Tong heard a noise outside, and hurriedly came in and asked, "What's wrong?" But when he saw the mirror platform broken into pieces on the ground, he immediately pulled down his face: "Who did it?" Qiu Ju had a big accident, she was used to seeing glass mirrors in the capital, and knew that it was a precious thing, so she knelt down in fright and trembled. Chun Xing also lowered her head on the side, not daring to make a sound.

Shuning said to Tong: "It was my daughter who asked Sister Qiu Ju to help take down the rag basket on the shelf, but who knew that a piece of cloth hooked the mirror platform and was accidentally taken down." Tong stared at Qiu Ju desperately and sneered: "If you have the intention to do something, how can you be so careless?" You've been looking like a dead fish lately, and you must have been careless to break the mirror. Qiu Ju lowered her head and didn't dare to make a sound.

Tong ordered Qiu Ju to follow her out of the porch, and asked someone to bring a stick to beat her up as a punishment for her recent passive work. Shuning wanted to go out with her, but was stopped in the house by the second sister-in-law: "My little ancestor, what's so beautiful about this?" Qiu Ju relied on Brother Qing'er's momentum, came here for a few months, always put up a shelf, and acted to give people a look, since she knew that Brother Qing was going to get married, she had a depressed face, and she didn't work well, and her grandmother was now using her to cut down. Don't go, stay in the house, and the second sister-in-law will talk to you. "Even Chunxing stopped her.

Shuning had no choice but to stay, watching the second sister-in-law ask Chun Xing to clean up the debris on the ground, listening to the beatings and cries outside the door, a little uneasy. When the second sister-in-law saw her like this, she coaxed her to be happy: "What do you want to eat tonight?" If you have fresh mushrooms, why don't you ask Chunxing to stew pork vermicelli for you in the evening? Shuning nodded carelessly, her mind attracted by the increasingly fierce cries outside the door.

Qiu Ju was beaten more than ten times, and was helped back to the room by others crying, and Tong Shi also breathed a sigh of relief. Shu Ning returned to her room bored. After this incident, she couldn't find good ingredients to make sachets anymore, so she had to put all the needlework tools back in the basket the same, but she saw Chunxing coming in with a plate, so she asked, "What are you holding?" "It's just the fragments of the mirror, although they are broken into small pieces, but they can still shine on people, I'll put them away, why don't you think of a way to set them up and take them with you to look at?" Chunxing rarely sees such a precious thing, and she is really reluctant to throw it away.

Shuning looked at the mirror fragment on the plate in her hand, and suddenly remembered something: "I have an idea!" Let's not make mirrors, we do something else. After that, he took the plate, put it on the table, and then rummaged around for paper, pen and ink, and then looked up and said to the puzzled Chunxing: "You go to the outer study to find Ma San'er, and ask him to bring me a few paints for painting, and then find some harder paper." Although Chunxing couldn't figure out what she wanted to do, she still went obediently.

After a while, she found all the materials she needed, and Shu Ning put them on the table and recalled the steps of production.

What she's going to do is a kaleidoscope.

Now there are no colorful glass balls, no cardboard and plastic sheets, and no color film, so she can only draw "flowers" with colored paints, and then paste several layers of paper together into hard paper, using the simplest method to make the most primitive kaleidoscope. She had done it a few times in her previous life, but it was a long time ago, and while she did it, she had to stop and reminisce from time to time.

It took her a day to get the "new" thing, and when she finally got it, she tried to look at it. Although the things are really rudimentary, in this era, they are enough to make people marvel. Duan Ning was very interested in this new toy, and almost didn't grab it, so Shuning had to hand over the rest of the lenses to him, tell him how to do it, and then send Chunxing to give him a hand and let him make it himself.

When she went to Sufu, Shuning took a kaleidoscope with her. Because the weather was getting colder, the Zhou family sent a carriage and several subordinates to send their young lady to be a guest, she took Chunxing to the car, and the group ran to the destination.

It's not the first time I've seen Sufu outside the door, but it's the first time I've come in. The Su Mansion is very large, and it is different from the several mansions that Shuning has been to, the style has a strong military general atmosphere, there is a martial arts training ground in the vestibule, there are several weapon racks, and the blades on the top are shining with cold light.

The carriage stopped when it entered the second gate, and a few servants had already greeted it and beckoned: "Gege has been waiting for it early in the morning, but the girls are coming, please come in." Someone else took the gift held by the Zhou family.

Shuning only felt a little trembling, it was the first time she had seen this kind of scene. It turns out that the scene surrounded by servants of a large family in "Dream of Red Mansions" really exists, although I have heard my mother mention that the Earl's Mansion in Beijing is also very pompous, but she has never lived there after all, she has no intuitive understanding, and she can't imagine that the first time she saw it, it was actually in someone else's house.

She and Zhou Yinlan followed the subordinates who came to lead the way from Su Fu, walked through the corridor, and arrived at a courtyard, where Miss Su, who was dressed in red, was already waiting at the gate of the courtyard. She said happily: "The two sisters have arrived, I am in a hurry, come into the house and sit down." He didn't wait for the salute, but took someone and went into the house.

A few grandmothers next to her hurriedly persuaded her to be gentle, but she just didn't care, and when she entered the room, she drove those people down, leaving only a personal girl to wait for tea, turned around and said to Shuning and Zhou Yinlan with a smile: "These people are all from Beijing, and they are talking about the rules or something in front of me every day, and they are annoyed to death." I will talk to you, so that they don't need to talk too much. He beckoned to serve tea cakes and fruits.

Zhou Yinlan hurriedly smiled and pulled her to sit down: "Since they are acquaintances, why should my sister be so polite, sit down and talk." She sat down with a smile, glanced at Shuning, and said, "I said I invited Shuning girl to play, why did you come now?" Is it because I am cheesy here and unsightly? Shuning hurriedly said: "This can't be afforded, if the house is tacky, then the place where we live will become more and more a pig's nest and a horse pen." Miss Su smiled, and was about to speak, but Zhou Yinlan couldn't stand it anymore and said, "You don't say these polite words here, are you sour?" All three laughed.

Shuning smiled: "You are familiar with the sister of the Su family, so naturally you can talk casually, as soon as I came back as a guest, I was uneasy, you are not considerate and don't say it, but laugh at me, do you have such a sister?" ”

Miss Su said: "The sister of the young Su family is long, and the sister of the Su family is short, isn't it too cumbersome for you to have such a long title?" Hengzhu we get along well, my girlfriend's name is Yunzhu, call me Sister Yunzhu. Zhou Shu and both of them responded and saw each other again.

After some gossip, their topic turned to Miss Su's marriage. Su Yunzhu pursed his lips and said: "It was originally said that it was spring, but it turned out that someone died in his family, and it was changed to the end of summer, but in the autumn, the prince left again, and it will be postponed until next spring." Those grandma have lived in my house for more than half a year, and they are so annoyed that I want to die every day, and they have to take care of how they walk and eat, and they will talk for a long time when I move a little, which is really annoying! ”

Both girls looked sympathetic, although they had to learn the rules at home, but they were not so annoying. Zhou Yinlan comforted: "Sister Xu is going to live in that palace in the future, their family rules are big, I'm afraid that you won't get used to it, so I will send someone to teach you in advance, right?" ”

Shuning was unceremonious: "In my opinion, most of these grandmothers have strange tempers, and they don't have anything else to do on weekdays, they only take pleasure in watching people suffer, as long as they control you, make you upset, and see you angry, they will be happy." "Isn't that what you do on TV? Mama Rong is one of them.

These words startled Zhou Yinlan, but made Su Yunzhu very happy, she smiled and said: "Sister's words are really to the point, they are such people!" Zhou Yinlan hurriedly stopped them: "Be quiet, it's not good for people to hear it." ”

Su Yunzhu didn't care: "What are you afraid of?" I've scolded them a lot in the past six months, and I haven't seen what they can do to me. I was always angry with them on weekdays, but now I'm just angry. After that, she pulled the red clothes on her body: "Look, even if I wear a big red dress, they have to stop it, saying that I married to be a side room, and wearing red is not in line with etiquette, it's ridiculous, I'm not married yet, I can wear whatever I like, and I want them to take care of it!" ”

Looking at the big red flag dress on her body and the red vest with vermilion satin, Shuning had a slight black line, this eldest lady probably knew that she couldn't wear red anymore after getting married, so she simply wore a book first, and looked at her dressed as red as fire.

"Do you hear my gossip when you're in the city on weekdays?" Su Yunzhu took a sip of tea and suddenly asked.

Zhou Shu and the others looked at each other, and the former said cautiously: "That's all rumors, it's okay if you don't listen to it......" Su Yunzhu immediately interrupted her: "So, there is indeed something, right?" Seeing that both of them nodded reluctantly, they sneered and said, "When people don't know, isn't it the stupid woman of the Qin family who is chewing her tongue?" The wicked woman who has a chick's belly and intestines and will be avenged! Does she think these rumors will do anything to me? Who's going to listen to her seriously?! ”

Shuning nodded and said: "Sister Yunzhu is right, I heard that Mrs. Qin and the wives of all the adults have discord, and now there is no contact, only a few wealthy families, most of them are businessmen, and the ladies of the family will associate with her." No matter how many bad things she says about her sister, how many people are there in a serious family? Even if those businessmen responded to her face to face, they didn't dare to spread the word indiscriminately and offend the government. ”

Zhou Yinlan also nodded yes, she saw that the atmosphere was a little dull, so she smiled and said: "A few days ago, we got a new thing, and it is a little interesting, it is used for fun in our boudoir, I made a new one, and gave it to my sister, sister can you like it?" As he was talking, he took out five small sachets from his sleeve and said to Shuning: "When it comes to playing, I can't compare to my sister, why don't I play with my sister and show Sister Yunzhu?" ”

Shu Ning saw that these five sachets were only half the size of a thumb, four were made of blue silk, and one was made of purple silk, with well-proportioned stitches, each of which was embroidered with different floral patterns, very delicate and beautiful, faintly exuding a faint fragrance.

In terms of delicacy and beauty, this "stone" has greatly exceeded her imagination, in her hand, the weight is not heavy or light, so she played all kinds of fancy with great interest, and Su Yunzhu applauded. However, Shuning clearly felt that she was not too interested, probably because this game boudoir was too heavy, which did not match her usual personality. After playing for a while, Shuning also took out her gift.

"Actually, I also made a new gadget, Sister Zhou hasn't seen it yet, it's called Kaleidoscope, Sister Yunzhu take a look?" She handed the kaleidoscope to Su Yunzhu and motioned for her to look into the tube. This gift is very much to Miss Su's taste, and she kept exclaiming: "Oh, there are really flowers, but it's a pity that the room is not bright enough, let me go outside the door to take a look...... I saw it, I saw it, there were really a lot of flowers...... What the? Do you want to turn? Hey? Have the flowers changed? How can this be......"

She was very happy to see it, but it hooked Zhou Yinlan's curiosity, and it took a while to grab the kaleidoscope, and when she took a look, she was also shouting, and even the grandmothers who were guarding the door were attracted to her, and they shouted vigorously, "Gege, please pay attention to the rules, this is not decent", and so on. Su Yunzhu pursed her lips, but she didn't hear it, and continued to play with Zhou Shu and the others.