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Volume 1: Palace Maiden's Career Chapter 13 Embroidery Workers

Bang!

"Ouch!" A little palace maid rolled off the kang in pain.

Two great palace maids held candlesticks in their hands, and the candlelight was unstable, illuminating Aunt Fang's face was half-light and half-dark, like a demon and a ghost. She kept waving the ruler in her hand, beating the little palace maid on the ground, and scolding: "I'll call you out loud, I'll call you out loud!"

"Stop hitting, aunt, stop hitting, it hurts! Stop hitting!" The palace maid hugged her head with her hands and cried, "I don't want to, but I can't control the snoring! Ouch, oh!"

When she hit someone, the other palace maids were lying on the side of the kang, and they didn't dare to move. Two big palace maids holding rulers were wandering in front of the kang, their eyes as if they were choosing lambs to be slaughtered.

"The rules in the palace are that you are not allowed to make a sound when sleeping. One day you will be held at night for your master. If there is a sound, not only will you be beaten to death, but I will even be eaten and eaten!" The ruler in Aunt Fang fell on the little palace maid mercilessly. "If you can't change it, you will beat it until you can change it!"

Aunt Fang twitched her for a long time. Perhaps she was tired of twitching, so she stopped her movements. After she breathed, she put her hands on her hips and said coldly to the palace maids: "Get up, work!"

Everyone looked at the sky outside the window in disbelief. It was as dark as a pool of ink. They stretched out their hands and were sure to be submerged in the ink. They couldn't even see a few fingers clearly.

"Aunt, aunt, it's only the third update now." A little palace maid couldn't help but say, "The door of the embroidery workshop has not opened..."

But when Aunt Fang looked at her, she immediately didn't dare to say anything. She hurriedly turned over from the kang. Because she was too big, she staggered when she was not careful.

For a moment, the palace maids were filled with rustling sounds of dressing. Everyone was afraid that their movements would be slower, and they would get up as fast as possible.

"Aunt, I'm fine." Jinxiu likes to be the first in everything, and this time she is the same. She dressed her head well, then ran to Aunt Fang and said obediently, "Are we going to the embroidery workshop now?"

"The door of the embroidery workshop has not opened yet, what are you going to do?" Aunt Fang said coldly.

Jinxiu was stunned when she heard this: "Then we..."

"The embroidery workshop is a life, and it is also a life for me." Aunt Fang looked around and said, "Who is Wei Yingluo?"

Everyone looked at Wei Yingluo together.

"It's me." Wei Yingluo's face did not change and she came out from the crowd.

Aunt Fang winked at the two great palace maids she brought. One of the great palace maids immediately stepped forward and stuffed a stack of clothes into her arms.

"I heard from Madam Zhang that your embroidery work is the best. All the collars, sleeves, and skirts are embroidered with patterns that suit the situation. Leave it to me at dawn!" After Aunt Fang gave the order, she raised her hand and pointed at the other little palace maids, and ordered one by one, "You seven are divided into two shifts. You, you, you, you three go to boil water, prepare pancreas and hand towels, I will get up early and have to take a shower. The rest will go clean the yard and ensure that every floor tiles will shine. Go quickly!"

Everyone was busy taking action. Jixiang was assigned to serve Aunt Fang's job. It was said that this was a good job, which was easier than cleaning the yard, and he could also talk to his aunt who was in charge of them. Therefore, Jinxiu, who was also assigned to this job, couldn't stop smiling.

But Jixiang is ridiculous. In her eyes, Aunt Fang is no different from a tiger and a beast. Serving her to bathe is no less than pulling her teeth for a tiger.

"Don't hold your face." Wei Yingluo's voice suddenly sounded softly in her ear, and she said softly, "Learn from the Jinxiu and smile more, you will be very cute when you smile."

"I can't learn from her." Jixiang curled his lips, then looked at Wei Yingluo with admiration, "Sister Yingluo, you are so amazing, how did you know that your aunt will come back?"

If it weren't for Wei Yingluo's reminder, she would probably be the one who just got beaten.

Jixiang also has the problem of snoring. The reason why he was not caught by Aunt Fang was because after hearing Wei Yingluo's words, she was so scared that she couldn't sleep. Until Aunt Fang came back again, she woke up.

Wei Yingluo laughed: "The new official took office for three fires. Even if no one snored, she would find some excuses to hit people so that we would be afraid of her and dare not ignore her from now on... Okay, go quickly, don't let my aunt wait in a hurry."

Watching Jixiang leave in a hurry, Wei Yingluo smiled and shook her head, then looked down at the clothes in her hand.

A person who is good at embroidery can tailor her clothes based on her eyes alone. After careful examination, the clothes are exactly the same as those of aunt Fang’s clothes. At a glance, you can tell that it is her fake public service and she wants her little palace maid to modify her private server for her.

Maybe it was to avoid stealing the masters' limelight, the clothes of the palace maids were all simple. In this regard, there was no big difference between the big palace maids and the little palace maids. The same was true for a few sets of clothes in their hands. The colors were light and the patterns were not found after tossing and turning.

"Women love pretty, so too do women who enter the palace." Wei Yingluo thought to herself, "No, in such places where women are all women, women need to compare even more."

Holding a needle and thread, Wei Yingluo embroidered a string of wisteria flowers on the collar sleeves of the clothes. The wisteria was broken and scattered with branches, revealing the calmness and elegance of an older woman. In an instant, she raised the ordinary palace maid suit in her hand to a higher level, and it was very suitable for Aunt Fang's identity. It would not be as charming and graceful as peony and peony, and accidentally stole the limelight from her masters.

She embroidered so thoughtfully that even a nitpicking person like Aunt Fang can't make any mistakes.

But when Aunt Fang turned her clothes in her hand for a while, her eyes finally fell on the wisteria flowers on her cuffs. Her love was beyond words. She stroked her hands for a long time, but she still said lightly: "The embroidery is pretty good. You can also embroider the other pieces for me, so you can use different patterns."

"Yes, aunt." Wei Yingluo responded obediently, "Is it embroidering now?"

Aunt Fang looked at the sky. She wanted Wei Yingluo to embroider her now, but there was a limit to pretending to be public and private, so she had to shake her head regretfully: "Go to have a meal, go to the embroidery workshop to work after dinner."

Wei Yingluo pursed her lips and smiled: "Yes."

Aunt Fang left with her wisteria-patterned clothes. Seeing her impatient look, she seemed to change into this clothes immediately and show off to her sisters.

"Look at me, I hugged another golden thigh." In secret, Jinxiu was gossiping with other little palace maids again, "I am such a natural good slave. If we want to live a good life, we have to learn from her."

Jixiang couldn't listen to such words and was about to argue with her, but Wei Yingluo was caught.

"Sister Yingluo, aren't you angry when she says this to you?" Jixiang said angrily.

Wei Yingluo smiled. Her time is very precious, how could she waste it on just Jinxiu?

"Jixiang, can you help me?" Wei Yingluo asked.

"You said." Jixiang agreed without asking what he was busy with.

"I won't go to eat breakfast, please bring me a steamed bun." Wei Yingluo said, "I have something to do, so I'll go to the embroidery workshop first."

At this point, the embroidery shop is like a sleeping person, sleeping extremely peacefully, without any sound at all.

Wei Yingluo was not idle either. She shook the broom in her hand and slowly returned the fallen flowers in front of the door. The wisteria flowers bloomed in front of the embroidery shop. The deep and shallow purple petals dyed the broom a little fragrance.

"Why did you come so early?" A voice rang behind her.

Stopped the broom in his hand, Wei Yingluo turned around and smiled: "Mrs. Zhang is early."

This was a premeditated meeting.

Madam Zhang works in the embroidery workshop. She is the first to come and the last to leave every day. Therefore, as long as she saves breakfast, she will definitely wait for Madam Zhang.

But she wouldn't say that. Wei Yingluo smiled and said, "It's my first day to work in the embroidery workshop. I'm afraid I'm late, so I came earlier."

The elderly like children who abide by the rules, and Madam Zhang is no exception. A rare smile appeared on her serious, almost inhumane face: "You are a child who understands the rules."

Wei Yingluo naturally understands the rules.

In the next half month, she got up early every day and embroidered clothes for Aunt Fang, including wisteria, autumn orchids, carp and blue birds. She never repeated the patterns. When the sun was about to rise, she would not eat anything and ran to the embroidery workshop with sweeping tools.

Some people also want to learn from her, but after four or five days, they can't hold on.

"I am born to be a slave." This person is Jinxiu. She told others, "I can't learn from her."

She can't learn it and is unwilling to learn it because there are no visible benefits.

Although Wei Yingluo does private work for Aunt Fang every day, she has also been beaten by Aunt Fang. Although she goes to the gate of the embroidery shop before dawn every day, Madam Zhang does not favor her because of this. She has as much work as others, and sometimes more than others.

Many people are secretly laughing at Wei Yingluo: Thankless, why bother?

Wei Yingluo did what she wanted. No matter how others talked about her, she had been insisting on such a life. Although she did not get any substantial benefits, Aunt Fang and Madam Zhang looked at her more and more softly, especially Madam Zhang, who would also talk to her about family matters in her spare time.

Wei Yingluo always listens quietly, occasionally sending a few words and asking one or two irrelevant questions. Because she is so well-behaved and sensible, Madam Zhang will answer her casually.

"Madam, is it better to use red or green in this place?"

"Use red, red is festive."

"Madam, is it better to embroider koi with the veil of Concubine Yu, or is it better to embroider the orchid?"

"Koi, good omen."

"Madam, which one is better than my embroiderer or Wei Yingning?"

"Yingning is better." Madam Zhang replied habitually, and after answering, she was slightly stunned and stared at Wei Yingluo in front of her.

Wei Yingluo looked back at her with a smile.

In a month, every time I met and every seemingly inconsequential question and answer were for the same purpose - Madam Zhang subconsciously answered her next question.
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