The next day, Tong began to make gifts for Qingninghe's newlywed. This time, it can't be like the last time when the fourth brother got married, just burn two sets of glassware. The Earl's Court is going to be big, and this gift will naturally have to be more sumptuous.

Tong spent more than 100 taels of silver from the dealer who sold northern goods, obtained 12 large pearls from Bohai specialty, left two to make his own head and face jewelry, and packed the 10 in a fine rosewood box lined with red silk, plus 20 pearls from the pearl field of the northern freshwater lake.

These pearls are not natural, they are cultured. Now there are usually only cultured pearls in the south of the Yangtze River, and the pearl field here is run by merchants in Beijing, which was originally only for the surrounding areas of the capital, but due to the small production, the local nobles alone have already covered most of it. The merchants of northern goods transported the remaining pearls to the capital to sell, borrowing the reputation of Dongzhu, and it was extremely popular among the families of ordinary officials and wealthy merchants.

With these two pearls as a gift, plus a few boxes of precious medicinal herbs, it should be decent enough. Tong asked the second sister-in-law to find some exquisite embroidery to add to her head, and then found red paper to write a post.

She was about to ask Yahuan to grind the ink, when she saw Qiu Ju standing on the side, her eyes red and swollen, as if she had been crying all night. She frowned and reprimanded, "Who are you doing this for?!" Brother Qing marries a daughter-in-law, what do you have to be sad about? Do you still expect him to use eight sedan chairs to carry you into the door to make the main house? ! Hurry up and change your frivolous look for me! ”

As soon as she scolded, Qiu Ju cried instead, no matter what Tong said, she refused to stop, scolded so badly, she shook her head and rushed out of the room, which made Tong half angry. Because the second sister-in-law was not in front of her, she called Xiaomei and asked her to go to Qiu Ju's room to continue talking about her.

Xiaomei turned around and said after a while: "Qiu Ju was packing her luggage while crying, she said that she was going back to Beijing to ask Brother Qing'er, why did she change her mind when she said it well?" Tong laughed angrily: "This girl is crazy, does she really think that the young masters will fight against the family for her?" You won't scold, go back to do things first, go back and ask the second sister-in-law to scold her, you go and tell the guards to never let Qiu Ju go out of the door! ”

As soon as the second sister-in-law came back, when she learned about it, she immediately went to find Qiu Ju, only to see that Chun Xing had been persuaded in her room. The second sister-in-law sent Chun Xing, stared back at Qiu Ju and said, "What did you say when you first came?" Brother Qing just said that he would take you into the house, no matter what, he wants to marry a wife, what is your identity? Dare to question the master?!! Besides, you just look a little like Brother Qing'er's former sweetheart, do you really think he is infatuated with you? Don't look at your own identity! If you do your duty, maybe you will have the opportunity to return to him in the future to be a person in the house, otherwise, if you really make trouble, Jingli will not say a word, and sell you far away, can you still say a word?! Quickly change this to me!! ”

Qiu Ju shed tears while listening, and in the end she couldn't cry anymore. She obediently took out the clothes in her bag and put them back in the box, still wiping her tears. She was just impulsive, she cried for so long, and was dissuaded by others in turn, but now after listening to the words of the second sister-in-law, she has clearly realized the reality. She is not a fool, of course she knows what to do, and now she can only hope that the eldest young master has not forgotten her, and will take her back one day.

The two who took the lead in sending congratulatory gifts back to Beijing were still Changfu and the second sister-in-law, and this time when they went back, they also had to send a letter to the housekeeper of the Earl's Court to bring their son over. The couple set off happily, and everyone in the family saw each other off at the gate. Qiu Ju looked at their distant figures with envy in her eyes. She also wanted to beg the third grandmother to send her, but unfortunately the Tong family was not a fool, how could she send her back to make trouble at such a critical time?

================= I am the first time that the dividing line appears in the body =================

Since Ah Song followed Mr. Su to live in the left neighbor of Zhang Bao's house, he has been well fed and clothed every day, and he is really happy. He was nominally a clerk, but he didn't really have much work to do. Every day, Mr. Su followed Zhang Bao to the Yamen to run errands, and there were elders and nobles waiting by his side, so the young Ah Song could only stay at home to clean the house. Because the government here did not strictly control him, except for Ma San'er and his wife and Lao Wutou, who were instructed by the Tong family to take more care of him, they did not interfere more. Ah Song plays with the boys next door every day, and he really enjoys it.

After Changfu and the second sister-in-law returned from the capital with their son Huzi, Ah Song had one more playmate.

As the name suggests, Huzi has a tiger head and a tiger head, a small shaved head, and solid skin. Because he is not fair-skinned and delicate enough, and his temperament is playful and mischievous, Huzi fell to Sun Shan in the selection of a new batch of family children in the Earl's Mansion in the capital, so the second sister-in-law and his wife smoothly transferred their son to the third room, and hung the name of choosing a portable servant for the fourth young master Duan Ning. Duan Ning has long been accustomed to being taken to class by Master Cheng, and if he wants to call people to do things, there is also Ma San'er waiting, and Huzi, a little guy, is actually just a name for nothing. The Tong family didn't plan to add manpower, so they let this kid play with people.

Huzi grew up in the capital, his parents were not around, and his grandparents doted on him, so he was also a wild boy who was full of joy on the street. There is nothing fresh and interesting in the capital, he knows that the friends in Fengtian City are a group of dirt buns to him. However, the soil buns have the benefits of the soil buns, and it is precisely because of them that they are soiled that he seems to have seen more of the world. He often talked to Ah Song and a few of them about the things in Beijing, which made them itch and envy. In fact, where had he seen so many things? Most of them have heard it from others.

He said that kicking kicks, kites, polo and roulette darts are now popular in Beijing, the latter two are only played by aristocratic families, naturally not counted, kicking keys are also played in Fengtian City, but those are all girls, this group of little men don't look down on sissy games, so they discussed, and also took advantage of the autumn to make a few kites to play, although it was already past Chongyang.

But the lively scene of hundreds of kites flying together in the sky that Huzi said, a few of them can't do it. On the day of Chongyang in the city, it rained for a day, so there were only dozens of kites in the sky for two days before and after. Now that the solar term has passed, there are no kites sold on the street for a long time, and they can't afford the exquisite kites made in the store, so Ah Song Huzi and a few people want to make them themselves. But they couldn't afford the thin and tough white paper, and it was too heavy to use straw paper, so later it was the idea of the well-informed Huzi to make it with the white paper of the pasted window, and he had seen someone in Beijing use it to make it.

The paper is there, but what is the scaffold made of? Unable to find the thin bamboo branches, they started the idea of thin wooden strips, quietly stole into the firewood room, and used a knife that came from nowhere, carefully cutting the firewood, making a lot of sawdust, and a lot of firewood was not in shape, because the movement was too big, which attracted the attention of the old soldier, and was loudly reprimanded, and told Changfu to beat, scolded, and scolded, and the adults repeatedly strictly ordered them not to fight the idea of the firewood room again.

But how can boys' ambitions be so easy to give up? Ah Song is used to living a hard life, and the poor also have the play of the poor. He went back to Nanxiang to find a carpenter who sold vegetable baskets he knew since he was a child, and asked for a few bamboo strips and cut them into thin strips, which solved the problem.

After two days of tinkering, the boys finally put the kite up, using the thread that Huzi had drawn from the second sister-in-law's needlework basket. Although it is the most rudimentary style, without any pictorial colors on it, the children are still full of joy when they look at the kites flying in the sky.

These simple kites attracted the attention of many people, and people in the neighborhood also followed a few kites, and in the days long since Chongyang had passed, more than a dozen kites rose into the sky in the fierce autumn wind, which seemed to indicate that this year was unusual.

The kite lured the two siblings, Duan Ning and Shu Ning, out of the study. They looked at the white shadows in the sky, and they also had the idea of playing. Both of them put their childhood time in books early, Duan Ning is responsible for the hope of his parents, Shu Ning is the soul of an adult hidden in his body, and there is actually very little time for play, but no matter what age a person is, there is always a childlike heart, even if it is Shuning, who is a human being in two lives, not to mention that Duan Ning was just a child in the first place.

They joined Ah Song and Huzi, chasing a few kites on the street, playing, jumping, clapping their hands, and Shuning turned home halfway and took out a large colorful butterfly kite pressed under the box, which she thought would be kept for next year. Chunxing and the girls from the neighborhood also joined in, and the group of people had a crazy game until the evening.

Although he was said a few words by Tong, Shuning's aroused playfulness could not be suppressed. She vigorously recalled the games she had played as a child in her previous life, to see which ones were simple and fun, and could still be played in the current conditions. Rubber band? It's a pity that there are no erasers now, and this kind of game always needs a group of girls to play together to be interesting; Hopscotch? The rules are a bit hard to remember; Slip hoop? Throwing sandbags? Bounce the glass (note: bounce the glass ball)? Well, let's try playing with hoops and sandbags.

After discussing it with Duan Ning like this, Duan Ning nodded, went to the street with the private money he had saved on weekdays, found a blacksmith shop, and asked them to help make two iron rings and two long iron hooks. Shuning herself stayed at home, made some small cloth bags with some cloth heads and tails, and asked Chunxing to go to the river to fill some fine sand and come back to make small sandbags.

After a few days, everything was ready, the rules were told to everyone, Duanning, Shuning, Chunxing, Huzi, Ah Song, and a few children from the neighborhood, including men and women, gathered in an open space near their homes and began to play new games.

The boys work in pairs to see who can slip the hoop safely to the designated spot. Whoever slipped more than a foot away, whoever fell off the hook, who kicked a stone and fell, and who ran crookedly, everyone should clap their hands and laugh loudly. Although he failed several times, it was Ah Song who won the championship in the end.

Shuning was speechless, the little fart who played for the first time slipped away so fast and steadily, she was convinced. As for Huzi and Duanning, who ranked second and third, they were even more depressed, who would have thought that Ah Song, who had the strongest level of soil buns, was actually the one who learned the fastest and played the best?

The boys were playing, but the girls were reluctant, so in order to take into account the opinions of the ladies, everyone divided into groups of three and began to play sandbag throwing. As a result, it is still a trivial matter to be hit with sandbags and dirty clothes, those who do not stand firm and fall, hide behind others and do not want to come out, two or three people in different groups pounce in a pile, throw up their strength and throw out their shoes, and the jokes of this day have not stopped.

When they got home, they were inevitably scolded by their parents again, Duan Ning and Shuning were ordered by Tong's ear for a long time before they were relieved, but I am afraid that such a day of indulgence and fun will be difficult to have in a short period of time, after today, Tong will definitely take good care of the two brothers and sisters, and do not allow them to do those things that "have Shi identity".

But the good memories of this day, but anyone who has a part in the fun will not forget, from then on, the iron hoop and sandbag throwing slowly became popular in the city, and then slowly spread to other places with the coming and going of people.