Liu paused: "Fifth brother, I don't care who he is, if you don't want to find a way to get rid of him and mess with our business, I won't follow you!" ”
Xia Ruixi knew that there were male guests, and they wanted to avoid suspicion, so he pulled Xuanliu: "Today is a good day for my uncle, and the guests are all coming to congratulate him, it's not good to offend." Let's not make a mess, let's go to our house another day, and be more free. ”
Xuan Liu said, "Do you have fresh deer breast at home?" ”
Xia Ruixi was stopped by her question, and Wan'er hurriedly smiled: "Sixth Miss, don't worry. As long as it can be bought, our lady will definitely find a way to buy it to make Young Master and Miss Cousin happy. "The Xia family is no poorer than her Xuan family.
Xuan Liu said: "Xixi, I'm not saying that your family doesn't have it, your family must be preparing for the New Year." But deer breasts are rare, and now they are sold short everywhere, and according to my aunt's temperament, we can't help but mess around. The fifth brother's theses were only obtained by special thoughts. Am I right? Fifth brother? ”
Xuan Wu soothed: "Don't make trouble, I'll see who it is." You wait here first. ”
The little guy said in a low voice: "The fifth young master doesn't need to go, it's Ou Sishao." ”
Xuan Wu was silent for a moment and scolded: "Dog minion, I won't reply to my words, I will swallow half of it." He thought in his heart, if it was Ou Sishao, it would be difficult to drive people away, so it would be better to change places as soon as possible.
As he was talking, a tall figure over there walked over slowly, stopped ten steps away from them, and hugged his fists: "Fifth Brother Xuan, I don't know how many people have disturbed their purity, so let's go." ”
Xuan Wu had to smile and say: "It turned out to be the fourth brother, who I said." It's all your own family, so you don't have to avoid suspicion, let's go up and taste tea and meat together, right? ”
Xia Ruixi sighed secretly, this Ou family is really everywhere. Having the intention to shirk, Xuan Liuzao smiled and said, "Fourth brother, it turned out to be you, you came out early and squeaked?" It made me worry and sad for a while. "That look, it can be seen that he is very familiar.
Xuan Liu explained to Xia Ruixi in a low voice: "Fourth Brother Ou came to our house to study with his father when he was very young, and his father and mother never regarded him as an outsider, and he knew us very well, but when he got older, men and women were different, so he slowly became separated." You don't have to worry, he's a gentleman, not a frivolous person. ”
Xia Ruixi still felt that it was inappropriate, and opened his mouth to excuse himself, but Ou Sishao said: "The second sister wants to leave when she sees me, do you still blame me?" ”
Xia Ruixi wants to say that there is a difference between men and women, but doesn't he think that saying it is tantamount to accusing Xuan Liu? Seeing that she was silent, Ou Sishao reluctantly smiled and said, "I'm still leaving." ”
Xia Ruixi raised his head and looked at Shang Xuanliu's begging gaze, "Second sister, I don't know when I will see you in the future, don't you spoil the fun, okay?" ”
Xuan Liu pushed Xia Ruixi hard, she had to step forward and bless, Ou Si Shao hurriedly smiled: "Is your injury better?" There are no after-effects, right? ”
Xia Ruixi felt that Ou Sishao seemed to be deliberately looking for something to say to her. "Xie Sishao cares, I'm fine." Because of this inexplicable and awkward relationship between the two, she was quite awkward.
Ou Sishao said: "That's good." The poem you did earlier is really good, I can't see that you are a woman, and you have such a lofty artistic conception. Although he was smiling, his eyes were faint, and no matter how he looked at it, he looked down on people.
Xia Ruixi laughed dryly, "Awards, awards, blessings to the soul." "But I thought in my heart, why can't I see a woman, you just said that you can't see you, a straw bag, a barbaric woman, you can still recognize words.
Ou Sishao said: "Even if it is blessed to the soul, it must also have that blessing." My mother rarely boasted. ”
Xia Ruixi thought to himself: "What do you mean by this? Do you have to say a word from your mother to praise you? Good luck? It's better to say that it is unlucky. But there was a dry smile on his face: "Ashamed, ashamed." ”
"You know each other?" Xuan Wu saw that the two of them kept talking, and even regretted that they didn't find another place at that time, so why did they choose this place.
Xuan Liu said with a smile: "They don't just know each other, but the dangerous ones become enemies." The fifth brother just went home, so naturally he didn't know the story. At the moment, the incident of the snow ball hurting people was described with oil and vinegar.
Xia Ruixi secretly rejoiced that the Ou family's door-to-door proposal had not yet come out, otherwise, shouldn't Xuan Liu write a bloody love script that gives birth to love because of hatred? Unconsciously, she was pulled by Xuan Liu, and she had already followed the footsteps of everyone and entered the pavilion together.
The pavilion was indeed as Xuan Wu described, with thick tweeds hanging around it, and only a window was opened in the place facing the stage. There are two or three braziers in the corner, all of which are fine silver charcoal, and there is no smoke at all, and the baking pavilion is as warm as spring, which is simply a comfortable and elegant private room.
What surprised Xia Ruixi the most was that the small table with a hollowed-out middle in the middle of the pavilion was no different from the barbecue tables she had seen in modern times. The table is made of rosewood, and the perimeter of the hollow is wrapped with silver sheets to prevent it from being baked by fire, and it is covered with copper wire mesh for roasting. Under the copper wire mesh, a copper charcoal basin about two or three inches high from the table top is propped up with a copper bracket, and the fire is not big or small, just for barbecue.
Four or five small brocade piers were scattered around the small barbecue table, and two or three fair-eyed girls were busy brushing the meat to be grilled with sesame oil and seasonings on another small table next to it. Xia Ruixi sighed, what is the difference between this and modern times? It can't be done by another time-traveler, right?
Several people sat around the table, continuing the topic of hurting people in the snow group just now, Xuan Wu shook his head and sighed: "Fourth brother, who are you helping to hold the tank this time?" ”
Ou Si smiled less and did not answer.
Xuan Liuqi said: "Could it be that it's not you?" What is rumored out there is all fake? I just said that Fourth Brother Ou is not that kind of person, how can he do such boring things. ”
Xia Ruixi said lightly: "We don't know each other, there is no injustice and no hatred, what did he do to hurt me inexplicably?" ”
"Who's that?" Xuan Liu was very curious.
Xia Ruixi shook his head: "I don't know." I didn't see clearly, I only heard a voice. I also want to know who it is, Ou Sishao can tell me who it is now, right? The next time I meet him, I'll take a detour. "Damn little thief, one day it will fall into her hands, and see that she doesn't knock his head ten or eight big bags.
Ou Sishao smiled faintly: "An ignorant child, why should you bother with him?" ”
Xia Ruixi sneered: "A seventeen-year-old man is still called a child? I just don't understand what I offended him. "In modern times, he is a big boy, but in this era, he is definitely an adult, and some of them are early, and they have children. He thought that everyone was like him, and he was not married at the age of twenty. Speaking of which, he can be regarded as a leftover man, and he is not much better than her, Xia Ruixi is very proud of his idea.
Ou Sishao looked at her strangely: "You really forgot everything?" ”
"Forget what? Could it be that I really have a grudge against him? ”
Ou Sishao said with a smile: "It is better to settle the grievances than to settle them, and it is good to forget about unpleasant things, or forget them." Anyway, looking at the appearance of the second sister now, that kind of thing will definitely not happen again. "Looking at his appearance, Miss Xia Er must have done something that everyone is angry about.
Xia Ruixi was so choked by his yin and yang weird appearance that he couldn't speak, and hatefully picked up the teacup in front of him that was only the size of an apricot and drank the tea inside. Xuan Liu slapped her distressedly: "Do you drink tea like this?" No wonder your aunt scolded you for not knowing elegance. Do you call this tea? It's called a cow drink! ”
Yes, she is Grandma Liu who entered the Grand View Garden, she has never seen the world, she doesn't know anything, and drinking tea is also called cow drinking. Xia Ruixi looked at Xuan Wu's smiling and hard work and Ou Sishao's mocking eyes, he was very depressed, his face was red, but he refused to admit defeat: "This teacup is so small, it's just the amount of one sip." Besides, who told you to mix tea with meat? Wine should be used. Tea, if it's with fruit, or with music. Do you blame me? ”
When she said this, several people here also felt that it was inappropriate. Xuan Liu said loudly: "Didn't you say you wanted to drink tea?" I'm not going to give it, I'm afraid you'll say I'm stingy. Besides, if we really sit here and drink, my aunt will know, and my fifth brother and I will be scolded, and I'm afraid you won't be allowed to play with us in the future. ”
Xia Ruixi was unforgiving: "Then you can't blame me." Good meat should be paired with good wine, and if there is no wine, it is not good to replace wine with tea. ”
Xuan Liu whispered: "Even if you really drink, your daughter's family can't use your drinking method, be gentle, and take small bites." Otherwise, people will laugh at you Luf, how faceless. The girls next to her tried their best to hold back their laughter.
Xia Ruixi simply spread his hands: "I'm not a Sven person in the first place, and you didn't know it on the first day." If you want me to pretend to be those sven, and laugh at me for being rude, I'll go. "She's not here to be angry or ridiculed.
Ou Sishao glanced at her, silently picked up the tea in front of him and drank it all in her way.
Xuan Wu also said: "I just like the character of the second sister." is generous and crisp, not pretentious and unpretentious, which is much better than many so-called famous ladies. Then he changed the subject: "The second sister is interested in this baking table?" ”
Xuan Wu's statement can be regarded as saying that Xia Ruixi is in her heart, she sees that this set of barbecue utensils is really exquisite, she can't put it down, and fantasizes that she will get such a thing in her Sydney Xiaozhu to try, and when it snows, I invited Mr. and Mrs. Xia and the little brother Xia Rui to roast and play comfortably, and you can also enhance your relationship. I was hesitating to ask who invented this table. Where did you buy it? I'm afraid that a few people will laugh at her for not knowing anything. Seeing that Xuan Wu took the initiative to ask her, she nodded hurriedly: "Yes, I don't seem to have seen it." It's really delicate and practical, and I'm thinking of asking you where to buy it, so I'll get one to play with. ”
Xuan Liu realized that he had just said the wrong thing, which made Xia Ruixi's heart unhappy. Hurriedly smiled and refilled Xia Ruixi's tea with his own hands: "Good sister, is it mine." If you like it, I will apologize to you, and I will give you a set. ”
Xia Ruixi shook his head: "How can you let the sixth sister break the bank?" Tell me where I bought it, and I'll just go buy a set. ”
Xuan Liu smiled and shook his head: "There is nothing to sell outside." ”