"Here I am...nothing is forbidden!"
Among the two eldest ladies in ancient times, Li Qingzhao was considered a drunkard, but you can't deny that she came from an official family.
Under their gaze, Chu Zhen emphasized: "My rules here are that there are no rules. You can walk around, take out books and read them, or take whatever you want to eat. No need to be polite. There is no need to cover your face with a fan. You are afraid of offending me if you say anything, I have a very good temper!"
Lin Daiyu lowered her head, "Uncle Chu, everything here seems to be different from other places. It is different from Dashun, Song Dynasty, and Ming Dynasty."
"certainly!"
Chu Zhen turned around and sat down, smiled at them and said: "I am here nine hundred years after the Song Dynasty. Girls can also show their faces like men, take exams to become officials, work part-time, open shops to make money, etc."
After a pause, Chu Zhen added: "Ordinary physical contact is also common here. There is no more etiquette that men and women should not be intimate with each other. You can read whatever books you want."
Lin Daiyu lowered her head and remained silent, knowing that this sentence was specially meant for her.
If she were in Dashun, if she had such contact with a young man, her mother would have taught her by holding her ears, and the women would stamp their feet anxiously and rush to pull her away.
But this place is different from Dashun, and Uncle Chu is also different from other ordinary men.
Furthermore, she had informed her parents about the matter and obtained their permission, so she could meet Chu Zhen calmly this time.
"Is drinking okay~?"
Li Qingzhao has a smile in his eyes and looks like a charming girl.
"You can even beat a horse!"
Chu Zhen laughed.
Throughout the ages, Li Qingzhao can be said to be the number one girl who loves drinking.
Oh no, she is not a girl, but a talented woman!
"What kind of joke is Chu Langjun talking about?"
Li Qingzhao covered his face with his sleeves to cover his blushing cheeks: "Playing horses is a boudoir show. You can do it with Sister Lin, but you can't do it with Mr. Chu."
For some reason, Chu Zhen always wanted to laugh when he saw Li Qingzhao acting shy as a girl. After all, Li Yian in history left most of his collection of gold, stones and books behind when he fled south, but he did not forget to take her rifle with him. Horse pictures as well as chess pieces and dice.
And after settling down, she immediately felt itchy and wanted to play with others. Unfortunately, she was staying at someone else's house at that time, so it was no longer easy to find playmates.
That's why Li Yian wrote "The Preface to the Horse Fighting Pictures" to call on more people to play.
Sister Lin was holding back a smile beside her, as if she wanted to tease Sister Qingzhao, but was afraid of being rude in front of Uncle Chu.
She is not familiar with Uncle Chu yet.
Although he said there were no taboos here, they had only met twice, and she had something to tell him this time.
"Then you asked me last time if I knew how to beat horses?"
Chu Zhen said with regret: "Originally, I wanted to find out if there were any historical materials on the rules of horse racing, but now it seems..."
"real!?"
Li Qingzhao put down his sleeves, put his hands on the table, leaned his upper body forward, and said with bright eyes: "Wherever you want to find historical materials, I can teach Chu Langjun!!"
The excited look no longer had any of the restraint of an ancient lady, but turned into Li Yian drinking and beating horses.
With Li Qingzhao, the founder of horse racing and gambling, Chu Zhen still looking for historical materials is an insult to her!
Chu Zhen and Lin Daiyu both laughed.
Li Qingzhao blushed, but clapped his hands again, and calmed down with a smile: "Next time I come here, I will bring a picture of how to beat a horse and chess and dice, and teach Mr. Chu how to beat a horse. There is no need to look for any historical materials~!"
Since we are looking for historical data, we can infer that no one plays horse racing anymore. She wants to spread the game again so that people can play it again!
"Can."
Chu Zhen smiled and nodded, "I'll record a video then. Don't worry, your face won't be filmed. Only the horse-fighting pictures and sounds will be recorded."
"His face was photographed?!" Li Qingzhao looked horrified and touched his face with his delicate hands.
"That's not what I meant."
Chu Zhen held back his laughter, "It's shooting, which means using a camera to draw people's images into it."
He turned the camera, and Lin Daiyu subconsciously covered her face with a fan and turned away.
"I haven't turned on the machine yet. Look at this light, it's shooting when it's on."
"Make Uncle Chu laugh."
Sister Lin's cheeks turned red, she put down her fan again and turned around.
Li Qingzhao was very curious about all this, but unfortunately she didn't understand a lot, so she could only ask questions later.
She pushed Sister Lin, indicating that she could speak.
"Uncle Chu."
Lin Daiyu called out with her pleasant voice, looked at him, and lowered her eyes with a bit of shame, "Today I want to kneel to Uncle Chu again."
"What is this nonsense?"
Chu Zhen looked at the frail sister Lin in surprise.
"When Sister Lin knelt down just now, Mr. Chu refused, so Sister Lin said it first this time." Li Qingzhao said.
"I mean, why are you kneeling again?"
Chu Zhen pointed to the floor: "My place is paved with tiles, and my knees hurt when I kneel down. There is no soft cushion specially used for kneeling to pray."
"I'm kneeling down to thank Uncle Chu on behalf of my mother. The kneeling just now was mine, even though I haven't finished the ceremony yet..." Lin Daiyu spoke softer and softer, thinking of how Chu Zhen's big hands grabbed her arms and helped her up. At this scene, his face couldn't help but turn red with embarrassment.
"For mother?"
Only then did Chu Zhen understand and said with a smile: "No need. Although I played some role, the focus is on the leperous monk. Just thank him."
Lin Daiyu immediately said that she had already thanked the master and insisted on kneeling again.
Her etiquette can be omitted with Uncle Chu's words, but her mother is not here, and the surrogate mother's kneeling ceremony cannot be omitted.
"Okay, wait a minute."
Chu Zhen had no choice but to let her salute. He got up and went to the sofa to get a pillow. Seeing Lin Daiyu hesitated, he said, "Use this. You are weak and be careful of knee pain. The floor is quite clean and the pillow is not too dirty."
Sister Lin's frail body always makes people feel that her knees hurt for a long time after she kneels once.
Her skin is so delicate and fair, her knees will turn red if she kneels down.
Lin Daiyu's cheeks were slightly red. After Chu Zhen sat down, she lowered her body, knelt on the soft pillow, saluted Chu Zhen solemnly, and said:
"Jia Min will never forget Chu Xianguan's great kindness in saving his life. Because he is still recovering from his illness and cannot get up, and he doesn't know how to get to Chu Xianguan's immortal residence, he asked Daiyu to express his gratitude on his behalf!"
After hearing these words, Chu Zhen finally understood why Lin Daiyu insisted on kneeling.
Her mother specifically told her how could she not kneel down?
Not only did she kneel down, Lin Daiyu did not even dare to use her mother's name, and directly said Jia Min. Because these were her mother's words, she did not dare to change a word, so she dared to call her mother by her name.
"I understand, no need to thank you, just get up."
Chu Zhen asked her to stand up and glanced at Li Qingzhao who was standing aside. Her expression didn't change at all. She seemed to think that this was how she should be.
"And a thank you gift from my father."
Lin Daiyu bowed again and said words of thanks from her father Lin Ruhai, which also came from the bottom of her heart.
Chu Zhen could only accept another thank you from the Lin family.
After the etiquette was completed, Li Qingzhao came to help her up, picked up the pillow and patted the dust on it with her delicate hands.
When Chu Zhen saw it, he couldn't help but smile and said, "I have to apologize to Miss Lin. I was too quick just now."
The person who helped him to kneel down should be Li Qingzhao, who is also a girl, not him.
Lin Daiyu blushed, arched her eyebrows, and said with a smile: "It's not that Uncle Chu is quick, it's that he has a heart... and a good heart. Please take care of me."
He paused heartily, obviously that was not what he meant by the word.
Li Qingzhao burst out laughing again. Seeing Sister Lin looking over, he quickly covered his mouth with his white palms.
Lin Daiyu was so embarrassed that she glared at this sister Yi An from the Song Dynasty. It was okay to hear it, just don't say it out loud.
It's embarrassing to say it out loud.
Chu Zhen: "..."
What are the two ladies talking about?
However, he was really not used to the title uncle. Although the titles in Dream of Red Mansions were all uncle, Uncle Zhen, Second Master Lian, Second Master Bao, etc., it was reasonable for Sister Lin to call him Uncle Chu.
Let Sister Lin call him Brother Chu? Uncle Zhen?
Uh, worse.
