Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Gift
At this time, the Taoist boy who was in charge of welcoming people outside suddenly shouted excitedly: "An Ge, oops, Mom, An Ge is here." His voice suddenly weakened, and he thought he had rushed out to greet someone. In the blink of an eye, he ran back, and shouted in a messy voice: "Master, Qingfeng, Senior Brother, Master Ange." ”
An Ge's crisp and pleasant voice came from outside: "Say it all the way, what kind of adult am I?" ”
The little Taoist boy was so excited that his voice trembled a little: "Uncle, it's Uncle Ange." In a hurry, don't be surprised. With that, he trotted all the way, led An Ge in, and waited for An Ge to sit down. The little Taoist boy was like his little servant, standing beside him and serving tea. Daoist Hong Fan glanced at him several times, but he didn't know what he did. I thought to myself, if I can be so close to An Ge today, it will be worth it to be beaten to death by the master after a while.
Xiaoyu sat on the stone bench and felt quite funny to see him like this. Just about to wave everyone to open the table, he suddenly remembered that he was still holding a fan in his hand, and he hurriedly blocked his face and said in a slow voice: "Everyone is here! ”
Starling Danfeng raised his eyes, and couldn't help but tease on the side: "You just blocked your face, and we also know how anxious you look." ”
Yingxue set up a small stove in the corner of the courtyard, and put charcoal cubes in it while watching their liveliness. Xiaoyu took Zhou Li's gift, first looked at the two kites, the beautiful kite was one person tall, Xiaoyu put it beside him and compared, and was very happy: "It's late this year, and it's the same next spring." He opened the furoshiki again, and it was indeed a small box. It was quite heavy, and when I opened it, Zhou Zhen, who was watching the excitement on the side, was dumbfounded, and said in my heart: "Anyway, you can also call me brother, if you come to ask me, why can't I let you send this." Look, even I'm embarrassed with it. ”
It turned out that the small box was full of walnuts, Xiaoyu pinched two walnuts, played with them for a while, and muttered, "How do you play with this?"
Zhou Li was on the side, and said in a rare soft voice: "You don't want to take so much, just one, make a little effort." Xiaoyu worked his hands, only to hear a snap, and the walnut cracked in response.
Xiaoyu laughed: "Brother Zhou, your gift is really good, it's hard to find such walnuts, right?"
Zhou Li saw that she was really happy, and he put down his heart that was still a little apprehensive, and laughed along, and said with a red face: "This is called paper walnut, my mother said that you must like it, and specially asked me to send it over." ”
Xiaoyu hurriedly took the box of walnuts in her arms: "I like it, I like it, but the princess bothered." I thought to myself: "Princess Xing is very good to herself." Then he thought again: "Actually, Princess Yi is not bad." You turned his head to Yingxue and said, "You embroider a big purse for me, it must be able to hold four walnuts, and I carry it every day." ”
Zhou Zhen looked at Xiaoyu with a smile on his eyebrows, and he was a little worried in his heart, secretly worried: "Why is the things that Miss Xia likes so weird." ”
Xiaoyu played with the walnuts on it one by one, and then tilted her head to look at Lan Haoxin happily. Lan Haoxin smiled slightly: "The sixth brother said that you are playful, and you once wanted to follow Xu Xiake to travel all over the north and south, you look at this." He said he took out a pair of scrolls from his sleeve. Xiaoyu opened it and saw that it was a picture of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. Xiaoyu slowly unfolded the picture, only to see the mountains, rivers, lakes and dense forests, and saw Xiaoyu sighing, looking at Lan Haoxin's eyes were different, and she looked like she had a good heart with me.
After looking at the map of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, Xiaoyu looked at Chen Peng squeezedly, and her eyes kept sweeping behind Chen Peng. Chen Peng laughed, spread his hands and said, "My brother is a rough man, there is nothing to give you." ”
Xiaoyu was just about to pounce and grab it, when she suddenly saw Xu Liangqi looking at her with a pair of bright eyes. Busy fixing his body, clearing his throat, and said slowly: "Take it out quickly, spare you this time." Otherwise..."
Chen Peng hid his hands behind his waist, and his wrists flipped over, revealing a pair of water-splitting Emei thorns shining with cold light: "Last time, you said you wanted a close-range weapon, my uncle and sister all used water-splitting Emei thorns, saying that women's hand-to-hand combat is the best." As he spoke, he held the two Emei thorns, stabbed and picked them forward, jumped reflexively, and poked them downward: "It can be used as a dagger or a short gun." With that, he handed it over.
Starling was about to stop it, but he noticed that the Emei thorn did not open the blade. Then he took it from the light rain and gestured in the air. I saw her hands flying up and down, with two sleeves like colorful butterflies, which was very good-looking. Everyone was watching the excitement, and someone outside was talking to Xiao Daotong: "This boy, the little one came to give a congratulatory gift to Miss Xia on the order of the head of the family." The little one is vulgar, and he is afraid of bumping into the girl, so he will not go in. After a while, a little Taoist boy came in with a small burden: "It's the head of the Tian family, and Tian Ying sent someone to send a congratulatory gift." ”
Xiaoyu looked at the burden, thought about it, picked up the Emei thorn in his hand, and put the burden on the stone table: "This Emei thorn is really a good thing." As he spoke, he lifted the burden open, revealing a fiery fox skin inside. Xiaoyu picked up the fox skin with an Emei thorn, looked at it again and again, sighed and put it down.
Zhou Zhen thought to himself: "Could it be that she is also like a sister in the family, and she has to make a compassionate face." ”
Chen Peng didn't care much, and asked on the side: "Why, you are not satisfied with this fox skin? Such a good fox skin, I see, even my skills can't beat it." Tian Ying is a master of boiling eagles, and this is probably caught by his falcon. ”
Xiaoyu listened and rummaged curiously for a while, and then rolled the skin into the furoshiki. Starling laughed on the side: "It's a pity, it wasn't you who beat it." ”
When Xiaoyu was rummaging with the Emei thorn, she kept thinking in her heart: "It's a pity, I didn't shoot such a good fox skin." As soon as the starling said this, she couldn't help pouting and said, "That's it..."
The starling scratched his head: "Brother gave you a reputation as a talented girl through the ages, how about it?" said and opened the four treasures of the study, leading Xiaoyu to a pink wall: "Let's draw a picture of Xiaoyu's spring outing." ”
Xiaoyu took the pen handed by her brother and stood in front of the wall, and everyone gathered around curiously. Starling said: "Draw a weeping willow first, the wind blows the green willow and dances, well, draw here." The trunk is about that thick. ”
Zhou Zhen stared at the side so that his eyes were about to pop out, and he said in his heart: "Dare to love, she is a talented woman who is now teaching!"
Xiaoyu followed the starling's guidance, painted left and right on the wall, and after a while, it took a woman to hold an umbrella and walk in the rain. Zhou Zhen frowned and looked at it for a long time, and saw that the green willow could barely be counted as a willow, and the umbrella was three round and four not flattened, no matter how you looked at it, it looked like lifting a stone. secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his heart: "Sure enough, she is still that ordinary little girl who is proficient in everything and sparse in everything." ”
The starling waited for her to finish painting and inscribed, and then said to Hong Fan Daochang: "There is Lao Daochang to add a sarong, so as not to lose the color." ”
Everyone praised in unison and returned to their seats, and the starling brother also pointed to himself, and made up for Xiaoyu a few times. This allowed Xiaodaotong to block it with a sarong, Zhou Zhen looked at it from a distance and shook his head, thinking secretly: "It's too much to spoil you." ”
Xu Liangqi thought secretly: "These gifts are very interesting, but ours is cheesy." ”
Just thinking about it, Xue Yu handed over the list, Xiaoyu pouted and said, "Over the years, those things have come and gone, and Brother Xue is really not interesting at all." ”
Zhou Li listened curiously, couldn't help but take the list, and read aloud: "A pair of jade color phoenix gold steps, a pair of eight treasure bracelets, a pair of jade bracelets, an agate coral, twelve pairs of silver earrings, six Shu brocades, one Su embroidery, and a set of twelve zodiac gold trowels." This, this..."
At this time, Xu Liangqi and Zhou Zhen couldn't help but secretly regret it.
Xu Liangqi meant: "Don't care about the second sister-in-law's eggs, only give what you want to send." Then he slapped the table and took out a pair of tourmaline bracelets. If it is sent in front of Xue Yu, it will be returned. Xu Liangqi was breezy with his sleeves and beautiful scenery, and he was embarrassed to take out that pair of handbags after reading Xue Yu's dowry list.
At this time, Hefeng came out with a small box from behind the screen: "My uncle, grandma gave the girl a pair of double-sided cats and butterflies." ”
Xiaoyu was puzzled, so she looked over curiously. He Feng opened the small flat box and took out the embroidery inside. Xiaoyu looked at it, but it was an ornament the size of a fan, embroidered with a bunch of peonies, and under the flower, there was a pitch-black kitten in a group, looking up. , but the embroidery is done, the black cat is delicate, and the peony is shining.
Xiaoyu saw that the embroidery was lively and smart, as if there was really something on the flower, which made the kitten look up. I also followed the kitten's gaze and looked up, but naturally I couldn't see anything.
Lotus Wind grinned and flipped through the embroidery. It turned out that the other side was also embroidered, but it was the same kitten stretched out and was reaching out its paws to catch the colorful butterfly.
Even if everyone is well-informed, it is the first time they have seen such a craft, and they can't help but be amazed.
Hefeng put away the gifts, glanced at Xu Liangqi proudly, and thought: "If you want to talk about communication, your own girl is still very good, if you rely on your uncle, it will be too unremarkable today." ”
This next week, Zhen Ke was dumbfounded, he got the news, and he didn't pay much attention. Thinking that their family is just a small family, the biggest official is the sixth brother, and he is just a deputy general. With the background of their family, this is also the sky. Therefore, the prepared gifts are only valuable. Looking at it now, if the value of what he prepared is not as good as Xue Yu's dowry list, and the novelty is not as good as the double-sided embroidery of the Xu family, it is naturally Lan Haoxin and Zhou Li. Zhou Zhen's sweat came down, in terms of status and status, he is the highest, this gift...
Fortunately, An Ge stood up over there and took a deep look: "The little An Ge sings a little song to the owner, wishing the girl happiness as the long flowing water of the East China Sea, and her longevity is better than the old pine of Nanshan." As he spoke, he took a chopstick, knocked on the wine cup and sang: "Fu Zi is happy from the sky, and Fu Lu is good at planting a jade bottle." Blessing is like the long flowing water of the East China Sea..."The little Taoist boy next to An Ge didn't expect that An Ge would sing a little song to cheer up today, and he was so happy that he almost fainted. R1152