CHAPTER XXVII
During the time that Xuan Xuan was away, I was about to fly up. I have nothing to do all day long, or lie in the yard with a book and bask in the sun, or lie in the room and play with the birds.
It's really uncomfortable to suddenly become busy now, but fortunately, I'm busy and happy, and I don't feel tired when I'm in a good mood.
Tell Ai'er to pick up the inside and outside of the house, and the yard is also cleaned, all kinds of plates, plates, bowls, chopsticks, spoons, etc.
When Mrs. Mu heard that I was holding a birthday for Bai Yanleng, she specially sent me two maidservants to come over, gave me a hand, and ordered, "Everything is up to Mr., and Mr. will do whatever he says."
The two little girls bowed slightly to Mrs. Mu, and at the same time said "Yes, I know Mrs." Then he looked at me timidly.
At first glance, they were two little girls with quick hands and feet, quite clever, and I smiled at them and said, "You can follow Ai'er, you can just follow Ai'er whatever you do."
The two little girls said to me, "Yes, sir."
When Ai'er heard what I said, she beckoned to this direction, and the two little girls hurriedly ran over.
Mrs. Mu looked at me with a smile and said, "This time there is Mr. Lao, there are many people in Baifu, I am afraid that I will be busy for several days."
I smiled at Mrs. Mu and said, "It's not in the way, I can handle it, and it's the birthday of the nineteen young, no matter what, I have to do my best, with my friendship with the nineteen young, even if I do not do well, he won't blame me."
The speaker has no intention and the listener has the intention. When I said it, the clouds were light and light, but Mrs. Mu looked at me very meaningfully, pursing her lips, especially the eyes squinting and smiling into a slit, very weird.
I know that Mrs. Mu is crooked again, thinking that this birthday I am doing wholeheartedly is purely selfish, and I love Nineteen Shao.
Because of Bai Xiaoqiu and Chu Lianwei's matter, Mrs. Mu felt very sorry for me, and secretly wanted to match me with Nineteen Shao, every time Mrs. Mu provoked the topic a little, I quickly diverted and played sloppy. Either talk about the weather, or talk about the mysteries, anyway, there are many people in Baifu and there are many things, and I am not afraid that there will be no topics to talk about.
Bai Yanleng is younger than me, but now I know that Rourou loves him, and with my relationship with Rourou, it is impossible for me to like him.
I also smiled back, and also smiled my eyes into a slit, so that Mrs. Mu could guess slowly.
When Mrs. Mu was leaving, she said to me, "By the way, there is also the stove room, I have explained everything, you can tell the cook what you need, and you can only tell me what you want."
I was very proud in my heart, and the words I said were very sweet, and I said again and again, "Okay, Mrs. has a heart, and I am really thoughtful for me."
Bai Qingrui brought me some flowers, and when she entered the door, she began to command, "You, move this pot over there, you, move this pot to the back, and these, all of them are placed in the front row, and the action is quick." The people were just immersed in their work, and they put the pots wherever they wanted, and at one moment they moved the pots to this corner, and the other to other places.
In a few moments, my whole yard came to life. There are peony flowers, impatiens, autumn chrysanthemums, cannas, gorgeous and colorful, and the fragrance of flowers is overflowing.
Bai Qingrui nodded with great satisfaction, and said to me, "I thought about it all night and didn't know what to bring here, but after thinking about it, I thought of these flowers, how about it, Mr. is still satisfied."
I looked at the flowers in this yard, I was very happy, and the whole person became energetic, and said to Bai Qingrui with a smile, "It's so beautiful, I like it."
Ai'er moved the stool out and saw these flowers in the yard, she was also very happy, and the smile on her face was better than the flowers, and she shouted "What beautiful flowers". He turned and stepped into the house, carrying a small bucket of water and preparing to water the flowers.
was about to water when Bai Qingrui stopped him in a hurry, and said, "I just watered it before I moved here, and I will water it tomorrow." After finishing speaking, he glanced at a few pomegranate trees in the yard and teased Ai'er, "My flowers are not as precious as those pomegranate trees, just water them once a day." I've always wondered, isn't it just three pomegranate trees, every time I come back, I see Ai'er watering it, isn't it native, but the water can't be raised, and I don't know what's good, like a baby, so I just took bird's nest as water to water it."
Ai'er looked at the pomegranate tree and said with a faint smile, "Don't say it, I water them every day, and they all water their feelings."
Bai Qingrui also looked at the pomegranate tree, cut it, and said, "Bare and ugly, die, knock people." He twisted his body and looked at the flowers in the yard.
Ai'er wanted to speak again, but I winked at her and told her not to say anything.
Ai'er smiled, turned around and went into the house again.
Some people were in and out for a while. Originally, the yard had been swept clean, and the soles of a pair of shoes stepped on it, leaving deep and shallow footprints, so the new maid had to sweep it again.
Bai Qingrui saw that we were all busy, so she stood in the courtyard for a while and left.
When Bai Xiaoqiu came, I was hanging colorful cloth strips on the beams of the house, and Ai'er was busy in the house with the two new little girls.
I climbed to the top with the ladder, and hung it on the beams with a hook and loop, and the ladder was a little out of reach, so I had to stand on tiptoe, and the ladder swayed under my feet, and I almost fell down in a daze. Quickly stood still, let the ladder steady, and then reach it or not, and just like that, I held the hook and loop in mid-air and shook it to the left and to the right, so that my legs were numb and my whole body trembled.
Suddenly, the ladder stopped moving, and it was erected steadily. I turned my head and squinted to see that Bai Xiaoqiu was helping me.
Ever since he gave me this task, there have been more opportunities to come to my yard, and it seems that he has finally found an excuse to run to me when he has nothing to do.
He tilted his head back and said, "Come down."
I didn't listen to him, and I still hung up with my feet, and I didn't believe that I couldn't hang up. It's really annoying, no more, no less, just a little bit. The hand was raised in mid-air and did not move, as if he was angry with himself.
He saw that I didn't come down, and said, "What are you doing up there, my arm is sore."
No way, who told me to be so tall, when I was a child, my mother always asked me to kick the shuttlecock more, jump rope, and say that it grows so long and tall, but I just don't listen, I always love to nest at home. It's too late to say anything.
I climbed down the ladder and stood beside Bai Xiaoqiu with my head down.
He glanced at me, and although there was a smile in his eyes, it flashed and was very stingy. I picked up the hook in my hand and climbed up the ladder, only halfway up the ladder and hung it up, as if it was deliberately made to me and made me even more angry.
Then he helped me carry the Jiantai, saying that he was basically fighting alone, but I just followed behind and helped me out.
When he was busy, he heard the cry of the birds, and thought it was the birds in the house, but he remembered that he had been so busy for the past two days that he forgot to feed it, so he hurriedly ran into the house, grabbed a handful of broken particles from the small box in the corner, and when he got closer, he saw that the bird was sleeping with his eyes closed.
At this time, he heard the sound of the birds, and was wondering in his heart, Bai Xiaoqiu carried the bird cage into the house.
He glanced at me, his face trembled slightly, the corners of his mouth were crooked and he smiled, he said, "Last time, I said that I would buy you another bird, and I have not been free, I just went out of the city yesterday, and I heard that the birds of the farmers outside the city are better than those in Luoyang City, so I bought it back." After finishing speaking, I stretched out my hand and took out the birds in the original cage and put them together with the newly bought birds, blue with yellow, red with white, the two birds were put together, it was really beautiful.
I looked at the birds, and then at Bai Xiaoqiu, with unconcealed joy on my face, and said to him, "Thank you, Twelve Shao". Then he ran to the corner and grabbed a handful of broken particles from the small box and threw them into the cage.
Bai Xiaoqiu hurriedly stretched out his hand to block, just holding my wrist, I looked at him in a daze, he quickly let go of his hand, and said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry".
Seeing that I didn't make a sound, he said again, "This bird, you can't feed it too hard, it's different from people, people still know food and clothing, how much you feed the bird, it eats as much as you want, if you don't get it right, it will also get sick."
Like a child who had done something wrong, I stood by and listened to his thoughts.
After a while, he said, "Okay, you go get busy."
I nodded and walked away.
I was busy, looking at Bai Xiaoqiu from time to time with the rest of my eyes. Seeing that he didn't seem to want to leave, he walked around my room, looked, and turned over when he didn't understand. Somehow, I turned out the little wooden figure under my pillow. Take it in your hand and look at it carefully.
I thought to myself, the carving is not like me, if it is really like me, I am afraid that I will come to Xingshi to ask for sin.
I thought he was just curious and wouldn't ask me anything, but I didn't expect to really ask, and the wooden figure pinched the air with two fingers and asked me, "Who sent it?" ”
My eyes rolled to "soft".
His eyes stayed on my face, his eyebrows were clear and translucent, like a trickle of water, and he said, "Come here."
I sighed lightly, thinking to myself that it wasn't like me anyway, and you couldn't even ask why it was just a wooden villain.
Walked over and stood in front of him, and in order to show his innocence, he took two more steps forward, keeping a distance of half a centimeter from him, and then craned his neck and asked him to compare it carefully.
He looked at me too, and we just stared at each other.
I saw me in his dark eyes, a small me, sunk deep in his eye sockets, sometimes clear and sometimes blurred.
It is said that from a person's eyes, you can probe the person's heart, but why are Bai Xiaoqiu's eyes so unfathomable, like a bottomless black hole, in addition to containing happiness, sadness, and helplessness, but also containing stories that I can't understand.
I thought for a long time about what he was avoiding and what he was afraid of.
He pretended to cough lightly, "I haven't seen anyone who would carve himself into wood and give it away."
I chuckled lightly and said in a disdainful tone, "Twelve young people are rare and strange, I am good sisters with Rourou, I am happy to give me anything, don't look at it if you can't get used to it." After finishing the way, he snatched back the wooden figure from his hand.
He stepped back, and I threw myself into the air, stomping on his shin.
He snorted, and I snatched the wooden figure back and put it under the pillow. Turn around and get back to work.
Bai Xiaoqiu made a cup of tea by herself and drank it for a long time, sometimes squinting and smiling, sometimes leaning back in a chair and reading my book, or looking out the window somewhere in a daze. Every time I just look at him, he always looks at me.
I gave him a blank look, and he actually smiled. I couldn't help it, so I shouted, "Twelve Shao, you have no figure like this for half a day, and you are not afraid that the young lady will not find you everywhere."
He stopped smiling at me, raised his leg and ran out the door.
Ai'er couldn't help but smile and said, "Twelve young people are really afraid of the young lady."
I smiled awkwardly and echoed, "I'm really afraid of the young lady."