Jicanghai

Ming Ran followed suit and said, "Okay, don't mention it if you don't mention it."

He wandered around the flower hall with his eyes, and suddenly saw two small heads appearing at the side door, so he hooked his fingers while Ming Yun was eloquent, and quietly took out the two mutton fat jade gourds that made noise from his sleeve , gently shaking twice, the two children rushed in, and the boy who ran in front Ming Ruo asked: "Big brother, big brother, they said you are my big brother, are you?"

Mingran stuffed a gourd into his hand, and the girl Ming Qinglan jumped up and hugged his leg: "Big brother, big brother, and mine!" After getting the gourd, she didn't stop: "Big brother, take us to play first!" Is it alright?"

Ming Ran glanced at Ming Yun, seeing the helpless expression on his face, so she resolutely ran away with one hand.After leaving the flower hall, Ming Yun just came to his senses and shouted from behind: "Stop, your eldest cousin has been waiting for you to come back, have you gone to see him? Your brother-in-law is also waiting for you, you have already seen him No?"

Mingran replied: "I haven't taken care of it yet, let's go back!" The three brothers and sisters ran away without a trace.

He took the dragon and phoenix twins and threw away a group of servants who followed him, and hid in the back garden.Ming Ru looked worried: "Brother, Daddy likes to reprimand people pretendingly with a book, and the scolding lasts two hours, and he even says it's a saint's day. Will you be like him?"

Mingran rubbed his little head: "No, don't worry. Brother, I don't like to read books. I'm not like the second uncle who is well-educated. Even if I train people, I can't train so many tricks. I'm still a saint, tsk tsk."

The twins were very excited when they heard this, and quickly introduced Mingran as a confidant and worshiped him like a god.Ming Yulan said again full of hope: "Just now I saw Daddy scolding you for a long time, will Daddy only focus on scolding you in the future, so we can be scolded less, right?"

Mingran felt that it was difficult to answer, so she said with a dry smile: "Hehe, if you are so afraid of being scolded, why don't you listen to your father? If you are obedient, he will stop scolding you."

Ming Qinglan pursed her pale pink mouth, and began to confide: "Even if you are obedient, you can still be disciplined. Besides, we are already good enough. All the guests who come to the house will praise us, saying that we are so good, what else can we do?" Obedient? I like to go to the street to see, but I am seven years old, and I have only been to the street three times. I was held in a sedan chair by the nanny, and I was not allowed to stick my head out. It is not a lady if I say it is for people to see. Brother, I don’t want to be a lady at all. I saw a juggling girl on the street last time. She said she walked a lot of places when she was very young. I want to be like her. She also learned to juggle and walk around. Let's see, do you think it's okay?"

Ming Ru hurriedly said: "I want to go too, I want to go too! Lan Lan is a performer, I can offer a plate and say, 'Guest officials who have money to buy a money market, but who don't have money to buy a personal game, good luck, great fortune, great fortune, and birthday!'"

Mingran said: "Stop it, who did you learn this from? It's fine if you want to go out to see the world. Big Brother will talk to Second Uncle in the future and take you out for more walks, but don't say anything about learning juggling."

Ming Yulan hurriedly climbed up the pole and begged him: "Then you take us out to play now, quietly, and don't allow others to follow, or you won't let this or that, it's better not to go out."

Ming Ru also booed: "I want to eat out, I'm going to a restaurant, I heard from my father's guests that the food and drink at the guest house outside the mountains are better, it must be better than the one at home!"

Mingran looked up at the sky, then looked down at the two little faces full of hope, and finally said: "Okay, let's go out quietly and don't let others know. I will take you to the streets and restaurants."

The three brothers and sisters quietly went to the street together, and had a lot of fun watching the flowers.At the same time, the two children took aim at the seller of candied fried chestnuts on the street.Mingran took the two of them over to buy a bag, and said: "Just give me one bag, don't eat too much, you won't be able to eat later. One for each person, girls come first."

So the two furry heads quickly tied together and shared the chestnuts to eat.At the end of the meal, the dispute broke out again. Ming Ru frowned and glared at Ming Qinglan: "You ate the first one, and you ate the last one. Did you eat one more than me?!"

Ming Qinglan raised her chin, contemptuously: "Who said Mao Lizi is odd! I'm a girl and I'm lucky, my brother let me eat first, who are you blaming?"

Ming Ru was even angrier: "Only women and villains are difficult to raise! You are a woman!"

Ming Qinglan burst into tears, Ming Ran hurriedly picked her up and carried her on his shoulders, coaxing her repeatedly.So Mingru was unhappy again, and wanted to hug Mingran's neck, but he was too short to reach, and was so anxious that tears wrapped his eyes and turned back and forth.Mingran had no choice but to pick him up, one in each hand, but the two children fought again in his arms.Mingran was so worried that she didn't know what to do, but at the end of the long street, someone came waving a gold-sprinkled folding fan. With beautiful eyebrows, black eyes and jade trees, she turned out to be her little uncle Zhong Xu.

He hurriedly shouted: "Uncle, Uncle, I'm Xiaoran, come and help me!"

Zhong Xu was stunned for a moment, looked him up and down in disbelief for a while, and finally rushed over in three steps and two steps: "You really are Xiao Ran?" He quickly figured out the situation, pulled Ming Ru over, stared at him and said, "Don't make trouble." , Call me Uncle!"

Ming Ru was taken aback and fell silent for a while.Zhong Xu then reprimanded Mingran with his uncle's money: "If you don't have diamonds, don't do that porcelain job. Do you really think you can take care of children? Take two! When did you come back? Why don't people let me know? Thought you were still on your way!"

Mingran said: "I just came back, I just entered the city this morning. Go for a walk, and go out to eat outside the mountain."

Zhong Xu said: "Travel outside the mountain and take them with you for dinner? Do you think it is convenient for us to do things?"

Mingran said: "The two children are grown up, and they should see the world. I don't know what my uncle wants to do, can you teach him two things? If you think it is difficult to teach, my uncle can do it personally, and let the two of them observe it together." .”

Zhong Xu was so angry that he slapped him on the back of the neck. Thinking of the reunion after a long absence, he couldn't help but put his arms around his shoulders, took Ming Ru by his hand, and the four of them went to the restaurant together.

Because they brought twins, the nephew and uncle had a serious meal.Seeing that Zhong Xu was always hesitant to speak, Mingran waved to the man in the building, wrote him a note, and asked him to go to Ming Shilang's mansion to ask someone to pick up Ming Ru and Ming Qinglan.So the steward of the Ming Mansion personally brought people to come, Ming Ru and Ming Qinglan didn't want to leave, so they pestered Mingran to chatter.Mingran leaned over and coaxed them both gently: "I will visit you often and take you out to play, don't worry go back."

After exhausting his lips and tongue to get the two small oil bottles away, Zhong Xu immediately squeezed over and sat next to Mingran. When he went to visit Mingran's parents' grave, he was as considerate and loving.Mingran was also warmed by his small gesture, but as soon as Zhong Xu opened his mouth, Mingran wanted to push him somersaults: "I said sister Ran, you finally dare to come back?"

Due to the sparse population of the Ming family, Ming Ran was raised as a girl before the age of three, so he got this title, but now he can't hear it: "Don't call me a girl."

Zhong Xu dipped his orchid finger into the wine glass, flicked it at Ming Ran, and smiled contentedly as he dodged: "Okay, Xiao Ran. The big guys are looking forward to your return, my queen mother Eldest sister is determined to give you a good marriage, but my nephew wants to take the opportunity to hold a grand reception banquet..."

Mingran said: "It's hard for him to take care of everything, and he hasn't forgotten me yet."

Zhong Xu clapped the case: "How could you forget? But I think he's holding a reception banquet. I think it's because he doesn't want to drink, but just wants to borrow flowers to present Buddha. It is said that the treasury is tight recently, and the king wants to curry favor with your little sister-in-law from time to time. Find some excuses. I heard that this proposal has been rejected by the Empress Dowager, who said that it is enough for my family to sit together and have a meal."

During Mingran's three years in Taishengguan, he also heard that the former empress had died, so the lord appointed a sixteen or seventeen-year-old little empress, who came from Xie's family in Dongcheng Zhongguxiang, one of the six surnames in Yunjing. Cousin of the former queen.Empress Xiao Xie is very gentle, very well-behaved, knows etiquette, knows the rhythm, is good at singing and dancing, and is very in line with the wishes of the lord, but there is one problem, she likes to be lively too much.In order to cater to his wife's wishes, the lord of the country often had to hold some large-scale singing and dancing feasts in the palace, all of which cost some money.As for the Empress Dowager, she couldn't get used to singing and dancing so often, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were at odds with each other, and the king was caught in the middle, which was a bit embarrassing.

Mingran nodded, and said again: "I heard from my second uncle that you are also waiting for me to come back, but what's the matter?"

When Zhong Xu heard this, he was very solemn: "As for me, I want to cooperate with you."

Mingran said: "Cooperation? What to do?"

But Zhong Xu was silent suddenly, the terrain of this guest house is quite high, one can see from the window that there are row upon row of pavilions, terraces and pavilions outside, and the green hills in the distance overlap with smoke and drag green.And the streets are crowded with people.The empress dowager worships the Buddha, the lord loves to play, and the courtiers have to find time to do wild fox meditation during the interval between looking for flowers and willows, so the temples inside and outside Yunjing are full of flowers, and monks are in groups.Goulan cottages are scattered in the gaps of the temples, sandalwood is lingering and mixed with the scent of powder, and the sound of chanting is mixed with soft sounds. This Yunjing is like a tray of fresh meat buns every day, and it is full of excitement.At this time, I don't know where there is a string of silk and bamboo music, accompanied by the tinkling of iron horses in front of the eaves, it is distant and ethereal, very pleasant.

So Zhong Xu lost his mind.

His uncle was often like this, he was always wandering away, and Ming Ran only regarded it as a common trait of literati, so he waited patiently.

After a long time, Zhong Xu finally came back to his senses: "Ahem, this is a long story. I also went to the palace to watch your little sister-in-law lead a rehearsal of singing and dancing, and I was inspired. I remembered the story of joining the army that we have seen before." Is it possible to extend the development of dramas, and turn some stories from the previous dynasty into some lively and interesting dramas, such as Wang Zhaojun weeping farewell to Emperor Han Yuan, Concubine Yang Guifei's soul is broken and Maweipo and so on." He stretched out his hand and took out a few The booklet was crumpled to some extent, and Baba handed it to Mingran: "This was compiled by me and Miss Dong, the owner of Yanhua Academy, please read it first, Xiaoran."

Mingran had no interest in this matter at all, but seeing his uncle's expectant eyes, he had no choice but to take it, flipped through it, and asked, "Where is Yanhua Academy?"

Zhong Xu clicked his tongue again and again: "I blame you for being crazy and not coming back. You don't know about it. Yanhua Academy is a hall recently opened in Yunjing. It has become famous in the past two years. The owner, Dong Xiangji, is both talented and beautiful. Li Xianjun, Zhang Nuer, Wen Yubing, and Xue Ruanruan under his command are all talents who can be top cards. By the way, in a few days, it is said that the girl Luo Qinniao who is the most good at singing and dancing and beautiful as a flower will also be there. Combing, I don't know who among Yunjing's disciples can take the lead!"

Mingran stared at him for a while, then reminded: "Uncle, wipe your drool."

Zhong Xu was stunned, and quickly covered his mouth with his sleeve, then came back to regret, and glared at him: "Where did I get the saliva? You disrespect your elders, you deserve a beating!"

Mingran said: "Nephew dare not."

Zhong Xu snorted coldly: "I know you don't dare, let's continue talking about the play, we have compiled the whole song, Boss Dong has a venue, and some musical instruments, but I don't think it is complete, we must at least dub it into the Jiaofang Dale Possession. A few days ago, I listed it with Boss Dong. It needs dragon flute, sheng, xiao, pipa, square sound, fingerboard, stick drum, big drum, and it is best to match it with 秱篥, Xun, konghou, and jiegu to perform. There are various scenes and situations. You think that when Zhaojun is out of the fortress, Zhaojun’s pipa is accompanied by the sound of 秱篥, and the long smoke and sunset are full of wild grass, which is enough taste, right?”

Mingran suddenly felt relieved: "Understood, is Xiaojiu's teaching workshop Dale not enough manpower? I learned konghou when I was young, so I can spare some time to help my uncle. For the sake of our nephew and uncle's family, I won't charge you any money." gone."

The author has something to say: Pay attention to the title of the first volume: The Six Surnames of Yunjing.

Thinking about it, some readers may wonder how to shift the perspective to Yunjing properly.In fact, the first volume is mainly about the intersection of people from all walks of life in Yunjing, and of course the owner of the car castle is also indispensable.In addition, Xiaoran has many, many, many relatives.