New Shun 1730

Ten days passed in a flash. In June, the lotus flowers were chirping and the cicadas were buzzing. There was no more sandstorm from the west. It was a good day to go out and play.

There was still more than a month before the autumn examination in Shangshe. The Dashun Army recaptured the capital on the 23rd of the seventh lunar month. It was the team of the Wude Palace of the Children's Army reorganized by Li Guo before his death that first entered the city, so the autumn examination was always held on this day.

Early in the morning, Liu Yu took a few servants and a hot air balloon for playing to the vicinity of Tsinghua Garden in the northwest of the city.

This was the garden built by Li Wei, the Marquis of Wuqing, a relative of the previous dynasty. It was not the Tsinghua Garden of later generations, but a little west of Peking University of later generations.

Liu Yu and Tian Ping agreed to meet here. There was a branch courtyard of the Duke of Qi's Mansion nearby. There were many branch courtyards nearby. It was indeed a good place to enjoy the scenery at a higher level. Unfortunately, there was no high place to climb nearby. Wanger Mountain and Xiangshan were a bit far away, and the nearby garden scenery could not be seen.

Tsinghua Garden, known as the first garden of the previous dynasty, is now deserted.

During the reign of Chongzhen, in order to ask the nobles for money, Huaizong took action against Li Guorui, the Marquis of Wuqing. As a result, Li Guorui preferred his life to his wealth, and died of illness. The nobles and relatives spread rumors everywhere that Chongzhen's actions would definitely bring disaster to his descendants, and his son really died a few days later.

This Qinghua Garden was also affected by the bad luck of supernatural powers, and no one cared about it after the new dynasty.

The capital was short of water. Liu Yu's ancestors had the merit of contacting the remaining tribes of Daxi and standing on the right side when Li Guo and Li Laiheng ascended the throne. This was why they were given the old house of Xu Yunzhen's family in the previous dynasty and had a large garden in the capital.

The other nobles did not have a good place like Jishuitan. After they won the world, they also learned to "pretend to be elegant and express their feelings in the mountains and rivers", and occupied a circle around the Kunming Lake in the future and the Wengshan Lake at this time.

Except for the unlucky Tsinghua Garden, which no one cares about except that it is reserved for the royal family, other places are now the villas of royal relatives or nobles, and the fat and sweat are everywhere.

Liu Yu came early, so he took a few turns in the Peking University and Tsinghua University in the future. He thought that he had to make an appointment to go in, but now no one cares if he rides a horse on it.

After running a few laps, he was satisfied and saw two carriages coming from a distance.

Tian Ping would never ride a horse unless it was a very special situation. It was normal for him to come by car, but it was a bit strange that there was a car behind him.

He rode his horse to Tian Ping's side and looked back at the carriage behind him, but saw that a hand had opened the curtain on the small window of the carriage from the inside. Although it was not clear because of the light, he could vaguely see a pair of eyes staring at him.

In the carriage, Tian Zhenyi gently opened the curtain and looked at Liu Yu's puzzled eyes. They touched each other inadvertently, but he did not look away.

It was vaguely visible that he still looked like the boy they had played with as children, but he was much taller than before.

He was riding on a majestic white horse, wearing a light blue silk shirt, a headband tied around his forehead, and his hair was only wrapped in a green scarf. His lips were not red and his teeth were white, but his face was slightly darker, probably because of the battle last year. He had broad shoulders and wore a pair of black boots with silver silk orchids on his feet. He gently pulled the reins in his hand and quickly looked away.

Putting down the curtain, Tian Zhenyi thought: Liu's third brother is darker than before, which is no wonder. It would be strange if he was not dark in the wind, snow and dust.

Liu Yu did not see clearly who was inside, and controlled the horse to go around Tian Ping, deliberately playing tricks and scaring Tian Ping with the horse's hoof, then jumped down and patted the saddle casually.

"Brother Tian, ​​who is in the car behind? Could it be a young lady from some family? No wonder he is willing to spend a thousand taels of silver to make a beautiful woman smile? He is really willing to spend money."

The voice was not loud, but Tian Zhenyi still heard it in the car. He spat and thought that he was a teasing person. What kind of words are he talking about.

Then he thought again, if someone really made such a strange thing just to make people laugh, the woman who laughed at him would definitely remember it for a lifetime, and it would not be a waste of a lifetime of intimacy.

Outside the car, Tian Ping saw some servants following Liu Yu and a strong man who was going to pull the bellows to inflate the balloon, so he whispered, "Don't talk nonsense, it's my sister. Didn't I tell you about it when we were drinking before? Why did you have to come and see it? My father dotes on her, and he said before he left that it was up to her to do it."

When he heard that it was Tian Ping's sister, a vague figure emerged in Liu Yu's mind. More than ten years had passed since they had been in love and had rarely interacted in these years, so he had long forgotten what she looked like.

He vaguely remembered her name, but he knew that it was not good for outsiders to hear a girl's name, so he hurriedly apologized for what he had just said.

"I made it up, sorry."

The apology was loud, and Liu Yu was curious. He thought that Tian Ping's sister was interesting and courageous. She was able to come out to see the hot air balloon in such an era. This girl was interesting.

He hurriedly asked someone to inflate the hot air balloon, lit it, and coiled the rope around a big tree next to him.

Tian Ping asked the servant to take out some wine and cold meat from the carriage, and said, "This is none of your business. Let's go to a distant place to have a drink."

Everyone was used to seeing the look, so how could they not understand? After thanking him one by one, they took the wine and meat and went to a distant place.

After everyone had left, a girl got out of the carriage behind. She was not the kind of delicate and weak, so she didn't need the help of the servant to get off the carriage.

As soon as he got off the carriage, Liu Yu was stunned.

At the age of seventeen or eighteen, if we talk about his facial appearance, Liu Yu grew up in a government mansion, so he is really qualified to pretend to be "face-blind and don't know beauty and ugliness".

After all, she was born to the concubine of Duke Qi. Duke Qi was a pervert. In order to take a concubine to prevent the invasion of Catholicism in his backyard, he really stood in line to attack Catholicism early. When he was in Mongolia, he was hungry and did not choose food. But the one who was really married into the family was naturally not bad, and the daughter born could not be bad.

But the dress really surprised Liu Yu.

The swan-like neck was decorated with a very obvious Baroque-style ruff collar, which is commonly known as the head on a plate. It was just improved and not so exaggerated. The neck was wrapped with lace decorated with white lace, and only a bow was tied under the chin.

She wore a very gorgeous sun hat on her head, with a white velvet scarf hanging down a little, and a large feather for decoration was inserted on it.

She wore a Western-style military robe on her upper body, and a decorative blue ribbon hung diagonally from her shoulders to her waist. On her waist was a very gorgeous short sword, but it was obviously for decoration rather than for fighting.

The lower body was trousers, not a skirt.

After a little surprise, Liu Yu understood.

He was going to fly to the sky to play. If he wore a skirt, he would feel embarrassed even though he knew that the hanging basket could block his view. So he deliberately wore such a set of clothes passed down by Western missionaries.

Even if no one was watching, it was really difficult to wear a skirt when flying high.

Liu Yu had seen many such clothes. His mother also had a "cosplay" oil painting, wearing a Milanese plate armor, and the ruff collar on her neck was more exaggerated than the one in front of him. It was painted by a Western painter in the court.

The best oil painter in the court was a Milanese, whose Chinese name was Lang Shining. However, this Western painting was not valued by the literati, who only said that "Westerners are good at the Pythagorean theorem, so their paintings of yin and yang, distance and nearness, are not wrong. But there is no brushwork at all, although it is skillful, it is just a craftsman, so it is not included in the painting quality."

According to Liu Yu's understanding, the general meaning of this sentence is: Is the photo art? Using light and shadow to paint oil paintings in the direction of photos can only be regarded as a craftsman, but there is no brushwork and artistic atmosphere.

On the contrary, noble families like Liu Yu, because the Dashun royal family deliberately instigated the gap between them and the civil officials, their art appreciation level can only be regarded as the level of art appreciation, which is far from that high. They can still accept these oil paintings that can draw yin and yang, far and near.

His family also has several sets of Western military uniforms. His mother has a plate armor military bust, and his sisters also have several sets of whalebone skirts with a diameter of three or four meters in the early Rococo style.

Sometimes when the sisters in the backyard gather to drink, they will also taste foreign wine, wearing a Western woman's clothes to mean "drinking wine must be with a moonlight cup".

This outfit did not scare him, but he dared to wear this outfit from the backyard cosplay entertainment to the outside, which was really courageous.

Thinking about it again, it seems more reasonable for Tian Ping to ask those people to leave before, because outsiders might gossip if they see it.

After getting off the car, Liu Yu was older, and Tian Zhenyi walked to Liu Yu in a generous manner, clasped his hands together, placed them between his chest and abdomen, with his right hand on top and his left hand on the bottom, his legs slightly bent, his head slightly lowered, and he performed a standard Han Chinese blessing ceremony.

Liu Yu also hurriedly returned the greeting. The two were equals, and the head should be lowered to the same height as the buttocks. Xunzi said, balance is called worship. The note is that the head and waist are as even as a balance.

"I really trouble you, third brother."

"Hehe... No trouble, no trouble. Since this thing was made, it was originally for people to use. If it is put in the warehouse, it is the same as nothing. People say that it is a wish to fly to the sky. I hope that everyone will want to try this thing in the future, and it can also be regarded as an attraction for learning. Learning is boring, and there are few people who are interested in learning. For example, when feeding medicine, you always have to mix some honey."

He did not say anything false, and said what he thought. This was the purpose when this thing was made. Learning is indeed boring, and it can be fascinating to use Tao as a tool.

This was a very sincere sentence, but it made Tian Zhenyi think a lot. She thought that what the third brother said was really reasonable, but it seemed that there was something else behind it. Feeding medicine, feeding medicine, could it be that the third brother also thinks that the world is sick?

Seeing that Liu Yu did not frown at her strange dress at all, she felt quite comforted. She thought that what she had imagined about him was really right. He was indeed a person who would not be surprised by such things.

Like a bird in a cage, it always fantasizes about the outside world, and imposes too much beauty. It seems that there is only warm sunshine, spring breeze, and blue sky, but no ice, wind, snow, and frost.

She usually heard Tian Ping tell many stories about Liu Yu, so she deliberately wore such a dress today to try him out. Now it is the same as she thought, and she feels satisfied.

After the greetings, Tian Zhenyi chuckled and said, "If others see me dressed like this, they will probably say that I am violating customs. I usually hear my second brother say that my third brother is different from others. Today, I see that it is indeed true."

As soon as the voice fell, Liu Yu's mind was almost not even turning, and he said, "Chinese people have many ambitions, they don't like red clothes but prefer weapons."

"Sister Zhenyi looks so heroic in this dress. Since we are here to play with flying things today, this dress is just right. Just like writing calligraphy and painting, different characters require different pens. If you use a small regular script, but don't use a wolf brush, but a ruler-long brush, that's not right."