Jiang Xuehe's harvest on this trip was quite rich, not only found a few books on cultivating flowers and plants, but also found a few packets of seeds, one of which also wrote the Nine Grades Perfume Lotus on the seed paper. Jiang Xuehe had never heard of this name, but thinking that it should also be a kind of lotus, she tried to plant it in the pond in the yard.

The business went smoothly in the spring because in addition to her third uncle in the countryside, many people also planted fruit groves, and she had enough petals. But lotus flowers are different, few people in Songyue County grow lotuses, and the small piece of land in Gujia Pond is not enough for Jiang Xuehe to play. The Jiang family has some ponds, which were specially found by the Pei family to plant lotus flowers in the past.

But now although the title deed of the pond is in her hands, but it is the Jiang family's land in the end, even if the Lin family does not have the title deed, they will come to her to trouble, Jiang Xuehe has just passed half a month of quiet life, and she doesn't want to make trouble for herself for the time being.

But what if you don't have enough seeds? Should she buy some ponds, or dig some out of the ground she already has? The Gu family's existing land is only the barren mountain, and the land around the barren mountain is not very good, and the village chief was counted in the barren mountain when it was cheaper, and now it is also in Gu Siyan's land deed. In that area, the shade is relatively damp, and it is not far from the spring stream in the village, so with a little more effort, it should be possible to dig a pond?

After Jiang Xuehe planted the bag of seeds, she took the initiative to run to the barren mountain and discussed with Diao Laosan about digging a pond.

Diao Laosan also felt that the land in the shade was relatively humid and indeed suitable for digging a pond, so he immediately agreed.

"Is there enough manpower on Uncle Diao's side? If that's not enough, just tell me and I'll hire someone. ”

Diao Laosan said with a smile: "Madam is too polite, whether you need to hire someone or not, you can actually leave this matter to us with full responsibility." The Xie brothers and I will go to measure the land today, and we will discuss it with my wife at that time. ”

Jiang Xuehe smiled and nodded: "In this way, it will trouble Third Uncle Diao." ”

Diao Laosan hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't trouble, don't bother, Mrs. is really tormenting the old slave when she says this." We all see how good you have been to everyone during this time. And my three children who are not successful, thank you so much for taking care of them. ”

"It should be that I thank your three children, Shouzhong has always been a good boy, I don't need to worry about everything, Shouyi is different, that stinky boy can't sit still since he was a child, whether he is learning literature or martial arts, he has been fishing for three days and drying nets for two days, and he is angry. Because Mrs. said that he might need to be the fifth master's scholar next year, the child was immediately honest, and now he actually knows how to take the initiative to practice morning exercises and calligraphy. Diao Laosan smiled and said helplessly, "As for Ruyue, she was originally a good boy who made people feel at ease, but unfortunately the girl didn't stay, she didn't listen to the persuasion at the beginning of her love, and then she didn't know what happened, and the girl suddenly changed her personality and didn't like to go out." ”

Jiang Xuehe was stunned for a moment, and took the initiative to ask: "Third Uncle Diao is saying that Ruyue once had a man she liked?" ”

Diao Laosan sighed: "No, that girl fell in love with her employer when she was walking darts, and that employer was a wealthy businessman, and she was full of flowers and intestines at first glance." But the girl was deceived at that time and didn't believe me, and in the end she suffered a big loss. ”

"May I ask what the loss is?" Jiang Xuehe said embarrassedly, "If it's inconvenient, Third Uncle Diao can not answer." ”

"I don't know exactly what happened, I just know that one night she secretly ran out alone and came back after half a month. When I first came back, I was so haggard that I felt like I had a serious illness, and I didn't say anything about what happened to her. Only then did she become silent, as if nothing mattered. ”

Jiang Xuehe couldn't think of what Diao Ruyue encountered after hearing this, she couldn't speculate on anything, so she didn't think much about it, she just felt that she could be a little better to Diao Ruyue. Diao Ruyue now looks scheming, maybe not because she is like this, but because she has encountered something that makes her have to change. But no matter what kind of character Diao Ruyue has become, Jiang Xuehe didn't feel Diao Ruyue's malice in her, and that was enough.

After Jiang Xuehe went back, she met Gu Sixian standing at the door of her room, it turned out that Gu Sixian had drawn several tricks in the past day, but she was never satisfied, so she deliberately ran over to find Jiang Xuehe to get an idea.

Jiang Xuehe recognized the peonies painted by Gu Sixian at a glance: "These are the pots in our yard, right?" ”

Gu Sixian nodded and said, "Mother has always loved peonies, and I heard that my father specially asked someone to bring these pots from the capital to give her. ”

Jiang Xuehe listened to the words of their brothers and sisters, and always felt that her confused father-in-law actually liked her mother-in-law Bai Shi very much, but it was more important for men to inherit the lineage. If the Bai family could have given birth to a child earlier, maybe there would be nothing to do with the Qiao family, and then Gu Siyan and their brothers and sisters would not have to suffer so much.

Jiang Xuehe looked at the peony in the courtyard, thought about the light cloud gauze dress again, and said: "Although the white peony in this courtyard is good, it doesn't match Sister Shu's clothes very well. You go back and make Miss Xu San's silk flowers first, I'll think about this again, and I'll bring it to you when the pattern is drawn. ”

Gu Sixian hurriedly thanked her, and then left satisfied, Jiang Xuehe couldn't cry or laugh, and she didn't know why Gu Sixian was so confident in her.

But Jiang Xuehe does have some ideas in her heart, although she has not seen many peonies, but she has seen a lot of peony-related paintings, and she had a general pattern in her mind when she was in the Wen family before, but Gu Sixian didn't say it, and she didn't want to mention it rashly. Now that Gu Sixian came to ask, the peony in her mind was almost completely outlined, and she immediately went to the study to draw it.

"My sister-in-law is also too powerful, this painting is a hundred times stronger than mine." Gu Sixian stroked the peony painted by Jiang Xuehe and couldn't put it down, "Although I don't have the ability to draw such flowers, I will definitely be able to embroider exactly the same." ”

Jiang Xuehe said with a smile: "I naturally believe in embroiderers, but I am not allowed to burn my eyes in order to rush the work." ”

Gu Sixian hurriedly said: "No, no, sister-in-law can rest assured." ”

Who wants to be blind if they can? Gu Sixian never deliberately stayed up late, but she was born to like embroidery, and she often couldn't stop embroidering until she was happy, and she couldn't stop until she finished embroidering, otherwise she couldn't rest at ease.

It's the same this time, because Jiang Xuehe's painting is so much in line with her mind, she took the peony picture and began to embroider it, and before she knew it, she embroidered until dawn, and then began to sleep when she finished embroidering.

When Jiang Xuehe went to call her to eat, she saw that she had stayed up late again, but when she saw that she was sleeping soundly, she couldn't bear to wake her up, so she could only go with her.

After Gu Sixian rested, she began to tie silk flowers according to the peony painted by Jiang Xuehe, and she was not satisfied after making the silk flower, so she embroidered a rhombic flower fan, which was embroidered on both sides, and both sides were peonies painted by Jiang Xuehe, with different forms and different styles.

Jiang Xuehe looked at her posture and thought that if this peony banquet was to be selected according to the costumes of the ladies and girls, she was afraid that Xu Yishu would win the championship in one fell swoop.

Gu Sixian also felt that the work she had done for Xu Yishu was only afraid that it would be difficult to surpass, but the Xu family sisters went together, and the relationship between the sisters was good, so they couldn't be too bad, so she simply remade Xu Yirou's clothes, and the material used was the light cloud yarn she got from Xu Yishu.

Xu Yishu got two light cloud yarns, one plain white and one pink. Xu Yishu felt that the pink horse was too fresh, so she had the heart to give it to Xu Yirou, and saw that Xu Yirou took care of Gu Sixian's business very much, so she simply handed it over to Gu Sixian directly, and asked her to make the finished product and send it to Xu Yirou.

Gu Sixian thought that no flower could surpass the status of peony at the peony flower banquet, so she simply made a dress embroidered with butterflies for Xu Yirou, the style was made according to Xu Yishu's body, which was very light and elegant, and the most amazing thing was that the lifelike butterflies on the dress were embroidered in addition to them, and some of them were silk butterflies made by Gu Sixian. The butterflies made of silk are also very realistic, they are sewn on the dress, as long as the wind blows or the girl walks, those silk butterflies will flap their wings, as if the real butterfly stopped on it.

Jiang Xuehe was very surprised when she saw it: "Ah Xian is not only skillful, but also very ingenious, so I couldn't have imagined this one." ”

Gu Sixian said with a smile: "Everyone has their own strengths, many of these butterflies were painted to me by my sister-in-law before, if it weren't for my sister-in-law's help, I wouldn't be able to make such clothes." ”

Jiang Xuehe looked at the clothes that Gu Sixian had made and was a little helpless: "Originally, I wanted to make it easier for you, but you actually helped people to make all the clothes ready, and in the future, others will ask you to customize the clothes, what should you do when you can't do this?" ”

Gu Sixian said: "Because Sister Rou and I are like sisters, I can be so attentive, and I am afraid that I can't do it like this if I am someone else." ”

"Isn't it? When the time comes, everyone should say that you are perfunctory. Jiang Xuehe said helplessly, "In that case, it will have an impact on your reputation in the future." ”

"Then it's better to say that I made those silk flowers, and the rest has nothing to do with me?"

Jiang Xuehe shook his head: "You don't value fame and fortune, but if you don't make it clear at the beginning, if someone impersonates you in the future, it will bring endless trouble." ”

Gu Sixian couldn't help but be anxious when she heard this: "Then what should I do?" ”

Jiang Xuehe thought for a while and said: "It's better to be like this, I'll go with you when I send the clothes tomorrow, and tell Sister Shu and Miss Xu San in advance, in the future, you will only make ten pairs of such silk flowers every month." As for large silk flowers like peonies, only three are made every month. For embroidery, you can embroider up to three pieces of clothing, and if you want to make clothes, you can only do one piece a month. Anyway, the rules should be fixed at the beginning to save trouble in the future. ”

Gu Sixian nodded, thinking that the amount set by Jiang Xuehe was indeed relatively easy for her, she would definitely be able to complete it, and she could complete it very well. It's just that it seems to be too relaxed, and it feels like it's not just to condemn the guest to death, but also to condemn the rules to her.

But after all, this is a good intention of her sister-in-law, and now that their life is getting better and better, she didn't think to refute it.