Hearing Shen Liang's words, Lin Daiyu figured it out: "It turns out that it's not just a matter of mutual affection, I thought it was ......."

Shen Liang likes Lin Daiyu's little confusion, Lin Daiyu has a high attainment in literature and is a natural female scholar, but because her mother died early and grew up with her father, she is much weaker in secular etiquette, on the one hand, because Lin Ruhai is busy with official business, and on the other hand, because men and women are different, there are some things, and the father really can't replace the mother's position.

Lin Daiyu asked curiously, "Did you really see the emperor?" What does the emperor look like, does he have a long beard, speak majesticly, and look old and scary? ”

Shen Liang shook his head with a smile and said: "How can this kind of thing be nonsense, let me tell you, the emperor is very young, only 30 years old this year, and he has a beard, but it is black, and it is only so long." ”

Lin Daiyu looked at Shen Liang and gestured a finger, and couldn't help laughing: "Then when you saw the emperor, were you nervous?" Will you be scared to pee your pants? ”

Shen Liang stinked and said: "Just kidding, my brother is a person who wants to do big things, I am not surprised at all when I see the emperor, and the emperor has no frame at all, he has a better attitude than my father, at least the emperor will not scold me for being a hindrance and a beast." ”

Poof—

Lin Daiyu really couldn't hold back, slapped Shen Liang's shoulder with a smile, and said, "How can you say this about your parents, your uncle's lesson is also for your good, have you forgotten what you were like before?" I have to eat the rouge on the mouths of other girls at every turn. ”

Shen Liang slapped his thigh, and there was a crisp sound of "pop-".

Lin Daiyu hurriedly asked him what was wrong, and Shen Liang asked solemnly, "Then have I ever eaten the rouge on your mouth before?" ”

After all, if he hadn't crossed over before, if Jia Baoyu took advantage, then he would have lost a lot, this is a kind of spiritual cleanliness.

Lin Daiyu wrinkled her little nose, waved her little fist and said, "Hmph! You think. ”

"It's good if you don't have it, it's good if you don't have Shen Liang patted his chest and let out a sigh of relief, "But, sister, can you tell me what rouge you wiped today?" ”

Lin Daiyu's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at him with eyes full of danger.

Seeing this, Shen Liang smiled and said, "Sister Lin, if you don't answer, I'll do it myself." ”

"Phew!" Lin Daiyu turned around and was about to leave, but her arm tightened, Shen Liang grabbed her arm and smiled: "Sister Lin, it's so late, where are you going?" ”

Walking out of Lin Daiyu's residence, Shen Liang touched his lips and said unsatisfactorily: "I didn't expect Sister Lin to like sweet tastes." ”

……

In 1641, on the eighth day of the first month of the 14th year of Longqian, a team of refugees rushed towards Gejia Village in the southwest of Shenjing City.

Ge Yuetai of Gejia Village is a big landowner, his family has tens of thousands of acres of land, because his ancestors have raised sons, passed the Jinshi, and later retired and returned to the village to raise it.

The Great Zhou Dynasty gave extremely preferential treatment to scholars, stipulating that anyone who won the promotion could enjoy the right to be exempted from taxation and servitude, which meant that the land under his name could be exempted from the imperial grain and national tax.

Therefore, many landlords and peasant households have attached their land to Ge Yuetai's home, and Ge Yuetai alone occupies more than half of the land in Gejia Village.

Ge Yuetai's family had so much grain that he couldn't eat it all, and he didn't take out the surplus grain to sell, but stored it in the cellar, waiting for the grain price to rise, and then transported it to the city in batches and sold it to merchants.

Ge Yuetai is a humble person and is also very kind to the tenants of the same village, and every year he will hold a feast on the New Year's Day, inviting the men, women and children of the village to eat pig-killing dishes.

The people in the village don't see meat once a year, but from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year every year, they can go to Ge Yuetai's house to eat and taste the white and attractive fatty slices.

No, as soon as the sky was bright, the men, women and children of Gejia Village brought their own dishes and chopsticks, ready to go to Ge Yuetai's house for a big meal.

When they think of the white rice and the bubbling meat soup in Ge Yuetai's house, these people's saliva is about to bubble out.

Ge Yuetai is 78 years old this year, but he is pampered all the year round, his body is still tough, with a white face and a long beard, a gray beard, and a brocade black robe, and he is in good spirits.

Those people from the same village who came to eat and drink together, when they saw Ge Yuetai, they all shouted: "Master Ge, you are auspicious."

Ge Yuetai nodded to them with a smile, touching his long beard and touching the little hand of the twelfth concubine who had just entered the door.

The kitchen in the back kitchen was so busy that the steam filled the room, making people almost unable to open their eyes.

A chubby woman directs the kitchen helpers to kill pigs, remove hair, bleed, and drain pigs.

She is the concubine's mother, Widow Liu, since her daughter married Ge Yuetai, Widow Liu, who was originally as thin as a bamboo pole, inflated like a balloon.

She is now the cook in Ge Yuetai's family, specializing in kitchen logistics.

"Give me a little cleverness, speed up, today is the big day of Master Ge, don't drop the chain for me, if anyone delays the happy event of the master, I will let him pack up the bed and get out!"

Widow Liu has a loud voice, and spit stars fly everywhere.

The cooks of several helpers glanced at each other, but they didn't dare to speak, and Widow Liu was very satisfied with the current situation.

Since her husband left, she has been pulling her four children alone, and she has no other livelihood but to face the loess with her back to the sky and dig in the soil.

Last year, the youngest daughter of her family didn't know what shit luck she had, so she was taken by Ge Yuetai and married into the mansion and became the twelfth aunt's wife.

One person ascended to heaven, and Widow Liu's family took advantage of the situation to live in the Ge family.

Her three sons are long-term workers in the Ge family, and they all have a monthly income of 500 Wen, and even she has 500 Wen a month.

Widow Liu has already calculated, and when she saves for another year, she will marry a daughter-in-law to her eldest son, after all, her eldest son will be thirty years old this year, in ancient times, he was already an old man, and if he didn't pass on the lineage, she would be sorry for the old Liu family.

Ge Yuetai is a jinshi of the former dynasty, an official to a member of the Ministry of Rites, and a Beijing official from the fourth grade.

In Shenjing City, just throwing a brick can kill a large number of people with an official position similar to Ge Yuetai, but in Gejia Village, Ge Yuetai is the only scorpion.

The people in the village all said that Ge Yuetai was a Wenqu star, and he followed Master Ge to mingle and have food.

Ge Yuetai looked at the endless stream of villagers with a smile, and suddenly heard a noise outside the gate, and when he went out, it turned out that a few people called Hanako who wanted to come in and rub white food, but were stopped at the door by the caretaker's nursing home.

A few Hanako don't know where they came from, they are not clothed, and the middle-aged Hanako led by them is only wearing a straw sandal, and the other foot is bare, and the toes are frozen purple, and the cracked mouth can't help but be yellow.

The other Hanako described it as even more miserable, their faces were as black as coal, and their hair had not been washed for a long time, all of which were cemented together, and the original shape could not be seen.

Menzi kicked a few flowers viciously, like driving away wild dogs.

Ge Yuetai shouted: "Since you are here, you are a guest, you can't be like this, come here, find a pair of shoes and socks for these little brothers, and then take some steamed buns and a bowl of meat slices soup to warm your body." ”

A few Hanako hurriedly kowtowed and thanked them, but they had no culture, and they would only say one sentence back and forth: "Thank you, thank you, thank you." ”

Other villagers praised each other, saying that Ge Yuetai is really a great benevolent person who is rare to see in a hundred years, and he will definitely be blessed like the East China Sea, longevity is better than Nanshan, blessing and descendants, and prolonging his life.

Ge Yuetai listened very happily, this person is old, he likes to listen to some auspicious words, what is it to spend a few dollars, anyway, he can't take it away when he dies.