Li Guizhi finally managed to visit the girl at her home, but the girl wouldn't give a straight answer about whether she agreed to the marriage, and three months passed in the blink of an eye.
"Okay, I'll go to my aunt's house tomorrow."
Everyone stared at the girls in the embroidery factory, but the girls longed for the school on the hillside behind them, and their every word revolved around the school.
“I have a seven-year-old sister. I’m going to register her for school in a little while.”
Would your mother agree?
“Now I give them one or two taels of silver a month. No one in the family earns more than me, so I’m the one who calls the shots.”
The others cast envious glances. "Yes, whoever makes money calls the shots. I need to be more assertive and stand up for myself. I can't let my dad keep suppressing me. He wants to marry me off to a rich family in the county as a concubine, but I'm not going."
“I want to marry an accountant. He works as a bookkeeper, and I will work as an embroiderer in a brothel. I will have two children, and their parents will take care of them. That way, I can continue to earn money to support my family, and then no one will dare to bully me.”
"You're so young and you're already thinking about getting married, don't you know any shame?"
Inside the second floor of the embroidered building, people chatted and laughed. Li Zhen, who was four months pregnant, sat by the window embroidering a peony.
She had never seen a peony before, and she never imagined that there could be such a large and beautiful flower in the world.
Ye Su found a picture book somewhere, which contained hundreds of flower designs with names written on it. She liked to hold that book and read it in her spare time.
She had learned a few words in the past few months, so she read them word by word, looking at the flowers and the annotations written next to them. She realized that even orchids, which could be found everywhere in the mountains, were something that noble people liked, and even something as common as bamboo was also liked by noble people.
Since the important person liked it, she embroidered it onto the clothes.
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