The reason why Zeng Rong is interested in why Wang Fan and Ouyang Lin are together is mainly because there is an unwritten rule in the capital, these children of the family have their own circles, and Ouyang Ruoying is not a three-grade household servant, but his foundation in the capital is not deep, and he entered the government by virtue of scientific examination.

Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the Wang family is wooing Ouyang Ruoying, or in other words, Ouyang Ruoying has begun to side with the Wang family at this time, so she takes the initiative to make friends with the Wang family.

If this is the case, why would Ouyang Lin be so angry that he would come out of his sleeves, and he didn't care about the face of Wang Fan, the prince of Zhenyuan, in front of his subordinates.

With these questions, Zeng Rong went to the teahouse again two days later, still with Ah Tao, for a ready-made reason, to buy a sour plum soup and go back to Zeng Hua to taste it.

It's a pity that she didn't meet those two again this time.

In fact, even if she met again, she couldn't find out anything, because those literati and the children of the family were gathering in a private room, and there were attendants and guards sitting outside, and no one could get close to her, so she couldn't eavesdrop.

Moreover, Xiaoqing's brother knows her, and Wang Fan's entourage also remembers her, so if she appears in this teahouse frequently, it will arouse the suspicion of others, after all, the things here are not what her identity can ask about.

Zeng Rong spent nine days embroidering this group of cicada series, a total of ten purses, ten paintings, there are summer willow leaves on the cicadas, there are autumn rains after the lying cicadas, there are still cicadas under the moonlit night, there are also cicadas on the tea tree wings, each painting has an inscription poem or short sentence, are related to cicadas, such as "Mo invades the residual sun noise, is listening in a foreign land", "I have a bamboo forest house, don't come to the cicada is singing" and "scattered shadow jade step willow, with cui hidden cicadas", etc., but Zeng Rong's favorite is the previous sentence "A cicada and a tea, a thought for a lifetime" and "Sitting and Zen, Walking is also Zen, silent movement and stillness are safe" and "one flower and one world, one leaf and one Bodhi" These three sentences have Zen feelings.

Because Zeng Rong said that she wanted to embroider a series, so these purses were only shown to the shopkeeper two, and they were not handed in.

At that time, the shopkeeper was talking to the two maids, and when he saw Zeng Rong entering, he waved his hand to let the two maids go out.

"Shopkeeper Yu, I have embroidered this set of series, can you help me palm the eye, see what else needs to be improved?" Zeng Rong put the wrapped purse on the desk and laid them out one by one.

Although I had seen two finished products before, these ten purses were placed in front of Yu Yunqing, and Yu Yunqing was still shocked.

Although she hasn't read many books, doesn't understand the poetry and songs, and doesn't know what artistic conception and talent to learn and cultivate, this does not prevent her from appreciating, from she learned to take a needle at the age of five to enter the embroidery workshop at the age of fifteen and then took over the splendid workshop at the age of twenty.

It's a pity, in the end, it's a word poor, seeing this set of purses, the only words she can think of in her mind are "good-looking" and "elegant" and "chic", no matter how many words, she can't think of them.

"You really didn't go to school?" Yu Yunqing asked again.

Don't blame her for being suspicious, because she herself has officially studied for five years, and she has also learned a little Danqing, as well as Bai Zhi and Zixia, two painters, they have also studied for a few years and learned to paint for a few years, but the things they draw are good-looking, compared with Zeng Rong, the gap is out, at least none of them can think of inscribed poems on the painting, let alone an ordinary cicada with so many poems to recite it.

"Back to the shopkeeper, I really haven't formally entered school, to tell you the truth, these days I work in the embroidery workshop during the day, and I will read books and practice calligraphy and painting by myself when I go back at night, and I feel that I have benefited a lot."

Yu Yunqing smiled, she naturally didn't believe this, but she didn't ask any more, but asked what she would embroider next.

"Next will be a group of crickets or grasshoppers, and I don't know how many of these two series will have myself. Yu shopkeeper, these ten purses really cost me a lot of thought, if I don't embroider myself, embroider for Amei, how much can you price? Zeng Rong asked directly.

The previous ten purses had no inscription poems and no series, and they could be sold for 200 wen each, and she didn't want to sell these ten purses cheaply.

"You mean you don't embroider yourself, for Ame?" Yu Yunqing was worried about how to convince Zeng Rong, but she didn't expect Zeng Rong to take the initiative to speak.

"Of course, if the price is right." Zeng Rong also smiled.

"You don't look like a twelve-year-old." Yu Yunqing shook her head with a smile, picked up the purse on the desk and looked at it one by one, not only looking at the color, but also the embroidery.

Zeng Rong didn't squeak either, and looked at her quietly.

After about a cup of tea, Yu Yunqing put down the purse in her hand, raised her eyes to look at Zeng Rong, and asked, "How much do you set yourself?" ”

"Me?" Zeng Rong really had a reserve price, but she didn't expect the other party to ask her back, so after a little consideration, she spoke, "If you talk about creativity, the pattern of my purse can be worth five taels of silver, but I am the embroidery girl of the embroidery workshop, and this price is more suitable for you as the shopkeeper." ”

"You've sold tricks before?" Yu Yunqing raised her eyebrows.

Zeng Rong shook her head, she didn't have this idea when she was in her hometown, but the place was too small, she was afraid of causing trouble, how could she dare to show her true skills? But she did ask the boss, saying that a good embroidery sample can be sold for two or three taels of silver a piece, and this is still the case in small rural places, let alone in the capital.

In addition, Zeng Rong created a new embroidery school, and she was the first to embroider poems on her purse.

"No, I asked for a price when I was in the countryside before." Zeng Rong told the truth.

"That's it, five taels of silver is too much, our painter master designed a new eight-open screen for only five taels of silver, you and I will give you at most one tael of silver. You also know that our purse is generally 200 wen a piece to be sold out, and the wages that are shaved to you are removed, as well as the material money and your meal money, we only earn twenty or thirty wen yuan for a purse in the embroidery workshop, you calculate, how many purses do we have to sell for this tael of silver to earn back? And you know the rules of our embroidery workshop, and rarely use exactly the same. ”

"Listen to the shopkeeper, one or two will be one or two, the coming day is long, I have only been here for more than a month, and I am very content to earn this silver." Zeng Rong took a step back.

Her reserve price is 500 Wen, and it is really a lot to get one or two pieces of silver.

Her goal is not to purse her purse, next month, she wants to embroider the kang screen, which can show her talent even more.

She still has this self-confidence, no matter what, she also followed Xu Jing for ten years to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting for ten years, and was cultivated according to the Xu family's boudoir lady, how can ordinary painters have her conditions?