Chapter 40: The Dragonfly Touches the Water
Now that the three of them were dressed, they were annoyed and threw the needle aside, so they had to admit defeat, and the three of them were amused by her angry appearance and laughed out loud, and even after Li Tang was embarrassed to laugh, they also laughed cheekily with people in the same yard.
A few people had a good time, the time was approaching, a carriage came to the door of the drunken red makeup shop, Xia'er went out to see, and reported that it was Lu Jiagongzi who came to pick up people, this Lan banquet made several young ladies feel familiar at first sight, Zhou Tao and Yu Chengqi said goodbye to the two of them and came out of the courtyard.
Li Tang took two boxes, which contained saliva balm and incense, which she prepared when she returned to the store in the morning, originally wanted to give Bai Meixue and Yu Chengqi, but now she gave them to Zhou Tao and Yu Chengqi.
After saying goodbye to the two, the carriage of the Bai family was still coming, Bai Mei Xuedao had something to say to Li Tang, and the two went back to the backyard, and Xia'er stayed in the front shop and waited.
Li Tangfang took a long box from the shelf, and when he arrived in the backyard, now there were only two of her, so he handed the box to Baimei Snow Road:
"If you lose by chance, then this is my gift."
Bai Meixue never thought that she was really prepared, this rectangular wooden box looked suitable for a hairpin, but it was a little bigger, so she opened it curiously.
When Bai Meixue was surprised to take out the contents of the box, she exclaimed:
"Tang'er doesn't like needlework, but she is so skillful."
It was a palm-long lyre, black and bright, petite and pleasing, not only the body and strings, but also the feet of the dragon gums and geese in the mountains of the piano, and even the thirteen emblems were colored.
Bai Meixue couldn't help but sigh:
"I heard that the southernmost girls can make embroidered shoes the size of grains and fans with big fingernails, but I never thought that my Tang'er was so ingenious." Bai Meixue sighed while stroking the piano body, and her heart was filled with something.
Li Tang was a little embarrassed, this thing was useless, but she couldn't think of anything she could do to give her, she was good at playing the piano, so she whimsically wanted to make a palm-sized piano for her, although she couldn't play it, but it was feasible to play with it:
"I've never been good at needlework, so I know that I'm going to lose to you today, so I made this little piano, my hands are not fine, you don't have to dislike it."
After Bai Meixue sighed, she was a little uncomfortable, since she met Li Tang, although she was playful, she always wanted to send her anything good, she was not good at it, but she made this exquisite thing for her.
From the perspective of others, it is not a matter of importance, in this world, there is such a person who is willing to spend this time for you.
Bai Meixue put away Qiaoqin and put it down, picked up the thing she had just taken from the shop, and handed it to Li Tang, Li Tang took it, this thing was covered with a brocade bag, slender and long, I don't know what it was, so I carefully took off the brocade bag.
It is a delicate folding fan, the fan body is one knuckle longer than Li Tang's palm, the ebony fan handle is smooth as jade, gently opened, the begonia embroidered on the silk fan is in full bloom, Li Tang's eyes are full of warmth, and the joy is fully displayed.
Although Bai Meixue knew that she would not lose, she prepared a gift for Li Tang, and she knew that she didn't like to use a fan, so she found someone to make a fan bone out of ebony, and personally embroidered the fan to seal it.
The moonlight of the blue night illuminated the shadows in the courtyard, the lanterns and candles in the drunken red makeup backyard had burned out, Li Tang held the small folding fan and stood in place, and the sound of a carriage came from the door outside, it was the Bai family who came to pick up people.
Bai Meixue saw that she was silent, so she said:
"Tang'er, then I'll go home."
Li Tang woke up from his contemplation and looked at Bai Meixue, but heard Xia'er shouting in the shop:
"Miss, the carriage is coming."
Li Tang still didn't speak, Bai Meixue picked up the wooden box on the table, and walked out, Fang wanted to turn around, but her wrist was grabbed, and with a little force, she crashed into the arms of the person next to her.
The next moment, there was a soft warmth, wrapped in the fragrance of wine, like petals falling on Bai Meixue's lips, Bai Meixue was shocked, her hands tightened, holding the wooden box in one hand, and dragging the white brocade shirt with the other, two red faces, hidden in the misty moonlight.
Just stayed for a while, and then fled, Bai Meixue almost stood unsteadily, her heart was like a deer, she didn't dare to look up at people, she hurriedly turned around and walked out of the yard quickly, without saying a word, and dragged Xia'er out of the door and got into the carriage.
Li Tang didn't go out to give it away, he sat back in the armchair, and sat at the table, his face like a peach blossom, I don't know if he was drunk and dyed his cheeks, or his heart was surging.
When Li Yu came to pick her up, she was still sitting on the chair in a daze:
"Tang'er, Tang'er?"
If she hadn't opened her eyes, Li Yu would have fallen asleep, Li Tang was called back to his senses by him, and looked at Li Yu a little slowly:
"Brother... There you are. ”
"Well, it's late and go home, and I'll clean up tomorrow!"
Li Tang was still stupid, dragged him out of the yard by Li Yu and closed the shop door, without saying anything all the way, Li Yu guessed that she was greedy for a glass of wine, and now she was slightly drunk, so she took her, worried that she would fall.
When she got home, Li Tang returned to the room and lay on the bed, still immersed in the memories of the collision of the smell of wine in the yard, she wondered if she had really done such a horrific act, but the touch on her lips seemed to have not disappeared.
Li Tang lay stupidly and pondered, and remembered that when I first met the Lantern Festival, the beautiful girl under the fireworks... I don't know when I fell asleep.
In the next few days, Li Tang never went to Baifu to find someone, and Bai Meixue never came to get drunk with red makeup, Li Tang was busy in the backyard of the shop all day, and he was often in a daze when he got home.
Lantian came to Chunxi Town, she was also depressed and lost her previous aura, and she had been fugue, Lantian asked her with concern, and she was also stunned to answer the question.
Li Yu thought she was sick and asked her if she wanted to go to the pharmacy to ask her father to show her, and she came back to her senses and glared at him; Until July 15, the day of going to Yanfeng Mountain on the two days of each month.
Today's Li Tang got up early in the morning, just after dawn, no one in the family got up, she sat in the yard and looked at the delicate folding fan in a daze, and remembered the scene in the yard that night.
The morning breeze was cold, but her face was dyed with powder, and when she thought about it, her heart throbbed, and the two of them hid inexplicably these days, and I don't know if Bai Meixue will annoy her, and she will no longer communicate with each other.
Today she can't hide anymore, thinking that she will always go to see her; Packed up early in the morning and waited for noon, with a heartfelt heart, and waited for her to have breakfast and lunch with anxiety, and then took the blue and prepared things and walked to the entrance of the town.
The weather was very hot, and she brought a folding fan from Bai Meixue, but she never took it out and used it, but just put it in a basket and lay down with the incense candles.
She is farther away from Yanfeng Mountain, but she always waits at the foot of the mountain one step earlier, and every time she thinks of seeing her, she is always so eager, Li Tang found a stone in the shade and sat down, holding the basket and thinking.
If Bai Meixue came after a while, what should she say, and then she thought again, will she come today, if she is annoyed that she will not come from the fifteenth day of the new year, what should she do, her heart is both expectant and afraid, so worried.
After a while, three people came from a distance, Li Tang buried her head in thought but didn't hear the footsteps, probably at this time, she couldn't hear any sounds around.
When the grass-colored figure walked to her feet, she slowly raised her head, looked at the plain hand stretched out to her in a daze, and in an instant her heart was like a flower, her face was like a bright sun, and her lips bent up and put her hand up.