The next day is February 12, and this day is Daiyu's birth.

Li Weijian is a foreign man, and it is not easy to enter the house to celebrate Daiyu's birthday, so he handed over the brass glass cover music box he bought yesterday to Qingwen, and sent Qingwen to Daiyu when he passed the hour.

Because Yan Xiyao instructed him yesterday, Li Weijian didn't dare to slack off, so he hurried out early. Walk through the road, through the hall, through the hall, to the left of the stable near Wu Haiping to lead the horses, the master and servant two out of the corner gate to hit the horse and rush to Yan Xiyao's house.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he got out of Ningrong Street, a carriage and horse came in front of him, and he saw that the shape was the carriage of Rongguofu. Li Weijian wondered in his heart, I don't know which one of the Rongguo Mansion returned from abroad early in the morning.

When he staggered by, he turned his head to pay attention. At this moment, the curtain on the window of the carriage was opened, revealing a small round face. Looking at the age of only eight or nine, the hair bun is black and shiny like Ugin, the small round face with a big palm, and a pair of eyes are clear and smart. glanced at Li Weijian, not only did he not dodge, but he swept over with great curiosity.

Staggered by, Li Weijian grabbed the lion jade under his crotch, couldn't help but turn his head to look, and saw the carriage driving into the Rongguo Mansion from the corner gate. He secretly thought to himself in his heart, this little girl was only afraid that it was Shi Xiangyun.

Wu Haiping, who was on the side, also stopped the big black horse, turned his head and glanced at it, and asked, "Childe?" ”

"Well, nothing." Li Weijian looked back and rode away: "Let's go, go to Yan's house first, maybe you can have a breakfast." ”

The master and servant went straight to Yan's house, and they didn't mention it.

But it was said that in the Rongguo Mansion, Daiyu got up early in the morning and was served by the snow geese and the purple juan maid to dress up.

The needlework room sent two new clothes some time ago, and Daiyu chose to choose and chose a skirt with tired silver silk lotus root and pink flowers.

The new clothes were changed, the stove room sent someone to send longevity noodles, and said some auspicious words without a mouth, Daiyu asked Zijuan to reward a few dollars of silver, and was happy that the mother-in-law was blessed.

After using the longevity noodles, Daiyu went to the front hall courtyard to burn incense, lay tea, and burn paper under the service of the maid, and then bowed around. first visited the old lady, followed by Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, and Aunt Xue, and then went to the grandmother-in-law to congratulate her.

More than an hour has passed since this walk. The old lady, Mrs. Wang and others naturally gave congratulatory gifts for the birth of their children, and Daiyu returned to the room and received birthday greetings from Zijuan, Snow Goose and other maids.

Because Daiyu was too young, she didn't dare to accept the maids' big gifts and worship, and she was afraid of losing her longevity, so she only let the maids say ten thousand blessings.

After tossing this experience, fine beads of sweat appeared on Daiyu's forehead. Because he sat at the head of the bed and said, "It's just a child, but I toss people like this every time." ”

Zijuan leaned over and smiled: "Girl, this time I am ten years old, but it is not as usual." ”

Daiyu lost her mother since she was a child, and was fostered under Jia's mother's knees three years ago, and her father Lin Hai was thousands of miles away. On this day, she said this, but there was a faint joy in her heart, whether it was false or false, the whole house was full of congratulations on this day, so it soothed the loneliness in her heart for the time being.

Over there, Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Xing, and Sister Feng came over early to greet the old lady, and then dispersed.

The old lady greeted Baoyu and Daiyu, and said today's arrangements with a smile.

According to the convention, monks, Taoist priests, nuns and Taoist aunts offer tips, change names, change anniversary locks, and the birthday of female ancestors, these will not be missing. Shen Shi arranged a birthday banquet, and Jia's mother also invited the troupe to sing songs to help the fun.

Baoyu was itchy when she heard this, and couldn't help but say: "Today is a good day for my sister, so I won't go to Nalaosh Ziyi to study, and I must accompany my sister to be happy." ”

Daiyu already had a mustard in her heart, but she also knew the atmosphere at this time, and turned her mind to be annoyed that Baoyu didn't know how to love herself, but she didn't know how to persuade her.

Bisheng Baoyu has been low and small these days, but she is not good at making small sex. Because it is, he said: "My brother has been studying since he went to righteousness, and the birthday banquet will always come down, and my brother will come back early." ”

Baoyu waved his hand again and again: "If it doesn't work, if I think it's a good day for my sister, where can I sit still in the school?" He suddenly turned his head to look at Mother Jia: "Ancestor, when will Sister Xiangyun come?" Did you send someone to pick it up? ”

Jia Mu smiled and said, "I'm going to pick it up, I'm going to pick it up." I sent people early this morning, and it was almost time to calculate the hour. ”

At this time, the mandarin duck turned the screen quickly with a smile and said, "Old lady, the girl from the Shi family is here, and she just got off the carriage." ”

"Xiangyun is here!" Baoyu suddenly became more and more happy, stepped forward and pulled Daiyu away: "Let's go, let's go pick up Sister Xiangyun!" ”

Daiyu was grabbed by the wrist, and suddenly felt disgusted in her heart, broke free without a trace, and said: "Brother is going by himself, according to Xiangyun's temperament, I am afraid that if we don't wait for us to go out, she will run away by herself." ”

When the words fell, I heard Shi Xiangyun's hearty voice from the front hall: "Auntie! Sister Lin! Love brother! I'm coming! ”

As soon as the words fell, a cluster of red figures sprinkled with silver bell-like laughter and ran madly to break in. She didn't say anything, she threw herself directly beside Jia's mother, and then said happily: "Grandma, I have been reading my aunt and grandmother several times these days, why did I send someone to pick me up?" ”

Jia Mu smiled and scratched Xiangyun's cheeks: "You crazy girl, how can you match others when you grow up?" Look at this bead of sweat, someone is coming to pick it up, don't get caught in the cold. ”

Xiangyun giggled.

The three little ones were playing in one place, and Jia Mu leaned on the soft collapse and looked at it with a smile. Jia Mu suddenly caught a glimpse of the big girl mandarin duck looking like she wanted to speak and stopped, and couldn't help asking, "Something?" ”

The mandarin duck stepped forward and whispered: "Old lady, I just heard my mother-in-law talk, and the red jade in the fourth master's room yesterday showed her mouth, saying that the fourth master had moved his mind to move away." ”

Jia Mu suddenly lost a smile on her face.

Yesterday, Brother Zhu's daughter-in-law came to complain, and her tears couldn't stop falling down as she spoke, which made Jia's mother feel sad.

Mother Jia is now Rongyang, but her eyes are bright and her heart is bright, and if there is any wind and grass in this Rongguo Mansion, she can't hide it. Since Jia Zhu's death, Mrs. Wang has treated Li Kun harshly, nothing more than thinking of letting Baoyu inherit the family business in the future.

Because of Jia Yu's fuss for a while, there was a situation where Mrs. Wang was in charge of the house and Brother Feng was the housekeeper. only said to the outside world that Li Kun's widow was taboo and was not a good housekeeper.

In fact, the housekeeper doesn't have to go out of the door, he only mixes in this inner house, where is the taboo?

Jia's mother has always been very proud of Li Kun, the granddaughter-in-law, and the Li family is a family of poetry and books, so she subsidized Li Kun's monthly allowance of ten taels of silver every month, and allocated some Zhuangzi to Li Kun to chew and wrap.

This granddaughter-in-law is also duty, in the past two years, Brother Feng has been in charge of the house, never telling right and wrong, only teaching Brother Lan and the three sisters-in-law dutifully.

It's easy for a cousin who is comparable to his own brother to visit, but he only stayed for more than ten days, and he suffered such a big grievance that he had to move away to avoid suspicion!

Rongguo Mansion wants to be faced, if Brother Jian moves away at this time, where will the old face of Rongguo Mansion and even Jia's mother be placed? When I meet Li Shouzhong in the future, I'm afraid it's hard to say.

Thinking of this festival, Jia's mother became more and more annoyed by the rudeness of the Xue family. I was afraid of revealing Mrs. Wang's face, but I was afraid that I would immediately send someone to urge Aunt Xue's family to move out.

Thinking of this section, Mother Jia sighed: "Brother Jian'er is wronged." ”

The mandarin duck stood aside and was silent.

Jia Mu thought for a while, and then said: "Brother Jian is only so old, how can he go to live outside alone?" When it comes to big and small things, there is no one to help on the left and right...... Inappropriate. She looked at the mandarin duck: "You watch, when Brother Jian comes back, ask him to come to the birthday banquet to be lively, and I will persuade him in private." ”

The mandarin duck said: "Old lady, it's not appropriate, the fourth master is a foreign man." ”

Jia's mother said: "It's just that he is three or two years older than Baoyu, and he is his own relative, so it's okay." ”

The mandarin duck should go down and send his subordinates to watch, not to mention it.

After a while, Qingwen carried a brocade box to Daiyu to give Daiyu a birthday gift, and the mandarin duck led her inside, and first visited Jia's mother, and then smiled and gave Daiyu a birthday, and then sent the brocade box.

"Miss Lin, this is a congratulatory gift from my fourth master to the girl."

Xiangyun, who was accompanying the naughty Xiangyun, suddenly wondered: "Fourth master thrifty? Who is it? There's a fourth-class brother in the house? Is it bigger or smaller than me? ”

Daiyu said: "I'm afraid you want to call the fourth brother thrifty." ”

Xiangyun suddenly remembered the white-horse boy he had just glimpsed from the carriage, and thought that he was afraid that he was not the fourth brother of thrift, right?

At this time, Baoyu Xianbao came over and said, "Sister, I don't know, this thrifty fourth brother is a strange person!" It's like my sister, but I was also the only one left during the pandemic, raised under the knees of Li Xijiu, and returned to Jinling with Li Xijiu, guess what? He secretly went to Maoshan to repair the road! ”

"Huh?"

"There's something even stranger!" Baoyu spoke eloquently, and Xiangyun's eyes widened when he heard it. I secretly thought in my heart, this thrifty fourth brother is really interesting, and when I meet him in person in the future, I will definitely ask about it.

She was thinking about it, and there was a pleasant sound in the compartment, but it was Daiyu who opened the brocade box and was holding a music box with a brass glass cover to enjoy.

Xiangyun is the age of naughty love, and immediately left Baoyu to come over, exclaiming: "Music box! The thrifty fourth brother is so generous! ”

Daiyu pursed her lips to stop smiling, and said, "It's not expensive or cheap, it's always the heart of the fourth brother." But she knew in her heart that because of her father, this thrifty fourth brother treated her very kindly. Even without this congratulatory gift, the prescriptions and recipes earlier also made Daiyu's heart full of warmth.

Xiangyun said with a bitter face: "This time I am going to be compared to the new thrifty fourth brother, I have no money, I only embroidered a purse, Sister Lin don't dislike it." As she spoke, she offered her purse, and because of her young age, the longevity peach on the purse was a little distorted. She poked out her ten fingers and said, "It's embroidered in the first month, Sister Lin, look at it, I have pierced a lot of eyes." ”

Daiyu knew that Xiangyun was also a fatherless and motherless, and it was even more bitter than her, looking at the needle on her finger, Daiyu hurriedly put down the music box, held Xiangyun's hands and said angrily: "It's just a child, you have to live every year, what are you doing!" ”

Xiangyun looked up at his little face and smiled: "It's different, this time Sister Lin is ten years old." ”

Daiyu took the little man in her arms, and both of them laughed. I only saw that Baoyu behind him was about to get up, thinking in my heart that it would be nice if my sisters and sisters were so happy every day.

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Inner Prefecture Armament Temple.

Bang –

"Ahem, cough, cough ......" Yan Fengzhen put down the new firecracker, choked on the gunpowder smoke and coughed repeatedly, but craned his neck to watch, and shouted: "Go and see, there is no target!" ”

The little official in the distance ran over to take a look, waved the flag in his hand, and Wu Zhaosong, who accompanied him on the side, said: "It's in!" ”

"Hey!" Yan Fengzhen was overjoyed and said: "Twenty zhang, eight out of ten, if it weren't for the fact that my hands were shaking, I was afraid that ten out of ten would also be able to." ”

He turned his head and handed the firearm he was carrying to Li Weijian: "Try to come back to life?" ”

Li Weijian smiled and waved his hand: "Forget it, I don't want to learn from Brother Jingwen to become a big face." ”

Yan Fengzhen's baby also hugged the fire gun in his arms, and sighed with his hand: "This new gun pipe is really powerful, if the officers and soldiers of Dashun are distributed with this gun in the future, I think there will be no opponents at home and abroad." Tsk, it's a pity that it is too expensive to rely on craftsmen to draw rifling, and six of them only become this one, and you have to think about a machine to specially draw rifling. ”

Li Weijian said: "It's not difficult, I will design with Brother Jingwen when I go back, and I can always find a way." ”

Yan Fengzhen's jaw should be. At this moment, a small official rushed over, whispered to Wu Zhaosong in his ear, and Wu Zhaosong immediately bowed his hand to the two: "Two, I have something important, so I won't accompany you." ”

Li Weijian gave it away, but Yan Fengzhen just waved his hand: "Go, go, I said I don't need you to accompany me." ”

This Wu Zhaosong walked on the front foot, and after a half-burnt incense scene, three people came from outside the shooting range. The leader was a middle-aged official in a green robe, with two retinues behind him, one old and one young.

When the group got closer, they watched Yan Fengzhen try a few shots, and when they heard it, they immediately praised: "Good!" ”

Yan Fengzhen only glanced at him, and then smiled and said, "Can it be good?" I have spent forty taels of silver. ”

Li Weijian is a thoughtful person, seeing that the middle-aged official has a national face, he has a high-ranking official authority; After that, one old and one young, the old one has no beard, and so does the young one. Looking carefully, the younger one was vaguely in his early twenties, with a plump face, and no Adam's apple between the throats.

He immediately thought in his heart, and waited with two eunuchs...... Could this be the face of the King of Loyalty? But why did you only wear a green robe? Do you want to have a private visit to Weifu?

Li Weijian didn't dare to be careless, nor did he reveal his identity, so he arched his hand and said: "Dare to ask what this adult is called?" ”

The old eunuch said, "This is Li Langzhong of the Inner Mansion." ”

Lang Zhong is also surnamed Li, and his age is right, but I am afraid that Bacheng is the king of loyalty and bravery. Yan Xiyao threw the meat and bones, but he didn't want to introduce himself to King Zhongyong.

"I've seen Li Langzhong."

"Well," Li Langzhong stood with his hands in his hands, and his eyes never took his eyes off the new gun: "I don't know what is unique about this gun, this official may take a look?" ”

Yan Fengzhen didn't respond, a little reluctant. Li Weijian leaned over and grabbed it, and said with both hands: "My lord, please see, this gun is made of spiral rifling, and the projectile is also different from usual, the rear of the projectile expands when it is fired, making the projectile close to the inner wall of the gun tube and flying in a spiral, which is more and more accurate." ”

As he spoke, the young eunuch hurriedly took out a pen and paper to record it. Li Langzhong looked at the firearm a few times, except for the projectile and rifling, and found nothing peculiar. Turning his head and seeing that the 'little eunuch' was still writing, he said: "Yuan Chun, don't record it for the time being, wait for the official to try it first." ”

Yuan Chun? Jia Yuanchun!

Li Weijian endured it and didn't turn his head to look at the past...... Thinking of the 'little eunuch' with a woman's face, he doesn't know where he is now!

Where is this person the loyal and brave king, it is clear that he is the face of today's saints!

It's such a big piece of meat and bones!