Things are unpredictable.
Previously, she had repeatedly advised Jinxiu not to try to get close to the guards in the palace, especially Fucha Fu Heng.
Unexpectedly, fate played a great joke on her.
"Sister Yingluo, who are you looking at?" Jixiang asked softly beside him.
On the opposite corridor, there was a line of guards patrolling the palace, there were six people in total, Fucha Fuheng and Qingxi were inside.
There is not only Jinxiu alone, but no one dares to take action like her, most of them only dare to stop what they are doing, look at and discuss from a distance, and one says that she looks like a phoenix. Gao, the other said that he was born handsome, and at the end of the discussion, his face was red and his heart was shaking.
"I didn't look at anyone, let's go." Wei Yingluo looked back and smiled at Jixiang, "Let's go, let's go back to the embroidery workshop, I heard that the embroidery girls who have been embroidered for many years are busy making the empress dowager and the emperor's uniforms, but it happened to pass another one. The moon is the future of the queen, and every palace and workshop has to prepare birthday gifts for the queen. Our embroidery workshop follows the old practice, and we have to present a phoenix robe for the queen, but we don’t know who the master embroiderer is…”
An hour later, everyone in the embroidery workshop arrived.
Mammy Zhang looked around the crowd and said slowly, "The master embroiderer is—"
Everyone looked expectant, especially Linglong, who couldn't help standing on tiptoe, as if this would make her stand out from the crowd and attract Mammy Zhang's gaze.
Mammy Zhang's eyes were really attracted to her, and Linglong's face was full of ecstasy, but the smile quickly stopped, because the eyes slowly moved away from her and finally settled on Wei Yingluo.
"—Wei Yingluo!"
Mammy Zhang announced.
The tiptoe came back to its original place.
There were sighs all around, Linglong endured it, and finally asked unbearably: "Mammy, you think about Yingluo every good thing, what about us?"
Mammy Zhang turned her attention to her and asked, "Do you think I'm partial?"
Linglong was startled, and hurriedly lowered her head and said, "I dare not..."
"I don't dare, but I don't." Mammy Zhang shook her head, and then said to everyone, "Well, it's good for you and others, if someone feels unfair and thinks that their embroidery is better than Yingluo, then you Stand up and I'll give you the job!"
Everyone look at me, I look at you.
If only the embroidery was good, there would be many ambitious people among the crowd, who dared to come out and fight, but Aunt Fang was expelled from the palace the day before yesterday, and even Jinxiu, who was the second embroiderer in the embroidery workshop, was punished into Xin. The library, and at the same time, has won the appreciation of Director Wu. At this moment, when Wei Yingluo is in the limelight, who dares to compete with it
So until the end, no one dared to stand up.
Even Wei Yingluo herself felt that she was in the limelight. After the work in the embroidery workshop was completed, she thought that everyone had already returned, so she found Mammy Zhang alone and sighed: "The embroidery needs to accumulate over time, how old is Yingluo? , No matter how good the embroidery work is, there is no limit. The embroidery maid, plus the master invited from outside, I don’t know how many embroidery works are better than me... Mammy, you take care of me too much.”
"There is a convention among palace maids. All the gifts of the queen and noble concubine are prepared by the new palace maids. On that day, when the masters are in a good mood, most of them will be rewarded, and even if they do not do well, they will not be too harsh. This is to give you a little hope, a chance to make your mark." After Mammy Zhang finished her official speech, she suddenly blinked at her, "Besides, your silly sister is my most proud apprentice, even if it is on her face, I will take care of her more. Two points for you."
Wei Yingluo was moved and wanted to say something, but she searched for a long time, but couldn't find a suitable word.
"Come on, the palace maid is unhappy and crying, and no matter when, she has to have a smile, come." Mammy Zhang said with a smile, "Smile and show me."
Wei Yingluo stared at her for a long while, like a baby who was just learning to laugh, tentatively raised the corners of her lips, revealing a green, even a little stiff smile.
Such a smile is naturally not beautiful.
But the only smile at this moment is not to please the nobles, not to paralyze the enemy, but a sincere and sincere smile.
It was also the first time she really laughed after hearing the news of her sister's death.
After a few days, the materials needed to sew the phoenix robe were shipped to the embroidery workshop.
Silk and satin are everywhere, and the most eye-catching is the box of peacock feather lines in the hands of Mammy Zhang.
It seems that the Mingli tail feathers have just been plucked from the peacock's tail, but in this palace, everything is exquisite, especially the things that are dedicated to the nobles, and it is even more generous with labor and materials.
"The peacock feather thread is woven together with peacock feathers and gold and silver threads. A very skilled weaver girl can only weave one meter a day." Mammy Zhang gave the box to Wei Yingluo, and instructed. , "You have to use it well, be careful not to make mistakes, but there is no extra for you."
Wei Yingluo hurriedly took the box.
Just a ray of sunlight folded into the box, and the box seemed not to contain fabrics, but precious jewels, which folded into a colorful glow, like a dream, like a floating mirage.
Everyone was intoxicated by its beauty, but didn't want to, an untimely voice sounded.
"What if something went wrong?"
The person who spoke was hidden in the crowd, and he spoke with a choked voice. Although Wei Yingluo immediately followed the sound, she did not catch this person.
Mammy Zhang's face was extremely ugly. It was the most taboo in the palace to say such depressing words, and she immediately said sharply: "Who is it? Come out?"
She called three times in a row, but still no one was willing to stand up.
Seeing this, Mammy Zhang immediately sneered and said, "This is a gift to the Empress. If anything goes wrong, we will lose our heads together!"
Some people believe this, some people don't.
But what other people think, Wei Yingluo doesn't care.
All she cares about is the opportunity in front of her.
"I can't take the initiative to approach Fucha Fu Heng. There are many people looking at him, and many people looking at me. If I'm too active, I'll just fall into the hands of others." Before the embroidery, Wei Yingluo picked up a peacock feather from the box. Playing with the line, I thought to myself, "For the current plan, I can only start with the people around him... I must have thought the same way, so I gave this task to me. If I do it well, I will naturally be able to work in Fucha. Fu Heng's sister, the Empress, left an impression."
How many people's progress is from leaving an impression.
Wei Yingluo concentrated on embroidery work, because she was so diligent that she forgot the time. She didn't turn her head until her shoulder was shaken. It was already dark outside the window, and Jixiang stood beside her with an oil lamp , and some complained: "Sister Yingluo, I have called you three times, and you have been ignoring me."
"I'm sorry, I'm fascinated by embroidery." Wei Yingluo smiled, then raised her hand and rubbed her sour eyes.
"It's so dark, and I don't want to hold the lamp anymore, so I don't want my eyes?" Jixiang placed the oil lamp in front of her, and when the light shone, the peacock feathers in the box swayed and shone brightly. Yingluo's body was like daytime, and even a fool like Jixiang, who only had food in his eyes, couldn't help but be attracted by it. Let's eat."
Wei Yingluo had a sound in her stomach, but smiled, "No, I'm not hungry yet, why don't you just bring me something to eat, I'll eat it later."
The heart of harming others is indispensable, and the heart of preventing others is indispensable. Today's untimely voice made her realize that she was being envied by others.
Jealousy is like a knife, no one knows when it will stab from behind.
Wei Yingluo suspects that some people will play tricks on the phoenix feather line, such as secretly stealing a few pieces, and once such precious materials are lost, there is no other thing that can be replaced.
So the best way to deal with it is to use up the feather line and finish the phoenix robe before the opponent starts, and then hand it over to Madam Zhang.
"You... you don't want to continue working, do you?" Jixiang frowned, his eyes turned to the peacock feather line, and instead of the previous love, there was some disgust, "After embroidering this phoenix robe, let's not talk about it for more than a month. , I'm in such a hurry every day, you don't want to die! That's good, you go to dinner first, and I'll help you embroider for a while!"
Although she was kind, Wei Yingluo didn't dare to hand things over to her. After all, she was a master who could embroider a phoenix into a grass chicken...
"Anyway, there are only two choices, either let me embroider for you, or go to dinner with me!" Jixiang shook Wei Yingluo's shoulder, half arrogant and half coquettish, "It's only half the time of incense, come, come. Well!"
"Hey, hey, okay!" Wei Yingluo was so entangled by her that she had to get up and leave with her.
The food tonight is very rich, the pumpkin porridge is fresh and sweet, the cold cucumber is refreshing and delicious, and the rice noodles and meat are fat but not greasy. It's a pity that Wei Yingluo has the embroidery workshop in mind, picked up some vegetables, and finished the bowl in three or two. After the meal, he put down his chopsticks and said, "I'm full, so I'll go back first."
"So soon?" Jixiang still had a mouthful of rice noodles and meat in his mouth. Looking at the dishes on the table, he murmured inarticulately, "What a waste... Wait for me! I'll finish it right away!"
Wei Yingluo hurried to the embroidery workshop.
Thinking about it carefully, that sentence is by no means aimless.
"What if something went wrong?"
What if Wei Yingluo made a mistake on purpose
"It's rare to make rice noodles and meat in the kitchen. I still have half a plate left to eat. Hey, what are you doing in such a hurry? Things can't fly..." The complaining suddenly choked in his throat, and Jixiang stood at the door of the embroidery workshop dumbfounded. , looking at the scene inside through Wei Yingluo's shoulder.
I saw a chaos in the embroidery workshop, embroidered stretchers, embroidered cloth, and even phoenix robes were thrown on the ground at will. Wei Yingluo took a few steps forward, and saw that the phoenix robe that had just grown up had a few large holes cut out, black like a mocking mouth, intending to cut her and her The future devours.
"...Damn!" Wei Yingluo's expression suddenly changed, and she rushed to the box where the phoenix feather line was placed.
The candlestick is still in place, and the box is still in place, with the lid open—it's dark and empty inside.
Peacock feather line... gone.