The lady escaped marriage and became addicted

Chapter 43
The gifts given by the guests are registered after entering the door, and then sent to the temporary warehouse for storage. After the host has seen it, he decides how to collect it.

The male guests were entertained in the outer hall, and the female guests were welcomed into the second door. Because of his young age, Zhao Anqi followed his mother and sister into the second door.

This was Zhao Anqi's first visit to County Magistrate Qian's house, and along the way, he felt that it was not much more beautiful than his uncle's house.

Mr. Qian's courtyard is also a four-entry house.Qian Pengyang has one wife and three concubines, two sons and three daughters.The eldest daughter and two sons are from the Wen family, and the two concubine daughters are from Aunt Jiang and Aunt Yu.Aunt Jiang was the girl who served Qian Pengyang since she was a child, and she was given the title after Wen Shi entered the door.Aunt Yu is Wen's maid, who took over Qian Pengyang's house when Wen was pregnant, and she was the aunt who only raised a daughter after she gave birth.

Aunt Jiang is two years older than Wen Shi, and Aunt Yu is only one year younger than Wen Shi. Therefore, Aunt Zhou, who has just entered the house, is naturally favored.

Qian Pengyang's eldest daughter is married in the capital. The eldest son Qian Rui is not yet married this year, and he is entertaining male guests in the front yard with his father. backyard.Qian Pengyang also has two concubine daughters. One is 15 years old and has already been engaged. She is currently embroidering dowry in the room and has not come out.

Both Zhao Anqi and Qian Ning are studying in the same school, they can be regarded as classmates, and they have a good relationship.In fact, if there were not Gu Shaolin and Qian Ning covering him in the school, he would definitely be bullied.

It was rare for Qian Ning to have a companion of similar age, and he was very happy to see Zhao Anqi. He felt very tired of all the female relatives here, so he wanted to drag him to his study to read.

Wen also knew that the people who came to the inner courtyard today were all female relatives, and there would not be many boys. It was rare for his son to meet his companions, so he agreed, and only ordered people to watch them carefully, so as not to cause trouble.

An Qi looked at his mother and sister, hesitantly said: "Brother Ning, can you take my sister with you? She likes reading books the most."

When An Ran heard her brother mentioning herself, she was a little confused for a while.She really likes books and wants to visit the county magistrate's study, but she is also reluctant to leave her mother.From An Ran's point of view, Niangqin is still too simple, she is worried that if she is not here, Niangqin will suffer in front of these rich grandmothers and wives.

Qian Ning glanced at An Ran, frowned like a little adult and said, "Let's go to read and write, what does she do as a little girl? What if she cries? I don't know how to coax a little girl."

An Qi took An Ran's hand and said with a smile: "Don't worry, my sister is not a crybaby. She can't cry. Her favorite thing is reading and writing. My sister's handwriting is better than mine. OK!"

An Qi couldn't help showing off her baby sister again.An Ran was speechless, gently pulled his sleeve and said, "Brother, stop talking."

"Really?" Qian Ning looked at An Ran in disbelief, nodded and said, "Then let's go together. As long as she doesn't cry." Obviously, she didn't quite believe An Qi's words about showing off her younger sister.

Gu Wanniang was not at ease at first, but she couldn't say that, so she could only tell Anqi to be optimistic about her sister.

Thus, the three children were taken to the inner study.

The Qian family has two study rooms. The outer study room is where Qian Pengyang handles official business and meets people at home. Zhao Shihua often goes there and mainly uses it for office work.The inner study is where he occasionally reads and writes when resting in the inner courtyard, and his two sons basically read and write here.

In the study room, only two maids were there. Qian Ning ordered tea and snacks, handed the snacks to An Ran, and then dragged An Qi to read her new book.

An Ran thought to herself: This second young master is not bad in etiquette, although he is not warm to her, but at least he knows how to treat guests.It can be seen from this that Wen's background should be good.

While eating pastries, she strolled under the bookshelves and read slowly.

There are not too many books in this inner study, only a few hundred, but this is for someone like An Ran who has seen the library in his previous life.For An Qi, the books here are already a sea of ​​books.The Zhao family's books sold some, and later the brothers separated. Although Zhao Shihua's books were distributed the most, there were only a few dozen copies.

Because it is an inner study, apart from the four books and five classics that Qian Rui and Qian Ning use daily, the bookshelves are mostly leisure books, such as various poems and travel notes.

At this moment, An Qi and Qian Ning were over there discussing in low voices lying on their desks.

Only Zhao Anqi said enviously: "I heard my father talk about the Classic of Mountains and Seas, but our family does not have this book. I heard that it was sold by my grandma many years ago. Do you think there are really gods and monsters in this world? This book is really interesting, Brother Ning, where did you find it?"

"Haha, it looks good!" Qian Ning smiled triumphantly, "My eldest brother-in-law sent it to me from Beijing. Look at this, these symbols, haven't you seen them before? These are called punctuation marks! It is said that punctuation marks are required for the township examination in the future. It is being discussed in the court, and the decree will be promulgated soon. My father originally forbade me to read such idle books, but I said Learn this punctuation first, and he'll be right."

Hearing this, An Ran couldn't help walking over, took her brother Zhao Anqi's arm and said, "Brother, brother, show it to Nannie!"

An Qi turned around and pulled An Ran in front of him. Seeing that she was a little short, he simply hugged her and sat down on a chair covered with fur cushions. Then he pushed the book over and said, "Look, sister! This is This is a good book! With these symbols, I don’t need my father to punctuate sentences anymore, and I can read them myself.”

An Ran stared at the new book in front of her with punctuation marks, and was shocked again.She almost didn't have to think about it, it must be the masterpiece of the third prince again.

Punctuation is indeed a good thing.It is estimated that he, like her, is not used to reading books without punctuation or sentence breaks.But, wouldn't it be too much for him to show off like this?The previous Three Character Classic and the current punctuation marks, if he shamelessly misappropriates some Tang and Song poems in the future, wouldn’t it be easy to win the hearts of scholars all over the world?
(End of this chapter)