Zhumen Chunshen

Chapter 281 Preparations ([-])

No matter what Mao said, Gu just smiled and played Tai Chi and Simu, but refused to tell the truth.

When Mao left, he forgot a pair of pearl-inlaid red gold carved bracelets wrapped in a handkerchief at Gu's place. Gu also confiscated them, and quickly asked his mother-in-law to chase them back to Mao.

Mrs. Mao put it away with a dry smile, angry in her heart, scolding Mrs. Hui, Mr. Yao Cunhui, Mr. Yao, and her husband for being useless and incompetent, but he couldn't think about it. He could only watch Gu He boarded the carriage to go to Beijing in high spirits, kicked up the dust and went happily.

Yao Cunhui's life suddenly became monotonous and busy. Every morning, she learned everyone's etiquette with Tang Nanny and Shan Shan, and listened to them explain the history of the major families in the capital—especially the Shen family.In the afternoon and evening, I would do female red embroidery to catch the dowry. Occasionally, the fourth aunt would come to report a few words about the dowry, asking her to look at it or ask her for advice.

Yao Cunhui found it interesting to listen to gossip about history, learned the rules and etiquette and was obedient and willing to endure hardships, but she expressed deep distress and helplessness for embroidery.

Sitting there with Rhizoma Polygonum, Coral, etc., everyone embroidered together. She was standing upright, with her head down, staring intently and concentrating on it. After a while, she was fascinated by each stitch, and she was engrossed in it. She was the only one who did not string a few stitches. He was distracted again, not knowing what to think.

Nanny Tang took a closer look, and couldn't help but frowned again. The color was matched by the maid, the embroidery frame was also set up by the maid, the thread was also strung by the maid, and even the beginning was opened by the red Polygonum for her. She can just embroider down, but the stitches are almost invisible, not much better than the five or six-year-old little girl who just started!

"Miss Biao, you can't do this! Your mother was beyond this level when she was four years old!" Nanny Tang shook her head and sighed.

Yao Cunhui smiled in embarrassment, put down the needle and thread in her hand, looked at it carefully, and felt that she couldn't see it, so she looked at Nanny Tang pitifully and said with a smile: "Mommy, I'm already very serious, but I really can't remember Stay!"

Embroidery is also very particular. Just embroidering a flower, there are several stitches such as straight stitches, grabbing stitches, meat-in-the-needle, punching needles, virtual and solid stitches. There are forward grabs, counter grabs, single sets, double sets and so on.

Mother Tang also said that each part of a flower, a leaf, a stamen, and a stalk has a specific needling method. Even for a petal, different parts, shapes, and light reflections have different needling methods.Yao Cunhui's attention to these things just made her confused, and sometimes her mind would be dazed after one stitch, and she couldn't make up her mind for a long time when she thought about which stitch to use for the next stitch. Naturally, the embroidered things would not look good!
Yao Cunhui also asked Red Polygonum in private, but he just pursed his lips and smiled, and said lightly that he didn't know all these rules, and that which needles should be used in which places would be used naturally, and that the second lady didn't need to worry, just let it happen naturally OK.

Yao Cunhui was speechless, and thought, I want to go with the flow, but I have to go with the flow!

Mother Tang was speechless after hearing the words, she knew Yao Cunhui was telling the truth.During the few days when she and Shan Shan were in Yao Mansion, Miss Biao, Mother Rong, Liao Hong and others were all very friendly and polite to them. Miss Biao was also serious about her studies, so she was quite satisfied with her in her heart.Only this embroidery talent is really unflattering!
"How good this is! Seeing that we don't have much time!" Tang Nanny couldn't help being anxious.Which bride gets married without a dowry embroidered by herself?Pillowcases, quilt covers, husband's shoes and socks, insoles, belts, etc., when they arrive at her husband's house, these are all evidences of her virtuousness to her husband, and Ms. Pianbiao can't bring out any of them here!

"In this way, don't do the big things, let the red Polygonum, Coral, and Xiao Xing come, but you have to do the small things yourself! Good lady, don't be ashamed, listen to the old slave, go For the prince’s personal items, shoes and socks, belts, purses, purses, etc., if you can do it yourself, do it yourself. Even if you don’t know how to do it yourself, let the sewing ladies in the mansion come, and don’t let the girls around you interfere! These little You don’t need to pay attention to any stitches, as long as the stitches are neat and tight, and the patterns can be simple, you’d better learn them all!”

Yao Cunhui was stunned, and thought that this was a good statement. When she thought that the belt Shen Quan was wearing was made by another woman, Yao Cunhui couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable. She gritted her teeth and nodded repeatedly to Nanny Tang.This time I didn't get distracted, but I studied hard and studied again. After two or three days, I actually looked a little better.

Yao Cunhui was quite proud, but Nanny Tang just smiled and said, "That's fine!" Yao Cunhui knew that Nanny Tang would never say anything against her will. Although she was frustrated, she finally got a word of affirmation, and she became more and more excited. Think about it.

It was April in a blink of an eye, if it wasn't for the fact that Zhao Jiyuan, who lived in Yao's mansion the day before Chunwei, accidentally broke his leg, Yao Cunhui was so busy that he almost forgot about Chunwei.

Zhao Jiyuan became disabled and could no longer take part in the imperial examination. Yao Cunhui also heard from the girls that he fell into a coma on the spot after spitting blood.She sneered in her heart, this person also has today, God really has eyes!In this way, it is even more impossible for a useless person to become a Marquis, and he is not afraid of causing any troubles again. Yao Cunhui is determined and concentrates on continuing to compete with embroidery in Luomeiyuan.

Unexpectedly, within a few days, an unhealthy wind blew up from an unknown corner of the capital, blowing rumors all over the city.The protagonist of the rumor turned out to be Yao Cunhui.

It is said that the second young lady of the Yao family went south to buy food two years ago, and was attacked by refugees on the way, and she was rescued by a young son named Bai Muyuan. Later, the two even spent a night alone in the mountains.

This matter is well-spoken, and the ins and outs are clear, and all the folks accompanying Yao's rice line can testify.At that time, Miss Yao's family left the crowd with Bai Muyuan and went into the mountains in the middle of the night by collecting medicine for the big man Shen Sheng!

These words would not have reached Yao Cunhui's ears so quickly, but Yao Shizan was furious when he heard it, and hurried to Luomei Courtyard to tell her all of them angrily.

Yao Cunhui was startled, and immediately thought of Zhao Jiyuan.Except for this person, no one would reveal this matter at this juncture.Only him!He himself suffered retribution, so he wanted to drag everyone to hell with him!

Yao Cunhui comforted Yao Shizan with kind words, then went to see Master Yao after a while, and told Master Yao everything that happened at that time.

"Why are you so confused!" Master Yao's face immediately became ugly.What would Shen Quan think if the rumor got bigger and bigger?What would the Shen family think?The township monarch who was canonized by the Queen Mother turned out to be a person who did not abide by women's rules, so where did the Queen Mother put her face?
"Father, the situation was urgent, and I had no other choice! Father told Shen Sheng and the others to keep their mouths shut. As long as we don't admit it, he is just a rumor."

"Where is that Bai? Who can guarantee what he will say!" Master Yao frowned, and sighed, "Forget it, I will find an opportunity to meet him secretly in the past two days. He absolutely can't do this. admit!"

"He didn't dare, he's not that stupid. Dad, you don't have to go see him, if it falls into the eyes of someone who cares, nothing will become something instead!"

Master Yao thought so too, if Bai Muyuan came forward to admit this matter, she would undoubtedly seek death.

Master Yao sighed, this is the only way to go.The Yao family can't be in a mess, what should happen and what should happen, this rumor will naturally be extinguished after two days.If there are people who don't know what is good or bad, they will slander the township monarch, and they will have to report it to the Shuntian Mansion.Let the government intervene to capture a few gossip ghosts and see who else is not afraid of death.

Master Yao remained silent, and ordered the butler to infuse Zhao Jiyuan's boy with dumb drugs and imprison him directly in Zhuangzi. He ordered Zhao Jiyuan to be cut off from all contact with the outside world.

Although this person is useless, he still has fame and fame, and he once had contact with members of the Lu family. Now he cannot be beaten or killed, and he has become a hot potato.

Unexpectedly, the Yao family remained silent on the matter, but another gust of wind blew up again.

In response to this rumor, another rumor came out from nowhere, clearly and vaguely pointing the finger at Pingjin Weng Lord Lu Ying, saying that Lu Ying could not swallow this breath, and deliberately wanted to destroy the marriage between Shen and Yao's family. Rumors spread that damaged the reputation of the second lady of the Yao family.He also said that the second lady of the Yao family is a township monarch personally appointed by the queen mother, and her character is naturally irrelevant. Anyone who dares to spread rumors will be disrespectful to the queen mother, deliberately insulting the court's dignity, and if she is caught, she will be punished. Jailed!

When everyone heard these rumors, they subconsciously dared not talk about it anymore, and some more courageous people ran to talk to Shen Sheng or the other shopkeepers of the Yao family. Sheng simply yelled at the bastard bastard who made such rumors and came out to confront him, which scared the visitor, Nuonuo, and ran away.

On Bai Muyuan's side, those who knew him couldn't help hesitantly asking whether the affair was true. Bai Muyuan turned her amber eyes and asked with a smile, "Do you think I'm the same as the second young lady of the Yao family? Is it possible?" People thought about it, he and Liang Zi from the Yao family are the big ones, and the second lady of the Yao family is also a powerful character, and it would be easier to believe that the two of them would fight to the death!
So soon, the rumors were self-defeating and subsided.

Like Yao Cunhui, Bai Muyuan breathed a sigh of relief secretly, and cursed in her heart at that bastard who dragged herself into trouble by spreading such words.The King of Zhenxi doesn't even sell the face of the Lu family and the Pingjin Weng Lord, let alone a mere servant of the Lu family?If he got angry and found out about him, even if he took his own life, his master probably wouldn't say anything for him.

In fact, for this matter, Lu Xianchong mistakenly thought that Bai Muyuan and his younger sister Lu Ying were responsible for this matter at first, and they had already scolded him severely, so that he had nowhere to complain.

(End of this chapter)