Chapter Twenty-Four: It Has Arrived
When Shen Qinrou led Liu Lu to the hexagonal pavilion, she was called by Shen Qinxin, "Third sister, come and sit down." β
Shen Qinrou pointed at herself, secretly thinking that she had not provoked her second sister recently, why was she named, she would not be naΓ―ve enough to think that her second sister was to talk about sisterhood with her.
At the beginning of spring, the twilight is thin, and the flowers and plants in the garden are sprouting buds, full of vitality.
"Third sister, please take a seat."
Shen Qin thanked him softly and sat down as he said.
The pavilion has been cleaned, the pavilion has been incense, and the tip of the nose can still smell a faint jasmine aroma.
The stone tables and stone benches are covered with brocade mats, and it is not cold to sit down.
Shen Qinxin nodded to Chaolu on the side.
Chao Lu took a step forward, laid a bamboo curtain and thick felt cloth on the stone table, laid plain white rice paper, and set up a pen and ink inkstone.
"What is this?" Shen Qinrou's eyes swept to the table and looked at Shen Qinxin.
Shen Qinxin smiled slightly and said: "I heard Mr. Su say that the third sister's calligraphy has made great progress, and I have itchy skills for a while, and I want to learn from the third sister." β
Shen Qinrou smiled, isn't that burying herself.
Who doesn't know that the second miss of the Shen family can read and paint, and the third miss of the Shen family only has a fur bag.
"I'll be the first to make a fool of myself." Shen Qinxin didn't wait for Shen Qinrou to say refuse or agree, and directly picked up the pen and put up the words on the rice paper.
In just a moment, she was engrossed in the pen and ink, and the pen was attentive.
"Mei Xiang." Shen Qinrou watched her write the word plum fragrance on the paper, using the plum blossom seal that she had said was not big.
The plum blossom seal is like a plum blossom, a word looks like a word, and then looks like a flower, it is not easy to learn, and it is not easy to write, and look at the plum fragrance on this paper The two words are skillful, not like the half-way to learn the person to write.
"The third sister's handwriting is really good." Shen Qinrou praised heartily.
Wait for the ink to dry on the paper, roll it up, and lay out a blank sheet of paper again.
Shen Qinxin stretched out his hand to invite.
Shen Qinrou had no choice but to put the word Meixiang on the pen.
She didn't forget what Jì promised Mr. Su, and when she wrote, she had already used Lishu, and she didn't use the usual way of writing. The book is heavy, she doesn't practice often, and this rash mention is miserable.
Shen Qin looked at it in his heart, and his face was stern, "Does the third sister look down on her sister or what, she writes so inattentively." β
Shen Qinrou shouted that she was wronged, and brushed down again, but the words in her pen were much better than what she wrote the first time, but it was still difficult to get into the elegant ugly words.
Shen Qin didn't believe it, "You can still be praised by Mr. Su when you write like this?" β
Shen Qinrou argued, "Maybe what I wrote before was uglier than this, this is Lishu, I have practiced regular script for a long time, and the regular script is slightly better." β
Chaolu had seen a few small block letters from a few scraps of paper, but the words were all blurred with ink, and when he looked at it, he vaguely seemed to be better than the words in front of him.
Shen Qinrou is usually equivalent to an invisible storage zΓ i, whether she writes well or not, how can Shen Qinxin have time to care about those, and I don't know if what she said is true or false for a while.
Thinking about Mr. Su's strange temperament, I am afraid that it may be ironic, otherwise the handwriting is really good, how can I be afraid of people seeing it. After thinking about this, Shen Qin smiled, "I think the word third sister still needs to be practiced for a long time, and when the third sister becomes the word, I will find the third sister for advice." β
Facing the suddenly enlightened person in front of her, Shen Qinrou could only nod wordlessly.
"I still have to accompany my father to dinner, so I will stay soon, and my third sister will stay." Shen Qinxin nodded and smiled at her and strode away.
Liu Lu looked at Shen Qinxin's back, speechless.
"Third Miss, obviously the second miss invited us into the pavilion to learn, since I look down on your words, why should I invite you to learn." She muttered about her grievances for her master, "What's so great about eating with the second master, I have to show off when I leave." β
"Ugh." Shen Qinrou sighed and comforted Liu Lu, "Forget it, don't bother to pay attention to her." β
Not to mention that her grandmother, Mrs. Shen, has a small belly and chicken intestines, her second sister is also not reckless.
Just because Mr. Su praised her in the hall, it aroused the dissatisfaction of her second sister, so she came to provoke.
The sun sets and is dusk.
Mrs. Shen sat alone at a large round table to eat, and when she saw a steamed sea bass on the table, she asked Mother Liu on the side: "What about the second master, he likes this steamed sea bass the most." β
Mother Liu glanced at her cautiously and replied respectfully, "The second master went to dinner with the second lady." β
Mrs. Shen threw the chopsticks with her hand, "Don't eat it." β
Mother Liu hurriedly motioned to the maids on both sides to remove the table, and then ordered the kitchen to go down and let the kitchen people be at any time.
"Old lady, you are discouraged." Mother Liu handed over the tea, "No matter what, you can't get along with your body." β
Mrs. Shen was still angry, "I always remember him as a mother, for fear that he will not eat well and dress warmly and be wronged, he is good, but he remembers me at all, and now that I am back, I don't even have a meal with me." β
"My old lady, hey." Mother Liu hurriedly smoothed her back and persuaded her, "Old lady, don't you want to think about it, is the second master the kind of ruthless and unrighteous person?" β
Old Mrs. Shen glanced at Liu's mother.
Mother Liu greeted her with a smile and continued: "The second master is a person who values love and righteousness, but his temperament is too upright, he will not turn corners, and his mouth is not slippery, so it is inevitable that someone will misunderstand him." You said that with the second master's temperament, you can find out what you think from the bottom of your heart, and others will misunderstand him, but you are his mother. You are as kind to the old slave as a mountain, I only have the courage to tell you these heart-wrenching words in private, if it is someone else, I will never dare to say this, who listens, it is time to say that the old slave arranges the master. β
Mrs. Shen was coaxed by Liu's mother to iron, her heart was happy, but she couldn't help complaining, "I don't know how he got his temperament, neither like me nor like his father." β
Mother Liu quietly raised her hand to the little maid, signaled her to go down to serve the food, and turned around and flattered Mrs. Shen again, "It is said that mother and son mother and son, who else can a son look like like a mother, I think the second master is very similar to you." β
It's getting dark.
Liu Lu put the embroidery back in the small basket and reminded Shen Qinrou, who was standing by the window, "Third Miss, it's time to rest, I have to get up early tomorrow to say goodbye, and I have to go to class." β
"Hmm." Shen Qinrou responded casually, looking at the stars in the sky, and didn't move a step.
Seeing this, Liu Lu also walked over to look, and the stars in the sky were shining, one by one dotted in the night canvas.
"It's beautiful." She sighed.
Shen Qinrou smiled and nodded, "Yes." β
In his heart, he was worried about Wen Yu, and he didn't know if she had arrived in the border city, and he didn't know whether Vice General Wen would live or die.
The courtyard with the partition wall was pitch black, and there was not a single spark to be seen.
"Sleep." She closed the window and turned back to Willow Green to speak.
Liu Lu waited for Shen Qinrou to take off her robe and finish washing, and was about to lie down, when she heard someone calling outside.
"Second Miss."
When Liu Lu heard Xi'er's voice, she glanced at Shen Qinrou with a smile and muttered, "This girl." "I hurried to open the door for Xi'er.
Xi'er looked at Liu Lu, her eyes full of smiles.
Liu Lu pulled her, "Let's go, go in and say." β
"How?" Shen Qinrou asked.
Xi'er clapped her hands, "I saw that Mother Li secretly took a hoe sack and went out." β
Shen Qinrou asked Liu Lu to reward Xi'er with two coins of silver, and said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work." β
Xi'er put the silver in her pocket and said with a smile: "Let's do things for the third lady, it's not hard." β
"I deserve Mother Li's itchy hands, I heard the mother-in-law in the courtyard say that Mother Li has lost a lot, not to mention that the things are finished, and she owes people dozens of taels of silver."
Shen Qinrou was taken aback, "They gambled so big." β
Mother Li is afraid that the benefits she has received from her over the years are more than 100 taels of silver, plus the monthly money reward, she has 3 or 400 taels of silver, which is really not a small amount. In fact, Li's mother could have taken the silver to redeem the deed of sale and leave the house, and then put on some fields to be a small landlady outside.
It's a pity that she was too greedy and wanted to get more benefits in the yard, but she didn't expect to capsize in the gutter this time and plant.
Thinking about it this way, it is not surprising that Li's mother gambled so much.
Liu Lu patted his chest and sighed, "Fortunately, fortunately." β
"Fortunately, there has never been a break in the room, otherwise I would have stolen it."
According to Li's mother's temperament, although she doesn't dare to rob openly, but secretly stealing that kind of thing, I'm afraid she will do it.
When Shen Qinrou recovered from her injuries and just woke up, she saw that the golden hairpin on Li's mother was wearing on her head was the object in her makeup box.
Stealing people's things and daring to use them in the open, although Shen Qinrou didn't bother with Li's mother, she didn't put her belongings on the dressing table in the end, and locked up many things in one go, and now there are a few simple and commonly used jewelry left on the dressing table.
Now it seems that she was quite prescient.
Xi'er muttered, "It's unlucky to find such a person in a courtyard." As soon as he finished speaking, he realized that Mother Li hadn't come to her courtyard, and quickly covered her mouth.
It's cutely tight.
Shen Qinrou looked at her with a smile, "Just say these things in front of us, don't go outside to say them." β
Xi'er stuck out her tongue and blinked weirdly, "Third Miss don't worry, Xi'er will only talk about it in front of Third Miss and Sister Liulu." β
"Good Xi'er, you're tired today, go down and rest, Miss another day, I'll reward you with candy." Shen Qinrou coaxed her in a child-like tone.
Xi'er clapped her hands happily, "Third Miss, what you say counts." β
"Okay, sugar is indispensable for you, go down to sleep." Liu Lu couldn't help but push her out.
Xi'er walked to the door and didn't forget to turn around and tell repeatedly, "Third Miss, you have to remember." β
Liu Lu nudged her out angrily, went into the house and turned back to Shen Qinrou and said, "Xi'er, this girl is really out of character. β
Shen Qinrou smiled, "She's still a child." β
Xi'er is only nine years old this year.
Liu Lu didn't know what he thought, his face was gloomy, and he muttered, "Yes, it's still a child." β