Chapter 2 **Juvenile Gathering at the beginning of the year (1)
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"Qi Lang is here." Wang Ning's face showed a smile.[]
"Uncle, sister, Qi Lang is here..." Following the voice, Wang Qi strode in, showing her small white teeth to Wang Ning and Shun Niang, and then her eyes fell on the half plate of plain stuffed buns on the dining table.
, swallowed a mouthful of spit.
Although the Taoist idiot was unwilling to do so, he had no choice but to get up from his seat because of the "old and young order".
Wang Ning asked with concern: "Qilang came out without breakfast?"
Wang Qi lowered his head and said in a low voice: "My grandson has never left home. He felt so uneasy that he only drank half a bowl of porridge."
Both Wang Ning and Shun Niang looked a little distressed. Wang Ning looked at Dao Chi, while Shun Niang got up and went to the kitchen to get the dishes.
The Taoist idiot had no choice but to give up the seat on the right side of the old lady and moved down one spot.
Under Wang Ning's instructions, Wang Qi sat down honestly and smiled "shyly": "My grandson doesn't know why, but he couldn't eat at home. When he came here and saw Erlang, he felt at ease.
I just feel hungry." Having said this, I didn't forget to turn my head and look at Dao Chi, with a faint look of pride in his eyes.
With just one sentence, Mrs. Wang Ning smiled brightly, and even Shun Niang, who came back with new bowls and chopsticks, eyes became more and more crinkled. No matter how warm these two grandsons were to Wang Qi, they would not go beyond being a Taoist idiot. In addition to pity,
He has no parents, mainly because of Dao Chi, hoping that their brothers will be closer. After all, Dao Chi entered the palace with Wang Qi, Mrs. Wang who can be relied on in the palace, and is Wang Qi's biological aunt.
Although Dao Chi occasionally felt a little sour in his heart, he still welcomed Wang Qi's antics. Too many ups and downs made Wang Ning and Shun Niang a little too depressed. Wang Qi's several visits and naughty tricks made them
This family has added a lot of life.
When Wang Qi finished the remaining half of the plate of vegetarian stuffed buns, it was almost time to go out.
Reluctantly getting up from the dining table, Wang Qi looked at the Lu silk gown worn by Dao Chi and curled his lips. It was not that he was dissatisfied with his grandfather for arranging the sewing room to sew new clothes for Dao Chi, but he felt that this boy still looked good in fine cloth.
Although the boy wouldn't look shabby in a fine cloth shirt, it wouldn't completely steal his limelight. Now that the two of them are wearing clothes of the same material and style, it makes the boy look more charming, while he is not as plump as he is.
Dao Chi followed his gaze and naturally noticed himself. For these four sets of Lu silk clothes, he owed the clan a favor, and he was not happy in his heart. In his eyes, Wang Ning and Shun Niang gave him
Sewn fine cloth clothes and linen clothes are sweat-absorbent and thin, no worse than Lu silk clothes.
However, when he entered Prince Xing's Mansion, he represented the face of the Wang family and could not act arbitrarily.
At this time, Wang Zhen has also arrived, and today he will send Wang Qi and the two to Prince Xing's Mansion. It was originally planned to send a carriage to pick up Dao Chi and go to the Prince's Mansion from the clan house. But Wang Qi was impatient to wait.
, came with the coachman.
Mrs. Wang thought that she had given all the necessary advice, so she sent Wang Zhen over and took the two little ones directly to Prince Xing's Mansion.
Prince Xing's Mansion is located in the middle of the city, covering an area of more than 350 acres. It is called the Mansion, but it is actually a royal city. High walls stand around it, separating the people in the Prince's Mansion from the common people and officials;
A small world. The prince's family lives in the inner city of the palace, while the residences and offices of the prince's officials are located in the outer city of the palace.
The Prince's Mansion was custom-made and originally had more than 800 rooms. However, Emperor Hongzhi personally ordered the construction of the Prince's Mansion for his eldest brother. It took four years to complete, and its majestic grandeur is evident.
Brothers Wang Zhen and Wang Qi have both been to the palace because of Mrs. Wang, but they didn't think anything was wrong.
It was the first time for Dao Chi to come here. When he stood outside the gate of the palace, he felt very shocked. In his previous life in the capital, he also visited the palace of the prince, whether it was the garden of Prince Gong's Mansion covering an area of 50 acres, or the 100-acre garden after repeated expansion. The Yonghegong Lama Temple was not as shocking as the scene in front of me.
The knowledge of the royal palace that appeared in the brain of the Dao Chi was that the royal city wall was two feet and nine feet high, six feet wide at the bottom and two feet wide at the top; the female wall was five feet and five inches high; the city river was fifteen feet wide and three feet deep.
Compared with this majestic royal city, the walls and gates of Anluzhou City are like children's play house.
Outside the outer gate of the palace, there is a nine-dragon wall made of colorful glazed glass, which is more than ten feet long. The platform base and the main wall are three feet high. Not to mention the others, this nine-dragon wall has already replaced the nine-dragon wall that the Qing court later built in the Forbidden City. Comparing this, the area of this Nine Dragon Wall is several times that of that one.
Opposite the Nine Dragon Wall is the outer gate, the second gate is the front gate, and the third gate is the Duanli Gate, the south gate of the palace.
There are two archways on both sides of the Duanli Gate. On the east side of the gate are the inscriptions "Qin Cheng Shang Ming Shi Shou Dai Bang Fang" and on the west side of the gate are the "Tianhuang Zong Emperor's Kin Fanfang".
Only when you enter Duanli Gate can you truly enter Prince Xing's Mansion.
The school is located on Wangfu East Road. It is a courtyard with three entrances. There is a plaque in the main hall of the first entrance, which reads "Hall of Dacheng". It is the place where Confucius is worshiped. On the left and right are "Chongwen Hall" and "Xiuwen Hall". The place where the Prince's Secretariat is located; the plaque on the second main hall is Kaihuatang; the plaques on the left and right sides are "Xingluo" and "Santie", which are the places where Fu Xue School is located.
The third entrance is where the companions live. There are five main rooms, used for banquets and tea parties. There are three left and right rooms, both of which open directly, which is the dormitory of Dao Chi and others. To the south of the wing, there is another room. There are six rooms in the Zhuding room, which are clean rooms and residences for the servants.
According to what the palace said, the companion chosen from outside will study here with the crown prince in the next three years.
The Wang brothers arrived not too early, and the rooms on both sides were already open.
The two rooms of Wang Jin and Dao Chi are the two rooms on the north side of the west wing. After the royal envoy sent the people over, two young eunuchs came to meet them. They asked their names and took the keys to open the door.
At this moment, I saw the door of the first room in the east wing open, and a middle-aged man wearing silk clothes walked out.
When Wang Zhen and Wang Qi met, they hurriedly bowed and said, "I've met my uncle."
Seeing this, Dao Chi heard the names of the two brothers and knew that the man in front of him must be Wang Zhen's uncle, Lu Sheng, the head of the Lu family among the four surnames in Anlu. The four surnames in Anlu, Wang, Shen, Liu and Lu, are Wang Zhen's uncle's family, the Zheng family, is one of the largest families in Anlu. Although the family of the Zheng family is not as good as these four families, the family has continuous business and good upbringing. Therefore, their two daughters married into the Wang family and the Lu family respectively. .
Among the accompanying readers who came in this time was Wang Zhen's cousin, Lu Sheng's eldest son Lu Wenzhao.
When Lu Sheng saw that Dao Chi was standing behind the two brothers and did not give him a gift, he felt a little unhappy in his eyes. But he also knew that this was not the place where the attack happened, so he said to Wang Zhen warmly: "It's the elder who came to see him off." He said to Wang Jin: "Now that you have entered the palace, it is no different than at home. From now on, Qi Lang should listen to your cousin more and be less naughty, so as not to bring shame to the family and involve the wife."
Although the Lu family and the Wang family are related by marriage, they did not get close to each other because they had disputes over territorial issues in the early years. Now they are acting like elders, just to get Wang Qi to get closer to their son. , so that he can be taken care of by Mrs. Wang.
However, because he is the head of the clan and an elder, he is arrogant, so his words have changed.
Wang Qi was tired of hearing this, but because of her cousin's face, she could only accept it honestly.
At this time, someone heard a cold voice: "Master, what are you talking about? My son came to study with the great Confucian scholar, not to take care of people. There is not enough time to study, how can I have time to care about other people?" "
The one who spoke was the young man who came out behind Lu Sheng. He was tall and tall, with a fair complexion and thin eyebrows and eyes. He was wearing a straight green silk shirt and holding a book in his hand. This was Lu Wenzhao.
Even when he was talking, his eyes did not leave the book in his hand, and he did not look at everyone.
When the Taoist idiot saw him, he was really surprised. This was the eldest son of Lu. He didn't look like a gentleman. He looked like a bookworm who was stupid in reading and didn't understand the world.
If such a person is not kept at home to prepare for the exam, why should he be sent to the palace?
Brothers Wang Zhen and Wang Qi both looked a bit ugly. Originally, it was because Lu Sheng was the elder that they came over to chat and listened to Lu Sheng's verbosity.
Even though Lu Sheng's words were vague, the two brothers could tell that he wanted Wang Qi to get close to his son. But when it came to his son's words, Wang Qi became a "noisy person" who disturbed his reading.
Lu Sheng also felt that it was inappropriate, so he just opened his mouth to scold his son when he saw a few more people coming in at the door.
It was the Shen family and the Liu family who had sent their children there.
Several families live together in Anluzhou, and they can be said to be close to each other. No matter what the actual friendship is, their faces are full of warmth.
After the adults exchanged greetings, they had to call a few children together. Except for the Taoist idiot, the remaining four people were obviously familiar with each other. Lu Wenzhao still looked like a bookish person who couldn't put down the book, which made people feel depressed; Wang Qi has a round belly, her small eyes are squinted, and she looks naive and insensitive; the son of the Liu family is called Liu Congyun, he has a gentle temperament, always smiles, showing two dimples, and looks very amiable; the son of the Shen family is named Shen He Xuan is not only the best-looking among them all, he is also the most well-dressed.
Everyone else was wearing green or blue straight shirts. Shen Hexuan wore a lotus-colored round-neck shirt and an apron on his lower body. He held a sandalwood fan in his hand and looked like a romantic young man. Lu Wenzhao looked at it. He rolled his eyes with Wang Qi.
These teenagers were all old acquaintances, so naturally they were less reserved. When the adults weren't paying attention, they began to make sarcastic remarks to me.
This one calls himself "Shu Duan", the other calls "Shen Fenghuang", or "Fat Wang". Needless to say, these are the "nicknames" of Lu Wenzhao, Shen Hexuan and Wang Qi. They are just Liu Congyun's nicknames. No. Some of the Taoists were surprised, but those three actually called him "Big Cat".
If the appearance of "kitten" is somewhat similar, where does the name "big cat" come from?
Seemingly seeing that the Taoist idiot was puzzled, Wang Qi echoed: "That boy is the most evil-hearted, the famous Smiling Tiger."
Liu Congyun seemed to accept the nickname, looking at everyone with a smile, looking like a good boy.
When Dao Chi was sizing up Shen, Liu, and Lu, these three people were also sizing up Dao Chi.
The fact that the twelfth brother of the Wang family adopted their concubine into a foreign wife has long been spread among the gentry families in Anlu Prefecture.
Lu Wenzhao looked at the Taoist with contempt; Liu Congyun's smile gradually deepened, and Shen Hexuan looked at everyone and said: "There are only five here, didn't you mean that there are six companions entering the mansion this time? ?”