Nong Zhaohua

Chapter 12

After Ranxiang healed her wounds in the room, she came back to serve Yan Zhaohua with Qingzhu.

The big event happened in Qingqueju last time, and now the atmosphere in Qingqueju is much more peaceful, and some servants who were shaken in their hearts before are also settled down now, and the five people who were punished by the staff are all wives People, but the eldest lady didn't even blink her eyes when she dealt with it, except that she heard that the wife had lost her temper in the main courtyard, but she didn't dare to punish the eldest lady. This behavior made everyone in Qingqueju understand instantly. Even though the lady was weak in the past, once she is forced into a hurry, even the wife can't control it. What's more, from an ethical point of view, the status of the eldest lady is not necessarily worse than that of the second wife. Intentionally avoiding it, it made everyone ignore this fact—the wife is a stepmother, she has no rank, and she can't even enjoy the title of 'madam'.

After such a mental struggle, everyone stopped being half-hearted. Anyway, they were working in Qingqueju, so it was the young lady who could decide whether they would stay or not. Dangerous deal.

Ran Xiang walked into the room with a tray, and said to Yan Zhaohua, "Miss, Second Young Master is not in the school."

Waking up early in the morning, Yan Zhaohua asked Ranxiang to deliver pigeon wolfberry soup to Yan Ruiqian, and Ranxiang had come back to return.

Yan Zhaohua was writing, and after listening to Ranxiang's words, he said, "Are you still not accepting it?"

Ran Xiang immediately put the things aside and knelt down to plead guilty: "This servant deserves to die. The second son said that he is not hungry now."

Yan Zhaohua still didn't look up, just waved his hands to let the incense rise, and then said: "Put it on the fire and simmer, and send it later."

Ranxiang and Qingzhu looked at each other, and didn't dare to say anything, they just said 'yes' and went down.

Yan Zhaohua is wearing an elegant and simple white magnolia scattered flower jacket and skirt, a hookah-colored satin embroidered cloak, and an ordinary ingot bun, decorated with only a slender white magnolia jade hairpin. The image of Pei Jingdong.Although they were both in the boudoir, Yan Zhaohua dressed up more gorgeously when she was a girl in the previous life. Because Yan Zhaoning was born gorgeous, she was dressed in the color of the red fire, which looked eye-catching and elegant. Enthusiasm, Mrs. Xie also liked to let Yan Zhaohua wear that kind of clothes. At that time, Yan Zhaohua didn't know that she was not suitable for such a gorgeous dress. Like speaking, there is a kind of pure beauty that cannot be desecrated. She is dressed gorgeously, but conceals her ethereal and pure characteristics. Although she is still beautiful, she lacks aura after all, and is not as fiery and natural as Yan Zhaoning.

Yan Zhaohua realized this situation later, but at that time it was too late to change. People's impression of her had already been fixed, and there was no chance to change it.

Yan Ruiqian was Xie Wei's difficult child. It is said that both mother and child were in danger at that time. Yan Xiu was decisive and wanted to abandon the child to protect the eldest child, but Xie Wei refused. He was unwilling to trade the child's life for himself. After struggling, the child finally came out, and Xie Wei also exhausted her strength, bleeding profusely, and passed away within two days, leaving behind two children, Yan Zhaohua and Yan Ruiqian. Since then, Ruiqian has been labeled as killing his biological mother. Not only did Yanxiu have no feelings for him, but even the Xie family complained about Yan Ruiqian, so that the two families didn't care about the child. When she was young, she was ignorant, and with other people, she said a lot of hurtful things to this younger brother who is a compatriot of the same mother, and ridiculed and ridiculed from time to time. It was only when she grew up that she saw Xie's character clearly, and then she gradually understood The situation of some younger brothers, regretting what they did.

She lived at the age of 12. Yan Ruiqian had already formed a harsh impression of her younger brother. It was not easy to change it. Yan Zhaohua went to school to find him, but Yan Ruiqian avoided seeing him. He gave something, but no matter what she gave, in the end Yan Ruiqian either refused to accept it, and reluctantly sent it in while he was away. After he found out, he would also decisively send it back to her, and resolutely refused to accept anything from her.

After the Qingqueju incident, Mrs. Xie became a little more peaceful, but Yan Zhaohua completely broke the peace between her and Mrs. Xie when he took action that time. Everyone in the house now knows that his wife and Mrs. The eldest lady has already torn her face, and she is tense, waiting for something to happen next.

But it's strange that nothing happened after that...

Seeing that it was the 50th birthday of Mrs. Liu, Duke of Dingguo, Mrs. Xie had been choosing clothes and jewelry for Yan Zhaoning these days, but as before, she sent some to Yan Zhaohua, but Yan Zhaohua Put it aside, don't even look at it.

Yan Zhaohua has been staying in the embroidery room for the past few days, because although the screen given to Mrs. Dingguo has been embroidered, there are still some small flaws that need to be modified. Yan Zhaohua and five other servants were sent out of the mansion. One of them was the maid in charge of the embroidery room. After that maid left, Yan Zhaohua refused to accept any more people to serve in Qingqueju, so he called Caixia from the clothes room. Come and serve.

Green bamboo is good at calligraphy, dyeing fragrance is good at piano, and has no research on female workers. In the past, the maid in the embroidery room was good at embroidery, but now Caixia only knows a little bit of superficial knowledge. Yan Zhaohua is very good at embroidery. In fact, Yan Zhaohua's entire girlhood was spent in embroidery. When she was three years old, she couldn't even hold a needle, so Mrs. Xie invited her a nurse who retired from the Jiangnan Satin Academy to teach her how to knit every day. For needle embroidery, the reason given by Mrs. Xie is that she is the eldest daughter of the Changning Houfu, and she needs to learn how to be a beautiful female worker in order to win face for the Changning Houfu. At that time, Yan Zhaohua was young, and some people around her mother told her that Mrs. Xie was vicious and that she intentionally delayed her from learning other useful knowledge, but Yan Zhaohua never believed it, but in fact it was true. In this way, the reason why a lady from an aristocratic family can become a group of people admired by the world is not like ordinary boudoir daughters, who just know how to embroider. That's all, and when Yan Zhaohua was embroidering day and night, when Yan Zhaoning was three or four years old, Mrs. Xie secretly hired a female seat for her, and stayed with her as a nurturing nun to teach her to read and write, while Yan Zhaoning was three or four years old. Although Yan Zhaohua is two years older than Yan Zhaoning, she did not start her literary enlightenment until she was eight years old. Her foster mother was the retired mother from the Jiangnan Tribute Academy. It wasn't until she went to school that she had less time for embroidery that the nun resigned and returned home.

I only regret that Yan Zhaohua couldn't understand Xie's insidious intentions back then, but it was also because of this that she learned this exquisite embroidery skill. At the age of 12, she can embroider such a large-scale embroidery skill. The east corner is lost, and the mulberry elm is harvested.

"Miss embroiders are really good, just like the ones sold in the store." Caixia came to serve for the first time today, and she couldn't help but get close to Yan Zhaohua. Yan Zhaohua seemed to be in a good mood. Hearing what Caixia said Yes, and he hooked his lips back to her:
"Where there is a shop that can do good embroidery, but it's just painting from gourds. I've been ill for a while, and I can't even hold needles."

Seeing that Yan Zhaohua was willing to talk to her, Caixia was happy, so she replied: "Miss is too modest, these screens are really the best embroidered ones I have ever seen."

For such words, Yan Zhaohua would not understand that it was a compliment. He didn't reply to her, but just collected the thread ends in one place. Just after collecting, Ranxiang walked in from outside the embroidery room, and came to Yan Zhaohua's ear and said something :
"Miss, the second son has accepted the copybook you sent."

Yan Zhaohua's eyes lit up, he stopped the needle and raised his head, looked at Ranxiang, was stunned for a while, and said, "Really? Did he say anything?"

Comparing the needle in Caixia's hand to Caixia who was serving at the side, this meant she wanted to rest and talk to Ranxiang. Zhaohua got up, walked out of the embroidery room with Ranxiang, and whispered as they walked:
"Tell me quickly, is the second son of the copybook satisfied? Have you told him? It's not for him, but for him to take to Xie's house in a few days."

Dye Xiang nodded, and said: "I have said it, although the second son did not give a clear answer, but the servant girl looked at him, and must have understood the good intentions of the eldest lady. However, what the servant did not understand is that it is sent to Ding Isn’t the duke’s stuff supposed to be weapons and books? It is said that duke Ding dislikes those civil officials in the court the most, and now you ask the second son to send him copybooks, will the duke despise it?”

Yan Zhaohua raised his eyebrows and smiled, and the branches on both sides of the path seemed to be enlivened by his smile. Looking at the spring, he was stunned by Ranxiang. Yan Zhaohua didn't answer Ranxiang's words, but just put his hands in In the wide sleeves, stepping on the cobblestone steps, walked up the corridor.

Everyone thinks that Duke Ding is a military general and dislikes civil servants, but few people know that Duke Ding loves calligraphy, especially Kuangcao. He grew up with the old Duke Ding on the battlefield since he was a child. The late old Duke was a Confucian general. Since I was a child, I taught both civil and martial arts to the Duke, but later the old Duke died in battle. The young Duke tasted the hatred of the country and the family at a very young age, so he practiced martial arts vigorously, and temporarily gave up literature. Kicked out of the country of Xiao, avenged the old man, and picked up the book again, but at this time he was already the leader of the generals, and it would make people feel like a mother-in-law if he really liked it, so he simply didn't say it. , so few people know about it.

Yan Ruiqian is not liked by everyone, firstly because Xie Wei gave birth to him with difficulty, and secondly, it has something to do with his own unpleasant personality, coupled with Xie's instigation, Yan Ruiqian's position is even more precarious, Yan Zhaohua Knowing that her younger brother is pure in nature, she doesn't want him to end up in the same fate as her previous life, and wants to help him as much as she can, but Yan Zhaohua can't guarantee what kind of help she can achieve in the end. After all, she can't even guarantee it herself. It will be better than the last life.

At night, not long after Yan Zhaohua fell asleep, there were chaotic footsteps outside. After a while, Qingzhu and Ranxiang came in wearing coats and holding candles. Yan Zhaohua also sat up from the bed. Under the moonlight, she A pair of lacquer-like pupils seemed to carry the strangeness of diagnosing everything, only to hear Qing Zhu hurriedly say:
"Miss, it's not good, the embroidery room is on fire."

(End of this chapter)