Chapter 243: Lifting a rock and shooting yourself in the foot
Beating the drum and passing the flowers is a very common little game in boudoirs since ancient times. The rules of the game are that a dozen or dozens of people sit in a circle. One of them holds the flowers, and the other carries everyone on his back or beats the drum blindfolded. When the drum sounds and the flowers are passed, the drum stops.
Huazhi. Whoever has the flower in his hand will draw the lottery. If the bouquet happens to be in the hands of two people, the two people can decide the loser through guessing or other methods, and the winner has to perform a show.
Tian Minyan has never played such a game, but once the rules of the game are explained, she understands it. She even believes that if someone wants her to win, it will be very easy.
After agreeing on the rules of the game, a dozen ladies from the boudoir sat in a circle in the pavilion. The drummer was Zhang Xiuer, the daughter of the second room of the Zhang family. She sat on a slightly taller stool with her back to everyone, holding a
The flower drum is a small flower drum, and the flower ball is a round hydrangea. Sitting at the head of the circle is Zhang Cai'er, the eldest daughter of the Zhang family, Mrs. Zhang.
"Are you really successful?" Wen Rou sat on the left side of Tian Minyan, with a worried look on her face.
Tian Minyan, however, was not as prepared as she was to face a formidable enemy. Instead, she looked very lazy and said lazily: "I have nothing to do, so let's just have fun. Anyway, I've already told you the ugly things."
"But..."
"Sister Wen, what are you afraid of? Sister Tian is sitting between us. If it falls in our three hands, if it falls in the middle, you and I will grab it." Liang Yunyin said with a sly expression.
Wen Wen was stunned for a moment, obviously she didn't expect to be like this, so she smiled and hummed.
Tian Minyan glanced at the two guardians and raised her lips slightly, thinking that these are friends.
"It's about to begin." Zhang Xiuer beat the drum and said behind everyone's back, and the pavilion became quiet.
Dong dong dong, the drum beat, Zhang Cai'er, who was sitting at the front, quickly passed the hydrangea in her hand to the person on her right, and slipped down clockwise.
Wen Wenru slipped around safely, and the second circle started again. Huang Wenru was sitting on Wen Wenru's seat. She caught the ball but didn't pass it. Wen Wen gradually became a little anxious, stretched out her hand and said, "Pass it."
According to the rules of the game, whoever gets the flower can hold on to it without passing it on, so no one criticized Huang Wenru for doing this, and some gossips were excited about some good things.
Tian Minyan chuckled and watched with interest, but she was not nervous at all.
Huang Wenru coughed and passed the bouquet to Wen Wen in a slow and orderly manner. At this moment, the drum sound suddenly stopped, and Zhang Xiuer shouted excitedly: "Let me see who gets the lottery first..." When she saw it was Wen Wen,
, couldn't help curling his lips and glared at Huang Wenru.
Huang Wenru didn't expect it to be so fast. Her original intention was to cough, and according to the speed, she stopped in Tian Minyan's hands. Who knew it was so out of time.
"Fortunately it's me." Gentle touched the hydrangea in her hand and gave Tian Minyan a thankful smile.
Tian Minyan was a little touched when she saw this. This was someone who really wanted to protect her, just to prevent herself from making a fool of herself.
"Let me see what the lottery is. Well, write a poem with chrysanthemum as the title." The daughter of the Chen family took out a piece of paper from the box and opened it.
Wen Wen pursed her lips and smiled, and said softly: "If I don't do well, sisters, please don't laugh."
"Miss Wen is too modest."
Wen Wen looked at the pots of chrysanthemums placed in the pavilion, pondered for a moment, and then chanted: "The chrysanthemums are planted on the secluded cliffs, and the Yingling Mausoleum is soaring in the cold. The spring dew does not stain it, and the autumn frost does not change its stripes."
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire pavilion was silent. After a while, a certain young lady shouted out, and everyone else joined in.
Tian Minyan looked over and was amused. In fact, these ladies usually don't like to play around with poetry. They only know one or two sentences, so they are not illiterate. If you want to talk about jewelry and clothes, make sure they don't stop talking.
This is the difference between official ladies and merchant ladies. Although merchant ladies also ask female teachers to teach them, they are rarely talented and talented. I believe that from now on, these ladies will have to play with poetry all day long.
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Tian Minyan smiled and said to Gentleman who was sitting down: "Sister Wen, you did a great job."
Wen Wenwen blushed slightly, spat at her, and said angrily: "Even you laugh at me, let's see if I don't tear your mouth off."
"I'm serious." Tian Minyan hurriedly begged for mercy sincerely: "No one here can compare to you."
The second round of drumming started quickly. This time, Zhang Xiuer didn't drum for too long and stopped after just a few beats. The hydrangea fell on the hand of a Wang Qianjin. The lucky draw was for singing. Wang Qianjin screamed and sang a paragraph.
The song made everyone present frown when they heard it.
In the third round, Liang Yin won the lottery. She performed a sword dance and was so heroic that she won a round of applause.
Zhang Xiuer always saw Tian Minyan avoiding her, and couldn't help but feel annoyed. She winked at the maid, who quickly stood in front of her and started playing the drum. The girl stared at the passing of the bouquet without blinking, until Wen Wen handed it over.
After coughing lightly, Zhang Xiuer hurriedly stopped playing the drums and turned around to take a look.
"Oh, Miss Tian, you have won the lottery this time. Come and take a look at the lottery." Zhang Xiuer looked excited and wanted to grab the box containing the lottery and spread it out for Tian Minyan to perform.
Chen Qianjin took out a piece of paper, spread it out, raised her eyebrows and said, "The winner of the lottery will play the piano and sing a song. Come quickly, get the piano."
"Miss Tian, this is very simple, you should know it." Zhang Xiuer smiled with a malicious look on her face.
Wen Wenwen and Liang Yunyin frowned, looked at Tian Minyan and said, "I'll do it for you."
Tian Minyan patted their hands respectively, signaling them to calm down.
The piano was quickly fetched and placed on the table. Chen Qianjin smiled and said: "Miss Tian, please."
Everyone in the pavilion looked at Tian Minyan, some were gloating about her misfortune, some had bad intentions, and some were watching the excitement. Only Wen Wen and Liang Yunyin beside her were really worried about her.
Liang Yunyin was an upright person. Seeing Tian Minyan not moving, she immediately wanted to stand up, but Tian Minyan stood up before her and pressed her shoulder. She said to everyone with an innocent face: "Sisters, do you know that I am from the countryside?"
Did you grow up there?"
As soon as she said these words, some people started laughing, and Huang Wenru even had a look of hatred in her eyes and a look of gloating on her face.
"Children from our farmers' families are either working in the fields or collecting firewood in the mountains. How can we have so much time to learn to play the piano? In this free time, we are all thinking about how to make money. How can we be like Miss Chen?
Miss Wang, Miss Zhang and my cousin, you can just stretch out your hand and get money, open your mouth and you can eat, ugh..."
Tian Minyan didn't wait for everyone to finish laughing, then she sighed deeply, causing Miss Chen and others to freeze their smiles on their faces.
What does this mean? Does it mean to ridicule them for not knowing how to do anything? Or is it to laugh at them that they have nothing to wear and only open their mouths, like useless people?
"These people are divided into three, five, and nine grades. Those with good fortunes are the ones who take care of the girl's life. Those with bad fortunes, haha..." Chen Qianjin immediately sneered and stabbed back with a pointed finger.
Tian Minyan sneered in her heart, and she didn't know what level you belonged to, so she pretended to agree and asked: "Sister said it is true, there is a ranking of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce in this world, I forgot. Ah, so to speak,
We farmers can also rank second."
Shang is ranked last. The Chen family is a businessman, and she, Chen Meilan, is just the daughter of a businessman. She is not as good as Tian Minyan, a farmer girl!
Understanding this, Chen Qianjin stood up abruptly, pointed at Tian Minyan and said angrily: "You..."
"Oh, what's going on? Isn't it about playing the piano and singing? Why are Sister Chen and Sister Yan singing a big show?" Huang Wenyuan saw that something was wrong, and quickly stood up to make mud, and said with a smile: "Sister Yan can't
It doesn’t matter, isn’t this a rule? Those who don’t get lucky should have a glass of fruit wine.”
As she spoke, she took the small glass of fruit wine she had prepared and said, "Sister, how about having a drink with you?"
She wanted to be a sweetheart, but Tian Minyan refused. She pushed away the wine in Huang Wenyuan's hand, blinked and said, "Sister, what are you talking about? Fruit wine is also wine. I am only eleven years old, and my mother does not allow me to drink wine. This
I don’t know how to play the piano and sing, but didn’t I tell you when I was playing this game that if I didn’t know how, my eldest cousin would help me?”
"So, cousin, please." Tian Minyan smiled and looked at Huang Wenru, who was watching the fun, and made a gesture of invitation.
"What? Me?" Huang Wenru stood up with a surprised look on her face. She noticed that everyone was looking at her strangely and blushed.
Huang Wenyuan first expressed dissatisfaction with Tian Minyan's kindness, and now she was shocked when she heard that her sister had been asked to step in for her.
Others didn't know it, but the two sisters knew it. They studied poetry, songs, music, music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, so they read and played with Miss He. They could barely compose a few poems. How about playing the piano? She could barely do it herself.
A song came up, but Huang Wenru was tone deaf and couldn't play half of the song.
They only wanted to see Tian Minyan make a fool of themselves when they played this game, so they tried their best to encourage others to mention it. But now, Tian Minyan openly admits that she knows nothing and seems sincere and magnanimous. What about them?
Huang Wenyuan suddenly felt that she was riding a tiger. She glared at her sister and blamed her. What could she do in the first place? She always had to clean up the mess for her. She said: "There is no one else to do this. A small glass of fruit wine is nothing. Wait."
I'll tell you later for my sister-in-law."
Tian Minyan glanced at Huang Wenru's panicked eyes, and then looked at Huang Wenyuan's somewhat anxious look, and suddenly realized in her heart, maybe she had overestimated them, and actually didn't understand this romantic matter, right?
Haha, they encouraged me to play this game in the beginning, wanting to see myself make a fool of myself, but now, I'm letting them have a taste of what it means to shoot themselves in the foot.
Thinking of this, Tian Minyan felt very innocent and said: "But the eldest cousin promised to help me from the beginning. Cousin Wenru, you can't do it, right?"
As soon as Huang Wenyuan heard that she was about to be attacked, she provoked her to do something. Before she could react, Huang Wenru was immediately on fire and loudly said: "Who said I can't do it? I'm not a wild girl like you."
This idiot!
Huang Wenyuan and Tian Minyan cursed in their hearts at the same time, but the former was angry and the latter was sarcastic!
Huang Wenru was so excited by Tian Minyan that she sat in front of the piano table. Looking at the piano, her scalp went numb, and then she calmed down and woke up.
Damn it, fell into a trap!
She looked up at Tian Minyan and saw that she was smiling brightly, but that look in her eyes clearly said, "You want me to make a fool of myself? You are still lacking in moral integrity!"
"What's wrong? Miss Huang, wait, you can't really say what Miss Tian said, you can't do anything, can you?" When Chen Qianjin saw Huang Wenru not moving for a long time, she took out the anger she had received from Tian Minyan.
On her body, she sneered: "If this is true, then you are really inferior to your cousin, who knows how to farm and open a shop."
Huang Wenru's face turned pale after hearing this, she bit her pink lips tightly, put her hands on the strings tremblingly, and made a sharp scratching sound, making half of her face go numb.
"Oh my god, is this also playing the piano? Is this the magic sound?"
"Stop, stop quickly."
"My ears hurt so much, come down quickly."
The rich ladies in the pavilion hurriedly covered their ears and shouted at Huang Wenru with contempt on their faces. Although Huang Wenru was a shameless person, she couldn't stand such a look, so she burst out crying and rushed out of the pavilion.
"Sister." Huang Wenyuan saw her and hurriedly chased after her.
Tian Minyan, however, sat in her seat with a nonchalant expression, slowly picked up a cup of tea and ate it, and said to Wen Wenwen and the others with a smile: "This tea is really good, sisters, try it too."
When Zhang Xiuer, Chen Meilan and the others saw it, the corners of their mouths twitched and they thought, this is not something to be trifled with. At that moment, they were all a little embarrassed and stopped mentioning the continuation of the game.
"Oh, look at me, are you still playing this game?" Tian Minyan seemed to have just realized that the atmosphere in the pavilion was different, and she quickly put down her teacup and said, "Come on, come on, this game is quite fun, let's continue."
"Yes, but let's not let anyone be smart enough to be misled by their cleverness, or mislead Qing Qing. This face is all given to oneself." Liang Yin said contemptuously.
Zhang Xiuer coughed and said, "I'm going back to change clothes, you guys play first." He helped the girl and left.
"I've had too much tea. I'll go to the latrine." Chen Qianjin also stood up.
"I'll go with you."
"It's not fun, I'll go listen to the show."
"..."
At this time, all the rich people in the pavilion were gone, leaving only the proprietors Zhang Cai'er and Tian Minyan Wenwen and Liang Yunyin.
"This... this..." Zhang Cai'er looked at Tian Minyan and the others at a loss.
Tian Minyan and Wenrou looked at each other and started to giggle.
Behind a rockery not far from the pavilion, several people crowded together and took in the scene in the pavilion.
"Is this your sister? Gao, really Gao." Fang Yu said to Tian Minrui beside him: "I understand now why you listen to your sister in everything."
"I just now understand what Master means when he says that only women and villains are difficult to raise?" A young man of about sixteen or seventeen years old said, waving a folding fan.
"Brother Fang Xian, Yan'er is extremely smart." Liu Ruyu looked at the man with bright eyes and said, "She is excellent."
"Yes." Tian Minrui said with a smile: "We are very good girls."
Fang Xian looked at the two of them, laughed out loud, then looked at the lazy little girl in the pavilion and said, "What a girl with a bright heart and a bright heart!"
Yan thanks xiituzi for the red envelope, okay~ Yan can’t write poetry, so he can only steal it, cough
