As I charm the gentleman’s posture, the gentleman also pleases my face.
When Zhu Pingan went to the village entrance to send off the magistrate, in the new mansion across the street from Zhu Pingan’s house, Li Shu was sitting in the wedding room, tracing her eyebrows and combing her make-up in front of the mirror, with red lips, snow-white teeth, and a pair of crystal bead strings falling from her small and lovely earlobes, swaying with the movement of Li Shu’s eyebrow tracing.
On the dressing table next to Li Shu’s hand was a volume of the Book of Poetry, and the page she was turning over was the famous poem in the Book of Poetry, “The Peach Prolongs Its Life”: “The peach is growing young, and its splendour is scorching. The son of a peach is a good candidate for a home. The peach is in its full splendour, and the son of the peach returns to his home, which is suitable for his family. The son of a peach is a good choice for a family. The peach’s leaves are abundant. The son of a peach is a good choice for his family.
When Li Shu was tracing her eyebrows, her eyes swept over this page of poetry and the corners of her mouth curved into a rounded arc.
The little bun maid stood behind her, stretching her small hands to comb Li Shu’s hair skilfully, gold and silver silk pulled knotted a princess bun, took a beautifully crafted phoenix hairpin, twelve phoenix tails just fixed in the bun, the phoenix head was raised upwards, spreading its wings and wanting to fly, the phoenix mouth held a string of dongzhu, crystalline, halo flow, lining Li Shu’s face is even more radiant, playful and moving.
“Miss, does it look good?”The bun little maid narrowed her eyes invitingly.
“Painter, wear your hair in a lower bun.”Li Shu looked at herself in the mirror, slightly opened her vermilion lips, and said.
“How pretty this is Miss.”Painter was a little confused.
“Didn’t you hear from mum Liu, there is a saying in the lower river village that ‘noble women have high buns and folk like low buns’, so let’s just comb it lower, and change the hairpin, just keep it simple, it’s not like we’re going to show off our wealth when we go to see our in-laws, so we don’t want to distance ourselves from people for no reason.”
Li Shu said and pointed to Mama Liu next to her, then said, “Mama Liu, go on, there are other things to pay attention to in the farmhouse, and what kind of daughter-in-laws they like, say it carefully, I’m listening.”
“Oh, there is also this saying, I know miss.”The bun little maid nodded vigorously, then resumed combing Li Shu’s hair and changing her jewellery.
“In a farming family, the mother in law likes a hardworking daughter in law, in a farming family when eating the new daughter in law has to serve the first bowl of rice for her in-laws to fulfil her filial piety; Miss mother in law is straight natured, soft ears, likes to listen to good words, is a good to get along with …….”
The side of the Liu mother then gave Li Shu again to talk about what she knows and she inquired about the new daughter-in-law notes, Liu mother is the Li family is responsible for sweeping the courtyard of the subordinate, come to the Li family before the nearby village on the farmers, she has two sons, are also two or three years ago married daughter-in-law, it can be said that for the farming habits and the rules of the new wife ah and so on, know a lot. A month or so ago, the Li family’s steward had been ordered by Li Shu to ask Mama Liu to inquire about the relevant precautions. So, this time, Liu’s mother was well-prepared, and she knew everything about the new bride, the customs and rules of the lower river village, and even the situation of Zhu Pingan’s family, and she was able to speak with a clear understanding of the situation.
Li Shu also listened attentively while she was dressing up.
Zhu Pingan sent the magistrate and his party all the way to the entrance of the village before slowly returning home.
On the way, he met many people in the village, Zhu Pingan also greeted their uncles and grandparents one by one, and after talking for a while, Zhu Pingan was able to get away and return home.
Home yard than last year when I left a larger, more elegant, the only thing that has not changed is the atmosphere of life, against the wall of the open space opened up a small piece of vegetable field, planted seasonal fruits and vegetables, green growth of delightful, vegetable field on both sides of the support of the melon rack, long melon vine along the melon rack meandering upward, has been climbed all over the melon rack, hanging down some of the fist size of the young melon.
Beside the vegetable field there is a chicken coop built with green bricks, a few old hens leading a large group of furry chicks in the vegetable field to play and forage for food, next to the two big roosters that do not like each other are venting their excess energy, and in the meantime, competing for the priority of snapping.
The big black cow was eating grass in the corner with its tail wagging, and when it saw Zhu Pingan, the big black cow even raised its head familiarly and gave a “moo”, and then lowered its head to eat again, its black hair glistening in the sunlight.
Zhu’s father was killing chickens and dissecting fish in the courtyard, his elder brother and sister-in-law were helping Zhu’s father with the plucking and scaling, and his mother Chen was picking vegetables in the courtyard, alongside Li Shu, who was wearing a new dowry and following Chen’s lead like a good boy…….
“Ya, husband is back ……”
Seeing Zhu Pingan enter the door, Li Shu wearing a new dowry was the first to see it, got up and bent her knees, folded her hands and placed them on the right side of her willow waist to give a graceful salute.
Li Shu called a husband, peach blush, cherry lips pink, looks like a small modelled shy, but a pair of soulful eyes but smilingly looked at Zhu Pingan, a few green vegetables in the small white hand added a few points of charm.
Noble in containing delicate, delicate with demon ……
“……Miss Li ……”
Looking at the front of the call their husband’s delicate Li Shu, Zhu Ping’an is very uncomfortable, froze for a while, the corner of the mouth twitching ……moved for half a day before uttering a word.
Miss Li?
Li Shu sniffed, rolled her eyes towards Zhu Pingan, and when she turned her head to look at her mother Chen, the blank stare on her pretty face turned into a pitiful, a very hurt and tender look, her head lowered, her hands and feet pinching the greens ……Full of helplessness ……It seems that tears can flow down in the next second.
Then the next second, Zhu Pingan saw his own mother, Chen, shooting up, a look of righteousness.
Then the next second, Zhu Pingan’s ears were grabbed by his mother Chen.
“Let you Miss Li, let you Miss Li ……”Mother Chen’s while painfully grabbing Zhu Pingan’s ear, while landing her slap on Zhu Pingan’s buttocks, the gesture was just like as if she wanted to clean up her house, “Won’t call your mother ah, won’t call Shu’er ah.”
“Mother, mother, lighter, lighter, I’m wrong ……”Zhu Pingan was like a headless fly, being educated by Chen’s wailing.
“Mother, husband knows he’s wrong, don’t hit anymore.”Li Shu shyly pulled the corner of Chen’s coat, lowered her head and whispered, a pair of big, ebony eyes slightly narrowed, as if a small fox that got what it wanted.
“Look at how understanding others Shu’er is, then look at you, why don’t you thank Shu’er.”Chen stopped her hand under Li Shu’s persuasion and glared at Zhu Pingan with hatred.
“Thank you ……”Zhu Pingan covered his red ears and looked at a certain beauty who could win an Oscar, and somewhat reluctantly said thank you. This girl, when put in modern times, is definitely an Oscar level actor.
“Eh?”Chen glared and let out a nasal sound.
“Thank you ……Mistress.”Zhu Pingan looked at Li Shu, completing what he had just said.
“Husband is polite.”Li Shu glanced at Zhu Pingan, then seemed to shyly lower her head, but from Zhu Pingan’s angle, he could see her big, playful eyes that seemed to be smiling, as well as a face that was animated and quirky.
