Do you know: I’m Xu Jiazi

After Prince Yong and others left.

"Be more alert. Young master didn't give them the opportunity to steal. They will probably think of some evil ways."

Hearing Qingyun's words, the horse servant of the Hou Mansion quickly raised his hands and said yes.

Therefore, when Xu Zaijing and the Bian Jinggui boys were playing ball on the polo field, the two horses did not go to the stables.

Instead, he played with the horse attendant in front of Xu's tent,

The loud roars coming and going on the polo field attract the attention of the horses from time to time, causing the horses to snort endlessly.

I don’t know whether it’s the longing for the polo field or the disdain for the speed of similar people on the field.

This kind of action,

Let some people's plans fail.

By afternoon,

Everyone went to the Wu Tower next to the polo field again.

The two horses were led directly to the third floor, where they were in everyone's sight.

And everyone who could enter the third floor of the Wu Tower gathering was all close to Liang Han and knew him well.

Before going upstairs, Liang Liulang made one more request: he was covered in dust from playing polo, so he had to take a shower and change into Wu Lou's comfortable clothes before going up to the third floor.

After going upstairs, everyone changed into fresh and light clothes. Among them was Hai Chaojie, who liked painting. He specially asked Liang Han to take something and start painting on the third floor.

Seeing this scene, many people followed suit.

But what about the effect of painting?

how to say,

To use an analogy, some people draw a phoenix, while others draw a chicken.

Ahem

Zheng Xiao balled up the drawing paper in his hand.

I don’t know whether the horse was smart enough to know that someone was painting it, or whether the two horse attendants, Alan and Xun Shu, were so good at comforting him.

While everyone was painting, the two horses were very quiet. Their most movements were just raising their hooves and shaking their heads.

Qingyun, who was standing next to Xu Zaijing, waved to the two horse attendants, waited for them to look over and said:

"Young master said, don't keep hunching your back, straighten up."

Alan and Xun Shu looked at each other and hurriedly followed the instructions.

Xu Zaijing also took a brush and drew a few strokes on the drawing paper.

Look up at the others,

But suddenly I felt something was wrong,

Looking at several young men who kept looking up at the horses and focusing on painting,

Look at the two horses again, naked, lazy and quiet, with their naturally handsome figures.

hiss,

Why is it so similar to a certain scene in my memory?

But, this is my horse!

I played and painted for an hour and a half.

Zheng Xiao successfully obtained a work by Hai Chaojie.

One of the two works by Shen Herui was also begged by the British public servant Shiro.

At this time, Liang Liulang came to Xu Zaijing's side.

But there were only two people on Xu Zaijing's drawing, two horse attendants who looked at the horse full of friendship.

This made him stunned,

Qi Heng on the side thought something was wrong, so he stood next to Liang Han and looked over.

"Brother Jing's painting looks very similar."

Liang Han nodded.

Everyone exchanged their painting experiences with each other and discussed whether painting can calm the mind.

Outside Wu Tower,

The sun sets in the west,

The warm wind blew and the willow branches swayed.

Xu Zaijing, who went downstairs with the horse, stood at the foot of the steps. When several servants of the Hou Mansion led Li Ju to the front, they got on the horse.

Qingyun handed the two bamboo tubes to Alan and Xun Shu and said, "I'll look at them when I get home."

The two horse attendants looked at each other puzzledly.

Afterwards, everyone did not separate, but returned to Bianjing City together.

There was a huge group of people, and if someone really wanted to cause trouble, there would be more bystanders when Xu Zaijing was beating someone up.

In a blink of an eye, it’s May and the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching.

Sheng family,

Shouantang,

The old lady looked at Sheng Changzhu who was crawling on the carpet next to Luohan's bed.

I saw Sheng Changzhu coming to Mrs. Sheng quickly with hands and feet. Just as he was about to rub his saliva, the old lady hugged him.

Mother Fang on the side looked at this scene with a smile on her face.

The old lady looked at the five-colored longevity rope hanging around Sheng Changzhu's neck and said, "Your little lady has a pair of skillful hands."

Upon hearing this, Wei Shuyi, who was standing behind Wang Ruofu, hurriedly knelt down and bowed.

"What mother said is, look at the gift she gave to her daughter-in-law, it's really beautiful."

As he spoke, Wang Ruofu exposed the five-colored cord on his wrist, and saw the three words "Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism" woven with colorful threads.

"You can see that you put your heart into it."

After hearing this, Wang Ruofu looked back to Wei Shu with a smile and said:

"You can tell the old lady yourself."

"Old lady, I don't know if you have made one of these in your yard, so I made one for you too."

"oh?"

The old lady smiled and said softly.

While speaking, Wei Shuyi had already handed Baisuo to Fang's mother.

After the old lady took it, she looked carefully and saw that the hundred ropes were braided into three fingers wide and one bundle long.

There are two floors, upper and lower.

The top layer is inscribed with "Shengxing"

The lower layer is composed of ‘Xu An’

Seeing these four words, the old lady's smile became warmer.

"Old madam, the eldest lady is also thinking about the young men in the school, and she also asked the servants to compile more hundreds of poems."

"Madam, you are right. For more than a year, every family has been sending charcoal or other materials to your home. We don't want to compare with them on expensive things, and we can't compare with them. We just send these to show our sincerity."

In this way, Wang Ruofu and Liu's mother looked at Wei Shuyi with warmer eyes.

After greeting each other, they returned to the courtyard.

Wei Ruixuan,

"I really didn't realize it before. This woman, Wei Shuyi, is quite good. She has a smart mind and mainly has a good mind."

"What the eldest lady said is that she kept talking to you until the evening when the master came to call you, but she left him in our courtyard."

"Well, he is a scheming one!"

After saying this, Wang Ruofu frowned and paused, thinking why he said something familiar.

Then he shook his head,

Stop thinking about it.

noon,

Shengjia Book School,

When it was time for lunch,

The rice was delivered from the small kitchen of Shouantang, and together with the rice there was a colorful baisuo put on the tray by the envoy.

Mother Fang stood at the door with a smile, saluted the scholar, then smiled at everyone in the school and said:

"The old lady said that the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching and there is nothing good in the house. These colorful ropes for longevity are the lady's wishes. Please don't dislike them."

"How dare you, how dare you."

"Thank you, madam!"

"Thank you, aunt, thank you, great aunt!"

With that said, the female envoys walked into the lecture hall.

While distributing Baisuo to Xu Zaijing and others, Fang’s mother took the tray from a female servant, which also contained a Baisuo.

Xuexue Zhuang put down the folding fan and picked up the hundred ropes from the tray.

Looking at the poem "Opening up the wilderness in the south" embroidered on it, I stroked my beard and smiled with satisfaction.

Xu Zaijing's five-color longevity rope is only two fingers wide and has two layers. The upper layer has the word "Jing" and the lower layer has a horse pattern woven with colorful threads.

"Mom Fang, your hands are still so skillful."

Hearing Xu Zaijing's words, Fang's mother smiled meaningfully with her hands folded.

Not much to say.

Qingcao, like Buwei, came to their respective young masters and helped tie the colorful ropes.

Taking advantage of this moment, Qi Heng said:

"Brothers, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, my mother told me to hold a banquet at home, and ordered me to invite you all. Please come."

"Brother Heng, don't worry, brother Jing and I will definitely go."

After school,

Sitting in a carriage,

Shopping and eating on the streets of Bianjing in the evening,

Xu Zaijing looked out through the grassy car curtain and suddenly saw a stall on the roadside.

"parking."

"call"

After getting off the carriage, Xu Zaijing brought the grass to the stall.

The stall owner quickly bowed and said politely:

"This little official, would you like to try the Li family's authentic and sweet silver drum?"

Talking

Nearby, at a stall selling Qiaohua painted fans, a woman shouted:

"Li Zi, give this girl a silver drum."

"okay!"

As he was talking, a girl came over with several fans in her hands and said:

"Thank you for your help, big brother."

"What are you talking about, girl?"

The girl looked at the female envoy next to Xu Zaijing and took a closer look.

Suddenly he called out: "Green grass?"

Hearing the cry, Qingcao looked over in confusion, then hurriedly knelt down and saluted:

"I've met Sister Zhujian."

Qingcao glanced at Xu Zaijing and said:

"Young master, this is Sister Zhujian, the female envoy of the Hai family."

"I've met Wu Lang. I was grateful to Wu Lang for his righteous deeds at Shenbo Temple. How about I invite this Yin Xiang Gu'er slave?"

As he said that, he took out the copper coins and put them in the hands of the stall owner.

Xu Zaijing looked at the girl with sincere eyes, smiled and nodded.

Seeing Xu Zaijing nod,

Qingcao went to buy something while the stall owner was making silver drums and came back:

"Sister Zhujian, I heard that your status was released?"

"Well, Lord Renyi, he was released last year."

"That's great. Sister, take this five-color water ball injection. It's also my wish."

Feeling Xu Zaijing's gaze, Zhu Jian also smiled and nodded.

Take your own things,

Zhu Jian got on the Hai family's carriage and waved goodbye.

Xu Zaijing bought a few more silver drums and put them in the small satchel next to Qingcao and took them back to the car.

In the carriage,

Looking at Qingcao who couldn't wait to take out something from his bag, Xu Zaijing sighed,

Isn’t it just the big round lollipop from the Zhou Dynasty?

Qingcao, you are so used to eating sugar cane, why are you so rare?

Back to Quyuan Street,

Xu Zaijing got off the carriage next to the stables,

Qingcao also walked down and walked towards the hut next to the stable.

In the distance, the old and young people who were watering the horses looked towards the green grass.

Qingcao took out the candy from her satchel and waved her hand.

After placing one in the one-eyed uncle's house,

She entered the house of Alan and Xun Shu,

There are two framed paintings hanging on the walls of the house.

Putting two candies on the table under the painting, Qingcao walked out with a silver drum in his mouth.

far away,

Master Xu Zaijing looked away from Qingcao,

He turned around and looked at the fine gauze wrapped on the foreheads of Alan and Xun Shu.

This was the result of them coming back from Wu Tower a few days ago. After seeing their respective portraits in the bamboo tubes, they knelt down and swore the most advanced circumcision ceremony of Bei Liao oath of allegiance.

Master Xu Zaijing naturally knew that using this Northern Liao forehead circumcision ceremony to kneel down and swear allegiance could only represent one thing: as long as their bloodline is not cut off, future generations will always be loyal to the Xu family.

Even if Xu Zaijing said that the two horse attendants should die, if they hesitated, it would be an insult to circumcision.

And the reason why they took such a strong oath was those two paintings.

To be able to become dragon colt's horse attendants, these two young men will definitely not be stupid.

And Xu Zaijing did not paint horses, but people, which means many things.

Xu Zaijing was a little scared at that time.

Still under the guidance of his master, Xu Zaijing solemnly touched the blood on their foreheads to his own, completing the two oaths.

Later, Xu Zaijing pulled them both up and encouraged them.

After speaking, Xu Zaijing forgot to wipe off the blood on his forehead.

When returning to the yard,

Cui Chan, who was next to Hua Lan, saw her passing by.

The result was another commotion in Xu's backyard.

On the day of Dragon Boat Festival,

Xu Zaijing rode Liju and Zai Zhang out of the Xu family gate together.

on the gate,

A big straw man made of mugwort was nailed to the gate.

Because this straw man has all five limbs,

It was also made by Xu Zaijing himself with mugwort.

Therefore, Xu Zaijing gave it a name: Ai Ren.

On the edge of Quyuan Street,

Chu Zhan also had a colorful Baisuo tied around his wrist and was busy.

Shu Bo's stall has an extra woman who helps clean the table and set up the stools.

Xu Zaizhang, who was riding on the horse, glanced at Qingyun.

When passing by the stall, Qingyun specifically lowered his head and called his mother-in-law.

On the way, Xu Zaijing bought a lot of inexpensive but fun gadgets for Qingyun to take with him.

Went around to Xingguofang.

Gu Tingye, who was waiting at the door, sighed when he saw that Xu Zaijing did not bring any other horses.

He didn't greet the guests at the door. When he saw a few people coming over with a smile, he led everyone into the house.

Arriving at the front hall where Duke Qi was entertaining guests,

Xu Zaijing saw Gu Tingyu sitting on a chair and talking to Qi Yiqiu beside him.

Duke Qi kept nodding, his eyes full of agreement with Gu Tingyu's words.

Xu Zaijing/Xu Zaizhang: "I have met the Duke, my brother-in-law."

"sit."

After Gu Tingyu finished speaking, he looked at Xu Zaijing and said:

"I heard that you and Prince Yong had a bad time a few days ago?"

Xu Zaijing nodded.

"Have you sent a letter to the Xie family in the south?"

Hearing this, Xu Zaijing was stunned for a moment, then patted his forehead and said quickly:

"Oh, I was caught up in other things and forgot about it. Brother-in-law, I will send someone to write a letter now."

"Why bother? Just go to Brother Heng's study to write it and send it to the Xu family."

Qi Guozheng on the side.

Half an hour later,

In the backyard of the Duke's Mansion,

Under the cool corridor,

Listening to the report of the personal female officer, Princess Pingning sat on a chair and fanned herself:

"Hmph, this Princess Yong, when she was not married to Prince Yong, was just the legitimate daughter of a military officer. After she became the princess, she said a lot of sarcastic things about me! I still remember what she said to Princess Jing, who am I? The one that caught the ends of the prince’s branches?”

"I am just envious of your honor and favor in front of the queen."

"Oh, let's not mention them! I only hope that Brother Heng can pass the imperial examination like he passed the imperial examination before!"

"Didn't I say that the children in the Sheng Family School are all children who study hard and study hard? My young master must be what you said."

"Yep."

There are not only those who study hard, but also those who are in great health.

As she spoke, Princess Pingning narrowed her eyes.

After taking a look at it, the personal female officer hurriedly left the princess, walked quickly to a female envoy and scolded:

"Take your stray hair away. The princess is in a good mood today, otherwise you will be in trouble."

Sheng family,

Shouantang,

Sheng Changzhu was sleeping soundly in the old lady's bedroom.

Hua Lan, who had returned to her parents' home, was talking softly in front of Mrs. Sheng.

Wang Ruofu looked at Hua Lan's light green summer clothes and light-colored jewelry, and couldn't get enough of it.

Behind her, Wei Shuyi listened to what Hualan was saying with a smile in his eyes.

"Grandma, have you ever heard of the circumcision ceremony in Northern Liao?"

The old lady's smile faltered slightly, she looked at the curious faces of Wang and Wei and said:

"Hua'er, why are you asking about this?"

"It's not this girl Cuichan."

Hearing this, Cuichan in the room lowered her head in shame.