Since she said that she was not sick, Huilan was inevitably bored, and she was holding a flower embroidered bedrobe in the room, the pattern was a dragon piercing the clouds, and Bi Jin handed over a cup of tea: "Madame, take a break, you are tired of your eyes." Hui Lan responded lightly, sighed, put down the bandage, looked at the skylight, and listened to the voice of silk and bamboo in the yard: "It's okay if you don't embroider this time, the garden is too lively, I don't have a quiet heart, and I can't look at it after embroidery." Seeing that the master was lost, Bijin smiled and comforted: "Madame came in and was a lot haggard, there are many people outside, and it is inevitable that you will be tired when you go, so it's better not to go." If you don't have a quiet heart and don't have any way to pass the time, I'll call them in, and let's gamble a few small sums of money, okay? ”

Listening to Bi Jin talking about gambling money, Hui Lan thought about it carefully and said with a smile: "You will receive that little money to settle down, where is there some extra money to play with me, and how can there be a reason for the master to win people's money?" Why don't you take backgammon and let's have fun. Isn't it better to lose by letting the winner choose something on his body, or to give an explanation to the person who won or to win a random idea? Bichen smiled and agreed, beckoned the little girl to serve outside, and called Cui Wei to come in as a companion, and took the backgammon that she usually played.

"It's not this, this one is also a little old, the wooden plate is cracked, how can you play? On my birthday, my father gave me a set of inlaid jade snails, have you forgotten? Play with that! Hui Lan frowned and looked at the cracked chessboard, and told Sù Bichen to go and get a new one. Bijin patted his head: "It's not that I'm confused, it's just that I can't remember which cabinet I'm in for a while." Wait for me to think about it. Cui Wei smiled: "Isn't that in the high cabinet at the east end, you asked me a few days ago when you were sorting out things, but now you forgot about it, wait for me to pick it up!" With that, she ran out, and Hui Lan and Bi Jin saw that she was in a hurry, and looked at each other and smiled. Cui Wei was quick with his hands and feet, and he took it in the blink of an eye.

It is about two and a half feet long, about one foot and two inches wide, and more than seven inches high, like a small kang table, but the legs under it are curved ruler-shaped. Open the lid on the top, expose the chessboard, open the door hole below, there is a mud support at the bottom of the hole, there is a semicircular small door along the center of the long side of the chessboard, there are six flower eyes inlaid with jade snails on the left and right, there are two longitudinal and horizontal grid lines in the center of the game, enclosing three spaces, and the space is embedded with gold and silver filigree filigree into various patterns of clouds, flowers and birds. Hui Lan opened the dark grid and took out a full set of green jade horses and brown sugar jade dice inside. The horse is two inches tall and the dice are half an inch in size. Very delicate.

really took it, Bi Jin touched the chessboard, but he was reluctant to play: "Madame's Shuanglu set is too expensive, how can I give it up if I touch it." Hui Lan smiled and said: "Don't do this slamming the door to show me, since it was delivered, if you don't play it, can't it be made by it in the cabinet to make ashes?" Cui Wei, you come to play with me, let her watch it if she doesn't play. After saying that, he set up the chess pieces first, and Bi Jin didn't fight, sat on the edge of the bed, and watched the two of them fight on the side.

In the first game, Hui Lan's dice were very smooth, so she won, and Cui Wei was willing to bet on losing and asked Hui Lan what she wanted. "I bought some new satin, and I don't want anything else from you, it's getting cold, you can make me a stove cover." There is no need to do it in a hurry, just do it before winter. Hui Lan smiled proudly, but it was not difficult to be embarrassed. Cui Wei happily responded: "This is easy, Mrs. Xie." The second game was very grinding, and after fighting for a long time, but Hui Lan still won, Cui Wei sighed: "The skills are not as good as others, madam, please tell me how to punish." Sister, play for me. ”

Huilan thought about it for a while and couldn't think of anything: "Remember, I don't know what I want for a while, why don't you play another game with me, if you win me, won't you save this painstaking effort?" If you are embarrassed, one game is two chips, how about I let you take a lead in this game? Cui Wei saw that Bi Jin waved his hand to let him continue playing, and heard Hui Lan say that he would let him play half a game, so he was naturally happy, so the two of them fought together, and after a while, it was Cui Wei who won a hand.

"How? Isn't that just taking it back? Can you still play? Hui Lan asked with a smile. Cui Wei also smiled: "Don't play, let Sister Bichen play, I smell the incense burner is out of incense, I'll burn some, I see that the corners of Madame's lips are a little dry, wait for me to make some tea and let's drink." So saying, he got up and sat down with, and went out by himself. Bijin and Huilan fought in one place, fighting hard for a game, but they were entangled and couldn't end quickly. Hui Lan was frowning at the number rolled by the dice, but she smelled a strange fragrance. Hui Lan was distracted, the dice swept and rolled, Bi Jin was stunned, but Hui Lan asked Cui Wei unconsciously: "What kind of fragrance is this?" It smells like it's a real fragrance, but it's not like it. The taste is good, and it is very elegant and dusty! ”

"Madame smells right, it's really fragrant." Cui Wei smiled mysteriously, "It's just a change of production method, my own production, do you like it, madam?" Hui Lan heard her say that it was a true incense, but it was a new method, so she asked again: "Oh? What are you doing with your eyebrows? Tell me how this is made? It smells much better than ordinary incense. Cui Wei smiled and groaned: "I deliberately chose the purple intact fruit, put it in and boiled it with Longjing tea, and after boiling the oil over low heat, I added a penny of borneol and a penny of sweet fragrance into it every two or two miles, so the taste of burning has the fragrance of tea oil and the delicacy of sweet fragrance, and it has the refreshing effect of borneol." ”

"This incense is really good, the master and servant have been serving for many years, but I didn't know that you had such skills! But is this incense still called true incense? Why don't you come up with a new name? Hui Lan nodded, with appreciation. Back to Mrs. Hui's words, this incense has never been famous now, why don't you come up with a name for Mrs.? Cui Wei was also on the rise, quite smug and said. Huilan nodded and pondered for a long time, but she didn't know what to name, Bi Jin also lowered her head and thought, and suddenly looked up and asked Huilan: "Why don't you call it 'Ice Dragon Drunk'?" I see that the taste has the crispness of borneol, the fragrance of Longjing tea and the sweet fragrance of intoxicating, and each of them takes one word, and the synthesis is a 'ice dragon drunk', isn't it a good name to be lazy? ”

When the two heard it, they also thought it was very agreeable, so they decided on the name. Hui Lan then asked Cui Wei to take the flower note, carefully transcribe it with a fly's head, and stick it on the incense box. The two fought again, but Bi Jin remembered that Hui Lan had touched the dice thrown, so he said to Hui Lan that he wanted to roll it again, but Hui Lan saw that the number was now two fives, just to finish the two pieces in his hand, so he refused, and Cui Wei interjected: "It's a three, a two." Madame, throw it again. Hui Lan was annoyed: "Phew! It's not a big win or loss, so why rush to come with her to trick me? Did I win your house or land?! ”