The daily life of the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, thick black

Chapter 17 The Emerald Wrench
Gu Huaixiu went back to the house from the garden in the dark, and slept at her own place at night, and she was really much more comfortable, but she still got up in the middle of the night.

The sky was still not bright, she was sitting in front of her dressing table, holding only the jade pendant, thinking that in a few hours, Bai Qiaoniang from Qiyunzhai would come, so she couldn't help but feel a little anxious in her heart.

Originally, this matter had nothing to do with me, who told Gu Yaofang that her eyes were not in the right place?

Gu Huaishu sighed softly, muttering about his bad luck, he went to touch the teapot again, only to find that the teapot was actually warm, probably Qing Dai got up to warm it not long ago.

She was moved, and with a smile on her face, she just slowly poured tea to drink.

Following her habit, she sat for a while, then turned over the drained teacup, placed it beside the teapot, and lay back on the bed.

At dawn, Qing Dai didn't say much, she just rubbed Gu Huaixiu's forehead.

Xiang'er brought the copper basin and handkerchief, Gu Huaishu washed up, and then sat in front of the makeup mirror.She looked at the water chestnut mirror, her eyes were faintly black and blue, the corners of her mouth twitched slightly, and Gu Huaixiu muttered: "I know it's not a good thing..."

"Every time you cut clothes, you feel restless, and you don't know what you are worried about."

Qing Dai deftly tied a single-snail bun for her, turned her lips around, and complained again.

Gu Huaixiu covered his eyelids, raised his right hand, and gently stroked the bruise under his eyes with the pulp of his ring finger, and said, "Which day will you see me with a peaceful mind?"

"..." That's true, it's just that it's especially serious today, and it looks like I haven't slept well all night.

Qing Dai heard that Gu Huaixiu didn't want to continue this topic, so she shut her mouth wisely, took out the powder box and put some on her eyes, just hoping to meet someone.

She pretended to be this matter in her heart, but she couldn't say it, she was frightened and panicked at the same time.These masters are always playing tricks.If you really need this thing so much, why don't you go find Gu Yaofang by yourself?Purely sick!
Taking a deep breath, and then exhaling it lightly, Gu Huaixiu packed up and stretched.

"What did you have for breakfast this morning?"

While walking outside, Gu Huaixiu was talking.

Qingdai let out a muffled laugh: "Zaoren longan porridge."

"..." Gu Huaishu stopped, turned his head, pointed at Qing Dai and said, "Just do it like this!"

"Yes, yes, yes, it was done by a servant girl." Qing Dai didn't mind, she still led Gu Huaixiu to sit down, took out the porridge from the bowl, and placed it in front of Gu Huaixiu's eyes, making Gu Huaixiu sigh in one breath.

"You follow Xiao Shifang and treat me so harshly, how can you act like a servant?"

But regardless of how the porridge came from, Xiao Shifang's craftsmanship is naturally better than Zhang's cooks, the mouth is soft and glutinous, the jujube kernels are sweet and sour, and the longan is fragrant. The meal is refreshing, not to mention comfortable.A bowl of porridge was bottomed out, Gu Huaixiu narrowed his eyes and said, "Whether this porridge nourishes the mind or not, it's not the porridge, but the cook."

Zhang's porridge tastes really bad.

Comparing the two chefs in my heart, this meal is almost the same.

After serving tea and rinsing his mouth, Gu Huaishu took a look at the retreating Xiang'er's back, and asked, "Do you know when the tailor Bai Qiaoniang will come?"

"According to the old rules, it will be more than half an hour later, Miss, what are you doing now?"

"I'm going to study in the study, is there any news outside?"

Yesterday, my aunt went to Gu Zhenguan and sued Sister Fang, but I still don't know what happened.

Gu Huaixiu asked this question, and Qingdai replied: "I have filed a complaint, saying that my aunt came out of the master's house with a smile. I'm afraid this situation will be completed, but the eldest lady has not responded yet."

reaction?I'm afraid it hasn't started yet, today is the time to start making trouble.

Gu Huaishu regained his composure, waved Qing Dai out, and walked into the study by himself, not reading a book, but resting his eyes on the recliner.

Within half an hour, Qing Dai came in again.

Followed by her aunt Gu Jiao, she also brought in a fair-faced woman with delicate features and demeanor that was different from others.

This is the tailor lady of Qi Yunzhai, her name is Bai Qiaoniang, and it is said that she served the late Empress Xiao Yiren, Tong Jia, in the palace.When he was released from the palace at the age, he was originally a member of the Han army, but he only married a businessman when he came out, and lived with him in the south of the Yangtze River, and his life was considered comfortable.

Because of her work in the palace, when outsiders heard about it, they would give her a particularly high look.And because of the craftsmanship, every household feels that it is very honorable to ask Bai Qiaoniang to make clothes.It's just that everyone asks Bai Qiaoniang to do it, but Bai Qiaoniang doesn't take everyone's business, she only does it if she sees it pleasing to the eye, otherwise even if you give 20 taels of silver, you won't be able to hire her.

Being a seamstress is a skillful person to do this.

Gu Huaishu was invited out, and when he raised his eyes, he saw this delicate and calm lady, who came out of the palace, it was really different from other places.Standing there, his hands were clasped lightly by his waist, his head was slightly lowered, his eyes were calm and steady, and he didn't look around.

"Isn't it just a matter of cutting a dress, measuring the size, and asking my aunt to go for a trip? It's a hard work for you." Gu Huaixiu greeted Gu Jiao first.

"Isn't this the way? I'm still counting the bills. I have to go back and watch. Miss San, tell Qiao Niang what you want to do, and I'll come back later."

Perhaps it was yesterday that the complaint was successful, but today Gu Jiao is smiling all over her face, her feet are covered with wind when she walks, her face is full of pride, she is so majestic, she has already left with a smile before she finished speaking.

So in this room, only Qingdai, Bai Qiaoniang and Gu Huaishu were left.

Gu Huaixiu shook the big sleeves of the lake-blue shirt she was wearing, with auspicious clouds embroidered with silver thread on it, she raised her eyes and said to Qing Dai: "Go and make a cup of good tea, I'll let Qiao Niang Measure the size, then go to the kitchen to make some snacks."

"Yes." The tailor lady who came out of the palace seems to have a different status. Anyway, the lady is very polite to this Bai Qiaoniang.

Qingdai bowed and retreated, while Bai Qiaoniang stood in the room quietly without saying a word.

After Qing Dai left, she smiled slightly, she wasn't very good-looking, but she looked dignified, no big difference from an ordinary decent woman.But because of the long years in the palace, the whole person's knowledge is not comparable to that of ordinary people, so there is a kind of transparency in his eyes.

She sighed, took a ruler, and gave a slight salute to Gu Huaixiu: "The third girl has grown in stature this year, and the clothes cut last year are all a little shorter."

When he opened his mouth, he still had the taste of a Beijing movie. The time in the capital obviously occupied most of the life of the woman in front of Gu Huaishu.

She opened her arms, and waited for Bai Qiaoniang to come up to measure herself, but she said with a smile: "It's useless if you have a long body and a short brain."

Bai Qiaoniang looked shy and handsome, she just pursed her lips and smiled, "Miss San is a transparent person, why bother to underestimate yourself like this, if you really don't have a brain, I'm afraid there are no smart people in the world."

Gu Huaixiu also smiled and stopped talking.

There was no one else inside and outside the house, so Bai Qiaoniang continued to talk: "If the third girl is a fool, the Gu family has long since disappeared, who knows what the third girl is up to and down? Can you bear it?" Yes, it is very good. Who is not a forbearer in this world? The third girl can endure and give way, and the great blessing is yet to come."

Suppressing his anger, Gu Huaishu really wanted to throw Bai Qiaoniang out directly.

Although Qiao Niang was full of praise in every sentence, there was an unspeakable sense of aloofness. After all, she was working for that master and came out of the palace, so she was naturally unusual.Gu Huaixiu asked herself if she couldn't provoke such a person, and she could only say: "I have always been unable to provoke such a person, so I can only bear it. Isn't this life a life of greed for life and fear of death?"

"The more you are greedy for life and afraid of death, the more you can do something." Qiao Niang retracted the ruler, took a look, murmured and remembered it, and then measured her shoulders again, "I don't know how the third girl found that jade wrench. How is it?"

"I didn't find it, and I don't know where she is hiding. Why can't I search her room?"

Gu Huaixiu gritted his teeth, Gu Yaofang is not a cheap lamp, hanging out with an unreliable master, I am afraid that he has a physical relationship, otherwise he should marry the Zhang family.Talking about love is not a big crime in Gu Huaixiu's eyes. In short, it has nothing to do with her, but she even took something from someone else. Naturally, that person didn't dare to blatantly force her, and only knew how to order the other person. A malevolent master was doing business, and it was her, the third girl who knew the truth, who was unlucky.

Her answer was also within Bai Qiaoniang's expectation. When she came here last year, she asked the same thing.

Bai Qiaoniang's hands were very steady, she measured her shoulders, changed two arms, then her waist, and her height. While she was busy, she said: "Qiaoniang heard that the birthday of Nalan Xingde, the eldest son of Mingxiang in the capital, is coming. The letter from the master said that if the eldest lady also followed, it would be a bad thing. He thought, the third girl should find the finger puller as soon as possible, so that everyone can sleep well, and I don't know what the third girl wants ?”

"What the fourth master said is naturally correct." Gu Huaishu's face was about to twitch, but she still had to act like nothing serious. She also panicked, only feeling that every time she measured the size, it was too much. Just like Shang Xing, "I'll find a chance to try again, Qiao Niang, don't worry."

"Qiao Niang is not embarrassing the third girl, but she is helping the masters to do things. She dare not say that she is bothered or not, but the third girl has more to worry about. You alone are related to the Gu family. Dozens of bites."

Bai Qiaoniang took the ruler, and had already written down the size. Gu Huaixiu adjusted her cuffs without saying a word, and said slowly: "This year, twelve pieces of embroidered skirts with pink and blue satin are fashionable in the capital. I will make them for the third girl when I go back." When one piece comes out, it’s better to send it to the residence.”

"I'm going to trouble you again, so is Qing Dai, why hasn't she come back?"

She frowned, with a bit of complaint in her tone, covered her lips with a smile, and said: "Qiao Niang, sit down for a while, have a sip of tea before leaving."

"Don't dare, I'm still busy at the moment, the kindness of the third girl is appreciated by Qiao Niang, and Qiao Niang will leave."

Bai Qiaoniang didn't intend to stay any longer, she blessed her body after speaking, walked back to the door with small steps, saluted again, then turned and left.

Qing Dai came in with tea, but saw Gu Huaishu pressing one hand on the carved lacquer table, her face was strangely pale, she was startled, and hurriedly put down the tea tray: "Miss, what's wrong with you?"

"It's not a problem, that is, I didn't sleep well yesterday, and I'm a little dazed."

Gu Huaishu waved his hands, sat down, closed his eyes, "I won't eat at noon, I'm going to sleep for a while, you tell Xiao Shifang to stop busy."

(End of this chapter)