When I returned to Jinling, there were many things.

Just after the banquet on His Majesty's birthday, Yao'er's marriage will be officially prepared, and before that, Xinyue and Yao'er still have a place to go, that is, to meet Yao'er's mother-in-law, Cao Xu's mother-in-law, the mother of the Cao family's sister-in-law.

After dinner, Xinyue put on the robe on the shelf and prepared to go out, Fei'er saw Xinyue go out and immediately followed, "Madam, do you want to go out so late?" ”

"Go to Yao'er's room, she should be panicked and bored, let's go see her." Saying that, Xinyue had already put on her outer robe, looked at her half-worn outer robe, and couldn't help but say with some hatred, "I really pity my robe." ”

As soon as Fei'er heard it, she knew what Xinyue was talking about, "Yes, ma'am, that robe was made by you especially for tomorrow's meeting banquet, why did it get so dirty?" ”

When Xinyue heard this, she looked at Feng'er with amusement, "It's not that you haven't seen Feng'er's girl, I'm light like that." ”

As he spoke, he laughed with Fei'er.

"The slave knows from afar that you and Fei'er are talking bad about me, I knew that this was the case, the slave and the maid would not wash this dress so carefully, the soil on the gold thread, the slave and the maid used a soft brush to clean it little by little." Saying that, Feng'er put the robe that he carefully picked up in his hand on the hanger, the lilac robe, because of the silver thread and weaving, so it looked brilliant, when Feng'er tidied up the corners of the clothes, he couldn't help touching the robe, there was no embroidered part, "Such a beautiful robe, if you stand on the sun, it must look good." ”

"I didn't wear it that day, and I didn't see much of it. Tomorrow is not the day for me to be in the limelight, so let's change to that crimson sleeve. ”

"Madame, didn't mean that the crimson robe showed that your complexion was not good-looking." Feng'er still wanted Xinyue to wear the outfit in front of her.

"Let's go" Xinyue didn't say anything more, but turned around and walked out of the room she was in with Fei'er, and went to Yao'er's courtyard.

Walking to the general, the new moon looked at the somewhat sparse shadows of the trees in front of her, and the mood that had been relieved by distraction sank again.

Raising his hand to pick the plum blossoms that had been defeated late, he suddenly remembered and asked Fei'er, "The camellia tree in the Queen Mother's palace was really cut down?" ”

"Yes, ma'am. Not only the camellia tree in the queen mother's palace, but also in the queen's palace, the year when the mother entered the palace, the phoenix wood planted by His Majesty was also cut off by a sword, and there was also the place where the palace people lived in the lower house and the water, and the place where the water was walked away from Lan Zhaoyi, where His Majesty rested, was only separated by a wall. I really don't know why. Speaking of this, Fei'er, who was a little tired, came to her senses.

"If something like this happened just after Your Majesty's birthday, I'm afraid that the people in the palace will also suffer." Crescent Moon stopped and asked a passing attendant to cut a flower branch for himself.

"Yes, the Queen Mother, countless attendants in the queen's palace have been beaten and interrogated, but the queen mother said that His Majesty's birthday has just passed, don't move the matter of life and death, so she didn't kill anyone, but drove out the person who was a little suspicious. And the palace people in the lower room were burned to death, what a sin. With that, Fei'er took the plum branch from the attendant's hand, which should be the last plum blossom with flower bones this year.

Xinyue took the plum branch that still had the buds and played with it between her fingers, "Didn't the national teacher say anything?" ”

News like "slaves and maids don't know" will naturally not come out of the palace, and if it is someone who knows, slaves and maids like Fei'er will not know either.

Yao'er had just had dinner, and when Xinyue arrived at the door of her room, the maids were removing the food they had eaten, and Xinyue opened one of the food boxes, which contained Yao'er's favorite sugar chicken, and it seemed that Yao'er only ate a little diced meat, and nothing else.

"Madam, Miss Yao has not eaten anything since noon, and at breakfast, she only ate a bowl of egg custard. And for dinner, her favorite sugar chicken, the slave maid counted from the side, and ate three chopsticks. The one who spoke was Xing'er, a maid who grew up with her since she was a child, holding a bowl of sugar water in her hand, and Xinyue looked up and saw that it was Yao'er's favorite red bean ball syrup.

Xinyue took the sugar water from Xing'er's hand, and when she saw Xinyue coming in, she sat back on the embroidery frame with a cigarette, walked up and sat on the couch opposite her embroidery frame, and said to Xing'er who followed up while eating sugar water, "The sugar water of this red bean ball is delicious, but there is too much sugar, and this ball will be fat if you eat too much, do you want your young lady to not wear a wedding dress?" ”

"That's not what the slave meant, but Madam, you have lost a lot along the way, and you need to eat more sugar water." Xing'er glanced at Yao'er, who was still indifferent, and said to Xinyue, "Yes, Madame is right." ”

"This sugar water is really good, if there is any leftover, send it to my hospital, and I will make breakfast tomorrow."

"Yes, slave and maid will go." As she spoke, Xing'er looked at the new moon's eyes and left.

"Sister-in-law, if you want to eat, let your small kitchen cook it for you, don't eat anything from my yard." Saying that, Yao'er threw away the embroidery cloth she hadn't embroidered a few stitches a day today, sat on Xinyue's side, and stretched out her hand, "Sister-in-law, it's so difficult to get married, I embroidered less than twenty stitches in total today, and I stabbed my fingers three times, these embroidery pieces, I don't necessarily need them in my life, do I really want to sit here and keep getting them?" ”

"Let you embroider these, not for you to use later, but to let you pass the time, so that you can idle and think about the time, can be shorter." Xinyue took a closer look at Yao'er's fingers, and sure enough, there were needle-pierced wounds on the index finger and middle finger of her left hand.

"Sister-in-law, if you want me to pass the time, you can let me do other things, such as swinging in the yard, kicking shuttlecocks, collecting dew, and making tea with snow water, which are all interesting things." Yao'er lowered her hand and sighed in disappointment.

Xinyue put down the bowl in her hand, walked to Yao'er's embroidery frame, carefully rubbed the place where Yao'er had just embroidered, twisted the embroidery thread that she had messed up, and after putting it together, she stabbed it into her needle, and embroidered it stitch by stitch.

The embroidery skills of the crescent moon are excellent, not who forced her, but it felt that doing embroidery could make her heart fall silent, but a few stitches, the original out-of-shape of the bird's tail, was dropped back by the crescent moon, and became lifelike "The time I am talking about is not now, but the days of years and decades in the future." Such embroidered handkerchiefs, purses, you have to embroider dozens of them a year. ”

Yao'er walked to Xinyue's side, watching her embroidery stitches extremely fast, and couldn't help but joke to her, "Look at your technique, sister-in-law, it's okay to embroider dozens of pieces a month." ”

"In this way, the heart can be calmed." As she spoke, the crescent moon hooked up the silk thread, tied a knot under the embroidery shed, and cut the silk thread.

"Sister-in-law, tomorrow, what should I do?" Yao'er cried and sat on the stool on the side.

"The long days ahead didn't scare you, and you couldn't eat or drink when you saw your mother-in-law's small banquet. Yao'er, you're so optimistic. As she spoke, Xinyue reached out and touched Yao'er's face, "I won't embroider today." ”

"Sister-in-law, I'm hungry." As she spoke, Yao'er lay on Xinyue's lap and played lazily for Xinyue.

"In the small kitchen in my room, Feng'er made roast chicken." Xinyue whispered to Yao'er.

Yao'er's eyes lit up, "I want to eat"

"I've already asked Apricot to get it." As soon as the words fell, Xing'er came in with a food box, "When I arrived in the lady's room, Miss Feng'er wrapped the freshly roasted chicken in lotus leaves, and was about to come to our yard." ”

"Taste, this is the craft of Feng'er." Saying that, the new moon unfolded the lotus leaves, and the roast chicken with the fragrance of lotus leaves was placed in front of Yao'er's eyes, Yao'er smiled, "Sister-in-law, you know me best." ”

"After eating, take a bath and drink a cup of hot osmanthus wine, so that you can sleep faster and warmer a little." With that, Crescent stood up and prepared to leave.

"Sister-in-law, where are you going? If you want to eat it together, there's such a big one here. Saying that, Yao'er pestered Xinyue, so she had to drink wine and eat roast chicken with her.

I don't know how long it took, Xinyue looked at Yao'er who was lying on the bed asleep, her little face was red from taking a hot bath, and her eyelashes were curled, sleeping very peacefully.

Xinyue walked out of Yao'er's room and sighed deeply, "It's not long before she manages her days like this." ”