Recently, the trend of wearing the seven-piece ornaments has been gaining popularity in the capital. From officials to ordinary people, everyone considers it beautiful. Not only men, but even women wear men's clothes to go out.
The most dazzling among them are the Dali Temple patrol guards.
Because Lou Yunchun walked in and out of the Dali Temple every day with a robe on his head, his calm demeanor and solemn attitude won him praise from all walks of life.
His subordinates were all envious and followed suit. In just half a month, everyone wore a belt around their waist. Although they were not as handsome as Lou Yunchun, they had some elegance.
Later, because the walking stick could be used to carry keys, waist badges, fire sticks, and other accessories, making it convenient for patrols, the patrol guards and officials simply modified it, reducing its ostentation and increasing its sturdiness, and incorporated it into the official uniform.
This is not only practical, but also very beautiful and majestic. Whenever he goes out on patrol or official business, he will attract many people to chase and watch.
Especially when inspecting Pingkangfang, the sachets and embroidered handkerchiefs thrown down from the brothels were not enough to hang around.
Lou Yunchun would occasionally go to Pingkangfang on business. At first, many singing and dancing girls were attracted by his beauty and threw sachets at him, but he knocked them down one by one, and their hearts were trampled to pieces by horses' hooves.
Afterwards, when Lou Yunchun led his men to break into his own restaurant and dance hall, everyone suddenly repented. How could they have forgotten that this was a living devil!
From then on, I avoided it.
Although Xu Jiang had heard about this, she had no time to watch because she was very busy.
In addition to engraving the orchid book, she also took on work assigned by the Imperial College these days, and had to go out at night with a night owl to check on the progress of the renovation of the new house, not to mention the various trivial rules and etiquette related to the wedding ceremony.
In short, every day when you open your eyes, there is something to do.
Lou Yunchun felt distressed when he saw this, so he sent Yin Yin back to the bookstore to help. When Yin Yin found out, she was so happy that she almost jumped up. Finally, under Wu Zhi's cold gaze, she shrank away cautiously.
With Yin Yin's help, Xu Jiang felt much more relaxed. Liang Mo also asked her master to help, and the work immediately became much easier. She was able to concentrate on carving the orchid album overprint plate.
At court, the case of the aristocracy colluding with foreign officials to rebel was thoroughly concluded. Lou Yunchun had some free time, so he asked the emperor for a month's leave on the pretext of tending to his sick mother.
After taking leave, he served his mother at home during the day, occasionally went to the new house with Uncle Cao to supervise the construction, and went to the bookstore to help out in the evening.
When Lou Jing discovered that he had secretly gone to see Xu Jiang, he first warned him for a few days, but when he saw that he was still pretending to obey but actually disobeying, he was too lazy to care about it anymore.
It’s impossible to control it anyway.
But he didn't care about it, while Master Lin was worried to death.
When Master Lin learned about the renovations on the new house, he went to see them when he had some free time. He happened to run into Xu San, who revealed that they often came together to supervise the work.
Master Lin had a gloomy face and went back to give Xu Jiang a good scolding.
Xu Jiang brought up what he had said and hit his foot so hard that it hurt. Afterwards, he admitted his mistake and acted pitiful, so he softened his heart and let her go.
But he still felt a sense of sorrow and resentment in his heart, and the next day he met the heartless Lou Jing in the court, which immediately aroused his anger.
He couldn't help but criticize Lou Jing several times, both openly and secretly, and reminded him to take good care of his son and not to run around unless necessary.
Lou Jing didn't dare to argue with him, so he went back to beat his son. Unfortunately, his son was thick-skinned and ran as usual after the beating, which made Lou Jing exhausted.
Seeing this, Wu Zhi gave him a bottle of the magic pills she had made for Xu Jiang. After taking them, he felt refreshed and waited for Lou Yunchun at the door every night, determined to tame him.
Mrs. Lou tried to persuade him but failed, and could only sigh helplessly.
Wu Zhi advised her to relax and just treat it as a good show that would be beneficial to her body and mind.
So the two of them ate snacks, drank the medicinal tea prepared by Wu Zhi, and listened to Liu Mei and the little girls report on the "battle situation", which was very pleasant.
After being caught by his old father several times, Lou Yunchun simply stopped going out the door and climbed over the wall to leave.
Lou Jing was so angry that he didn't eat for several meals. Finally, Xu Jiang asked Liang Mo to send a small autumn banquet, and then they caught the man.
The young children worked together, and the old father was happy even though he was defeated.
Happy to eat in one bite.
But because of the small banquet hosted by Xu Jiang in the autumn, Lou Jingming was strict but secretly relaxed, and turned a blind eye to his rebellious son's act of climbing over the wall.
As for Master Lin, he would avoid him if he could, but if he couldn't, he would sigh and groan, or even wipe away his tears and admit that he was a bad parent.
Master Lin was at a loss as to what to do with the old loach in the mud, and after being depressed for a few days, he had no choice but to give up.
Only Zeng Zhui was unlucky. When he was throwing a sour text at Lin Hongchu through the wall, it accidentally hit Master Lin's hand.
The older one couldn't be controlled, and the younger one was still naughty under their noses, but the two of them were reluctant to scold them, so they took out their anger on Zeng Er and made him copy all the books in the study.
Zeng Er copied so much that he was dizzy and hadn't cooked for several days. Finally, Xun Yan couldn't bear it anymore and asked Master Lin to talk to him, and only then did he lift the ban.
After this ordeal, Master Lin was also tired. He would scold the little ones when they bumped into his hands, but if they didn't come in front of him, he would just pretend not to see or hear them.
With the tacit approval of his elders, Lou Yunchun became even more unscrupulous. He even used buying and borrowing books as an excuse to often go to the bookstore in broad daylight. Although it was not easy to stay for long, he was satisfied just to see the bookstore once.
That day, Lou Yunchun came to the bookstore to return a book, but saw Hu Xu also coming. He was helping Xu Jiang prepare the pigments for overprinting under the tree in front of the door.
Lou Yunchun dug out a painting box from his mind. Thinking of the lifelike portraits in the painting box, his internal organs began to stir. The pickled celery, pickled plums, and pickled fish... were so sour that his nose and eyes were no longer eyes.
Hu Xu was grinding a stone and extracting its color with water. He wasn't surprised to see Lou Yunchun coming over. "Brother Lou, where are you from?"
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