swear not to be concubine

Chapter 79

Jian Yan thought for two days. Originally, she wanted to take advantage of Xu Zhongxuan's return from Xiumu next time to find him and ask him directly what he said to Mrs. Jian.

Intuitively speaking, if Mrs. Jane can execute it so immediately, it must be related to her marriage.

Perhaps, Xu Zhongxuan had already mentioned to Mrs. Jian that he would take her as a concubine?It's just that because of his decisive attitude that day, he didn't dare to let her know this first?

But when Xu Zhongxuan went to sleep, she was told by Xu Miaojin that Xu Zhongxuan had already set off for Shandong two days earlier to preside over the provincial examination in Shandong.

Jian Yan knew that the township examination was held every three years, and the examination was divided into three sessions, which were held on August [-]th, [-]th, and [-]th.After the candidates have finished the test, the examiners will naturally review the answer sheets of the candidates. The big provinces will publish their rankings before September [-], the medium provinces will publish their rankings before September [-], and the small provinces will publish their rankings before September [-]. It is to publish the list before September [-]th.Shandong Province is also a big province, so naturally the list will not be published until around September [-]th.In addition, the traffic is not developed these days, and it will take some time to get from Shandong to Beijing. In other words, she will not even want to see Xu Zhongxuan before October.

After Jian Yan heard the news, she felt really mixed feelings in her heart.

On the one hand, she was thinking that Xu Zhongxuan was not around these days, so she finally didn't have to think hard about how to avoid him, and she could spend these four months with ease.And if everything goes well, maybe this period of time will be enough for her to escape from Mrs. Jane's control.On the other hand, she also felt a little lost in her heart.

Didn't see him for more than four months?

Jian Yan returned to her room in a depressed mood.And after going back, he just sat on the kang in a dull mood, looking at the plantains outside the window and the crape myrtle flower in the corner of the courtyard.

Si Yueyuan didn't know what happened, and excitedly took the paper and pen and wanted to come in to ask Jian Yan to teach her how to write, but Bai Wei, who was standing outside the green gauze cabinet, grabbed her with her hands and shook her face. He waved his hand, motioning her not to go in first.

It turned out that when Jian Yan was free these days, seeing that Bai Wei and Si Yue were both illiterate, and they both wanted to read, so she taught them how to read when they were free, and He also taught the two of them some simple arithmetic.Siyue was very interested, and everyone in the town was studying this matter.

Seeing that Bai Wei was pulling her to prevent her from going in, Si Yue looked at the bamboo curtain hanging on the green gauze cabinet in front of her, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter, girl?"

Bai Wei didn't say anything to her, but said vaguely: "The girl is in a bad mood. Let's not bother her, let her sit alone for a while. It will be fine in a while."

Just now Bai Wei went to Ning Cui Xuan with Jian Yan.When Xu Miaojin said that Xu Zhongxuan had gone to Shandong to preside over the rural examination and would not be back in the near future, she immediately raised her eyes to look at Jian Yan, and when she saw her, the expression on her face instantly dimmed.

Bai Wei sighed secretly in her heart, just thinking that although the girl is like a mirror in her heart, she knows that she may not have any good results when she is with the eldest son. It can be broken.

Yin sighed again, took Si Yue's hand, and said, "Let's go, let's go back to the room first. It's the same when I come to see the girl later."

Si Yue nodded ignorantly, turned around and followed Bai Wei to her room.

Although she didn't know exactly what happened, she still heard Bai Wei's sigh.

It's just that the two of them hadn't reached their own room when they suddenly heard Jian Yan calling them.

After hearing this, Bai Wei hurriedly turned around and hurried over, stretched out her hand and opened the bamboo curtain, hurried in and asked, "What's your order, Miss?"

Si Yue immediately opened the bamboo curtain and followed in.

It turned out that Jian Yan wanted to embroider something, so she asked Bai Wei and Si Yue to come in and help.

Bai Wei peeked at what Jian Yan was holding in her hand was a picture of a lotus leaf koi.She does know this picture. When she was admiring the lotus in the gazebo a few days ago, because of a joke from the third girl, she said that the eldest son drew a picture of lotus leaves and flowers, and then handed it over to Jian Yan. Come and embroider it.And that night, the eldest son sent Qingzhu to send this picture of lotus leaf koi.It's just that Jian Yan has been putting this picture on the bookshelf, and she has no intention of embroidering it at all. Why is she going to embroider it today?

Bai Wei didn't dare to ask any more questions, she just asked what was the picture going to be embroidered for?

Jian Yan thought for a while, and then said: "Let's embroider it and make a screen."

Bai Wei had an idea in her mind, and then asked Siyue to find a larger embroidery frame, and the two of them immediately got busy.Jian Yan herself also found a piece of high-quality plain silk from the box, and handed it to Bai Wei and Si Yue to fix and tighten the embroidery.

Since then, when Jian Yan was free, she just sat in the room, embroidering this lotus leaf koi picture with her head down.

Bai Wei and Siyue were very worried about her, and would persuade her from time to time to stop embroidering and go for a walk to relax.Otherwise, embroidering with your head down all day long is not good for your eyes.

Jian Yan just smiled and didn't say anything.

It would take a while for such a screen to be embroidered.Embroidered it out early, if she can escape from Mrs. Jane's control these days and leave here, at least she can save something.

It's just that on Zhou Lin's side, the matter of doing household registration was not going very smoothly.

According to Jian Yan's intentions, this post can't be set up in the capital and spread around here.After all, it is Mrs. Jane who is here, and if she is not in order, she will be bumped into by an acquaintance one day, and then spread to Mrs. Jane's ears, and secondly, at the feet of the emperor, I am afraid that this fake household sticker is not so good. So fake.

Jian Yan originally wanted Zhou Lin to find a way to set up a Hangzhou household post.In her previous life, her home was in Hangzhou. Even though it was separated by hundreds of years, she still felt that that was her home. She still wanted to go back and see that place, and it was best to settle down there in the future.It's just that after Zhou Lin went to Hangzhou and met some people from the Yamen, he only shook his head sadly at Jian Yan when he came back.

In fact, in this day and age, the legal system is strong. Although he has money in his hand, after all, he has no acquaintance in the yamen. Even if he throws money at him, they don't dare to forge a household post and give it to him. I dare not even replace it.

Who knows what his background is?No matter how good the money is, in the end it is not good to have a life.

Jian Yan had no choice but to tell Zhou Lin in the end, asking him to go as far away from the capital as possible and have more activities in underdeveloped places.The sky is high and the emperor is far away. After all, there are still those people who are willing to forge individual household stickers when they see the silver.And it's far away from the capital road, so it's safer anyway.

She had naturally thought about it, even with household allowances, as a single woman, it would be inconvenient for her to go outside, but fortunately Zhou Lin and Bai Wei have mutual affection, and after she leaves this place, Let the two of them get married, and then she and Siyue will only recognize them as their younger sisters.It's just that by then, Shijin Pavilion will naturally not be able to do it anymore.Now that they have a brand new identity, then naturally everything in the past must be discarded, otherwise it will be easy to teach those who are interested in finding them out.So before leaving here, it is also necessary to prepare enough money so that they can live a leisurely life in a foreign country.

Because of this, apart from embroidering the lotus leaf koi picture these days, Jian Yan basically spends the rest of her time thinking about what new styles she can have.

In addition to the various accessories derived from the Lucky Cat and the Lucky Cat, she even designed several fashionable jewelry by herself based on her memory, as well as clothes such as moonlight skirts, fish scale pleated skirts, and phoenix tail skirts. skirt out.

She has researched that most skirts in this era have six widths, and there have not been more skirts.But the Yuehua skirt has as many as ten skirts.And the color is light and elegant, each pleat at the waist is of a different color, within one pleat, there are all five colors, and when the wind blows like a moonlight, it is extremely eye-catching.And although there is a pleated skirt called Liuxian skirt in this era, but there are not many pleats, so Jianyan based on her impression, greatly deepened the pleats on this skirt, making it stretch out like fish scales.As for the phoenix-tailed skirt, she just drew the drawings according to her impression, and handed it over to Zhou Lin for the tailor to make.

Naturally, no one wore such skirts in this era.Even if there is, I am afraid that it is only within a small area, and it is not considered a large-scale popularization.So how to let the daughters of officials and dignitaries know about these new styles of jewelry and dresses, Jian Yan also spent a lot of thought.

Coincidentally, during this period of time, Zhou Yingying posted a post asking her to go to Jinshizhai in the capital to appreciate calligraphy and painting. After Jian Yan thought about it, she asked Zhou Lin to bring her a ivory-colored fish-scale pleated skirt. Bring over the latest bracelet she designed.Later, when she went to Zhou Yingying's appointment, she wore the tooth-colored fish scale pleated skirt by herself, and then put the bracelet in a brocade box as a gift for Zhou Yingying.

Even though Zhou Yingying didn't like the calligraphy and paintings made by women in the boudoir, she thought they were too petty, but she was a woman after all, and she was still a young girl. Seeing the bracelet Jian Yan gave her, she was naturally very happy .Seeing that the fish-scale pleated skirt Jian Yan was wearing was something she had never seen before, and it was novel and unique in style, she would naturally ask where she bought the skirt.

So Jian Yan smiled and said that her brother bought this dress for her in the Shijin Pavilion in the capital, and the bracelet for Zhou Yingying was also bought by her brother in the Shijin Pavilion.Zhou Yingying heard that, after two days, she naturally went to the Shijin Pavilion, and saw that there were all kinds of jewelry and dresses inside that she had never seen before, so she naturally bought a few more to go back.And when she went out by herself, wearing these jewelry and these dresses, the other women in the boudoir saw that she had never seen them before, so naturally they had to ask her where she was Where did you buy it.So one spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and in the end the advertisement was so effective that even Jian Yan couldn't believe it.

And amidst these busy schedules, Jian Yan's birthday also came.

It's a coincidence to say the least.In her previous life, Jian Yan was born on July [-]th, but in this life, her birthday falls on this day.

In the past, Mrs. Jane didn't pay much attention to it, just pretending that she didn't know.But this year, she ordered the kitchen to make a bowl of pouch noodles for her, and asked Pearl to bring it to her.

Jian Yan also took it and ate it with peace of mind.

These days, Mrs. Jian entertained her with delicious food and drink every day, and she did not refuse, but as long as Pearl brought over the food, she would eat it.

But in the end, it felt like a thorn was planted in my heart, which was very uncomfortable.

In the past, she was hungry, and she was given some bland meals, and she was not full.Even though this meeting was supplemented by the daily fish and meat, she still felt that she didn't have any dignity to talk about.

In fact, she was quite critical of Xu Zhongxuan in her heart.

What is this?Did he really care about her, that's why he pleaded with Mrs. Jane, or did he just think of her as a forbidden, slutty existence?So he clearly told Mrs. Jian that she was the person he had appointed by Xu Zhongxuan, even if he was not in Xu's house now, can't people treat her poorly?

In the evening, Qingzhu came over, and presented a brocade box with precious and precious hands, saying that it was brought from Shandong by the eldest son, and he specially asked to hand it over to her.

When Jian Yan looked at the box, she felt her eyelids twitch.

This brocade box is still the style and pattern she designed by herself, and she asked Zhou Lin to find someone to customize it, so that it can be used for packaging small items such as bracelets bought in Shijin Pavilion.

She reached out to take it, and when she opened it, she saw that it contained a string of beckoning cat bracelets.

The delicate pink tourmaline and the cute white beckoning cat are strung together to form a bracelet, which is very gratifying to look at.

This is why she drew the blueprint and asked Zhou Lin to find someone to do it.At the beginning, she thought that making this string of bracelets must be interesting, so she might as well make one for herself to wear.It's just that I forgot about it.Fortunately, Xu Zhongxuan gave her a bunch of these bracelets.

Jian Yan's mood at the moment is really delicate.

At this time, Qingzhu handed over another letter, saying that it was also ordered by the eldest son, so it must be handed over to her.

Jian Yan's heart trembled, her eyes only lingered on the letter.

On the envelope is an elegant and flowing running script.In the red line frame drawn in the middle of the rectangle, the word Jian Yan is written in capitals, at the bottom is the word "Qin Qi", which is smaller, and in the lower right corner is the word "Xu Zhongxuan", which is about the same size as the word "Qi Qi".

Seeing her name and his name appearing on the same envelope, Jian Yan couldn't tell what mood she was in at the moment.

She pursed her lips slightly, and after a while, she finally reached out to take the letter from Qingzhu's hand.

At this time, Qing Zhu had already asked to leave, so Bai Wei took Si Yue out to see her off.In fact, it also means that Jian Yan wants to read this letter from Xu Zhongxuan alone in the room.

And Jian Yan didn't open the letter immediately after the three of them left the house.

She just lowered her head, looking at the flowing calligraphy on the envelope.

Xu Zhongxuan has always written in a square and neat style in front of others, but in private he wrote such indulgent cursive.She didn't know it at first, but after getting along for a long time, she has a cautious temperament, and she will naturally notice some things slowly.

So what was in this private letter?

Jian Yan took a deep breath, then took out the letter paper from the envelope with trembling hands, and slowly unfolded it in front of her eyes.

Then she was dumbfounded immediately.

(End of this chapter)