Chapter 265: Xia He's Joy
The best cashmere is spun into wool and then woven into sweaters, which are not only light and thin, but also warm. Only with two slender bamboo needles to outline a sweater, the initiator is naturally Li Ze. Originally an orphan, he has not forgotten the skills he learned in the orphanage. However, he is only good at it, and he can only use the simplest flat needles, and when he taught Xia He the method of jersey, this skill began to bloom with great vitality. All kinds of stitches, all kinds of fancy, are outlined under the dexterous fingers of the women, in this regard, Li Ze can't help but sigh, people's wisdom is not lacking at any time, what they lack is just that someone needs to open this window for them.
The sweater at hand was just in autumn this year, Xia He began to knit it, originally wanting Li Ze to be able to wear it after winter, but things one after another, so that she didn't have time to do it at all, so that it was all at this time, this cashmere sweater only finished the main body, and the two sleeves were still missing, but it was like a vest.
Although her attention was on the outside of the house, her hands were still flying up and down like butterflies wearing flowers, and after years of doing these tasks, she no longer needed to stare at them with her eyes.
"Li Mi, you can go and rest too!" Outside, Li Zeqing's voice came, Xia He's pretty face in the house immediately turned red, stood up suddenly, walked towards the door, and put the sweater on the dresser in front of him, but he didn't want a cashmere thread to still be wrapped around her hand, with her footsteps, the piece that had just been knitted fell off and became a thread again.
Xia He was still unaware.
The door was pushed open with a bang, and Li Ze appeared in front of Xia He.
I didn't see him in March, Li Ze grew taller again, standing in front of Li Ze before, Xia He's forehead could reach the tip of Li Ze's nose, but now, it seems that it can only reach Li Ze's upper lip.
His face was not as delicate as it had been when he left, and it had added a lot of wind and frost, apparently caused by running in the cold wind for a long time, and although he had woven a mask for him, the cold wind in the north was pervasive.
"I'm back!" Li Ze looked at Xia He and opened his hands.
Xia He was obviously carefully dressed, and his head had already been combed into a woman's bun, Xia He used to have bangs, but now he combed the bangs, and the hair behind him was also curled, combed into a folded round bun, and inserted it with a small hairpin with a golden pendant.
On the face of thin grease powder, the willow eyebrows and starry eyes, looking at Li Ze's big eyes, were watery, and they were actually full of tears, as if they were about to fall out after a while. The half-open and half-closed cherry lips are a different kind of bright red, and the two rows of white jade-like shell teeth reflect each other.
Xia He's makeup was also cultivated by Li Ze. In other words, Li Ze is not interested in the mainstream makeup of this era, the kind of appearance of painting his face as white as snow, and then putting a little red in the middle of his upper and lower lips, Li Ze really can't appreciate it.
The room was warm, and Xia He was wearing a goose-yellow cotton dress with an open collar with a bamboo pattern, and underwear was directly worn inside. There is the Tang generation, and the higher the status of the woman, the lower the collar.
I haven't seen her for a few months, and in Li Ze's eyes, Xia He seems to be thrillingly beautiful, from the beauty of a girl in the past to the charm of a mature woman now.
Like a bird throwing into the forest, Xia He looked at Li Ze for a while, and then plunged into Li Ze's arms.
Li Ze laughed and kicked the door with his back, then hugged Xia He horizontally and walked inside.
Little Farewell is better than a newlywed!
I don't know how long it took, the room finally calmed down, Xia He's carefully combed bun had long been scattered, the hairpin was casually thrown on the ground, and the black hair on his head was scattered on the satin-like skin.
And Li Ze, at this time, has turned into a big flower face, full of red lip prints.
Looking at Li Ze's appearance, Xia Hepo laughed, wrapped up a thin quilt, went outside to wring a hot towel and came in, and wiped the red marks on Li Ze's face one by one.
"Don't be busy, I'll have to print it again later." hugged Xia He to his side, got into the thin quilt himself, and sat down with each other.
Xia He screamed in surprise, and took out a wool vest from the big bed, and at this moment, the main body of the wool vest that had been completed was also half removed, and the long cashmere thread was still wrapped around Li Ze's legs.
"It's almost done, and it's all ruined." Holding the remnants in front of him, Xia He wanted to cry without tears.
"You can also wear it as a small vest!" Li Ze grunted, took the cashmere vest in his hand and looked left and right, "It's been a few months, and it's not finished yet?" ”
"Where is the time?" Xia He sighed and simply threw the cashmere vest aside, it looked like he didn't want to finish knitting it this year. "Yizhou is better to say, Cangzhou, Dizhou, Jingzhou, and Yingzhou are completely confused, and they have been busy for nearly a month, and they have barely straightened out the accounts of Cangzhou and Dizhou."
"Don't rush, take your time." Li Ze stroked the other party's long hair and said disappreciatively.
"How can you take your time?" Xia He shook his head and said: "This is about to start spring, after the beginning of spring, it will be spring ploughing, the sequelae of the earlier war have not been healed, and I have to be busy with this mess." Cangzhou and Dizhou, before the beginning of next autumn, will definitely not be able to go out. The only hope is whether Haixing's salt drying field can produce more salt after improving the process, as Gongzi said, and if so, it can make some progress. ”
"Also, the ones that Childe taught me, I picked up some simple ones to teach the financial and tax personnel who were transferred, all of them were extremely clumsy, and they also slowed down the progress of their work, and now they can only barely get started. Sometimes, I can only ask them to make two sets, one with the old method and the other with the new method, although it takes some more time, but the old and the new are compared, one is to let them practice, and the other is to let them see which one is easier and easier. ”
Li Ze couldn't help but shake his head. The reason why Xia He thinks it is simple is because he has studied with him for so many years, and he has heard about it since he was a child, and those people who are drawn from below, you let him change his years of cognition in a short period of time and accept a new knowledge, the difficulty is as great as you can imagine. Moreover, on top of finance and taxation, there is no room for a little mistake or omission, so it is conceivable how much pressure these people have.
Thinking about the sad scene of those people scratching their scalps and pulling out their beards, Li Ze felt a little pity for them.
Xia He is the queen in the house that belongs to her, and many subordinates see her, and they don't even dare to breathe, firstly, because of Xia He's special identity, and secondly, it is indeed because of Xia He's unique financial and taxation system. It took the people below days to get what they had come up with, and it often took less than a quarter of an hour for it to be delivered to her, and then it was picked out as a mistake. This is convincing.
Although Li Ze is not in Wuyi, the relevant information here will still be collected in a steady stream of his hands.
"I heard a few days ago, you were drunk?" Li Ze asked with a smile.
"How can I get drunk?" Xia He shook his head repeatedly.
"Still trying to quibble?" Li Ze stretched out two fingers to clamp Xia He's nose, "Tell me, what is worth getting drunk on?" ”
Xia He was silent for a moment, then raised his head and said in a low voice: "Childe, I am indeed drunk because I am happy." Because...... Because ......"
"Because you know that Liu Ruyan wants to follow me to Chang'an, and he will live in Chang'an in the future, and he won't follow me back, right?" Li Ze asked.
Xia He lowered his head and nodded for a long time.
"Actually, I've been thinking about how to get along with Miss Liu in the future, but if I can't be together, it's naturally the best."
Li Ze smiled.
It is normal for Xia He to have this kind of mentality.
In the past, Xia He would not have this kind of psychological burden at all, because she positioned herself as a little girl, and the best result was to become her own concubine. But now, the power she holds in her hands is getting bigger and bigger, she has seen more and more big scenes, and the high-ranking officials and dignitaries under her command are respectful to her, how can her psychology not change? Her horizons will get higher and higher, and her heart will become more and more proud, which is a natural change.
But Liu Ruyan is an insurmountable mountain pressing on her head.
This point is irrevocable.
Therefore, when the news came that Liu Ruyan and Li Ze were going to live in Chang'an for a long time after they got married, she was greatly relieved, she didn't have to worry about how to get along with the eldest woman, she could still live as freely as before.
"Childe, am I bad?" Raising his head, Xia He asked timidly.
"It's nothing, it's human nature." Li Ze smiled: "But Xia He, you don't need to worry about Miss Liu so much, because you have never entertained people with sex." ”
Xia He's appearance, even if it is not as good as Liu Ruyan, but it is actually the best choice, and more importantly, Li Ze has been slowly cultivating her since she was a child, because Li Ze doesn't want to make herself seem so lonely in this world, at least when he is alone, he hopes that there is a person whose worldview is close to him can talk to him and accompany him. After more than ten years, Li Ze's plan is undoubtedly successful, Xia He's conversation and hobbies are very different from ordinary women in this world, and the knowledge she has is not possessed by people in this era.
She and Li Ze are not only family affection and love, but more importantly, a kind of proximity between the two of them above the heart, which is the same understanding and feeling of one thing.
Compared with the communication of the heart, the recognition of the worldview, the appearance is secondary.