Jade of Rebirth

As the days approached the end of the new year little by little, the weather became colder and colder. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, it began to snow heavily in Kyoto.It just so happened that the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month was celebrating the new year, and every household was offering sacrifices to the stove. The heavy snow was so heavy that it was really inconvenient for people to walk.It's just that as the saying goes, "auspicious snow heralds a good year", but no one complained that the snow was not at the right time, and everyone's faces were full of joy for the New Year.

The family school had already stopped, and Yuli was writing under the window, wearing a thick brocade jacket.He has lost face in front of Mrs. Yu recently, so the manager doesn't dare to deprive him of his role.

"Young master!" Bisheng lifted a thick curtain and came in with a Tang lady in her arms, with a smile on her face, "Tang lady is here, please cover her hand so that your writing hands don't get cold."

"Where did Zhixue go? Why is there no one there?" Yuli stopped writing, took Mrs. Tang and held it in his arms. He was thin and unlike ordinary men, so he was a little afraid of the cold.

While stirring the silver charcoal in the stove for him, Bisheng smiled and said, "He, the young master Che from the second master's house in the West Mansion came just now. I don't know what's urgent, so he hurriedly dragged him away. I said: 'Bisheng, I'll borrow Zhixue to use it, you can tell brother Li'er!'"

Hearing this, Yu Li laughed and said, "He is a monk, he won't be able to do it for long."

"Hey, don't tell me, master." Bisheng stopped her movements and joked, "Zhixue has grown her hair recently, and she looks much better than when he was bald. If you dress better, people who don't know, still I really think he is the young master of some noble family!"

Yu Li couldn't help laughing more and more: "According to what you said, maybe he is the young master lost by some noble family!"

Both the master and the servant laughed together for a while, Bisheng seemed to remember something again, and said: "By the way, master, I just went to the warehouse to look for Mrs. Tang, and I saw a few maids hiding in the snow under the eaves, talking, you Guess what they said?"

"what?"

"They said that Aunt Zhao's face in Yilan Courtyard is getting worse and worse, and she can't see anyone anymore. The master went to see her once a few days ago, but she was so frightened that she ran away!" Bi Fan said vividly, " Therefore, Aunt Zhao's temper is getting worse and worse, and she smashes things every day, and the food sent by the girl and maidservant often falls on people, so she has been tossing more and more in the past few days!"

"She's already like this, so there's no response from Zhushoutang?" He didn't believe that Mrs. Li would let a crazy woman toss around in Yufu day and night, and if word spread, would their Yufu's reputation still be lost?Mrs. Li pays the most attention to the reputation in the mansion!

"I haven't heard of that. But according to the Yang family, the eldest lady is considering whether to let Aunt Zhao move out of the Yilan courtyard and move to the coldest Yingchun courtyard in the northwest corner." Bisheng said, thinking of something. Yes, with a meaningful smile on his face, "Master, you probably don't know that there was a concubine of the master who lived in the Yingchun courtyard before. After giving birth, the concubine hanged herself. I heard that the haunting is very serious. Therefore, it has been abandoned for a long time. If Aunt Zhao really went, wouldn't it be that the wicked will be punished by the wicked?"

Yuli listened and smiled coldly.

Yuzhangci had many concubines, but only Aunt Zhao gave birth to two sons, and she was quite eloquent, so she was very fond of Yuzhangci.However, she has shallow eyelids and is stupid. Although she doesn't have the heart to be a mistress, she often violates Qin's taboos. Therefore, although Qin is close to her on the surface, she is actually the one who fears her the most.Now that Aunt Zhao is in such a situation, it must be the Qin family who are most anxious to make trouble.

It's cheaper for the Qin family, Yuli thought.

The snow outside was getting heavier and heavier, and even the yard began to accumulate snow.

Yuli looked at the heavy snow fluttering like catkins outside the window, and remembered that Li Shi likes plum blossoms, so she asked Bishan, "Are the plum blossoms in the ink garden in the back?"

"I'm not sure about that. I have to ask Mama Qi. When she came from the big kitchen, she must have passed the ink garden. She naturally saw whether the plum blossoms were in bloom there."

As soon as Bisheng finished speaking, Zhixue's voice said:

"Who is asking plum blossoms?"

Yu Li was about to make fun of him when he saw Zhixue, Yu Che and Yu Qing walking in one after the other. Yu Qing was wearing a black cloak and hood, and was holding a bouquet of red plum blossoms in his arms.

Yu Che came in, without brushing off the snow from his body, and said with a smile: "You said it was a coincidence, we were picking plum blossoms, and brother Li'er asked about plum blossoms!"

"Why are you here on such a snowy day?" Yu Liqiao smiled.

"Staying at home is boring, so I might as well come to your place and have a meal." Yu Che said, sticking out his tongue at him.

Yuqing untied the cloak at the side, handed the plum blossoms to Yuli, and said: "The red plums I just picked, you can find a bottle to raise them."

Yuli took over Hongmei, but he was not very happy... He was not immersed in the environment of literati since he was a child, and now he studies hard to change his fate. He doesn't have much feeling for these elegant things .But he still said "thank you", then asked Bisheng to find a vase, and offered it up.

However, putting red plums in the room really adds a bit of elegance.

Yu Li tilted his head to look at it, and then said: "Grandmother likes red plums the most, if she picks some for decoration, she must be happy." Then, he said to Yu Qing, "Brother Qing, I don't know where I picked it. Take me with you?"

Yuqing was stunned, and then said: "It's in the ink garden, but there are only red plums in the ink garden. I know a place to go. There are Yutai Zhaoshui, Guhong Zhaoshui and Huangshan Huangxiang. If you want to go, I will take you with me now."

"Okay." Yu Li smiled and nodded.Then she said to Zhixue and Yu Che, "We'll come back as soon as we go, Zhixue, you ask Bisheng and Qi's mother to prepare hot pot, we can eat hot pot later."

"okay."

After dressing up, Yu Li and Yu Qing went out together. Yu Qing and Yu Che had come in a carriage when they came, and they happened to use the carriage to pass at this time.

Yuli was holding a hand stove and wearing a thick cloak, sitting in the spacious carriage, and asked Yuqing, "Where are we going?"

"I wonder if you have heard of 'Qingtong Academy'?" Yuqing asked.

"Qingtong Academy?" Yu Li thought for a while, and suddenly remembered where this Qingtong Academy was.

Qingtong Academy is the gathering place of famous literati and high-ranking hermits in the capital, such as Wu Miaoshui, a master of painting, Zhong Ming, a famous master of Qin, and many great poets, great poets, and bachelors of the Imperial Academy, etc. Therefore, there are many princes and nobles The children will go to Qingtong Academy together. Of course, if they don't have real talents in their stomachs, they will never dare to go, because it is easy to make a fool of themselves and lose face.What's more, the owner of Qingtong Academy is not easy to mess with. This owner is quite mysterious, and I don't know who it is. I only know that he has close relationships with many princes and important officials, and has strong financial resources, so he can recruit all kinds of talents.Some people even suspect that the owner is the current emperor... Emperor Zhangwu Yuanfeng!

Yu Li nodded, and asked again: "I remember that my eldest brother went there with Prince Qing's son Yuan Can. I heard that people who are not high-ranking officials and nobles with talents and learning are not allowed to enter. Brother Qing, how did you get in?"

Yuqing couldn't help but sneered when she heard Yuxuan, because he was also present when Yuxuan and Yuan Can made a fool of themselves last time.He said: "I study in the Imperial College, but all the students of the Imperial College can go in, but the owners of some rooms look down on the unknown soldiers of the Imperial College, so they don't let us in." He paused, and then said, "Thank you, Duke Wen, The grandson of the An family, Xie Huaiyang, is a classmate and good friend, and Xie Huaiyang's aunt is the concubine Shu, and some people in the academy will give a little favor, so as long as there is no owner's room or yard, we can come and go as we please."

Yu Li suddenly realized, and couldn't help but have some expectations for this mysterious place.