Forget it

After the Waking of Insects, the weather is getting warmer.

Mr. Liu, Yin of Fengxiang Mansion, frowned, and hurriedly walked towards the inner courtyard with his head down.

He turned a blind eye to the peach red and white pears outside the veranda, and he didn’t hear the birds chirping, only the regrets and regrets in his heart that he urgently needed to confide to Mrs. Liu, and he didn’t even know that the letter of speech in his hand was crumpled by him.

Stepping through the hanging flower gate, he bumped into a Shaoai.

This young man in a snow-blue brocade shirt and a jade crown walked around the lotus pond on the rockery and was about to go out when he raised his eyes and saw Master Liu coming in from the outside with a solemn expression. While wondering why his father was at home at this hour, he consciously stopped Standing on the porch.

Mr. Liu glanced at the people in the corridor, and suddenly he couldn't move, staring at them with frown.

The little man standing under the corridor is the youngest son of Mr. Liu, whose surname is Liu, his name is Ziyi, and his style name is Ziyi. Last year Zhongdong Wang had just performed the coronation ceremony.

Master Liu and his wife have six sons, two boys and four girls.

The eldest son, Liu Ai, was in his early twenties, obtained his fame and became an official in the court, and now he has settled down in the capital.

The four daughters successively betrothed the young talents in Fengxiang Mansion, so that they could take care of their husbands and teach their children at home.

Now Mrs. Liu and his wife are surrounded by only this old young son.

In the year Liu Xi was born, it happened that his elder brother was a Jinshi in high school and entered Beijing to be an official.The Liu family's double happiness came to the door, and many people came to congratulate them at once, and they stepped on the threshold of Liu's mansion.

Master Liu sat tall in the main hall, stroking his beard to show off his face, but in just three days, five fine lines appeared.

Master Liu had a son when he was old, and the Liu family already had successors, so he unconsciously loved the youngest son a little more, put away the strictness of educating the eldest son back then, and became a little more doting and loving.

Ever since, Liu Zi was born among daughters, without the discipline of his father and brother. He was doted on by his mother and sisters since he was a child. As time went by, he finally grew up to be a dandy with only one heart and one mind.

Last year, Liu Wu went back to Fengxiang Mansion to attend his younger brother's coronation ceremony, and was very worried about Liu Xiaoliu's playful and dispirited demeanor, so he had a long talk with Master Liu all night long.

After all, Master Liu has been a loving father to his youngest son for 20 years, so he suddenly became strict, and he couldn't adapt to it.

Therefore, after the crowning ceremony, he was still allowed to hang out with a group of drinking and meat friends all day long. Although he was often called to lecture him, he was not really restrained after all.

Now Mr. Liu looked coldly at Liu Xi standing on the porch, the pretentious and well-behaved appearance he was used to seeing suddenly made him feel dazzling at this moment.I have raised my son for 20 years, and he is dressed in such gorgeous clothes all day long, even if I close my eyes, I will know where he is going.

Holding the letter of speech issued by the imperial court in his hand, Mr. Liu became furious. For a while, he was so angry that he couldn't control it. He pointed at Liu Xiaoliu and reprimanded him.

Liu Xi was also a fool at the end of the scolding.

Since the end of the year, my father has been uncharacteristically calling himself to lecture him from time to time, but he has always been gentle and persuasive. He has never been so angry, emotionally intense, and resentful in his eyes, as if he is not the son he has raised for 20 years. It was the son of a political enemy he had raised for 20 years!

Liu Zi stood in the corridor with his head down and his heart down. After Master Liu sternly reprimanded Ji Yan, he seemed to relieve the suffocation in his chest, let out a long breath, and said earnestly, "Liu Ziyi, I don't expect you to suddenly become enlightened. , studying hard, but these years have really indulged you, and you are used to the stinking problem of a frivolous prodigal son!"

Liu Zi rolled his eyes, grasping the point of today's scolding.

Brows loosened, and with another long sigh, Mrs. Liu took a breather, "Forget it, you don't go to those smoky places in the future. If you have time, you...go to the outskirts of the city, to... visit the old farmer in Yugu."

After saying that, Master Liu went away dejected.

After listening to his father's lecture, Liu Xi was shocked into a cold sweat, watched his father go away, quickly slipped out of the second door, ordered his horse to be prepared, whipped the horse quickly, and fled to Yanliu Lane to seek refuge.

Green smoke curls up from the top of the gilt bronze Boshan furnace, and the light gauze curtains are interlaced and overlapped.

The rain and fog outside the window just stopped for a day, the sun has not yet risen, and the dark clouds linger.

The pavilion-like loquat tree in the courtyard was refreshed, and the birds hiding in the porch eagerly landed on the branches, squeaking and screaming.

Liu Xun turned over on the large hollow-work carved couch, the blue silk spilled out of the soft pillow, the brocade quilt beneath him was wrinkled, and the already loose tunic was half-kneaded, and he moaned uncontrollably. Moaning, the aching head and cramping stomach after a hangover made him unbearable, and he turned over again, revealing his white chest.

Hearing movement in the room, two maidservants held the small wooden case and pushed open the lattice door and walked in. The two walked around the mica screen, and one put the wooden case in his hand on the five-screen mirror stand, and turned to lick incense for the incense burner. , Raise the veils, raise the bamboo curtains, set up and close the windows, and let the birds come into the house.The other went straight to the bedroom, hung up layers of light gauze curtains, and coaxed the young man who was still rolling on the bed to change his clothes and wash his hands.

Liu Xi sat at the table with his drowsy head propped up, and the old steward personally served a bowl of porridge with three fresh spring bamboo shoots and shredded chicken. After Liu Xi drank the porridge and half a cup of strong tea, he felt better.

The old steward waited for Liu Xi to finish his tea and dinner, leaning on the rose chair by the window in a daze, and then calmly spoke out the order Master Liu had left before he went to the yamen in the morning.

"Lang Jun, the master has a fate. The master said that drinking and drinking hurts the body. The husband has been seriously injured recently. The air in the mountains is fresh, which is the most suitable for health. The husband must go outside Qiaotou Village today to visit the old farmer in the valley."

"Ah~" Liu Xi sighed softly, looked at the two sparrows on the branch of the loquat tree that were pecking each other's feathers, and said sadly, "Understood, please ask Uncle Li to prepare the horse for me, I will tidy up and set off immediately .”

The old steward didn't believe his words at all, and stayed where he was with a blank expression, "Master has already sent a post to the old farmer in Sumiya, sir, don't struggle, hurry up and leave."

Liu Xi became even more sad, sighed, looked away from the sparrow, got up and straightened his clothes, and looked at the old steward sadly, "Oh, I see, please prepare the horse, Uncle Li, I'm going out now."

Liu Xi didn't expect that a year had passed, and his father's desire for him to befriend the old farmer in Sumiya did not diminish at all, and became more and more intense.He couldn't figure it out, how would he make friends with a young man and an old man?

Want to make a confidant?

Speaking of this old farmer in Sumiya, there are really some interesting things.

A year ago, a demoted Beijing official went to Fengxiang Mansion as an official.As soon as the news came out, the romantic talents in the mansion rushed to tell each other, making an appointment to wait for someone to arrive, and come to visit together.

However, man is not as good as heaven, and this demoted Beijing official never lived in the mansion that the government bought for him.

As soon as the Beijing officials arrived in Fengxiang Mansion, they asked people to buy a one-acre three-cent land under Daishan in the outskirts of the city, handed over an application to the yamen for being weak and sick, and needed to rest in bed, and lived outside the city.Calling himself an old farmer in Yugu, he threw away his hands and went away busy farming.

Even so, the celebrities who were excited to visit at the beginning were not discouraged. They changed into suave clothes and hats, got in a four-wheeled carriage, and rushed to the outskirts of the city.It's just that when people arrived at the outskirts of the city, they were driven back by an earthen tablet erected in Qiaotou Village before they found out where the old farmer's Yiwei hut at the foot of Daishan was located.

Of course Liu Xun was not one of the celebrities who went to visit, he heard these interesting stories from the embroidered bed of Mrs. Bi Yang in Liuxiangyuan.