Do you know: I’m Xu Jiazi

July 7

Morning,

Rinse the sweat off your body with water in the room next to the kitchen.

After Xu Zaijing changed his clothes, he came to the main courtyard. As in previous years, a colorful building had been erected in the courtyard. In front of the building were placed the music, wine, meat, and needlework bought yesterday. This was where the female relatives of the mansion came to pay their respects in the evening. The Qiqiao Building.

But Xu Zaijing stopped after taking a few steps because he found that unlike previous years, this year there was an extra colorful building next to the Qiqiao Building.

There is also enshrined in the colorful building a man with a ferocious face, a golden body, and blue face, surrounded by eyes. He holds a red pen in one hand and an ink fountain in the other. He has a golden rooster on one foot, and a big turtle with a dragon head and a fish body and four legs under his feet. The other foot kicked the statue backwards.

Xu Zaijing thought in a blink of an eye that this was Kuixing, who was in charge of fame and wealth. Legend has it that the success in the imperial examination was all determined by the ink pen in this person's hand.

And Qixi Festival is the birthday of this Kuixing.

The Xu family had previously allowed their children to study, mostly as an introduction to literacy, without any great expectations. After all, the family of distinguished military generals mainly relied on the inheritance of Yinfeng.

Therefore, in the past, during the Chinese Valentine's Day, the daughters of the family were usually asked to worship stars and ask for luck, while the Xu family's sons and daughters took the opportunity to read a few poems.

However, the eldest son-in-law's success gave Xu Minghua and his wife hope. In addition, their two sons are studying, so this year they specially built a colorful building for Kuixing and let the children of the family worship him in the evening.

When they came to the hall, after Xu Zaijing had finished his breakfast, Anmei took him to the garden of his home and the racecourse to look for spiders that had spun webs.

There was heavy dew in the morning, and most of the water droplets condensed on the spider webs, which were easy to find. After a while, Xu Zaijing helped Anmei catch a few spiders and put them in exquisite wooden boxes. They placed them in front of and behind the Qiqiao Building, which was praised by his second sister. .

Back in his small courtyard, Xu Zaijing relaxed for a while and then copied the copybook in front of the desk in the study. A good calligraphy, if nothing else, can at least get you a score in the imperial examination. Full marks.

After practicing calligraphy for a while, when I was about to read a few questions from the previous county examination and do them a few times, Qingcao came to the door of the study and whispered: "Sir, Madam Wu of the Earl's Mansion of Yongchang is here, and she wants you to take a look. look."

"Liang Liulang is here too?"

"coming."

After organizing the paper and pen, I walked a few steps to the main courtyard.

"Aunt Wu, Zhuang'an."

"Come on, Brother Jing, I haven't seen you for half a year. Come here and let me take a look. I heard from your mother that you are studying in the Sheng Family Academy and you will be sitting in class at two quarters?"

Mrs. Wu took Xu Zaijing's hand and asked.

The young Liang Liulang on the side looked surprised and said: "Brother Jing, how can you get up so early?"

Xu Zaijing smiled and said: "It's about the same time as when I practiced martial arts before. Getting up early every day has become a habit."

"Look at your brother Jing, and then look at you! He sleeps until three o'clock in the morning every day!" Mrs. Wu said, nodding at Liang Han several times.

Liang Han looked away indifferently, his eyes feeling a little lost for some reason.

When Mrs. Sun heard Mrs. Wu's praise of her youngest son, she looked at Xu Zaijing with a look of relief.

"Sister, have you heard that Princess Pingning has taken her brother Heng to the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion twice in the past few days?"

Hearing Mrs. Wu's words, Mrs. Sun looked surprised and said, "I've never heard Yu'er talk about this."

Mrs. Wu smiled and said: "It is said that I got the signature of Taoist Priest Yuqingguan. The elder man of the Gu family is a man of culture and I want to get closer to him."

"ah?

"It's not me who said that, even though the eldest son of the Gu family is a noble son, he not only made the list, but also got such a good ranking, he doesn't mean he has a lot of culture!"

Mrs. Wu said in a determined tone. Mrs. Sun on the side looked at her youngest son and nodded.

Then the two ladies whispered a few words to each other and glanced at Liang Han and Xu Zaijing who were sitting next to them.

Mrs. Sun: "Ahem, Jing'er, take Brother Han outside to play."

"Mom, I still need to practice"

Xu Zaijing felt his sleeves being pulled several times.

Looking at Liang Han's pleading eyes, Xu Zaijing said: "Yes. Mother!"

After saying that, Xu Zaijing and Liang Han bowed and walked out of the main hall.

"Let me see, please ask Brother Yu to get a brush he used."

The words of the two ladies came faintly.

Out of the courtyard gate.

Xu Zaijing and Liang Han, whose eyes were shining, looked at each other.

"Brother Jing, let's go out and play in my carriage. The water tank that was in the winter is now filled with ice cubes and it's very cool."

After saying that, Liang Han pulled Xu Zaijing and walked quickly.

"Quick! Let's go!"

The two of them talked and took their servants to the Liang family's carriage and left Quyuan Street.

"My mother forced me to come here. I thought I would miss today's events! I didn't expect that I could still come out!" Liang Han said happily in the carriage.

Xu Zaijing took the folding fan from Liang Han in the carriage, opened it and fanned the air: "What is it about Liulang that worries you so much?"

"Hey. Brother Jing, Qiao Jiu and I invited some young prostitutes from Qiyun Tower and Feiyuntai who have not yet been combed. Although they are not very old, they are extraordinary in both music and dance. Mother Ruan Said, these guys have never said their names in front of anyone! But we spent a lot of money, even though we could only watch the veiled performance."

"That's it?"

"You can also listen to music, watch singing and dancing, and discuss poetry! They are all carefully selected and trained, and they might be the top performers of each family."

Seeing Xu Zaijing's surprised eyes, Liang Han scratched his head in embarrassment.

"You're a very wild boy. How can you get this invitation?"

"It cost money."

Three-quarters of an hour after speaking, the carriage stopped on the street a hundred feet away from Pan Tower.

The reason why we didn't stop downstairs was because there were so many people, officials and gentry on the streets on Chinese Valentine's Day that it was almost impossible for the carriage to get in.

The two of them could only get out of the car and walk towards Pan Tower with others.

When they were about to arrive at Panlou, Liang Han took Xu Zaijing around a corner and came to an alley.

There were a lot less people in the alley. After knocking on a delicate wooden door, a boy about the same age as Liang Han opened the door. After taking one look at Liang Han, he smiled and shouted: "Sir, Brother Han is here! "

Hearing the boy's voice, voices came from the courtyard.

"Please come in quickly!"

"Didn't the message fail to arrive?

"Can you escape from this?"

"Oh, I can't take advantage of him this time!"

"Mama Ruan didn't see Brother Han just now, so she thought we were defaulting on our debt."

"ha ha aha"

After listening to the words, Xu Zaijing followed Liang Han into the courtyard. In the corridor between the front hall and the door, there were six or seven noble young men standing. Xu Zaijing looked surprised when he saw him.

"I have to ask Brother Jing to come today!"

Several people who had met each other raised their hands in greeting, and Xu Zaijing returned the greeting.

"Let's go in!"

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