There are precedents in the history of the Red Chamber

The sage handles political affairs in the Lizheng Hall and sits, sleeps, and lives in the Yangxin Hall.While waiting for Shi Zhongzhu's audience, the sage took time to eat lunch, and Shi Ding was also given a banquet, but unfortunately he ate absent-mindedly.

Shi Ding stared at the door of the carved hall, wishing he could announce the decree by himself, so as to give him a detailed instruction on the way, now, he had no choice but to chant the Buddha in his heart.

As soon as the lunch was cleared, Shi Zhongzhu arrived.

Shi Zhongzhu didn't have a title on him, he was a scholar, and he could barely call himself a "student" in front of saints.Among the clothes he could wear for the audience, Shi Zhongzhu insisted on choosing white.

White is good, white is as elegant as a fairy, he came to see the saint today, he doesn't want to position himself as a flower farmer, he grows flowers for elegance, elegance!

"Shi Zhongzhu, the second son of Baoling Hou, pays homage to the saint, and the saint is forever happy!" Shi Zhongzhu entered the hall and prostrated himself in a peaceful posture.Born as an official, this kind of etiquette has been learned since childhood, not to mention wearing white clothes today, Shi Zhongzhu is acting in a pretentious style.

"Get up." Seeing such a little guy, the sage greeted him with a stern face, and also smiled.

"Is this the flower you planted?" asked the sage.

"Back to the saint, yes."

"Okay, your father is my humerus minister, and you are my junior, so don't be polite. Tell me, why do you want to grow flowers?"

"Back... Well, I grew up so big, food and clothing are all given by my parents, I just want to give my parents a gift on their birthdays. When I was studying, I came across a miscellaneous book. It says to plant flowers, so plant according to the above.”

"He is a filial child, why didn't he think of me?" Adults generally have this kind of bad taste, to tease children, they must ask you, "Like Dad, or like Mom, I know you like both, which one do you like best?" One?" The sage also wanted to tease children.

Let the saint down, Shi Zhongzhu is not an ordinary child!

"I didn't know to give it to the saint before, but the saint just said that you are an elder, and if I plant good flowers in the future, I will also have a share from the saint."

"Hey, isn't this flower not from your family?"

"Yes, planting flowers is very difficult. Originally, only father, mother, third uncle, third aunt, aunt, uncle, elder brother, brother Bai, and younger brother Nan..." Shi Zhongzhu counted the number of people in the family with his cute child's voice , and then pursed his mouth, "Later, I was taken away by my father and given to the saint." After speaking, he attacked the saint with his star eyes.

"So, I also robbed your father and your third uncle's flowers?"

Just as Shi Ding was about to speak modestly, the sage took a look at him, took his words back to his stomach, and signaled Shi Zhongzhu to answer.

"Yeah, I thought that loyalty and filial piety can't be both, and I can only wrong the saint. Now the saint is also an elder, and I will know what to do in the future."

The sage was delighted to hear that no one had ever said "wronged" him in front of him in this life, so he pulled Shi Zhongzhu to him, sat on the small embroidered pier in front of the dragon chair, and asked him carefully by the hand.

Shi Zhongzhu was taller than his father when he sat in front of the sage, seeing his father's eyes cramping from time to time, he was a little speechless.The saint also saw it, and sent Shi Ding to the side hall to wait, and the old man would listen to him as a childlike innocence.

"My father always treats me as a child, and I don't do bad things, so what can't be said to the saint!" Shi Zhongzhu immediately said to the saint when he saw his father turn a corner and go out.

"Yes, yes, your father is old-fashioned."

"Hmph, don't say my father is bad."

"You can say anything, but I can't."

"My father is the only one who can say it. A saint can say it, but you said that you are an elder. You are not a saint now, so you are not allowed to say it."

"Okay, don't say it. Then you say it."

"say what?"

"Say what are you doing at home?"

"If you have something to say at home, the school is interesting..."

Shi Zhongzhu combined the history books and biographies he had read, studied countless TV dramas and novels, and combined with the current situation, he tried to create an image of a child who is sensible and polite and not polluted by the world.

Maybe there is still the blessing of crossing the halo. The saint was sad because of the conflict between the prince and the kings in the early dynasty, and his children and grandchildren were not happy to see it.

Shi Zhongzhu has the thinking of an adult, and he also has the childish talk and talk of a child, which makes the saint very happy.The sage took him to visit the imperial garden, explained the origin of many treasures in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and continued until the afternoon, and gave him food.He brought Uncle Shi San who was on duty and his own father who was going crazy in the side hall to have dinner together. After the meal, he rewarded him with a lot of things.

"Look at how stingy your father is. If I want a child of your worth, how can I be stingy? I will only give it to a small villager." So, he rewarded Huangzhuang very grandly, and even put the land deed together with the master's body deed. gave.

"Thank you saint." Shi Zhongzhu thanked him.

A slap on the head, Shi Zhongzhu's nondescript thank you, Shi Ding was afraid that the sage would be angry, so he said, "Thank you sage, you are the one who thanked me like that!"

Shi Zhongzhu said to the saint with wet eyes, "Look, you are still in front of you, so bully me."

The saint also thought that he was the child's real father, and said, "Such a well-behaved child, if you don't like it, just stay with me in the palace."

Shi Ding was busy pleading guilty again, and after a long row, the sage finally released the three Shi family members.

Walking on the palace road, Shi Nai saw that there was no one around, and the servant who sent them away was also far away, so he asked, "Brother Zhu, you are so brave, you scared your third uncle to death, aren't you afraid of saints?"

"What is there to be afraid of a sage? If he is capable, he will not kill me. He has given me so many good things. A sage is a good person." Shi Zhongzhu will show off his cuteness to the end, and he will not speak ill of the sage when he is no longer in front of him.

"Who murdered you?"

"Third Uncle, don't you just love to kill me?"

The two uncles and nephews almost quarreled on the palace road. "Shut up!" Shi Ding, as the head of the family, stopped the two foolish idiots and walked out of the palace quickly.

Shi Ding thought how powerful the sage's control over the palace was, if he talked small things in the palace road, he would die!Is Shi Nai a fool?As the commander of the imperial army, he is no more familiar with the court than Shi Ding, but the saint loves his straightforward and unpretentious military general temper. Isn't these few words just right?

Shi Zhongzhu thought about the legendary hidden guards, lip-talkers, and people with hearing abilities, so naturally he didn't dare to say anything.The three of them thought together and quickly returned to the historian's house.

The sage was naturally satisfied when he heard the return from the ordinary-looking old eunuch, he stroked his beard and said, "It's not in vain that I value it."

Shi Zhongzhu was praised by the sage, and Shi Ding and his wife naturally gave him a more lenient education. The Zhuangzi he got first was still used by him, and the Huangzhuang, gold and silver rewarded by the sage were not confiscated.

Lost in the east, harvested in mulberry elm, Shi Zhongzhu thought that his plan to make money had died.It's good to present flowers to saints, it's face-saving, classy, ​​and affordable.

Since Shi Zhongzhu received the reward from the sage, he sent one or two pots of flowers into the palace every month. Don't think that the superiors have a good memory. No matter how close they were to you at that time, if you don't often brush up their favor, the familiarity will drop sooner or later.Therefore, during the two years of preparing for the exam, Shi Zhongzhu must not forget to send flowers to the palace every month. Unfortunately, not every time he was summoned, he met the saint twice in two years alone, and said a few words in a formulaic way , The process was less than 3 minutes, and it returned.

While Shi Zhongzhu was studying hard, the marriage of his elder brother Shi Bosong was also settled. He was the eldest granddaughter of Duke Xiang, who was also honorable. There are also seals, although they are the Dukes of the state, they are not the same as the "Four Kings and Eight Dukes".

In fact, Shi Ding has been far away from the so-called four big families of Jinling since Shi Laohou left.This time, when choosing a daughter-in-law for the eldest son, the Jia family, Wang family, and Xue family all have suitable girls, but Shi Ding is already on the boat of the six kings, how could he marry the families that are close to the prince.

On the wedding day, the bride had a lot of red makeup, and the dowry filled Shi Bosong's Tingtao Courtyard slowly. He was so dazed, Shi Zhongzhu didn't see his sister-in-law's appearance clearly until the next day when he saw the ceremony.

After Shi Ding's eldest son's marriage was settled, he invited him to confer the title of son. He didn't want the tragedy of his life to repeat itself to his sons.On the day of Shi Bosong's marriage, the sage issued an imperial order to Mrs. Baolinghou. Today, after seeing her family, she had to go to the clan to pay her respects. Therefore, Mrs. Baolinghou was wearing a large dress, which looked noble and elegant.

Shi Bosong and his wife, Mrs. Xu, were dressed in bright red, like a pair of jade lovers, they stepped forward gracefully to salute.

First he went to Shi Ding, knelt down, held tea over his head with both hands, Shi Ding took the tea, and told Shi Bosong to live a good life as a married man.When I served tea in front of Mrs. Zheng, Mrs. Zheng was not the one who made things difficult for her new wife. She quickly took the tea, took a sip, and said, "Mrs. Listen to Taoyuan, I will teach you slowly in the future, this family will still rely on you in the future."

Mrs. Xu hurriedly said modestly, "The daughter-in-law is so old, so she naturally has to learn more from her mother-in-law. If she listens to Taoyuan, her mother-in-law should take care of her if there is anything wrong." When they were newlyweds, everyone was very polite.

Shi Bosong led Mrs. Xu to Shi Zhongzhu, and said, "This is my Pohou brother. If anything strange happens in the family, he must be the one to do it."

"Sister-in-law, look, my brother knows how to bully me, and I will point to you to make decisions for me in the future." After finishing speaking, he winked at Mrs. Xu, and then took out the gift he had prepared, "Sister-in-law, this is for me. The gadgets prepared by nephews and nieces, you want to give me a fun nephew and niece."

Mrs. Xu had heard about my uncle for a long time. He had few talents and was still a famous person. Although his face was flushed when he was joking, he finished the ceremony gracefully, and then said, "There are uncles like my uncle, they are not smart and not fun. , you don't agree either!"

"That's right!" Shi Ding and Zheng Shi looked at the two brothers and their new daughter-in-law and laughed.

When they arrived at Shi Shumei and Shi Jilan, who were twins of dragons and phoenixes, Tuanzi, who was a little over a year old, couldn't sit still on the chair, and called out childishly, "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law." , the purse contains a pair of rubies, which means that they are in pairs and are booming.

After discussing the family rites, I went on to meet the family members. The historian's hometown is in Jinling, and only the eighth house of the direct branch is in the capital. The number of people is endless, but the number is not small. It took a whole day just to meet, and the bride was exhausted. Enough.

After the three dynasties returned home, the patriarch Shi Ding added Xu's name after Shi Bosong's name on the genealogy, and the Xu family officially became a member of the Baoling Hou Mansion.

Shi Zhongzhu only knew that his sister-in-law's surname was Xu, but he didn't know anything about her name.Of course, he is not in the mood to care about these things now, the Juren examination is coming.