Chapter 36: Plaster Molds
Zhou Bo called Xue Jian into the study, Xue Jian was very puzzled, this study is mostly used for deliberations, Zhou Bo is not a book lover like San Lang, the study of this old house in the countryside is even more empty, at this moment, the wide desk is covered with a tablecloth.
The trees in the courtyard are covered with canopy and half-shaded windows, but I don't feel hot. In the corner of the study, there is a wooden basin with well water, which is also a little cool.
Xue Jian looked at Zhou Bo's eyes and lifted the tablecloth, and what caught his eye was actually a few objects made of plaster.
Zhou Bo had been standing behind him, pointing to these objects and saying, "Look, is it what you said you wanted last time?" ”
"Da Lang, you are so amazing!" She picked it up and looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but bend her eyes.
Is it a simple object? There are peonies that bloom richly, and there are orchids that are noble gentlemen, although they are still a little rough, but it shows that the people who made them have put in considerable effort.
Zhou Bodao: "What's so difficult about this? It's just a simple thing to make! ”
"You can always know what Yukimi wants." Xue was overjoyed, and couldn't help but think that she, the so-called traverser, seemed to be far less smart than Zhou Bo, an ancient man who was thorough in everything, and fortunately, thanks to Zhou Bo, many of her ideas could be accepted by everyone through Zhou Bo, otherwise she might be burned to death as a monster.
A slight happiness couldn't help but flow softly in her heart, and Xue Jian turned around and hugged Zhou Bo's neck: "Da Lang, thank you." ”
Zhou Bo couldn't bear this sudden extraordinary enthusiasm for a while, and his body was stunned, and then a smile appeared in his eyes, and he hesitantly hugged Xue Jian with his hand and said in her ear: "How can you thank me?" ”
"......" Yukimi had no choice but to say, "Let Yukimi think about it." ”
Feeling the slight force in his hand, the figures of the two of them were tightly integrated, Xue saw that his face was flushed, and he struggled slightly to push Zhou Bo away, making a grimace, "Is it Xie Arm, or Xie Leg, Da Lang is free!" ”
Zhou Boyi stretched out his hand and didn't hold her, so he smiled lightly: "I knew that I wouldn't give you this girl this Laoshzi thing." ”
Xue Jian looked at the primary plaster mold in his hand seriously, and looked at Zhou Bodao with shining eyes: "Da Lang, I want to use a few thin fishing lines to weave a net, net the mold, and then hang it on the gourd. ”
What Yukimi didn't say was that there was a cousin in her hometown at the beginning, who planted a season of gourds every year, and then used a cola jar to put a plaster mold on it to grow some gourds with patterns, which was enough for a year's expenses.
Of course, Xue Jian would not understand the specific operation, and he didn't expect Zhou Bo to really make these molds at that time. Now the mold is there, although there is no Coke can, but there is Zhou Bo, and Zhou Bo has a way.
Yukimi found that he had become inert, which shows that relying on this kind of thing is really a bad habit.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but be stunned, relying on Zhou Bo's habit, when did this start?
Zhou Bo looked at her with a smile across the table and said, "It's all nonsense!" ”
But he thought more in his heart, if it was really as Yukimi said, these patterns could grow on the gourd, it would be a shocking thing! But then his face froze, and it was not impossible to think about it, the key to this matter was the mold, and the second was how to keep it secret.
In just a moment, Zhou Bo's mind had turned seven or eight thoughts, and when Xue Jian was still thinking blankly, he had already turned the table, hugged Xue Jian and said, "Where are you running?" It's only serious to use the net to catch you first! ”
The long south-facing windows open one after another, and the sunlight flows in through the dense foliage, leaving the shadows of the trees dappled and overflowing with joy.
Zhou Bo was wearing a new ink-colored robe, which showed his skin like jade, and Xue Jian looked at him with his head raised slightly, and couldn't help but be stunned.
Seeing Xue Jian's appearance, Zhou Bo was naturally proud in his heart, he scratched her little nose and said, "What else do you want?" ”
Xue saw that he didn't know how to use force, so he pushed him while humming softly: "And you are a boundless net,
easily trapped me in the middle of the net,
The deeper I fall, the more confused I become,
The road is getting farther and longer,
How can I lock your eyes.
I would like to be by your side like this,
I would like to never forget it for the rest ,......of my life."
The business of "Zhenwei Zhai", I don't know if it is because of Bai Yitian's relationship, or the strangeness of the thing itself, in short, the closer to the Dragon Boat Festival, the more popular it is every day.
The mushrooms that are picked every three days are now sold out on the same day, and many of them are sold outside Anning, including big cities such as Qingzhou.
If the business is good, the mood will naturally be good.
Before the Dragon Boat Festival, there were already a group of villagers in Pingshan Village, who went to Anning County to sell the Chinese herbal medicine roots they dug up from the mountains.
Needless to say, Anning County, the streets and alleys are very lively, Sanni with the consent of Erniang, together with Xiaoyue Zhang Xiu, followed Aunt Zhang, Aunt Ma and Aunt Wang to go shopping, everyone was dazzled, kept looking, kept comparing, or decided not to buy or not to buy. But they were all very excited and laughed constantly.
The preparations for the Dragon Boat Festival of the Zhou family were naturally arranged by Erniang.
There were also zongzi at this time, which surprised Xue Jian, and with Zhou's mother and Du Ma Sanni, she prepared a variety of zongzi fillings that everyone didn't imagine, and then wrapped them out with different colored threads.
When Xu Cong'an left, he had already asked Qi Niang to prepare the Chinese herbal medicine roots, and just waited for a big pot to be boiled with ham and bacon at noon on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, and the whole family gathered around to eat the medicinal roots.
On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhou's mother, Du Ma and others had already cleaned the house and sprinkled realgar water in the food storage area and kitchen in the room to kill or prevent poisonous insects.
There are no Taoist temples near Anning County, so the Zhou family can only paste more five-color peach seal runes, and paint mascots such as Jiang Taigong, God of Wealth, Cornucopia, and Money Tree on the runes. Of course, the mascot is the name of Yukimi, and for this, it also attracted a scolding from Saburo.
The villagers, as long as they have something to do with the Zhou family, are cheeky and use baskets to carry zongzi and other things to ask for San Lang's charms, so that they can be hung at home and pasted on the middle door to avoid evil.
Everyone got up early and painted their ears and noses with realgar to avoid insect poison. Starting from Qi Niang, children should tie five-colored silk threads on their wrists and ankles to ensure their health.
The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Daughter's Day", simply eat breakfast, since the second mother, the young lady and the girl are hairpins with pomegranate flowers, the flowers are red and willow green, the clothes and temples are fragrant, so not gorgeous.
There is even more Wu Niang who is so naughty, one will pick this flower, and the other will step on the corner of that person's clothes, which makes everyone scream.
Erniang had just personally braided Qi Niang's hair and inserted pomegranate flowers, and when she turned around and saw Wu Niang running all over the house, she hurriedly rolled up her sleeves and stepped forward, and grabbed Wu Niang.
"Sanni, go and re-pot the water." Erniang gave an order without raising her head, and pressed Wuniang in front of the dresser.
Wu Niang looked at her crooked pomegranate flowers in the bronze mirror, and her makeup was already a little blurred, and she suddenly quieted down and secretly stuck out her tongue.
took the wet handkerchief in his hand and wiped Wu Niang's little flower face fiercely, regardless of Wu Niang's deliberate screams.
But no one came forward to rescue her, and Wu Niang could only stubbornly let Er Niang chatter.
After wiping it four or five times, Erniang looked at the sun outside, and then looked at Wuniang's loose braids, and became more and more anxious, and scolded: "Shu'er, I don't ask you to be as good as his name, but you can have half of a good child, and let the second sister save my worries." You're only a year younger than Liang'er! ”
Siniang had also cleaned up Xiao Shi Niang, and then hurriedly came over to help and said, "I'll tie the braids." ”
Erniang nodded and sighed: "It's not as worry-free as Xiao Shi Niang." ”
Wu Niang pouted: "Okay, okay, I'll change it, can't I change it?" She looked at herself in the mirror stupidly, her complexion was the whitest among the Zhou brothers and sisters, faintly revealing egg blue, no matter how she tanned, she wouldn't tan, and now because she was crazy for a while, she showed a healthy pink, where to use any rouge?
Erniang stared at the rouge in her hand for a moment, didn't make a sound, and said after a while: "Even if you only settle down for a few days?" ”
"Okay, okay, I'll listen to the second sister, I promise not to cause trouble for three days, okay?" Wu Niang looked at Er Niang's face cautiously.
Siniang couldn't help but pull her hair with a smile, she stopped and said, "Don't say that the second sister doesn't believe it, I don't believe the fourth sister!" ”
Wu Niang pulled back her pigtails and said angrily: "On that day, I promise to go out today and never cause trouble, it's okay, right?" ”
I saw that Erniang hurriedly pulled her up, replaced the wrinkled shirt on her body, and said coldly, "That's thank God!" ”
Wu Niang turned around in front of the bronze mirror, "Second sister, you see how ladylike I am now!" ”
"What is a lady?" Xiao Shi Niang interjected and asked.
“…… That's it, that's it," Wu Niang's chin was almost low to her chest, and a colorful silk tied to her waist was almost rubbed away by her left and right, and she whispered, "That's it, little ladies like the second sister and the fourth sister." ”
Erniang snorted: "You still have some self-knowledge." ”
Wu Niang was speechless, Rao was thick-skinned, and she was embarrassed to say that she was a lady in front of Xiao Shi Niang.
"It's not enough to know," Erniang said coldly, "Aunt Wang is so gentle and elegant, you don't even ...... at all" suddenly realized that she was wrong, and thought of her father and a few aunts who didn't know where she was, and Erniang's eyes were red.
Wu Niang was ashamed and depressed and said, "Second sister, don't say it." ”
In the end, she felt that she was out of shape, and Erniang sighed: "Don't let the eldest brother wait for a long time." ”
Sanni said smartly: "I'll go to the front yard first to see if the eldest young master is ready." ”
Where is Zhou Bo willing to wait for others? Everyone immediately got busy, so that the eldest brother's cold eyes glared, and the heart of the festival had to be frozen, so it was better not to provoke it.
Zhou Bo rented several carriages in advance, and the whole family went to Anning County except for Zhou Mancang and Zhou Jinsheng.