Poor Family Chapter 449

  Chapter 449 Cao Mansion Family Banquet (6)

Cao Ping came to the courtyard of the third son Cao Xuan. Cao Xuan gave birth to a son and two daughters. The son worked as a guard in the palace. The two daughters were not very old. The eldest daughter Cao Yun was sixteen years old, and the youngest daughter Cao Jiaojiao was only seven years old. .

  Cao Ping went directly to the embroidery building of his granddaughter Cao Yun. It wasn't the first time he came to this granddaughter's embroidery building, but every time he came there was a reason. He wanted to see how much her book collection had increased? He almost surpassed himself.

His granddaughter is very different, she is fond of books, she showed it as early as she was one year old, other girls are attracted by shiny jewelry, or like fragrant rouge, but she He grabbed a book without hesitation, refused to let it go, and slept in his arms, leaving a deep impression on Cao Ping.

After growing up, my little mother really became a little bookworm, and she went to bookstores when she went out. She didn't have a piece of jewelry, and she didn't have a box of rouge. ' nickname.

However, this little scholar is the most beautiful girl in the Cao family for decades. Her calm temperament and unsurpassed beauty make her the brightest jewel of the Cao family. He hoped to be engaged to her, but was rejected by Cao Ping.

  Although Cao Ping also loves this granddaughter very much, when it comes to her marriage, he inevitably considers the problem from the perspective of the head of the family. He hopes that his granddaughter can marry someone who can really help the Cao family.

  Cao Ping happened to meet his little granddaughter Cao Jiaojiao downstairs, but this was his favorite granddaughter, innocent, lively and lovely.

  Seeing his little granddaughter squatting beside the flowers looking around, he smiled and asked, "What is Jiaojiao looking for?"

   "My little tabby cat has disappeared, please help me find it together, grandfather."

   "Grandpa doesn't have time today, what about your sister?"

   "Scholar, grandpa is here to see you!" Cao Jiaojiao shouted in a small voice.

  At this time, Cao Jiaojiao suddenly saw the figure of the kitten and ran out of the yard. She quickly chased it out, "Stop, little cat, catch the **** that is about to spank you!"

   Not long after, the two sisters Cao Yun and Cao Yun ran out from the embroidery building, and they saluted generously, "Granddaughter pays respects to grandfather!"

   "Hehe! I'm just passing by here to see if our little scholar has received a satisfactory answer in this year's Wenshi."

   "She has received it, and there are still two copies! I can't put it down." Cao Yun next to him spoke bluntly, and said it all at once.

  Cao Yun blushed, but he didn't know what to say, so he nodded after a long while, which was regarded as acknowledgment of Cao Yun's words.

   "Oh! I actually received two copies. Can you show my grandfather that there is a couplet that was favored by our little scholar." Cao Ping was also a little curious, what kind of couplet did Li Yanqing write?

   "Grandfather, please enter the room and have a look!"

Cao Yun's study is on the first floor, and the second floor is her bedroom. Her mother did not allow her to put books on the second floor, so she turned the entire first floor into a library. There are bookshelves densely packed with all kinds of books, and there are shelves on the four walls, all of which are books, bought by herself, but most of them are all kinds of books given to her by relatives and friends who know that she loves books After all, she doesn't have much money in her hand, so she can't buy too many books.

There was a big table by the window, and on the ground next to it were cardboard boxes from this year's Wenzhou City, and the couplets that were not fancy were randomly stuffed back, but there were two pieces of paper on the table, and the answer couplets were of course impossible to write on the long red Instead, write on two pieces of white paper one foot long and half a foot wide, with a pair of couplets written on each of the two pieces of paper.

  The sound of the wind and the rain, the sound of reading, the sound is in my ears.

   State affairs, family affairs, world affairs, and care about everything.

  Cao Ping nodded, but did not comment, and continued to look at the second couplet.

  Read positively, read easy and change, read Sao and find secluded, read Zhuang and learn Da, read Chinese and learn firm, the most interesting time in the volume;

  Same field as chrysanthemum, same sparseness as plum, same cleanness as lotus, same fragrance as orchid, same rhyme as begonia, and will call himself the fairy in Huali.

  The final payment was made by Xiangzhou Li Yanqing.

   "Is it actually written by one person?" Cao Yun pretended to be surprised.

  Cao Yun's face turned red again, and after a while he whispered: "The quality of today's couplets is indeed a little higher than last year, I don't know."

  By Cao Yun, he said impatiently: "Yunniang wants to ask grandfather, who is this Li Yanqing?"

  Cao Yun's ears turned red, she was annoyed in her heart, and quietly pinched Cao Yun.

   "Grandfather Li Yanqing also knows this, but let grandfather be a joke first, and Yunniang talk about it first, what's so good about these two couplets?"

Cao Yun thought for a while and said: "Calligraphy has the vigor of Su Huang, but also the elegance of Liu Shu. The lines between the lines are full of spirituality, and it has its own style. It can be called a master's work. Calligraphy alone is unmatched. , Neat and wonderful, talented and learned, this is the second, more important is to be able to see the mind from the ordinary, it can be seen that this person has the world in mind, bold and delicate, he is a rare talent, the granddaughter does not know which family he is Younger? My surname is Li, I don't seem to have any impression.”

  Cao Ping smiled slightly, "The evaluation is very good, but he is not a son of our meritorious family. Today, my grandfather specially invited him to the banquet. He was the first imperial examination scholar last year, and the third prize."

   "Ah! It turned out to be a work of Tanhua."

The Cao sisters exclaimed at the same time, and Cao Yun was overwhelmed. No wonder the calligraphy and couplets are so good. It turned out that they were written by Tanhua. Write two more full-frame pages for my granddaughter, who wants to have it framed and hung in the study."

   "Mr. Li?" Cao Ping looked at his granddaughter strangely, he couldn't help it anymore, and burst out laughing.

  Cao Yun was very panicked, "Could it be that the granddaughter is wrong?"

   "If this Li Tanhua knows that you call him Mr. Li, he will definitely laugh three times, and then vomit blood three times."

   "Ah! Could it be that...is he not old?"

   "He is one year younger than your third brother, do you think he is old?"

  Cao Yun was stunned for a moment, and Cao Yun beside him had already bent over with laughter, squatting on the ground with his hands on his stomach, almost out of breath.

   "Mr. Li, I...I'm going to die laughing!"

Seeing that his granddaughter was so embarrassed that she wanted to find a crack in the ground, Cao Ping held back her smile and said, "Okay, don't laugh, those who don't know are not to blame, Yunniang doesn't hear things outside the window, and it's normal not to know Li Tanhua, But Yunniang, you should know!"

  Yunniang didn't dare to laugh any more, she stood up quickly, shaking her head like a rattle, "My granddaughter has only heard of Li Tanhua, but I don't know his age, let alone his name Li Yanqing."

   "Let's get down to business! Yunniang wants full couplets, I can find an opportunity to mention it to him, but according to the rules, since he has already answered the essay questions, Yunniang should have a thank you gift!"

  Cao Yun hurriedly said: "Of course there is a thank you gift. Yunniang drew a landscape, which is intended to be used as a thank you gift."

"He gave you two couplets, you can't just give one, you should not give a book! Write your name and write 'little sister Cao Yun pays tribute to Brother Yanqing's gift of friendship', he belongs to your third brother Friend, it's okay for you to call him brother."

  Yunniang was a little hesitant, she had never given her book to others, and wrote such nasty words, but she didn't dare to disobey her grandfather's order, she hesitated for a while, and she had to agree.

   "Then... all right! The granddaughter will give him a book."

It was almost dusk when Li Yanqing returned to the atrium. There were already many people sitting on the banquet table. It was not yet the official opening of the banquet. Everyone was chatting in the east, and there were several people sitting around Li Yanqing's seat. family.

   "Sorry, I took your seat!" A middle-aged man hurriedly got up and offered his seat to Li Yanqing.

   "You continue to sit, I will go elsewhere."

   There were a few people he didn't know sitting next to him, so he didn't have this interest. As soon as he walked to another table, he heard someone greet him.

   "You are Li Tanhua!"

  Li Yanqing stopped in his tracks, and saw a middle-aged couple sitting at the next table, looking at him with smiles.

  Li Yanqing hurriedly cupped his fists and saluted, "Yanqing has met the two elders."

   "Can you sit down for a while?" The middle-aged man enthusiastically asked Li Yanqing to sit down across from him.

   Helpless, Li Yanqing had no choice but to sit down, the middle-aged man said with a smile: "I am Wang Daoqi, this is Zhuo Jing."

  Li Yanqing was taken aback. It turned out that it was Wang Daoqi, the commander of the infantry division of the bodyguards. He hastily saluted again, "Yanqing is rude!"

The Sanya of the Imperial Army, the Privy Council and the Ministry of War are the three major institutions that control the Song Dynasty army. Among them, the Sanya refers to the Dianqian Division, the Guard Horse Army Division and the Guard Infantry Division. The commanders of the three Yamen are Gao Qiu, Xiang Zonghui and Wang Daoqi, Xiang Zonghui is the younger brother of the Empress Dowager, and Wang Daoqi is a descendant of Wang Yansheng, the famous founding general of the Northern Song Dynasty. In Qiu's hand.

  Although Wang Daoqi's power was seriously restricted, he still held a high position in the Forbidden Army. The 30,000 troops led by Zhong Shidao to fight against the Liangshan bandits were transferred from Wang Daoqi's infantry division.

This is the reason why Li Yanqing respects him more. Gao Qiu and Xiang Zonghui refused to mobilize troops to cooperate with the division to suppress the bandits. An elite army, unfortunately, this army finally fell into the hands of Tong Guan.

  Wang Daoqi sighed slightly: "The dog Wang Jun is about the same age as you, but far inferior to you, which makes me feel emotional."

   His wife next to him whispered: "Master, in fact, Jun'er is not bad."

  At this time, a burly young man walked quickly, "Father, mother, the child is back."

  Wang Daoqi introduced to Li Yanqing: "This is the dog Wang Jun!"

  (end of this chapter)

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