Chapter 17 - Silhouettes

　　"Go to the carriage house and tell the people inside to arrange for the carriage that's big enough to lay the bedding flat, I'm going out of town for two or three days to tread the green." 　　"Yes, Master, I'll go to the girl's place now!" 　　"What?" 　　"Go to the girl's place?" 　　"Go to the girl's place for what?" 　　"Isn't ...... the girl in charge of the carriage house?" 　　The above conversation was happening between Xu Peidong and Huanxi. 　　It was also after this conversation that Xu Peidong suddenly realized that his daughter, who came to his wife and himself every day to greet her as usual as if she had nothing to do, was doing something he hadn't thought of at all. 　　Xu Peidong's first reaction was to ask He Shi. 　　As a result, He was still a bit bewildered and asked back, "Wasn't it mother who let it happen? Master doesn't know?" 　　Xu Peidong went to the old lady's courtyard again, but only just asked two sentences, was his own mother a "I let can not? You want to let the good sister child qinqiqi, calligraphy and painting are all good, I also want to let the good sister child moral and speech outstanding it", lightly blocked. 　　Xu Peidong gasped: "Virtue of speech which let her dip those things now ah! So small temperament is crooked in the future how to raise back!" 　　"Oh, crooked where?" The old lady asked. 　　"Every cent counts, mercenary vulgarity!" Xu Peidong nonchalantly used these eight words to describe it. 　　"It's evident that your virtue and speech are not the same thing as mine." The old madam said indifferently, and following that, she said to Sister Zhu, "Alright, send the Fourth Master out." 　　Being simply and roughly driven out Xu Peidong jumped in place for a while, didn't dare to break into his own mother's courtyard, after thinking left and right decided to go directly to see Xu Shanran, so he recruited Huanxi and went straight to Xu Shanran's less than residence. 　　The result is not as good as the residence, the yard of the subordinate is complete, but the master and personal maids are all absent, asked to stay in the courtyard of the Li mother, Li mother actually stammered to say. 　　Xu Peidong a year is not more angry than today, just when he is going to directly find someone to call Xu Shanran over, still stay in the courtyard of the red parrot happened to speak out: "Master, the girl may now be in the pavilion of the book." 　　"The book pavilion?" Xu Peidong paused momentarily. 　　"Yes, the girl is in charge of the carriages and horses, the gift list, the subordinates in charge of these have to come to report to the girl at a fixed time, only the book pavilion, the girl often goes over these days ......" 　　Xu Peidong will that mouth about to send out the gas again swallowed back into the stomach, with joy again straight to the mansion's book pavilion. 　　Zhan Guo Gongfu is a military general, but a few emperors down, the status of the civil servants is getting higher and higher, the House is also inevitable early on the storage of books, and send children to read, to the present, just put the book of the building, there are three large and small, respectively, is the Yunde Building, Guangze Pavilion, as well as the inner study room. 　　Needless to say, the inner study is extremely strict, only the old Duke and the current Duke Xu Peifeng is qualified to enter, in addition, even the old lady is not set foot. 　　And yuande building is living in the outer courtyard, the management is the most loose, the state house of the master guest, and even stored guests, foreign relatives and friends, can be free to come and go, within the book is not a lot, the scripture notes, poetry and painting books, books and novels, it can be said that there are all kinds of things. 　　The rest of the last Guangze Pavilion, is between the two study, not the inner study as the inclusion of national events family secrets, but in and out of a lot of freedom; not as much as Yunde building books, but the value of the building than Yunde on a lot of high, such as Yunde building of the painting and calligraphy is the top of the book, then here is hidden in this book; Yunde building that the Bureau of scriptures, here comes with the inclusion of the scriptures of celebrities note. 　　So for Xu Shan however, this Guangze pavilion stewardship, not the best, but and carriages and horses and gift list as well, exactly the most suitable for her. 　　And what suits you best is the real "best" for you. 　　Guangze Pavilion was built in the west side of the mansion, there is a very large window, the surrounding area is not planted with many trees and trees, only planted short bushes of flowers and plants and sparse bamboo, so the line of sight is quite open, the light is also good. 　　Xu Shanran is now sitting in front of the table next to the bed, while turning over the stack of books in their left hand side of the color, while holding a pen to write down a few words on the paper, will be turned over after the book, she or call waiting next to the green parakeet to take some books, or their own stand up in front of the tall bookshelves back and forth, sometimes looking for a very fast, and sometimes have to look for a very long time, wait until this time, she will move a chair to step on the chair. When that time comes, she will move a chair and step on it, pulling out the books on the top and turning them over one by one, ignoring the nervous look of Green Parrot next to her as she tiptoed to get the books. 　　Xu Peidong stood behind the door of the book pavilion for a bit too long. 　　The idea of coming over to ask for help at the beginning was getting fainter and fainter as he stood, and by this time, it had completely disappeared without a trace. 　　As a lover of books and also a regular visitor to this book pavilion, Xu Peidong knew very well that the books placed here were all those books. 　　Completely without those children like words novels or obscene words, those famous paintings and calligraphy is considered gold, but he remembers his own daughter on this is always perfunctory ...... Besides, she is now standing in the position to take the thing is also obviously not the place to put scrolls and scrolls ah! 　　Xu Peidong tapped the corner of his forehead with his finger and asked Huanxi beside him, "What kind of book do you think that's the place to put it?" 　　Huanxi was instantly dumbfounded, he hadn't known many words since he was a child, let alone running to the book pavilion, and now he was even more resourceful, it was impossible to even give this to the resourceful ah! 　　Xu Peidong asked and then laughed: he himself is a regular customer of the Book Pavilion, which need to ask others this kind of thing. 　　But although he clearly remembers what is put there ...... but is clearly remember what is put there, only to feel incredible. 　　Scripture articles, historians transcripts. The latter he is used as an idle book to read, but the former - ask ten people ten people have to say boring imperial examinations to take the material! 　　What was Sister Shan'er reading now? 　　Why would she think to come here and seriously read these books? 　　Xu Peidong realized that it was as if he had become a bit unrecognizable to his daughter. 　　He did not startle his daughter in the book pavilion, but walked out with Huanxi and the boy who was guarding the book pavilion, and said to the boy again, "You watch over here, and turn around and tell me everything about the papers the girl left behind, and what books she has read." 　　That before also greeted smiling boy heard this, face immediately changed, busy rushed Xu Peidong begged for forgiveness, said: "four masters must be sympathetic, this is the girl will not allow, if the girl knows, the small have no luck ah!" 　　Xu Peidong was in a state of laughter. 　　His daughter has only been in charge for a long time, and can really pinch all these slippery subordinates? But it was just some shirking words for fear of trouble! 　　He glared at the other party, "If you're told to do it, you'll do it, and the master will still treat you poorly?" 　　"No, no, no," the boy was really frightened, "Master must understand, Master must understand!" 　　Xu Peidong saw that the other party really wasn't asking for a reward, then he froze, "Didn't you just take me over to see it?" 　　"The girl never said that she wouldn't let the master in." The boy servant was busy saying. 　　"Then what happened when I asked you to collect some things?" Xu Peidong asked. 　　"This ...... not to mention that the girl has packed very carefully every time, is that we privately record what books the master reads - the girl said as soon as she came, is to beat away." The boy said, "So master you just stood by the door to see can, small did not glance inside ......." 　　Today's accidents were really one after another, Xu Peidong was a bit bewildered. 　　He frowned and thought for a moment, also did not force the boy, waved his hand to let the other party leave, he himself with joy, and went towards Xu Shanran's less than residence. 　　He had just sent the master away, and in the blink of an eye, the master returned, and the subordinates in the house were more or less flustered. 　　Xu Peidong didn't say anything this time, but only asked Mrs. Li to lead him to his daughter's boudoir, and asked Mrs. Li to tell him about his daughter's recent events. 　　The lead Li mom was silent for a long time before she carefully said, "The girl is older and has her own ideas ......" 　　Xu Peidong also realized this. 　　He followed mama Li to Xu Shanran's room, and what he saw in front of him was not at all the same as what he remembered. 　　He remembered that his own daughter's room should be very gorgeous and exquisite, whether it was filled with gold, silver, and jade on the Pokou shelves, or brightly colored makeup flowers and gold wisps of satin, or anything else a girl would like to have ......But now at a glance, the Pokou shelves were removed, and the room instantly appeared to be much more empty, and on the kang under the window on the south side, there was a small kang table , on the table there is a tea set, and a book that is upside down. 　　Xu Peidong walked up and took a look. 　　It was the Historian's Transcript. 　　As for the screen behind the place he did not go, only to the two sides of the ear room to go, a walk into, will see a table and a large bookshelf, the table on the four treasures, bookshelf next to a footstool, two rooms in addition to a chair on the lime-colored Begonia backrest, can really say nothing else. 　　Further to the bookshelf to see, are these years he brought one after another to the good sister's books. 　　The upper three floors are filled with travelogues, snacks and customs from all over the world, while the lower floors are still filled with the serious books of economics, science and historians. 　　Remembering his daughter's size, Xu Peidong concluded that the bottom ones were what his daughter liked. 　　This coincides with what he saw in the Book Pavilion, so it is clear that Shan Zi Er is really reading and wants to read these. 　　Good sister child want to see these, interested in these ...... He used to look forward to it, but the child gradually grew up, not interested in these ...... He thought good sister child is a daughter, perhaps born without this upper talent interest, the world's daughters would have been the same, and later I also gave up this ridiculous idea, I did not expect that now suddenly realized? 　　Xu Peidong thought. For a moment, suddenly could not tell what kind of feeling he really is. 　　This indescribable feeling had not yet faded much, and immediately afterward, an odd but justified thought surfaced in his mind: 　　Since good sister-er had begun to take an interest in all this, then why didn't he know about it? 　　Why didn't Shan Sister-er tell him as her father?