Chapter 242: Silk Koi
"Could it be that she wants to set it on fire?" Father-in-law Fang said that he was also surprised. was stunned for a moment, quickly knelt beside Wanying, and explained with a sad expression: "Niangniang, it's all the negligence of the slaves, and Niangniang just entered the palace, and she was so frightened. The slave should be damned, don't worry, before dark, the slave will definitely find out. ”
"Can you find out before dark?" Yun Niang questioned.
"Aunt Yun, the things outside the palace must not be out of the hands of the slaves, the things in the palace, the slaves will definitely give you and Niangniang an explanation before dark, the prince repeatedly told the slaves to take good care of Niangniang before leaving, if something like this happens, the slaves will be blamed, Niangniang will keep the punishment first, let the slaves figure things out, and Niangniang will be sent down!"
"Father-in-law, the palace didn't blame you, father-in-law got up and spoke."
"Niangniang, I can't explain the current situation in a few words, and the slave is not busy slaughtering himself first. When the slave figures things out, he naturally comes to excuse his mother. ”
"Father-in-law, you are too careful, Niangniang didn't blame you, if Niangniang blames you, will she show you these things?" Yun Niang explained.
"Aunt Yun, with your words, the slave is much more down-to-earth. Niangniang, please rest assured, the slave has been operating in this palace all his life, and someone dares to play tricks under the nose of the minion, that is, even the slave is teasing. The minions don't talk about it yet, we have to check the matter quickly, and when they cut off everything that should be cut, it's too late. ”
"There is Father-in-law."
After Father-in-law Fang finished speaking, he carried the floating dust in his arm, crossed the water curtain, and disappeared into Jinseju.
The scorching sun of early summer, scorching the grass and trees of Huichang Mountain, sitting next to the water curtain of Jinseju, Wanying had no heart to drink tea, and looked out through the water curtain in a daze, the sound of the water curtain ticking, desolate and resentful, occasionally a few crisp crane chirps, crossing the water curtain, making Wanying more irritable and resentful, the wind is singing, the wind is singing, it turns out that this is the meaning.
Obviously, there are flowers in front of him, but his heart is not lively.
"Niangniang, sitting by the water curtain, why do you look worried?" Hongfu moved a stool next to Wanying.
"Hongfu, you said that Bengong looks at the sun in the sky every day, Bengong recognizes the sun, why doesn't the sun recognize Bengong."
"Niangniang, you are talking nonsense again, how can the sun know Niangniang?"
"You say, it will never know this palace, so why does this palace still look up at it every day."
"Mother, are you true today?"
"I don't know if I don't know, I just feel annoyed, my body is hot, and my hands are still cold, and I only feel more comfortable when I look at the sun in the sky."
Hongfu stood up and touched Wanying's forehead, and then touched her own forehead.
"I don't have a fever, why are you talking nonsense."
Wanying smiled and said tiredly: "This palace is tired, close your eyes a little." You're busy with your business...... Hongu slept. ”
"Niangniang, there is a lot of moisture on the porch, Hongfu will help you go back to the dormitory and lie down."
"The main palace is like lying here, and from time to time a few drops of water blow over and drop on the face, and I feel that it is very suitable."
Wan Ying said and spoke, gradually her eyelids became a little hard, Hongfu got up gently, went to the hall to get a blanket, and when she came back, Wan Ying had fallen asleep.
"Hongfu, I saw a small silk loom in the West Wing Palace, it was dark in the West Wing Palace, let's move it out, take advantage of the good sun, debug it, and see if it can be used."
Hongfu gently put the blanket in her hand on Wanying's body, and followed Yun Niang into the West Chamber Palace.
"Yun Niang, what is the gram death?" Hongfu asked nervously.
Yun Niang smiled 'hehe', and her fingers gently scraped off the thin sweat on the tip of Hongfu's nose. "Silly girl, it's not 'death', it's 'silk'."
The two laughed, Yun Niang pointed to a half-new loom in front of her and said, "Oh, that's it." ”
"Loom?"
"No, it's a silk machine. I also thought it was a loom, and after looking at these plates of silk thread, I figured out that this was the silk loom used by the palace. ”
"Silk? I haven't even heard of it. ”
"Good girl, our family has had bad luck in the past few years, I think back then, the old lady's 60th birthday, there were two 24 filial piety pictures with 12 fans in the main hall of the house, all of which were woven from silk. The pattern is shining and lifelike, and it really looks like a real person. ”
"How come Hongfu hasn't seen it."
"Don't say you haven't seen it, I've only seen it once. Later, the two screens did not know where to go. Maybe it's a New Year's holiday, and it's a gift to give away? Or maybe the brothers split up and gave it to the other three masters outside? I can't say for sure. Two years ago, on a whim, the master's aunt wanted to see these two screens, but she searched the entire warehouse and couldn't find them. In the end, I found only an old lady's imperial robe. ”
"Yun Niang, then do you know how to weave?"
"When the master and aunt were on a whim before, they mentioned it to me a few times, and I followed the master and aunt and studied it for a while. Later, the mess in the house was left behind, who knew that today it was here, and found the silk machine, you see that these silk threads are ready-made. ”
"Hongfu has never heard of it."
"Let's carry it out first, put it under the porch, and take care of the mother's rest, while seeing if I can adjust it, I can only weave cloth, and I don't know if I can weave silk."
Two people carried the delicate silk machine out of the West Chamber, and a sleepy little palace maid sitting at the base of the wall in the courtyard saw the two of them carrying things, and hurriedly came over to help. The three men lightly lifted the silk reeling machine under the porch.
The little palace maid whispered: "I heard the old people before say that this is Concubine Tong's object." ”
"Concubine Tong's silk machine?" Yun Niang didn't expect it to be something left by Xue Guifei.
The little palace maid nodded and said, "No, no, it's Xue Guifei's." ”
"She can also weave silk?"
"The slave maid has never seen Xue Guifei weaving this, but I have heard that when the slave maid cleaned up the West Chamber, she also received a few dusty weaver drawings."
"Where are these pictures now?"
"The slave maid brought it to Aunt Yun, and Aunt Yun will wait for a while." After the little palace maid finished speaking, she flew away like a swallow.
"Xue Guifei still weaves this thing?" Hongfu said incredulously.
"Don't underestimate this silk, it's a royal object. Only royalty has it. ”
"Something for the king? No wonder I haven't even heard of it, in our house, I have seen a lot of rare silk cloth, but I really haven't heard of silk. ”
"The ones we originally had in the house, and when you came, I didn't know where they were."
The little palace maid came over with the scroll in her hand. Respectfully handed it over to Yun Niang. Yun Niang opened it and saw that it was full of some patterns.
I flipped through it and saw a picture of a koi, and then looked at the semi-finished product on the loom, which was this koi.
Seeing that Wanying was sleeping soundly, Hongfu moved the chair next to Wanying and sat down with Yun Niang and the silk machine.
At noon, the new cry that I knew rushed into the water curtain without a sound. Hongfu looked at the lush courtyard. My heart gradually became quieter. I found the boy picture that I hadn't embroidered, stitched and threaded, and meticulously embroidered the cry outside the water curtain into the work in my hands.
"I've never seen you embroider, I didn't expect it to be so good." Yun Niang said happily while debugging the machine.
"I'm clumsy, my aunt used to say that if I don't embroider well, I will embroider slowly, and I will not be too bad if I prick the needle and thread in the right place."
"My aunt's embroidery is good, even I can't compare. If she had been there, the machine would have been debugged by now. ”
"Yun Niang, look at this half koi, even the scales are lifelike, it's great!"
"That's the benefit of silk. I saw that this koi was not big or small, and it just happened to make a quilt and give it to Xiao Shizi. ”
"The carp jumps over the dragon gate, and the koi fish jumps over the dragon gate to become a dragon, and the meaning of this pattern is good."
"Silly girl, we are the emperor's family, such stupid words, I don't dare to say it in the future, if I don't let any villain say it, this is a rebellion."
Hongfu stuck out her tongue and smiled at Yun Niang.
"Since Niangniang was pregnant with her son, Hongfu's heart has been hanging in the air all day long, jumping up and down from time to time, and she has never been steady. This picture of a boy has been embroidered for almost a month, and now he has not finished embroidering his body. ”
"Why not! I've always felt like I've been dreaming lately, thinking about things all day long. For fear that one will accidentally fall from the sky and fall to pieces. ”
Yun Niang let out a long breath, and her dexterous hands played with more than a dozen shuttles, smoothing out the silk road on the machine little by little.
"I don't know when a day like this will be a head." Hongfu pinched a very thin embroidery needle, the tip of the needle slashed a few times between her hair, and then plunged into the red silk robe in her hand.
"Let's talk quietly, don't make a noise, mother, it's hard to fall asleep." Yun Niang carefully geographed the latitude of the ground.
"What is so hard! I went into the temple and got a blanket, and when I came back in the blink of an eye, my mother fell asleep. The mother was pregnant with a son, and she became more and more sleepy. ”
Yun Niang raised her head and looked at Wanying with a smile on her face, knowing that she was still in a dream. Maybe she can only laugh in her dreams.
"I figured it out." Yun Niang sorted out more than a dozen shuttles, and said to Hongfu with a beaming face.
Hongfu put down the little red clothes, stood up, pointed to the faint koi pattern on the silk machine, and asked, "Is this silk painted on warp threads?" ”
"Well, yes, this picture should have been drawn last year, and it was a little faded, but I can still see it clearly."
"There are so many heads and brains, it really confuses me, I get dizzy when I see it."
Yun Niang smiled and said: "You are young now, most of you can't sit on the stool, and when you can't pass it in a few years, you will be slowly." ”
Hong Fufu sat down again, picked up her little red coat and embroidered it seriously. "Also, in the past few years, I liked to run around with my mother, but in the past few years, I think it's better to sit in the house than to go out crazy and stupid."
Yun Niang tried a few colors, picked a small red shuttle, turned back and forth between the warp threads a few times, and then took a small picket that was fine and dense, gently dialed it to the original pattern, just tightly fitted, pointed to the silk under her hand and said, "Look, it's right." ”
Hongfu happily looked at the koi silk picture, "It's really lifelike, lifelike!" ”
The two of them only cared about joy for a while, forgetting Wanying who was sleeping, and the two sentences were a little louder, and they woke up Wanying who was asleep.
"Is this a thread?" Wan Yinglian walked up to the two of them.
"Woke up?" Yun Niang dropped the weft in her hand. Ready to stand up, Wanying gently patted her shoulder and sat down again.
"Did I wake up my mother?" Hongfu knew that her voice was a little louder just now.
"No, I woke up when I had enough sleep." Wan Ying looked at the silk koi in front of her, gently stroked the surface with her hand, and murmured: "One inch of silk and one inch of gold, we are also members of the emperor's family." ”
"Niangniang, this piece of silk is not big or small, just to make a quilt for Xiao Shizi."
Wanying smiled silently: "Silk is the face of the imperial court, and the first and second grade officials only have a small side on their chests, and it is too extravagant for us to make quilts." ”
"Since she has entered the royal family, Niangniang is a person of gold and jade, and the prince is the eldest son of Prince Rong, with this child, what is the prince of Beiping, the prince of Xining, and the prince of Dong'an County, they all have to stand aside." Hongfu comforted Wanying and said.
"Niangniang, this child is here, I heard in the house a few days ago, several princes are in the palace, forcing the queen mother to set up the eldest son of the emperor to the emperor, I heard that the Yulin army in the palace was also used, isn't this forcing the palace?" Yun Niang took the shuttle and meticulously shuttled between the warp threads of the mother and child.
"Ruthlessness is the most emperor's family. This palace doesn't want its children to be involved in the palace. ”
"Speaking from the heart, I don't want the prince to enter the palace, if I can grow up in the palace and be a happy prince for the rest of my life, this is a blessing."