Chapter 43: The Talent of Playing Cotton

Three steps and two steps, panicked back to the nunnery, and quietly entered the backyard wing from the back 'door'. , the latest chapter access: ШШШ.79xs.БоМ . The nuns were returning to their courtyard after class, and when they saw me, they all covered their mouths and smiled, which made me feel inexplicable, but they did not care at all, and only concentrated on making up reasons for not studying in the courtyard, and typed drafts in their stomachs. I have already used the reason for going to the kitchen to drink water and have an upset stomach twice, and this time I must not use such an indiscriminate excuse again. I just hope that I can sneak back to my yard and not be caught by my grandmother, for I am afraid that if my grandmother looks at me unpleasantly, she will recite me for half a day, and my head will be big.

Aunt Eight has always turned one eye open and one eye closed for me to learn the piano, and she doesn't pay much attention to it. She taught me some basic fingering and music notation in her free time, and rarely spoke to me, copying scriptures in her own room.

The eighth aunt's yard is adjacent to my grandmother's yard, and I listened carefully to the movement in my grandmother's yard, silently, thinking that it was possible to stay and listen to the owner of the nunnery**, so I put my mind at ease and tiptoed back to my yard.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the 'door' of the courtyard, I saw the fourth aunt standing in the courtyard waiting for me, and when she saw me, she smiled and asked quietly: "Miss Eleven, why didn't you see me for a long time, and then you grew a beard." ”

I just remembered that after eating the fish, I only washed my hands in a panic, and forgot to wash my mouth, no wonder all the way down, those bhikshunis all covered their mouths and snickered when they saw me, and no one reminded me, causing me to be embarrassed and make people laugh. Alas, his popularity is too bad, so he can't blame others.

I reached into my bosom and took out my handkerchief, only then did I remember that I had used it to wipe my feet, and then I threw it on the stone by the stream, forgetting to put it away, and then I remembered the three fresh fish that I had not had time to eat, and sighed that it was a pity, I was afraid that they were all cheaper than that person.

The fourth aunt came over and handed me the handkerchief in her hand: "If Miss Eleven doesn't dislike it, wipe it with my handkerchief, the old lady is waiting in the house, be careful to upset her." ”

In the past few days, I have been taken care of by the fourth aunt a lot, and I am more familiar with her, and I am not polite at the moment, I am embarrassed to take it in my hand, say thank you, I want to wipe it, and smell a trace of a very unique aroma, which is different from the sweet fragrance of fat powder on weekdays, light as no trace, and a little bit of sandalwood in the hall.

I wiped the corners of my mouth with my fingers, and the tips of my fingers were immediately stained with carbon black, and then I looked down at the clean silk handkerchief, and I was a little distressed, so I handed the handkerchief back to her: "My mouth must be very dirty, where can I use your handkerchief, there is water in the water tank, I washed it." ”

There was originally a water tank in the yard, in which a few koi fish were raised by the donor to make merits, and they were released into the river at the fifteenth year, and the water was still there, and it was always raining these days, so a tank of clear water was saved. I looked over at the water, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice, thanks to the fourth aunt waiting in the courtyard, otherwise I really couldn't explain the charcoal ash to my grandmother.

Hurriedly took a handful of water, cleaned his face, wiped the water droplets with his sleeve, patted the soot on his body, turned around and asked the fourth aunt if it was clean, and waited for her to nod before entering the eighth aunt's room.

My grandmother was sitting in the room talking with Aunt Eight, and when she saw me entering, she just asked casually, so I made an excuse and passed it perfunctorily. My grandmother didn't delve into it, so she was going to test my piano skills and asked me what I had learned in the past two days, but I was proficient in playing.

I lowered my head and looked at my toes, hesitating not knowing how to answer, and finally the fourth aunt came into the house to excuse me: "Old lady, Miss Eleven is a beginner, where can she play the tune so quickly." You forget, Qingqing learned to play the piano at that time, and she practiced hard for several months just in fingering, and the tips of her ten fingers were red and swollen, and her chopsticks couldn't hold steadily. Or your old man comforted her, saying that learning the piano can't be done overnight, and she can't be in a hurry. ”

Grandmother's face bloomed with 'flowers', and she smiled very kindly: "Qingqing's girl has been hurting since she was a child, she is hard and tenacious in learning things, smart and exquisite, and her heart is high, and her talent is outstanding and top-notch among all the 'daughters' of the Su family." ”

The fourth aunt heard her grandmother praise her 'daughter', and with a look of pride as a mother, she smiled and said: "If you want to talk about intelligence, which one is not as good as Miss Eleven, before you have reached the line, you have learned a good hand of medical skills, your cold 'legs' that have not healed for many years, which time of year does not hurt for a while, Miss Eleven is almost 'medicine' to the disease, I am afraid that those old doctors who boast of generations of medical skills are also out of reach." ”

Grandmother habitually 'sexually' clenched her fist with her hand and gently punched her 'leg' twice:

"She is a 'girl' child after all, and the most important thing in the future is to teach her husband and children, and she has to distinguish between the important ones. Where can you be so rough all the time, like a boy every day. Grandmother glanced at my cuffs, and she knew it.

I looked down and saw that I was wearing a ruffled cuff jacket today, and I hurriedly washed my face and wiped my face. I think my grandmother already knew that I was lying, but I was too lazy to debunk it.

The fourth aunt pursed her lips and smiled: "Old lady, you forgot, when the ninth aunt was pregnant with Miss Qingwu, the sixth aunt of Wenpo asserted that it must be a male baby." She showed it to several aunts in the house, and all of them were accurate, but this time she accidentally smashed her golden signboard. Now that it looks like this, people are half right, Miss Qingwu is not a woman who does not let her eyebrows, and her ability is not inferior to that man. ”

Grandmother also glanced at me with a little regret, with a little unclear sentimentality: "Yes, I was happy for a few days after listening to Liu Wenpo's words, thinking that God opened his eyes and took away one of my grandchildren, this is to give me back one." The male of my Su family was not prosperous, and I was happy and rewarded her with two gold rings. Thousands of instructions, let Lao Jiu take good care of the fetus, don't move around, and there will be mistakes. Fortunately, Qingwu's life is very blessed, and they all say that seven lives and eight are not alive, and Aunt Nine gave birth to her prematurely for more than eight months, and she lost her breath several times, and she even 'survived' over. ”

The fourth aunt secretly glanced at the eighth aunt who was sitting with her eyes down, and stepped forward to help her grandmother gently beat her shoulder: "Speaking of which, Miss Qingwu would like to thank the eighth aunt, if she hadn't taken out that Ganoderma lucidum to save her life, she wouldn't have been able to turn evil into good fortune every time." ”

I looked up at Aunt Eight in surprise, she was secretly reaching out to wipe the two drops of crystal from the corner of her eyes, and when she heard the words of Aunt Four, she hurriedly blinked her eyes, and 'forced' tears back into her eyes, and said indifferently:

"I've forgotten it myself, it's hard for you to remember."

Everyone noticed the sadness on her face, and knew that it must have touched her sadness, and I also understood that what my grandmother said about "taking away a grandchild" must refer to the eighth aunt's fetal death, and I didn't know how to comfort her, and the house was a little embarrassed for a while.

Grandmother had just finished evening class, obviously a little tired, covered her mouth and yawned: "Eighth child, this young woman has inherited your kindness since she was a child, and when you are older, you will take some effort to make a good allocation." Now that time is in a hurry, it is too late for her to practice the most basic things from scratch, just learn a few tunes, be able to get it, and not lose the face of my Su family's 'daughter' in the future. ”

I naturally understand what my grandmother meant, I heard that this year's 'Spring Festival' Gala, there were a few heavy snowfalls in the north after the New Year, and the disaster was 'very' serious. The imperial court was busy with disaster relief, transferring grain from Jiangnan to Hebei, Shanxi and other places, and the 'spring' election was postponed to May. In this way, I may not be at home for a month at most. If you follow what Sister Qingwan said, you have to find a grandmother in the palace to teach in advance, and you have to leave for the capital earlier.

Why do you have to keep an eye on me? You'll have to try to teach me again. Since you praise Qingqing as the best granddaughter, then let me go." I secretly made a wish to the Bodhisattva in my heart, and I was more devotion than ever before.

But I don't know, I'm a temporary Buddha, the Bodhisattva will take care of it.

There is no endless road, it's a big deal, I will go down with a bottle of 'medicine' water, let my face grow a few acne sores or something, and I won't see anyone for a month.

For the first time, I was complacent about studying medicine.

The grandmother wanted to go back to the room to rest, but the fourth aunt hurriedly stepped forward to help, and the grandmother asked before leaving, "Why have I never heard the sound of you learning the piano?" ”

I coughed embarrassedly and said, "The granddaughter is stupid, and I am worried that the nuns in the nunnery will listen to it and laugh at me if I am young, and it will be difficult to escape the blame for the fame of the other sisters in the family." So I've always been secretly looking for a secluded place to practice by myself, and I'm afraid of disturbing my grandmother's rest. ”

Grandmother said lightly: "It's hard for you to have this self-knowledge, so you should practice diligently, so as not to live up to our expectations of you." ”

I lowered my eyebrows and answered them one by one, but I was very unimpressed, and made a grimace at my grandmother's back. Then he turned to the piano on the desk with a sad face.

The eighth aunt was sentimental, closed her eyes slightly, recovered her indifference, and only lightly flicked a string of small leaf sandalwood Buddha beads in her hand.

I put my fingertips on the piano and tried to pick it up, the sound of the piano was harsh like a cracked silk, which scared me to myself. Why did you change me, so unbearable?

I sat down on the edge of the anchovian in frustration and muttered, "I think I still have a talent for playing cotton 'flowers'." ”

The eighth aunt, who had always been cold, was amused by my joke, shook her head helplessly, put down the small leaf sandalwood Buddha beads in her hand, walked to her, twisted her fingertips, and a string of clear notes flowed out of her fingertips.

"I think you've never practiced in the past few days. However, listening to you play the piano is buoyant and irritable, and it is really not suitable to 'mess up' the sound of the piano. She sat quietly in front of the piano, closed her eyes and concentrated for a moment, her hands were slow and relaxed, her blue fingers were slightly curled, she was quick and slow, and her face was filled with a soft and noble atmosphere, and her demeanor was myriad.

"Ruzhi Rulan, good bearing!" I couldn't help but blurt out a compliment.

She was obviously stunned, as if she remembered something in a trance, her hand shook, and with a "clang" sound, she 'messed up' the tune.

"That's it, this kind of scourge of people, don't learn it." She pushed the piano and sighed: "Even if I Xin Lanzhi Qin crown Yangzhou, I didn't finally bury my own floating dream, I became an unknown layman in this vanity hermitage, and spent the rest of my life in the morning and dusk for a lifetime." ”

The tone is indescribably sad.

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