Chapter 61: The Beggar's Meeting

There was a wide and long reed canopy next to it, and Mama Zhou then the three of them entered the east side of the reed canopy, three armchairs on the east side surrounded a round table, tea and snacks were placed on the table, and there were more than a dozen mothers-in-law and rough girls of the ancient mansion standing around, and Pearl and others waited for Gu Yunshan, Gu Yunhuan and Li Xiaonuan and others to sit down and serve tea.

Li Xiaonuan held the tea, drank it slowly, and looked around attentively, and Mama Sun smiled and introduced beside her:

"After a while, the auspicious time has arrived, and the head of the last begging meeting is going to come in, leading everyone to worship the needle god, and the needle is begging under the moon, and after that, Lord Zheng of Yuezhou Zhizhou will comment on this year's embroidery on that platform and announce this year's top prize."

Li Xiaonuan looked at the high platform in the middle of the open space outside, the high platform was brightly lit, but it was empty at this time, Li Xiaonuan turned her head, looked at Grandma Sun curiously and asked:

"How was this award awarded?"

"Let's go to the town to do this begging meeting, there are some years, this evaluation is also very fair, this morning, when the embroidery hangs out, the whole is not signed, each embroidery is hung in front of a small chip, come in to see the embroidery, everyone can get a small bamboo stick, feel which one is the best, put into which chip, this is one, two to come, several large embroidery workshops in Yuezhou, each will publicly recommend a or well-informed, or skilled steward or embroidery lady to come, these people together, another evaluation of a winner."

Gu Yunshan and Gu Yunhuan also listened to Grandma Sun's words with interest on their faces, Gu Yunhuan thought about it and asked with a smile:

"The most bamboo sticks in the chip are naturally recognized as good, if it is different from the embroidery workshop, what can I do?"

"This thing, it's really not there, but the rules are set, if it's the embroidery workshop evaluation, not the embroidery that has to sign the most, then send these two embroideries together to a few embroidery workshops in Shangli Town, please vote again for the embroidery girls in the embroidery workshop, which one is the one you vote for."

Mama Sun explained with a smile, Li Xiaonuan listened carefully, smiled and shook her head, these are all gentlemen's methods, not to prevent villains, it can be seen that in this world, the style of gentlemen prevails, and about Chunqiao's affairs, there can also be a good ending.

There are more and more people in the reed tent, some know each other, acquaintances, get together and talk and laugh, the Gu family occupies a corner alone, and the girls around them stand respectfully with their hands down, bringing out a solemn atmosphere, and the girls around them poke their heads curiously and discuss in a low voice, but no one dares to come forward to talk.

Li Xiaonuan looked around slightly, Gu Yunshan sat calmly, drinking tea slowly, Gu Yunhuan pursed his lips, with a hint of disdain, and did not look at the girls around him who were probing their brains.

Li Xiaonuan lowered her head, smiled and drank tea, these two sisters, here, have enough status to be proud and proud.

Not long after, in front of the incense case in the middle of the clearing, there were four mothers-in-law carrying small gongs, two of the four people, standing dignified by the incense case, knocking the small gong in their hands three times, and the surroundings immediately fell silent.

Li Xiaonuan rubbed forward slightly, looked at the incense case in front, and behind the incense case, a woman in her twenties walked in, wearing a plain white silk long-sleeved dress, wearing a ****-style bun, her face was delicate and dignified, and the woman was followed by four girls in the same plain white dress.

The woman walked to the incense case, turned around, faced the incense case, stood solemnly, the girl behind her stepped forward and took a handful of sandalwood, lit it carefully, bent her knees and handed it to the woman, the woman held the sandalwood high, slowly and dignified kowtow, and the girls standing behind her knelt on the ground, bowing with her ups and downs.

After the woman finished prostrating, she got up and inserted sandalwood and turned around.

The woman smiled solemnly, stretched out her hand and stroked the needle and thread on the tray, and the woman held the needle and thread that the woman had caressed, and walked among the girls standing in the open space.

"This is a blessing, I hope that everyone who comes today can get the first skill."

Grandma Sun smiled and explained in a low voice, Gu Yunshan and the three of them also took the needle and thread, learned from everyone, threaded the needle to the moonlight, and then inserted the needle of the lead line into the hydrangea held by the mother-in-law behind, and the hydrangea was full of needles with floating silk threads, as if a full head of colorful hair grew out of thin air.

After the sacrifice to the god of needles, Li Xiaonuan followed Gu Yunshan and Gu Yunhuan back to the reed tent, and was about to sit down, at the end of the winter gently pulled Li Xiaonuan, Li Xiaonuan turned around, and at the end of the winter, he stared at her with a nervous face, Li Xiaonuan hurriedly followed her and took half a step back, and the end of the winter leaned into Li Xiaonuan's ear and said in a low voice:

"That painting Mei'er, you must see the girl"

Li Xiaonuan raised her eyebrows in surprise, carefully looked left and right, looking for people, the end of winter slightly signaled to Lan Chu who was standing outside with the rough girl, Lan Chu was next to a woman dressed as a girl, standing straight, Li Xiaonuan stared at the woman next to Lan Chu for a moment, turned his head to look at the end of winter, and asked in a low voice:

"At this time, what if I want to go to the clean room?"

At the end of winter, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly nodded his head and replied in a low voice:

"Yes, yes is in the back, let's use the curtains to come out of the place."

Li Xiaonuan stood up straight, walked to Grandma Sun's side, and said in a low voice, Grandma Sun hurriedly instructed a few mothers-in-law to wait carefully, supporting Li Xiaonuan at the end of winter, Lan Chu took the rough girl around her, and hurriedly followed to wait.

At the end of winter, he stayed outside the curtain, signaling Lan Chu and Hua Meier to enter the curtain.

Li Xiaonuan turned around, painted Mei'er fell to the ground, knelt on the ground, looked up at Li Xiaonuan, and was about to speak, Li Xiaonuan stretched out his hand to stop her, motioned her to stand up, leaned over her ear, and said in a low voice:

"If you have anything to do with me, the simpler it is, the better"

Hua Mei'er immediately came to her senses, leaned over to Li Xiaonuan's ear, and whispered in a voice that was almost inaudible:

"Girl, Mei'er is also helpless, so she took the risk to find the girl and begged the girl to save my life"

Li Xiaonuan lowered her eyes, listened expressionlessly, and did not delay painting Mei'er, and said anxiously:

"Zhang Gongzi went back to Yuezhou, left a steward, and stayed in Feihong Mansion every day, saying that he was ordered by his son-in-law to buy me back, and I didn't want to follow that dirty thing when I died."

The painting Mei'er's voice trembled suppressed,

"I've been up for a few months, I thought he would always be tired of it, who knows, yesterday, he followed Zhizhou to Shangli Town again, rushed into Feihong Mansion with people, smashed a table of dishes, my mother couldn't do it, I was limited to three days, either follow this son, or leave Feihong Mansion, she just let me die, and I had a funeral."

Hua Mei'er choked up, hurriedly pressed down, and said hurriedly:

"Mom is a good person, good to us sisters, she has helped me block these months, if I don't leave, the business of Feihong Mansion will not be able to continue, please girl, help me again"

"How do you want me to help you?"

Li Xiaonuan looked at the painting Mei'er with red circles under her eyes, and asked in a low voice:

"I want to go to the capital to break through the capital, maybe I can make a name for myself, maybe...... If it is not good, it will no longer be involved in the Red Mansion."

Hua Mei'er looked straight at Li Xiaonuan, and said in a low voice, Li Xiaonuan frowned,

"You're going to let me help you get directions? Do you have silver for yourself? ”

"As long as there is a guide, Feihong Mansion is a small kiln, and the sisters can also make up a few taels of silver for me...... Even if I don't have any money, I can go to the capital, I'm just a prostitute, and I have nothing to fear."

Hua Mei'er said with a hint of fierceness, Li Xiaonuan stared at her for a moment, lowered her eyes and thought for a while, raised her eyes and said:

"Lu Yin's matter, I'll go back and think about it, you want to go to the capital, have you told the **** of Feihong Mansion and your sisters?"

"Not yet."

"Don't mention it, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, and there are still some good hearts to guard against people, you will be good tomorrow morning, no, don't go back today, I have half a tael of silver here, you go to Yunshui for a night, that is the property of the ancient family, it is safer, around noon tomorrow, I will ask people to find you, you will take a pseudonym, call Chaoyun."

Hua Mei'er looked at Li Xiaonuan with bright eyes, knelt on the ground, kowtowed heavily, got up, reached out to take the silver poured out of Li Xiaonuan's purse, carefully followed Li Xiaonuan out of the curtain, lowered her head and looked at the side vigilantly, quietly withdrew from the open space, and went to sleep in the clouds.

Li Xiaonuan forced his mind, returned to the reed tent, absentmindedly drank tea slowly, and pretended to listen attentively to the middle-aged man standing on the high platform commenting on the embroidery at length, but his heart was quickly turning his thoughts, thinking of a way to get the guide.

Thinking about it, but she didn't have half a thought, what kind of thing this road guide was, which yamen came from, and how to get it, she didn't know anything, and naturally she couldn't plan in a daze.

Li Xiaonuan moved her body irritably, Gu Yunhuan glanced at her, and patted her shoulder with a smile,

"Silly girl, are you really relieved? If this top prize is so easy to get, how can the beggar club in Shangli Town still have such a famous grand occasion? That's what the old ancestor said. ”

Li Xiaonuan came to her senses, pouted and said:

"Big sister's needlework, I look at it as the best"

Gu Yunshan laughed, turned her head to look at Li Xiaonuan and said:

"That's because you don't know how much you know, there are people outside the world, but today we can be regarded as having a lottery, the embroidery is poetic and picturesque, very insightful, it's good, we have all we want."

Li Xiaonuan felt embarrassed in her heart, she didn't hear a word of what the people on the stage said

Not long after, Grandma Sun stepped forward and bent her knees, and said with a smile:

"Miss, let's go back, after a while, when everyone disperses, there are too many people and crowded, and it is inconvenient."

Gu Yunshan nodded, turned her head and motioned to Gu Yunhuan and Li Xiaonuan, the three of them stood up, surrounded by the girl's mother-in-law, got out of the reed tent, turned around, got into the sedan chair, and went back to the ancient mansion

Xiaoxian has had a little accident in the past few days, and in pain, the chapter of the addition can only be owed first, bowing