[The Legend of Zhen Huan] Rebirth of An Lingrong

As the end of the year approaches, it is time to start dredging various official festivals.In the past few years, An's mother has gotten older, and she seldom walks around in person. Most of the time, Fang's family took Lingrong to walk around with the wives of various families.

Before the end of the year, there are countless gatherings of all kinds, large and small.The status of An's family is quite embarrassing. Although An Bihuai is an official, his official position is too low, and there are too many people on top, and these people have to be taken care of one by one.Although the An family also has a lot of business, they are not authentic merchants, but these people cannot be ignored in business. After all, no matter how good the official voice is, they need money to live and work.

In fact, Ling Rong doesn't like to participate in these activities. The topics among the noble ladies are always inseparable from the topics of clothes, jewelry, husband-in-law, and children, and they are often talked about by a few, and the rest are foils. It is precisely the kind of foil that is boring.

What Lingrong valued more was the relationship with Mr. Ma's family. Although Mr. Ma seldom walked around in the officialdom, he was very knowledgeable and full of peaches and plums. Many students were already officials, and his status should not be underestimated.

In the past few years, Lexus has been working hard and has achieved good results, so Mr. Ma also attaches great importance to Lexus and takes good care of him.But it's just a teacher's care for a student, which is far from enough.Ling Rong has always wanted to find a breakthrough from Mrs. Ma Feng Jiashi, hoping to get a closer relationship with the Ma family, but unfortunately he has not been able to find a way.

Mrs. Ma treated all of Mr. Ma's students indifferently, impartially, and never showed that she treated anyone differently. Compared with Mr. Ma, Mrs. Ma was even more difficult to please.

Every festive season, Ling Zhi would prepare gifts and send them to Ma's mansion, and Ling Rong would also rack his brains to prepare novel but not too expensive gifts for Ling Zhi to give to Mrs. Ma together.Mrs. Ma never showed any special affection, but she didn't refuse either.Every time Mrs. Ma would ask someone to send a corresponding gift in return, they were very common gifts, and one could tell at a glance that it was a standard return gift prepared by the people below, which disappointed Ling Rong, but Ling Rong insisted on giving it, never Intermittent.

The only surprise came from the box of avocado tent incense, which was unexpected, and left an impression of Ling Rong in Madam Ma's heart.What's more, Tong Jiashi, the wife of Ma Qi, a scholar of the Hall of Valor, who likes the fragrance of this avocado tent!This surprised Ling Rong very much.

Ling Rong knew that it would be difficult to make a name for such a little thing in front of Tong Jiafujin, but as long as there is a little connection, the impression can be deepened step by step.Therefore, every time Ling Zhi sent a festival gift to Mafu, Ling Rong would send it with an avocado tent incense.If there is a new oil or spice that has been figured out, it will also be sent along.So slowly, sometimes I will receive some different gifts in return, which comforts Ling Rong a little.

The palace flowers sent by Liuli this time gave Lingrong some inspiration. Women love beauty regardless of their status or age, but they like different types of things.

The custom of hairpin flowers has a long history. At first, women just picked flowers and put them in their hair. Later, various palace flowers made of brocades evolved, and both flowers and palace flowers are deeply loved by women.Ling Rong believes that there will always be a palace flower that will impress Mrs. Ma.

Liuli was very honest, and hurriedly sent over forty or fifty kinds of palace flowers.Mausoleum chooses among these beautiful flowers. Although they are all beautiful, even more exquisite than those available in the market, they still cannot meet Mausoleum's requirements.These palace flowers are too ordinary, only suitable for women from ordinary families, and not enough to make Mrs. Ma's heart flutter.Ling Rong was not disappointed, she already had an idea.

Ling Rong selected some festive patterns from the palace flowers, and asked Liuli to rush to make a batch with a few maids, and put them in his shop for sale.Depending on the materials used, the price is set at different levels. It is the Chinese New Year, and even the poorer families are willing to spend some silver taels to buy flowers for the mother and daughter at home, so the sales are not bad.

Ling Rong took [-]% of the profit, gave Liuli [-]%, and the remaining [-]% ​​was divided equally among the maids. The little girls were very happy when they got the silver.

Seeing that Ling Zhi was going to Ma Mansion to give a new year gift, Ling Rong drew the blueprint overnight, hired an experienced master to help him make a batch of things, and then worked hard with Liu Li for a whole day, finally it was Hurry up and produce a batch of congratulatory gifts that are satisfactory to the mausoleum.If these little things can catch Mrs. Ma's eyes this time, many of her plans will be much easier to implement.

On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, Ling Zhi was going to give the New Year's gift to Master Ma, while Ling Yong wanted to go to find his brother Ma Binma, so the two brothers went together with the New Year's gift.Ling Rong entrusted Ling Zhi to hand over the avocado tent incense that he had prepared earlier and the gift that he had made overnight to Mrs. Ma.

It was still early when Ling Zhi and Ling Yong arrived at Ma Mansion, and there were very few people who went to visit.Ling Yong followed Ling Zhi to pay homage to Mr. Ma, gave the New Year's gift, and went to play with his brother Ma. Ling Zhi gritted his teeth angrily, fearing that Ling Yong would cause some trouble again, and secretly vowed to be ruthless when he returned home. It's impossible to punish that bastard!

Ling Zhi had a conversation with the master, and Madam Ma came out of the inner room, and then Ling Zhi took out the things prepared by Ling Rong.

"Student An Lingzhi has met his teacher's wife. A small gift is not a respect, so please accept it with a smile." Ling Yong presented the gift box respectfully, and his maid took it away and put it away.

"Ma'am, let's open it and have a look. My husband is very curious about what interesting gadgets Lexus has brought this time." Mrs. Ma is very fond of Ling Zhi, a student who is talented, hardworking, and generous in his dealings with others. Good seedling.

Although Ling Zhi's family background is ordinary, he is magnanimous, and his bearing is no worse than that of the family.The key is to be very caring, and every gift he sends is very much in line with his wishes.And it is precisely because there are no intricate forces behind Lexus that he can cultivate without any worries.

Ma opened her mouth, but Mrs. Ma couldn't refuse, so she nodded and signaled the maid to open the gift box, but there were eight lifelike palace flowers, plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum, two of each.

"This is... a palace flower?" Mrs. Ma carefully picked up a white plum palace flower.

It is said that it is a palace flower, but it cannot be completely regarded as a palace flower. The shape is more like a combination of a hairpin and a palace flower.At first glance, it looks like freshly folded flowers, with a faint plum fragrance!

The flower branches of Baimei are carved out of sterling silver. The branches and textures of the plum are carefully made, and the old treatment is specially carried out. The color of the flower branches is almost unreal; It is made of tender pink satin with pure silver thread, the bone is made of silver thread, and the petals are made of satin. It is strung together with pearls the size of rice grains. With a slight movement, the stamens will flutter gently, looking lifelike!And there are five plum blossoms of different shapes and slightly different colors on this hairpin, either in full bloom, or half-open, or budding, beautiful like a scroll of ink painting.

"Which family's master is this, who actually has such good craftsmanship?" Master Ma picked up a goose-yellow chrysanthemum palace flower and looked at it carefully, and couldn't help being amazed.

"Master's praise, it's just a gadget made by my daughter's family when she has nothing to do. It's really hard to be elegant, and I hope my mother won't dislike it." Ling Zhi said humbly.

"The craftsmanship is rare, and the thought is even more ingenious. This gift, my wife, loves it very much." Mrs. Ma picked up another palace flower in the shape of emerald bamboo, and played with it carefully. The bamboo joints were carved from emerald jade, and the leaves were made from It is made of gold and silver thread, peacock feathers and green silk thread, which is tangible and intentional.

Mrs. Ma caressed it carefully, feeling quite fond of it.

"Shui Bi, go and get the headgear I bought at the 'Zhen Bao Xuan' a few days ago." Madam Ma put down the emerald bamboo-shaped palace flower, and picked up a rose-red orchid palace flower and began to play with it.

But in the time of a stick of incense, Shui Bi came back with a not-so-small brocade box.Mrs. Ma took the brocade box and handed it to Ling Zhi.

"The end of the year is approaching, this small gift should be regarded as a gift from the teacher's mother to Miss An. In the future, if Girl An is free, let her come and enjoy the flowers and drink tea with the teacher's mother."

"Ling Zhi thanked the teacher on behalf of my sister." Ling Zhi was not polite, and reached out to take the brocade box.

Several people chatted for a while, seeing more and more guests coming to visit, Ling Zhi got up and said goodbye wisely, went to find Ling Yong who had gone crazy, and went home together.

After returning home, Ling Yong brought the brocade box and Mrs. Ma's words to Ling Rong, and Ling Rong was very happy.

Gently open the gorgeous brocade box, inside is a whole set of jade stones, carved to look like jade combs, the jade is good jade, polished very smooth, without extra patterns, there are nine sets of large and small.

"This... is too precious." Ling Rong took out the smallest jade comb and played with it carefully. It was as moist as water and absolutely extraordinary.

"Although this face is precious, it is not a rare item. It is not as popular as the palace flower given by Rong'er, so Rong'er just accept it with peace of mind." Ling Zhi took it for granted.

"How can this be the same? No matter how beautiful the palace flower is, it only takes up the word 'exquisite'. How can it be compared with this face?" Ling Rong couldn't help but laugh.

"Master's mother has never seen any jewelry, so how can she care about these? It is Rong'er's ingenuity that Master's wife loves. Naturally, her heart is more precious than jade, so why should Rong'er belittle herself." Ling Zhi asked a little puzzled.

"..." Ling Rong didn't know how to answer for a moment, she was just too used to calculating the gains and losses.

Even this time, she spent so much time and effort just to catch up with Mrs. Ma so that she can make a living in the business of palace flowers in the future.She has long forgotten what sincerity is. In that gorgeous tomb, sincerity is worthless!She has never dared to give her sincerity, and she is used to measuring everyone by gain or loss.Perhaps, she shouldn't think of everyone so utilitarianly.

The author has something to say:

Solve the money problem first, then solve the official position problem, everything will be fine