The Salted Fish Empress Dotes on the Harem

Chapter 11 Hairpin
Then Cheng Cairen laughed mockingly, "It's just an ordinary hairpin and earrings! Where are the valuables? I don't know if Xu Cairen is used to being shabby and doesn't know what is precious, or he doesn't want to It’s only because of the sincerity that I send out those things that make people laugh!”

Hearing what Cheng Cairen said, everyone present covered their mouths and laughed, their gazes shot at Xu Cairen like blades, and Xu Cairen felt the lingering gaze in his eyes that he had never seen before.

At this moment, Xu Cairen's face was flushed with embarrassment and anger, and his eyes were also flushed.The ridiculing laughter from the crowd brought out her sense of inferiority again, and she argued feebly, "Who says I'm not willing to part with it! It's just...it's..."

Xu Cairen couldn't come up with a suitable excuse, she was indeed a gift, and she even opened it for Zhao Cairen to see in person, even if he wanted to say that the palace lady's attire was wrong, he couldn't say it.

In order to save face, Xu Cairen suddenly pulled out a shiny gold hairpin from his head full of pearls and jade and was about to hand it to Zhao Nuoqing, "Zhao Cairen, I was negligent, this gold hairpin is my last If you like it, I will give it to you now, and I ask my sister not to blame her! I really thought those jewelry matched my sister!"

Zhao Nuoqing shook his head, and was about to decline, when that Cairen Lin suddenly made a puzzled and surprised voice, "Hey? I think the apricot flower hairpin on Zhao Cairen's head seems to have something hidden in it! Can Zhao Cairen take it off and show it to me?" See?"

"This..." Zhao Nuoqing was about to refuse, but Lin Cairen took it off her head regardless.

Jin He and Jin Miao, who were behind them, saw Lin Cairen disrespecting their master so much, their eyes turned red with anxiety, but they dared not speak out because the other party was also a talented person.

Zhao Nuoqing was also a little sullen at the moment, and wanted to take the hairpin back, but Lin Cairen dodged it lightly, and said dissatisfiedly: "Zhao Cairen, don't be so stingy! I just have a look!"

After finishing speaking, Lin Cairen looked and looked at the hairpin over and over again, and finally inspected the hairpin handle carefully, and suddenly exclaimed, "Sure enough! I said I didn't look at it." wrong!"

Seeing her being so surprised, the people around asked, "What's wrong with this hairpin? It looks like there's nothing special about it except for its exquisite design?"

Lin Cairen immediately turned his head and glared at the person who had spoken, as if the person had said something that insulted the hairpin so badly, that momentary look seemed to eat him up.

"Shut up if you don't understand! This hairpin was made by a hairpin lady named Ruoshui. Ruoshui's craftsmanship is comparable to that of the imperial court. Among the girls of our Qingzhou city family, it is hard to find a hundred gold!"

Lin Cairen gouged out that person in dissatisfaction, despising that person's ignorance.

The concubine who was scolded was really wronged, she just asked out of curiosity, and she was going to be humiliated like this.But she was just a young lady, the lowest rank among the concubines present, she didn't dare to speak back even when she was scolded, she burst into tears in anger.

Naturally, Lin Cairen would not pay attention to whether a little picking girl was wronged, and continued to explain to everyone: "Look, the word Ruoshui is engraved on the handle of this hairpin! Every time Ruoshui makes a hairpin, it will I engraved my signature on the hairpin handle. A few days ago, I sent someone back to Qingzhou City to find Ruoshui to buy a hairpin, but I heard that Ruoshui disappeared a year ago, and there was no hair made by Ruoshui in Qingzhou City anymore. hairpin!"

Lin Cairen's eyes were full of disappointment, it seemed that she really liked the hairpin made by Ruoshui.

Zhao Nuoqing suddenly understood, no wonder Lin Cai seemed familiar, so it turned out that he came from Qingzhou City together with her.

Non-imperial relatives and nobles of the Dazhao Kingdom can also participate in the draft. At the beginning, there were many applicants, and the selection was first carried out in Qingzhou City, and then sent to the capital to be selected by the emperor himself.

Both Zhao Nuoqing and Lin Cairen were the top picks in the selection, and they were sent to the palace together. Therefore, there was a relationship between them, but at that time, there were eight other women who were selected together with her. , now it seems that only the two of them were selected.

I haven't seen them for more than a year, and she was not in a good mood at the time, so she didn't talk to the other nine people, so she only felt familiar, but she didn't expect them to come from the same place.

Lin Cairen looked at the hairpin and couldn't put it down, and finally looked at Zhao Nuoqing, "Isn't this hairpin bought a year ago? I remember that you and I entered the palace in the same year!"

Zhao Nuoqing didn't deny or confirm it, but Lin Cairen said to himself, "You also like Ruoshui's hairpin, so you have vision!"

Lin Cairen's eyes showed a hint of relief and appreciation, and Zhao Nuoqing said with a clear heart: It seems that she is a loyal supporter of the hairpin designed by Ruoshui!
What would happen if she knew that she was Ruoshui?
At the beginning, making hairpins was just a boring way to pass the time. Her father was a businessman, and she was fascinated by it, so she also tried to start a business. The pseudonym Ruoshui was taken from her own name "Nuoqing", but she never thought that many people would like what she made. hairpin.

It's just that she doesn't point at how much hairpins make. After all, if a hobby becomes a tool for profit, it loses its original meaning.

Therefore, Zhao Nuoqing often designed a hairpin after a long time. Gradually, the supply in the city began to fall short of demand, and the price became higher and higher. But even so, there were still countless people looking for her to order hairpins, until she accidentally entered the palace last year.

Therefore, Ruoshui in Qingzhou City disappeared.

The hairpin she is wearing on her head is not the old hairpin from last year, but she designed it a few days ago. Perhaps it is out of habit, she still engraves her pseudonym on the hairpin.

Lin Cairen reluctantly and carefully inserted the hairpin back into Zhao Nuoqing's bun, then turned to look at Xu Cairen with disgust, "I advise you to put away this extremely vulgar golden hairpin! Not to mention the ordinary design of this gold hairpin, but in terms of its value, even ten hairpins are not worth the one on top of Zhao Cairen's head!"

This is a bit exaggerated. In fact, the materials she used are not very expensive, but they need manpower, so the price is more expensive. The gold hairpin in Xu Cairen's hand, two are enough!

Lin Cairen made no secret of his dislike for Xu Cairen, not only for her taste, but also for her hypocrisy.

Zhao Nuoqing felt a little sympathetic to Xu Cairen. Xu Cairen was just poor. It is said that her father was only a seventh-rank official, and he lived in a remote area. I thought I was here to live a good life, but who knows, life in the palace is better than at home, but which concubine in the palace is not from a prominent family or rich in wealth?
Years of oppression created Xu Cairen's low self-esteem character.

Xu Cairen has always been cautious in the palace and was not favored. Suddenly, it was as if a pie fell from the sky. He had both money and the emperor's favor at the same time. Don't you want to show it off?
(End of this chapter)