Just as I was getting anxiously waiting, I saw Sangou coming back from outside, jumping and skipping.
Zhang Shixun asked with a stern face, "San Gou, where did you go to act wild?"
"Master...Master, you're back?"
Sangou saw Zhang Shixun sitting alone in the living room and hurried over.
"Hmm!" Zhang Shixun looked at Sangou. This guy seemed to have grown taller and gained a lot of weight.
"Sir, I'm not being wild. I'm out of coal at home, so I went to buy some." Sangou said, pointing outside.
A pitch-black man came in pushing a wheelbarrow with a wicker basket piled high with coal.
"Yeah! Not bad, not bad. Go to work." Zhang Shixun smiled and patted his shoulder to show encouragement.
San Gou ran out happily and directed the man to unload the coal outside the kitchen.
When Sangou came over after washing his hands, Zhang Shixun took out a piece of silver from his sleeve and handed it to him, saying, "I'll give you two days off. Buy some things and go home to visit your parents."
"Thank you, sir." Sangou jumped up happily and ran out.
After waiting for a while, I saw several beauties coming out of the backyard chatting and laughing. The leader was of course Ding Dusai, and Zheng Yuanyuan and others deliberately lagged behind.
I have to admit that the education in the palace is still very good.
Several women changed into men's clothes and wore hairpin-shaped futou.
Ding Dusai was smiling, her clear eyes shining. When she saw Zhang Shixun looking at her, the corners of her mouth rose slightly and she deliberately puffed out her chest.
"Wow!" Zhang Shixun exclaimed exaggeratedly, rubbing his eyes. "Saisai, is that you?"
"If it's not me, then who is it?" Ding Dusai walked up to him, stretched out his hands and turned around, "Sir, how do you like my outfit?"
Zhang Shixun gave a thumbs up, "Looks like Pan An!"
"Ms. Ding is beautiful. No matter what clothes she wears, her beauty cannot be concealed." Zheng Yuanyuan is very good at speaking.
Zhang Shixun looked at Zheng Yuanyuan. She was dressed in green. Her beautiful features looked particularly distinct, especially her lips, which were almost as red as if they were painted with rouge.
Zhang Shixun said, "Miss Yuanyuan is also very beautiful, and so are my younger sisters, hehe."
"Master, you are too kind. Compared with Madam Ding, we are far behind."
Ding Du track: "Sir, stop talking nonsense and let's go."
"Let's go! Let's go shopping." Zhang Shixun waved his hand and led the way to the door.
When they reached the door, Zhang Shixun said to Zheng Yuanyuan, "Sangou just came back. He bought a lot of coal. I asked him to go home to visit his parents."
"I'll go lock the door." Xiaoju turned around and went back to get the lock and locked the gate.
For a man, going out with a woman is a very painful thing.
Zhang Shixun suggested going shopping on a whim, but once they started, they found it very boring.
Men usually buy what they need and leave.
Women's is different, focusing on browsing and trying on clothes.
They would go into any cosmetics shop, jewelry shop, or clothing shop they saw.
Even when buying a small piece of jewelry, I will pick and choose carefully, and I must find the most perfect one in terms of price, workmanship and quality. I enjoy doing this and never get tired of it.
When Ding Dusai and the others entered the shop, he stood outside the door, watching the bustling crowd.
In later life, he watched "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" more than once. In "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", there were very few women.
Indeed, you rarely see women going out on weekdays. Only during festivals will there be more women on the streets.
Some of them were accompanied by their families, and some were in groups of three or five, forming a street scene.
Zhang Shixun scanned the women on the street, and none of them caught his eye.
On the contrary, among those who rode in sedan chairs, there were a few who were well-groomed.
Women who could afford to ride in a sedan chair were either very rich or the family members of high-ranking officials.
Then someone said, "Mr. Zhang, are you shopping alone?"
Zhang Shixun turned his head and saw Li Qingzhao standing beside him with a smile.
"Oh! It's Sister Li. Are you out shopping too?" Zhang Shixun was a little surprised.
"Well! Let's go out for a walk and buy some books." Li Qingzhao was shaking a book.
"I accompanied Madam Ding and the others to buy musical instruments, but they went into one shop after another. I had no choice but to wait patiently outside." Zhang Shixun looked miserable.
"Women are naturally different from men." Li Qingzhao smiled faintly. "Mr. Zhang bought a musical instrument. Are you planning to practice music at home during the New Year holiday?"
"Yes, the emperor has gifted me with a few palace maids. I want them to learn to sing so that they can support themselves in the future."
"Fend for themselves?" Li Qingzhao was confused. "From the sound of your voice, you don't plan to support them?"
Zhang Shixun nodded.
"Since it's a gift from the government, you have to take care of it, right?"
"They are all girls from good families. I don't intend to make them concubines or maids."
"Men like you are rare." Li Qingzhao's eyes softened, and she seemed to appreciate his actions.
"Sister Li, are you shopping alone?" Zhang Shixun looked behind her and didn't see Zhao Mingcheng.
"Yeah! I'm used to shopping alone."
Zhang Shixun looked at her beautiful face and thought, "Sister Li, if you're all right, why don't you come to my house and get to know me... By the way, I have a great poem that I'd like Madam Ding and the others to sing. I'd like you to comment on it then. How about that?"
Li Qingzhao couldn't stand the word "good poetry" and her heart was moved when she heard it. After thinking for a while, she said, "How about this? I'll go home first and visit you with my husband this afternoon. What do you think?"
"That's fine, let's do it in the afternoon."
Zhang Shixun told her the address, and the two agreed on a time, and Li Qingzhao left slowly.
After waiting for Ding Dusai and the others to come out, Zhang Shixun went up to them and asked, "What did you buy?"
“I didn’t buy anything.”
Zhang Shixun was stunned. He had been walking around for a long time but didn't buy anything. Wasn't this just a waste of time?
"Sir, are you getting impatient?"
"No rush, take your time shopping... By the way, I just saw Li Yian, I asked her to come home this afternoon."
"Oh! Let's buy musical instruments quickly. We can't let Mr. Yi'an wait for us." Ding Dusai said, and hurriedly greeted the sisters.
Everyone came to Ma Xing Street and quickly bought musical instruments.
Zhang Shixun was not short of money, so he always bought the best things.
I walked with them for a while, and when it was almost dark, we started to go home.
After returning home, Zhang Shixun asked Zheng Yuanyuan and others to clean up the study in the courtyard and make the charcoal fire burn brightly.
"Sir, what song are you going to teach them?"
"Song of Burying Flowers." Zhang Shixun blurted out. He had thought of it on the way.
This poem by Cao Xueqin is extremely destructive to women.
"Flower Burial Chant?"
"Uh-huh!"
"Let me listen first."
"Hehe! Let's wait until Mr. Li Yi'an comes."
"I want to listen first."
"Goodbye, you'll surely cry your eyes out after hearing this. I don't want you to cry alone. If you want to cry, you need someone to cry with you."
"Wow! Is this poem so powerful?" Ding Dusai was a little unconvinced.
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