Chapter Forty-Six: Congratulatory Gifts
Cuiguo's thin arm is surrounded by a square and simple wooden box, and there are several smaller boxes on it, but the packaging is almost the same, all of them are carved with many exquisite flowers, plants, insects and beasts, and the eight corners are inlaid with slightly faded gold corners, just the packaging can see how precious the objects inside are. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, just these wooden boxes have made the green tendons of Cuiguo's arms collapse, and the wooden boxes are built high, like a tower, crumbling, and it seems that Cuiguo will all scatter to the ground with a "bang" after a slight shake. But even if her hands were like jacks and her forehead was already full of sweat, she could only grit her teeth and walk cautiously on the path of Ninghou Mansion.
"Satsuki is really ruthless to let you take such a heavy thing." The wind came from the fork in the road and quietly walked behind Cuiguo. He spoke softly, for fear of scaring Cuiguo, so he dropped the thing in his arms, relying on his height advantage, his arm wrapped around Cuiguo, and naturally took over the few wooden boxes that were piled up.
It's really heavy. The wind arm secretly exerted force, and his eyebrows moved unnaturally.
"How do you handle something so heavy?" He couldn't help but look at the emerald fruit in front of him that was the same as the bamboo pole, and his mind was full of questions. I didn't see that this little girl was really unseemly.
Cuiguo only felt a light in his hand, and the mountain that blocked his vision seemed to have been removed by Yugong, and his eyes lit up. She turned around in surprise, her eyes were filled with the tall figure of the wild wind, and she hurriedly curtsied, and the things in her hurried hands almost fell, so startled that a cold sweat broke out on Cuiguo's back, and she felt that her underwear was firmly stuck to her back.
"Thank you, Master Hou." After subconsciously thanking Yan Feng for his kindness, she reacted to Yan Feng's question just now, and hurriedly bowed her head and replied. "Slaves and maids have been used to doing rough work since childhood, don't look at me as thin as hemp poles, but I am very powerful."
The wind nodded politely, and he looked down at the wooden boxes he was holding, each of which was extremely delicate. "Huh? Where are you going to take these things? Satsuki doesn't need these, does she? ”
"These are not for the county lord, they are intended to be given as congratulatory gifts to the kings of Qinghe and Zeyang. However, the county lord asked the slave to choose, the slave and the maid were just a vulgar person, only able to understand gold and jade, although they had chosen something, but they still felt uneasy, and wanted to send it to the county lord to take a look. ”
What a clever man. Yan Feng secretly admired Cuiguo's eight-sided exquisiteness in his heart, he lowered his eyes and thought for a while, although he wanted to let Duanyue pass by, but whether this congratulatory gift was given by Duanyue or himself, it was the face of Ninghou Mansion, he felt that he was still a little uneasy, so Yan Feng groaned for a while, as if he had unintentionally accosted Cuiguo.
"Tell me what you've picked out, and let me know."
"Ahh Cuiguo was taken aback as if she had heard the big news. She thought to herself, this Ning Hou is different from Duanyue, Cuiguo is afraid that she will be laughed at if she chooses the wrong one, if she is punished, it is really scary. Her clever eyes swirled from side to side, but she couldn't think of any way to prevaricate, so she had to reply in a voice as soft as a mosquito.
"What was given to King Qinghe was a pair of gilt bottles with gold filament wrapped around Shuanglong ears, and Princess Qinghe was given a set of jewels with emerald gold. King Zeyang gave a set of gold bottle cups from the previous dynasty, and Princess Zeyang gave a silver jade butterfly mirror. She spoke everything fluently, and the wind nodded, but her eyebrows didn't stretch.
"Let's change King Zeyang's golden bottle cup."
Cuiguo paused. "The slave thinks there's nothing wrong with this golden bottle?"
She was puzzled, but the wind was still firm in her thoughts. "The golden bottle cup was an object used by the prince in the previous dynasty, if it was given to the king of Zeyang, people who knew it were unintentional, but if it was not clear or thoughtful, I am afraid that they would be able to make a fuss about it."
The wind said a word, so that Cuiguo was like an initiation, and her mind was immediately thorough, she secretly said in her heart that she was really too stupid, she only looked at the noble appearance of this golden bottle cup, and did not carefully study the meaning of it, it was really reckless, and nodded humbly at the wind.
"Master Hou is right, the slave maid really never thought about this, and the slave maid put the golden bottle cup back." As soon as the words fell, she hugged the wooden box in her arms tightly, and pulled out her right hand to get the wooden box containing the golden bottle cup that Yan Feng was holding.
"Forget it, it's also troublesome for you to come together, anyway, you'll be in the Duanyue House in front, I'll help you send it to the door, and I'll put down this golden bottle cup and take it back."
"Thank you, Master Hou, for your kindness." Cuiguo lowered her head, as if she was a lively rabbit living in her heart, jumping non-stop. She timidly raised her eyelids and looked at the dashing wind in front of her, the eyes, nose and mouth were all what Cuiguo thought about on weekdays.
The two of them walked silently to the end of the road, and Cuiguo had never hated the shortness of the stone road so much, even if she quietly slowed down her pace, it would be useless.
Slightly reluctant to take the wooden box handed by the wind, she wanted to look but didn't dare to look up, so she had to look like before, staring at the oblique front, and thanked her softly. Only when the wind turned to leave, did he dare to raise his head and look at his majestic back in a daze. Obviously, the distance between the two is just as close as two fists, but their eyes are so far away.
She leaned close to the wooden box in her arms, feeling the residual warmth on it, and the warm feeling was as real as if she was holding a wind in her arms. The faint pandan residue on it seeped into every strand of hair and skin of Cuiguo.
Cuiguo suddenly became disgusted with herself cowering like this, and the warm wooden box instantly turned into hot charcoal, and she hurriedly ran to the house, panting and putting it in front of Duanyue. His hands propped up the round table with a restless face, his eyes empty, and his soul and thoughts drifted away.
"What are you doing in such a hurry, don't touch these things." Duanyue frowned, and stroked the scattered wooden box distressedly. She opened them one by one, and the golden and silver light flashed on her face, and she felt very dazzling, and hurriedly closed it.
She looked at Cuiguo's strange appearance and didn't say anything. "These things are so heavy, if you don't take a small servant with you, what can you do?"
"The people are doing their jobs, and I'm so embarrassed to let them put down their jobs to help me." She straightened her scattered hairstyle, and immediately changed back to her old self, and she no longer saw anything unusual.
Cuiguo carefully told Duanyue what was in each box and who it was given to. Duanyue was impatient with these things, and interrupted her after listening for a while.
"King Qinghe, Princess Qinghe, Princess Zeyang, King Zeyang, shouldn't it be four boxes? You pointed out three to me, why is there one missing? ”
"It was supposed to be four, but I had an accident and wanted to give the golden bottle cup to King Zeyang, which is not appropriate."
Duanyue was stunned again. "What's wrong with giving the golden bottle cup to Meng Tao? Is he special? ”
Cuiguo didn't expect that Duanyue was the same as herself, and she didn't know about the Golden Bottle Cup, so it seemed that she really wanted to thank Yanfeng for her early guidance.
"The golden bottle cup was used by the prince of the previous dynasty, and I am afraid it is not good to give it to King Zeyang."
"Ah...... That's ......" Duanyue nodded, her eyes showing her approval and affirmation of Cuiguo. "Sure enough, you are thoughtful."
Cuiguo shook her head again and again. "It's not that I'm thoughtful, but when I met Hou Ye, Hou Ye mentioned it, and I didn't dare to ask for credit."
Duanyue's face froze for a moment when she heard what she said, and the smile raised at the corner of her mouth froze awkwardly for a second or two, and she nodded "oh" as if unintentionally. "Did you meet your brother when you came?"
"Yes, Master Hou saw that I couldn't hold it, so he kindly came to help me move to the door." She told what had just happened with a smile, but when she heard these in Duanyue's heart, her face couldn't smile.
"Cuiguo," Duanyue pondered for a moment, and she looked at Cuiguo with a slight meaning. "In the past, my brother didn't often stay at home, so I didn't think there was anything wrong, but now that he stays in the house, I just remembered whether I want to pick a few subordinates to serve him?"
Cuiguo blinked, thinking that there was no one around him, and he did everything by himself, but he never thought about it when he was often outside. She nodded in agreement. "That's what the county lord said, but you still have to ask the Hou Ye before making a decision on these matters, I'm afraid that your kindness will be disappointed by the time comes."
"It's okay, didn't my brother say that I could manage Ninghou Mansion when he wasn't there, I can call the shots on this matter." She turned to Emerald. "You go talk to Uncle Tong later, let him find a clever and intelligent little girl to help take care of his brother's daily life, and ask for a woman who doesn't talk much, my brother doesn't like to talk a lot, he is noisy."
Cuiguo struggled inwardly, she pinched the hem of her skirt with both hands, and forcefully pinched the light and soft fabric into folds, and her knuckles were glowing with abnormal red. Her eyes circled in her sockets, and she didn't know where to look, so she could only bite her lip, nodded, and let out a weak "um".
Duanyue's heart is like a mirror, looking at her so aggrieved and unwilling, she has long been clear about her thoughts about the wind.
If only Lu Qingyi and Cuiguo were left in front of the wind, Duanyue would choose Lu Qingyi without hesitation, and she didn't know why she thought like this, obviously Cuiguo had lived with her for many years, and she hoped that she would be well. But at this moment, for the first time in Duanyue's heart, she had the idea of wanting Cui to make her decisive.
Maybe she felt in her heart that Cuiguo was not worthy of the wind.