Chapter 13: Luring the Serpent Out of the Hole
Taking advantage of the good afternoon sunshine, Forsythia took the quilt in the house to the outer yard to dry, the cotton in the old quilt was thin, it was just a thin layer, and it was extremely dazzling in the thick and bright quilt in the yard.
Chunying is directing a few little maids to hang a few quilts in Zhang Lan's house on the rope outside, compared to the dimness in the hands of Forsythia, the quilt in front of Chunying is depicted with delicate peony embroidery, which is stuffed with this year's new cotton, bulging, and it feels very thick at a glance. The quilt pressed the rope of drying clothes straight down, and the spring warbler said loudly: "Be careful, be careful not to scratch the back, but the silk is good." β
Forsythia didn't look at her, walked to the other side, raised her hand and hung the quilt on the rope, the quilt was light and weightless, and it was extremely easy to hang. Seeing Forsythia, Chunying laughed: "Yo, Sister Forsythia also came to dry the quilt herself." After that, he glanced at the quilt on the rope and said: "You all come to learn a little, see that the forsythia is really capable, one person can dry the quilt, and it is not effortless to look at, unlike us, several people feel tired and panicked when they carry it together." β
A few little maids giggled, and one of them laughed: "Maybe the cotton used in the lady's house is good, and it doesn't weigh much when it looks like it, and it's comfortable to cover with such a quilt, unlike our quilt, which is thick and big, and it's dead." β
Forsythia smoothed the folds on the quilt and ignored their ridicule, seeing this, Chunying did not give up and continued: "Forsythia, why do you only dry Miss's quilt, and don't dry yourself and Angelica's quilt together?" Let us see if your quilt is the same as Miss, different from ours. β
A few little maids laughed again, saying that Jiang Ruan's quilt was not even comparable to that of his subordinates, which was really too much. Forsythia raised her eyebrows, and was about to get angry, but she saw a little girl with a sweet smile hurriedly coming over: "Sister Forsythia, you asked me to find it..." β
"Dewdrop," Forsythia interrupted, "Wait a minute," she smoothed the folds on the last piece of quilt, and then turned around and took the little girl's hand, "Come and talk." β
The two of them walked to one side of the aisle, so close that they didn't know what they were talking about, and after a while, Forsythia picked up the empty tub and left. After Forsythia left, the spring warbler stopped the little maid who was leaving: "Your name is Dewdrop, right?" β
Dew Drop glanced at the spring warbler a little timidly: "Yes." β
"Don't be afraid," Chunying said, "What did you say to Forsythia just now?" β
"No, nothing." Dewdrop shook her head, just looking down at her feet.
"What are you afraid of, I won't eat you again," Chunying's voice was a little fierce: "Forsythia is looking for you for no reason, what are you talking about just now." You must also understand who is in charge here, if you don't make it clear today, don't stay in Zhuangzi in the future. β
"Don't," Lu Zhu raised her head suddenly, and her eyes were a little red at a loss: "Sister Chunying, don't drive me out of Zhuangzi." β
"As long as you explain the matter, I will naturally not do anything to you." Chunying said: "I'm not an unreasonable person, look at your face is very raw, you should be a new girl, do things well, I won't let people bully you in the future." β
"Really?" Dew Drop raised her head, her expression a little hopeful.
"How could I lie to you?" Chunying's tone became softer and softer, and she only thought that there must be something strange about forsythia.
"Actually, Sister Forsythia has nothing to do with me," Dew said, "I only heard that I did a good job of embroidery, but I embroidered a water lily on the torn part of Miss's clothes, so I couldn't see it." β
Chunying looked at her suspiciously: "That's it?" β
"Hmm." Dewdrop nodded.
"It's really strange, Miss never cares about clothes on weekdays, why did she suddenly remember to embroider a water lily on her clothes?"
"Thisβ" Dew hesitated.
"What else?" The spring warbler said eagerly.
"I heard that I got a pot of beauty under the moon outside, Miss is going to the pear orchard tonight to enjoy the flowers, I want to look better in clothes, and don't neglect the precious flowers." Dew Drop said all at once: "I heard that the beauty under the moon cherishes it very much, and it is a rare variety that can bloom on a winter night." β
"Beauty under the moon?" Chunying wondered in her heart: "Zhuangzi got a beauty under the basin and moon?" I've never heard of it. Glancing at the spring warbler in front of him: "Okay, there's nothing else, you go and do something." β
Dew Drop turned around and left, after Dew Drops left, Chun Ying stood in place and said to himself: "Now that this is the situation, how can you still have the mind of appreciating flowers, that is, you have the mind of appreciating flowers, why do you deliberately look for a beautiful dress, I care about these things the most on weekdays, and today is so abnormal, there must be other reasons." I've got to figure out what they're up to. β
In the house in the side courtyard, Bai Zhi was also taking out the books in the box to dry, and the box full of books was all spread out in the yard to dry, Bai Zhi carefully opened the pages of the book and said: "The girl's box of books is well preserved, and the house is damp after the New Year, so you have to take it out and dry it from time to time." Then he thought of something: "In the past, when my wife was here, she also loved books very much, and she had to dry them every day." β
"My mother is from a family of Jiangmen, but she collected these precious reading materials, just to make people happy, but it cheapened me." Jiang Ruan looked at the books in the courtyard and said softly.
The ancestor of the Zhao family is the general of Rongma, accustomed to the bloody battlefield, the men in the family are all heroes in the army, but the only daughter Zhao Mei fell in love with Jiang Quan, the whole Zhao family strongly opposed, but Zhao Mei insisted on marrying, and the Zhao family broke off the relationship with the only daughter.
After Jiang Quan and Zhao Mei got married, Zhao Mei learned that Jiang Quan favored erudite and talented book women, so he collected many solitary books from all over the world to study carefully, who knew that Zhao Quan would soon marry Xia Yan, the first talented woman in Beijing, as a concubine.
This box of books, Zhao Mei still didn't live to the day he finished reading it, but Xia Yan changed from a concubine to Mrs. Jiang today, Jiang Ruan laughed at herself, her mother didn't understand until she died, if you really don't love it, you can't please the other party's heart, from the past to the future, Jiang Ruan has never loved a talented woman, but Xia Yan as a talented woman.
"Girl, but she remembers Madame?" Bai Zhi looked at Jiang Ruan's face: "If Madam is still here, I will definitely be relieved to see that the girl is so smart and sensitive now." β
Jiang Ruan smiled slightly, noncommittal. Bai Zhi walked back and was stunned when she saw the book in Jiang Ruan's hand: "Why does the girl read the book of soldiers again?" Now that she doesn't have to go to the battlefield, the girl might as well read some words and poems. β
"If you don't go to the battlefield, the enemy will come to you," Jiang Ruan's eyes fell on the words of the art of war in front of him: lead the snake out of the hole.
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Today is Double Twelve, and I ask my dear drops to collect and do the Boxing Rite [beating
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