The Li family's house is not big, there are only three entrances before and after, the walls are newly painted, the roof tiles also have traces of recent repairs, and the trees planted in the corner of the courtyard are too short and small, apparently only planted for less than half a year.

Because the house is small, after entering the gate, passing by a row house, I went directly to the second gate. This is already an inner house. Mrs. Li took Wen Yi into the main room and sat down, and asked people to serve tea and add braziers. There are only four maid rings who do the work, the body is strong, but the movements are very neat, although the appearance is mediocre, but the red face is a little delicate. Wen Yi felt that they didn't look like the capital or the common southern women, so she took a few more looks.

Seeing this, Mrs. Li smiled and said: "These are all brought back by me from the north, and they are all neatly done by the maids of the capital, all of them are delicate, how can any girl from the border city be capable?" Seeing that the maids had finished serving tea and adding braziers, he ordered: "Miss Cousin has brought a few people, please go down and entertain some tea and snacks, go out on a cold day, don't catch a cold." Let the kitchen boil a pot of thick ginger soup and bring it up"

The girls responded loudly, and enthusiastically pulled Mama Zhao and Dong Kui and others down. Wen Yi was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, she hurriedly thanked Mrs. Li. Mrs. Li waved her hand and motioned for her to drink a bowl of strong tea first, and her little face became rosy, so she put her mind at ease and got down to business: "I've heard Mama Zhao mention it, you tell me again in detail, what's going on?" ”

Wen Yi's heart was warm and coaxing, and she naturally told what happened. Mrs. Li sneered when she heard this: "Those people in your long room are so calculating. So it's to keep your sister's marriage, so I don't care about you? ”

Wen Yi nodded, and said with some hesitation: "Don't hide it from your cousin, Brother Liu...... I have seen it, and I know about his family, although he is a descendant, but because of the death of his parents, he has been raised by Uncle Liu since he was a child, but the relationship is not close. I guess that the Liu family's marriage arrangement for him was under the pretext of not letting him get the help of his wife. That's the case on my side, the family business I'm talking about now...... That's also true. It's just that his Geng post has been sent over, and the eight characters have also been combined, and this time he said that he wanted to change the hexagram, and I couldn't bear it."

Mrs. Li raised her eyebrows and said, "This Liu family is too hateful, it was hateful when I told you about it, and now it is even more hateful" After saying this, she sighed slightly: "Don't worry, this matter will be handed over to the relatives that my Liu family is looking for now, and it is the daughter of a military attaché, right?" It was left by the former Yuan, but now that his father has married his stepfamily, he is not very popular at home? Although I don't know which family it is, there are not many military attaches who lost their wives and remarried and gave birth to a daughter, and the official position that can be favored by that Lord Liu must not be too high. When I ask someone to inquire, if they know it, I naturally have to persuade them not to respond, if they don't recognize it, I ask someone I know to go over, and I have to stop it......"

Wen Yi was stunned when she heard this, and after slowly understanding the meaning of Mrs. Li's words, she began to rejoice, and it seemed to be a correct decision to choose the Li family for help.

Then he spoke for a while, and the daughter-in-law outside the door came to report: "Miss is here." ”

Mrs. Li hurriedly said: "This is my eldest daughter Chunxi, one year older than you, and a younger son named Dongrui, who is almost thirteen years old, and is messing around outside now, I'm afraid I won't come back until the evening." You can play with Chunxi in the next few days, don't think too much. ”

Wen Yi responded, and saw the curtain of the door lifted, and a tall girl walked in. He looks a little cold and cold, his complexion is as white as snow, his eyebrows and eyes are slender, and even his lip color seems to be a little lighter than others. She came forward, first greeted her mother, and then turned to Wen Yi: "I just heard that there is a guest coming, is it this cousin of the Gu family?" My cousin was polite. Even his voice was cold.

Wen Yi hurriedly returned the salute, calling her "sister of the Li family", but she was thinking in her heart, how could her cousin and aunt give birth to a daughter when she looked like a kind person, but she had an icy and snowy temperament? I took another name called Chunxi, and there was warmth between the lines. She began to worry that this cousin was not getting along.

Everyone sat down and talked for a while, Wen Yi listened to Li Chunxi say a few words, and slowly put her mind at ease. Li Chunxi has a cold temperament and a cold voice, but there is no arrogance in and out of his words, between his eyebrows and eyes, probably just because of his temperament, he is not a difficult person to get along with. Wen Yi asked a few questions, and found that she usually likes to read some miscellaneous studies such as mountain geography and the art of war. As a tiger girl, she can also ride and shoot martial arts, and when she was in the north, she didn't take her younger brother out on a safari, because Deputy Commander Li was busy with official business, and Li Dongrui's riding skills and archery skills were even taught by her sister herself. Wen Yi couldn't help but be in awe.

Li Chunxi didn't care: "Huaicheng is just a good thing, when I was a child, my father was stationed in Beiwangcheng for a few years, and he took my mother and me with him." Everyone in the city, from the eighty-year-old lady to the three-year-old child, practiced martial arts, and if an enemy attacked, everyone could kill the enemy. I was six years old at the time, and I could carry a kitchen knife and whip, so I naturally had to learn something. My brother's martial arts were originally taught by my father, but my father was sometimes so busy that he didn't even have time to eat, and he couldn't leave his younger brother alone, so I had to do it for me. This is a very common thing in Beiwang City. ”

Mrs. Li also smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "Isn't it? Don't look at your cousin's appearance now, she also learned some kung fu in those years, and she can ride a horse and shoot arrows, but she is not as strong as your sister. ”

Wen Yi asked with some curiosity: "In the border city...... Are all women like that? All the female dependents of the soldier's family have to practice martial arts? ”

Mrs. Li said with a smile: "I can learn the best, I really don't have talent, but I have also trained my body and bones to be strong, and I have the strength to work, even if I can't go into battle to kill the enemy, I can cook and chop wood and laundry in the rear, take care of the wounded soldiers, and fight the enemy." But this is the old emperor's calendar, now the frontier has been peaceful for many years, and the people there have a much easier life, Beiwangcheng because it is an important town in the frontier, and this custom, like the Huaicheng area, has long been not particular about this. ”

Wen Yi blinked, hesitated for a while, and then said: "It's not a secret, although I don't know how to ride and shoot, I have long wanted to learn it, but I don't have a chance." Yesterday, I was a guest at the Dongyang Marquis Mansion, and I met the Huguo Mansion and several young ladies from the General's Mansion, and they made an appointment to compete in archery in one place, so they pulled me in. So I begged them to teach me first, and they answered, but I couldn't go to my house every day to ask for advice. Now that I have listened to Sister Li's words, it seems that it has been a long drought and a rainy day, I wonder if my sister is willing to accept me as a student? ”

Li Chunxi raised his eyebrows: "Do you really want to learn, or do you just want to understand some fur so that you can deal with those young ladies?" If you just learn a little fur, it's very easy, an ordinary girl in our family can teach you, if you really want to learn skills, I'm afraid you won't be able to endure that hardship."

Wen Yi said with a smile: "If you want to learn, you don't have to learn only the truth of the false shelf, naturally you have to learn the real skills." Sister Mo is the delicate daughter who can't endure hardships, although I can't compare to you, my body is still strong. ”

Mrs. Li smiled and pinched her arm, and said happily, "Huh? I really can't see it outside, it's really not soft, can it be that you have also learned martial arts? ”

"I haven't learned martial arts." Wen Yi replied, "It's just that there are only me and my grandmother in the family, and I only added a small dd a few months ago, and there are several Zhuangzi in the family, and my grandmother is too old to go out to check. Since I was a child, I have been walking all over the mountains and fields, and my legs and feet are not weak. Besides, I knew an old doctor who taught my grandmother a set of healthy boxing techniques, because my grandmother was skeptical at first, and she didn't look good, so she refused to practice, so I learned it first, and then pulled my grandmother to practice together. So I was stronger than the other sisters in the family. ”

Mrs. Li sighed, "This is really rare. A girl from a famous family like you, which one of you doesn't go out of the gate, doesn't take the second door, and refuses to take one more step? But you have to do this, it's really hard for you. He sighed again for what happened to Mrs. Lu.

Li Chunxi didn't think about it so much, just looked Wen Yi up and down, and raised his head: "In this case, just give it a try, but you have to think about it in your heart, I teach people very strictly."

Wen Yi said: "This is nature, only a strict master can produce a high apprentice." ”

Li Chunxi raised his eyebrows and didn't say anything. After the tea was finished, Mrs. Li wanted to send someone to run errands, so she took Wen Yi to the backyard. It turned out that the second courtyard was the living place of Mrs. Li and his wife, Li Dongrui also lived in the east wing, but the backyard was Li Chunxi's residence. A row of five houses, all of which are blue tiles and white walls, are very neat, there are two arrow targets in the courtyard, and there are weapon racks against the wall, which is the place where the Li family sisters and brothers practice martial arts on weekdays.

Li Chunxi also felt that it was insufficient: "The house in the capital is small, and it is impossible to set up a martial arts training ground at home like in Huaicheng. Now I have to go out of the city on horseback, and I'm really troublesome."

Wen Yi blinked, admiring in her heart, but quickly put the thought aside. Li Chunxi was really a strict teacher, because he knew that Wen Yi had no foundation, so he asked her to learn to draw the bow three hundred times first, and she had to finish it before lunch.

Although Wen Yi is more powerful than ordinary boudoir women, after all, she has never learned martial arts, how can she practice so fiercely, and she is very unbearable, seeing Li Chunxi's brows furrowed, and in the end, it was Mrs. Li who came to persuade her, so she relented and allowed Wen Yi to complete this number within today, but from tomorrow, she will have to do so many exercises every day, and wait until ten days later, and then go to the target.

Wen Yi practiced so hard that she couldn't lift her hands, Zhao Mama Dong Kui and the others were distressed, and hurriedly persuaded her not to learn anymore, and those daughters agreed to teach her, so why do you have to ask Miss Li for advice? Mama Zhao also complained secretly: "This Miss Cousin of the Li family, looking at a girl from Si Swenwen, how can she be so impertinent? ”

"Mama can't say that." Wen Yi hurriedly said, "What she warned me about a long time ago was that I insisted on learning. Since I have made a promise, I have to stick to it to the end, Sister Li will teach strictly for my good."

"But ......"

"Mama, don't say any more." Wen Yi interrupted her, "Sister Li is also well-intentioned, you can't blame her." If you really feel sorry for me, you want to ask the servants of the Li family about it, is there any bone-setting medicine that works? Their family is all skilled in martial arts, so there must be this. ”

Mama Zhao reluctantly answered, and then heard Li Chunxi's cold voice outside: "You are a good person" The curtain was lifted, and the latter walked in, holding a blue porcelain bottle in his hand: "This is my family's own medicinal wine, you wipe it before going to bed tonight, and you will know the benefits tomorrow" After that, he put the bottle on the table, glanced at Mama Zhao, and turned around and went out.

Mama Zhao rolled her eyes angrily, Wen Yi comforted her funny, picked up the bottle and opened it to smell, a medicinal fragrance came to her nose, she immediately smelled several medicinal herbs that reduce swelling and nourish bones, thinking of Li Chunxi's words, a faint smile appeared on her face.

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