box of hearts

Chapter 123 Drunken Taiping (13)
She arched her head and lowered her head to his heart.Qi She felt that she was like a dagger.

He didn't come back on the second night, and after that, except for asking Zhou Dun to send a few incense bead bracelets and satin clothes...he never stepped into Ruyuan again.Qingtian and Qi She were originally short-lived nights, a moment of gold, and they were taken apart abruptly. They hugged each other and looked at each other, so they had to keep Zhaohua by their side, playing chess and laughing at night, or tuning the piano and drums.Even so, whenever she lay back on the bed that was as wide as a room, she always opened her eyes wide, and there were some deep meditations like the eyes of a cat opposite, staring at her with a green light .

On the night of the New Year's Eve, Qi She sent Zhou Dun to send gold leaves and golden scorpions as rewards to his servants, refreshments and fruits for the banquet, and also brought a message, Xu Xu told her to have a good holiday.Qing Tianxiao accepted the reward and concern, sent Zhou Dun away, and opened a table of wine on the big kang near Xiangtang Nuange, Ling Zhaohua, Youyan, Cuiyi, Xiaojing, Yuepo, Hongzhi, Ziwei Several big maids also unloaded their formal dresses and went to the table to accompany them. They also ordered the Jinhua wine brewed in the wine cellar in the garden and filled them up one by one. It’s nothing special, I love it very much, everyone have a try.”

After a few glasses of wine, all the girls took ivory sticks and played a game of "accounting for flowers", regardless of whether they were masters or servants.Sitting on flowers at the Qiongyan Banquet, drinking wine cups and drinking the moon, mourning silk and rich bamboo, adding wine and returning to the lamp, it is also very joyful for the New Year.Even Cuiyi was not unusually cold and arrogant, chatting and laughing with the left and right, raised a glass with one hand and put it on Yuepo's shoulder, and the silver lock on his chest vibrated lightly.

"Look, so what if you call her 'Niang Niang'? Which serious 'Niang Niang' can't even see a man's face during the New Year, and wants to bid farewell with the maids? It's just a pain for us. It was such a lively scene at night, and now following a shady person, I have to spend the cold year in this dark place."

Her voice was not too loud, and the others were fighting each other, making a lot of noise, but after all, they were all gathered around a big table, and everything they said and did was under their noses.Yue Po didn't dare to speak, she squinted at the past, but saw that Qing Tian on the other side didn't seem to hear it, and only focused on whispering something to You Yan.Yue Po breathed a sigh of relief, and snatched Cuiyi's wine glass, "You should drink less and say less."

At that time, a little girl came in, stood under the kang and said: "Your Majesty, it is said that the screens and hangings have been installed, please go out and watch the fireworks."

A cinnabar hanging bead hairpin dangled in front of his forehead, Qing Tian smiled, "Let's go, let's all go out and watch the fireworks, and drink some wine."

As a result, all the noises were covered by the sound of "beep-boom", and under the psychedelic fireworks, the faces of each pattern lit up for a short time, and then fell into darkness.

10.
Getting up early is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the second sister Duan led Diexian, Duixia, and Fengqin to visit the house to pay New Year's greetings, and Mu Yun also came dressed as a wealthy mistress and brought the festival ceremony.Qingtian left everyone for lunch in the small living room near Xiangtang, and it was said that actors and musicians sang and played Kunqu opera at the Yingyin Pavilion in the middle of the lake.The fine wine and food accompanied by jade flute and jade sound will make people fascinated.

After noon, the wine broke up, Qingtian held the hands and sent several people outside the second gate, and then walked back with Zhaohua slowly.After passing the garden on the West Road, the plum blossoms in the garden were in full bloom, so Qingtian sat on a swing deep in Huaqi, savoring the flowers carefully.

Standing beside her, Zhao Hua looked at Mei Lin silently, raised her hand to her mouth, "Niang Niang..."

Qingtian looked dusty, "Speak up if you have something to say."

Zhao Hua hesitated for a moment, "Madam, I see that everyone in Ruyuan respects Madam very much, even the big maids who served the prince were submissive, only that Cuiyi is always very disrespectful to Madam I am the person brought by the empress herself, and the empress has never allowed me to call myself a 'servant', but even if that Cuiyi was accepted by the prince, she is still a servant, but she thinks she is superior. Not like Youyan and the others. There were even several times when I saw the prince turned his face, she dared to roll her eyes at the empress. Yesterday at the New Year’s Eve dinner, she babbled a lot in front of a table of people I didn't really listen to the words, but they must be good words."

"You can see it too." Lin Bian approached a peacock vaguely, Qingtian looked at it from a distance, and stretched out his hands to gather the green cloud fur on his body. The fur is generally extravagant and charming, full of gorgeous compound eyes "Before I entered the garden, I warned myself that I came from a humble background, so I couldn't help but be more sensitive to other people's words and deeds, and the most important thing to avoid is that suspiciousness. But it seems that I am not suspicious in the past few months."

"I can guess that she just looks down on your mother's background. Hmph, my mother's talents are outstanding, and her appearance and temperament are still a hundred times better than hers. I'm afraid she can't even write her own name like that. Have the confidence to look down on others?"

Qingtian raised his jaw slightly, and spit out a cloud of white mist from his mouth, "Let's have a look again."

The cold wind brought the fragrance of plums across the sun on the jade railings and vermilion trees, like a bare hand extinguishing a bright candle, and suddenly it was time for bedtime.

In the Yiliangxuan, Lingbo came with small steps, holding a large basin in his hand.The basin was made of several large silver sheets joined together with silver rivets, the middle was made of wood, the bucket was extremely deep, and the basin was filled with hot water, emitting a strong fragrance.Hong He placed the pot at Qingtian's feet, and Qingtian sat on an embroidered pier, wearing only close-fitting jacket and trousers, and a long Ning silk vest, holding a volume of flower-and-bird paintings in his hands and looking at them intently.Zhaohua combed her hair with a wide-tooth comb behind her back, and looked into the basin, "I always thought it was the water steamed from fragrant flowers, but today it looks less and less like it, and I can't smell it. What kind of fragrance is this, so strange."

The red vetch sat low on a dwarf next to the basin, and rolled up its sleeves, "This is papaya soup. It can be used for three or nine days to wash the feet, which can activate blood, warm the knees, and warm the four bodies. When it comes back to the dog days, it will be eaten." Instead, use the water boiled with chrysanthemum flowers to dry and warm up the feet and wash your feet, which will refresh your eyesight, and generate wind in your armpits, so you won’t suffer from heat stroke.”

Turning over a page of the picture book in his hand, Qing Tian raised his head and smiled and glanced at Zhao Hua, "You guys are the only ones who can chatter. When Mu Yun is around, you can ask again, and you can ask again."

"It's no wonder that Zhaohua didn't know, this was originally a royal secret recipe, and there are so many herbs and spices in it that even I can't tell." Hong He smiled and rolled up Qingtian's trouser legs, and put her feet into it. in the basin.The glazed three-color dragon and phoenix incense burner on the side is fragrant and graceful, and the silence slowly swirls and drifts down.

After a while, Hongzhi put her hands deep in the water, and called "add water" backwards, but no one came after calling twice, she then turned to a five-fold screen at the side of her head and said, "Cuiyi, I advise You move too, the water for washing your feet is warm, you go and bring in the smoked scorpion outside to add some hot soup."

This black pear wood screen has a white gauze base, on which is written Zhao Mengfu's "Thousand Characters" [6], after a few lines of words, concubine Yujifang, servant towel curtain room, Wan fan Yuanjie, and silver candle Weihuang, is a graceful and graceful film.Cuiyi lay cross-legged on a smoked cage, bowed slightly, "You just ask other people to go, it's not my job."

Hong He pushed up the three silver bracelets on his right wrist, with a look of impatience on his face, "If there are other people, who would dare to send you? I don't know where to go now, please Come help me, and what kind of young lady is you lying on the smoked cage?"

Across the white gauze and ink characters, I couldn't see Cuiyi's expression clearly after all, I only heard two "pa la" sounds, it was her who slammed her shoes down to the ground and came out with her hands on the screen.The pair of knotted servant girls on her head seemed to be loose, with gilt silver mangrass flowers hanging loosely, but her face was tense, and she went outside without making a sound.In a blink of an eye, he brought in a copper sling, walked straight over, and poured all the water into the foot basin.

Qingtian was still burying his head in admiring the painting, Honghe was also lowering his head and brushing with water, Zhaohua was applying hair oil to the teeth of the comb, no one could do it.Qing Tian and Hong He cried out softly in unison, one pulled out his feet, the other pulled out his hands.

Hong Zheyuan opened her eyes and tilted her head, shaking her hands frequently, "How did you do it? You didn't make a sound! Is your mother burned?"

Zhaohua also threw away the comb, and knelt down to look at Qingtian's feet, "Oh, they're all red!"

But Cuiyi just lazily put the hanging bag on the ground, and a bracelet from Beihe washing stones slipped on the back of her hand. "I said it wasn't my business, and I didn't mean it."

Qingtian's complexion had already changed, she looked at the steaming Diaozi at her feet, and winked at Huahua.Zhaohua understood immediately, she had never been used to Cuiyi's personality, she was mixed up with men and women in the Jianghu, how many times was she afraid of a bluffing girl?Reach out and push the hanger.

A pot of boiling water poured out and splashed on Cuiyi's brocade shoes embroidered with parrots for picking peaches.Cuiyi yelled and fell a few steps backwards.

"Yo, I'm sorry, I didn't do it on purpose." Zhaohua's voice was soft, but the tone was cold.

The pearl curtain moved lightly, Youyan and Ziwei came in one after another, and they were all stunned when they saw the boiling soup flowing all over the floor.

"What's the matter?" You Yan turned pale.

"Ask Cuiyi!" Hong He rubbed her hands together, but she didn't make a sound.

Youyan looked at Cuiyi, and saw that she was leaning against a bench in the corner and was bending over to rub her feet, she understood a little bit in her heart, and quickly stepped forward and smiled at Qingtian, "Look, ma'am, It’s really what the servant said, the servant can’t take care of it for a while, these careless and frizzy people are about to have an accident. But accidentally burned you? The servant will go get the medicated oil and rub it with you.”

"No need." At this time, Qingtian acted as if nothing had happened, and put aside the album in his hand, "It's just a little hot, it's okay. It's enough soaking for today, let's change the water."

"Hey." Youyan looked at her and responded, beckoning to Ziwei behind her.Ziwei was holding an identical silver basin in her hand, and with an "oh", she quickly delivered it.

(End of this chapter)