Chapter 121: At the Blessing Banquet, the Women Offered Gifts
"Oh? Double-sided embroidery? The Queen Mother and Song Ran were both surprised, although this yarn is very delicate, it is still small compared to double-sided embroidery. After all, double-sided embroidery requires the superb skills of the embroiderer, and the embroidery also takes into account the pattern and style of the reverse side, not only on the front side, but also on the back side of what to embroider, what to embroider, how to embroider is also extremely troublesome.
The Queen Mother was really surprised, she knew that Bai Mo's embroidery was good, and she was also careful and thoughtful, but she didn't know that Bai Mo's embroidery had reached such a point, as if it was perfect.
Bai Mo is very high-profile today, she has always been negative and negative for other people's praise in the past days, and today she really admits it generously. She smiled and said: "Queen Mother, don't you know, my mother was originally from a family of embroiderers, and she embroidered a good hand. β
The Queen Mother couldn't help nodding and said: "This is the right reason, now such a double-sided embroidery, that is, some descendants of the embroidery family behind the family of the family embroidered out." The Queen Mother explained to Song Ran, who was listening carefully: "Your child's family doesn't know, this double-sided embroidery skill is the unique skill of the embroidery family, and it is rarely taught to outsiders. Therefore, most of the people who can embroider double-sided embroidery have been taught at home since childhood. β
Song Ran was surprised: "Then this double-sided embroidery is extremely rare, I will definitely take a good look at the embroidery of the white concubine Niangniang, this is rare." β
Bai Mo smiled and tilted her head: "I will definitely hold this double-sided embroidery in front of the girl in a while, and ask the girl to take a closer look." Girl, if you like this double-sided embroidery, I will teach you when the time comes. β
Song Ran was most afraid of embroidering and making clothes, and at this moment she listened to Bai Mo's words and made a bitter face: "Bai Concubine Niangniang, don't make fun of me, I learned embroidery before, but it was embroidered with a needle, and it hurt to death, but I don't dare to learn it anymore." β
The Queen Mother also nodded on the side, she smiled and said with disgust: "It's also strange, your mother's embroidery is also excellent, and the master you found is also one of the best embroiderers, why can't you embroider this girl well?" β
The Queen Mother and Bai Mo and the others just chatted for a while before they arrived at the blessing banquet, although the Queen Mother was not a big deal later, but it was not good to be too late. After all, the girls at this banquet are all show girls from various families, and their status is not low. It's been too late, and the Queen Mother's face is not good-looking.
When Song Ran arrived in the palace, she ran to Jin Ran's side, she hugged Jin Ran's arm affectionately and said with a smile: "Lord Jinrui, I just sent someone to invite you to the Queen Mother's palace, but just now the palace people said that you have gone to Bai Concubine Niangniang, so I didn't invite you again." β
Jin Ran felt a burst of comfort in her heart, at this time, it was hard for this little girl to think about herself.
She stretched out her hand and nodded at Song Ran's nose and said with a smile: "Thank you so much, I went to Bai Concubine Niangniang with a few show girls from my grandfather's family at noon, Bai Concubine Niangniang is related to the Zhang family, and I can go wherever I go." β
After Jin Ran finished speaking, Song Ran was a little puzzled: "En? Is the white concubine related to the Zhang family? I don't know, why haven't I heard her mention it? β
Jin Ran didn't say a word, judging from Bai Mo's dislike of the Zhang family, it was strange that she could mention her relationship with the Zhang family outside, Bai Mo was already merciful if she didn't harm the Zhang family.
Jin Ran will definitely not be idle to talk about the grievances between the Zhang family and Bai Mo, since Bai Mo herself is unwilling to let everyone know about her relationship with the Zhang family, she naturally will not have such a mouth, Jin Ran naturally diverted the topic: "Alas? Why hasn't the blessing feast started yet? Did you start a little late this year? β
Sure enough, Song Ran was easily distracted, and she smiled lightly: "I don't know, but I heard my mother say that in the past, it was almost at this time that the blessing feast began." "Song Ran is young, and today is also the first time to participate in the blessing banquet of the draft. The Queen Mother also wanted her to see and understand, so she asked her to come to the blessing banquet.
The eunuch on the side saw that everyone had arrived, and he got the look of Concubine Fang, so he stood solemnly, took a deep breath outside the hall, and shouted loudly: "Blessing feast, beginβ"
"The daughter of Puyang Taishou, Zhang Lingling, "Thousands of Rivers and Thousands of Mountains"!" All the show girls are very talented, but at the beginning, some people presented extremely outstanding paintings. Jin Ran and Song Ran's eyesight is good, they looked at each other in surprise, and carefully tasted this painting, this painting is painted in blue and blue, Xu is the deep palace where this show girl lives, and the materials in the palace are not complete, so the color level is not much, but this painting is fortunate that the far-reaching mountains in the painting reveal the artist's spirit.
One of the most rare is the words on the painting, which is extremely handsome and free-flowing, stroke by stroke like a silver hook swimming dragon, gently sketched on the drawing paper, with a bit of freehand romance. The poems inscribed in it are also thought-provoking, freehand and at the same time with a bit of truth, Jin Ran read it softly, this poem is also very catchy, so that people read a few sentences and memorize it.
"Good!" The Queen Mother praised the first word, although she already knew about the painting in advance, but when the painting was really placed in front of her, the feeling was different.
The Queen Mother praised a few words, and she nodded lightly to show her appreciation: "Come on, bring the pen holder of the mourning family's white jade carved magnolia, and it is very suitable to put the pen for the girl of the Zhang family." The mourning family is a rough person who does not understand writing and ink, so it is a waste to put the precious pen holder here in the mourning family. β
The Queen Mother is humble, who here doesn't know that the Queen Mother was also a rare talented woman when she was in the boudoir?
The showgirl also hurriedly knelt down to thank her. The things that the Queen Mother personally appreciated are naturally good, and this tube not only has its expensive material significance, but also represents the Queen Mother's recognition of her talents, even if this show girl is not selected into the palace to become a concubine in the future, with the things given by the Queen Mother here, she can also find a good family business in the future.
"Thank you Queen Mother for your grace!" The show girl went down with a thousand thanks, followed by the second and third...... Show girl. Without exception, their talents are extremely outstanding, a few of them are not very good, and the things they send are not very elaborate at the glance, and the Queen Mother is also faint, but one person just encouraged a few words, and there was no more appreciation.
And for those who do well, it is also a variety of rewards, which makes Jin Ran breathtaking, she saw that the Queen Mother gave a girl a golden scissors, and quietly sighed to Song Ran: "It's hard for the Queen Mother to be so complete." β
Song Ran pursed her lips and smiled, revealing a small dimple on her cheeks: "It's complete there, it's this Queen Mother, and it's been secretly prepared a long time ago." Song Ran quietly told Bai Mo about where the Queen Mother was at noon, and Jin Ran also smiled.
The two talked and laughed, and slowly, the show girl's gift came to an end.
"The daughter of the Zhang family in Jinling, Zhang Yan, a pair of longevity style auspicious Ruyiluo!" Zhang Yan's yarn is a pair, she used various colors of silk thread mixed with gold accessories to weave out the words of longevity, among which the big yarn is also decorated with a lot of pearls, the size of a grain of rice is not valuable, Jin Ran looked surprised, these pearls seem to be removed from the clothes that Jin Ran made for Zhang Yan.
The gold thread is mixed with pearls, and the layers are strung together to look extraordinarily jeweled.
The Queen Mother is also old, and when she really likes this kind of thing very much, she smiled: "Ouch! What a delicate wind! "This kind of network is the most laborious to make, such a big network must be made by Zhang Yan from the day she entered the palace, just from the perspective of intentions, there are few show girls who can compare to her.
Song Ran didn't know the relationship between the Zhang family and Bai Mo, but the Queen Mother was very clear, she had to take care of Bai Mo to some extent, and this Zhang Yan, who was specially mentioned by Bai Mo, couldn't help but do a very good job, and she looked like a beautiful and extremely delicate girl, which couldn't help but make the Queen Mother's eyes shine.
She waved her hand and motioned for Zhang Yan to come forward: "This kid, come over and ask the mourning family to take a closer look and see how these skillful hands make such a connection." β
Zhang Yan was naturally surprised and delighted, so she hurriedly went up and didn't mention it. And Zhang Zi at the bottom was a little secretly hateful, she couldn't help but be angry at her own foresight just now, because she hesitated a little bit to let Zhang Yan hand over the prepared gifts in advance, otherwise, the skillful hand that was just praised by the Queen Mother was herself, and now this Zhang Yan has been praised for a while, and she will not have the effect of Zhang Yan this time when she will present things again.
Zhang Zi thought of the double-sided embroidery that the old eunuch brought to him, and he was slightly fixed in his heart, although this yarn is good, but it is still a little eye-catching compared with the complex double-sided embroidery.
Although the style of the yarn made by this Zhang Yan is exquisite and novel, but in the end this is just a yarn, it is just a small thing made by taking a few silk threads and a little beads, gold or something.
Zhang Yan was jealous and disdainful on the one hand, she was jealous of Zhang Yan's good luck being praised by the Queen Mother herself, but she disdained the simplicity of the network made by Zhang Yan herself. At this moment, she was holding the double-sided embroidery in her hand, and she had forgotten the word she had just made, and now she was very disdainful of the show girls in the hall, she was sure that none of the show girls in the hall could make anything comparable to the double-sided embroidery in her hand.