Chapter 319: The Extra Mechanism

There are really a lot of similar "calculations" from childhood to adulthood, but how many people in the world are unwilling to be the one who is so "calculated"?

After comforting himself, Zhou Banxia decided that a small punishment was still needed.

Although it is punished, someone will still not change it repeatedly, but whoever makes this a nerd who regards himself as a treasure from beginning to end can only accommodate one or two.

After the withdrawal of Gu Dahua's family, Zhou Banxia, who had already thought about exercising family law now, put away his thoughts and began to carefully read a few letters.

In general, it was Uncle Zhang (Zhang Dazhuang), or the neighbors who knew each other during the preparation for the exam in Fucheng, and they all heard that Gu Wenxuan sent a letter of congratulations from Xiao Sanyuan.

Gu Yourong, the head of Zhuangzi on the other side of Fucheng, mentioned in the letter that along with these letters to Zhuangzi, there were also congratulatory gifts from several of them.

The congratulatory gifts on these lists have been transported directly back to Qinghe Village with the convoy of Yun Chengming's escort team, along with the congratulatory gifts of the third lady of Gaofu and the others.

In addition, Gu Yourong also mentioned in the letter that Mrs. Qian's congratulatory gift was more than this wooden box (makeup box).

It's just that Mrs. Qian sent two congratulatory gifts.

The first time was the day after it was sent by Gaofu, when Qian Gui was ordered to send a congratulatory gift to Zhuangzi, it was in the name of Qianfu, and this wooden box was sent that night.

And Qian Gui also mentioned that if Zhuangzi over there wanted to have a connection with Zhuangzi of Dingzhou Mansion, he asked Gu Yourong to send this wooden box to Zhuangzi of Dingzhou Mansion first and hand it over to her two children.

When Gu Yourong heard this, he simply handed over the letter and this wooden box to Yun Chengming for arrangement, anyway, as long as she could see these things for the first time.

I have to say that Yun Chengming arranged it quite well, the time calculation was just right, and the things that were neither early or late would be in the hands of the two of her.

Zhou Banxia felt that Yun Chengming was in Shunyi Zhuangzi in Fucheng this time, and at the same time that Zhuangzi personally went to her house and appeared in person, he packed the letters of Uncle Zhang and others one by one.

These letters should not only be replied to, but also returned, but there is no hurry at the moment, and you can send them together with other people's gifts when you return to Qinghe Village.

Put away the letters, and then open the two brocade boxes that were taken out of the makeup box.

The two brocade boxes are all Xi Jiamo.

Xi Jiamo has a louder signboard in history.

In the Southern Tang Dynasty, Xi Jiamo became famous all over the world and became a tribute.

Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, rewarded the Xi family with the surname of the country and named the Xi family as the ink official.

From this time on, the Xi family was renamed the Li family, and Xi Jiamo also became the famous Shezhou Li Mo.

The founder of Huimo, his descendant Li Chao (Xi Chao) once made ink in Yizhou, and then fled south to Shezhou, Huizhou Province with his family to avoid war.

She was fortunate enough to see the gold-painted "Xi Mo" left by the founder of Huimo in her uncle's collection, and her uncle also gave her a pair.

According to my uncle.

Originally, the ancestor Zhou Shan left a lot of these treasures, and when it came to her master's mother's generation, her master's mother received the most.

It's a pity that there are six pairs of twelve pieces of ink painted with gold as a dowry, and when the court returned it according to the dowry list last year, it disappeared along with some ancient books for dowry.

When today's son ordered to return them, these lost things can be discounted for compensation, but her master's mother's dowry is not ordinarily rich, so it is not good to ask for silver again.

After all, the ancestral property of the Zhou family has been returned, and when the son is benevolent today, the next generation of kings is not easy to say, so he doesn't ask for silver, as long as he returns to the Zhuangzi field property in the name of the master's mother.

But even so, the dowry was not expensive.

It was impossible for her to ask for the dowry, but the aunt didn't seem to give up.

Seeing that she didn't look at the account book last night, I didn't have to ask her what she planned to do with the summer grain she received this year.

This is also the reason why she has to wait until it gets dark to go today, otherwise she should let the steward who is now in charge of her master's mother's dowry come to her to report to her.

She didn't believe that she was late, and deliberately arrived a quarter of an hour before lunch started, and her aunt made her hungry to see the housekeeper chattering endlessly.

As for after a meal?

Hey.

If you can find an excuse to give a gift last night, can you find an excuse tonight?

Zhou Banxia didn't know that Mrs. Zhou heard that she went to worship her eldest sister-in-law, but she never returned home, and had already ordered the steward to bring the account book to her after lunch.

Zhou Banxia happily put away the two brocade boxes, thinking that although the Xi Jiamo in Mrs. Qian's two brocade boxes could not be compared with the pair of gold-painted ink blocks in her hand, they were also of the highest grade.

Dajiang's box, she can't control it.

Whatever Dajiang wants to collect or not, anyway, Gu Wenxuan's box, she wants to try to see how the quality of the ink block is, and whether there is any Xi Jiamo that can be bought on the market and still use it.

Fold up the tulle forged fabric suitable for summer wear, and then push back the open makeup box on the ground to the small drawer, Zhou Banxia wanted to go to the study to try the ink.

Just as she picked up the makeup case and wanted to move it to the study so that it could be packed with the bookcase tomorrow, she heard a "click" when she pressed her fingers.

Scared to death.

She thought that the makeup box was not strong and was about to fall apart, but she dared to feel that a small hole popped up at the bottom of the makeup box.

Standing on the side of the makeup box on the ground, Zhou Banxia looked around the small hole, and decisively picked up the makeup box and returned to the inner room to put it on the couch.

Draw the curtains and pull out a flashlight and magnifying glass.

Lying down in front of the couch, I carefully studied the research.

Not to mention, I really figured it out.

In fact, it is not a complicated mechanism, it is just a pattern carved on the surface of the makeup box, and there is a blooming peony stamen, and a small hole pops open at the bottom when you press it hard.

It's just that the overall decoration of the makeup box is arranged in a staggered manner, and there are carved peony flowers with buds to be released, and I can't find it if I don't pay attention to it for a while.

I pressed a few other suspicious points, but there was no response, which means that there is only one mechanism in this makeup box.

I took out a small tweezer and popped a small hole into the bottom, hey, don't say, there's really something in there.

Zhou Banxia carefully used tweezers to grip something that looked like a strip of cloth and slowly pulled it out, and soon it was a bright red satin.

As she pulled out, it was easier to see, it was a big red, red hijab?

Pull hard.

OK.

It's really not a red belly pocket.

Expand and take a look.

When the wedding is held, the bride's head will be covered with a chic red satin, commonly known as the red hijab.

It's just that she is now married, why did Mrs. Qian and Aunt Mei give her this red hijab?

Could it be that the two of them deliberately tricked her and stuffed this red hijab into this mechanism?

Strange.

It stands to reason that whether it is Mrs. Qian or Aunt Mei, it is impossible for them to casually give her a makeup box that they did not find someone to create.

Wrong.

The red hijab is embroidered with a phoenix, a golden phoenix.

Zhou Banxia frowned, took out a woolen needle and went out, and continued to poke into the small hole, as if there were still strips of cloth?

This time it is not as easy to take out as the previous red hijab, and it can be easily pulled out with small tweezers, and it takes a lot of effort to take things out.

Hiss.

Yellow satin?