Promotion and fortune in Song Dynasty

When having dinner, Gao Yang and Yang were unavoidably a little cautious at first.

Lu Ci didn't persuade him much, but blinked quickly at Di Qing.

Di Qing understood instantly and didn't say much. He just showed his astonishing gluttonous appetite openly, and made a fuss over the delicacies that filled two round tables. There was a queue for grabbing food.

After all, if you don't stretch out your chopsticks, there will be no scum left in the dazzling array of delicacies after a while.

After getting used to Di Qing's big battles, Lu Ci, who had a big appetite, looked at the two guests who had much less appetite than his own son, and he was very calm.

On the way to pick up Di Qing, he stopped by the market, filled his belly with a lot of delicious snacks, and now there was only three minutes left, and he put it down gracefully and gracefully without moving much chopsticks. Drink tea.

He knew that as long as he was present, no matter how approachable he was, the two of them would always feel restrained, so after drinking a cup of tea, he greeted the two guests with a smile, saying that he still had unreasonable business affairs. , thoughtfully went back to the second floor first.

After Lu Ci left, the three of them completely revealed their true colors, and they cleaned up the rich meat dishes on the two tables in a short while.

Yang Wenguang looked at the empty dinner plate, his face flushed, and he felt a little embarrassed for being late.

...Before, it was fake and polite, saying that there is no need to order another one, but now it seems that it is a slap in the face.

Thanks to the thick-skinned Gao Jixuan who kept pestering Di Qing to make jokes, Yang Wenguang just removed the blushing from his face in time before the servants with their accustomed faces came to clean up the dishes.

Di Qing's face remained normal, but he regretted his previous gaffes countless times in his heart.

I really shouldn't have let go of my mouth, and gave this person a chance to come to be a guest.

Otherwise, according to the past, the grandfather would not go upstairs in the morning like that, but would stay in the hall, have a good chat with himself, and test his homework along the way!

Di Qing felt regretful, so he led Gao Yang and Gao Yang to the study room that was obviously the most unpleasant.

Gao Jixuan rolled his eyes in pain.

Although Yang Wenguang is not very interested in reading, he would rather go to a well-organized study than to stay in a living room where paintings and calligraphy are not neatly hung and it is inconvenient to tidy up.

Without Yang Wenguang's support, even if Gao Jixuan wanted to protest, he would have no way to support him, so he just pouted and walked into the study.

After the servant made the new tea and brought it into the study, he naturally closed the door tightly, leaving only three people in the study.

Without thinking, Di Qing walked directly to one of the bookcases, took out the Khitan book that he had read halfway through last time, and continued reading with peace of mind.

But Yang Wenguang carefully selected a thin album, and immediately sat down on the wooden chair, and read it seriously under the bright light.

Only Gao Jixuan made no secret of his lack of interest. After walking around many bookcases more than a dozen times, he finally gave up the idea of ​​touching the books that annoyed him the most in order to follow the etiquette.

Seeing the serious faces of the two, he raised his eyebrows maliciously, first moved to Yang Wenguang's side, and stretched his neck to have a look.

Yang Wenguang avoided him subconsciously, frowned and said: "If you want to read it too, just say so, and I will let you."

"That's not necessary," Gao Jixuan sat down on the chair next to him with a smile, and said nonchalantly, "If I can study well, my father will throw me into the barracks to suffer? You can keep it for yourself." Put on a show."

To the provocative tricks sent by him, Yang Wenguang was still unmoved, and he didn't say anything. After throwing it lightly for a while, he concentrated on continuing to read.

He didn't bother to explain, he was really not 'pretending'.

As Di Qing had explained before, there were a frighteningly large number of books in this room, of various types, the only thing missing were the boring collections of classics and histories that he was most afraid of avoiding.

For example, the book he picked out just now tells about the people's livelihood that the Han people saw when they lived in Daliao. He only read a few pages, and he has already read a little bit of interest.

Yang Wenguang ignored him, and Gao Jixuan was not discouraged. Instead, he twitched the corners of his mouth, said something prudish to himself, and walked closer to Di Qing with a smile.

However, no matter what he said, Di Qing's power of concentration was only more amazing than Yang Wenguang's. When he read the half-understood and very strenuous Khitan text, he was even more concentrated and showed [-] points of concentration.

As a result, Gao Jixuan babbled on the sidelines for a long time, his mouth was dry, but he didn't get any response.

Although he is a playful person who is not afraid of anything, but when he has not received a response, he can't help but feel a little bored.

He wasn't so disrespectful as to deliberately flip the pages of the book in someone else's hand when the two of them made up their minds to ignore him.

After pestering people to no avail, he drank a full pot of tea in vengeance and slipped out by himself.

As a result, he had just left the study, and as soon as he returned to the hall, he accidentally bumped into the owner of the mansion who claimed to be on business and went upstairs to deal with it.

Facing Gao Jixuan who was obviously stunned, Lu Ci generously put down the teacup in his hand, and greeted with a smile: "If Shunju needs anything, you don't have to come out in person, just ring the bell to call the servant."

His expression was calm, and he didn't let Gao Jixuan think in the direction of the real reason why he appeared here - it was all because he was curious about what Di Qing, who brought friends of similar age back home as a guest, would chat with them about things that adults shouldn't listen to. Just a topic.

Faced with the gentle smile on Ren Ruyu's face, Gao Jixuan felt an indescribable sense of oppression for some reason.

He exchanged a few pleasantries in embarrassment, then quietly retreated to the study.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he left, Lu Ci, who had been smiling slightly, also obviously relaxed a little bit.

so close.

Fortunately, he hid it and sent the person away in time, otherwise once Di Qing knew his intention to eavesdrop, would he lose face?

Even so, Lu Ci, who had a "guilty heart", still felt embarrassed to stay in the hall.

Anyway, because the wallboards were too thick, the movement in the study could not be heard at all. He simply suppressed his curiosity and went back to the study on the second floor, thinking about the congratulatory letter he should write to Liu Qi and Zhu Shuo on New Year's Day.

Gao Jixuan's sudden departure and return did not attract the attention of the two who were absorbed in reading.And after what he said just now, he didn't have the mood to make a fuss, he reluctantly picked a book with a decent title, sat down seriously, and started to read it.

...It's really interesting.

The three of them were rarely immersed in the sea of ​​books, as if they had the feeling of not knowing the age.

In the end, the servant got Lu Ci's instruction and knocked on the door of the study, breaking the silence.

Before Gao Yang and Yang could react, Di Qing, who knew that it was her grandfather who urged her to settle down, jumped up from her seat.

He strode to the bookcase in two big strides, and immediately pushed back the book, which was two pages away, without any hesitation, leaving them stunned.

For the first time, Gao Jixuan experienced the feeling of reading an interesting book, and he was really reluctant to put it down so quickly, so he wanted to hang on for a while.

Yang Wenguang was more direct. After closing the book, he asked Di Qing politely, "May I borrow this book?"

Di Qing nodded without thinking: "Grandfather has said, you can borrow as much as you want, don't damage it, don't be too cautious."

After Yang Wenguang said this, Gao Jixuan naturally and cheerfully answered: "Thank you very much, then I will borrow it too!"

Di Qing looked at him meaningfully, but did not tease him, but nodded quickly.

Both Gao Yang and Yang didn't notice that Di Qing's thoughts, whose expression remained unchanged, were actually not here long ago.

He was only in a hurry to return to Gongzu's place as soon as he finished his duty of receiving guests after leading the two of them to the guest room!

It is rare to have a few precious opportunities a year to sleep with the grandfather and have a conversation, but it must not be missed.

However, Di Qing never dreamed that people are not as good as heaven—Grandfather Lu was too considerate, so he asked his servants to put an extra wide bed in his room, and put it together with his original one.

In this way, not to mention that there are only three sleeping areas, even if there are four or five people lying down, there is no problem.

Di Qing: "..."

Gao Jixuan, who has always been good at observing words and expressions, failed to capture Di Qing's depressed mood that suddenly turned gray in an instant this time.

From the moment he stepped into this spacious and comfortable bedroom, which was furnished with exquisite thought, he never stopped marveling: "Even a temporary residence that you only come back for a few days a year is willing to arrange it so well for you. I really don’t know how much thought it took! Are you really not Lu Gongzu’s younger brother?”

Even those elder brothers who are absolutely blood related in Beijing can only beat and torture him, how could it be possible to treat him so well!

At this moment, Di Qing felt as if the sky was falling. Faced with this impolite question, he didn't think much about it, and just replied firmly: "No."

Gao Jixuan wandered around the room a few times in a strange way, before expending a little of his vigorous energy, sitting on the edge of the bed, sweeping silently and changing his bedding without saying a word. Yang Wenguang, who was concentrating on laying the quilt, went to Di Qing went around asking questions.

Di Qing was in a trance, and rarely answered his questions, until he heard Gao Jixuan asked a sentence that touched his nerves: "Your grandfather lived with friends all year round, didn't you feel that it hindered the marriage of Nami?"

Di Qing slowly rolled his eyeballs, fixedly fixed on Gao Jixuan.

Gao Jixuan was still ignorant of the danger, immersed in excitement and envy: "If it weren't for the fact that my sister in my family is too ugly, I'm sorry to be matched with a handsome talent, I can't help but be a matchmaker..."

Yang Wenguang was already lying on the bed in an orderly manner, with his hands flat on his chest, and he said in a rare voice: "If I remember correctly, it must be the Gao family who asked to go."

"That being said," Gao Jixuan chuckled, and after acquiescing, he couldn't help but say, "You're worrying too much. If you were a boring person like you, you might not be able to keep Madam, but put it on Lu Zhizhou However, such things are absolutely impossible to happen. How many people are there in the world who are as outstanding and beautiful as him? If there is any woman who is cruel and abandons him, she must be blind."

The teased Yang Wenguang didn't respond yet, still sleeping like an obedient baby, but Di Qing's eyes lit up, and he took a few steps forward without saying a word, stopped Gao Jixuan's neck with one arm, and took him away abruptly: "—Since you are not sleepy yet, follow me to the courtyard to practice."

The author has something to say: Notes:

About 'seeking to go':

Among the official and private documents unearthed in Dunhuang, there are more than a dozen "Wife Release Letters" from the Tang and Song Dynasties, which are also known as "divorce letters" in the common saying.

Choose one to exhibit now:

Gai Wen's husband is a heavenly wife and a land, and he was born in the third generation.Male yin (yang) and female yang (yin) are married under the six rituals.Reason, kindness and righteousness are deep, and greed and love are strong.Stay together and hold the white head in life, and be the same as the loess after death.When the two loves complain, they hate each other a lot. There is no mutual joy between Qin and Jin, but there is parting hatred between Chen and Chen.Pay off the red rope, not the shade of the tree, don't live in the same family, and meet today, but the second is to be enemies and not to get together.However, the family assets are few and many, and the family work is gradually unable to survive.Today, the elders of the village who are married to each other, and their wife, Ameng, are equal to everyone, and they are sentenced to separation. Don’t send the husband to lead the rich and rich. Deed of longevity.After thinking about it, forget about the disturbance. The sages have proved it.If you are afraid of the future and have no faith, you will have this diploma.A brief description of the cause is used to verify the appointment.

This is a divorce agreement between a wife named "Ameng" and her husband "Fuying".Careful scholars have noticed that this "Wife Release Letter" is actually a "Husband Release Letter". It can be seen from the statement that it was his wife, Ameng, who invited her in-laws and neighbors to come to uphold justice, witness the divorce of the husband and wife, and "sweep out" her husband Fuying.

("Feng Ya Song: Visible Great Song Civilization")