Chapter 170: Virtuous

Early the next morning, Li Xiaonuan sent Cheng Ke away, instructed Zhuqing to take the needle and thread, got on the sedan chair, and went to the main courtyard to ask for peace.

Entering the main courtyard, Xu saw Li Xiaonuan enter the Weeping Flower Gate from a distance, and was busy with a smile on his face, greeted him respectfully, and reported with a smile:

"The young lady came really early, today is the sixteenth, the princess is going to the back of the Buddha Hall early in the morning on the sixteenth of every month, and she has not come back yet."

Li Xiaonuan raised her eyebrows lightly and asked with a smile:

"On this day of sixteen, what is the point of not being able to do it?"

"This is the day when the princess specially invited the abbot of the Gospel Temple to come out, what is so particular, I don't know, anyway, it's a good day."

Xu replied with a smile, Li Xiaonuan lowered his head and laughed, Xu personally lifted the curtain and let Li Xiaonuan enter the house, Li Xiaonuan stood at the door, turned his head with a smile and said:

"On this day, it's better to be brighter outside, so I'll just sit outside and wait for my mother to come back."

"The filial piety of the young lady is really rare"

Xu Shi admired with a smile on his face, beckoned the little girl to come over, ordered to move a chair over, put it under the south window, personally waited for Li Xiaonuan to sit down, and hurriedly served tea up, Li Xiaonuan took two sips with a smile, handed it to the jade buckle and held it, and did not talk to Xu Shi much, only took the needle and thread from Zhuqing's hand, and embroidered the small interstitial screen concentratingly.

Xu leaned over, looked carefully at the needle and thread in Li Xiaonuan's hand, and praised one after another, but Li Xiaonuan only smiled and did not answer.

While Xu was talking, he looked at Li Xiaonuan's expression attentively,

“…… The young lady's needlework, I really can't pick this needle angle, alas, how can there be such a fine needle angle? In the past, the big girl in the grandfather's room, Lirui, did a good hand of needlework, but everyone praised it, and now compared with the young lady's needle angle, alas, there is no way to compare"

Li Xiaonuan smiled, as if he hadn't heard anything, Zhu Qing turned his head, looked intently at Xu's who kept talking, and paid attention.

"The young lady also knows that the prince is a picky person, in previous years, this purse, sachet, **** or something."

Xu Shi paid attention to Li Xiaonuan, bit the word "****" heavily, and then said:

"It's also done by Miss Lirui, the prince feels satisfied, speaking of which, over the years, the girl who has been used by the prince all the way is really uncountable, that is, the girl Lirui is waiting in the eyes of the prince, this girl is very good, and she is a very good looker to wait for people, if the young lady sees it, she will like it."

Li Xiaonuan paused the needle and thread in his hand, raised his head, stared at Xu Shi for a moment, smiled slightly, and said in a low voice:

"Thank you."

Xu Shi breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes were full of smiles, he stood up, pulled the placket, and said with a smile:

"I won't bother the young lady to do needlework, such a fine needlework, the most important thing is to concentrate, the young lady will take a break after doing it for a while, don't be tired."

Li Xiaonuan smiled and nodded, watched Xu turn the corner of the house, went to the small kitchen in the back, lowered his eyes, looked at the needlework in his hand, thought for a moment, turned his head to look at Zhu Qing, and said in a low voice:

"In the future, you should listen more carefully to the matter of the third young lady."

Zhu Qing hurriedly nodded in agreement, Li Xiaonuan lowered his head, and continued to concentrate on needlework.

After sitting and embroidering flowers for half an hour, the princess helped the spring grass and entered the weeping flower door, Li Xiaonuan hurriedly stood up, stuffed the needle and thread in her hand to Zhuqing, and hurriedly greeted her.

Li Xiaonuan helped the princess into the east chamber, sat down on the couch, served tea up, the princess leaned on the couch, pointed to the needle and thread in Zhuqing's hand, and said with a smile:

"What's going on again? Take it and I'll take a look. ”

Li Xiaonuan hurriedly took the needle and thread from Zhu Qing's hand, handed it to the princess, and said with a smile:

"It's to take a look at my mother, ask for an idea, the day before yesterday came back and said, the mother likes to embroider at home, I have learned some fur with my grandmother since I was a child, I thought, why don't you catch up, embroider a small interstitial screen of the mountain and the moon, and send it to the concubine to do a festival during the Double Ninth Festival, yesterday I picked this silk yarn as the base, and set the look, and embroidered a little out, today I specially took it to my mother to see, my mother looked, if it is embroidered like this, is it appropriate?"

Li Xiaonuan smiled gently, as if she was nervous, looked at the princess, asked for her opinion, the princess took the needle and thread, held it up from a distance against the window, looked at it carefully, and nodded,

"I think it's suitable for your aunt when she was at home, she loves to paint some mountains and rivers, your embroidery, although I can't see many things, but that's all, I look at it very well and embroider it like this."

"When my mother said that, I was relieved"

Li Xiaonuan said in a relaxed and joyful voice, the princess handed the embroidery to Zhuqing with satisfaction, turned her head to look at Li Xiaonuan, and said with a smile:

"You want to embroider this, and you have to wait for Xiao Ke, Xiao Ke is picky about everything, I'm afraid I can't be busy, you sit down, I'll talk to you in detail."

The princess motioned to Li Xiaonuan, Li Xiaonuan smiled and sat sideways on the edge of the couch, the princess sighed heavily, looked at Li Xiaonuan, and said helplessly:

"You don't know, Qingjian Courtyard has always been waiting for the little girls, that is, these two years......"

The princess paused abruptly, paused, and continued:

"In the early two years, Qingjian Courtyard has always been under the control of the big girl Lirui, this Lirui, who has been waiting with Xiao Ke for seven or eight years, has been waiting very well, Xiao Ke is satisfied, and I am also satisfied."

Li Xiaonuan looked at the princess with a smile on her face, and the princess looked at Li Xiaonuan with a soft face, and then said:

"I see that you can't be busy, last night, I thought about it, you don't have a strong shoulder in that courtyard, I thought, it's better to let Lirui go over to help you, first, she waits for Xiao Ke for a long time, all kinds of temperament and character, she knows, second, that's a careful child, people are also supple, you use, it's easier than **** new, what do you say?"

Li Xiaonuan listened carefully to the princess's words, bent her eyes full of smiles, nodded again and again, and said with a long sigh of relief:

"It's still my mother who thinks thoughtfully, I'm worried about this, I didn't dare to say it, my mother also knows, I just returned home, my lord's temper and character, in the end, it's still unfamiliar, if Miss Lirui can come, it will be much more appropriate, and it won't be where I am not thoughtful for a while, and I am wronged by my master."

The princess nodded with satisfaction, stretched out her hand to pull Li Xiaonuan, patted her hand gently, and said with emotion:

"I'll just say, you are a very sensible person, no wonder Xiao Er's mother keeps praising you for being sensible and reasonable."

Li Xiaonuan smiled shyly and said:

"Mother has won the award, mother, Miss Lirui has been waiting for her for seven or eight years, and her temper is ...... This pear rui can wait down, must be a very proper person, the daughter-in-law thought, it is better for the mother to give her a grace, reward her with a name, and wait for the lord inside and out. ”

The princess was overjoyed, patted Li Xiaonuan's hand, and praised again and again:

"Good boy, you are talking about my heart, isn't this the reason, having a name, so that she can be more dedicated"

Li Xiaonuan had a smile on her face, wrinkled her brows and thought about it, and then suggested:

"In the past two days, the daughter-in-law is worried that there is no proper person waiting in the courtyard of the master's study, so that people can't put their minds at ease, otherwise, let the girl Lirui rest outside the two into the yard, if the master reads late, he will rest in the study, and there is a caring person waiting for him, the mother can rest assured, and the daughter-in-law can also be lazy."

The princess smiled so much that her eyes narrowed into a line, and she nodded again and again,

"In the end, you think about it thoroughly, it's up to you to bring it back and settle it."

Li Xiaonuan pursed her lips and smiled, and the princess turned her head and instructed Chuncao,

"You have someone call Lirui over and kowtow to the young lady."

Chuncao hesitated, paused at her feet, looked at the princess and whispered:

"Princess, do you want to tell the prince about this matter first...... The temper of the prince, if it is ......"

The princess frowned slightly, Li Xiaonuan looked at the princess with a nervous face, and became timid,

"Mother, my lord's temper ......"

Li Xiaonuan timidly swallowed back the words behind, the princess sighed heavily, reached out to pat Li Xiaonuan's hand, and comforted her softly,

"Don't be afraid, there is a mother to call the shots for you, Chuncao is reasonable, this matter, it's better to say hello to Xiao Ke first, Xiao Ke has been a stubborn temper since he was a child, don't worry, other mothers dare not say it, this matter, it's just a sentence, Xiao Ke must be willing, you don't know, Xiao Ke grew up with this girl, and he has a thick affection."

Li Xiaonuan breathed a heavy sigh of relief, nodded with a smile, looked at the princess and said:

"When the lord left in the morning, he said that he was going to invite someone to dinner with King Jing tonight, but I was afraid that I would have to eat wine again, and I didn't know when I would come back tonight, but I was back, and after eating wine, I was afraid that it would be inconvenient to mention this again, but this person, the daughter-in-law is looking forward to it, or else, my mother simply ordered him to come over early tomorrow morning, and asked my mother to go out again, is it good for my mother?"

The princess nodded again and again,

"Okay, you have a point, that's it, don't mention this to him tonight, I'll just tell him tomorrow morning."

Li Xiaonuan agreed with a smile in her eyes.

The princess was crooked on the couch, and Li Xiaonuan sat beside the princess, doing needlework and thread, while following the princess's words, and accompanying her parents to gossip.

At noon, Li Xiaonuan waited for the princess to eat, took a nap, and walked out of the main courtyard leisurely, sat in a sedan chair, and returned to Qinglian Courtyard with a smile, waiting for the next day to accompany Cheng Ke to greet the princess.

In the evening, the princess asked her mother-in-law to come over and pass the word, Cheng Ke agreed, and the next morning, Li Xiaonuan got up early, had breakfast with Cheng Ke, sat in a sedan chair, and went to the main courtyard with a smile to say goodbye to the princess.