Evening Shaohua in the Red House

Jia Lan was intelligent by nature, and now he understood, nodded and said, "Student understands."

Although there are many dandies in the Imperial College who are sent by noble families to dawdle, most of them still have young talents with real talents and practical learning, and these classmates and friends are each other's future contacts.

Seeing that Jia Lan understood what he meant, Shen Yi felt very relieved, patted him on the shoulder lightly, and said, "Tell your mother about this matter after you go home, don't worry about the rest, I will make arrangements for it. "

Guozijian is the highest institution of learning in this dynasty. According to regulations, only tribute students or yin students are eligible to study in the prison. Among them, tribute students are selected from the students by various prefectures, states and counties with excellent grades, while yin students rely on their fathers and grandparents. Children of officials and eunuchs who have been imprisoned for their official positions.

In addition, there are Enjian who are admitted to the prison with the emperor's special permission, and those who are called donated to the prison for donating property, and as long as they are supervisors, they can participate in the rural examination.

With the rank and status of the Rongguo Mansion, there is naturally a quota for Yin Sheng. Not to mention Shen Yi's network background, Li Shouzhong once offered wine to the Imperial Academy. Although he has retired, he still has connections. Arranging Jia Lan to go in is simply a piece of cake. .

But Jia Lan didn't need to go through these paths. He was selected as a scholar at a young age, and his ranking was excellent, which met the requirements of the Imperial College.Shen Yi also just greeted Jia Lan and told Jia Lan to take the exam openly and aboveboard, and then she would go in with her real skills and will not be taken lightly.

Shen Yi almost watched Jia Lan grow up. The two were called masters and apprentices, and they were like father and son. Thinking of the jumble of fish and dragons in the Imperial College, he felt a little worried. After thinking about it, he asked: "Even if you don't study with me anymore, You are still my apprentice, if you have anything you don’t understand, you can still ask me, remember, the purpose of going to the Imperial College is to study, and you are absolutely not allowed to mess around with those dudes, otherwise I will never forgive you if you find out. If someone bullies you, or encounters any troubles, don’t be afraid, there will be a teacher for you.”

Jia Lan's heart warmed upon hearing this, and she agreed with a smile: "Teacher, don't worry, I understand."

Now that I have decided to go to the Guozijian, I have to tell Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang. After Jia Zheng knew it, he agreed very much and agreed. Although Mrs. Wang was reluctant to give up, she didn't say anything more for the sake of her grandson's future. On the first floor, Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang both agreed, and there was no objection.

Back in Daoxiang Village at night, Jia Lan told Li Wan about it.

Li Wan couldn't help sighing after hearing this: "Mr. Shen is still thoughtful, Lan Er

, Mr. Shen has worked so hard for you so far, you will have to repay others well in the future. "Before, she just blindly asked Jia Lan to study, but ignored the most important contacts and communication. Fortunately, Shen Yi was careful and thought of everything.

Li Wan was very grateful for this. Shen Yi could be said to have played the role of a father these years, not only teaching Jia Lan to read and write, but also teaching him to behave in the world, leading him to socialize, and worrying about his future for him. Even mothers have to pay attention.

Jia Lan nodded and said: "Mom doesn't need to tell me. As the saying goes, a teacher for one day is a father for life. The teacher treats me as if he is his own. I will always remember this kindness in my heart, and I will definitely be filial to his old man in the future."

All these years, his conduct in the world has been taught by Shen Yi, and the status of a teacher in his heart is actually no different from that of his father.

In the next few days, Jia Lan stopped going to Shen's residence and only studied at home to prepare for the imperial examination.

Mrs. Jia Muwang had already passed down the message, telling Jia Lan to just prepare for the exam with peace of mind, and she would be exempted from the morning and evening appointments.

Li Wan took care of Jia Lan's diet every day, urged him to go to bed on time, exercise at the right time, and never questioned him about his homework.

Jia Lan already had a solid foundation in his heart. Seeing his mother like this, he was even more determined. He read books and practiced riding and shooting every day with peace of mind.

Although he is young, he has been taught by Shen Yi for many years, his knowledge is not inferior to others, and his mentality is very stable and peaceful. The court test is not too difficult for him, and he also won the first place in the subsequent riding and archery test. After finishing, he had an idea in mind, just waiting for the result.

Three days later, the results of the imperial examination came out, and Jia Lan passed it smoothly and was among the best.

Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang were overjoyed, and Jia's mother was even more delighted, so she wanted to set up wine and sing operas to celebrate, but Li Wan persuaded her again and again in the name of being inconvenient to make public, and just had two tables of noodles for her family.

After that, Jia Lan officially entered the Imperial College to study, leaving early and returning late.

But Li Wan had something on his mind, and his life became more leisurely again. Every day, apart from taking care of the morning and evening, and occasionally dealing with Zhuangzi's affairs, the rest of the time he just read books for leisure.

At that time, it had entered the winter moon, and the weather was getting colder. In the afternoon of this day, it suddenly began to snow heavily. In less than half a day, the ground was covered with silvery white. At night, the sound of the snow pressing on the pine branches could be faintly heard.

The next day, when it was dawn, Li Wan woke up dimly, and saw that the sky was bright outside the window, thinking that he had slept until the sun was up, and he was dazed for a while before remembering the heavy snow last night, most likely it was snow light outside.

At this time, the maids and wives also got up one after another, so that the old wives were already sweeping the snow in the yard, and only one person said with a smile: "I didn't expect that the first event this year

The snow fell so heavily that it was a foot thick. "

Another woman said with a smile: "As the saying goes, 'auspicious snow heralds a good year', this year is bound to be a good one."

Li Wan lay on the bed and listened for a while before sitting up and getting dressed.

Suyun heard the commotion outside, and hurriedly called Wutong: "Bring hot water to help grandma wash up."

Indus agreed to go.

So Suyun came to the inner room, raised the curtain and hooked it with a copper hook, and said with a smile: "Grandma is sleeping well, I was just about to wake up Grandma."

Li Wan brushed her hair on her temples and said, "What time is it?"

Suyun brought soft-soled warm shoes with embroidered soft soles from the fumigation cage, and said with a smile, "It's already three quarters."

Li Wan was startled when he heard the words: "It's so late?"

Suyun said with a smile: "Anyway, the old lady and the wife are not asking grandma to say hello today, so it's okay to go to bed late."

Because of the heavy snow yesterday, Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang talked to save everyone from the morning and evening, and Li Wan was able to sleep in because of this.

Just as he was talking, Biyue lifted the curtain and came in, stomping her feet and saying, "Hey, this weather is really going to freeze people's bones!"

Li Wan asked, "Isn't it snowing now?"

Biyue hurriedly went to the side of the smoker cage to warm her hands, Fang came over to help serve, said: "It's not snowing anymore, the sun is out, but it's still very cold."

Suyun smiled and said: "The sun in this winter only looks warm, but it's actually just a decoration, so there's no warmth."

While talking, Wu Tong brought two little girls in with hot water towels, Bi Yue rolled up Li Wan's sleeves, and covered his neckline with a big towel, after washing for a while, Bi Yue helped Li Wan comb her hair.

After tidying up, Suyun suddenly came out holding a piece of clothing, and said with a smile: "It's been cold these few days, but it happened that there was a piece of excellent mink fur in the delivery from my son Zhuangzi, so I made a snowcoat for grandma." Coat, grandma, see if you like it."

After all, he unfolded his clothes and looked at Li Wan, but it was a dark blue brocade mink fur coat with two breasts. The neckline was decorated with plum blossom-shaped lace silk inlaid with pearls, one gold collar button and five pearl buttons. The neckline and sleeves are inlaid with wind wool, and the gold satin edge with plum pattern in yuan cyan is inlaid from the outside to the inside, which is very elegant.

Li Wan liked it very much the first time he saw it, and immediately changed out of the stone-blue mottled Japanese satin jacket, and took a look in the mirror. The purple mink jacket against the pine-flower silk jacket made him look more solemn and elegant, and his heart was extremely Satisfied, he nodded and smiled and said, "The colors and patterns of the clothes are very good, you have a heart."

Suyun pursed her lips and smiled, "As long as grandma likes it."

Li Wan smiled slightly, from the dowry

He casually took a gold-plated silver hairpin inlaid with precious flowers and butterflies and handed it to her, saying: "It's hard for you in the cold weather, take this hairpin and wear it." After that, he picked a turquoise ring with a gold backing And Biyue, "Take this ring, Biyue."

Both of them knew that Li Wan had a rich body and was very generous to those who served him, so they didn't refuse at the moment, they took it with a smile, and said with a smile, "Thank you grandma for the reward."

After washing up, a woman brought breakfast. Li Wan was not too hungry, so he just ate two mouthfuls of japonica rice porridge and a few snacks.

After breakfast, Li Wan leaned on the kang and read a book. When he was tired, he looked out the window and saw that the women had already taken their own brooms and swept away the snow in the courtyard according to the boundaries of their respective divisions. Lu Lai, it was snowing and the sky was clear at this time, and a round of sun was shining through, shining brightly on the silver clothes all over the ground.

After reading for a while, Li Wan felt bored again, and was about to go to Qiushuangzhai for a visit, when Suyun hurriedly took a fox fur cloak and put it on with her.

Li Wan hugged a double-deer hand stove with painted enamel crabapple flowers in his arms, and just went out. He saw Tanchun wearing a gorilla felt cloak, carrying a Guanyin pocket, supporting a little girl, and a woman behind her wearing a handful of blue silk. Umbrella, come slowly.

Suyun hurriedly put away the umbrella, and said with a smile: "It's a coincidence, the third girl is here, and grandma doesn't have to go there."

Li Wan also felt strange, so he stood still and waited at the door. When Tanchun came over, he smiled and said, "I was going to talk to my third sister, but you just came here." He smiled and let him into the room.

Tanchun took off his cloak and hood, and said with a smile, "I came here today to ask my sister-in-law."

Li Wan was asking the girl to serve tea, he was startled when he heard this, and said with a smile: "What's the matter? I want you to come here in a snowy day?"

Tanchun took a sip of hot tea and said with a smile: "My sister-in-law also knows that I have been helping Sister Feng with the housework recently, and it is almost the end of the year, and there are so many things going on everywhere, but Brother Zhi is sick, Sister Feng Ping'er and Ping'er can't get away these few days, and they have to check the accounts again, I think only sister Biyue is familiar with these things in our house except Ping'er, so I want to borrow someone from my sister-in-law to help with the cooking for two days."

Ever since Sister Feng had a son, she had everything she needed to do with her son, and Zhige was still young, so she couldn't leave her mother for a moment, so now Tanchun helped take care of everything in the family.

Tanchun is a caring person. He had long been dissatisfied when he saw the chaos in the mansion, so since he was the housekeeper, he has been very attentive to everything, and took the opportunity to rectify the bad habits of the servants. Re-establishing the rules, although it will inevitably provoke complaints from all the servants,

But the atmosphere in the mansion has indeed improved a lot.

Both Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang were very satisfied with this. With Tanchun's support, she has more confidence in her actions. Now she is making decisions in the mansion, saying what she says is the same, and the servants are more afraid of Sister Feng than Sister Feng.

Li Wan naturally refused to do anything, and said with a smile: "It's easy, anyway, Biyue is fine at home, my sister can just ask her to go."

Tanchun was overjoyed, and thanked him quickly.

Li Wan then turned to Bi Yue and said, "You go and help the third girl cook for a few days, and come back after checking the bill."

Biyue agreed, and immediately packed up her dowry and moved to Qiushuangzhai.

Standing in front of the window, Li Wan looked at Tanchun's receding figure, and sighed secretly in his heart, Tanchun's temperament was sharp, and he was decisive.

Calculating according to the time of the original book, Jia's family still has a few years to go before its downfall, and Tanchun's marriage must be arranged as soon as possible, otherwise it may be difficult to escape the fate of marriage.

Thinking of this, Li Wan made up his mind and went to Sister Feng to discuss the matter in two days, to see if there was any way to help Tanchun.

The heavy snow fell and stopped, stopped and fell, and did not gradually stop until the fourth day.

On this day, Li Wan went to pay his respects to Jia Mu. As soon as he entered the house, there was a big brazier with elephant-nosed three-legged loach and flowing gold enamel. There was also a wolf fur mattress. Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, Aunt Xue, etc. were sitting, and Baoqin Tanchun and others were sitting on both sides, talking and laughing with Jia Mu.

Li Wan invited Ann, and Tanchun sisters and others also got up to see the ceremony. After sitting down for a while, Jia's mother laughed and said, "It has snowed heavily for the past few days, and even my place has become quite deserted. In the past two days, the talents have become more complete."

Aunt Xue and the others all laughed and said, "Everyone is bored in the house these few days, thinking that the old lady's place is lively, so we came to make fun of it."

While chatting and laughing, I suddenly saw an old woman sent by General Shenwu's mansion, who came in with a prayer box in her hand, first greeted Mrs. Jia Muwang, and then Li Wan and others, Fang said: : "Our wife sent me to invite old ladies, wives, grandmas, and girls here. Our second master received the grace of the Holy Grace yesterday and was promoted to be a commissioned guard to join the army. Both our wife and our second grandma like it." It just so happens that a few plum blossoms in our garden are blooming well, so we decided to set up two banquets at home tomorrow, and invite relatives to come and have fun."

When Jia Mu heard this, she was very happy. She asked someone to pick up the worship box, and ordered someone to let it out to greet everyone. She smiled and said to everyone: "Look at this second girl.

She is taciturn, I often think that she is too weak-tempered, but she is a blessed person who has cultivated such a good husband's family. "

When her son-in-law was promoted, Mrs. Xing was complacent, and she felt that she had a bright face. Hearing this, she hurriedly smiled and said: "This is the old lady's good luck, and the second girl got good luck because of her being with her."

When Jia Mu heard this, she became more and more joyful. Thinking of what Li Wan and Sister Feng said yesterday about seeing Tanchun, she turned to Mrs. Wang and said, "It's a happy event for the second uncle to be promoted. Since he sent someone to invite you, you can come tomorrow." Let’s take the third girl and the others for a stroll, since their sisters stay in the house all day long and sleep, so they also go to see the second girl.”

Mrs. Wang agreed, and said with a smile, "That's what I mean too."

Tanchun and the others were happy when they heard the words, but on the other hand, the Feng family also sent a post to invite Daiyu.

Unexpectedly, Daiyu was enjoying the plum blossoms in the snow a few days ago, and she accidentally caught the wind and cold. She has been raising her in the house for the past two days. For the happy event, in terms of welcoming the spring, it would not be good not to go, but after thinking about it, I agreed.

But Gu Zhan came back from a banquet at his colleague's house. When he got back to the main room, he didn't have time to wash and change clothes, so he went to visit Daiyu first. When he walked to the door of Daiyu's upper room, he met Zijuan Bailu and lifted the curtain with some clothes.

The two couldn't help being surprised when they saw Gu Zhan, and hurriedly saluted.

Gu Zhan waved his hand and asked in a low voice, "Is grandma awake?"

Zijuan shook her head and whispered, "Still asleep."

Gu Zhan said: "I was too tired the past two days, you all go, I will take care of you here." After saying that, he lifted the embroidered curtain and went in.

Zijuan and Bailu looked at each other and smiled, and hurriedly winked at the maids and women serving in the room, everyone understood and quietly retreated.

Gu Zhan walked lightly into the house, saw the curtain with white silk and ink landscape patterns, walked gently to the front of the kang and opened the curtain, feeling a warm, fragrant and crisp human body, and saw Daiyu wearing green and silver red Thin spun silk jacket, water-green single silk gown, covered with red brocade begonia quilt, with black hair hanging on his shoulders, sleeping soundly on his side.

Gu Zhan sat on the edge of the kang and looked at it for a long time. When the cold was gone, he took off his boots, slept on the outside, and gently wrapped his arms around Daiyu's waist.

Daiyu woke up unconsciously. When she saw that it was Gu Zhan, she couldn't help being startled, and hurriedly asked: "Didn't you go to the banquet? Why are you back now?" As she spoke, she pulled the pillow out a little and let Gu Zhan sleep.

Gu Zhan fell asleep on the pillow, and said: "Master Song has something to do at home. I left early today. I was thinking about you. I came here to see how you feel now. You feel better.

Have? "

Daiyu said: "It's much better now, and the headache doesn't hurt anymore, but I don't know if it's because I slept too much, and my body is still a little sore."

After hearing this, Gu Zhan massaged her lightly, and the two of them lay face to face, muttering some whispers.

After a while, Zijuan knocked on the door and said, "Grandma, it's time to take your medicine." Daiyu realized that the two of them had been lying down for half a day, her face blushed slightly, and she gently pushed Gu Zhan: "Get up, the girls are waiting outside."

Gu Zhan smiled slightly, knowing that she was thin-skinned, he got up and put on his boots, first wrapped him in a brocade quilt and Daiyu, and then took the clothes from the red sandalwood carving rack beside him.

Once dressed properly, Gu Zhanfang went to open the door.

Zijuan and others filed in, seeing Daiyu's cheeks flushed, she just didn't know it, and said, "The medicine is getting cold, grandma, take it quickly."

Daiyu couldn't help frowning and said, "I'm already healed, so I don't need to eat this bitter juice?"

Gu Zhan sighed slightly, and said: "This is impossible, the previous son was burned like that, and Imperial Physician Liu specially ordered that he must finish these three prescriptions."

While talking, he took the medicine bowl from Zicuckoo and said, "Let me do it."

Zicuckoo pursed her lips and backed away with a smile.

Gu Zhan scooped up the medicine dregs floating on the bowl with a silver teaspoon, picked up the bowl to test whether it was hot or cold, then fed it to Daiyu's mouth, and coaxed, "It's just not hot, drink it quickly, it will cool down later It will be even more bitter." Then he told Egret, "Go and fetch a plate of preserved apricots."

Bailu smiled and agreed, and sure enough, he came over with a box containing various candied fruits and snacks, and said with a smile: "This is filled with the candied fruits that grandma likes to eat, I brought them all."

Zijuan and the others suppressed their smiles, their young lady was spoiled by the uncle, she was mature and prudent outside, but she was like a child at home, she had to be coaxed by the uncle whenever she took medicine.

Seeing that the maids were smiling all over their faces, Daiyu couldn't help giving Gu Zhan a look, and opened her mouth to drink the medicine. Zijuan hurriedly handed over a cup of warm water, and the little maid also brought a spittoon.

After Daiyu rinsed her mouth, Gu Zhan hurriedly picked up a candied apricot and put it in her mouth. Daiyu ate the candied fruit and drank a small cup of honey water, only to feel the bitterness in her mouth dissipate.

Xueyan had brought the little girls in with their washing things, and each of them was standing in front of Daiyu with hand mirrors, sips, hand towels, powder boxes, grease boxes and so on.

Daiyu licked her temples with her sip, evened her face, and dabbed a little rouge cream on her fragrant lips.

Gu Zhan looked at it with a smile, and saw that Daiyu was well groomed, and took a sprig of plum blossoms from the Ding kiln porcelain vase, and put them on her temples with her hairpin.

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They all went to pack their things, Gu Zhan suddenly remembered something, went to the desk to grind and write a piece of paper to send to Daiyu, and said with a smile: "I made this up today, I only got four sentences, can you see if you can continue? "

Daiyu took it, and saw that the title was "Ode to White Plum Blossoms", which was written in seven words and four sentences on the paper. Daiyu pondered for a moment, and she already had a draft in her heart, and said with a smile, "what's the difficulty?" Order Xueyan to study ink, pick up the pen to continue a poem and put it aside.

After watching it, Gu Zhan couldn't help being convinced, and said with a smile, "The idea is novel and ingenious, it doesn't fall into the mold, it's really unique."

Daiyu was very proud.

The two talked about poetry for a while, and suddenly Zijuan came over and asked, "I'm going to the banquet tomorrow. What clothes and jewelry does grandma want to wear? Let's arrange it together today, so as to save the trouble of getting up early tomorrow."

Daiyu said: "Just look at the cooking, just don't be too eye-catching."

Zicuckoo agreed to go, and went to clean up without mentioning it.

Gu Zhan frowned slightly when he heard this, and said, "Who posted another post? You are not feeling well now, so it's better to push away these social gatherings."

Daiyu laughed and said, "It's okay. I'm already in good health. After all, it's my second sister's husband's house. All the sisters will go. It would be a bit of a disappointment if I don't go alone. Anyway, I'll just sit down tomorrow and see the second sister." My sister will be back."

Gu Zhan nodded and said: "That's all right, you've been bored at home for a long time, so it's better to go out and relax."

While talking, they realized that it was getting late, the couple ate dinner and played a game of chess under the lamp before they packed up and went to bed, without a word for the whole night.

The author has something to say: After reading everyone's comments, I seem to have misunderstood it. Now I am just planning the ending, and there are still twelve endings to be written, Lange's marriage and son, the decline of Jia's family, etc. There are at least [-] more. The next chapter will not end so soon.

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