Grape asked, Shi Gui smiled: "I'm just following my sisters on an errand, how can anything stand, what can't stand." As soon as she finished speaking, she asked the grapes to poke it: "I'm going to be promoted to the third class immediately, and you still have dreams? I see that in your courtyard, there is only Chunyan, she is good with you, if you work hard, squeeze the two of Danzhu down, isn't it you. ”

Shi Gui only smiled and didn't answer, Grape shook his head, put on two pieces of jujube paste and yam cake, took a bite and smacked his mouth: "The taste is so light, it's still delicious in my yard." ”

Shi Gui stayed in Ye's courtyard with peace of mind, followed the two of Chamei Yulan, and also learned embroidery threading, she stayed these days, and knew that the girl who could be ranked in front of Ye's always had a skill that could be used.

Apricots can be counted, magnolia can embroider, tea and plum can be fragrant, frangipani can order tea, spring will comb hair, and the third-class ones are not often waiting by Ye's side, but they don't know what they will do, and they are also deaf and clear-sighted.

In addition to looking at herself, the girl's promotion also depends on her age, she is too young at this time, even if she is capable, she can't be raised from a rough anger.

Shi Gui drew a score in his heart, the cousin girl always has to transfer people over, and then there will be a shortage of people here in the Ye family, the draft will be in March and April next year, the cousin girl will stay in the Song family for more than half a year, and the work is indispensable for people, which one comes out, she will fill in the vacancy.

But the only thing she can do is painting, and the writing thing is hidden from the wind and rain, even painting also frames herself in the painting pattern, and she doesn't dare to show her skills.

I can only draw, and it is useless not to embroider, so I consulted Magnolia and learned to embroider the purse first. The work on Yulan's hands is fine, and the underwear, pants, shoes, and socks worn by Ye are all handled by her.

Shi Gui had a foundation, so she taught Shi Gui to recognize the colors: "These are weaved, only a gold plate can be put on the body, the most troublesome is the plain black Yuan satin, it is difficult to start without any patterns, how much lamp oil does a Yuan satin clothes cost." ”

Shi Guizi Zheng said that she has more things to say, so she pays attention to follow the look, those who can order tea must know tea first, and those who can mix fragrance must first recognize the spices, which one is in combination with which one tastes.

Shi Gui thought about it for a while, she was most sure of drawing, since those silver feather striped clothes, she couldn't help but think about which patterns could be coiled on the cuffs and plackets, and which patterns could be embroidered on the clothes.

Ye's is really not particular about this, she doesn't care about what is fashionable outside, Gan's sleeves are getting wider and wider year by year, she doesn't do it as it is, Yulan also sighed: "Look at the second wife, the outside is only rising, she must wear it on her body, and our wife can only renovate the tricks." ”

Shi Gui saw a chrysanthemum full of black bottoms that was about to be made at Magnolia's place, which was embroidered with tangled chrysanthemums, red, yellow, white, green and blue flowers, and hooked them with gold threads, which were hanging on the hanger, and Yulan pointed to it: "This is what Mrs. Chongyang Banquet is going to wear." ”

Ye's body is rarely brightly colored, until the banquet is not attended, will never wear this on the body, the magnolia is ready to dress, the spring swallow turned up the jewelry, a gold crown embedded with pink tourmaline was taken out and wiped, and the thin chrysanthemum petals on the top trembled like a living flower.

is so grand but to go to Mrs. Ji's banquet, Yulan said while stringing gold threads: "If it weren't for the Ji family's banquet, my wife wouldn't want to wear these, and the golden crown was still my wife's dowry, and I didn't wear it a few times." ”

Shi Gui pulls gold thread for magnolia, and the two threads are stacked and strung into the needle, which is called double thread coil gold, and just a skirt is a side, and it costs a roll of gold thread to go.

These things are collected by Chunyan, to Yulan to use, in order to get a roll out, it should be a golden silk thread, a touch to know that it is real gold, Yulan also specially instructed her: "This thread can be used carefully, how much a piece of clothing plate, that is all accurate, this roll of thread is worth ten taels of silver." ”

Shi Gui shook her tongue, and started more and more carefully, with her helping to string the threads, Yulan started faster, hanging her neck and hand: "I didn't calculate the day, I knew that I should be on the boat and hurried to do it." ”

Yulan was seasick, and this delicate work couldn't be done, so Shi Gui looked at it and said, "What time is my sister at night?" ”

In the night, a roll of cover came over, and two lamps were lit in the house, one branch and three lamps, and the room was bright, and Shi Gui sat on the floor, cross-legged, and a roll of strings, and a robe cost so much effort.

Cha Mei sat at the table and wiped the Jin Linglong incense ball, there were incense ball beads in the small ball, no matter how she walked, she would not spill out, the two hands were doing work, and she talked about the Ji family's flowers: "Our wife came to talk to Mrs. Ji, you said this time, will you marry your children?"

"I think my wife also means this, I was a neighbor in Jiangning, the two families know each other well, and my wife likes the Ji family girl, if it can be done, the second wife's teeth will not be crushed. Magnolia put a needle on her two fingers, the ring finger was loosely wrapped around the thread, and her fingers were like orchids, and she sighed while saying: "If it is another family, the one in the Ji family must be a golden phoenix." ”

Shi Gui didn't understand it, but a few girls also said that Jinling had a few powerful people, and after listening to it for a long time, she knew that Mrs. Ji was the queen's cousin, and the queen was favored, and the two saints had been in love for many years, the queen was favored, and there were three sons-in-law, and the Yan family led the idle position, but several in-laws had many official positions.

"Then this girl from the Ji family, will she choose to be the crown princess?" Shi Gui finished stringing the gold thread, cut the lantern with candle scissors, and burst out with a "crackle", Cha Mei laughed: "That's not for sure, as soon as I said that I was going to choose the crown princess, many families in Beijing became lively." ”

The sage made a decree, there is a woman in the family who is elected as the princess and princess, the family is not allowed to be an official in Beijing, and none of the people who are above the top of the three grades are enthusiastic, but they all think of a way not to choose, and the official family chooses the princess, which is the first time since the founding of the country.

There is a sentence in the will to choose a lady, what kind of lady is the law, no one knows, there are girls of the right age in the family who want to send the election, so they will report their names, and submit them to Beijing and say that they are already married, that is to bully the king.

Shi Gui listened to Yulan Chamei's words, just listening to the story, what she was thinking about was how to live, those streets and alleys after the wall of the Song family's courtyard, this roll of thread was ten taels of silver, and how much was the silk woven outside?

Yulan also laughed when she hadn't seen the market: "You should ask Fanxing about these, she knows best, there are weavers living on both sides of Qinhuai, don't you see that although there is a well in our house, you have to go outside to buy everything that you drink." ”

Shi Gui still didn't know, Yulan talked to her, and she was not tired, she had done more work today than yesterday, and put down the needle to rub her wrist: "The dyeing and weaving households live on the edge of Qinhuai, and they need water to boil silk and dye silk, so they brought water out of the river, and poured it in after dyeing."

The upstream is better, how can the downstream stand the sewage of this day, first ordered all to go outside the city to soak silk, but for generations to live in Qinhuai, change the place can not move, the weaver does not weave silk and dye the household does not dye silk, the court then changed the order, the long tide is used by the households, and the weavers are used when the tide is low.

Shi Gui hadn't even stayed in Sweetwater Town for a few days, and he was dumbfounded at this time, and asked Yun Jin how much silver he had, which was much more profitable than working so hard in Lanxi Village.

She originally wanted to move her home to the town, but after seeing the prosperity of Jinling and thinking about moving her home to Jinling City, she just had this idea, and Yulan sighed again: "The weaver is bitter, and he has to go out of the city in winter, the snow is three feet thick, and he has to carry water, and he is urgent, and the work is not easy to do." ”

Yulan's father and mother are weavers, there are too many sisters in the family, and she can't support them, so the family comes in, in order not to separate flesh and blood, and the kung fu in Yulan's hands is still taught by her own sister.

Shi Gui thought about it and intended to inquire, but Yulan sighed: "I have four sisters and sisters in my family, and I don't have the money to dredge up and be elected to the inner mansion, if I can be selected, I won't be here at this time." ”

If you can enter the weaving hall of the inner mansion, all the food is brought in, and you can also take a private job, how many people by the Qinhuai River point to this, and if you want to choose to enter, you have to make a little weaving palm, the belly is not full, where is there spare money to give favors.

But the bad thing is that the dye room poured water, Yulan's father called here for the crime of stirring up trouble, and then the family voted for the Song family, because of the kung fu in hand, he took care of the clothes of the wives and girls in the house.

"Sister Yulan doesn't want to redeem herself?" "The family is all here to vote, and they are with craftsmanship, isn't it easier to go out to live than in the house?"

Yulan took scissors to cut off the thread, and smiled when she heard this: "It's so easy to live outside." ”

Shi Gui slept on the ground at night, still feeling powerless, she had been here for nine years, she had not left the village for nine years, she had never seen, heard, or thought about it, if she wanted to really bring the family out and live a stable life, how much effort and how much money would it take?

Tea plum magnolia in the two rooms lit incense to drive away mosquitoes, this incense is divided from the top, the little girl is lit in the room, and this is not far from this, only the taste is lighter, Shi Gui sleeps on the ground, the sky in September is hot on the tail, the thin quilt wraps the belly, the belly rises out, suddenly, I think of Qiu Niang.

The village is the saddest in the first summer and winter, there are many mosquitoes in summer, the weather is cold in winter, the mosquito nets at home are pudding, sleeping on a bed at night, Qiu Niang played a fan for her, and when it was so hot that she turned over, the fan in Qiu Niang's hand shook up, and I don't know how Qiu Niang likes them, what is happening now.

Always laughing during the day, listening to the wind at night, looking at the light of the fireflies on the window paper, Shi Gui bit his lip and sniffed lightly, I don't know if I have been to the house, and I don't know if she has come to Jinling City.

Qiu Niang stone is the same, the harvest in the autumn is good, the rice is sold and there is money, Qiu Niang saved two pieces of cloth again, and took it to the town to change money, they are not dead brains, go to the city once, know that the price of things there is expensive, bring the cloth to the city to sell, sell the money, buy some snacks to see her daughter, before you get on the boat, you heard Confucius say that the Song family is gone.

Qiu Niang almost couldn't breathe in one breath, rushed up the mountain with her heart, and said that she was indeed gone, leaving a few mothers-in-law who guarded the door, Qiu Niang's eyes were black for a while, lying on her husband and crying, and her grandmother knew it inside, hugged the package out, and gave it to Qiu Niang.

"It's been half a month, it's time to arrive, you can rest assured, she is a lucky person, and she went into his wife's house on an errand. Seeing that Qiu Niang couldn't stand crying, Grandma Sun comforted her: "Don't worry too much, there is always something to be sent here every season, if there is anything you want to say and write, you can write it in the letter, so that someone can take it." ”