Chapter 230: The Women of the Yuan Mansion
Du Mei sent Xiaobai downstairs to leave, she looked outside the gate, the sun cast mottled shadows through the gaps in the leaves, the street was bustling with people, but none of them were Du Mei waiting for someone.
Just as she turned around in disappointment and was about to go back, she heard a woman's voice: "Little brother, is your shopkeeper there?" ”
Du Mei looked back in surprise, but in front of her was a woman dressed as a servant, Du Mei lowered her eyelashes and asked, "What's the matter with this aunt?" ”
The young man on duty at the door saw Du Mei talking, and hurriedly bowed down and said to his mother-in-law: "Mama Qi, this is our Mr. Luo Meixuan's dressmaker, and it's the same if you have something to tell her." ”
"Mr. Dressmaker? So small? Qi Pozi looked suspicious, and looked Du Mei up and down with his eyes recklessly.
"Yes, the little woman is." Du Mei did not avoid her gaze and said indifferently.
"My wife has already agreed with the shopkeeper Ye, and today I went to the house to measure my clothes, it seems that it is you?" Seeing that Du Mei was calm and calm, Mrs. Qi put away her thoughts.
"I didn't hear the shopkeeper mention this, I need to ask him." Du Mei saw that a mother-in-law was so arrogant, I don't know who it was. In Jiangling City, if she goes out alone, it is better to inform Ye Dan.
"Hurry up, don't keep my wife waiting." Seeing that Du Mei didn't seem to believe her words, Qi Pozi frowned.
Du Mei turned around and went up to the third floor, Ye Dan took the medicine and sweated, and the peach and willow were getting hot water to scrub him.
"Shopkeeper Ye, there is a mother-in-law downstairs, saying that her wife has agreed with you, measure clothes today, can there be such a thing?" Du Mei waited for him to pick up and refresh before coming to talk to him.
"Exactly, exactly, Mrs. Qin of the Yuan Shilang family of the Criminal Department made an appointment today, look at me I am sick and confused, but I forgot about this stubble." Ye Dan slapped his head and said with annoyance.
"In that case, I'll go for a trip, let's Luo Meixuan and let the patrons wait for a long time." Du Mei turned around and went to pack the satchel, which was to put a bamboo ruler and various cloth patterns.
"I'll go with you, that lady is a great character!" Ye Dan said anxiously.
"No, you're resting in the store, and if the wind blows, it's even harder. I'll just go with them in pink and willow green. Du Mei waved his hand.
"Can you do it?" Ye Dan was still not at ease, but he had just sweated a lot, and his feet were floating, and if he was exposed to the sun again, he would definitely fall ill.
"I'm just going to help make clothes, no matter how powerful Mrs. Qin is, she should always be reasonable." Du Mei didn't care.
"Pink! Willow Green! Ye Dan couldn't, so he had to shout, for fear that they would not be sensible, so he gave a few more words.
Mrs. Qi came in a soft sedan chair, and the three of them got into a stone carriage and walked slowly behind the sedan chair. The street was bustling with traffic, and the three of them leaned on the window and looked out.
After walking about a cup of tea, the carriage stopped, and the three girls got out of the car, Du Mei looked up and saw that there was a plaque hanging on the tall door, and there were two words on it, Yuan Mansion.
Qi Pozi was leading them to enter through the side door, but saw a heroic young man in military uniform walking out of the door, he was holding a helmet with a hairpin and a sword hanging from his waist, standing tall and mighty.
"Jin Nian Gongzi." When Mrs. Qi saw him, she hurriedly bowed down and saluted.
Seeing this, Du Mei with peach and willow green also silently blessed him.
"Hmm." The boy snorted faintly, his gaze swept over, and he glanced at Du Mei with a startled glance, but he did not stop at his feet, and strode straight towards a red-maned horse tethered to the porch.
Mrs. Qi led Du Mei and the three of them through the corridor through the rockery, flying flowers and willows, and walked through the courtyard before stopping.
The eyes are full of carved railings, beautiful maids and slaves, the courtyard is raised with gorgeous delicate flowers, and a snow-white parrot hangs under the corridor, which is obviously the inner courtyard, the residence of the female dependents. Seeing them coming, a little girl with drooping hair ran in to report the news.
After a while, a big girl wearing fine silk embroidered patterns walked out, only to hear Mrs. Qi flatteringly call her, Miss Mulian.
Mu Lian's eyelids didn't lift her eyelids towards Qi Pozi, but only said to Du Mei, "Follow me." ”
Mu Lian said very little, stingily as if what she said was gold and silver. Without saying anything all the way, Mulian led Du Mei straight into a large room.
The furnishings inside are naturally something that Du Mei has never seen, the calligraphy, painting and porcelain are gorgeous and rich, and the tables and chairs are also made of fine wood.
"Madam, Mr. Luo Meixuan's garment maker is here." Mulian bent back.
Du Mei looked up and saw five women of different ages standing or sitting in the room. There was a graceful woman in her forties sitting at the first table, and I thought this was Mrs. Qin. Another young woman stood behind her and squeezed his shoulders, and on the lower chairs sat two fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls with hair.
"I've seen Madame!" A middle-aged woman who was standing by the door hurriedly whispered, for fear that Du Mei would not know the etiquette.
Du Mei saw that she was wearing a purple pleated cicada flower skirt, with a hollow flat golden hairpin on her head, and she didn't look like a servant, but she was doing the work of a servant, and it was really difficult to guess her identity.
"Hello Mrs. Yuan, hello Miss Yuan." Du Mei saluted next to the peach and willow green, although she guessed the Qin family, but she didn't know anything about the others, she had to say hello vaguely. However, Du Mei called them like this, and it was not wrong, since they lived in Yuan's mansion, they were nothing more than these two identities.
"This girl is very clever when she looks at it, since she is measuring your clothes, go by herself." Qin raised her hand, and the woman behind her bowed softly and retreated.
"Mother, come with us." The next two girls said happily.
"You are as delicate as a flower, naturally you should dress up, I am half buried in the loess, what do you want to pretend to be a fox?" Qin had a smile on his face, but his sharp eyes swept around the face of the woman who was waiting next.
"Madame is in her prime, like the peony that crowns the world." The woman at the bottom of the head said deferentially, holding the knife in her eyes.
"Peony is the queen's mother, how can I compete with the sun and the moon? Bai, you are just a little aunt, you dare to talk such nonsense, do you want to kill me, or do you not want your own tongue?! Qin's eyes widened and he said fiercely.
"The slave said the wrong thing, damn it, damn it!" Bai immediately knelt on the ground, and his face trembled.
When the housewife's sudden anger made everyone in the house silent, and they didn't dare to come out, the room was so quiet that they could hear a needle dropping.
Du Mei watched this farce quietly, feeling sad, she pitied the old pearl yellow Bai, and thought of Hua Yan, and her heart couldn't help but feel a pain.
Estimating that Du Mei and others were standing underneath, the housewife quickly put away her face, waved her hand, and let Bai get up.
Seeing this, the two girls at the bottom became lively again, and hugged the Qin family into the back room.
"Sir, please too." Bai Shi pinched the handkerchief in embarrassment, covered his nose, and whispered to Du Mei.
"Auntie, please." Dume saluted.
"Very well, sir, please come with me." Bai bowed in front of him to lead the way.
"How do you measure this garment?" The young woman asked.
"Since it's underwear, it's natural to be close-fitting." Du Mei replied with a light smile.
"How's that going to work!" The two girls looked at each other, their faces full of shyness.
Du Mei was speechless, she only looked at the Qin family fixedly, she knew that she was the last person to make up her mind.
"Does it have to be like this?" Seeing that Du Mei was standing neither humble nor arrogant, Qin Shi did not pay attention to the doubts of her daughters, seeing this, she frowned and asked.
"Underwear is about fitting and foiling, if it doesn't fit enough, it's better not to wear it." Dume told the truth.
"Cherish the New Year, Happy New Year, today is less than ten days away from the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in August, if you want to get ahead, you must be different. This garment gentleman, I have been with Shopkeeper Ye for a long time. Although Qin spoke to the girls with a pleasant face, his tone was unacceptable.
"However, Mother ......" muttered the girl in the floral skirt with a dense lotus color and a hundred butterflies.
"Two young ladies, Du Mei is just a dressmaker, and he will never blaspheme the two of them." Du Mei said lightly, she was bored standing there, she just wanted to measure it earlier, and quickly returned to Mei Xuan.
"You come first."
"You come first."
Xi Nian and Yi Nian both shirked each other, and neither wanted to be the first person.
"Ink what! Don't go yet! The Qin clan was troubled by them, and scolded angrily.
Yuan Xinian is sister, she had to get up and walk to the inside, she walked to the door, and did not forget to tell Du Mei: "After a while, you are the only one who comes in." ”
"Miss, every time the monthly letter comes, I'm afraid it's uncomfortable." Du Mei was measuring the size, and when she saw that Yuan Xinian's skin was tight and her expression was nervous, she gossiped with her in order to relieve her emotions.
"How do you know!" Yuan Xinian looked surprised.
Girls, especially girls who have not come out of the cabinet, as far as the monthly letter is concerned, no matter how much it hurts, they can endure it. After all, there are too few female doctors, and no one can open their mouths to say such private words to male doctors.
"I know a little bit about medicine." Du Mei saw that she was thin and her face was dark, so she knew that she had a blood stasis physique, and people with this physique were not tolerant of wind and cold, and there was no reason why there was no pain in her body.
"Do you have a way to cure it?" Yuan Xinian asked suspiciously.
"If you believe me, I will prescribe a prescription for you later, and it will get better in a few days after eating according to the prescription, but you still have to cure this problem yourself." Du Mei said as he recorded the dimensions on a piece of paper.
"Me?" Yuan Xinian asked suspiciously, Du Mei successfully diverted her attention, and her body gradually relaxed.
"Yes, you have to spend more time in the sun, go out for a walk when you have nothing to do, eat modestly, and avoid being cold. A day or two beforehand, you can drink ginger brown sugar water. Du Mei said, his hands were busy.
"Oh, oh." Yuan Xinian agreed in a low voice.
"Okay, the size is all measured, you can go outside to choose fabrics and patterns." Du Mei clapped his hands.
"So fast!" Yuan Xinian was a little stunned and said, and immediately, her face turned red, and she realized that what she said was too ambiguous.
When Yuan Yinian came in, Du Mei still used such a trick, but what she told Yuan Yinian was that she was too small.
Hearing this, Yuan Yinian blushed, she glared at Du Mei angrily, but she had nothing to say. Because, for some reason, she is indeed smaller than ordinary people. Her maid is younger than her, but her chest is more attractive than her, for this, the maid doesn't know how much she has suffered in vain.
"I have a solution, do you want to try it?" Du Mei asked softly when she had calmed down.
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Due to the strict investigation of the whole network, some words may cause trouble, so I won't write it, just understand it. Yunmeng apologized.