Ning couldn't help nodding: "Look at me, I'm really an old fool, I forgot about it, and now that the day is approaching, I have to hurry up."

Cui Shi turned around and summoned his housekeeper, "Mother Guan, go and bring up the tricks." Guan's mother answered, and after a while, she came back with a small basket.

Cui Shi stretched out his hand to take it and put it on the couch, "Mother, you see, this is a fashionable pattern in the south, it is better to choose it for Sister Heng to do embroidery." ”

Ning took out a few embroidery samples from the basket and showed them to Ji Ya and the others beside her. "Look at this embroidery, it's strange that the people in the south are skillful, not only skillful, but also skillful." Ning was holding an embroidery sample that went all the way to the branch, and Ji Zhun also leaned over to look at it, which was embroidered with a heron and a lotus.

The heron flails its wings and hovers in the air, its outstretched wings flawless, an ethereal whiteness greater than any white thread.

Everyone felt that it was rare, so Ning gently plucked the embroidery thread with a well-maintained nail, and a few people approached to take a closer look, it turned out that the white embroidery thread was dismantled, and the silver embroidery thread was filled in it, and it was re-twisted and embroidered. I can't help but be amazed.

Below the heron is the lotus pattern, the lotus petals from deep to shallow, overlapping, lotus leaves and green cover seem to float in the water waves with the wind swaying.

Ning Shi liked it when he saw it: "Second daughter-in-law, I'm all picky, it's good to look at any of them, I think it's better to pick up the dresses and jackets, and make new ones for the young masters and ladies in the house." It's just that Sister Heng will come first. ”

Cui's family didn't follow, and called Guan's mother: "You can arrange it now, invite the embroidery girl to come to the house early tomorrow morning, you take the right cards, and arrange a brighter wing room for them in the vacant courtyard, and rush to make Sister Heng'er's dress there." ”

Guan's mother took the pair of cards and went down to arrange the matter.

Cui Shi suddenly remembered the hairpin ring again, and wanted to call Guan's mother back, but Ji Zhun stopped him: "Uncle, I still have two sets of hairpin rings you gave on your birthday, and I haven't had time to wear them yet, so don't make new ones, use those two sets to do enough." ”

Cui Shi thought that now the gold and silver shops are probably stepping up to make things such as hairpin rings and bracelets in various prefectures, and they may not be able to do it carefully, so they follow Ji Zhun's plan.

Ji Zhun finally chose a Wanfu flowing cloud pattern in the embroidery sample, and as for the clothing, the right to wait for the warehouse to open tomorrow and then carefully select.

Everyone chatted for a long time before they dispersed.

Early the next morning, Ji Zhun was invited to Zefang Courtyard by the daughter-in-law sent by the Cui family. When Ji Zhun arrived, there were already three embroidery frames in the house, and two large tables were put together. Horses of satin silk were neatly stacked, and there were several daughters-in-law dressed as embroiderers standing at the table.

Cui Shi and Ji Zhun stepped forward to choose the clothing, and finally Ji Zhun chose a royal blue Yunluo material for the upper body, and a red flash yarn for eight Hunan skirts.

The embroidery girls cut the clothes according to Ji Zhun's figure and began to sew them.

Ji Zhun had already arranged everything that should have been prepared, she was idle, so she put a bamboo couch in the shade of Wutong and read a book by leaning on the pillow.

Zhaoyue came back from outside the courtyard and saw that Ji Zhun was enjoying the cool air in the courtyard, so he walked to Ji Zhun's side, "Miss, my brother is here." ”

Ji Zhun sat up straight, thinking that it was about the jade carving: "Please come in, Brother Li." ”

Sure enough, as Ji Zhun expected, Li Ruicheng sent the jade carving ornaments of "Nine Elders of Xiangshan". Ji Zhun took it and looked at it carefully, the jade is a good jade, the color is clear and the jade is warm. The nine elders of Xiangshan are carved on it, and the craftsmanship is exquisite. There was nothing wrong with it, and Ji put it back in the brocade box.

Ji Zhun invited Li Ruicheng to sit down, and personally poured a cup of tea for Li Ruicheng, "Hard work Brother Li, Brother Li has always done things properly." ”

Li Ruicheng hurriedly excused himself: "It's the young lady who carries love, and Li is ashamed." Ji Zhun raised his hand and motioned for Li Ruicheng to eat tea, and after Li Ruicheng took two sips of tea, he said something again: "Didn't Miss ask me to keep an eye on the Xi family before." ”

Ji Zhun nodded, since Gong Liuzi was found out, Ji Zhun asked Li Ruicheng to pay close attention to the Xi family's every move.

Li Ruicheng saw Ji Zhun nodding before continuing: "My brothers and I have been paying close attention to the movements of the Xi family, but we haven't found that Lord Xi has been in contact with any big people. ”

Ji Zhun frowned slightly, but she had actually thought that this would be the result. The other party has been planning things for so long, but something went wrong halfway, Gong Liuzi suddenly stopped going to Xi's house, and General Shen played the golden cicada shell. As long as the other party is not a fool, they will guess that the matter is revealed, and they will be extremely cautious in their every move during this period.

"It's okay Brother Li, it's strange that they don't defend themselves. You tell me what the Xi family did afterwards. ”

Li Ruicheng organized the language and said to Ji Zhun from the beginning: "Since Gong Liuzi was arrested, a little housekeeper of the Xi family has come to wander around the Guogong Mansion, I guess it may be the Geng Ping who connected with Gong Liuzi, and then he stopped the family in the house to ask, the family Ding had been arranged a long time ago, and only said that he had a rash and was sent to Zhuangzi." Later, General Shen's side became a problem, and Lord Xi went back to the house angrily. Since then, the Xi family has been uneasy, and the people who came in and out were panicked, and the big ghosts fought and the little ghosts suffered, saying that the wife of the main house and the aunt in charge were fighting for power, and later the Xi family did buy a bunch of maids and servants. ”

Ji Zhun listened carefully, and there was really nothing special: "What about Lord Xi?" What did Lord Xi do? ”

"Lord Xi still went to the morning court as usual, and then went to the yamen on an errand, but he ......" Li Ruicheng hesitated a little, and he didn't know how to say these words to a boudoir woman next.

"Brother Li said bluntly, I know myself and my opponent, and I have to plan for anything early. And Ji Zhun is not the kind of Miss Jiao who is detained in the inner house all the year round. ”

Li Ruicheng thought about it, Ji Zhen is really different from ordinary women, he simply made things clear: "The reason is because the wife and the aunt are fighting, Lord Xi is probably also worried about this matter, once Xiu Mu, he once took a sedan chair to a mansion, and only returned to Xifu in the middle of the night." ”

Ji Zhun raised his eyebrows puzzled: "Mansion? What kind of mansion? ”

Li Ruicheng's resolute face flushed slightly: "It's just... It's the kind of dark/prostitute who keeps skinny horses...... This mansion with thin horses has some ability, not just anyone can enter, all the dignitaries who come here are dignitaries, ordinary wealthy businessmen are also not allowed to enter, and people who come and go are directly carried into the door of the mansion in a soft sedan chair. ”

Ji Zhun heard Li Ruicheng say this, and he didn't feel a little ashamed, it turned out that the women in this Xi's family were fighting for power, and they couldn't get along, so he couldn't be bothered, so he hid out and stole it.

The Xi family had nothing else but these things, and sent Li Ruicheng away, Ji Zhun sat back in the pillow, and she was still a little disappointed in her heart. It's like when she was young and naughty to catch the gecko hidden in the crack in the wall, she obviously embedded the other party's tail with her nails, as long as she used a little force, she could pull the other party out, but the other party ran away from the tail, and wanted to see him, I don't know what opportunity it was.

In the afternoon, Ji Zhun calculated that his grandmother should wake up from his nap, so he asked Yao's mother to hold the brocade box with jade carvings and go to Ninghua Courtyard.