Concubine Ling's plan is in vain, and now all the young ladies can only participate in the beauty election, which does not have much impact on Shen Nianchu, and it will be seen if he can find a way not to participate when the time comes. Now that there are three months left before the beauty election, I have to hurry up and save some more money.

It is not possible to have money at this time, but it is impossible to have no money. Even if you go out of the house and don't have any funds, it is difficult to eat enough with your own little skills, let alone a stable life.

Shen Nianchu kept all the jewelry given by his grandmother in the past few days, and used it when he was about to escape from this place. Shen Nianchu has a very high talent in working as a female worker, Cui'er taught for about an hour, Shen Nianchu grasped the tricks and methods, and she is very skillful, and the purse and embroidered handkerchief that she shows off are very aura.

Even Gui's mother saw Shen Nianchu's embroidered purse and said that the embroidery was very good, and she asked Cui'er to find a reliable vendor to help sell it when she went out on weekdays. Cui'er thought that she had a fellow who was doing business here, and she could ask him for help. The fellow saw the purses and handkerchiefs they embroidered, and agreed to help them sell the goods.

He just proposed a six-quarter split, and he himself took a commission of four. Shen Nianchu didn't have a deep concept of numbers, and thought about how much he should be able to earn a little, so he agreed.

In the past few days, Cui'er, Zhilan and Shen Nianchu have embroidered at home when they have nothing to do, and Shen Nianchu also thought of embroidering pillowcases and hanging ornaments, thinking about improving them, maybe the children will like it very much.

After embroidering for a while, Cui'er's fellow villager brought a message, saying that the pillowcases and hanging ornaments were selling very well, so that Shen Nianchu could think about whether there were any other styles.

Cui'er transferred the original words to Shen Nianchu, Shen Nianchu thought for a while and said: "Not yet, we have fewer people now, and our output is also small." If there are too many styles, it is easy to dazzle people's choices. And we don't have enough manpower now, so we don't have that much time to embroider other styles. You tell him, leave it at that, and the rest will be said later. ”

"Understood, Second Miss" Cui'er told Shen Nianchu's words to the visitor.

At the end of the month, Cui'er came back with five taels of silver. "Five taels, it feels so little." Shen Nianchu asked with some doubts.

"Second Miss, my fellow country said, each embroidered handkerchief can only be sold for a few dollars, although our sales are very good, but after all, this thing is also limited, and every family can't buy it every day." Cui'er said helplessly.

"It's true, sure enough, just relying on this, you can ensure food and clothing at most, if you want to live comfortably, you still have to find another way. So, let's go out for a walk today, get a feel for the market, and see if there's anything else we can do. Shen Nianchu felt that what Cui'er said was reasonable, after all, if small objects were not produced in large quantities, they would naturally earn less.

"Second Miss, what is the market situation?" Zhilan asked puzzled.

"Well, well, I'll explain it to you later, Cui'er, you go to the soldiers and ask if we can go out today." Shen Nianchu didn't know how to answer this question for a while, so he pulled the topic to another place.

"Yes, miss." Cui'er put the silver on the table and left.

Shen Nianchu asked Zhilan to put away the silver and put it in the box under the bed. This is the first amount of silver that the three of them have earned with great difficulty, but they have to keep it, but what can they do except embroider handkerchiefs?

After a while, Cui'er came back and said that the carriage was set up and could leave at any time. Shen Nianchu asked Zhilan to stay at home to take care of the house, and then she left with Cui'er.

There are still two months left before the beauty election, and there are more young ladies who have gone out to buy more recently than in previous days, Shen Nianchu carefully checked the style and color of the clothes they selected, and the styles of the beads and hairpins were more gorgeous. If it is just embroidery on ordinary clothing, it is indeed difficult to stand out. It seems that I have to learn more from other directions.

Shen Nianchu was looking at it vigorously, and suddenly she saw a familiar figure. It was Aunt Liu's side who was Yahuan Julan, holding something in her hand, and walking sneakily in the direction of Jufang Garden.

She followed with some curiosity, only to see Julan walk to the door of Jufang Garden, whisper to the little maid at the door, and the little maid took her in.

Shen Nianchu felt that he was very funny, maybe Aunt Liu wanted to eat Jufangyuan's food, so he sent Julan over to buy some things, this was a normal thing, and he was a little nervous by himself.

She was about to leave, but she saw Ju Lan and a man walking out of Jufang Garden, she took a closer look, wasn't that man the cold-faced guard beside Zhou Yu? The two of them walked to the door and bowed their heads and said a few words, and Julan left. And Shen Nianchu found that the things in Julan's hands were gone.

"Why does Julan have dealings with the people around Zhou Yu?" Shen Nianchu wanted to follow and take a look, but Cui'er suddenly came over and grabbed her hand, "Second Miss, where are you going?" ”

At the moment when Shen Nianchu turned his head, Ju Lan had already disappeared into the street. "No, did you just see someone familiar?" Shen Nianchu felt that he had seen it wrong, so he asked Cui'er if she had seen it too.

"No, the slave didn't see any familiar people? Second Miss, aren't we going to go to the fellow countryman to have a look? Do you want to go now? Cui'er said as she looked around.

Could it be that he really looked away, and yes, how could Zhou Yu's guards know Aunt Liu's maid ring? Cui'er pulled Shen Nianchu and hurriedly went to her hometown's shop.

The streets were noisy, and after a while the two of them were separated by the crowd. Shen Nianchu couldn't find Cui'er for a while, so he decided to go to Jufangyuan to find something to eat first, and asked the coachman to find Cui'er to come to Jufangyuan to meet him.

Before he could reach Jufangyuan, he saw Julan walking towards Jufangyuan with a person, Shen Nianchu hurriedly hid aside to watch, the person next to him had a slightly bulging lower abdomen and was wearing a veil to cover his face.

Looking at Julan's respectful appearance towards her, it should be Aunt Liu. But why did Aunt Liu appear here? Could it be that he really came to see Zhou Yu? Shen Nianchu wanted to follow to see the situation, but the two entered a private room. There's no way to walk in at the moment.

It seemed that he had to find a chance to trap Julan's words, and Shen Nian saw that he couldn't get inside, so he had to leave temporarily.

Inside the private room

"Xu'er, you're here." Zhou Yu was very happy when she saw Aunt Liu come in.

"Zhou Lang, didn't you say that you won't see each other for the time being? If they see it, it's not good. "Aunt Liu actually misses Zhou Yu very much, but now they can't meet, if they are seen by others, they can't explain it clearly.

Aunt Liu's original name was Liu Fu, and she was also a rich lady, but she was forced to marry Shen Bai in the middle of the family. Zhou Yu was originally the child of Liu's mother next to Liu Wu, but because the main family was backward, he took the child to other places, but he encountered a bandit on the way and died to protect the child.

Zhou Yu became an orphan, but was fortunate to be taken in by Shen Nianchu's aunt, who was unable to get pregnant due to physical problems, so she adopted Zhou Yu as her own son and renamed Zhou Yu for this purpose. Zhou Yu is three years younger than Aunt Liu, and Aunt Liu is fifteen years old when she marries into the Shen Mansion.

When the two were in the house, they had ambiguous feelings for each other, and the two planned to elope, but because of the sudden disaster at home, Aunt Liu couldn't bear to see her father being cheaped by others, and happened to meet the old lady of the Shen family who took a concubine for Shen Bai and fell in love with herself. agreed to marry Shen Bai as a concubine.

The two were dismantled, and later Zhou Yu left the Yueli Kingdom with his mother, but encountered a bandit on the way, but fortunately he was rescued by the Zhou Mansion and saved his life. The two had nothing to do with each other, but a few years ago, my aunt took Zhou Yu to General Shen's mansion to see Zhang's family, and accidentally saw Aunt Liu.

Zhou Yu took the opportunity to help the Zhang family deliver things, and bribed Julan beside Aunt Liu's Shen, and asked her to help deliver the letters. Aunt Liu had Zhou Yu in her heart, and she was very happy to see the letter, so the two of them went out in private.

After that. Aunt Liu said that she was very unhappy to marry Shen Bai, and confided in the hard work of having no heirs for many years, and not being favored in the house, while Zhou Yu said that she had always had her in her heart all these years.

From the initial heart-to-heart complaint to the later secret promise, Aunt Liu always had Zhou Yu in her heart, and Shen Bai's heart had always been with the Zhang family, so she transferred her reliance to Zhou Yu.

A few days ago, Aunt Liu found out that she was pregnant, and the calculation time was the days with Zhou Yu, in order to keep the child, she specially told Shen Nianchu that this was her and Shen Bai's child, and asked Shen Nianchu to help her keep it secret. also calculated the days she had sex with Shen Bai, bribed the doctor, and asked him to count the time as the days of having sex with Shen Bai.

Shen Bai didn't have any suspicions, and he had treated her better in recent days. It's just that Aunt Liu knows in her heart that Shen Bai doesn't actually love her, and marrying her is just to pass on the lineage.

And Zhou Yu is the one who really loves her and loves her, and she really wants to stay for Zhou Yu for this child. But this child is Zhou Yu's after all, if one day it is really known by others, it will be too late for him.

Today, I also want to discuss with Zhou Yu how to deal with this matter, either I don't want to let her leave the Shen Mansion, or I can only keep the child for the time being.

Zhou Yu fell into deep thought after knowing Aunt Liu's plan. With his current status, if he took Aunt Liu away, he would naturally be unhappy. But if Aunt Liu threatens herself with this child in the future, I am afraid that it will be difficult to keep her career, and he doesn't want to ruin his life for a woman.

"It's not the right time for this child to come, you are already living a bad life in the house now, if someone makes a fuss about this child again, I'm afraid it won't be able to protect you." Zhou Yu thought for a long time and said.

"But, Zhou Lang, this is the child of the two of us." Aunt Liu looked at Zhou Yu with some unbearability.

"Su'er, have you thought about it? You are now General Shen's concubine, not an ordinary person's concubine. If I forcibly take you away, I will inevitably be accused by others, not to mention, fornication is a felony, and neither you nor I can escape. Zhou Yu took Aunt Liu's hand and said.

"Is there no other way? You promised me to take good care of me and my children. Aunt Liu still wants to fight for the child again, in fact, she knows it in her heart. This child can't be kept, if she is really accused of fornication, then her life will be over. Only when these words came out of Zhou Yu's mouth, she felt uncomfortable.

"Su'er, I also want to keep the child. I say this not for myself, but for you. If you think about it, we don't have the ability to keep this child for the rest of our lives, and if someone really makes a fuss about this child, your life will be even more difficult than it is now. Zhou Yu saw that Aunt Liu was a little angry, so she hurriedly came over to coax her.

"Zhou Lang, I know that what you said makes sense, but I don't know the bottom in my heart. Without this child, would you still love me? Aunt Liu is actually more worried that after losing this child, Zhou Yu will no longer love herself.

Zhou Yu smiled, pinched her nose, and said dotingly: "Fool, how could it be? We've been together for so long, don't you know my heart? ”

Aunt Liu was happy at this time, and just as the two looked at each other affectionately, an inopportune knock on the door interrupted them.

"Childe, I have something important to tell you." Outside the door was the attendant who had just come into contact with Julan.

"Come in." Zhou Yu and Aunt Liu sorted out their clothes, sat at the table and said.

"Just now, the villain saw the second lady of the Shen Mansion, Shen Nianchu."

"Why is she here?" Zhou Yu asked with some confusion.

"I don't know, I saw her stand downstairs for a while before leaving." The squire replied.

"You don't see me, do you? What should Zhou Lang do? Aunt Liu stood up in a little panic.

"Miss Shen entered the restaurant after Julan, and it is possible that she came here because she saw Julan. It's just that she shouldn't know that Childe is also here. The squire continued.

"I can't say for sure, otherwise how would she think of coming to Jufangyuan." Zhou Yu knew that this was a good time to persuade Aunt Liu to have an abortion, so he estimated that he would intimidate Aunt Liu.

Aunt Liu was really frightened, if it was really Shen Nianchu who saw Ju Lan and herself, she went back and told the old lady that she was afraid that she would not be able to pass this level. "Then what should I do, Zhou Lang? I don't want to be invaded in the pig cage. ”

Zhou Yu hurriedly walked over, took her hand and comforted: "Su'er, don't worry, I said I wouldn't let you have anything to do." He motioned for the guards to leave, and the guards took the order and left.

"Su'er, you see I'm right. The house is in crisis now, if you really give birth to this child, I'm afraid it won't be good for you. It's better to use this child to consolidate your grace in the house, I'm afraid it will be more meaningful than giving birth to her. Zhou Yu continued to persuade Aunt Liu.

"Solidify grace?" Aunt Liu asked a little puzzled.

"If this child is destined to fail, it is better to use him to strengthen your position in the general's heart and make the general feel guilty about you. In this way, if we have children in the future, won't we be able to live a better life? Zhou Yu had already thought of a plan.

"But what am I going to do?" Aunt Liu was a little moved by what she said.

After the two discussed in the room for a long time, Aunt Liu took Julan back. Zhou Yu sat alone in the room drinking tea, this opportunity had to be grasped well, in order to really get rid of all this.