14. Business as usual and daily
The banquet of the four lasted until late at night, and everyone understood that he was young and not strong enough to drink, and he had to read to Lang Jun tomorrow, so he did not force him to drink more. So when the three of them were drunk and unconscious, Li Zhongming helped them to the bed one by one to rest.
On the second day, Li Zhongming followed his previous routine, practiced exercises, archery, and read. After the end, the three of them prepared green salt and towels, and then soaked the honey water for hangover. When the time was almost up, he woke up the three of them one by one, asked them to drink honey water, wash and tidy up their appearance. Seeing that the three of them had completely woken up from their hangover, Li Zhongming was relieved to get up and go to the target courtyard to accompany Lang Jun to shoot arrows to strengthen his body.
"Whoosh", the sound of the bow and arrow hitting the target, Gu Lingqing kept shooting the feather arrows, and soon a pot of arrows was finished.
Seeing that Gu Lingqing was going to continue to shoot arrows, Li Zhongming hurriedly persuaded, "Son, let's rest, it's too late." Today, you're shooting several times more than usual. You still have to focus on your body, otherwise the lord and the eldest lady will worry about you. ”
Gu Lingqing put down the bow and arrow in his hand, and said to Li Zhongming with a calm face: "Zhongming, am I useless?" As the eldest son of the Gu family, he can't stand up in times of crisis and protect the glory of the Gu family."
"Childe, you're thinking too much. How can you be so arrogant, and when did Mr. Juuchi not praise you for your hard work and solid studies. Didn't the gentleman say that? You will definitely be named on the gold list in the future, and when the time comes, you will not only add glory to the Gu family, but also be able to protect the lintel. It's just that the ruler is short, the person is long, and you just aren't interested in these martial arts. Li Zhongming persuaded again and again. After speaking, he quietly glanced at Gu Lingqing's face, and found that he was gradually returning to normal, knowing his words, Gongzi had already listened to them.
After dismantling his son-in-law, Li Zhongming followed Gu Lingqing's habit on weekdays, ate breakfast with him, and continued to perform the ministry of accompanying the study.
In the classroom, the master was talking about the meaning of the scriptures, and everyone in the hall listened attentively. When encountering difficulties and incomprehensions, you can ask difficult questions in the court, and Master Zhan will also solve doubts as in the past.
In short, in the busy study, everyone's attention has been diverted from yesterday's twists and turns. Even Gu Lingze seemed to have forgotten the pain in his buttocks and tried hard to make his own notes.
The waves set off by the long river of time are always rare, and it is the majority when it flows quietly. And people in the world will always be easy to forget the past, after all, the present and future days are more troublesome and expected.
But Li Zhongming is very comfortable and relieved about the current life, because he knows that for these poor families, what they like the most and look forward to the most is such an ordinary, ordinary life. Although they were inevitably poor and toiling, the family was able to reunite, get food and clothing, and earn a living. In the magnificent days, it is not only difficult for these vulnerable groups to seek food and drink, but also easy to leave their families, and finally have to live in misery.
As he spent a long time in the Gu Mansion, Li Zhongming also knew more about the situation in the Mansion.
The owner of the mansion is busy with business all day long, and rarely interferes in the management of the affairs of the mansion. On weekdays, it is handed over to the eldest lady. However, there is also a special place, because she is particularly fond of the Qin family, and her courtyard is self-determined, which makes the eldest lady's face damaged, and she is widely ridiculed and circulated among the upper class people in the state city. Therefore, the eldest lady and the Qin family are incompatible, although they have repeatedly found reasons and complained about the situation, but they are often placed eccentricly by the situation, which also makes her helpless, so she has to turn a blind eye to some things.
And the Qin family, with his pretty appearance, soft posture, and clever words, while taking care of the situation alone, he also developed the habit of arrogance. Everything always has to compete with the eldest lady, so there will always be some noise in the house from time to time, and it is always not quiet. In addition, although she is pregnant with two sons, she loves her son Gu Lingze alone. not only sees him as all his hopes, but also cleans up the mess for him by not distinguishing between right and wrong.
This also made Gu Lingze spoiled by the Qin family, not only was his academic talent inferior to Gu Lingqing, but he was often pretentious, and his reading was not as hard, persistent, and specialized in study. Therefore, in his study, he always fishes for three days and dries his nets for two days. On the contrary, in the outing with the children of the rich families in the state, he began to get infected with all kinds of vices, and would always sneak out of the house, spend all day drinking, laughing and hunting. Even in the house, he always messes with the maids and maids in his courtyard.
Even his sister was affected by the atmosphere in the Qin Clan's courtyard. Originally, Gu Ruixin should be regarded as the most outstanding among the children of Gu Guo, and she was born smart and precocious, and she was very talented in learning. Even the old lady of Gu Mansion, who had not been doing anything for a long time, said that if he was a man, as long as he needed to be taught well, there would definitely be one more Jinshilang in the house, and even one more champion. It's a pity that she was taught by her mother to be a high-minded, hypocritical and selfish beautiful girl.
For the Lingqing son under the knee of the eldest lady, Li Zhongming feels that he is a real Confucian scholar, who is hard at work, very square and flexible. In short, he is a sincere and honest gentleman.
Gu Lingqing also has a mother's sister Gu Ronghua, because she has to prepare for marriage, she usually can't see her as often as other sons and girls. She usually learns etiquette rules and female crafts from the old lady in the backyard. But through the conversation between the sons and girls, I can feel that she should be a dignified and beautiful woman with the demeanor of the eldest sister.
The rest is the Han family in the house, I heard that she is a wandering official lady, who was given to her by Gu Gu when she was at a banquet with Shangguan. However, such a woman who had experienced a rough time not only could read poetry and books, but was also very kind to her servants. The servants all said that Aunt Han was kind, never cared about small things, and only took care of big things, and could understand the difficulties of others. Therefore, the people in her courtyard were not only the most loyal, but also very conversational.
And she only has one daughter, Gu Xuejian, this third girl has a very low sense of presence in the house, and her appearance is not the most amazing among the children of Gu Guo, but she is also bright and beautiful, she is always unhurried, never pushes the limelight, and never talks nonsense, but she is a wise and beautiful woman. Perhaps she knew that she and her mother were not valued by the situation, so she always planted flowers and grass with her mother and handmaidens in her small courtyard every day, studied female workers, and never went out to feast. In addition, she will often serve in the old master's courtyard.
It can be said that among the girls of Gu Mansion, Li Zhongming has the most contact with Gu Lingqing and is the most familiar. After all, he is Gu Lingqing's companion, and he must accompany and serve at all times. In addition, both of them read and love books, and they have the same interests, so their relationship is relatively close.
and Gu Lingze and Gu Ruixin, they have to be a little rusty, they are too busy with socializing, drinking and feasting to have enough time, where do they have the time to pay attention to a little person like Li Zhongming; And the other is a self-proclaimed noble girl, Miss Shiyin, who will not look at a servant like Li Zhongming.
However, there is also Gu Xuejian and he are quite familiar with each other, which is also when learning calligraphy in the school, Master Zhan always rated Gu Xuejian as the worst, and under several repeated teachings, there was always no progress, so he gave up criticizing her education. However, in the face of the discussion and ridicule of her siblings and servants everywhere in private, she became stubborn. After Master Zhan no longer had hope for her, he handed over the errand of guiding calligraphy to Li Zhongming. Therefore, during the break time in the school, when there were few people, she would always ask Li Zhongming for advice from time to time. Therefore, after a long time, the two sides became acquainted.
In addition to these service hours, Li Zhongming gets along with Zhang Jiaoxi a little more, after all, in addition to studying, he also has to learn riding skills and swordsmanship, and he also practices archery from time to time, so the relationship with Zhang Jiaoxi is also more familiar.
Even if he had more contact with Lu San's steward, it turned out that he had studied a lot, and coupled with horsemanship, archery, and sword learning, it was extremely physically demanding, so Li Zhongming often had to add a meal to the kitchen. Although he will make money every time, it will also cost people. In this way, you have to deal with Lu San often. After a long time, the relationship will naturally become intimate.
There is also the one who is most familiar with Gu San, after all, they have the earliest contact, and Li Zhongming always asks him to reply to the letter with something, even if he always gives Gu San hard money. But there are many times, and there is friendship. And sometimes Gu San would ask him for advice and advice on some trivial matters, and let him give some advice.
In general, compared with when he first entered the house, Li Zhongming is also busier, has more friends, and grows faster. Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, Li Zhongming cherishes every moment and takes every moment seriously, so that he will not regret it or regret it.