Daughter Raiders

Chapter 42 Spring Clothes
In the twinkling of an eye, the first month turned into February, and it happened that Miao Zhengkun, the elder brother of the old lady's natal family, returned to Beijing to report on his duties, and at the same time handed over a letter of resignation to the present sage.

Now the Holy Majesty knew that this old general was old and should go home to take care of his old age, but he was afraid that Miao Qinghuai, the eldest son of Miao Zhengkun, would not be able to take on the big responsibility. The capital has been recuperating for a while, and it will not be too late to discuss it until March.

Su Shixiang, the old man of the Su family, paid homage to the minister of the Ministry of War, and was often summoned by the emperor for this matter. As for Mrs. Su, since her natal brother returned to Beijing, she couldn't care less. First, she went to Duke Qi's mansion twice to visit her brother alone. , On this day, I received a banquet post from the Duke of Qi's mansion. Three days later, I will bring a family of women to the Duke of Qi's mansion for a banquet.

"Cuijuan, go and have a look, have the spring clothes made by the sewing team for the girls? Why haven't Sister Tao's clothes arrived today?" Remembering that Mama Tong had gone to the storeroom to get gifts, she greeted Cuijuan.

Seeing that Tao Ran's little neck shrank and hesitated to speak, the old lady smiled and asked her what she wanted to say.

"Sister Cuijuan's female celebrity is the best in our family. The ladies in the sewing team must be as scared as I am when they see her." Tao Ran was overjoyed, as if he had witnessed that scene with his own eyes.

The old lady also laughed when she heard this.It's not something wrong, asking Cuijuan to urge the workers to collect the work, it seems that she deliberately made things difficult for the needleworkers, why didn't she think of it just now?
"Then ask your mother Shen to go." The old lady told Cuijuan with a smile: "If you go, even if you find some small mistakes at will, wait for the stitching steward to cry in front of the eldest lady. But there is something I can’t say clearly.”

Cuijuan responded, and the old lady pretended to be angry and said to Tao Ran: "If grandma doesn't ask you, are you still going to make your elder sister Cuijuan make a fool of yourself? You know that grandma has done something wrong, but you little girl didn't take the initiative to remind her." One sound, grandma hurts you for nothing!"

Tao Ran rushed to the old lady from the end of the kang table, hugged the old lady's arm and acted coquettishly: "Grandmother was wronged! Sister Tao really didn't expect so much, Sister Tao just thought that Sister Cuijuan's female celebrity is too good , if you go to the needlework, it's a bit scary!"

Her female celebrity in her previous life was not bad, plus she has a foundation in painting. Even if her grandmother asked Cuijuan to take her to learn some color matching lines a few days ago, it did not trouble her; Adding them together is hard to chase. When she heard her grandmother call Cuijuan to go to needlework, she regarded herself as a needleworker, and it was inevitable that she would panic for a while.

Hearing what she said, the old lady remembered Cuijuan's stern urging to her a few days ago, and she couldn't help but smile: "Don't blame your sister Cuijuan, if any girl's female celebrity can't get Don't you have to make fun of yourself if you make a move?"

"Now that you're still young, it's a good thing to hurry up and learn some housekeeping skills, isn't it?"

I think when she was a girl, she liked to dance guns and clubs with her father and brother the most. If she hadn't been forced by her mother to study hard for a while, she could barely do the job. I am afraid that she is from the royal family, and the old man would not agree to hire her. ...

Tao Ran laughed and said that what grandma said was true, so she settled down and went back to the kang table to practice calligraphy—the Buddha’s birthday will be two months away, and she would like to copy some scriptures for her grandmother. Practice more when you have time, how can you find excuses for your decent lower case?
"You are a little kid, and you don't want to be the number one scholar. If you write and write all day long, you won't be afraid of hurting your eyes." Seeing this, the old lady whispered distressedly, but she was also very relieved.

Calligraphy and temperament are both developed through practice. If you don't practice, you can't become a skill - the old man said so every time he saw Tao sister practicing calligraphy when he came back to Pine Age Hall.

Tao Ran practiced two more words in meditation. When Shen's mother came back, although she deliberately concealed her face, she was still not very good-looking.Before the old lady could ask, Tao Ran had already caught a glimpse of the pile of new clothes in the arms of Shen's mother, and he knew it immediately.

This time, for the spring banquet that was more intense than in previous years, the eldest wife specially asked the sewing team to increase the four sets of spring clothes to eight sets, but none of the ones held by Shen's mother were brightly colored...

"I don't want to take it back either, but it looks like it's fourteen, and I'm afraid it's too late to do it again." Seeing the old lady's face darkened, Shen's mother quickly changed her smile and comforted her: "Fortunately, Miss Liu is young and can't wear anything." I can't stop Miss Six from being lively and jumping."

Tao Ran put the pen on the pen stand, climbed to the edge of the kang with hands and feet, looked at the various clothes, and echoed Shen's mother repeatedly: "Mom is right, I also see that these colors are very calm, and they match me very well." of."

The old lady's face turned pale, and she smiled and teased Tao Ran: "Your mother Shen said that you are plainer, but you don't hide your liveliness, but you boast yourself, saying that you have a calm temper, you are really shameless!"

That being said, when Tao Ran accompanied the old lady back to the East Chamber after lunch, the old lady still asked Shen's mother in a deep voice: "How dare you tell those people to look down on her now that Sister Tao is raised in my yard?" No?"

Didn't it mean that the current sewing team is still full of the old people she used to, and after the eldest wife took over the hand-feeding, she didn't even change half of the managers?Why, is it possible that it is just a nice thing to say not to change the management, but now you have to start with the matter of making spring clothes? !Also chose her Songlingtang surgery?

When Shen's mother heard it, the old lady obviously wanted to go wrong, so she hurriedly comforted her softly, and then lowered her voice: "It's the third wife who is on behalf of the third girl... to pre-order all the brightly colored fabrics, Miss An My son's set was done first..."

The old lady slapped the young lady next to her with her palm: "Are they blaming me for not bringing Sister Tao to choose the materials? Since they are going to make spring clothes, they should bring materials to ask Sister Tao to pick them. Forget it, I have distributed all the materials, and now that I have made this appearance, I have pushed the problem to the third room?!"

The old lady had no intention of protecting Yu Shi and Yanran, but the truth is that the sewing team didn't take Sister Tao seriously, did they?Since Sister Tao is not favored, Sister An can be used to make clothes for needlework, and then Sister An can pick and choose, and finally Sister Tao is left out in the cold?
Shen's mother heard that what the old lady said was very reasonable, and she didn't dare to argue with the old lady for needlework, but at this moment, she heard soft footsteps coming from the hall outside, and there was a graceful figure when she leaned slightly He flashed in, holding a stack of clothes materials two feet high in both hands, seeing that he couldn't hold on anymore, he called for help softly.

"Cuijuan?" The old lady could hear someone's voice, and her face was full of doubts: "Where did these clothes come from? Didn't I ask you to go to the sewing team?"

After Shen's mother and Cui'e stretched out their hands to take the cloth from Cuijuan's hand, Cuijuan breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "It was the eldest lady who called me over to replace the sixth girl from her private treasury." Picked out some clothes material."

"The eldest lady said that she has been out to socialize a lot recently, and she is afraid that she did not give special instructions to the needlework, so she will follow the old rules for Miss Six; When I turned around, I took the time to teach all the ladies in charge... and said, and said, please don't be angry with her for not being careful."

After hearing Cuijuan's words, the old lady's complexion immediately turned from cloudy to clear when she saw that the clothes were all of good color and appearance—it seemed that she had really blamed the eldest daughter-in-law before, and only Mrs. Yu was a hateful one. !

(End of this chapter)