Rebirth of Yijia

Chapter 104

Liang Mingzhi was enthusiastically kept for dinner by Zhou Chengyan.

Xiao Song has been unable to invite Zhou Chengyan back no matter what he has done for the past few days. Now that Liang Mingzhi stayed for dinner, Zhou Chengyan could not throw up his sleeves and leave no matter what.Immediately, he happily took people to the kitchen and watched the people cooking dinner in person.

Zhou Yiwan asked Liang Mingzhi very happily, "Uncle Liang Shi, can you teach me how to draw lotus pictures today?"

Zhou Chengyan didn't know what was going on, so Liang Mingzhi explained it to him with a smile.Only then did Zhou Chengyan know that the two daughters had written to Liang Mingzhi in private, but the eldest daughter was thinking of how not to copy the ten lotus pictures, while the second daughter wanted to ask Liang Mingzhi to teach her how to draw lotus pictures .

He picked up the youngest daughter, and said to the eldest daughter: "Go, go to your Bishui residence first, and see how your ten lotus pictures are copied."

Yijia had nothing to do these few days, but seriously copied two or three pictures.

According to her previous life's level, even if she had seen this lotus painting thousands of times and could copy it with her eyes closed, if she painted it herself, she would definitely not be able to catch Zhou Chengyan's eyes.I didn't know why when I picked up the pen that day, it was as if there was a divine help in the pen, a copied lotus picture, if you don't look carefully, you can vaguely see some charm of Liang Mingzhi's painting.

She confidently led people to Bishuiju.

The simple and small study room faces the sun, bright and concise.On the brown golden nanmu desk, three sheets of drawing paper were spread out.The lake is rippling, the lotus leaves are stretched, one lotus blooms just right, but the other only has a flower bone, and beside it, there are two lotus pods left by the lotus flowers.

Zhou Chengyan shook his head directly.

"The brushwork is immature, too much to follow the trend, and the whole painting is lifeless and devoid of spirituality, not as good as one-tenth of your Uncle Liang's." Regardless of his daughter's presence, he criticized impartially.

Liang Mingzhi took the drawing paper to look at it, but nodded slightly.

"Don't ask too much, she painted like this at such a young age, it's already very good." He said.

Zhou Chengyan wanted to speak again, but Yijia hurriedly stepped forward to cover it with his hands.

"No more criticism, I've done my best." She stared at Zhou Chengyan and said coquettishly.

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about it." Zhou Chengyan was amused by his daughter's pettiness, "It's true, I can't listen to any criticism. I'm still lazy, you have to learn from your sister."

Yijia snorted softly, took away the two scrolls and put them aside, and brought new drawing paper over.

Zhou Chengyan and Liang Mingzhi stood beside Zhou Yiwan on the left and right, watching her draw.

There were only these four people in the room, and Zhou Chengyan focused on his little daughter, so Liang Mingzhi couldn't help but look to the side.

Yijia wore a primrose-colored beige today, with a moon-white long-sleeved blouse underneath, and a lotus-colored skirt embroidered with large hibiscus petals.A golden hairpin decorated with six small rubies, and a pair of little finger-sized oriental pearl earrings stood beside it like bright pearls in the morning dew, making people reluctant to look away.

"What are you doing?" Liang Mingzhi said when he saw Yijia's lips.

"Look at you," he said.

The little girl opposite immediately understood what he meant, her cheeks turned red, but she still did not forget to give him a glare.

The little girl would get angry if provoked, so Liang Mingzhi coughed on purpose, lowered his head to look at Zhou Yiwan's immature paintings in a serious way, and occasionally talked to Zhou Chengyan, telling her how to write, how to color, etc. .

During the dinner, Liang Mingzhi mentioned the next day's lantern show, "Tomorrow the palace will put up lanterns on the West Street, and the emperor, empress, prince and several princes will also go there, and your family will also go to see it tomorrow. Right. The Royal Lantern Show doesn’t happen every year, Yiwan is so big and I haven’t seen it before, so you should take her there to see it.”

The woman in the inner house usually has nothing to do for entertainment, and Xiao Song doesn't even have a good friend, so she is a little moved when she hears this.

Yijia didn't expect Liang Mingzhi to invite their family to see the lantern show in a fair manner. Although he looked serious, she felt guilty for some reason.He bowed his head in embarrassment, and did not dare to express his opinion.

Zhou Chengyan looked at his wife and daughter, only thought that those who raised their heads and lowered their heads wanted to go, so after thinking about it, they agreed.

Liang Mingzhi was very happy, and before leaving, he made an appointment to pick him up the next day.

The lantern show, especially the one on West Street, is very popular with both the master and the maid.There are four maids around Yijia, but she can only bring two at most. Xuezhu must go, so Xiaoyu is not easy to take. Only Bailu and Qiushuang are left, and she has to choose one of them .

Yijia was in a dilemma, but Qiushuang offered her to stay at home and take care of the house.

"This lantern show doesn't happen every year. If I miss this year, I don't know when I'll have the chance to see it." Xiao Yu said quickly, feeling sad that she couldn't go.

Qiu Shuang said: "My sister-in-law is about to give birth. Even if I go out to play, I worry about her side. Instead, I won't have fun. Why don't you go and have a good look, have fun, and tell me when you come back."

This makes sense.

"In that case, I'll take out a tael of silver. Tomorrow, when you and Xiao Yu are at home, ask someone to buy some delicious food. In the evening, you will each take it home and have a good Mid-Autumn Festival with your family." Yijia said.

Autumn frost and light rain should fall, thank you Yijia.

The next day was the Mid-Autumn Festival, so Zhou Chengyan didn't go to the study at night, but stayed in the pillow rain building.

The lights in the house were turned off early, and it was quiet until the third watch. Mother Li yawned tiredly, called the little maid to come over and guard, and beckoned Yuqiu to retreat.

In the night, Yuqiu asked in a low voice: "Mom, is the master still angry with his wife?"

Mother Li looked up at the round and big moon, covered her mouth and yawned again.

"No matter how good the wife is, she can't compare to the first wife." She sighed, "I have done 99 good things, but just because I said something wrong about one thing, I was rejected by the master."

Yuqiu disagreed, but she didn't dare to say anything in front of Li's mother.

She will be released in two years, and that's all she needs to take care of her master. As for the other things, she is not a servant girl who should care about it.But tomorrow she was going to watch the lantern show on West Street, so she had to go back to find a nice dress, and she had to take out the silver hairpin that the wife gave her last time.

Early the next morning, the family went to Dongfu to greet Mrs. Zhou. Mrs. Ran knew that they had passed, so she detained a few children and did not allow them to go.She was able to do this, and Xiao Song and Zhou Chengyan also breathed a sigh of relief. The boxing ceremony was delivered early yesterday, and they did not stay in Dongfu for the so-called reunion dinner at the old lady's words. They just invited Ann and went together Back to the west mansion again.

In the evening, Liang Mingzhi asked Liang Mingyue and Aunt Hu to accompany Mrs. Liang, and Chen Ping took him to West Street first, while he brought Chen An to Zhou's house.

Because there must be a lot of people in the West Street today, the Zhou family brought out the largest carriage, and it was not enough for a family of four to sit together and add a maid.So Zhou Chengyan took Yijia into Liang Mingzhi's carriage, while Bai Luxuezhu, Mama Li and Yuqiu accompanied Xiao Song's mother and daughter in their own carriage.

Changping Hutong is a bit out of the way. When we arrived at West Street, although the long street was not considered crowded, it was still crowded.

Chen An opened the way ahead, until he reached the Anping Hou Mansion and Anning Hou Mansion, and then invited everyone to get off the carriage.

Zhou Chengyan took his wife and daughter to visit Mrs. Liang first.

Mrs. Liang waved her hands cheerfully, and said: "You are welcome, you and Ziming are best friends, and they are my own children, so there is no need for so many gifts. The lantern show will start soon, you should find a place to sit down first , as soon as the fireworks are set off, the lanterns all over the street will be lit up immediately, and if you don’t sit down, your eyes will be blurred and you won’t be able to walk.” Then he called Wu and Liang Mingyue, “Go and attract Zhou The wife sits next to you, and Mingyue sits with the girl from the Zhou family, and you little girls have something to say together."

"Then thank you, old lady, I'll come back to thank you later." Xiao Song said, and was pulled over by Wu.

Zhou Yiwan wanted to follow her sister, so she and Yijia sat down next to Liang Mingyue.

Not long after sitting down, there was the sound of fireworks in the distance, and then a servant shouted in a long and sharp voice: "The emperor is here, the empress is here, Concubine Liang is getting married..." A series of shouts circled around Royal name.

All the families on the long street knelt down and shouted long live and thousand live.

After the royal family sat down, the lanterns on both sides of the long West Street were lit one by one.Ropes were also attached to the middle of the street, and lanterns of various colors were hung.

More than [-] lanterns were lit together, and the West Street suddenly became bright as day.

Yijia couldn't help but exclaimed, it really is a beautiful scenery!
"Does it look good?" Liang Mingzhi walked up to her side at some point and asked softly.

Yijia nodded and said, "It's very beautiful."

"There will be a lantern riddle guessing session later. The person who guesses the most lantern riddles correctly will be rewarded by the emperor in the end. Are you going to guess?" Liang Mingzhi said.

"No, I'm not good at it." Yijia shook her head.

Liang Mingyue looked at her elder brother bending over and talking to Yi Jia, and turned her head a little bit unbearably.

Oh My God.

It's too scary.

Is this what I like?

The eldest brother's usually serious and unsmiling temperament, after saying a few words, actually laughed more than she had seen in a year in the past.

Liang Mingyue regained consciousness after being pushed by the person who reached out, and turned her head in a daze, "What's wrong?"

Yijia pursed her lips in embarrassment.

Liang Mingzhi picked up Yiwan and said, "Are you going to guess lantern riddles? If not, I'll take you to the folk lantern show in Xiayan. Although the lanterns over there are not exquisite, they are more distinctive. There are moon lamps, jade rabbit lamps, and Chang'e lamps that you little girls like."

Liang Mingyue was immediately interested.

"Okay, I'll call Mingzhu and come with me." She said happily, and called the Wu family's youngest daughter, Liang Mingzhu.

As a result, Liang Mingzhu called her brother again, so Liang Mingfei, the prince of Anning Marquis, was also kicked out by Wu, and asked to take his younger siblings and Liang Mingzhi to Xiayan to watch the folk lantern show.

Mrs. Liang saw that there were two elder grandsons there, she waved her hands, and kicked them out. She told Xiao Song and Zhou Chengyan to rest assured, and chatted with them about the family's troubles.

(End of this chapter)