Empress Yu Concubine Lie Wins Everyday

Seeing Song Gege's mournful expression again, Shu Jin understood that he was thinking of the two little Gege who died young again, so he quickly changed the topic with a smile: "By the way, the fetal image of Li Gege is getting stronger and stronger now, Why don't we go and see her."

Li Gege is almost five months pregnant, but it can be regarded as saving the pregnancy, which can be regarded as gratifying.

Song Gege nodded with a smile: "She always loves visiting, but now she can bear her temper and hasn't shown her face for several months."

As he said that, Song Gege said suddenly: "It just so happens that I made a little swaddle a few days ago, and I was about to send it to her."——As he spoke, he asked a maid named Yan Lan to pick it up.

Shu Jin couldn't go there empty-handed, so she asked the eunuch Zhang Shoufa to bring the rather delicate Suzhou embroidery screen on the table, as a congratulatory gift.

In fact, other concubines are pregnant, so they don't have to give gifts, even if they do, they don't need to give too expensive things.Other princesses usually send some needlework, but Shu Jin's female celebrity is really hard to do.

The backyard of the Wangfu is no more than seven or eight courtyards in size. There are large courtyards like Danhuatang and Liuhuayuan, but there are more exquisite small courtyards, and some courtyards even have more than one princess living in them.

For example, Li Gege lived in a long and narrow courtyard at the end, and he still lived with old Gege Zhang.

Zhang Gege's temper was dull and his complexion was normal, but his temper was very gentle, and he politely greeted Li Gege who was inconvenient to come out to blow the cold wind.

Because she was pregnant, Li Gege’s house was full of charcoal fires, and Zhang Gege also stayed in Li Gege’s room all day to warm up the heat, and helped with needlework by the way—there was a pair of semi-finished baby shoes on the table. .

Li Gege, who hadn’t seen him for a long time, has finally put on some flesh, but he is still not fat. His lower abdomen has obviously raised a gentle arc, and Li Gege also has a gentle smile on his face, "It’s so cold in the twelfth lunar month. The two sisters, drink some hot tea to warm up your body."

Song smiled slightly: "I'm short on money, and I can't bring out anything else, but it's Sister Geng who brought you such a rare treasure."

You know, Ge Ge's monthly allowance is only two taels of silver!Shu Jin mentioned Wuliang because Tianshen was born!
I also know that it is impossible for Song Gege to spend a month's salary to buy those two catties of silver charcoal!

A clever little maid offered two cups of hot black tea, and Shu Jin and Song Gege drank it with a smile before presenting their respective gifts.

Seeing the maid Hanshuang adding silver charcoal to the charcoal basin deftly, Song Gege couldn't help feeling envious.

Speaking of which, this Fujin has been very virtuous recently, and since Li Gege's fetal image is stable, he still tells her to continue resting the fetus.The application speed is also much higher than usual, especially the charcoal fire has been doubled.

The amount of red charcoal is limited, and the black charcoal is too choking.What Shu Jin used was this ordinary white charcoal, which was sent to the palace by Geng's family before winter, and it weighed two hundred catties, and Shu Jin had already used more than half of it now.A few days ago, I was inquiring with someone about buying some more silver charcoal, only then did I know that this silver charcoal costs one tael of silver per catty!

While talking and joking, a young eunuch came in quickly to report, "Miss Danzhu from Danhuatang is here."

It was a glass screen made of rosewood—glass is difficult to burn these days, so it is considered a valuable thing.In fact, this table screen is just a decoration, and it really has no practical use, so Shu Jin thought it was an eyesore after looking at it for a long time, so he took it as a gift.

Li Gege smiled shyly, assuming that Geng Gege stepped down the steps for her, "Then I will be ashamed."

You must know that the charcoal ratio of Princesses has always been insufficient. If you want to avoid being frozen, you have to use your own money to exchange charcoal.Old Gege like Zhang Gege, who can only live on his salary, can only run around to rub other people's heaters.

Li Gege couldn't help being a little surprised, and hurriedly said: "It's so precious, how can I accept it?"

Shu Jin smiled hurriedly and said, "Let's go faster, where can I have a cup of milk tea."—By the way, ask someone to change some red bamboo charcoal for Song Gege's hand stove.

Li Gege's eyes were a little blurred, and he couldn't help but said quickly: "This is too precious!"

On the way back, it started to snow again, so I had to slow down to avoid slipping.

The colorful glass is still very beautiful under the sunlight.

Feeling the warmth in his sleeves, Song Gege couldn't help but startled.

"Sister Song's embroidery skills are really getting better and better." Li Gege lovingly stroked the word "Fu" on the little swaddle.

Shu Jin was a little embarrassed, "It's no longer a treasure." But he had no choice but to ask Zhang Shoufa to lift the small screen up.

The Song family's Baifu swaddle is made of bright red satin material, and various blessing characters are embroidered with light yellow silk thread. Although there are obviously not as many as one hundred, it is still considered Baifu.

Shu Jin hurriedly stuffed her still warm hand into Song Gege's sleeve calmly.

Song Gege smiled and said: "The value is second to none. The most important thing is that this glass screen was given by the prince when Sister Geng was pregnant with Brother Tianshen. The words "Fu Shou Shuang Quan" are also engraved on the red sandalwood shelf. Excellent."

It's just that Song Gege is so thin, and her clothes are not as warm as hers, and the hand stove was handed over to the maid Yunxiu, so Shu Jin knew that her hand stove was filled with ordinary black charcoal, and it might have run out of heat long ago.

Fortunately, Shu Jin was wearing a newly made Li Diao gown this year, and was holding a Pingjin hand stove filled with red bamboo charcoal, so she didn't feel cold.

Seeing that Dan Zhu had brought some high-quality furs, Shu Jin and Geng Gege exchanged a glance, then got up and said goodbye.

Shu Jin hurriedly laughed and said: "Actually, Tianshen almost threw the screen down several times. I was really afraid that if he smashed it down one day, the prince would definitely blame it later. It's better to give it to you, just as a blessing Longevity."

Their regular charcoal is just ordinary black charcoal, but this kind of charcoal is extremely pyrotechnic, and usually it can only be used as stove charcoal, that is, to burn some tea or something.If you want to use it indoors, you must at least use white charcoal. Its silvery white charcoal is like frost, so it is also called silver charcoal or silver bone charcoal. , It got this name only because it was packed in a red basket.

Alas, the expenses in winter are very high. Although Shu Jin has all kinds of subsidies from her natal family, she can't help but sigh how expensive the heating bills are in ancient times!

It is small to drop the screen, but the key point is that it will hurt your hands after the glass is broken!Raising children is really not suitable for placing such fragile items in the house!

In Shu Jin's small hall, the charcoal fire was burning red, and when he entered the room, he took off his sable coat and drank slightly scalding milk tea with Song Gege, chatting and laughing.

Fortunately, in the evening, when the wind and snow stopped for a while, Shu Jin sent Song Gege out of the hall.

Song Gege was stuffed with his hand stove by the maid Yunxiu, and suddenly felt that his sleeves were warm, and he was stunned for a while, only feeling warm in his heart.

After sending Song Gege away, Shu Jin couldn't help asking Lan Ruo: "This black charcoal... can it really be used indoors?"

Lan Ruo said in a low voice: "The black charcoal sent to the palace is actually of high quality. It's just that when it was first lit, it was inevitable that the smoke would smoke people, and now it must be red hot outside before it can be brought indoors. It can be used barely. It's just that It won't burn for too long, so I have to go outside to add charcoal..."

Shu Jin couldn't help sighing, it turned out that those unfavored Gege lived such a life.