MTL - Happiness Consist in Contentment-Chapter 6

For example, An He, her hobbies are eating and playing, but she is best at calligraphy, especially cursive!

Looking at her coquettish appearance, it is completely unimaginable that she is domineering and unrestrained when she writes crazy cursive.

The contrast is too great for outsiders to believe.

Liu Fang was actually surprised. When she was in class with her sisters as a child, she often suspected that she was not from time travel. The Seventeenth Sister is the one who will never forget her. She is talented and savvy, and she is so savvy that she has crushed her, a traveler with memories of her past life, to the point of doubting her life.

Yet it is so.

From the outsiders' point of view, Liu Guogong's mansion has only prospered in recent years. However, in Liu Fang's view, it is completely the result of the accumulation of all the people in Liu Guogong's mansion.

What outsiders see is the success of the children of Liu Guogong's mansion, but what Liu Fang sees is the **** of the ancients in terms of IQ and EQ.

After all, talent is innate, but the acquired environment was created by Mrs. Liu Guogong alone.

Her generosity, wisdom, fairness and justice are the keys to enabling all children of Liu Guogong's mansion to become talents and to give full play to their respective strengths.

If it hadn't been for her bowl of water, so that all the children could unite from the bottom of their hearts and live in harmony, Liu Guogong's mansion would never be what it is today.

Therefore, regardless of the concubines in Liu Guogong's mansion, they sincerely respect and admire Liu Guogong's wife, and they have become good children who are obedient and obedient.

It is precisely because of this that people like An He who are so contrasting can maintain their individuality and grow up until now.

An He pulled Liu Fang all the way to look at the forest of monuments, stopping from time to time to comment a few words, Liu Fang listened with a smile, and occasionally responded with a few words. The two sisters were talking and laughing, but they were also at ease.

After a while, the group of scholars also came here, each looking at the forest of steles and discussing,

An He also happily pulled Liu Fang not far away to listen to their discussion, nodding from time to time.

"This group of scholars are not pedantic, and their brains are quite smart."

Liu Fang is funny, the current atmosphere has not reached the point where men and women are not seated at the age of seven, and women are completely despised. At least some of the world's most famous Confucian scholars are women. There is no such thing as a female household. There were even female officials and generals in the courtroom. Open-minded, there are various schools of thought, there are also some, it can be said that a hundred schools of thought contend, and a hundred flowers bloom.

Such times are good, at least in Liu Fang's view, a girl's life is not only about getting married and having children, but also

can have a choice.

It's just that she struggled all her life in her previous life and died young, so she no longer had the urge to fight for the top. On the contrary, I am more willing to be a rice worm who does not worry about eating and drinking.

Leisurely, just live a happy and peaceful life.

That group of scholars was the same wave that Liu Fang and the others encountered when they went up the mountain, and the scholar in Tsing Yi was naturally among them.

An He whispered next to Liu Fang, "Sister, look, that young master is very quiet now."

"Is it okay for people to be quiet?"

"It's good to be quiet. It proves that he is sober, and he doesn't just like to stand out. It's really good to be able to be still and move."

An He looked at the scholar in Tsing Yi and nodded and said, "Scholar, people of this age always like to be in the limelight, but he is not. However, it seems that his mind is calm and deep."

Liu Fang is really speechless, it's not good to like to be in the limelight, to be quiet and calm, and to say that people are deep-minded, she said all the good and bad things. What can she say?

"Sister Seventeen, no matter what he is, it has nothing to do with us. Besides, we don't know him. It's not good to talk about people like this. Let's go elsewhere."

"Okay. Let's go to the bamboo forest to dig bamboo shoots and eat them later for lunch."

"Um. Let's go."

An He and Liu Fang turned around and took the people away. The scholars over there were also paying attention to them. After they left, they gathered together to discuss.

"Who were those two just now?"

"It's probably everyone who came up the mountain to get incense."

"Well, wasn't there a county master from the county master's mansion just now, maybe they are also some high-class girls?"

"It looks like the young lady of the Duke's family."

"How do you say that?"

"Although their clothes look ordinary, they are made of high-quality brocades. There are not many jewelry on their bodies, but everything is fine, and they are accompanied by a group of guards and maids..."

Everyone suddenly said, "No wonder, looking at the bearing is different."

"Exactly..."

The scholar in Tsing Yi only listened, and then continued to read the poems and poems on the Forest of Steles from a distance away from them, very seriously.

After lunch, Liu Fang and the others went back to the mansion. There were no more accidents on the way down the mountain.

After washing and changing clothes, Liu Fang lay on the bed and slept in the morning, only got up in the evening to eat, then went to greet Mrs. Liu Guogong, and then went back to rest.

Early the next morning, Liu Fang got up, washed and put on the training clothes, and went to the martial arts field for morning training.

The morning exercise in Liu Guogong's mansion is a bag

All the guards under the master, including Mrs. Liu Guogong's wife, must be present.

The eldest brother of the eldest son had already had heirs. The children were ranked in Liu Fang according to their age and height, and An He followed the adults for morning exercises.

In this way, the collective morning exercise is just boxing, and it will be over after two laps. After that, Mrs. Guogong and the other servants are busy separately, while the others continue to practice other things.

For example, Shizi practiced swordsmanship and spearmanship while An He practiced whipping. As for Liu Fang, she can order everything, but she is not very proficient in anything. Every day, various weapons are used in rotation, just to keep fit. body.

An He's whipping technique made it a tiger and tiger, and he couldn't get close within a zhang (2.5 meters) around him. Moreover, the move was not the kind of punching and embroidering his legs, but it was truly life-threatening and full of murderous aura.

Liu Fang also asked An He when he was a child, why did he learn such a murderous whipping technique?

An He's answer was a matter of course: "Since I have to study since I was a child, I have worked so hard to learn and practice so hard, so naturally I have to learn something practical. This whip is not bad, it is convenient to carry and very convenient to use.

Isn't it just for self-protection in the end? If I study so hard, but I can't protect myself in the end, then why should I study? Think you're not tired enough?

As for murderousness? Oh, people like us, when the time comes when we need to protect our own lives, this is the most practical. Otherwise, if you can't kill others, it will be someone else's turn to kill you. "

Liu Fang thought about it too.

The young lady of the country's mansion has guards when she comes in and out. If you really need to protect yourself one day, it is the most practical move that can kill you with one hit.

What's wrong with killing? Oh, when life is at stake, I really can't take care of so much.

The most important thing is to survive.

Therefore, the martial arts masters in Liu Guogong's mansion taught practical kung fu, not some tricks. Even the boxing that everyone fights together every day is a serious and practical boxing.

Although Liu Fang was not particularly proficient in martial arts, he was still able to protect himself. At least he would have no problem facing three or five stout men.

Although she has learned internal skills, she is not a talented person, just ordinary.

In short, under normal circumstances, she can still protect herself, not a completely charming lady.

After all, Liu Guogong's mansion is the founding father of the country, and Liu Fang's grandfather was also a famous general

The army is not a generation that has gained a false reputation. It's just that Liu Guogongzhi, who came to Liu Fang's father's generation, is not here. Even if he learns a good martial arts, his favorite thing is to do business and make money. He is a layman. Therefore, it makes Liu Guogong's mansion seem to be out of place in the eyes of outsiders.

Of course, Liu Fang secretly guessed that maybe the grandfather was afraid of the emperor's suspicion of these founding fathers, so he condoned his father's inaction.

However, all of this is just Liu Fang's own speculation. As for the facts, only the parties concerned will know.

After the morning exercise, they went back to their rooms to wash up and eat, and then they went back to their own business.

At present, there are only three sons of the eldest brother of the eldest son, and there are no daughters. In addition, the eldest son has no concubines, so all the sons are direct descendants. Most of the other brothers have many sons and few daughters, and the girls are still very young, the oldest is just over a year old, and the youngest is only three months old.

As for An He and Liu Fang, one is already engaged and is about to get married, and the other is about to be engaged and is about to get married. It will only take a year or two at most, and there is no need to go to school at all.

Therefore, only the boys' school is open in the Fuzhong, and the girls' school is temporarily closed.

However, Mrs. Liu Guogong is the kind of person who likes to take precautions. Even if there are no girls in the house who need to go to class, the teachers who teach girls did not dismiss them, but continued to keep them and support them. It is not idle to teach the servants of the house every day.

Of course, this kind of servants who have been taught by the teachers of the school are not ordinary servants, they are dowries prepared for the girls in the house: female guards, female accountants, female housekeepers, etc.

Even including the enlightenment of the children of the future girls, they are also competent. In short, they are the kind of specially trained professionals that only a big family can have.

The calligraphy, calligraphy and painting by Liu Fang's side are also professionals of this type, including female guards, female accountants, female housekeepers, and female gentlemen. The four little girls at the bottom are each good at a certain aspect, waiting to take their class in the future.

You can see that Liu Guogong's mansion is planning for the future like this, and it was justified that Liu Guogong once thought that his family was poor.

Don't you see modern people raising children, from kindergarten to university, the cost in the middle is a lot. What's more, Liu Guogong has forty children. In order to maintain the dignity of the Duke's mansion, it is really not easy to have such a large family.

Therefore, until now, Liu Guogong's mansion can be said to be a little more relaxed.

Fei was less because the children grew up, started their own families, and moved out of the house.

When Liu Fang and others get married, then the entire Guo Gongfu is the family of the heir, the population is not too large, and the cost will be less.

However, the cost of the school will probably not be small. After all, Mrs. Liu Guogong intends to turn her school into a clan school to train people in the family. This aspect is absolutely impossible to reduce the cost.

Fortunately, the family school is also very useful for cultivating children. When there are more talents from one generation to the next, it is still beneficial to the entire family. Now, this cost is of course nothing.

In the blink of an eye, midsummer has passed, autumn has come, and with the advent of winter, the nineteenth year of Jinwen has passed.

The next year, when the spring season came, Mrs. Liu Guogong sent someone early in the morning to inquire about the group of students in the capital who were preparing for the scientific examination, and planned to choose a husband for Liu Fang.

When New Year's Eve passed and the Lantern Festival came, An He took advantage of the last year to celebrate the New Year at her parents' house. After dinner, he took Liu Fang and ran out to see the lanterns.

The brothers in Beijing naturally had to keep up. First, they took their wife out for a stroll. Second, they also had to watch the two younger sisters.

It was just that An He had seen enough of his brothers and sister-in-law to spread dog food all the way, so he dragged Liu Fang away after a while. Let Liu Fang look helpless.

"Sister, you can do it, let's stay farther away, do we need to separate from the big brother and the others?"

An He rolled his eyes, "Hmph, you can just watch it. Anyway, I'm too lazy to watch them kiss each other in front of me, it seems like no one will get married."

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Liu Fang: …

"Sister, what you said is a bit too much."

"Oh, it's alright, alright, don't disturb our two unmarried girls' homes. Let's go shopping with us, and we'll go home in a while. Don't worry, Sister Seventeen won't lose you if she loses herself."

Hehe, "Then I really thank you."

"It's easy to talk, easy to talk about." An He pulled Liu Fang, "Hey, look, there's a fire trick in front of you, let's go and see."

"Eh, sister, don't pull it..."

"Come on, it'll be gone in a while."

Liu Fang knew that in order to prevent fires during the Lantern Festival in Beijing, all fire skills had a time limit, so An He was so anxious.

Because of the large number of people and An He crowding too fast, the guard woman who followed behind couldn't keep up all of a sudden, and only An He was left with Liu Fang.

The place where the fire skills were watched was guarded by the Imperial Army, and there were also people watching. An He dragged Liu Fang and squeezed around, but he was swept away before he knew it. She didn't notice it at all, and instead squeezed forward to see it. It wasn't until after watching the fire show that she realized that her sister was gone!

This time, she couldn't care about how embarrassed she was in the crowd, and hurried to find the guards, and the Guards, to find her sister.

But with so many people, where can they be found?

She was so anxious that she almost cried: "It's over, this time it's really over, my mother will never let me go.

Xiao Anfang, don't have anything to do with you, otherwise, I don't want to marry Seventeenth Sister, it's a question of whether I can live well..."

As for Liu Fang, she was squeezed into a corner after being squeezed around. Seeing that she couldn't squeeze in, she simply backed out.

There happened to be a secluded alley next to it, and there was a teahouse in it, so she walked in and found a table at random to sit down, hoping to wait for fewer people outside before going back to meet her family.

After ordering a pot of tea, Liu Fang sat quietly and drank slowly.

There were still a few tables of people in the teahouse, but they were probably overwhelmed by the crowd outside. At this moment, they were just like Liu Fang, sitting here quietly drinking tea and talking in a low voice.

Yang An took her sister out to see the lanterns, guessed lantern riddles at a booth, and won a pair of rabbit lanterns for her sister Yang Hui. Seeing that there were so many people on the street, I took my sister into the teahouse to rest.

As soon as I came in and sat down, I ordered a pot of tea and a plate of cakes for my sister to eat.

I saw Liu Fang sitting at another table.

Liu Fang didn't remember him at all, but Yang An still remembered Liu Fang.

In fact, in the forest of steles at Anguo Temple that day, the classmates discussed it for a long time. He has a good memory, and he can't even remember.

He was a little strange. He heard the discussion among his classmates that day. She was obviously a lady from everyone. How could she be alone in this humble little teahouse in this remote alley? There were no guard maids to follow.

Yang An frowned slightly, something happened to her, right? Lost from family? Or separated from the servant?

However, this is only a momentary thought. No matter what, Yang An can't be meddlesome and ask Liu Fang. He has no intention of dealing with high-profile households.

Besides, he was a poor disciple who hurriedly stepped forward to ask, and people would just treat him as a disciple and give him a slap in the face.

Why should you humiliate yourself?

Liu Fang didn't know that someone was paying attention to her, and even if she did, she wouldn't care.

That time when she entered the fragrance, the things she encountered were just trivial things that she forgot when she turned her head. Even if she had some impression of a certain person, it was not so impressive that she could never forget it.

After all, the two are completely people from two different worlds, and there is absolutely no intersection in their daily life, and they have never imagined that there will be any intersection in the future.

As for An He jokingly at the time whether she had fallen in love with a certain scholar, she answered casually and then forgot.

It was just that she admired this person more at the time, and she would never take it to heart later.

Therefore, even if Yang An sat next to her after entering the door, she did not recognize that this one was the scholar in Tsing Yi who was at the foot of Anguo Temple that day.

Yang An also knew that Liu Fang wouldn't recognize him, so he didn't rush forward to start a conversation.

After all, ancient times are different from modern times. It's normal for modern people to put together a table or something, and it doesn't matter to chat up and flirt with girls at will, but in ancient times, serious people would not accept such casual contact. Especially big families.

This is completely different from those passing by begging for water and sleeping in the rain.

In the eyes of the ancients, casual chatting is equivalent to being a hooligan, so a serious scholar like Yang An would not do such a thing.

The teahouse is very small, with seven or eight tables, only the kind of elegant seats with kneeling seats on both sides, the rest are tables and stools.

The private seat is blocked by bamboo curtains, and only when you enter the door can you see who is sitting in the private seat.

Liu Fang was sitting in an elegant seat by the door, while Yang An was sitting

A table by the seat.

Yang An's eyesight was excellent, and through the bamboo curtain, he recognized Liu Fang sitting inside.

Probably the other party is the first time in his life that he has really met everyone's noble girls.

It's not that Liu Fang gave him a special impression. If An He was here, he could recognize it at a glance. It was just his first experience that the impression was particularly clear.

One person sips tea safely, the other coaxes his sister to eat snacks, looks at the pair of rabbit lamps, and then sips tea, each in peace.

It's just that the silence of this room was broken by three drunken men hooking on their shoulders.

"The shopkeeper, the shopkeeper, hurry up, sir, I want to book a room!"

The whole teahouse was quiet and turned to look at them.

These three are probably used to being playboys, and they even laughed and talked loudly, causing everyone to frown.

"Guest officer, but unfortunately, the store is full. You gentlemen, please move to another place."

The owner of the teahouse is a handsome middle-aged man with a handsome face and a calm demeanor. He walked out from the counter and faced the three scumbags with a neither humble nor arrogant attitude.

Liu Fang raised her eyebrows when she saw it.

The capital really is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Such a character turned out to be the owner of a small and medium-sized teahouse in a secluded alley? interesting.

It's just that the three dudes didn't have the eyesight of Liu Fang, and one of them was very arrogant.

"Hey, you old man, you really don't know how to lift things up. Do you know who I am, Master? I belong to the prince's family. In the entire capital, except for the emperor, only the princes of the prince's family can compare with Xiaoye. Don't you hurry up? Chasing people out of acquaintances? Believe it or not, sir, I will smash your little teahouse if I am unhappy?!"

Hey, into the prince's family? !

Liu Fang raised her eyebrows again, oh, that's really interesting.

Mrs. Liu Guogong is the younger sister of Prince Cheng, a serious princess with different surnames of Wang's family. She followed her mother in and out of Prince Cheng's mansion since she was a child, but she has never seen this "Master".

The teahouse owner smiled, "I'm not talented, I'm a native of Kyoto. Several princes from Prince Cheng's family have met a few times here. I don't know which one of Prince Cheng's house is yours?"

The three dudes were stunned for a moment, especially the one who claimed to be the "Prince Cheng Family", who was even more stunned for a while before he blushed and said, "My father is the steward of the Prince Cheng Palace, why? It's up to you. Want to marry the little prince of the Prince's Mansion? Who are you!"

"Haha." The teahouse owner just smiled lightly, "Your Excellency turned out to be a servant of Prince Cheng's mansion, disrespectful."

"It's good to know that I'm being disrespectful, but let him be in a hurry.

fuck off? ! "

The owner of the teahouse was still smiling, "However, if you want to reserve the venue, you want to show your prestige, and please go elsewhere, we will not entertain you!"

"You, what do you mean? Dare to look down on the young master?"

The **** pointed at him, and his whole body trembled with anger, "Okay, I'll smash your teahouse, sir, let's see if you dare to look down on you, sir."

After saying that, he turned his head and rushed into the elegant seat by the door, which happened to be where Liu Fang was sitting. When he saw Liu Fang, the dude's eyes lit up.

"Hey, there's a beauty here?!"

Liu Fang frowned, looked at him lightly, and said calmly, "I advise you to get out of here."

"Heh, I really got to know each other today. No one cares about becoming the Prince's Mansion? Xiaoye really tells you that although Xiaoye is only the son of the prince's mansion, my father is in front of the Prince. My son, killing you is like killing an ant. Young master, I can do whatever I want, what can you do to me?"

Liu Fang: …

Talking to a fool is a waste of saliva.

"Today, my lord, I have to ask you to take a good look at it. My lord, I dare to do anything! Little beauty, come here, my lord will take care of you."

After saying that, Wanqian smiled slyly and rushed towards Liu Fang, trying to catch her.

Seeing this, Yang An frowned, stood up and wanted to go in to help. The teahouse owner also walked over quickly, trying to stop it.

However, no one expected that Liu Fang would sit very calmly, watching the man rush towards him, raising his hand and slapping him, directly knocking him out, lying on the ground, vomiting blood, and carrying A posterior molar.

The other two playboys who followed behind looked at them, their faces turned pale with fright, and their legs became weak.

The others in the teahouse were also stunned in surprise. Yang An stood aside and watched the man fly out of the seat and lay in front of him, while his sister Yang Hui also stared at the man in the seat with wide eyes in disbelief. Man, full of admiration.

Yang An: (⊙o⊙)! !

Yang Hui: It's amazing!

Teahouse owner: ...(⊙o⊙)! !

Are all girls so fierce now?

Liu Fang calmly poured a cup of tea, took a sip, and said leisurely in the elegant seat: "Kneel down honestly, if you dare to run..."

The last four words were meaningful. Liu Fang looked at him through the bamboo curtain, and said coldly, "Tomorrow, you will collect the corpse for your father, the steward of the Prince's Palace."

After many years, Liu Fang has long understood that the rules of honor and inferiority under the feudal system cannot be broken.

It's not that she has abandoned the three concepts of equality in modern society, but she understands that living in such a big environment, she is in the position of a lady of the state government.

- A serious master, with brocade clothes and jade food, he was loved by his family and grew up, so he should have the attitude and the bottom line that match his status and status.

It is impossible and not allowed to exist in a relationship like the one in the novel who is equal to the servants, as close as sisters.

If she really acts like this, let's not say whether others will find it strange, just like this mode of getting along with masters and servants, it is easy for the servants to blur their identities and positions, making them lose their sense of proportion and treat each other. Nothing good.

Besides, the power of an individual is very small in the overall social environment, and she does not intend to challenge the entire society and become an enemy of the world.

That would make her arrogant and stupid, and at the same time, it might not be accepted by the public.

Of course, the most important thing is that she doesn't have the fearless spirit of fighting the sky and the earth. To put it bluntly, she doesn't want to toss, just wants to live this life in a low-key and stable way.