Once she relaxed, Huairou felt that maybe it would be okay to stay for a few days, she really liked the atmosphere of the courtyard, it was like home, it was reassuring and reassuring, even if she wasn't really their relative.

"No need, I'll help you Aunt Wu, can you teach me how to do it?"

As he spoke, he stepped forward and took the wooden stick from Aunt Wu's hand, and there was a white batter in the bucket that I didn't know what it was.

Wu Xiaoqi has had a bad face since Huairou went out, thinking of how she finally squeezed Huairou away and came out so quickly, and she didn't know what Shen Lang told her, but it could be seen that Shen Lang really cared about Huairou.

"Will you? Looking at Xiaorou's hands with fine skin and tender meat, it doesn't look like you can do rough work. How could Aunt Wu be willing to let you do this, I can't help it. ”

Huairou looked at Aunt Wu who was talking, and then looked at her hands, which were thin and white, but they really didn't look like hands that could work.

"Xiaorou, I think you better don't get this, go and help Old Man Shen make up the style, this is too dirty."

Aunt Wu looked at the clothes on Huairou's body and shook her head, wanting to take back the stirring stick from Huairou's hand, but Wu Xiaoqi reached out to block it and pushed it away.

"Mom, Sister Xiaorou is as useless as you say. You always look down on us young people, Sister Xiaorou, don't listen to my mother, I'll teach you! ”

Wu Xiaoqi's words made Huairou stunned, Wu Xiaoqi, who was still hostile to her just now, just changed her attitude when she went back to the room?

"Okay, don't underestimate you, don't underestimate you!"

Aunt Wu was pushed away by Wu Xiaoqi, and when she saw her daughter and Huairou getting along, she was also very relieved with a happy face, it was good for young people to play together.

The wooden stick in Huairou's hand was taken away by Wu Xiaoqi, and Wu Xiaoqi stirred the wooden stick with a serious face and explained: "You shouldn't take the wooden stick like that, if you can't stir it like that, it will reduce the stickiness of the batter, and you have to stir it clockwise like this, so that it won't solidify if you stir it out effortlessly." ”

Looking at the serious expression and eager attitude on Wu Xiaoqi's face, Huairou felt that maybe Wu Xiaoqi was really just a child's temper, and nodded after the unhappiness just now.

Seriously followed Wu Xiaoqi's request to stir the batter, and soon the batter separated from the flour and water was very viscous, and a few old people over there had already made a few shaped lanterns, and they almost added pen and ink to the paper paste to paint the finished product.

Huairou had never made a lantern herself, and after stopping what she was doing, she was attracted by the vivid flower-shaped lantern made in Uncle Shen's hand, and couldn't help but step forward to take a closer look.

"Uncle Shen, what kind of lantern are you making?"

Uncle Shen saw Huairou walking to his side with an interested look, and only after the finishing actions in his hand were completed did he hold up the lantern skeleton and present it completely in front of Huairou's eyes, so that Huairou could see it more clearly and in detail.

"This is a lotus. You don't have the paper pasted yet, you bring the colored paper. ”

According to the instructions Huairou to take the things he needed, watching Uncle Shen paste the originally flat paper as if he was doing a trick, and soon the prototype of the pink lotus flower was completed, each petal seemed to really exude a full color, the bottom was a big green lotus leaf, Uncle Shen also made a little frog with a childlike heart, and the finished product was like a work of art when it was displayed.

Shen Lang saw Huairou's slightly admiring gaze, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and pick up the half-finished lantern in his hand, the lantern made by his father is famous far and wide, and as a son, of course, his craftsmanship is not too bad, but it is still a little worse than his father.

"Wow, Brother Shen, are you making a beauty lantern?"

Wu Xiaoqi let out an exclamation, attracting everyone's attention to Shen Lang's hands.

Huairou couldn't help but look back, only to see Shen Lang holding a half-humanoid lantern skeleton in his hand, even if it was half a prototype, it could be seen that it was the style of an ancient beauty, because the part on the head was circled into a bun, although it looked more abstract, it could still be seen what it was.

How can a lantern be made in this style? Huairou was full of curiosity and amazement that she had never seen a lantern made, and the lanterns she had seen were only the kind that remained in her mind, an oval paste in which a candle was lit, and then carried by a slender handle, or the kind of red lantern that hung on the porch.

What she sees now is completely what she has not imagined, the original lanterns can also be diverse, thinking that now the many electrical lamps and lanterns have long replaced the lanterns, but still can not affect people's reverence for the older generation of handicraft artists, the history of national culture should not be forgotten.

Huairou looked at the prototype of the lanterns in the courtyard with emotion, Uncle Ma and Uncle Zhao seemed to be making lanterns very fast, and the two of them were already piled up with all kinds of animal-type lanterns, including goldfish, swallows, cats and dogs, etc., which looked smaller, but the limbs were vivid and realistic.

"Uncle Ma, Uncle Zhao, what you two have done is amazing."

Huai Rou couldn't help but sigh with emotion, holding a goldfish prototype lantern, Huairou could see the wagging tail.

"Hey, what is this, people like to toss around when they are old and have nothing to do. Make some lanterns and sell them to tourists, and you can still make some money and pay rent or something. Our brothers' skills are also taught by Brother Shen, and he is the real master. ”

Uncle Ma said modestly, but Huairou really believed that Uncle Shen's manual skills were indeed the best, and he thought that Uncle Shen was just an old man who had retired from the army, but he didn't expect that there would be such a unique skill, which made Huairou a little impressed.

I thought of the couplet posted outside the gate of the courtyard again, which was also from Uncle Shen, for such a versatile and chivalrous old man, Huairou had more admiration and reverence.

Turning his gaze to Shen Lang, the latter was concentrating on making the lantern in his hand, the wooden strip was as soft as a thread in Shen Lang's hand, and the beauty-shaped lantern was almost finished, although it still looked more abstract, but the general form had been reflected.

Wu Xiaoqi looked left and right around Shen Lang, very curious about the beauty type that was about to be completed in Shen Lang's hand, and when she accidentally noticed Huairou's gaze, Wu Xiaoqi deliberately turned sideways to block her vision.

"Brother Shen, who are you doing? Which country and dynasty is it a beauty? ”

The wooden strip in Shen Lang's hand is flexibly formed through the gap, weaving the lantern requires a lot of patience, originally he didn't know what kind of lantern to make, but after seeing Huairou, he had a flash of inspiration, looking at the lantern model that was about to take shape in his hand, Shen Lang left a hollow bottom to place the candle, tied the wooden strip with a rope and waited for the batter sticker.

"Of course, it's the beauty in my heart."

After replying to Wu Xiaoqi, Shen Lang's gaze bypassed Wu Xiaoqi to look at Huairou, evoking a meaningful smile, as if there was something in the words.

Huairou was looked at by Shen Lang and heard Shen Lang's words, her cheeks couldn't help but burn a little red, it was not that Huairou was amorous, but that Shen Lang's eyes were staring at her too bluntly.

Wu Xiaoqi listened to Shen Lang's words, followed his gaze and saw Huairou's appearance, the hand that originally handed Shen Lang the brush grabbed the handle of the brush suddenly, and stared at Huairou with annoyance, wishing that she would disappear immediately.

"Xiaorou, please bring the rice paper over there."

originally wanted to avoid Shen Lang, but he still had to call her for help, Huairou frowned reluctantly, wanting to refuse Shen Lang but not giving her a chance to refuse. "Thank you, and bring the brush on the table as well."

There are still a lot of requirements, Huairou rolled her eyes in her heart, but the thing was already in her hand, so she took it and walked to Shen Lang next to him, a little curious about what kind of beauty Shen Lang would sketch.

As soon as the thing arrived in his hand, Shen Lang spread out the rice paper, the brush was stained with thick ink in the inkstone, and soon he drew a round face and eyebrows on the rice paper, but when the details of the face were slowly presented on the rice paper, Huairou's heartbeat accelerated second by second.

Wu Xiaoqi looked at the beauty picture that appeared on the rice paper, her eyes were about to jump out of her sockets, and her disgust for Huairou in her heart was raised to a peak.

"Well, it's not bad."

Shen Lang put down the brush with satisfaction, held up the rice paper and gently dried the ink on it, the formed beauty figure was holding a loose bun on her head, the fawn-like eyes on the round goose egg face showed tenderness, the vermilion ink dots on the lips were like red cherries seductive, and the light fluttering clothes in Hanfu were flying.

The lifelike beauty jumps on the paper, which makes people feel fascinated, pleasing to the eye and attracted by the beauty on the painting.

Huairou couldn't say whether she should be happy that Shen Lang painted her so vividly, or should she be angry that Shen Lang painted her appearance like this, and then she had to paste it on the lantern to be displayed, but Shen Lang's painting was really eye-catching.

It's just that I didn't expect that Shen Lang could not only do handwork but also paint, but I underestimated him before, and thought that this man's life was boring, but I didn't expect him to be a very talented man.

"Isn't it pretty? I'll give you a gift later. ”

Shen Lang smiled and said to Huairou gently, but Huairou wanted to shake her head, because she saw the glint of anger and jealousy in Wu Xiaoqi's eyes.

"Brother Shen! You're too biased! I don't care, I want it too! You also want to draw a beautiful lantern that looks exactly like me for me, you have never given me a gift! ”

Wu Xiaoqi didn't expect Shen Lang to really draw Huairou's face, she looked at the drawing paper with some jealousy, holding Shen Lang's hand and shaking it unrelentingly, the drawing paper in Shen Lang's hand was almost torn because of Wu Xiaoqi's strength.

"Xiaoqi, don't make trouble, the drawing paper is going to break, let go and let go. Isn't it just a gift? I'll send you back. ”

Shen Lang was a little distressed holding the drawing paper, and pushed Wu Xiaoqi who was pulling him away with one hand, so as to avoid damaging the drawing paper, and prevaricated Wu Xiaoqi in a perfunctory tone, but he didn't plan to make such a beauty lantern again, he just wanted to give Huairou a unique gift.

"Nope! I want such a beautiful lantern! I don't, no, no! I just want it! ”

Wu Xiaoqi seemed to be incarnated as an underage child, and she didn't give up and pulled Shen Lang but refused to let go, shaking Shen Lang's arm from side to side, and the rice paper was swept down to the ground by the wind, and it looked like it was about to fall into the wooden barrel of batter.

Shen Lang was frightened and stretched out his hand to grab it, but was pulled by Wu Xiaoqi and couldn't break free, his fingers rubbed the rice paper but he didn't catch it, and at this moment, he stretched out a hand from the side to hold up the rice paper and rescued it.

Huairou held her portrait and breathed a sigh of relief, she was very nervous when she saw that the rice paper was about to fall into the wooden barrel, thinking that this was a gift that Shen Lang wanted to give her, she was completely reluctant to watch the rice paper have an accident, this mood was so strong that she didn't have time to think about it and put the rice paper on her chest.

"It's okay......"

Wu Xiaoqi looked at the portrait that was rescued, obviously it was almost destroyed just now, but she was still caught by Huairou, it was so cheap that woman! Wu Xiaoqi hated it so much that her eyes itched, but she couldn't attack in front of Shen Lang, after all, she had to maintain a good image in front of Shen Lang, and immediately bowed her head before Shen Lang got angry.