Chapter 75 (2/2)
”Mother.” her face was calm, pretending not to know anything, and she saluted Zhao.
Zhao put her hand on the table. The gold bracelet on her wrist touched the table and made a clear collision sound. ”I heard from mother sun that you disobeyed the discipline and deliberately contradicted mother sun?”
Mother sun copied her hands and looked wronged. Chu Jinmiao bowed her head and peeled her skin attentively without looking up.
Chu Jinyao calmly asked, ”mother, where did you start?”
”Mother Sun told me everything. She's going to discipline the rules for you, and you don't have to contradict. You're still rude to mother sun in front of the public. Do you still have my mother in your eyes?”
”Mother, you know, you are my mother.” Chu Jinyao looked up at Zhao and said word by word, ”Why don't you ask me what happened? Mother sun yelled in my yard when she first came. I just came back from mother Hua. I didn't have time to sit down and drink. I heard mother sun say that she came to collect the keys to my clothes and jewelry at your order.”
Chu Jinyao raised her head and looked at Zhao: ”mother, is this what you asked her to do? Don't ask, pinch my whole fortune in my hand first, so as to restrain me?”
Zhao frowned and looked at grandma sun. She asked grandma sun to take care of Chu Jinyao. Don't let anyone step on Chu Jinyao's face. Why did the woman rashly ask Chu Jinyao for keys? Clothes and jewelry in the back house are women's biggest possessions. If they weren't trusted slaves, who would let others move these? Zhao's eyes pressed over. Grandma sun quickly bowed her head and Zhao's heart Some angry: ”why didn't you say this just now? Who let you make your own decisions?”
”Madam Hui, it's not the old slave's own opinion!”
”Then you say, who inspired you to do this?” Zhao was angry. He folded his hands on his knees and asked, ”I want to see where you have the courage to defy me.”
Mammy sun was sweating. She dared not speak, but one eye secretly looked at Chu Jinmiao. Chu Jinyao also stared at Chu Jinmiao directly to see how she managed.
A piece of brocade is ten feet long. It's only a set of clothes outside. Chu Jinyao is very fond of it, but she also knows that the skirts of women in noble families are extremely made. She wants to see her aunt again. The skirts have to be made into seven pieces, and the pleats need to be finely punched. In this way, it takes three feet to cut out. If there are some mistakes in cutting, it will only hurt her more.
”Let's do it ourselves. We always have to be more careful.”
”OK.” lilac and Camellia said and took out the scissors, but Chu Jinyao shouted to them, ”wait. Cut from the middle, and finally the materials on both sides are wasted. Once they are cut into pieces, they can only make some purse. Give me the ruler.” Chu Jinyao took the ruler, made an oblique gesture and said, ”try it like this.”
Camellia hesitated: ”OK? Good material. Don't cut it at last.”
”No, I've tried before.” Chu Jinyao used to be in a bad situation at home. A piece of cloth needs to be used for many years. She is sewing and changing the clothes at home. Slowly, Chu Jinyao mastered a good hand of sewing. She has deep experience in how to save materials and look good.
Camellia still refused to make it. It was clove. According to Chu Jinyao, it was crossed and cut. Chu Jinyao and clove matched, and several second-class servant girls came to fight. After a while, the jacket was cut out.
The second-class girl Kikyo exclaimed, ”it's really saved a lot. The most important thing is that the rest of the material is still whole. It's convenient to do anything in the future. If it's cut to pieces, it can only be used as a gadget like a handkerchief purse.”
Chu Jinyao said, ”it's just the bright surface on the outside, and the inner lining needs to be cut. Clove, go and get the plain yarn material. I remember there's still some left.”
After clove came over, several servant girls gathered around, weighed the cloth with their hands, and asked, ”girl, is this enough?”
Chu Jinyao touched it and said definitely, ”enough.”
Clove and Platycodon grandiflorum didn't know what to do. They did what Chu Jinyao said. Finally, they were just cut out.
Kikyo sincerely sighed, ”girl, your hands are so clever.”
Then came the horse face skirt. Camellia asked, ”this is a material with white background and purple flowers. Just make a coat. Is it too light to hold down when making a horse face skirt?”
Chu Jinyao was also worried about this. She looked carefully at the patterns on the cloth and said, ”cut them out first and find a way when pleating.”
After the cloth was cut, Chu Jinyao took one of her own and sat at the edge of the lock. She pressed her hand, tried to make some folds, and drew a satin from the cloth floor and made a gesture.
Lilac Platycodon grandiflorum was sewing. Suddenly Platycodon grandiflorum shouted, ”girl!”
The servant girls looked up. Kikyo gathered around and picked up the pleats locked by Chu Jinyao. Chu Jinyao sewed Purple Satin on the pleats, extending to the knee, then cut the satin intermittently, cut the lowest end into a sharp head, lined it with a harder cloth, and finally decorated it with tassels. Kikyo couldn't put it down and said: ”It looks like a peacock's tail feather. When the pleats are finished, one of these hard ribbons must be as good as a peacock's open screen. It looks great!”
The servant girls gathered around to see. Chu Jinyao demonstrated how to sew in front of them, and then closed the side. The handy servant girl would look at it once. She was too stupid to remember. She had to look around Chu Jinyao again. From time to time, a servant girl took her skirt and asked, ”girl, is that right?”
Chu Jinyao gave instructions one by one. The Baoxia was very lively for a while. Chu Jinyao was quick and finished a skirt in a short time. Worried about Qin Yi's boredom, she took a piece of cloud brocade satin, filled Xiao Lou with what she needed, and said, ”I'm a little tired sitting outside. I'll go inside and have a rest.”
”I'll serve the girl.” Kikyo stood up and said, ”girl, since you're tired, you don't have to take the cloth basket. Give it to us.”
”Nothing, I'll just sew two stitches.” Kikyo took the basket in Chu Jinyao's hand, followed Chu Jinyao into the west room and put it on the Kang near the window. Chu Jinyao said, ”I'll just rest here myself. Go out and make stitches with them.”
Kikyo hesitated, but was finally sent away by Chu Jinyao. When there was no one in the room, Chu Jinyao whispered, ”are you still there?”
Where else could he go... Qin Yi said helplessly, ”yes. What's the matter?”
”There were so many people just now that I can't talk to you. Are you bored looking at these?”
Although the jade pendant fell on Chu Jinyao's chest, Chu Jinyao could not stay in the house without seeing anyone all day. Therefore, when Chu Jinyao went out and talked to others, Qin Yi had to stay by himself. He could do nothing but wait.
Qin Yi also felt bored. When did he care about women's trivial and boring things such as making clothes, let alone watching them do sewing. But he can't go back now. He can only stay with Chu Jinyao. What else can he say?
Chu Jinyao said, ”I think the days of a great lady are too busy. Today, at any rate, we should make clothes. We have something to do on our hands. Sitting in the same way as we did the other day is too busy.”
Qin Yi agreed. He was thinking about how to get back to his body all the way. He still had many things to do in Datong, but he had to stay here and spend time with a group of backyard women. Qin Yi is impetuous, but now he looks at Chu Jinyao's slender wrists flying back and forth and shuttling through the gorgeous brocade. His hands are smart and light. He takes care of the cloth in a moment. Qin Yi looked at it like this and saw some beauty with special rhythm, and his dryness subsided.
Chu Jinyao turned the skirt to one side. After a while, she locked one side again. Qin Yi looked at it for a while and said, ”you are really more skillful than them, with neat stitches and fast speed.”
”What's the matter?” Chu Jinyao said. ”I'm used to sewing clothes. Instead, I'm going to make a fool of myself by embroidery. If I can't see it when I sew clothes, I'll show my stuffiness when my aunt comes. If she asks us to embroider square handkerchiefs, I'll show my stuffiness. Big girl, they all learn embroidery from childhood. What can I do?”
Chu Jinyao suddenly asked Qin Yi, ”can you embroider?”
Qin Yi was caught off guard when asked. He smiled and asked slowly, ”what do you think?”
Chu Jinyao was not frightened by Qin Yi's cool tone, but smiled and said, ”I think you can ask anything. I thought nothing could embarrass you.”
Qin Yi secretly rolled his eyes and didn't want to talk to her. However, being interrupted by Chu Jinyao, Qin Yi's mood was much better.
Chu Jinyao put the scissors, needles and thread back into the basket, took off the jade pendant and put it on the Kang Table. Her current identity is Miss Hou men. Making her own clothes is to kill time. If she is bored, she can throw it to the servant girls anytime and anywhere. She looked at the jade pendant and asked, ”have you been in a bad mood these days?”
Qin Yi didn't expect that even Chu Jinyao could see it. He's really getting more and more energetic.
Since Chu Jinyao saw it, Qin Yi didn't want to deliberately lie to her. He sighed: ”yes.”
Chu Jinyao's heart is very complicated. Qin Yi has been teaching her how to say and do these days. She never thought that she had something on her mind when Qin Yi helped her.
Chu Jinyao was very moved. She took the jade pendant out of the complex and was about to ask about it. Suddenly, she was surprised and said, ”why is there only half of the red catkins in the jade?”
”That's what I'm worried about,” Qin Yi said. ”I have a hunch that once all the red catkins disappear and I haven't been cured, I'm afraid I can't live.”
After hearing this, Chu Jinyao lost his voice and said, ”how can it?”
Qin Yi rarely sighed wearily. He was no longer holding the winning ticket in the past: ”why did I ever think about it? But I have a hunch that it is mostly like this.”