Chapter 60: Interpretation of Flowers
Not long after the Dragon Boat Festival, it will be July 7.
On this day, the little girls who love beauty use impatiens and alum to mash and put on their nails, and bandage them tightly with wild hemp leaves, mulberry leaves or peach leaves, and take them off the next day, and their nails are enduring red, which is very beautiful.
The children who herd the cattle would gather wild flowers and weave them into garlands and carry them on the horns of the cows to celebrate their birthdays.
Even the naughty child caught the spider and put it in the box, and if it was opened the next day and the web was formed, it was a coincidence.
Wang Jing not only dyed her nails on this day, but also strung a lot of needles with threads, which is said to make the girl more clever. Naturally, she didn't believe in this, but now her needlework was made by the cuckoo, and after skewering, it could be used for the azalea embroidery. She also does needlework herself, but the embroidery is not very good.
Perhaps because life is more leisurely, her favorite thing is painting.
At the Tangram Festival when she was nine years old, Liu Chengfang invited her a master surnamed Wen, and now the two have had a teacher-student friendship for three or four years.
Master Wen's maiden name is Wenxiu, and he is married to the Wang family of Chuzhou, but unfortunately, his fiancé Wang Weiping met a rogue when he entered Beijing to take the exam and unfortunately died. Wen entered the Wang family with the tablet of his fiancé, but he was unwilling to look at the faces of his mother-in-law and uncle, so he traveled to Haozhou and came to Liu's family to be a husband through the introduction of his relatives.
Mr. Wen is interested in Liu Chengfang's simple family population, and Liu Chengfang values Wen's talent. Her great-grandfather, grandfather, and father were all bachelors of the Hanlin Academy, and their backgrounds were very noble, but unfortunately they were passed down from generation to generation, and there was only one daughter in her generation, and none of her relatives were gone.
She doesn't look very beautiful, but she has a kind of elegance with poetry and books, like an empty valley orchid, which makes people forget the vulgar. At the age of twenty-three or four, a woman has the most beautiful years in her life.
Wang Jing had a good impression of this gentleman as soon as they met, but never mentioned her past. For those who have the courage to fight against fate, pity is an insult to them.
Wenxiu is willing to teach Wang Jing, in large part because they are adjacent to each other.
is the same person who has fallen to the end of the world, why should we have known each other when we meet. To meet is to have a fate.
Wenxiu lives in the east wing, and Wang Jing lives in the west wing.
In the morning, he taught her to write, and in the afternoon he taught her to draw, but the only drawback was that he did not caress the piano, but he liked to ride and shoot. It would be a big mistake to think that her slender arms and waist are very soft.
"You have to learn things as early as possible, and when you are older, the people and things you come into contact with will become more and more complicated, and it will be difficult to be distracted." Wenxiu said.
She only said this to Wang Jing once, but the effect she received surprised her very much, this nine-year-old girl was not only blind, but even more rare was not arrogant or impatient.
In addition, it is also an interpretive flower.
Most people who know her life experience look at her with sympathy, but Wang Jing never does this, but she is willing to take care of her in life.
On the first day Wenxiu came to Liu's house, Wang Jing asked her: "There are few people in the family, and my mother is busy, can I eat with my husband?" ”
The little girl in front of her eyebrows are delicate and picturesque, her skin is like jade porcelain grease, slim and elegant, as beautiful as the lotus bones that are about to bloom in the early summer morning, her voice is delicate with a hint of light and soft, like a warbler's tactful and melodious, and now she is softly begging, so that Wenxiu, a person who has always been alone, can't bear to refuse her.
"Here's my recipe, sir, but what's the difference?" The little girl asked with a smile.
Wen Xiu originally flipped through it casually for politeness, but he didn't expect that there were hundreds of dishes on it, not only classifying the cuisines, but also listing their respective combinations, ingredients, cooking methods, and even the principles of dietary recuperation were clearly written. made her feel a lot of emotion, and she didn't know what to say for a while.
In the Great Zhou, a family with a little more background not only pays attention to the inheritance of poetry and etiquette, but also pays attention to the inheritance of food, and it is not surprising that there are recipes, but the Liu family can only be regarded as a solid family at most, how can there be recipes? Even if there is, it will not be shown to a person who is only on one side. Wenxiu, who has seen too much deceit, said that she was not moved, and even she didn't believe it.
In fact, this recipe was written by Wang Jing according to the memory of her previous life. In her previous life, she loved to eat and cook by herself, preferring to study recipes when she had nothing to do.
Wang Jing didn't dare to show this recipe to Zhang's yet, and her own appreciation was like a brocade at night.
No, Mr. is new to the city, and I don't know what her preferences are, but it's always right to ask more.
"I don't have any special preferences, anything." Wen Xiu smiled lightly.
You don't always have a recipe, right? Don't look at what kind of place this is. Before she came, she was ready to eat coarse tea and light rice.
I don't want Liu's meals to be not only colorful, fragrant and tasteful, but also have pre-dinner fruits every day. Even the chef seems to be very ingenious, and she can make the fruit as beautiful as a flower, which makes people feel reluctant to start.
Even in winter, seasonal fruits still appear on the table in summer. Not only that, but the Liu family also has a shop specializing in selling fruits in winter, which seems to be very profitable.
Of course, an elegant person like Xiang Wenxiu doesn't like to talk about money, but she likes to eat sweets, especially fruits, so she taught Wang Jinglai to be conscientious and strive for perfection.
The so-called eating people with a soft mouth is what it means.
On the day of the Tangram Festival, Wang Jing specially instructed the kitchen to make several new dishes for Mr. Wen to taste, and she herself was going to Huangfu to participate in the "Tangram Banquet".
Wang Jing didn't like Huang Shuyuan's style, and she didn't want to go, but she had already rejected her three times, and it was not good to refuse every time.
What's more, since the Dragon Boat Festival, whether it is Huang Shuyuan or Zhao Yanran, because Huajin's attitude towards her has taken a 180-degree turn, they have all become enthusiastic about her.
Especially Zhao Yanran, who was specially brought by Mrs. Zhao to Liu's house again, although she did not apologize to Wang Jing clearly, she brought a complete set of tea sets. Tea tripod, tea ou, tea mill, tea mill, tea mortar, tea cabinet, tea press, tea trough, tea xian, tea cage, tea basket, tea board, tea coercion, tea Luo, tea bag, tea scoop, teaspoon...... Wait, the tea cup is a set of rabbit cups.
"Yan'er has been to your house once since the Dragon Boat Festival, and when she goes back, she tells me how smart, beautiful and talented your sister is...... I guess we live close together, so we should move around a lot, and I ask my wife not to blame me for being uninvited. Mrs. Zhao said to Zhang, and she said all the good things she could think of
The Zhao family put their posture so low, not to mention that Wang Jing didn't suffer a loss at that time, and it would be a bit too much to ignore people and not forgive people. When Zhang heard this, he hurriedly smiled and said: "Our sister is a quiet person who doesn't like to move, and I'm afraid that she will only stay at home every day and be bored. But the gifts you gave were too expensive for us to accept. ”
"I bought two sets at that time, one was supposed to be for my kid, but unfortunately he didn't love this at all, and he didn't touch it, so it was better to give it to your sister, so as not to waste things." Mrs. Zhao said, looking like no matter what you say, you can't accept it.
Zhang's had to accept it, "I don't have any good things in my family, only Jing'er has planted a few flowers, and they can still be seen, so it's better to give you a few." ”
Mrs. Zhao smiled and agreed, and made an appointment to dig in the fall.
After that, he often brought Zhao Yanran to "visit the door", and when Zhao Yanran came by herself, the two families were not far away, four or five miles away.
Today, she was entrusted to ask Wang Jing to go to the Huang family's "Tangram Banquet" together.