Because the concubine was sent to Xiaojia Village, Li Bochun, who was upset by the monsters, came to Xu's Mansion and proposed to the third master Xu Zengfu to borrow a few days to relax.

Usually, Xu Zengfu couldn't invite him to come to the house, so he naturally agreed, and immediately ordered someone to clean up a fine house.

Xu Qingtang took Xu Hao to visit Li Bochun, as soon as he entered the house, Xu Hao saw the gray-haired Master Li washing, and the family brought two bowls of salt water and asked, "What is this?" ”

Li Bochun said: "This is the ancestral family heirloom health recipe, light salt soup can clear the wind and heat of the brain, can cure headaches, can remove eye diseases, passed down from generation to generation, quite effective." ”

Xu Hao couldn't help nodding, salt water can indeed sterilize, but many people can't afford it, and it is difficult to promote. And Li Bochun is still in good spirits at his age, and the family health regimen is quite scientifically based.

After washing, Li Bochun instructed someone to bring the steamed Longjing tea, and Xu Qingtang asked, "Why don't you use spring water?" ”

Li Bochun said: "Family legend says that there are always impurities of gray stone in all waters, as well as microorganisms that are now mentioned in chemistry, and our ancestors also said similar things. Before the age of thirty, we mortals are vigorous and vigorous, and there is no need to take steam water, and we borrow hard materials such as gray stone to strengthen the backbone. After the age of 30, his popularity gradually declined, and he could not refine the hard texture of limestone, so that he took it every day, and gradually penetrated into the skin, making the skin increasingly wrinkled. Therefore, the old man recommends steamed dew, which has no impurities, and it is beneficial to prolong life. ”

Xu Qingtang praised it, Xu Haoxin said that boiling water would not be enough, but the ancients were really infinitely wise and had to take it!

After chatting for a while, the next person brought three bowls of lotus seed soup, a bowl of white rice, and a plate of green vegetables.

Seeing this, Xu Qingtang asked: "Is there a reason to eat rice and vegetables?" ”

Li Bochun said with a smile: "White rice is just sweet and light to nourish the spleen and soil, and it is not suitable to eat in the morning." The greens say something else. Where the five grains are more charcoal, vegetables and vegetables are more nourishing, try to take a live fish, put it in a glass bottle, full of water, plug the mouth, the fish dies instantly, as long as you put a leaf of greens, the fish can not die for a long time...... I live with fish and vegetables, so I am always in food. There will be some green vegetables, take them to nourish the gas to turn the charcoal gas"

Xu Hao said: "That's oxygen, carbon gas is called carbon dioxide, people can't live for a moment without oxygen in the breathing room, everything is like this." However, plants breathe carbon dioxide exhaled by all things, just as humans need oxygen, which is the principle that the cycles of heaven and earth complement each other, and both are indispensable. So I'm very much against the deforestation of trees, which will undoubtedly end up hurting us. ”

Li Bochun said: "The third prince is really a scholar, and the old man is ashamed of himself. ”

Xu Hao said calmly: "Lord Li's ancestors are really pedantic celestials, which I admire. ”

"Huh!" Li Bochun looked very happy. asked: "These truths, the old man is derived from his ancestors, dare to ask where did the third prince come from?" The old man only felt that all of a sudden, new learning had become the trend. ”

Xu Hao smiled: "I like to collect books. There are no less than 20,000 kinds of unique books, which are rare secret books in the world since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, as well as overseas works. I've collected them all. ”

Saying that, he pointed to the bookcase, Li Bochun hurriedly took out a few books from the cabinet, what new theories such as chemistry, hygiene, and common sense were all books that he had never seen before, and he had never heard of them, and sighed: "The old man boasted that he had read more than 10,000 books, and today he realized that he was a frog at the bottom of the well." ”

Xu Qingtang looked at his son quietly, and said in his heart that I have never seen these books, and I don't know how to give birth to a wonderful son, who knows so many strange things without a teacher.

Li Bochun couldn't put down the scrolls, and when he saw the hunting heart, he secretly came to the right place, it turned out that the Xu family had different books, and the overseas strange books that Xu Hao said must have some self-cultivation fairy recipes, take them out and read them when there is no one, and you can also copy a few sheets.

So he took a cursory look, who knew that most of the new studies were books about astronomy and geography, seven politics and five elements, not many, a cabinet full of Hongxi canons, in addition to some books such as the Book of Changes, Yin Fu Jing, Liutao Art of War and Qimen Dunjia, and even foreign books, the words on it were completely incomprehensible, and he sighed a pity.

At this time, the steward came in and said, "Please Master Li and the second master, and the third master will go to the back garden to visit the garden, and my master is already waiting in the back." ”

Xu Qingtang got up and said, "Then please ask Master Li to go over and relax, Hao'er must accompany you." ”

"Yes!" Xu Hao had no choice but to come out with him.

Talking and laughing, he walked through the hall, then through the flower hall, and entered the inner house, Xu Zengfu continued, and the group walked to the back house.

Xu Hao hasn't been here much either, and the third uncle is obviously constantly revising and modifying, and he is completely unfamiliar with it.

On both sides, there are wide roads made of rain flower stones, which are easy to walk. As soon as you enter the door, you will be greeted by the rockery made of Taihu Lake stones, the exquisite wonders of the hollow are repeated, the high and low are lined with uneven green trees, everything is depressed in winter, you can feel the green moss of the vines in spring and summer, the scene of mottled entanglement.

From the rockery fairy cave to the left side turned two corners, along the stone steps up, a flat open space, facing a plaque, writing "Wind Viewing Pavilion".

Li Bochun looked around with his hands behind his back, and saw a stone platform and four stone benches in the middle, surrounded by turquoise railings. Looking at it from afar, but seeing the pine and bamboo, blocking the horizon, the treetops slightly exposed layers of green tiles and scales, a corner of the Zhu Building, shocked by the huge area of the Xu Mansion.

After sitting for a while and eating a cup of tea, I walked down the stone path with high and low twists and turns, and came to a road in the middle, which was still made of five-colored brilliant stones.

From the Yongdao all the way in, there are seven halls, painting flying clouds, carving beams reflecting the sun, hanging a pair of big golden couplets in front of the door: "Looking at the garden, the wind and the moon are small and comfortable; Forget the love of fish and birds, spring and autumn smile arrogantly hooked. "It should be Xu Zengfu's study for recuperation on weekdays.

Entering the hall, the ground is covered with a duck green velvet blanket, surrounded by beads and silk spirit covers, countless lights, on the middle screen, engraved with Wang Xizhi's cursive script, a big kang, but it is a colorful paving of ancient scenes.

Xu Hao is also here for the first time, there is a treasure tripod on the kang table, the fragrant pear is lush, and the window partition in the middle is all carved by the wooden board, which is very bright and bright.

On the wall next to it, there is a five-color paper, and there are four pieces of Mijia landscape and four pieces of Zhao Ziang's book. All the tables, stools, and chairs are all carved and colorful brocade of rosewood.

There is a plaque hanging on it, which is the three words of "Lotus Tao Pavilion", and there are several lines of clouds next to it: lotus, clean things, out of the sludge and not stained, from the stem and leaves and flowers and stamens and hearts, wrapped layer by layer, there is a law has been self-fang, latent virtue Taoguang, the image of a gentleman. The owner is afraid of raising the forest spring, with the light faintly shining, and there is the infatuation of loving the lotus, so the name is like this.

"It's dizzying." Li Bochun praised it.

Xu Zengfu said: "I don't like these luxuries, but the filial piety of my children is all from the hands of my daughter-in-law, and I can't say anything." ”

Xu Haoxin said that it was no wonder, the third uncle obviously liked the desolate and quiet environment, and this place was extremely luxurious, which did not match the self-metaphor of the lotus, and it seemed to be the handiwork of the fifth brother and sister Yuan.

It seems that the third uncle doesn't like it very much, so he led them to the long corridor behind the house next to the pool, which is inlaid with long glass windows on all sides, and the lotus flowers in the pool have fallen and there is nothing to see.

Coming out of the corner gate, you will be flanked by red pillars, and mahogany planks will be erected at your feet, zigzag from the corner gate to the center of the pool.

Walking to the pavilion in the middle of the pool, Xu Hao saw that it was a small lake with a bay on the rectangle, with an area of about eight or nine acres, and a wooden bridge was erected at every bend in the east and west, which curved along the promenade of the pool, echoing back and forth.

Four or five small boats moored on the shore and entered the pavilion, and a couplet read, "Look at the clear water and the tide and the green poplars support Rao; The dust can't fly, and there are famous flowers drunk with the moon and good birds singing in spring. ”

Li Bochun said happily: "Even in winter, I have to go fishing, otherwise I won't live up to such a scene?" ”

Xu Zengfu immediately ordered: "Hurry up and row the boat over, I will accompany Mr. Li and the second brother to go fishing." ”

Xu Hao cried and laughed: "I won't go, I hope there will be fish to eat at noon." ”

watched the three of them swim east and west on the water, each holding a fishing rod and hanging down into the water. Xu Hao leaned on the railing, bored and in a daze, Yuan came with a large group of maids and said, "You all stay, I will go by myself." ”

"Say hello to the third brother." Yuan smiled sweetly.

Xu Hao looked back and smiled: "You're here?" Stand with me for a while. ”

"Hmm." Yuan took out a plate of melon seeds, Xu Hao grabbed a handful, threw the melon seeds in the pool, left the melon seed shells in his hands, and several goldfish swam over to chase the food.

Yuan took the melon seed shell and asked, "What do you want to eat at noon?" I'm going to prepare. ”

Xu Hao looked at the goldfish and said, "I'm afraid I can't eat the fish, don't eat the goldfish you caught, get some fresh and clean fish." The wine is going to be Shaoxing's daughter. ”

"I see." Yuan beckoned to a maid and commanded a few words.

The two of them were gossiping, and the Yuan family would tell Xu Hao the latest gossip and anecdotes, as well as the secret things inside and outside the house, all of which were missing.

If it is about the distance between relatives and relatives, among the younger siblings, the Yuan family is undoubtedly the number one confidant, and only she and Xu Hao are the closest, and the rest of Zhong Kegu, Fu Shi, and Feng Wenjun don't mention it.

Among the brothers, Xu Song also listened to him the most, Xu Hao was naturally very different from Xu Song and his wife, needless to say that Xu Song represented Xu Hao in the court, and now he has quickly become the governor of the Zuo Capital of the Zhongjun Governor's Mansion, and the young man is proud of his high power, and the Yuan family is second only to Mu Ningxue and Zhu Qiaoqiao in the family's dignity, and is better than Wang Xuanqing.

There is a huge three-room, and the top and bottom are all taken care of by the Yuan family alone, so Xu Hao said with pity: "You are busy all day long, don't stand stupidly with me, go and rest." I'm not going anywhere today, it's enough for me here. ”

"Am I really gone?" Yuan smiled.

"Let's go, let's go." Xu Hao waved his hand.

"Go over tomorrow to my brother Dao'an." Yuan smiled, said a blessing to him, and walked towards the shore in a graceful manner. (To be continued......)