Chapter 147, Little Bean
When Zeng Rong painted the sixty longevity words word by word on a few pieces of clothing, the New Year had arrived.
This month's visitation time was advanced by one day, the day before Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, unfortunately, it was another snowy day.
It was still Xu Jing who brought Zeng Hua here, in order to make Zeng Rong feel at ease, Zeng Hua specially put on the new New Year's clothes prepared for her by the Xu family, all of which were good satin, Zeng Hua said, the same as Xu Jing's new clothes.
In addition to the new clothes, the Xu family also prepared a set of jewelry for Zeng Hua, red gold, and Xu Jing, according to Zeng Hua, it was the old lady's meaning, saying that when the granddaughter raised, Zeng Hua was a little uneasy, she wanted to know if the eldest sister and the Xu family had reached any agreement, or something happened in the palace.
Zeng Rong smiled and told Ah Hua about his newly invented gold foil hollow stitch, and also said that he was embroidering the regular clothes of the Queen Mother's birthday, and she didn't say anything else, not wanting her to carry too much.
However, she told Ziluo that the queen was quite satisfied with her craftsmanship, and specially rewarded her with a bowl of eight-treasure porridge, and later, the aunt in charge asked her to embroider a few small accessories with a Tilian pattern, which were matched by a man and a woman, and also used this hollow stitching method.
As for who the owner of those accessories is, Zeng Rong didn't say, after all, she was just guessing, it depended on whether the Xu family could find out.
During the whole visit, Xu Jing didn't speak much, just stood quietly aside, watching, listening, and occasionally showing a happy smile.
So much better.
After all, he is only ten years old, Zeng Rong doesn't want to bring him too much fright, that's not fair to him, what he has is just the growth memory of this life, simple, clean, peaceful, happy, like a blank piece of paper, and Zeng Rong has been a human being in two lives, and after death, there are more fears, resentments, worries, sorrows, resentment, etc., not to mention the black patch, and I can't see the primary color.
In fact, Zeng Rong had long found that every time she cried in the face of Xu Jing, Xu Jing responded to her with incomprehension and fright, and there was no empathy at all.
Again and again, Zeng Rong has also gone from initial loss to gradual adaptation and today's letting go.
Let him live his own life well, this path was originally chosen by herself, and there is nothing to regret.
Sending Xu Jing away, Zeng Rong walked to the eunuch on duty with the package, the eunuch on duty opened her package, and before she could stuff a little broken silver, the other party saw that it was a pile of books and pen and ink utensils, and said enviously: "You are so good at learning, I see that you are not very old, and you can understand so many books." ”
"It's not big, keep it and watch it slowly."
"Your family is so rich, why do you want to be an embroiderer?" The other party took the broken silver handed over by Zeng Rong and quickly sleeved it into his pocket.
"My family comes from the countryside and is not rich at all, my sister lives with relatives, and I bought these books with the money I earned from embroidery."
"Hehe, who are you coaxing, you have people to come to see you every month, and you bring so many books every month, I heard that these things are valuable." The other party said while helping Zeng Rong pack the package.
Zeng Rong's heart moved when he heard this, he looked up at the other party carefully, and saw that the other party was in his early twenties, he looked quite good, and he looked smart, so he smiled sweetly at him, "This little brother, what's your name?" Where is it usually on duty? ”
I learned that this eunuch's big name is He Xiaodou, and his small name is Xiaodouzi, and he helps with errands in the stove room on weekdays, and he will borrow this side to guard the door for half a day every month.
"Is it convenient for you to go out on weekdays?"
"Convenience is convenience, but I don't dare to violate the palace rules." The other party thought that Zeng Rong wanted to entrust him with something, so he refused first.
"Don't worry, I won't let you make a mistake, I just want to ask you to help me bring something from outside, you are from the stove, and what I want to bring is also related to food." Zeng Rong thought of Qin Chuxue.
If she gives the silver directly, Qin Chuxue will not accept it, but it may not be necessary to send things, the things represent the heart, and it is easy to find a reason.
When this He Xiaodou heard that it was eating, he hesitated for a moment and asked Zeng Rong to go to the back kitchen to find him after dinner.
After all, this will be a lot of people's mouths, and these words are not suitable for saying here.
Zeng Rong saw someone coming over with a package, and hurriedly collected his things and left.
After dinner that day, she really found this He Xiaodou in the back kitchen, and learned that Zeng Rong only ordered honey, pears, lilies and other things, and He Xiaodou quickly stole a little from the warehouse for Zeng Rong.
Originally, He Xiaodou didn't want to accept Zeng Rong's silver, this thing was taken by him from the dining room warehouse, it didn't cost money, and it wasn't worth much, he had seen the broken silver that Zeng Rong gave him before, and there was half a tael, which was enough to buy this thing.
But in order to make a good impression on the other party and make it easier for him to find him next time, Zeng Rong just stuffed another piece of broken silver into the other party, which made this little bean scratch his ears and cheeks.
After getting these things, Zeng Rong came directly to Qin Chuxue, and as soon as he heard someone talking in the house, he was wondering if it was the person mentioned by Green Lotus last time, when he saw Green Lotus lift the door curtain and come out, "What a coincidence, you also came to see Aunt Qin?" ”
"Why are you here too?" Zeng Rong was slightly unhappy.
Since beating Amei and leaving, Lu He has approached her a lot, and Zeng Rong can't understand it, obviously he doesn't care about her, how can this person still follow him as usual.
Therefore, Zeng Rong suspected that Green Lotus was not a coincidence at all, most likely because she found that she went to the back kitchen to find someone to buy something and guessed that she was here to see Qin Chuxue, so she arrived early.
The fact is also the same, she hid and heard what Zeng Rong said to Xiaodouzi when she visited, and after dinner, she also hid in the dark and saw Zeng Rong go to the back kitchen to find someone, but it happened that she visited Luhe and her house today and sent her a pair of wool knee pads, she sent it to Qin Chuxue, which was a New Year's gift, and it was also regarded as repaying Qin Chuxue for taking care of her before.
"Just like you, I've sent something to my aunt." Green Lotus looked at the package in Zeng Rong's arms and smiled.
"Come in, it's cold outside." Xiao Cui saw that Zeng Rong was still standing outside, and came out to take the things.
"Is my aunt well?" Zeng Rong asked as he lifted the curtain and entered the house, only to see Qin Chuxue sitting in front of the kang writing the word Fu, and there was a pile of red paper next to him, a pair of scissors, and half of the window flowers.
"You're just in time, I'm tired, so let's write." When Qin Chuxue saw Zeng Rong, she threw down the pen and leaned back.
"Cough better?" Zeng Rong first looked at the other party's complexion, it was much better than the last time, it was no longer sallow, but it was a little, it seemed to have a little bit of faint anger.
Without waiting for Zeng Rong to ask, Green Lotus also opened the curtain and came in, and Zeng Rong realized what the problem was.
You don't have to ask to guess that before the green lotus came in, the master and servant were writing blessing characters and cutting window flowers, and the arrival of the green lotus disturbed them.