in spring

Chapter 82
Chunying and Li You huddled behind the bushes, watched the second young master Li Chang walking towards Zhou Nian's hut through the dense branches and leaves, and couldn't help but look at each other.

Chunying asked: "What is he doing here? To find trouble?"

Li You said: "How do I know? Besides...how did he know Brother Nian lives here?"

Chunying opened her eyes wide: "You said he didn't know?!"

"Of course!" Li You glanced at her with the eyes of a fool, "This time the news leaked, most likely it was the second brother who did it. I heard from my mother that my father scolded him severely, but he seemed I don’t know how to repent.” He tilted his head and thought for a while, and suddenly realized: “Boss Wang must have told him! Tsk, this old guy!”

Chunying watched Li Chang walk to the edge of the hut from a distance, San Qing stepped forward to stop him, said something unknown, Zhou Nian came out, and unexpectedly welcomed Li Chang into the room.She began to worry: "Second Young Master won't bully Brother Nian again, will he?"

"Let's go back!" Li You took the lead, using the flowers and trees in the forest to cover his figure, and sneaked back to the outside of the hut, Chunying also followed with her waist bent.Sanqing stood outside the door, looking worriedly into the house from time to time, and suddenly saw the sneaky look of the two of them, and his eyes widened.Chunying made a "shh" gesture to him, and he nodded slightly, but remained silent.

Chunying followed Li You, bent down and came to the window, only to hear that there was no cynicism, no insults, and no insults as expected. To their surprise, the two people in the room were actually talking about poetry, and they also said There are laughing ones.It seems that the second young master has written a few short poems recently. I don't know if they are good or not. I think that there is a very talented childhood friend living in the garden, so I specially show them to him.When Zhou Nian read the poem, he naturally put a tall hat on the second young master's head, coaxing him to smile.

If it was the first time seeing the two of them getting along, Chunying would think it was normal, but because she saw the second young master bullying Zhou Nian with her own eyes, she would feel that she probably didn't take a nap and was too sleepy, so she had hallucinations .Looking at Li You again, he also had a sluggish look on his face.

The conversation in the room was still going on, and after satisfying his vanity from Zhou Nian, Li Chang put away the poem draft, and then babbled a few words before he said with a smile: "Speaking of which, we haven't seen each other for many years. It’s been a good talk, uh... When I was a child... I was ignorant and always lost my temper, but based on the friendship between our two families, I think... you won’t be offended, right?"

Zhou Nian was a little uncertain about his intentions, so he could only continue to wear his usual smile and follow his tone: "How could it be? After all, we have known each other for many years, and the two families have always been on good terms."

"That's right! That's right!" Li Chang thought in his heart that this guy was still winking, and the smile on his face became bigger and bigger, "Based on the friendship between our two families, those little quarrels are nothing, and we are grown up. Let's get along well in the future and don't make the elders angry anymore. Don't listen to other people's nonsense and think that I have bad intentions. In fact, I am a very talkative person. "

Zhou Nian smiled and nodded, feeling a little enlightened in his heart.

Li Chang didn't want to come, but he was persuaded by the book boy Nanqiu for two days, and felt that his words were somewhat reasonable, so he condescended to go like this.Seeing Zhou Nian winking so much, he was satisfied, and didn't want to stay in such a simple house for a moment, and hurried back to report to his father that he had "corrected": "I suddenly remembered that there was still an article that I hadn't written yet. , I want to ask my father to review it tonight, then... I will take my leave first, and I will come to ask for advice later."

"Don't dare, Nian will sweep the couch to welcome you." Zhou Nian got up and bowed to see off the guests. After performing all the courtesy, Li Chang casually cupped his hands and left. When he went out, he couldn't help but brushed his sleeves and hem. "Dust", thinking in his heart that he would go back to the hospital to change into a clean dress, he changed his mind after taking two steps, and decided to wear this "dirty" dress to see his father, so as to prove that he had indeed reconciled with Zhou Nian , please stop blaming yourself for it.

Seeing that Li Chang had gone far away, Chun Ying poked her head out from the side of the house, and looked at Li You behind him, both a little puzzled.Li You walked into the hut frowning, saw Zhou Nian sitting on the chair in a daze, and said, "How can he be willing to give in to his temper? It's just because his father scolded him that he came to act! Don't believe it easily." killed him!"

Zhou Nian smiled bitterly: "How could I not know? It's just that since he intends to reconcile, I can't keep him away."

"Why not?!" Li You was a little disapproving, "I told my father about his bullying you, and my father knew it well. You should be reasonable about this matter. Even if you drive him out, you should. If you are worried that others will blame you You don't have good manners, you just ignore him at worst, why bother to flatter him like this?! He will never believe that you are talking politely, he just thinks that he is really Li Qinglian's second."

Zhou Nian just smiled wryly.

Chunying's heart moved, and she suddenly remembered that although the third young master always treated Zhou Nian with respect and courtesy, treating him as a guest at a friend's house, it was a fact that Zhou Nian lived in the Hou's mansion, and his identity was embarrassing. It can be said that there is a great kindness to him. In the future, the Zhou family will be rehabilitated, and they will also rely on the strength of the Hou family.Under such a premise, when facing Lord Hou's parents and children, no matter how unhappy he was, he couldn't show a trace of dissatisfaction, right?Although he is friendly with the third young master, and the third young master is hostile to the second young master, he is not easy to get involved in the relationship between the young masters of the Hou Mansion, after all, he is an outsider.

Thinking about it this way, it really wasn't easy for Zhou Nian.Chunying looked at his thin body and pale face, and thought that she had been taking care of his diet since last winter, but she still couldn't feed him fatter. It must be because of too much psychological pressure, right?

She whispered to him: "Since the second young master is willing to reconcile, it's the best. It's nothing to praise him, as long as he doesn't come to trouble you in the future, you can suffer less, that's better than anything else. "

Zhou Nian's heart warmed up, and he felt that his internal organs were soaked in warm water, which was very beneficial.He looked at Chun Ying, this little girl who was seven or eight years younger than him, could understand his heartfelt feelings, which really touched him inexplicably.He nodded solemnly: "I think so too, and I also believe that he is not the one who leaked the secret, so he still has some sense of propriety." He turned to Li You: "Don't think that he is too bad, he If he wants to harm you, I believe it, but if he wants to harm the Hou Mansion, it is impossible. If the Hou Mansion is guilty, he will also be implicated. Without the Hou Mansion, what is he? He is not stupid, how could he not know This reason?"

Li You felt a little depressed and felt very unhappy. He wanted to refute Zhou Nian's words, but the other party's words were reasonable, if he blindly blamed his elder brother, he would fall down.He pursed his lips and stared at Zhou Nian aggrievedly, and seeing that the other party looked at Chunying again, and Chunying was also smiling at Zhou Nian, he was even more depressed, and said in a low voice: "Forget it, if he really reconciles, I don't care about him either. I still have to see my father, Chun'er! Let's go."

Chunying was stunned for a moment, then she responded, said goodbye to Zhou Nian with a smile, and left with Li You.Li You was quiet along the way, as if thinking about something, she asked out of curiosity, "Third Young Master, where do you want me to follow?" No matter where, it's not a place she can go casually, the road leading to Huanhuaxuan is ahead, where will the third young master take her?
Only then did Li You wake up: "Go back, I'll go pay my respects to my parents." After saying that, she walked forward, Chunying felt that he was weird, and went back to Huanhuaxuan in a daze .

As soon as she entered the courtyard gate, she heard the little girls gathered in Xiang'er's room yelling. She walked over to ask and found out that the people in charge of Xiang'er had already bought the beads.A large bag of glass millet beads, with one or two hundred grains, mostly pink and purple, but also red, green, yellow, and blue. There are also two small bags of larger beads, all of which are light pink. A small bundle of thin copper wire.

Xiang'er took out a small pair of scissors and said, "These are used by the woman who sells flowers to cut copper wires. I lent them to us for the time being, and I will return them later. Don't break them. Also, The eight hundred Wen coins are almost used up, and only these few are left." She showed the seven or eight copper coins in her hand, and Wisteria waved her hand indifferently: "We don't want any more, you take it, and treat it as hard money " Xiang'er put it away with a smile.

Shi'er picked up a millet bead and looked at it, then twisted a copper wire: "Can it be strung in? This bead is so small, I'm really afraid that if I'm not careful, it will be knocked over to the ground, and I won't be able to find a single one." .”

Chunying leaned over to take a look, and nodded in sympathy.The millet beads are too big to be called "rice", but they are only two or three millimeters in diameter. They are said to be glass beads, but they are actually made of glass, right?How did this burn out?It turns out that the craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty was also very developed.

Wisteria urged: "Shi'er, haven't you seen that flower girl do this? Come and show us!" The other little girls also responded.

Shi'er tried to string the beads into the copper wire, but after a few strings, he scratched his hair and smiled embarrassedly: "I don't quite remember, I guess I twisted the copper wire to look like a pattern, but Why twist..." Xia He beat her twice in frustration: "It's really useless!"

Chunying has some impressions of this kind of thing, Zhang Xiaomei seems to have made a beaded gadget, the principle should be similar, right?She tried stringing a few pink millet beads with copper wire, twisting out a small petal, stringing a few more, and twisting another.Wisteria hurriedly came over to take a closer look, Shi'er and Xia He also stopped fighting and stared at her movements.

After a while, Chunying finally made a single-layered flower, but it was crooked and not very pretty.She smiled at the others, and Wisteria jumped up and sat back in her original seat: "So that's what I did, I understand!" She followed suit, and the other little girls also started to do it.

"What are you doing?" Manru came in from the door curiously, and smiled when she saw the beads and copper wire scissors placed in the middle of the bed, "It turns out they are making bead flowers, when did you get these?" She looked around Look, she took the one from Chunying's hand and said with a smile: "The color matches well, but the shape is not perfect, who dares to wear it on the head?"

Chunying shrank her hands embarrassingly, she also knew that she did not look good, but it was the first time for everyone, who is not a rookie?
Manru sat down on the edge of the bed with a smile, straightened the bead flower casually, and then twisted a few more petals according to Chunying's original color scheme, and the feeling was different immediately.Chunying originally wanted to make a double-layered lotus flower that transitions from pink to purple, but due to poor craftsmanship, it was always not in place, but after Manru's adjustment, the whole pearl flower became the color she imagined. in the appearance.She exclaimed in surprise: "Sister Cui is amazing! Have you done this before?"

Manru scratched her hand, and smiled unnaturally: "I played it when I was young, but I haven't done it for a long time, and my hands are raw." She cut the copper wire with scissors, folded the excess part in two, and twisted it into a strand. Then he stuck the flower on Chunying's head and said with a smile, "How about looking in the mirror?"

Chunying immediately borrowed Xiang'er's mirror to look at it, and nodded with satisfaction. Turning around, Manru was already making another one.It was also in the pink and purple lotus style, which happened to be worn by Chunying's double servant girls.Seeing the beauty, Xia He also entangled Manru: "My good sister, make me a pair too, I want pink ones, pink lotus flowers!" Manru smiled and helped her string them together.

The little girls followed suit, and when the beads were almost used up, everyone had at least one.Chunying also made pink and purple double-layered lotus flowers, but in order to distinguish the flower core, she used purple beads, which were different from the pink beads of the pair of beads on her head.

She handed the bead flower to Man Ru: "Thank you sister for making me the bead flower, this one is so beautifully made, sister take it and wear it, it's a thank you gift."

Manru took it with a smile: "Then I won't be polite." She stuck the bead flower on her head, looked at each other with the others, and thought it was funny.

"You guys are too busy, aren't you? How lazy you don't work!" Chen'er folded her arms outside the window and snorted coldly, "Manru! The tea stove in the room is cold, and the clothes that the third young master wants to wear tomorrow have not been brought back, you What are you doing with the little girls?!"

Manru said indifferently: "It's your turn to cook the tea stove today, and you shouldn't be in my class. The third young master's clothes, sister Lan Xiang, have already been sent to get them, so why haven't you come back yet?"

Chen'er suffocated, stomped her feet and turned her head to leave. When she saw the third young master walking towards her, she immediately changed her smile: "Three..."

Before the words finished, Li You had passed her and came to Xiang'er's room: "Are you stringing flowers? This is good. Tomorrow, ask Ping An to buy some good beads. Let's string a few for my sister-in-law, second sister and third sister." Sister playing." After a pause, he laughed again: "Second brother is about to say kiss, when things are settled, you also have to prepare some meeting gifts."

Chunying asked: "Third Young Master, Second Young Master is going to talk about kissing?" Whose young lady is so unfortunate?
"That's right." Li You smiled, and thought it was funny when he thought of seeing his second brother's unwilling face at his mother's place just now.

The second young master's marriage has finally been settled in Miao's family. Hou Ye and his wife An Shi have discussed which matchmaker to invite, and they are planning to send a gift to invite them there.

Li Chang originally went out for a spring outing with some old friends, and met a female family member on the road who was startled. In order to save them, he rushed over very bravely, hugged her waist and spun around twice, and in front of many people, took the girl Pushing away, he was knocked down by the horse, and he bled afterwards while comforting the young lady not to panic. At the same time, he actually proposed that for the sake of the young lady's reputation, he decided to marry her as his wife.

And that young lady is Liang Taishi's youngest daughter, the younger sister of Princess Ke, Liang Yue.

(End of this chapter)