Chapter 167: Honesty (1)
In the afternoon of this day, because there was no leakage in the water pavilion, and because Amei did not pull Zeng Rong to interrupt, therefore, when Zeng Rong hurriedly returned to the workshop with the pattern and color, he realized that a quarter of an hour had passed.
But because Zeng Rong didn't encounter outsiders to disturb him during the period, and when he came out of the back garden of Cining Palace, it was still the guard guarding the door, so Zeng Rong also let go of his suspicions about Amei, thinking that she hadn't seen her for too long and was too excited.
In addition, Amei asked mostly about Zeng Rong's current life, Zeng Rong's daily life after Amei left, such as the relationship with Lu He, the relationship with the two aunts in charge, the progress of embroidery, and what she has seen, written, and painted recently.
Zeng Rong also replied with two sentences without a match, and when the suit was matched, Amei didn't stop talking nonsense, and ran out with her.
The two returned to the workshop, took down the things that had been prepared a long time ago, and went out of the small door, Yu Yunqing really waited outside the door with her neck stretched, at that time, there was only her carriage outside.
This is the first time Zeng Rong has seen Yu Yunqing after entering the palace, after some greetings, Zeng Rong handed over the patterns painted during this period of time to her, Yu Yunqing opened it and glanced at it, counted a few pieces, and quickly counted out ten silver tickets of ten taels of silver from the purse and stuffed them into Zeng Rong's hand.
"What a coincidence, if you don't look for me today, I am also planning to wait for the day of the visit to see you, I took a big job, is to make school clothes for the Taixue students, before their clothes were all green shirts, white piping embroidered with cloud scrolls as accessories, you help me ponder, and then simply embroider some patterns on the clothes, always make our characteristics."
Zeng Rong pondered for a while, most of the students who studied Taixue were models for the children of some families, and no matter how bad they were, they were also the leaders of the children of the new Jin clan, most of such people regarded themselves very highly, their character was elegant, and their behavior was orthodox, but they were a little uninhibited in their bones, so it was difficult for ordinary tricks to get into their eyes.
"Okay, I'll go back and figure it out." Although Zeng Rong had some ideas in his mind, he didn't see the intuitive picture, and it was difficult to express it for a while.
And the reason why she wanted to end this topic quickly was because she also wanted to ask about Amei, "By the way, Shopkeeper Yu, Amei has now entered Cining Palace, I want to know, what tricks did Gonggong Liu fall for me at the beginning, was it given to the Queen Mother?" Don't worry, I'm asking this today because Amei confessed to the Queen Mother that I designed those tricks, I asked clearly, and if I have the opportunity to see the Queen Mother in the future, I can answer, don't hurt Amei by saying the wrong thing. ”
"This?" Yu Yunqing suddenly became embarrassed and looked at her niece.
"Auntie, I, I can't either, I can't answer the words asked by the Queen Mother at all, the first time I lie, I may be able to get through, but it will be difficult to say in the future, there are too many lies, there will always be a day when I am exposed." Ah Mei is quite calm, as long as Zeng Rong doesn't blame her, she is not afraid.
"Yes, Yu shopkeeper, I personally think that Amei is a wise move to do this, the two aunts in the embroidery workshop know Amei's strength, and my performance in the past few months is also obvious to all, lies can't last long, I don't care about the previous things, after all, we also take what we need. Now that I ask these questions, it's not that I want to pursue anything, but I may also go to the Queen Mother's side, and Amei also hopes to be with me, don't worry, if there is this day, I will still protect her. Zeng Rong first showed his sincerity and made a promise.
The main thing is that this thing is important to her.
She remembered that it should be the follow-up incident caused by the silk handkerchief with the orchid pattern that she embroidered for the first time in the embroidery workshop by Liu Gonggong, strictly speaking, I am afraid that Liu Gonggong's photo is not necessarily the orchid on the silk handkerchief, but the two poems on the silk handkerchief.
As the chief eunuch of Liu An, there is no need to please an ordinary palace maid or a master who is not very popular, so Zeng Rong boldly guessed that the person who likes orchids is the queen mother or someone whom Liu An admires at the tip of his heart.
But that day in the back garden of Cining Palace, Zeng Rong heard the second prince say that the queen mother likes plum blossoms, so she was a little puzzled, who was the orchid silk handkerchief for, Liu An really admired people in the palace?
Seeing that Zeng Rong was so frank, Yu Yunqing hurriedly grabbed her hands and said to herself: "I'm sorry, I wronged you, it's really my selfishness, and I didn't expect it to develop like this in the future, because of this matter, I have no less suspense." ”
Yu Yunqing is telling the truth, don't look at Amei entering the palace as she wishes to go to the queen mother's side, but she hasn't slept a peaceful sleep these days, she is worried every day, trembling, walking on thin ice, afraid that when bad news comes from the palace, the Yu family will be brought into the abyss of no return.
For this reason, she gave gifts to Liu Gonggong, and stuffed a lot of silver tickets, and finally got a reluctant promise from the other party, he only promised not to fall into the well, and the rest had to rely on Amei herself, if she was clever and smart enough, even if she couldn't be favored, it would not cause trouble to her family, after all, Amei had admitted frankly that she had not deliberately deceived the queen mother.
On the contrary, it was Liu An, because of this matter, he was accused of incompetence, lack of detail, and lack of investigation, not to mention how much fire there was.
Fortunately, Yun Qing was knowledgeable and calmed him with silver in time.
"Actually, the orchid silk handkerchief you embroidered in the shop for the first time was photographed by Gonggong Liu, and there was a poem on your silk handkerchief, which seems to be something. . . ."
Zeng Rong saw that the other party couldn't remember, and reminded: "If there is no spring breeze blowing, who will send the fragrance." ”
"Yes, yes, Gonggong Liu said that these two poems are worthy of a bit of meaning, so he took them away."
At that time, Yu Yunqing didn't think much about the meaning of Gonggong Liu taking away this silk handkerchief, what she thought about was how much benefit this embroidery method could bring to the embroidery workshop by adding two lines of poetry to the embroidery, after all, no one would leave poems on the embroidery before, how many literate embroiderers in the embroidery workshop?
Therefore, usually only those boudoir women of big families occasionally entertain themselves and embroider something with two lines of poetry or a few auspicious words or something, but these things are not passed on.
Therefore, Zeng Rong's arrival brought Yu Yunqing a kind of surprise, a surprise that could break through the previous tradition, a surprise that could make the entire embroidery circle in the capital famous, and a surprise that could bring rich benefits.
It's a pity that Zeng Rong refused to cooperate with her for a period of time, and she had no choice but to push her niece out.
Because Amei's strength is embroidering plum blossoms, she asked Amei to embroider a lot of plum blossom silk handkerchiefs during that time, and they were all inscribed with poems, coincidentally, these silk handkerchiefs were also taken away by Gonggong Liu.
Originally, Yu Yunqing didn't think much about it, at that time she just wanted to make Jinxiufang bigger and do a good job and earn more silver.
How do you know that Liu An came over and said that the Queen Mother liked those silk handkerchiefs very much, said that she was a talented woman, and asked Yu Yunqing if she had any ideas for Amei to enter the palace.