Chapter 42: A Sudden Reward

Early in the morning of the seventh day of July, Qingdai was dragged up from the bed by Qinglian, hastily finished the meal, and said goodbye to the old lady's > and Xiao Feng, and the two sisters' > prepared to take the car to Wuping Hou's house, and when they arrived at the second gate, they happened to meet Qinglian in the car.

Qinglian wore a satin gown with a blue ground falling flower flowing water pattern, and the light purple plum blossoms on the blue gown were elegant and dignified. She nodded to Qing Dai and the others and stepped on the footstool to get into the car, and the waves outlined by the blue silk thread on the side of Yue Baixiang's skirt disappeared behind the curtain in an instant with her movements.

Qingwei took back her gaze on Qinglian's clothes, looked at the carriage that was setting off, and snorted softly in her nose: "Hey, what's the use of looking good in bare clothes...... Third sister, let's go too."

Qingwei dragged Qingdai into the car, and said nothing all the way. Qing Dai sat in the corner of the carriage and dozed off, and when she woke up, she had arrived at the goldfish alley in the west of the city. The Sanchunli where the Qi family lives is due west, but the Goldfish Hutong is close to the imperial city in the north, and it is symmetrical with the hat Hutong from east to west.

The car entered the inner courtyard from the east side door, and changed to a double sedan chair on the second door. Qing Dai was in a daze along the way, and Qing Wei pulled her to point out of the curtain excitedly to speak, obviously amazed by the scenery in the Wuping Marquis' Mansion.

For Qing Dai, who has been to the Mingyu Courtyard in this life and has been to the Ouchi Palace in the previous life, these are nothing, but thanks to the little girl's excited chirping, Qing Dai finally sobered up completely, and said with a low laugh: "Your voice is getting louder and louder, and the person carrying the sedan chair outside carefully hears it." ”

Qingwei immediately covered her mouth, opened her apricot eyes and looked out, but she didn't say another word.

The two were carried to the residence of Mrs. Wupinghou's >, where Tingjia and Tinglan were already waiting. Because it was the first time to come, Tingjia took Qingdai and Qingwei to meet Mrs. Hou's >, Mrs. Hou's > asked two words, rewarded the two of them with a hairpin as a meeting gift, and then sent Tingjia to greet the two Qingdai sisters' > to play.

Qingwei followed Tinglan away, and Qingdai was pulled to her residence by Tingjia.

"You don't have to go to see Mrs. Tai'>?"

Tingjia explained: "Originally, it was said that the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet on August 15 would allow my grandmother and mother to enter the palace, but I didn't expect that the will came from the palace this morning, and my grandmother rushed there early in the morning. "The queen in the palace today is the niece of Marquis Wuping, the granddaughter of Mrs. Tai's >, and she will naturally be summoned by the queen when she enters the palace.

Qing Dai didn't ask again, Chao Yinhong handed the pattern drawn earlier to Tingjia, "Sister, see if there is anything to change, I'll go back and draw it again." ”

Tingjia flipped through the three patterns, each pattern from the front of the hairpin, the side of the hairpin head, hairpin body are drawn in great detail, next to the small block will be the creation of the technique is very clear, and even what kind of gems to inlay or what style to use when not inlaid have given reference.

Tingjia couldn't help but be speechless, "I didn't expect you to even know the method so clearly." ”

Qing Dai naturally did not say that she learned it in her previous life, and explained with a smile: "There was a grandmother in Wuzhou's family, and her son was a goldsmith, and she often talked about some things in the gold shop to me. ”

"Your pattern is really new, and it can be worth a lot of money to sell it in the shop."

"What's worth?" Qi Zhen walked in from the outside with a smile, "As soon as I entered the door, I heard that Qingdai had arrived, so I hurried here, what good thing did you two say?" ”

Tingjia took the pattern of Qingdai and showed it to Qi Zhen, Qi Zhen glanced at it twice, "This Nizi has always been careful, not like a nine-year-old child at all, and there are a lot of flowers and intestines in her stomach, it's a pity not to open a store."

Tingjia smiled and pushed Qi Zhen, "You have a lot of strange words." ”

Qing Dai glanced at Qi Zhen, and pretended to be old: "I have a lot of intestines, but I don't have the capital." Why don't you pay for me, let's open a shop together? ”

Qi Zhen and Tingjia's eyes lit up, and the two glanced at each other, and that look seemed to say that this idea was good.

Qingdai originally thought that everyone like Qi Zhen and Tingjia was beautiful, she knew how to read and write on weekdays, knew some female red needlework, and then learned to host the feed before getting married, and then married a housekeeper to live, not to mention that people like Qi and Wang were indispensable to marry a shop, and they were not reduced to opening a shop to supplement the family. And they are girls who don't know the price of firewood and rice in the back house, and I'm afraid they can't look down on the kind of housewives who are careful in their eyes when they drill money.

It's just that Qingdai didn't expect that she joked casually that Qi Zhen and Tingjia, the two noble girls, were taken seriously, and they really wanted to open a shop by themselves.

Looking at Qi Zhen and Tingjia who were chatting enthusiastically, Qingdai sighed silently, the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny. If this is really to be implemented, it is not feasible.

Rent shops, hire men, shopkeepers, craftsmen, enter the channels of raw materials, go through the procedures of the government, and find customers to sign signs...... This is something that can be done in a few words. Opening a shop must go through the family, and in the name of the family, it involves three families, and the distribution of benefits is troublesome. There is a good saying that a woman wants to get a shop for the family after becoming a housekeeper, and now she is still a girl who has no relatives, and if she is not good, she will be crowned with a name that does not do her job and does not keep her duty, and it is not good to spread it.

Qi Zhen sat next to her and said nothing when she saw Qing Dai mention it, "Why are you silent?" ”

Qing Dai lazily raised her eyelids, puffed out her cheeks and said: "I haven't opened the shop, but the shop at home seems to be managed by someone, and the maid in the mother's yard said that the monthly account book is a thick stack, and it will take a long time to watch." Who do you want to open, my family and my sisters in the clan have never opened a shop before they got married......"

Qi Zhen and Ting Jia were stunned, and the enthusiasm that had just surged up suddenly died down. Tingjia took the pattern to divert the topic again, and discussed with Qi Zhen which shop to go to.

At the end of the day, all the guests invited by Tingjia arrived. Mrs. Wupinghou's > let people set up a table at the Tinghua Water Pavilion by the lake. Sitting near the lake, the blue lake is like a mirror, surrounded by green trees, and the wind is like a promise, and the scenery is excellent. Qing Dai stood by the window and looked up, the lake was wide, and the shadows of the trees on the opposite bank could be vaguely seen, and she couldn't help muttering, "This lake is really not small, and it can catch up with a quarter of the outer lake of Wuzhou Mingyu Courtyard." ”

"The third girl has been to Mingyu Villa?"

Qing Dai didn't notice when there was an extra person beside her, but when she looked back, it was Zhao Yuhua.

Zhao Yuhua wore a dark gauze flat needle embroidered butterfly love flower long-sleeved blue short shirt, white silk embroidered with a hundred butterfly long skirts, a light yellow palace silk waist, and broken jade strung into a flower pattern embellished on the palace silk to make a skirt press. Last time, there was some distance, Qing Dai didn't take a closer look, this time I found that her skin was delicate and pure like jade, and her thin eyebrows were not amazing, but she was better than her temperament was elegant and chic.

A good person or thing is always pleasing to the eye. Zhao Yuhua is a temperamental beauty, she looks good and is talented, and her beauty is different from Zhou Danniang's beauty, she gives people the feeling of elegance and dust, which makes people naturally have a sense of distance from looking up.

Qing Dai feels that Zhao Yuhua belongs to the kind of little dragon girl in the hearts of men, and the type of imaginary enemy in women's hearts is fortunate because she is indifferent to Zhao Da Beauty, although there is no sense of intimacy at first sight, but there is no envy and jealousy. So when people come to take the initiative to talk, she will not refuse.

"Sister Zhao knows about the Mingyu Courtyard in Wuzhou?"

"I have heard others say that there is the courtyard of the Marquis of Zhongyi built in the lake, and the scenery is beautiful and pleasant. When did the three girls go? Zhao Yuhua's face was calm, but Qing Dai clearly felt the slightest change in her voice, with some surprise and apprehension.

"Sister Zhao can call me Qingdai, you don't have to be so polite." Qing Dai smiled and said, "I went there three years ago." ”

"Three years ago...... Then your family is familiar with the Zhongyi Hou family? Zhao Yuhua was slightly surprised, as if he didn't know that the two still had a relationship.

"In the early years, my grandmother got acquainted with the old >lady of Zhongyi Hou when she was in Beijing, and the last time I was just in time for the old lady to return to her hometown >, my grandmother took me with her when she went to visit, so I went once." I think that Lord Zhao is an official who was transferred to Beijing, and he is not familiar with the affairs of these old people in Beijing, so Qingdai did not go to the relationship of the Hou family of Zhongyi, but only said that he was a guest.

Zhao Yuhua nodded, "My father was originally in Guangzhou, and he passed through Wuzhou when he went to Beijing, but unfortunately he was in a hurry and didn't have the opportunity to meet the water courtyard. ”

Zhao Yuhua said a few words, and Qi Zhen came over to ask the two to sit down. Zhao Yuhua returned to that indifferent posture, talking to the person next to him not far away, but he never had contact with Qing Dai alone.

After the feast, the seven girls gathered together to compare needles, and suddenly a maid reported that someone had come to the palace, and the queen mother had a reward, and invited the girls to the old lady's > residence.

Qi Zhen stabbed Tingjia with a smile, and said with a low smile: "Your queen cousin must know that you have a treat, and specially sent something to save face for you." It's a worthwhile trip."

Ting Jia glanced at Qi Zhen, the smile on his face was even better, and politely invited the two sisters of Qingdai, > and the two sisters of the Zhao family, to > to go to the Fu'an Hall > by Mrs. Wang.

When the seven girls arrived, Mrs. Wang's > was talking to a grandmother from the palace. After everyone saw the ceremony, he introduced everyone and said: "This is Mama Tao next to the queen." ”

The girls saluted Mama Tao again, and Mama Tao looked at the girls below with a kind face, and said with a smile: "The girls are all good-looking, like seven fairies." Who is the Tingjia girl? ”

Tingjia took a step forward, and the old lady's > said to Mama Tao, "This is Little Ten Tingjia." ”

"In a blink of an eye, the Tingjia girls have grown into adults, this is ...... The old slave looked at it and was five points similar to Niangniang. "Mama Tao smiled and said to the old lady'>, casually beckoned another mama who accompanied her to come over, took a black lacquer painted gold wooden plate, a square carved peony sandalwood box and handed it to Tingjia, "The palace has specially made a batch of Mahara for this year's begging festival, and the mother looks more exquisite than in previous years, and I heard that there are several coquettish guests in the Hou Mansion today, and they are specially rewarded to the girls to enjoy." ”

Tingjia knelt down to thank him, and then starting with Zhao Yuhua, several of them received the reward in turn from the oldest to the smallest.

After the things were given, Mama Tao said: "The Mid-Autumn Festival banquet on August 15 and the Queen Mother's Thousand Birthday Banquet will be held together, and the wives and daughters of all families are invited, and the girls have the opportunity to go to the palace to thank the queen in person." ”

Everyone was a little excited. Qingdai noticed that what Zhao Yuhua got was the same as Tingjia, which was also a square carved peony sandalwood box, while what they were left was a square carved camellia wooden box.

Mama Tao, who was at the top, exchanged a few more polite words with Mrs. Wang's >, her eyes swept over Tingjia and Zhao Yuhua, and then she got up to say goodbye and left with a group of palace people.

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