As soon as I entered the sunset, the weather suddenly became hot. The sun, which was a little gentle a few days ago, suddenly became hot. Standing under the sun for a while, you would accidentally take off a layer of skin.

In the back garden of Xu Mansion, a small river flows out from the middle of two hills, and walks around a dense bamboo forest to the right, and then becomes wider and a large recessed bay. The bay is full of lotus flowers and water chestnuts. This season, the lotus leaves are as tall as a cover and are green. The pretty lotus flowers stand upright in this emerald green, graceful and colorful, swaying in the wind.

After passing the bamboo forest, there is a grassy field beside the bay, which is as green as a carpet. From time to time, there are a few unknown small flowers poking their heads out of the grass. On the other side of the grass, there are more than a dozen large willow trees against the bay, covering the huge shade. Outside the willow trees, small flower trees such as maple trees, magnolias, pomegranates and hibiscus are planted.

The grass leans against the water bay, and a dike reaches into the lotus bushes. A pavilion is built at the end, which just catches the shade of the big willow trees next to it. From the pavilion, the cool breeze blows, and the beautiful scenery is everywhere.

This is a place where people in Xu's house relax in summer. No matter how hot the weather is, it is still full of coolness.

Xu Ping sat in the pavilion, looking at the lotus flowers, and slowly drinking tea.

Sun Qilang stood behind Xu Ping boredly, looking around constantly, looking at him a little unstoppable.

According to the customs of this era, Xu Ping wanted to find someone to study and manufacture new watches, so he set up a club, which was actually similar to the club in his previous life, named Kelu Society. Speaking of which, there is no certain rule for such organizations to call society, and sometimes he just reads how to talk about it.

Generally speaking, the organization is more organized than the club and the club. There are fixed initiators and members are more formal initiators. There are group activities held on time, and some even membership fees. Often, in religious activities, the club is more loose, and the members are often not fixed. Most of them gather together because of their common hobbies. The activities often come up with a temporary purpose. As for the gatherings, they are basically held temporarily, and the most typical ones are elegant gatherings and poetry meetings held by literati. For example, Xu Ping recruited people to come to his house for fun a few days ago, which was considered a kind of elegant gathering. There were poetry on the spot on that day, and after it dispersed, someone wrote poetry and essays to record the matter, and would also compile and publish books in the future.

Before the Song Dynasty, especially during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, elegant collections were prevalent. The earliest ones were like the Lanting Collection in the Jin Dynasty. The "Preface to the Lanting Collection" written by Wang Xizhi for this was passed down through the ages. During the Tang Dynasty, there were countless elegant collections on the original spring. I don’t know how many poets’ poems were passed down through this occasion.

In this era, although elegant gatherings between literati and doctors were held occasionally, there were not many, and various associations were more popular. Needless to say, there were many poems, such as chess clubs, mirror clubs, lotus clubs, peony clubs, chrysanthemum clubs, bow and arrow clubs, stick clubs, etc., with countless styles.

Of course, the largest is the Qiyun Club of Cuju, also known as Yuanshe, and has members all over the world. Qiyun Club has far exceeded the scope of Xu Ping's club in his previous life, and is more like an industry association. The rules of Cuju were formulated by Qiyun Club, the competition was organized by Qiyun Club, and the level was evaluated by Qiyun Club. Later, people who specialize in Cuju had the final say in Qiyun Club. The functions of Xu Ping's football association, Badminton Association and other sports associations in his previous life have basically all the functions of Qiyun Club.

Cuju was the largest sport in the world at this time. From princes and nobles to street idle men, they liked it, and all kinds of masters emerged one after another. It was this foundation that gave birth to Qiyun Club.

It is often said that social existence determines social consciousness, and Qiyun Club is an example. With this kind of movement that social personnel participate widely, industry associations will naturally appear in this relatively relaxed social form.

Cuju is a sport for men, and girls have girls’ games.

On the cool grass under the willow tree, Pan Pan is playing shuttlecock with Xiuxiu. Although this kind of exercise is not as wide as Cuju, it is so large and there are many people who like it, especially suitable for little girls to play. Xiuxiu came back and Pan Pan Pan has a playmate. Recently, she is extremely enthusiastic about shuttlecock kicking, such as external scrubbing, squeezing, thrusting, thrusting, Buddha-topped beads, and all kinds of styles. Even Xu Ping was amazed when he saw it. A small shuttlecock flew up and down like a butterfly on her feet. While watching, it was extremely pleasing to the eye. Xu Ping saw it, and sometimes he couldn't help but kick her a few times.

Not far from Panpan and Xiuxiu, two puppies, one black and one yellow, were lying on the ground, sticking out their tongues and poking their heads.

These two puppies are not simple, they were carefully bred by Sun Qilang. The horses on Xupingzhuang used artificial insemination to breed good breeds. Sun Qilang learned them to cultivate good breeds. In Zhongmuzhuang, Sun Qilang's favorite is to ride hawks and dogs, chase rabbits and hunt foxes, and he is very concerned about good breeds.

The black one has a slender body and extremely high limbs. It looks small when it lies. As soon as it stands up, its body shape can shock people, as if it can fly on the ground with a bow. This is an ancient Chinese hunting dog, and the barking dog of Erlang Shen of Guankou is probably this kind of, called a thin dog.

The little yellow dog next to him looked a little silly and none of them stand out, but he was just smart and obedient.

Since Panpan saw these two puppies, they have been domineering and often brought them by their side to play. Sun Qilang was determined to raise them well and go hunting with him. However, no matter what he taught, he was always quickly forgotten by Panpan's inexplicable tricks. He only remembered to run around Panpan every day, which made Sun Qilang angry.

In the pavilion, Xu Ping sat on a stone bench, brewing and drinking by himself, drinking tea slowly. Looking at the beautiful scenery in the lotus pond in front of him, his virgin daughter was playing happily not far away, which was really a joy in her life.

There are no people here who can't help you, no things you can do, completely relax and enjoy this rare leisure time. In this way, what else can you ask for?

Just when Sun Qilang couldn't help but want to find an excuse to escape, Xu Chang took Yan Su and walked here from a distance. Today is the day when the Kelu Club was established and the first party gathered, Yan Su came straight over.

When he arrived at the pavilion and talked to Xu Ping, Yan Su looked up at the surroundings and praised: "I don't expect that there are such beautiful scenery in Xu Waijian Mansion, with mountains and rivers and cool breezes. It's a day like a god!"

Xu Ping asked Yan Su to sit down and use tea, and said, "How can you think of a beautiful scenery? It's just a pond of clear water, a few lotus flowers, and some cool breeze. Sitting here is just a tranquility."

Yan Su smiled and said, "How do you say this? If it is in the countryside, this kind of scenery is really ordinary, but it will be rare in Kaifeng City. Last year, Xu Waijian built a large-scale construction here, and some people said that spending such money, why can't you find a house in the city? It's much more convenient than outside the city. Now it seems that Xu Waijian has foresight, how can there be such a big place in the city? There are mountains and waters at home, so who dares to think about it?"

Xu Ping smiled and did not respond, and poured a tea ceremony for Yan Su: "Yan is ready to make it, use tea."

Yan Su drank the tea and smacked his lips: "This tea is good! It's really inappropriate to order tea in this hot weather. Xu Waijian tea made according to the Yongzhou tea law. I heard that it was not very good in the past few months, but the market has risen recently. It's still hot now, so it's not as convenient as this one."

The wisdom of the working people is infinite. Xu Ping didn't know much about tea in his previous life. When he was in Yongzhou, he could only say a general idea to the tea-making people. At that time, the tea made in Yongzhou only took advantage of the convenience and was easy to preserve, and the taste could only be said to be average. A few years later, tea growers tried it out bit by bit and were able to make excellent tea.

Fang Tianyan switched to the Yongzhou tea method in southwest of Beijing, took the excellent buds and leaves before the Ming Dynasty, and carefully prepared a batch of good tea and sent it to Xu Ping to entertain guests. It was the best production area for Xu Ping's previous life. The taste was indeed very good. Xu Ping also liked to make a pot and slowly taste the best.

After saying some gossip, Yan Su said to Xu Ping: "Before the New Year, Xu Waijian said that he would make new carvings leak out. We have said it a few times, but it was just a mess of miscellaneous things and never had a result. Now that I have free time, I must make it in one go this time, so that there will be no more delays."

Xu Ping nodded: "Yes, no matter what, I can't give up halfway again, there must be a result."

"It is necessary to have someone to do this kind of thing. As the saying goes, one person is short-sense and everyone is long-sense. We should invite helpers. A few days ago, Xu Waijian wrote a book that asked Su Song from Zhongmu to go to Chongwen Academy to see the sky with a telescope? I looked good at that young man. He is a family academic in astronomy, honest and cautious, good at learning and asking questions. He is a talent. After getting Xu Waijian's books, I sent someone to call him together, which is also a helper and a supporter."

Su Song is a person who has an impression of Xu Ping in his previous life. He must have made extraordinary achievements and will be famous in history. Unfortunately, when Xu Ping comes back, there is no news about him. However, Yan Su still has an impression of him and invites him to the point where Xu Ping wants to do so. How could he object?

After asking Su Song about the current news, he learned that he went to Chongwen Academy to see the astronomical phenomena and stayed for a while. Not only did he have a family background in astronomy, but he was also excellent in poetry and classics. He was favored by many people. Song Qi from the Judicial Hall even suggested that he stay in Chongwen Academy like Fan Zhen. When he came to age in a few years, he had also learned poetry and prose, so he went from the Imperial College to participate in the imperial examination. However, his family was worried that he was outside at a young age, and was afraid that he would accidentally learn bad things, so he still let him follow his father Su Shen.

After talking about Su Song, Xu Ping pointed to Sun Qilang behind him and said, "This Sun Qilang is now a small official and has done a lot of things in the capital over the past year. He is born with skillful hands, so I also call him to help."
Chapter completed!