Chapter 132 Storytelling
Xie Li was speechless. If the same surname was considered related, the world's largest surname was also related to Li Bai. However, Xie Li did not stop and raised his hand to signal her to continue speaking. Huan Chan on the other side only realized that since Xie Li could speak this idiom, he probably knew about the allusion.
But after seeing Xie Li's gesture, she still told the story of the talented woman Xie Daoyun as a child.
This allusion tells the story of a day in winter when some people from the Xie family in Chen County gathered together. When it happened to snowfall, Xie Anshi was interested in examining the juniors of the clan, so he pointed to the snowflakes and said to everyone: "What's the snow like?"
As others whispered, Xie Anshi's nephew Xie Lang took the lead and walked out and replied: "It's okay to sprinkle salt in the air!"
After hearing this sentence, Xie Anshi smiled and nodded, thinking that although this sentence is more appropriate in the scenery, it is a bit far behind when it comes to this artistic conception. Just as he was about to give advice, he saw Xie Daoyun, the niece of the elder brother's family, walked out of the crowd and said slowly: "It's not as good as willow catkins rising from the wind."
As soon as this statement was spoken, everyone was stroking their hands and expressing surprise. Even Xie Anshi couldn't help but nodded frequently. This sentence was much more vivid than the previous sentence in terms of scenery and artistic conception.
From then on, Xie Daoyun's reputation as a talented woman spread like wildfire, so when others mentioned her again, they were often compared with Wen Ji, the daughter of Cai Yong in the Han Dynasty.
Xie Li naturally knew this allusion before, but he had never thought about it before. After all, there were many idioms and allusions from the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Moreover, it was more than a thousand years away from his previous life and had nothing to do with him.
But now after hearing Huan Chan's words, Xie Li couldn't help but remember the reaction of his mother a few days ago when she heard Xie Shizhong, who was Xie Anshi. At that time, he had guessed that his life experience was probably related to the Xie family of Chen County, but in order not to make his mother sad, he directly suggested that he use his mother's surname to replace him after going there. He did not think more deeply afterwards.
Now it seems that Huan Chan's words are just a coincidence, and she seems to have something to do with this talented woman Xie Daoyuan.
"Thank you, Miss Huan, for solving her doubts. Today I have gained some knowledge..."
"whispering sound……"
When Huan Chan heard that he was so "pretentious", she couldn't help but give him a blank look and said to you, Xie Li, not only did she ask questions knowingly, but she also teased me like this. It's really hateful.
Xie Li seemed to have not seen it, and then said to Huan Chan: "Madam Huan, you have been in Jiangdong before. I believe you know a lot about the Xie family. Why don't you give me more advice... Since my surname is Xie, I might as well be one of them..."
Huan Chan held his forehead and said angrily: "I am the Xie family of Chen County. You Xie Li is the Xie family of Xiangyang. Although the distance is not too far, I am the Wangwang of the county. I have never heard of Xie in the big clans in Xiangyang."
"Hey, who can tell me this is accurate? What if I was wandering in a foreign land by chance..."
Xie Li knew that Huan Chan would not take it seriously, so he returned with shamelessness.
"Hmph! You just want to be right with me, right?"
Huan Chan's tone became more and more depressed, making Xie Li a little confused.
"Well, where did you start?"
Xie Li looked at Huan Chan who had just glared at him and asked in confusion.
"You know that we have a deep conflict with their Xie family, but you deliberately say you want to have something to do with them. What's wrong with me?"
Huan Chan said with her head down, and her tone unconsciously showed a lot of grievances.
Xie Li saw that she had such a reaction, so he waved his hand and said, "Where did Miss Huan think of it? Isn't this a joke to listen to some stories and tell casually?"
"And, with my origin, Xie Li, I don't know the right and wrong of your clan. Those who don't know will not be guilty. Don't bother with me."
Xie Li felt that he had no problem explaining it himself, and with Huan Chan's temperament, he would never be able to get along with him for such trivial matters. However, after he finished speaking, Huan Chan still showed no sign of talking, and the other end was lowered even deeper.
Xie Li didn't know that what Huan Chan was thinking now was that although the identity of the children of the Xie family in Chen County was far away from him, the identity of this common man was not much closer to him.
However, Huan Chan is not a sentimental person as Su Huixue as she has been immersed in a certain mood, and it is not her style. After clenching her fists twice, Huan Chan looked up and said, "Aren't you very smart before? Why do you seem to be completely gone as you used to be?"
Seeing that she returned to normal, Xie Li subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and then smiled and said, "If you want to say this, Miss Huan's appearance just now was quite different from before. Let's not attack each other..."
"snort!"
Huan Chan knew that she could not get any advantage from Xie Li, so she stopped continuing the topic and then continued to say to him: "Xie's family has always lived in Jiankang City, and most of us are guarding the city, so I don't know much about them, and most of them learned from their brothers and the others."
"It's okay. Anyway, the road is long, so we just treat it as listening to stories to relieve boredom. We can't keep adding fists and feet. After all, I haven't practiced my body to the point of steel bars and iron..."
"That's not what you proposed to compete, what else can you say to relax your muscles and activate your heart..."
"Cough, cough, Madam Huan should start telling stories..."
The two returned to the cabin and sat opposite each other. Huan Chan originally wanted to serve some tea and talk while drinking, but Xie Li was really not satisfied with the taste of cooking tea during this period, so she gave up.
On the table were placed some delicious cakes purchased from Baling while traveling, and Huan Chan told a story for Xie Li.
When both of them were devoted to something, time passed quietly between the two of them without realizing it.
When I realized it again, night had already fallen outside the window.
Xie Li kept thinking about everything Huan Chan said just now. Although through Huan Chan's explanation, Xie Li knew that she didn't know much about the Xie family, but she was much better than herself.
In my previous impression, Xie Li only had a relatively general impression of the Xie family in Chen County. He only knew that he was a famous family and had a high reputation. There were also books in later generations saying: The osmanthus flowers on the road to Shanyin were in the first place, and Wang Xie was full of Jin's books. But if he wanted to tell where the reputation was, he could not say at all.
Until now, after Huan Chan's explanation to Xie An, Xie Xuan, Xie Daoyuan and others, Xie Li finally had some clues.
Moreover, in terms of family strength, in this era, although the Xie family in Chen County is still a little far away from the Wang family of Langya, it is no match for the Huan family. Moreover, after Huan Chong retreated from Jiangdong, there were signs of passing the Huan family.
If I really am a member of the Xie family, it would be more than just an ordinary young man from a noble family...
Chapter completed!