Volume 3 The Prodigy Case Chapter 18 Portrait of a Female Thief
Qu Miaozhi picked up a ring and threw it out, missed, threw out another one, almost hit a flower hairpin, and threw the third ring out, a light yellow flower hairpin in the set, the fourth, fifth, sixth... The tenth wreath was all set, and everyone looked at Qu Miaozhi in amazement, and sighed secretly from Qu Miaozhi: "I really underestimated you, I didn't expect the accuracy to be so good." ’
Qu Miaozhi glanced at Jian Xuan, showed a smug look, turned his head to look at Bibo and said, "Get me another thirty." ”
Congxi immediately said: "Qu Miaozhi, you have committed the mistake of selfishness again, there are less than thirty hairpins left on this tree, do you want to monopolize it alone?" ”
Qu Miaozhi: "What if it's monopolized, I have the ability to monopolize it, don't you often rely on a little cleverness to bully people, I'm far worse than you, and besides, I didn't foul again, just now she didn't say that one person is only allowed to throw a few rings, and my father just threw it many times." ”
Congxi: "Okay, I'll see if you have the ability to monopolize." ”
Bibo called the servants and sent another thirty rings to Qu Miaozhi, Qu Miaozhi picked up the rings or threw one accurately, and the remaining twenty-seven hairpins were all sent to Qu Miaozhi's table.
Qu Miaozhi looked at Jian Xuan triumphantly, and couldn't help but say loudly: "Miss Qu San is really good, but Miss Qu doesn't know what it means to be too much, so many hairpins are inserted on her head, Miss Qu San is afraid that she will not be able to be a fairy, and she will become a monster first." ”
Qu Miaozhi said proudly: "I know that you must be jealous, so I am not as selfish as you." ”
Qu Miaozhi picked out more than a dozen dark hairpins, handed them to the maid Ling'er behind him, and said, "Give these to grandmother, mother, and Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Wu." ”
Ling'er took it and gave the hairpins to Mrs. Qu one by one.
Qu Miaozhi glanced at Yang Sizhen's light blue dress, selected a few blue hairpins and handed them to Yang Sizhen, Yang Sizhen hesitated and took them, Qu Miaozhi selected more than a dozen hairpins, and when Ling'er returned, he handed them to Ling'er and said, "Take these hairpins to the county lord, sister-in-law, and Mrs. Hongling." ”
Ling'er nodded and took it, and sent the flower hairpin out one by one.
Qu Miaozhi glanced at the remaining hairpins, looked up at Congxi proudly, gave Congxi a look that I won't give you, Congxi didn't care: "Miss Qu San, you really don't know, you can be proud of wearing a few flowers on your head, I will let you open your eyes today, let you see what is called peach blossom clothes." Oh, by the way, don't be too envious, if you're too jealous, go back and copy a few Heart Sutras and calm down. ”
Qu Miaozhi just wanted to reply, Congxi had already stood up, walked to the center of the banquet, Bibo had called someone to carry away the paraffin trunk, and the lost ring had also been picked up, leaving only a peach petal, perhaps Bibo had deliberately arranged, the peach petals in the banquet door were much thicker than the petals that fell outside, like a pink carpet, looking at Mrs. Qu and Mrs. Wu and said: "Grandmother, aunt, just singing and dancing under the peach blossom tree, dance from Xiqing, help everyone have fun, right?" ”
Old Madam Qu smiled and nodded: "It's okay, I've always known that Congxi is good at dancing, but I haven't seen you dance." Let's see together. ”
Old Madam Qu looked at Old Madam Wu, and Old Madam Wu smiled and nodded.
From Xi immediately rotated and danced, the song took out the flute in the sleeve in the dust, and at the same time blew the wonderful sound, a clear peach blossom song. From the Xi gauze clothes flying, the footsteps are light and flexible, the peach blossoms under the feet seem to hear the call, from the place where the Xi footsteps pass, the petals rotate and fly, close to the Xi yarn clothes, follow the speed of rotation from Xi, the faster and higher the spun, not a moment, a lot of petals fly over the top of the head, from Xi today just wearing a pink dress, the outside of the white tulle, and the peach blossoms blend together, because of the hard dance, from the face of Xi to the ruddy and arrogant, the flowers are more glamorous, the people are more beautiful than the flowers, the flowers turn with the people, the people dance with the flowers, and the real peach blossoms compete for color. The petals around the body from Xi gather more and more, the pink flowers accompany people to spin faster and faster, the flower rain is difficult to distinguish the face, it is suspected that the flower fairy turns into a flower dance, and everyone finally only sees a flower rain dancing and spinning, such as seeing a fairyland. The heart is happy and drunk, the fairy in the flowers stops, the flowers and rain are difficult to fall, and everyone suddenly feels reluctant.
Qu Zaichen also stopped his flute immediately, staring at Congxi and smiling comfortably.
Old Madam Qu was drunk for a moment, looked at Congxi and said: "Our family Congxi is really extraordinary, just now I thought I had entered a fairyland." ”
Old Madam Wu also smiled and said: "That is, this dance seems to be able to cleanse the heart and make people forget their troubles and vulgar dust, just now I thought I had arrived in heaven, but I didn't expect that God was still in the world." ”
Mrs. Qu said with a smile: "Cousin, you haven't seen enough, and you want to change the way for my granddaughter-in-law to dance for a while?" But my granddaughter-in-law, my baby, she is tired and almost out of breath now, and if you want to see it, you will have to watch it another day. ”
Mrs. Wu also smiled: "I don't hide it, I want to watch it a few more times, but I didn't say that I wanted to rob your precious granddaughter-in-law, you are too tight." Old Madam Wu looked at Congxi and said, "I don't blame you for baby her, this girl is beautiful and refined, and she is pleasing to look at." ”
Congxi bowed to Mrs. Wu and said, "Aunt Xie's praise is false, in fact, Congxi... It's not always pleasing either. ”
Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Qu were both slightly confused, not understanding the meaning of Cong's words, but they didn't ask, Mrs. Wu said: "Since you and Zaichen got married, we are meeting for the first time, and I will give you a meeting gift." ”
Mrs. Wu wanted to take off the jade bracelet she was wearing in her right hand, the jade bracelet seemed to be a little narrow and tight, Mrs. Wu didn't take it off, her left hand grabbed the jade bracelet and pulled it to the left, she took a few steps closer from Xi, and was about to open her mouth to stop it, but Mrs. Wu's left hand slid away from the jade bracelet, but she still didn't take it off, and a stack of papers fell from Mrs. Wu's left sleeve.
Old Madam Qu leaned over and picked up the paper, looked at Old Madam Wu and said, "Forget it, I remember that this jade bracelet was given to you by your aunt, you have worn it for decades, and if you want to keep it for your own granddaughter-in-law, it is better to change it as a gift for Congxi." ”
Cong nodded hurriedly: "What my grandmother said is that I am jumping up and down all day long, the jade bracelet is given to me, I don't know when I will break it, aunt's jade bracelet must be very precious, if it is destroyed, isn't it a tyrannical thing?" Auntie or give me a solid gift, gold hairpins, silver hairpins can be, if you don't want to bother to choose, give me a gold ingot, I am happier. ”
Old Madam Wu smiled: "Okay, you girl, it's true." ”
Old Madam Qu looked at Congxi and said with a disgusted smile: "It's to let your aunt see a joke, it's like the Qu family treats you harshly, and the Qu family is less than your monthly money." ”
Cong was stunned for a moment: "I have monthly money, Qu Zaichen should give it to me?" ”
At this time, Mrs. Qu was stunned, came back to her senses for a moment, and turned her head to look at Mrs. Qu, Mrs. Qu hurriedly avoided Mrs. Qu's gaze, and Mrs. Qu sighed: "I really let your aunt see the joke, you are short of money in the future, just find it in the dust, and he should indeed give it to you." ”
From Xi to see the old lady Qu and Mrs. Qu's expressions, I probably guessed the beginning and the end, the internal affairs of the Qu family are managed by Mrs. Qu, and Congxi also feels that although it is not easy to find Qu Zaichen to get money, it is definitely easier than finding Mrs. Qu to ask for money, and moreover, the large amount of property of the Qu family should be managed by Qu Zaichen, Congxi nodded and said: "I know, thank you grandmother." ”
Old Madam Qu glanced at the stack of papers in her hand, looked at Old Madam Wu and said, "What is this, what do you do with so much paper when you go out?" ”
Mrs. Wu's expression changed solemnly and said: "This is the portrait of the villain, the neighborhood of the Yuan embroidery shop on Wutong Street, a young lady gave it to me a few days ago, she said that when the villain came to look for Wu Jiang that day, she happened to be in the store to choose a dress, and she saw that Ah Lian led the villain upstairs, so she recognized the face of the villain." The lady said that after Wu Jiang's accident, she suspected that Wu Jiang was really a thief, so she didn't tell anyone about the villain's appearance, thinking that the villain was chivalrous and righteous. A few days ago, the young lady came to ask us, why did Ah Lian lead the woman to the second floor of the store, I told her that the villain said that he was looking for Wu Jiang to talk about business, and wanted to find a quiet place to talk in detail, and Ah Lian led her to the second floor, who knew that to the second floor, the villain took advantage of Ah Lian's unpreparedness to coma, Wu Jiang went to the second floor to look for the villain, the villain first used his appearance to confuse Wu Jiang, and took advantage of Wu Jiang's unintention, also stunned Wu Jiang, and then the villain did something to destroy Wu Jiang's reputation. I said that if the villain really has evidence of Wu Jiang's deception, the official will report it, why do you act like this, it is obviously deliberately bad for the reputation of my Wu family.
The young lady hesitated for a while, took out a portrait from her sleeve, and said that she had learned Danqing since childhood, and that this portrait had been painted by her from memory, and that she had seen the portrait of the villain painted by the government, and felt that it was not at all like the villain, so she drew a portrait of the villain herself and helped us find the villain.
I took a closer look, and the young lady painted a colorful painting, which clearly outlined the villain's face, eyebrows and eyes, and it really didn't look like the one painted by the government. Hey, if the young lady painted more like the villain himself, the appearance of the villain described by Wu Jiang and Ah Lian to the government would be too different, no wonder we haven't been able to find the villain woman. Old Madam Wu glanced at Wu Jiang and complained: "Wu Jiang and Ah Lian too, they don't know how to Danqing, even if they describe the appearance of the villain, they can't describe it, if this painting is the true face of the villain, we will toss in vain a few months ago." Since I couldn't find anyone in the previous portrait, I asked the bookstore to print more colorful paintings to see if I could find the woman in this portrait. ”