Chapter 141 The hero's best mother (Part 28) Please give me a monthly ticket
Holding three or four exquisitely crafted purses, Zhao Yuanyi ran back home quickly.
"I was so scared! It was so scary!"
After entering the main room, Zhao Yuanyi's heart was still pounding.
"What? The neighbor to the west is difficult to talk to?"
Or even a bad guy who is making trouble? Gu Qingcheng asked when she saw that her niece looked unhappy.
However, she denied her own guess in her heart - she didn't hear any noisy sound, so the people next door should be fine.
And her eyes fell on the purses Zhao Yuanyi was holding.
Although the material used is the most common fine linen, the embroidery thread is not very fine and the embroidery pattern is also simple.
However, Gu Qingcheng was someone who had seen good things, and she could tell at a glance that the person who made this purse must have done an excellent job of embroidering.
Even ordinary fabrics and household items can't help but show exquisite craftsmanship.
Is the neighbor to the west an embroiderer? Or does her family have a skill passed down from generation to generation? Gu Qingcheng pondered secretly.
However, regardless of whether she is an embroiderer or not, being able to "return a gift" also shows that she knows etiquette.
Since he knows etiquette, why is Zhao Yuanyi so scared?
"Aunt, you don't know, the old lady is not hard to talk to, but she is freezing cold all over!"
"When I saw her, I couldn't help but restrain my hands and feet, and I didn't even dare to breathe."
"Aunt, what does the old lady next door do? Why does she look more imposing than the old lady next to Mrs. Cui?"
Zhao Yuanyi has no knowledge. If she hadn't been with Gu Qingcheng, she wouldn't even be able to meet a noble person like Mrs. Cui.
And the most noble and powerful person she could think of was only Mrs. Cui.
Oh, and the old lady from the Cui family.
It is said that she was a retired female official from the palace who was invited by Mrs. Cui from the capital.
The old lady looked kind, but her every move was very particular.
Whenever Zhao Yuanyi saw her, he couldn't help feeling inferior and didn't know where to put his hands and feet.
The old lady next door was even more well-behaved and stern than the old nanny from the Cui family. Zhao Yuanyi was directly intimidated by her aura.
"More imposing than Nanny Chen?"
Gu Qingcheng raised her eyebrows.
Nanny Chen from the Cui family was a female official released from the palace.
However, she was not someone who was useful to the empress, imperial concubine and others, but just an ordinary female official in the Shangshi Bureau.
When he reached a certain age, he was released from the palace.
She didn't want to get married, nor did she want to be sucked dry by her evil relatives, so she wanted to be a nanny in a wealthy family.
Mrs. Cui had no daughters of her own, but she had several concubines.
Mrs. Cui is a typical mistress of a wealthy family. She is not jealous, nor will she be intolerant of a concubine's daughter.
On the contrary, Mrs. Cui felt that no matter whether it was a concubine's son or daughter, as long as they were well educated, they would be a help to her own children and grandchildren.
However, she was too lazy to teach the child herself.
She wrote a letter to her relatives in the capital, asking them to help her find a nanny.
You don't have to look for the best, as long as the rules and etiquette are acceptable.
So, there came into being Nanny Chen.
Gu Qingcheng was on good terms with Mrs. Cui, and so came into contact with Nanny Chen.
Every time she went to the back hall of the county government, Gu Qingcheng would bring a "maid" with her, and Zhao Yuanyi also went with her a few times.
Mrs. Cui is fine. Although she is noble, she doesn't deliberately adhere to any rules.
As for Nanny Chen, she had just come out of the palace and was very careful about her every word and action.
I came to the magistrate's house to educate girls.
She pays special attention to rules.
Every time Zhao Yuanyi saw Nanny Chen, he was instinctively afraid, but also wanted to get close to her.
She is just ignorant, but not stupid.
All the young ladies in the county magistrate's family had to learn from Nanny Chen. If she could get even a little bit of guidance, it would only be good for her! "Yes! She didn't pretend to be so, but she just looked respectable and scary!"
Zhao Yuanyi said seriously.
Oh? So imposing? Gu Qingcheng secretly guessed, could it be that the one on the west side was also a maid from the palace.
Or is she a real female official with status and rank who has served nobles?
Exquisite embroidery + impressive? Gu Qingcheng couldn't help but feel curious.
She became interested in her neighbors on the west side, and they were also discussing her.
"She is a very polite person. I heard that the mistress is a chaste woman!"
The nanny who had frightened Zhao Yuanyi to death spoke in a gentle voice to a little girl of seven or eight years old.
However, when it comes to the word "chaste woman", she did not praise it as much as Mrs. Wan did.
Being chaste at a young age is admirable, but it should not be encouraged.
After a man dies, he can remarry his wife, and he doesn’t even have to wait three years. So why should a woman remain a widow her entire life?
Her young lady had just passed away, and her uncle-in-law—
Thinking of this, a hint of coldness flashed in the nanny's eyes.
What a heartless man! He really let down the young lady's true love.
The most hateful thing is that this person doesn’t even care about his own flesh and blood.
Poor little lady! She is such a noble person, but she has been raised to be inferior and cowardly.
She was timid, cowardly, and petty. How could she be as bright and outspoken as a young lady? "..."
The little girl lowered her head, her face was thin and her expression was timid.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
She nervously tweaked the ribbons on her dress, not saying a word and not daring to look up.
When the nanny saw this, she became angry again.
She was not angry with the young lady, but cursed the unfaithful man and the bastard father over and over again in her heart.
"Young lady, try this steamed cake. Although it's a little rough, it's clean!"
Mammy suppressed her anger and spoke softly to the little girl.
She was thinking in her heart that she had heard from the little girl named Yuanyi that the Gu family next door was a sickly person.
She has a gentle personality, so she should be easy to approach.
If possible, you can let your young lady get in touch with the Gu family.
This child is too timid, but fortunately he is young and can still turn around.
However, the nanny felt sorry for her and didn't want to enforce the rules right away, so she wanted to take it slow.
Next door, maybe it's an opportunity.
…
After visiting the neighbors, Gu Qingcheng was relieved to be roughly sure that they were not the most competitive, sarcastic and mean people.
After Zhao Qingyun settled his family, he went to report to the academy.
My cousin Goudan followed Zhao Qingyun as a book boy, helping with running errands, carrying schoolbags and other chores.
Zhao Qingsong set up a small training ground at home, where he practiced horse stance and wooden stakes seriously every day.
As for Gu Qingcheng, she would occasionally visit Mrs. Cui and spend the rest of her time resting at home.
Zhao Yuanyi was busy running around, and he would also go out of the house to interact with neighbors on the east and west sides.
Gradually, Gu Qingcheng got to know her neighbors better.
On the east side is Mr. Zheng's home. Mr. Zheng is frail and cannot work too hard, so the virtuous and capable Mrs. Wan takes care of everything at home and outside.
Wan's eldest son is thirteen years old this year. He has passed the palace examination and is the youngest scholar in the county.
The second son and the second daughter are twins, a boy and a girl, both seven years old this year.
The second son studied in academy, while the daughter studied with her mother and rarely went out on weekdays.
However, through the wall, Gu Qingcheng could always hear the girl's laughter and reciting, and knew that the little girl next door was a lively and smart child.
The neighbors on the west side are a group of grandparents and grandchildren.
My grandmother, Liang, was an embroiderer when she was young.
After his daughter-in-law died, he took his only granddaughter to Beijing to live with his relatives.
But when we passed by the county town, my granddaughter fell ill and her condition was not very good.
Liang had no choice but to rent a house and stay in the county town to recuperate her granddaughter.
Without money, Liang had to go back to her old job and make money by embroidery.
Gu Qingcheng looked at Zhao Yuanyi's fear and admiration when she mentioned Liang, and her heart moved: "Yuanyi, do you want to learn embroidery?"
Ahem, she doesn’t want to train a cheap niece.
The truth was that she didn't want to buy ready-made clothes anymore, and Zhao Yuanyi's needlework was just average.
Gu Qingcheng is used to being particular and wants to create conditions even if there are none.
By training Zhao Yuanyi, she will be able to wear exquisite clothes that suit her taste in a reasonable way.
"think!"
Zhao Yuanyi was well aware of the saying that "even in times of disaster, craftsmen will never starve to death". She didn't have the opportunity in the past, but now that the opportunity was at her fingertips, there was no reason for her to refuse.
Without Zhao Qingyun's knowledge, his mother had already had deeper contact with the neighbors on the west side.
And he won the favor of Mr. Zheng with his extraordinary talent.
"Oh? You also live in the back street of the academy? We are neighbors."
Mr. Zheng was a little surprised. After school, he took the initiative to invite Zhao Qingyun to his home.
Sitting under the veranda, holding his face with his hands, thinking about how to use what he had learned to open up a source of income for his family, Zheng Wanjun looked up and saw a fair, delicate little beautiful boy!
(End of this chapter)
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