Zeng Rong saw the old lady staring at him, as if he was suspicious of himself, and hurriedly took out the five purses that he had made in the past few days, picked out one of his hands and handed it to Shiso, who took it with both hands and sent it to the old lady.

"Old lady Qiqi, the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, in order to show a little affection, Ah Rong embroidered a purse for the old lady and the four wives, and asked the old lady not to dislike it." Zeng Rong said.

"It's hard for you to have a heart." The old lady happily took the purse from the maid's hand, and took it in her hand and examined it carefully, and the more she looked at it, the more obvious the smile on her face became.

The purse is embroidered with a peony, and there are a pair of butterflies dancing on the peony, which is just that, her favorite is the four words on the purse, "rich and rich".

With her age and qualifications, she has never seen anything and gone through nothing, and now her children and grandchildren are around her knees, isn't what she is asking for is "rich and rich"?

However, at that time, the old lady did not think that this pattern and these four words were designed by Zeng Rong herself, because she knew that the embroidery workshop generally had special painters, and the splendid workshop was one of the four major embroidery workshops in Beijing, and it was not uncommon to have several powerful painters.

For this reason, after seeing the pattern, she studied the embroidery, Zeng Rong's embroidery is definitely slightly inferior to the embroidery girl from the south, but it is not impossible to take it, it is stronger than the average boudoir woman, and most of the purses she uses every day are made by the people around her, and some are not as good as this embroiderer.

Seeing this, Mrs. Xu was really relieved, at least this child did not become a burden to her, but really supported herself and her sister with her own skills.

Is it just that the wages of the embroidery workshop are so high?

Can you earn twenty taels of silver in three months?

Old Madam Xu asked her doubts.

Don't blame her for being curious, because the last time Zeng Rong entered the Xu Mansion, he said that she was embroidering silk handkerchiefs, and the salary for a silk handkerchief was only twenty yuan, how long has it been, how can she save so much?

"Back to the old lady, I have changed my embroidery purse in the past two months, and the pattern of the purse is designed by myself, and the embroidery workshop gave me a part of the pattern money." Zeng Rong explained, a little confused at the same time.

She caused such a big sensation in the embroidery workshop, can the shopkeeper not tell the Bai family about this matter? Can the Bai family come to the old lady for verification?

You know, even the shopkeeper Yu has no less doubts about how she, a woman from the countryside who has not formally entered school, can draw these patterns, and how she can know so many poems, and how she can write good handwriting.

She thought that Yu Yunqing would definitely come to the Bai family if she couldn't get an answer from her mouth, and the Bai family would definitely come to the old lady to ask for an understanding.

But this will see that the old lady was shocked, obviously ignorant of this.

That's kind of weird.

Is the problem with Yun Qing?

Old Madam Xu was indeed taken aback, lowered her eyes again and looked at the purse in her hand, raised her eyes to look at Zeng Rong again, and ordered Zi Su to take a look at the several purses in Zeng Rong's hand.

The color of these four purses is light, either powder blue or pink purple, embroidered are orchids, the varieties of orchids are slightly different, and there are four words on them, "empty valley orchid", "Hui quality orchid heart", "Fanglan body" and "Guifu orchid".

"You also came up with these words yourself?"

"Back to the old lady, yes, I used the meeting gifts given by a few wives and aunts to the bookstore to buy a few books and calligraphy, and I will spend an hour or two reading and practicing calligraphy in the evening, and then go to the bookstore to ask others if I don't understand it."

There was no way, there was no one with knowledge around him to ask for advice, Zeng Rong had to turn his attention to the bookstore, this was a method that Yu Yunqing came up with after questioning her, and it could be prevaricated to some extent.

Mrs. Xu believed it.

Because she remembered Ouyang Si, that is, Zeng Rong's life-saving benefactor, it happened that she received a letter from her hometown a few days ago, saying that the person had been born and was now in school.

Regardless of whether this person can be promoted in the future, he can get a teaching job in any academy in Anzhou just by virtue of his status as a student, and if he wants to marry now, I am afraid that some squires want to recruit him as the east bed.

If he is promoted again after three years, his identity will be even more unattainable.

Presumably Zeng Rong herself knows this, she has no background that can be matched with her, and she can only rely on her own efforts to find a matching talent and net worth.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Xu ordered Zisu to send the four purses to the four daughters-in-law, saving Zeng Rong a single trip; The second is to ask for a return gift for Zeng Rong, she has to help this child, this strong temperament is a bit similar to when she was young.

Zeng Rong has lived in the Xu family for almost 20 years, and he is well versed in the reason, so he hurriedly stopped him and said: "Don't dare to bother Sister Zisu, it's better for me to send it myself." ”

She sent it herself, and the other party would at most reply her with a good word or two, and maybe she would also reward her with one or two small things, but if the old lady sent Shisu over, those ladies would have to officially give Zeng Rong a return gift, without him, they couldn't refute the old lady's face.

"Let her go, you stay, I have something to say to you." After the old lady finished speaking, she glanced at Zisu, who took the four purses and took a little girl out.

"Come, come and sit down, don't be too restrained, let's talk freely." Old Madam Xu saw that Zeng Rong and Zeng Hua were still standing four or five feet away from her, and beckoned.

Xu Jing, who was sitting under Mrs. Xu, got up and said, "Grandmother, why don't you talk to Sister Ah Rong freely, we took Sister Ah Hua to the back garden to play." ”

"It's okay, bring a few more people over, don't scare people, and don't tease her." The old lady admonished.

Xu Jing stepped forward and took Zeng Hua's hand, smiled, and said, "Grandmother, don't worry, it's too late for us to like Sister Ahua." ”

Zeng Hua looked at Zeng Rong, humble and cowardly, obviously not wanting to go out with Xu Jing.

Zeng Rong smiled at her, "Go ahead, play with everyone." ”

As soon as Xu Jing left, Zeng Rong sat down with the old lady, but he didn't dare to sit all of them, but only sat half of his body sideways.

"That's right, I received a letter from my hometown a few days ago, and I want to talk to you about two things." The old lady saw that there were only a few personal maids left in the room, and spoke.

The first thing was to inform Zeng Rong that her eldest brother's family affairs had been decided, and on August 20, the woman's family was from a neighboring village, and she had many brothers and sisters, and she was also poor, but she was very capable, and asked for a bride price of five taels of silver, Tian Shuilan was not happy, but the family could not do housework without a woman, and she herself was too busy with her two children, so she had to compromise.

The second thing is the news that Ouyang Si was selected to enter the mansion, and then, the old lady helped explain the difference between Xia Sheng and Zengsheng, Di Sheng belongs to the top talents, and there is a great hope for the future promotion, and Yu Sheng can receive a number of rice and silver taels from the state capital every year, that is to say, Ouyang Si can support himself.