green bamboo dream

As the autumn wind picked up and the weather turned cooler, all the servant girls in the mansion put on thinner jackets. 【26nbsp;】

Hua Ruo was coming in from the outside, holding a small tea tray carved with crabapple wood, and brought a tureen from the tea tray to Yuzhu, smiling and persuading: "Madam, drink it while it's hot. With some licorice, it must taste better."

Yu Zhu was embroidering a small kang screen, and couldn't help pouted when she heard the words, "Liar, last time Ruan's mother said that rock sugar was added, it still has the taste it should have, but it has an extra flavor." Oddly sweet, even harder to drink."

"Cough cough, just drink for two more days and you'll be fine. Just bear with it. This servant is going to get the dried peaches." Hua Ruo lifted the lid of the bowl and put it on the black lacquered kang table with carved carved legs in front of Yuzhu, and turned around to take it from the shelf. A blue and white pot the size of a palm was poked with a silver coin and placed on a small plate.

Yuzhu knew that she couldn't escape, and if she waited for Ruan's mother to come, she would suffer for her ears, so she pinched her nose and drank the bowl of concoction, and put a piece of dried peach in her mouth with a wrinkled face.This dried peach is the oldest "treasure of the shop" in the time-honored candied fruit shop opposite Wangfu Street. In addition to the sweet and sour taste, it is also full of a strange fragrance, which is appetizing and satisfying. The most popular Women's families in Beijing are welcome, and the prescription is kept secret. The capital is second only to one, and the daily quantity is limited, so the price is not cheap.

Waiting for the bitter taste in her mouth to be suppressed slowly, Yu Zhu breathed a sigh of relief, and picked up her needle and thread again. It is not a few days before the Empress Dowager's birthday, and the big countdown timer on the bedside reminds herself every moment Being lazy is not uncommon for Cheng Xunxun to make jokes about.

His hands paused, and he couldn't help looking at the green chrysanthemums in a pot in the corner of the room. His heart was a little complicated. This potted flower was called "Green Peony". Every time Hua Ruo watered it, he felt as if he was facing a formidable enemy, for fear of damaging a branch or a leaf, which shows that it is precious... Like dried peaches, it was also brought back by Cheng Xunxun, saying it was a reward for making clothes for him.

Thinking of this, I simply put down the needle, put my elbows on my chin and thought about it... Since I don’t need to go out early and return late every day, the two of them spend a lot more time together than before, and sometimes they are inseparable for almost a whole day— ——She sat on the kang and made clothes for him, and he sat on the other side of the kang table with a book, occasionally looking up and making some requests, as if it was only natural...

What surprised her the most was that the day Chunxian was going to be married off by him——

"Madam, don't drive your slaves away. Your slaves don't dare anymore. From now on, your slaves will start as third-class maids. I beg your wife not to drive your slaves away." Chun Xian's crying eyes were red, the hairpin rings were scattered, and a few strands fell off. Her hair was wet with tears and sticking to her face, making her look miserable.

The servant girl who came in behind hastily knelt down, "Madam atones, I really can't hold you back, Miss Chunxian... she still bites."

Sure enough, there was a red bite mark on the maid's exposed elbow, which was still oozing blood slightly.

Signaling the maid to go down to bandage, Yu Zhu looked at the woman whose emotions were close to losing control, and asked, "Who wants to drive you away?" She didn't do anything, could it be Mother Ruan and the others?Yu Zhu turned to look at Yao's mother beside her.

Yao's mother shook her head, indicating that no one made a move.

"What's the fuss in the wife's room?" A shout came from the door of the clean room, following the sound, I saw Cheng Xunxun walking in wearing a royal blue silk silk.He asked with a cold face, "What bites?"

Chunxian suddenly seemed to have seen a savior, so she didn't care to stand up, and crawled to Cheng Xunxun's feet on knees, not daring to touch his robe, crying and begging: "Second Master, it seems that I have worked hard for so many years. Do your best, no credit but hard work, don't let the wife drive the servant away, the servant will be beaten and punished for anything wrong, just ask for a place for the servant."

Yao's mother, Hua Ruo, and Zao Yuan were immediately furious. They were saying that Yu Zhu couldn't tolerate the jealousy of Tong Fang, and she dared to speak nonsense in front of his wife. Fortunately, she kept eating and drinking. offerings.

Cheng Xunxun glanced lightly at Chunxian who was kneeling on the ground: "You don't want to marry Guanshi Shao?"

As soon as this remark came out, let alone Chunxian, even Yuzhu and Yao's mother were taken aback. How did you say that Cheng Xunxun wanted to marry Chunxian to the steward?

"Second Master...Second Master." Chunxian knelt on the ground, she couldn't believe her ears, when she heard Zhou Mama's words, her first reaction was that his wife was going to do something, and the unwillingness in her heart went up Fleeing, why?Even the mistress can't dominate the master, they haven't seen the second master for many days, and they still don't let it go.As soon as her head got hot, she rushed to the main room desperately, even if she offended the mistress, she shouldn't just marry the little steward like this, but...

"You don't want to marry Guanshi Shao?" He repeated again.

Chunxian came to her senses in a jerk, still unable to believe it, and said cautiously: "Slave...marry Shao Guanshi?"

"Shaoying from the outer courtyard, mother Zhou didn't tell you?" Cheng Xunxun walked to the kang and sat down, and asked again.

"I don't want to get married, I just want to serve the second master and wife well." Chunxian's body trembled, almost on the verge of falling, but she knew that now was the moment that related to her fate for the rest of her life, so she had a very clear mind and said firmly.

Cheng Xunxun looked at her in surprise, "Even if you never lift Auntie up in the future, are you still willing?"

Chunxian was speechless in a daze, who wouldn't expect to give birth to a son to lift up his aunt, even if his aunt is not a serious master, she is still rich in clothes and food, and her servants serve her, so she doesn't have to be just taller than a maid like she is now A little bit, usually not even qualified to greet the mistress.Do housekeeping all your life?No, she doesn't want it, she...

"Slave..." She wanted to say something in a hurry, but when she raised her head, she bumped into Cheng Xunxun's slightly ironic eyes, piercing into the heart, like coal fire meeting ice water, her heart was completely cold down...

Ruan's mother came in with a small pot of tea made from angelica flakes. Seeing her master holding his chin in a daze, the dazed look was so cute, she couldn't help laughing: "Madam, what's the matter, but I'm tired Alright, let's take a sip of tea and rest for a while."

Yuzhu straightened up discouraged, took the tea very unwillingly, and complained: "It's angelica tea again. I don't like the taste. Mom, can I change it?"

"Danggui is good. Although the anti-child decoction that my wife drank a few days ago does not do much harm to the body, it still has some effects. If you don't take care of it and warm it up, how can you conceive the young master smoothly? I will steam some for you at night. The snacks made from donkey-hide gelatin dates are sweet and sweet, and tomorrow I will replace them with astragalus and dendrobium." Ruan's mother is best at recuperating things such as body and pregnancy, making one set after another, so that Yu Zhu's body is always healthy People who seldom take medicine are miserable... Cheng Xunxun thought it was the medicine he took because he was in a hurry because he couldn't conceive a child, so he bought dried peaches and brought them back...

"Mother Ruan, are you sure? The old lady brought up this matter again yesterday. I think her other things are easy to discuss, but she pays special attention to children. I often think that after the old lady married in, the aunts and bastards in the house They never stopped, and made her old man vigilant, and I was able to steal a little space, otherwise, at the age of the second master, who has no son and a half daughter, why wouldn't people come in."

Ruan's mother was so distressed that she comforted her and said, "What are you worried about? The servant said to be calm and smooth, and stagnation of qi means stagnation of liver qi. Last time that boy Liu Hai came back from Deyuan and brought back news. If the old lady If you are forced, tell your wife, she has her own way to deal with it." Cui was also worried about this, for fear that her daughter would be wronged.

"What trouble are you doing, Mother Ruan, you underestimate her." Yu Zhu took a sip of tea, how could Cui get involved in the matter of marrying a daughter? Just watch, maybe things won't go that far.

There are a lot of troubles lately, shake your head, let it be, what should come will always come, let's continue to be a kang screen.The nature of not being able to keep troubles allowed her to adjust her mood in a blink of an eye, and concentrated on embroidering the wings of the crane. This picture of the crane's longevity is not big, but it is quite detailed. To embroider a pair of crane wings, there are nearly ten kinds of embroidery methods such as chaotic stitch embroidery, beating embroidery, folded color embroidery, and long stitching. The white part not only needs to be embroidered with different stitches to embroider the characteristics of different parts of feathers or fluffy or stiff, It needs to be represented by various white lines, roughly speaking, there are nine kinds of white... Except that Hua Ruo, who has practiced some at the beginning, can help, the rest can only be done by Yuzhu himself, which is really a difficult task. project.Fortunately, in order to avoid trouble, she didn't dare to use a unique stitch method of Bian embroidery, which also avoided the most difficult part. The embroidery is quite smooth. If she embroiders at this speed, she will be able to catch up with the palace. Embroidered before.

As soon as a feather was embroidered, Cheng Xunxun came in with a gloomy face, and was so frightened that the medicine bowl Hua Ruo was holding almost fell to the ground. Mother Ruan gave her a quick wink and retreated together.

"Second Master..." Yu Zhu hurriedly put down the needle and thread in her hand, got up and got off the kang, "Auntie is here to pick you up?"

Cheng Xunxun fell heavily on the pillow, put his hands behind his head, slightly angry: "Let's go, all gone."

Yu Zhu was a little surprised at his casualness now, and habitually poured him a cup of tea from the kang table, checked that he was lying down, and put it back on the table, "Don't be angry, it's all over. If What should I do if I am so angry, I still count on you to help me go to the garden to blow some air when I am too old to walk."

The lying person paused for a moment, then sat up suddenly, took a deep look at Yu Zhu, and slowly smiled: "How can you speak like this... well, listen to you, don't be angry. "

Yu Zhu hurriedly brought the tea in front of him, and seeing Cheng Xunxun took it with a smile, he hesitated and said, "Is the emperor's punishment for Jiang's family... Do you want me to go to the palace and talk about it, at least wait for the spring to come Besides." After all, she is a direct daughter, even if she did something wrong, she is also the eldest daughter of the old lady who was conceived in October. In terms of intimacy, she is much better than the daughter-in-law I married. Although I don't like it, I have to put on a show , so as not to fall is not, twisted into a knot. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe and reward. Your support is my biggest motivation.)

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