I heard my brother is a tyrant

Xie Tan asked: "I heard from the servant girl that you are listening to the piano and learning chess today. Our An'an has suddenly changed his temperament. How did you learn these things?"

Ye Chu said that he hadn't learned yet, so he told him about "qin chess, calligraphy and painting, female red needlework" with his fingers.

Xie Tan smiled and asked, "Did He tell you?"

"Well, that piano sounds really nice." Ye Chu nodded.

"Sounding good and wanting to learn are two different things." Xie Dan took her soft white hand, squeezed the fingertips of her left thumb and ring finger and told her, "Your fingers will hurt when you learn the piano, especially these two fingers. It will take a long time to grind out the cocoons to get better."

Ye Chu raised those two fingers to his eyes, touched his soft fingertips, and unconsciously raised his eyebrows.Seeing her little expression, Xie Dan couldn't help laughing.

Xie Dan raised his right hand and showed her the thin calluses on the tiger's mouth and index finger joints that were often ground with a sword. Ye Chu touched it with his fingertips, and it was rough and hard, which was in stark contrast to her white and delicate hands.

Xie Dan said: "You are a girl, and your body is weak. What are you going to do with that hardship? If you just think it sounds good, there is no need to learn it. It's not like our family can't afford musicians."

Ye Chu felt that his brother didn't like her learning the piano, and after thinking about the pain in his fingers, he immediately gave up and decided to learn other things, such as learning how to play chess and female red.

"When I learn how to embroider with needle and thread, I'll make you a dress with my own hands," Ye Chu said.

"Then I'll wait." Xie Dan smiled, paused and said seriously, "If you want to learn needlework embroidery and make clothes by yourself, then what are the needleworkers we raised for?"

She is so big that she probably hasn't had a needle yet.

Xie Dan said: "The so-called six arts of a gentleman. When I was young, I used to study hard just to listen to people's compliments. I was especially obsessed with playing chess. I spent a lot of energy, but now I think about it. What's the use? Actually, if you really like these things It’s nothing more than learning for self-entertainment, it’s really useless in itself, and it’s a waste of energy, if you don’t really like it, don’t learn it at all.”

"But Aunt He said..."

Xie Dan: "Who do you listen to?"

Ye Chu: "I listen to you."

"Then you don't care what she says. You just need to listen to me." Xie Dan said, "But you still need to read and practice calligraphy. You are still young, and if you are bored, go for a walk in the garden, it is better than sitting there embroidering." Strong. When you get better, I can teach you how to ride a horse."

After the two talked for a while, Xie Dan told her to go to bed, and walked out of the room slowly.

As soon as he stepped out the door, he saw a group of maidservants and Mrs. He standing guard under the corridor. Seeing him coming out, he seemed to be startled, and hurriedly saluted him, Xie Dan went straight to the front yard.

Going to bed late, Ye Chu got up late again, and woke up after the time passed, and lost interest in learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting after breakfast, and Mrs. He didn't mention it at all.

Unexpectedly, in the afternoon, Chang Shun sent a few musicians, pipa, konghou, qin and flute, and said that they would be raised in the mansion in the future, and kept for the girls to relieve their boredom.

Ye Chu listened to it a few times with great interest, but she didn't understand music theory, anyway, it's fine if it sounds good.

In the palace, Xie Dan had a short nap in the afternoon, and then began to hurry up to deal with political affairs. After all the documents were approved, he called people from the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry because of the flood in Huaibei. Zichen Palace was silent like a cicada.

Chen Lianjiang quietly sent someone to inform the imperial dining room, the emperor is angry today, let's think about it more for dinner.Unexpectedly, the sun was halfway down, and as soon as the sunset glowed in the western sky, the emperor put down the book in his hand and planned to leave.

Chen Lianjiang hurriedly followed, and while asking people to prepare horses, he said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the shads that were tributed today are here. Alas, the fish sent this year are very good. They weigh five or six catties. Listen, my servant." It is said that this food is warm and appetizing, tonic for fatigue, and it is most suitable for the weak to eat. Except for the ones left in the palace of the empress dowager and the imperial dining room, the slaves have just asked someone to send them to the house. You can go back now , dinner is probably just in time."

"Well, well done."

The time of eating shad is only half a month in a year. This thing is wild and strong, and it will die when it touches the net. It is also the early summer season. Li can also send it once or twice.

Xie Tan explained again: "The next time the fish is here, send it over as soon as possible. There is no need to keep the imperial dining room, I will go back to eat."

In the house, Chunjiang had just asked the kitchen for lunch, and if His Majesty came back for dinner, he would try his best to cook some less troublesome dishes, those that need to be peeled and picked, why not make them in a different way, as well as ginger slices and shredded ginger , Pick them out before putting them on the plate, the girl doesn't eat ginger, every time your Majesty has to pick one side carefully first.

Otherwise, the emperor likes to take care of girls with his own hands. After a meal, he peels the shells and picks the thorns, serves soup and vegetables, and the maids who serve the meal stand by and watch, their hearts are trembling.

The kitchen promised well, and sure enough, they went to get a big herring, and decided to make ham and chicken soup with boiled fish balls at night.The fish balls were ready, and the shad arrived.

The cook saw it and thought, how can this thing be used as fish balls, the best way to eat it is to steam it with rice wine.

However, shad is spiny.Steamed and served, it is bright and oily. The shad should be steamed with scales, silver and bright, with thick fat and a fresh aroma of rice wine.Xie Dan wasn't too fond of these fish, shrimp and aquatic products at first, he didn't eat a few mouthfuls, and he just cared about criticizing Ye Chu after a meal.

After dinner, Xie Dan took Ye Chu for a walk in the garden.The two of them came out of the yard, and it was not too far to enter the garden. They sat in the waterside pavilion, rested their feet, and then walked back slowly.

Xie Tan asked: "It will be your birthday in a few days, how do you want to spend it?"

Ye Chu opened his mouth and said, "I want to eat green onion noodles cooked by my brother, isn't it always like this on my birthday?"

"Okay." Xie Dan asked, "Is there any more?"

"Also, you promised to take me out to play."

That has to be said and believed.

The imperial court rests for one day on the Duanyang Festival, but in fact, things happen at any time in such a huge country. Ritual celebration.

There is no major event in the court, Xie Dan purposely spared Duanyang day completely, spending her life with his younger sister at home.

It's just that there is still the Empress Dowager in the palace, so it's okay to talk about normal life, but he has to go to say hello during the holidays, otherwise he will be called "unfilial".

Ye Chu always gets up late in the morning, so Xie Dan went to the palace first -------------- / Yi Yi y? Hua / went to the palace to greet the empress dowager, After sitting for a while, he found an excuse to quit, and hurried back to Ye's house on horseback.

Unexpectedly, a child who usually sleeps late gets up early, and when Xie Dan returned to the mansion, he heard that the girl had already woken up, and the maids were serving her Mulan Tang.

Dragon Boat Festival "Mulan Decoction", bathe with mugwort leaves, cattails, and Peilan boiled water to drive away evil spirits, avoid five poisons, drive away darkness and diseases.The little servant reported back that the girl was probably playing with water, and the sound of the girl and the maids playing and laughing could be heard through the window.

So Xie Dan also went to Mulan Tang first, and after washing, he still felt the scent of wormwood on his body.The servant reported back that the girl had invited him over for breakfast, so Xie Dan changed into a refreshing rain-colored robe and went to the backyard.

When Xie Dan entered, Ye Chu was sitting at the table waiting for him. Besides the daily porridge, soup and cakes, there was also a plate of green and small bamboo leaf rice dumplings on the table, only the size of pigeon eggs, wrapped with threads of different colors. Exquisite and cute.

Seeing Xie Dan come in, the little girl waved to him happily: "Brother, come and eat rice dumplings."

Ye Chu can't eat more rice dumplings, because she has a weak spleen and stomach, and she tends to stagnate glutinous rice. It's good that the kitchen makes such small rice dumplings.Xie Dan ate a few mouthfuls of snacks and entered the palace early in the morning, he was hungry at the moment, so he happened to take this zongzi one bite at a time.

He didn't let the maid peel it off, but ordered the little birthday girl to peel it off for him. He watched the little girl lower her head slightly, her slender white fingers slowly untied the red and yellow silk threads, opened the green bamboo leaves, and put the white rice dumplings one by one on his plate. inside.

"I thought you could sleep a little longer, so I could make green onion noodles for you when I came back." Xie Dan said.

Ye Chu smiled and said: "You said before that you would go out for a while, come back early and take me out to play, so I can't sleep anymore. Let's eat green onion noodles at night. I am young, so I don't worry about eating birthday noodles. I will eat them at night. To live a long life."

This statement seems to be quite reasonable, quite self-justifying.

Xie Dan looked at her snow-white wrist, the servant girl had already tied colorful silk thread for her according to the Duan Yang custom, two small golden bells were adorned on the silk thread, and a sachet in the shape of a small rice dumpling was hung on her waist.

Xie Dan motioned to the waiter, and soon someone came over with a brocade box.

"Birthday gift for you." Xie Dan opened the brocade box, inside was a red gold necklace with eight treasures, Ye Chu happily picked it up to look at it, Xie Dan put down his chopsticks, helped her put it on first, looked at it and said with a smile: "It's beautiful. We put a collar on An An, and we live a long life. There is a Dragon Boat Festival every year, and one year old and one well-being."

"My brother also has a Dragon Boat Festival every year, one year old and one healthy."

Ye Chu was full, and while asking the servant girl to rinse her mouth with tea, she ran to the dressing table to look in the mirror.She was already dressed up today, apricot yellow jacket with a light red skirt with layers of gauze, a white jade butterfly hairpin on the hanging skirt, and a freshly picked red pomegranate flower.

There is a custom of wearing pomegranate flowers on the Dragon Boat Festival in Beijing, which means peace and wealth, and is a good omen.This outfit suits her age very well, and it is a little more delicate and lively in response to the occasion.

"Brother, does it look good?" Ye Chu opened his arms and turned around.

Xie Dan smiled and said, "Of course my sister is pretty."

When he was full, he rinsed his mouth and got up, then took her hand and went out to ask someone to prepare the car.There were many people in the city, Xie Dan didn't ride a horse, and sat in the soft sedan chair on the carriage with Ye Chu.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, the capital city is more lively than usual. There are wormwood planted in front of the porch on both sides of the road, and the unique fragrance of zong leaves and wormwood fills the streets.As the carriages passed the section by the Taiye Pool, there were suddenly more carriages and horses.

The name of Taiye Pool is actually a big lake, and there are many tourists on weekdays, but today it seems to be very lively. Several girls in rich clothes just got off the carriage, and they were chatting among the maids and women. blocked the road.

Ye Chu's driver frowned slightly, reined in the carriage, and waited for the carriage in front to move away.

Ye Chu's carriage was originally a big green sedan chair, but as the weather got hotter, the curtains of the sedan chair were replaced with thin blue-colored hangluo, with apricot-yellow hanging tassels hanging around it, and four bay red horses of the same color were driving the carriage. There are many guards, but the crown and emblem of the grade cannot be seen on the car.Such a car looks different on the street.

A girl in a fancy dress glanced at this side, raised her eyebrows and said, "Who is that? There is a soft sedan on the carriage, who is even more delicate than our county lord?"

Another girl also looked over when she heard the words, and said with a smile: "I don't know who it is, since you are here to celebrate the county lord's birthday, why are you so nonchalant and put on such a pomp."

At this time, the carriage in front moved away, the driver shook the reins, and continued to ride the horse with a blank expression. The accompanying guards sat on the horses and walked past without squinting.

The girls suddenly felt a little embarrassed, endured their curiosity, and walked towards the lake.A very spacious and luxurious double-decker painting boat was parked by the lake, and there were many noble ladies in the capital, and the road was filled with fragrant fragrance for a while, making it very lively.

Xie Dan and Ye Chu went out of the city as previously agreed, first went to Ruyi Xiaozhuang, burnt incense on their mother's spiritual tablet, had lunch, played in the village for a while, and waited until the sun set a little cooler in the afternoon before heading back.

When entering the city, the setting sun had already slanted to the west, and a blush appeared in the western sky. The carriage returned the same way, passed through the pavilions and shops on both sides of the road, and stopped at the entrance of a restaurant facing the lake.

Chang Shun got off the horse, trotted to the front of the carriage and said: "My lord, girl, this is the famous Yuyulou in the capital. You can watch the scenery and listen to the opera. The inside is clean and elegant. The dishes are more southern taste, delicate and nourishing. , different from the thick oily red sauce in the capital. According to the command of the adults, the slaves have already asked someone to reserve the second floor."

Xie Dan got off the carriage, put a veil on Ye Chu's head to cover her face, and then helped her out of the carriage, and went straight up to the second floor surrounded by all the entourage.

Although the shopkeeper didn't know who the distinguished guest was, he knew at a glance that it was not an ordinary person, so he hurriedly followed him to serve him, but he didn't even enter the door of the private room.Ye Chu was afraid of strangers, and Xie Dan didn't like strangers to see her, so he just asked the shopkeeper to prepare the dishes, delivered them to the door, and the maids tried the dishes before bringing them in.

Ye Chu tasted a few of the signature dishes of Yi Yu Lou, the delicacies of the mandarin duck stew, the lotus and emerald soup, the names of the dishes are good for the occasion, but the taste is not as good as the small kitchen in their house.But it's quite interesting to sit in the restaurant, soak up the fireworks in this world, and look at the lake view.

Looking from the low-hanging gauze curtain in the private room, it was facing the stage downstairs. When they came in, several actors were babbling and singing.

"My lord, girl, the shopkeeper asked if you would like some play." Chun Jiang came in and reported.

Ye Chu turned around and asked Xie Dan: "Brother, is there any play you want to hear?"

"No, you can order." Xie Dan said, "Your brother is so busy, he hasn't heard a play for a long time."

"I don't think I've heard it either." Ye Chu thought for a while, then smiled slowly, "We haven't heard it anyway, so let them sing whatever they want."

Today is her birthday, Xie Tan was afraid of singing something sad and disappointing, so he added: "It's fine if it's lively."

On the stage, the sandalwood boards were tapped lightly, and the actors came to the stage amidst the sound of silk, bamboo and pipa.Ye Chu sat sideways on the slum, leaning against the railing with great interest, listening through the tulle curtain was quite interesting.After listening for a while, I probably understood that it was a story about a hero and a beautiful woman.

It is about a rich lady from an official family who accidentally helped a young man from a military family when he was young. The young man fell in love with the young lady and determined to make meritorious deeds. When he became rich, he came to marry the young lady.A few years later, the young man made military achievements in the army and became a general, so he boldly went to the lady's house to propose marriage.The young lady has a discerning eye, and chose him among the many princes and grandsons who proposed to marry him. She didn't think he came from a poor and humble background, so she committed herself to marry him, and the young man embraced the beautiful woman.In the end, the young man lived up to the love of the young lady, and made great achievements in the war. He worshiped the general and became a marquis all the way, and the young lady also became the imperial wife.

After singing a few lines, Xie Dan's eyes changed slightly as he listened to the play.He glanced at the little birthday star beside him who was listening with gusto, tapped his fingers on the table twice, but didn't make a sound.

When the young lady on the stage became the wife of the imperial court and the finale was full of flowers and moons, Xie Dan put down the teacup, and cast a cold glance at Chang Shun, with a gloomy look in his eyes.

Chang Shun's scalp tightened suddenly, but he was a little puzzled. Isn't this play very joyful? Could it be that the master thinks that such a heroic and beautiful story should not be told to the girl?

While Chang Shun was in doubt, applause erupted from the audience.While applauding, someone shouted loudly: "Do you know that this is the story of the only king with a different surname in the dynasty - Prince Zhong and his wife. It's a pity that the beauty is unlucky. The prince's love is so deep that he even vowed not to remarry in this life, it's lamentable, the seat of Zhong Wangfei is still vacant."

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