Mama Chen returned to the yard and absentmindedly washed two bowls, and the person next to her asked, "Where is the water?" The sweet water that the county lord asked you to beat? ”

Mama Chen couldn't answer, so she carried a handful of silver bags in her arms, feeling that this trip to the Guan family was really worth it, and she earned a large amount of money that she had never earned. At this time, the back of the hut "squeaked", and the small window of the carved flowers opened a crack, revealing half of the smiling snow face, which was like autumn flowers, which was unforgiving. This is their young master, the wife of the Seventh Master.

I don't think it's like anything else, but at this time, Mama Chen was very weak-hearted, and she stiffened and reported: "The slave went late, and the sweet water dried up, and I didn't receive it." ”

"Is that so......" The woman behind the window seemed to sigh and yawn, and suddenly said, "Mama, your shoes are dirty, and lo and behold, they are all mud, and I blame you for supporting them." ”

Mama Chen looked down and saw that the soles of her shoes covered with a pair of blue-dyed cloth skirts were really covered with mud, probably from burying something in the forest that day. I only heard the seventh grandmother say again: "We came out in a hurry, and you didn't bring a replacement of shoes, did you?" I just happened to be in the soles of my shoes, and there are not many pairs of you, but I don't know how much your feet are long? ”

"Slaves, slaves and maids have feet five inches and two minutes long." Mama Chen replied flatteredly.

"Huh."

As soon as the window was closed, the people behind quickly disappeared. Mama Chen breathed a sigh of relief and began to think about quitting work, with this rich silver, she could go back to the countryside at the age of fifty to retire.

On the second day, there was really a pair of brown and yellow cloth shoes with a size of five inches and two outside the windowsill, and Mama Chen picked them up and tried them, they fit and breathed, and the soles of her feet were cool, so she kept wearing them. Today's weather is unbearable, no matter where you go, the white-hot sun overhead follows the people, until the sun sets before the cool wind blows, and the earth is also a lot cooler and more comfortable.

There were less than ten guests left in the Guan family, and the ten ladies and ladies who were guests were given a pair of embroidered shoes inlaid with blue night pearls as gifts, and I heard that everyone happily tried on the new shoes, with a double gauze skirt that could show off their calves, and prepared to go to the pearl tasting banquet tonight.

The pair of red soft satin shoes specially requested by He Angelica was also delivered, although the two pill night pearls on the tip of the shoes were not big, they looked like a blue sky with white clouds, and there were cloud-like halos. Even the two grandmothers who didn't know anything about pearls knew that it was a baby, and they were really amazed for a while.

The evening soon came, and it was still in that garden, where the lanterns hung in the flowers and bushes at night, attracting moths flying low. As soon as you spray the medicated oil, these little worms will be far away.

Mrs. Guan was assassinated the day before yesterday, and everyone thought that she would not be able to come, but when they met tonight, her old man's body looked like she had recovered, her face was ruddy, and she was very talkative. As soon as everyone took their seats, she smiled and said: "Blessed are you, today wearing new shoes, it is still a common thing to taste pearls, and it is rare to invite Master Lu Tan." He was involved in the creation of three pairs of shoes, and if you can guess which three pairs, there is another special reward. The time limit is until the end of the dinner. ”

When all the female guests heard this, they were in an uproar, and everyone was excited and chattered. Even He Angelica participated in such discussions.

"County Lord, have you heard of Master Lu Tan?" Miss Guo Jia, who was sitting next door, asked He Angelica.

He Angelica smiled faintly and said: "Fabulous existence, how can a woman have never heard of it." When I was a child, I also wanted to talk about the master's beads to match my new dress, and I thought about it for years. ”

In fact, she did get a lot in her previous life, and in King Ning's Mansion, no matter how precious the famous embroidery is, it is as easy to obtain as pearls and gemstones. However, at that time, there was a rumor that Master Lu Tan had an OEM person, and most of the sky-high embroidery on the market was completed by OEM, and there were only a dozen heirloom works of the master himself.

Even the things that were not in the palace and the palace were seen in the Guan family. They are really amazing, they can invite the master of Lu Tan to make the upper, it seems that the rumors are true, Mrs. Guan and Master Lu Tan are confidants of embroidery who cherish each other, and they admire each other.

Hearing He Angelica say this, Miss Guo suddenly found a like-minded talker, and happily clenched her fists and said: "The shoes made by Master Lu Tan!" Do you think the image on my feet is not like this? I'm wearing a very comfortable fit! ”

He Angelica looked at it carefully, shook his head and said: "When the last stitch is closed, Master Lu Tan will embroider a millet grain on the reverse side of the cloth with delicate roses, so his embroidery is also called 'rose'." There are not a few stitches on your shoes, they should be made by embroiderers. ”

Miss Guo was suddenly disappointed, and some of them were skeptical, asking, "Is there such a thing?" I've never heard my mother say it, but she has collected all kinds of deeds of Master Lu Tan. ”

He Angelica said: "I have also heard rumors, after all, I have never seen real road embroidery." ”

The people next to them listened to their conversation, and it spread quickly, and they all took off their shoes to find the little rose at the needle. After a while, someone really shouted: "Ahra, I don't have good eyes, but is this a rose?" Others looked at it and looked at the embroidery on the upper, and it was really exquisite, and suddenly, everyone looked at this Miss Liu with envious eyes.

"Wow! Mine too, look, look! "The person who screamed this time was the Luo family's grandmother Dong.

Everyone couldn't help but believe in the screening method He Angelica said, and worked harder to look at the fabric of their shoes under the lights, and no one even paid attention to the pair of night pearls on the tips of the shoes. But they searched and searched, but they didn't find the third pair of embroidery with roses, and some people secretly wondered, was there only two pairs, or was the Guan family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law greedy and secretly deducted a pair?

"County Lord, why don't you take off your shoes and check them?" Miss Guo suddenly looked at He Angelica's red embroidered shoes, "Maybe you are too, the stork picture on it looks quite spiritual." ”

When others checked, He Angelica didn't even move, so the focus of suspicion fell on her again. He Angelica put the teacup lightly, smiled and said: "It's not about me, I heard rumors that Master Lu Tan has very high requirements for fabrics and patterns, and a princess wants to ask him to embroider a wedding dress, but he thinks red silk is cheesy and refuses to do it." My shoes are embroidered with red storks, which are the natural enemies of roses, and always eat up the flowers and seeds of roses, how can they appear in the same embroidered picture. ”

Hearing this, even Song Zhihua couldn't help but admire: "The county lord is so capable, he knows so clearly about the matter of Master Lu Tan, although I have met the master himself twice, I don't know this." Where did the county lord hear that? Everyone was as curious as she was.

"Just listen to it." He Angelica replied.

Old Madam Guan snorted, sounding a little sneering. Listen to it casually, or did someone "specially" tell it to her? He Angelica said these things, even Mrs. Guan, who is a friend of Lu Tan, didn't know all about it, if it wasn't the closest person to Lu Tan, where would he hear about these things? Poor little girl, she has been kept in the dark all the time!

Song Zhi drew the identity of the so-called "Master of Road Talk", and he was also clear about Mrs. Guan's heart disease. Seeing that her mother-in-law's expression was wrong, she hurriedly announced the result with a smile: "You don't have to look for it anymore, except for Mrs. Dong and Miss Liu's shoes, the other shoes are all uppers made in our own embroidery room." It's a pity, but 'Roses' are so rare that even my mother-in-law and I don't wear shoes like that, so we can't do it for every pair of shoes. ”

"Huh?" One lady raised her eyebrows in displeasure and asked, "Didn't you say that there were three pairs, where did the last pair of shoes go?" ”

Song Zhihua and Mrs. Guan glanced at each other, and then announced apologetically: "Actually, there was an accident in the embroidery room last night, and soon after that, I found that there were two embroidery pieces missing, one of which was the Xuemei picture of Master Lu Tan." ”

"What? Stolen! ”

"That's right," Song Zhihua confirmed, "We originally wanted the embroidery girl to copy a few pictures of Xuemei, so that it would be more difficult for everyone to find the real thing in the fake." Because Xuemeitu is so precious, it is the greatest masterpiece of Master Lu Tan in recent years, so even the imitation embroidery girl doesn't know that it is actually the real thing, but who would have expected it...... Alas. ”

Miss Guo made a regretful voice: "A piece of embroidery by Master Lu Tan is not an exaggeration to describe it as valuable, and the only thing that survives is the piece of Luopa in Queen Ma's relics." Now I have another one, and I let the ignorant thief steal it, it's really hateful! ”

"Yes, I think the thief is very knowledgeable." He Angelica answered.

"How so?" Song Zhihua asked, a pair of black crystal-like eyes looking straight at him.

He Angelica smiled: "Didn't Madame say that there are genuine works in the two lost works?" It can be seen that he has met an expert. As she spoke, she seemed to have accidentally become suspicious, after all, she was the only one who didn't know the screening method. If there really is such a thief, she just fits the bill.

Song Zhihua paused before saying: "I apologize to you first, and set up a banquet in the name of Pinzhu tonight, but it is actually a bureau, in order to find out the thief." And all of you present are the ones who are suspicious. ”

"What did you say?" The prefect Han Fei's wife, Mao, immediately felt offended, and asked angrily, "You treat us as thieves?" With our status, we can't pay for what we want, and we can be guilty of being a thief in someone else's house? And the road to talk about hand-embroidery, you just announced! ”

Several other famous ladies also chimed in, and the peaceful atmosphere of the night banquet was disturbed at all.

On the deputy seat, Guan Lin, the Tang lady of the Guan family, beat a drum in her heart, and said in her heart, it was originally to gather these officials and relatives together for the purpose of connecting feelings, and also sent out many blue night pearls of immeasurable value, why did she commit public anger in a few words? Anyway, it's something to give away, is it worth looking for with such fanfare? This time, the shrewd aunt was too misguided, and I hope that the Guan family will not be resentful of the major families in Yangzhou.

It seems that even Old Madam Guan didn't expect the scene to suddenly get out of control, only to see her face ashen for a while, her chest heaved twice, and then coughed violently.

"Mother-in-law, you vomited blood!" Song Zhihua covered his mouth and exclaimed.