Hidden golden branches

Sun Yi stood there, raised his left hand and spread his fingers. In the palm of his hand, there was a peace amulet that was stained brown by blood and embroidered with the word "peace".

The peace talisman in Sun Yi's hand was bulging, and a hole had been pierced in the middle, which was broken and dirty.

Sun Yi's fingers stiffly untied the peace charm, and inside was a fragmented sandalwood amulet.

"There is no cure for that poison. Even if my mother came here in person, there was nothing she could do to save it. But maybe you don't think you should die. This amulet is attached to the front of your heart, and the arrow pierces it. Deep. I used a lot of medicine, and you woke up. This peace talisman really keeps you safe." Zhang Xiuyuan's words were like a heavy hammer, shattering the wall he had always built in his heart. The moment it collapsed, Only then did he realize that he couldn't bear it.

Sun Yi held the peace talisman tightly in his hand and slumped into the chair.

The patter of rain outside covered the silence and sound of the room.

How could Chen Rong care about Sun Yi's official affairs with Zhang Xiuxi?

She now calmed down and concentrated on embroidering the sachet for Ji Yuxian. Now under the guidance of the two nuns from the palace invited by her family, her embroidery work was getting better and better.

It was a custom in the Wei Dynasty that the bride should give a hand-embroidered sachet to her future husband before getting married.

Therefore, these days, except for Ji Yuxian taking her out to listen to plays and taste delicious food in restaurants, she basically didn't go out. She even didn't answer Yue Wanshu's invitation. Concentrate on staying at home and embroidering the sachet.

In the afternoon of this day, after Chen Rong took a nap, he still picked up his needle and thread.

The embroidery pattern on the sachet is a very traditional pattern of mandarin ducks playing in the water. This is what ordinary people embroider when they get married.

But later, when she stared at the sachet, she still felt dissatisfied.

Subconsciously, she wanted to embroider the best one for Ji Yuxian.

Then I changed to other stitches and embroidered again.

But when she compared the two, she couldn't see how much better the latter was than the former.

annoying.

In the blink of an eye, it's already the twelfth lunar month, and Chen Rong's sachet is still undecided.

Cuizhu held the wooden box, which contained at least seven or eight sachets that had been made. The rest were embroidered patterns that had not even had a chance to be made into sachets, so they were scrapped by Chen Rong.

In fact, with her current skills, any one of them would be amazing.

It's not that Chen Rong was bad at embroidery, it's just that he didn't care before and wasn't enthusiastic about female celebrities.

Yu Zhu said: "Miss, this is obviously very beautiful, why are you not satisfied again?"

Chen Rong shook his head and said, "One piece of embroidery thread is of the wrong color."

"It would be better to change it to blue."

Yuzhu sighed, wondering what kind of embroidery would make the lady satisfied.

"Miss, Ping'er sent a letter yesterday saying that he would come back after the baby is born." Yu Zhu said as he remembered something.

Chen Rong put down the sachet in his hand, raised his head and said, "Hey, I almost forgot. Counting the days, Ping'er will give birth in more than two months. Yu Zhu, go and call Aunt Zhong."

Yu Zhu was a little disappointed for a moment. He had just told the young lady about Ping'er, so why did he end his conversation without calling out Aunt Zhong?
As soon as she walked out, Grandma Zhong happened to lift the thick curtain of tapestry embroidered with peonies, came in and said with a smile: "Miss, the imperial concubine sent a message asking you to enter the palace."

When Chen Rong saw that it was Aunt Zhong, she also smiled and said, "Okay," and then said, "Aunt Zhong, send someone to deliver a letter to Zhuangzi in Dingyu, asking the officials to take good care of Ping'er. Find Po Wen in advance and let Ping'er give birth to the baby safely." "Okay, okay, old slave, I'll go right now." Aunt Zhong agreed repeatedly and was about to leave when she thought of something and turned back to the closet.

Only then did Yu Zhu put his heart into his stomach, knowing that the young lady was kind-hearted, so he quickly grinned and said for Ping'er: "Thank you, young lady."

"Tsk!" Chen Rong glanced at her. She didn't know Yu Zhu's thoughts yet, but the disappointed expression just now fell into her eyes.

Cuizhu, who had just come in from outside, knew that Chen Rong was about to enter the palace, so he served Chen Rong and changed into a brand new eight-panel satin pleated skirt, dyed with valerian and begonia flowers, and the sleeve corners and skirt had gold embroidered cloud patterns.

Aunt Zhong went inside and took out a white fox cloak that Ji Yuxian had just given her. Cuizhu took the cloak from Aunt Zhong and put it on Chen Rong. She stood in front of Chen Rong and helped tie the ribbon around her neck. .

Xiaobai didn't know where he was going to play earlier, but now he came running over, yelling "meow" and trying to jump on Chen Rong who had just changed clothes.

Yu Zhu's nimble little body jumped up and reached out to catch the kitten.

Don't let Xiaobai get the clothes she just changed into dirty.

'Meow meow! When the kitten saw that it was Yu Zhu who had its beard cut off, it nestled peacefully in Yu Zhu's arms, stretched out its little pink tongue and licked its little paws.

Today we are driving in Songlin, who just married his wife last month. The daughter-in-law is the daughter of a poor scholar on Donglin Street.

Don't ask how Songlin could marry the daughter of a good family. It is said that one day when Songlin went to Chen Rong's shop to check the accounts, it suddenly started to rain heavily. When Songlin came out of the shop, he saw a little girl hiding from the rain under the eaves in front of the door. It was getting dark and the rain would not stop for a while, so he kindly lent the umbrella that the shopkeeper had given him to the little girl who was taking shelter from the rain.

Later, the little girl came to return the umbrella, and just like that, the two of them fell in love.

The little girl's surname is Zhou. Her father is a failed scholar. She is the eldest member of the family. She usually does embroidery work with her mother to support the family. There is also a grandmother and two younger brothers at home. The whole family lives by selling groceries in a shop.

It is conceivable that life was very rough.

Zhou Xiucai saw that the people in Songlin were nice people, but he was unwilling to marry his daughter to a slave.

After Yun Man found out from Songlin's mother, Aunt Li, without saying a word, she went to the Yamen to change Songlin's slave status back to a good one.

Not only that, Yun Man also gave Songlin two hundred taels of silver and asked him to go back and decorate the house well so that he could marry a new wife.

As mentioned last time about Ping'er, slaves like Nanny Li who are already married almost always buy a small house in a place that is far away from their master's mansion.

Chen Rong originally thought that Songlin would be interested in Cuizhu and planned to bring them together.

After knowing that Songlin wanted to marry Miss Zhou, she gave up this idea and gave him a hundred taels of silver. The last time Songlin suffered a blow for her, she kept it in her heart and wanted to compensate him well.

Grandma Li originally wanted to use her money to arrange her son's marriage. The money given by her master would not only allow her to marry her new wife in a glamorous manner, but also make good repairs to the house. After the wedding, there are still dozens of taels left over.

Needless to say, Grandma Li and her whole family are grateful for their master's kindness and will serve him well.

Ji Yuxian and Chen Rong seemed to have made an appointment. As soon as Chen Rong's carriage drove from Qianmen Street to the direction of the palace gate, Ji Yuxian, who had been summoned by the emperor, raised his feet and started to walk towards the palace. As if knowing something, he turned around and took a look. Hey, it seemed to be Chen Rong's carriage, so he stopped and waited.

When the carriage approached, I saw that the driver was Pine Forest.

Chen Rong: Who said I can’t do embroidery? Look, how about the sachet embroidered by this county master?
Cuizhu: The county chief’s embroidery must be good.

Ji Woo-hyun: Of course!