Cold Palace’s Abandoned Consort

The news spread quickly in the village. Not only was Jixiang Village, people in the surrounding villages almost illiterate. When I heard that I could write a letter, and the price was cheaper than looking for that fortune teller at the market, I found it. After that, I simply set up a table in the yard and opened a stall, helping people write letters and writing essays every day. For many days, I could earn more than 100 dollars a day.

When everyone was gone, I collected the money on the plate and handed it to Liu San'er.

He looked at me in surprise: "What is this?"

"You keep it."

"How does this work, this is what you earn!"

I laughed: "Who made the rice, vegetables, and fish?"

"Uh?" He froze a moment, and suddenly blushed. "It's two different things."

"One thing!"

"No, no, this is absolutely not possible. I can't ask for your money!"

"Liu San'er, don't be polite to me. I didn't treat you with food and drink here. But now that you are injured, I can help, so I can help you."

I was talking about putting money in his hands, but he pushed back firmly. I was worried that the wound on his hand was cracking, and I didn't dare to use too much force, and I heard him say, "I don't want it, I really don't want it! I will find a way to deal with things at home."

I looked worriedly at his unhealed hand: "But--"

He simply carried his hands on both hands and said to me: "I won't ask for your money, nor will I open the pot at home. Besides, when fishing was banned before, I fired a lot of firewood and was ready to sell it. It happened that Qishan Village tomorrow I'm going to the market. "

He was a little childish in front of me on weekdays, but now he looks a little bit stubborn. I knew it was not good to say any more, so I smiled softly: "That's good. But don't force yourself, you're still hurting."

"I know."

"Well then, if you rest early, if you want to go to the market tomorrow, get up early."

"Well, you should rest early, too."

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No words overnight.

The next morning, just after dawn, I woke up and finished washing. I heard the sound of Liu Saner washing in the courtyard. When he was finished, I pushed out the door.

When he saw me, he was startled: "Lightness, why did you get up so early?"

"I'll go with you today."

"Ah? What are you going to do?"

"I'll go check it out."

"..." He looked at me shyly, as if he didn't understand that I would have such a good mood, and I smiled and said, "Let's go, it's getting late, and if it's late, you can only catch up late. "

"Oh……"

He nodded and went out with me. When he came to the village entrance, he said, "If you are uncomfortable, tell me, this is a long way."

"I know."

Speaking of which, during this period of time, it was not easy to eat and wear well in his house, but his body slowly became healthy. After a long way, he was a little bit asthmatic, and he was not too sad, and went to the market.

Jixiang Village is a very remote and small fishing village, with a total of dozens of families, and the surrounding villages are not large, so even if the early episode of Qishan Village is the busiest in the neighborhood, there are stalls on both sides of the long street. The cries of drinking are also one after another. Along the way, I saw golden frying ghosts tumbling in a large oil pan, a large white steamed bun just out of the cage exuding a faint sweet scent, and some people who painted sugar on the street corners. There were children who sucked their thumbs and straightened their eyes The hook is waiting.

Looking at such a lively market, I was a bit tired at this time, and I was also at this time.

Liu Saner chose a corner location, wiped the bluestone pier on the street, put on a cloth, and said to me, "Sit down here. Be careful."

"Ok."

I nodded and sat down next to him waiting for the buyer.

After a while, a guest came and picked up a bunch of firewood for a long time. Liu Saner took the money and carefully put it into the purse bag he usually used.

I smiled and watched him do it all. When he took the purse back into his arms, he raised his head to meet my smiling eyes, and felt stunned that he looked a bit like a woman, funny, and his dark face was reddish.

I asked with a smile: "During the dry season, do you do this?"

"Ok."

"It won't make much."

He nodded and sighed: "In previous years, I helped the workers at Yifeng Inn. Although I worked harder, I could make some money to subsidize my family. Now it's not working."

"However, with the land behind Mount Niangniang, will it be better for everyone?"

"Um. Speaking of it, thanks to that Lord Liu Yi, if it wasn't for him, we had set ourselves up for the sake of our common people, how could we have this way out." He nodded strongly, stretched out his hand to care for the injury on his wrist, "Unfortunately, there are too few good officials in the court."

My heart moved slightly.

"What kind of official do you think is a good official?"

"It should be like the Lord Liu Yi, with one heart for the people." He said, gritting his teeth: "But these officials are now people with a heart and soul."

I smiled indifferently: "I just hope that in the future I will have a few more good officials like Lord Liu Yi."

"This is not enough."

"..."

I froze for a while, turned my head and looked at him, "What are you talking about?"

Liu Saner caressed his injured arm with one hand, and a dignified expression appeared on his face: "I think it's too difficult to run into a good official by luck alone."

"..."

"If the emperor wants Yangzhou to be good, there should be a good way to govern it, instead of counting on one or two good officials to come down. Over the years, we have experienced too much."

"..."

I was a bit surprised, but he didn't expect that he would say such words, but it surprised me a little.

At this time, there were more people in the market, and several more people came to see the firewood. Liu Saner hurried to greet me. I looked around for a while, and there was no place where I could help, and he whispered to him: "I'll go there and come back in a while."

"Oh," he ordered, "then be careful."

I nodded and got up and left.

This bazaar is not big. Soon I went to the other side. I saw an embroidery workshop and went in.

The outside field of this embroidery workshop is not too big, but after entering, it is an individual garden with holes. A dozen embroidered women are embroidering flowers. It is very pleasing to see that the white and delicate slender hands are like needles and flowers. I stood by and looked around. The owner of the embroidery workshop came over. He was a forty-year-old middle-aged man with a shofar beard and said politely, "Girl, what do you want to buy?"

I was looking down at a needle drop of an embroidery woman. When I heard him say this, I laughed, "Boss, do you rent out work here?"

"Are you here to pick up the work?" The boss heard me and looked at me with the corner of his eye, and said, "Will you embroider?"

I smiled and nodded.

"What will it embroider?" He said, pointing to the work of the embroidery girl around us: "Is this possible?"

I looked at the colorful butterflies embroidered on that silk satin, and said with a smile, "This older sister embroiders pretty well. Just embroidering the butterfly wings, the flowers of Xiang embroidery are more lively. Not necessarily good. "

"Oh?" The boss frowned. "How do you say embroidery?"

After saying that, he handed a wink to the embroidered woman, and the embroidered woman stopped and gave me the needle. I was not polite, so I sat down and slowly embroidered.

In fact, I didn't tell the truth when I was in the palace. I have learned all but Shu embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Su embroidery, and Yue embroidery, and I am no less good than any embroidery lady with the best craftsmanship, but I have never been able to perform it in the palace these years The opportunities I have learned, those opportunities, have been rejected by me.

However, I did not expect that one day, I would use the skills I learned from bleeding and sweating to make a living.

There was a little smile on the corner of my mouth, but my hands kept on, the needles fell from my hands, and after a while a vivid color butterfly fluttered on the silk satin.

The boss was stunned, and the embroiders around him were shocked, all came around to watch.

After a while, the boss turned back and looked at me and said, "Girl, are you going to pick up work at our embroidery workshop?"

"Ok."

"Just work?"

I smiled: "There are still patients at home to take care of, so I can't come to Xiufang. I come to work on the fifteenth day of every month to deliver the work, and I will not delay the day."

"So, what do you do?"

"I can pick everything up except Shu embroidery."

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When I talked to the boss about the work money, I used these days to write a letter to help people barely pay the deposit, and got the first batch of needles and needles needed. When walking to the street, Liu Saner ’s Dan Chai has already sold, and bought a pack of rice to carry.

When he saw the burden in my hand, he stunned: "What is this?"

I just smiled and said, "Go back and talk. It's not too early, don't worry about going back too late."

Although he still had doubts, he didn't say anything. He nodded and walked back with me. When the house was packed up, he walked into the room and saw me open the bag and embroider the thread and brocade. He took out the bandages, and Liu San'er looked at him and said immediately, "You, you are--"

I laughed: "I picked up some work at the embroidery workshop. If I do well this time, there will be better work in the future."

He looked at me stupidly, and then looked at the table. After a long silence, he slowly said, "Lightness, are you doing this to help me?"

"..."

"You, don't you think it's a favor or something. I should do all these things."

"..."

"You don't get yourself so tired."

The more he talked, the more eager, his face became red, and at the end his voice became weaker and quieter. I looked at him anxiously, his heart was warm, and then he smiled and said, "You don't think I'm giving something or something. . "

"what?"

"Even if I really come to your cousin, at this time you are injured, you should do something for you."

"Uh……"

"Come, if you're afraid I'm tired, help me manage the threads."

After that, he handed a handful of embroidery thread to him. I thought he took good care of the people, and the thread trimming would not be a problem. Who knew that in a blink of an eye, that thread of embroidery had become a mass of embroidery threads, and his cold sweats came out, and his blush could not be pulled apart. Pushing him out, he was embarrassed and laughed, so he simply went to clean up the salted fish in the yard.

I sat at the table and started embroidering.

Today I showed such a hand in the embroidery workshop, but in the end I was born, and the boss was not too relieved about me, so all the work entrusted to me were embroidered with the butterfly pattern. Although not tired, I came back and embroidered so After a while, all the fingers were sweaty, the needles were astringent, and the eyes were dry and tired.

At night, Liu Saner couldn't light up the oil lamp at home. Only a short candle flickered. I embroidered even harder.

He usually goes to bed long ago, but he has been with me tonight, holding a fan to help me catch mosquitoes. I can't help coming up at this time, saying, "Don't stay up late, it's bad for you. "