Mrs. Qin and Cousin Liu stayed in their hometown longer than Cui Xie had estimated, and did not return to Beijing until November. When he came back, he pulled two carts from his hometown. The carts were full of furniture that was carefully carved from mahogany, which was similar to the ones in his bedroom. Although it is the craftsmanship of Northern Zhili, it is not as precious and luxurious as the wood from the south, but it is very comfortable to use because it is based on the modern style designed by him.
They pulled the car into Xie's yard, and Mrs. Qin was going to ask someone to move the household into his room and throw the elm and willow wood furniture out.
Cui Xie hurriedly stopped: "My family doesn't have money to change furniture, how can I make my aunt so expensive? This kind of furniture is very comfortable, not only in Yongping Mansion, but also in Beijing these days. Bring home a set of furniture, and also ask relatives and friends in Yulin Town to see the fashion in Beijing.”
Mrs. Qin said distressedly: "I haven't been to your room for a long time, otherwise I can't wait until today to change it for you? Brother Shou has a big heart and can throw everything behind his head. If it weren't for him in my mother's house After buying this kind of household goods, I think that you also use this kind of thing here, but it is of inferior wood, and I still don’t know that you are so hard on yourself…”
In order to make the house of the man who made the business look good, he actually used the broken furniture that is not as good as in such a guest room. This child is too stupid!
She forced people to carry the furniture into the vacant ear room, but Cui Xie couldn't resist her kindness, so he had to pack up his paintings and calligraphy and put them in Cui Qi's room first, staring at people to change the furniture.
As soon as the mahogany furniture entered the room, the house suddenly became a lot more expensive. Mrs. Qin also got him a maroon-colored tortoise paper screen to stand beside the wall, saying that it was popular among literati in the south.
Although Cui Xie is more accustomed to the cold and windy decoration style, he is not obsessed with it. He also thinks it is good to see the room that Mrs. Qin has cleaned up. It's just that there are too many dark things in the room, and the fabrics are too gorgeous. In two days, when his aunt leaves, he has to replace the bedding and chair covers with plain ones.
Cousin Liu looked at the newly renovated house, and nodded old-fashionedly: "This is decent. Cousin's house was so neatly tidied before, and I felt it was inappropriate when I looked at it."
Aunt Qin and Cui Xie both laughed when they heard his child speak as an adult.
Cui Xie took out the newly made clothes, compared them on him, and said with a smile, "My cousin thinks of me, and I think of you too. This clothes is the most fashionable new look in Beijing, and there is no one else. Wear it, try it on."
Because the clothes were winter clothes, they were made a little wider. Inside is a straight jacquard fabric with white lantern pattern. In order to look thinner, the hem is widened on both sides, and the waistline is still raised slightly higher, and a palm-wide green satin belt is used to tie the body shape. On the outside, there is a large cloak of the same color, covered with layers of red tulle, and the hem of the clothes is fluttering, which is obviously light and elegant, not as bloated as ordinary winter clothes.
When Liu Yunshou put on his clothes, Mrs. Qin's eyes lit up and she praised: "Okay, you children should wear some bright clothes. There are red ones on the outside, and the white ones on the inside are not too plain. !"
Cui Xie also had a bag of various colored gauze in his hand, and opened it to show them: "The gauze outside is a smock and can be changed to other colors. I know my cousin loves Bai's, but in this winter, It's snowing everywhere outside, and I wouldn't look good in white, so I asked the tailor to get a few more gauze smocks."
He turned over a gauze coat, pointed to the buttonholes on the shoulders, underarms, placket, and back, and said, "You can put on whatever color you want to wear. The cloak has buttons in these places. Hold it first, and you won't be afraid that it won't fit."
Cousin Liu didn't like the red tunic very much at first, so he planned to wear a dark tunic when he went back. When he heard that the tunic could be put on and taken off, he was overjoyed and groped his whole body, unbuttoned it and put it on white. He walked a few steps by himself, looked at the hem of the clothes below, and said happily, "Cousin is so nice, I thought you forgot that I wanted to be white, but you can still change the clothes... I will change into a tunic one day later. , make those boys envious!"
Mrs. Qin also held the gauze to take a closer look, and sighed: "The tailors in Beijing really have ingenuity. We don't use needles here, just dig a buttonhole and make buttons on the cloak. , if you don't look closely, it's like a whole dress made into one piece."
In fact, Cui Xie originally wanted to make it a one-piece, but Yu Tailor came to tell him that the color was too plain, and he dressed in white like a young man without an official family and a poor man. In addition, white gauze and white silk are of the same color, but the fabric is not compliant, and the gauze is worn at first glance. From a close look, you can tell that it is a light garment with gauze, but from a distance, it looks thick and not romantic.
Choi Xie always likes to listen to the opinions of professionals, and if it is his own clothes, he will change it. Helpless, my cousin loved the white one, but he changed it and was afraid that he would not like it, so he had to compromise and change it to a removable two-piece outerwear.
The upper part of the gauze is fastened to the crane cloak with buttons, but the lower part is separated. As soon as you walk around, the tulle flutters with the wind, but the fabric inside is thick and draped. It can be seen that it is two layers of clothes, which makes it look much lighter.
Liu Yunshou ran out of the house by himself, feeling the pleasure of being able to dress neatly and elegantly in this big winter. Mrs. Qin took Cui Xie's hand in the room and said with emotion, "You child is too careful. If it were your cousins, you would never have imagined this."
In ordinary people, it is enough for a man to only care about the outside world. It is too hard for this child to even take care of such trivial matters as making clothes at such a young age.
Before she could speak much, she felt her throat choked up, touched Cui Xie's hair, looked at him distressedly, and said after a while, "You are so afraid that you will delay studying, right? There must be someone at home—if you can trust your aunt, I will take care of you. Looking for a marriage, although the family lived in the border for a long time, they were born from nobles and nobles with roots in Beijing, and their daughter was talented and good-looking and had a good temperament."
She originally wanted to ask for this daughter-in-law for her son, but now, looking at the situation of the Cui family, she felt that Cui Xie needed a clan wife who could help him support the door.
Cui Xie quickly got up and refused: "I don't hide it from my aunt. Although the situation in my family is not too bad, it is not as high as the daughter of the prince's mansion. Besides, my father's new letter also vaguely revealed his intention to marry again. , I can't compete with my father to get a wife, can I? I think it will have to wait until the stepmother enters the door, and the parents will decide..."
You are so old, you just divorced your wife and want to marry again
Mrs. Qin almost called it disgusting, her face turned blue and white, she patted him on the shoulder and said, "good boy, you don't have to wait for him to decide this matter, I'll do it for you—"
Cui Xie took her hand and refused seriously: "My aunt has good intentions, and I know it very well. It's just that filial piety is the foundation of my life, and I can't delay my father's important affairs for myself. My aunt doesn't have to worry about me, I am now I was just about to concentrate on my studies, but I was afraid that after marrying a wife, I would be distracted by love and delay my career.”
Mrs. Qin was not only afraid that it would be too hard for him to support the family, but also that he would indulge in Wenrou Township after marrying a wife, which would really affect his future. After thinking about it for a while, he finally sighed: "Let's do it now. Auntie will keep an eye on the right girl for you. After two years, you will be older and you will get married. Just say something and our Liu family will marry you back."
With this thought in mind, she returned to Yulin with various specialties in Beijing and a crazy Liu Yunshou, while Cui Xie went to visit her brother with the letter from Senator Cui.
These forty boards were much lighter than when Senator Cui was there, and Cui Heng's body was better than Cui Xie's, and he was able to land in just a few days.
Seeing Cui Xie coming in, he instinctively flinched for a while, then remembered that Cui Xie's hatred for death when he was beaten, shrank to the side of the bed, looked at him, and said gloomily, "Have you come to see if I die? Die? Don't pretend to be a good person, you were very happy when my milk beat me, right? Your Liu family came to support you, my grandma doesn't want me anymore, I'll be an orphan for you to grind... "
This kid's mouth makes people want to hit him.
Cui Xie said coldly: "A son without a father is called an orphan. Although your mother was cut off by the government and his father was righteous, your surname is still Cui. This Cui house is your home, and the Xu family has nothing to do with you. Where have the years of etiquette been learned!"
He glanced back, and immediately a long follower came up and asked, "Can you bring the board if you want a smaller one?"
Cui Xie looked at Cui Heng leaning against the bed, he wanted to sit but didn't dare to sit, he grinned, with a look of fear and hatred in his eyes, and shook his head slightly: "He's not in good health yet, so I'm going to write down this beating. You go. Find Xiao Songyan and bring my "Three Rites", look back at your second brother, memorize 100 words a day, and keep silent at night. If you can't keep silent..."
Looking at Cui Heng, his eyes gradually filled with panic, his whole face was distorted, and he felt a little pity for him. He felt that cursing Senator Cui to death was not worth the heavy punishment, so he said: "If you don't keep silent, let him turn on the lights at night. , when you write it right, when you go to sleep."
100 words a day is not too much, Cui Heng has memorized "The Imperial Letter" and "Daming Law", and he can still memorize "Three Rites".
But the difficulty and length of the three rituals were not on the same level as the two books—that was something Cui Xie himself didn't want to learn, and Cui Hengguang wanted to kill him when he heard it. He leaned against the bed, raised his eyes and glared at Cui Xie and said, "You are deliberately hurting me. You want to lock me up in this room for the rest of your life and not allow me to go out! Dad wouldn't let you do this if he was at home!"
Cui Xie smiled genially, flattened Senator Cui's family letter and put it in his hand, pointing to the words at the end that Senator Cui told him to take care of the family affairs and said, "Although my father is not at home, my heart is always on my side. You are here, he just knew that I could take care of you, so he wrote a letter asking me to let go of the housework."
"Impossible! Dad despises you the most. He has said several times that you are useless. It's not as good as I look like him. He doesn't love you at all. How could he ask you to take care of me!" Cui Heng saw those few He couldn't help shaking his hands, his face turned blue, his fingertips digging into the paper with force, as if he was about to tear the letter to pieces.
Cui Xie was afraid that the arrogant boy would pull the letter, so he snapped his fingers and took it back, sneered and shook his head: "Master is not satisfied with the 20th grade, your brother and I have become the chief of the three-year-old's case at 16. This is called Unworthy father. You can't even recite a Zhou Li at the age of fourteen, what are you doing?"
He took the letter slowly and smiled at Cui Heng: "Don't worry, my father is not at home, my brother will teach you well, and make sure that you are familiar with "Li", "Yi", "Poems" and "Books" in two years. know how to live in the world."
Cui Hengrao was immersed in the pain of being abandoned by his father, listening to the books in his words, thinking of the thickness of the books, he couldn't help shivering, and shrank his body in fear.
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In the past two days when he sent his aunt and cousin back to their hometown, there was news from the Gao Mansion: Eunuch Gao had robbed a large Lantern Festival from Jiaofang Division, called "All Saints Celebrate the Lantern Festival", which has been taken in The bell and drum division rehearsed.
Gao Su personally went to the door in the dark, and handed the courtyard book to Cui Xie, telling him to be careful and think more carefully, so as to suppress Jiaofang Sijin's new drama.
That courtyard book is only a thin volume. The first half volume is full of opera lyrics, sung in Xianlu tune, and opens with a little lip; clothing. Not only the clothes, but also the beards, hairstyles, wielders, and ornaments around the waist. He has been acting like this for years, and the royal family also has regulations, so he can't change his makeup according to the portrait in the book as he did when he held the Three Kingdoms Exhibition.
Seeing that he was looking seriously, Gao Su frowned slightly, and he was also a little nervous, and asked him in a low voice, "Will it work? If not, just light incense and hang a curtain? But I was everywhere changing the show a few days ago, and I was afraid of the Jiaofang. The Secretary has learned from me!"
Cui Xie shook his head: "That's not to be afraid of, we can still come up with new ideas to outperform them, I'm just afraid that there is not enough time to make it out."
Gao Su said: "You just need to come up with a way. The royal family has thousands of craftsmen. Are you afraid that he won't be able to do it by then?"
In fact, before Gao Su came, Cui Xie had thought about a lot of lighting and background ideas. Even Weiya had thought about it, but he was afraid to bring it up because he was afraid of danger in the palace. Now looking at the script of the new drama, it is enough to make the background in a targeted manner.
He read the courtyard book once and engraved it into a clear PDF in his mind, then handed it back to Gao Su, and said with a smile, "I shouldn't or won't keep these things in the inner courtyard. When I go back, I will ask someone to rehearse the new play, and I will discuss it with an experienced craftsman in the past two days, and within half a month, I will be able to deliver the stage arrangement and new makeup to the adults."
While Gao Su was nervous, he didn't sigh: "Your brain is so amazing, you can't forget it after watching it once? I've heard the Three Kingdoms opera so many times, but I still can't sing it."
Actually he can't sing.
Cui Xie remembered the Naqu Chaotian he had listened to together outside the Guandi Temple before Xie Ying and Xie Ying had formally established their relationship. Xie Ying had sung so many times in his ear, didn't he just sing it out of tune like sitting on a rocket
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile. Gao Su thought he was laughing at himself, and waved his hand and said, "You are so unkind as a scholar, why are you making fun of others?"
Only then did Cui Xie remember that there was someone in front of him, so he quickly restrained his smile and explained, "I'm not laughing at adults, I just feel that the words of adults are kind, and I don't know how to sing. I can’t remember the words, but the tune can still be sung in a good key.”
When he said that, Gao Su's mood suddenly improved, he looked at him up and down, and grinned, "I can't think of something you can't even know about a child prodigy? I really think you are the reincarnation of Zhuge Kongming. , I don't dare to speak loudly with you, it turns out that our brothers have the same problem."
Cui Xie said with a smile: "Even Zhuge Kongming may not be able to sing. I only heard that he wrote "The Apprenticeship", but I don't hear what "Journey to the Master" he sang."
Gao Su made him laugh and patted his thighs and said, "Cui Jiansheng, you are such a wonderful person. If I had known, I wouldn't have come to you to set up the stage and asked you to write a playbook for my father. Are you literati writing better than Jiaofang? Si those old dramas that have been inherited from before and after?"
No... The literati are not necessarily strong, it depends on the aesthetic taste.
Cui Xie thought about what his cousin told him when he came back from watching the play, that the audience watching "Journey to the West" and "Three Kingdoms" in the theater was full, and they played the "Wu Lun Quan Bei Ji" adapted from "The Story of the Pipa" by Master Qiu. At that time, few people saw the tragic contrast, and shook his head with emotion.
"Wu Lun Quan Ji Ji" is a famous author, and it was adapted by a big IP, and the box office is so tragic. Their "All Saints Celebrate the Lantern Festival" has neither connotation nor artistry. To make it look good, it really can only rely on special effects.