Pei Gonggui

This was the first time Qian Haiqing was allowed to eat at the same table with the Patriarch since he entered the Zhongyihou Mansion.

He led Jiang Xuan to sit at the ten wood-inlaid stone tables in the flower hall, looking at the delicate but simple dishes on the table, the excitement that seemed to be surging in his heart and the ecstasy of fulfilling his wish at the beginning, because After Pei Jun's teasing just now, he suddenly felt absurd and unreal after crying bitterly, and the whole person was in a daze, until he heard Pei Jun's scolding from beside him:

"Jiang Xuan! Don't tease the dog when you eat, I have to tell you a few times! The dog's paws scratch the ground and you plan the rice. You won't feel comfortable if you don't make a stomachache!"

Qian Haiqing was startled and came back to his senses. Seeing Jiang Xuan hurriedly let go and threw the dog aside, he clapped his hands and sat down honestly at the table.

Mother Han, who was waiting behind her, quickly twisted a hot handkerchief to wipe the baby's hands, and Pei Jun said, "Take the dog out, so that he won't stare at the dog all the time, and won't know how to eat when the food is cold."

Mother Han immediately bent down and carried the dog out, leaving only a sentence for Jiang Xuan, "Your Highness, let's play after dinner."This is called Jiang Xuan humming reluctantly, pursed his mouth and watched the whining puppy go out, then looked back at Pei Jun in a blink of an eye, but couldn't find any words to talk back or act coquettishly, and finally picked up the bowl, only dared to say softly One sentence: "Uncle is not angry, I will not play with puppies when I eat in the future."

Pei Jun said: "If you believe in you, you are a ghost. Eat your vegetables quickly."

Jiang Xuan nodded quickly, and Uncle Dong smiled and picked up two chopsticks dishes for the baby, but he heard Pei Jun say: "He can use chopsticks, don't spoil him all the time." Jun went behind him and gave Jiang Xuan a wink, Jiang Xuan grabbed a pair of autocratic short silver chopsticks and took a bite of the rice, sucked the vegetable leaves and wrapped them in his mouth to chew together, said vaguely: "Uncle, I'm eating."

Pei Jun glanced at him and stopped scolding him. He just raised his hand and put a piece of spare ribs in his bowl, took a bite of his own food, and then turned to Qian Haiqing and asked, "Qian Siqi, did you go to the restaurant for the last time?" When is Cao Mansion?"

Qian Haiqing held the bowl and thought for a while: "That's all before Mr. Cao went to Zhu County. The student only went to see Steward Wu once seven or eight days ago, and asked if there was any letter from Wuzhou."

"Did the servants in his family change at that time?" Pei Jun lowered his bowl, "Did Butler Wu say that there was anything wrong at home?"

Qian Haiqing shook his head: "No, it looks the same, and Steward Wu is also kind. Why does Master ask such a question?"

Pei Jun looked at him carefully for a while, then suddenly said: "Wait, tell me first, what are the big maids in the Cao Mansion like?"

Qian Haiqing was taken aback for a moment, and after thinking for a moment, he was speechless with his clever mouth.

Seeing his appearance, Pei Jun knew that it was useless to ask: "Come on, I have been to Cao's mansion so many times with you, and I still don't remember what the servants in that mansion look like, and I can't tell who is older." Who is young, isn't this going for nothing?" He didn't seem to be angry, and he just said in a plain tone: "When you are young, you don't remember people, but when you are old, you have to forget things, but if an official forgets things, That's nailing your head on the chopping block—looking for death. You remember, in the future, when you walk around the door in Beijing, you have to go to every house and remember the people in every house. You must know: bad things in officials are never big news, But it’s always the little things.”

After listening to the teaching, Qian Haiqing hurriedly wrote it down, but after thinking for a while with the chopsticks, he asked in a low voice, "Then Master... remembers all?"

Pei Jun pushed the soup bowl at his side forward, let Dong Shu serve the soup, leaned on the edge of the table with his arms crossed and glanced at him sideways: "Oh, you've got it, you dare to take the master's exam on the first day you come in?"

Qian Haiqing shrank his neck, and was about to turn his back on the words and stop talking, but he heard Pei Jun say again: "Forget it, I need you to go to Cao's house to run errands these two days, so I'll just talk about it, you make it down, how many times?" Keep an eye out for it in the daytime.”

Qian Haiqing hastily concentrated his attention and pricked up his ears, but he heard Pei Jun say: "Everyone in the Cao family should be married to three maidservants and two maidservants, but the maidservant whom Lao Cao's wife married, Mrs. Lin, died early. So I don't care about the extra marriage, and I sent another married woman, now there is only one big servant girl serving me, and the two young servant girls are mostly accompanying Xuanxuan." Then she pointed out the names and appearances of several people, and said: "Mr. Cao was favored by the Lin family when he went to business in his early years, so after marrying his patriarch's daughter, the Lin family, he vowed never to take concubines, and he didn't use women by his side. Regardless of size, they are treated equally, and they only take care of the daily expenses of the family, and don't get involved in business matters." Then he described the appearance of the guards in detail, and then asked Qian Haiqing: "Do you remember?"

Qian Hai was stunned, and after thinking for a while, he immediately repeated what Pei Jun said, all in order.Pei Jun was finally barely satisfied with what he heard, so he looked away and picked up the full soup bowl.But when the bowl was brought to his mouth, he still clicked his tongue lightly after all, which showed that he was still dissatisfied with Qian Haiqing's ignorant behavior.

Qian Haiqing swallowed the vegetable leaves silently in his throat, all the untruths and absurdities in his heart dissipated now, he only thought that he was one of the most knowledgeable in the crowd, but he was only young when he was put in front of the master, and Xiao Xiang Although Pei Jun, who has been with him for several years, has really become his master, he still hates him the same.Nothing has changed.Therefore, he couldn't help being more energetic, and only said that he must study and teach carefully in the future, and he must let the master nod once.

After dinner at night, Jiang Xuan twisted Pei Jun sweetly and said that he didn't want to read anymore.Pei Jun knew the habits of children, and because he was at Jiang Xuan's age, he didn't make things difficult for him. He just asked Qian Haiqing to bring the book and personally tested Jiang Xuan's poems and essays. It seemed to be the case, so I asked him to take a pen and write down these few poems silently, so that Uncle Dong could send it to the prison the next day for Pei Yan to have a look.

Jiang Xuan grabbed the pen and asked sadly: "Uncle, you always say that the mother concubine eats and drinks in the prison and people talk, but when will the mother concubine come back? I also want to talk to the mother concubine. I dreamed about my concubine, I dreamed that my concubine caught a cub for me. Uncle, tell me... did my concubine dream about me?"

Whenever the child asks the words to bluff the child seriously, the elders find it difficult to answer.Pei Jun wanted to come, but only said "soon", and after thinking about it, he said: "Xuan'er, the verdict in the palace has come down, and you can no longer be called 'Mother Concubine'. From now on, you have to be like other dolls." , called 'Niang'."

Jiang Xuan said very strangely: "Then... that mother, when will she come back?"

Pei Jun touched the child's head and said, "Xuan'er is good, uncle is worried about this matter, so you should study hard, okay? In the future, uncle will prepare a good thing for you."

Jiang Xuan immediately sat up straight and blinked his eyes: "What's the matter?"

"I won't tell you." Pei Jun pinched his face, "You will know when the time comes."

Two days later, Pei Jun put on the ordinary clothes of Shangguan early in the morning, just like when he entered the Forbidden Garden to write a question. The servants at home packed up a thousand things and loaded them into the carriage sent by the palace to pick him up.As soon as he got in the car, Jiang Xuan was also taken out by Han's mother to see him off.

Outside the car, Jiang Xuan rubbed his eyes half-awakely, called his uncle, and suddenly came to knock on the wall of his car, obediently reciting a farewell poem.

Pei Jun only felt that the child was really good when he was not awake, so he couldn't help stretching out his hand from the window to pinch his face, and smoothed a strand of his forehead hair. Concerned about the child's safety.

But then he thought that Jiang Yue would come to pick up the child and go to Prince Jin's mansion after noon, and at that time, Jiang Xuan must be happy to meet his uncle again, so he was relieved, and only asked Jiang Xuan to be obedient in the mansion and not to stay in the mansion. He had to be more obedient, and then he put down the curtain and drove to Hanlin.