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Chapter 14 Meeting
In the main room of the west courtyard, Mrs. Pei asked Qiuhen to bring some candied fruits, and asked Chunrui to brew a pot of good jasmine slices.

Girls like to drink scented tea and don't like the bitter taste of green tea.The jasmine slices can just dissolve the sweetness of some candied fruit.

Although Kong Shaoling is not easy to get close to, the children in the family are taught very well.

Mrs. Pei looked at Kong Ling'er opposite, with a melon-seeded face and willow-leaf eyebrows. She was wearing a light yellow shirt and a light green skirt with strings underneath. She was as delicate and charming as a flower blooming in early March.

The key is to be polite!The more Pei looked at it, the more he liked it.

Kong Linger smiled and asked Fei Cui to bring up the food box, "Miss Pei, my mother knew that I was coming, so she specially asked me to bring white jade cakes made by my own kitchen to my wife and the two girls!"

Fei Cui stepped forward and took out the white jade cake from the food box. The white and soft pastry smelled like rice.

Kong Ling'er said with a smile, "This white jade cake tastes good when it's hot. Miss Pei, try it to see if it's still to your liking."

It's white jade cake again!

Mrs. Pei smiled, took a piece with a handkerchief and put it in her mouth.The white jade cake is warm and fragrant, sweet in the mouth, really good.

She tasted it carefully and swallowed, "It's better than the Yuan's in the east of the city. Thank you, Mrs. Shaoling, the girls and I are lucky."

Only then did Kong Ling'er get up and leave with a smile, "I've bothered Mrs. Pei for a long time, I'm going to see Yun'er now."

Mrs. Pei stood up with an amiable smile, "It's rare for you sisters to get close together. I'll let Yao'er come over later, and lunch will be served in Yincui Pavilion. Let's have a good time together."

Kong Ling'er thanked Mrs. Pei, and as soon as she walked out of the west courtyard, she saw a tall girl in green clothes waiting in front of the door.Seeing her, he hurried forward and shouted happily, "Ling'er!"

"Yun'er!" Kong Linger's eyes were shining brightly, although she hadn't seen her for several years, she still recognized her immediately.

"Last night, I thought about coming to see you today. I was so happy that I didn't sleep all night."

"Yun'er, you're back, you're finally back." Kong Linger said with a smile.

"I'm back." Chang Luoyun's clear eyes were a little moist, "Ling'er, I see you again."

Fei Cui and Bi Yan followed behind, looking at each other with pursed lips and a smile, their eyes were sparkling.

"Yun'er, how are you doing in the country?" Kong Ling'er looked her up and down, "You seem to have lost weight, so you haven't suffered!"

"I'm living a good life and haven't suffered." Chang Luoyun smiled and walked slowly forward with her arm in his arms, "I just miss my grandmother, my aunt and you."

Kong Linger gently patted Chang Luoyun's arm holding her with her free hand, and sighed in her heart, "When your grandmother was at the funeral, I thought you would come back, and I brought you something you like to eat Bai Yu Cake, but I didn't see you."

"I'm in the countryside, and no one came to pick me up. I know that my grandmother passed away half a month later, and there's no point in coming back by then." Chang Luoyun had a faint smile on his lips.

"Yun'er—" Kong Linger stopped and looked at her.

"It's all over," Chang Luoyun looked up at the sky, and slightly lowered his head to look at Kong Linger's face.

Kong Linger was half a head shorter than her, and when she looked up a little, she was smiling peacefully.

"At that time, I knew that I would not be able to come back in a short time."

"Yun'er..."

She took a deep breath and asked with a smile, "How about you? Linger, how are you doing?"

"Okay, it's just that without you, I feel a lot less interesting."

It would be great if time could stay forever when they were young.

Kong Ling'er was sad, but then smiled, "My aunt is all about making me a master in embroidery like your aunt. In the past few years, I have worked hard, but I can't learn how to be like your aunt. skill."

"My mother complained about me, saying that I don't work hard, can you blame me?" Kong Ling'er looked innocent and wronged, "If you want to blame, you can't blame me, blame only my mother for not having your mother's talent, No matter how hard I try, I can only be like my mother, not yours."

Chang Luoyun said with a smile, "Isn't Shaoling a lady who is a celebrity? She naturally has very high demands on you."

As he spoke, he had already arrived at Yincui Pavilion.

Jade took out the white jade cake from the food box and placed it on the table.Bi Yan was stunned for a moment, then smiled embarrassingly, but didn't go to take it.

Fei Cui wondered, "Didn't you love to eat white jade cakes before? Thanks to our girl, I begged my wife to let the cook in the kitchen make it early in the morning."

Chang Luoyun picked up a piece of white jade cake and took a bite, looked at Bi Yan, deliberately teasing her, "This white jade cake is loose and soft, very delicious, you really don't want a piece."

Biyan angrily took a piece and stuffed it into her mouth, puffed her cheeks and said vaguely, "I was provoked by someone, not the white jade cake, why should I punish myself not to eat it?"

Kong Ling'er was confused when he heard this, "You guys are both human and white jade cakes, provoking and punishing at the same time, what kind of charades are you playing?"

"Ling'er, you don't know that Bi Yan is afraid of Bai Yu Cake now." Chang Luoyun talked about Chang Luoyao's finding fault.

"Thanks to the protection of the girl, otherwise my innocent grievances would not be cleared away, and I'm afraid I would really be sold out." Bi Yan said.

"Fifth Miss is going too far," Kong Linger said, "When she and Mrs. Qin were learning embroidery, we met a few times. She looked so delicate, but she was so aggressive."

"It's a good thing you're smart, otherwise Biyan might really suffer." Thinking about talking about people behind their backs is not good after all, Kong Linger changed the subject, "Yun'er, how are you preparing for this embroidery competition?" Kong Linger asked with a smile.

"I don't have any preparations, let's talk about it later!" Chang Luoyun rested his chin on his hands and looked at Kong Linger.

"Now there are some new embroidery methods in Qingzhou," Kong Linger said softly, "The Empress Dowager likes exquisite and gorgeous embroidery, and now everyone likes to divide the embroidery threads into thinner ones, and no longer pay attention to whether the stitches are neat or not." Tidy, so the halo is more natural."

"It's just that this embroidery method is a test of basic skills. Only when the basic skills are well practiced, can the needle be handled like a brush."

Kong Linger had a trace of melancholy in her eyes, "Although I have been practicing for a long time, the flowers and plants I embroider are exquisite and exquisite, but they are always rigid and lack a trace of aura. Now that the embroidery competition is coming, I have been thinking for a long time, but I still can't break through. " Kong Ling'er took a sip of tea from the teacup, with a bitter face, "But my mother has high hopes for me, I'm afraid I'll let her down."

Kong Shaoling has been in the Qingzhou Weaving Department for seven or eight years, but he has not been able to be promoted.Most of the officials who recommended him back then are old, and it is even more impossible to move up now.Mrs. Shaoling was really anxious. If her daughter could win the first prize in embroidery this time, maybe their family could return to Beijing. Even if they couldn't, at least her daughter could find a good relative.

She had no choice but to put pressure on Kong Linger.

Chang Luoyun reached out to hold Kong Linger's hand, trying to comfort her.

Kong Ling'er grabbed her hand backhanded, frowned, and said distressedly, "Yun'er, I'm afraid to see my aunt look disappointed, I don't want to let her down, but I'm really not sure!"

There was a trace of fear and anxiety in her eyes, "Yun'er, it's only a few days before the competition, but my heart is very confused. A few days ago, I went to my grandmother's house, thinking that it would be better to relax, but it still didn't work." ?”

She firmly held Chang Luoyun's hand, as if this was the only way to dissipate the uneasiness and anxiety in her heart.

"Ling'er, you have already embroidered very well, now all you need is to relax," Chang Luoyun said sincerely, "You are nervous, but in fact others are also nervous, you have to believe in yourself."

"It's good to win the embroidery competition and go to the capital smoothly, but if you can't, there are other ways to go to the capital, right?" Chang Luoyun stated his opinion in a calm manner, "If you go to the capital just to form a good relationship , then the method used to enter the capital is not very important. It is good to be a high-ranking and wealthy family, but there are also unknown sufferings in it, how do you know that there are no good sons if the family is equal?"

Kong Linger also understands this truth, but... what her mother said seems to be correct.

In any case, she finally felt a little more relaxed when she said what was buried in her heart and never dared to tell others.

"Yun'er, what about you? Don't you want to go to the capital?" Kong Ling asked softly.

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