CHAPTER XXIII
Cui Yuzhu doesn't think very highly of herself, but she still knows her advantages.
Was that day in the rockery, when she was unconscious? It's just not good to break.
In the end, he pretended to be nothing, and it was actually quite annoying to investigate.
Although the space in the cave is limited, there is no reason to get closer and tighter, she knows that there is a big hand behind her back to protect her with skill, but at the same time it also brings the two people closer together.
In the end, the hand behind her back was gone, and two hands were holding her waist......
Cui Yuzhu couldn't understand how he could make such a move at that time.
"Sister, sister?"
Chen Nanying called her several times, and Cui Yuzhu woke up like a dream, but her eyes were still blank, "Huh? Sister called me? ”
Chen Nanying asked, "What do you want?" ”
"Nothing." Cui Yuzhu blushed, lowered her head and shook it, her eyes just staring at her toes.
Chen Nanying expressed suspicion, "Are you blushing? ”
"Oh no, it's too hot."
Since she didn't want to say it, Chen Nanying wouldn't keep asking, the two of them weren't very familiar with each other, so there was no need for some too deep conversations.
After saying a few more words, Chen Nanying went back. After Cui Yuzhu closed the door, she went to the bottom of the closet to take out the neatly folded men's clothes.
She brought the sewing basket to the couch, intending to make some changes to her clothes.
For example, the cuffs are tucked in, and the neckline and belt are embroidered with some patterns. After thinking about it, I sewed a double-layer strap on the inner placket of the chest, which was more practical.
Others are faster, as for the pattern, Cui Yuzhu was entangled between the bamboo, auspicious clouds, and threads for a while, and finally the neckline chose the auspicious cloud pattern to embroider. Sash...... Use the Fang Sheng pattern to embroider the square to look more atmospheric.
She embroiders slower than others, but the stitches are delicate, and each time falls in the same position, and the skills can be seen with a stitch and a thread.
Embroidering a circle of patterns also has to be busy for half a day, Cui Yuzhu is not in a hurry, and calculates that it will probably be enough to embroider a few days before Shangsi.
If he is also interested in her, he will slowly embroider a purse and a sole for him in the future...... He's going to love it.
Well, he gave me a pair of earrings, and I should return the gift, so I'll weave a blessing knot for him, and it will definitely look good on my waist when the time comes.
The above assumptions were all based on Cui Yuzhu's prerequisites that he was interested in her, and she never considered that Zhu Jingming might have forgotten her appointment with the Peach Blossom Forest, or didn't want to go at all.
Cui Yuzhu stretched her waist and folded the unfinished clothes and put them back on.
Then I wanted to go to Chen Nanying, but I went to her room but saw that she was not there. Although he was puzzled, he was not reassured, and then he walked in the direction of the court, and happened to hear the conversation of several subordinates.
"The cousin girl from Suzhou is so good, I heard that not only can she know how to play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she also does better than our girl. I've heard that she is so good at embroidery that she can even embroider on both sides...... Suzhou is really outstanding, and the women raised are not ordinary. ”
Another said, "That's, don't say it, I just saw that she is also very skilled in directing in the kitchen." ”
"Isn't it okay to let guests into the kitchen?"
"What's the solution, she said that she wasn't used to eating snacks in the capital, so she had to make them herself. She had already made some pastries and sent them to her wife, who praised her for her skill. ”
"So powerful?"
"Mrs. later said that she would take our girl with her next time, and let her cousin teach her more, and our girl won't know how to do it in the future, so I don't understand."
"The girl doesn't know how to learn."
"How do you know?"
"The girl doesn't like to do this, there is a lot of putty in the kitchen, and you see how much she only eats at each meal, how can she work on it?"
"If that's the case, there's nothing like a cousin......
"What's the matter? Our girl is beautiful, but there is no one who doesn't fall in love with it. ”
"Yes, yes, yes......"
The girls chattered and discussed without noticing Cui Yuzhu at all, and Cui Yuzhu knew that they were telling the truth, but she was still a little sad.
If you want to compare them one by one, she really can't compare to Chen Nanying.
She can't learn it, and her poetry and orders are just so-so, every time she is at the bottom, and she has no talent at all.
The calligraphy and painting can barely get into the eyes, and the hairpin flower is neat and beautiful, but it is still not eye-catching among many noble women, and it can be said that there is indeed no skill.
To her surprise, Chen Nanying actually dabbled in eating, she really didn't understand, didn't she find it troublesome to learn so much?
Eating has its own cooks to do, like their identity, where do you need to cook by yourself in the future, although it is easier to get the favor of wives with cooking skills, and it will also take a lot of time......
Isn't it fragrant to flutter butterflies and feed the fish for so much time? Why waste your time on these grains?
Cui Yuzhu really didn't understand, she shook her head and walked towards the main courtyard of Second Lady Cui.
Cui's Mansion is also a five-entry house, with green trees, fake stones and green water, and there should be. There are also many varieties of flowers planted in the garden, camellias, chrysanthemums, peonies, some have not yet reached the flowering season, and there are also a few pots of orchids raised at the corridor fence to the main courtyard, all of which are taken care of.
Cui Yuzhu walked slowly into the main courtyard, the maid here greeted her, she nodded, and after going up a few more steps, she heard a burst of laughter from inside.
She said to herself: It seems that I have been left behind, and now I look like an insignificant person.
"Mother, aunt." Cui Yuzhu said hello when she entered the door, making a puzzled look, "I heard your laughter from afar, but what is the joy?" ”
Second Mrs. Cui smiled: "It was your cousin who told a joke, and your aunt and I really couldn't laugh when we heard it, so ...... How? ”
Chen Nanying said coquettishly: "Oh, aunt, it's not funny if you say the joke a second time." ”
Zhang also smiled and said: "Yuzhu wants to hear it, so you can say it again and listen to her." ”
In fact, Cui Yuzhu didn't really want to hear it.
"Well, I'll say it again." Chen Nanying said: "I saw it in a miscellaneous book, which recorded some interesting collections, and I will tell you again from memory." ”
Cui Yuzhu nodded, "Sister, don't sell it, just say it." ”
"It is said that there was an old farmer who was planting a melon field. One night when he was watering in the garden, he heard a movement in the river next to him, and he secretly went to look, and it turned out that there were two dark shadows emerging from the river, and they could talk. ”
Chen Nanying deliberately slowed down her speech, and it didn't sound like she had read it in a book, but what she saw with her own eyes.
The old farmer thought to himself, these two black shadows are water ghosts, right? I only heard the big black shadow say: I am leaving tomorrow, you can do it yourself.
The little black shadow said, "Why did you have to leave when I first came?" The big black shadow explained: I will tell you a secret, tomorrow when the old farmer comes, you can pull him into the water, and someone will take you away. ”
Cui Yuzhu's face turned pale when she heard this, and she even doubted her life a little: Isn't this a ghost story? Are you sure it's a joke? ……
She looked up at her mother, and she was still smiling? Are they all demonic?
Chen Nanying continued: "The old farmer was shocked when he heard this, and he thought to himself, what can I do? Tomorrow I will surely pass by the river, and if I be dragged into the water, will I not die?
Thinking about it badly, he hurriedly ran home to hide, and later a passing Taoist priest knew about it, so he told him to run west without stopping, so that he could escape. ”
"The old farmer believed, he ran west for a long time without packing anything, and then he thought about it, he didn't take the money bag, so he went back to get the money bag, and then guess what he saw when he went back?"
Cui Yuzhu was shocked, and her face was dazed when she heard this: "I can't guess this." ”
Chen Nanying smiled "fluttering", "As a result, he went back and saw that the Taoist priest and the two water ghosts were teaming up to steal his melon." ”
After hearing this, Mrs. Cui and Zhang's family smiled at her and waited for Cui Yuzhu's reaction.
Cui Yuzhu blinked: So??
Seeing that she didn't seem to understand well, Chen Nanying patiently explained again. "My sister doesn't know, in fact, that Taoist priest and the water ghost are in the same group, they are all liars, just to design to steal the old farmer's melons, but they didn't succeed and were arrested and sent to the official."
"Oh, I see." Cui Yuzhu nodded, she understood, but ......
It's really not funny at all.
Cui Yuzhu is a person who almost drowned, what do you say badly, but you just tell the joke of the water ghost? Really, if someone hadn't sacrificed their lives to save her, she might have been a lonely soul under the water, where could she talk here?
Chen Nanying saw that she didn't say a word and didn't react at all, and sighed: "Hey...... I'll just say that you can't say the same joke twice, it's really not funny! ”