Jinpingmei

Chapter 20
The word says: step flower diameter, railing is narrow.Watch out for people, often frightened.The thorns grab the hairpin on the skirt and flash backwards on the tea stand.

Seduce the twigs to babble, ask for the way back, look for the empty gap, and be drawn into the window screen by the nest nest of the old house.

It is said that Ximen Qing was in the room, and when Li Ping'er spoke softly, he was moved with anger and joy, pulled him up, put on his clothes, and hugged each other, trying his best to prepare for it.On the one hand, Chunmei was ordered to enter the room to put the table, and to get wine from the back.

Let's say that Jinlian and Yulou went into his room from Ximenqing and stood at the corner door to eavesdrop on the news.His side is closed again, and Zhi Chunmei waits in the yard alone.Jinlian and Yulou opened the door and looked in. They saw the candles in the room, and they couldn't hear the conversation inside.Jin Lian said: "I'm not as good as Chunmei's little meat, but he's a smart listener."

That Chunmei sneaked under the window to listen for a while, then came over again.Jinlian quietly asked him what was going on in the room, and Chunmei told them through the door, "Why did my father teach him to take off his clothes and kneel down, but he didn't take off. My father got annoyed and whipped him a few times."

Jin Lian said: "If you hit him, did he take off?"

Chunmei said: "When he saw Dad getting annoyed, he panicked, took off his clothes, and knelt on the ground. Dad is asking him something now."

Yulou was afraid that Ximenqing would hear it, so he said, "Fifth Sister, let's go over there."

La Jinlian came to the west corner gate.It was the twentieth day of August, and the moon was just coming up.The two stood in the blackhead, talking together, waiting for Chunmei to come out and ask him something.Pan Jinlian said to Yulou: "My sister, she only said delicious fruit, and she only wanted to come here. The boss didn't move too much, and I've already begged for this a few times. Shun'er, he's all right. It's Orphan Candy, you can make money if you don't. Thinking about eating a little woman and slave to make your tongue in vain, I'll be very careful when I accompany you. If you still eat him, it won't hurt me. Then cry. Sister, how long have you been here? I still don’t know his character!”

While the two were talking, they heard the sound of the corner door opening. Chunmei came out and walked straight to the back.Unexpectedly, his mother stood in the shadows and called him, asking: "Xiao Rouer, where are you going?"

Chunmei smiled and just walked away.Jin Lian said: "Blame little meat, come here, I'll ask you something. Why run away in a hurry?"

Just then Chunmei stood up, and Fang said: "He cried and said a lot to my father. Dad likes to pick him up, make him put on clothes, teach me to set the table, and now go to the back to get wine .”

After hearing this, Jinlian said to Yulou, "thieves have no shame! The thunder and rain in the head are so loud that there is little chaos. And in the meantime, it's not a big deal. I guess, there's no need to think about it, just take it as you want." When the wine comes, teach him to pass it. Thieves, there is no girl in his room? You fetch the wine for him! At the back, you call Xue'e, the little slave woman, to make a loud noise, and I can't hear it."

Chunmei said: "Father ordered me to take care of my business!"

So he went with a smile.Jin Lian said: "My little meat, I'm using him seriously, and I'm as lazy as a dead man waiting to move. I have to dig a bit to find a way to do some errands for a cat. I'm going to go so fast! I found two girls in his room. , you go for him, and take care of your legs! The grape seller follows the salt load—what a busy little brat!"

Yulou said: "It's nothing! My eldest girl, Lan Xiang, I'm making him do some work, so it doesn't matter if he needs something. Dad made him act like a ghost and listen to people's words. Look at how fast he walks!" "

Just as she was talking, she saw Yu Xiao suddenly coming from behind, and said, "San Niang is still here? I'm here to pick you up."

Yulou said: "Strange dog meat, scare me!"

Because he asked, "Your mother knows if you have come?"

Yuxiao said: "I sent my mother to sleep for the day. I came to the front to have a look. Just now I saw Chunmei going to ask for wine and fruit behind."

Because he asked, "what happened when my father came to his room?"

Jin Lian took it and stretched out her hand and said, "Go into his room and let's tell a story together."

Yuxiao asked Yulou again, and Yulou told him one by one.Yuxiao said: "Sanniang, did you really teach him to take off his clothes and kneel and beat him five times?"

Yulou said: "Your father beat him because he didn't kneel."

Yuxiao said: "Call with clothes, call without clothes? How can he survive with his white skin?"

Yulou laughed and said, "Blame the little dog, you are worried for the ancients!"

Just as I was talking, I saw Chunmei carrying the wine and Xiaoyu carrying the square box, going to Li Ping'er.Jin Lian said: "You little thieves, for some reason, I heard what you're doing. Mice in the clouds—a natural waste."

Order: "Send it here quickly, and teach his girl to serve you. Don't worry about him, I will make you!"

Chunmei smiled and went in with Xiaoyu.While putting the wine and dishes on the table, they came out, but Xiuchun and Yingchun agreed in the room.Yulou and Jinlian asked him.Yuxiao said, "San Niang, let's go later."

The two went together.Jinlian told Chunmei to close the corner door, go back into the room, and sleep alone, no problem.It's exactly: It's a pity that the moon is reunited tonight, and the light is so close to others.

Not to mention that Jinlian lived alone, but Ximenqing and Li Ping'er loved each other, drinking and talking until midnight, before they were stretched out with emeralds, put mandarin ducks on their pillows, and went to bed.Covered by lights, it's like a phoenix singing in harmony in a mirror; the fragrance permeates the cage, like butterflies dancing among flowers.It's exactly: tonight, I'm going to take a photo of the silver jar, I'm afraid the meeting is a dream.There are words to prove it: light thrushes are inserted and combed obliquely, and they don't like to play hard.The cloud window and the mist pavilion are deep, and the heart of Hui is blue.

Loving and loving each other, loving people to help each other, there is no such thing as a fairy in the world.From now on, but lovesickness tune, happy kindness is not as good as Jin.

The two slept until mealtime the next day.Li Ping'er just got up and combed her hair in front of the mirror, only to see Yingchun bringing rice from behind.The woman rinsed her mouth first, ate half a cup with Ximen Qing, and then taught Yingchun: "Sieve the leftover Jinhua wine from yesterday."

Taking Ouzi to accompany Ximen Qing to eat two Ouzi each, before washing his face and dressing up.While opening the box, I packed some soft jewelry and clothes, and had a look with Ximen Qing.Take out a hundred Western beads and look at Ximen Qing. They were originally brought by the calligrapher of Liang Zhong in the past.He also took out a gold-studded crow and green hat top, which he said belonged to the deceased father-in-law.Get up and wait for the sub-scale, which weighs four cents and eight cents.Li Ping'er taught Ximen Qing to take a silversmith and make a pair of pendants for him.He also took out a golden silk bun, weighing nine liang.Because he asked Ximenqing: "The aunts in the house, all the ladies, do you have this bun?"

Ximen Qing said: "They have two or three silver silk buns, but they didn't make this bun."

The woman said: "I can't wear it. You take it to the silversmith's house and destroy it for me. Make a gold nine-phoenix padded root, each phoenix beak holds a string of pearls, and make another one for me, according to the law." The gold-encrusted and jade-encrusted Avalokitesvara on his aunt's front is full of distractions."

Ximen Qing put it away, brushed his hair and washed his face, put on his clothes and went out.Li Ping'er said again: "There is no one in the room over there. You should entrust someone to guard the house anyway, and come to take care of the house on behalf of the servant Tian Fu'er. That old Feng, who is an old trader, is like a knocker. He is there alone, and I am worried."

Ximen Qing said, "I see."

Wearing buns and hat tops on his sleeves, he kept walking outside.It might as well be Jinlian poking her head, standing at the door of the east corner, and shouting: "Brother, where are you going? Are we coming out now?"

Ximen Qing said, "I have a business to do."

The woman said: "It's strange, what's the matter with running away in a hurry? I'll talk to you."

Seeing that he was screaming hard, Ximen Qing had no choice but to come back.He was led into the room by the woman, who sat on the chair, took him both hands and said: "I don't want to scold him, it's because of Huo Liao's three-inch leg, that guy ate you with a long pot! What are you rushing out to grab? Come here, and I'll ask you."

Ximen Qing said: "Come on, little whore, what are you only consulting for? I have an affair, wait for me to come back and tell."

Said, go out.The woman felt the heavy bag in the sleeve and said, "What is it? Take it out and let me have a look."

Ximen Qing said, "It's my silver bag."

The woman didn't believe it, so she reached into her sleeve and took out a golden silk bun, and said, "This is his bun, where do you take it?"

Ximen Qing said: "He asked me, knowing that you don't have any, and he said it's not easy to wear. Tell me to go to the silversmith's house to destroy it for him, and make two pieces to wear on his head."

Jin Lian asked: "How heavy is this bun? What is he going to do?"

Ximen Qing said: "This bun weighs nine taels. He wants to wear a Jiufengdianer, and a Jade Guanyin to reflect the front of the housewife."

Jin Lian said: "One piece of Jiufengdianer is full of three, two, five or six dollars. Gold is enough. The big sister's distraction, I only weigh one or two or six dollars on the scale, and the rest, at least you will take care of it for me. According to him, he also makes a Jiufengdianer."

Ximen Qing said: "Man Chijiao is going to expose the truth."

Jin Lian said: "It's just to expose the solid branches, so that the top is full of three taels of gold. I also gave him two or three taels of gold, which is enough to make a lot of money."

Ximen Qing scolded with a smile: "You little whore! You only care about the petty and cheap, and you are also a sharpie everywhere."

Jin Lian said: "My son, you should remember what mother said. If you don't fight for me, I will answer for you!"

That Ximen Qing wore a bun on his sleeves, and went out with a smile.Jin Lian joked: "Brother, you did it."

Ximen Qing said, "How did I do it?"

Jin Lian said: "Since you don't do it, yesterday, when the thunder was heavy and the rain was light, you were going to teach him to hang himself. Today I brought out a bun to make you goofy to grind the mill. I'm not afraid that you won't leave."

Ximen Qing laughed and said, "You little whore, you just talk nonsense!"

Said and went out.

But Wu Yueniang, Meng Yulou and Li Jiaoer were sitting in the room, and suddenly they heard the servants outside looking for Wanger, but they couldn't find them.Seeing Ping An coming to lift the curtain, Yueniang asked, "Why are you looking for him?"

Pingan said: "Father is waiting."

It took half a day for Yueniang to say: "I made him work."

It turned out that Yueniang ordered him to send sesame oil and white rice to Wang Nuzi's nunnery in the morning.Pingan said: "The little one went back to his father and said that his mother made him have a business."

Yueniang scolded: "It's my servant, go back as you please!"

Ping An was so flustered that he didn't dare to speak, and went outside.Yueniang then said to the people in Yulou: "I opened my mouth, but said I didn't care. I didn't say anything, and I panicked again. A person is also in the future, and the house is sold. It's just nonsense, ringing bells and drums , What are you guarding? There are his mother Feng's son on the left and right, and a young man without a wife is sent to be there with him. What if he is afraid of leaving the house? Baba told Laiwang and his wife to go! His wife is sick. Pain, fell ill for a while, who will help him?"

Yulou said: "Sister, I shouldn't say it. You are the head of the family. If you don't argue with him, you and his father will not talk. It's not something we advocate. The children below have never defected. His father has been separated for two days. It's also very boring to cheat twice. My sister will laugh with his father according to every word I say."

Yueniang said: "Sanjie Meng, don't even think about it. I have never quarreled with him, he is acting out of his temper for no reason. Even if he makes that face [疒别], don't expect me to look him in the eye." One look! He scolded me behind my back as an unvirtuous whore, how could I be unvirtuous? Only when seven or eight of them are in the room do I know that I am unvirtuous! Since ancient times, saying good things according to the situation has always been disgusting. When I said to stop you, it was just for the sake of coming. You took a lot of things from him, bought his house, and plotted against his wife today, so the official also looked at Qiao. Besides, he is dissatisfied with his filial obedience, so it is not easy for you to marry him. His. Who knew that people made the traps in the dark, and made tea and water every day, only keeping me from me, and putting me under the tank. Push me to rest in the courtyard today, and push me in the courtyard tomorrow Richie, who would have thought that he would just take a rest at home so that he could rest in the yard! He would like to see people waiting in front of him for flamboyant and flamboyant tricks, coaxing him with double-faced knives. It's all good. It seems that I always wait for the truth and bitter words, let him take care of you! You ignore me, I want to beg you? I have three meals a day, I just think I have no man and I am a widow Here. Follow me, you don't care about him. "

After a few words, everyone in Yulou was embarrassed.

For a long time, I saw Li Ping'er dressing up, wearing red and gold double-breasted blouses, Cui Gai dragging mud makeup and flower skirts, Yingchun holding a silver soup bottle, Xiuchun holding a tea box, came to the room, and Yue All the ladies handed tea.Yueniang asked Xiaoyu to sit with him on the seat.After Sun Xue'e also came, they all handed tea and sat down together.Pan Jinlian spoke quickly, and shouted: "Big Sister Li, come here and have a gift with Big Sister. Let me tell you the truth, Big Sister and his father didn't talk for a long time, and they came here for you! I just came here for you! I've been persuading you for a day. You arrange a banquet another day, Yang and Yang and big sister, and teach his two old wives to laugh."

Li Ping'er said: "Sister ordered, I know."

So he put a candle in front of Yueniang and kowtowed four times.Yue Niang said: "Sister Li, he coaxed you."

He said again: "Fifth sister, don't come here to tease me. I've made a bet that I won't be with him for 100 years."

Because of this, people dare not speak again.Jin Lian took a sip and Li Ping'er licked her head, and saw that he was wearing a pair of golden and exquisite grass insects on his head, and the three friends of Jin Leisi, pine, bamboo, plum and Suihan combed his back, because he said: "Sister Li, you shouldn't Slapping the broken grass insect on the head and scratching the hair, it is not as good as the golden Guanyin worn by the elder sister, it is good to expose the real branches."

This Li Ping'er was honest, so he said: "I still want to teach the silversmith how to make one!"

After Xiaoyu and Yuxiao came to serve tea, they all made fun of him.First, Yuxiao asked: "Liu Niang, did your husband come to the yamen in the imperial city?"

Li Ping'er said: "First take charge of the factory at Xixin."

Yuxiao laughed and said, "I'm so angry that you, old man, suffered a lot yesterday!"

Xiaoyu said again: "Last year, the elders of many villages couldn't find you and taught you to go to Tokyo."

The woman lost consciousness and said, "Why is he looking for me?"

Xiaoyu smiled and said, "He said that you, the old man, will sue for a good flood."

Yuxiao said again: "Your old man's mother worshiped the Thousand Buddhas in her hometown, kowtowed enough yesterday."

Xiaoyu said again: "Yesterday, the imperial court refused to accept the mission for four nights. Please go out and talk. Is there such a thing in the end?"

Li Ping'er said: "I don't know."

Xiaoyu laughed and said, "It's good to say that your old man can call you Dada!"

I can't laugh at Yulou and Jinlian.Yueniang scolded: "Strange stinky meat, why don't you do your job and just taunt him?"

So Li Ping'er's shameful face was red and white, unable to stand or sit, and went back to the room half a day.

After a long time, Ximenqing came into the room and went back to the house where he hired a silversmith to build a living.I just care about sending out invitations, and on the 25th, I will invite officials and guests to dinner and drinks, and it is inevitable to invite Brother Hua.Li Ping'er said: "His wife has come for three days, and she has said it again and again. Forget it, please ask him."

Li Ping'er said again: "There are old Feng guarding the left and right sides of the house over there. You can teach another one to sleep with Tian Fu'er in turns. You don't need to ask Wang Guan to go. The sister-in-law said that his daughter-in-law is sick. Can you go?" of."

Ximen Qing said, "I don't know."

That is to say, Ping'an, and said: "You and Tian Fu'er take two rounds, hand each other for a day, and sleep in a house on Lion Street."

Not to mention.

Unexpectedly, on the 25th, Ximenqing's family had dinner and wine, arranged a flower arrangement feast, and played juggling together.The four singers, Sister Li Gui, Wu Yin'er, Dong Yuxian, and Han Jinchuan'er, have been here since noon.The officials and guests had tea in the rolling shed, and when they were all there, they sat down in the hall.Uncle Hua and Uncle Wu in the first seat; Uncle Wu and Uncle Shen in the second seat; Earl Ying and Xie Xida in the third seat; Zhu Shinian and Sun Tianhua in the fourth seat; , Bai Laiguang.Ximenqing is in charge, and the rest are Fu Zixin, Ben Dichuan, and son-in-law Chen Jingji.The musicians tease and juggle several times, which is the book of Xiaole Yuan.Going down, Li Ming and Wu Hui, two young players, came up to play and sing, occasionally blowing.Go down, the four can sing, and pass wine outside the banquet.Earl Ying said at the banquet first: "Brother's wedding today is a brother's inappropriate boldness. Inviting the new sister-in-law to come out to meet her is a testament to the kindness of the family. I don't care about it, I respect my relatives, and the two old uncles, Shen My uncle, why are you here today?"

Ximen Qing said: "My concubine is ugly, I can't bear to see you, just let me go."

Xie Xi said: "Brother, it's hard to say. At the beginning, I said something first, and I didn't do it for my sister-in-law. How come I come here? What's more, seeing my respected relative, Brother Hua, I am a friend first, and then a relative, and I am different from others. Please come out and meet What are you afraid of?"

Ximen Qing couldn't move with a smile.Earl Ying said: "Brother, don't laugh, I'm here every day with the money for seeing him, and it's not in vain to teach him to come out to see him."

Ximen Qing said: "You are a fool, just talk nonsense."

He couldn't force him again and again, so he called Dai'an and taught him to talk later.Half a day later, Dai'an came out and said, "Liu Niang said, don't worry about it."

Earl Ying said: "It's you, a bald little dog! Whenever you go to the back, you come to coax me?"

Dai'an said: "Young one, why don't you coax the second daddy! The second daddy went in and asked if he was right?"

The count said, "I dare not go in because of your judgment? There are familiar paths in the garden to the left and right. Is it okay for me to go in, and even your mothers will be dragged out."

Dai'an said: "My family's big lion dog is so harmful. It didn't tear off the second half of Ying's father."

The count intentionally left the table, and kicked Dai'an twice, and said with a smile, "What a bald little dog, I'll be fine if you hurt me! Please go behind me as soon as possible. Please don't come, hit the twenty railings."

All the people and the four singers laughed.Dai'an went to the bottom and stood there, only watching his father not move.Ximen Qing had no choice but to call Dai'an to come over, and said: "Tell your Liu Niang, pack it up and come out and see you."

Na Dai'an went out for half a day and invited Ximen Qing in again.Then he drove out the people under his feet and closed the door of the ceremony.Meng Yulou and Pan Jinlian tried every means to sway him, lick his head for him, wear Huacui, and send him out.Brocade felt and embroidered blankets were laid on the hall, and the four singers all went to the back to play musical instruments and guide them forward.The musk orchid is succulent, the silk and bamboo are harmonious.The woman is wearing a bright red multicolored robe with sleeves, a skirt with gold branches, threads, leaves, sand and green flowers, a jasper belt around her waist, and gold pressed sleeves around her wrists.There are colorful tassels on the chest, jingle bells on the skirt, pearls and emeralds on the head, half-removed treasures on the sideburns, emerald flowers should be pasted on the powder face, and the Hunan skirt looks red and small.It's exactly: it looks like Chang Chang leaving the Moon Palace, like a goddess coming to the banquet.

At present, the four singers, pipa and zither strings, surrounded the woman, with beautiful flowers and branches, and embroidered belts fluttering, looking up and worshiping.All the panicked people came out of the table, and they couldn't return the courtesy.

But it is said that Meng Yulou, Pan Jinlian, and Li Jiaoer are surrounded by Yueniang and listened behind the soft wall of the hall. They heard singing "Happy to Fame" and singing "A pair of heaven and earth, like a luan like a phoenix" until "Eternal reunion" Husband and wife of the world" Jin Lian said to Yueniang: "Eldest sister, listen to the song! My little wife shouldn't sing this song today, he made a couple of fish and water reunion, husband and wife of the world, where do you put the sister?"

Even though Yue Niang was so good-natured, she was a little annoyed after hearing these two sentences.Seeing Earl Ying and Xie Xida's group, seeing Li Ping'er coming out to pay respects, he wished he could speak a few words to compliment and flatter him, saying: "My sister-in-law is rare in the world, she is unparalleled in the world! Don't say that she is gentle and gentle." , with a heavy demeanor, I can't find such a good-looking person in the whole world. Where is my elder brother so lucky? I can see my sister-in-law every day, and it will be good for me when I die tomorrow."

Because he called Dai'an'er: "please take your mother back to the room, I'm afraid it's worth a lot of labor."

Wu Yueniang and everyone listened, and there were endless people who scolded and talked nonsense.After a long time, Li Ping'er came down.Seeing that he has money, the four singers all follow him indiscriminately. They pick flowers and greenery for him, fold clothes for him, and they do everything.

Yueniang was very unhappy when she returned to her room.I saw Dai'an and Ping'an received a lot of worship money, as well as rulers, clothes and favors. They were put in boxes and brought to Yueniang's room.Yueniang didn't even look at it, and scolded: "The root of the thief! Just send it to the front, why are you bringing it to my room for nothing?"

Dai'an said: "Father ordered to bring it to the mother's room."

Yueniang asks Yuxiao to pick it up, and puts it on the bed.After a while, Uncle Wu ate the second course of soup and rice, and went to the back to see Yueniang.Seeing his brother coming into the room, Yueniang hurriedly saluted with his brother and sat down.Uncle Wu said: "Yesterday your sister-in-law interrupted me here, and I thanked my brother-in-law for sending the table. When I got home, I told me that you and my brother-in-law didn't talk. I insisted on coming to persuade you, but I don't want my brother-in-law to invite you again today. Sister, you If you wait like this, you will lose your previous relationship. Since ancient times, idiots fear their wives, and virtuous women fear their husbands. Three obediences and four virtues are the norms of women. Don’t stop him from doing what he does in the future, and even my brother-in-law will not send me away Yes. Only by being a good gentleman can you show your virtue.”

Yueniang said: "It's good to be virtuous early, so I don't teach people to be so disgusted. He has his rich sister, and he treats me, a poor official girl, as a person who has forgotten his past. Don't worry about him, either. It's me on the left and right, let him do what he wants to do to me! Thieves and strongmen, since when did you change your mind?"

Saying that, Yueniang cried.Uncle Wu said: "Sister, you are not good at this. You and I are not that kind of people, so let's stop like this. You two are doing well, and I will shine brighter every time I come here!"

Advise Yueniang to go back.Xiaoyu brings tea.After finishing tea, I saw the servants in front of me come to invite me, and Uncle Wu came out to bid farewell to Yue Niang.At present, after everyone ate and held the lamps, they got up and dispersed.The four singers, Li Ping'er, each sold gold sweat towels for five coins, and went home happily.Since then, Ximen Qinglian has been resting in Ping'er's room for several nights.Everyone else was fine, only Pan Jinlian was annoyed or secretly instigated Wu Yueniang and Li Ping'er to get along with each other.Facing Li Ping'er, he said that Yueniang couldn't tolerate people.Li Ping'er didn't know that he had fallen into his trap, so she called her sister every time, and became very close to him.It's exactly: when you meet people, you can talk a little bit, but you can't give up all your heart.

Since Ximenqing married Li Ping'er, he got two or three windfalls. His family is prosperous, and the outer village and inner house are completely new.The rice and wheat are stored in granaries, the mules and horses are in groups, and the servants are in a row.Bring Li Ping'er to Tian Fu'er, a young servant, and change his name to Qin Tong.I bought two more servants, one Lai'an'er and the other chess boy.Put Chunmei in the Jinlian room, Yuxiao in the Shang room, Yingchun in Li Ping'er's room, and Lanxiang in the Yulou room, generally four girls, with clothes and jewelry, and teach Li Jiaoer brothers musicians in the west wing of the front hall. Li Ming came home to teach drills and how to play and sing.Chunmei pipa, Yuxiao learns Zheng, Yingchun learns Xianzi, Lanxiang learns Huqin.Three teas and six meals a day, take care of Li Ming, and give him five taels of silver a month.Opened two more front doors, exchanged 2000 taels of silver, and commissioned Fu's buddy and Ben Dichuan to open the pawnshop.Son-in-law Chen Jingji only holds the key, and he goes in and out to ask for it.Ben Dichuan only writes the accounts and weighs the goods.Buddy Fu supervised the two shops of herbal medicine and Jiedang, looked at silver, and did business.On Pan Jinlian's side upstairs, crude medicines are piled up.On Li Ping'er's side upstairs, the compartments form shelves for storing clothes, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and playthings.One day also goes out as a lot of silver.

Chen Jingji gets up early and goes to bed late every day. He takes the key with him and checks the money with his clerk.Ximenqing met, if you like it or not.One day, I had dinner with him at the same table in the front hall, and said: "Brother-in-law, you can do business in my house. Even if your father knows in Tokyo, he is at ease, and I have to trust you. , no son depends on son-in-law. If I don't come out after a long time, this share of the family property will belong to you and your wife."

Na Jingji said: "Unfortunate son, his family suffered from official affairs, his parents stayed away, and he voted with his parents. He was praised by his parents, a great kindness, and life and death are hard to repay. It's just that the son is young and doesn't know what is good or bad, so he just wants his parents to wait for him." How dare you hope for it.”

Ximen Qing was more and more happy when he heard that he spoke smartly and well-behaved.He was taught to write all family affairs, entry and exit letters, and gift cards.Whenever a guest arrives, he must be invited to accompany him at the table.Drinking tea and eating, he is indispensable for a while.Who knew that this guy was a needle in the cotton, a thorn in the flesh.

I often peep at Jiayu from the embroidered curtain, and steal Hanxiang from the Qi Pavilion every time.

Time flies like an arrow, and it is late November again.Ximen Qing got up early in the tea break at Chang Zhijie's house, before lighting the lights, and walked along with Earl Ying, Xie Xida, and Zhu Shinian.As soon as I went out, I saw that the sky was covered with red clouds, and the snowflakes were falling one after another early in the day.Earl Ying said: "Brother, let's go home at this time, and the family will not accept it. I haven't gone in for a long time to see Sister Gui. Today, taking advantage of the falling snow, I just look at Meng Haoran looking for plums in the snow."

Zhu Shinian said: "Second Brother Ying is right. You pay him twenty silver coins every month, rain or shine. If you don't go, he will be free."

Ximen Qingchi and the three of you said something to each other, and the horse went to Goulan on the East Street.When I came to Sister Li Gui's house, it was getting late.I saw the lamp in the guest seat, and the girl was sweeping the floor.My mother and Li Guiqing came out. After the ceremony, there were four chairs listed above, and the four sat down.The old godly woman said: "The former Sister Gui came late at the house, so I was bothering you. Thank you, Liu Niang, for enjoying the sweat towel and flowers."

Ximen Qing said: "I passed him that day. I was afraid I would be late for them and the guests dispersed, so I sent him here."

As she said that, the godmother watched tea and ate, and the maids set up tables and wine.Ximen Qing said, "Why is Sister Gui missing?"

The godmother said: "Sister Gui has been serving my brother-in-law at home for several days, but my brother-in-law has not come. Today is his fifth aunt's birthday, so I took a sedan chair to pick him up and went to celebrate his fifth aunt's birthday."

It turned out that Sister Li Gui never went to the Fifth Aunt's house for her birthday.Seeing that Ximenqing was not coming recently, he picked up Ding Erguan, the son of Ding Xianggong, a silk seller in Hangzhou, named Ding Shuangqiao, who sold silk and silk with a thousand taels of silver. In the inn, he came to the yard without telling his father.He took ten taels of silver on his head and two sets of Hangzhou heavy silk clothes to invite Sister Li Gui, and stayed for two nights.Just now, I was having wine with Sister Gui in the room, and I didn't want Ximen to celebrate.The old godly woman hurriedly taught Sister Gui to accompany him to sit in a secluded room on the third floor at the back.Immediately, Ximenqing listened to the words of the godmother, and said: "Since Sister Gui is not here, my mother will see the wine soon, and I will wait for him slowly."

The old godly woman pushed hard at the bottom, and the wine, food and vegetables were all served, and in a short while, the table was full.Li Guiqing can't help rehearsing the wild goose column with the zither, singing with a new tune, and guessing orders at the table.While drinking, Ximenqing might as well go to the back to change clothes.It's also due to something, suddenly I heard someone laughing in the east ear room.Ximen Qing changed his clothes, went to the window and peeked, and saw Li Guijie drinking with a barbarian wearing a square scarf in the room.Unable to get angry, he went to the front and overturned the drinking table with one hand, smashing the dishes and cups.He ordered the four servants of Ping'an, Dai'an, Huatong and Qintong to come up with Ma'an, and smashed the window murals of Li's house door.Earl Ying, Xie Xida, and Zhu Shinian couldn't persuade them to move forward.Ximen Qing kept saying that as long as the barbarians were picked, he would lock them with Fentou in the gatehouse with a rope.That Ding Erguan is also a timid person. Seeing a fight outside, he hides under the bed in the inner room in a panic, and only shouts: "Sister Gui, help me!"

Sister Gui said: "Bah! Okay, there is Mom! This is common in my courtyard. It's okay. Let him yell, you just don't want to come out."

Seeing that Ximen Qing was beating badly, the old godly woman wanted to build a bridge and lie, so she stepped forward to distinguish.Ximenqing still listened to him, but he was so angry that he ordered the servants to beat him up, almost never hitting Mrs. Li.Thanks to the persuasion of Earl, Xie Xida, and Zhu Shinian, Huolala pulled his hand away.Ximen Qing made a big fuss, swore he would never set foot in his door again, and got on his horse to go home in the heavy snow.It's exactly: it's better to go home and sleep with your wife when you have nothing to spend.Although there is no fun in the pillow, you don’t need money to sleep until dawn.

(End of this chapter)