Chapter 23 Walking the Water
The old lady smiled and turned her head back, and then turned around: "The young lady is really smart, just now the silkworm girl in the silkworm room came over and said that the ice silkworm spun silk, which is a great joy." ”
Ice silk?
She only knew that the phoenix robe worn by the Queen Mother on her seventieth birthday was from the Zhang family, but she didn't know the specific style and material, it turned out to be made of ice silk.
Entering the Buddhist hall, the old lady was looking at a deep white jade plate in her hand with a smile, and there were a few very thin white silk threads in the jade plate.
"Yu Niang is here, there is no need to worship the Buddha today, I will show you something." The old lady stood up and brought the jade plate in her hand to Lin Yuniang.
Lin Yuniang picked up the silk thread in the jade plate, quietly pulled it a few times, and found that this ice silk was really as described in the book, as thin as a hair but extremely hard.
The old lady laughed loudly as she watched her movements: "The characteristic of ice silk is this toughness, although it looks thin, it is woven into clothes, but it is invulnerable, how can you tear it off if you pull it so much." ”
Lin Yuniang looked at the ice silk with envy, and heard that the clothes woven by the ice silk have the effect of being warm in winter and cool in summer, I don't know if it's true.
"Ice silk was a bonus, and I was going to show you the tricks offered by the workers in the weaving mill." The old lady put the jade plate aside, and took out a few pieces of rice paper and a few pieces of brightly colored cloth from the low table beside her.
The wrinkled hand looked at the rice paper excitedly: "These things are drawn according to the embroidery patterns drawn by the embroidery girl." He pinched the cloth again and said happily: "Look at it, cloth of this color is rare, right?" This was the work of a short-term worker in the dyeing workshop, and it was a wonderful idea. looked at Lin Yuniang: "Yuniang, as you said, a person's ideas are limited, and sometimes you should let everyone use their brains together." ”
The subtlety of the embroidery method is not how different the embroidery is, but the pattern described is trendy and solemn, and the atmosphere is not frivolous.
For Lin Yuniang, who has seen a lot of modern clothes colors, the colors dyed by this dyeer are still relatively common, but it is different in this era, and in general, it is still relatively powerful.
It didn't take long for the sound of commotion to be heard outside.
The old lady was just about to go out to see what was going on, when she saw a maid running in in a panic.
"Old lady, it's not good, Lan Fengju is out of the water."
"Walking on the water?" The old lady's face sank: "How can you walk in the water?" Let's go, let's see. ”
When I came to Lan Fengju, the fire was not very big, and it was discovered in time, except for the study and the rooms where the next few people lived were burned down, there was not much loss.
"Old lady......." Aunt Feng, who was supported by Zhang Yi, saw the old lady coming, and her tears fell down.
The old lady was shocked: "People are hurt?" ”
Aunt Feng "pounced" and knelt in front of the old lady: "Xiaofeng is ashamed of the old lady." ”
The old lady ordered someone to help her up: "Yi'er, don't help your mother up, what kind of body is this crying." ”
After Aunt Feng's mood stabilized, the old lady said, "Say it!" What the hell is going on? ”
"Old lady..., you punish Xiaofeng, Xiaofeng failed to keep the account books... Woooooooo Aunt Feng pinched the silk handkerchief and kept wiping her tears.
"What?" The old lady was shocked.
Lin Yuniang, who was standing on the side, was also very surprised, she didn't expect Aunt Feng to destroy the account books in this way.
Aunt Feng cried and confessed: "Xiaofeng should be damned, I put the account books in the study as usual after finishing the account books last night, I don't want to find out that the water has gone this morning." ”
The old lady held her forehead with a headache: "Can you find out what is the reason for the water?" ”
"It was Xiaohong who got up at night and knocked over the oil lamp." Aunt Feng's personal maid Xiaocui knelt on the ground and replied.
The old lady's final punishment was expected by Lin Yuniang, and she beat up the errant maid and sold it to Ya Po, and it was only a small punishment for Aunt Feng.
"Old lady, the shopkeeper of Renxintang's Wang Duofu is here." A maid walked in, whispered in the old woman's ear, and the old lady walked up to the old lady and said.
"Shopkeeper Wang? What is he doing early in the morning? The old lady glanced outside the courtyard and waved her hand: "Tell him to wait in the main hall." ”
Immediately afterwards, the old lady went to the main hall, but Lin Yuniang did not follow sensibly, but just said a few words to Aunt Feng and left.
Now Aunt Feng is relieved, at least she doesn't have to worry about being found out about her fake accounts.
Lin Yuniang is also a lot more relieved, at least her partner is relatively safe for the time being.
Not long after the old lady left, she passed the word and told everyone to go to the main hall.
Except for Aunt Feng, who has a weak heart, everyone else is full of doubts.
The Zhang family does not have a rule that everyone gets together to eat every day, so as long as the old lady calls everyone to the main hall, in addition to eating, there is something big happening.
Lin Yuniang glanced at Zhang Yelin beside her suspiciously, Zhang Yelin shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands and said that he didn't know what was going on.
The two of them went a little late, and as soon as they walked to the door of the main hall, they felt a strong atmosphere of depression and tension coming from inside.
In the entire hall, I could only hear my aunt Ke's warm words comforting the old lady.
The old lady sitting in the high position, her face was pale, obviously angry, and the old lady next to her gently stroked her back.
Zitong sat next to the old lady, with a look of surprise and regret on her better face, but a pair of upward phoenix eyes could not hide her pride.
Aunt Hui, who was sitting below, looked worried.
Several junior children stood beside their mothers and didn't dare to make a sound.
Only Aunt Feng and her daughter Zhang Yi plus a middle-aged man were in a kneeling position.
Lin Yuniang, who looked at the account book in the old lady's hand, sighed in her heart, it's over, I'm afraid that the account matter will be revealed, so Aunt Feng ........
But weren't the books burned?
Where did the old lady's account book come from?
Subconsciously looked at Zitong, who was staring at him with a sneer.
It seems that Zitong buried the secret chess of the king shopkeeper in the medicinal herb shop early, and began to close the net when the time was ripe.
The angry old lady slammed the account book in her hand on the head of Aunt Feng who was kneeling below: "Qian Xiaofeng, you are so bold, I have treated you well all these years, why do you want to do such a thing?" ”
Aunt Feng was frightened and paralyzed to the ground, knowing that she couldn't defend herself, so she crawled to the old lady's side, hugged the old lady's leg and begged bitterly: "Xiaofeng is wrong, I hope the old lady will spare Xiaofeng for the sake of Xiaofeng's hard work in the Zhang family all these years." ”
She hates Zitong, and hates Lin Yuniang even more, if it weren't for this girl to provoke, how could these things about her be poked out by Zitong?
"Xiaofeng, it's not that my aunt said you, you should also have a degree to help your mother's family, you have been doing tricks and feet in the accounts all these years, taking more than 5,000 taels of silver from our Zhang family to fill the holes in your mother's house, you think our Zhang family's silver is blowing in the wind?" My aunt's complexion was not good-looking.