After the banquet was over, Li Hui ordered people to arrange a place for Xie Xuan and others to live, but Xie Xuan said that he would live in the back hall of the county government office and live with Li Hui. Li Hui had no choice but to agree.
Tired from the journey and drinking some wine, Xie Xuan was a little sleepy. After arranging a bed in the west wing, Xie Xuan fell asleep. Li Hui also ordered Zhou Che to settle down the guards accompanying Xie Xuan and sit down after returning to the room.
After staying there for a while, I felt drunk and dizzy, so I went to bed to rest.
Xie Xuan slept until dark before waking up. When Li Hui got up in the evening, another banquet had been arranged. Xie Xuan was not polite and continued drinking. Xie Xuan was a talkative person and kept talking about topics. Interesting facts
Anecdotes, major events in the world, and everything to talk about. Li Hui is also a well-informed person, with a rich reserve of knowledge, and he can speak well of each other. This meal of wine can be described as congenial and congenial. Both of them were surprised by the other's knowledge and understanding.
He is knowledgeable and has a better understanding of the other party.
As the saying goes, when you drink with a close friend, you drink too little, and this time it was the second watch of the night. The two of them drank a whole jar of wine, and in the end they were both drunk. They didn't even take off their clothes, shoes and socks, so they lay down on the big bed in the east wing and fell asleep.
The next day, Li Hui took Xie Xuan around outside the city of Juchao County. Although the weather was cold, Xie Xuan was in high spirits and asked Li Hui in detail about what happened when he came to Juchao County.
They asked about the lake bandits, providing relief and shelter for the people, fighting wits and courage with the local gentry, and asking about the fight against the grain-grabbing rebels, and about fighting floods and protecting the land. Of course, they also asked about the grain requisition and assassination incidents that happened not long ago.
Li Hui actually felt that Xie Xuan was a little strange. His questions were very detailed and even a little abrupt. When asking, he would sometimes make some suspicious inquiries. But Li Hui still told the truth without reservation. Because these things are actually nothing.
It's a secret, and it's not something shady. If Xie Xuan is interested, just tell him, and that's okay.
At Xie Xuan's request, they went to Laoshan Island to check. Xie Xuan liked fishing, and Li Hui accompanied him to fish for a while. After returning to the county government office in the evening, the two set up a banquet and started drinking. Li Hui thought
My ability to drink was pretty good, but compared to Xie Xuan, I was still inferior. The two of them got extremely drunk once again and slept soundly in the same bed all night.
The weather changed on the second night, and the north wind blew all night. When I woke up in the morning of the third day, the sky was extremely gloomy, and it seemed like it was going to snow.
When Li Hui and Xie Xuan were sitting at the door of the main hall drinking tea, traces of snowflakes began to fall, and soon the first snowfall in Juchao County this year began to fall.
Both of them felt novel and happy, so they got up and went to the yard to stand in the snow and enjoy the snow.
"It has snowed so early. It seems that there will be less rain and snow this year." Li Hui frowned. What he was thinking about was whether the people in Juchao County would have a hard time because of this snow.
Xie Xuan smiled and said: "It's almost November, today is twenty-eight. In fact, it's already late. It's time to snow."
Li Hui suddenly realized that it was almost the winter moon. It was indeed the time for snow.
Xie Xuan stood in the snow, stretched out his palm to catch the snow, and suddenly burst into laughter.
Li Hui looked at him with a smile and said, "Brother Xie, did you think of something happy?"
Xie Xuandao: "It is indeed a happy thing. I remember when I was a child, when I was in my hometown in Kuaiji, I enjoyed the snow with my fourth uncle's sister and the others. More than ten years have passed in a flash. Time flies so fast.
"
Li Hui's heart moved, he looked at Xie Xuando with a smile and said: "Want to enjoy the snow? It's quite interesting. I guess he must have composed a poem."
Xie Xuan smiled and said: "How do you know?"
Li Huidao: "I told you it was just a guess. Your fourth uncle is a famous scholar all over the world. He is naturally knowledgeable and talented. How could you not compose poems when enjoying the snow?"
Xie Xuan laughed and said, "You guessed it wrong. My fourth uncle didn't write poems, but he asked my sister and I to write poems. He wanted to test our literary talents."
Li Hui smiled and said: "I see. Wouldn't that be bad? If it were me, I would be very nervous in this situation. I am afraid that someone will suddenly test me. I am not prepared at all."
Xie Xuan winked and gave Li Hui a concerned look.
"My sister wasn't afraid, she even clapped her hands and applauded. I pretended to have a stomachache and wanted to leave, but my fourth uncle grabbed me and couldn't get away at all," Xie Xuandao.
Li Hui couldn't help but laugh. Thinking about the scene, it was indeed funny.
"Brother Xie, pardon my presumption, is your sister Xie Daoyun?" Li Hui asked.
Xie Xuan nodded and did not show any surprise. His Xie family is famous all over the world. In addition to his uncle Xie An, who is a famous celebrity, the other famous person in his Xie family is his sister Xie Daoyun.
Although his eldest sister is a girl, her talk, demeanor and demeanor are not inferior to the celebrities in the world, and she is the leader among the women of the Jin Dynasty. Everyone in the world does not know, and everyone does not know. Li Hui knows that the name of the girl from the Xie family is actually not
Not surprising. If he didn't know, that would be called being ignorant.
Xie Xuan stretched out his hand to catch the falling snowflakes from the sky, recalling the situation at that time in his mind. He said softly: "My fourth uncle asked us to write a poem with the theme of snow. He asked, 'What does the white snow look like?'
My mind went blank at the time, and it took me a long time to come up with the sentence, 'You can make the difference by spreading salt in the air.'"
Li Hui couldn't help laughing. Xie Xuan said angrily: "Even if you make fun of me, you can't do it so openly."
Li Hui hurriedly waved his hands and said: "It's not a joke, it's not a joke."
Xie Xuan glared at Li Hui, smacked his lips and said: "No wonder you laugh, I feel ridiculous now. My fourth uncle also laughed mercilessly that day. People in their thirties and forties laughed at me, a teenager.
My child is a famous person in the world."
Li Hui wanted to laugh but didn't dare, and struggled to hold it back. But he heard Xie Xuandao: "But the sentence my sister made is indeed a hundred times better than mine. She said 'It's like catkins blowing in the wind,' and I was willing to be inferior."
My fourth uncle is also very satisfied. Alas, in terms of knowledge of poetry and literature, my sister is a hundred thousand miles ahead of me, and I can’t even catch up with her on a flying horse."
Li Hui nodded and praised: "It's indeed very good. But yours is not bad either, so there's no need to belittle oneself."
Xie Xuan looked sideways at Li Hui and said, "Please stop saying such things. Do I need your comfort?"
Li Huidao: "It's not a comfort, let alone a compliment. My sister's sentence 'It's not like catkins blowing because of the wind' is indeed very well written. The catkins are flying, and the sky is white, just like flying snow. It has both form and spirit. However, Brother Xie's sentence
It's actually very good, but it's just a different kind of snow than what Sister Ling said."
Xie Xuan looked at Li Hui with a teasing smile, his expression seemed to say: You continue to tell nonsense, I will watch your performance.
Li Huique said: "Brother Xie, this is not nonsense. Every snowflake has a different shape, and every kind of snow is also different. Haven't you heard of this sentence? The ancients said: 'Frozen snow is like fine salt,
The light snow is like flying catkins. What you were talking about that day were just two forms of snow. There is a kind of "frozen snow" in the north. When the weather is extremely cold, the snowflakes melt as they fall and condense into small particles before falling to the ground.
The snow particles are exactly the same as fine salt. Brother Xie said that the difference in salting can be reduced, and that is absolutely correct. On the contrary, the frozen snow falls, which cannot be described as catkins, because it cannot float at all. So, in fact,
Your response is absolutely correct."
Xie Xuan said in surprise: "Did the ancients really say that? There is such a thing as frozen snow? Have you seen it?"
Li Hui smiled and said, "Why did I lie to you?"
Xie Xuan said happily: "Very good, now it makes sense for me to go back. My sister has teased me about this matter for many years, and this time she was speechless. Li Hui, thank you very much, you are still well-informed." I'm going back to vent my anger."
Li Hui chuckled, feeling extremely proud. Of course this was all nonsense. What the ancients said was all nonsense. Frozen snow does exist, but frozen snow is actually small hailstones. This is a completely different concept. Li Hui Hui Ye just thought it was fun and joked casually, but he didn't expect Xie Xuan to take it seriously. It seems that Xie Xuan really hopes that what he said is right, so that he can regain the situation more than ten years ago. I am afraid that this matter is caused by their brother and sister When talking about mutual attacks on each other, Xie Xuan was naturally the one who was speechless after being bullied. Now he would rather believe that he had it.
"I heard that your sister is married to Wang Ningzhi of the Langya Wang family?" Li Hui suddenly asked for some reason.
Xie Xuan was stunned and frowned: "Who did you listen to? Why do you ask this?"
Li Hui was shocked to realize that he had made a mistake. Why was he asking about the girl from the Xie family? However, Li Hui also felt a little strange. Xie Xuan looks to be around 23 or 24 years old, and his sister Xie Daoyun is at least almost 30 years old. She should have been married long ago and is no longer a virgin. This topic is not that sensitive.
"Brother Xie, I don't mean anything else, I just asked casually. I'm rude." Li Hui said hurriedly.
Xie Xuan sighed, waved his hand and said: "That's all, it's nothing actually. It's not that I can't mention it. It's just that the matter you asked about is something that my sister doesn't want to mention. My sister Daoyun does have an engagement with the Wang family, but his Wang family Which of my sons is worthy of my sister? Wang Ningzhi is dull and slovenly. His appearance and demeanor are not worth mentioning, and his talents and character are even worse. My fourth uncle is good at everything, but he is dissatisfied in this matter. He wants to When my sister marries Wang Ningzhi, isn't that like a flower stuck in cow dung? My sister found reasons to refuse the engagement ten years ago. The Wang family was so stubborn that they refused to let go. It was really wasted. My sister’s youth is irritating.”
Li Hui was extremely surprised. The reason why he asked casually was because Xie Daoyun, a talented woman in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was so famous and a leader among women in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Since he traveled to the same era as her, he could not help but gossip. With Xie Daoyun, this She seemed to be twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old at that time. According to historical records, she had already been married to Wang Ningzhi, the son of Wang Xizhi, the famous member of the Langya Wang family.
Who would have thought that what I heard from Xie Xuan seemed to be that Xie Daoyun and Wang Ningzhi had been engaged for ten years and have not married yet? How is this possible? In an era like the Jin Dynasty, how could such a thing happen? It is really shocking and jaw-dropping ..