From Ah Tao's mouth, Zeng Rong once again confirmed that the silk handkerchief embroidered with "If there is no breeze blowing, who will send the fragrance", Bacheng was brought into the palace by Gonggong Liu.

It's a pity that the identity of this father-in-law Liu is not very clear, I only know what kind of leader he is in the palace, and he will take two little eunuchs to the embroidery workshop every half a month, and if he encounters something in the photo, he will bring it back directly.

"Then are these things for the palace maids or the masters of the palace?"

Although Zeng Rong didn't know much about the things in the palace, she knew a little bit that the inner palace was divided into six bureaus and twenty-four divisions, each of which was in charge of a stall, so there must be its own embroidery workshop and needlework department or something, and it was impossible for outsiders to do all the clothes worn by those masters, right?

Therefore, it is also possible that the silk handkerchief was taken by Gonggong Liu to a certain palace maid or palace maid who was good for him.

Thinking about it like this, Zeng Rong was a little discouraged again.

Ah Tao didn't see Zeng Rong's mood change, and still chattered, the topic changed from the embroidery workshop to Zeng Rong's family affairs, asking Zeng Rong's hometown, the relationship with the Bai family, and why he entered Beijing.

Zeng Rong picked out some things that could be said, fortunately, Chaohua Temple was not far away, and he arrived between words, and from a distance, he saw that the mountain gate of Chaohua Temple was full of people, and he also saw the dragon boats in the blue waves, but they were a little far away, and they couldn't see how many people were on each dragon boat, but they could see rows of men in white short coats sitting on the dragon boats and paddling quickly.

Because of the delay in flying kites, the dragon boat race was already halfway through when they arrived, originally according to Zeng Rong's meaning, he didn't want to get into the crowd to join in the excitement, but Zeng Hua and Ah Tao sisters and brothers were there, Zeng Rong had to stubbornly lead Zeng Hua to squeeze in.

In fact, Zeng Hua is not very interested in dragon boat racing, because every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, there are also dragon boat races in Qinghu, and people from these nearby villages will come to participate, which is very lively.

But she didn't know if Zeng Rong had seen it, so when she saw the eldest sister holding her hand and squeezing in, she also cooperated, and even took advantage of her small size to take Zeng Rong to drill in.

Who knew that after squeezing in, Zeng Hua suddenly pointed to the lotus leaf in the pool, and shouted excitedly: "Eldest sister, eldest sister, there are soft-shelled turtles, soft-shelled turtles, such big soft-shelled turtles, and red goldfish, so many." ”

This shout attracted a lot of attention, but fortunately, Zeng Hua used the local dialect of his hometown, and the people present should not have understood.

Despite this, Zeng Rong's face was also red, and he hurriedly whispered: "Shhh, Ah Hua, be quiet, this lotus pond is used for release, so it's not strange to have fish, and also, this is not called red goldfish, it's called koi, and those are not called soft-shelled turtles, it's called turtles, which means longevity." ”

Zeng Hua listened to this and took a closer look, there are indeed many turtles, large and small, some are lying on the lotus leaves basking in the sun, in addition to soft-shelled turtles and red goldfish, there are a few carp more than a foot long under the lotus leaves leisurely swinging their tails.

For this reason, the little girl's brows furrowed, "Sister, no one has caught so many fish?" ”

It's not to blame that she doesn't understand.

It is not easy for poor people in the countryside to eat a meal, and sometimes it is easy to find some loaches, yellow eels, field snails or something in the ditch, and they still think about taking them to the town for a few pennies.

There is also that green lake, don't look at the owner, usually you don't see the fish swimming to the surface, but there are still people who take the opportunity to release ducks and geese to steal some small shrimp and touch some snails in the shallow part of the shore.

If it was a rainy night, Zeng Hua knew that someone in the village would secretly steal fish with a net or something, and if he was lucky, he could catch a few big fish, and if he was unlucky, he might be discovered by the master's family.

But even so, the people in the nearby villages didn't have the idea of fighting Qinghu, there was no way, they were forced to do this, they couldn't even eat enough, who would care what would happen in the next moment.

Because of this, Zeng Hua was shocked to see so many fish floating on the surface of the pond and no one to catch them.

For her, filling her stomach is obviously more important than releasing her life.

Fortunately, Zeng Hua also quickly realized that he was embarrassed and became the laughing stock of the people around him, so he beat his head in annoyance, pouted and said, "Eldest sister, I said the wrong thing again." ”

"It's okay, there's a first time for everything." Zeng Rong touched her head, and did not blame her, on the contrary, she was more relieved and happy to see her sister who was more and more relaxed in front of her and more and more restored to her child's nature.

"You, you two, shouldn't you be from Anzhou?" Suddenly, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy next to him squeezed over and asked.

Zeng Rong saw that he was an official speaker of the capital, but asked her if she was from Anzhou, so he was a little vigilant in his heart and did not dare to answer easily.

Zeng Hua nodded, and when he was about to speak, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the vigilance in the eldest sister's eyes, shook his head again, and closed his mouth tightly.

Seeing this, the other party smiled and was about to speak, when a fourteen or fifteen-year-old maid dressed as a man squeezed over and said in Anzhou dialect: "Don't be afraid, he will ask casually, because we are also from Anzhou." ”

Seeing this, Zeng Rong guessed that the other party should be a certain Anzhou official or a descendant of a merchant's family, she wanted to make friends with each other, but before she could speak, there was a sudden commotion, the dragon boat race was over, the little girl pulled the young man and left in a hurry, and Ah Tao also brought her younger brothers and sisters to find it.

Listening to Ah Rong say that he was going to burn incense to the Bodhisattva, Ah Tao familiarly pulled Zeng Rong into the mountain gate, there were many small items such as incense candles, incense sachets, silk handkerchiefs and various snacks outside the mountain gate, Ah Tao took Zeng Rong around, spent a few pennies to buy two straw grasshoppers, one to Zeng Hua, where does Zeng Hua like this kind of thing? I can't play in the field.

"Let's go and ask for incense first." Zeng Rong was also indifferent to these.

Please be fragrant, the five of them entered the hall together, after worshipping Guanyin Bodhisattva, they should offer some incense money, Zeng Rong because she came to repay the wish of the previous life, so she prepared a silver ingot of two taels, but she will definitely not be able to take it out in front of A Tao, which is too inconsistent with her current identity.

So, Zeng Rong had to silently confess to the Bodhisattva in his heart, and presented a string of money, Rao was so, and Ah Tao also said in her ear, "It's too much, it's too much, it's better to use it to buy something delicious outside with all this money." ”

Zeng Rong smiled faintly, "It's okay, it's the first time I've come, and I made a big wish, so I should give more." ”

As soon as Ah Tao heard this, she didn't persuade her again, but she didn't ask her what she wished, she still understood this truth, and her wishes couldn't be easily said, and it wouldn't work if she said it.

After the incense, Zeng Rong proposed to go to the apse to have a look, mainly because she wanted to try her luck and see if she could meet the master of the two little maids and the maid.

Regardless of whether the other party's identity is a merchant or a petty official who has just entered Beijing, it will definitely not hurt her to know a few more people.