Chapter 59: Hide and Seek
Jin Qiu walked over while reprimanding Yin Qiu, still holding a peach-colored light gauze gown in his hand, "You restless girl, don't hurry up and pack your clothes, look at it and it's going to rain again, and dare to make jokes about the side concubine and be lazy, and don't do serious things." ”
Yinqiu muttered a little aggrievedly: "I didn't see that Concubine Fang was unhappy and wanted her to be happy." ”
Zhang Erzhen suddenly came to inspiration, immediately put down the brush, pulled Yinqiu and said: "Good Yinqiu, you are really smart, I know what we can play." ”
Jin Qiu muttered dissatisfiedly: "Concubine Fang, look at your biased heart, Yinqiu's girl is getting bigger and smaller." Even the side concubine dares to blindfold your eyes, and what else does she dare not do?"
"Active and active atmosphere, Yinqiu's temperament just can't calm down, so it's not bad. The weather has been bad recently, and even we are not in a good mood, so you don't have to work in the golden autumn, go find Xiangxiu, let's play games. Zhang Erzhen was a little eager to try, and her eyes burst with brilliance.
"The side concubine wants to play the leaf card again?" Jin Qiu said as he straightened his clothes.
"I've had enough, I've had enough, I don't want to play cards at this time. It's good for us to play hide and seek, this place is big, and it would be a pity not to use it. Zhang Erzhen rubbed his hands.
Both girls dropped their jaws in shock, playing hide and seek...... They haven't played with this thing in years?
"Go quickly, Xiangxiu is cleaning up the vegetable garden again, it's been raining a lot recently, don't care so finely." Zhang Erzhen urged.
Zhang Erzhen was rarely interested, Jin Qiu put down his clothes and went out, and after a while, he pulled Xiangxiu in with a puzzled face. Zhang Erzhen stretched out his hand first and said: "Let's guess the back of the palm and the back of the hand, and divide into two groups, one group will hide first, and the other group will find it." Even under the bed, if you get in, I'll be able to find it for you. ”
Xiangxiu's eyes widened in surprise, and she waved her hand again and again, Zhang Erzhen undoubtedly took her hand, "Let's play together, if it's just you who don't play, how boring it is." ”
Xiangxiu, who originally wanted to refuse, acquiesced, and the four girls sat in a group, stretching out their hands neatly under Zhang Erzhen's slogan, and succeeded once - Zhang Erzhen and Yinqiu were in a group, and Jinqiu and Xiangxiu were in a group.
"Let's play in the five upper rooms of Fengyajian, the garden can't go, the hugging building can't go, count to twenty to find someone, find it to shout, if you can't find it, you have to shout to admit defeat, huh...... Jin Qiu, you go first, and Yinqiu and I want to set a good example for you. Zhang Erzhen looked at Jin Qiu and Xiangxiu with burning eyes, urging the two girls to hide quickly, while she pulled the excited Yinqiu to stay in the corridor, with her back to the upper room, as if I didn't peek.
Jin Qiu and Xiangxiu, who were left behind, looked at each other, but Jin Qiu laughed first, "It's rare that the side concubine is in the mood, let's go hide quickly, we can't find it out all at once." ”
Xiangxiu is a poor girl who has never played hide and seek, standing stupidly in place and being dragged by Jin Qiu into the right side for a while. Jin Qiu looked at her blank look a little incredulous, and asked in a low voice, "You don't know what to do?
Xiangxiu shook his head blankly, Jin Qiu's eyes widened, and he continued to whisper: "Just find a place to hide, Concubine Fang and Yinqiu will come to us, if we find it, we will lose, if we don't find it, we will win." As for the place, you can hide it wherever you want, on the eaves, and if you can go up, you can hide there...... Forget it, you follow me this time. Jin Qiu pulled Xiangxiu very neatly and skillfully turned into the easternmost room, and after looking at it, he pointed to the vermilion and silver-edged curtain and said: "You hide there, if the side concubine calls you, you are not allowed to come out." ”
Xiangxiu walked there slowly, Jin Qiu listened to the voice of the side concubine counting to twenty, and anxiously pulled Xiangxiu to get behind the veil together, just wanted to compare a "shhh" posture, remembered that Xiangxiu couldn't speak, and put down his hand a little embarrassed, and quietly listened to the footsteps of the side concubine.
Zhang Erzhen was playful, and was not in a hurry to find Jin Qiu and Xiangxiu, but walked slowly, looking at the luxurious and exquisite room on the left and east side of the room that he usually doesn't come over. The most indispensable thing in the room of the Ming Dynasty is the screen, Zhang Erzhen has seen more screens, the shape of rich flowers and birds and rare beasts**, the screen in this room is very simple, only a lily is embroidered on the snow-white poplar silk satin, and the little pale yellow stamen is connected by the long stem of the blue-green high on the neck. This screen was cleaned by Jin Qiu, and the snow white was not greedy for a trace of variegated color and dust. Behind the lily screen, there are five sandalwood back chairs, and there is a table between each two chairs, on which are placed porcelain white small vases of the Western Regions.
Yinqiu gently tugged at the corner of the side concubine's clothes, squinted her eyes and motioned the side concubine to look at the silver-edged curtain that shook not far away, Yinqiu's eyebrows were very interesting, and Zhang Erzhen almost laughed. She made a shushing posture, raised her feet and quietly approached the curtain, and then walked around with her hands behind her back, and after a while, Jin Qiu couldn't hold on, and a complaining voice came out, "Concubine Fang, you are cutting meat with a blunt knife, just stay in front of the slave and maid, and wait for the slave and maid to send it to the door by themselves." Every time you take this step, the slave maid's heart is like beating a drum, and it is not steady. ”
Jin Qiu pulled Xiangxiu, who had a happy face, and pretended to look at Zhang Erzhen with dissatisfaction.
Zhang Erzhen raised her eyebrows lightly and said, "Oh - it turns out that you are all there, look, if you didn't run out by yourself in Jinqiu, I really couldn't find it." Is this killing two birds with one stone, or is it waiting for the rabbit? ”
"Don't tease the slave and maid, you walk over and over again, and the slave's heart is about to jump out of her throat. ”
"I can testify that Concubine Fang didn't see you here. It's just that the curtain shook a little just now...... Concubine Fang knew that someone was here, and she didn't want to find her out at once, so she ...... Hee-hee. ”
"Hey, I didn't move. Oh——, I know, it's Xiangxiu who moves. Xiangxiu, this hide-and-seek, what is important is to respond to all changes with the same. ”
Xiangxiu blushed embarrassedly, looking at Jin Qiu's eyes full of apologies.
Zhang Erzhen smiled and reached out to tap Yinqiu's forehead and said, "Just your eyes." I'll leave the task of finding them to you later, and if you can't find them, you'll have to ask. ”
"The slave and the maid know that the slave and the maid know, and the slave and the maid must do their best not to let the side concubine worry about it. Yinqiu nodded like pounding garlic.
"I've found you, I'm going to start looking for you to come to us, count out loud to twenty, don't be lazy and peek. Zhang Erzhen urged Jin Qiu and Xiangxiu to leave quickly, until she heard them close the door and then breathed a sigh of relief and whispered: "Yinqiu, you hurry up and hide, I don't care about you." Then he skillfully toeed and quietly left Yinqiu's sight.
These five upper rooms occupy no more than one acre of land, and the largest is not the bedroom where Zhang Erzhen lives, but the westernmost one, which Zhang Erzhen calls a resting place. On both sides of the door are two stout bamboos inserted in two huge vases behind the door, you can see all the furnishings in the empty room at a glance, the straight feet under the goose yellow gauze tent collapse, a huge flannel carpet under the collapse, a small few resting on the head of the bed, a small silver bottle with azure inlaid gold edges, and then a rectangular table on the west side of the bed, the table is empty, because this place is big and empty, it seems lonely and difficult to clean, Zhang Erzhen rarely comes, this is the second time to walk in. She found a hiding place in a large number of circles, lifted her skirt and crawled under the bed very neatly, and fell to the ground through the dense gauze tent, covering the light outside.
Zhang Erzhen's vision under the bed was very poor, and it wasn't until she crawled in that she wondered if there would be cobwebs here? Or were there big rats? Fortunately, the cobwebs she was worried about didn't come across, and she didn't hear a "squeak" sound. Thanks to the hard-working and capable Jin Qiu Yinqiu, she has cleaned it up, otherwise wouldn't she be happy if she fell in love with the spiders when she crawled in?
Zhang Erzhen was very proud, lying on her stomach like a frog with her two arms, Jin Qiu and Xiangxiu would never have thought that she would climb under the bed, and if they couldn't find her in a quarter of an hour, they would lose. Zhang Erzhen's big green eyes flickered under the dark bed, and she listened to Jin Qiu count to twenty, and then heard the sound of chaotic footsteps and walked into the next room.
Zhang Erzhen, who was lying on her stomach, waited excitedly for the time to pass, she didn't dare to look up, for fear of touching the back of her head, so she could only keep her head down to look at the fluffy fine hairs on the red carpet, this carpet was as comfortable as a soft sponge, soft and fine, Zhang Erzhen thought of Simmons in her previous life, which seemed to be more comfortable than Simmons. Zhang Erzhen enjoyed touching the carpet in the dark, thinking that she would move this thing to her room later, usually stepping on it barefoot, like a huge tatami mat, which can be lying and sleeping.
It was obvious that Zhang Erzhen's plan to hide under the bed was very successful, Xiangxiu, who came in to look for her, just took a brief look and went out, followed by Jin Qiu, she called the side concubine softly, checked behind the door, behind the curtain, and even under the table, only felt that this room was eerie and terrifying, and the two quickly gave up looking for it. Zhang Erzhen was smug and motionless, and soon heard Jin Qiu's voice begging for mercy.
Zhang Erzhen crawled out, sorted out his clothes and swaggered out.
"Where are you hiding, concubine, you almost scared the slave to death. If you don't come out yet, the slaves and maids don't know what to do. The two girls had palpitating expressions on their faces, and Xiangxiu's face was also nervous.
"Jin Qiu, you lost, we won this game, haha. "Zhang Erzhen won't tell them where she is hiding.
"Yes, yes, you are really powerful, let's go out, you can continue to hide. ”
"Yinqiu, how did you get found out?" Zhang Erzhen said curiously.
Yinqiu said with a sad face: "The slave was hidden under the table, and she was seen by Xiangxiu at once. ”
"You hide it well, if you are found again this time, you will eat one less steamed bun at night." Zhang Erzhen didn't care about Yinqiu's racking of brains, and disappeared from Yinqiu's field of vision as soon as she slipped away......