On this day, Zheng Haizhu took the prepared embroidery ceremony and went to Huang Zunsu's house.

Because of the post in advance, although Huang Zunsu was in the mansion, his wife Yao was already waiting in the front hall.

Yao's family is not very old, he comes from a large family in Yuyao, and he has read some books very much.

Last time, she was quite surprised when she saw that Zheng Haizhu could be taken out by the master of the house to entertain, and she was not a concubine.

After asking Zheng Haizhu a few words alone, I learned that it was not a nephew and niece of the main mother's family, but just a rural girl in Fujian who was favored by the eldest lady and had a little thin art, and I felt more and more that it would not be so simple.

As soon as she turned around, she asked her husband, and Huang Zunsu said to her with some coldness: Miss Zheng is just humble, and she actually comes from a scholarly family, not a country maid who has no knowledge, and what is even more rare is that when the time comes, she has the courage to meet the enemy and fight bandits, why can't she come out and walk with the master's house?

Yao then made a note and came out in person today to bring Zheng Haizhu into the back house.

It is the pleasant season of autumn, and the sun shines through the branches and leaves, printing round copper coins on the ground one after another.

Yao let Zheng Haizhu to the stone table next to the lotus jar, pointed to the table full of candied fruits, and said softly: "I don't feel cold when I pass by, I think, it's better to entertain Miss Zheng in the courtyard and not be depressed." ”

Of course, Zheng Haizhu said yes again and again respectfully.

After sitting down, she admired the small and delicate garden with great interest, and the admiration in her eyes was deliberately increased, also out of courtesy.

The cinnamon is gradually falling, but the begonia flowers in the small garden are blooming delicately and softly, the pink is bright, the orange is elegant, there are a few pots of light color, mutton fat jade general, among which there is a goose yellow stamen, teaching Zheng Haizhu to think of the daffodils in Zhangzhou.

Although Zhangzhou is not her hometown in the true sense of the word, it is the starting point for her to regain her life, giving her a small fortune and a filial nephew.

After leaving Fujian and going north, Zheng Haizhu sometimes thinks of the sea and reefs in the east of Longxi County, and his nose still seems to smell the aroma of narcissus.

Yao saw Zheng Haizhu's eyes fall on the begonias, so he smiled and said: "When I came from Yuyao, this yard was still the handiwork of the tenants in front of me, and the high ones were osmanthus flowers, and the low ones were all chrysanthemums, so I ordered everyone to shovel them and replace them with begonias." ”

Zheng Haizhu's eyebrows moved.

Yao was so happy to go deep into the footnote: "Speaking of which, Chongyang is right in front of you, and those chrysanthemums are also growing well, and it is said that a few of them are still famous species." I don't like these plum orchids, bamboo chrysanthemums, breezy and arrogant bones, I only like beautiful and lovely flowers. Our lord, let me toss it. ”

After listening to her last sentence, Zheng Haizhu knew in her heart that she wanted to catch the scene of the hostess sprinkling dog food, and hurriedly said: "It looks good, the same as Hu Aya and Hangjin." ”

As he spoke, he ordered the little maid of the Han Mansion who came with him to open the box, take out a silk yarn bag, shake it open, and tell the Yao family about the embroidery ceremony one by one.

Two fans, one embroidered with tuberose, Taihu stone and butterflies, and the other embroidered with fish swimming in the water under the willow silk.

Yao stared at the fish and blurted out: "Ah, it's really like Liu Sui's fish in Xuanhe's painting." ”

Zheng Haizhu knew that she also knew how to draw, and her response to the respect revealed joy: "The maid is supposed to be grandma praising this fan, and my young lady learned the skills of danqing before pinching the needle and threading." ”

Yao's watched carefully for a while, and when he spoke again, his tone was also convincing: "It turned out to be a Danqing foundation, no wonder the embroidery is handsome, according to me, how many treasures of embroidered fish from Suzhou Mansion have brought a vulgar taste of streets and alleys, like offerings during the New Year's Festival, compared to your young lady's fish, there is poetry and rhyme." ”

Zheng Haizhu joked: "If you want to talk about the vivid rhyme, this bush of begonias on grandma's fan is also heavenly." ”

Yao pursed her lips: "The girl has good eyesight, my fan is the marriage of my mother's family, and in the past, the palace was rewarded to the courtiers' children, and my grandmother got a handful and passed it on to us." ”

Zheng Haizhu took out another piece of forehead wiping and a collar cloud shoulder, and held it to Yao's: "Grandma, the foundation of this set of embroidery is made of our plain velvet from Zhangzhou, which is particularly comfortable to wear in winter." ”

Yao's eyes brightened this time, and he was quite amazed: "This embroidered pomegranate flower?" Lined with this dark green velvet bottom, it looks so good. ”

Zheng Haizhu bowed and said: "My young lady thinks, wearing in the cold weather, embroidering plum blossoms is a little ordinary, it is better to find another way, but embroider a piece of summer pomegranate, red and gorgeous, look at the heat and warm people." ”

Yao had already loved the female celebrity in front of him so much that he turned his head and instructed the maid: "Take out the mirror." ”

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When Huang Zunsu entered the backyard, his wife Yao was putting the cloud shoulder on her body and tasting the effect in the bronze mirror.

The woman's gaze quickly moved beyond the outline of the mirror and Jung's shoulders to catch her husband's figure.

She whispered, with a charming smile on her face, and greeted her: "Why did the master come back before noon?" Zong Xi has gone to Dongjiashu to study. ”

Zheng Haizhu also hurriedly stood up and saluted Huang Zunsu.

Huang Zunsu said "um" to Yao's family, and said to Zheng Haizhu: "Because of a business matter, I just got the news, and I was about to talk to Miss Zheng, look at Chenguang, so I came back to touch it, and sure enough, I was there." Miss Zheng, let's talk in the front hall. ”

Zheng Haizhu was stunned, and Huang Zunsu had already turned around and walked towards the front hall.

The smile in Yao's eyes was closed, and when he turned his head, he couldn't see anything unusual, only with the prudence of the rules, and said: "The master has something to say, the girl should go quickly." ”

The two of them walked out of the small courtyard one after the other, arrived at the foyer, and after sitting down on the wooden chair, Huang Zun didn't have time to take a sip of the tea served by the maid, so he went straight to the point: "Miss Zheng, the catcher in the house came back from Gusu City quickly, and reported that the embroidery female senior who lived near the Canglang Pavilion was gone. ”

Zheng Haizhu frowned slightly: "Master Huang, that senior is lonely and perverse, will he think that Canglang Pavilion is a famous spot after all, and he is noisy, so he moves?" ”

Huang Zunsu said: "I quickly asked the nunnery that rented out the house, and the nun in charge was old, and she would only nag repeatedly, renting money as she pleased, and coming and going. ”

Zheng Haizhu smiled bitterly: "Ask them, I really can't ask anything." Previously, when I went to study art with my young lady, I saw the masters in the nunnery next door, opening their mouths and closing their mouths, as if you told them that the sky was about to fall, and they would only reply to you with three words, asking for Buddhism. ”

Huang Zunsu looked at the girl in front of him, and the corners of his lips seemed to be sarcastic, but in fact, out of compassion, he felt particularly vivid and real for a while, and couldn't help but smile helplessly.

But he quickly moved on to get back to the point.

"Miss Zheng, you said that the senior's surname was Lu, and he also used a mask to cover his face below his nose in the hot summer, because he practiced embroidery hard when he was young, and dozed off on the embroidery bandage late at night. However, I took the handwritten letter of our Zhuang Governor's Mansion and went to Suzhou Mansion to investigate, and the registered road guide was a few old women surnamed Lu, but they all traveled to Suzhou with their husbands and sons, and there was no indication on the road guide that there was a difference in appearance. Catching quickly and thinking, the old lady was actually a local, so he went to the embroidery workshop in the long street and alley to inquire, but there was nothing to say. Miss Zheng, Suzhou has been the Jiangnan embroidery sect for a hundred years, if there is really such a master in the hometown, and the appearance is so flawed, those old and young embroidery girls will not know, right? ”

When Zheng Haizhu heard this, he was actually the same as Huang Zunsu, and his suspicions rose.