Chapter 132: Xiangmu teaser
It's still the same little flower hall, but the atmosphere is very different from before.
Jiang Shi and Mrs. Luo Si sat on the upper seat with a smile, looking at the group of young ladies below who were softly talking, occasionally chatting a few words, and seemed to be very harmonious.
Wen An shuttled among the sisters, boasting about his vision from time to time, even if he was teased by the sisters a few times, he didn't care at all, and the unpleasantness two hours ago seemed to have never happened.
Wen Hui was also a little puzzled when she saw this, and when she saw the small gift that her brother took the initiative to give, she hesitated: "You ...... Wasn't he angry with his sister before? Why did you get out of gas again? ”
Wen An's expression quickly flashed a trace of stiffness, but he quickly squeezed out a smile: "What did my sister say?" I was just angry for a while, so I had an awkward relationship with my sister, and I went outside for two laps, what else could I not get rid of? You are my own sister, and you are not an enemy of life and death, even if there is any discord, you can't have a part."
Wen Hui was very happy to hear it: "Really? Do you really think so? You finally understand your sister's hard work."
Wen An told himself that he must hold back his anger, just like Liu Dongxing taught him before, he must stabilize people before he can do anything else, so he continued to maintain that smiling face and nodded: "Yes, yes." Sixth sister, look at this, this is personally selected by my younger brother, do you like it or not? ”
Where did Wen Hui look at these rough things that were obviously bought from stalls? But does the fact that the younger brother can take the initiative to show favor to himself means that he finally realizes his previous mistakes? He won't oppose his plan anymore, will he? This conjecture made her feel very happy, so she took those things casually: "You picked them all?" It's really interesting. Xunmei, put it away for me. Xunmei immediately answered and took all the gadgets.
Wen An didn't care, so he pulled Wen Hui to his mother to talk and laugh with him, without mentioning the previous quarrel, and vigorously talked about what he saw and heard on the dock and in the night market. Jiang Shi inevitably wanted to count him down a few words, but seeing that he was in high spirits and reconciled with his daughter, he couldn't bear to scold him more, so he praised him a few words in his tone, reminding him that next time he went out, he must bring a few entourages, so as not to worry his family.
When Wen Yi came to the Little Flower Hall, what she saw was this happy scene. Her expression went numb again.
She thought that Wen An was sensible, but only two hours later, he put all the conflicts between him and his mother and sister behind him, and only cared about playing, could it be that she overestimated him?
That's it, after all, people are close relatives of flesh and blood, why should she be caught in the middle and be a villain in vain? Hengzhi has already told Old Madam Yu everything, even if she has fulfilled her responsibilities as the daughter of the Gu family. What will happen to Wen Hui in the future, and what will happen? As long as the long room doesn't affect their six rooms, it's fine
Wen Yi walked over with a faint expression, and first asked Jiang and Mrs. Luo Si to say goodbye, Jiang's spirit is on a pair of children, just answer casually, Mrs. Luo Si is kinder: "Your face doesn't seem to be very good, but you are tired of carrying luggage today?" Wen Yi smiled lightly, remembering Luo Mingmin's matter, hesitated for a moment, but swallowed it back, planning to find another time to talk. After a few gossips with her, he turned to Sister Wenxian and Wenjuan and sat down.
Wen Xian smiled and asked her, "Where did you go?" We went to call you, but Tomoock said you were out. Wen Yi replied: "I went to see my aunt and grandmother, and she only woke up from the old man, and she seemed to be in poor spirits. Wen Xian hurriedly said: "I see, no wonder I didn't even come out for dinner, but I'm tired?" I'm going to go and see her old man when I go back. ”
Wen Juan happily handed over a small wicker basket: "Sister Nine, look at this, isn't it fun?" Such a small one, weird and chic, I remember that your hollyhock would also make this up, but it was not as small as this one. ”
Wen Yi tugged at the corners of her mouth: "She's just making it up for fun." This was all bought back by the seventh brother? ”
Wen Juan nodded: "Yes, we each have one."
Wen Xian pursed her lips and smiled: "He used to go out and hang out, but he rarely bought us these things, which is really rare today." After all, I've grown up and know how to love my sisters."
Wen Juan also laughed, and Wen Yi laughed twice and pursed the corners of her mouth. Wen'an has indeed grown up and knows how to love sisters, but it's a pity that friendship is not lawful.
Wen Juan suddenly looked puzzled: "Huh? Speaking of which...... We all have it, but we don't seem to see Sister Nine's ......," he said and rummaged through the table.
Where does Wen Yi care about this? Just said: "Don't bother, it's all interesting and good, I'll just pick one." "It's all a little basket, a small waterwheel, a small wooden horse, and a sachet tassel and the like, nothing surprising, there are a little bigger town markets, relatively fresh, that is, a few fragrant wood carved birds and beasts, flowers, birds, insects and fish brands, tied together with a big red line rope, played out a line, and also made up a few Fushou words, hanging tassels, looking a little festive.
Wen An came over and said with a smile: "I have prepared the ninth sister's share." It's a little embarrassing to say, I see that there are this kind of fragrant wood skewers sold in the night market here, saying that it is evolved from the old custom of hanging peach charms on the New Year of the ancients, looking for some fragrant wood, and some people directly use peach wood, carved into various shapes, or write some auspicious words on it, take the big red silk rope string into a string, weave the string, hang it on the doors and windows in the wax moon, take an auspicious meaning, in fact, it is not interesting, but it is just a festive picture. I specially picked a string for my grandmother, mother, Mrs. Luo, and sisters, but when it was the turn of the ninth sister, it was gone. I had to go to other stalls and buy a bunch, the craftsmanship is worse than the others, so I bought a few more, don't be angry, Sister Nine. So saying, he took out a cloth bag from his cuff and opened it, and took a long string of wooden plaques from it.
Everyone looked, the few wooden cards are really more than others, but the carving is neither birds and beasts, flowers, birds, fish and insects, nor is it an auspicious word, but several wooden cards of different shapes are strung together at will. They only said that Wen'an didn't care about the cousin in the next room, and bought something at random to deal with it, and it was not appropriate to smile and laugh. Wen Xian was a little reluctant, so she glared at Wen An lightly: "Why are you so lazy?" He smiled at Wen Yi again: "My string has some meaning, it is a few kinds of Rui beasts, if my sister doesn't dislike it, just change it with me." ”
Wen An was anxious when he heard this: "Fifth sister, what does this mean?" Could it be that the younger brother chose to buy something back, and the fifth sister can't look down on it? ”
Wen Xian hurriedly said: "I didn't mean that"
"That's not what it means, sister just take it" Wen An cleared his throat and looked at Wen Yi meaningfully, "Ninth sister, you...... You won't like my gift, right? ”
Wen Yi didn't listen to Wen Xian's words at all, her eyes stared at the string of wooden cards, and her heart beat faster and faster.
The string of wooden signs, the first one was in the shape of a carriage, followed by a flower—it looked a bit like a tonka flower, and it was dyed with the fragrance of tonka flowers, you must know that there is no wood in the world with such a fragrance—followed by a teapot, a pavilion, a moon-shaped sign, and the last one was an incense burner, if there were only one or two kinds, she could still say that it was a coincidence, but the seven were complete, but it was too much of a coincidence, and this string of fragrant wood cards that was meaningless in the eyes of others had a different meaning to her
Holding the string of wooden cards and looking at it a few times, she suddenly felt that the hand was different, and while people were not paying attention, she turned over the incense burner brand and looked at it, and the word "willow" was carved on the back. She couldn't help but panic in her heart, and hurriedly looked up at Wen An: "Seventh brother, ...... are you?"
Wen An cleared his throat again and said vaguely: "Although the carving is not very good, but the first time I do it, that's it." Then he threw the thing directly into her hand, and then turned his head: "Take it quickly, it's my mind."
Wen Yi bit her lip, grabbed the string of fragrant wood cards, and curtsied: "Brother Xie Qi." And he said no more, but his heart was still in doubt. What does Wen An mean by that? The string of signs...... Could it be that Liu Dongxing did it? Didn't he go to Beihua Mountain?
Wen Xian whispered to her: "The seventh brother is too rude, don't worry, I still have a lot of interesting things here, even if you pick it, it will be regarded as me apologizing for the seventh brother." ”
Wen Juan also pushed the things in front of her: "And my ninth sister, you can pick it" There was a little reluctance in her eyes.
Wen Yi smiled, put the string of fragrant wood into her sleeve, and lowered her eyes: "Thank you for your trouble, this is very good, I like it very much." ”
Wen Hui walked over from the opposite side with a smile on her face: "Okay, don't shirk, there are so many things, you just pick one or two more, what's the matter?" Don't learn from that little family's style" glanced at Wen Yi's sleeve again, "Xiao Qi is messing around, that is, the fragrant wood skewers are gone, and it is the same to buy others, but now it seems deliberate" So he asked Xunmei to take the string of brands he got and stuffed it to Wen Yi: "I don't need this, you can take it"
Wen Yi hurriedly excused herself, and she pulled down her face: "If you do this again, it can be seen that you are still annoying me?" Even Xiao Qi reconciled with me, what else do you have to be angry about? ”
Wen Xian and Wen Juan glanced at each other, and the latter pouted: "Sixth sister, can't you make less trouble?" What's wrong with it? The former advised them: "They are all sisters of the family, what is there to quarrel about?" It made the elders angry. ”
Wen Yi looked at Wen Hui's face and smiled faintly: "Where am I angry?" I'm just embarrassed, since the sixth sister is gracious, I'm unfair. With that, he took the string of wooden cards.
Wen Hui smiled when she saw this: "Then we can be considered reconciled, can you no longer mess with me from now on?" ”
Wen Yi smiled and didn't say anything, Wen Hui had to speak again, but when she heard Wen An calling herself, she couldn't care about Wen Yi anymore and left in a hurry.
Everyone joked for a while, and the old lady called the girl to speak: "It's late, I'll have to go on the road tomorrow morning, let's rest early." Everyone had to pack up their things and go back to their rooms.
Wen Yi was silent for half a night, then deliberately fell behind, and waited on the corridor for a while, and when she saw Wen An coming out of the small flower hall, she only took two steps towards him, but she wanted to say and stopped, not knowing how to speak.
Wen An took the initiative to speak with a smile: "Ninth sister, did you see the word engraved on the brand?" That's what the person carved, it's not carved well, but it's a thought, don't be ashamed of the ninth sister, just stay and play."
Wen Yi blushed for a while: "Seventh brother...... You...... Where did you get this? ”
Wen An said with a smile: "I was eating and drinking nearby, and I met occasionally, and we talked together for a while, thanks to his idea for me, I feel much better now, and this can be regarded as my reciprocation, he has carved this thing for a while, but I don't know how to send it, and I have always carried it with me." He is such a tall person, but when he encounters this kind of thing, he twists and twists like a little girl, he really laughs to death."
Wen Yi's face turned even redder: "This ...... It's really too ......, "It's too reckless, how can Liu Dongxing be so relieved?" He didn't think about what if Wen An showed his stuffing in front of his elders? And...... This string of fragrant wood cards symbolizes the affection between the two for several years, how can he ...... How easy is it to reveal to outsiders?
Wen An didn't know what she was struggling with in her heart, but she was a girl with thin skin, so she smiled and said, "Come on, I won't tell anyone." In the past, I used to do this kind of thing, it's nothing, you just know it in your own heart, but don't show your mouth in front of others" and specially instructed her, "I have seen Brother Xing'er on the dock, don't tell anyone, this is the secret of our brothers, remember?" ”
Wen Yi nodded, turned around to leave, and suddenly paused at his feet, and then turned back to thank him and say goodbye. Wen An waved his hand indifferently and left by himself, Wen Yi stayed where he was, took a few deep breaths, and then raised his feet to leave.
When she returned to the room, she took out the string of cards given by Wen Hui, threw them to Dong Kui, and when the girls made the beds, she sent them out, leaned on the side of the bed, took out the long string of fragrant wood signs from her sleeves, and looked at them one by one.
From the original carriage to save people, to the Lingling fragrance in the Medicinal Fragrance Valley, to the tea in Xuanle Hall to make amends, to tell the truth in the grass pavilion, and then to the moonlit night meeting in the courtyard of the Guihai Luo family...... Every brand represents the past between her and Liu Dongxing, for a while, her heart was sour and sweet, the sour and astringent, and the sweet was unexpectedly far-reaching and long......
She stroked the word "willow" over and over again, and the sweetness in her heart deepened little by little, what Wenhui, what Wen'an, what Jiang's Luo Si, what Wangfu Mansion...... She only remembered the person, the one who clumsily carved the incense wood plaque for her, who had held her hand tightly and told her that he would not fail her......
The corners of Wen Yi's mouth curved slightly, and she touched the fragrant wood string again, touching the texture on it, but suddenly her eyes froze, she approached the candlestick, and carefully touched the flower-shaped sign, and found that there was a strange gap on its side, which seemed to be two pieces of wood put together, which was very different from other wooden cards. Just now she was groping on it, it seemed to be a little loose, the two pieces of wood were staggered, could there be any mechanism for this?
She pushed the wooden card in the staggered direction, and with a "click", the wooden card split horizontally in two, revealing a groove inside, and a thin piece of silk was sandwiched between the grooves.
She blinked, took out the thin silk, and saw that there were small characters written on it, so she hurriedly opened it and looked at it, but the more she looked at it, the more she blushed.
It is a small order of the ancients: if you don't love each other in your life, you will be lovesick, and you will be lovesick. The body is like a floating cloud, the heart is like a flying flocculent, and the air is like a gossamer. A wisp of fragrance is here, looking forward to the daughter of the wanderer. When did the symptoms come? When the light is half dim, when the moon is half bright.
She thought that Liu Dongxing would write something on the thin silk, but she didn't expect it to be like this......
Wen Yi didn't feel that her cheeks were red, but in the blink of an eye, she put Liu Dongxing's image on this small order, imagining his appearance of "being like a floating cloud" and "being like a gossamer", so she suddenly fell on the bed with a smile.