The next day, the sun was shining and there was a gentle breeze.
After Su Wanti was dressed up, she took dozens of palace maids and a team of imperial guards and went to the Clothing Bureau in a mighty procession.
The Shangyi Bureau was in charge of the clothes of the emperor and his concubines. It had special agencies under it to make clothes for the emperor, empress and concubines. Among them, there were countless tailors and embroiderers with superb craftsmanship and profound skills.
The Garment Bureau was just one of its subordinate institutions, responsible for making clothes for the palace ladies.
Even though she was six months pregnant, Su Wanti still had a bright and beautiful complexion.
She wore luxurious embroidered silk clothes, with pearls and jade jingling in her hair. She was surrounded by palace maids and had an extraordinary aura.
Even the palace maids who had never seen her could guess from afar that it was Concubine Wan, the most favored concubine in the harem, who was traveling, just by looking at the grand atmosphere of being treated like the moon surrounded by stars and the pomp and circumstance of being surrounded by people.
Su Wanti sat on the sedan chair, looking like a favorite concubine, and a group of people came to the clothing department in a large crowd.
Manager Yang from the Clothing Department was waiting at the gate early.
As soon as someone arrived, he bowed respectfully and kept on flattering them.
Su Wanti listened attentively, playing the role of a domineering and doting concubine who loved to hear nice words.
After the group entered the hall, Su Wanti sat at the head of the table with a casual expression, raised her finger slightly, and let Ai Ye speak for her.
"Our queen is looking for twenty embroiderers. Manager Yang, please pick out some with good skills."
Upon hearing this, Manager Yang was in a dilemma.
Their Shangyi Bureau is where clothes are managed. There are a few embroiderers there, but they are only used to mend dragon robes on a daily basis and don't do anything else.
The place where clothes for the emperor and his concubines were made was also under the management of the Shangyi Bureau. There were many embroiderers there, but their work was very busy. They had to make the emperor's dragon robes and daily clothes day and night, as well as the formal clothes and daily dresses for the empress dowager, the empress and other concubines. Everyone was so busy that they were almost blinded by the embroidery.
There are simply not enough twenty embroiderers to serve Concubine Wan!
Although Manager Yang is a flatterer, he is decisive in his work and a man who gets things done. He is not a boss who treats his subordinates harshly and does not treat them as human beings.
But Concubine Wan was extremely favored by the Emperor and was pregnant with an heir, so he didn't dare refuse...
For a moment he was speechless.
Su Wanti frowned, and there was a hint of coldness in her eyes.
"Why, is it difficult?"
Manager Yang broke out in a cold sweat. "Reporting to Consort Wan, we need to make summer and autumn clothing for the Emperor and the other concubines soon. It's difficult to spare twenty embroiderers at once..."
"Bang!" Su Wanti tapped the table impatiently, expressionless, and said calmly, "If you don't have it, go look for it somewhere else. You should be able to find it somewhere that doesn't even make clothes for the emperor!"
A place that doesn't make clothes for the emperor...
Manager Yang suddenly had an idea.
The Garment Supervisor did not have to make clothes for the emperor.
The emperor and the empress's clothes could not be delayed for a single day. If they were delayed for a single day, they would be blamed by their superiors and demoted at the very least, or even killed at the worst.
But it’s not a big deal if the palace ladies’ clothes are worn for three or five days at night.
He immediately decided to select an embroiderer from the clothing supervisor.
"Please wait a moment, Concubine Wan. I will make arrangements right away."
Manager Yang immediately ordered his subordinates to go to the garment department and select twenty women with better embroidery skills.
Because the clothes of the palace ladies were not embroidered, there were no embroiderers in the clothing factory.
However, when selecting seamstresses, some basic embroidery techniques will be tested, so it is okay to let those seamstresses serve as embroiderers, as long as they are not asked to embroider double-sided embroidery, gold-nailing embroidery and other extremely difficult embroidery methods.
After a while, someone came with twenty women. The women were wearing light-colored fine cloth dresses and stood in two rows. They all held their breath and lowered their heads to look at the ground.
Su Wanti's eyes moved between the two rows of people, looking for that familiar figure.
She knew before she came that this was the busiest time for the Clothing Bureau. Given Director Yang's personality, he was reluctant to choose someone from the embroiderers who specialized in making clothes for the emperor and his concubines.
When Director Yang was in a dilemma, she relaxed the scope with one sentence.
At that time, she saw Director Yang's eyes light up, and she knew that he would definitely choose people from the Si Shang Department and the Garment Bureau, two places that were not responsible for serving the emperor and his concubines.
Then she would pick them in batches. If the original owner's mother was not among these twenty people, she would find a reason to ask Manager Yang to change another twenty. At most, she would change them four or five times, and she would eventually find one.
Even if she can't find one this time, it doesn't matter. She can say that she wants to choose it herself and go directly to the garment bureau or other places to find someone.
Su Wanti thought so, her eyes slowly moving around on everyone.
Until she saw a familiar figure.
When her eyes met that figure, she felt as if her eyes were burned by heat, it hurt for a moment, and hot tears welled up in an instant.
At this moment, she knew that she could not show her emotions, so she turned her head and looked away. After her excitement subsided and her tears gradually disappeared, she stood up, holding her waist, and walked towards the two rows of women.
She didn't expect that she was so lucky to find the person she was looking for the first time. It seemed that her mother was also a leader among the seamstresses in the garment department, otherwise how could she be among the first group of people?
Even though her mother was right in front of her, Su Wanti couldn't recognize her. She had to act picky and look at everyone one by one.
"You, look up. Good, stay."
"Your hands are a bit rough, go back."
…
As she was pretending, she arrived in front of her mother. At this moment, Su Wanti could hear the rapid heartbeat in her chest.
"You, raise your head." Her voice was the same as before, arrogant and cold, but her eyes couldn't help but become sour.
If you meet her face to face up close, you will definitely be able to see the mist in her eyes, as well as her restrained tenderness and her extreme forbearance.
The person opposite slowly raised his head, his pupils shrank sharply in an instant, and his breathing stopped.
She had her head lowered, and what she saw was the round pregnant belly of Concubine Wan, who was deeply favored by the emperor.
When she raised her head and saw the empress's face clearly, she suddenly realized that this empress was actually her daughter who was sent to the palace to be a maid.
Thinking of her pregnant belly, I suddenly felt a pang of bitterness in my heart. The first thought that came to my mind was that my daughter was being bullied...
The second thought was, fortunately, that person is the supreme emperor.
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