Chapter 14: Spring Outing
Mr. Su's teaching method this year is very different from previous years, when she and her sisters assigned the same homework, the same teaching method, the same test method. But after this year, Yiqiē changed significantly, and she asked the sisters to read different books, sometimes one to read, one to play the piano, and the other to cook tea.
Although they didn't understand what Mr. Su meant, everyone followed what Mr. Su said, and no one showed any reluctance, maybe there was, and no one dared to show it.
In the Shen family, how Mr. Su taught and punished them, as long as the teacher was famous, Mrs. Shen and Shen Congwen could not be asked, which was also one of the conditions for Mr. Su Su to agree to come to their house. In this regard, the sisters already have a sense of awe for Mr. Su, not to mention that Mr. Su was born in a famous family and has learned well, so he deserves their awe.
After Shen Qinrou returned to the hospital after class, she couldn't help frowning when she saw that the snow ball was still nesting there: "Why are you getting more and more sleepy." ”
Momoko smiled and leaned over and said, "Don't you know about spring sleep." ”
This is true, Shen Qinrou shook her head speechlessly, and her eyes fell on the book of the Art of War in her hand.
Why did Mr. Su ask her to watch Sun Tzu's Art of War, this gentleman's mind is really hard to guess, she can't understand it, but she intuitively believes Mr. Su.
At this time, Shen Qinya was also stunned by the chess game in her hand. Shen Qinxin casually threw an embroidery book aside, she was not interested in torturing her fingers, her cold face carried her unique arrogance, and her eyebrows were slightly raised. And Shen Qinwei pouted and tore up a three-character scripture and stepped on it twice, Mr. Su also looked down on people too much, she had memorized a three-character scripture for two years, and her mind had long remembered it clearly, why did she give her such a thing, it was too deceitful!
As soon as she sat down, she turned the first page when she heard a commotion outside, and after glancing out, she commanded Peaches, "Go outside and see what is going on?" ”
"Ugh." Peaches answered the call and hurried out, and as soon as she walked to the door, she met Xi'er who was smiling.
"Sister Peach, are you going to pick flowers?" She asked.
"What flowers?" Momoko looked puzzled.
Xi'er grinned and said, "This year's spring flowers have been sent." ”
"Sent?" She still looked confused: "Didn't it come over when it was almost April in previous years?" ”
"Oh." Xi'er responded with a long smile and said: "I heard people outside the hospital say that two days ago, the old lady mentioned that she wanted to see this year's spring flowers during dinner, and at that time Aunt Tong was holding the fifth young master to ask for peace, she paid attention, and yesterday she went to order someone to pick flowers, and she sent them over today." ”
Xi'er's happiness is not because she likes Aunt Tong, the people in the Blowing Snow Courtyard, except for Mother Li, the others are not very good at dealing with the people of the Bitong Courtyard.
Peaches knew that Xi'er was the same as her, and she was tired of looking at the pots of residual cinnamon in the courtyard one winter, adding some new flowers and plants, and the courtyard was full of life and refreshing.
"What is there to pick, our hospital can only pick up the rest now, like the plates and curtains that were sent over last time, all of them are flawed, but it was not like this when my aunt was in charge of the house before." Momoko pursed her lips, anyway, she was used to this kind of treatment, but the young lady complained, what did she have to say, and after thinking about it, she snorted and returned to normal.
When Xi'er heard this, she seemed to remember something interesting, and said with a smile: "Sister Peach, you don't know, that greedy cat in Xuetuan caught the fish in the big porcelain jar two days ago and ate them. ”
"Oh, no." Peaches's eyes widened in surprise, and when she saw Xi'er's serious face, she muttered complainingly: "That guy in the snow group, this will know how to sleep in addition to eating..."
Peach suddenly turned a corner and said: "Forget it, the porcelain altar was given by Aunt Da Zhou in the past, and I still feel bad luck when I keep it, I think it's okay to lose it as soon as possible." ”
"Yes." Xi'er seemed to think of something unpleasant, and her mouth slowly pouted: "Those people in Bitong Courtyard are also people who can do superficial work, since the kitchen has been managed by Aunt Tong, the food in our courtyard is not as good as day by day, and the old lady will only listen to her, and she will not listen to what others say." ”
"If she becomes a lady, then it will be." When Xi'er thought about it, she felt that the future was dark.
Que'er interjected mysteriously at the right time: "Hasn't she become a lady yet, the fifth young master and the sixth young lady have been for several months, and the old lady has not let go, and the people below say that the old lady may have other plans." ”
"That's fine." Xi'er smiled and breathed a sigh of relief.
Shen Qinrou waited in the room for a long time and still didn't see the peach room, but heard a few maids chatting and muttering, she couldn't help but shake her head, reflecting on whether she had made a few girls wild.
She got up from her chair, lifted the curtain lightly, poked out half her head, and asked, "What are you talking about?" ”
"Ahh Peaches and the others were startled by the sudden voice, and only let out a long sigh when they saw that it was Shen Qinrou who made the sound.
"Miss, people are scared to death." She patted her frightened little heart, half resentful and half angry.
The magpie also breathed a sigh of relief.
Shen Qinrou pursed her lips and smiled, she shook her head lightly, she really raised the maid in the room presumptuously, but not only did she not hate this change, but she enjoyed it a little.
"Tell me, what did you just say?" She lifted the curtain and came out of the room, the new beaded curtain swaying behind her.
Xi'er blessed her body before replying, "Are you talking about flowers?" This year's spring flowers have been delivered earlier than in previous years, and the florist has already sent them, asking which ones to keep and which ones to go? ”
The old man with a peach face: "Anyway, it's all about picking the rest, what's so good." ”
Xi'er smiled and said, "I took a look from a distance, and it looks quite watery." ”
"After all, it is the flowers that are sold to the house, and the flower farmers will not send them if they are too bad, so they will be placed in our yard in the future, so let's go and see it." Shen Qinrou said, and walked forward.
Momoko and Xi'er glanced at each other and hurriedly chased out.
The flowers were ordered by Aunt Tong and sent by the flower farmers, but it was not the flower farmers who personally sent them to the inner courtyard, but the rough mother-in-law who worked in the inner courtyard.
They had been waiting at the gate of the courtyard for a while, seeing what the Blowing Snow Courtyard wanted, and they would leave the pot they ordered, because they had received the silver from Bi'e, and their faces did not show a trace of impatience.
As soon as Aunt Zhao arrived at the gate of the courtyard, she saw that Shen Qinrou was also here, and hurriedly beckoned her to come over and take a look, and choose two pots of what she liked.
Who knew that Shen Qinrou glanced at it and let all those mothers-in-law send them away.
The two mothers-in-law looked at her inexplicably, didn't the Blowing Snow Courtyard add new flowers this year?
"Rourou, is it not something you don't like in this batch of flowers?" Aunt Zhao also looked at her suspiciously, she was the happiest in previous years.
"Send it away." She grabbed Aunt Zhao with one hand and dragged the person away without saying anything.
Momoko smiled dryly and walked up to the mother-in-law and said sorry, and one of them gave a few dimes of silver before it was settled.
Listening to the sound of the cart moving away, Peach hurried towards the direction where Shen Qinrou left.
"Rourou, why is that?" Aunt Zhao asked with a puzzled look when she returned to the main room.
The peach and Bi'e who came later also looked at her with a puzzled expression.
"Auntie, look at those flower pots." She said.
"Flower pots? What's wrong with the pots? The flower pot was stained with mud and looked tattered. ”
Shen Qinrou shook her head and said, "Those flower pots are just muddy on the surface, which makes them look dirty, but in fact, the flower pots are fired from purple sand mud."
"How so?"
Aunt Zhao and the others all covered their mouths in amazement, but no one doubted Shen Qinrou's judgment, in the past, when Shen Qinrou was alone in the courtyard, she was also tinkering with flowers and plants from time to time, if anyone in this courtyard knew those things, I am afraid that Shen Qinrou was the only one.
A teapot made of purple sand mud is not cheap, who would burn a flower pot with purple sand mud? They were not amazed by this muddy flower pot, in previous years, after harvesting the flowers, the Shen Mansion would reorder a batch of flower pots to be dressed, and there was no lack of valuables. What amazed them was that the person who sent it was a flower farmer, why did he increase his own costs in vain?
"So that pile of flowers is really extraordinary, although some of the flowers have not even budded yet." On the surface, the pile of flowers was really ordinary, but she recognized one of them as Qionghua, this kind of flower is really rare in Kyoto in the north, but it should be no stranger to the old lady and Aunt Tong who grew up in the south, she expected that it should be the old lady's heart.
The person is still an old lady, and when the time comes, they will make the snow even worse.
After Shen Qinrou said this, everyone realized that this matter was not ordinary, and I am afraid that it was a pit dug for them on purpose.
"Luckily, you're smart." Aunt Zhao sighed and shook her head helplessly, now that she has fallen out of favor and lost power in the Shen Mansion, she doesn't know what else she has to frame.