In the front hall, Qin looked at a vase half a person's height in front of her. After being surprised, she began to question.
"Seventeen different glazes are fired on this one vase, and the patterns on these glazes are so exquisite. It's impossible, absolutely impossible that Yu Jinshu painted them. She locks herself in her room all day, how could she possibly know how to fire these glazes?"
Wang Xing unfolded a piece of paper. "Madam, please look at this. It has glaze patterns and firing instructions, very detailed. This is what the young lady gave me. I drew and fired it according to the drawings and instructions. The first two times, I failed because the workers didn't pay attention to the temperature. Later, I had them calculate the time, and there couldn't be even a moment's error, and then the firing was successful. When it came out of the kiln, we all cheered. We haven't been so happy in years."
Qin looked carefully at what was written on the paper and was amazed. How could someone draw such a beautiful pattern? The color combination was perfect.
And where did Yu Jinshu get this firing method?
Yu Jinshu walked in. She walked briskly, wearing a crescent-shaped white dress with narrow sleeves and her hair was simply tied up. She looked less graceful and more heroic.
Qin looked up at Yu Jinshu and felt that this girl didn't look like her previous daughter-in-law.
How can it be so beautiful?
When did she get such a graceful figure and those bulging breasts?
Could it be that Yu Jinshu usually wears loose and inconspicuous clothes, and this dress today just happened to highlight her good figure?
But no matter how beautiful she was, it was useless. Baoshan was dead, and Yu Jinshu was a widow just like her.
Qin pointed at the paper and looked at Yu Jinshu: "Where do these glaze patterns and firing methods come from?"
Yu Jinshu smiled and said, "Mother, I saw it in my family's library before I married into the Wang family."
Qin was puzzled: "After all these years, you can still draw these patterns?"
Yu Jinshu smiled faintly: "Mother, for so many years, you can only see my shortcomings, but not my strengths."
This sentence is somewhat vindictive.
Qin was indeed angry, but she suddenly thought of a question and looked up at Yu Jinshu: "Why didn't you take it out when my Baoshan was worried about this matter?"
Yu Jinshu pretended to be helpless: "At that time, I didn't know anything about the Imperial Kiln Factory. Baoshan never came into my yard."
Qin remembered that her son and Yu Jinshu had never consummated their marriage, and afterwards he never entered Yu Jinshu's yard.
Thinking of this, Qin slumped down on a chair and burst into tears: "Oh! If Baoshan had told you this back then, this vase would have been made long ago, the Imperial Kiln Factory would have renewed its contract, and Baoshan wouldn't have gone to Shu and been robbed and killed by bandits. Oh! My poor Baoshan!"
The maids and nannies nearby all tried to persuade her.
After crying for a while, Qin calmed down, wiped the tears from her face with a handkerchief, stood up and walked to Yu Jinshu.
She also questioned, "How could such a secret recipe be recorded in a book?"
Yu Jinshu said, "My family has many books collected by the imperial court of the previous dynasty, most of which are about craftsmanship."
Qin's eyes lit up. The things collected in the palace of the previous dynasty were exactly the secret recipes that businessmen like them needed most!
She really didn't expect that the daughter-in-law she had been bullying since Baoshan's death turned out to be a lucky star.
It’s a pity that his son was not so lucky. He didn’t like Yu Jinshu, which caused him to lose his life in Shu.
Yu Jinshu walked to the vase.
Wang Xing looked at Yu Jinshu, waiting for her comment.
Yu Jinshu looked at the vase carefully; it was truly exquisite.
"That's it! Pack it up immediately. I'm going to the city palace to see the city lord."
Wang Xing smiled and nodded: "Okay." He waved to the workers waiting outside, asking them to come in and carefully pack the vase.
If you want to enter the palace, you naturally have to send a letter to the palace gate first.
Yu Jinshu wrote the invitation himself and sent the housekeeper to deliver it to the palace gate.
But before the butler walked out of the gate, he saw a row of palace guards walking to the door, led by a young man in a black brocade robe.
This young man is Zhan Qi.
The housekeeper was stunned. He did not leave for the moment. He accepted the invitation and bowed to Zhan Qi. "Are you visiting me, my Lord? What's your business?"
Zhan Qi asked, "Who is in charge of the Wang family now?"
The housekeeper said, "It's my wife."
Zhan Qi said solemnly, "Then please ask Madam to come out and receive the City Lord's Holy Order."
Without waiting for the housekeeper to go in, Qin and Yu Jinshu came out.
Zhan Qi's eyes fell on Yu Jinshu, and he was delighted. He pointed at Yu Jinshu and asked, "Are you the wife of the head of the family?"
Yu Jinshu was about to say no, but Qin interrupted him: "Yes, sir, she is my daughter-in-law, and now she is the head of the Wang family."
Qin thought that this official came with so many palace guards, and it was obvious that he had bad intentions. She was old and could not withstand the hardship, so it would be better to let Yu Jinshu be the shield.
Yu Jinshu felt that Zhan Qi looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him.
She saluted Zhan Qi and said, "Excuse me, sir, what can I do for you?"
Zhan Qi said, "The city lord has ordered that some contracts between the Wang family and the city palace need to be discussed."
Yu Jinshu said, "It just so happens that my family's Imperial Kiln has made a piece of porcelain, and I wanted to send it to the City Lord for his inspection. I had just asked my housekeeper to deliver the visiting card to the palace gate, and then I didn't expect the official to show up."
Zhan Qi turned sideways and said, "Then please come in, young lady!"
Yu Jinshu looked at Wang Xing and said, "Uncle Xing, bring the porcelain with you and go to the palace with me."
Inside the towering palace, Yu Jinshu and his party were taken to the meeting hall in the front hall.
Yu Jinshu was a little nervous about meeting the city lord so soon.
According to the book, the city lord couldn't feel anything for women. He married many women into the palace, but he couldn't stand up in front of them.
I don’t know if the city lord will be unable to lift it up for her either.
Yu Jinshu imagined the city lord Ye Nankun thousands of times in his mind, but when he arrived at the conference hall, he only saw a pearl curtain in the hall, and behind the curtain was a person sitting. He could only see that he had a very burly figure, but had no idea what he looked like.
The man behind the Seven Dynasties Pearl Curtain bowed and saluted: "City Lord, the young wife of the Wang family's head, Yu Jinshu, has been brought here."
Behind the bead curtain, Ye Nankun looked at the young woman who was vaguely visible. He couldn't see clearly, but he felt that she was the woman who bit him on the street.
Originally, the information was that the head of the Wang family was Yu Jinshu's mother-in-law Qin. He had planned to invite Qin to discuss the contract between Chenggong and the Wang family's weaving workshop, and put some pressure on her to write a letter of divorce to Yu Jinshu on behalf of her deceased son. Once Yu Jinshu regained his freedom, he could propose to the Yu family.
Since Yu Jinshu came directly, the original plan could not be used.
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