Volume Two, Chapter 61, A Glimpse (Part 2)
Chang'an has not been the eldest brother in the capital for many years, but the aristocratic residences in the city still maintain the elegance and style of the past. The deep courtyard where Wang Yun lives is one of them. I heard that Lu Bu and Guo Jia arrived at the door, Wang Yun came out and personally gave in.
This style was popular in the late Han Dynasty. The host of banquets had to go out to greet the guests and "beat and give in" them to the guests, otherwise it would be a very rude behavior.
As the guest and host greeted him, Wang Yun respected Lu Bu as a fake model, and Guo Jia was full of mutual appreciation from the scholars and the people, and even gave him a special greeting to Chen.
It was so convenient to be in the name of the old man. Ye Xiaoyi watched Guo Jia act with Wang Yun, curled his lips and looked at the arrangements of Wang Yun's family.
In the late Han Dynasty, the residential buildings of wealthy families not only had large construction areas, but also had relatively complex division of labor. In addition to the main houses, kitchens, and toilets, there were also courtyard houses specially used for banquets. Car houses, stables, and warehouses were not missing. There were corridors around the front, back and left and right of the courtyard, and the trees, flowers and plants in the courtyard were neatly and beautifully pruned.
Wang Yun’s family is a typical example. Judging from the layout of several corridors and courtyards, it can be seen that it was a popular house design in the late Han Dynasty, and the courtyard is full of tall buildings and pavilions, as well as bamboo and wood.
Through the corridor, Ye Xiaoyi and others followed Lu Bu and Guo Jia all the way, and finally walked into the garden. The terraces in the garden were pleasing to the eye, and a spacious and luxurious house was the place where Wang Yun feasted.
Banquets are a very important social event in the upper class. Whether it is weddings and funerals or housewarming, many of them are held in the form of banquets. They can fully communicate interpersonal relationships. Court banquets are generally very orthodox and standardized. Although the banquets in the family are not as hierarchical, they also require careful preparation. For example, cleaning the residence and cleaning the utensils used for banquets.
When Guo Jia became famous in Luoyang, he received banquets from all walks of life, but in order to accumulate fame, Guo Jia avoided many occasions.
Entering the house, several northern officials such as Bingzhou and Youzhou who accompanied the guests also met with Lu Bu and Guo Jia. They had been intimate with Wang Yun for many years, and today they are here to accompany the scene.
Wang Yun was in the middle, Lu Bu and other officials sat on both sides, and the people at the bottom began to serve dishes.
The placement of dishes is also very particular. There are certain rules for putting them on the left, on the right, on the inside, on the outside, and on the outside. As for wine, it is the most indispensable thing.
Ye Xiaoyi heard the old man talk about "The Book of Rites" back then, and remembered that there were still these rules, but unfortunately, he forgot all the details.
Lu Bu and Guo Jia started eating and drinking at Wang Yun's greeting. Ye Xiaoyi and Liu Ye, those who dressed as guards, could not enter the table, so they could only sit behind Lu Bu and watch. Although this was not in accordance with the rules, Wang Yun saw that Guo Jia and Lu Bu were fine, so he did not say anything to expel him.
Seeing that Guo Jia took the porridge of sheep intently and let him smell the fragrance, Ye Xiaoyi gritted his teeth and secretly kicked him.
Guo Jia held back his laughter, exchanged a few more greetings with Wang Yun, and said that he was going to "change clothes" (to the toilet). Wang Yun asked the maid to lead the way. Ye Xiaoyi, Hua Tuo, and Liu Ye, the three "plainclothes entourages" followed with justification.
There were about three types of toilets in wealthy families in the late Han Dynasty. The first type was built in the living room, which was more common in the northeast and south. The second type was built with pigpens, which were many of the Yellow River Basin. The third type was isolated from the pigpens. The toilet became an appendix to the residential structure. The toilets of Wang Yun's family belonged to this last type. The closest to the banquet place was built behind the garden, which looked clean and tidy.
Under the guidance of his maid, Guo Jia entered the dressing room - the toilet. Ye Xiaoyi and the other two were satisfied with peeping, and carefully looked at the arrangement of the plants and trees in Wang Yun's family yard.
"Yuanhua, do you think this arrangement is stingy."
"It's been like this these days. There is no sense of magnificence in placement. Of course, it's too magnificent and easy to make taboos. You must know that even if you build ordinary buildings and city walls, there are strict regulations.
"Don't you think the vegetation is weirdly trimmed?"
"I like to do this tune these days."
"But it's not good-looking~"
"Do you think their gardener is Edward the scissors-handed? It would be nice to cut it like this."
...
Ye Xiaoyi's voice was soft. She didn't dare to speak loudly. She just lowered her voice and commented on the grass and wood, maids, male servants, Hua Tuo and Liu Ye, who were a little unscrupulous. She pointed with her fingers, and looked like a playboy who came to find fault.
"Oh~ those. Could it be the singers of the Wang Yun family?" Hua Tuo was limited by his identity and had no chance to attend a banquet. Although he had wandered into the upper class in his previous life, he was still full of curiosity about this ancient class. He stood by the tree, pointed at the women who turned into the courtyard gate, and planned to turn to Lu Bu and others' banquet room, with curiosity on his face.
"It should be." Liu Ye nodded. When he saw that the women were dressed up and the servants next to him were holding (musical instruments arranged), he guessed that it was a karaoke and a maike.
"It looks very good." Hua Tuo commented one by one and found that from the perspective of modern people's aesthetics, these women have straight noses and slightly concave eyes, and are all very beautiful girls. From the perspective of ancient people's aesthetics, they should have some Hu blood, unlike ordinary folk girls who have thin eyebrows and thin eyes, and their lips are like red cherry blossoms.
"Yes, yes." He looks very much like a model. Ye Xiaoyi looked at a pool next to him, so he ran over to play with self-pity, "Yuanhua, please make me a bottle of facial mask again, it seems that there is a small acne on my forehead."
"...That was because you were allergic to your face with fruit peel yesterday..." Hua Tuo rolled his eyes.
"But my eyebrows seem to be thick~" Ye Xiaoyi didn't give up.
"...That was when you lost the gambling with Nie Liao yesterday, you used charcoal to draw your eyebrows but didn't wash them clean."
"But your lips are not red enough~"
"...That's because you followed the army and were malnourished, plus anemia..."
"But the tiger's teeth have turned yellow too~"
"...That's because you ate too much fruit before you come. You forgot to rinse your mouth..."
"But the figure is not good enough~"
"...That's because of Yang Xier's genetic genes..."
"But... Is that God? Who is that person?" Ye Xiaoyi found a super beauty who looks like a fairy at the end of the Wuji team, with a beautiful woman who is as beautiful as a celestial being, with a geese falling in the moon and shy flowers closing the moon and shy flowers, bewitching the whole country and beloved by everyone, be stunned by the gods, shocking the world, crying with ghosts and gods!
Similar species repel each other, and other species attract each other.
Although he was a male, Hua Tuo, who was also a beauty, stepped forward and stood in front of Ye Xiaoyi and Liu Ye, staring at her with the appearance that was not inferior to that woman.
Who is afraid of whom?
Hua Tuo's crying and complaining eyes fully expressed this meaning. He didn't even look at Guo Jia from the toilet. He used his aura to provoke the beauty.
"Cough..." Guo Jia had no time to stop Hua Tuo, so he could only see the woman turn her head slightly and look at him.
These eyebrows, these eyes, these nose bridge, these lips, these hairstyle, and these figure...
Ye Xiaoyi held his head with his hands and said to himself, "God, do you still let people live." Why do you portray the woman in front of you to a combination of the advantages of famous Hollywood actresses?
"Is she the woman that Sister Ye mentioned?" In Ye Mansion in Jinyang, Liu Ye experienced the baptism of pop-style porcelain such as Mona Lisa, Meng Lou, Elizabeth, Madonna, etc., and was somewhat immune to such a beautiful woman.
"It should be. No one looks better than her. Of course, we cannot rule out that Wang Yun's aesthetic is different from ordinary people." Ye Xiaoyi saw the woman and Hua Tuo's eyes colliding, and a yellow light suddenly emitted from the air.
"Click!"
"Crack~"
In the lightning and thunder, Hua Tuo and the woman's eyes were entangled, with swords and swords. They used their slashes and dozens of rounds before they each took a step back and stopped their troops.
"I can't tell, I can't tell. The little demon girl is quite powerful." Hua Tuo took a few breaths.
"You little demon man is not bad either." Ye Xiaoyi saw that the woman was calm and calm, and knew that she was either a dull person or an unfathomable person.
"But she seems to be better than Mr. Hua." Liu Ye said. He found that the woman looked around her four people, and finally his eyes fell on Guo Jia. He even gave Guo Jia a slight salute, and apologized smile appeared on the corner of his lips.
As he smiled, Ye Xiaoyi and others seemed to see the flowers blooming behind the woman, and there were also a group of little angels flying. They held bows and arrows in their hands and shot at Guo Jia. Guo Jia was quick-eyed and swung his sword to cut off the arrow invisibly.
"The most poisonous woman's heart." Hua Tuo glared at the woman and walked away with the brigade, cursing with sorrow.
Kick ~
Ye Xiaoyi kicked Hua Tuo: "Yuanhua, you're done, you're obviously inferior. After fighting with you, he didn't forget to show his charm, but you squatted beside you and rested. Cut~"
"Can you blame me? We have Guo Jia here, who is there in them worth seducing me?" Hua Tuo hugged Liu Ye sadly, "Xiao Ye, are you easy for me to say I?"
When he returned to the house, Wang Yun had been waiting for a long time. But there was no impatience on his face. Although Lu Bu was not as knowledgeable as Guo Jia, he could still talk freely when talking about Bingzhou, which made Wang Yun, the "state", look down on him much less.
Guo Jia took the seat. Ye Xiaoyi and the three live treasures continued to stand behind him and endured him and Lu Bu continued to eat, drink and have fun.
After three rounds of drinking, Wang Yun pretended to be drunk and approached Lu Bu and Guo Jia, and said to them: "It is a great honor to invite two of you today. The general is from Yunzhou. Yun wants to make friends with the general, but unfortunately he has never had a chance. Mr. Guo is famous outside and rarely accepts banquets. It is a great honor to be able to come to Yun's mansion."
"You are polite, Lord Shangshu, Jia is ashamed and dare not take it..." Seeing this, Guo Jia quickly stood up with Lu Bu and said a lot of polite words to Wang Yun.
"The Grand Marshal entered Luoyang, and some female officials in the palace were released from the palace by the emperor's sing." Wang Yun said for a long time and finally got to the point: "But it was the time when the remnants of the Yellow Turbans had not been eliminated. Their way to return home was blocked and they had nowhere to go. Yun felt pity, so he took them into the palace. Listening to them and watching them dance in his spare time was also considered bathing in the emperor's mercy. Today, the general and Mr. Guo came to Yun's mansion, and Yun specially asked them to rehearse a song and dance for the general and Mr. Guo to watch."
Meow, Wang Yun said it nicely. In fact, he took advantage of the chaos to rob the palace maids and then leave them to his mansion to exploit them.
Ye Xiaoyi scratched his face and suddenly realized that Hua Tuo once said that "Diao Chan" may not be a name, but the name of the female official in the palace. If this statement is true, then wouldn't the geniuses and the beijingers I just saw... Diao Chan?
The waterfall is a sweat. The palace is really a beautiful woman assembly line.
Ye Xiaoyi exchanged glances with Hua Tuo, thinking that the overall quality of mass-produced Diao Chan is really good.
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Highly recommended: half more, "Good Men of the Tang Dynasty". The writing is very interesting.
ps, I put this chapter on another machine yesterday, so, meter updated -__-
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