Chapter 8 Lychee
The embroidery lady in the treasure pavilion is very young, and she does not look a few years older than the silver candle painting screen.
The picture screen is a little worried, in the past, most of the people in the government invited to tailor clothes for the county lord were some grandmothers, and such a young embroidery girl didn't know what her ability was.
The embroidery girl's name is Jin Niang, and her personality is very hearty: "Noble, please rest assured, don't look at the slave family this year twenty and three, but the slave family has been doing it in this treasure pavilion for ten years, and the slave family has picked up the embroidery needle since the age of five and began to embroider clothes." ”
Zhao Wanning also smiled heartily: "Jin Niang, it's my two maids' fault, I'll compensate you for them." Little girls don't know much, don't be surprised. ”
Jin Niang picked up the soft ruler, and there was no unhappiness on her face: "What's the matter, the little girls are still young, and I was the same when I was like them." ”
Zhao Wanning raised her arm to facilitate the embroidery girl's fit. The last time the female doctor diagnosed her pulse, she said that she was depressed, stagnant qi and blood, and easy to cause nightmares, the female doctor prescribed her some tranquilizing medicine, I don't know if this medicine worked, or because she had already seen it, and she was in a good mood, these days she no longer dreams much, her body seems to be better than in her previous life, and her originally thin body has grown some flesh.
"The clothes on the nobleman's body are a little smaller, especially this shirt, but it's a little tight?"
Zhao Wanning nodded, and said again: "It may be that I have gained some weight recently, and my previous clothes were a little tight." ”
"Your nobleman, this is a wide heart and a fat body, you are not very old, and you are still growing your body." Jin Niang's hands and feet were nimble, and she quickly measured Zhao Wanning's size.
The painting screen took out the materials selected in advance, and the top one was the Shu brocade.
"Are you going to use this material?" Jin Niang asked.
"Yes, just use this to make me a loose flower dress. The style is according to the most fashionable style in your building, and then I will make one for each of these two little girls. ”
Jin Niang said hesitantly: "This Shu brocade material is really good, but the color is a little dull, I'm afraid that it won't match the current age of the noble." ”
Zhao Wanning recalled in her mind the snow-blue cloudy sky and water lingering fairy skirt that Pei Yue gave her in the previous life, the color of that skirt was similar to the color of this Shu brocade, and no one said that she didn't match her age when she wore it.
"That's it." After that, Zhao Wanning's eyes swept over the grapes on the table, "This snow blue is gray, doesn't it look like the grapes on this plate?" ”
It was the grapes that were delivered today, it is said that they were freshly picked from the vines, and there were a few emerald green leaves, and the small kitchen carefully washed the leaves and fruits and placed them in a white jade porcelain plate.
Jin Niang took the material and compared it with the grapes in the white jade plate, the silver screen was quick, and came up to help, one of the two held the white jade plate with grapes, and the other held the snow-blue Shu brocade, and took it to the courtyard, under the sun, the two colors are indeed somewhat similar.
"I see." Zhao Wanning said suddenly. She turned around and went into the small storeroom with the picture screen, and soon returned with a silver-red soft smoke.
Zhao Wanning said: "I took a fancy to this soft smoke last time, but I never knew what to do with it." If you put this silver-red soft smoke on this snow-blue Shu brocade, you can just brighten the color of this Shu brocade. If you embroider some grape vine patterns on it with pine green silk thread, it will look more like a vine full of grapes. ”
Jin Niang stacked the two fabrics on top of each other, which was indeed more like grapes than the color of Shu brocade alone. She hesitated, "That's what the noble man said. It's just that this soft smoke is stacked on top of Shu brocade...... I haven't had such a skill before, and I'm afraid that the slave family will accidentally spoil this material for a while. ”
Zhao Wanning waved his hand: "It's okay." You can try it as I said, but if you can't do it, it's okay, I have other ingredients here. ”
"Yes." Jin Niang responded: "Does the embroidered nobleman on the soft smoke have any requirements?" ”
Zhao Wanning thought about it and took the pen and paper directly. The nobles in Beijing are all accomplished in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, the eldest princess especially loves to paint, and Zhao Wanning once learned some fur in order to please her. As far as she is concerned, although she is not proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, she can cope with it.
Zhao Wanning's subordinates meticulously sketched on the rice paper, the thin vines were entangled, the branches and leaves were luxuriant, and there were a few bunches of blue-green fruits falling.
"That's it, I don't know how to draw, if you embroider a better pattern, use it."
Zhao Wanning didn't have a birthday two days later, and Zhao Chenan came again.
has acted twice, and Zhao Wanning is also interested. She adjusted her expression, what path is she going to take today?
Zhao Chenan still saluted delicately.
Zhao Wanning's eyes stared directly at the maid Ruomeng behind her.
Ruomeng holds an eight-petal begonia plate, and the bottom of the golden plate is blue-glazed porcelain. I don't know what was put on the plate, and a small golden bowl was upside down.
Zhao Chen'an noticed Zhao Wanning's gaze, and his heart became refreshed.
She deliberately said, "How is my sister doing lately?" ”
Zhao Wanning was stunned: "Naturally, everything is fine." ”
In Zhao Chen'an's eyes, Zhao Wanning was depressed, but she still had to force a smile in front of her to maintain the dignity of the county lord of Qinghe. Zhao Chen was refreshed, and the complaints that he had been reprimanded by the eldest princess the day before yesterday disappeared in an instant.
She thought that everything was seamless, and the eldest princess would always favor her, and she was disgusted with Zhao Wanning. In fact, she often wrote letters to the eldest princess when she was still in Luochuan, while telling the eldest princess some of Luochuan's customs and customs, while secretly showing weakness, crying to the eldest princess how her father regretted it, how down, how arrogant her mother was, how red apricot went out of the wall, how she was poorly clothed and hungry, and the weakness over the years was still useful, Luochuan went to war, her father died on the battlefield, and the eldest princess received her letter from Beijing and sent it.
After entering Beijing, she asked the eldest princess to allow her to live in the side room of Qingkuang Courtyard on the grounds of nightmares, and the result of often appearing in front of the eldest princess was the eldest princess's habit of her, and she had to take her with her wherever she went.
As for Zhao Wanning, she was born noble, she was born to be loved by everyone, and she was pampered and raised.
The eldest princess originally didn't like Zhao Wanning because of the Marquis of Zhenbei, and she always liked to lean in front of the eldest princess to remind the eldest princess how unhappy her marriage was.
Zhao Chen'an just told Zhao Wanning how good the eldest princess was to her, Zhao Wanning began to get angry, she was not afraid, she deliberately sprinkled salt on Zhao Wanning's wound, and when Zhao Wanning was so angry that she went crazy, she began to show weakness, and the eldest princess invited by Ruomeng at the right time happened to bump into Zhao Wanning's crazy appearance.
Who would love a crazy woman?
Once or twice, it can still be said that the county lord of Qinghe is young and ignorant, and he doesn't know the severity, but what about three or four times? Spread outside the house to become a family member of the clan, what about the conversation of the common people after tea and dinner?
People's hearts are unpredictable, even if it is a biological daughter, the mother will be disappointed and disgusted.
And she just used a little trick, and she changed from an orphan girl under the fence to a person who can call the wind and rain in the eldest princess's mansion.
It turned out that everything was in her plan, but she didn't expect that since Zhao Wanning divorced, everything has become a little weird.
First of all, the eldest princess took the initiative to come forward to withdraw from the marriage for Zhao Wanning, she wanted to use Zhao Wanning's withdrawal from the marriage by Qi to disrupt Zhao Wanning's plan to disrupt Zhao Wanning's marriage, and then she was scolded by the eldest princess for revealing to Zhao Wanning that the Hundred Flowers Banquet was held to show her, and asked her to move out of Qingkuang Courtyard.
Zhao Wanning didn't know what Zhao Chen'an was thinking in front of her, she pretended to be deep: "Sister, what good things did you bring me again?" ”
Zhao Chen'an's eyes fluttered, and he smiled coquettishly: "My aunt sent me some lychees from the south, and I thought that my sister might not have tasted this year's lychees, so I sent them to my sister." ”
Zhao Wanning has indeed not eaten lychees this year. Lychee is a delicate thing, transported all the way from Lingnan to the capital, the road is long, and it is inevitable to stumble, even if there are officials of Bingzheng to escort it all the way, there are not many that can be transported to the capital intact.
There are poems in the past: a concubine laughs on a dusty ride, and no one knows that it is a lychee.
Most of the lychees in the capital were picked by the holy people who went to Lingnan, and the lychees picked back had to be distributed to the palace maidens, princes and princesses, as well as those princes and ministers, so each person received very little.
Zhao Wanning smiled and said, "I see, then thank my sister first." ”
Zhao Wanning handed a color to the silver candle, and the silver candle stepped forward to take the begonia plate in Ruomeng's hand. There were also ice cubes on the plate, and the ice gas was coming out along the edge of the bowl.
Zhao Wanning smiled brightly: "Is there anything else?" Sister Chen'an. ”
Zhao Chen'an was still immersed in the fact that Zhao Wanning was not angry, she originally thought that Zhao Wanning would be angry and crazy this time, Zhao Wanning loves to eat lychees, before she entered the eldest princess's mansion, the lychees rewarded by the saints were directly sent to Invite Yueyuan.
Zhao Chen'an had already ordered another maid to invite the eldest princess over in advance, just to repeat the old trick, so that the eldest princess could watch Zhao Wanning go crazy with her own eyes, but she didn't expect Zhao Wanning to accept it easily, how can this be good?
Ching Kuang Yuan.
The eldest princess was worshipping the Buddha in the small Buddha hall, and suddenly heard a commotion in the courtyard, she closed her eyes and reverently chanted the scriptures, and the maid Bai Shuang beside her quietly retreated.
It turned out to be the maid Rumeng who moved out of Qingkuang Courtyard with Zhao Chen'an.
Rumeng was so anxious that she cried out: "Sister Baishuang, save Miss Cousin!" ”
"What's wrong?" White Frost asked.
"Miss Biao heard that the county lord likes to eat lychees, so she sent the lychees that the eldest princess rewarded today to the county lord, but I didn't expect the county lord to ......."
Rumeng said as he stared at the door of the small Buddha hall, only to see that the gate was closed.
White Frost asked sharply, "What the hell is going on?" ”
"The county lord, the county lord, she ......" Rumeng didn't know what the county lord was doing now, she was sent by Zhao Chen'an to invite the eldest princess halfway, Miss Table only said that she would invite the eldest princess no matter what, so she gritted her teeth and said: "The county lord is beating Miss Table in Yueyuan!" ”
Bai Shuang's face changed instantly, his eyebrows were twisted together, and he turned around and entered the small Buddha hall.
When the eldest princess and her party hurried to the Yueyue Garden, Zhao Wanning was comfortably eating the lychee that the painting screen had peeled for her, and Zhao Chen'an and Ruomeng had already left.
Seeing the eldest princess, Zhao Wanning was addicted to drama again, she swallowed the flesh in her mouth in two bites, but accidentally choked and coughed: "Cough, cough." ”