After Yuehua and his entourage left the Hou Ye's Mansion, they temporarily lived in a mansion not far from Shen Bo, the old housekeeper of the General's Mansion. It's not big inside, barely enough to live in, but all the furniture is complete, so you don't have to bother to add it.

She and Shen Bo inspected all the shops on the same day, and took over all of them with the momentum of thunder, so as to prevent anyone from taking advantage of them.

For the first time, Yuehua felt that the sky under the autumn sun was so clear, and taking a deep breath of the air outside, there was the smell of sweat from the pedestrians on the street, the oily smell of fried fruits in the nearby snack shops, and the smell of dust raised by the carriages and horses, which were steamed by the scorching sun and mixed together. There is no sweet fragrance of clean flowers and plants in the courtyard of the Hou Mansion, nor the fragrance of incense in Lian's room, Bisheng is such a strange smell, which makes her heart feel relaxed and happy, every pore of her body is stretched, and she breathes freely and greedily.

There was her property in the shop next to the street, and she would pause when she passed by in the past, look at it with mixed feelings, and then sink into the bottom of her heart. Today, she smiled slightly and pointed out to Xiangshen and a few people: "This is ours." ”

Yes, after a few years of dependence, Yuehua and them are no longer separated from you and me.

That day, Xiang Shen held all of Yuehua's belongings in his arms, followed her cautiously, and almost hugged Xiang Che and cried with joy. After a struggle, their masters finally came to an end, and they could no longer have the grievances of the past in their eyes.

Xiang Che had red circles in her eyes, jumped with joy, and talked and pointed, like a bird flying up to the clouds, excited and tireless.

Her Chu Yuehua's life finally began to change dramatically.

Yuehua and Shen Bo began to take care of the business together, replaced all the Lian's henchmen in the store, retained loyal and reliable partners, reactivated the original shopkeeper, cleared the old accounts, eliminated the shortcomings in the operation, and then prepared a thin gift to visit the old customers in the past.

Over the years, although Yuehua has been studying in secret and has never slackened, she can't be handy for a while, and she goes out early and returns late for a long time, before she gradually smooths out and gradually gets on the right track.

She secretly thought in her heart that if she finally broke away from the Hou Ye's Mansion and turned against the Lian family, then the Empress Dowager would no longer think about her, and she would forget her again in the back of her mind with a snap of her fingers. The foggy Forbidden City can drift away from itself.

Therefore, while she worked day and night, her heart was happy, and there seemed to be a tireless force in her body, spurring and encouraging her, like a spinning top, whipped by a whip, but turning happily.

In just ten days, she has lost weight, the waist of the new autumn dress is a finger looser, and the chin on the small face is also pointed, showing a pair of autumn water cut pupils are much brighter, revealing self-confidence, ability and wisdom. When the guys saw her, they all affectionately called her "Boss Chu" instead of "Miss Chu", which was the identification of her.

She was a little happy in her heart, such a day, she didn't have to look at other people's eyes, she didn't have to listen to others' shouts, she could afford to raise a few people, so that they could live a peaceful and prosperous life, which was all achievements and hope for the future.

She thought that life could go on like this, all the way to the clouds of happiness.

Chang Lehou once came to see him, and after some earnest advice, he left with a long sigh, and then the fifth aunt Ding, she saw that there was no movement in the palace, and finally couldn't hold back, and went to Yuehua here, and asked the Queen Mother what she said when she summoned her, and Yuehua skillfully perfunctory past.

Both of them are smart people, not to mention those polite lies, Yuehua thanked her for her righteous words that day, and Ding's pretended to care about her for a few words in vain.

What Yuehua didn't expect was the arrival of Chang Lingyan.

There is a cloth village under the name of Yuehua, and a separate embroidery workshop has been opened on the right-hand side of the adjacent façade, and several embroidery girls are invited to the embroidery room, and the popular ready-to-wear clothes are also operated. The ladies of the capital can go to the cloth village to choose their favorite satin and style, and go to the embroidery workshop to tailor it.

Several embroiderers are well-known experts in the capital, the craftsmanship is even more exquisite, good at double-sided two-color embroidery in Suzhou embroidery, embroidered fans even in the early autumn, as soon as they are placed out, they can be snapped up immediately, and they became famous in the capital for a while.

Yuehua likes embroidery, in addition to the sense of achievement, she feels that embroidery is more calm than qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, filtering the heart dust, and clear impetuousness. Therefore, as long as she has leisure, she will come to the cloth village, ask a few embroiderers for needlework, and also offer a few stitches of embroidery.

On this day, it was just the right autumn sun, not dry or hot, and a new batch of embroidery thread was introduced in the embroidery workshop, which deviated slightly from the original color. The light in the room was not very good, so she took the half-embroidered embroidery to the door of the shop and carefully compared it with the sunlight.

Chang Lingyan came from the other side of the street at this time, still domineering, with a head full of gold and pearls swaying with her waist, trembling in the hot sun, sliding through dazzling streamers. The girl Xiangli followed behind her, looking at the southern silk dress in front of Chang Lingyan, gold and silver threads decorated with fine rice and colored stones, and her face was full of envy.

Yuehua looked intently at the embroidery in her hand, pinched the delicate embroidery needle with her white and transparent fingertips, and flew dexterously on the tight plain white satin, and then pointed to the few stitches she had just embroidered and whispered to the embroidery girls behind her. Her tender white face looked a little transparent in the autumn sun, as thin as mutton fat, and her smiling cherry lips became more and more red and greasy, like a rouge cream with honey oil on the dressing table, full and round, slightly bent petals like a smooth arc.

Chang Lingyan specially inquired about the excitement of her, she met two noble girlfriends on the street yesterday, and the two scrambled to tell her that Chu Yuehua is now living a very messy life, doing everything by herself, showing up in daily life, because she doesn't know how to operate, the store is in a mess, and the land has been sold a lot, and she has fallen into an unbearable situation of relying on embroidery to make a living.

Therefore, she came dressed up in a fancy way, and before the person arrived, she had already snorted lightly from the end of her nose with disdain, mixed with the smell of fat powder, stirring the purity of Yuehua.

Yuehua heard too much of such a disdainful tone, so she didn't need to look up at all, and she was too lazy to be perfunctory, she still talked and laughed with the embroidery girls around her, indifferently, and didn't see it.

"I only think that my cousin begged for the family property of my Hou Mansion, and since then I have been pampered and pampered, and I don't have to live the days of speculation and drilling in my Hou Mansion, who would have thought that I would be so embarrassed and reduced to being an embroidery girl in the embroidery workshop, and I have to rely on needlework to make a living, I knew it was so, why bother in the first place."

Chang Lingyan sneered with a gun, Chu Yuehua raised his eyebrows at this time, the brilliance flowed, and he glanced at Chang Lingyan indifferently, only a slight smile on his lips, like a breeze passing by lightly in the crisp autumn weather.

"It turned out to be Ling Yan's cousin, I haven't seen her for a few days, she is more bright and moving, graceful and luxurious, and the small shop is simply full of brilliance."

Chang Lingyan heard her flatter herself like this, and became more and more arrogant, showing a contemptuous and arrogant style, raising her head high, and her golden hairpins full of temples swayed brightly.

"The temperament is natural, even if some people fall into the golden nest and silver nest, they are still poor and sour."

Yuehua looked down at the moonlight white skirt on her body, only a few silver thread reeds were scattered at the skirt, taking the artistic conception of "Dihua Autumn Sorrow, Jiangxin Autumn Moon White" in Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing", which does look a little bleak and cold.

She took the needle and thread in her hand, handed it to the embroidery lady behind her, and smiled: "What Sister Ling Yan said is indeed good, even if my sister is full of gold hairpins on her head, she can't wear a golden and brilliant bearing like a cash cow like her cousin, who can't see it?" ”

The embroidery girl behind Yuehua had already heard the grievances between the two, and was resentful in the face of Chang Lingyan's indispensability, and first heard the sarcasm in Yuehua's words, looking at Chang Lingyan's glittering gold and silver beads and cui covering her mouth and snickering, her eyes could not hide her disdain.

Chang Lingyan is not stupid, how can he not hear it? As soon as her eyebrows raised as soon as she drew the willow leaves that flew straight into her temples, there was anger in her eyes, and she stretched out her danko-painted finger and pointed at Yuehua's nose: "Out of the gate of my Hou Ye's mansion, the waist pole is really hard, I used to lower my eyebrows and pleasing my eyes, where do you dare to talk back to me like this?" Now his mouth is so mean! ”

Chu Yuehua didn't bother to argue with her, and turned straight away: "Since Cousin Ling Yan knows that I have left the gate of the Hou Mansion now, then don't teach me such a commanding lesson, right?" People don't ask for it, and even more so you still owe me a lot of gold and silver, and I never said I want to write it off, and it seems inappropriate for you to come to me to show off your wealth. ”

"Stop! Did I say you could go? Unruly wild seeds! ”

Chang Lingyan, who had never been bumped by Chu Yuehua, was angry, and he didn't choose what to say. It's just that as soon as the words fell, I felt a flower in front of me, a moon-white shadow flashed, and my face was already slapped, and it hurt hotly!

Chu Yuehua shook her wrist, her expression was cold, and she said word by word: "This is my bottom line!" ”

Chang Lingyan jumped up in an instant, feeling that he had never suffered such a shameful humiliation, especially in front of everyone.

There were already people on the street, looking at the two of them, and there was a lot of discussion. There was also a unicorn chariot, which slowly stopped behind her, and the coachman who pressed the brim of his hat respectfully whispered something to the car, and a well-proportioned and slender hand stretched out from the curtain of the thousand-heavy purple brocade curtain, and his burning gaze penetrated the layer of shark yarn outside, looking up and down at Chu Yuehua.