Chapter 36: Gypsum Mold

Zhou Bo called Xuejian into the study. Xuejian was very puzzled. This study was mostly used to discuss affairs. Zhou Bo was not a book lover like Sanlang. The study of this old house in the countryside was even more empty. At this moment, the spacious desk was covered with a tablecloth.

The trees in the courtyard are covered with roofs and half cover the windows, but they don't feel hot. There is a wooden basin full of well water in the corner of the study, which is also a little cool.

Xue Jian looked at Zhou Bo's eyes and raised the tablecloth. What he saw was actually several objects made of plaster.

Zhou Bo has been standing behind him, pointing to these objects and saying, "Look, is it what you said you wanted last time?"

"Dalang, you are so awesome!" She picked it up and looked closely, and couldn't help bending her eyes.

What kind of simple object is it? There are rich peonies and noble orchids. Although it is still slightly rough, it shows that the producer has made considerable efforts.

Zhou Bo said, "What's so difficult about this? It's just a simple object made casually!"

"You always know what Xuejian wants in his heart." Xue was happy and couldn't help thinking that she, the so-called traveler, seemed to be far less intelligent than Zhou Bo, a transparent ancient man. Thanks to Zhou Bo, many of her ideas could be accepted by everyone calmly through Zhou Bo, otherwise she might be burned to death as a monster.

A soft happiness flowed in his heart. Xue Jian turned around and put his arms around Zhou Bo's neck: "Thank you, Dalang."

Zhou Bo's sudden extraordinary enthusiasm was still unbearable for a moment, and his body paused, and then a smile appeared in his eyes. He hesitantly hugged Xue Jian with his hand before saying in her ear, "How can you thank me?"

"..." Xuejian had no choice but to say, "Let Xuejian think about it."

Feeling the slight force on his hands, and the two people's bodies were close together. Xuejian blushed and struggled slightly to push Zhou Bo away and make a grimace, "Is it Xie's arm or Xie's legs? Dalang is free!"

Zhou Bo stretched out his hand and didn't hold her, so he smiled and said, "If I had known, I wouldn't have done this for you."

Xuejian carefully looked at the primary gypsum mold in his hand and looked at Zhou Bo with shining eyes and said, "Dalang, I want to weave a net with a few thin fishing threads, net the mold, and then hang it on the gourd. Dalang, if the gourd grows, will it grow into these patterns?"

What Xuejian didn't say was that at the beginning, she had a cousin who planted a season of gourds every year, and then put a coke jar with a plaster mold to grow some patterned gourds, which was enough for a year.

Of course, Xue Jian will not understand the specific operation. At that time, he didn't expect that Zhou Bo could really make these molds. Now the mold is available. Although there is no Coke can, there is Zhou Bo. Zhou Bo will have a way.

Xuejian found that he had been lazy, which shows that relying on this kind of thing is really a bad habit.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but be stunned. When did she start relying on Zhou Bo's habit?

Zhou Bo looked at her with a smile across the table and said, "It's all nonsense!"

He thought more in his heart. If these patterns can grow on the gourd as Xuejian said, it would be shocking! But then the face condensed, and it was not impossible to think about it. The key to this matter is whether the mold or how to keep it secret.

For a moment, Zhou Bo's mind had turned seven or eight thoughts. While Xue Jian was still thinking in a daze, he had turned the table, hugged Xue Jian and said, "Where are you running? It's serious to catch you with the net first!"

The long window facing south is open, and the sun flows in from the dense leaves, leaving the shadow of the trees mottled, which makes people's hearts full of joy.

Zhou Bo was wearing a 50% new ink robe, which made his skin look like jade. Xue Jian raised his head slightly and couldn't help but be stunned.

Seeing Xuejian's appearance, Zhou Bo was naturally proud. He scratched her little nose and said, "What else do you want?"

Xue Jianming knew that he would not be strong, so he pushed him and hummed gently: "And you are an endless network,

It's easy to trap me in the middle of the network,

The deeper I got, the more confused I became,

The road is getting longer and longer,

How can I lock your eyes.

I would rather stay by your side like this,

I would rather never forget it for the rest of my life..."

I don't know whether the business of "Zhenweizhai" is due to Bai Yitian or the strangeness of things themselves. In short, the closer it is to the Dragon Boat Festival, the more popular it is.

The mushrooms picked every three days are now sold out on the same day, and many of them are sold outside Anning, including big cities such as Qingzhou.

If the business is good, you will naturally be in a good mood.

Before the Dragon Boat Festival, there were already three groups of villagers in Pingshan Village who went to Anning County to sell the Chinese herbal roots they dug from the mountain.

Needless to say, the streets and alleys are very lively. With the consent of Er Niang, Sanni followed Aunt Zhang and Aunt Ma and Aunt Wang with Xiaoyue and Zhang Xiu. Everyone was dazzled, kept watching and comparing, and still decided not to buy or not to buy. But they were all extremely excited and laughed endlessly.

The preparation for the Dragon Boat Festival of the Zhou family was naturally arranged by Er Niang.

Unexpectedly, there were also zongzi at this time, which surprised Xue. Together with Zhou's mother Du Ma Sanni, she prepared all kinds of zongzi fillings that everyone had never imagined, and then wrapped them up with different color lines.

When Xu Cong'an left, he had already asked Qi Niang to prepare Chinese herbal medicine roots, waiting for the Dragon Boat Festival to cook a large pot with ham and bacon at noon, and the whole family gathered around to eat medicinal roots together.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhou's mother, Du's mother and others have already cleaned the house and sprinkled yellow water on the food storage and kitchen in the room to kill or prevent poisonous insects.

There is no fragrant Taoist temple near Anning County, so the Zhou family can only paste more five-color peach charms and draw mascots such as Jiang Taigong, God of Wealth, treasure pots, money trees and so on the charms. Of course, the mascot is the name of Xuejian, which also attracted Sanlang's scolding.

As long as the villagers have something to do with the Zhou family, they are thick-skinned and use baskets with dumplings and other things to ask for Sanlang's charm, so that they can hang them at home and stick them to the middle door to avoid evil.

Everyone got up early and painted their ears and noses with male yellow to avoid insect poison. Starting from Qi Niang, the children should tie five-color silk threads on their wrists and ankles to keep them healthy.

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as "Daughter's Day", has simply had a simple breakfast. Since the second mother, the girls have been hairpind with pomegranates. For a while, the flowers are red and green, and the temples are fragrant.

There is also such a naughty Wu Niang, who picked this flower for a while and stepped on the corner of that man's clothes for a while, which made everyone scream.

Er Niang just braided Qi Niang in person and inserted pomegranates. Looking back, she saw Wu Niang running all over the room. She hurriedly rolled up her sleeves and pulled Wu Niang.

"Sanni, go and get a basin of water again." Er Niang said a word without raising her head, and then pressed Wu Niangqiang in front of the dressing table.

Wuniang looked at her crooked pomegranate in the bronze mirror, and her makeup was a little dizzy. She immediately calmed down and secretly spit out her tongue.

He took the wet handkerchief in his hand and wiped Wu Niang's little flower face fiercely, regardless of Wu Niang's deliberate scream.

But no one came forward to rescue, and Wu Niang could only listen to Er Niang's nagging.

After wiping it four or five times, Er Niang looked at the sun outside, and then looked at Wu Niang's loose braids. She became more and more anxious and scolded, "Shou'er, I don't ask you to be as your name, but at least you can have half a good child, so let the second sister save me worry. You are only one year younger than Liang'er!"

Siniang has also cleaned up little Shiniang, and then quickly came over to help and said, "I'll braid it."

Er Niang nodded and sighed, "It's not as good as Xiao Shi Niang to make people worry-free."

Wuniang pouted and said, "Okay, okay, I'll change it. Can't I change it?" She looked at herself in the mirror. Her skin color is the whitest among the Zhou brothers and sisters, faintly green, and she will not tan. Now because she has been crazy for a moment, she has a healthy pink. How can she use any rouge?

Er Niang stared at the rouge in her hand for a moment and didn't make a sound. After a long time, she said, "Even if you only have a few days?"

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to the second sister. I promise not to cause trouble for three days, okay?" Wu Niang looked carefully at Er Niang's face.

Si Niang couldn't help dragging her hair with laughter. She stopped and said, "Don't say that the second sister doesn't believe it, I don't believe the fourth sister!"

Wuniang pulled back her little braids and said angrily, "On that day, I promise to go out today and never cause trouble. Is it okay?"

I saw Er Niang rushing to pull her up, change the wrinkled coat on her body, and said coldly, "Thank God!"

Wuniang turned around in front of the bronze mirror, "Second sister, look how lady I am now!"

"What is a lady?" Xiao Shi Niang interrupted and asked.

"...that's right, that's right," Wu Niang's chin was almost lowered to her chest, and a colorful ribbon tied to her waist was almost rubbed by her left and right. She whispered, "That's a little lady like the second sister and the fourth sister."

Er Niang snorted, "You are still a little self-aknowledge."

Wu Niang was speechless. Although she was thick-skinned, she was embarrassed to say that she was a lady in front of Xiao Shi Niang.

"It's not enough to know," the second mother said coldly, "Aunt Wang is so gentle and elegant, but you are not at all..." Suddenly realized that she was wrong, and thought of her parents and a few aunts who didn't know where they were, and her eyes turned red.

The fifth mother said shyly and depressedly, "Second sister, stop talking."

After all, she felt that she was out of her temper. Er Niang sighed, "Don't let the eldest brother wait for a long time."

Sanni said cleverly, "I'll go to the front yard first to see if the young master is ready."

Where is Zhou Bo and others? Everyone immediately became busy, making the eldest brother's cold eyes stare, and his heart had to be frozen during the festival. It's better not to provoke him.

Zhou Bo rented several carriages in advance, and the whole family went to Anning County except Zhou Mancang and Zhou Jinsheng.