Chapter 3 Hiding from the World
Zhuang Meiyan cleaned up the room casually, and there were a few half-made purses on the bed, which were sent by the maid Qingbi in the eldest sister's room yesterday, and told her to do it well today. Her female celebrity is doing well, so most of these tasks at home are left to her to do - the sisters call her as if they were calling a girl, and they take it for granted.
She used to be afraid of things, but she felt that it was her own thing, and she tried her best to do it, but now when she held it in her hand, she suddenly felt a trace of resentment in her heart, especially when she turned over the purse with the mandarin duck playing in the water and the pattern of Tilian, her heart couldn't help but tremble. The eldest sister has never done work such as female red, always told the maid to tell her to do it, and after doing it, the eldest sister took it out in her own name and gave it away, and got a good reputation of virtue and virtue in the capital, embroidered such a pattern, and thought it was to be given to him.
Thinking about things in her heart, Zhuang Meiyan was not idle in her hands, she still picked up the needle and thread and sewed it carefully one by one.
After a while, there was a sound outside, it was Chunju who helped her mother into the door, and Zhuang Meiyan put down the needle to help take care of her mother. Serving the mother to lie down, she heard Chunju exclaim:
"Ah, miss, it's all done, in the morning, didn't the slave and maid say that they would wait for the slave and maid to come back and do it, how did you make it all. ”
Chunju was talking about the purse, Zhuang Meiyan was shocked, she remembered that she picked up the purse, all of them were semi-finished products, and some of them had not yet moved the needle and thread, adding up to five or six, how could it be possible to make it at this time?
Zhuang Meiyan looked at the purse neatly placed on the bed in disbelief, but it had already been done, the stitches were symmetrical, the embroidery was exquisite, and it was even better than what she had worked hard to make on weekdays.
Zhuang Meiyan was in a trance in her heart, and vaguely agreed to Chunju's question.
Chunju said to herself while counting:
"Six? Last night Qingbi said that there are only five of them, strange, the material is also suitable, how can there be one more?"
Zhuang Meiyan glanced at the purse on the table, sure enough, there were six, she remained silent, raised her hand to hold the purse of the mandarin duck playing in the water and Tilian, and said to Chunju:
"You take it and give it to Qingbi and them. ”
Chunju was slightly surprised, her young lady has always been honest, and she never dared to leave the extra material privately, and sometimes if the material sent was insufficient, she would quietly make up for it. Chunju wondered as she took her purse out of the room.
After a while, Chunju returned to the house with a sullen look on her face.
When she entered the house, she saw Zhuang Meiyan combing her hair in front of the simple table in front of the vanity mirror, so she didn't say a word, and quietly stepped forward to take the comb and help her take care of it.
Zhuang Meiyan saw the expression on Chunju's face from the mirror, and knew it in her heart, so she asked:
"Going so fast, didn't you find Qingbi and them?"
Chunju's chest rose and fell twice, and finally she couldn't help it, and said angrily:
"The slave maid didn't go into the big garden - they stopped and didn't let them in, the first slave and maid took the lady and wanted to go to the big yard for a walk, but they stopped them, causing the lady to get sick - now it's good, the slave and the maid said to go in and send the purse to Sister Qingbi, they still didn't let it in, but took the purse. ”
"Oh, by the way, the slave maid also bumped into Sister Cuixia next to the second lady, and she asked the slave maid ......"
Chunju suddenly swallowed and vomited, and secretly looked at her young lady with her eyes, and saw that there was no different color on her face.
Zhuang Meiyan asked, "What do you ask?"
Chunju sighed and said, "She asked the slave maid if she had seen Miss's double-disc dragon bracelet wrapped in gold wire, and said that the second lady wanted to make a pair of gold bracelets and wanted to borrow it to make a look." ”
Zhuang Meiyan is like a mirror in her heart, she was originally a smart person, although she used to be cowardly, she knew everything in her heart, and when she thought about it slightly, she guessed the clue.
It seems that the whole family is bent on hiding from her, stealing beams and changing pillars to replace her eldest sister Zhuang Meiyu as a marriage object. What do you mean by "borrowing it to make a look," how can this kind of double-disc dragon bracelet be imitated at will by ordinary officials and eunuchs? This bracelet was given by the emperor to the Marquis of Changxin, and at that time it was clearly stated that he was keeping him and passing it on to his son-in-law's eldest daughter-in-law, and that he would only give one to him, saying that he would give another one on the day of his son-in-law's wedding.
This bracelet can be said to be the identity symbol of the future Mrs. Hou, without it, even if the eldest sister marries in the past, she will not be able to correct her name, and if she doesn't get it right, she will commit the crime of bullying the king.
Zhuang Meiyan's heart is bright, over the years, the second lady has never let her show her head, and when there are guests and daughters at home, she thinks of ways to prevent her from leaving the boudoir. In the past, she was ashamed of herself, she always felt inferior, and she didn't want to go out to meet people, she often came and went, and few people in the outside world knew her identity as the eldest daughter.
Zhuang Meiyan glanced in the mirror, and saw that Chunju, as usual, piled up the hair on her forehead and loosely covered the right half of her face to hide her birthmark. However, the area of the birthmark is too large, and some corners will still be exposed, and the crimson color is hidden between the black hair, which is particularly dazzling. Zhuang Meiyan raised her hand to take the comb in Chunju's hand, combed all the hair on her forehead in three times and two times, re-knotted her hair, and took an ordinary silver hairpin to pin it gently. She opened the closet, there were few decent clothes in it, and finally picked out a half-new honey-colored jacket to change into.
Chunju was secretly surprised, Miss used to hate this red mole the most, and always tried to cover it up, what happened today? She couldn't figure it out, but she felt that today's Miss seemed to be a little different from the past, but she couldn't say it, she only felt that Miss looked dignified, had a steady bearing, and had a unique charm.
Zhuang Meiyan came to the corner gate in the north of the garden and gently pushed it, and sure enough, Mrs. Zhang, who was guarding the door, had always been lazy and forgot to lock the door, so Meiyan quietly squeezed in.
She heard a burst of laughter coming from afar among the mountains and trees, and followed the sound.
Going around behind a rockery, the sound is clearer. Zhuang Meiyan stopped, peeked from behind the rockery, and saw that in a clearing in front of her, dozens of maids and nurses were clustered with five or six well-dressed girls who were pointing out the beautiful scenery in the garden and laughing.
The leader is the eldest sister Zhuang Meiyu, wearing a snow-white silver fox fur placket, a begonia red flowing cloud pleated skirt, which sets off the pink and white delicate of the goose egg face more and more, a pair of danfeng eyes are sparkling, smiling with anger, plump, concave and convex, and indescribable charm.
Zhuang Meiyu was holding a beautiful woman beside her affectionately and chatting enthusiastically. This beauty has shaved shoulders and a thin waist, a slender figure, slender willow eyebrows, long eyelashes slightly drooping, and a small and sharp chin.
Looking at the eldest sister's attentive demeanor, the girl beside her must be a distinguished guest from the capital, although Zhuang Meiyan often does not come out to meet guests, she still knows a little about the guests at home. She heard Zhuang Meiyu call the girl "Sister Zuo", and suddenly thought that the second lady and Prime Minister Zuo's wife were very diligent, and the two families even kissed, presumably this girl was Prime Minister Zuo's eldest daughter Zuo Siru.
Zhuang Meiyan looked at the eldest sister's spring face, smiling proudly, her heart was as uncomfortable as a knife cutting blood, and she really wanted to rush to everyone at once and expose her disguise in public. But she still held back her anger after all, because she knew that rushing over now would only bring shame on herself, and maybe cause other trouble.
She couldn't help but hesitate.
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