Things are far more complicated than Eleventh Lady thought.

She decided to use stillness to overcome the obstacles.

Then he issued a curfew for everyone in his room - unless there was nothing to do, everyone should stay in the room, and even if a lover came to make a date, they were not allowed to go out.

She sent Dong Qing to the Fifth Aunt's place, saying that she had something to embroider, and asked the Fifth Aunt not to come to Lujun Tower unless she had something else to do.

Fortunately, the people in Eleventh Lady's room had long been accustomed to her low-key nature, and Fifth Lady had also long been accustomed to her daughter's alienation. Even Amber showed sufficient obedience to Eleventh Lady's orders, and she only stayed in the banquet room every day to accompany Qiuju, Zhuxiang and others to do needlework and talk.

There was silence on their side, but outside there was a lot of chatter and laughter.

Then Wu Niang drew a picture of Guanyin for the first wife. The face of the Bodhisattva in the picture was exactly the same as that of the first wife. The first wife liked it very much and had it hung in her resting place. When the third wife of the West Mansion came, she took her to see it, and the third wife praised it highly. Then Shi Niang accompanied the first wife in chanting sutras. Master Huizhen, the abbess of Ci'an Temple, came to see the first wife. Shi Niang could actually preach sutras with Master Huizhen. Master Huizhen praised Shi Niang as the reincarnation of the jade girl in front of Guanyin. The first wife was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling from ear to ear. She gave Shi Niang her favorite string of agarwood beads on the spot. Then it was Twelve Niang, who made various silk flowers with silk gauze and gave them to the first wife. The first wife took it in her hand at the time, and couldn't tell whether it was real or fake for a while, and she even touched it with her hand... Only Eleven Niang stayed in the room quietly embroidering the screen.

Others were easy to talk about, but when Xin Mama and Tang Mama returned to their own residence, they often heard the mothers in Shi Niang and Shier Niang's rooms talking excitedly about how their daughters showed up in front of the eldest wife and how they pleased the eldest wife, especially the two mothers in Shi Niang's room. Although Shi Niang was not as popular as Fifth Miss in the past, she was still a far cry from Tenth Miss. They often sighed that Shi Niang was too stubborn and that they followed the wrong master. Who knew that Tenth Miss suddenly became enlightened overnight, not only suppressing Eleventh Miss, but even Fifth Miss was no longer as arrogant in front of Tenth Miss as before. The two suddenly saw hope, and naturally they talked about these things. The two mothers in Miss Twelve's room laughed and said, "Speaking of which, among the unmarried girls in our family, Miss Twelve is too young to be counted among them. Miss Five, Miss Ten, Miss Eleven, look at her figure and features, Miss Ten is the prettiest. But she used to be weak and seldom walked around in front of the First Madam. Now she is all right, and her talent is not inferior to that of Qingnv and Su'e, so the First Madam naturally likes her very much."

The two maids in Shi Niang's room were delighted to hear this, and took out 500 coins to ask the kitchen to add more dishes and treat them to wine. They also said, "Finally, there is a day to be proud of yourself." Xin and Tang's mothers were not happy to hear this.

The two knew that Dong Qing was accompanying Shiyi Niang to embroider the screen, so they didn't dare to go and look for her. Instead, they pulled two maids to talk to her, "They said they would pay their respects on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, but think about it, when we received the screen, the first day had passed, and we only paid our respects to the eldest lady on the fifteenth day. By the next first day, it would be New Year's Day again, and everyone would have to pay their respects to the eldest lady, so we'd be at a disadvantage once. By the fifteenth day, it would be the Lantern Festival, when the whole family would gather together, so we'd be at a disadvantage again... If this happens once or twice, by the time we can pay our respects every morning and evening, I'm afraid the screen would have been finished embroidering."

Qiu Ju was also anxious, with a bitter face: "What can we do? Can we just let the young lady lose the screen and not do anything about it? Don't you see, every night the young lady embroiders until the beginning of the night and gets up at the end of the night. How can she have the time?"

Zhu Xiang's biological mother died early, and her father remarried. Although her stepmother never beat or scolded her, she never gave her a good face. If her biological mother had not served in the eldest lady's room with the fifth concubine, and the fifth concubine had not remembered the old relationship, even if she had the opportunity to work in the mansion, she would not have been assigned to the young lady's room and received the monthly salary of a third-class maid.

Seeing that everyone was worried, the taciturn girl couldn't help but comfort everyone: "Don't worry, sisters and mothers. The eldest lady only allowed clothes to be made for the fifth young lady and our eleventh young lady. It seems that our young lady is more respectable in front of the eldest lady."

Just then, Amber came to find Qiuju and asked her to pick up the lunch box. After hearing what Zhuxiang said, she nodded secretly and simply kept silent to see what they were talking about.

"Didn't the eldest wife say that the New Year is coming soon and there are many things to do at home. She will make clothes for Miss Ten and Miss Twelve after the New Year is over?" Mother Xin muttered, "What kind of respect is this?"

"Mom, you are confused!" Qiu Ju has come to her senses and explained with a smile on her face, "Our young lady was able to make clothes before the tenth young lady. Maybe this is the eldest lady's way of compensating our young lady for her hard work these days! Moms, don't listen to those old women's gossip in the future."

Mother Xin and Mother Tang both felt that what Qiuju and the others said made sense, and they nodded continuously: "No wonder the young lady asked us to talk less and socialize less with others. I guess she had expected something like this to happen."

Amber was listening intently when suddenly someone shouted from behind her, "Miss Amber!"

When she turned around, she saw a pretty woman in her thirties and a maidservant who was about seventeen or eighteen years old standing at the door with a smile on their faces. In their hands, each of them was holding a bright blue coarse cloth bundle.

Thinking that she had just eavesdropped and was seen by these two people, Amber blushed with shame, and walked quickly forward. After walking a distance, she laughed loudly and said, "Sister-in-law Liu, Sister Hanxiao, why are you here!"

"We are here to deliver the finished spring clothes to Miss Eleven." The woman said with a smile, "I didn't expect to see Miss Amber as soon as I walked in. This is great."

Amber hurriedly helped Liu's sister-in-law and Hanxiao to lift the curtain: "Thank you for bringing it in person."

"We are also following the orders of the eldest lady." Liu's sister-in-law and Han Xiao walked into the house and placed the bundle on the round table in the middle of the room. "She said that I should personally hand it to the girl."

Amber was busy pouring tea for Liu's sister-in-law and Hanxiao.

Sister-in-law of the Liu family stopped her: "No need. I have a lot of work to do and I really can't have any time to spare. I'll come to see Miss Eleven when I'm free in a few days." After saying that, she insisted on leaving.

Bin Ju was sitting in the bathroom cleaning up the patterns she had saved up. When she heard the noise, she came out and helped Amber to keep the guests.

Seeing their sincerity, Liu's sister-in-law thought of the clothes in the bundle, smiled and said, "To be honest with you two girls, I am making clothes for Zhun Ge - just like your young lady, I can't afford to delay!"

Since you can't afford to delay, why not come and deliver the clothes in person!

Both of them felt a little strange, and seeing that Liu's sister-in-law couldn't keep them, she had to see them out of Lujun Tower.

When they returned to the house and opened the bundle, Amber and Holly were both stunned.

The intoxicating beauty as gentle as peach blossoms, the blue sky and water as clear as the sky after rain, the jade-white as the bright moon, and the white and red sea and sky colors...all of them are rare materials that have only been seen on the eldest wife.

The two looked at each other and shook open the light green jacket on top.

It has a front-buttoned collar, flat sleeves, knee-length, a fitted waist, and a hidden pattern of ice plum blossoms. The hem of the garment is decorated with a gold-woven ribbon with rose and butterfly patterns, and there are three white jade buttons on the chest.

They both gasped at the same time.

They had never seen such a new style and such exquisite craftsmanship.

Amber was like she was holding a hot potato, and she quickly tied up the loose bundle: "Quick, put it in the young lady's box."

Binju's face also turned pale.

A young lady once said, "The first bird to stick its head out gets shot at." If you don't want to be shot at, it's best not to be the first bird to stick its head out.

If I wore this dress outside, I would not be the first to stand out, but the peacock spreading its tail.

She hurriedly picked up another bag and went into the bedroom with Amber.

"What's wrong with you?" Dong Qing sat beside Shiyi Niang and helped her to split the silk thread as thin as a hair into two. Shiyi Niang sewed quickly without even raising her head.

Bin Ju shook the jacket in her hand to show Dong Qing: "This was just sent by Liu's sister-in-law. She said it was a new spring jacket."

"How could this happen?" Dongqing's voice trembled a little.

Upon hearing this, Eleventh Lady couldn't help but look up.

When she saw the jacket, she was also stunned.

Amber took a few steps forward and told Shiyi Niang exactly what Liu's sister-in-law had just said.

Eleventh Lady was silent for a while, then stood up and said, "Let me try it on to see if this spring dress fits me."

Amber hurried forward to help Eleventh Lady take off her jacket, and then put on the jacket while wearing her silk dress.

The white silk dress with narrow sleeves, the goose yellow embroidered skirt, the light green jacket, and the flying gold woven hem with rose and butterfly patterns make the plain colors even brighter.

Eleventh Lady stood in front of the mirror, touching the white jade button on her chest and sighed: "Tell me, is my complexion much worse than before?"

Dongqing and Binju were stunned, and looked at Shiyi Niang's face carefully. Hubo smiled and said, "How about you use some Hu powder. It is said that this is something from the palace, and it costs ten taels of silver per box in the market. Our eldest wife uses this kind of powder."

Eleventh Lady's dark eyes flashed, and she said, "How about I cut my bangs?"

Amber laughed again and said, "The first lady hates people with straight bangs the most. She says that it not only covers up most of the face, but also makes her look timid. I heard that the fifth lady liked to have straight bangs the most in the past, so the first lady had someone make a backcomb for the fifth lady to use."

Eleventh Lady smiled, took off her jacket and asked Amber to put it away: "Since this is a spring dress, of course it should be worn in spring."

*

Although it is still some time away from spring, the Spring Festival will soon be here.

Cleaning the house, worshipping the Kitchen God, worshipping ancestors, staying up all night, paying New Year's greetings... Eleventh Lady only had a reunion dinner on the night of staying up all night, and went to pay New Year's greetings to the eldest wife early in the morning on the first day of the new year. The rest of the time she was embroidering screens in the house, and the hustle and bustle of the Spring Festival naturally had nothing to do with her. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, the Luo family ate glutinous rice balls for dinner as in previous years, and kept the old women and guards who were on night watch in various places, and let go of the maids and daughters-in-law in each room. Qiuju also followed Du Wei and the others to get rid of all diseases. But when she came back, there was an extra purse on her waist.

(It rained heavily today and the whole street was flooded... I wonder how the weather is where you are?)