Hearing this, he stood up from the soft collapse.

Yunluo put the book away, adjusted his sitting position, and said to the door.

"Come in. ”

Steward Wang lifted the curtain and walked in from the outside, followed by a subordinate with a stack of ledgers in his hands.

The subordinate handed the ledger to Zhinian.

After Zhinian took it, he turned around and walked back, neatly placed in front of Yunluo.

Yunluo casually flipped through the top book.

Steward Wang saw that she was looking seriously, so he said, "In previous years, there were leftovers from buying New Year's goods, and at the end of the year, I would let my subordinates go to the warehouse to pick up the rest of last year, so I would buy more when I bought New Year's goods." ”

"The things you want to buy are basically here, and the New Year's gifts for the ladies of each palace are on a separate ledger, and they are all things that can't be bought on the market. ”

"Last year, I gave His Majesty a piece of Taihu Lake Stone, the only one in the world, a necklace made of rare jewelry to the Middle Palace, and the rest of the palace ladies and women all gave jewelry and cloth according to their positions. ”

Yunluo let out a faint "um", closed the book in his hand, and raised his eyes to look at Steward Wang.

"Do you know that after the various prefectures sent gifts to the Heart Cultivation Hall and the Middle Palace in the past two years, His Majesty and the Queen Mother were full of praise for whose gifts?"

Praise......

Steward Wang thought that Yunluo's question was focused on the person who gave the gift, so he said loudly, "The year before last, Prince Rong sent the southern Pu'er to the Yangxin Palace, which won the sacred heart, and His Majesty also called several high-ranking adults to taste tea together, and our prince also went, and came back to say that this southern Pu'er is really delicious." ”

"Last year, Tong Xiangye gave the queen a hundred longevity pictures, the legend is to find a hundred folk embroiderers to sew together, the queen mother likes it very much, and gave a lot of things to the left minister's house. ”

Speaking of the middle palace, Steward Wang remembered again, "The old slave asked Gu Ye about the queen's preferences before, and Gu Ye said that the queen mother likes the phoenix very much, and once said to the palace people when he saw the phoenix embroidery, it would be good if there was really a phoenix in this world." ”

Yunluo got useful information and looked at Steward Wang, "Is there anything else?"

"The rest is that Lin Guifei likes gold, all the furnishings in the palace are gold, I heard that people took jewelry out of the palace before, and the jewelry was gilded, and the other mothers in the palace rarely stepped out of the palace gate, and those who liked it would not be directly revealed, so I didn't hear about it. ”

Steward Wang told all he knew.

Yunluo had a light smile on his face, "Zhinian, take some reward silver and send Steward Wang out." ”

Zhinian turned around and took a small bag of silver taels, took the initiative to open the door curtain for Steward Wang, and sent him out of the east courtyard.

When Steward Wang left, he was in a very good mood.

In the afternoon, Yunluo took Zhinian to the treasury of the palace.

At that time, at the door of the warehouse, people lined up in a long line, and went into the warehouse in turn to select things.

Seeing the clouds falling, everyone saluted in unison, "See the princess." ”

"Excuse me. Yunluo walked in front of them with Zhinian and walked straight into the warehouse.

The subordinates who were selected inside also withdrew.

After entering, Yunluo's eyes swept around the warehouse, and his eyes fell on the shelves where the cloth was placed, so he left and asked Zhinian, "Zhinian, it's the end of the year, have you received anything?"

Zhinian walked behind her, and her voice was clear, "The things are brought in according to the rank and inferiority, the slave maid has been in the house for a short time, and I am afraid that it will not be the turn of the slave maid this year." ”

Yunluo used to rule the six palaces, so he naturally understood that people were also hierarchical.

She didn't look back, "I'm in charge today, you go pick up things, take as much as you want, and help Jinshu get a copy." ”

Zhinian was stunned, knowing that he was stained with the light of the brocade book, but even so, he was still grateful to Dade.

"Thank you, Princess. ”

With that, she took the basket from the wall and went to pick something.

Yunluo walked to the shelf with the cloth without stopping, and raised his eyes to look at the horses one by one.

This year's New Year's gift to the palace, tea to the Yangxin Palace, and gold to the concubine are all relatively simple.

The hard one is given to the middle palace.

Since Zhonggong likes the phoenix, then she sent Zhonggong an embroidered picture of a hundred birds and a phoenix.

Although she also embroidered the picture in her previous life, there were thousands of concubines to help at that time, and the needles and fabrics used were all of the best.

This time, time was in a hurry, and I could only embroider simple drawings.

Yunluo glanced at the brocades, selected a few suitable for embroidery, and selected the threads and needles used for embroidery from the shelves next to them.

When she chose her things, she looked back at Zhinian and saw that the things she was holding couldn't even fit in a small basket.

When even frowned, "Why are you only taking such a small thing?"

Zhinian told the truth, "The slave is afraid of taking too much, and the sister in the back has nothing to take." ”

Yunluo stared at her, and after being silent for a long time, "You were originally shooting at the end, will the people in front of you think like you?" Now I will give you a chance, if you grasp it and let those subordinates see it, no one will dare to despise you in the future, if you think about others in everything, you won't get anything in the end, and you will even get a brocade book." ”

"You only get one chance, you decide whether you want it or not. ”

After Yunluo finished speaking, he fixed his eyes on her and asked his subordinates to take her things and leave.

As soon as Yunluo left, the mother-in-law who had been picking things inside walked in, and when she saw the basket in Jinshu's hand, she frowned unhappily and scolded, "You have only been in the mansion for a few days, and you dare to use your grace to grab ahead of us?

Zhinian's hand holding the handle of the basket kept clenching, if it was normal, she might have gone out directly, but after Yunluo said that, she stood still.

"Mother Lin, it was the princess who asked me to take it, if you have any objections, you can go to the princess and say. ”

"You!" Now that the princess lives in the East Courtyard, no one dares to despise her as before, despise the people in her courtyard, Mother Lin is angry to death, but she is afraid that Zhinian will really go to sue, so she scolds and goes out.

After Mother Lin left, Zhinian restrained the emotions on her face, turned around and continued to take things from the shelf.

Finally, she slowly carried two baskets of things and left the storeroom under the watchful eyes of the people queuing outside.

In the evening, with the help of Zhinian, Yunluo propped up the embroidery cloth on the embroidery frame.

I began to embroider a picture of a hundred birds and a phoenix.

Zhinian stood beside him, looked at the pattern drawn by Yunluo on the handkerchief, and exclaimed, "Princess, this hundred birds and phoenixes are lifelike, and they look like the real thing." ”

Yunluo lowered his head and embroidered, "The phoenix, like the dragon, was carved from the pattern carved on the cave wall by later generations after it was extinct, and with good embroidery skills and bright colors, it looks like it's real." ”

Zhinian moved a stool, sat down next to her, and also picked up the embroidery needle to help Yunluo embroider the corners.

Yunluo looked at the posture of holding the needle and the technique of putting down the needle, which was not the embroidery method of folk women, but like everyone's ladies, she was specially taught by the embroidery master.

After glancing at it, she retracted her gaze, as if chatting casually, "Zhinian, what did you do at home before?"