When Li Ye came to the front of the hall with two bowls of cooked porridge, Ye Zhiqiu was holding Li Xiaoxue out of the house.
Li Ye put the porridge on the table and said with a smile: "Mom, should I feed it to my sister?"
Ye Zhiqiu said with a smile: "The porridge is too hot, so let me do it. Agui bought steamed buns, please eat them quickly."
Mu Mu came over, picked up a bowl of porridge from the table, and said while smelling the fragrance: "Brother is still kind to Mu Mu. He cooked porridge for me and my sister when we came back."
Li Ye touched her hair and said with a smile: "Blow it, be careful to burn your mouth."
"Xiaohong will bring someone over to decorate it in a while. You can just watch, you don't need to do anything." Li Hongxiu sat at the table for no apparent reason, patting the tabletop gently, with a face full of spring breeze.
Li Ye glanced at her, picked up a bun from the table, nodded to Li Hongxiu and said, "Okay, I'll go back to the study to copy scriptures later. Mumu, go help after you finish eating."
Mu Mu lowered her head to eat the porridge and said "oh" in reply.
"Where is Xiao Bai? I haven't seen him spending time in front of the hall since he came back." Li Hongxiu held the tea cup and looked at her husband.
The husband was reading the book and did not reply to Li Hongxiu's words.
Li Ye thought for a while and said: "He just entered the city and is still fresh. He probably asked Xiaoqing to take him shopping and buy snacks. After a few days, when he loses his temper, he can ask his mother to teach him how to read. Write.”
The teacher nodded his hand and said, "Although cultivation is important, you can't leave reading and writing behind. Very good!"
Li Xiaoxue stretched out her little hand and asked Li Ye to hold it.
Li Ye picked up his sister, stroked her black hair and said, "Grow up quickly and let sister Mumu take you to practice kung fu."
When Mu Mu, who was holding the bowl, heard this, she put it down and approached Li Xiaoxue and said, "Grow up quickly, my sister will take you shopping."
Ye Zhiqiu glared at her and said, "Okay, if you don't teach me, why don't I learn to spend money from you?"
Mu Mu was startled and stuck out her tongue to make a face, making Xiaoxue giggle.
...
After feeding his sister the porridge, it was almost noon. Li Ye watched Xiaohong leading a group of girls to hang lanterns in the yard. He told Ye Zhiqiu that he was going to the study to read. Don't call him for lunch. He said hello to his husband and led Mu Mu. Go to the study.
Grinding ink and laying paper, he took out the Lotus Sutra. Li Ye picked up the wolf hair on his teacher's desk and started copying the scriptures. Mu Mu leaned against the table and watched him write, tapping the table with her little hands from time to time.
He watched patiently as Li Ye copied three pages, then walked around behind Li Ye and whispered in his ear: "Brother Mumu went to play with Xiaobai."
Waving his hand, Li Ye said with a smile: "Let's have fun, remember to write and read."
"Yeah!" Before Li Ye could raise his head, Mu Mu flashed out of the study.
Seeing Mumu running out the door, Li Ye sighed softly, his mind entering the secular world, and it was indeed rare to find a moment of peace.
At this time, he couldn't help but think of Cai Yuan and Lao Lang on the mountain, thinking that the two old men could not come to his husband's wedding banquet, and he felt a little sad in his heart.
I thought I would let Agui buy some good wine and cook some dishes, and let Xiaoqing work hard to deliver them to the two old people.
Because of the marriage between Mr. and Li Hongxiu, the Zizhu Courtyard was filled with the laughter of the girls from Hongxiu Tower. Shaking his head, Li Ye stood up and gently closed the door to the study, took a stick of incense from the bookshelf and lit it... ...
Zizhuyuan is very lively. Ye Zhiqiu holds Li Xiaoxue and directs Xiaohong to put the flower baskets. Xiaobai and Xiaoqing come back from shopping and join Mumu to help on both sides of the gate.
In the corridor, lanterns were hung under the eaves in front of the hall. Agui led the people in the house out to hand out invitations. No one affected Li Ye's practice. The teacher said that Li Ye was copying scriptures in his study and no one was allowed to go there. Disturb him.
The day when the husband and Li Hongxiu were to get married was coming. Lin Yueru of the General Mansion had people send congratulatory gifts to Zizhuyuan in advance. Because they both lived in the same courtyard, the wedding ceremony was omitted. As a practitioner, you can simply invite everyone to a restaurant for a banquet.
Li Ye sat in the study copying scriptures, and from time to time he sent his spiritual consciousness to the garden in front of the hall and the yard, watching his younger brother and sister having fun, and listening to his husband and his parents laughing and talking.
While I was happy for my husband, I thought about finding a carriage to go to the Great Buddha Temple as soon as the banquet was over.
Seeing the autumn wind outside the window gradually rising, he was about to embark on a difficult path of spiritual practice. He felt a little uneasy and a little hopeful. Practice without challenges was like a pool of stagnant water to him, and that was not the life he wanted.
Agui called softly outside the study, and then walked in with a bowl of lotus seed soup. "My wife said that the young master didn't have lunch, so she asked me to make you a bowl of lotus seed soup."
After speaking, he gently placed the bowl in front of Li Ye.
Li Ye put down his pen and pointed to the stool in front of him for Agui to sit down. He took out a small cloth bag from his arms, poured out the only twenty gold coins and handed it to Agui.
"In the afternoon you go buy twenty jars of good wine, and tomorrow you go to the restaurant to fry some good dishes, and ask Xiaoqing to send these things to Tianshan to my two seniors. Xiaoqing knows the place. When you are done, Mr. For my wedding, you can take Master Zhao from Jinyi Square to the Great Buddhist Temple and make some more clothes for my old monk."
"Master, I still have the money here, you don't need to pay for it." Agui pushed the gold coin in front of Li Ye.
"Take what I gave you. Remember not to call me Master again. You are a practitioner now. We will be brothers from now on. You will not lose any of the training resources I have."
Li Ye picked up the gold coins on the table and put them straight in Agui's hand.
"Master... no, let's call you Master. I'm used to it. I'm going to buy some wine right now. I will definitely handle this for you. You can tell Xiaoqing later and let her work hard."
Agui wiped his tears and walked out of the study. He thought to himself that his young master was indeed a good man. Even though he could no longer practice cultivation, he still wanted to find resources for him to practice.
Picking up the lotus seed soup on the table, Li Ye shook his head. He was still comfortable at home. It's just that you can't enjoy this kind of comfort too much, otherwise your fighting spirit will be wiped out sooner or later.
...
Early the next morning, Agui took Xiaoqing to the restaurant to cook at Li Ye's request. When he came back at noon, he gave two sets of clothes prepared by Jinyifang to Li Ye who was copying scriptures in the study.
Li Ye frowned and said, "Didn't you say I went to get it myself?"
Agui smiled and said: "When I came back, I passed by Jinyi Fang. Master Zhao recognized me and asked me to go in and bring the clothes back to the young master. He said that he would let you try it on. If it doesn't fit, let me take it over in the afternoon and change it."
Li Ye stood up, took off his robe, and put on a newly made double-breasted jacket. With his bare head, he suddenly felt like a young monk in a big Buddhist temple.
After trying it on for length, Li Ye took it off and said with a smile, "Now I look more like a little monk in the temple."
Agui took the clothes he had taken off and asked softly: "You really want to become a monk, right young master?"
"What are you thinking about? I am going to practice, but I don't know how many years of practice it will take to achieve enlightenment? Let me tell you, if you think about it, it is no different from becoming a monk."
Li Ye looked at him and smiled.
"Don't really become a monk. The master and his wife are still waiting for you to grow up and get married and continue the family lineage."
Agui looked at him and said seriously.
"Go, go, go! How old am I when this thing happens in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse? I still pass on the family line."
Li Ye had a big headache when he got here.
"That's not true. Haven't we already booked two marriages for you?"
"That was just a joke two years ago. Do you believe it? But I have long since stopped taking it seriously!"
"I don't believe this. Master, you are so powerful."
"Go, go, go! You have to work harder to get married tomorrow. Sir, you have spent a lot of effort on your cultivation!"
"Don't worry, young master, we will definitely take care of your husband's affairs."
...
July 7th, early autumn sunny day.
The wind is clear and the clouds are calm, a good day.
When he got up in the morning, Li Ye washed up and put on a blue robe, and the whole family gathered in front of the hall to have breakfast.
The husband and Li Hongxiu had already put on red wedding clothes, but Li Hongxiu had not yet put on her headdress because they had to have breakfast.
The wedding sedan was waiting outside the door. Under Ye Zhiqiu's forced request, the husband agreed to go to the Red Sleeve Restaurant in Huanbi Zizhuyuan to welcome the bride, which was considered a ceremony.
The bridal chamber had been decorated under Ye Zhiqiu's command long ago and was waiting for Mr. Li Hongxiu and his husband to move in together after the banquet.
Everything was ready, but the only fly in the ointment was that Li Hongxiu's sister Li Mingzhu asked someone to come with a gift, saying that she happened to be in a desperate situation and couldn't do it in person, which made Li Hongxiu depressed.
Tang Youyu came and told his husband and Ye Zhiqiu that everything in the restaurant was ready, and was waiting for his husband to welcome Li Hongxiu to the church for the wedding ceremony.
A group of people sent Li Hongxiu to the sedan chair. The husband did not ride in the carriage. He followed Li Ye on the left and right, and the two of them walked together with the bearer of the sedan chair.
After leaving Zizhuyuan, Master and Ye Zhiqiu were stunned, because the owner of the Red Sleeve Restaurant was open today, and the girls and waiters in the building were waiting outside the courtyard. Everyone was holding a red silk scarf in their hands.
The Master and Ye Zhiqiu held Li Xiaoxue in a carriage, and Mu Mu, Xiaoqing, and Xiaobai rode in a carriage. Agui set off a firecracker in front of it, and the group set off, heading up the East Street in a mighty way.
"Brothers and sisters of Hongxiulou, I don't want to thank you all here. I will have a drink soon!" The gentleman in front of him bowed his hands to the group of people welcoming the bride.
"Mighty sir, good luck to the host!" the cheering team roared in unison.
The wedding team was beating flower drums, and Agui behind them was setting off firecrackers. Li Ye, who was beside the sedan, led the crowd to shout slogans from time to time, all the way to the Red Sleeve Restaurant.
When they arrived outside the Hongxiu Restaurant, Mr. Li Hongxiu helped Li Hongxiu get out of the sedan chair.
After greeting Lin Yueru, General, Hu Qingshan and others who were guarding downstairs, the group walked into the lobby on the first floor.
The guard of honor in the worship hall had already been arranged. The general, Lin Yueru, the master, and Ye Zhiqiu were sitting in the seats of the parents of both parties, witnessing the ceremony on behalf of the parents of both parties.
Li Ye took the red ribbon prepared by the girls, walked up to his parents, handed it into the hands of his husband and Li Hongxiu, and then pulled Mu Mu to stand on both sides of their husband and Li Hongxiu.
Tang Youyu, who was waiting for the master of ceremonies, shouted three salutes. At this time, the upstairs and downstairs were filled with the scholar monks from Fengyun City.
