box of hearts

Chapter 40: Welcome the Cyclamen (5)
So, with tears in their eyes, several women and maids took off the gold tassels, heart-tiao, grass-worm hairpins and other headpieces that were inserted on the grandma's gold crown one by one, and took off the hair crown.Grandma Qiu's hair was disheveled like a hen's coop, she held the golden beam crown in her hand, and slammed it ruthlessly at Qingtian's feet.

"go!"

With faces like the red sun and sounds like rolling thunder, a group of heavenly soldiers and generals fled [3].

All the girls in Huai Ya Tang looked at Mrs. Yushi's embarrassed figure, and they all covered their mouths.Among all the smiling faces, only Qingtian's expression was dull. She glanced at the golden crown on the ground, but felt that she was the one who was humiliated.What a shame.

The people around were still laughing, and there was a very dissonant cry in the laughter.It turned out that it was the little girl Gui Zhen who asked Mu Yun to scold Mu Yun by her ear. Gui Zhen covered her red left ear with one hand and stepped on her foot to complain: "What's the matter with pouring tea? You want to scold me, and you still want to scold me after I flatter you, what do you want people to do..."

Gui Zhen was crying, it might as well be that Qing Tian had turned his head and stared at her viciously.It was too late and then quickly, when Qingtian suddenly pulled out the hairpin from the hoop and threw it here, the animal-headed silver hairpin whizzed and hit Gui Zhen on the forehead, causing her to take two steps back and hit the door. superior.The little servant girl raised her face in dismay, and saw clearly the hostess with disheveled hair and blood-red eyes, she was so frightened that she choked there, unable to move.

No one laughed anymore, Zhaohua panicked, stretched out her hand to hold Qingtian, "Sister..."

Qingtian broke away from her, pushed his hands away from the crowd, and slammed into the door with a "bang".

Mu Yun also glared angrily and poked Gui Zhen's finger again, knelt down to pick up the hairpin, and said in a loud voice: "Okay, it's all gone, there's nothing to see."

The miscellaneous people on the corridor also went their separate ways, but the three of them got together and whispered together, and Zhaohua walked a few steps closer.As soon as Fengqin saw her, she took half a step back, and was equally wary of Xia and Diexian.Zhaohua ignored her impatience, and asked directly: "What's wrong with my sister, is there something wrong with her?"

Yuxia hesitated for a moment, and exchanged glances with Diexian, "Tell her?"

Diexian looked at Zhaohua again and again, and curled her mouth, "Tell her, I think my sister is also very close to her, and she is also sincerely worried about her."

Spreading his hands at Xia Xia, "It's okay to put it bluntly, in a word, I have suffered from men." He added: "You don't understand, you are still young. ——Let's go."

The three of them lived downstairs and went hand in hand.He vaguely heard Xiangxia open his mouth and scold Fengqin: "What are you asking, you are still young."

Just after noon, the sun was shining down on the window, as bright as glass shattered all over the floor.Zhao Hua stared out the window thoughtfully, and repeated in a low voice: "I have suffered from a man..."

"The flower girl!"

Someone yelled at the entrance of the building, and Zhao Hua looked back to her senses, and saw that it was the aunt who was doing odd jobs in her house, twisting upstairs with a hot water sling, "Girl, Li Yishu is waiting for the order to come." Come on, let's get started, it's over, there are still two rounds between Master Kang and the Fifth Young Master."

3.
Ever since Huai Shang Kang Guangdao won Zhaohua's listed wine, the bully Wu Dashao felt deeply ashamed, and became more and more determined to win Zhaohua.Kang Guangdao had already regarded Zhaohua's first night as something in his bag, and he was quite ready to take advantage of the victory and pursue it.So the two competed more vigorously, one day either you called the wine game, or I called the card game.

On this day, the five elders made an appointment with another seven or eight people, and planned to set up a table of wine in the East Flower Hall of Huaiya Hall.Not wanting Kang Guangdao to get there first, he invited a group of friends Qing Ke to wipe the cards in the West Flower Hall in the afternoon.In the lobby of the main courtyard, there is another new guest from Qingtian, who is also a poker game, and it has already started before the central government.

So after lunch, the waiting hall of Huai Ya Tang was busy arranging the card fields in the two halls, arranging the tables, placing bird cards, and distributing chips.Soon, the two groups of people from the west hall and the lobby arrived one by one, and when the five young and old came together before and after dinner, it became even more noisy.There were four or fifty visitors, and each of them wrote a note to call the bureau. There were nearly a hundred guests and waiters, filling Huai Ya Tang to the full.Upstairs and downstairs, there are well-dressed men, unusually beautiful women, elder sisters and aunts holding cigarettes and tea, turtles and slaves running around, gorgeous lights, rich delicacies, mixed with the sound of pipa, huqin, and strings. Sounds, flute, singing, punching, bumping, cheering, quarreling and laughing...the sound is full and complex, just like the smell of overripe flowers and fruits in the garden, which is the most intense before the withering of the autumn cold. The intoxicating, dying scent of ether.

When the commotion reached the garrison, the visitors left one after another, but the hosts remained unabated.It was only because the Fifth Young Master came to know that Kang Guangdao was wiping cards in the west hall when he came at night, and he was very unhappy. Kang Guangdao also heard that the fifth young master was serving wine in the east hall. Each occupies one side, and each wants to force the other to go first.Zhaohua had no choice but to follow the rules, drink here for a while, and sit there for a while.

And when the five young masters came, it was inevitable that they swore to their second elder brother Liu Yanei, and Liu Yanei was Qingtian's head bureau.As for the wealthy man who is setting up the game in the main hall, he has long admired Qingtian’s name, and only recently had the opportunity to meet him. Although he worked hard to pursue and spent a huge amount of money to make several old guests pale in comparison, he still couldn’t buy a smile from a beautiful woman, and he never got the preferential treatment for staying overnight. , so I wasted too much, hoping to spend time with Qingtian alone after Liu Yanei's party was over.For this reason, even though he got angry with Grandma Qiu as soon as he opened his eyes, Qingtian had to pack up his mood and clothes, and also kept going back and forth between the two places without rest, not having a moment of comfort.

It wasn't until they bumped into each other in the veranda that the two sisters were able to whisper a few words.Under the hanging lamp with colorful tassels flickering, Zhaohua's face showed a gray and cool color, as if she was worried.

"elder sister--"

"Huh?" Qingtian looked at her, with a tired look on his face.

Zhaohua opened and closed her lips several times, but said nothing.Finally she shook her head and lowered her eyelids under her long bangs, "It's okay."

The auntie of the two's attendants urgently urged: "Girls, go in first. If you have something to say, talk about it later, or you will get angry inside again."

Sure enough, I just passed through the Flower Gate, and I heard the Fifth Young Master yelling, "Why haven't you come back yet? Could it be that the guy surnamed Kang doesn't care about me because he has a bit of money?"

Someone tried to persuade him, "Fifth brother, you're drunk again. You're a guest, and that Kang man is also a guest. He wants a bowl of water to level it out. I can't let Zhaohua sit with you all night and take that Just leave it aside and ignore it. You see, Sister Qing also comes and goes, when did I say something to her?" The voice was gentle and gentle, and his eyes were merciful, it was Liu Yanei.Turning his head to look, he smiled joyfully, "Look, isn't this? Yo, you two came back together."

Zhao Hua and Qing Tian both said "neglect" twice, and each sat on the shoulders of Fifth Young Master and Liu Ya Nei.The Fifth Young Master turned his face away and muttered to Hua Hua, his expression was not very good, as if he was blaming her for staying at the other side of Kang Guangdao for too long just now.Liu Ya Nei, however, took pity on the fragrance and cherished the jade, picked a piece of pear cake from the banquet and fed it into Qingtian's mouth, "Are you tired? Come, have a sip of tea, this tea is weak, I'll ask someone to change it for you..."

A waiter next to him was playing the dragon head huqin, singing the sound of warblers loudly.The guest sitting in front of her was also a young gentleman, who patted Liu Yanei on the back, "Hey, hey, I say Brother Liu, don't just care about me and me, it's your turn."

"Oh! We are fighting dice." Liu Yanei explained to Qing Tian, ​​then turned around and grabbed the dice cup, shaking it wildly.

The co-chairs smashed the table and shouted: "Big! Big!" "Small! Small!" "One, two, three—small!" I don't want to eat this wine, you can eat it for me." "Oh, my eldest son, I have already had ten glasses of wine in a while, can you win once?" "Haha, according to me, why don't you just drink it?" Turn around and sit behind the master, you don’t need to eat a cup.” “Hey, why did you cut my side[4]?” “Don’t blame brother for cutting your side, it’s because you’re not good enough, you’re wronged I've killed someone." "That's right, he is not good at 'internal talent', so he intentionally poured water on others so that he can escape tonight and avoid being kicked to sleep on the ground after losing a battle." "Look at your situation, it must be a regular occurrence He was kicked to the ground to sleep!" "Oh, the more you talk, the more foolish you are, you guys are really crooked and blowing the trumpet—a bunch of evil spirits." "Haha, then give me a sigh of relief and change my evil! Come on! Don't hide, don't hide!" "If you do this again, I'll change the game." "Hey, don't go, and sing that little song carefully again." "Both of you, go back to your own room. Don't be nasty here."

……

In the commotion, only Qing Tian and Zhao Hua looked blank, as if they were lost in spirit.The fifth young master didn't notice, but hooked his arm around Zhaohua's neck, held the dice cup with the other hand and raised it in front of her face, "This is the master's seat, it will add some luck to the master."

Zhaohua was strangled by the man's arms, forced a smile, and blew on the silver cup with a "huh".

The fifth young master put his smiling face close to her, raised his hands high, made a "squeaky" sound, and then "boomed" to the table. "Big, big! Open big! Good! Hahahahahaha!"

There was another confusion on the stage, some people laughed and some people sighed.The fifth young master raised his glass triumphantly, "How is it? It can be considered that I have won it back. All thanks to Zhaohua's fairy spirit. Come, Zhaohua, toast you."

This banquet was supposed to be supported by the five young masters for Zhaohua, who among the friends didn't understand?They booed in unison: "If you want to respect, respect a 'skin cup'!"

(End of this chapter)