The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 48 Children
Throughout the day, Sydney was on duty as usual, but after realizing that he had gained a lot of meat, he consciously ate two pieces less every time he was "ordered" by the emperor to eat dim sum today.

After the dinner is delivered, the shift is over, and they can have dinner after returning to their rooms.

——It's been the same for the past two months. Before each meal, she circles the menu first, picks out a few dishes she wants to eat, and someone will bring them to them after the previous meal is withdrawn.

In the matter of the full board menu, no one actually ordered her to order only a few dishes, but she felt that it was not good to go too far.There were only three of them, and they often chose three, and occasionally they picked four, but only one time they picked five, and it was because of Su Zixian's birthday.

The three entered the courtyard while chatting, Ting Xian was thirsty and eager to drink tea, stepped into the courtyard gate and ran to the main room with her skirt in her hands.Before the teacup was turned over, when I raised my head and saw the posture in the Sydney house, I was so frightened that I yelled "Ah!"
"What's the matter?" Xueli and Zixian were surprised, looked at each other and chased after them, and they both said, "Ah!"

In the room, bundles of fabrics were placed there, five piles filled the couch, and another seven or eight were placed on the case, it seemed that the couch couldn't be put away...

"What's going on here..." Xue Li looked complicated, and the first thing that came to her mind was - where did she sleep? !
They were dazed, Zhang Fugui ran out of his room when he heard the movement, and smiled when he came in: "Sister, are you back?"

"What's going on here?!" Xue Li pointed to the room, took a closer look, and noticed that Zhang Fugui was followed by a little girl.

That little girl might only be ten years old, half a head shorter than Fugui.Xue Li was even more confused when she saw it: "Who is this?"

Zhang Fugui explained unhurriedly: "The materials were brought by Mr. Xu, saying that His Majesty ordered to make more sets of clothes for my sister. This girl is from the Shangfu Bureau. Mr. Xu said that she will stay here from now on." , it’s convenient for the sisters to do something.”

"..." The three of them were dumb for a long time without saying a word.Sydney remembered that His Majesty said "two people must be placed in the yard" at the beginning, but when Fugui came, she thought it was enough, and now there is another little maid who is younger than her? !
But the person has already been sent, and she can't send him away on her own initiative.

Sydney pulled her over and asked, "What's your name?"

The little maid raised her head, looked at her with bright eyes, and answered neatly: "Master Xu said to wait for my sister to change my name!"

Sydney: "..."

It is very common for maids to change their names in the palace, especially for those who serve in front of concubines, it is only a word to change their names.But she had never done this kind of thing before, and she never thought that she would do it again, so she suddenly became very embarrassed.

Then she wanted to ask her original name, just use it directly, what to change!

As a result, the little girl was still ten points, listening, and talking, and insisted on making her change according to Xu Shishui's wishes, and she refused to say what her original name was.

Xueli looked at Zixian Tingxian gloomily, Zixian Tingxian looked at the ground and the sky with one hand, and she meant to let her deal with it by herself.

Xueli took a long breath, and bit the bullet: "Then... let's call it bean paste."

As soon as the words fell, Zixian and Tingxian glared at her together. Su Zixian said in his heart how greedy you are?Sydney pretended not to see, who told them not to help her just now, don't complain afterwards!
Then the five of them went into her room to study the fabric together.The colors and patterns of these materials are obviously for girls to wear. Zhang Fugui is just watching the excitement, but Zixian and Tingxian are serious about helping her think of styles.

"Should this be a bust-length skirt?" Su Zixian pointed to an apricot-yellow-colored silk, on which the pink petals became denser and denser from top to bottom.

Dou Sha touched it with her hands, but said, "It's too soft, it's not smooth enough to make a skirt, but it's fine to make a shirt with big sleeves."

She really understands at such a young age!
The three of them were a little surprised, and the conversation became more lively afterwards.This one is waist-length, another is chest-length, this one is cross-collared, that one is double-breasted, and leftover materials are used to make half-arm belts, belts, purses, etc. It's a joy to choose.

Putting the emperor's intentions there, naturally most of them were made for Sydney, but Zixian and Ting Xian also ordered two sets of chest-length skirts and one pair-breasted waist-length skirt.

After the excitement, I even had a very happy dinner.Sydney ordered a dish of eight-treasure tofu today. She has always liked this dish, mainly because it is delicious with bibimbap!
The tender tofu is finely chopped and then added with minced mushrooms, minced mushrooms, minced peanuts, minced pine nuts, minced chicken and minced ham. When it is fried in the pan, it is added with fragrant chicken soup. It is colorful when mixed with rice. There is appetite, and you will be greedy when you smell it.

They all took good care of Dou Sha. Seeing that she seemed a bit cynical and didn’t pick up vegetables by herself, they took turns delivering things to her bowl. Fugui even picked up a chicken leg and tucked it into her bowl. The meal was very lively. .

After dinner, we can each do our own business.She had to arrange a place for Dou Sha to live. Before she came, there was only one room in the small courtyard, and there was no room left.After thinking about it, Xueli let her sleep in the room on the south side of the main house. It was sort of a study, but they didn't spend much time in it, most of the time it was empty, and the bed was ready-made.

Dousha was very quiet. After she settled down, she went into her room and said nothing. She even took the initiative to move all the materials that had been stacked on the Sydney couch, saying that it would be convenient for her to work.

Afterwards, Ting Xian also went back to her room. At this time, she likes to read by herself.Zixian Lai was in Tingxian's room, and the two of them sorted out the letters together, Zixian suddenly remembered: "Where are the clothes of our envoy?"

I was happy to forget it just now, but now I realize that there is obviously no such difference in the material of the clothes.

When she mentioned this, Xueli froze: "I'll ask Mr. Xu tomorrow..."

The next day, as soon as she got up from the couch and yawned, Dou Sha came in through the curtain: "Sister Sydney!"

Xue Li looked over sleepily, and was startled: "...didn't you sleep well?"

Dou Sha smiled, walked to her couch, and handed a set of dresses in her hand to her: "Sister, try it. Master Xu said that I must rush out a few sets, so that my sister can wear some of them. If it suits you Sister, just go through it, I will be on business today."

Dou Sha said it with a normal face, and Xue Li turned green when she heard it.

——Why are you in such a hurry?Dou Sha is only ten years old, let her work overnight for her?
Therefore, even if Xu Shishui ordered it, Xueli now feels that she is very inappropriate.Turned over to the bed, took the clothes and put them aside, pushed the bean paste to the opposite side: "Go to sleep, my boy, I will try it myself, and I will tell Mr. Xu that you are done!"

She persuaded Dou Sha to go back with kindness, and Dou Sha fell asleep almost instantly as soon as she lay down on the couch, and then she was embarrassed.

She originally thought that these clothes were made for them to wear when they were not on duty to make herself happy, but from what Dou Sha meant just now, she wanted her to wear them on duty?

Sydney went back to her room to look at the set that Dou Sha had made first—the upper jacket was made of white background with twig lotus pattern, and the bust-length skirt was also white, but it was trimmed with a rose red skirt, and the skirt was light pink.There are peach blossom branches extending from the part below the knees. The pink of peach blossom and clean white look elegant together, but it still feels grand.

At first glance, it looks like a dress suitable for her age, but the problem is...

Is it too eye-catching?Can she really wear this to the Imperial Palace and the Imperial Dining Room?Everyone is wearing appropriate palace attire...

After much deliberation, Xue Li bravely put it on—Xu Shishui specifically asked for it, so it must be His Majesty's intention, right?Besides, if she doesn't wear it, maybe it's not good for bean paste?
As soon as she came out of the room, she startled Zixian and Tingxian. The two stared at her dumbfounded for a long time, and then Zixian didn't know how to praise her, so she kept shouting around her: "So beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful!" !"

She was even more at a loss when she called Sydney like this!
His cheeks were flushed, and he walked all the way with his head depressed. Before entering the Zichen Palace, he hesitated for a long time before the threshold, and the more he hesitated, the hotter his face became.

When the emperor came back from court, he saw her in a dilemma at the gate of the hall.The two feet rubbed back and forth but did not move forward, and the flower branches behind the skirt were kicked up and down by her.

He smiled and looked at her for a while, seeing that she didn't notice, he simply asked the accompanying palace people to stop, and walked up quietly by himself, and stopped: "You will grind the bricks out of the hole."

Xue Li was startled, and hastily turned around to salute. Recently, it was Shi Wanfu who came, and now she was too entangled in her heart, so she bowed directly without thinking too much: "His Majesty, peace!"

The words from the top of the head were faint: "It's pretty good-looking, what's the embarrassment?"

Xueli lowered her head: "Your Majesty, Master Xu asked the slave to wear this... according to the rules, slave, that..."

She doesn't even know what to say!

The emperor smiled lowly, put his hands under her armpit and helped her up, put his hands on her back and walked into the hall: "The azure blue worn by the honorable envoy is too old-fashioned, you are still young."

...that sentence again!

She has heard this a lot in the past two months.

He wanted her to sleep more and said "You are still young", persuaded her to eat and said "You are still young", and he said "You are still young" when changing clothes today.

He thinks how small she is!
Sydney cried out in her heart that she is 13 years old!Although it is a false year, although it is a false year.

——Really, she has always felt that "one year of emptiness" is a loss, but now he is telling her to work hard to grow up.

She raised her eyes to look at his expression secretly, and when she moved her eyes up, she met a pair of smiling eyes.

He seemed to be in a good mood, she curled her lips, emboldened by the dissatisfaction in her heart, and muttered something.

"What?" Xie Zhao didn't hear clearly, but he also guessed that it was probably a complaint.Then he stopped and squatted down in front of her, his eyes narrowed, "I didn't hear clearly."

Xue Li gritted her teeth: "The servant is no longer a child!"

She spoke very seriously, and she was very "courageous" not to hide from his gaze, so that she wrote this sentence all over her brows and eyes, and wanted to correct this thought from the bottom of her heart.

At the same time, a heart is beating "thump-thump-thump".

Xie Zhao looked at her face-to-face for a while, and then laughed out of embarrassment with a sneer.

"..." Xue Li's firm expression collapsed.

"Okay, you're not a child." The emperor looked serious and his voice was very kind, "You're a big girl who hasn't grown up yet."

Sydney: "..."

He smiled and looked at her with a displeased look on her face. After looking at her for a while, he felt that this dress really suited her better than that blue one.When he saw her for the first few times, she was still a messenger, and the palace dress was cherry pink, which was more suitable than the blue one.

But compared to that time...

Xie Zhao's eyes narrowed slightly.Looking back, I noticed her changes—she seemed to be fairer, her complexion was better, and her opened facial features were no longer as obvious as the childishness at the beginning.

Um?This little girl is growing up slowly.

Suddenly, I was surprised that this was quite a sense of accomplishment.In a good mood, Xie Zhao stood up and compared her height with his hands in front of his chest, then raised his hands two inches higher: "When you get this tall, I won't say you are small."

Sydney resisted the urge to touch his palm on tiptoe.

He turned his head and said, "Bring a bowl of Shuangpi Nai."

(End of this chapter)