Coming through the gap, more than twenty craftsmen were busy repairing or painting the walls inside and outside the yard. It was very lively, and some children took the opportunity to run around inside.

Lan Chun lacked interest in pavilions and towers, and there was no lady from a family who didn't leave the house, so he took Li Ma to see the green and tender leaves on the trees.

On the shelf under the shade of the trees, some new flower bonsai are placed, such as roses, peonies, peonies, etc., which are very pleasing to the eye and are worthy of being the thing from Grand Secretary Yang’s house.

Lan Chun stopped and admired her for a while. Her daughter became a young girl and was no longer a naughty girl. She was elegant in behavior and a beautiful lady. She was responsible for taking care of Xu Yu's big and small affairs all year round, smart, strong and good at human relationships, and she was good at both inside and outside.

To the west there is a row of wisteria flower shelves, three spacious and large houses, which seem to be used as a study room. Lan Chunda looked inside, and the decoration inside was particularly particular.

Yang Pu was from Shishou, Hubei. His family was a famous local family. Because he was deeply appreciated by Emperor Xuande, Yang Pu became famous and posthumously awarded his grandfather Yang Guozhen as the Guanglu Dafu, Zhuguo, Shaobao, Minister of Rites and Grand Secretary of Wuying Hall; his grandmother and mother were given the first-rank wife.

The Yang family is well-off, so Yang Pu and his wife are extremely fond of their only son Yang Dan. Yang Dan has been very successful in recent years and has now passed the exam.

Seeing that all the window sashes were painted with red paint, they were placed on the ground and waited for air drying. The inlaid glass was ready to add all the colors of snow-carved yarn, Lan Chun shook her head and said, "Why spend so much money to clean up such an old house? There is no source, so it won't be pushed down and built a new one? It's so inconvenient without a toilet, sewer, heating, etc."

Li Ma echoed: "No, maybe there is another reason."

Lan Chun was a little curious. He walked into the house regardless of the strong smell of paint and saw that the most popular Liaodong patent leather printed paper was pasted on the wall, and the entire wall looked bright.

Lan Chun said: "The more money you spend, the living room in our mansion is covered with this kind of wallpaper. It costs hundreds of taels of silver for a room. The Yang family only repaired an inexplicable study room, and the mansion is not connected to this place, which is too luxurious. Perhaps Lord Yang is going to come and live there."

"I heard that Mr. Yang is here to live." Li's mother couldn't help but talk secretly, "It seems that there are no grandmas, only one."

Lan Chun said strangely: "A young master is not at home, so why do you want to live in a big house nearby?"

"Who knows?" Li Ma asked with a smile: "Aren't the young masters of the Xu family like this? This place is close to the Yang Mansion, and Young Master Yang has not gotten married yet. Such a gentle person must not be able to keep any outdoor rooms."

"Yes." Lan Chun nodded. What kind of personal affairs is Mr. Yang?

He quickly pulled Li Ma to hide aside. The people under the Yang Mansion carried exquisite furniture and antiques and other things in.

"It's so urgent." Lan Chun guessed that he was probably eager to invite friends. The young master has always been so virtuous that he didn't think about anything he did, nor did he like to listen to others' advice. Even Yu'er hasn't been very obedient recently. He even borrowed 3,000 taels from outside, and thought he was self-righteous and hiding it from others.

Lan Chun secretly paid back the three thousand taels of silver for him early in the morning. Just kidding, how could the second son of the Xu family owe money? If his wife knew about this?

Looking at a red sandalwood screen in front of him, the white silk embroidered with a hundred birds pilgrimage, and the birds appeared vividly like life. Lan Chun pointed and whispered: "It should be not to mention that red sandalwood is extremely precious, but this best Hunan embroidery alone is probably worth 200 taels of silver."

"Good guy." Li Ma walked over and watched carefully with envy.

Suddenly I heard someone say, "Why are you shutting down your work when you have guests come in?"

Lan Chun looked back and saw that it was the young man in gorgeous clothes he saw when he came, standing near the wisteria flower stand. Li Ma's face turned red with a stigma, and she held her hand and said softly: "Someone is here, go quickly, go quickly."

"It's okay." Lan Chun was not nervous at all. She raised her hand to stroke the naughty hair on her temples, walked out generously, smiled and nodded, and slowly walked towards the house without saying a word.

This move made Yang Dan at a loss. It was logical that a girl came uninvited and was caught by her master, at least she was shy to escape? Unexpectedly, she seemed to be walking around her own garden, and she didn't even say apologies.

"She is not those female students." Yang Dan laughed and felt relieved when he thought about the other party's identity.

As soon as Lan Chun came back, she saw Xu Yu pushing the door in with two gift boxes smiling. Mrs. Leng, who had just returned, said in surprise: "Oh! Why are the second young master here? Why buy so many things again? It's true."

Xu Yu smiled and said, "It's not mine. When I went to the door, my family next door asked me if I was from our family. I said yes. He asked me who I was. I said I was my nephew, so he gave me the gift."

"You child is always so loving to death." Mrs. Leng smiled happily, and she liked Xu Yu's disappearance.

Lan Chun also smiled and asked, "Why are you here?"

"Come here to see our aunt!"

Xu Yu laughed and came over to put the gift box on the table. He opened the lid. He was a box of red and white osmanthus cakes and rose layer cakes from Wanxiangzhai, and the other box was a few bottles of good osmanthus wine and four-color candies. It seemed to be expensive.

Mrs. Leng said in surprise: "For no reason, why don't you give such a heavy gift? How many taels of silver are there for a bottle of wine?"

Lan Chun was also very surprised and didn't understand why. Xu Yu said: "People say that according to the rules of Hunan, I will send you some thoughts, please don't return them."

"We also have this rule in Jinling." Mrs. Leng suddenly realized, afraid that the two children would not know, so she explained: "It is just a newly moved to send things to the neighbors, which means sweet everyone's mouths and will be more peaceful in the future, but she can only give a plate of snacks and a few rice dumplings. How can she give it so expensive?"

"It's nothing." Xu Yu naturally took this as usual, picked up a famous post in the gift box, and said without realizing it: "It's him?"

"Who is it?" Lan Chun asked.

"Yang Dan, the son of Lord Yang Pu, no wonder he was so generous." Xu Yu showed it to Lan Chun.

Mrs. Leng asked, “Does the Second Young Master recognize him?”

"I know each other, but I'm not familiar with each other, I have no friendship, and I have no contact." Xu Yu frowned as he said, thinking why is it so coincidental? Yang Pu intended to marry his father before, and Master Xia used this to fight Qiu Feng, and now he has met the Yang family again.

He didn't know that Yang Pu had four daughters, all of whom were Yang Dan's girls. Because the eldest son and second son died one after another, the couple worked hard, for fear that Yang Dan would die if he had any good or bad luck, and later he could not have another son, so he gave up.

Yang Pu and Xu Hao chatted casually that day, and the daughter was too worried and she was just using it as an introduction to chatting. Just a joke. In fact, with Yang Pu's status and character, she never thought of a strong marriage. This is the nature of Confucian scholars like Yang Pu. What she values ​​most is reputation.

During the Tang Dynasty, dignitaries liked to recruit famous scholars such as top scholars as son-in-laws. At that time, they also paid the most attention to family backgrounds and the concept of family blood was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, after the Song Dynasty, they no longer paid much attention and went further in the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the daughters of civil officials had to marry scholars. By the late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, there were many examples of officials and wealthy businessmen marrying each other.

The invisible caste system in ancient China was no less than India. Of course, it was not as unchanged and bad as India for thousands of years. However, the class of scholars was a minority after all, and most of them were passed down from generation to generation. Few people could marry a higher-level wife unless studying changed their destiny.

Feudal society with different ranks and inferiority continued until the founding of New China, and the ranks of the Republic of China were still distinct, such as the four major families. If Taizu had not been determined to break the four old days and put forward the slogan of equality for everyone, then you would know that it was now Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and other regions. The theory of family origin and bloodline is still so important.

Family inheritance is a traditional culture but also a dross, because everything has both positive and negative sides. The good side does not require nonsense, and the bad side is like saying flattery that Brother Xi relies on his achievements and real guns. There are also Shinzo Abe and Shinzo Abe wins, and Bush, etc., relying on the family aura. People’s votes and democracy are nothing better than ancestors. The election territory is ready, retainers, counselors, political status and money are ready, as long as I am a minimum elite.

I hope China can continue to adhere to the virtues of raising internally without evading relatives, externally without evading revenge, and the current promotion mechanism for official promotion, so as not to let young masters who are ignorant of the sufferings of the people and have no ability steal the treasure.

Compared with institutional flaws, I'm afraid that a ignorant guy sitting at the top is disastrous for a country. There is nothing to see in just a few decades. After hundreds of years, just like we now look at history, it is clear who the rise and fall of a country will come from.

The next day, Lan Chun asked Xu Yu to thank Yang Dan. When he first visited, he naturally could not walk through the wall hole. He asked the gatekeeper to go in and report it at the gate at the entrance of the alley.

When Yang Dan saw that it was Xu Yu's famous post, he quickly came out to meet him.

The two young men looked at each other. Yang Dan saw that the second young master of the Xu family was sixteen or seventeen years old, with a handsome appearance, especially a suit that was close and straight, which was more than a hundred times more optimistic than his unconventional fashion.

Yang Dan has a good appearance, elegant and gentle manners, and Xu Yu feels fond of him.

Yang Dan said first: "Please come in, please come in! Before I visited me, I have been visiting you, but I have been to the Lai Xu son who came to Leng's family."

Xu Yu smiled and said, "I heard that my brother moved here yesterday. I was very happy at that time and planned to come and visit him. I was also spending money on my brother, so my relatives really didn't like it."

"It's not worth mentioning. This is the rule of the south and his hometown." Yang Dan took Xu Yu's hand and said kindly: "Get in and sit."

Because of the smell of paint in the house, I sat down at the wisteria flower stand. The servant of Yang's house brought tea and snacks, and then stood there from a distance.

Yang Dan asked, “Brothers often come here?”

"Yes." Xu Yu said: "I often come with Sister Lan Chun, and I dare not take the initiative to come to the door. In the future, I will ask my brother to take care of him."

"We have been neighbors for many years, so we should." After Yang Dan finished speaking, afraid that the other party would misunderstand, he explained: "I plan to organize a poetry club here with a few friends. Why don't you come and join me?"

Xu Yu smiled and said, "I am not good at writing poetry, but I can be a host and learn poetry from my brother."

"Just joking." Yang Dan shook his head and said, "A famous family like you, who has a family background, isn't he good at writing poetry?"

Xu Yu said: "It's the truth, I'm really not good at writing poetry."

Yang Dan smiled and said, "Then we can study and discuss together in the future. There are a few of my friends."

After returning home at night, Xu Yu found Zhu Mingzhi excitedly and said, "I met a friend today. In the afternoon, Mr. Sheng held a banquet to guess riddles. I brought back some riddles. I think we will have a meeting tomorrow. Now there are more chrysanthemums, and whoever guesses will win will reward ten pots of chrysanthemums. Riddles can be used as wine orders. Whoever wins will give her their crab claws. When you look back, everyone will fight the total number. If you have fewer legs, you will be fined a few glasses of wine, whoever has more legs, and whoever has more legs, and whoever has big crabs. If anyone says it well, I will congratulate you on a cup. What do you think?"

Seeing that he was very excited, Zhu Mingzhi agreed and found Mu Lanxiang. At that time, the three of them wrote invitations separately, preparing chrysanthemums, crabs and other things.r1152
Chapter completed!