Changing into clothes, Cui Baozhu wore a pale pink embroidered hundred-flower cardigan, and a pink pleated Hunan skirt with hundreds of butterflies and peonies. A pair of crested bow shoes escaped from the long skirt.
Every step you take is graceful and graceful, and your face is full of charm.
Then Zhang Yizhen personally put on those complicated jewelry and hairpins for her daughter.
Today is not Baozhu's coming-of-age ceremony, but it feels a bit like a coming-of-age ceremony.
The mother and daughter came downstairs. When they approached the flower hall, Cui Baozhu stopped and called softly: "Mother."
Zhang Yizhen noticed that his daughter was shy, and she knew she was a grown-up girl. He smiled and said, "Your uncle Fu is not an outsider."
Cui Baozhu nodded and entered the flower hall, but saw that Fu Xie was nowhere to be seen.
Cui Baozhu thought Xie Fu was gone, but was a little disappointed.
Zhang Yizhen smiled: "I forgot, he is in the kitchen."
Cui Baozhu was surprised.
Zhang Yizhen joked: "He behaves well as an adult, and he is also a good hand at chopping wood for cooking."
The two of them walked out of the flower hall and saw smoke and birds coming from the kitchen.
Arriving at the door of the kitchen, Xie Fu turned his back to heat the food.
Zhang Yizhen was not born either. Cui Baozhu looked at Xie Fu, who was dressed in rich clothes and worked easily and skillfully. His lips parted slightly: "Uncle Fu..."
Xie Fu turned around suddenly when he heard the sound. He felt that his eyes were shining brightly, and he was stunned by Cui Baozhu's gorgeous appearance!
Silently, he unconsciously wiped his face that was covered in sweat from the fire, and said softly: "It's so beautiful."
Cui Baozhu couldn't help but laugh when she saw a gray mark left on Uncle Fu's face. She pointed at Fu's face and said, "Uncle Fu, your face."
Xie Fu suddenly understood and smiled: "I was so stunned by your beauty that I thought the Nine Heavens Fairy appeared out of nowhere."
This kind of praise makes people feel extremely happy physically and mentally. Zhang Yizhen said to Xie Fu with displeasure: "Don't say such things to my daughter."
Although Xie Fu is Baozhu's elder, this man is still very lethal to women.
Generally speaking, these words are indeed a bit frivolous, but it also depends on who comes from it. When it comes from Xie Fu's mouth, Cui Baozhu doesn't feel the slightest frivolity at all.
He smiled and said, "I don't mind."
After reheating the food, they went back to the flower hall and sat down to eat together. Zhang Yizhen directly brought a jar of wine.
Xie Fu looked at such a large jar of wine, and saw Zhang Yizhen's high-spirited look, and said: "Sister Zhen, please skip the wine. I have something to discuss with you later."
Zhang Yizhen said in a tone that could not be refused: "You have to drink wine. Let's talk about things while drinking."
Then he added: "Since I said goodbye to you in Wuxi, I have not drank at all. I have been keeping this wine until I meet you again."
It was hard to refuse the hospitality, so Xie Fu nodded: "Then let's have a few drinks."
Ladling the wine into the jug, Cui Baozhu, as a junior, poured the wine and handed it to Xie Fu with his own hands: "Uncle Fu, please drink."
Xie Fu nodded with a smile and looked at Cui Baozhu, who had become gentle, polite and beautiful. It was difficult to connect with the domineering and selfish official lady before.
He sighed with emotion: "Things have changed and Baozhu has grown up and become sensible. Sister Zhen, you can feel relieved."
Zhang Yizhen glanced at his daughter and said with a smile: "Although people should look to the future and not stay in the past, people's hearts always linger on the past."
Listening to the words of the two people, Cui Baozhu couldn't help but recall the most difficult and sad days in Wuxi. At that time, she hated Xie Fu to the core. She only felt that Xie Fu was rubbing salt on the wounds of their mother and daughter. He was a dog official who did all kinds of evil. .
Looking back now, she realized how good Xie Fu was. He risked his life not for fame or fortune, but for countless people in Wuxi. This move made her sincerely admire her.
If it weren't for his sea-suppressing needle and the intact eggs under the overturned nest, I'm afraid they, mother and daughter, would also die from this plague.
Also, he was worried about his condition and hurried to the isolation room to ask the doctor to come over...
Little by little came to mind. Uncle Fu was right. She had grown up and became sensible. She was no longer petty and narrow-minded, and she could see more clearly.
Suddenly he knelt down to Xie Fu: "Uncle Fu, Baozhu offended you a lot in Wuxi, and I apologize to you here."
Zhang Yizhen nodded secretly in his heart.
After Xie Fu was surprised, he quickly held Cui Baozhu's arms with both hands to help her up, and said with a smile: "I am deeply comforted."
As he spoke, he laughed and laughed at himself: "I have bullied you too, Baozhu. Baozhu must have regarded me as a big bad guy at that time. I can't blame you, I can't blame you."
Zhang Yizhen said angrily: "Okay, things are not what they used to be, why are you bringing up those grievances?"
In fact, Cui Baozhu had no objection to Xie Fu for a long time, but the respect in her heart made her unable to control her attitude.
Xie Fu said: "By the way, I still have a gift to give Baozhu. This is the real meeting gift."
Xie Fu took the scroll and opened it, but it was a picture of crabapples, pear blossoms, and snow before the rain. The ink was not dry yet, so it was obviously a new work.
Cui Baozhu looked at how vivid and realistic the painting was and exclaimed: "Uncle Fu, did you paint this?"
As a young lady from an official family, she has been involved in chess, calligraphy and painting since she was a child. She has made great progress in studying with her mother in the past two or three years.
As soon as this painting came into view, Cui Baozhu felt that it was extraordinary, as if it were an authentic work by a famous artist.
Xie Fu smiled and nodded, "I always feel frivolous and tacky when I give you clothes and jewelry, so I drew this picture to express my best wishes to you, Baozhu."
Cui Baozhu looked at the inscription and immediately received Xie Fu's thoughts.
The absence of rain on the crabapples means that spring has not yet arrived, while the pear blossoms are already as white as snowflakes, which means that spring will come soon.
One red and one white means that she is in her prime of life and her beauty will last forever...
"Uncle Fu, I like them all."
Zhang Yizhen looked at the painting and said in surprise: "I couldn't tell that your painting skills are so superb!"
Xie Fu chuckled: "Sister Zhen, don't you think I only eat and drink?"
Zhang Yizhen gave Xie Fu an angry look. She could feel that Xie Fu was a good scholar, but as soon as this painting came out, she looked at him with admiration.
Cui Baozhu said to Xie Fu with adoration like a little girl: "Uncle Fu, your painting skills are so superb, can you teach me how to paint?"
Xie Fu happily responded: "Of course!"
Before Cui Baozhu could rejoice, Zhang Yizhen said coldly: "No! There are differences between men and women!"
Xie Fu echoed: "Yes, yes, there is a difference between men and women. It's just my lack of consideration."
Cui Baozhu looked secretly disappointed.
Seeing this, Xie Fu smiled and said: "But if the real sister is present, it should be in line with etiquette."
Cui Baozhu looked at her mother pitifully.
Zhang Yizhen smiled helplessly: "That's all, you can ask your Uncle Fu for advice while I'm there."
"Thank you mother!"
Seeing his daughter getting carried away with happiness, Zhang Yizhen couldn't bear to lecture her.
As a junior, Cui Baozhu was responsible for pouring wine, while Xie Fu and Zhang Yizhen chatted while drinking.
When Xie Mansion explained the purpose of borrowing food, Zhang Yizhen said readily: "I have made up my mind on this matter."
Xie Fu said in surprise: "Don't you need to say hello to Lord Zhang?"
Zhang Yizhen thought about it, and although he could make up his mind, it was better to tell his brother, so as to give his brother, the clan leader, some face.
"Okay, I'll lead him over to see him now."
"It would be great if Sister Zhen introduces me."
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