Two days later, coinciding with the Chinese Valentine's Day, the emperor held a banquet in the imperial garden.

It's just that Xiao Xiwei is not on the list of people who will go to the banquet this time. However, she was also happy to be idle, so she asked people to set up a table in the courtyard and bring needles and threads, and watched the girls in the yard thread needles and beg.

Most of the girls around Chu Xizhi have a calm temperament, unlike the few girls around Xiao Xiwei, except for the red rain, none of them are not noisy. As soon as I heard that the princess said that the person who wore the most needles would give a golden hairpin, and the others would be rewarded with one or two silvers, everyone was eager to try it one by one.

Xiao Xiwei was very tired after pregnancy, and Hongyu didn't participate in the needle test, so Xiao Xiwei handed over the overall situation to Hongyu. With Hongyu watching, and Ruosu on the side, Xiao Xiwei happily sat on the chair and watched a few girls bow their heads and wear needles in full swing.

I still remember that last year's Qixi Festival, she was still thinking about how to avoid Chu Yanzhi's courtship, who would have thought that it was Chu Xizhi who would ask her for marriage in the end. It's been a whole year since last year's Qixi Festival, but when she looks back, she always feels as if it was still yesterday.

Stretched out her hand, took off the white jade lotus tassel hairpin on her sideburns, and looked at the clear white jade lotus, as if she had a pity to insert this hairpin into her sideburns.

It's a pity.

"Okay, it's time, let's stop." Red Rain spoke out.

There was a sudden sigh of mourning in the courtyard.

"Sister Hongyu, can't you give me a little more time, I've only worn seven needles, and I can't think of the princess's reward now."

"You also wore at least seven needles, just now when Sister Hongyu shouted, my hands were so shaky that I couldn't even hold the needles, let alone seven, I didn't wear any of them!"

As soon as the girl finished speaking, the girls in the room laughed.

"Alright, alright, don't make any noise." Biyun interrupted the girls' words with a smug face, and eagerly set her eyes on Hongyu, "Sister, you can count quickly and see who wears the most." ”

"Look at Sister Biyun's appearance, Sister Biyun must have been wearing a lot of clothes this time." A girl covered her mouth and smiled.

"Not really." Biyun raised his eyebrows, his face full of joy.

Xiao Xiwei looked at the girls in the yard and laughed, and couldn't help but feel a little happy, and a little smile appeared on her face.

In the end, according to Hongyu's statistics, Biyun wore thirteen needles, but she was not the most, the most was a girl named Xiu'er in the sewing room.

As soon as Biyun heard that she didn't wear the most needles, her face collapsed, "I thought I was the ...... the most" Speaking of this, she looked at the girl named Xiu'er with some complaints, and said, "Why did you say you wore so much." ”

This needle test, Xiao Xiwei said that the person who threaded the needle the most could get a golden hairpin, which was not heavy, but she was a little clever and thought that there was the most favored girl around the princess in this needle threading test, and before the needle threading started, Biyun rolled up her sleeves and shouted that this golden hairpin belonged to her. Obedient and obedient, how dare they compete with the cronies around the princess, so when they thread the needle, they are more or less put water, otherwise, how can someone not be able to wear a needle, but I didn't expect a show to emerge in the middle. This Xiu'er is only thirteen years old this year, she looks dry, and she is a little timid, she has been playing in the needlework room, who would have thought that she would win Biyun today.

Seeing that the girl named Xiu'er was frightened by Biyun's words, she squinted her eyes and glanced at Biyun and said, "What's the matter, you are stupid and complain about others." ”

"I'm clumsy? I'm stupid and wear thirteen pieces, unlike some people who only wear four pieces of hard work. Biyun snorted vigorously and looked at the purple flue provocatively.

Looking at Biyun's scoundrel look, Ziyan rolled her eyes vigorously, "What if you wear more, you are not someone else's defeat." ”

She is a person with a knife and a sword, and it is already remarkable that she can wear four needles. If Biyun, this girl, has the ability to compare with her with a sword and a sword!

One sentence made Biyun speechless.

Biyun stomped her foot angrily, turned her face and shouted aggrievedly Xiao Xiwei, "Miss, look at Ziyan." ”

"Look at what? See you lose? Xiao Xi lowered his head slightly and took a sip of tea, and said with a smile.

"Miss." Biyun stomped his foot again unconvinced.

"Biyun, don't your feet hurt if you work so hard?" Seeing that Xiao Xiwei didn't help Biyun, Ziyan couldn't help but quip.

The low laughter of the girls sounded in the courtyard, and even Xiao Xiwei couldn't help laughing.

Bi Yun just wanted to stomp his feet, but suddenly remembered Ziyan's words, so he had to accept it stiffly, and looked at Xiao Xi with a scarlet face and said, "Miss, why are you still laughing with them, I'm really shameless." ”

Xiao Xi couldn't help but smile slightly, "I knew that I would be faceless, so I didn't talk so much in the first place!" Besides, you're not the only one who loses, you're not bad, isn't the first to the second? ”

"That's it, Sister Biyun, think about me, I haven't put a needle in." A girl walked up to Biyun and pulled the corner of her sleeve with a smile.

When Biyun heard this, he immediately felt uncomfortable, so he went down the steps and stopped humming.

Seeing that Biyun was no longer making trouble, Xiao Xiwei smiled and beckoned to Xiu'er, who had been lowering his head and not daring to hum, "Come here, you win today, this golden hairpin belongs to you." ”

Xiu'er glanced at Xiao Xiwei timidly, and finally walked to Xiao Xiwei step by step.

Xiao Xi glanced at Ruo Su with a slight sideways glance.

Ruo Su understood, took out the golden hairpin that Xiao Xiwei had already prepared from the box and handed it to Xiu'er, and said to her with a smile, "Take it." ”

Looking at the golden hairpin in Ruosu's hand, the girls in the courtyard looked straight for a while, and then looked at the princess with a smile on her face, without a trace of annoyance, and couldn't help but regret it in her heart. Knowing this, they should have worked hard to thread the needle, and they would not have fallen into the hands of such a timid girl with such a good hairpin.

Ruo Su's hand hanging on her leg shook and loosened, loosened and clenched, and after a while, she seemed to have the courage to raise her head and look at Ruo Sudao, "Aunt, aunt, I ...... Shall I take it and exchange it for silver? ”

Ruo Su's eyebrows twisted slightly, obviously she didn't expect this little girl to make such a request.

Seeing that Ruosu didn't answer, Xiu'er hurriedly said, "Auntie, I don't want more, just fifteen...... No, ten taels, just ten taels of silver. ”

The golden hairpin in Ruosu's hand is exquisitely made, and the color is bright, and it is pure gold at a glance, and it is worth more than fifteen taels of silver. This Xiu'er didn't know if she was stupid or what's wrong, she actually thought about exchanging gold hairpins for silver.

Some of the girls below couldn't help but whisper timidly.

Ruo Su looked at the begging in Xiu'er's eyes, she covered her mouth and coughed lightly, turned her head to look at Xiao Xi and said, "Princess, look ......"

"Princess, please." Xiu'er knelt down.

"Do you know how much this golden hairpin is worth?" Xiao Xiwei looked at Xiu'er and said.

Xiu'er shook her head, then nodded again.

"You nodded and shook your head, what the hell do you mean!" Biyun couldn't help but say loudly.

Xiu'er gritted her teeth, and finally said to Xiao Xi as if she was out of the way, "The slave doesn't know how much this golden hairpin is worth, but the slave knows that this golden hairpin must be very valuable, too expensive...... Ten taels of silver. ”

"It's not just ten taels, not to mention that this gold hairpin was made by my uncle and the best goldsmith in Suzhou, and the weight of this gold hairpin alone is more than ten taels of silver! It's really unheard. Biyun chirped.

"Yo, I don't see that you still use the words 'lonely and unheard', it seems that I am really 'lonely and unheard'." Ziyan covered her mouth and smiled.

Biyun's face flushed, and he glared at Ziyan vigorously, "Why are you choking with me today!" ”

"I'd love to." Ziyan pursed her lips and said with a smile.

"Purple smoke." Hongyu, who had not spoken, glanced faintly at the purple smoke and blue clouds that were still bickering.

Ziyan and Biyun glared at each other at the same time, and then turned their heads away and stopped talking.

"Since you know the value of this golden hairpin, why do you want to exchange it for silver?" Ruosu looked at Xiu'er and said.

Xiu'er knelt on the ground, pulling the clothes on her body with both hands, and opened her mouth several times but couldn't speak.

"Princess." At this time, a mother-in-law from a needlework room came out and knelt beside Xiu'er, "Princess, Xiu'er, this girl also has a hard time." Her father knows how to gamble if he doesn't work every day, and if he loses money, he asks Xiu'er for it, and a while ago Xiu'er and his father lost a lot, and was caught and beaten by the people in the gambling room, crying and looking for Xiu'er for money, but Xiu'er gave his father all these years of silver, how can there be silver, so he ...... "The mother-in-law is articulate, and she will explain the cause and effect clearly in a few words."

"Miss, since she wants to exchange silver, let's exchange it for her, anyway, she won this time." After listening to her mother-in-law's words, Biyun couldn't help but intercede for Xiu'er.

Xiao Xi smiled, "Why, this will make you pretend to be a good person." ”

"Miss, why do you mention this! Didn't I know that at the time? Biyun smiled a little embarrassedly.

Xiao Xi smiled helplessly, and looked sideways at Hongyu, "Hongyu, give her ten taels of silver." ”

"Yes." Hongyu answered, and then took out ten taels of silver and put it in Xiu'er's hand.

"Xiu'er, don't thank you yet, princess." The mother-in-law pushed Xiu'er, who was still in a daze, and said happily.

"Thank you, Princess Xie." Xiu'er stammered, and she couldn't come back to her senses for a while.

"The money was given to you, but it was not given for free. This time the needle is clever, and the good color head is the golden whale, which is the golden hairpin, and the ten taels of silver will be borrowed from me to borrow you, when you deduct enough ten taels of silver from your monthly silver, then, I will return this golden hairpin to you. Xiu'er, you can hear me clearly. Xiao Xiwei looked at Xiu'er and said.

"Yes ......" held the silver in his hand, and Xiu'er was full of joy.

Well, now Daddy doesn't have to have his hands cut off by the gambling house.

Looking at Xiu'er's thin body, Xiao Xi sighed very lightly in his heart, "Okay, the excitement is over, Hongyu, give each person a tael of silver." ”

"Yes." The red rain blessed the body.

Hearing that there was silver hair, the courtyard boiled at once.

Listening to the laughter in the courtyard, Xiao Xi looked up at the lonely sky above his head, and sighed faintly, "I don't know what is happening in the palace now?" ”