Chapter 6: Erjiao (1)
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Since Mrs. Yu and Wang's left, Ming Fei lay on the bed, bored and listened to Jiao Xing tell her about some trivial matters of the Cai family. For example, how generous and benevolent the new lady is, how stingy and arrogant the second aunt is, the second day after the new lady enters the door, she feels the cold and can't get out of bed, she doesn't go to the tea, but the new lady lets people go to see the disease, etc.
Jiao Xing was talking there, without any taboos, Ming Fei listened quietly and set her eyes on Jiao Tao. But I saw Jiao Tao sitting under the window, looking at her nose and nose, her long eyelashes covering a pair of clear eyes tightly, holding a small pomegranate red belly pocket in her hand, embroidering slowly, stitch and thread, very careful. As if Jiao Xing said it, she didn't know and wasn't interested.
Ming Fei smiled slightly and called, "Sister Jiao Tao, what are you doing?" ”
Jiao Tao got up and replied: "If you go back to the third lady, it's going to be the New Year, and the slave wants to make a belly pocket for you." ”
Ming Fei was stunned, is she really honest, or is she the most shrewd? Is it true or false?
But I heard Jiao Xing say disdainfully: "Just your embroiderer? It also depends on whether the third lady can look down on it? ”
Jiao Tao's expression remained unchanged, and she said lightly: "Although I can't get into the eyes of the young lady, but in the end, it is a piece of the mind of the slave maid, how can a slave and a slave not do what should be done because of poor craftsmanship?" ”
Jiao Xing's pink face suddenly turned blue.
This is a good reply, Ming Fei's crescent-like eyes narrowed into a slit with a smile, and beckoned to Jiao Tao: "Take it and I'll see." ”
Jiao Tao walked over, bent down and handed the embroidery in her hand to Ming Fei. Ming Fei took the embroidery and took a closer look, on the fine pomegranate red silk, a pair of golden koi were embroidered with very fine silk threads, surrounded by a few emerald green lotus leaves and a half-open lotus flower. Although it is only more than half of the embroidery, it can be seen that the stitches are fine and neat, the color matching is decent, the fish are vivid and lively, and the lotus leaves and lotus flowers are smart and natural.
Although Ming Fei didn't understand this in his previous life, after coming here, he followed Wang's embroidery work for two years, and he already knew what was good and bad, but he doubted in his heart that this thing was very time-consuming, if he hadn't started it a long time ago, how could he have done so much in one day? This delicate peach really makes her unable to see through it. I didn't ask much at the moment, only praised: "Good craftsmanship." ”
Jiao Tao thanked Ming Fei for her praise, bowed down to take the embroidery work, and smiled decently: "Miss Xie praises." ”
Jiao Xing glanced at Jiao Tao and sighed, "Alas...... Compared with Jiao Tao, the slave maid is really useless, the work in the kitchen is not good, and the female celebrity is even worse. The only thing that can be done is a sincere heart to the master. ”
Jiao Tao's face was expressionless. Jiao Xing said a lot of nonsense again, but she didn't hear Ming Fei's answer, tilted her head and saw that Ming Fei had already fallen asleep, the quilt was pulled high, covering her neck and ears tightly, revealing only a pink face outside.
Jiao Xing sighed: "The third lady has a good look. She also hid a sentence in her heart, even if it fell to this point, that face still looked tender and delicate. Jiao Tao didn't answer, and the two were relatively speechless for a while.
After a while, Jiao Xingfang said in a low voice: "You come with me." Pulled Jiao Tao to the window and stood still, and asked, "You prepared your belly pocket so early, it seems that you have made up your mind?" ”
Jiao Tao looked through the crack in the window at the gray gray who had just run in from outside and was guarding the door of Ming Fei, probing his brain, as if he wanted to come in, blinked, and said, "What are you up to?" I made half of the belly pocket before, and the third lady is pitiful, so it doesn't hurt to give her away. ”
Jiao Xing sneered: "Are you still pretending to be in front of me?" You and I entered the house together, and stayed together for nearly ten years, what kind of virtue are you, I don't know yet? Everyone else says you are honest, only I know that you are a person with ideas and calculations. Now that you've taken out all your best embroiderers to please Miss San, do you still want to hide it from me? ”
Jiao Tao said lightly: "Madame told me to serve the third lady well, since I happen to have a craft to get my hands on, it is the duty of a slave to make a belly pocket for the third lady, and there is no such thing as pleasing and not pleasing and unflattering." If you can't see my face, you can also show your shoe-making skills. ”
"You're really a dishonest one!" If you are willing to show your skills in front of Ming Fei, do you need to deliberately hide it? Jiao Xing choked and glared, glanced at Ming Fei with a weak heart, saw that Ming Fei was sleeping soundly, and lowered her voice again: "I know that you are arrogant, but let me tell you, although there is no good future over there, but following the third lady in this poor and remote country, there may not be a bright future!" She's still so young, and she's like this, you're sixteen, stay up for a few more years, and when she's older, you'll be an old girl. What's more, even then, she may not be able to turn over, you can think clearly, don't blame me for not reminding you. ”
Jiao Tao smiled: "You are confused again." I'm a girl, how can I choose my own future? I will do whatever Madame tells me to do. If you have nothing else to do, I'm going to the kitchen to fry the medicine. Yan Bi put the embroidery bandage in his hand into the needlework basket, took the medicine from the cabinet, and walked out lightly.
Before going out, he gently kicked the gray ash who wanted to squeeze in, and the gray gray glared at her angrily and bared his teeth and roared, but he didn't dare to really pounce. The gray eyes saw that the door was closed, and he couldn't go in, so he had to stand at the door and bark twice, pricking up his ears and waiting for Ming Fei to call it in, but he didn't hear Ming Fei's voice, so he had no choice but to lie by the door and guard.
Jiao Xing opened the window crack a little wider, watched Jiao Tao's slender back disappear into the kitchen door, and gradually fell into deep thought.
She and Jiao Tao were personally selected by the original Mrs. Zhang, and then trained by the old lady herself, specially prepared for the eldest lady to marry. I think back then, when the old lady was still there, although the two of them were not big girls who stood alone, they were also decent second-class girls, and their food and clothing were many times better than ordinary girls outside. When you are used to seeing wealth, your vision and mind will naturally be much higher, and you should think about what you shouldn't think about, and what you think about the most is to find a good way out for yourself. For example, as a young lady's dowry, she will have sex with her, and then she will be an aunt smoothly.
But more than three years ago, the original Mrs. Zhang fell ill and looked bad. Mrs. Zhang spoke, the eldest lady Mingli is not young, she is sixteen years old, if her mother dies, she must keep filial piety, and she will be nineteen years old. The old lady has always loved Mrs. Zhang and the eldest lady, and she also wanted to take this opportunity to rejoice for Mrs. Zhang, so she agreed.
The eldest lady's dowry was prepared a long time ago, so it was not busy. But for some reason, she and Jiao Tao were swapped and couldn't go with the eldest lady. She was very sad at the time, but she thought that there was a second miss below, although the second miss was a concubine, but she had a gentle temperament, and it was not bad to follow the second miss, so she settled down.
Who would have thought that in less than half a year, Mrs. Zhang and the old lady would go one after another? That second aunt who hates being mean is actually in charge? The old man never asked about the inner room, and since then, the old people who followed the original wife and the old lady can be regarded as being sold, sold, sold, and matched. Although she and Jiao Tao did not have a grudge with their second aunt because of their young age, they escaped the catastrophe, but they could not escape the bad luck of being affected, and they were thrown to do rough work in a remote yard, and the former scenery never came back.
If it weren't for the fact that although the old man was usually confused, he understood and insisted on the matter of his wife, and he refused to help the second aunt as a righteous person, but hired the concubine daughter of Lord Chen's family in Shangfeng Chen as his stepfamily, and she and Jiao Tao would not have a chance to come out again.
Jiao Xing still remembers when she walked out of the remote courtyard and was led to meet Mrs. Chen. Although Mrs. Chen is young and from a famous family, she is not good-looking at all, I heard that she looks like her father, with a short figure, a big round face, hanging eyebrows, white skin but not pink, only a pair of eyes that look a little charming, and a smile is pure and kind.
Mrs. Zhang's back then, I don't know how many times more beautiful than this Chen, she still can't tie the heart of the master, how can Chen's appearance tie the heart of the master? Not to mention that compared with the second aunt Mou Shi, who is coquettish, has shaved shoulders and a thin waist, and looks like a moon, even her little girl can't compare. Looking at Mrs. Chen's dowry girls, everyone is just good-looking.
Jiao Xing is still very confident in her appearance, if she is not good-looking, Mrs. Zhang will not choose her at the beginning. Jiao Xing thought that if the new lady was willing to keep her by her side and serve and lift her, she would definitely help Mrs. Chen keep the master's heart.
But the new lady only asked her and Jiao Tao a few words, and sent the two of them to the sewing room to do things. After drying for more than a month, Mrs. Yu came to bring the two of them here to see the third lady.
Thinking of this, Jiao Xing couldn't help but feel a little anxious, could it be that the new lady wanted to leave her and Jiao Tao here to take care of Miss San? As she said to Jiao Tao before, she didn't want to stay here to take care of this third lady that no one wanted. These three young ladies, whether anyone is willing to marry in the future is still a matter, follow her, what future can she have? Is it just a lifetime to shrink here? She was not reconciled.
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