ordinary people's house

After the sergeants carrying heavy boxes climbed up the mountain slowly, Xiao Dulang didn't care about his younger brother and son-in-law walking slowly, as if walking on flat ground, and disappeared after a while.

Xiao Yunlang said out of breath, "Fortunately, it's not as hot as it used to be, otherwise I'll die of pain."

Lin Yulan said: "Let me carry you behind my back."

"No, you can walk slowly with me. Let's rest at the big rock in front. I feel that I have eaten a lot recently, and I have become a little fat. You will be tired if you carry me... I can't eat like this when I go back. Already!" Xiao Yunlang vowed.

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

The two walked for a while, stopped for a while, Xiao Dulang had already gone up the mountain to drink two cups of tea, the two of them saw the top of the mountain, Lin Yulan comforted Xiao Yunlang, "Look, we are almost there."

"...There is still a long way to go."

"Take a break."

"Forget it, let's go all out!"

Lin Yulan smiled and said, "Okay."

The two of them walked up slowly holding hands, the mountain breeze was cool, when they reached the top of the mountain, Xiao Yunlang sighed: "Elder Brother originally asked Second Brother to accompany us, we are the husband and wife who came to discuss with the Liu family, but now it is us It's late again."

Xiao Yunlang said: "Anyway, when we get married, we will be guided by the ceremonial officer in the palace. We don't need to set down every detail of the rules. When the time comes, the Liu family will also be accompanied by the nanny."

"Too."

Liu Lin'er was locked in by his mother today, and he was not allowed to come out to make trouble. Liu Lin'er was reading a book in the room unhappy. He heard more and more lively voices outside, and paced dissatisfiedly. When it was afternoon, The maid came in with cakes, and Liu Lin'er slipped out.

Xiao Su only gave Xiao Dulang half a day off, and Xiao Dulang took him away shortly after delivering the things. Xiao Yunlang and Lin Yulan strolled casually on the mountain after dinner, and saw Liu Lin'er coming out from a certain corner , Xiao Yunlang beckoned, called Liu Lin'er over, and said with a smile, "I haven't seen you all this time, where have you been?"

"I'm locked up," Liu Lin'er smiled foolishly, "Have the others left?"

"Well, just the two of us."

"Great, I'll take you to the back mountain to play later."

Xiao Yunlang said: "Lin'er, you are all about to get married, why are you so unsteady?"

Liu Lin'er immediately said, "Hmph, you're going to call me brother in a few months."

Xiao Yunlang let out a "puchi" laugh, pointed at Liu Lin'er and said to Lin Yulan, "That's true, but I couldn't remember it at all before, as if he should be the younger brother."

Liu Lin'er looked at the two of them with a smile, "Quickly call brother to listen."

Xiao Yunlang turned his head to look at him, and said with a smile, "I can't scream."

With a straight face, Liu Lin'er feigned anger and said, "See how I discipline you."

Xiao Yunlang laughed out loud.After a while, the servants of the Liu family invited a few people to drink tea. Liu Lin'er walked in front to lead the way, turned around and said, "You are here today. A friend of my father's is also a guest on the mountain. He is a master of incense. It should be burning incense."

Xiao Yunlang didn't know much about incense, but he had heard it from Miss Zhu Er before.

Liu Liner’s friend is the Great Monk from the next mountain. Liu Lin’er thought that his father asked him to drink tea, but when he went there, he found out that his father had asked him to serve tea to entertain the guests. : "I didn't know there were so many friends here this time, so I just took a few sticks of agarwood."

Xiao Yunlang didn't know the identity of this master, so he sat down curiously, "I didn't know the way of incense in the past, and it's rare to see it by chance."

The great monk set up the incense burner and inserted a very fine agarwood. Xiao Yunlang watched quietly. After the incense was lit, the incense cloud rose gracefully. Xiao Yunlang had never seen such a scene before. The fine incense burned very quickly, and the incense cloud was like The immortals above the nine heavens danced wantonly in their toga and sleeves, like a beauty left behind in the world, walking slowly along the river.Xiangyun floated towards Xiao Yunlang, the great monk suddenly smiled and said: "This little friend is calm."

Xiao Yunlang looked at him curiously, the great monk said: "Scent knows people's hearts."

Xiao Yunlang couldn't help stretching out a hand, a wisp of fragrant cloud came to his hand, and dissipated after a while, Xiao Yunlang propped his chin, his eyes followed the fragrant cloud, it didn't know how long it took until the fragrance dissipated, and Xiao Yunlang realized A piece of agarwood has been burned out.

The monk lit another one, "Did you feel the fragrance?"

Xiao Yunlang nodded and said: "It's different from the incense I used before, only the fresh air of wood."

"Agarwood is the most calming, and it doesn't have any pleasant scent," the great monk took the tea brought by Liu Lin'er, and said with a smile, "If you like it, you can go to Xiaoxiang Temple in the future. There are still others in the monk's place. Less smells better."

Xiao Yunlang said with a smile: "I'm just an ordinary person, I'm afraid of polluting the pure land of Buddhism, today this time is already my destiny."

The great monk smiled and didn't say anything else. Everyone Liu drank the tea made by his son, shook his head and said with a smile: "I see, even you are often not in the temple. How can I find you when I invite people?"

Liaojue rubbed his head, and said to Xiao Yunlang: "I'll give you some good incense sticks some other day, I came to see this old thing today, but I didn't bring out any good ones."

Everyone Liu said displeasedly: "Tonight, don't stay here to eat my vegetarian meal."

Liu Lin'er's mother, Mrs. Zheng, also prepared a lot of dowry for Liu Lin'er, but according to Liu Lin'er's father's wishes, as little as possible, the Xiao family will never lack Lin'er anyway, Liu Lin'er doesn't care, Hanging around the mountains with Xiao Yunlang and his wife all day long, his mother has given him the rules he needs to learn, and now it is the last month of his stay at home, and Mrs. Zheng has followed him.

After Liu Lin'er and Xiao Mulang got married, Xiao Yunlang should call him elder brother, but Liu Lin'er really didn't look like the eldest son, Zhengjun. Although he had always wanted Xiao Yunlang to call him "Brother Liu", he would call him "Brother Liu" if he didn't pay attention. Said: "Third brother... no! Yunlang!"

Xiao Yunlang couldn't help laughing.

After staying on the mountain for a few days, Xiao Yunlang and Lin Yulan bid farewell together. When they were about to reach the bottom of the mountain, it suddenly started raining. The mountain road was slippery. Lin Yulan carefully supported Xiao Yunlang. When the two went down the mountain, they were both wet. The carriage at Xiao's house was already waiting at the foot of the mountain. Lin Yulan helped Xiao Yunlang get into the carriage, and said, "Go back quickly and change your clothes."

The coachman said, "You know it, little one."

Xiao Yunlang sneezed and felt a little cold. He leaned against Lin Yulan and said with a smile, "I don't know how our house is doing these days?"

"The house next door is big, and it may take a long time to repair it." Lin Yulan said casually.

"Oh."

Lin Yulan was so anxious that she finally got home and asked someone to boil water to cook ginger soup. Xiao Yunlang said from behind, "Don't worry, I'm fine."

"You can't eat well these days, you should have seen a doctor long ago..." Lin Yulan found clean clothes for him, "Don't get gonorrhea again."

"I'm really fine. You forgot that I ate so much a while ago. If you eat less, eat less."

Lin Yulan said: "If you eat too much, you will grow some meat, but if you eat too little, it will not work."

Xiao Yunlang sat and waited helplessly, Wen'er and Taozi were much more mature than when they first came here, and they could support the door when the two masters were not at home, Wen'er asked someone to prepare hot water, and then came to serve Xiao Yunlang After taking a bath, he couldn't help saying trivially: "Fortunately, you have been out these few days. It is always very noisy during the day. We have a lot of female relatives here. I am afraid that the craftsmen will bump into the girls rashly, so I asked a few boys to guard them. But yesterday Manager Xu came and said that the two houses should be merged into one, so we can't just repair one side, and said that we need to look at the layout of this side, and start ground work."

Xiao Yunlang thought about this a long time ago, nodded and said: "This is what it should be... Well, you guys pack up and go back to the uncle's residence for a few days."

"Hey, I see... But, those new little girls, I'm afraid they don't understand the rules."

Xiao Yunlang said with a smile: "It's in Meiyuan, there are not so many rules, just watch them and don't tell them to wander around. Brother is getting married soon, I'll go back and see if there is anything I can do to help."

"En." Wen'er nodded, and was about to go out with Xiao Yunlang's changed clothes, when she suddenly remembered something, her footsteps paused, she hesitated for a while, but still did not speak to Xiao Yunlang.

On the other side, Taozi cooked ginger soup and brought it to Lin Yulan. When Wen'er passed by her, she gave her a cold look and snorted.

Tao Zi looked at her, lowered her head, and said nothing.

Xiao Yunlang took a bath and drank ginger soup, Lin Yulan said worriedly: "Otherwise, I'd better see a doctor, you haven't been eating well lately..."

"I didn't feel anything, it's probably because the weather is getting colder, don't worry about it." Xiao Yunlang went to see the craftsmen repairing the house, and suddenly felt that the smell of lacquer tree juice was disgusting, so he stepped back a few steps: "I don't like this The smell, it will take a few days to get rid of the smell after painting, so let's go out and live for a few days."

"Okay." Lin Yulan nodded. There were people coming and going in the house, and Xiao Yunlang couldn't rest well.

On the second day, Xiao Yunlang received news that his grandmother had gone to Xiao Mulang's house to see Xiao Mulang's new house, so he called Lin Yulan and planned to visit Xiao's house too.

Mrs. Du brought her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ji, and several young ladies. Many of the girls in the Yuan family have reached the age of marriage. When Mrs. Du and Mrs. Ji walked around recently, they would already bring them with them.After Yuan Ruheng was selected as the empress, the people who came to Yuan's family to propose marriage were like Jiang Zhiqing. Madam Du did not dare to be sloppy, and went to inquire one by one, but so far she has not selected a few suitable ones.Mrs. Du is not the only one who is too prominent, Yuan Shenyan is also reluctant, and the man from a small family is really not promising, and the Yuan family will not agree.According to Mrs. Du, there are many poor children in Beijing who have achieved fame. Chunwei will give it a try next year, and he will definitely not wrong the Miss Yuan's family in the future. However, several aunts and daughters-in-law are anxious and refuse Marry your daughter to a poor family.

Mrs. Du was suffering from a headache, and recently she often took the girls out, thinking that if there was a suitable one, it would be fine to make a decision.

Xiao Yunlang hadn't eaten anything in the morning, so when he arrived at Xiao's house, he went to the kitchen to find Uncle Huang, and asked Uncle Huang to get him some pastries. Dumplings to eat."

"Okay."

Uncle Huang finished the things in a while and served them in a delicate cup. Xiao Yunlang thanked him and took them out to share with Lin Yulan. He lifted the lid on the road, and the smell of wine came out, but Xiao Yunlang frowned. Suddenly feel no appetite.

He gave the food to Lin Yulan, and Lin Yulan asked, "Aren't you going to eat?"

Xiao Yunlang shook his head.

Lin Yulan said: "You go to see grandma first, and then I will go to the kitchen to see if there is anything else to eat."

Xiao Yunlang said: "Suddenly I don't want to eat anything, forget it, go directly to greet my grandmother."

Lin Yulan had no choice but to say: "Okay, what do you want to eat, tell the kitchen earlier."

"Hmm... Later, ask someone to ask if there are any pickled plums. I want to eat some sour ones."

"it is good."

Xiao Yunlang went to greet Mrs. Du, Xiao Su was also in the mansion today, and was walking around the mansion with his mother-in-law, and Mrs. Ji and others were accompanied by Mrs. Yuan.When Xiao Yunlang saw Mrs. Du, he trotted over happily. Mrs. Du smiled and waved: "I heard that you have gone to the mountain. How are the Liu family's preparations going?"

"Master Liu has always been frugal. Lin'er's dowry contains many ancient books and books, and there are not many vulgar things like gold and silver."

Xiao Su nodded and said, "It should be like this."

Mrs. Du nodded, she looked Xiao Yunlang up and down, "Yunlang seems to be getting fat."

Xiao Yunlang said with some embarrassment: "I haven't eaten much recently, it seems that I was a little out of control some time ago."

"Oh." Madam Du was thoughtful.