Self-cultivation of male support

I don't know when, the business of Xiaoxiu Zhuang suddenly improved.

How good is it? Even though the small embroidery village has so many strange rules, dignitaries still flock to it.

In the beginning, the housekeeper of a noble family in the capital came to the door in person.

No matter what strange requests Xiaoxiu Zhuang put forward, those housekeepers who were usually aloof, even the magistrates would be polite when they met them, they were very humble when they came to Xiaoxiu Zhuang.

He was so talkative that the magistrate once suspected that he had been away from the capital for too long, and those aristocratic families in the capital who had eyes on the top of their heads suddenly changed their nature collectively.

Later, not only in the capital, but also people from the south and north, wealthy businessmen, high-ranking officials and dignitaries flocked to Xiaoxiu Zhuang one after another.It seems that if a family doesn't have one or two pieces of embroidery produced by a small embroidery shop, it can't hold its head up in the circle.

As if overnight, the name of Xiaoxiu Zhuang spread all over the country.

In the capital, under the admiration of the five princesses who are the most favored and the most extravagant, embroidery became popular.

Whether it is clothes, shoes and socks, or a handkerchief wiping the forehead, they must be embroidered with a uniform style of color.Even the jewelry on the wrist and the pendant on the neck can find a way to combine with the embroidery.

It is rumored that His Majesty and Empress Dowager in the palace also loved the embroidery presented by the five princesses very much and greatly appreciated it.

What is good on the top must be good on the bottom.

So this embroidery wind blew all the way from the capital to Fucheng where Shi Yan was located.

The people who come in and out of Xiaoxiuzhuang every day are people with extraordinary identities, but the shopkeeper is still like that, whether you are a lazy person who is lazy and wants to have a snack, or a high-ranking person who needs to customize embroidery in Xiaoxiuzhuang for various reasons Big households and shopkeepers are all treated equally, neither humble nor overbearing, neither ingratiating nor obsequious.

Even so, those who took advantage of Xiaoxiuzhuang in the past still disappeared from Xiaoxiuzhuang.

It wasn't that other people did something to them, but that they themselves saw those domineering guests coming and going in and out of Xiaoxiuzhuang, enjoying exactly the same treatment as themselves in Xiaoxiuzhuang.

Look at the big hand of the other party, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver are like a few copper coins, and they stretch out their hands without blinking, begging Xiaoxiu Zhuang to accept it.

It's just that I can't get what I want right away. I heard that the order has been queued for two years.

Look at yourself with nothing.

These people naturally understand that the two sides are not the same kind of people, and gradually they dare not go again. Occasionally, they are greedy for dim sum in Xiaoxiuzhuang. .

Gradually, everyone understood Xiaoxiu Zhuang's attitude.

So far, the Du family is no longer worried that the small embroidery village will fail and close down, and the family has returned to Chenjiacun to farm.

To be honest, it was shameful for me to come out with great difficulty and go back in despair.

Du Shiyou asked Shiyan curiously: "Sister, I heard that the orders from Xiaoxiu Zhuang are already three years away, why don't you find more embroiderers to help with the work?"

The business of the Small Embroidery Village is good, and everyone in the Fucheng knows it. Everyone is guessing when the Small Embroidery Village will expand. Many embroiderers in the Fucheng are ready to move and want to work in the Small Embroidery Village. Get the owner's approval at the first time.

But unfortunately, Shiyan has no such plan for the time being.

But I didn't want to tell the real reason, so I said: "Now those embroiderers are selected by me. Whether it is personal style or taste, they all fit the positioning of Xiaoxiu Zhuang. You should be such an embroiderer." Is it easy to find?

Besides, isn't it enough for our family to eat and drink now?I don't have the ambition to do business all over the world, and neither do my parents. If you don't take this road in the future, why bother to work hard? "

Father Du stroked his beard and said, "It's good to be so relaxed now. People must learn to be content, and have self-knowledge, know how much they can do, and how big a bowl they can hold. You have knowledge. In this regard, you are not as good as Ah Yan." far away."

Du Shiyou obediently admitted his mistake.

Father Du talked about another matter: "Father inquired with an old friend who recently came back from the capital, and he heard that someone presented an embroidery of a map of the mountains and rivers on His Majesty's Longevity Day.

His Majesty Longyan was very happy, and praised the beauty of the embroidery on the spot, and asked people to put it into the warehouse for careful preservation.Later, I heard that the fifth princess also liked the embroidery. I learned the source of the embroidery from the place where I bought it, and after searching all the way, I found Xiaoxiu Zhuang.

In a word, in the final analysis of this matter, our family's Yan was lucky, caught up with the good time, met the nobleman, the right time, the right place, and the right people, so that the small embroidery village is where it is today.

There are no risks and unknown activities in it, so you can rest assured. "

Father Du and Du Shiyou had always been worried that this sudden wealth would be mingled with unknown dangers, and they felt uneasy. Now that they knew the truth, they felt relaxed.

On the other hand, Shi Yan and Du Mu's faces basically remained unchanged.

Then the relaxed father and son suddenly realized that with Shi Yan's efforts, their father and son were taken away again.

The net worth of the two, from being almost in debt some time ago to now being a serious household in Fucheng, has improved qualitatively.

It can be said to be a model of lying down and being taken away.

At this time, outside the Ganquan Palace in the capital, the five princesses are wearing elegant, dignified and complicated palace attire. The palace attire is full of various orderly patterns. If you look carefully, you can see the traces of Xiaoxiuzhuang. Talk to the eunuch of Oasis Palace.

The eunuch respectfully and kindly said to the fifth princess: "Your Highness, Your Majesty already knows what you are here for. Your Majesty is very satisfied with this matter. Let the old slave give you a message. Your request will be answered by your Majesty." Come on, rest assured."

The fifth princess didn't say any more. After thanking the eunuch, she bowed in the direction of the queen's palace, and left elegantly with her maid.

After walking far away, the servant girl let out a long sigh of relief. I don't know why, everyone knows that the empress is the most tolerant person in the whole palace, but every time the little servant girl comes here, she is afraid to breathe.

Probably this is the royal dignity, the little maid thought.

But obviously this servant girl has a big heart, she put it away after thinking about it, and turned to ask the master cautiously: "Princess, the empress and Your Majesty love you so much, why can't I just tell you, why do you need to come to the door?"

The fifth princess just smiled, looking at the clothes on her body, are you favored?Maybe, but there is no love and hate for no reason in this world.

The fifth princess sometimes even felt that the way the queen looked at her seemed to be looking at another person through her. That feeling was extremely weird.

But she is just a princess whose birth mother is not visible, because of the queen's different preferences, she has come to the front of the people, and has been loved by the emperor. She is already luckier than many brothers and sisters. She should be content and grateful.

Even though she didn't understand what the empress ordered, she would try her best to do it well, in order to thank the queen for choosing herself among so many people.

At this time in Ganquan Palace, the queen got up from the bed in her pajamas, her face was a little pale, but her face was calm, with the calmness of summoning a married woman after putting on clothes.

But what he said made the heart of the eunuch who came in to return to his life tremble.

"Yuchen, I dreamed about that child just now, do you think she will blame me?" The queen's eyes looked through the window, as if she wanted to see straight into the distance.

The great eunuch known as Yuchen sighed in his heart, and couldn't help but think of many things.

It has not been easy for the empress all these years, Your Majesty is ruthless, the beauties in the palace come in one after another, doting on this one today, falling in love with another tomorrow, it is difficult to take care of the harem.

If that's the case, that's fine, it's another kind of equal treatment, at least everyone's hearts are balanced.

However, His Majesty actually had an iron tree blooming more than ten years ago, and he had a fierce fight with a beautiful girl, and soon he did the thing of dominating only one person in the eyes of everyone's astonishment. He rose to the top of the four concubines.

There was no sense of presence for the people in the palace. Even the queen, she could contradict one or two.

If His Majesty hadn't remembered to spend the night in the Queen's Oasis Palace on the [-]th day of every month, the ministers would have been killed by the pillars because of the emperor's sleepless nights.

Probably the only luck is that the woman's stomach has remained silent for two years, but under such circumstances, the man coaxed His Majesty to say in public that she would make her child the crown prince in the future.

The front and rear palaces were shaken, and there was a sudden disturbance in the dark.

Maybe the emperor regretted it after saying that. After all, because of the emperor's words at that time, almost all the people in Yushitai mobilized and scolded the emperor from head to toe.

What's not to say, all the older palace people still remember the grand occasion of that year, it was almost the highlight moment of Yushitai in the past 20 years, a battle that has been recorded in the history books.

The queen was pregnant under such circumstances. At that time, the child in the queen's belly had placed too many people's hopes. The queen, who was trapped in the struggle between the former court and the harem, had no choice but to give birth to a prince.

Even if you give birth to a daughter, you have to become a prince.

The queen has no way out, and one can imagine what will happen to a queen without a son.

So under the expectation of everyone, the queen lived up to everyone's expectations and gave birth to a son.

Although the son was not crowned as the prince, and the child's fortune was poor, he was involved in the vortex of the court's struggle at birth, and died due to an accident when he was five years old, but the child was of great significance to the court at that time .

It was because of the child's death that the emperor, out of guilt and pressure from the court, finally made the second prince born to the empress the crown prince.

As for the children of Chen Family Village...

The eunuch bent his waist involuntarily, bowed to the queen and said, "Your Majesty..."

The queen waved her hand and didn't let the eunuch finish her sentence: "Forget it, complain or not, it's our mother and daughter's life, and I, as a mother, won't be able to hear her Guangming calling me mother in this life.

And her serious mother is someone else, the less contact we have, the safer she will be.

In the future, don't contact there if you have nothing to do, just let her live her little life quietly, and I will always watch secretly, so she won't be wronged. "

The eunuch sighed a long time in his heart, not knowing what to say.

This day's family is like this: father is not father, son is not son, mother and daughter cannot recognize each other for a lifetime, everyone has their own difficulties, which one is not suffering?

Others don't know whether it is suffering or not, but she feels extremely suffering at the moment, a real man who walks out of the rain of bullets in the wooden warehouse, a ruthless character who doesn't even look back at the explosion.

I was defeated by the simple menstrual belt at the moment.

Plant ash and fine cotton cloth are already the best menstruation partners for women at present, but accompanied by cramps in the lower abdomen and strange waves when walking, Shiyan finds it extremely difficult.

Everything that happened after the next month made Shiyan lie flat.

According to the outside world, Shiyan's body has finally achieved initial results after more than half a year of conditioning, her small body began to grow taller, and her breasts began to develop.

She is no longer the skinny little girl who looked like she didn't have enough to eat.

At the same time, menstrual events began to visit.

It was the first time for Shi Yan to experience this kind of experience. She was forced to cover the stove while lying on the bed, sleeping and resting in the daytime under the quilt. Once again, she felt the girl's body. It was really amazing.

Although the pain was only momentary at that time, Mother Du was still worried. She told Shiyan thousands of times, without saying a word, forced Shiyan into the bed, and then went to help her daughter cook blood-enriching soup.

But the above is just an external statement. Shiyan herself knows very well that her physical growth retardation is entirely due to the influence of drugs. Half a year ago, the family moved to Fucheng, and the drugs stopped, so she naturally began to develop slowly.

Even the dark skin that looked unnatural in the past has gradually faded, although it is not obvious yet.

Shi Yan used to know that it was a drug that controlled the growth of a person's body and even changed the color of a person's skin, just by smelling it, or the drug that Du's mother gave her.

These days, Shi Yan followed Du's mother's channel to pass the news all the way, and roughly knew the identity of the other party.

Today's empress.

Although I still don't know the specific relationship between myself and the queen, but the reasons are nothing more than those kinds, Shi Yan doesn't bother to continue to investigate.

Who made her feel very satisfied with her current life.

As for the medicine used to control her physical development and change her skin color, and now she suddenly changed her mind, Shiyan used her toes to figure it out, it must be that she, who is not up to date, can no longer threaten the other party.

This means that either the opponent already has absolute strength and is not afraid of the threat of Shi Yan.

Either the threat of consciousness has expired, for example, she is developing normally now, and there is a gap with the established facts, which cannot constitute a condition for threatening the other party.

This method of protection and defense has to make people imagine.

Suddenly there was a warm current in the lower abdomen, and Shi Yan lost all thoughts.

Really grass.

Shi Yan, who was confined at home by Du's mother for the past few days, changed into a boy's costume and put on the clothes carefully sewn by Du's mother and Manniang. Walk around randomly.

Got compliments from everyone.

Manniang was young, she looked at Shi Yan in a daze, and said involuntarily: "Sister Ah Yan is so free and easy, if she is a man, I must marry her!"

To be honest, even though Shiyan is dressed in women's clothing, her walking posture is gradually becoming more masculine, which doesn't make people feel unsuitable. I just feel that this person is very free and easy, and it is easy for people to ignore his gender. Attractive temperament.

Of course, it would be more perfect without seeing that black face.

The whole family was happy for Shiyan's change, and Du Shiyou ate two bowls of rice excitedly, held Shiyan's hand and said, "Sister, I just said that my classmate's whitening prescription is very useful. If you still don't believe it, it must be said that lead powder has been added to this recipe, and if you use too much, it will easily disfigure your face.

You see, after only a few days of use, your face is much paler, so you can use it boldly, without brother looking for you!It will definitely make you white and beautiful! "

Shiyan who knows everything: "..."

The culprit, Mother Du: "..."

Shi Yan had to tell Du Shi that there was a tragic truth: "Brother, the whitening powder you gave me was taken away by Wang Xiaohua, and I didn't have time to use it at all.

Also, I'm not kidding you, the lead powder in that recipe is really not a good thing, it's better to use less. "

"Moreover," Shiyan pointed at her face, making Du Shiyou open his eyes to look at the world, "This face is almost the same as before, how do you see it so much whiter?"

It's no different from talking nonsense with your eyes open.

Du Shiyou automatically filtered the first two questions, and proudly said: "Of course I can see it with my eyes!"

The whole family, including Uncle Zhang who is the gatekeeper, and Zhang Yuan, a book boy who has not yet learned how to appreciate women, are all comforting Shiyan, saying that she has changed a lot from the past and is much more beautiful. If she continues to persevere, she will definitely become the most beautiful in the whole city. woman!

A bunch of brainless blows.

Especially Du's mother was very excited about Shi Yan's change. She held Shi Yan's face and looked at it for a long time, tears welled up in her eyes, and she couldn't help muttering: "It's good, it's good, it's finally good, it's good that it doesn't have to be like it used to be. , Mother is so happy!"

Du's mother even started happily looking for a husband's family for Shiyan, and inquired about all the famous sons in Fucheng who were about the same age as Shiyan. Du's mother knew exactly which son's age and hobbies. There are hundreds of portraits of young princes.

People who don't know saw it, and thought it was the princess who chose the son-in-law. Don't mention this exaggeration. Shi Yan said it twice, but Du's mother didn't listen, immersed in the joy of finally being able to find a husband for her daughter. Inextricable.

Du's father and Du Shi were very supportive of Du's mother's move, and helped to select and inquire together.

But at the end, the three of them found out to their dismay that none of the hundreds of men was worthy of their family, Ah Yan.

Now men, why are all of them so unbelievable?

Shiyan originally wanted to do something to let the family know that she had no intention of marrying, but looking at the current situation, it is no wonder that she was able to marry under the pickiness of the whole family.

So let go and let the three of them toss.

Shi Yan could see that Du's mother seemed to have let go of some heavy shackles, and her whole body became much lighter. The previously suppressed emotions had a tendency to explode recently, and she was concentrating on finding ways to dress Shi Yan all day long.

Not only Du's mother, Du's father and Du Shiyou were also very keen to buy some fresh jewelry outside for Shi Yan, and seeing Shi Yan wearing it on her head would make her happy for a long time.

For the sake of the family's happiness, Shiyan can only temporarily be a little girl who can be dressed up by others.

Everyone is happy for Shiyan's change.

Except for Wang Xiaohua who came by.

For this girl, even Uncle Zhang, the gatekeeper, was helpless. Every time he came empty-handed, he carried back the big and small bags, and he still didn't show any gratitude on his lips.

The attitude of a poor relative coming to the door to greet the autumn wind, completely unable to understand the hints of others, unable to read the expressions of others, talking to himself, feeling good about himself.

Uncle Zhang didn't know whether it was Wang Xiaohua who was so stupid, or she was just pretending to be stupid.

But today Wang Xiaohua came to visit, and there was another person by her side.

This person entered the gate of Du's house and kept rolling his eyeballs. His eyes were full of greed, and he didn't say a good word.

All the way from the outside to the inside, Uncle Zhang rolled his eyes when he heard that his head was getting bigger.

Hearing the girl mumbling, she said after a while: "That pot over there has a hole on the side, and I don't know how to replace it with a new one. I put it at the door and people thought it was a poor family. I can't afford to eat anymore!"

Uncle Zhang took a look, good guy, he bought it specially for growing flowers, and the opening was reserved for water seepage.

Then I heard the little girl say: "Oh, isn't there an orange tree in the flowerpot over there? The oranges that bear fruit are bigger than fingernails, not half the size of the one transplanted from the south by my uncle's house in the county town. Are you reluctant to put fertilizer? This is too stingy!"

Uncle Zhang took another look, hey, the kumquat landscape tree that I bought at a high price, just to look beautiful!Don't plan his results.

I also saw the little girl pointing to the mural on the wall that the young master took a month to complete, and said: "Oh, what kind of ghost painting is that? Not a single drop of mosquito blood.

Why is this house so messy everywhere?Can't even hire someone to clean the walls? "

Uncle Zhang didn't want to talk anymore, the young master was very proud of the murals, even the master and the lady said that the young master's painting skills have improved a lot.

But already in the living room, Shiyan, who was reading a book with her feet up, saved Uncle Zhang's ears. Uncle Zhang explained briefly to Shiyan, left the two of them, and walked away in a panic.

Inferiority, greed, imposing cover-ups, pretending to understand.

The weakness of human nature is clearly shown in this girl. She is young and has no experience. Those who cover up in Uncle Zhang's eyes are almost nothing.

Shiyan took a look, isn't this Chen Shijiao?

As if she didn't know that the Du family didn't want to see her, Wang Xiaohua sat directly opposite Shi Yan, pointing to a chair like a master, and said to Chen Shijiao, "Don't you want to come? Since you're here, sit down!" "

But Chen Shijiao was not polite. He sat down and picked up the dessert on the table, took a bite and put it back on the plate, frowning, "Why isn't it sweet? Du Shiyan, your family can't afford even a little icing sugar, right? "

Shi Yan read the picture book at the climax, without raising her head, she said bluntly: "Our dog sees people as inferior, and divides the guests into three, six, or nine classes.

When the distinguished and reasonable guests came, there were naturally sweet pastries filled with icing sugar.

If you don't have the etiquette to call Qiufeng's door, it's very generous to have a stutter, don't you want to eat?Then don't eat it, turn around and let Uncle Zhang feed the dog. "

Mother Du has cultivated herself well, and she can tolerate Wang Xiaohua for a long time in order to gain a good reputation among her neighbors.

Shi Yan doesn't care about fame, let alone make herself unhappy for fame.

In the past, when Shi Yan was impatient with Wang Xiaohua, it was Du's mother who took care of it, but now that she meets her, naturally she won't be like Du's mother.

Chen Shijiao was very angry, and wanted to leave directly, but thinking about the purpose of their trip, they didn't find out what they should inquire about, so they just went back, and they couldn't explain it to their parents, so they sat down aggrievedly and ruthlessly. He stared hard at Shiyan.

Shiyan is not used to this smelly problem, what the hell.

He directly called Uncle Zhang to drive them away. Most importantly, he only drove away Chen Shijiao, while Wang Xiaohua stayed at home.

Consciousness is intentional.

Standing at the door, Chen Shijiao, who was too lazy to rush up to bite someone, told Uncle Zhang directly: "Don't put things that can't speak human language in the house in the future, it's very annoying."

Uncle Zhang nodded yes, he didn't even dare to think how far the two girls would fight over this later.

Tsk, my young lady's temperament is really refreshing.