【New Red Mansion】Perfect World

Xichun's side was rather quiet. At noon, her sister-in-law came over to have lunch with her and then went back.

In the empty room, Xichun was quietly busying herself in front of a large wooden table. She had picked up a lot of twigs, mosses and flowers from the yard yesterday and was going to set up a scene.

She found this table in a thrift store. After cleaning and polishing, the old elm table is perfect for landscaping.

First, place a large sword in the middle, and then place the largest and thickest branch horizontally. After the main outline is basically determined, then place the pine branches you picked up, spread the moss flat, and sprinkle some beautiful dead leaves on it.

Two green hydrangeas, a white Phalaenopsis, a few long reeds, and a few pepper branches with the leaves removed and only the lovely fruits left.

After it is completely shaped and arranged, it will become a large landscape flower arrangement. Trim it with small scissors, and then take a small spray bottle to spray some water mist where it needs to be sprayed, and the whole artistic conception will come out.

Let Ruhua bring up the easel he had prepared in the basement, move a chair, and sit down not far from the old elm table, then feel the atmosphere of the whole place and start painting based on his feelings.

Xichun's paintings are abstract. She looks at a table full of flowers and plants, but she paints all kinds of sharp lines. Only the colors are composed of various shades of white and green, but the painting has nothing to do with the real objects.

What she painted was something extending from the flowers, plants and branches, which could be aura, heat or energy. In short, it is not visible to the naked eye.

After finishing the drawing, she threw the pen into the big bucket for washing brushes and went back to the desk. A few days ago, Tiangu Cultural Tourism held a design competition for cultural and creative products, and she signed up. Now there are some drawings that need to be revised. She raised the drawing stand and worked on two tablets at the same time.

Although Xichun can receive pocket money every month, she has already earned money on her own and won some awards in various competitions. Now she feels like a dragon trapped in the sea, and will definitely jump into the sea when the time comes. She earns money to leave here, leave Kyoto, and move out after college when she can be independent, so this place is not decorated too much.

She also turned the living room on the first floor into an exhibition hall, placing only a set of sofas and coffee tables in the middle. She painted all the usable walls white and installed hanging strips for paintings. She planned to take out her paintings every once in a while and hold an online exhibition by taking photos and live streaming them.

So her yard is just a studio for her to rest, and it doesn't feel like home at all.

*

Yingchun's yard is built in pure ancient style. There is a flower bed in the center of the yard, and a dwarf pine is planted in it.

There was a pavilion under the opposite wall, which was not her favorite style. Fortunately, there was a lotus pond in front of the large floor-to-ceiling window, with a few koi fish in it.

The furnishings in the living room were also antique, and the magnificent tea room was bustling with activity. Her stepmother Xing Jiahui was sitting at the tea table, surrounded by some ladies she had invited, all praising and flattering her, making her laugh heartily.

Yingchun couldn't speak inside, so she came out to feed the fish. Siqi held a square tin can and handed her a small round wooden bowl filled with red bean-sized round fish food.

Yingchun didn't do what others did, just throwing them into the lake to attract fish to jump up and down, which looked lively and lively. She just picked up a few grains with her hands, then threw them into the water, watching them scramble for food.

She mainly didn't like the atmosphere in the house, so she had to feed the fish slowly to pass the time.

*

After sitting down, Madam Li took the napkin and covered her thighs, then placed a tea strainer on her teacup. Then she held the teapot in her right hand and pressed the lid with her left hand. She gently poured half a cup of tea into the teacup in front of her, then picked up the milk pot and sugar bowl beside her and added milk and sugar. Finally, she took the teaspoon and stirred the cup back and forth, and then put the teaspoon behind the teacup.

After finishing all this, he handed the teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl to Professor Yue.

Miaoyu looked at it carefully and now she is planning to open a Western-style afternoon tea shop.

Seeing that the children were seriously learning the etiquette of Western afternoon tea, Madam Li had no choice but to speak:

"Actually, the real French afternoon tea consists of: savory snacks, dry snacks, and finally a small cake. But today we are celebrating our new home so we don't want to leave an empty table. Besides, you are all children and we don't know what you like to eat. So we put out some Chinese and Western snacks. There's no need to be too formal, just be happy."

Everyone then followed Madam Li's example and prepared their own cups of tea, and then tasted the snacks elegantly.

While they were chatting, Wu Qing came back. Lin Pin'er was surprised. Baoyu should have asked her to come back so soon. But she couldn't ask any more questions. She asked Zijuan to bring another high chair over, let Wu Qing sit on the sofa, and she prepared to sit on the high chair.

"Let me sit on the chair, you sit next to grandma." Shui Rong was not willing to let Pin'er sit on the chair. The two of them were polite for a long time, and finally Pin'er sat next to Madam Li.

Xiangyun enthusiastically taught Wu Qing how to pour tea, and then told her which snacks were delicious. Wu Qing's depressed mood suddenly improved: What Baoyu, go to hell!

Pin'er silently peeled the chocolate with wine filling, she liked this chocolate very much. When she came back from the night market that day, she saw fried insects and lost her appetite completely. She vowed not to go to the night market again.

Shui Rong smiled secretly, which was exactly what he wanted. He didn't want to go to the night market either, so he just let her see it for herself. The food there was really unhygienic.

But knowing that she must not be full and had no appetite at the moment, he took out the chocolate with wine filling to coax her. He bought it for her originally. Shui Rong wanted to show Pin'er everything new he saw recently. When he saw this chocolate, he guessed that she might like it.

Sure enough, after tasting it, Pin'er thought it was delicious and ate three pieces in a row. If Shui Rong hadn't scared her that she would get drunk if she ate too much, she would have eaten a few more pieces.

Pulling her thoughts back to her senses, Pin'er peeled a piece of chocolate and handed it to Shuirong.

Shui Rong refused to take it. He just lowered his head and took the chocolate from her fingers. In an instant, Pin'er's face turned red. His soft lips just brushed her fingers.

Fortunately, no one else noticed, otherwise they would have made fun of her again.

Coincidentally, when she looked up again, she met Xiangyun's gaze. Xiangyun saw that she was still holding the wrapper of the chocolate with wine filling in her hand and advised her seriously:

"Pin'er, eat less chocolate! Although you are not afraid of getting fat, why is your face so red? Are you drunk?"

After she finished speaking, Pin'er's face turned even redder. She was too embarrassed to refute, so she had to make an excuse:

"Maybe I just can't drink much." Then he quickly pinched the handle of the teacup with his fingers and took a sip of tea.