The New Year is getting closer and closer, and the house is also jubilant, pasting paper cuts, hanging red lanterns, and first placing fruit and vegetarian food in front of the statue.

Jin Chao woke up every day to greet his father first, and then sat with his mother for a morning, talking to several aunts and sisters, and in the afternoon he was a girl who was popular, and at night he had to read a book for a while before going to sleep.

In the past few days, my father only went to see my mother once, and left in a hurry.

Her mother didn't care much, her face was indifferent, but she always remembered that when she was a child, her mother held her in her arms and told her the story of her father.

At that time, my mother had a smile in her eyes, and her young face was shining: "...... When your father was just admitted to the Jinshi, he came to the Ji family to propose marriage, and your aunts and uncles deliberately embarrassed him and asked him to take the gift, and his face was flushed with shame, and he was even more ashamed than a little girl......"

Jin Chao has never imagined what it was like for his serious and rigid father to be so shy when he was a teenager.

It was when she was learning the art of embroidery, she sat in the west room, the window was open, and the sunlight was shining through the latticework of the carved begonias, shining on the black lacquered yellow rosewood table. A small basket of bamboo weaving was placed in a small basket, neatly wrapped with various colored silk threads. Jin Chao stretched a plain silk embroidery, and she was embroidering a bush of four seasons orchids.

Liuxiang and Qingpu stood behind her.

Master Xue looked at her embroidery and was amazed: "The eldest lady has been making a lot of progress recently, but this trick is rare." ”

Jin Chao smiled and said: "It's just a flower that blooms in the mountains, it is not common in the north of Zhili, but there are many in the south." ”

Master Xue looked at it carefully for a long time, and said with a smile: "I see that your current embroidery has the charm of Shu embroidery, the stitches are strict and delicate, the color is elegant, and the edges of the flowers and leaves are natural." ”

Master Xue is good at Suzhou embroidery.

Jin Chao thought to himself, sure enough, he still couldn't hide it from Master Xue.

Shiye is a native of Sichuan, the best at Shu embroidery, her mother is a famous embroidery girl in Sichuan and Shu, and she passed on her mastery to her daughter, and originally wanted her to become an embroiderer, but was sold to Beizhili. Shu embroidery inheritance is more rigorous, and the breadth of circulation is not as good as Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, in the north Zhili has always been less than Suzhou embroidery, the Jin Dynasty is also more than ten years to grind out a hand of Shu embroidery Seiko.

However, the original female red rough eldest lady, suddenly embroidered exquisite Shu embroidery, it is indeed suspicious, she has paid attention to making the stitches more sparse, like the direction of Su embroidery, but Master Xue is an embroidery expert after all, and he can see the clue at a glance.

Jin Chao had to say: "...... I watched my mother's koi play lotus picture, and I thought it was very exquisite, so I deliberately learned it in private. ”

Mother has a screen of koi playing lotus pictures, which is a fine embroidery of Shu, or it was given by the Dingguo Mansion when she got married, and everyone knows it.

Master Xue didn't like Gu Jinchao originally, Gu Jinchao didn't like to learn these, she felt that learning the female red feed was the most boring, and she was also cold and indifferent to her, and she might not be asked to learn once in half a month. Now the eldest lady is much more diligent, and now that she is learning like this, Master Xue found that Gu Jinchao's talent is extremely good, and he can understand any acupuncture at one point, so he naturally likes it a little.

She smiled and said, "...... The eldest lady is gifted and intelligent. ”

Qingpu sent Master Xue away, and Liuxiang helped her put away the needle and thread, and said with a smile: "The slave maid can't see any embroidery, but the flowers embroidered by the young lady are so beautiful, as if you can smell the fragrance." ”

Jin Chao only smiled.

After a while, Tong's mother came, Jin Chao put down the small taut in his hand, and asked Liuxiang to serve tea first, and asked Tong's mother to sit on the brocade.

A few days ago, she asked Tong's mother to inquire about the eldest young master's preferences, and replied that he didn't particularly like anything, but loved to collect famous calligraphy. I don't know what happened to her today.

Tong's mother took a sip of tea first, looked at the surroundings and said, "I have inquired about Miss Liuxiang's instructions." ”

It turned out to be a matter of lingering incense...... Jin Chao suddenly lifted his spirits.

"Miss Liuxiang was sold by her parents when she was nine years old, and she was given twenty taels of silver. After entering the house, I was a little girl at Aunt Du's place, and I went to the kitchen in the outer courtyard within half a year, and was assigned to the tea room at the age of fourteen, and came to you half a year later. Tong's mother said it briefly, and then continued, "I also deliberately inquired about something else, when she was in the kitchen of the outer courtyard, she had a bad relationship with several girls." A girl named Qiu Luan told me that Liuxiang was often not on duty, and she didn't blame her, and everyone rejected her...... also said that her hands and feet were not clean, and she once took a 50-year-old ginseng from the kitchen and was punished. ”

When Jin Chao heard this, he frowned: "She is in the mansion, and she is not sick, what are she doing with ginseng?" ”

Mother Tong shook her head: "The slave also thinks it's strange, maybe it's for someone else." ”

Liuxiang also served at Aunt Du's place, but Jin Chao didn't know about it. However, this time is in a hurry, and she has to hide people's eyes, and Tong's mother is only probing the skin, which is not of much use. Jin Chao thought that he might need to find someone outside to inquire.

Mother Tong talked about the eldest young master, "...... I'll be back this afternoon, and I've got a few words prepared by the slave and maid, one of Mr. Ishida and one of the people of the branch. They were all framed with rosewood, and they were sent to Jingfangzhai in the afternoon. ”

Jin Chao shook his head and said, "No need to send it, I'll take it myself." ”

Tong's mother should come down.

Qingpu came in, and her face has become a lot more ruddy in the past few days, and she does not have the original sallow and sickly appearance. She walked to the window with light steps, closed it, and said, "The wind is strong, and it won't be long after the young lady's illness has healed, but you can't help the wind." ”

Jin Chao glanced at Qingpu, and there was no wind outside the window.

Tong's mother said Qingpu: "...... It's best for Miss Qingpu to come back and serve Miss, and she is always more intimate than others when she has served the big one since she was a child. ”

Jin Chao said for her: "It's natural. ”

Tong's mother said goodbye, and Jin Chao talked to Qingpu again: "I just felt that the sun was warm, and the breeze was not in the way. ”

Qingpu hesitated, and his fingers flicked the gilded bracelet on his wrist. She whispered, "...... Pitchers have ears. ”

Did she mean someone was eavesdropping outside?

Jin Chao looked at the gilt bracelet and recognized that it was Liuxiang who had worn it on his hand, and remembered that the day Qing Pu first came to see her, he was full of simplicity and didn't even wear a plain silver hairpin. She said: "I have a pair of white jade bracelets on the dressing table, you take them to wear, and they look cheesy with gild." ”

Qingpu hurriedly said: "That's Miss's thing, how can the slave want it." ”

Jin Chao remembered that Qingpu had been like this since she was a child, and she believed that the thing belonged to the young lady, that is, the young lady's, and no one could grab it.

She didn't force her, and secretly wanted to wait and ask Tong's mother to send some suitable jewelry to the Qingpu room.

The eldest young master is coming back, and he must go to see his mother first, Jin Chao thought that it would be better for her to go to her mother first and wait, so she let Qingpu serve and change into a snow-blue embroidered skirt with entwined branches, feeling that the color was too plain, and wearing a satin jacket with the color of Helu Tongchun eggplant.

went to my mother's place and sat down, and after a while, I saw Gu Xi and Gu Yi also coming. Aunt Guo and Aunt Du came together, and Aunt Song has been serving at her mother's place all the time.

Aunt Song served her mother to drink medicine, and fed her a salt-jin plum to remove the bitterness. Helping his mother to lean on the big pillow.

"I haven't seen Brother Rong for more than half a year, and I don't know if I've grown taller." Ji said with a smile.

Aunt Du said: "The child is the same every day, and the eldest young master is when he grows, but he doesn't grow like bamboo shoots." ”

Gu Jinrong is twelve years old this year.

Jin Chao pressed his mother's hand and teased her: "My brother is back, don't hurt me." ”

A faint smile appeared on Ji's beautiful face: "Sure enough, it's still like a child, you and Jinrong are not close, you have to move around more......"

Saying that, Pinmei came in: "...... The eldest young master's carriage stopped outside the gate of the mansion, and he went to the master first, and the slave and maid estimated that it would be time to come in half an hour. The joy on my mother's face can be seen clearly.

It was said that it was half an hour, but in fact it did not wait long. Jin Dynasty didn't finish a cup of Wanchun silver leaf tea, and he heard the girl's transmission, and before Ji could speak, he heard a clear voice.

"Mother!"

From behind the screen, a very long boy walked in, with a fair face, wearing a stone blue Hangzhou silk jacket, and a shorter scholar followed him, carrying several red lacquered boxes.

Jin Chao looked at Gu Jinrong coming over, and said in his heart that he looked similar to his father, and he was about the same height as her.

Xu's mother hurriedly brought Gu Jinrong a pestle, Gu Jinrong was in a hurry, his face was slightly red, but he stood still in front of his mother's bed, first said hello to his aunts and Jinchao, and the two sisters greeted him again.

It seems that Mr. taught well, although he hadn't seen his seriously ill mother for more than half a year, but he still knew how to observe etiquette.

Gu Jinrong is different from Jin Chao, he grew up with his mother, and he has much more attachment to his mother than Jin Chao.

Jin Chao looked at him and glanced at his face, and said lightly: "Eldest sister is fine." "I never saw her again, and I think the relationship between the two siblings is not good...... She didn't remember what her relationship with her brother had been, but it was definitely estranged.

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