Value peace

Chapter 103 Parents are short-sighted ([-])

Hehehe, Qi Maosheng, oh Qi Maosheng... Gu Xiyan was very interested: "Then why didn't things happen afterward?"

Liu Mei'er sighed, and said with deep emotion: "It's a good thing nothing happened, otherwise it might be my eldest sister who died!"

Poor Maosheng, what a frightening thing to say!
Liu Mei'er lowered her low voice a bit: "Master Guo, you have many strange hobbies!"

Weird... hobby?
Gu Xiyan also lowered her voice, imitating her tone: "Really?"

Liu Meier nodded mysteriously: "Did you know that just a few days before my sister was going to make a date with the Duke, the Duke suddenly brought my sister to the dense forest behind Chengxi Courtyard..."

"Ah!" Gu Xiyan's heart was beating in a panic, thinking of Qi Maosheng's skillful flirting techniques.

Could it be that he was young...

"He blew a whistle, bang bang bang, two tigers ran out of the forest..."

Gu Xiyan blushed, almost ashamed.

How can I...

There was tension in Liu Meier's voice: "And there are two white tigers. They jumped up and rushed towards my sister." She also made a gesture of baring her teeth and claws. "My sister said that she passed out as soon as her legs gave way."

In my own home, whistle, and two white tigers appeared!

Gu Xiyan thought for a moment: "Could it be, could it be that he raises tigers?"

"You're so smart." Liu Mei'er gave an admiring look, "Aren't you weird? I've only heard of people raising cats, dogs, and birds. This is the first time I've heard of someone raising tigers, and even In my own yard. I’m not afraid of them jumping out and eating people.”

"What a..." Gu Xiyan was a little speechless, and it took a long time to find a word, "a strange hobby."

Liu Meier sighed disconsolately: "The elder sister was so frightened that she lay on the bed for more than half a year, and almost lost half of her life. No matter what, she was unwilling to marry into the Duke of Yan's mansion... This marriage will naturally fail. .”

Speaking of this, she couldn't help feeling resentful.

If the eldest sister did not do this kind of thing and married Qi Hao smoothly, why would she suffer such humiliation.

"But you can't just say that Mrs. Ye couldn't stand the Duke, so she committed suicide by jumping into the river?" Gu Xiyan was puzzled.

"Then it's another matter!" Liu Mei'er was mysterious, but there were rustling footsteps outside the door.

The two turned their heads, only to see Qiugui entering with a wicker box.

Of course we can't talk anymore.

Gu Xiyan hurriedly put a hand on the kang, and put the box on the side of the kang.

Liu Mei'er opened the box, and it was filled with purple and red things densely.

There are embroidery frames, colorful silk threads, and many patterns that have already been drawn on various silks and satins.

Liu Meier pointed to the box and said, "Sister Gu, see what you like, pick one!"

In order to respect Liu Meier, Gu Xiyan didn't touch those things, she just smiled and said to her: "Sister Liu is an expert, if you are a beginner like me, just help me choose one."

Liu Mei'er searched here and there for a long time, and found a palm-sized real red silk cloth, on which was a painting of peonies in bloom.

"Sister Gu, look at this, it's just a good time to embroider a handkerchief."

Gu Xiyan said in embarrassment: "This, isn't it too difficult?"

Liu Meier showed an embarrassed smile, and searched for a long time in the wicker box, and finally said embarrassingly: "It seems that this is the smallest. Or, let me draw a simple one for you!"

Gu Xiyan nodded hurriedly: "That would be the best."

Seeing that she respected her decision very much, Liu Meier looked at Gu Xiyan even more kindly.

"What does sister Gu want to embroider?"

Gu Xiyan blushed slightly, and said, "Can you embroider a purse?"

"Purse bag!" Liu Meier pondered.

Gu Xiyan hurriedly explained: "The purse is small, and there are not many colors, so it is simpler."

"How can a purse be so simple?" Liu Meier looked like you didn't understand, "The most difficult thing to embroider is the purse. It also needs tight stitches and elegant colors, and there are many techniques..."

Gu Xiyan was stunned: "So, it's complicated..."

Liu Meier said: "Why don't we embroider other ones!"

Gu Xiyan thought for a while, and said, "Is it okay to sew a purse? It doesn't have to be embroidered!"

Liu Meier smiled: "There is no embroidery on the purse."

"Or, embroider a few leaves or something like that." Gu Xiyan came up with an idea, "I'm pretty good at this!"

Liu Meier still objected, but Gui Qiu tugged at the corner of her clothes: "Miss, why don't you listen to Miss Gu's opinion before speaking."

Liu Mei showed a rare stubbornness: "There must be embroidery on the purse, otherwise it can still be called a purse!"

Guiqiu was anxious, and was really afraid that the two would quarrel because of this.Wasn't the quarrel between my girl and Miss Wei also caused by embroidery?

Gu Xiyan understood very well.

There is a kind of person who usually looks very easy-going and even has no temper, but when it comes to the areas she values, she will show her stubborn side.For example, people who like football, when talking about their favorite stars, they always talk about it and try their best to maintain it.

"You are an expert, so naturally you have the final say." Gu Xiyan said with a smile, "Where do you think I should start learning, let's start learning from there!"

Liu Meier showed a comfortable smile: "Well, you learn to embroider branches first."

Gu Xiyan had no objection.

Liu Meier found a piece of white silk in a wicker box, took a thick black pencil-like object, and drew several branches of different shapes on it.It can be seen that her painting skills are very good, and her sketches are lifelike.The black thing is also easier to color than a pencil, but the color is lighter. It may be specially used for drawing things on silk.

After she finished painting, she began to explain in detail to Gu Xiyan, what kind of branches should be matched with what kind of embroidery needles, what kind of embroidery needles are suitable for what embroidery methods, and what characteristics each embroidery method has... The difficulty of Mammy teaching her is not the same.In the end, Gu Xiyan had no choice but to stop her: "Wait a minute, I'll find a pen and ink to write it down. I don't understand most of what you said."

The corners of Liu Mei'er's mouth were slightly raised, showing a beautiful and elegant smile, revealing a bit of confidence, making her graceful and gorgeous face even more radiant.

Qiugui was also very happy.

I think Gu Xiyan is really nice, she said she wants to learn embroidery from a girl, but she really wants to learn embroidery, she treats people very sincerely.

Gu Xiyan took the opportunity to send Qiugui to the outer room to grind ink.

Writing in ancient times was not as easy as it is now, and one ink can be polished for more than half an hour.

She took the opportunity to continue the preface with Liu Meier.

"Is Duke Yan really as scary as you say?"

Liu Meier also felt uncomfortable being interrupted by Qiu Gui. When Gu Xiyan asked, as if she finally picked it up in one breath, she leaned into Gu Xiyan's ear and talked: "You don't know, Mrs. Ye Not long after she got married, the Duke took her to the racecourse in Laohekou...you can imagine the result."

Gu Xiyan really couldn't figure it out: "Going to the racecourse, what happened again?"

Liu Meier nodded seriously: "Most of our girls in the north know how to ride horses, and Mrs. Ye is from Xizhao. How can I know this, but Mrs. Ye taught Mrs. Ye how to ride a horse? The horse was shocked, and the child was gone... Because of this matter, Aunt Gao from the Duke of Yan's mansion was demoted to Chunli, and has never been able to return to Yongzhou."

Gu Xiyan was stunned.

how so!
Qi Maosheng is not such a reckless person.

She thought of Qi Hongluan, and said: "I heard that Duke Guo only has one daughter, who seems to be called Hongluan..."

Liu Mei'er didn't look very interested: "She was raised by Mrs. Xu's side since she was born. She is six years old this year, and I haven't seen her once."

Gu Xiyan was a little surprised.

Listening to Liu Meier's tone, it seems that she often goes to Yan Guogong's mansion, how could she never see Qi Hongluan.

She said suspiciously: "You haven't seen it once."

Liu Meier nodded, with an indelible embarrassment in her eyes: "Mrs. Ye and Mrs. Xu are both from Xizhao, and they have always been close."

A lot of content was revealed in the words.

"However, I've seen both Bi Luan and Zi Luan from San Ye's family. The two little girls look really nice." Liu Meier smiled happily, "Especially Zi Luan, who is fat and white, laughs when she sees people, Just shout, when I went last time, I got a Plum Blossom Jade Plaque.”

I have never met Qi Hongluan, but I have a very good relationship with Qi Xiao's daughter...

Liu Meier also sighed: "It would be great if the Duke had more children. Mrs. Ye was not easy to conceive, so the child was gone, and Aunt Gao was also implicated. But I heard from my mother that this matter has nothing to do with It's nothing to do with Aunt Gao, it's because the nuns around Mrs. Ye didn't tell Aunt Gao about Mrs. Ye's pregnancy...so everyone didn't know."

Aunt Gao, this name appeared twice.

Liu Meier is still sad for Ye Zisu: "Mrs. Ye is such a gentle and shy person, she is pregnant, so she is naturally embarrassed to tell others...they are all those nuns, you don't know, the nuns who were in charge of the Dexin courtyard at that time It's the nurse Madam Ye brought from Xizhao." Speaking of this, Liu Mei'er thought of her parents, and she couldn't help feeling depressed.I feel that like Mrs. Ye, I believe in the wrong person. "Mrs. Ye didn't know how sad she was at the time? Especially later, her body was no longer suitable for carrying a child. Both Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Wei blamed her..."

"It's not suitable to have children anymore? Who did you listen to her about such a secret thing?" Gu Xiyan was a little disbelieving.When she was watching Qixia, she also heard Fang Shaoqing say that Ye Zisu just had a miscarriage...

"It was Aunt Gao who told my mother." Liu Mei'er's tone was full of conviction, as if there was no doubt about what Aunt Gao said.

It was Aunt Gao again.

Gu Xiyan couldn't help but frowned: "Who is Aunt Gao?"

Liu Meier was still a little uncomfortable, but when Gu Xiyan asked about Aunt Gao, she still had a hard smile on her face: "He is the head of the inner courtyard of Duke Yan's mansion, and he is a very good person. When I was young, I followed my mother to When I saw my aunt, I broke a jade carving lotus brush in my aunt's house. It was Aunt Gao who helped me. I still remember her appearance. She is tall and thin, with a smile on her face. A friendly smile... It's a pity that we haven't seen Aunt Gao since that incident."

(End of this chapter)