The setting sun poured its afterglow into the Linhuai Marquis’ residence, the double-breasted swallows hovered for a while and then spread their wings and flew away, and the crunching sound of carriages and horses sounded in the distance, and in the midst of a remnant of the evening sun, a carriage with a canopy slowly came.
Just as the carriage stopped, Zhu Pingan took the lead in getting down from the carriage, and then reached out his hand to carry the little loli girl down.
The bear child drilled out of the carriage and stretched out his fat paws, making a gesture of wanting to be carried down by Zhu Pingan as well.
“I only hug girls ……”
In the end, the bear child only heard a certain bumpkin brother-in-law’s very beaten voice, and then had to slide lulu down from the carriage.
“It’s girls back there, you hug.” After the bear child slid down from the carriage, the little fat paw pinched his waist and flung his little fat face at Zhu Pingan and called out.
Then the little bun maid who got off the carriage right behind him made her face red, and after looking at Zhu Pingan like a rabbit, she lowered her head.
“You stupid girl, why are you staring, quickly get down.” Li Shu inside the carriage urged.
“Oh oh ……”
The bun little maid reddened her face and got down from the carriage hand and foot, as if she was a stupid thief caught by her master. After getting off the carriage, the bun little maid then stretched out her little hand to help Li Shu out of the carriage.
“Hey, Zhu Pingan you candidates will soon have a two-month recess holiday after your new officials take office, do you want to go home?” When Li Shu and Zhu Pingan were walking side by side on the path leading to the backyard of the mansion, she asked casually and seemingly unintentionally.
“Oh, there is this kind of long holiday?” Zhu Pingan stopped in his tracks with a joyful look on his face.
“Of course there is, after you new officials take up your posts after the food release ceremony, about ten days or so, you will have a long leave of absence. This kind of benefit is only for you newly promoted scholars, the two month long leave allows you to settle your family and dispose of your personal affairs, after that you will have to concentrate on serving the country, and you will never have such a long leave again.”
Li Shu nodded, and the golden steps on the princess’s bun shook along with it, and the string of onyx tassels looked even more lustrous under the setting sun’s afterglow. Setting off Li Shu was also pink and delicate, the whole person was like a bud budding in the spring breeze, very delicate.
It was also the first time that Zhu Pingan had heard of this kind of long holiday. Previously in the modern era really did not consult the ancient times have this similar long holidays, they also thought that the ancient times only ten days off that is ten days off once it, especially the Ming Dynasty leave is more difficult, Yuanzhang Emperor is a workaholic, a year only to the Ming Dynasty three days off: one day of New Year’s. The winter solstice one day, I old Zhu. One day for the winter solstice and one day for my old Zhu’s birthday. Later, the implementation of too difficult, leave is also more, the Ming Dynasty only increased the January three days off. Modern civil service examination after admission to the official work at least one or two months or even half a year, I did not expect, the Ming Dynasty is also similar to the modern civil service examination holiday system.
Unexpectedly, the Ming Dynasty had a holiday system similar to the modern civil service examination.
“Two months long holiday how not to go home, the capital is no more beautiful than the lower river.” Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but have a joyful look on his face.
“Oh, then count yourself lucky, I’m about to go home too. Big Uncle will send a boat to take me home, you can come along. Anyway, there are still so many boat cabins empty this is also empty ……” Li Shu’s pretty eyes glanced at Zhu Pingan casually, her red lips slightly opened and her lark-like clear and nice voice came out.
Sitting on a boat?
Well, seems to be good, come to ride a horse bumpy and hard, the wind and food is often things, the ancient times and not like the modern highway, the road is rugged and difficult to travel, riding around the mountains around the water time consuming a lot, especially kill horse black horse and do not contend with, the speed is also slow ……
Even if you can not thousands of miles of Jiangling one day also. The boat is also much faster, and stable and have a resting place, saving the hard work of the wind and food, in addition to Li Shu family cook is simply a great ah.
While Zhu Pingan was thinking. Li Shu had been watching with the afterglow of her pretty eyes, and the slender jade hand in her long sleeve couldn’t help but clench the embroidered handkerchief.
“Hehe, thanks for your time over there.” Zhu Pingan answered after thinking about it.
When Li Shu heard this, her pretty eyes instantly shone even more brightly, and she arrogantly tilted her pretty face and ranted, “Anyway, it’s empty. It might as well be cheaper for you this stupid toad ……”
Saying this, Li Shu’s slender jade hand carried the hem of her pink cluster skirt, her willow waist twisted, and walked quickly to the front of Zhu Pingan, her ribbon fluttering, leaving Zhu Pingan with a haughty backstory.
At this time, it also happened to arrive at the small courtyard of the guest room where Zhu Pingan lived, Zhu Pingan looked at Li Shu’s arrogant back, shook his head, and then led the bear child and the little loli back to his own small courtyard of the guest room.
The bear child heard that Zhu Pingan was about to leave, the whole person was excited, once Zhu Pingan left, doesn’t it mean that I can play freely again ……
“Brother-in-law, when will you come back again?” The little loli Niu Niu was very reluctant to leave.
Come again? When I come back to the capital, I definitely won’t be staying at the Marquis Mansion anymore, but looking at the little loli Nyonya’s big eyes that were reluctant to part with her, Zhu Pingan finally didn’t have the patience to tell her the truth, and just told her to wait until the weather warms up and the dragonflies are flying, then he’ll be back. After ten days and half a month, this little girl will probably forget about herself.
Hearing that Zhu Pingan would come back, the little loli girl resumed her innocent smiling face.
“Brother-in-law, the meat buns outside today have no meat, let’s not eat them next time.” The little loli girl remembered the meat buns she ate outside today, and couldn’t help but complain with a pitiful Yang tilting her little face up.
Err.
That’s a steamed bun.
There’s no filling in a meat bun, which is comparable to the “kind” Emperor Hui of Jin saying, “If the people don’t have chestnuts and rice to fill their stomachs, why don’t they eat minced meat?” That’s a good one.
Living in the deep house of the little loli mountain delicacies and sea food constantly, has not eaten steamed buns ……
But I do not know in the land of the Great Ming, there are people who want to eat steamed buns can not eat ……
Alas!
We have a long way to go ……
“Brother-in-law, what’s wrong with you?” Little Lori couldn’t help but ask worriedly when she saw that Zhu Pingan’s face had become heavy.
“Oh, nothing.” Zhu Pingan smiled and shook his head.
Li Shu returned to the backyard and untied her hair, a head of green silk fluttering in the wind, letting the bun little maid re-do her hair bun suitable for inserting hairpins, the bun little maid chose a finely carved eight treasures coral hairpin and pinned Li Shu’s hair bun on it.
A pink floor-length dress, thin waist girded with ribbons, more graceful figure, hair bun inserted eight treasures coral hairpin, lining the pretty face is more charming intimidating, style.
“Miss is so beautiful ……” The bun little maid looked at Li Shu in the mirror and praised from the bottom of her heart.
“Just your sweet mouth, well, you go down and rest, after a day of shopping, I am also tired.”
Li Shu’s slender jade hand pinched on the bun little maid’s face and smiled sweetly. Then, the bun little maid was pinched by Li Shu so much, it was like a puppy dog being praised by its master, happily closing the door upside down and going down.
After the footsteps of the little bun maid went away, Li Shu took the mahogany hairpin phoenix wrapped in a handkerchief by the table in her hand.
The scene of a certain stinky toad placing this hairpin phoenix in his hand was constantly replayed in front of his eyes ……
Li Shu couldn’t help but tickle the corners of her lips.
Her slender jade hand removed the eight treasures coral hairpin from her hair bun and casually threw it on the table, then carefully inserted this hairpin phoenix into her hair bun.
“It’s so pretty ……”
Li Shu changed several poses in the mirror and looked at it for a long time, the corner of her mouth hooked up with a delicate smile.
After another while, Li Shu came to the desk by the window, and remotely looked in the direction of the guest room where a certain stinky toad was temporarily staying for a while, her slender jade hand fetched a pen and paper, and the small regular script of a flower pin was slowly presented on the pink letterhead:
If you give me a wooden hairpin.
I will give you long hair;
I’ll wash away all the lead, and from now on, the sky will be the limit.
