"Sister Zhilan."
Zhilan looked back and saw a woman with a romantic demeanor walking towards her. With such a physique, it was easy to be favored in a brothel or a wealthy businessman's back house, but in the palace, on a servant girl, she looked less solemn. Watch out for disgust.
"Who are you?" Zhilan glanced at her lightly.
"I'm the maid of the embroidery workshop, Jinxiu." Jinxiu hurriedly reported to her home, holding up a tray in both hands, on which was a neatly folded green dress, "Mother Zhang asked me to deliver the freshly made spring clothes. ."
"Oh." Zhilan nodded, "Put it down."
Jinxiu was reluctant to just leave, she put down the tray in her hand at a very slow speed, and said something to please: "It's all the same palace dress, wearing it on my sister is different, look at the embroidered flowers on the cuffs. How beautiful, you can tell at a glance that my sister is a skilled person."
Zhilan smiled. Although everyone wore the same palace attire, upon closer inspection, they were all different. Those big palace ladies with some ability and status would have some extra embroidered patterns on the cuffs and necklines, and there were also differences between them. This one is embroidered with peach blossoms and stamens, but she did not embroider it herself, but ordered the little palace maid in the embroidery workshop to embroider it for her.
What's the name? It seems to be... Yingluo
"...More skillful than our best embroidery Yingluo." But Jinxiu said with a smile, "Speaking of this Yingluo, not only is the one-hand embroidery skillful, but she is also very smart. If it wasn't for her last time, we didn't even know. Loquat paste still has so much to pay attention to!"
Zhi Lanyuan was already tired of crooking her, and was about to wave her back, but suddenly turned her head: "What did you say? Loquat paste?"
"Yes." Jinxiu looked innocent, "The last time Yingluo mentioned in the Yonghe Palace that she had eaten the new leaves of the pipa by mistake when she was a child, we only learned that the new leaves are poisonous and cannot be used as medicine, what's wrong?"
She slapped her right hand on the table hard, and Zhilan gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, so it's her!"
"Sister Zhilan, I... Did I say something wrong?" Jinxiu pretended to hang her head, her voice timid, but she sneered in her heart.
Wei Yingluo, that little slut, looks aloof on the surface. She is not allowed to seduce Fucha Fu Heng, but she turns around and hooks up with the guards herself.
It's a pity that she notified Aunt Fang late and failed to catch the adulterer, but it doesn't matter, she still holds other handles in her hand, and through the hand of Concubine Huigui, she can always take this unsightly ghost from her side Walk.
"Lead the way ahead." Zhilan got up and said, "Take me to the one named Wei Yingluo."
"Yes, Sister Zhilan." Jinxiu hurriedly replied.
The two came to the embroidery workshop one after the other, and when they arrived, a group of people were surrounding Wei Yingluo, either in amazement or intoxicated.
"This Caixia is so beautiful to embroider, I will embroider one later."
"Oh, don't draw a tiger, it's not an anti-dog."
"I have embroidered Caixia before, but the embroidery looks like floating clouds, Yingluo, how did you embroider?"
"This is a full embroidery technique. The embroidered things have gradual changes in color and distinct layers. Although they look beautiful, they are ten years of work in the audience. If you want to embroider the same thing, you can't do it without ten years of work."
A pair of embroidered shoes walked behind Wei Yingluo, and a laughter sounded: "The embroidery is really good."
Wei Yingluo stopped the needle in her hand, turned her head to look at the person coming, and then hurriedly stood up to salute her: "Sister Zhilan."
The maids in the palace also hurriedly saluted the red man beside the concubine Huigui, and even the oldest madam Zhang stood up and did not dare to sit in front of Zhilan, and asked in a very polite voice: "Miss Zhilan, Why are you here! Is it the spring clothes that you sent, you don’t like it? Why do you need to come here in person, send a palace maid over and say, I will go to Chuxiu Palace immediately.”
"I was satisfied at first, but after seeing this picture of clouds, I am not satisfied anymore." Zhilan said with a smile, turning her eyes to Wei Yingluo, "This little palace maid is very good at embroidering, let her come with me."
Many palace maids cast envious glances at Wei Yingluo, but Wei Yingluo and Mammy Zhang snorted in their hearts.
The master really wants to order something, just need one sentence, what is it that you have to go to to make it clear? I'm only afraid that this will be a disaster rather than a blessing.
Mammy Zhang wanted to protect Wei Yingluo, and said with an apologetic smile: "Miss Zhilan, this is not good, this girl is following me, and she hasn't graduated yet. Otherwise, let me embroider for you!"
After all, she is a mammy who is in charge of an embroidery workshop. To be able to offer to embroider clothes for a palace maid is already condescending and trying to please her, but Zhilan doesn't like this at all, and sneered: "Mother Zhang. , don't play tricks with me here, whoever I order is whoever I order, you can choose and exchange! Wei Yingluo, come with me!"
As soon as she said these words, everyone heard the malicious intent, and now everyone looked at Wei Yingluo with envy, sympathy or schadenfreude.
"...Yes." At this point, Wei Yingluo had to bite the bullet and accept it.
When she and Zhilan left, the pot immediately exploded in the embroidery workshop. Even if Mammy Zhang kept yelling at them, the little palace maids couldn't stop whispering in secret.
"What's the matter, did Wei Yingluo offend Sister Zhilan?"
"I haven't seen each other a few times, so how can you say that you are offended?"
"But... But Sister Zhilan looks like she is asking for guilt."
Of course, it is Xingshi to ask for guilt.
In the side hall of Chuxiu Palace, Wei Yingluo knelt on the cold floor.
She had been kneeling for a long time, and the coolness penetrated through her knees all the way into her bone marrow. The room was quiet, except for the occasional sound of a spoon stirring the soup.
Concubine Huigui was sitting on a chair, and there was a bowl of lotus root starch balls on the red sandalwood coffee table next to her.
The color of the soup is snow-white, and the balls are as black as mud.
Feeling that getting off the horse was enough, Concubine Huigui stopped the spoon in her hand and asked slowly, "Are you Wei Yingluo?"
"Yes!! Niangniang!!" With a loud roar, the spoon in her hand almost fell to the ground.
After being a concubine for so many years, Concubine Hui has never seen anyone who dared to yell in front of her like this. She raised her hand and caressed her chest... In fact, she wanted to caress her ears that were still ringing in her ears: "Why are you so loud?"
Wei Yingluo raised her head and smiled. She knelt down as soon as she entered the door, and Concubine Huigui couldn't see her appearance. When she saw her now, saliva was still hanging on the corner of her mouth.
"I'm sorry, noble concubine." Wei Yingluo said with a smirk, raising her hand to wipe the saliva from the corners of her mouth, "Minions have always been loud, but I can't change it after many times."
Whether standing or standing in the palace, one must pay attention to a rule, especially for the maids who serve the nobles, that is, even the sleeping posture must be a rule. For example, a silly girl like her who can sleep on her knees must be Eat ten times more boards than others.
Concubine Huigui looked at her suspiciously: "Did you say that the new leaves of loquat are poisonous?"
"Yes, it's poisonous, you can't eat it!" Wei Yingluo nodded hurriedly, "Miss, why are you asking this? Ah, is it possible that you also want to eat loquat paste? Then you must never eat the pits or touch the new leaves by mistake. , are poisonous! I was too greedy when I was a child, I accidentally ate too much, I vomited and had diarrhea, and almost died! Last time, the lady of Yonghe Palace also wanted to eat it, and I was discouraged! It’s dangerous! Oh, and there are more …”
She talked a lot, and it seemed that she was going to continue talking, but her voice was so loud that she was like dozens of ducks all by herself, making Concubine Huigui's temples jumping from the noise.
"Stop, stop, stop!" Concubine Huigui had to stop, "It's all messed up, upside down, I don't know what to say! I've been in the palace for so long, don't you even understand how to respond to the master's words?"
Wei Yingluo nodded, shook her head hurriedly, and then her eyes wandered, finally she finally settled, but she settled on the place where she shouldn't be - on the bowl of lotus root flour balls next to Concubine Huigui.
"Niangniang." Seeing her drooling appearance, this time even Zhilan couldn't stand it anymore. She leaned into Concubine Huigui's ear and said softly, "This girl seems a little silly..."
What you can see, can't Ben Gong see it? Concubine Hui beckoned, "Come here."
Wei Yingluo snorted, but she didn't understand what it meant to get her up, her knees were still on the ground, and she walked all the way to the front of Concubine Huigui. The appearance of this dog servant almost made Concubine Huigui laugh.
"Do you know what this is?" Concubine Huigui, like a dog, held a blue and white porcelain bowl and swayed left and right in front of Wei Yingluo.
Wei Yingluo's head also moved left and right along with the blue and white porcelain bowl, and she said stupidly, "Is it the Lantern Festival? But why is it black? The servants have never seen a black Lantern Festival before!"
"Poor child, haven't you even eaten lotus root balls?" Concubine Huigui smiled, "I reward you, let's eat it."
She gave Wei Yingluo the bowl, but did not give her a spoon.
"Thank you, Niangniang for the reward!" Wei Yingluo took the bowl she handed over with a look of joy. She didn't need a spoon, she just drank it directly. The few balls that were stuck to the bottom of the bowl and couldn't fall down were taken by her directly. Eat it out with your hands.
"Is it delicious?" Concubine Huigui asked amiably.
But those who know her know how deep malice lies beneath this kindness.
"Delicious." Wei Yingluo replied with a simple and honest smile.
I have never seen the person in front of me, and I can't guess the person's temperament, but this does not prevent Concubine Hui Gui from using her own methods to rectify her and test her.
"Eat more if it's delicious." Concubine Huigui waved her hand, "Zhilan—"
Next, bowl after bowl was sent to Chuxiu Palace.
Blue and white porcelain bowls, painted lacquer bowls, fine white porcelain bowls... Although the bowls are different, the things in them are the same, all of which are big and plump lotus root balls.
"Eat it." Concubine Huigui leaned on the chair and said to Wei Yingluo with a smile, "Eat all before leaving."
The bowls on the ground were already half empty, but more bowls were brought in from the outside. Wei Yingluo's stomach was already bulging out, but she was still gobbling it all the time.
Like a goldfish that never knows what it means to be full, as long as someone feeds it, it can eat itself to death.
"Hiccup, noble concubine, you are so nice, and you don't dislike the greed of slaves!" Wei Yingluo picked up a blue-and-white porcelain bowl again, "Hiccup, it's delicious, slave, slave... vomit..."
Some of the food she had eaten had leaked down the corners of her lips, but she didn't know it, and began to swallow the soup in the bowl again.
How could the nobles in the palace see such a disgusting scene, Concubine Hui frowned, and snorted with some disgust and some contempt: "What a fool! This palace is tired, let her hurry up, it will be an eyesore!"
Zhilan also felt disgusted, and she didn't even want to pull Wei Yingluo on the ground with her hands, she stretched out her foot and kicked her: "Okay, don't eat any more, Niangniang let you go!"
Wei Yingluo suddenly took a sip of soup, until Zhilan kicked her again, and she turned her head back pitifully, with something in her mouth, and said inarticulately, "But the slave hasn't finished eating yet!"
Looking at the bowl in her hand, Zhilan felt that the bowl had become dirty with her, so she frowned and said, "Take the bowl away!"
"Really?" Wei Yingluo's eyes lit up.
"Go away!"
Wei Yingluo hurriedly poured the rest of the lotus root flour balls into the same bowl, then ran away holding the bowl.
"This... Who the hell is this!" Seeing her face turning back frequently, as if she was afraid that she would go back and ask her to return the balls, Zhilan couldn't help crying and laughing. The imperial concubine couldn't help showing the expression of crying and laughing.
"Next time, ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who are recruited!" Concubine Huigui shook her head, as if she wanted to shake a disgusting image out of her head, "This is a fool!"
Zhilan originally wanted to answer her, but suddenly she remembered the colorful picture she saw when she stepped into the embroidery workshop.
The colorful sky is thousands of miles away, and the sky is dyed all over. There may not be one in ten thousand people. With such superb craftsmanship, is it really something that a fool can embroider
Seeing her hesitation in her eyes, Concubine Huigui asked, "What's wrong?"
After hesitating again and again, Zhilan finally said what was in her heart: "Niangniang, do you think... is she pretending to be stupid?"