Volume 1 Chapter 19 The Cao Family
The date of the opening of the list
Before dawn, Ye Qing was woken up, looked at Qianqian's wrinkled little face, and couldn't help laughing: "Are you worried?"
Qianqian couldn't help nodding, with both apprehension and anticipation in her eyes: "It would be nice if the young master could be admitted to the middle school!"
At this time, it was early in the morning, Qianqian was still wearing the dress of the inner room, washed Ye Qing with a basin of water, and asked: "The young master is tired now, and he will get up if there is no shortage of it." ”
After Ye Qing finished washing, he hung his hand on her chest, pinched it inside, and whispered: "There is no short, but it will be up later!"
"Young master, you're too lazy, today is the opening day, everyone in the house is waiting!" Qianqian wrinkled her nose, pretending to be disdainful and said, with Ye Qing's movements, her little face gradually turned red, her eyes were shining, like gorgeous peach blossoms.
"Is Nuan Yu in your arms?" Ye Qing smiled badly, but he didn't go too far, Wen Cun said: "Today is the day of the opening of the list, in case you win, you will have to set up a banquet to entertain and scatter money, are you ready?"
Qianqian blushed, gently pulled off the unruly hand, stood up, and said: "When I bought rice, I had already exchanged fifty taels of silver for copper coins in several times, and the clan had all the loose money. ”
"If the son wins, he will go to the clan banquet to take a seat, and if someone else wins, he can also take a seat in the clan banquet, but he is ranked behind. ”
"But the family can't do it, some mothers-in-law and girls will come, I have already bought pork, carp, and wine, and I should send it - son, you are going to go out." ”
"Little master!" Ye Qing smiled, touched her, really got up, and when she really got dressed, she drank a bowl of porridge, and saw that the two sons of the family came over with a burden, unloaded the burden at the door, and shouted: "Young Master Qing, is Miss Qianqian in the house? Everything you want has been delivered!"
Qianqian rushed out and began to count, and today these two servants were not so cold, they all helped Qianqian carry the goods into the house, and after moving, these two servants walked a few steps, and then looked back and said to Ye Qing with a smile: "Young Master Qing, if you have anything, you are welcome, even if you are instructed, at least my mother-in-law can come to help, and she lives not far away." ”
After that, he went out.
Qianqian understands in her heart that today's family children are polite, because on the day of the opening of the list, although these family children do not think and do not want to be in the son, but what if they win?
So today he was polite and polite, this is also a survival trick of the little people, thinking secretly in his heart, and helped Ye Qing to straighten his clothes.
Seeing this, Ye Qing couldn't help but laugh.
Out of the small courtyard, Ye Qing felt that the atmosphere in the house was different today.
The rain stopped yesterday, and now hundreds of servants are out and are cleaning, cleaning up, and carrying goods, and when they saw Ye Qing coming over, they tacitly agreed not to speak, and Ye Qing didn't pay attention to it, and went straight over.
The outer building of the Fuzhong Building stands solemnly, and the surrounding gardens are mostly inhabited by female dependents and young children, and there are few people on the hill that isolates the garden, which is normal.
Dongfu is noisy, and the closer you get to the East Lake Forest Park, the more lively it becomes.
From the northwest along the verandah stone path all the way to the east, you can hear the servants and maids talking about this boy's test, and guessing which of the clansmen can win, and even betting on it, and no one will prohibit it today, with an atmosphere of anticipation and joy.
But in the crowd, few people talked about the name Ye Qing, and occasionally someone didn't mention it for a long time, and they were quickly ridiculed: "Da Qingtian is above, how can such a person get hit, isn't this a heavenly principle?"
Among the servants, a few immediately responded: "Mustard people's lives, are they still talents, and the blessed ones have been cut by God, so that they will not be harmed in the future." ”
"Hmph, even if it's a genius, it's also a ...... of parents."
"Shhhh ”
Although Ye Qing did not practice the Dao method, he had the experience of a Taoist in his previous life, and his instinctive movements carried some martial arts, which were difficult for these servants to notice, so they could hear this.
Hearing the thoughts and curses of these subordinates, Ye Qing was not angry, a little gloomy, a little self-defeating, and even a little ambitious.
"Today I want to see, after the big waves, who is swimming in the spring!" The sun gradually rose, along the pebble road, through the corridor, crossed to the small wooden bridge inscribed with the four characters of "Dengke Jiayuan", and was greeted by hundreds of eyes, men, women and children, from the pavilion under the forest.
The originally lively small circles all stopped talking and whispered: "Look, it's Ye Qing." ”
"It's really rare to be so young and decisive, it depends on whether you can win. "It's an appreciative gaze.
Someone looked at Ye Qing with malicious eyes: "Isn't this one of the protagonists today, is it really better to be bold or rebellious?"
"It's said that it's the protagonist of the stage, so let's watch the play......" This is a neutral statement.
Ye Qing didn't stop taking a step, arrived at a main hall and stood up, asked the servant to report his name, and after a while, he heard a steady middle-aged man's voice inside: "Come in and talk!"
Ye Qing agreed and walked in, and saw Ye Zifan sitting, and there was an official sitting opposite, although this person was not wearing a regular official robe, but the official boots he was wearing, the belt he was wearing, and the jade pendant he was hanging on, all showed the identity of this person - he had seen a lot in his previous life.
This person was looking at himself seriously, Ye Qing was stunned, but he saluted Ye Zifan first, Ye Zifan waited for Ye Qing to salute, and said: "Let me introduce you, this is Lord Cao Hu Fan, you should have known each other before, but it's been seven years since you left, and you haven't come forward to salute?"
Ye Qing hurriedly saluted when he heard this, and said, "Junior, I've seen adults." ”
"Get up, don't be polite!" Cao Hu Fan just smiled, raised his hand, and said: "I met your father, and I was overwhelmed with emotion when I heard about the evil, and I heard that you participated in the children's examination this time? ”
These words sounded polite, but implied pickiness, Ye Qing frowned secretly, but with decades of experience, he would not show his surface, and only said simply: "This is a post-graduate kid who has ventured." ”
Cao Hu Fan also smiled when he heard this, and stopped talking, Ye Qing said to Ye Zifan again: "If the third uncle still has any admonitions, just command." ”
"No, today is a special day, you better go down to the pergola to play, don't drink too much. Ye Zifan said instructed.
The clan rules of the Ye clan are still very strict, and he is not allowed to drink alcohol at will without a crown ceremony, telling him not to drink too much alcohol, which actually means that it is a ban on alcohol today.
Ye Qing responded, and when Ye Qing came out, Ye Zifan asked: "Master Cao, you are proficient in physiognomy, what do you think of it when you saw it just now?"
"......" Cao Hu Fan was silent, silently pondered, and sighed for a long time before he said: "You also know that although physiognomy is a myth spread among the people, it can only be seen in the pattern, and it can only be inferred from the luck trend in the next three or five years. ”
"Judging from the current appearance, this son has weak luck and a mean appearance, but after careful examination, I found that this person faintly has a small cloud ......of yellow qi to protect his body, and a red qi has been born."
Cao Hu Fan paused when he said this, and when he saw Ye Zifan, his face suddenly turned slightly pale.
The Ye clan reported four places, if you are unlucky, you may not win, but under normal circumstances, you will win one, the so-called red qi is born, and the implication of this is obvious.
Although he had a premonition, he was still in a trance after listening to the words, and after a while, Ye Zifan woke up and smiled bitterly: "Lord Cao, I lost my temper, please don't be surprised!"
"Licking calves, human nature, how can I be strange. Cao Hu Fan smiled and said: "This small cloud of yellow gas, I feel it, it doesn't look like it was given by the Ye clan, and it's not feng shui, I'm afraid it's his dead father's protection!"
"This son's father was amazingly talented, although he died early, but he also accumulated a lot of fame and virtue in the past few years, and it is not surprising that there is this group. ”
Ye Zifan was speechless when he heard this, and then sighed in a blink of an eye: "Hey!"
Speaking of Ye Qing, he just ignored these things, walked along the creek all the way, a little farther away under the white stone rockery, set up a pergola platform, paved with big red brocade mats, and set up more than a dozen positions, and there were already several elders in the clan, drinking and chatting with each other.
The main seat is empty, in this occasion, the patriarch will come, and his uncle Ye Zifan has not yet arrived, Ye Qing observed, so he found a seat under the shade of the tree and sat steadily.
Nearby, there are a few brothers who know each other, and there is a young girl, some of whom are familiar!
When these clan brothers saw Ye Qing coming, they were a little distracted, and at this time they all found excuses to disperse, lest they could avoid it, and they almost formed an empty circle for a while, which was very conspicuous in the garden.
Ye Qing couldn't help but smile bitterly, in a circle of this age, killing people with his own hands was too terrifying, no wonder he had this reaction.
"Xiao Qingzi?" Ye Qing was stunned when he heard it, and looked at it.
This is a girl in a light green dress, holding the girl's double bun, two headdresses inserted between the green silk, a fan in her hand, a slender figure, and a pair of attractive phoenix eyes.
Thinking back to these phoenix eyes, Ye Qing suddenly remembered, and also remembered the identity of Lord Cao just now, so he rushed to say, "Sister Bai Jing, why don't you leave?"
"What did you say? Sister is not your Ye family, she doesn't owe you the Ye family, and she doesn't think about marrying your Ye family, why do you avoid it?" Cao Baijing smiled, her eyes narrowed into a crooked crescent: "Also, on the Shangyuan Festival, there was a gambling match at Aunt Yue's banquet, and you said that you lacked literary thoughts and owed your sister a poem." ”
Ye Qing recalled more memories, and he was a little embarrassed.
This is a close cousin of the mother's family, only seventeen years old, very favored by the family, but I don't know why I came here now......
Aunt Yue is a single unmarried talented daughter of the Cao family, Ye Qing's mother is also surnamed Cao, and she has a bit of a cousin relationship, although the two generations are not close, but when the Ye family meets, there is a natural sense of intimacy.
In the previous life, he struggled like ants, and his impression of these maternal relatives was no longer clear, and he still remembered that this woman was suitable to avoid Yefu and survive, and everyone else died when the catastrophe came?
Even if you are lucky enough to escape, you can do it a few times, and the most rear-end Ye clan is gray.
Now when I recall the personnel of the Cao family's mother, it is the same as looking at the yellowed old photo album, or because the person is not there, I remember the good side, vague and warm.
I suddenly felt complicated and indescribable, so I just said with a smile: "The title of Xiaoqingzi is not good." ”
"Hey, didn't you call it that before?" the fan shook twice in dissatisfaction.
"This was before. ”
"You are a debtor, how can you be so exquisite...... Well, you can't be really angry, are you?" the fan stopped slightly.
"Not really, but the title reminds me of eunuchs. ”
The "......" group fan revealed one question mark after another, this eunuch in the world realm, but there is no title like Xiao Qingzi, and the group fan can't react.