Painting Tang Jiao

Chapter 23 Biluoxuan

When I returned to the small courtyard, it was just after Xu time.

Aunt Liu was working as a maid in the room, when she saw the master and servant coming in, she put down her needle and thread, and got up to prepare hot water for Qing Huan to take a bath.

"Auntie, I've already gone to talk about it, I'll bring it up later." Ling Lu who followed in together said hurriedly.

Aunt Liu was slightly taken aback, and only then did she understand why Linglu was not waiting in the room.

All he wanted to do was wait in the yard for the girl to come back.

Mancao smiled: "Auntie, you don't need to work so hard in the future. Our Linglu is also sensible."

The corner of Linglu's mouth froze.

"I'll go see if the water is ready." Then he trotted away from the house.

Qing Huan cast a helpless glance at Mancao: "Why did you just tease her?"

Mancao showed two neat rows of teeth to Qinghuan, with a cheerful face.

Linglu had already brought hot water in, and was adding water to the tub with Vinegrass.

Aunt Liu was packing things outside the flower cover, and there was a woven bamboo basket on Luohan's bed.

Someone knocked on the door.

Aunt Liu turned her head and saw that it was Que'er who hurried up to meet her.

"Why don't you come in?" Aunt Liu asked with a smile.

"No, I have to rush back." Que'er raised the bag in her hand: "Sister Xia Cao asked me to bring it over, and said that it was ordered by Fourth Master to give it to the girl."

Jun'er.

Upon hearing this, Aunt Liu hurriedly reached out to take it.Although he was still in front of Que'er, his eyes were already looking at the burden from time to time.

During this time, Que'er occasionally served Yan Jun with Xia Cao.

Knowing that apart from Seventh Girl, Aunt Liu was most often mentioned by Fourth Master.Knowing Aunt Liu's current mood, she prepared to leave without staying longer.

Aunt Liu didn't let go of her burden, she sent Que'er to the gate.

Qing Huan sat in front of the bronze mirror, wearing only a homely dress, with her hair down.Ling Lu wrapped her hair with a dry cloth towel.He took the tea from Mancao.Qing Huan looked at Aunt Liu who walked in and asked, "Auntie, where did this come from?"

Aunt Liu had a smile on her face, and she happily walked to the window to open the bundle as she talked: "This was brought by the bird in the old lady's yard. The girl is taking a bath, so I didn't keep her. Girl, Come and take a look, this is specially sent by Jun'er."

"From Jun'er?" Qing Huan's eyes were attracted.

Inside the baggage is a duan inkstone that is not very good in color, but the stack of paper is good.

It should be given to Jun'er by the old lady.

But for this Duan inkstone, Qing Huan never believed that if Jun'er had something good, she would not give it to her sister.Then there is only one possibility: either there is no good Duanyan, or Jun'er thinks it is inappropriate for her to give her the best Duanyan in his hand.

Just looking at the stack of papers, Qing Huan noticed that it was the best Luoyang paper.

The paper is like this, with the handwriting of the old lady, why would she care about a duan inkstone with a better quality.

It seems that I have to find a chance to see Jun'er.

Qing Huan changed her clothes and closed the door after Linglu got into the water.

"Go to my bed." Qing Huan said.

As the days passed, the weather became colder and colder. It would be fine if you just sat for a while, but if you sat outside for a long time, it was night and it was still very cold.

Aunt Liu wondered if the Arhat bed was too small.

He looked at Mancao and Linglu again, thought for a while, and agreed.

Qing Huan entered the innermost place, Mancao and Linglu were waiting by the bed, Aunt Liu took out a bundle from the cage, and then took it to the bed, and spread it out, it was the beads and cut bags that the old lady asked Mama Wang to send before. good material.

The master and the servants planned to take advantage of their free time to do this forehead wiping together in a hurry.

"Fourth Miss draws really well." Linglu flipped through the drawings, and the drawings that Fourth Miss asked Shunqiao to send were not only similar to what she said at the time, but also slightly different in each drawing.

Qing Huan flipped through, and finally selected the drawing that needed rubies in the middle.

Aunt Liu moved her lips when she saw her, but she still didn't speak in the end.

"Girl, do you want to embroider first?" Mancao looked at the drawing. Although it is bead embroidery, for the sake of exquisiteness, it is necessary to proof the simple pattern on the bottom layer first.

Qing Huan's embroidery is just average, a simple bamboo embroidery is fine.

Like the golden boy holding the carp, but he didn't dare to do it.

Hearing this, Aunt Liu took over the cut forehead and planned to do embroidery first.

Qing Huan didn't try to grab her, she knew her abilities, and she wouldn't be polite to Aunt Liu.Lowering your head, you and Mancao pick up the beads you need to use. Wherever you put them, you have to divide them up.

Seeing this, Linglu got out of bed, stepped out of the floor-to-ceiling flower cover, and when she came back, she was holding a sewing basket.

"Then what, it's boring anyway. I'll just do some netting." Ling Lu smiled: "Girl, you can't kick me out of bed just because I didn't help with forehead wiping."

Qing Huan is dumb, this zero dew.

"Go do your business." Aunt Liu spat lightly, but the smile on her face showed no sign of displeasure.

After counting the time, the day when I have to sell embroidery products every month is approaching.

The few people sitting knew what Linglu was thinking.

This money, the more you spend, the more you spend, especially since Qing Huan started walking around the mansion.

Sighing lightly, Qing Huan suppressed her troubled thoughts and concentrated on matching the beads.

When she woke up the next day, Qing Huan was slightly sleepy.

It's just that when I think of going to class at Mama Xia's, I have to cheer up.

Thinking that it was the first time to go to a formal class, Qing Huan didn't let Ling Lu, who was eager to try, follow her.

According to the rules, Qing Huan went to Rongshou Hall to pay her respects to the old lady.

Perhaps it was a special situation, everyone came early today.

On the contrary, Qing Huan was late.

The old lady saw the blue under Qing Huan's eyes and thought she was nervous.

I couldn't help thinking in my heart, I was still a child.

No climate.

Turning his head to look at the spirited fifth girl, he felt that Qing Huan's impression was even worse, but it was also because of this that Qing Huan's life in the mansion was not bad for a period of time in the future.

After dinner, the old lady asked Mama Wang to take some girls to the yard that Mama Xia had prepared for Mama Xia.

This courtyard has a name called Biluoxuan.

Standing at the door, Qing Huan took a deep breath.

The third girl, who accidentally caught a glimpse of Qing Huan's movements, said with a light smile, "Seventh sister, don't be nervous. You're not a man-eating tiger, why are you afraid of Mother Xia?"

"Miss San." Mother Wang called out, looking at Miss San with a stern look.

The third girl pouted, remembering what Aunt Qing had said to her.I thought in my heart to forgive you, mother-in-law, if it wasn't for the fear that Mama Xia would overhear at the gate of the courtyard, where would I care about you.

It can be seen that in the past, the three girls relied on the pampering of the elder, so they never heard of Wang Mama.

Mama Wang didn't care about Miss San's attitude, she turned around and said to Qing Huan gently: "Miss Seven, although Mother Xia is a strict person, but the old lady has asked, if she is well-behaved and sensible, she will not lose her temper randomly. I will punish you at will."

Qing Huan nodded, even if Mother Xia was a well-established nurturing mother, she would definitely not punish everyone casually.As for the reason for my nervousness, let them misunderstand.

"Mother Wang, you are here." At this moment, a maid came out from the yard.

After hearing this, Mama Wang turned her head and smiled, "Dong Lian, is Mama Xia awake yet?"

The one named Dong Lian said with a smile: "Mother Xia got up early, this time I should be going to morning class." After speaking, she rolled her eyes and said to the second girl, "Miss."

The second girl nodded: "Take us to see Mama Xia." Then she turned to Mama Wang and said, "Dong Lian is leading the way. Mama Wang should go back and report back to the old lady. I will take good care of my younger sisters."

Mother Wang smiled: "Then I'll go back first."

Dong Lian led the crowd to the left wing of Biluoxuan.

The door of the wing room was open, Guer and a group of people walked to the door and could see the tables and chairs that had been arranged inside.

Just don't look at the Bi Luo Xuan is not big, but this wing room is big.

There are six tables and chairs arranged neatly against the walls on the left and right sides of the room.

Qing Huan sat down on the last table and chair, the fourth girl sat in front, and the second girl sat in front.The one who is facing the second girl is the third girl, and the one who comes down is the fifth girl.

There are currently only five girls in the mansion, and the tables and chairs behind the five girls are used as temporary places to put things.

Dong Lian waited for the girls to sit down, and said: "Mother Xia has ordered, from now on, the girls in this room will do everything by themselves."

As soon as the words fell, the fourth girl said to Shunqiao who was standing: "You go back first."

Shunqiao put the bundle in his hand on the table, turned and left the room.

Seeing this, Qing Huan nodded to the grass.The creeper also left the house.

Seeing that someone took the lead, even though she was not happy, the third girl let the following Lu Zhu leave.Fifth girl's servant girl also walked out of the house when the vines left.

In this way, there are only two servant girls, Rui Zhu and Dong Lian, who are beside the second girl.

Dong Lian stepped forward and took Rui Zhu's hand and said, "Let's go too."

Ruizhu looked at the second girl, and the second girl agreed.

The two talked and left.

I vaguely heard Dong Lian say: "Don't worry, I will take care of the second girl."

"Seventh Sister is convenient."

Qing Huan raised her head and saw that it was Miss Si who turned around and looked curiously at the bamboo basket in her hand.

"I brought this from Yuhang. My sister was also in school at the time. This is what my sister left behind." Qing Huan touched the lines on the bamboo basket, her face slightly sad.

The fourth girl had a little apology on her face: "I just think this is convenient, there is no other meaning. Seventh sister, you..."

Qing Huan raised her head and smiled: "Your sister knows that this is very convenient and easy to make. There may be some servants in the house who know how to weave. As long as there are materials, weaving a few can be done very quickly."

The fourth girl nodded, her eyes were looking at the basket.

"Show me." There were only a few people in the room, and the conversation between Qing Huan and Fourth Miss was seen by others.It's just that Qing Huan's sudden depression just now made everyone embarrassed to speak.

The second girl came over from her seat and stretched out her hand to look.

It is said to be a bamboo basket, but it actually looks like a bamboo box. The whole situation is square, but there is a lid on it, and there are extra handles on both sides.

Qing Huan suddenly pulled the second girl, and said softly: "Second sister, I will send the maid to show you after class. Mother Xia is coming soon."

Qing Huan's position is at the back, just in time to see Mama Xia's figure from the open and close window.

The second girl quickly walked to her seat and sat down, with a dignified posture, which caused the third girl to hum softly.

(End of this chapter)