Rise From the Humble

The setting sun cast its afterglow on the Linhuai Marquis Mansion. The two-bird sparrows lingered for a while and then spread their wings and flew away. The sound of approaching carriages and horses was heard in the distance. In the setting sun and sunset, a car with a hood came slowly. carriage.

As soon as the carriage stopped, Zhu Pingan got out of the carriage first, and then stretched out his hand to pick up the little Loli girl.

The naughty kid got out of the carriage, stretched out his fat paws, and pretended to want Zhu Pingan to take him down.

"I only hug girls"

In the end, the naughty boy only heard the sound of a certain country bumpkin brother-in-law who needed a beating, and then he had no choice but to slide off the carriage.

"There's a girl behind you, please hug her." After the naughty kid slid off the carriage, he pinched his waist with his little fat paws and yelled at Zhu Pingan with his little fat face.

Then the little maid Baozi who got off the carriage immediately behind her turned red in the face, glanced at Zhu Pingan like a rabbit, and then lowered her head.

"You stupid girl, why are you standing still? Get off quickly." Li Shu in the carriage urged.

"oh oh."

The little maid Baozi blushed and got out of the carriage at a loss, as if she was a stupid thief caught by her master. After getting off the carriage, the little maid Baozi stretched out her little hand to help Li Shu get off the carriage.

"Hey, Zhu Pingan, you candidates will have a two-month vacation soon after taking office. Do you want to go home?" Li Shu and Zhu Pingan walked side by side on the path leading to the backyard of the mansion, seemingly asking. I asked casually.

"Oh, is there such a long holiday?" Zhu Pingan stopped and looked happy.

"Of course there is. After your new official takes office, in about ten days, you will have a long holiday. This kind of benefit is only for you newly promoted Jinshi. The two-month long holiday allows you to settle down and deal with your personal affairs. From now on, You must concentrate on serving the country, and you will never have such a long vacation again."

Li Shu nodded, and the golden steps on her princess bun also swayed. The string of agate tassels looked even more dazzling under the afterglow of the sunset. Li Shu was also pink and charming, and her whole body seemed to be blooming in the spring breeze. The flower buds are very delicate and beautiful.

This is the first time Zhu Ping'an has heard of this kind of long holiday. He has never found such a long holiday in ancient times in modern times. He thought that in ancient times, there was only a ten-day holiday, that is, a ten-day break for bathing, especially during the Ming Dynasty. It was more difficult to take a vacation from the imperial court. Emperor Yuanzhang was a workaholic and only gave the Ming Dynasty three days of vacation a year: one day for the New Year, one day for the winter solstice, and one day for my birthday. Later, it was too difficult to implement and many people asked for leave. The Ming Dynasty only added three days of leave to January. It takes at least one or two months or even half a year for a modern civil servant to start work after being admitted. Unexpectedly, the Ming Dynasty actually had a holiday system similar to the modern civil service examination.

An unexpected surprise.

"Why don't you go home after a two-month long vacation? No matter how beautiful the capital is, it's not as beautiful as going down the river." Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but show joy on his face.

"Oh, you're lucky. I'm about to go home. My uncle will send me a boat to take me home. You can come with me. There are so many cabins empty anyway." Li Shu glanced at Zhu Zhu casually. With a glance at Ping An, his red lips slightly parted and a voice as clear and sweet as a lark came out.

By boat?

Well, it seems good. Riding a horse was very bumpy and hard when we came here. It was common to eat and sleep in the open. In ancient times, there were no highways like modern times. The roads were rugged and difficult to navigate. Riding horses around mountains and rivers took a lot of time, especially when killing a black horse. Unsatisfactory and slow

Even if you can't travel thousands of miles to Jiangling in one day, it's much faster to take a boat, and it's stable and has a place to rest, which saves you the hard work of eating and sleeping in the open. In addition, the cook of Li Shu's family is simply excellent at cooking.

While Zhu Ping'an was thinking, Li Shu kept watching with her pretty eyes, and the slender hands in her long sleeves couldn't help but tighten the embroidered handkerchief.

"Haha, I'm busy over there." Zhu Ping'an thought for a while and agreed.

When Li Shu heard this, her pretty eyes instantly became even more dazzling. She raised her pretty face arrogantly and said, "It's empty anyway, so I might as well take advantage of you, stupid toad."

With that said, Li Shu held the hem of Fan Qun's skirt in her slender hands, twisted her waist, and walked quickly in front of Zhu Pingan, with the ribbon fluttering, leaving Zhu Pingan with a proud back.

At this time, they happened to arrive at the guest room where Zhu Pingan lived. Zhu Pingan looked at Li Shu's arrogant back, shook his head, and then led the naughty child and the little Loli back to his guest room.

The naughty kid was very excited when he heard that Zhu Pingan was leaving soon. When Zhu Pingan left, didn't it mean that I could play freely again?

"Brother-in-law, when will you come again?" Little Loli Niuniu was very reluctant to leave.

Come again? When I come to the capital again, I will definitely not live in the Hou Mansion again. But looking at the little loli Niuniu’s big reluctant eyes, Zhu Pingan didn’t have the heart to tell her the truth. He just told her to wait until the weather is warm and the dragonflies are flying. He came back on his own. After ten days and a half, this little girl probably forgot about herself.

Hearing that Zhu Pingan would come back, the little Loli girl regained her innocent smile.

"Brother-in-law, there is no meat in the meat buns outside today. We don't want to eat them next time." The little loli girl thought of the meat buns she ate outside today and couldn't help raising her little face pitifully and complaining.

Well

Those are steamed buns.

There is no filling in the meat buns. I feel that this sentence can be compared with the "kind" Jin Hui Emperor's sentence "The people have no chestnuts to satisfy their hunger, why not eat minced meat?"

The little Loli who lives in the compound of Shenzhai is constantly eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, but she has never eaten steamed buns.

But I don’t know that in the land of Ming Dynasty, there are still people who want to eat steamed buns but can’t.

well

There’s a long way to go

"Brother-in-law, what's wrong with you?" Little Loli asked worriedly when she saw Zhu Pingan's face became heavy.

"Oh, it's nothing." Zhu Pingan smiled and shook his head.

Li Shu went back to the backyard and untied her hair. Her black hair was fluttering in the wind. She asked Baozi's maid to put her hair back into a bun suitable for hairpins. Baozi's maid chose a finely carved eight-treasure coral hairpin and tied Li Shu's hair into it. hairpin in a bun.

Wearing a pink floor-length dress with a thin waist tied with a ribbon, it makes her figure even more graceful. She has an eight-treasure coral hairpin in her bun, and her pretty face is even more charming and charming.

"Young lady is so beautiful," Baozi's little maid looked at Li Shu in the mirror and praised her sincerely.

"It's just your sweet talk. Okay, you can go down and have a rest. I'm tired after a day of shopping."

Li Shu pinched Baozi's little maid's face with her slender hands and smiled sweetly. Then, the little maid Baozi was pinched by Li Shu, and she closed the door happily like a puppy being praised by her owner.

After the footsteps of Little Maid Baozi faded away, Li Shu took the peach wood hairpin-headed phoenix wrapped in a handkerchief in her hand.

The scene of a certain smelly toad putting this hairpin-headed phoenix in his hand kept replaying before his eyes.

Li Shu couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips.

With slender hands, she took off the eight-treasure coral hairpin from her bun, threw it casually on the table, and then carefully inserted the hairpin into her bun.

"So lovely"

Li Shu changed several positions in front of the mirror and looked at it for a long time, with a delicate smile on her lips.

After a while, Li Shu came to the desk by the window and looked far away in the direction of the guest room where a certain smelly toad was temporarily staying. She took out a pen and paper with her slender hands, and the small regular script of the hairpin slowly appeared on the pink On the letterhead:

If you give me a wooden hairpin,

I will tie your hair long;

Wash away all the lead, and from now on, the sunset will be over the horizon.