Chapter 10: To Each His Own
"Once everyone got together to drink again, one of them said to him, we have a palace of ten kings in Lingyang, and the palace has made many lifelike magistrates and other gods and goddesses in the palace with wooden sculptures, because there are always all kinds of strange sounds in the hall, and at night, no one dares to enter, if he dares to go to the temple to carry a wooden statue back, everyone will pool money together to invite his guests."
Zhu Erdan agreed, laughed and left, and that night, he really went to the palace of the ten kings and carried out a wooden statue of the judge......"
Fu Xuechen does not have the high-spirited tone of Mr. Storyteller, the story is full of twists and turns, and the ability to shake off the burden and exaggerate her facial expressions is immersive, she just uses daily chat-like sentences to tell the storyline she remembers.
However, classics are classics, the essence of the story of Liaozhai, even if it is simply retold again, it can also be listened to by the listener, Fu Yuchen listened casually with a dispensable attitude at the beginning, but he was hooked without listening to a few words, and his eyes widened and he was fascinated.
From the horror and shock of hearing the change of heart, to the excitement of changing his head, Fu Yuchen's reaction to the story was like riding a roller coaster - although he didn't know what a roller coaster was, this made Fu Xuechen have a good time.
It wasn't until Begonia knocked on the door and came in to pass the ceremony, and the dinner in the front yard was ready, that Fu Xuechen was able to finish the story, and was satisfied with Fu Yuchen's fascinated gaze, and returned to the front yard.
Dinner is a rare time for the Fu family to get together, as long as Fu Chuanyi, the owner of Jingbei Hou, is at home, there will be a banquet, and Fu Xuechen will not be absent in the past, but now "Fu Xuechen" has broken his leg, and he doesn't have to attend in the house.
Fu Xuechen just walked on the front foot, and Fu Yuchen on the back foot immediately asked the big girl Furong to find him a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, regardless of the pain in his legs, he sat down at the round table with difficulty, and copied it on the desk, and the dinner box sent in by the next person was pointed out by him and put aside.
He wanted to take advantage of the fact that his memory was still fresh, and quickly recorded the story of Lu Ju, he couldn't say, this story would be his from now on, thinking of the surging, he couldn't help but smile all over his face, and the corners of his mouth were almost behind his ears.
The dinner in the Fu Mansion is not extravagant, an old lady Fu, plus the Jingbei Hou couple, the concubine Fu Xuechen, and the fifteen-year-old eldest daughter Fu Rushuang, the five-year-old concubine Fu Ruzhen, and the concubine of the Jingbei Hou En, Aunt Wu of the Wu family, a table of seven people, is just eight dishes and one soup.
Although the Marquis of Jingbei does not have the problem of not eating and sleeping like a literati family, but because of his position in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, many court officials cannot disclose what they see and hear at will, so they don't talk much.
However, the wife of Jingbei Hou, Xie Shi, was in charge of Zhongkui, and inevitably faced many trivial problems in the family, so she always complained and discussed at the dinner table, and everyone was full of her voice for a while.
What Xie wants to focus on today is that Fu Chuanxi, a cousin of the Jingbei Hou clan who served as a river cao official in the southwest province, sent someone to send three carts of gifts to the Jingbei Hou Mansion, including fragrant rice and Shu brocade, which are special products in the southwest, as well as some rare calligraphy and paintings.
Everyone knows that the river channel Caoguan is fat and poor, rich in oil and water, but like Fu Chuanxi, he often gives gifts to his cousin, no matter how much Xie likes it in his heart, he is always worried that he will do something out of the ordinary in office, so these generous gifts will usually become a stumbling block for the Marquis of Lajing Beihou to go into the water when he has an accident, and he really has to guard against it, so every time he receives a gift, Xie has to say a few words and sigh a few times.
The Marquis of Jingbei frowned, only said that he knew, but he didn't take it to heart, he had just won the country not long ago, and he was still straightening out the order of officials under his rule, and many systems could only follow the old rules in a hurry, and the decay of the previous dynasty was well known, and following the old rules would produce additional oil and water.
Fu Chuanxi, a cousin, on his followers, obeys him, and knows how to be a person, so Jingbei Hou is not very worried that he will cause any irreparable trouble, and occasionally send a letter to the past to warn the other party of a few words.
The topic soon turned to Fu Xuechen's current selection of princes, Jingbei Hou asked, and Fu Xuechen said the general assessment process and results, but he only said that his literary examination results were excellent, and his martial arts examination results were above average, and he did not say that his poems were read by Ji Daxue on the spot.
Jingbei Hou asked Fu Yuchen's two competitors Cheng Defang and Xie Yucheng about their results, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "Play normally, I didn't pull my hips because of nervousness, this is very good!" It seems that this can be done most of the time. ”
Fu Xuechen passed the test smoothly on her father's side, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, she didn't know why her father was so sure, and felt that she was selected, which was a little strange.
You must know that Cheng Defang is very good at martial arts, Xie Yucheng is both civil and military, and even Zhang Chuyang seems to have won the attention of the six princes, her performance is not a little beyond these three people, she really doesn't understand, where is her own selection advantage?
But Jingbei Hou was not interested in saying deeply, like a riddler, he only said: "This is all the shadow of the ancestors." ”
According to the law of Darong, both men and women are sixteen years of age, women can marry, and men can do twenty crowns before they can start a family, so the prince lives in the palace before he is sixteen years old, and he can go out of the palace to live in another place when he is sixteen years old, and he can be crowned a king and a vassal when he is twenty.
Darong customs are not taboo women to show their heads, travel together, men and women are not so strict, so the underage princes will also take advantage of the morning and evening meals to take advantage of the opportunity to eat and drink in the morning and evening, only at noon because of school, need to be provided by the imperial dining room lunch.
In Yanning Palace, Concubine Xie slowly tasted the fragrant tea after the meal, and looked at the six princes with a doting smile.
Yu Zuo has just turned fifteen, and in another year, he will leave the palace to open the mansion, and the opportunity to stay in the palace day and night is becoming less and less, and the two mothers and sons cherish this opportunity to get together and eat together, and no one can stop the two from eating together without special circumstances.
Xie Guifei eats a small amount, and the sumptuous dinner on the table only tastes a little before it stops, but Yu Zuo is still in the long body period when he eats the poor old man in half of his size, but he can't stop when he starts eating, and no matter how elegant and noble his actions are, he can't hide the fact that he can eat a lot and eat for a long time.
Concubine Xie Guifei was not in a hurry or urging, and just took this opportunity to listen to her son gossip about the participation of a group of teenagers in the morning in the accompanying reading assessment.