Red makeup against the world

Chapter 130 Gu Yu
A few days ago, Xu Wanzhen asked Yu Xuemin's embroiderer to bring out ten bolts of plain silk, and used freehand splashing ink to paint pictures of spring scenes and pictures of farmers picking toon on them.

It was also lightly colored with paint, and embroidered with pea green, moth green, alizarin red, and red silk threads at the position of the Chinese toon, and clusters of Chinese toon buds appeared on it, as if they were fresh. It is as vivid as picking it off.

Yu Xuemin's family was amazed when they saw it, her embroidery worker was also one of the best in Suzhou City, otherwise, she wouldn't be able to be the manager of the Xu family's embroidery room.But every time she saw Xu Wanzhen's exquisite and novel ideas in embroidery, she felt inferior.This technique perfectly combines painting and embroidery. In the distance are the distant mountains in spring, and in the vicinity are the toon buds from embroidery.

Xu Wanzhen made a demonstration, and Yu Xuemin's family embroidered the rest.After all the plain silks were embroidered, they were arranged in the green bamboo garden, adding a lot of spring atmosphere to the yard, which was also novel and unique.

The "not bad" that Old Master Tu said was to praise her for this arrangement.

In Mrs. Xu's main room, two sisters were talking on the soft couch.Ripe cherries are placed on the low table in the middle, and a Ru Kiln pot-bellied porcelain vase is placed by the window. A few pear blossoms are simply inserted in the vase, which looks generous and elegant.

"Your granddaughter made this arrangement?" Tu Qiongyu asked with a smile in the corner of her eyes.Although she is over sixty years old and has encountered a lot of ups and downs, she does not show the slightest hostility in her face, and her clothes are elegant and youthful, which vaguely shows that she was the best in Beijing back then.

Mrs. Xu's eyes and brows were full of pride, she said with a smile: "My granddaughter is more capable than you think. Even the layout of my room is made by her. I will be a shopkeeper and be a rich old lady with peace of mind. myself."

"Look who made you proud, Wanzhen is indeed a good child." Tu Qiongyu laughed, then changed the tone, and said: "My daughter is not bad, right? Who insisted on marrying her as a daughter-in-law back then."

Both of them are getting older, and for a while, they are like children, fighting to win or lose.Such a relaxed conversation between sisters has not happened for many years.Back in the day, the "Shuangshu of the Capital City" was the best in Luoyang, and how many men admired it.Unexpectedly, as fate would have it, the two sisters live in two places and haven't seen each other for decades.

"Elder Sister, you have nothing to do, come to the Green Bamboo Garden to walk around more often. What are you always doing in your 'Hanmeiyuan'?"

Tu Qiongyu smiled slightly, and said: "Well, it's good if you come here. It's not that I don't like to go out, it's that I have no place to go. Hongyi's courtyard is really inconvenient for me, and I don't like to go." She frowned slightly Eyebrows said: "Lin's temperament is really..." She really doesn't like Lin, but her good upbringing prevents her from talking about right and wrong behind others.

Mrs. Xu smiled knowingly, and said: "From now on, eldest sister will come here more often, and I will take Yu'er to your place often. Zhen'er takes care of the house, and I have more time."

"You, just show off your good granddaughter."

"That's not in front of eldest sister, I would not say that if it was someone else." Mrs. Xu said with a smug smile: "Zhener is so good, I wish I could hide it and choose a good marriage for her. "

"Speaking of marriage, will the Sun family's divorce be harmful to Zhen'er's reputation?" Tu Qiongyu asked with concern.

Mrs. Xu shook her head and said: "The Sun family is a well-known scholarly family after all, and they need to be more respectable. It is a divination. The ninth young master of his family will get married within two years. They can't wait for Zhener to get rid of the obedience before retiring the marriage."

"That's good. In the past two years, you should pay attention to it. There are many children with good families in the capital." Tu Qiongyu comforted again: "I don't think the nephew's case is a big deal. It will be fine if the joints are dredged. It's just that in prison It's been hard."

"Changrong's term of office is up this year. I want to take advantage of his return to Beijing at the end of the year to report on his duties, and see if I can find him a job in the capital. This way Qingyang will be closer to you." Mrs. Xu told Tu Qiongyu her plan Dao Lai: "His master thinks highly of him, and both sides should work together with certainty."

Tu Qiongyu said: "These days, I've also been thinking about this matter, and I'm about to discuss it with you. Changrong was a second-class biography in those days, and he also has some impressions from the emperor. If it works well, there is a good chance."

The two sisters had a detailed discussion in the upper room about the child, and a new guest also came to the Green Bamboo Garden.

Yan came with Tu Ruizhang. Xu Wenyu was an acquaintance. When he saw a playmate of the same age, he greeted him with a smile, took his hand, and said like a treasure: "Brother, there are so many freshmen in our dean Bowl fish. Let’s go, I’ll show you.”

Tu Ruizhang held Yan Shi's hand, and looked at his mother timidly.In Tu's house, he never had a playmate.As the only great-grandson of the Tu family, his parents kept him tight.I was enlightened at the age of three, and I have to practice calligraphy and memorize every day. I don't have much time to play, so I am inevitably a bit introverted.

Since the first day of the Xu family's visit, Yan Shi has not seen them since they had the welcome banquet together.Although they lived together, her mother-in-law Lin made it clear that she didn't want to see the Xu family. Although she wanted to get close, she still had to take Lin's thoughts into consideration.

Originally, Gu Yu wanted to go to Dabei Temple with Mrs. Lin, but when Xu's toon banquet was invited, Mrs. Lin asked the two of them to come.To be honest, she was relieved.Serving by Mrs. Lin's side, where can I feel at ease here?

Xu Wanzhen smiled slightly, and said, "Auntie, let my cousin and Yu'er play by themselves. It doesn't matter if there is a nanny with me." Tu Ruizhang is sensible and polite, just like a little adult, but he lacks the innocence and liveliness of a child .She had a younger brother in her two lives, and seeing such a young child, she couldn't help but want to make him happy.

Yan Shi nodded. She came here because she wanted her son to have playmates of the same age. She knelt down and said softly to Tu Ruizhang, "Zhang'er, go, don't make trouble."

Xu Wenyu cheered, and pulled Tu Ruizhang to the bluestone fish tank in the atrium.Tu Ruizhang seemed a little hesitant at first, but after a while, laughter came out.The two little heads lay on the edge of the fish tank, watching the fish swimming around, chattering about which fish swims fast and which fish is the most popular.

Seeing this situation, Yan Shi secretly felt that it was really right to come early today.Smiling, he said to Xu Wanzhen, "Your little cousin is studying in the academy now, and is going to participate in the next Qiu Wei. You can only come after the academy releases it." Tu Bosi has already passed the examination for a scholar, and Mrs. Tu has checked his profile. Homework, ordered him to give it a try in the township examination two years later.

Xu Wanzhen welcomed Yan Shi to the flower hall and sat down, Yan Shi looked around and praised: "What a delicate thought, are these all arranged by Zhen Er?"

"Aunt Xiaobiao is congratulating her, but Zhen'er just wanted to make it look more elegant."

Yan Shi also had a lot of experience in female red. She went to the plain silk and looked at it carefully, and praised: "This embroidery is excellent. Did you really embroider it?"

Xu Wanzhen smiled and said: "Zhen'er just made a demonstration, the rest is embroidered by my embroiderer."

(End of this chapter)