After getting Li Wenshan's guarantee, Mrs. Yan was almost relieved. The fifth brother was a safe person, and besides, the important things in front of her were one after another, and the first one was the fifth brother's marriage.

In about ten days, Mrs. Tang's sister will arrive in the capital.

Because many of the large furniture in the Tang family's dowry were made in Jiangning Mansion, my wife discussed with her that her new yard and new house, including the partitions inside, would be built after the large furniture arrived and the dimensions were measured. , In this way, the construction period and other matters are all on her. At this moment, she has to invite in the craftsmen and materials that need to be hired, and purchase those that need to be purchased.

If we want to start construction in this mansion, we can't disturb those people, such as the ancestors, and the sixth brother who has passed the children's examination and also takes the Qiu Wei examination. It's really a lot of troubles...

Regarding the dowry of the girl from the Tang family, Madam Sui said that several elders in the old house of the Tang family all used their own money to add to Sister Rui’s dowry. I don’t know how much they added, and Madam Sui doesn’t know either. The previous detailed post must have been of no use. The dowry has changed, and the various gifts she prepared before are a bit short. These have to be added to the dowry at her discretion...

There are also several groomsmen who are welcoming the bride. If it is too low, it will definitely not work. If it is too high... how high is it? Brother Qianer Song said that the sixth young master of the Gu family once said that he would marry Li Wu. Is this a joke or is he serious? ?Forget it as a joke, if you take it seriously, the sixth young master of the Gu family is one, and the others must be similar. How can this be matched? Which one is suitable? With the current situation in the court, it is really difficult to find this person...

Just after the first month of the year, the third child gave her 20,000 silver notes, saying that it was the cost of the fifth brother's grandmother's marriage to the fifth brother. 20,000 silver was enough no matter how much money was added to it. This money was enough It’s enough. If she doesn’t do things in a graceful and dignified way, it’s unjustifiable...

Well, this matter is important, but it can't be counted as the first thing. Brother Lan's exam is the first thing.

Over the years, she didn't know whether it was because she was getting older, but she believed more and more in this fortune teller, good omen and so on. Brother Lan's momentum in the lead was too high, and she was always worried that if the ground suddenly rose up like this, what would happen behind him? Most of them are bad...

"Where's Lao Liu?" Mrs. Yan thought of this, raised her voice, called in her confidant Lao Liu's mother, and solemnly ordered: "Brother Six will have his exam in two days. You can't do anything else these days. Don't worry about it, just watch everywhere, don't let anything bad happen! When you talk about doing things, don't bring those bad words out. Anyone who dares to violate it will be beaten to the village with a stick. go!"

Old Liu's mother agreed repeatedly: "Madam, don't worry, oh, in the past few days, I don't know how many times you have said this stick. Don't worry, Lao Shen, I, and everyone Zhao are very good." It’s here.”

"Then I'll tell you one more time." Mrs. Yan raised her hand and waved to Old Liu's mother, and then made some calculations. There is also Sister Dong's marriage. This is not bad. Marrying a man is much less troublesome than marrying a wife. At least you don't have to clean up the yard. , all the busy work is on the dowry, but Sister Dong’s dowry, her great-grandmother has long said that it is a rule here, and everything else has been prepared and delivered by her. There is no such big thing as the dowry. Sister Dong She doesn't have to worry too much about her son's marriage...

After these important things have been done, it’s time for autumn and winter. The master is being transferred this time and will go directly from Jiangning Mansion to Qinfeng Road. The eldest brother wrote a letter saying that he will set off in the next few days. He is counting on the journey and she will finish these things.

It was time for the master to go to Qinfeng Road for a big event. After the New Year, she didn’t know if she would be able to leave. In the blink of an eye, she hadn’t seen the master for several years...

Under the strict control of Mrs. Yan and the blessing of auspicious omens and auspicious words everywhere in the house, Li Wenlan successfully passed the inner circle in the first exam and came back with first place.

The three exams that were supposed to be taken in two months were squeezed into one month this year. The day after the results were released, Li Wenlan entered the venue again carrying the exam basket.

This exam lasted a whole day. Early in the morning, Li Wenshan, Guo Sheng, and Xu Huan sent Li Wenlan to the venue, leaving a few boys to guard him in case anything happened. Li Wenshan, Guo Sheng, and Xu Huan went their separate ways.

Go get busy.

After lunch, Li Wenshan took Li Xia out of the uncle's house. Li Xia sat in the car with the curtains raised high. While watching the excitement on both sides, he talked to his fifth brother Li Wenshan who was walking next to the car.

While talking, he walked through Xijiaolou Street and along Imperial Street to Zhuquemen Street, where Gongyuan is located. Not far from Gongyuan, he found a teahouse and planned to drink tea and talk while waiting to pick up Li Wenlan.

They had just entered the tea house and before they could sit down, Jiang Yanshi's servant Feng Ye trotted in from outside. He cupped his hands at Li Wenshan and said with a smile: "It is indeed Mr. Li Wu. Our master said that it looks like Mr. Li Wu. Give Wu a look."

Please say hello."

Maple Leaf had just met Li. Behind him, Jiang Yanshi was wearing a dark gray thin cloak. The thin cloak lifted up with his footsteps, revealing the moon-white gown underneath. He came towards him. He was still far away, and his figure was fresh and handsome.

It's coming.

Seven or eight steps away, Jiang Yanshi held up his hands and laughed with Li Wenshan: "These guys actually said that I saw it wrong. Axia is also there." Jiang Yanshi seemed to have just seen Li Xia, with a look on his face.

Surprised, he bowed to Li Xia.

Li Xia couldn't help but laugh, and bent his knees to return the favor while laughing.

Jiang Yanshi laughed at Li Xia's laughter. Before he could stand up straight, he bowed his hands and bowed, "Please forgive me for being disrespectful."

"I don't dare to take it seriously. It would be rude if Mr. Jiang saw me first." Li Xia knew that the gift he was accompanying was the one who was lying, so he bowed his knees deeply and returned the gift with a smile.

Jiang Yanshi was filled with admiration, turned to Li Wenshan and said with a smile: "Come to pick up Brother Six? It's still very early at this hour. It's boring to sit there, how about I invite you two to the Fayun Temple next door to have tea and peonies?"

It just paid off the tea debt I owed you two."

Li Wenshan frowned and hesitated, and Li Xia's eyes flashed brightly.

She almost forgot about the peonies in Fayun Temple. She wanted to take a look, and there were also peonies in Fayun Temple!

Like Jiang Yanshi, the peonies at Fayun Temple only lasted for more than ten years.

She had only heard Gu Yuyan talk about the peonies of Fayun Temple once or twice, but she was deeply impressed.

The first time Gu Yuyan told her about the peonies in Fayun Temple was because of a monk who was escorted to the capital. Jin Zhuoyan decided to kill the queen in autumn. Gu Yuyan had no choice but to beg her, hoping that she could

He showed mercy outside the law and spared the monk's life.

This monk is Yun Kong, the current abbot of Fayun Temple.

Yun Kong was an eminent monk who was extremely unsophisticated and had a weird temperament. He loved to raise peonies, knew how to raise peonies, and only raised peonies. Gu Yuyan said that he practiced cultivation by raising flowers.

Gu Yuyan didn't know how Yunkong knew Jiang Yanshi. When he knew Yunkong, Yunkong was already the abbot of Fayun Temple, and Fayun Temple was already under Jiang Yanshi's protection.

Yun Kong raises peonies, but hates others approaching his peonies, except Jiang Yanshi.

On the day Jiang Yanshi died, Yun Kong dug out all the peonies in the back garden of Fayun Temple, piled them together, poured an unknown amount of oil on them, and burned all the peonies with a fire. He also burned half of Zhuquemen Street, the Imperial College, and the Imperial Palace.

The school and Gongyuan were both burned to a pile of ashes.

Gu Yuyan followed Jiang Yanshi and went to Fayun Temple to see the peonies twice. When Gu Yuyan came to her to plead for mercy, he said that Yun Kong's crime was unforgivable, but the peony was so good. He was begging her for the unforgivable sake of the peony.

Forgiveness.

Jiang Yanshi saw the light flashing in Li Xia's eyes, raised his eyebrows slightly, and his eyes were full of questions. Li Xia looked at him and smiled: "I heard Mr. Guo say once that the peonies in Fayun Temple are one of the best in the capital."

, is it true?”

"Each flower catches his own eye. You have to see this with your own eyes to know whether it is true or not. Fayun Temple is very close to here. Just go to the street in front and turn around." Jiang Yanshi looked at Li Xia, then looked at Li Li

Li Wenshan frowned.

"Go and have a look, take a few look and come back without delay to pick up Sixth Brother." Li Xia pulled Li Wenshan's sleeve and begged.

Li Wenshan frowned, looking helpless, "Okay, then I'll bother Mr. Jiang."

Jiang Yanjiang didn't answer, he just smiled and leaned forward, raised his hand, made a gesture of invitation, let Li Xia pass, and walked out of the tea house with Li Wenshan side by side. Under the protection of all the boys, he didn't take a few steps.

Arrive at the entrance of Fayun Temple.

The gate of Fayun Temple was closed tightly. Jiang Yanshi led Li Wenshan and Li Xia and walked straight to the corner door next to them. After four or five steps, the corner door was opened from the inside. Several elders stood with their hands down and let Jiang Yanshi, Li Wenshan, and Li Xia enter.

Man, he closed the door again.

The Fayun Temple was as quiet as the Mingzhou restaurant that day. Jiang Yanshi led the two of them around the main hall and went straight into the seemingly very spacious back garden.

There are only peonies planted in the back garden. Potted plants are planted on the ground. They are scattered high and low and densely packed. There are countless peonies. This is the time when peonies are at their peak. Looking at them, they are so beautiful and dazzling.

"The peonies of Fayun Temple are indeed worthy of their reputation." Li Xia sighed in a low voice.

"Mr. Guo probably heard about these peonies from Gu Liu." Jiang Yanshi was half a step behind Li Xia and walked side by side with Li Wenshan, pacing forward quickly and slowly with Li Xia's pace. "Last year, I invited Gu Liu to come over."

, it’s a little late, what he’s looking at is the broken flowers, it’s not as good as now, when they are about to bloom, the peonies in these few days are the beauty and fragrance of the country.”

The garden looked wide, but it wasn't actually that big. Within a few words, the three of them arrived at a thatched pavilion that was four or five steps high. The four or five steps that were high were enough for people to stand in the thatched pavilion.

, you can take in the entire garden under your eyes.

There is a tea table in the middle of the pavilion, and a small red clay stove in one corner. The pavilion is surrounded by blooming peonies. Standing there, you can see the beautiful scenery of the entire garden. Sitting down, you can see everything as far as the eye can see.

It is one after another, one after another, of national beauty and heavenly fragrance.

Jiang Yanshi slowly turned the folding fan and looked at Li Xia, who was standing at the door of the thatched pavilion, slowly turning around and admiring the garden full of peonies with a look of wonder on his face, a faint smile on his lips.

Li Wenshan looked at the peonies placed around the pavilion from the pot. He was amazed as he looked at it, "This pot is so small, one, two, three, four... there are sixteen flowers in bloom! The arrangement of these sixteen flowers is really beautiful.

Is this flower a natural thing?"

Li Xia turned around and rolled her eyes at him. Jiang Yanshi followed Li Xia's gaze and looked at Li Wenshan, smiling and nodding: "Wu Lang has good eyesight. He is born with it."

Li Xia burst out laughing, raised his toes slightly, turned around briskly, entered the thatched pavilion, sat down at the tea table, and waved to Li Wenshan, "Fifth brother, stop looking, let's just drink tea, so as not to make people laugh at your eyesight."

good."

"Ninth Lady, you really have wronged me." Jiang Yanshi sat next to Li Xia, handed the folding fan to the boy, rolled up his sleeves slightly and prepared to make tea, and said with a smile: "This is the first time I see these flowers.

Like Wu Lang, he turned the pot of flowers over and looked at them, thinking that the flowers were cut from somewhere else and gathered together."

Li Xia looked at Jiang Yanshi, who was about to iron the cup when he picked up the silver pot, "Let's let the boy make the tea, so that my fifth brother and I won't have enough eyes to see the flowers and you."

The silver pot in Jiang Yanshi's hand tilted, and the water almost fell onto the table. "Ninth Lady's words... offended these flowers." As Jiang Yanshi said this, he put down the silver pot and waved to the boy.

Li Wenshan sat opposite Jiang Yanshi, looking at the boy who was putting away the silver pot, tea strainer, etc. and rearranging the tea table, he smiled and said: "Axia is right, but I think Mr. Jiang makes tea better, Hua'er

It’s dead and not good-looking.”

"Wu Lang and Jiu Niangzi came here to tease me today, right?" Jiang Yanshi frowned slightly, showing a distressed look on his face, "In terms of being born well, who can be better than your sixth brother? In terms of aura, Jiu Niangzi

One person monopolizes nine out of ten of the spiritual energy in the world."

Jiang Yanshi waved his hands as he spoke, "We are here to enjoy flowers and drink tea. The fragrance of flowers here is too strong. Even I can't drink the fragrance of flowers in the tea. I was negligent. This trip is for flower appreciation. Tea

Forget it, I will look for another good place to have tea with Bugoro and Jiu Niangzi later."

Jiang Yanshi laughed and changed the topic, "This one was newly planted by Zen Master Yunkong. It has the beauty of the red clouds in the garden and the charm of Zhao Fen. Yunkong asked me to give it a name. I

Look..." Jiang Yanshi stood up and took a look, then sat down again, "What a coincidence, there are exactly nine flowers, so let's call her Jiu Niangzi, the flowers are just like her."

Li Xia's eyebrows were raised slightly. Li Wenshan, who was admiring a pot of peonies, looked at Jiang Yanshi who was smiling at Li Xia's words. Then he looked at Li Xia and asked abruptly: "All the peonies here have names? Where is this one?"

?I think this one is good-looking."

"Well, that one is from the Golden Pavilion. It's bright and yellow, and I like it very much. The peonies in this garden each have their own appearance, but there are not many famous ones. Yun Kong never cares which ones are famous ones and which ones are ordinary ones."

After a pause, Jiang Yanshi looked at Li Xia and explained: "Yunkong is the abbot of this temple, and he took care of these peonies."

"A host who knows how to grow peonies? He must also be good at dancing." Li Xia turned around and looked at the garden.

Jiang Yanshi laughed and said, "You guessed wrong this time. When it comes to long-sleeved dancers, Yun Kong wears half-arms and doesn't even have sleeves. He has profound attainments in Buddhism. Apart from Buddhism, he only loves peonies and has a lonely and eccentric temperament.
To be continued...