In the study, Lu Yijian was sitting on the couch, wearing a loose robe embroidered with cranes.
He is now a doctor in the Ministry of Punishment, and also serves as the magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture. There are a lot of things waiting for him to make decisions, and he is busy all day long. Only during the New Year can he feel more comfortable and don't have to put on airs.
One hand holds a rabbit hair teacup, and the tea soup in the teacup is steaming.
The water on the surface of the tea soup is very fine and there are no water marks, which shows that it is good tea, and the tea orderer's skill is also very good.
The other hand was holding a piece of jade pendant to play with. The pattern on the jade pendant was very simple, but it showed a bit of simplicity and vicissitudes of life.
As for the loops on the jade pendant, he was very familiar with it. The jade ornaments he wore before marrying his wife all had loops like this.
After so many years, Shi Qi Niang still loves this shape of luozi.
Lu Yijian looked at Luo Zi and couldn't help but think of his life many years ago. He stroked the lines on the jade pendant and said, "Dalang's hand carving skills are becoming more and more exquisite."
He still remembered that when Xu Pingyi was a child, he came to Lu's house and carved his jade Ruyi into shapeless form. Now it was so well carved, no wonder those nobles were proud of the jade he carved.
Several jade carving masters in the capital may not be much better than him.
The jade pendant in Lu Yijian's hand was specially carved by Xu Pingyi for Xu Gucheng a few days ago.
On New Year's Day, Xu Gucheng wore this jade pendant for the first time.
When he was preparing to pay homage to the Holy Spirit outside the palace, two or three colleagues asked him about it.
He just smiled and didn't say much.
Although he had been in Suzhou in the past few years, he knew that the jade carved by his eldest son was being coerced by people in the capital.
But he didn't want his eldest son's life to be affected by this incident, so he laughed it off in a low-key manner. He rarely emphasized the matter at home and only regarded it as the most common thing.
As soon as Lu Yijian entered the study today, he said that he wanted to see the jade carved by Xu Pingyi. He did not have the tall and solemn image that a doctor of the Ministry of Justice should have.
Xu Gucheng picked it directly and gave it to him without saying a word.
While Lu Yijian was talking, Xu Gucheng was sitting in front of the tea table, ordering tea, and was blowing the whisk at the moment, so he didn't answer.
It wasn't until he finished Cha Baixi that he said: "I never expected that he had such a talent and was willing to study hard. It's just that no matter how good he is at carving, it's just a hobby, and he can't make a full-time living in this way. "
The expression on his face was pale when he spoke, and it was hard to tell whether he was supportive or not.
When Lu Yijian saw that the newly made tea bag was exactly the engraving on the jade pendant in his hand, he knew that Xu Gucheng had no objection to the matter and couldn't help laughing: "Didn't you say that Da Lang is determined to take the imperial examination? You don't have to worry. , he is so smart, as long as he is willing to take the exam, he will definitely be on the list. However, I haven’t seen you doing tea dramas for many years, and now you are also doing patterns other than landscapes? "
Anyone who knows Xu Pingyi knows that he does not like the imperial examination, otherwise he would not have given up the examination twice.
Xu Gucheng washed the tea sets with clean water, put them neatly, lifted up his clothes and stood up. At the same time, he said: "With such a casual and undisciplined temperament, even if he were an official, I'm afraid he wouldn't do his best. A hat would instead become an object that restricts his actions." .”
In his words, he believed that Xu Pingyi could pass the Jinshi examination. What he was worried about now was that Xu Pingyi would become an official after becoming a Jinshi.
Xu Gucheng didn't expect that Xu Pingyi would suddenly come to him and ask for his notes from the imperial examination. He also said that he would devote himself to studying and obtain fame in the future, which reassured him.
It really surprised him that his eldest son was suddenly so positive.
After all, Xu Gucheng had watched Xu Pingyi grow up. He knew very well what kind of person Xu Pingyi was, and he was really surprised by his decision.
Later I found out that Xu Pingyi changed his attitude and made this decision after Mrs. Sun's birthday in order to be able to protect Xu Nuo.
It is normal to want to be strong because you have people to protect, but Xu Gucheng is still worried that the imperial examination path is not suitable for Xu Pingyi.
"That's a child's business, you don't have to worry about it. At his age, he can understand this."
Lu Yijian comforted him, holding the jade pendant to his waist several times and gesticulating, waiting for Xu Gucheng to say a word and give it to you, but he couldn't wait.
"Well, I won't interfere with his decision. But the Queen..."
Xu Gucheng turned a blind eye to Lu Yijian's obvious hint, and started talking about business as soon as the topic changed.
His son has been carving jade for so many years. Apart from the unsightly semi-finished products when he was a child, this is the first time he has been given a jade pendant officially. Naturally, he cannot give it away.
Moreover, if he forwarded it to Lu Yijian, it would be difficult to refuse him if anyone else came to ask.
It’s not that it’s hard to say no, it’s that he can only say no, because this is what he does, and no one else wants him.
On the other side, Xu Nuo and Lu Jiuniang held hands and talked for a long time, and then went to have dinner together. They quickly became little sisters who love each other.
On Youzheng day, five members of the Xu family were personally sent to Chuihua Gate by Lu Yijian.
After Xu Nuo left, Lu Jiuniang dragged her mother and said that she might play Cuju with Xu Nuo tomorrow. Seeing that Ma agreed, she casually praised her: "Cousin Xu Liu has been separated from her family for many years. She is very pitiful. Fortunately, she is back now." . I think her etiquette is very good, no less than any boudoir girl in the capital. With her standard etiquette, even my grandmother can't fault her."
Lu Jiuniang intended to resolve Mrs. Lu's attitude towards Xu, but she was too embarrassed to say it openly, so she just talked about it in a roundabout way.
After speaking, he glanced at Mrs. Lu who was drinking tea from a tea cup.
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Lu glanced at where Xu Nuo was sitting during the meal and said nothing.
Lu Jiuniang stuck out her tongue and stopped talking about this topic.
On the carriage back to the Xu family, Xu Nuo clearly felt that Lu was in a strange mood, feeling both happy and unhappy.
When she returned to Xu's house, she immediately asked Nanny Li.
Aunt Li was hesitant and unwilling to say anything, but Xu Nuo knew there must be something going on here. She tried her best to be coquettish, so she revealed a little.
It turned out that Mrs. Lu had a knot in her heart when she found out that Mrs. Lu didn't dote on Xu Nuo and her other granddaughters.
If there is any weakness in the promise, it is Lu.
She never wanted to let Mr. Lu suffer any injustice.
After Lu returned to her original temperament, she was able to protect herself, but facing her mother's cold attitude towards her daughter, she was really powerless and didn't know how to start.
Do we have to tell the mother sincerely that she shouldn't be like this and that the child is innocent?
But when she got engaged to Xu Gucheng despite the opposition of her tribe and almost turned against her mother, she knew that she had planted a thorn in her mother's heart.
And as the person who planted this thorn, she really didn't have the face to pull it out.
When Xu Gucheng came to the Lu family to propose marriage, the Lu family naturally did not want such an outstanding woman to marry into the Xu family who was a tea merchant. After all, with Lu's talent and appearance, she could marry into any wealthy family in the capital.
In the eyes of those people, it is the right way for an outstanding lady like Lu to marry other wealthy families for the benefit of the family. r1152
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