Chapter 231 Surprised to see the old mother's acid
The assessment of the young master's wife who had chosen to be the same in Dengying City. In Liuxiang Garden, people have already paid attention to the virtues and words of the girls. Today, it is mainly to assess the "study" of the girls. The merit refers to the way of managing the family. The way of managing the family includes taking care of the husband and filial sons, serving the parents-in-law, and being thrifty.
The five countries have known about this for a long time, and the girls sent by the girls are all good.
Su Nianjin is dependent on others, and she doesn’t have much silver in her hand, so she can only do embroidery work as a gift to give it to others. The girl’s red is naturally very good.
The Zhaoping County Lord Xie Ping'er is an orphan and has no requirements for her. Among all, Ping'er's daughter is the worst.
As Ye Xiaoliang's biological mother, Mrs. Xiaobin attaches the most importance to marrying her daughter-in-law. When the girls were doing embroidery, they kept observing. When they saw Su Nianjin, they frowned slightly. When they saw Ping'er, they widened their eyes and blurted out: "Pin Girl!"
"Madam Fang, you have recognized the wrong person. Miss Ping has returned to Changzhou. That is Miss Mu from Yi Kingdom." said Madam Zhou.
"She is not..." Mrs. Xiaobin saw the warning eyes of the county lord Zhaoping, swallowed the words to her mouth, and changed her mouth, "It's too far away, I didn't see clearly, and I admitted the wrong person."
Mrs. Li squinted her eyes at Song Ruoxi and smiled, "Look carefully, this girl Mu and Miss Ping look a little like it."
Ye Shuting didn't wait for Song Ruoxi to speak, and said first: "There are similarities in things and people are similar. The eyebrows and eyes of Li Shumu and Chen Shumu are also somewhat similar. If it weren't for the different surnames, everyone would have thought the two were sisters."
Mrs. Li's face darkened. Mrs. Chen had been locked in the alley. Ye Shuting pulled her and Mrs. Chen together. What does this mean? She understood very well. She snorted coldly and said, "When did Miss Ting learn to speak like this?"
"My father said that my daughter's family must be erotic to be likable. I am working hard according to my father's words." Ye Shuting said with a smile.
Ye Shuting moved Yefan out to suppress others, but Mrs. Li didn't dare to answer the conversation anymore, and picked up the cup and drank tea with an ugly expression.
Song Ruoxi smiled at Ye Shuting and expressed gratitude. She is a daughter-in-law and quarreling with her concubine's mother in public is an illegitimate act and will make people criticize her. Ye Shuting is a daughter. She refuted Mrs. Li's words, because the little girl is favored and has no need to worry too much.
Ye Shuting smiled and raised her eyebrows.
The Zhaoping County Lord half-squinted his eyes and seemed to have heard nothing about them.
After half of the time, nearly half of the girls had made embroidery pieces. Su Nianjin also embroidered the last stitch, tied knots and broke threads, looked carefully, and handed them over to the maids who were responsible for collecting embroidery pieces. They presented them to the Lord Zhaoping County and others to check.
The Zhaoping County Lord did not stipulate what to do. The girls each performed their own performance, some made purses, some made sachets, some made fan pendants. The patterns on the embroidery were also blooming, including peonies, lotus, plum blossoms, apricot blossoms, and pomegranate flowers.
The maid who was timing the time rings the silver bell, and the time is up.
Among the twenty-eight girls, only Ping'er and another girl did not complete the embroidery on time.
The bottle cannot be embroidered, making a mess.
The girl was obviously eager to be kind and wanted to use embroidery to defeat the folks and win the head, but she forgot that only two quarters of an hour was not enough for her to complete such complicated embroidery. She pinched the embroidery and looked at the maid who was collecting the embroidery with a pleading look, hoping that the maid would be able to be compatible.
The maid ignored her prayer and quickly took away the semi-finished product from her hand, and presented it to the Lord Zhaoping County and others with other embroidery.
The Lord Zhaoping and others spent half an hour reading all the embroidery items and selected five good ones from them, including Su Nianjin's peony embroidered handkerchief.
Song Ruoxi announced the names of the five people and said with a smile: "These are the five best embroidery pieces of today. I hope everyone will perform better in the afternoon and evening."
The girl red competition in the morning ended, and it was almost noon, so it was time to have lunch. The Lord of Zhaoping led everyone to the side hall of the villa. In order to observe the etiquette of the girls' dining at close range, the lunch was a combination meal.
After the Zhaoping County Lord and others sat down, the girls, led by the maid, sat down one by one.
The girls knew that dining was also a test, and they were very gentle and disciplined. However, two girls were too nervous and did not hold the spoon while drinking soup, and fell down and bumped into the porcelain bowl. They made a crisp sound, which scared them to tremble and looked at the Lord of Zhaoping, who was sitting in the main seat with concern.
The smile on the face of Zhaoping County Lord had not diminished, as if he had not heard the sound.
Mrs. Xiaobin frowned in some displeasure, stared at the two girls, and had already excluded them in her heart.
After lunch, the Lord of Zhaoping County led everyone to the waterfront in the villa to enjoy the cool air.
Madam Zhou ordered her maid to give sour plum soup to relieve greasy and relieve heat.
Sour plum soup is preserved in the ice water, and it is a good choice for cooling off the heat. Everyone drinks it with relish.
Chen took a sip, but stopped drinking, and his eyebrows frowned.
Seeing this, Yue asked in a low voice: "What's wrong with you?"
"I feel stuffy in my chest, a little uncomfortable." Chen said.
"Do you want to call a good doctor to see?" Yue asked.
Chen glanced at the Zhaoping County Lord who was talking to Song Ruoxi, shook his head gently, and said, "Maybe the weather is too hot, I'll be fine if I'll take a break."
"If you feel uncomfortable, say, don't hold on and make yourself uncomfortable." Yue Shi said.
Chen smiled faintly. Seeing that everyone was drinking sour plum soup, it was difficult to put the bowl down, he took another sip, and his stomach felt like it was overturning, and he vomited out with a "wow".
"What's this?" County Lord Zhaoping looked over when he heard the movement, frowned and asked.
"Mother, her brother and sister-in-law have a tight chest and feel a little uncomfortable." Yue explained for Chen.
"Since you feel uncomfortable, you should call a good doctor to have a look. If you are afraid of diseases, minor illnesses will lead to serious illnesses." said Zhaoping County Lord.
Chen recovered from his energy, pressed the corner of his mouth with a silk squid, and said, "Mother, my daughter-in-law is not feeling uncomfortable. She just ate a few more bites of fish, and now she is a little nauseous."
"Disgusting? How can it be disgusting?" Mrs. Shao asked with a frown.
The Lord of Zhaoping County flashed his eyes and asked, "How many days have you been so disgusting?"
Chen lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "It's been seven or eight days."
"Ouch!" Mrs. Li shouted, "Madam Fifth is you happy, right?"
"Mrs. Fifth, how long has your little life been here?" Mrs. Yue asked loudly.
Chen was blushed by this private question, and said with a voice like a mosquito ant: "It's been half a month late."
"This is probably pregnant." Mrs. Shao was happy. Although Ye Xiaogong had one son and one daughter, he had many sons and many blessings. Chen was born to him as a legitimate son. "In addition to being disgusting, do you feel your body..."
The Zhaoping County Lord coughed a few times, interrupted Mrs. Shao's words, and signaled everyone to calm down. There were many uninformed girls here, and some of them were not easy to say in front of the girls, "Please help the fifth lady to rest in the room, and go to summon doctor Liang to come in to show Mrs. Wu."
Chen was helped down by his maid.
As soon as the words were heard, the good doctor arrived and took the pulse. The maid reported back and forth that Chen had been pregnant for two months. Ye Xiaogong had gone to Heguo and could not inform him of this good news for the time being.
"It's said that it's been six or seven months since the young lady entered the door. Why haven't the good news been heard yet?" Mrs. Li looked at Song Ruoxi's belly and asked with a smile.
Song Ruoxi was not surprised that Mrs. Li had always been targeting her. Mrs. Li Luaner's affairs made Mrs. Li resentful. She found an opportunity today. Besides, the State of Min also sent the girl. These people never gave up on the idea of blocking the woman to Ye Shuhua. She smiled indifferently and asked, "Is Li Shu's mother Gui Geng this year?"
Everyone was stunned, not understanding what she meant by asking this?
Song Ruoxi didn't need Mrs. Li's answer, and then said, "Li Shu's mother is very well maintained. She doesn't look like she is over 50 years old."
"What are you talking nonsense? I am only thirty-one years old today." Mrs. Li said angrily.
"Li Shu's mother is only 31 years old! Why does she have white hair on her head? Oh!" Song Ruoxi took a long voice and suddenly realized, "I understand. She is too worried and fucked too much, so she grows fast, has a haggard face, and has a gray hair early."
"Puchi" Ye Shuting couldn't help laughing and laughed out loud.
Mrs. Li was both angry and angry, and was about to rebel.
The Zhaoping County Lord stood up and said, "It's almost time, let's go back to the main hall!"
Mrs. Li had no choice but to swallow the words, and her chest was so angry that she was undulating.
There are two competitions in the afternoon. The first thing to compare is the characters. They say that the characters are like the person, and they can see the character and character of the person from the lines.
"Yuxian, come and make the questions." The Zhaoping County Lord smiled.
"Yes." Song Ruoxi stood up and responded.
The girls' eyes were all on Song Ruoxi. The Zhaoping County Lord's move made the girls know that this young lady was very popular with her mother-in-law.
Song Ruoxi pondered for a moment and smiled: "Yesterday was the summer solstice, so please ask all the girls to write a poem about the summer solstice in two incense sticks!"
Most people's request for women in boudoir is to knit girls, and they do not require girls to read and read. This time they are here to run for the wife of the young master, not the wife of the young city lord. Most of the girls sent by the five countries are concubines from high-ranking officials and legitimate daughters from low-ranking officials. They are very knowledgeable in literature and are not good at poetry and songs.
Song Ruoxi asked them to write poems, which made most girls look embarrassed.
"Madam, do you want the little girl to write a poem by herself?" asked a girl in red with courage.
Song Ruoxi glanced at the girls and said, "The woman in the boudoir used chanting poems and paintings as a pastime. If she couldn't even play, how could she do other important things?"
"Sister-in-law, I think these sisters who are coming from afar are too restrictive. Why would you let Ting'er throw a brick and attract jade?" Ye Shuting said with a smile.
Song Ruoxi smiled and said, "Sister Ting has a good poem, so let everyone listen!"
Ye Shuting's eyes turned slightly, and she shook her head and chanted: "The new water rises and the deserted ponds, and the rice is full of acres. The east and the west neighbors, and they make relatives and friends for generations. In summer, ripe cucumbers come, and autumn comes, brewing white wine. The bride smiles and the child walks on the buttress. The sand stream at the door is clear, and a few willows are hanging drunk. I lie in the dream of Emperor Xi, and the cool breeze enters the empty wall."
The Zhaoping County Lord covered his mouth and smiled. This girl was clever. This poem was clearly written by Ye Fan last year, so she took it out to show it.
Ping'er knew the truth, but she couldn't expose Ye Shuting and glared at Ye Shuting fiercely.
With the poem Ye Shuting, the girls don’t have to say more, and rack their brains to think about the poem.
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Note: The poems recited by Ye Shuting borrowed from Fan Fu's "Miscellaneous Poems in the Fields" by the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!