The Eighteenth Century of Xuyang in the Red Chamber

During lunch, because Lin Daiyu was not around, both Xu Yang and Mrs. Xu felt much deserted.After dinner, he read "University" at Mrs. Xu's place for a while, then he left and prepared to go back for a lunch break.

Unexpectedly, when Xu Yang walked to the gate of his courtyard, he saw five or six boys pulling two carts with a pile of familiar boxes piled up on them to transport them to his courtyard.A sharp-eyed young man hurriedly greeted him, and said, "A man from the bookstore came just now and asked to send a message to Master Biao to pay the bill. Aunt Meng saw it, so she asked the cashier to pay and let us bring it in for you."

Just as she was talking, Aunt Meng came over from a distance.Xu Yang hurried to catch up: "Why did Aunt Meng pay for me? I just didn't have so much with me, so I thought I'd ask him to bring it and I'll give it to him!"

Aunt Meng smiled and said: "I read the note you wrote, and it's a full 190 taels. How do you have so much money? Could it be that you want to spend all the lucky money in one go? This money is not spent indiscriminately, I can't tell Our family is going to produce a great painter! It is the same as the pen and ink you use, and should have been bought for you at home. The old master passed by Yangzhou in the same year and gave him a few inkstones. I saw that any one would cost 200 Two, you bought such a bunch of things for this price, it's a bargain!"

Xu Yang blushed and waved his hands again and again: "That's not the case, Aunt Meng, I'm ashamed of you being like this, it's just my hobby..."

But Aunt Meng interrupted him: "It's not my money, why are you embarrassed with me? If you are willing to make progress, the aunt and wife can only be happy. It doesn't matter whether you are writing or painting, it is always a serious thing. Who No hobbies? The eldest girl also loves to play the piano! Her Guqin costs 800 taels. If the eldest girl likes everything like you and uses her pocket money, how many years and months will she have to save to afford it? Our aunt is very stubborn and insists on paying 1000 taels of silver to her family for chewing. Her dozen or so people only pay a few months a year to make a few clothes? How can I use it up! I feel guilty for collecting the money. I feel relieved that it happened to be spent on you! What else do you buy, just ask me, it’s your mother’s money anyway!”

Xu Yang couldn't help bursting into laughter when he heard this, Aunt Meng always taught people like a spring breeze like this, even if she helped others, she would never make people embarrassed.

Just when she was smiling, she saw Aunt Meng's serious face: "You are a man, even though you are young, you are still a man. How can you pay the bill with a gold ingot for the new year? It doesn't seem to be a big deal. A serious big expense, just It should be reported to the family. There are only a few people in our family, and it’s not that there are dozens of people, big and small. If you spend money randomly, it will be a mess. The master only has your sister as a daughter, and the aunt only has you as a son. You are not spending money indiscriminately, if you don’t spend the money now, who will spend it?”

Xu Yang was too embarrassed to be polite, so he had to say: "After I've been busy for a while, and I don't have to worry about going to school, I'll adjust the paint and paint another colorful Western painting for Aunt Meng!"

Aunt Meng smiled and nodded: "Okay, you can draw me three or five pictures..."

Xu Yang suddenly had a bitter face: "Aunt Meng, this is embarrassing. This colored western painting is no better than charcoal painting, nor our Chinese painting. It is very slow to draw, and I have to draw for my mother, uncle and sister. You need three Five, my sister will definitely want three or five... maybe I will have to draw three or five years later!"

Xu Yang's life was very regular. He ate some side dishes casually at noon, read a book for half an hour, and walked back slowly. It happened that his stomach was also relieved, so he took a nap.After a quarter of an hour (here is ancient timekeeping, that is, half an hour), I woke up and started reading seriously.Because I sent Lin Daiyu a trip, and went shopping to change the painting utensils, I missed a morning's reading. Of course, he got up early, and the morning reading was not delayed. It seems that the time is already a quarter (01:30 p.m. ), where are you willing to waste time, it is true to make up lessons as soon as possible!

Without Lin Daiyu on the side, the efficiency has dropped a lot, Xu Yang is a little irritable, thinking that it is really not an option to work behind closed doors, and only hope that Mr. Ji will take him to class quickly, so that he can learn the learning methods required for the serious imperial examination.After reading for a while, it seemed that Lin Daiyu was about to leave school, so she hurriedly put on her coat and tied her jade pendant, tied her hair with a hairpin, and hurried to the back door to lead her horse.

It was only two or three miles to Chunwei Girls' School, and there were only a few maids sitting in the carriage, so the carriage went much faster than in the morning, but it took only four or five minutes. Xu Yang had the car parked by the side of the road, He walked to Chunwei's door and stood there waiting.People pick up from other people's homes, but most of them are maids and servants, and there are also male servants guarding them, but they all stay at the intersection.There was only one young man like him at the door, so no one answered him, but he was handsome and tall, so the maids from other families gathered in groups to watch him secretly, and sometimes whispered to each other. Smiling secretly, Xu Yang turned his face to look at the nearest group of little girls, and there was a girl with a round face of twelve or three looking up at him, and when she saw him sweeping over, she blushed with shame and quickly lowered her head.

Xu Yang thought it was quite funny, he is also a beautiful boy in modern times, there are girls looking at him in the street, but how many of them are shy like this?He directly raised his phone and took a photo without hesitation, and then called his best friend loudly and without hesitation: "Did you see the text message I sent you? How about it! Be a beautiful boy! Hahahaha."

Xu Yang thinks it's very funny, such a shy girl is so fun, and the little Lolita is from the sixth grade to the first grade?If this is in the family of such a cute little girl in future generations, how pampered she will be!But here at such a young age, I have to come out to serve others to make money to support the family... Just as I was distracted, I heard the school bell ringing, and get out of class was over.

After a while, girls in twos and threes began to walk towards the gate.

As I said before, the entrance of the women's school does not face the street directly, but has a special road to enter, so there are only servants from various families at the entrance, and there are no random people passing by.Therefore, after class, most of the female students walked out without wearing cone hats.

Now Xu Yang was a little dumbfounded, to be honest, he didn't like the rules of the ancient ladies who didn't leave the house.But the current fashion is like this, even if there are ladies from all over the world, they must be hugged by the front and back. Most of the older ladies have to wear cone hats when they get off the carriage and enter the door of a shop when they go shopping.So he has been in ancient times for so long, and he has seen a lot of girls, but they are either maids at home, or ordinary girls on the street. The only lady of the family has only seen one sister Lin.

But at this moment, a large group of girls who could see their faces suddenly appeared in front of him, and their average level could definitely participate in the beauty pageant of future generations, not to mention that although most of them were only [-], [-], [-] or [-] years old, they were all dignified and elegant, A smile and a frown can be painted... Xu Yang was stunned for a moment, and then realized that it seemed a little inappropriate for him to come here to pick up his sister. He was usually dizzy, but he was not stupid when it came to big things. There are no ordinary girls here. Stay out of trouble!Hurry back a few steps and lower your head, not daring to look around again.

Xu Yang was stunned, but in fact, quite a few of the girls were also stunned.In this day and age, although Neo Confucianism is not as popular as what Xu Yang experienced in later generations in this era, it is still easy for ordinary girls to see foreign men.Ordinary civilians on the streets here would not dare to walk over indiscriminately, to see the line of decent carriages, who would come here?What?Will some scholars come to watch the excitement?Just kidding, there are not many of these ladies whose families are not officials, and scholars want to be famous, who has nothing to bump into this city wall and cause this trouble?Do you think it is a novel?With someone's jade pendant, you can swear that it is a token, and you can be engaged to the lady?Go dreaming!Can't kill you bold thief!

And the girls who go to school here naturally only send someone to pick them up, and rarely let uncles and brothers come over - because I know Chunwei's habits, I am afraid that it would be too abrupt to run into a lady from another family.So even the carriages that came to pick them up, and most of the maids used, who knew that when they met the Lin family, none of them had ever been to Chunwei. How did they know the way here?I came early to school in the morning, and it was nothing.At this moment, Xu Yang is a big fool, poking there so straight...it's really conspicuous.

Xu Yang was lowering his head and didn't know how to find Sister Lin, when he heard a familiar voice: "Brother, please come to pick me up!" Looking up, he saw that Lin Daiyu had already walked in front of him, but there were still a few girls who were taller than her, Xu Yang was busy. He lowered his head again, not daring to look.

But I heard Lin Daiyu's slightly raised voice: "Brother, it's hard work, I'm too timid. It's my first time to go to school, and I insist on my brother to pick me up." Then she seemed to turn her head and explain to the people around her: "Our family is all responsible. My child spoils me, and my parents and aunts also listen to me, and they all rush my brother over here, which wastes my brother's study time, so I don't dare to do it again in the future, brother, don't be angry with me."

Xu Yang didn't know that Lin Daiyu was explaining for himself, so he hurriedly said: "Why are you angry? I just came out to buy books, and I picked you up by the way. It's only far away, so there will be no delay." He didn't dare to look up, and just bowed his hands and bowed. Turning around, he said: "Thank you girls for taking care of my sister. I just came to Yangzhou not long ago. I don't know the rules of Chunwei's side. I just came here. I'm so sorry for the abruptness!" After saying that, he bowed again bye.

Although Xu Yang lowered his head, his head was really tall and straight, and the outline he showed was really handsome, and he explained very clearly in a polite manner.The girl who was a little displeased when she saw him at first will not continue to be angry now.On the other hand, several little female students blushed and secretly turned their faces to look at him as they walked towards their carriage.Lin Daiyu said goodbye to the classmates she had just met one by one, and then asked Xu Yang to walk to her carriage together.