Zheng Mianmian and Zheng Changchang both gathered around, watched Zheng Lingyi take the burned white incense ash and put it in the incense burner, compacted it with a round cake spoon, and then put the incense seal on the incense burner, and filled the hollow place of the incense seal with light yellow incense powder.

When Zheng Lingyi put down the incense spoon and reached out to mention the incense seal, Zheng Changchang subconsciously held her breath and concentrated.

I saw that the incense seal was raised, and a lively little goldfish appeared on the incense ash.

Zheng Lingyi took the incense stick handed over by Lu Nong and lit the fragrant pink goldfish, and the elegant atmosphere gradually spread.

"Sister, you're so amazing." Zheng Changchang sighed.

Zheng Lingyi wiped the incense ash on the incense seal with a handkerchief, wrapped it in a brocade handkerchief and put it in the box, and said to Zheng Changchang: "Would you like to carve a butterfly another day?" ”

Zheng Changchang nodded heavily, pulled Zheng Mianmian and said, "Carve a cricket for Mianmian." ”

Zheng Mianmian muttered softly, "I don't want crickets, I want butterflies too." ”

Her voice was too small, Zheng Lingyi didn't hear it clearly, she only smiled slightly, nodded in response to Zheng Changchang's words, and then got up and walked outside, and said to Aunt Jiang: "Auntie, I'll go to Yihuan Pavilion to give a thank you gift to the third sister." ”

Aunt Jiang hesitated a little, but still said, "Then you should be careful, and come back when you send it." ”

Zheng Lingyi looked back and smiled, "I know." ”

Zheng Changchang seemed to be holding a treasure, and came out with an incense burner for them to see.

Aunt Wan sighed with emotion: "With such ingenuity, Ling Yi is really smart and beautiful. ”

Qiao Luo went out to buy and see a doctor today, and Zheng Lingyi left Lu Nong to take care of one or two.

Lu Nong said distressedly: "My sister's fingers are swollen." ”

Aunt Jiang's eyes darkened, and she said: "If she is born in the belly of Mrs. Zhengtou, it will be fine, and she will not even have a return gift, so she can only carve it herself." ”

"Sister, don't say such things." Aunt Wan hurriedly said, "If it wasn't for you, where did you get these skillful hands?" ”

Lu Nong knew that he had made Aunt Jiang sad, and stood aside at a loss, not knowing what to say to remedy it.

"Look, scare the green thick." Aunt Wan pointed at Lu Nong and said with a smile.

Aunt Jiang smiled reluctantly and said, "It's all my fault, why do you say these things out of tune?" ”

Zheng Lingyi didn't know that the incense seal in his hand had caused Aunt Jiang to be sad for no reason, so he only stood outside Anheju, waiting for the maid to call him.

She came to see Zheng Yanru, and the maid carefully asked the reason, but she didn't embarrass her too much, and called her in after a while.

"The little lady is also inside, so my sister has to speak carefully." The servant said.

Zheng Lingyi was silent and only nodded.

She wondered, "Young lady, young lady, what little lady, make Wu Rouxiang a good lady, it sounds like an outer room." ’

Zhixia and Zhiqiu were waiting in front of Zheng Yanru as a matter of course, and Zheng Yanru was relieved to see Zheng Lingyi coming.

Wu Rouxiang is used to complaining, Zheng Yanru said a lot of comforting words but it didn't work, but she couldn't be asked to follow Wu Rouxiang to scold the Lu family!

Zheng Lingcheng saluted his sister-in-law and sister, and timidly presented the incense seal mold he had carved.

Zheng Yanru liked it as soon as she saw the incense seal, and hurriedly wanted to take the incense powder to try it.

Wu Rouxiang glanced at the incense seal and said, "These things are all used by maids, it's good to extend a blessing word, where are there so many tricks." ”

Zheng Yanru was so excited that she didn't pay attention to it.

The incense powder in her room is better, it is mixed with a little ointment, firm and burn-resistant, and even the printed pattern is clearer than what Zheng Lingyi tried in the room, the goldfish tail is very smart, as if it is swimming, and even the scales on the body are distinct.

"Fifteenth sister, this incense seal is excellent, I like it very much." Zheng Yanru couldn't stop praising it.

Her tone was so sincere, it seemed that she really liked it.

Gift-giving is naturally what he likes, and Zheng Lingyi is well versed in this.

"Little madam, the jade incense ball you gave earlier is called down." Zhixia said beside him.

Zhixia doesn't know if he has been instructed by the Lu family recently, and he is used to instigating.

Zheng Yanru hurriedly reprimanded: "Nonsense! All excellent. Rouxiang is the eldest sister-in-law, is it possible that if I praise more than fifteen words, she will ask for vinegar? ”

Xu is face was torn with Zhixia, and she had been dealing with her for a long time, but her words were simply and timely, Wu Rouxiang smiled comfortably, and also went to Zheng Yanru's side to appreciate the incense seal.

"Although it's not valuable, but the carving is not bad, and it's hard for the fifteenth sister to do this." Wu Rouxiang learned to be obedient and didn't say anything too ugly.

But when facing the concubine, the contempt in his bones really can't be changed, and it still sounds a little weird.

Zheng Yanru ignored her, lit the goldfish incense seal, thought about it, and said to Zheng Lingyi: "Fifteen, such all kinds of incense seals, I have good yellow sandalwood, you can carve a few more for me." ”

Zheng Lingyi's hand was hidden in her sleeve, and she pursed her fingertips, and there was a feeling of swelling and pain.

"This is good." Zheng Lingyi responded without thinking, but said with regret on his face: "Is it a bit monotonous if you carve all the yellow sandalwood?" The best incense seals are all gold and jade, and my sister can't do this. Why don't my sister draw more patterns, and my sister asks the master outside to cast some delicate incense seals? ”

Zheng Yanru thought about it for a while, and felt that she could have more tricks, so she smiled and said: "Okay, you can help me carve two more yellow sandalwood, your wood carved incense seal princess must like it, I want to give her one." Draw two more patterns for me, and you can carve the rest of the wood for yourself. ”

Zheng Lingyi nodded in agreement, and left with the piece of sandalwood.

Out of the shelter tent on the corridor, Zheng Lingyi reached out and brushed the broken hair on his cheeks, lowered his eyes and looked at his red and swollen fingertips, touched the yellow sandalwood in his hand, and said in his heart, "This transaction is not a loss." ’

She felt that she had earned half a piece of fine sandalwood, but others didn't think so.

Aunt Jiang watched Zheng Lingyi come back with a piece of wood, how could she not know what she was going to do, frowned, and looked at her distressedly.

"The third sister is also ......

Aunt Wan blurted out a few words and swallowed them alive.

"I just want to thank the third sister, and it doesn't hurt to carve a few more." Zheng Lingyi said very plainly.

Zheng Changchang ran out of the side pavilion, holding a box of plasters to reduce swelling in her hand, but it was still the rest of the medicine Zheng Yanru gave last time, and she had used it too many times recently, leaving only the ointment the size of a fingernail.

Seeing that Zheng Changchang was about to rub the medicine on herself, Zheng Lingyi hurriedly spread a handkerchief on the coffee table, and then put it on with both hands holding the yellow sandalwood.

"Is this wood valuable?" Aunt Wan asked curiously.

Zheng Lingyi spread his hands so that Zheng Changchang could apply the medicine, and explained to Aunt Wan: "Although it is not comparable to gold, it is indeed valuable. ”

In winter, the sky was dark and fast, Lu Nong went to the outer courtyard to carry dinner, and Aunt Wan and Zheng Mianmian would also go to their own rooms.

The charcoal fire in the aunt's house was insufficient, and after Aunt Wan left, her popularity was thin and she felt even colder.

Aunt Jiang put the charcoal basin in the side pavilion, which is smaller, and the heating is easier to accumulate.

Qiaoluo came back from outside, carrying a basket full of silk thread and sundries.

There was originally a pair of small hairpins, which were not worth a few dollars, and they were going to be worn by Zheng Changchang to play, but the maid guarding the door in the inner courtyard was verbose and picky, and Qiao Luo had to give up this pair of hairpins.

After a delay in the outer courtyard just now, it snowed in the sky, and Qiaoluo's body was still a little weak, so he froze this time, and even the words froze in his throat, and he was smoked by the warm popularity in the side pavilion, and then he eased up.

"I saw that it was a big sun in the afternoon, and I thought it would be warm today, but I knew that it would be so cold in the evening, so I didn't ask you to go out." Aunt Jiang said distressedly.

Qiao Luo was fed a few sips of hot tea by Zheng Lingyi, recovered some vitality, smiled a little weakly, and said, "It's okay." ”

She pulled away the silk thread on the surface of the bamboo basket, revealing the four fat and large white potatoes underneath.

"Dr. Gan gave me money for a farmer's visit to see a doctor and had no medicine, so I used a basket of white potatoes to pay for it. Dr. Gan picked these and stuffed them into me. ”

Qiao Luo's smile was a little shy, I don't know if it was because he took someone else's things in vain, or because of something else.

Zheng Lingyi picked up a few pieces of charcoal with tongs, covered the two white potatoes under the reddish embers, and waited only for an hour before they could eat them.

Qiao Luo took out a purse from his chest and stuffed it into Aunt Jiang's hand with the residual warmth.

Aunt Jiang checked it, and then showed a surprised joy.

Qiao Luo met Zheng Lingyi's eyes and nodded, and neither of them spoke, as if they were tightly guarding a happy secret.

When Lu Nong came back for dinner, his face was a little bad, and when he lifted the lid of the food box, he also looked like he had done something wrong.

Aunt Jiang looked at it and felt funny, and said, "It's not the dish you ordered, why do you look like this?" ”

Seeing Lu Nong bring out the dishes one by one, Aunt Jiang couldn't laugh.

A plate of soft pickled winter melon, a bowl of fried broad beans with garlic, a plate of jelly meat, and a bowl of chicken soup. However, it was all chicken neck racks, and there was not even a wing tip.

"Well, that's too much. In the winter of previous years, there was also fried duck meat. Stewed kidney flowers are also often eaten. ”

Aunt Jiang herself is nothing, but how can she bear to let her two children eat these?

"It is estimated that all the money went to the dowry of the sixth sister." Zheng Lingyi said indifferently, and took a piece of meat skin and jelly it and ate it.

The meat skin froze in her mouth, chewing out the scattered pork skin grains, she smiled at everyone, and said, "The taste is okay." ”

Aunt Jiang was really dazzled by the wind today, and she wanted to cry again.

"Eat, eat, eat." Anyway, this meal has to be eaten.

Aunt Jiang took a bite of rice and said to Lu Nong and Qiao Luo: "Your food is probably not much better, so take one of the white potatoes and eat them." ”

Midorino and Choro nodded, not knowing what to say.

In the past few days, Anhe has been busy taking stock of the dowry, although they have not seen it in person, they have heard a lot.

It is said that it is more than Zheng Yanhui's dowry, but there are fewer valuable items at the bottom of the box, Zheng Yanhui is the eldest daughter after all, and it is always different.

After eating sauerkraut for a few days, you can send away Zheng Yanxian, the plague god, Zheng Lingyi can bear it, didn't he suffer from the days when he didn't give food at all before?

Thinking of this, Zheng Lingyi suddenly felt a little empty.

If it weren't for Wu Punishment signaling Qiao Niang to send snacks, although they would not die of hunger, they would also be hungry and sick.

I don't know how he's doing. Zheng Lingyi was a little curious.

Seeing that Aunt Jiang took Zheng Mianmian to her room to get embroidered bandages, Zheng Lingyi asked Qiao Luo quickly and lightly, "Is Brother Wu still at Dr. Gan's house?" ”

Qiao Luo also lowered his voice and replied, "I'm not here today." According to Dr. Gan, the Wu family doesn't go often, but recently, the Wu family seems to be looking for him privately. Sometimes he was tired of hiding, so he went to hide in Ziyu Alley for a few days. ”

'Don't want to go back? Zheng Lingyi thought about Wu Zhi's temperament, and he should not want to go back.