Chapter 20 Ingenuity
In a flash, it was late June, and it should be a half-scorched scene of wild fields and rice in Henan Province, but Zhang Zhaohua, who came to Nanjing for the first time to spend this summer, was surprised to find that the rainy season in April in Jiangnan was a little long, and it was intermittently extended to the present. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
She had been facing the inside of the bed like this for a long time, and she didn't seem to hear the light footsteps of the cat behind her coming to her, until a delicate voice sounded: "Ah Hua, what are you doing?"
Zhang Zhaohua seemed to wake up from a dream, and his first reaction was to quickly put away the things he was holding tightly in his hand, and randomly stuffed them into the official suitcase and locked it, only then did he turn around and show a very reluctant smile, but the smile contained vigilance and dodging.
"I didn't do anything," Zhang Zhaohua said, "Aqiao, you finished cleaning up so quickly?"
Niu Shi just looked at her, and said coquettishly: "I opened the box today and saw that the makeup powder was used up, I plan to go to the treasurer to get a box, do you want me to bring you a box too?"
"No, no," Zhang Zhaohua hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Mine hasn't been used up yet." ”
"Then I'll go. Niu reached out and touched the newly pasted dot cui on the sideburns, and walked away like a gust of wind.
These days, the ladies from the north also live in the restaurant, and now it is even more lively, and two days ago these new ladies were screened again, and now there are more than 1,500 ladies who have passed the first round of assessment - perhaps the height and weight requirements are not considered assessments, but just to find out, and the real assessment is still to come.
In the morning, Zhang Zhaohua and Wang went to the garden twice, and also met the ladies they met, and they greeted each other.
The scenery in the garden was pleasant, and Zhang Zhaohua saw backgammon on the stone bench again, and a lady sat opposite each other, racking her brains to win the other party.
Backgammon is a two-player game in which black and white have fifteen pieces each. The pieces are placed on a board marked by twenty-four dots. The board is divided into four sections, and whoever takes all the pieces first into his inner board wins. That is, all your pieces are moved counterclockwise from the 24-point position to the 1-point position to your own inner board.
This is easy to grasp the rules, it takes a lot of brainpower to chase and intercept when playing, and the two ladies in front of them are glued together, Zhang Zhaohua is not a true gentleman who is silent watching chess, and he solves the siege for them: "There are three chess pieces of the opponent in the point position of the throw here, and the chess pieces in the crescent moon will not be moved, and the dice should be thrown by the opponent." ”
But no one listened to what she said, because the two ladies were still wrestling, but there was a lady next to her who pulled her aside, saying that it was the daughter of a family, and she had been fighting openly and secretly for a long time.
Zhang Zhaohua sighed to herself, but when she saw that there was still a table playing chess in the bamboo forest, she couldn't help but go up to take a look.
This is a new chess game that she has never seen before, the gameplay is that regardless of the vertical and horizontal, the three sons are connected to the city, and the city can fly to eat one of the other party's sons, and the others are either clamped or picked, and can only be swallowed nearby, not by flying food.
This chess piece seems to be very energetic, easy to play and can arouse interest, there are more and more ladies around here, and what I can't understand at first gradually understands, and from time to time shouts: "Break his city, eat my son" and so on.
After grinding in the garden until noon, Zhang Zhaohua was about to separate from the Wang family, and the Wang family had another place to eat, so Zhang Zhaohua and the Lu family went to the blister dining house, where many ladies were already waiting, and everyone had a fixed seat, Zhang Zhaohua walked over and was about to take a seat, when she heard a soft voice calling her: "Sister Hua-"
Zhang Zhaohua looked sideways, and it was actually Ma Shi, the chief of the second table, calling her.
Ma is the eldest daughter of Ma Quan, the young secretary of Guanglu Temple, and her qualifications are indeed enough to sit at the second table, and the people sitting next to her are also the daughters of civil officials. Since she called, Zhang Zhaohua didn't dare not go, so he walked over and listened to her: "Sister Hua and I are sitting together." ”
The lady behind her immediately moved her position, Zhang Zhaohua didn't dare to sit down, but said uneasily: "Sister, here, not where I sit." ”
"Just sit down," Ma smiled kindly, "I want to talk to you." ”
Zhang Zhaohua hesitated, saw that the grandmothers and palace maids around her were blind, and sat down.
Ma and her talk, is there the meaning of condescension, it is really unbelievable, the two met when they were playing in the garden, there were too many people who played that time, and they couldn't remember the name, so everyone agreed to use their hometown and surname as a pronoun, such as "Lu'an Zhang", "Zhong Xiang Li", "Linquan Fang", "Luyang Liu" and the like, and Zhang Zhaohua's turn said that it was "Yongcheng Zhang".
She clearly saw at that time that before she reported her name, Ma, who was sitting in the center as a referee, didn't look at her, she said her name, and Ma looked over, and the game after that was always paying attention to her, but a pair of eyes really didn't see anything.
In the game, Ma deliberately threw Zhang Zhaohua two or three chances, and Zhang Zhaohua only won once, but everyone saw Ma's attention to Zhang Zhaohua, so in that game, Zhang Zhaohua won, and the color head was a pair of tortoiseshell hairpins given by Ma.
Ma Shi seems to really have blue eyes for Zhang Zhaohua, of course, she has a feeling of spring breeze, and she will not snub others when talking to Zhang Zhaohua, so that other ladies feel that she has taken special care of herself, and the feeling of being valued rises in her heart.
After that, Ma often invited Zhang Zhaohua to talk to her, and the content of the speech was not like a pure chat, and at the beginning he asked about some crops, Zhang Zhaohua knew where these official ladies had been to the field, so he fooled a few words. Sure enough, Ma's focus was not on the crops, and then he asked about reading and literacy, how many books he had read, and he was familiar with the scriptures, Zhang Zhaohua also continued to fool, saying that he had read some books, and he liked to read Tang legends the most, and finally the topic came to "The Biography of Li Wa", Zhang Zhaohua expressed his love for Li Wa, a strange woman, with great interest.
Zhang Zhaohua was figuring out Ma's intentions, why did she have blue eyes for herself, she knew that Ma was a person who should not be underestimated, because she was definitely not small-minded, and she could obviously sit in the inner room to eat alone, but she wanted to eat with these civilian ladies and colleagues in the blistering meal, and she knew that the daughter of the military general's family was not like this, and she had never appeared at the table.
This is a feeling that the leader deigned to come to the canteen to eat the canteen meal with the staff, everyone seems to be a little grateful, not to mention that Ma has been holding a kind of big sister style, to all the ladies are shh
With such a thing, Zhang Zhaohua can naturally see the meaning of buying people's hearts. The behavior she revealed, which can be called "virtue", will definitely be appreciated by her grandmother and female officials, and there will be no problem with her evaluation being given an excellent grade.
Just when Zhang Zhaohua was still thinking about Ma's intentions, the prey she had been waiting for finally fell in the net she had set up.