[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

Xing Xiuyan had to have someone send Wang Fu away, and then she asked someone to prepare brocade and orbs. She thought that she would not be blind if she secretly embroidered a belt for the uncle.

Furthermore, since the meridian was opened up, the whole body is smooth, but when I was still A Piao, I knew a little bit of superficial absorption skills to this blood, and it was much better than before.

She asked Nanny Cui, who was a female officer of the Shangyi Bureau, to go to the warehouse to find the gemstones and jades collected in recent years. She found a moon-white cloud brocade and carefully cut and sewed it, and sewed carved or hollowed-out jade on it.All the way to lunch, a beautiful jade belt for aristocratic men was formed, and people carried simple meals to the kang, but she didn't care about eating.The nuns were sent by the palace, knowing that she was giving a gift to the saint, so they gave a little persuasion, and it was up to her.

Xing Xiuyan took red silk thread again and embroidered "Don't lose, don't forget, longevity and prosperity".She smiled, thinking that this is "Red Mansion", which makes it so interesting, and even flattered her, which is similar to "Long live, long live, long live", but it is more pretentious.

In the afternoon, she embroidered a pouch and a forehead.

After dinner, she wrote a letter again, this time in a more serious manner, expressing her admiration, gratitude and longing for him.

The next day, she packed the gift in a small box and gave it a picture she had drawn when she was with Daiyu in Yangzhou for nearly a year.

Because he mentioned the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River in his letter, which can also be seen in his paintings.Xin Xiuyan was originally in the advertising industry, was born as an art student, and has painting skills; and later learned from Miaoyu; after becoming an embroiderer, the top embroiderers have higher requirements for painting skills, ancient painting skills and modern art skills Combination, not to mention a master, but it is not bad.Because how can a person who can't even draw a picture embroider lifelike things?

Wang Fu and his party returned to the capital with letters and things from Xing Xiuyan, many of which were filial piety from the Lin family.But before the New Year's Eve, the Lin family had already paid tribute, and this time it was only in the name of Xing Xiuyan's gift, but with Tu Yuanyi's intelligence, he naturally knew what was going on.

Daiyu is a very clever person, but Xing Xiuyan didn't come to play with her when she was busy, so she could rest assured to prepare things for her "uncle emperor".

After Wang Fu left, it was the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, and Xing Xiuyan personally brought the New Year gifts to Tinglanyuan.

Daiyu leaned on the kang to read a book, but it was "The Romance of the West Chamber". Daiyu also felt that the words and sentences in this book had their own charm, and the story was attractive.

To say that Xing Xiuyan Apiao's old business is a "strip piece", the ancients paid attention to "a woman's ignorance is virtue", and women are not allowed to study. In fact, most of them do not want women to be fascinated by obscene words and stories, and have rebellious thoughts and harm others. Has.

Xing Xiuyan and Daiyu are good at playing, but they dare not talk nonsense about love, let alone romance.Occasionally mentioned jokingly when the nuns are not present, but of course can't talk about it in depth.

Daiyu was also in her prime, and ashamed to let Xing Xiuyan see her read this kind of book, she hid "The Romance of the West Chamber" under the cushion and replaced it with a single copy of "Anthology of Tang Poetry".

Zijuan personally opened the curtain, Xing Xiuyan came in with Ziyue and Xue Jue, and the two big maids carried two big packages.

Xing Xiuyan smiled and said, "It's very pleasant to read a book and taste tea while leaning on the heated kang, but my sister knows how to enjoy it."

Daiyu felt a little guilty, and said, "Let's just sit around and read poetry collections."

Xing Xiuyan said: "It's no wonder my younger sister has such a talent for poetry, so she reads a lot on weekdays. I still lack three points in terms of spirituality in poetry."

Daiyu has always been temperamental and not convincing. It can be seen from the original book that if she meets someone who is false and modest, she will definitely not like it, but what Xing Xiuyan said is true.Firstly, her poetic talent is indeed inferior to hers, and secondly, Xing Xiuyan really has this kind of understanding, but Xing Xiuyan's poems also have the beauty of simplicity and indifference or occasionally amusing poems, but Daiyu also likes them.

Therefore, Daiyu felt that Xing Xiuyan was different from others, and none of the sisters in the Jia family was as fond of her as she was.Of course, Xing Xiuyan has not shamelessly plagiarized the poems of later generations of celebrities and put her own name on them, otherwise Daiyu would have admired her "poetry talent".

"My sister doesn't say that my sister is a female celebrity, but she became famous at a young age. Her painting skills are also good, and her arithmetic and accounting skills are even better."

Ziyue took the lead to place the package on the kang, and said with a smile: "You two good ladies, can you please stop flattering each other, this servant is ashamed to hear that your own family is boasting about your own family."

Xuejue, Zijuan, and Xueyan couldn't help laughing when they heard this, and Daiyu said: "You hoof, when you see that the mothers are not here, you put your nose and eyes on it, and remind us to come."

Ziyue smiled and said: "The servant girl just watched the young ladies holding them back and forth, one is a fairy, the other is a goddess, and she forgot about the servant girl and Xue Jue, we two are holding things, our hands are sore! "

All the masters and maidservants even burst out laughing, Daiyu gritted her teeth and said: "Today you joked with me, and you always told me to catch your mistakes, so it's funny."

Ziyue made a gesture and begged: "Miss, please forgive me!"

But Xing Xiuyan smiled and asked Xue Jue to put down the thing, and then she opened it, but it was a white sable fur from outside the pass, with a very pure and beautiful magnificence.The value of this piece is only a little less than the fur coat made of snow fox skins that Tu Yuanyi personally hunted.Mink fur outside the pass is different from those inside the pass, and Daiyu can tell if something is good or bad with just a touch of her tentacles.

Daiyu smiled slightly: "My sister brought me the things from the palace again. Aunt Xing is here today, so you should leave it to her."

Xing Xiuyan said: "My mother has it, and I left her a fur coat. My mother is not too old to wear such a color. The palace gave me a fox fur. I must know the two of us, sisters, and gave it to me. I bought a piece of mink fur from Guanwai, so that I can send it to you. You see, one side is a pure white fur, and the other side is a red brocade from the palace. During the Chinese New Year, you can turn it over and wear it. This stitch is very good. , so that it can be worn on both sides.”

Daiyu is not short of good things, but she just got a new one, and she doesn't have such a new and expensive fur coat that she is wearing now, and she likes it very much when she sees it.

There is also a set of Hu clothes she prepared, which is of course not the style of Hou Jin, but is similar to that often worn by female princes in the Tang Dynasty, which is very interesting.Their ready-to-wear shops also cater to the southern market. Most of them are ladies' clothes and fairy skirts, and there are no such clothes.

Daiyu also likes it very much, but she dare not wear it now because she has never seen anyone else wear it.

The two chatted for a while, when Xing Xiuyan found the corner of Daiyu's book under the cushion, she couldn't help joking and reached out to take it out, Daiyu yelled, panicked.And Xing Xiuyan saw the title of the book "Hui Zhen Ji", and couldn't help raising his eyebrows, coughed, then gently put the book upside down on the other side, and said: "My sister doesn't have to take the imperial examination, why is she still reading "The Doctrine of the Mean"? Really boring."

Daiyu couldn't help but flushed with embarrassment, but it was the maid who was present, so she had to turn around and said, "I read it a little in my spare time."

But Xing Xiuyan told Shuangzi and Shuangxue's maids to go out to prepare lunch, she wanted to eat here, and the two sisters played by themselves.

Daiyu saw that she pushed Shuangzi Shuangxue away and said that Xing Xiuyan wanted to teach her, but she didn't expect that she just handed the book back to her and said: "So my sister likes to read story books, but I think you only like poetry."

It was mid-winter at this time, but because she was in a deep boudoir, even though she had Xing Xiuyan as her companion, Daiyu was still in her thirteens and fourteenth year, that is, in her second year of middle school.When Daiyu read "The Romance of the West Chamber", "Flowing water and falling flowers, spring is gone, heaven and earth", and "beautiful couples like flowers, like years flowing like water", there is always a bit of heart swaying, and the heart of spring is stirring.This is the same reason as the girls in the middle and second periods of the 90s were fascinated by Taiwanese words, and there is no essential difference because of people's origins and ages.

Xing Xiuyan also passed the second stage of middle school, and now she looks like a country and city, but she is not in the second stage of middle school, it is because she has developed her temperament.

Daiyu couldn't help being ashamed and anxious, and said: "But teach my sister to read it, so she can make fun of me."

Xing Xiuyan couldn't help thinking that in the original book, when Daiyu was carrying out the wine order, Baochai caught the wrong line in the poems in "The Peony Pavilion" and "The Story of the West Chamber", and she was educated for a while.And Lin Daiyu probably had a guilty conscience. When she saw Grandma Liu again, she was afraid that Baochai would bring up her shortcomings in public and divert the attention of the topic.

After getting along with Xing Xiuyan, she knew that Daiyu had arrogance, but she was very kind-hearted. At that time, she didn't know that she had an emperor's uncle, but she only said that she was a embroiderer, and she treated her sincerely and meticulously.In the original book, Xiangling is just a girl who wants to learn poetry, and she also teaches it wholeheartedly, and does not despise her because of her status.

Xing Xiuyan didn't pretend, and said, "I'm making fun of you. I've read this kind of storybook before. Not only have I read it, I can make it up."

Lin Daiyu couldn't help being stunned, and said, "Sister Xing...does she also read these books?"