Dali Temple Small Dining Room 2

Chapter 47

After the evening meal, Wen Mingtang really got the pile of boxy chashou skins and a lot of pork leg meat.

"The leftover meat from Zhuangzi," Ji Caimai pointed to the fresh pork leg meat, and said, "It's self-raised, you can't buy this kind of stuff in the market."

Wen Mingtang couldn't help but chuckle when he heard it.

Coincidentally, at this time, a few servants who just came out of the public kitchen passed by. Ji Caimai, who looked downcast, paused for a while, and then turned to ask Wen Mingtang, "Master Wen is going to make supper today. ?"

It's not that I want to eat supper, the main reason is that Master Wang's evening food is really unpalatable.

Wen Mingtang looked at Ji Caimai who was staring at the shaoshou skin, thought for a while, and said, "Then let's make some red oil shaoshou first!"

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It was also the first time for Liu Yuan to see this Duke of Huai'an who had accumulated virtues from his ancestors and had a better reincarnation.

At the age of four or fifty, his eyes are black and blue, his eyes are deeply puffed up, he is a little fat, he walks unsteadily, and his feet are empty, just like the imaginary overindulgent people.

When Lin Fei and Lin Fei came over, Duke Huai'an was still having fun, and when the two of them entered the door, he sent out the maidservants with intertwined wounds and fake smiles on their faces.

Liu Yuan sneezed when he entered the room, which smelled of incense powder.

It was probably the first time I saw Lin Fei. After looking at him for a long time, Duke Huai'an couldn't help but sigh: "If Lin Shaoqing has a sister or something, she must be a rare beauty!"

Liu Yuan rolled his eyes when he heard this: You are really a pervert, is it possible to be a dry man in the Yasukuni government?Don't say that Lin Shaoqing's mother and compatriots don't have sisters, but they do. When will the Duke of Huai'an come to Xiaoxiang?

Lin Fei gave him a cold look, and explained why he came.

Compared with Zhang Zeduan's secrecy, Duke Huai'an did not hide it. Hearing this, he nodded and said, "This Duke is indeed a bit more romantic. Most of the servants in this mansion are brought by Yan San and the others. Hahaha Well, the rich and the idle, you always have to find something to do, don’t you?”

Liu Yuan couldn't help but rolled his eyes again.

Duke Huai'an would not pay any attention to a small Dali Temple Prime Minister, and continued: "I was resting on my boat at the time you said!" He yawned and looked indifferent. The appearance of spirit, "If you go to bed late at night, you will turn day and night upside down. At that time, it is always the time for the county government to rest."

As for killing...

Duke Huai'an laughed loudly: "What's the big deal? Why do you need to do it yourself if the Duke wants to kill people? Let alone, why kill them? Is there anyone in the Duke's mansion who can control the Duke? "

These words are justified.

The old Huai'an County Duke married a wife for the Huai'an County Duke when he was alive, and his wife was a lady from a famous family, and her family was very powerful.Under the influence of the old county prince and his wife's natal family, Duke Huai'an has really been a person for several years.Later, the Duke's wife died early due to illness, and the Duke of Huai'an refused the old Duke of Huai'an's idea of ​​helping him renew his marriage on the grounds that he would keep the festival for his wife.A few years later, the old Duke passed away, and no one could control Duke Huai'an anymore, so he has been living like this until now.

Of course, keeping festivals is just a gimmick. After the death of the Duke's wife, the Duke of Huai'an had already cut off contact with his father-in-law's family.

In the final analysis, he was just looking for an excuse, not wanting to be disciplined.

For some unknown reason, Duke Huai'an has never had any heirs. Five years ago, he picked a nephew whose parents had died early from a side branch.

The nephew of the Duke of Huai'an is called Li Ruizhi, he is 25 or [-] years old, he looks handsome and gentle, and he is full of bookishness.Everyone in the house spoke well of him.I heard that this Li Ruizhi is a student, and he was going to take the scientific examination before being selected by the Duke of Huai'an County, but he fell off the list at the stage of the examination.Later, he did not continue, but entered the mansion with Duke Huai'an, planning to become a ready-made Duke in the future.

In all fairness, a fool knows how to choose between a scientific examination that is very likely to fail the ranking, and even if the top scholar in the scientific examination may not be able to be an extremely talented minister, or a ready-made county prince.

However, even though he gave up the scientific examination, he probably liked it in his bones. Li Ruizhi still liked reading in his daily life.

When Liu Yuan and Lin Fei saw Li Ruizhi, he was studying in the study.

Duke Huai'an is busy having fun, so he doesn't care about small things.What's more, everyone in the county government regards Li Ruizhi as the future prince, so Li Ruizhi's yard is not bad, big and spacious.

Different from the extravagance of Duke Huai'an, Li Ruizhi's house looks like a typical literati's house, whether it's the pruning bamboo and orchids in the yard, or the four treasures of the study in the house.

The study room occupies more than half of the huge yard.The bookshelves are stacked full of books, including the Four Books and Five Classics that children who are admitted to the official examination must read, as well as some poems, songs and folk tales.

When the two went in, what Li Ruizhi was reading in his hand was a book of folk stories.

"This is the most popular "Resurrection Pavilion" these days! I read it too, and it's pretty good." Seeing Li Ruizhi's script on the table, Liu Yuan said casually.

After saluting the two of them, Li Ruizhi got up, smiled wryly and said, "I have nothing to do, so I just read some scriptures to pass the time."

Lin Fei looked at the "Resurrection Pavilion" on the table, picked it up casually, and flipped through a few pages.

Seeing this, Liu Yuan hurriedly explained to Shangfeng: "It's a story about a talented man falling in love with a beautiful woman."

"It's about a gifted man and a young lady who admire each other. However, the young lady was born in a wealthy family. The family members disagreed with the daughter marrying the down-and-out gifted scholar, so they married the lady to someone else. Later, the gifted scholar saw the young lady again after high school. At that time Miss Qianjin, who was forced to marry someone else, had a very bad life. The husband that the family chose for her looked well-dressed, but he was actually a gentle scum on the inside. , couldn't help but paused, sighed for a while, and then continued, "The gifted man can't forget Miss Qianjin, and the lady can't forget the gifted man, and he became more and more unhappy after returning. The husband who was promiscuous found that the lady had someone in her heart, so he The beating became more and more ruthless, and one miss killed the young lady. After learning about it, the talented man was very annoyed, and originally wanted to follow the young lady, but he met a rogue priest in front of the lady's grave, and the rogue Taoist hated him. Noisy, scolded him, and made an appointment with him in the middle of the night to fight at a pavilion one mile away. At midnight, the talented man arrived at the pavilion, and the Taoist priest was already there waiting for him. Before he could speak, he Stuffed a paper man the size of a palm into his hand, and then ran away. The gifted man chased him out, but after he chased out of the pavilion, he couldn’t see the shadow of the Taoist priest. When he returned to the pavilion, he saw the The palm-sized paper man grew bigger in front of his eyes, and turned into the living Miss Qianjin, smiling at him!"

Liu Yuan, who finished the content of "Resurrection Pavilion" in one breath, couldn't help but clicked his tongue, and said: "This story is interesting because it is a love story that is touching and reunited. I can't think deeply about it. I always feel a little weird. It’s gloomy, like a ghost story; it’s a ghost story, but it’s very touching, and it doesn’t clearly point out that there are ghosts or anything.”

He debated with Bai Zhu and Wei Fu for a long time as to whether "The Pavilion of Resurrection" was a ghost story or a love story, but they still couldn't come to a conclusion.

While sighing, Lin Fei raised his head, looked at Li Ruizhi, and asked him, "What do you think of the story of "The Pavilion of Resurrection"?"

Liu Yuan, who was still sighing at the side, heard this, his jaw almost dropped. He looked at Shangfeng who asked this question in disbelief: This is... his family's Shangfeng who never talks nonsense?
He actually started discussing the stories in the storybook with others!

(End of this chapter)