Coming through the gap, the whole courtyard was full of more than 20 craftsmen busy repairing or painting the walls, and it was very lively, and some children took the opportunity to run around inside.

Lan Chun lacked interest in the pavilions and pavilions, and did not have the ladies to stay at home, pulling Mama Li to see the green and tender leaves on the trees.

On the shelves under the shade of the trees, some roses, peonies, peonies and other flowers and bonsai are newly placed, which are very pleasing to the eye, and they are worthy of being the things from the Yang scholars' family.

Lan Chun stopped and admired for a while, the eighteenth change of the female college is no longer the naughty girl when she was a child, her demeanor is elegant, she is a fair lady with a beautiful appearance, she is responsible for taking care of Xu Yu's big and small affairs all the year round, she is shrewd and strong and good at human relations, which can be described as both internal and external.

To the west, there is a row of wisteria flower shelves, and three large spacious rooms, which seem to be used as a study. Lan Chunda looked outside the house, and the decoration inside was particularly exquisite.

Yang Pu is a native of Shishou, Hubei, the family is a local famous family, because of the appreciation of Emperor Xuande, Yang Pu was noble, posthumously presented his grandfather Yang Guozhen as Guanglu Doctor, Zhu Guo, Shaobao, Rite Department Shangshu and Wu Yingdian University Scholar; His grandmother and mother gave him a gift.

The Yang family is well-off, so Yang Pu and his wife are very fond of their only son, Yang Dan, and Yang Dan has also been very competitive in recent years, and now he has passed the examination.

Lan Chun saw that all the window sashes had been repainted with vermilion lacquer, placed on the ground and waiting for them to dry, and the inlaid glass was ready to be filled with a uniform snow veil, and shook his head and said, "Why spend so much money to clean up such an old house?" And there is no provenance, will not tear down and build a new one? How inconvenient is it to not have a bathroom, a sewer, a heating or something? ”

Li's mother echoed: "No, maybe there are other reasons." ”

Lan Chun was a little curious, and walked into the house regardless of the strong smell of paint, and saw that the walls were pasted with the most popular Liaodong patent leather printing paper, and the entire wall was bright.

Lan Chun said: "More and more money is spent, the living room in our house is pasted with this kind of wallpaper, and our own property costs hundreds of taels of silver for a room." The Yang family only repaired an inexplicable outer study, and the house was not connected to here, which was too extravagant, probably because Lord Yang wanted to come and live. ”

"I heard that Yang Gongzi came to live." Mother Li couldn't help but secretly speak, "It seems that there is no young grandmother, alone." ”

Lan Chun said strangely: "A young master is not at home, what is he doing when he comes out to decorate a big house nearby?" ”

"Who knows?" Mother Li asked with a smile, "Aren't the young masters of the Xu family like this?" This place is close to Yang's mansion, and Yang Gongzi is not married, so Sven's person must not raise any outer room. ”

"Hmm." Lan Chun nodded, what kind of person is Yang Gongzi?

quickly pulled Mama Li to the side, and the people under the Yang Mansion carried exquisite furniture and antiques to move in.

"I'm in a hurry." Lan Chun guessed that he was probably in a hurry to invite friends, Brother Gongzi has always been so virtuous, he doesn't think about what he does, and he doesn't like to listen to people's persuasion, even Yu'er has not been very obedient recently, and he actually borrowed three thousand taels outside, and he was self-righteous and hid from others.

Three thousand taels of silver were secretly returned by Lan Chun early in the morning, just kidding, how could the second son of the dignified Xu family owe money, if this was known by his wife?

Looking at a rosewood screen in front of him, the white silk on it is embroidered with a hundred birds on pilgrimage, and the birds are lifelike and vivid. Lan Chun pointed and whispered: "Needless to say, the red sandalwood is extremely precious, and this best Hunan embroidery alone is probably worth two hundred taels of silver." ”

"Good fellows." Mama Li walked over enviously and watched carefully.

Suddenly I heard someone say, "When a guest comes in, why do you stop working?" ”

Lan Chun looked back and saw that it was the young man in Chinese clothes he saw when he came, standing near the wisteria trellis. Mama Li's face was flushed, and she took her hand and said in a low voice, "Someone is coming, go quickly." ”

"It doesn't matter." Lan Chun was not nervous at all, raised his hand to smooth the naughty hair on his sideburns, walked out generously, nodded with a smile, and slowly walked towards home without saying a word.

This move made Yang Dan at a loss, it stands to reason that a girl came uninvited, and she was bumped into by her master, at least she had to be shy and run away, right? Who knows that it seems to be walking in his own garden, calmly and freely, without even saying an apology.

"She's not one of those schoolgirls." Yang Dan smiled and said, thinking about the identity of the other party, he was relieved.

As soon as Lan Chun came back, he saw Xu Yu smiling and pushing the door with two gift boxes, and Mrs. Leng, who had not long returned, said in surprise: "Oops! Why is the second young master here? Why buy so many things, really. ”

Xu Yu smiled: "It's not mine." When I got to the door, the family next door asked me if I was from our family, and I said yes, and he asked me who I was, and I said it was my nephew, and he gave me the gift. ”

"You kid, you're always so loved." Mrs. Leng smiled happily, she liked Xu Yu's absence.

Lan Chun also smiled and asked, "Why are you here?" ”

"Come and see our aunt!"

Xu Yu grinned, came over and put the gift box on the table, opened the lid, a box of red and white osmanthus cake and rose mille-feuille cake from Wanxiang Zhai, and the other box was a few bottles of good osmanthus stuffed and four-color candy, which seemed to be very expensive.

Mrs. Leng was surprised and said, "For no reason, what are you doing with such a heavy gift?" A bottle of wine costs a few taels of silver. ”

Lan Chun was also very surprised, and he didn't know why. Xu Yu said: "People say that according to the rules of Hunan, send a little heart, please don't go back." ”

"We also have this rule in Jinling." Mrs. Leng was stunned, afraid that the two children would not know, and explained: "It is the newly moved to send things to the neighbors, which means that the mouths of the sweet people will be good and friendly in the future, but it is nothing more than sending a plate of snacks and a few zongzi, how can you send such a valuable one?" ”

"It's nothing." Xu Yu naturally took this as usual, picked up a famous post in the gift box, and said unconsciously: "It's him?" ”

"Who is it?" Lan Chun asked.

"Yang Dan, the son of Lord Yang Pu, no wonder he is so generous." Xu Yu showed it to Lan Chun.

Mrs. Leng asked, "Does the second young master recognize him?" ”

"I know, but I'm not familiar with it, and I don't have any friendship, and I have no contact." Xu Yu frowned as he spoke, and said in his heart, why is it so coincidental? In the past, Yang Pu intended to marry his father, and Master Xia took this opportunity to fight the autumn breeze, and now he met the Yang family again.

He didn't know that Yang Pu actually had four daughters, all of whom were Yang Dan's sisters, because the eldest son and second son died one after another, the couple worked hard, for fear that Yang Dan would die in case of a good and bad death, and later saw that he couldn't have a son alive or dead, so he gave up.

Yang Pu and Xu Hao chatted that day, but they just said it casually, and the girl was too worried and panicked, just used it as an introduction to the conversation, just a joke, but in fact, with Yang Pu's status and personality, he never thought about a strong marriage, this is the nature of Confucian literati like Yang Pu, and the most important thing in everything is reputation.

During the Tang Dynasty, dignitaries and nobles liked to recruit celebrities such as Zhuangyuanlang as sons-in-law, and at that time, they also paid the most attention to the background of the family, and the concept of bloodline was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. After the Song Dynasty, there was not much attention, and the Ming Dynasty went further, of course, the daughter of Wenchen had to marry a scholar, and in the late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, examples of officials and wealthy merchants marrying each other abounded.

The invisible caste system in ancient China is no less than that of India, and of course it is not as unchanged and bad as India, but after all, the class of scholars is a minority, and most of the walks of life are passed down from generation to generation, and few people can marry a wife with a higher status, unless reading changes their fate.

The feudal society with different respects and inferiorities lasted until the founding of New China, and the hierarchy of the Republic of China era was still distinct, such as the four major families. If it weren't for Taizu's determination to break the four olds and put forward the slogan that everyone is equal, then look at the current Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and other regions, and the theory of family origin and bloodline is still so important.

Family inheritance is a kind of traditional culture, but it is also a kind of dross, because everything has both positive and negative sides, the good side does not need to talk nonsense, and the bad side is like flattery, Xi's brother-in-law is relying on political achievements to come up, and there are also Abe Shinzo consecutive victories, Bush Jr., etc., with family halo, people's vote democracy is nothing as good as the ancestors, the election site is ready-made, the retainers, the ministers, the voters, and the political status and money are all ready-made, as long as I am a minimum elite.

It is hoped that China will continue to adhere to the virtue of not avoiding relatives and enemies at home and the current promotion mechanism for officials, and not allowing the sons and daughters who are ignorant of the people's sufferings and have no ability to steal the treasure.

Compared with the flaws in the system, I am afraid that the guy sitting at the top who does not learn and knows no skills is disastrous for a country, and nothing can be seen in just a few decades, and in a few hundred years, as we look at history now, it is clear who caused the rise and fall of the country.

The next day, Lan Chuntuo Xu Yu went over to thank Yang Dan. For the first visit, naturally you can't go through the hole in the wall, and let the porter go in at the gate at the entrance of the alley.

Yang Dan saw that it was Xu Yu's famous post, and hurriedly walked out to meet him.

The two young men looked at each other, and Yang Dan saw that the second young master of the Xu family was sixteen or seventeen years old, and his appearance was handsome and unconventional, especially a close-fitting and straight suit, which was more than a hundred times more advanced than his nondescript fashion.

Yang Dan's appearance is also good, his bearing is elegant and polite, and Xu Yu has a good impression.

Yang Dan preemptively said: "Please come in, please come in!" I haven't visited yet, and I have come to work hard for Mr. Xu to come on behalf of the Leng family. ”

Xu Yu said with a smile: "Yesterday, I heard that my brother moved over, and I was very happy, so I planned to come and visit." I was also spoiled by my brother, and my relatives really didn't care. ”

"It's not enough to worry about it, this is the rule of the south and the hometown." Yang Dan took Xu Yu's hand and said kindly, "Come in and sit." ”

Because of the smell of paint in the house, he sat down on the wisteria flower stand, and the little boy in Yangfu brought tea and snacks, and then stood far away.

Yang Dan asked, "Brother often comes here?" ”

"Yes." Xu Yu said: "The younger brother often accompanies Sister Lan Chun over, and he doesn't dare to take the liberty of coming to the door, and he will ask my brother to take care of the door in the future." ”

"Neighbors for many years, as they should be." After Yang Dan finished speaking, he was afraid that the other party would misunderstand, and explained: "I plan to organize a poetry club here with a few friends, why don't you come and participate in it, brother?" ”

Xu Yu said with a smile: "The younger brother is not good at composing poetry, but he can be the host and learn poetry from his brother." ”

"It's a joke." Yang Dan shook his head and said: "A famous family like you, with a family history, how can you not be good at writing poetry?" ”

Xu Yu said: "It's true, the younger brother is really not good at writing poetry. ”

Yang Dan said with a smile: "Then we can study and learn in one place in the future, there are a few of my friends." ”

After returning to his house in the evening, Xu Yu found Zhu Mingzhi excitedly and said: "I met a friend today, and in the afternoon, Mr. Sheng set up a wine banquet to guess the riddles, and I got some riddles back. I think we will have an autumn meeting tomorrow, and now there are more chrysanthemums, who guessed it, and awarded ten pots of chrysanthemums. Riddles can be used as a wine order, whoever wins will give her their crab claws, turn back to the total number of fights, whoever has a few less legs will be fined a few glasses of wine, whoever has a few more legs, award a few big crabs, if anyone says it well, a full banquet will congratulate a cup, what do you think? ”

Zhu Mingzhi saw that he was full of interest, so he agreed to the fun, found Mulan Xiang, and then the three of them wrote invitations separately and prepared chrysanthemums, crabs and other things. R1152