Xiusun and the three of them stayed in the open hall separating the second and third courtyards, which spanned the water, with open water in front and back, and the partition doors were equipped with large pieces of glass, and there was no partition in the room, and the lighting was good.

The partition door is all open, the flowers and plants in the courtyard are fragrant and cool, the melodious birdsong under the corridor can be heard, the sisters put on the tea fruit, take off their shoes and climb on the Luohan bed, and do needlework.

Xiusun was dizzy by the gentle wind blowing through the hall, half leaning on the big pillow and napping, holding a plain fan in her hand, covering her face to block the bright sunlight.

The mandarin duck was lying on the black lacquered red sandalwood curly foot case to draw patterns, and Xiuzhi sat on the side and watched, giving some opinions from time to time.

Xiuqian couldn't bear it, sat next to it and watched for a while, then slipped off the Luohan bed, climbed onto the gooseneck chair opposite with her short legs, and grabbed the varnish railing to see the koi in the pool.

Xiusun hurriedly ordered Xiuqian's nurse to look carefully, the gooseneck chair has been worn for many years, the surface is smooth and translucent, Xiuqian's little arms and legs, don't slip down.

In a blink of an eye, I saw that the Wufu longevity flower drawn by the mandarin duck on the kang table was exquisite and chic, and hurriedly said, "Sister Mandarin Duck also draw one for me, how about the peony tuanhua, I want to embroider a handkerchief for my grandmother." ”

"Miss, that's a good idea." The mandarin duck promised, took another piece of paper, and drew with a pen.

Xiuqian looked at the koi for a long time, and when she heard that their gifts had been settled, she turned around and asked timidly, "Then what will I give?" ”

Xiusun smiled and said, "You can make a bat for your grandmother, a few days ago, Sister Caique just made a glasses cover for her grandmother, and she hung it on it, so that grandmother can see your network from time to time." ”

"Okay." Xiuqian patted her chubby hand and hesitated again, "But I won't do it." ”

Xiusun smiled, "What's so difficult about this, just let the mandarin duck teach you." ”

The mandarin duck smiled and said, "The gifts of the young ladies are all from the hands of the slaves." ”

Xiusun raised the fan and knocked on the mandarin duck's arm, "No, no, no, the student's knowledge comes from the teacher, but how can you say that the articles made by the students are from the teacher's hands?" ”

"Yes, yes, Seventh Sister is right." Xiuqian clapped her hands very dogged, and the two little tiger teeth were just exposed, reflecting the snow-white skin, which was very playful and cute.

Xiuzhi sat aside with silk threads, and looked at them with a smile when she heard the words and didn't speak.

The mandarin duck pretended to be angry and pouted, "Okay, you all bullied me." ”

Everyone laughed together.

Xiusun was tired of laughing, and then lay back on the big pillow, raised the fan to cover her face, and her little white mouth slightly hooked the arc.

Xiuguan is the eldest daughter of the old four rooms, and under hard practice, the female red has become the best among the sisters, so every year she will embroider the old lady's forehead, and such a conspicuous thing can also be regarded as a jackpot, which can not only show the embroidery, but also make the old lady think of it from time to time.

Last year, the year before last, and the year before last, Xiuguan's birthday gifts for the old lady were all wiped out.

If there is no accident, Xiuguan still has to embroider this year, but Xiuzhi is only two years younger than Xiuguan, and she has also practiced good embroidery over the years.

Today, Xiuzhi opened her mouth and said that she would embroider a forehead for the old lady, which shows that she understands the story about the kang screen, and asked the mandarin duck to paint a pattern, just to cross the road and nail it out.

Not bad, not bad. Xiusun secretly praised, this hole is drilled well, Xiuguan doesn't send a wipe, her current show skills are not enough to complete the difficult show work of wiping the forehead, Xiuqian has not started to take the needle, only Xiuzhi, you might as well push the boat down the river, let Xiuzhi win this lottery.

Xiusun quietly lifted the edge of the fan, and squinted to catch a glimpse of Xiuzhi carefully matching the colors of the flowers, the colorful silk threads tossing and turning between the tender white leaves, reflecting the quiet and warmth of the daylight.

This sixth sister also has a crystal heart and liver, and in terms of appearance, it is much clearer than the fourth sister who is strong on the outside and dry on the outside.

Xiusun grew up in a place where everyone dreams of intrigue, and she is used to speculating on people with the greatest malice, so that she can put herself in a relatively safe place, never turn her back to others, and never be stabbed in the back.

Just as Xiusun was about to take a moment to feel sad, the little magpie trotted in from outside.

The expression on her small face was still ignorant, and she was still holding a small bag of things in her hand.

Thinking about it, the little magpie had already trotted to Xiusun, "Miss, look at the jasmine I picked." ”

She happily lifted the crimson silk handkerchief she was holding in her palm, and the white and tender jasmine buds formed a hill in the center of the handkerchief, with the green calyx, which was delicate.

Xiusun felt slightly satisfied, and didn't run in and directly asked for trouble, indicating that this little girl was not stupid to go home.

Seeing that the little magpie's face was full of "want to talk and stop", she just shook her head slightly, took the handkerchief with a smile, smelled the unique fragrance of jasmine, and said to Xiuzhi, "Sister take some back, put them on a plate with water, and put them on the windowsill, and the breeze will definitely fill the room with fragrance." ”

Jasmine usually blooms at the end of May at the earliest, but this is only the beginning of May, and it is bothered to cultivate it by the mother-in-law in the garden, and Xiuzhi and Xiuqian do not dare to pick it on weekdays.

"Sister, good idea." Xiuzhi replied with a smile.

Xiuqian put aside a pool of koi fish and ran back, climbed onto the Luohan bed and sat next to Xiusun, shaking Xiusun's arm, "Seventh sister, I want it too." ”

Xiusun was afraid that she would touch the flowers in her hand, so she hurriedly handed the handkerchief to the little magpie, turned around and stroked the top of Xiuqian's head, "Okay," and saw the two fluffy buds on Xiuqian's head, and said with a smile, "Sister, can you pick a few hairpins for you to put in a bun?" ”

Xiu Qianle responded, obediently sat on the black lacquer rosewood eight-legged drum pier next to Luohan's bed, and asked Xiusun to help her with the hairpin.

Xiusun picked a few buds that were about to bloom, and gave her two small hairpins around each of them, white jade was generally embellished in the black velvet hair, playful and cute, and ordered the little girl to take a mirror.

Xiuqian held the mirror and didn't want to let go, she didn't even look at the koi in the pond, and the bats didn't fight.

When it was dark, Xiuzhi had already divided the line, and Xiusun and Xiuqian had not yet started.

Sister Caique beside the old lady came to speak, "Miss Six, Miss Seven, Miss Nine, the old lady has already asked someone to set up dinner in the banquet room, and she is about to hold the lamp, a few young ladies hurry up." ”

It means that the old lady wants to leave Xiuzhi and Xiuqian to have dinner in the Huanshi Mountain House today, of course, Xiusun mostly eats with the old lady.

Xiusun stretched her waist and got off the Luohan bed, took Xiuqian's hand and asked, "What do you want to eat at night?" ”

When Xiuqian heard that she was going to stay in her grandmother's house for dinner, she was so happy that she jumped up, and she opened her mouth and replied, "Hibiscus cake!" ”

The corners of Xiusun's mouth twitched when she heard this, isn't that a good dinner, looking at her pink and tender little face full of anticipation, Xiusun admitted that she had lost to this porcelain doll-like child, and told the mandarin duck to send some hibiscus cakes to the small kitchen to bring back to Miss Nine. Since the mandarin duck was asked to pass the word, of course, this silver was made by Xiusun himself.

Xiuqian heard that there was really a hibiscus cake, covered her small mouth and smiled happily, and her apricot-like eyes completed the bright crescent.

Xiuzhi took the basket that the mandarin duck had packed up, glanced at Xiusun seriously, and asked Caique again, "What about the fourth sister?" ”

Caique said, "The old lady has sent someone to invite her, and she will arrive at this time." ”

Xiuzhi smiled and nodded, her slender fingertips flicked the colorful silk threads in the basket and the cotton paper with the patterns drawn, hugged the yellow-green glazed concave and embossed basket in her arms, and followed Xiusun and Xiuqian to the old lady's banquet room, and did not hand it over to the personal maid on the side.

The three of them passed through the verandah, the bamboo carved birdcage under the eaves of the corridor was square and round, the sky was late, and the thrush and yellow finches in the cage did not move much, squinting their eyes and pretending to be dead.

Xiusun tapped the birdcage one by one with a fan along the way, startling a fluttering sound, and a few bright feathers slowly fell down.

Xiuqian saw it and giggled on the side, and it seemed that she wanted to follow suit, but unfortunately she was not tall enough.

Lifting the curtain and stepping into the old lady's main house, bypassing the Bogu frame, I saw Xiuguan sitting on the foot of the Luohan bed in the west room, helping the old lady beat her legs.

In a blink of an eye, he saw Xiusun and them come in, and said with a smile, "My sisters are really slow, grandmother and I are hungry, if you don't come again, we can eat first." ”

Xiusun looked up at the old lady and saw that she was squinting against the big pillow, as if she hadn't heard them.

He turned his gaze back and glanced at Xiuguan, and found that her eyes were falling on the basket that Xiuzhi was holding in her arms, and she bit her lip.

Xiusun raised her eyebrows suspiciously, this basket was given to Aunt Wang by the old lady in her early years, no matter how beautiful it was, it was only made of wicker, how could she even blush at this.

"That's not going to work," replied Xiusun with a quick smile, "and my lion head." ”

Xiuqian also followed, "I also want a lion's head." ”

Xiusun listened and scratched the tip of her little nose, "Didn't you want hibiscus cake?" ”

Xiuqian smiled embarrassedly, revealing two sharp little tiger teeth again, like a little cat that has been hungry for fish.

After Xiuzhi entered the house, she and Xiusun greeted the old lady and Xiuguan together, and then they stood by and watched their interaction, and when their laughter was over, they respectfully stepped forward and said to the old lady, "Grandmother, it's time for dinner." ”

Then put the basket in his hand on the edge of the rosewood plain roll foot case on the Luohan bed, lift the skirt and squat down to help the old lady put on her shoes.

Xiaoyan, who was standing next to her, hurriedly took it over and helped the old lady put on another shoe, and Xiuzhi happened to squat beside Xiuguan, so she naturally squeezed Xiuguan to the side.

The old lady finally opened her eyes at this time and said with a smile, "It's all here, let's have dinner together." ”

Xiuzhi took advantage of the situation to help the old lady get up, Xiusun took Xiuqian's hand and followed behind, and finally Xiuguan and Xiaoyan.

When the group arrived at the banquet room in the east room, they were sitting down around the large round table inlaid with marble rosewood, and the old lady was beckoning Xiusun to sit next to her, but they heard a "bang" in the direction of the west room, which was crisp and long, as if porcelain was striking a hard object.

The ancestors and grandchildren made a move, Xiaoyan hurriedly went over to check, and when she came back, her face was pale and pale, "Old lady, your pastel teacup fell off the foot case and broke." ”

There was no one in the house, so why did the teacup that had been placed on the curly foot case fall to the ground and shattered?

Before everyone could react, Xiuguan had already sighed, got up and walked back to the west room, picking up the pastel teacup that was lonely in the center of the thick flower carpet.