Chapter Twenty-Six: Look at the Rain
Li Xiaonuan was startled, and hurriedly waved his hand and said:
"Gu Xiao, don't talk nonsense, which eye did you see that the Songfeng Courtyard was not manpowered? I'm too much of these people, where are I using them? One more, and I'll have to die of a headache! ”
Gu Xiao was stunned, and looked at Li Xiaonuan suspiciously, Li Xiaonuan glared at him fiercely, Gu Xiao hurriedly covered his mouth with his hand, and didn't dare to say any more, Gu Yunshan raised his eyebrows and laughed,
"It's really one thing and one thing, Gu Xiao has to be in charge of Xiao Nuan!"
Gu Xiao's eyes were bent into crescents, and he hurriedly nodded with a smile on his face,
"Big sister is right, Nuan Nuan is right!"
Li Xiaonuan's heart tightened, and a faint hint of uneasiness flashed.
From the middle of the night, it gradually began to rain, hitting the flowers and trees outside, and it was so dripping that people were more and more reluctant to get up, Mama Wei dragged Li Xiaonuan up from the quilt and dressed her together with the end of winter, Lan Chu, Xiaoyu and Xiuwen were busy sending hot water, holding bath basins, waiting for washing, sending bird's nest porridge and snacks......
Gu Xiao lifted the curtain and entered the house, for a while, he came over several times a day every day, and stayed in Songfeng Courtyard more than when he was in his own yard, and the little girls had long been accustomed to his arrival, and even the sound was saved.
Li Xiaonuan yawned, and while hurriedly eating bird's nest porridge, he said vaguely:
"What are you doing here in such a heavy rain?"
"It's just that it's raining heavily, I'm going to come and walk with you, warm you are young, if I don't accompany you, in case you slip on the road, or get drenched in the rain, then what can I do!"
Gu Xiao rubbed beside Li Xiaonuan, and said very seriously, Li Xiaonuan choked on a mouthful of porridge in his throat, almost choked, and didn't bother to say more to him, lowered his head, ate bird's nest porridge quickly in a small bite, and ate a small half of a piece of dim sum, so he hurriedly picked up his schoolbag and prepared to go out with Gu Xiao.
At the end of winter, he took the tall clogs, Gu Xiao hurriedly stood up and took them, turned them over and looked at them, and touched the deep teeth on the bottom of the clogs with his hand before handing the clogs to the end of winter.
Dongmo shook his head lightly with a smile, took the clogs, squatted down and put the clogs on the outside of Li Xiaonuan's shoes, wrapped the cotton belt behind Li Xiaonuan's ankles a few times, tied it, Li Xiaonuan tried to walk a few steps, looked at Gu Xiao with a smile and said:
"Let's go."
Gu Xiao bent down and took a closer look at the clogs on Li Xiaonuan's feet, straightened up, nodded with satisfaction, and together with Li Xiaonuan, picked up his schoolbag and walked out along the verandah.
Out of the courtyard gate, Mama Wei and Mama Wu held umbrellas, pulled one by one, and walked carefully along the garden path to the study.
The rain fell unhurriedly for most of the day, and by the afternoon it had fallen heavily.
Mama Wei looked out the window and said with a smile:
"It's too dark in this room, the girl doesn't want to do needlework, she hurts her eyes carefully."
Gu Xiao hurriedly leaned over and reached out to take the flower bandage in Li Xiaonuan's hand,
"Nuan Nuan, don't do it, be careful of hurting your eyes!"
Li Xiaonuan inserted the needle into the needle capsule, handed it over to the end of winter with the flower bandage, moved to the window, pushed open the window lattice, outside, the rain fell densely along the edge of the eaves corridor like a bead curtain, and the golden cinnamon, Xiangfei bamboo and plantain in the yard were crackled by the rain, and under the washing of the rain, they looked verdant and abnormal.
Li Xiaonuan became excited, she loved to sit comfortably in a warm and dry room and watch the rain, just like now! This world is so clean, this rain must be as described by those literati and scholars, and it is an excellent tea water, second only to the snow water on the plum blossoms!
Li Xiaonuan turned his head, looked at Gu Xiao with a smile and said:
"Gu Xiao, let's go out to watch the rain under the verandah, I asked someone to take clean things to catch some rain, the book doesn't say that this rain makes tea, the taste is the most frivolous, let's try it too."
Gu Xiao hurriedly followed the bed, and while following Li Xiaonuan out, he asked with a puzzled face:
"Can rain make tea? In which book did you read about Nuan Nuan? ”
Li Xiaonuan was stunned, ignored him, and only asked Lan Chu to take a clean small bucket, hold an umbrella and put it in the middle of the yard to collect rainwater.
Gu Xiao was next to Li Xiaonuan, looked into the courtyard, and asked suspiciously:
"Nuan Nuan, in which book did you read it? Why didn't I see it? ”
Li Xiaonuan turned his head, looked at Gu Xiao with a smile in his eyes, and said slowly:
"It's my mistake, I didn't see it in the book, it seems that my mother told me."
Gu Xiao was stunned, hurriedly stepped forward to take Li Xiaonuan's hand, and said with a smile:
"When the rain catches up, let's try! Nuan Nuan said yes, definitely good! ”
The two stood under the eaves of the porch, talking and laughing and looking at the rain curtain outside.
The sky gradually darkened, a mother-in-law held an umbrella, entered the hanging flower door, turned the screen door, the little girl at the door took the umbrella in her hand diligently, Xiaoyu hurriedly greeted it, the mother-in-law looked at Gu Xiao and Li Xiaonuan standing side by side under the eaves of the porch, smiled and Xiaoyu said:
"Miss Bilian asked me to come to Songfeng Courtyard first, saying that the young master is here, so I don't have to go to Wutong Courtyard again, sure enough!"
Xiaoyu then walked along the verandah to the main house, and the mother-in-law bent her knees and bowed, and reported with a smile:
"Young master, Miss Cousin, the ancestor has ordered, it is raining heavily today, so there is no need to go over to eat."
Gu Xiao and Li Xiaonuan responded with a smile, Li Xiaonuan said hard work, turned his head and commanded the end of winter,
"Mama has worked hard, at the end of winter, take 200 yuan to buy a glass of water and wine for Mama to go to the cold."
At the end of winter, I bent my knees, hurriedly lifted the curtain and went in to withdraw the money, my mother-in-law smiled, hurriedly knelt on the ground, kowtowed and thanked, took a string of money handed over at the end of winter, and bent my knees again, and then respectfully returned it.
Gu Xiao raised his voice and called the little girl,
"Go to Wutong Courtyard and talk to Sister Juying, I'll eat at Songfeng Courtyard and Nuan Nuan and then go back."
Li Xiaonuan hurriedly stopped the little girl, turned her head to look at Gu Xiao and said with a smile:
"Take advantage of the fact that it is not dark at this time, you should go back quickly, the ancestor will not let us go over to eat, isn't it just worried that it will rain at this time, if it is dark and go back, one can not see the road clearly, and the other is muddy and slippery on the road, in case of falling, wouldn't it be a big deal?! If you stay here to eat, then we might as well go to Ruixuan Hall to eat! ”
Gu Xiao thought about it and nodded reluctantly,
"Alright then, I'll come back early tomorrow morning."
Li Xiaonuan smiled and nodded, and ordered Lan Chu to take Gu Xiao's clogs over, wait for him to put them on, and then turned his head and called the end of winter to come over and order:
"Sister at the end of winter, it's raining at this time, bother you and Xiuwen to send Gu Xiao back, slow down on the road, be careful."
At the end of winter, he bent his knees and agreed, took an umbrella, and Xiuwen carried Gu Xiao's schoolbag and sent Gu Xiao back together.