wedding dress

Chapter 141 Brocade

"That's right. Did the letter... reach Zhao Zhi?"

"The person who went to Pingzhou hasn't come back yet, but counting the time, it should have been in her hands."

"Ah."

Qin Lie's voice was low, as if he was whispering in his ear: "Wait...after we get married, I will take you to Suizhou, which is very close to Pingzhou, so you can drop by to see her."

"Suizhou?"

"Yes... From now on, if you like the capital city, we will live in the capital city. If you are bored, we will go outside. The people of Suizhou are simple and the scenery is beautiful. By the way, if you want to see Jinfeng, you can also meet together There are many mountains in Suizhou, and the sky is very blue. When the fire phoenix blooms, a large area of ​​the hillside is red. The game on the mountain is also good. Do you remember that when I went back to Donghua Mountain Villa, I grilled fish for you? There is also a stream like that at the bottom of the hillside. Let’s go fishing and catch shrimps by the stream together. The water and soil in Suizhou are very good for people, you must like it there..."

The plum blossoms kept spinning around Xiaodong's feet. The weather was getting warmer, and Xiaodong was wearing silk socks. The plum blossoms' furry tails brushed back and forth on her feet and ankles, slightly itchy.

Xiaodong bent down and hugged Meihua, Meihua stretched comfortably, curled up in Xiaodong's arms.

Qin Lie continued: "My mother and I live in Dongquan, and the scenery in Dongquan is very beautiful... When I was young, because I had no money, my mother changed her clothes for me to wear, and when I went out, people would chase after me and call me little girl." , and pulled my clothes and hair..."

Xiaodong couldn't help laughing in a low voice.

"Really?"

"Yeah. Then I got angry and found a hatchet to cut off more than half of my hair."

What was Qin Lie like at that time?Xiaodong closed her eyes and leaned against the window.

Hmm, can't imagine.

It must be silly, right?

When he came to the capital, his hair was not short.

"At that time, how old were you?"

"Six years old, or seven years old?" Qin Lie shook his head: "I don't remember clearly."

Xiaodong has never experienced poverty without clothes in these two lives, but it must be very sad to think of a boy forced to wear women's clothes and being ridiculed and teased.

"Your mother... what kind of person is she?"

Qin Lie smiled slightly and said: "She is very beautiful... Yao Jinfeng is also considered good-looking, but when my mother was young, she should have been prettier than her."

Wow, even more beautiful than Yao Jinfeng, what kind of beauty is that?
It is also possible that in the eyes of the son, the mother is the most beautiful person in the world.Xiaodong has experience. A classmate praised her mother for being particularly beautiful. Before Xiaodong came to visit, she always had great hopes, but she was very disappointed when she saw her. The aunt was not ugly, but her eyebrows were scattered. The eyes are small, the skin is yellow, and there is still a big gap from the beauty.Of course, in the eyes of every child, the mother may be the most beautiful person in the world.

"Don't worry, she knows you and will like you."

Xiaodong lightly scratched Mei Hua's chin, making the lazy cat dizzy with comfort, and purring loudly.

"My mother is very irritable, and I was often beaten when I was young."

"what?"

"Really, shoe soles, brooms, and riding whips, they have suffered a lot."

"She doesn't know how to cook either, either the fire is too raw or it's burnt. She was impatient, and filled a lot of firewood into the stove at once, suffocating the fire. When I was young, I went out to collect firewood. I didn't understand. Pick up the unburnable wood, and my mother stuffed it under the stove, and there is only smoke but no fire, and after a long time of fiddling, the rice can't be cooked..."

Xiaodong giggled.

It sounds like the mother-in-law-to-be isn't perfect either.

"But my mother is very good at doing business. In the beginning, she set up a small stall in the market to sell weaving ribbons. One or two coppers were exchanged for money to make ends meet. At that time, I was studying with an old scholar. Every day after school, I hurried I ran to find her, and sat on the side of the street to eat pancakes. It was too hot, and the stone floor was scorching hot, so I couldn’t sit still..."

After Qin Lie left, Xiaodong still hadn't recovered.

What is Suizhou like?
What kind of person is Qin Lie's mother, her future mother-in-law?
Xiaodong began to feel that she was no longer as dazed and apprehensive as she was at the beginning, and began to have curiosity and expectations for the future.

She has spent more than ten years in the capital. When she raises her head, there will always be a square and blue sky above her.

Is the sky of Suizhou bluer than that of Beijing?

Mrs. Hu came in to see her standing in front of the window in a daze, wanted to say something, but suppressed it again.

Xiaodong heard her footsteps, turned around and asked, "Mother Hu? What's the matter?"

"The materials are delivered, should the princess go to the front hall to pick them, or let them send them here to pick them?"

"You don't need to worry about moving it around, just go to the hall to pick it."

Hu replied.Xiaodong straightens her temple hair in the mirror and caresses her lapel.It was still raining outside, incessantly.Thin raindrops weaved a dense net in the shadows in front of the eaves, Xiaodong reached out to catch them, and the cool raindrops stuck to his hands.

I don't know if Qin Lie came to hold an umbrella just now.

Presumably not. Fortunately, one person escaped the eyes of others. An umbrella was opened, so big that everyone could see it.

Although the rain was not heavy, but standing for a long time, every time I went back and forth, my body must have been wet.

I have to tell him next time, don't come here when it's raining, windy, or hot——

However, will he listen?
This person has a lot of ideas, and most of them agree to it while still doing it right.

"The princess?"

"Ah, let's go."

The materials are spread out and placed, and the various colors and patterns are dazzling.Wu Di also came along, she is most familiar with these silk and satin materials.The quality of the material, production, design and color, everything is precious.What kind of material is suitable for what purpose, one by one clearly stated.

Xiaodong looked at the materials all over his eyes, and suddenly thought that what he asked just now really missed the point.

To please the future mother-in-law, I should have asked Qin Lie more about what the mother-in-law likes and dislikes. Just listening to him ramble and talk for a long time relieved the boredom, but I didn't feel the pulse of the future mother-in-law at all.

Does she like red?Still like green?
Do you like a little flower, or a little plain?Do you like muslin or satin?

Xiaodong also planned to make a pair of clothes and shoes to show her filial piety to her future mother-in-law, but she didn't ask Qin Lie about these points just now.

What a mistake.

For the Empress Dowager Shengci, Xiaodong was quite accurate.Clothes should be elegant and clean, Xiaodong has never seen the bright patterns of the Shengci Empress Dowager's casual robes.

But the Empress Dowager Shengci is someone who has spent many years in the deep palace. The deep palace and the years are very sharp. They cut off people's edges, enthusiasm, preferences, and impulses... one by one, and finally live in the palace. The women, as if cast out of a mold.

Qin Lie's mother should not be like this.

She is a woman of a different race, she doesn't talk about being gentle, courteous, courteous and frugal, if she likes it, she likes it, and for this, she can be ruthless and make a clean break with the past.Her husband's family couldn't tolerate her, and she survived such a hard life with the child.

Very impatient, very stubborn and tenacious...

Xiaodong is slightly lost in thought, yearning infinitely.

If she were put in that situation, would she be able to persevere and live like that?
do not know.

Maybe she can too, people, no one knows if she is not forced to that point.

Maybe she just can't face it.She hadn't lived like that—she hadn't even taken on any responsibility on her own in her life.

"This..." Wu Di stopped, pointed to a piece of material and said, "Where did this come from?"

The person on the side said: "The few horses here are all sent by treasures from all over the world."

As soon as Xiaodong heard these four words, he suddenly became energetic.

Those few pieces of fabric don't look very special, just look at the color and luster, which is much worse than the few pieces of jacquard satin and gold-woven satin just now.

Wu Di was more energetic than her, her eyes were shining when she looked at those pieces of material.It's like a pervert meeting a beautiful woman, or a glutton meeting a delicious meal.

"This is Po Yi's Lanhua brocade..." Wu Di's hands were trembling, "This... this, this is really Lanhua brocade..."

She repeated these two sentences over and over, and Hu couldn't help asking: "Master Wu, what is so special about this Lanhua brocade?"

But judging by Master Wu's appearance, she must not be in the mood to answer questions now.Seeing this frenzy, what Master Wu wants to do the most is to pounce on and take these brocades as his own, without eating or sleeping with them.

"My master... before he died, my master said that he had never seen Lanhua Jin in his life, so he regretted it for the rest of his life..."

Xiaodong asked curiously: "Master Wu has never seen this kind of material before? Then why did you recognize it all at once?"

"The Lanhua brocade is different. Even the most capable Po Yi girl can hardly weave one piece of this kind of brocade. Look, what color is it?"

"Su Qing." There were no flowers on it either, so there was nothing unusual about it.

Master Wu shook the material away by more than two feet, then lifted it up sideways: "Look again."

"It seems to be... smoky purple?"

The angle and light change, the color is actually different.

"Take a closer look."

Xiaodong was a little puzzled, so he looked carefully.

This material is not plain anymore, with a layer of shallow patterns floating on it, blooming flowers, stretched branches and leaves, and colorful butterflies dancing among the flowers——

"This...how is this woven?"

Wu Di looked frenzied: "Yeah, the color of this one looks better under the sun. I was a little skeptical when I took a look at it just now, but I can confirm it after a second look. It must be Lanhuajin. Po Yi Not all women can weave and know how to weave. Those who are skilled will start weaving it from elementary school and cut a wedding dress for themselves. No one in our summer knows how to weave it. My master saw it once in the early years. But I couldn’t study it carefully. Later, I entered the palace and worked in the needlework bureau, so I didn’t even have the chance.”

"Isn't Po Yi paying tribute every year?"

"I haven't paid any tribute to this, only those who have collected brocade, bundled plains, and made cloth."

Suizhou is quite close to Po Yi, so Qin Lie must have brought this here on purpose.

But since it is such a rare thing, why didn't he mention it just now?

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