The Book of Raising Children by Houmen

Chapter 145
After school at noon the next day, Zhao Jing learned the news that Mrs. Xu was going to sit in the Ziwei Garden from Zhang's mother's meaningful smile.

You must know that Sun Yu'e was ill, and Mrs. Xu was going to visit Linglongyuan, but she was told that traveling would not be conducive to the recovery of her back injury, so the old lady had no choice but to give up.

But Zhao Jing's Ziwei Garden is far away from Songhetang, but this time, the maid named Lianqiao didn't come out to stop her.According to what Zhang's mother said, Lianqiao said this: the weather is good now, it's good for the old lady to go out for a walk and breathe fresh air.

Mrs. Xu was coming, so Zhao Jing naturally had to prepare.Recently, she has been busy practicing calligraphy, and the big water tank in the study room is full of her own "calligraphy". Doubt, there is suspicion of misleading children.

Zhao Jing was in a hurry to destroy the corpse, and took out her own good tea. She had nothing to do with it, that is, she had practiced a good skill at making tea in the palace, and she could show off in front of people .

The tea house in Ziweiyuan is in the two side rooms next to the main room. Zhao Jing is here to be the lady's husband. Two little maids, there are only three miscellaneous women left in this yard.

Cooking tea and boiling water is fine for the little girl to serve her, but if she serves Mrs. Xu, I'm afraid it will be a little neglected, and the little girl doesn't know how to make tea, she just puts some tea leaves and pours some boiling water in. She still needs to train slowly in the future.

Zhao Jing went to the tea house to see it in person, and took out a jar of snow water buried under the crape myrtle tree in the yard a few days ago, and let the little maid watch the fire.

She was ironing the tea set in this room, when a woman came in outside to answer, saying that Mrs. Xu had come.

Zhao Jing hurriedly greeted her out of the Hanging Flower Gate, it was cold outside, the old lady must be cold after walking this way, she had to bring good tea and water up quickly.

She just raised her head and saw Xu Si'an in the crowd.

Today he was wearing a bamboo blue long gown with fringe, with arrow sleeves and a round collar, and a silver-white ribbon on his head tied into a scribe's gown. He was dressed in a leisurely manner, as if he hadn't gone out.Although he is a military general, Xu Si'an abandoned literature and pursued martial arts halfway. After all, he is somewhat different from those fierce generals with savage faces. He usually looks a little cold and arrogant, but today he looks a bit more like a Confucian general.

Zhao Jing saluted Old Madam Xu and Xu Si'an.In addition to seeing Xu Si'an, she also saw Zhang's mother following behind everyone with an embarrassed expression on her face.

Originally, Mrs. Xu wanted to come over to see the "Xu Si'an's calligraphy and painting" that Zhang's mother said, but now that Xu Si'an is here, as soon as she sees it when she enters the door, wouldn't she be a fool?Mother Zhang has never been so desperate in her heart, why did Hou Ye come on a whim, and when he heard that the old lady was coming to see Zhao Jing's residence, he agreed to come with the old lady like a kind person?

She took the couplet secretly by herself. If Master Hou saw it... Mama Zhang couldn't imagine what would happen next.

Zhao Jing still couldn't figure out what was going on, and when she saw a group of people coming, she greeted her with a smile. She paid respects to Mrs. Xu, and went up to help her in. The crape myrtle flower stand in the yard was pruned It was very clean, and the surrounding flower beds had been tidied up. Although it was not yet spring, it didn't look desolate at all.

Mrs. Xu followed Zhao Jing into the door, and saw the hall painting of idle clouds and wild cranes. She didn't believe Zhang's mother said that Xu Si'an had a heart for Zhao Jing, but after seeing this painting, she believed more than half of it.

This painting was the favorite painting of the old Hou Ye back then, and it has been hanging in the study of the old Hou Ye. The old Hou Ye said that he likes such a life of idle clouds and wild cranes, but Mrs. Xu didn't understand it, so she thought it was beautiful.Later, on Xu Si'an's 15th birthday, the old master gave this painting to Xu Si'an. At the beginning, he said a few words of hard work, but the old lady Xu didn't understand. Looking at it now, could it be that it is hanging on the side now? These two notes?

"Brother An, what is written in this couplet? Read it to me."

Xu Si'an suddenly saw his handwritten handwriting hanging in Zhao Jing's courtyard, and he also looked puzzled, but he has always been happy and angry, and when he was surprised, he calmed down and just muttered: "There is no heart. Hanging around, idle clouds, wild cranes, ordinary residents; wanting to linger, the past, the dusty fate, the dreamer."

"It's these two sentences, these two sentences, I was there when your father told you that, but I don't have a good memory, so I just listen to him, I hope that no matter what you do in the future, you will not forget your original intention , keep a dream.”

Zhao Jing's eyes turned red when she heard this, and she felt a little embarrassed. This was a father's advice to her son, but she took it and hung it in the hall, although she didn't take it by herself... Zhao Jing followed the crowd to find Zhang Mom, seeing Zhang's mother standing aside with a bit of embarrassment.

(End of this chapter)