When she came back from Qin Chuxue, Zeng Rong heard from Lu He that Liu Chunmiao was looking for her again, and asked her to look at Zeng Rong in the past few days, what she had done, who she had met, what she had said, and what books to read, what notes to write, etc.

Zeng Rong replied to her, just report truthfully, and there is no need to hide it.

Because there are only twelve days left before the birthday of the Queen Mother, Liu Chunmiao handed over a hundred purses to Zeng Rong, and for this reason, Zeng Rong still goes out early and returns late every day.

But she is not the only one who is rushing to work this time, and now that the days are getting longer and the birthday of the Queen Mother is approaching, everyone has a lot of work in their hands.

Fortunately, the purse only needs to be interspersed with gold foil thread and embroidered with a hollow lace, which is also easy for Zeng Rong, and the pressure is not great, so she goes out early and returns late every day more to make a show.

Presumably Liu Chunmiao also understands this, so three days later, she sent Zeng Rong a pair of uppers, saying that it was the emperor, and she decided what pattern to embroider.

It stumped her.

Men's shoes, must not use these flowers and plants, can not be too fancy, under normal circumstances, is to use the cloud dragon pattern, or the river Hague pattern, Liu Chunmiao specially explained that she decided what pattern to embroider, obviously wanted to test her.

Or, this is what the imperial concubine meant, using a pair of uppers to examine her, and at the same time to persuade the emperor.

Zeng Rong thought about it for a night, planning to embroider the shape of the tangled lotus, first of all, the tangled branch lotus is also known as "longevity vine", meaning auspicious, just suitable for wearing on the birthday of the Queen Mother; Secondly, the entwined branch lotus is continuous, symbolizing endless life, and the emperor and the imperial concubine will definitely like it; Third, this pattern is generally used on porcelain, and occasionally it is embroidered on purses, and it is rarely used on shoes, at least Zeng Rong has never seen it.

Therefore, Zeng Rong plans to try.

After the pattern is drawn, it is much easier to embroider, because the entwined branch lotus does not need to match the color, in order to avoid the color is too single, Zeng Rong used silver foil coil to rift the edge, two days later, this pair of uppers was handed over to Liu Chunmiao.

The bright yellow upper, with a cyan entwined lotus, plus a layer of silver edges, the color is quite lined, neither fancy nor monotonous, suitable for men to wear.

"It's hard for you to think of it, you were the first to embroider the twig pattern on the upper of the shoe, and the emperor was the first to wear these shoes, hehe, it's a little interesting." Liu Chunmiao praised Zeng Rong.

"Auntie, don't be too happy, you like it, maybe the emperor and the imperial concubine also like it, I've been hanging it." Zeng Rong pointed to his chest.

"Don't worry, the emperor likes this trick the most, don't you know, most of the official kilns in the past few years have been this trick, it is reported that it took a lot of silver to fire it." Liu Chunmiao said with a smile.

She had a hunch that the emperor would definitely like these shoes, and if he was relieved, Zeng Rong would be half of the matter.

"Oh, that's a crooked hit." Zeng Rong also smiled sweetly.

In fact, this is not a crooked fight, in the last life in the Xu family, she has not seen this kind of blue and white pattern porcelain, and I have heard Xu Jing mention it, saying that this blue and white porcelain is the favorite of today's saints, and it took a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to fire it, but it happened that the firing location was in Zeng Rong's hometown.

Liu Chunmiao was shaken by Zeng Rong's smile, and suddenly remembered that the task given to her by the imperial concubine had not yet been completed, so she took Zeng Rong's hand and said: "Let's go, go to my place to eat, it can be regarded as a treat for you, it just so happens that someone from mine has brought a fresh big live fish, and I have already stewed it in the dining room." ”

"Is this appropriate?" Zeng Rong was a little eager to welcome and refuse.

"What's out of place? It's not that you haven't eaten at my place, or are you still angry with me? ”

In the past few days, Liu Chunmiao has indeed hit a wall with Zeng Rong a few times, and has wanted to talk to Zeng Rong several times, but Zeng Rong has used the excuse of being busy, and he has become a lot more alienated between his words.

What's worse is that Qin Chuxue will come to the workshop every day for the first time in the past few days, and every time he comes, he will stand beside Zeng Rong for a while, as if he also has something to say to Zeng Rong, and Zeng Rong is also indifferent.

This kid must be holding a grudge.

not only hated that she shouldn't have taken her to Cining Palace that day, but also hated that Qin Chuxue shouldn't hide that it was the pen of the second prince, otherwise, she should not have directly described the pen of the second prince.

Speaking of which, Liu Chunmiao still hasn't figured it out, it is obviously an excellent move, which can not only bring Zeng Rong over but also completely step on Qin Chuxue under his feet, but Zeng Rong broke the game.

This kid was obviously chosen by Qin Chuxue, why did he just fall into the eyes of the Queen Mother? Could it be that the punishments that the Queen Mother did to Qin Chuxue before were all for outsiders to see?

No, this is unlikely, Qin Chuxue has been restricted from entering and leaving Cining Palace and Chuhua Palace, and she went to see Qin Chuxue on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the illness is by no means pretended, and those legs, to be honest, if it weren't for the method that Zeng Rong thought of, I'm afraid that these legs would not be far from being scrapped.

From the first day of the Lunar New Year to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Zeng Rong has been living in Qin Chuxue's house, which can be said to be heart-to-heart to her, but she was put on the table, and it will not be easy for anyone to change it.

It's no wonder that Zeng Rong doesn't pay much attention to Qin Chuxue, I heard that Xiaocui has also come to Zeng Rong these days, and sent her chicken soup and dried fruit snacks, Zeng Rong didn't ask for it, and all of them returned.

For this reason, Liu Chunmiao has also been interested in the past few days, and he has not stepped forward.

Today's pair of uppers really made her eyes shine, she had a hunch that the imperial concubine and the emperor would definitely like it, and the rest was how to talk about Zeng Rong.

Zeng Rong followed Liu Chunmiao into her house half-pushed and half-pushed, and soon, a palace maid came in with two large food boxes, there was indeed a large pot of fish, and there were four other dishes, two meat and two vegetarian, the meat was a sauced duck and a scallion fried lamb tripe, and the vegetarian dish was tofu and vegetarian fried cabbage heart.

"It's too much, it's too expensive." Zeng Rong was polite.

Liu Chunmiao's portion of the dish is one meat and one vegetable, and the rest must be bought with silver, she is willing to spend money to invite Zeng Rong to eat this meal, presumably today's topic will definitely not be easy.

For this reason, Zeng Rong was careful.

After finishing the meal, the two palace maids took the rest of the dishes away, and Liu Chunmiao personally boiled a pot of tea, and served the small walnuts that Zeng Rong loved to eat before.

"Auntie, you're going to flatter me by doing this, and I'm going to be scared, isn't there something to worry about?" Zeng Rong asked deliberately.

She was a thirteen-year-old girl, and it was normal for her to be breathless and curious.

"Stinky, do you really think I'm going to hurt you?" Liu Chunmiao gave Zeng Rong a roll of his eyes, and then poured a cup of tea and sent it to Zeng Rong.

"Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?" Zeng Rong asked with a half-tilted head.

"Nature is the truth."

"The truth is that I don't know the bottom of my heart, I thought you were all good to me, and I really treated you as relatives, but now, I don't know who I should believe." Zeng Rong lowered his head after speaking, and sighed faintly.