Chapter 198: The night is like water

Jia Huan wants to admit that in two or three seconds, he was intoxicated by Sister Bao's beautiful demeanor and charm. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

The shallow, bright and elegant smile of Sister Bao, who is like a goddess, is clearly engraved in his heart, making him feel like drinking sweet, relaxed and happy, and unforgettable in this life.

This should be the third or fourth time he has spoken to Baochai in person, right?

After a moment, Jia Huan came back to his senses and saluted back: "Sister Bao is good." There were a lot of people at noon yesterday, so I didn't have time to talk to Sister Bao. ”

Baochai chuckled implicitly and nodded slightly. The posture is elegant, and the demeanor is square.

She didn't even make eye contact with Brother Huan at the old lady's place yesterday at noon. The reason is the delicate emotions in her heart.

Aunt Xue is so shrewd, she can see that Jia Huan is distracted when facing her daughter. I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: If it weren't for Jia Huan clearly saying to her brother-in-law (Jia Zheng): Postpone the marriage for a few years. She was seventy or eighty percent sure that she would promote the marriage of her daughter and Jia Huan.

It's rare to have a brother who knows the roots in front of you. He is easy-going, has a stable temperament, has a great future, and is willing to help the Xue family. She has a heart.

Aunt Xue smiled and let Jia Huan sit down at the table of the Eight Immortals, and instructed the maids to inform the kitchen to serve the food, saying, "Brother Huan'er said this politely, but it hurt the feelings. Be casual with your brothers and sisters. ”

Jia Huan smiled, "That's what my aunt said." ”

Baochai smiled lightly and sat down, facing Jia Huan.

Laughing and laughing, after a while, the maids of the Xue family brought exquisite dishes over. There are: quail with distiller's lees, bird's nest soup, wind-pickled civets, rouge goose breasts, and a number of seasonal vegetables, melons and fruits. Huiquan liquor drunk in the palace.

The Xue family has lived in Jinling for a long time, and the taste of the food in Jiafu is basically the same, but the details are slightly different. For example, the wine lees quail has a more mellow aroma. The wind-pickled civet cats are added with a few ingredients, and the taste is delicious and slightly sweet.

The method of this dish is to clean the goose, first salt it, and then cook it to mature, and the goose meat is red, so the rouge goose is pure. The meat is tender and plump. "Yi Ya's Last Will" cloud: "A goose, not broken, first salted, steamed in the soup gong, sprinkled with three or five duck bullets, waiting for ripening, apricot greasy pouring, the name apricot flower goose." "Apricot blossoms, red, carmine-like.

This dish is full of Jiangnan flavor, Cao Yin has a poem: choose the time, know that the king pities me, the red goose urges the wine, and the falcon relieves people. The red goose is both a rouge goose.

At present, there is no greenhouse planting technology, and the method of greenhouse planting is adopted. The cost is extremely high. In winter, you can afford to eat fresh green leafy vegetables, melons and fruits, and all of them are the mansions of the powerful. Aunt Xue's meal was arranged very carefully.

After eating half a glass of wine, Jia Huan asked, "Brother Xue is not at home?" He didn't have a good impression of Xue Pan, but the Xue family always had to ask when they came to dinner. As for what Xue Pan thought of him, he didn't care.

Aunt Xue sighed: "Hey, he is a horse without a hitch, he can't be busy every day, and he is willing to be at home for a day." I said to him yesterday: Don't go to the clan school anymore to mess around, now you are in charge of the ring brother, he faces me face to face, and I don't know if I heard it in my heart. If he goes to the clan school to mess around, Brother Huan doesn't have to look at my face, he can do whatever he wants. ”

Jia Huan expelled 12 people in the clan study this morning, and his methods were particularly sharp, showing a strong will. Aunt Xue knew her son's temperament, so she was talking the other way at this time, saying hello to Jia Huan in advance, and showing mercy to her subordinates.

Jia Huan said with a smile: "I want to thank my aunt for her support." Brother Xue doesn't go much into ethnology now. He must not be interested in my four books and five classics. Moreover, even if Brother Xue violates the rules of clan studies, it is my brother who has his own aunt to teach him. Shall I teach my brother doctrine? ”

He can't say now: Your son dares to make trouble in the clan science, see if I don't kill him! When this is said, how can you eat that rice?

Aunt Xue smiled when she heard this, and persuaded Jia Huan to eat wine, "Brother Huan'er said that people are good in their hearts." Auntie accompanies you to eat two more glasses! ”

Qingwen, Ruyi, Xiangling, and Ying'er on the side served properly. The guests and hosts enjoyed a meal.

After the meal, Aunt Xue instructed the maids in the living room to clean up the dining table. Xue Baochai led Jia Huan to the exquisite small hall next door to drink tea and eat and sit for a while.

At this time, the night is getting darker, and the moon is in the sky. The chill of a winter night floated in through the window.

Baochai, dressed in light pink clothes and with a beautiful figure, invited Jia Huan to sit down, and said softly: "Brother Huan will sit for a while, and Ying'er will pour tea." ”

Jia Huan nodded, "Hmm." He and Baochai sat on the pineapple wood chairs on both sides of the table. I saw Baochai sitting upright, the silhouette was bright and elegant, and in the bright candlelight, it exuded a quiet and beautiful atmosphere. As the saying goes: the light pole knows that the flowers are more colorful, and Ren is ruthless and moving.

Jia Huan's heart swelled with irrepressible closeness.

More than two months ago, he said a few words to Baochai before returning to the Taoist Academy. At that time, he was determined to leave Jiafu and go to Jiangnan, so he politely advised Baochai not to marry Baoyu in the future because of family factors, so as not to fall into the tragedy of being alone in the empty boudoir. It's kind of doing his part. But at that time, Baochai's face was crimson, he threw away a heavy word, turned around and went back to the boudoir, and he had the posture of never seeing each other again.

He was in the house yesterday and today, and he guessed some of the reasons. When it was rumored that his marriage was in Jiafu in September, Sister Bao was also one of the heroines of the scandal. This version of the rumor is mostly the handiwork of Aunt Xue. Qingwen and Ruyi also said that Sister Bao was suitable. Looking back at what he said to Sister Bao at that time, it was a bit abrupt.

And when Baochai came just now, he took the initiative to say hello, probably not angry with him anymore. The reason for this is unknown.

Jia Huan looked at Baochai's beautiful side face and shouted, "Sister Bao..."

In the small hall, there are two people, Jia Huan and Baochai. Qingwen, Ruyi, Xiangling and other maids are eating outside. Ying'er went to pour tea. Therefore, after Baochai sat down, she looked outside the small hall, and when she heard Jia Huan calling her, she turned sideways slightly and looked at Jia Huan's face.

Dark eyes, clear and bright. It seems to shine with the crystal brilliance of morning dew, and under the bright candlelight, it is extremely moving.

Jia Huan originally had nothing to say, but at this moment, looking at Baochai's beautiful eyes, he forgot the words below.

Seeing that Jia Huan didn't speak, Baochai lost his mind again, and a faint chuckle passed over the corner of his mouth. It seems that from an unattainable goddess, she has become an elegant and beautiful girl. Tilt your head and look out of the hall. There are some indescribable emotions steaming in my heart. There is some briskness.

She had misunderstood that Brother Huan had offended her earlier, and said a few heavy words. Later, I accidentally learned from Baoyu's mouth that it was a misunderstanding. She intended to apologize. When she heard that Brother Huan was helping the family in Zunhua, she once asked herself: What does Brother Huan think of her?

She actually had the answer in her heart. Therefore, when she heard the news of Brother Huan's return to her home in her aunt's house yesterday morning, some unspeakable emotions suddenly floated in her heart: some expectations, and some shyness. But how could she have the emotions to look forward to seeing him again?

Time flies by in silence but by no means oppression, in an indescribably pleasant, relaxed atmosphere.

The charming and lovely Ying'er came in from outside with a tea tray, and when she saw that the third master and the girl did not speak, she was slightly surprised, put the two cups of hot tea in the tea tray on the table, and handed a delicate purse to Baochai, "Oh, girl, I brought it." ”

Baochai said "um", seeing Jia Huan's gaze, he suppressed the shy emotions in his heart, and calmly handed the purse to Jia Huan, "Brother Huan, this is Ying'er's call for you, thank you for helping the family's business in Zunhua." ”

Ying'er stood aside, quite speechless. These green willows and yellow plum blossoms are the girl's own hits.

Jia Huan is not stupid. He drank a total of two glasses of wine today, and his mind is still sharp. Ying'er is Baochai's maid, how could she give him a tie for no reason. It must have been ordered by Baochai. He took the embroidered purse and wanted to ask: "Sister Bao, are you really just thanking me?" ”

Actually, when you look at a girl who accidentally loses her mind and is immersed in her beauty, and she just turns her head away, she doesn't get angry and doesn't say anything about you. What does this mean, isn't it clear? How can what she gives you only represent gratitude?

However, Jia Huan thought of Baochai in time and was abrupt, and only said the first half of the sentence before stopping, "Sister Bao..."

Baochai replied softly, "Hmm", and looked at Jia Huan with bright eyes.

With Ying'er by his side, Jia Huan couldn't lose his mind so easily, so he laughed self-deprecatingly and said, "I forgot what I wanted to say again." Sister Xie Bao! ”

Baochai pursed her lips and smiled, and her touching chuckle made people feel like drinking sweet springs. She looked away and looked out the window. The starry sky is bright and the moon is bright. The moonlight falls on the eaves, trees, gardens, corridors, and steps. At this time, the time is the tenth winter of Yongzhi, and the ninth night of the lunar month is three quarters.

Jia Huan smiled slightly, looking at Baochai's beautiful and indescribable silhouette, and the cheerful emotions in his heart rushed like a wave.

Ying'er on the side was a little dazed, and she didn't know what the third master and the girl were laughing at. That's not funny.

In the next two days, as Jia Huan's proposed enrollment brochure for ethnic studies spread in the Jia family, Jia Huan's residence was Wangyueju, and the door was like a city, and from time to time there were servants of the Jia family who came to Jia Huan to send their sons to study in the family studies.

There are also parents who were kicked out of the clan school on the ninth day of the first year to plead for mercy. Jia Huan agreed to the one who wanted to come back, and his parents came to the door to plead. He's going to take an exam. These people, fooling around all day long, will eventually be eliminated from the ethnology.

Jia Huan received a group of people in the clan study, and he couldn't go home in peace. Let him be flawless and go to Baochai. However, the stewardship training course in the ethnology was his basic plan, and he patiently handled the current affairs.

By the fourth day, the thirteenth day of the lunar month, things were finally sorted out. There are sixty-two children of the Jia family slaves and sons of the family recruited by the clan study. There were forty-one stewards behind this group of children. This includes almost one-third of the stewards of the two prefectures of Ning and Rong.

The night is like thick ink in the heavens and the earth. The side hall in the Ningguo Mansion is brightly lit, and the dishes and wine are split. Jia Huan and Jia Rong, Li Hua, Li Wei, Liu Chao, and Zhang Tao had a drink. Jia Rong called Jia Qiang, Jia Qiong, Jia Chen, and Jia Lan to accompany them.

Jia Huan came to coordinate with Jia Rong the matter of the sons or grandsons of the twenty-eight stewards of the Ning Guofu to go to school in the clan school. On Ning Guofu's side, he basically speaks his word, and his words count. It will be much easier to solve this side first, and then coordinate the affairs of Rongguo Mansion.

Jia Rong toasted Jia Huan's wine with a wine glass, packed the ticket and said, "Uncle Huan, whoever you fancy just picks it up, I promise it will be the same." Li Hua, you make good arrangements, you can't go wrong. ”

Li Hua hurriedly got up, half-bent over and said with a smile: "Uncle, don't worry, it's okay to keep it." There are only a dozen or so small guys to find someone to take over. His eight-year-old grandson was also sent in. Who in the house doesn't want to follow the third master? Who can't see the future of the third master?

Jia Huan smiled, picked up the wine glass and Jia Rong. He drank two glasses, and at this time the wine glass was boiled water, "Brother Rong, you have a heart." ”

Jia Rong laughed.

After a meal of wine until nine o'clock in the evening, Jia Huan took a carriage back to look at the Moon House. The winter nights are windy, and walking is uncomfortable.

The housekeepers of Ning Guofu all dispersed. Jia Qiang, Jia Qiong, Jia Chen, and Jia Lan accompanied Jia Rong to the outer study to talk.

Jia Qiang sighed: "Brother Rong, how can you agree to come down in one bite?" Don't you know his purpose in teaching the children of his family? This is to gather people's hearts. Who doesn't want to have a future life. If this continues, your Ning Guofu will become his. ”

Jia Rong was silent for a while, and said depressedly: "If Uncle Huan wants to make trouble, let him make trouble, what can I do?" "That's a true saying. Does he refuse if he doesn't agree? God knows how Jia Huan will toss him when he turns around.

Jia Qiang took a sip of tea depressedly, "Alas! "Don't say that Brother Rong is not tough. In front of the third master of Huan, there are few people who dare to be tough. Doesn't he himself honestly stay in the ethnology and study? It's up to him to do this, it depends on what Rong Guofu thinks. (To be continued.) )