The glorious spring scene of the Red House

As soon as the marriage of Prince Jingjiang was settled, he took Prince Jingjiang and several favored concubines to the Summer Resort to escape the summer heat.The prince was left to manage the government, and several ministers assisted the government.

The queen didn't go with her this time because she was ill and couldn't move.

Because the emperor went out, he took many people away, which made the palace a lot quieter.Also because the master of the palace is not around, the servants feel relaxed.

Some of the female officials and nurses in the six bureaus and one division also traveled with the emperor.The people in control at the top left, and the maids at the bottom naturally came alive.

But Yu Yu and He Xiangxiang were not among them. They were locked in the room, doing the homework assigned by Shi Dianji.

Both Yu Yan and He Xiangxiang are the key training targets of Si Jisi. If there is nothing wrong, they will both become female historians in the future.There are many quotas for Sijisi's female history, so the competition is not particularly fierce.That's why, He Xiangxiang's parents entrusted her relationship to get her into Siji Division.

After practicing handwriting for half a year, Yu Yan's original handwriting has finally become recognizable to others.

Yu Xi made the last stroke, took off the paperweight on the forearm of his right hand, then put down the pen, and waved his sore arm.

Now Yu Yan has a marble paperweight on his forearm, after a while he will have to put a teacup filled with water on his elbow.

It's not that the teaching nuns deliberately teased Yu Xun, they all came here like that, it's all to make Yu Xun write better handwriting as soon as possible.

Five big characters a day, written by Yu Yan with a pure heart.There is no room for any mistakes in the assignments handed in. As long as there are some mistakes, these five sheets have to be rewritten.

After writing the big characters, Yu Yan had to endorse. In "Four Books for Women", Yu Yan is reading through "The Precepts for Women". Not only must he be familiar with the whole article by heart, but he must also be able to recite it word for word.

These are extra courses, and Yu Yan and He Xiangxiang have to learn female red and needlework that everyone should learn like other little maids.

He Xiangxiang and Yu Yan finished writing big characters almost at the same time, and after handing in their homework, they got together to do needlework again.

The clothes and jewelry of the female officials in the palace are distributed by Yousi, but some small items have to be made by themselves.Such as socks, purses, handkerchiefs... In addition to making these for himself, Yu Yan also had to buy these for Cui Siji.

In the more than one year of entering the palace, Yu Yan has learned more than all the previous sums.

After He Xiangxiang finished embroidering the handkerchief, she took the scissors and cut off the silk thread, and then happily told Yu Yan some news she had heard these days.

He Xiangxiang's family is an imperial merchant. Although the share is not as high as that of Xue's family, there is no shortage of contacts in the palace.Sometimes, Yu Yu could still hear some news from outside the palace from He Xiangxiang's mouth.

But... What can be said from He Xiangxiang's mouth is not some confidential information, and it is just for fun.

"Your Majesty really loves that Jingjiang County King. He sent many people to Jiangnan just to buy things for the County Princess. My family also got a job, and now I have sent decent people to search outside." He Xiangxiang slightly Longing for authenticity.

Yu Yu tied the knots nimbly with her fingers. Last time she made a purse, but there were two tassels missing. Now she tied two beautiful knots, which can be tied with the tassels on the purse.

"That's their blessing too, you..."

Before Yu Yan finished speaking, he looked up and saw Cai Nvshi walking slowly, Yu Yan hurriedly got up to make room for her.

Nv Shi Cai sat down slowly, and said: "So what are you doing politely? I'm here to see you on business. In two months, it will be Zhong Shangyi's birthday. I and several other female historians plan to join in and buy a set for Zhong Shangyi. Congratulations to her as a birthday present. You came here last year, so you were not counted, and this year I can’t pull you down. After all, it’s a heart, and it doesn’t need to cost much, one and a half dollars will do.”

Yu Yan and He Xiangxiang looked at each other, a little confused in their minds, how could such a good thing happen to them?And there is not much money to give.Thinking about it, it was Cai Nvshi's kindness, and she wanted to take the two of them along and leave a name in front of Zhong Shangyi.

Cai Nvshi turned over the needlework made by He Xiangxiang and Yu Yan in her hands, and praised: "It's really well done. I think I didn't have such good skills when I was your age."

He Xiangxiang was older than Yu Yan, so she said, "Thank you, Miss Cai, for your compliment. We don't know how to be grateful for your kindness to us. Let's go get the money now."

"Sure enough, I'm still a little younger. How can I spend this money in such a vain way? Let's wait until it gets darker."

Yu Yan asked: "I don't know about the other female historians, have you thought about what to give?"

Nv Shi Cai tidied up the things in her hands, and replied: "It should be the same as what I gave in previous years. Make a set of clothes, make a set of jewelry, and add some other things. Anyway, the etiquette must not be light. If you have any good ideas Let’s talk about it. Zhong Shangyi is getting old, and I don’t know when she will leave the palace, and I don’t know how many times we can celebrate her birthday.”

Cai Nvshi looked a little sad, maybe she felt a little bit of herself.

"Hey! Then I've made an agreement with you. I still have things to do, so I'm leaving first."

When it was time to turn on the lights, Cai Nvshi really came again, and Yu Yan took out the money she had prepared and gave it to Cai Nvshi.

Cai Nvshi took the money and kindly suggested: "If you have something to offer, don't hide it. It will be nice to add a sum to the gift list at that time."

Cai Nvshi has said so, Yu Yan naturally wants to get ready.

Naturally, Cui Siji also wanted to give Zhong Siji a birthday gift, but their high-ranking female officials didn't like to mix with little court ladies like Yu Yan.If that's the case, it seems that Cui Siji and the others are bullying the younger ones.

Although there are still two months left, Yu Xing and He Xiangxiang have already thought of several ideas, but those ideas are either Yu Xing thinks it is not good, or He Xiangxiang thinks it is too common.

Waiting for today's return to the palace, neither Yu Yan nor He Xiangxiang had thought about what they were going to prepare in private.

"Have you thought about it? If you still can't make up your mind, I'll ask someone to send a letter to my family and ask them to prepare some inconspicuous but more expensive things." He Xiangxiang said impatiently.

"You didn't bring it to your door. If someone finds out and wants to punish you for passing news outside the palace, what should you do?" Yu Yan asked back.

"Then what do you want to give, since we have already mentioned it, then we should prepare it with all our heart. In less than a month, Zhong Shangyi's birthday will be celebrated." He Xiangxiang's hair was messed up.

"According to the present silver we have saved up now, we can't even buy a jade bracelet with a better head, let alone most of your present silver, and Shi Dianji accepts beauty makeup. Why don't we make something with our own hands, As long as you put your mind to it, Zhong Shangyi will accept it if you think about it."

Now that the money has been included, Yu Yan and He Xiangxiang will naturally be included in the congratulatory gifts prepared by everyone.Another preparation is to let Zhong Shangyi know what the two of them have learned during this period of time.

"Then what do you say?" He Xiangxiang straightened her temples and asked directly.

Yu Yan then expressed his thoughts: "The most important thing for Si Jisi is books, why don't we find a hundred different longevity characters from these books, gather them on one piece of material, and embroider a screen? "

"This idea is novel, but our embroidery skills are just the same, how can we get it right?"

The idea is a good idea, but the people who made it are inexperienced, and the finished product will be too bad, how can I send it out?

"It's just that we are still young, so even if we don't do well, it is understandable. Besides, Zhong Shangyi's birthday, there must be a lot of people giving gifts, and no one will pay special attention to the things we give."

There is nothing else to pay attention to. Others are either too costly or too conformist.That's the only one Yu Yan said, which is cheap but novel.

In fact, if you want to make screen inserts more expensive, you can do it. Embroidery workers, wood for screen inserts, and drawings by famous artists...but these are not up to Yu Yu and He Xiangxiang.

Due to time constraints, the two acted separately.Yu Xun flipped through the books and collected a hundred longevity characters.He Xiangxiang took the money from the two of them, and secretly tried to buy the materials to make screen inserts. She even found a servant from the palace who could do screen inserts.

The two hurried and hurried, and finally made the screen before Zhong Shangyi passed his birthday.

At Zhong Shangyi's birthday banquet, little people like Yu Yan and He Xiangxiang couldn't be on the table, so the best thing to do was to have fun and say auspicious words.

The interstitial screens presented by the two were given together with the congratulatory gifts from the female historians in the Siji Division.

In November, because of the Longevity Festival, all parts of the palace were busy again.

Although the Longevity Festival is important, because it is not a whole life, it is just a small celebration.

Furthermore, His Majesty is an elderly person after all, and his health has not been very good since winter, and he cannot sit for a long time.Therefore, I specially ordered Jian to do it.

But even if it is Jianban, everyone in the palace is cautious, for fear of making a mistake.

This Longevity Festival has not even started yet, the six rounds are not showing any sign of success, each round has devoted 12 points to the work, and they all want to compete to win a good word in front of Jinshang.

This si music company rehearses instrumental music and arranges arrays every day.The Shangshi Bureau came up with some auspicious food.

The most popular one was Shang Gongju, who ordered a hundred embroiderers with excellent birthdays, and embroidered a double-sided embroidered ten thousand character picture screen day and night.There are tens of thousands of characters, and there are tens of thousands of fonts. It can be seen that this Shanggong Bureau has also put in a lot of hard work.

Those who have seen that picture screen all say that the golden blessings and longevity on it are shining and exquisite.

Yu Yu didn't go to Shanggong Bureau to see the picture screen, but just from hearing others, he knew that the picture must be extraordinary.

He Xiangxiang was indignant, and ran to Yu Xun, her face blushed, and she glared at Yu Xun angrily.

"What's wrong with you, who made you angry?" Yu Yan asked with concern.

No one really made He Xiangxiang angry, it was He Xiangxiang who was angry with herself.

He Xiangxiang wanted to swear, but she couldn't utter a word of swearing. She was well-bred, and she was going to be a female historian in the future.