Princess Zhan said goodbye to Yang Erniang and went out of the embroidery village with Yu Yue. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Yu Yue kept shaking her arm and pretending to be pitiful.

"Sister, I've already chosen the things I brought back anyway, so you can go shopping with me. When you go back, I don't know how many years it will take to meet next time. ”

Princess Zhan saw a jade shop on the side of the road, and thought that she hadn't picked a gift for the prince yet. Originally, I didn't want to bring anything to him, but since I'm passing by, let's take a look.

Turning his head sideways at Yu Yue and smiling, "Okay, I'll go shopping with you all day today, and my sister will buy it for you." ”

Yu Yue was so happy that she couldn't wait to jump three feet.

The eldest maid Zhi'er quietly stepped forward and said, "Someone is following us." ”

Princess Zhan said in a low voice: "Who is it?" ”

"A woman."

"Don't worry about it yet. Yue'er, don't look back. ”

After Yu Yue entered the jade shop, she had no intention of playing, and pulled Princess Zhan to ask: "Sister, who is that person, why do you want to follow us?" ”

Princess Zhan didn't make a sound, according to her, eighty percent of them were people in the embroidery village. But what are the people in the embroidery village doing with her, they will send the box to the house after a while.

There are doubts hidden in her heart, and Princess Zhan has no intention of choosing. But Xiao Er was extremely respectful and enthusiastic, so she casually picked a semicircular jade pendant.

As soon as the three of them walked out of the jade shop, a green figure drilled into the crowd. Zhi'er immediately flew over and grabbed the woman with one hand.

Pedestrians on the road saw that there was a bustle to see, and they stopped and gathered around.

The head of the woman in green was buried in an instant, and her body trembled like chaff.

Princess Zhan looked at the woman carefully. The woman's face was cracked in several places, and her cheekbones were red, but it was not normal red. She wore only a single coat outside, dark silk pants underneath, and a pair of cloth shoes on her feet stained with wet mud. She shivered all over, probably not scared, but frozen.

However, Princess Zhan couldn't think of what such a country woman would have to follow her.

Zhi'er pushed the person in her hand hard, "Tell me quickly, why are you following us?" ”

Someone in the crowd began to point fingers, "That lady caught her, is she stealing?" ”

The woman in green was so angry that her lips trembled, and her whole body trembled even more. She fell to her knees with a thud, her knees hurting with the sound of bones hitting the ground.

"Pray for mercy and save my family. I am from Xiaohe Village, and I make a living by doing embroidery work on weekdays. The landscape picture screen that Madame just selected was embroidered by me. Today I drove ten miles, and the general came to the city, and saw that my wife had bought my embroidery work, so I followed you. I, I have no ill will. ”

Princess Zhan saw that she spoke clearly and had good skills, so she waved at Zhi'er.

"You get up and speak. You've done a great job of embroidery, but why are you following me? ”

The woman's knees were directly against the cold stone brick floor, so cold that her teeth trembled. "I, I originally planned to follow Madame to a place where there are few people and then beg Madame. My father is seriously ill and has not been able to work in the fields since last year, and he has an eight-year-old brother at home. Now my family's livelihood can only be maintained by me doing embroidery, but I embroider day and night, and I still can't pay for my father's medicine. I followed my wife because I wanted to sell myself, see my father, and let my brother go to school. ”

Yu Yue understood, it turned out that she was going to sell herself to save her father. She tilted her head and asked, "Your skills are so good, why can't you pay for the medicine?" That screen will sell for three hundred taels of silver. Does your father eat ginseng and deer antler velvet every day? ”

The embroidery girl replied with a wry smile: "Miss doesn't know, I need to embroider the landscape screen for two months to come out, three hundred taels of silver is the price of the embroidery village, but I can get less than three taels." To embroider this landscape screen, you have to buy pen, ink, paper, and inkstone to draw the outline, and some special silk threads also cost silver, deducting the cost I earned less than two taels. And my father's monthly medicine money is more than ten taels, and my younger brother has also reached the age of entering the academy, if I don't sell myself, the family will not survive. ”

When the woman in green said this, she burst into tears.

But everyone was already stunned when they heard it. No one expected that the embroidery village was so black-hearted and sold three hundred taels, and the embroidery girl could only take three taels.

"Then don't put it in the embroidery village to sell it on consignment, set up your own stall."

"You are stupid, if you want to set up a stall in Wuzhou City, you have to pay the silver first. This girl's embroidery work can only be afforded by the rich, and it is not useful to set up a stall outside the city. ”

Passers-by were talking a lot, and Yu Yue became curious after listening to it for a while, "Pay the silver, what kind of silver, how much do you have to pay?" ”

"I have to get a tael of silver a month, and as soon as I get out of the stall, someone will come to collect it."

"Then can't you go to another embroidery village to consign?"

The woman in green choked up and said, "All embroidery village receipts are at the same price. ”

Princess Zhan probably understood, and asked Zhi'er to pull the woman in green up. "Tell me, do you really want to sell yourself?"

The woman in green was like a chicken pecking rice, and she nodded her head a few times.

Princess Zhan didn't say anything more, and asked Zhi'er to call the coachman to drive the carriage over.

The carriage was covered with a thick mattress and a copper stove in the middle. The woman in green was probably frozen and covered her hand directly outside the furnace wall. Finally, feeling the long-lost warmth, the woman burst into tears.

She hadn't felt warm for a long time. Even candles have to be used sparingly at home, and during the day in order to keep her eyes from burning, she can only embroider outside, and the cold wind keeps blowing, so she blows for a winter.

Yu Yue took her hand and said, "This will burn." What is your name? ”

"The slave is called the big girl."

Yu Yue looked at Princess Zhan, "Sister, let's buy her, anyway, there is no embroidery girl in our house." ”

Princess Zhan didn't nod, but looked at the eldest girl and asked, "Tell me, how many embroidery villages are there in Wuzhou City?" ”

"There are five big embroidery houses in the city, and only these five are willing to accept our things for consignment. I heard that behind the five embroidery villages are all the same owner, it seems to be the Meng family. ”

Princess Zhan sighed, yes. Xiuzhuang is the Meng family, rice grain is the Yu family, these big households in Wuzhou have long controlled all kinds of transactions, and the estimate of the protection fee is Yu Yin.

"Sister, if the embroidery village will send something to the house in a while, let's ask for less. It's too dark. ”

"Nonsense. Just now the big girl followed us back, the embroidery village is afraid that it already knows, if even the box of things is returned partially, isn't this an intention to offend people? ”

Yu Yue pursed her mouth, "My sister is still afraid of offending the Meng family, and I'm not afraid." ”

Princess Zhan no longer paid attention to Yu Yue, and said to the eldest girl: "Then you will serve the second lady in the future." Don't let the second lady change your name yet. ”

The eldest girl immediately knelt down, "Ask the second lady to give her name." ”

Yu Yue laughed, clapped his hands and said, "Green clothes, that's what it's called." (To be continued.) )