Towards the end of the year, the Liu family's boxing gifts were also brought from Yulin, which was much richer than what he sent: millet, jujubes, medicinal materials, boxes of leather goods, clothing materials... and a few live pairs. Deer, golden pheasants, rabbits and the like told him to keep and play.
A pair of small footprints were printed in the letter, but it was the cousin of the eldest uncle who gave birth to a son, and the nickname was Brother Lu, and he took the child's footprints and showed him. When he gets a wife in the future, if he can't hold someone else's big fat boy, he will be able to take this footprint and get a man.
This family letter, Cui Xie, was ignorant of himself, and he didn't let the old man and the old lady hear it, lest they remember to say kiss to him.
All the things brought by the Liu family, he ordered them to be stored in the cellar, and the living creatures were kept in the courtyard. Sister Yun and Brother He were all looking at the small things in the courtyard like watching the western scenery. Reluctant to go back to the room. While holding the rabbit, Cui Heng held his chin and boasted about the BMWs from the Western Regions, the peacocks from the South, the lion cats from Linqing, and the things sent by the Liu family who had no knowledge of what he had seen back then.
Cui Xie took the rabbit out of his arms, threw it into the arms of Sister Yun who was looking at him eagerly, pressed his shoulder and said, "You have been wandering in the yard for a long time, have you done your homework today? I have to go to school, it's time to go back and do the quiz."
When Cui Heng heard the word "homework", his skin tightened, and he went back to his room with a sigh of relief.
Brother He is now Lu Juren's key education target, and he has a lot of homework. Seeing that the second brother told him to go back, he also consciously put down the rabbit and went back to do his homework obediently.
Cui Xie smiled gratified: "Brother He is also sensible. It's not that you are not allowed to play, it's just that there are rules to keep this little thing. This rabbit and golden pheasant are kept by the family, and you come out to play with it sooner or later. , don't delay reading - Sister Yun can play more, just don't get tired."
Girls don’t need to study and work, so it’s okay to play more, and they can also exercise when they have time to walk these pets.
Only a pair of fawns cannot be kept at home.
The Cui family has many courtyards and few yards, so it is impossible to set up a single courtyard to raise deer. Such enclosure is not conducive to the growth of deer, and the family cannot provide forage. He simply asked someone to tie the deer's neck with a red ribbon and sent it to Xie's house as a New Year's gift.
The Xie family has a mountainous area on the outskirts of Beijing, which happens to be raising deer.
After Xie Ying returned home, the old steward Xie Yu told him about Cui Xie’s sending the deer, and exclaimed with joy, “Young Master Cui, how can you send things, isn’t sending a deer a gift? I mentioned the Zhenfu, and with his pair of deer, I will be able to officially become the Beisi Zhenfu in the coming year!"
Xie Ying went to the side courtyard and looked at the pair of deer still tied with red silk. The deer is a sika deer, with colorful fur, big and bright eyes, and a gentle and innocent look, which makes people like it.
The two little deer didn't know how to be afraid of people. When they saw someone coming, they lowered their heads and leaned forward, and even lowered their heads to hit his waist. Xie Ying touched the deer, squinted and smiled: "I raised it at home. Next, let’s keep it at home first, and then send it to Zhuangzi when we get older. Do we still have deerskins in our house, find two to send back.”
People give live deer, we give deer skins, is this a gift or a heart attack!
The stewards and chiefs who followed him couldn't stand it any longer, and persuaded him: "Isn't it good that you don't give him back a living thing, but also a painting? Let the supervisor watch it, as if we ripped off his deer. It's like sending the skin back, strangely pickled."
Xie Ying said with a smile: "It's not his deer's skin, so why pick it up? Find a few good mink skins and fox skins, and send some colored porcelain, ornaments, shochu, and some of the ones you used to give away. Dry goods are enough, our friendship is different, we don't have to give false gifts like others."
Cui Xie can write plays and can give him a name and Lulai, but he does not have the ability to promote him, so he can only give him a couple to show his affection.
On the evening of the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, he personally brought a cart of gifts to Cui's house.
He didn't wear Jinyiwei's official uniform that day, he only wore a normal red corset with a straight waist and an ivory crane cloak, looking young and handsome. The servants of the Cui family saw that he was described as romantic and personable, and he had heard the story of "Xie Qianhu" wisely deciding the case from the popular dramas "Pipa", "Headless Case" and "Wise Trial Yuxiu". He was in a panicky mood when he led people to raid his home, and he took the opportunity of sweeping and serving tea to peek at him.
Xie Ying was also very gentle with others. After entering the door, he greeted the two elders politely, without the air of Jin Yiwei.
Mrs. Cui almost forgot that he brought people to take away her daughter-in-law and second grandson. She only remembered that Cui Xie said that he was her savior, so she complimented him without any excuse and thanked him for giving Cui in Tongzhou. Xie found a good doctor... As he spoke, he almost took off the jasper bracelet on his wrist and gave it to him.
Cui Xie held his grandmother's hand and said thoughtfully, "It's getting late, grandfather and grandmother should rest, why don't you invite Master Xie to the grandson's yard, and I'll be enough to accompany you."
Xie Ying also said politely: "I have some academic things I want to ask Cui Jiansheng to give advice, so I won't disturb the second old man."
The old lady twisted the bracelet and realized that she almost gave it to the wrong person, and said with a smile, "yes, you men have something to talk about, so my old lady won't make trouble. Ah Zhang asked someone to prepare some. For food, don't ask Master Xie to sit empty."
Zhang's mother went down to prepare, and Cui Xie personally led Xie Ying to her room. The room facing the door is a whole wall of books. On the bookshelf are the four books and five classics, the compendium of the general review, the laws and decrees of the Ming Dynasty, and other examination books, as well as historical books, ancient prose, Yuefu, Tang and Song Yuan poems, Li Dongyang and other Hanlin and Yang She. People's poetry collection, as well as Ju Anzhai's newly published notes, were packed to the brim, as if they were a bibliophile.
Xie Ying looked at the book wall and sighed a few times before laughing: "I have been a must-read for your imperial examinations recently, and I also feel that I have acquired some knowledge. Compared with you, a serious scholar, it is really nothing—"
He happened to see the wooden board hanging by the book wall at a glance. On the wooden board were large red lacquer characters, and it was written that the countdown was still a few days away from the autumn test.
shocking.
Even he looked in awe, not daring to joke.
Cui Xie was slapping the goose feather cushion on the sofa so that he could relax a little and invite him to sit down. When he suddenly saw that he was not speaking, he raised his head and asked, "Brother Xie?"
After he shouted, Xie Ying finally looked away from the board, and replied softly: "I packed up a few gift lists for you, in a box carved with pine and cypress, the gift list is here."
He took out a big red gift list from his arms and handed it to Cui Xie.
The handwriting on the gift list is thin and powerful. From top to bottom, there are various leathers, toys, and food... Although the writing is dense and dazzling, Cui Xie can see "two deerskins" at a glance.
Also called Lipi.
Among the six rites, the gift of the levy is to be given.
Even Lippi was given away, wouldn't rounding up mean that he proposed to marry him? Or is it like getting married
Cui Xie's eyes were fixed on those words, while thinking about the marriage, he felt a little regret - when he gave the deer, why didn't he think that the deer skin should be given as a gift for the levy? There were also a few deerskins in the fur that the Liu family gave him, and they should have been sent along with the deer at that time!
But it doesn't matter, the deer he gave has skin on it, so it's the six gifts he gave first!
He threw down the gift list and turned around to hug Xie Ying's waist, wanting to hug him for a while. It's a pity that Lord Xie Zhenfu refused to cooperate. His feet never left the ground, so he only followed him around the room twice, turning his calf to the side of the sofa, Xie Ying then fell into the cushion, steady. Sit down.
Cui Xie leaned on top of him, put one hand on Xie Ying's chest, looked down at him, and asked with bated breath, "Brother Xie is here to marry him today?"
If you say marriage, it is better to say that you have come to propose. But a statement is not important. Xie Ying took his hand, told him to lie on his chest, and said with a smile, "Xu Bu Xu is also yours. There is no other Cui Xie in the world who can make me look into his eyes and can't pull them out. I can't give up half the time."
He raised his head and kissed Cui Xie, put his right hand behind his waist, imprisoned him in his arms, and whispered, "Brother Xie, grow up quickly."
Cui Xie threw off the boot of his left foot and stepped on the blue brick floor with his bare feet. He could only feel the heat flowing into the soles of his feet with his blood, but he could not feel the cold. It was cold outside the house, and maybe there was a little snow, but the kang in this house was burning hot, and there were grass curtains outside the window. For young and strong martial arts practitioners like them, it was similar to spring and summer. .
He enjoyed the undisturbed tenderness at this moment, stroked Xie Ying's hair and said, "I've grown up, can we not wait to try it out, and choose a good day to get married during the New Year?"
Xie Ying Yuguang swept to the thick insole exposed in the boot on the ground, and pursed the corners of his mouth: "Wait for you to be older, I heard that the kidneys govern the bones and the marrow, I am afraid that you will hurt the kidney qi... I can't bear it."
This is superstition and there is no scientific basis for this claim!
Cui Xie wanted to have a debate with him about physiology, but when he heard the words "I can't bear it", his heart softened and he couldn't bear to force him.
But next year, when he holds the township examination, he will also be a master. There are no masters who can't get married, right? Nowadays, it is not a modern day that pays attention to late marriage and late childbearing. It is really suitable for people who are eighteen to get married.
Xie Ying told him to beg hard, thinking that he could see the future too, so he couldn't be as persistent as before, he sighed softly, and replied, "After the township exam, you still have to take the exam, young people are greedy for sex. It's easy to be distracted, but that's not possible. I think it's better to wait for you to pass the test - as long as you pass the test, I will promise you whether you pass or fail."
Cui Xie almost jumped up from the sofa, knelt down and said, "That's what you said! After I passed the exam..."
Xie Ying stroked his forehead and said, "I promise you."
The power of example is limitless.
In the past year, the three Cui Xie brothers spent their time studying, and even Lu Juren used his two sets of notes to recite and do questions over and over again, hoping to pass the annual meeting. When he went to his teacher's house to pay New Year's greetings, he couldn't put down the scroll, and asked Li Dongyang as an example to teach his son to teach Li Zhao to read well.
Li Dalang's talent is extraordinary, and he knows ten. His father and grandfather dote on him, so he doesn't need to study hard. But Cui Xie is also known as a child prodigy. He is also a book lover who can't put it down. He usually endorses books without writing questions. With this disciple as the control group, Li Dongyang had a higher demand for his son without realizing it. He could no longer be allowed to write poems and essays at will, but added a lot of homework from scriptures.
Li Zhaoxian now has a headache when he sees Cui Xie, and begged him a few times in private not to work too hard, and to give them a way to survive for such a talented child prodigy.
Cui Xie was walking on the now-filled avenue, when he saw that the younger brother wanted to squander his talents and indulge himself, how could he allow it! He picked up Li Zhaoxian with one hand, carried him into the room, pressed it on the chair, and took out his new exercises to explain to his junior and junior brothers.
Li Dongyang saw it from outside the door, and Wei Xin said: "He Zhong really has the appearance of a senior brother, and Zhao Xian will give it to you, so that the master can feel at ease."
His wife, Mrs. Zhu, was pregnant with the second son. In May, he had a dream that someone gave him a boy. Feeling a little miraculous, he cared more about his wife and relaxed the eldest son. He was afraid of delaying Li Zhaoxian's learning, but now that he saw that the senior brother Cui Xie was more thorough than him, he felt completely at ease, and simply entrusted him with the matter of teaching his son.
Li Zhaoxian originally pointed at his father to protect him from his brother, but he threw him out without his father, telling him to teach him how he liked to teach him, and how to force him as he liked. A well-mannered and talented Miaozi who grew up in accordance with nature is about to be turned into a pedantic pedant.
He couldn't bear it any longer, so he pretended to be sick. Li Dongyang hurriedly called for a doctor to see him, but it turned out that he was really sick—although there were no real symptoms, there were some deficiencies brought on by the fetus, and his constitution was poor. The doctor didn't tell him to pretend to be sick, but only prescribed some tonic for the symptoms and told him to take medicine and rest.
Early June was Mrs. Zhu's due date. Li Zhaoxian also looked sick and unable to get up. Li Dongyang was worried about his wife and his son, so he couldn't take care of him. His father even guarded his grandson and did not dare to let go. He had been visited by several doctors, for fear that he had some serious illness that could not be diagnosed.
When Cui Xie arrived at Li's house, he saw such a messy situation. Li Zhaoxian sat on the bed feebly and said vainly, "Senior brother, I'm not in good health, so I won't be able to study with you in the future..."
Cui Xie hurriedly asked him what was wrong with him, and Taigong Li helplessly sighed and said, "There is no actual disease, the medical officials only said that this child is a debilitating disease from the womb, and his constitution is weak. "
This is not sub-health!
Cui Xie immediately understood his condition. He asked Li Zhaoxian's pulse record and the soup and medicine he was taking, and said to the grandparents of the Li family, "I know where my younger brother is sick. Master, don't worry, I know someone who used to be in the palace. The dedicated doctor Liu, when I was injured and died in Tongzhou, I asked him to prescribe a few medicines to recuperate, and he was able to get up slowly, and I asked someone to invite him to come and see."
Li Taigong was relieved, showing a little smile, and hurriedly asked someone to give him money, don't ask him to add money to the doctor himself.
Li Zhaoxian didn't laugh much, and was worried that the famous doctor would come to see him pretending to be sick, and he was even more worried that he would have to ask his senior brother to force Ling to study when he recovered his body.
He was about to persuade his grandfather and senior brother not to bother to hire a doctor, he would just drink the current medicine to recuperate, but his senior brother spat out more cruel words: "I'm afraid the symptoms of my senior brother are not just a matter of drinking the medicine, but a normal life. Too casual, I don't know how to maintain it. I was seriously injured in bed at the beginning, and my body was much weaker than he is now. Later, I exercised a good body through more activities. Snuggle gets weaker."
No, no, how can the patient move, isn't the activity hurting the body and mind!
Although Li Shentong and his family were born in the military, since his grandfather's generation, he was a scholar who couldn't lift his shoulders or lift his hands. He never thought of training his body. However, what he said was insignificant, but Li Taigong was persuaded by his senior brother, stroked his beard and nodded his head: "What I said is that children should also be more active, his illness is not caused by reading all day long. Huh? When he's a little bit better, I really want you to watch him practice martial arts."