The days in winter are shorter, dinner is eaten at three o'clock in the hour, and it is dark when the day is small, therefore, there is no need to go to the workshop for half an hour after dinner, most of the people wash and wash the shabu on the kang, and a few people will wander around the yard, after all, the time spent sitting in the day is too long.

Since most of them are young girls, it is easy for everyone to find the topic, especially today there are six more newcomers, and it is one question after another, where they come from, how many people are in the family, what they are good at embroidering, how old they are, etc.

There is no doubt that Zeng Rong has become the center of the topic, firstly, she is the youngest; The second is the pen, ink, paper, inkstone and a few books she put on the box, most of the embroiderers who came out to be embroiderers are poor, and there are very few who can read and write, so there is an instinctive awe of the readers, so they are particularly curious about why Zeng Rong entered the palace; The third is that Zeng Rong is famous. The embroidery girls in the palace don't know, but they can't stand Hongling's few questions, they have long been familiar with Zeng Rong's rumors, and they will see the real person, and they are just idle, so they can't ask hard.

Zeng Rong picked out some things that could be said and said, and those who couldn't say were vaguely brought over, and then cleverly turned the topic to these seniors, she wanted to know how many of these people could read and write, how much salary they could get in the next month under normal circumstances, how to deal with it when they were sick, whether they had to wait until they were twenty-five years old to leave the palace, etc.

These questions happened to be what several of them newcomers wanted to know, Zeng Rong brought out the words, and Hongling and Luhe asked them again.

After a night of chatting, Zeng Rong didn't know much useful news, knowing that there were originally thirty-six people in their embroidery workshop, and two months ago, three of them were out of the palace, two were twenty-five years old, and the other was twenty-six, two of them were sent out of the palace after being punished for doing something wrong, and they refused to say what they had done wrong. In short, because of these six vacancies, there were six Zeng Rong entering the palace.

There are two aunts in charge of the entire embroidery department, Aunt Liu is younger and is responsible for daily affairs, and there is one surnamed Qin, who is slightly older and more strict with people, but she is not very careful.

As for the salary, it roughly fluctuates up and down in three taels of silver, slightly stronger than the average palace maid, and slightly higher than the average embroidery workshop, Zeng Rong remembered that he had just taken two taels of silver in the first month of arriving at the embroidery workshop.

Later, because she knew how to design patterns herself, Yu Yunqing gave her a design fee to get a high salary.

Despite this, there are few people who voluntarily enter the palace, but there is no way, there are a group of people out of the palace every three or two years in the palace, and they have to supplement the newcomers, most of the newcomers are selected from the major embroidery workshops, and the embroidery workshop has no way, who dares to do it with the palace?

The embroidery girls have no choice, they dare not offend the embroidery workshop, and they dare not offend the heavenly family.

Fortunately, the embroidery workshop is more benevolent, and under normal circumstances, some benefits will be promised to the embroidery girl, such as Zeng Rong, and the last embroidery Yu Yunqing gave a high price of one hundred taels of silver.

Of course, there is another reason why Zeng Rong's embroidery can be sold at a high price, Yu Yunqing wants to sell it to her, and she also pointed to her to take Amei.

As for that father-in-law Liu, it is said that he is a eunuch leader of the Shanggong Bureau, who is in charge of the comprador of the entire Shanggong Bureau, and has more authority than Aunt Liu and Aunt Qin, and has more fertilizer and water.

The last four words are Zeng Rong's own guesses, so naturally he will not ask them.

However, there is a question she really wants to know, whether this father-in-law Liu is the person next to the Queen Mother, and whether he usually comes to the embroidery workshop, etc., but because it is the first time for everyone to meet, she is not easy to ask.

That night, there were so many people that they forgot the time while talking, until someone knocked on the door in the yard, and everyone blew out the lamp one by one to drill into the bed.

Zeng Rongcai also knew that there were rules in the palace, and when the time came, no lights were allowed or no noise, and some grandmothers took turns to check the night.

Early the next morning, Zeng Rong was woken up by the movement of others getting up, and after some change of clothes and washing, she went to the workshop with everyone.

This time, Zeng Rong saw Aunt Qin, looking about forty years old, round face, slightly fat, probably perennial unsmiling, the whole face looked quite majestic, and there was a bit of coldness and indifference in the majesty, which was not easy to approach at first glance.

When Zeng Rong entered, she was standing in front of an embroidery and whispered to others, as if she thought that this embroidery was not festive enough, and the color was not bright enough, so it was not suitable for a first birthday banquet or something.

Aunt Liu next to her didn't dare to say anything, and the embroidery girl was even more eager to hang her head to the ground.

Seeing that a few fresh faces suddenly came to the room, that Aunt Qin shut up, glanced at Zeng Rong a few times, and her eyes fell on Zeng Rong, obviously a little displeased, "This is also new this time?" ”

"Aunt Hui, yes, this embroidery girl's name is Zeng Rong, she is the one who embroidered the peony purse and won the first, and the embroidered orchid silk handkerchief also won the second." Aunt Liu remembered Zeng Rong and hurriedly explained.

"Oh." Aunt Qin's eyebrows moved, and she took a few steps forward and walked to Zeng Rong's face, "How old are you?" ”

"Aunt Hui, twelve years old."

"Ever studied?"

"Back to my aunt, I've read a few books."

"What did you read?"

"Back to my aunt, there are not many, just a few anthologies of Mongolian studies and poetry."

"That being the case, I'll test you, my surname is Qin, not Qin of the Qin Dynasty, not Yaoqin's qin, which word should it be?"

Zeng Rong was stunned for a moment, mainly because she had a preconceived idea, thinking that the other party was Qin of the Qin Dynasty, and it was indeed a bit difficult for her to find the third Qin character as a surname, because there was no one around her who had such a remote surname.

Fortunately, Zeng Rong was with Xu Jing for ten years in his last life, and soon remembered an allusion, "Aunt Hui, I know, it is early in the west and down, and according to legend, the ancestor is Boyi, who once assisted Dayu in controlling the water." ”

This Aunt Qin saw that Zeng Rong not only said the correct way to write this surname, but also knew who her ancestor was, the expression on her face softened slightly, this girl did not lie, she did study, no wonder she could come up with something "Fang Lan Body" and "Rich and Rich", it is rare that it matches her own tricks.

Thinking of this, she remembered another person, who also embroidered something with one or two lines of poetry, and one took the first and the other took the second, so she asked again: "Who is Yu Mei?" ”

When Amei heard this, she hurriedly stood up, "Aunt Hui, I am." ”

"You've been to school, too?"

Ameke didn't have Zeng Rong's confidence, and when he stood forward, he felt weak first, "Go back to my aunt, read it, read it a little." ”

"Yi'an Jushi once said, the world for plum words, the pen is vulgar, I dare not discuss, but I have seen more plum blossoms embroidered by the world, there are many people who are the same, there are few new ideas, you are young, it is not simple to have this skill. By the way, Yi'an Jushi also has a song about Yongmei, which is the one she tried to write after commenting on the Yongmei lyrics of her predecessors, what do you think? ”

This stopped Ame.