"I didn't know that the Qiu family has a young lady. Why have I never seen her before?" The princess's eyes were always on Qiu Yinong.
The distinguished guest sitting at the bottom looked at it and a sense of crisis emerged in his eyes.
She also looked at Qiu Yinong. Qiu Yinong noticed the gaze of the distinguished guest and then looked over.
The guest was about fifteen years old, with a pair of particularly attractive big eyes. Although she was good-looking, there were too many complex emotions in her eyes.
"To answer your question, my daughter's eldest brother got separated from us when he was fleeing famine fourteen years ago. We just reunited not long ago, so you haven't met my niece."
*** nodded after hearing this and said, "No wonder I haven't seen her before. How old is Miss Qiu this year?"
Seeing that the girl was looking at her and asking questions, Qiu Yinong quickly bowed and replied with a smile: "To answer your question, my daughter is fourteen this year."
"Oh, still young." Qiu Yinong clearly saw a flash of relief in the eyes of the distinguished guest.
It seems that he almost treated himself as an imaginary enemy.
The guest's mood obviously improved, and he said with a smile, "Aunt, are you thinking of matchmaking because the girl is pretty?"
"Not really. I just saw that this girl was pretty and caught my eye, so I chatted with her for a while."
"Zi Ran, please don't talk nonsense." *** looked at the distinguished guest disapprovingly and shook his head.
The latter also knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he smiled apologetically and stopped talking.
"Mrs. Shen, you came to visit me unexpectedly today. Is there something you want to talk to me about?" *** looked at Li Yunshu and asked directly.
Li Yunshu nodded and then introduced her to ***: "To answer your question, Yi'er is the girl who embroidered the peony screen for you."
"It just so happened that Sister Yuwan had taken a fancy to the folding screen and wanted one for her dowry, and from there she learned that Yi'er might be her lost niece."
"Didn't you say before that you wanted Yi'er to embroider a birthday gift for the Empress Dowager?"
"Yier has already drawn the pattern. She also has an idea. This embroidery should still be double-sided. She wants to embroider the image of the Empress Dowager on the reverse side."
"That's why I asked you to bring her here to tell me the reason."
As he said this, he asked the maid to bring up the pattern drawn by Qiu Yinong.
The maidservant beside *** took it and walked to *** and unfolded it.
*** saw the item on it, and her eyes flashed with surprise: "Is this the birthday gift you want to embroider for my mother?"
Qiu Yinong bowed again and replied with a smile, "Yes, sir. This is the design I designed. I wonder if you are satisfied with it?"
"Very good, but you said you wanted to embroider the image of my mother on the reverse side. How can you do that if you have never seen my mother?"
*** asked curiously.
Qiu Yinong smiled and replied, "That's why Aunt Yunshu brought my daughter to ask for an audience with you. If possible, could you please take my daughter to see the Empress Dowager?"
"Because this is the birthday gift you want to give to the Queen Mother, it needs to be kept secret, so you only need to let my daughter pretend to be a maid and take a look at it."
"Oh, the little girl is so confident?" *** actually liked Qiu Yinong's confident look.
Qiu Yinong nodded confidently and said with a smile, "If you don't believe me, I can draw a picture for you on the spot. You can take a look at it before making a decision."
*** was immediately amused and agreed with a smile: "The little girl is so confident. If I don't give her a chance, I would be unkind."
"Then you can draw a picture for Ziran."
Qiu Yinong bowed, looked at Wei Ziran, and asked Qing Yuan to take out the things he brought.
Start painting immediately.
After a quarter of an hour (one quarter in ancient times equaled twenty minutes), Qiu Yinong stopped writing.
***While talking quietly with Li Yunshu and the others, he kept an eye on Qiu Yinong.
Seeing her stop painting, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "Is this the end?"
"Yeah." Qiu Yinong nodded with a smile and asked Qingyuan to take the paper.
Qing Yuan walked to the middle and unfolded the paper so that everyone could see it clearly. When everyone saw the image on the paper, they were stunned for a moment.
Qiu Yuwan is even cuter. She looks at the paper and then at Wei Ziran.
Wei Ziran was stunned. She stood up excitedly and walked over to Qing Yuan. After watching her for a long while, she said to her aunt, "Aunt, she's amazing."
*** couldn't help but walk up to Qing Yuan, look at the painting, and then look at Wei Ziran.
Finally, she looked at Qiu Yinong excitedly: "Miss Qiu is not only good at embroidery, but I didn't expect her to be so skilled in painting as well. It's like she shrunk Ziran down and placed her on paper."
"Tomorrow you will come with me to the palace to see my mother. I can almost see how happy she was when she received the birthday gift."
***Excited, but more than that, happy.
Qiu Yinong smiled and leaned forward: "My daughter will obey your orders."
"Oh, I really like this girl." The more Qiu Yinong looked at her, the happier she became. How could there be such a clever and pretty girl?
Wei Ziran became nervous again, then thought of something and said with a smile, "Aunt, since you like Miss Qiu so much and you don't have a daughter, why don't you adopt Miss Qiu as your adopted daughter?"
*** looked at Wei Ziran deeply and knew what she was planning, but Wei Ziran's words really made her take it to heart.
"Miss Ziran, you are too kind. I am just a peasant girl. I just want to survive, so I will put in more effort when learning."
Qiu Yinong quickly spoke up, she was just a peasant girl who was giving birthday gifts to her husband.
Even if her second uncle was an official in the court, the Qiu family would become a new noble family in the capital in the future, but at this time she was just a peasant girl.
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