Chapter 350: Unity
An hour later, the streets of Shangjing were covered with notices, attracting the attention of the people of the city.
"Let me see, let me see, what is written?" People outside were curious and squeezed in.
The person standing in front shouted: "The court is recruiting embroiderers, as long as they can make clothes, one hundred wen a day, register your name there."
Not far below the notice, there was a table and chair, and an official was waiting with a notebook.
"Hey, my mother-in-law knows how to make clothes. I'll go back and ask her."
"Can't a man pay such a high salary? I can also make clothes."
Someone familiar looked at the man and said contemptuously: "Come on, your stitches can be exposed through the uneven cotton. Don't cause trouble to the court."
"Besides, you're a single man, why do you want to go among girls?"
The man blushed at what he said, and everyone burst into laughter.
The girl and woman who went out to buy vegetables held hands and whispered: "Let's go too, it's a hundred cents a day."
For ordinary people, a hundred cents a day is already a very high salary, especially for women who are trapped at home. On weekdays, they can only do laundry and sewing, and only earn a hundred cents in a few days.
This job can not only contribute to the court, but also make money. It is a good job that kills two birds with one stone.
"My mother and sister-in-law can do it too. I will go back and ask them..."
People who got the news spread the news, and the news quickly spread throughout the city.
In just one morning, nearly 10,000 people were recruited.
These people were assigned to various silk shops to sew winter clothes under the leadership of embroiderers.
The maids in the homes of high-ranking officials and nobles sewed in various mansions and were counted as mansion errands. They were no longer paid separately. The embroiderers in the clothing bureau in the palace were the same.
For a while, the whole city was in an uproar, and the figures of women buying vegetables on the street were reduced by half. The silk shops were almost closed, and the employees were all busy transporting cloth and cotton and collecting the sewn winter clothes.
Even so, the court still sent more soldiers to help.
The streets were cleared, and all that was going on were transport vehicles.
The Minister of War brought money and went to Jiangji to buy food and loaded it onto the carts.
The winter clothes were made faster than expected, and the first batch of winter clothes was made in just seven days.
At the same time, food and fodder were also prepared.
On October 23, when the first ray of sunlight broke through the sky, the baggage general led 30,000 troops, escorting carts of food, fodder and winter clothes, and left Shangjing in a mighty and exciting manner, heading for the border.
The people of Xiuniang worked from dawn to dusk for seven days, and everyone was exhausted, with sore backs and shoulders.
Jiang Shu asked them to rest for a day before rushing to make the next batch.
The winter sun was warm on their bodies, the air was filled with the smell of sugar-roasted chestnuts, and the ears were filled with various shouts and calls of vendors, the peacefulness made people feel at ease.
Jiang Shu bought two pounds of sugar-roasted chestnuts and a few strings of candied haws, and brought them back to the mansion to share with Chu Yu and others.
The weather was fine, and the master and servants ate and chatted in the yard.
Jiang Shu held Yu Ziyu in the sun, and Chu Yu peeled the chestnuts and put them on a plate for her.
"Sweet and sticky, this year's fried chestnuts are really delicious." Tan Yu couldn't stop eating.
Chu Yu smiled and teased her, "Do you think the fried chestnuts that year were not delicious?"
In the eyes of foodies, everything is delicious, every year.
Tan Yu's face turned red from being teased. She picked up a string of candied haws and bit off a whole one angrily.
Chu Yu reminded her, "Eat less. You're getting married in a few days. Be careful not to get too fat to fit into your wedding dress."
"No way." Tan Yu bit off another whole one, her cheeks stuffed with it.
She was eating happily when she suddenly heard the sound of a salute from behind.
Tan Yu turned around abruptly and saw Yu Zheng walking towards her with Zhuiyun and Zhufeng.
Chu Yu Shuanghua Lengxing hurriedly saluted, "Your Majesty."
Tan Yu also saluted, but with a candied haws stuffed in her mouth, her words were unclear.
Fortunately, Yu Zheng didn't care. He walked by, picked up Yu Ziyou and Jiang Shu and went into the house.
Tan Yu breathed a sigh of relief, but when she looked up, she saw Zhuiyun staring at her with burning eyes.
When their eyes met, Tan Yu's face instantly turned red. She couldn't swallow the candied haws in her mouth, but she couldn't spit it out either. She was so embarrassed.
Seeing this, Chu Yu and the others found an excuse to leave.
Leng Xing took two steps, and seeing Zhu Feng standing there without moving, he went back and stepped on his foot.
"Ouch——" Zhu Feng felt pain and stared at Leng Xing in confusion.
Leng Xing didn't say anything, and walked straight out of the yard.
He stepped on him for no reason and ran
away? Zhu Feng chased after him unconvinced.
Finally, there were only two people left in the yard.
Tan Yu breathed a sigh of relief and chewed the candied haws in her mouth quickly. She
ate too quickly and swallowed a hawthorn kernel without paying attention. She was so embarrassed that she covered her neck with her hand.
"Eat slowly." Zhu Feng smiled helplessly.
Tan Yu felt so embarrassed that she couldn't face anyone and wished she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
But the courtyard was all made of bluestone slabs, which were extremely hard. Even if she hit her head, she couldn't get in.
After Tan Yu finished eating, Zhuiyun whispered, "You have some free time today, go and see if there is anything you need, and I'll go get it."
Tan Yu responded in an almost inaudible voice, and followed Zhuiyun to their courtyard.
When they passed the back garden, they saw from a distance Zhuifeng following Leng Xing and saying something, and Leng Xing looked impatient.
These two people might start fighting again after a few words.
Following the bluestone path, the two came to a courtyard in the northwest corner of the palace with red silk hanging and big red wedding characters pasted on it.
The gate of the courtyard was closed, and Zhuiyun stretched out his hand to push it open, and walked in with Tan Yu.
There was an apricot tree in the courtyard, which could be seen at a glance, and Tan Yu liked it very much.
There were no apricots at this time of year, and the leaves had all fallen off. The bare branches were hung with small red lanterns, which looked particularly festive.
The two of them went into the house, and Zhuiyun followed behind Tanyu, carefully writing down what she said.
After saying a few things, Zhuiyun asked her, "Anything else?"
Tan Yu shook her head, tied her hands and whispered, "It's not a big deal, it doesn't matter whether I have it or not." Zhuiyun
said gently, "It's okay, I have nothing to do in the afternoon, I'll go buy it."
The wind blew in from the open window, blowing up the big red bed curtains. Tan Yu looked up and saw two doll pillows and a pair of fat porcelain dolls placed at the head of the bed.
Zhuiyun also saw it, and his eyes stayed on the pair of porcelain dolls for a long time.
Tan Yu was so embarrassed that she hurried out of the house.
The yard was not big, and she walked to the apricot tree in a few steps.
Tan Yu looked up at the red lanterns swaying in the wind on the tree, and imagined what it would look like next year when it was full of apricots.
Zhuiyun stood beside her and looked up in the direction of her sight.
"Do you want to eat apricots?"
"Yeah." Tan Yu swallowed and thought, "This tree is so big, it will definitely bear a lot of fruits next year."
Zhuiyun turned his head to look at her and smiled gently, "I'll pick some for you next year."
"Okay." Tan Yu was full of expectations.
Her parents died early, and she and Chu Yu were sold into the Jiang family when they were young and worked as maids for many years.
Although Jiang Shu treated them very well, every New Year, other servants could go home to reunite with their families, but she and Chu Yu had nowhere to go.
But now, she will soon have her own little home. In the future,
she will have a home to return to and reunite with her family during the New Year.
This ordinary and simple life is what she has always dreamed of.