[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

If Xing Xiuyan used to make fun of this cute little girl, but now it is ancient times, if she wants to survive here, she still has to pretend to be a multi-faceted person, and she has no choice.

Mrs. Zhang invites again, and Xing Xiuyan also intends to make a good friend in the boudoir. This Miss Shi is lively and amiable, and she likes it when she sees her, so she nodded and said: "If Miss Shi doesn't mind the humble house, it's fine to come and keep me company often. But Madam, please take back the silver taels. I will definitely teach what I can teach. How much I learn depends on the individual. My master confiscated more than half of the silver when he taught me. Now that I have lived with this craft, I don’t need to seek money through apprenticeship. I Master taught me back then because of fate, and I want to teach people to be determined because of fate."

Mrs. Zhang saw the sincerity of what she said, so it was not easy to take the money, but it seemed that they were vulgar.So thank you and put it away, and the words are a little closer.

Xing Xiuyan said, if Shi Hui wants to learn, she just needs to come over with her embroidery shed ready, and Mrs. Zhang agreed with a smile.Anyway, her two little girls also embroidered with her, so it doesn't matter if there are more people.

Xing Xiuyan said again: "Madam, please don't say anything about this matter, just treat Miss Shi as playing with me."

Mrs. Zhang understands the truth.

After Mrs. Zhang and his party went back, they began to prepare.

The next day, Shi Hui was brought here, accompanied by a woman and two servant girls.Every day Xing Xiuyan gave her half an hour to give advice, and assigned homework. During this time, the mother-in-law and maids would also do some housework for the Xing family, and help Xing Xiuyan divide the assembly line. Xing Xiuyan did not feel more tired than before.

On the contrary, Shi Hui was cheerful and out-of-the-box, talking about what he had seen and heard in the southwest made Xing Xiuyan a little yearning.

It was boring to stay in the embroidery room that day, and Xing Xiuyan took her for a walk in the backyard of Panxiang Temple for leisure in the afternoon, without taking her mother-in-law and maidservant.

Shi Hui said: "Did you know that in the Miao Village, I heard that men lose money! If a man wants to find his 'in-law's family', he has to work there for three years. If you don't keep him in the future, he will lose face and become second-hand, and he won't be able to 'marry' in the future!"

Xing Xiuyan couldn't help laughing, she had heard of this walking marriage custom in modern times, Shi Hui saw that Xing Xiuyan didn't blame her for it, but smiled like her, and couldn't help feeling that she was not an "ordinary person", but her confidant.

Shi Hui sighed: "It's a pity that we Han women have to suffer so much."

Xing Xiuyan comforted: "Xiaohui doesn't envy the Miao family girls, in fact, it can only be regarded as their own strengths."

Shi Hui asked back: "How could it be? It is obviously the Han women who suffer."

Xing Xiuyan asked: "Have you ever been to Miao Village?"

Shi Hui nodded and said: "Father announced to comfort the barbarians in the southwest, and there is also a Miao village that we have made friends with. The daughter of the village owner came down to our house and invited me to be a guest. My mother couldn't hold me back, so she sent me there. Played it a few times."

Xing Xiuyan asked: "Then do you think the Miao family is rich or the Han people are rich?"

Shi Hui thought for a while: "That's still Han Chinese."

Xing Xiuyan said: "When you are poor, a penny is hard for a heroic man. Although Han women are not free, their overall life is better than that of Miao women. Miao women seem to be the masters of the family and have status, but the family is poor, and status is not helpful. Besides, the couples of the Han family also have the situation that the lions in the east of the river are afraid of themselves. How they will live in the future depends on how much they have, not the difference between Han and Miao. Besides, Xiaohui is ashamed of Han women and proud of Miao women ?"

Shi Hui couldn't help being startled. She hated the three obediences and the four virtues. When she was rebellious, she always thought Miao Nu's rules were good, but she never looked at it from a different angle, and no one told her that.Her mother told her that three obedience and four virtues are good morals, and that virtue and workmanship are the foundation of a woman's life, but these words made her feel rebellious from the very beginning.Xing Xiuyan made several analysis, but she felt that she was well-informed and insightful.

Shi Hui said: "I am proud of the Han people."

At this moment, I suddenly heard a hearty voice from the door, saying: "I finally heard that my little sister is convincing once."

"Brother!" Shi Hui's eyes lit up and she turned her head away.

I saw a long and tall man walking in outside the courtyard gate, in his early twenties, with a handsome face, black hair like a waterfall, a pair of affectionate peach blossom eyes, wearing a royal blue robe and a jade belt around his waist.

Shi Rui knew that Xing Xiuyan was Shi Hui's master, she was also an unmarried woman, it wasn't that everyone was a lady and didn't pay much attention to etiquette, and he had stayed in the Southwest for more than ten years, so he was reckless for a while.

Shi Rui hurriedly bowed to Xing Xiuyan, and said, "Boy, you're being rude."

Shi Hui rushed over, took his arm and said, "Brother, I haven't seen you for two years, and you're finally back."

The Shi family's ancestral home is Fujian, and Shi Rui has returned to his hometown for the scientific examination in the past two years. This time, Qiu Wei has just finished the examination.Although Shi Rui grew up in the southwest, but different from Shi Hui's pampering, Shi Bai is still very strict with his only son, because of his family background, he finally passed the Juren examination at the age of 19, and he will wait for the spring next year up.

Shi Rui actually got off the pier yesterday and stayed in the post station outside Gusu City, and entered the city early this morning.My father was still on a business trip, and we cried for a while with my mother. When I asked about my younger sister, they said that she learned embroidery at the family of a girl named Xing in Panxiang Temple.Shi Rui knew that the little girl was not popular and didn't have the patience, so he found it interesting.

Mrs. Zhang wanted to gather the whole family together earlier, so she sent someone to inform Shi Hui to go back. Shi Rui said that she would go pick up the younger sister in person. Mrs. Zhang knew that their brother and sister had a good relationship, so she agreed to her son.

Shi Rui stroked Shi Hui's head and said, "Xiaohui has grown taller."

Shi Hui looked at him and said, "No, it only reached your shoulders before, but now it still reaches your shoulders."

Xing Xiu couldn't help but gently covered the corners of his upturned mouth, Shi Rui smiled and said, "We've all grown taller." It's normal for a man to grow taller at the age of 19.

Shi Hui didn't ask him about his fame and fame, but only said: "Is Fujian fun? Is the food there delicious?"

Shi Rui smiled and said, "I haven't forgotten to promise you a monkey's 'big deal'."

If there is something delicious and fun to bring back with her, that is Shi Hui's biggest concern.

Shi Huiguo clapped her hands and laughed, "That's great! That's great!"

Shi Hui jumped to Xing Xiuyan's side again and said, "Sister Xing, you go home with me, my brother brought me delicious and interesting food, let's eat and have fun together."

Shi Rui was raised by a gentleman who was taught not to despise evil, he usually doesn't look at a woman's face when he meets a woman, and he didn't look up when he bowed to her just now, he just thinks that she is dressed in plain green clothes and has a slender figure.At this moment, seeing Shi Hui making a fuss, she couldn't help looking, but was stunned.This is a very beautiful girl in the cardamom age, especially with a light and agile temperament. The green hills are faint and the clouds are misty, but there is no sense of arrogance and aloofness in her body.

Shi Rui didn't dare to look any further, so he closed his eyes, just now he saw the girl with Yingying starry eyes, he was a young man with a lot of vigor, his heart couldn't help feeling hot.But he has been brought up very strictly since he was a child, and he is upright, not a libertine, and because of this wave, he becomes more self-reliant.

But Xing Xiuyan said with a smile: "It's too late for your family to reunite, what am I going to do? If you have the heart, bring some to me to see in the future, and I will miss your friendship."

Shi Hui smiled and said: "Good sister, if I am a heartless person, you can sweep me out when I come later."

Xing Xiu smiled and said: "I dare not, you have an older brother, but I don't have an older brother."

Xing Xiuyan is a commoner girl, and she is a lady from an official family. She doesn't say that you are a lady from an official family and that I am a lowly commoner girl, but she says that you have a brother and I don't.

Shi Hui took her arm and said: "Good sister, then I will divide my brother into half with you. From now on, my brother will be your brother. If others bully you, you will have a brother too."

Xing Xiuyan said: "Master Shi is not your property, how can you share it? Well, you can go to Mr. Shi's house quickly, Mrs. Shi may be impatient to wait, I will not be such a villain who hinders your family reunion."

Xing Xiuyan's friendly words made Shi Hui happy, but Shi Rui couldn't help but sneak a glance at her.

Seeing that she blessed her body, she turned around and left, Shi Hui only turned her back to influence her: "Sister Xing, wait for me!"

Xing Xiuyan didn't look back, she just waved her hand to say goodbye.

Shi Rui's face was flushed, and he stared blankly at the beautiful woman's back.

If you say she is a vulgar girl but she doesn't look like it, if you say she is a lady of everyone, she is a maverick and smart beauty, grabbing people's attention.

While on the carriage, Shi Rui was still thinking about the woman's face, frowning and smiling, and Shi Hui was still bragging, "Learning needlework with Sister Xing, the female red class will not be so difficult."

Shi Hui also took out her "works" to show that one was a handkerchief embroidered by Xing Xiuyan, and the other was a handkerchief embroidered by Shi Hui following Xing Xiuyan's work.That is the difference between a seller's show and a buyer's show, but Shi Hui felt that she had improved a lot.

Shi Hui also proudly said: "My mother finally admitted that what I embroidered were flowers, not tofu."