The Eighteenth Century of Xuyang in the Red Chamber

Whoever loves to be this No.1 should be it!Xu Yang burst into tears, I am provoking someone!Isn't it just a gift for our mountain chief? Why play this kind of overnight fame for me!That's great, it's true that he became famous overnight, but he didn't gain both fame and fortune, instead, trouble came to him!There is no first in literature, and there is no second in martial arts.Everyone has no objection to him being a little transparent, but you are so immortal that you can get the name of Yangzhou calligraphy and painting No. !), you came back from a barbarian land, you haven’t even passed the test of being a scholar, and you are not from Yangzhou at all!Hey, isn't this a slap in the face!

People who are familiar with him are fine, but students who are not familiar with him don't care if he is the precious nephew of a third-rank official at the moment, just give him a sharp eye if he has nothing to do... Nima!Who did I provoke!Xu Yang has been stared at so much these two days that he is almost like a sieve.

Thanks to Xu's father and Xu's mother for giving him a baby face, this face is so cute, it greatly reduces the enemy's attack value.Several of Chongya's students who had rushed over aggressively looked at Xu Yang's innocent little face, and didn't spurt out a mouthful of old blood, so they held back and almost got internal injuries: It's even more embarrassing to compete with such a child!And it is said that he has only studied for less than a year, and it would be too bullying to compete with him... Well, this is more honest.Of course, there are also those who are arrogant and arrogant. When I saw his childish appearance, I became even more angry. Fortunately, Xu Yang is not a real ancient, and I have seen a lot of harsh and mean scholars in later books, so this kind of person Not only did it not scare Xu Yang, but it made him feel very kind: short oil!I finally met a normal scholar (hey——)!I've seen too many good people these days, and I wonder if I've crossed over into a series with the main theme of Dajiang.

Well, this kid has been completely brain-twitched.

In fact, Xu Yang has not been bullied too much, he is too young, plus he has lived outside the country for more than ten years, and he has not received formal imperial education for a year. It is really a self-deprecation for a well-known literati to compete with him.Xu Yang seldom went out, and he followed Ji Shanzhang when he went to Chongya, who had a brain twitch to provoke Ji Shanzhang in front of him!In Chongya, Xu Yang was mostly looked at by others, and occasionally was tested a few times. Anyway, his posture was low. The other party advises.In terms of calligraphy, he is absolutely uncompromising, who is not convinced, let's write and see!As for painting... Sorry, I specialize in oil painting, does anyone know how to adjust the paint for oil painting?People who came and went and felt uncomfortable at first couldn't help being angry seeing him like this. His calligraphy and painting are indeed good; the Four Books and Five Classics, etc., if you despise him for a child who has only studied for a few months, others will still have to look down on you.

Chongya's interior is safe, and Xu Yang usually reads K at home, who knows him when he goes out on weekdays?On the contrary, when I went out to drink tea with a few friends of Chongya, I met a scholar from another school, and when we introduced each other, I met someone with a bad temper. I was stabbed twice, but before he could say anything, he was attacked by Chongya's side. Several of them were suppressed and returned.Just kidding!When is it our alumni's turn to be bullied by outsiders?ah?Isn't Xu Yang a student of Chongya?Hey, at any rate this kid is also our Chongya mascot!Don't slap yourself in the face!

So this is the reason why Xu Yang was not cast into a psychological shadow. There were gossips behind his back, but because his appearance rate was too low, he only challenged him twice. In the end, he was PKed by Hong Xiuquan once, and Ai once. Darling was violently suppressed.Xu Yang was so moved, he thought very emotionally, the affinity of a person's name is directly proportional to the character value!Look at Hong Xiuquan and Ai Daling, the two brothers, they have such excellent names, and they really have excellent personalities! (Hello!)

So the reason why Xu Yang is busy is of course not because of his PK, but because of his paintings.

His portrait was hung in the study by Mr. Ji, who is Mr. Ji?There are no ordinary people who socialize. Originally, quite a few people saw this painting on his birthday. After hanging it like this, more people saw it.This thing is no different than others, it is too similar, and there are too few people who can draw it. As a result, Lin Ruhai was shot first, and several colleagues asked him tentatively if he could ask his nephew to draw a picture...

Lin Ruhai didn't dare to agree, he was too aware of how laborious this western oil painting was!Besides, portrait painting is no different than others, it requires the other party to pose and cooperate. If you want to paint well, you have to come to the door to paint for others!I have to go many times... This is completely different from what other masters of calligraphy and painting want to draw a landscape or something!If not, the value will be lowered.

Some classmates from Xu Yang's side also begged him, and Xu Yang dared not agree!He was so tired from the homework now, how could he have the time to draw for others!I don’t even go if I have a moisturizer, what, 300 taels? ? ?Tears seem to want to, or not!After opening this head, it will be difficult to handle, oh, it hurts...

In the end, it was Mr. Ji who sent a message, saying that he is mainly studying now, and painting is too time-consuming, so please don't bother him, so he survived.

One day Xu Yang sent Chief Ji Shan home from Chongya, and was walking towards the Lin residence, when suddenly someone came up from behind and stopped his horse, when he looked up, it was Xu Jiao.Xu Jiao smiled and said to the boy next to Xu Yang: "Go back and tell your wife that I have invited your young master away, and I will have dinner with me!" After saying that, he tugged on Xu Yang's rein.Xu Yang was sweating profusely, he hurriedly pulled the reins tightly, and said, "Speak up if you have something to say, don't be so stupid..."

Xu Jiao reached out and knocked Xu Yang on the head: "What are you talking about? I'm your brother! Come with me, I'll take you to a good place!"

The corners of Xu Yang's mouth twitched, thinking that he wouldn't take me to see the Eight Gorgeous Horses of Qinhuai, would he?Eh, no, this is Yangzhou, there is no Qinhuai River, only the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal... While thinking, I followed Xu Jiao, turning left and right into an alley.After a while, I stood in front of a gate, and there were several servants hanging plaques on the gate.The plaque seems to be newly made, and it is still wrapped in silk cloth. Half of the silk cloth is loose, revealing half of the character "Xu" indistinctly.

Xu Jiao got off the horse, smiled and pulled Xu Yang to walk to the gate, and said as he walked, "Brother, come with me to see, is this house still inhabitable?"

The landscape trees of the house are in typical Yangzhou style, but the layout of the courtyard is in the style of Kyoto. It is a five-entry courtyard with a garden.In the big house facing north and south, the side of the gate is not just a wall, but a row of inverted houses, which look like they are for servants to live in.After entering the gate, it was a small courtyard with a carriage parked and a few shoulders, but it was a place to change cars.There is a door in the northeast, and Xu Jiao pointed to the door in the north: "This door turns into the garden on the east side. If you are entertaining guests, you don't need to enter the residence, just turn into the garden."

After finishing speaking, he didn't take Xu Yang to go shopping in the garden, but turned to the east gate, which was a small courtyard, which was very small, and there was a hanging flower gate on the north side of the small courtyard, after passing through the hanging flower gate, he arrived at a big yard.Looking around, Xu Yang saw that this courtyard was smaller than the one where Lin Ruhai lived, but it was about the same size as Mrs. Xu's. There was a plaque of "Deqing Hall" hanging in the main hall to the south, which seemed to belong to the head of the family. The residence has two wing rooms in the east and west, but someone is cleaning it up, it looks like they have just moved.

Xu Jiao stepped aside and said: "The owner of this house is a Huizhou merchant, and the family has a small population, so although there are many yards in this house, each one is not big. The owner of this house was ill a while ago, and he recovered Feeling that I am getting old, I don’t want to leave my hometown to live anymore, so I want to take my family back to my hometown in Anhui. The house also entrusted a middleman to find a buyer. Who knew that the buyer’s boat capsized twice when it went to sea last month. Hundreds of thousands of silver were paid out, and more than a dozen lives were lost, so there was no way to buy a house. The Anhui merchant had to find a new buyer, but such a house, although not too big, was actually made of good materials. It was cheap, and he was in a hurry to leave, where did someone buy it? I just caught it and cut off the price by [-]%!"

Just as he was talking, he had already walked to another courtyard in the north. The layout of the main building was similar to that of Qingde Hall, but it was shorter, and there were a few fewer east and west wing rooms. The plaque in the center said "semi-leisure residence", Xu Jiao smiled and said : "It's a good name, it's the most suitable for the elderly to live in! It's quiet and close." Xu Yang was confused when he heard this, he didn't know who lived in Xu Jiaolong's house, why did the old man come out?Uncle Qi can't possibly retire now, so he should go back to his hometown Zhenjiang after retirement, right?

After Xu Jiao said this, he pointed to a small corner door on the east side and said, "Every courtyard has such a small door leading directly to the garden. It is very convenient to go to relax, and you don't need to go around to the front." Yang went out from the corner gate, and sure enough, there was a pool of green water outside, surrounded by several small houses and pavilions, and a rockery fountain dotted in the middle, although not too big, but very delicate.

Xu Jiao said with a smile: "If you have more elegant guests, let them live in the garden directly, so as not to disturb the family members." He pointed to the south wall. The trees on the other side of the wall are very tall and tightly shaded. Yan Shishi said: "The other side of the wall is actually a courtyard, but it is smaller. There is a study room and a place to play in it. It is very good to read and play at home." Then he laughed: "The west side of the garden is the north side of the half-occupied house. In fact, there is also a small courtyard named Hemerocallis Hall. The flowers and plants in that courtyard are very good, and it is most suitable for girls to live in. Because it has not been repaired yet, the smog is too messy, so I will not take you there, wait. You can take a look at it after you live in it.”

Xu Yang suddenly came to his senses: "Live in? Who will live in?" Xu Jiao laughed loudly: "No wonder Auntie said you're staying! It's really not an ordinary stay. This house was bought for you, so naturally you and Auntie lives in."

Xu Yang was stunned for a moment, but his answer was wrong: "I have a place to live!"

Xu Jiao sighed: "Could it be that you can live in your uncle's house forever?" Seeing that Xu Yang still looked puzzled, he said, "If you live in Uncle Lin's private house, my father won't worry about it. But Master Lin handed over the resignation form years ago. Although the Holy Majesty will not let Master Lin retire, he will not let him work here for too long. And when I left Beijing, Master Zuodu Censor Mo I'm seriously ill, I'm afraid I won't be able to recover... A few days ago, I got the news that the father of Lord Cao, the censor of the right capital, has gone to the watch, and now I'm afraid Ding You is dead. The position of the imperial censor is all vacant, no matter how difficult it is for the sage, he will definitely find someone to take over the position of the censor of Xunyan, nine times out of ten he will call back Uncle Lin." Xu Yang said blankly : "What does the third brother mean, uncle is going to be promoted? This is a good thing!"

Xu Jiao wanted to pry his head open to see what was inside, why didn't he react? "Who says it's not a good thing! The question is what will you do with Auntie! If Auntie Guang is on her own, there is nothing to say, just go back to Beijing with Mrs. Lin, and it happens to be closer to my father. We miss Auntie. It's convenient to pick it up. But don't you still have you now? You must go to school, right? Your household registration is in Zhenjiang, so you won't come back to test for a scholar in the future. If you're lucky, just take a trip. If it’s not good, I have to run again... The exam is in Nanjing. It’s good to say that it only happens once every three years, so you don’t have to worry about it every year... Alas, I don’t know how many times you have to take the exam for a scholar, but you are only now learning things seriously , and it’s not easy to have great Confucians like Mr. Ji and Mr. Meng to teach you. It’s a pity to give up halfway. And your cousin, I heard that she is going to be Chunwei! If Auntie doesn’t go with you, does she have to follow? Auntie will stay here for a while, so let’s talk about Chunwei’s graduation? If you don’t go back to Beijing, where do you live? The current Lin Mansion is not a serious Lin Mansion, but the Xunyan Yushi Mansion. place to live."

Xu Yang's heart has long been a mess.At this time, he clearly felt that the storm caused by his butterfly wings was getting bigger and bigger!Lin Ruhai is going to Beijing and is going to be promoted!God, he's only 43 years old, and he's about to be promoted to the second rank of Imperial Envoy soon!Jump two levels in a row!Being the second grade, it has really entered the core of power.Although the official decree has not yet been issued, but with Xu Jiao's personality and Xu Ziqing's savvy level, it seems that this matter is almost inseparable!

Xu Yang was dumbfounded, and the corner of his mouth twitched: "This house is very expensive, I can't afford it..." Xu Jiao really wanted to slap him: "Bah! If you can't afford it, you can afford it if you pretend to be me." I bought it with the gold that my father brought me, and even repaired it, the 5000 taels of gold were not spent. Yangzhou is really nice, with beautiful lakes and mountains, and things are cheap! This house is a little small, But it is enough for the three of you to live in. Such an exquisite house, if you want to pay twice as much money in Beijing, you can’t buy it. It’s small, it’s not going to live for a few years anyway, so you won’t pay it back in ten years Can't you pass the exam as a scholar? After all, Xu Xiaolang is also a master of calligraphy and painting..."

"Don't mention that name! It's so ugly!" Xu Yang hugged his head and screamed: "Tell me about it, such a big house, how can you collect things casually? I think my mother is too good to..."

Xu Jiao waved his hand and said, "You don't have to worry about it, you can just be your young master, and there is an aunt. It's not convenient for the aunt to go out (Note 1), so you can see if the yard is repaired to your liking , I will fix it for you if you want any changes, and I will naturally tell my aunt about other things."

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Note 1: As mentioned above, when Xu Yang came to this world the year before, Lin Ruhai mentioned that his sister's mother-in-law died years ago.I didn't go into details, but it actually happened in January of the previous year.At this time, the son and daughter-in-law's filial piety period is three years, which is 27 months. Therefore, at this time, it is Mrs. Xu's filial piety period from January of the previous year to October of this year.That's why I never mentioned Mrs. Xu's communication problem, because she is still keeping her filial piety.