Under the Empress Dowager, all members will be King

Chapter 13 Silver is better than runes
A bottle of lotus in full bloom was placed on Yifei's table. The petals of the lotus were pink and tender, and there were water drops hanging from it.

As early autumn approaches, there is only a piece of remnant lotus left in the lotus pond, and the sweet-scented osmanthus has withered a lot. Such a vibrant lotus is not common.

More than 100 gardeners worked together to plant a total of three plants, one for the queen, one for the imperial concubine, and the other for Yifei.

Concubine Yi was serious about arranging flowers, but she didn't answer the letter in Qin's hand, and said one word lazily: "Read."

Wen Qin tore off the envelope, slowly shook the letter open, and then read the letter.

This letter was sent to the palace in the name of a family letter, with a total of 220 characters. There were five characters to greet Concubine Yi, and 120 characters to describe Ning Heyu's injury.

Concubine Yi finished arranging the flowers, and just finished reading Wen Qin's letter.

Concubine Yi brushed the broken hair from her temples, and asked: "Is the flower arranged in this palace well?"

"They are all red flowers, it would be even better if they were paired with some green leaves."

Wen Qin didn't say yes or no, but gave an ambiguous answer.

"This palace also thinks so, Ning Heyu will soon enter the palace, she will be the green leaf of this palace."

Wen Qin put away the letter after reading it, folded her hands, and put the envelope back.

"Put away all the letters. If she is disobedient in the future, read them to her."

Wen Qin took the letter and walked away, Concubine Yi smiled at Lianhua.

On the plain white embroidered cloth, there is a lotus flower embroidered, and the stitches are neatly threaded, and the face is full of smiles.

Her hands have recovered to [-]%. After doing embroidery for a long time, her hands still shake occasionally, but her basic embroidery skills have not been abandoned, and her embroidery can still be sold at a high price of two taels of silver.

After entering the palace, money will be spent everywhere, she wants to save more money for Gu Yinwei now.

Gu Yingxia is not the same as Gu Yinwei. She relies on Aunt Fang, who manages two farms. She earns 200 taels a year only by selling grains and fruits.

Aunt Fang was reluctant to spend the money, so she subsidized it to Gu Yingxia. In addition, she had an uncle from a foreign family who sent her money regularly, so Gu Yingxia didn't have to worry about money at all.

There is no one around Gu Yinwei to help, and recently he has an extra mouth to eat. Gu Yinwei has collected the almonds, and has to pay the almonds monthly.

Gu Yinwei didn't worry about these things, so Chu Chu was more distracted.

The meals for the show girls are delivered by Chufeng Pavilion, while the meals for Chu Chu and Tingtao need to spend extra money.

Chu Chu is reluctant to spend more money on herself, and often eats green vegetables, beans, bitter gourd, and flat peaches, looking at the meat in the bowl, and hesitates to move her chopsticks.

"Sister Tongtao, hurry up and eat. When you enter the palace, I will definitely ask the young lady to give you a monthly payment. You are a little tight now, but you will be fine in the future. Our second young lady is outstanding in appearance and smart, so I don't worry about having no way out. "

Biantao knew that Chuchu's move was to help Gu Yinwei keep herself.

"Even if you don't do these things to please me, I will stay with Second Miss."

Tian Tao picked up a pair of serving chopsticks, picked up three pieces of clean meat, and distributed them to Chu Chu.

"Eat with meat, and enjoy with blessings."

"You have confidence in Miss, and I also have confidence in Miss."

The flat peach said this sincerely, Chu Chu looked at the meat in the bowl with eyes shining, and took three or two mouthfuls of rice.

Gu Yinwei stood sideways, and Gu Yinwei heard the conversation between the two of them clearly.

She looked up at the sky, holding a stack of talismans in her hand, and said with emotion: "Sometimes, silver is more useful than runes."

You have to exchange runes for more money.

Starting with the beautiful girls will definitely arouse suspicion, it is better to start with Chu Chu's embroidery.

Chu Chu, who was busy with embroidery, inadvertently raised her head to see Gu Yinwei, stared at the embroidery in her hand, and asked, "Miss, do you want a new purse?"

"Chuchu, starting today, the purse you embroider will not be sold for two taels of silver, but for 20 taels of silver instead."

"20 taels? It's too expensive. I didn't hurt my hand back then, and I only bought a screen for 20 taels. I'm afraid [-] taels..."

"Don't be afraid, show me the purse you embroidered in the future, and I will guarantee that you will sell as much as you embroider."

"If someone asks me why my purse is so expensive, how should I answer?"

"You just talk about your purse, the gods opened it."

Gu Yingxia heard Gu Yinwei's words from a long distance away, and she burst into laughter, trembling with laughter.

"I'll buy the pouches opened by the gods, and give me five, one to repel mosquitoes, one for my uncle, one for my uncle, one for my grandfather, one for my aunt, and one for my aunt. A good fortune for Ah Qing."

Gu Yinwei took out five purses, then raised his palm to look at them, and then patted them one by one.

Gu Yingxia laughed even louder: "If you slap a few times on the purse, it will be considered to be fully opened? Second sister, do you want to laugh at me to death and inherit my treasured concubine?"

Gu Yinwei ignored her, "Green prevents insects, red protects peach blossoms, gold protects wealth, white prevents villains, and purple prolongs life."

Gu Yingxia untied the purse tied around her waist, took out a silver melon seed and two keys, and put them into the green purse.

"I'm wearing the purse. If there are mosquitoes biting me again at night, I'll come and bite you."

Ah Qing also put on a golden purse, then took out a 100 taels silver note and handed it to Chu Chu.

Ah Qing understood that the reason why her own lady bought so many purses was to give some money to the second lady in a different way. After all, the second lady had no income, so she should help more if she could help.

"You, you, you should have listened to my words and kept the IOU. With the IOU in hand, why bother to make money so hard."

"My pleasure."

"Hmph, I will never buy your purse again next time."

"When you come back, you can buy more than 20 taels, you have to give 200 taels."

"A purse sells for 200 taels. I'm crazy about money. If you can sell it, I'll call your sister."

"You just yelled."

"If you can really sell, I'll call your sister while crawling."

"Then you go back and find a few more bamboo mats, and practice first."

"Hmph, Ah Qing, let's go."

Gu Yingxia is gone, she is not optimistic about Gu Yinwei doing business like this, Chu Chu's embroidery is indeed not bad, but there are so many beautiful women in the capital.

She walked fast all the way, but she didn't notice that no mosquitoes bit her on the way.

The two wandered around for a long time, first to see the fish in the pond, and then to see the wind chimes under the eaves.

She didn't go back to sleep until dark, Gu Yingxia said: "Look, tell me she's bragging, you're a lucky purse, it didn't bring you any luck at all."

"I'm talking to you, what do you see?"

"Miss, there is a bird's nest in that tree."

"It was there early in the morning. I discovered it when I first lived here three years ago."

"There seems to be something in the bird's nest."

"Climb a tree if you want to, don't make up excuses to convince me."

Ah Qing took off her shoes, hugged the tree trunk with both hands, and slowly climbed up. Halfway through the climb, she lost her strength and slid down from the tree.

"Miss, how about we find a ladder?"

"Okay, you go find the ladder, I'll wait here."

Ah Qing found a bamboo ladder and quickly climbed up the treetops, then slowly descended the bamboo ladder with one hand holding the bird's nest.

Gu Yingxia took a closer look, there was nothing in the bird's nest, only a glowing stone, Gu Yingxia laughed out loud.

"You've been fooled, this purse is useless at all."

Ah Qing was a little discouraged, and accidentally tripped over the bamboo building, and the few pieces of silver in his cuffs rolled into the small ditch under the tree.

This ditch is formed by the accumulation of water from the eaves, and it is full of fallen leaves. It has not been cleaned all year round, and there is a faint smell.

Gu Yingxia frantically explained, "It's not good, the purse opened by the gods, not only did not bring you wealth luck, but instead caused you to lose money and suffer disasters, it hurts to stumble, get out of those broken money just now, But it’s been a while.”

"Oh, you don't have to eat candied haws, you don't have to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake, and you don't have the money to buy the red-headed rope you want."

Ah Qing didn't get up either, and lay on the ground crying.

The sound of crying could be heard far away. When Madam Gu beheaded her in the street, Gu Qingrong also cried on the ground.

Several female officers heard the crying and came to ask: "Miss Gu, why is Ah Qing crying like this?"

"She lost something."

"How many things are missing?"

Ah Qing cried.

Gu Yingxia said: "She is rolling all over the floor."

The female official said: "Miss Gu, don't worry, I will send someone to salvage it."

Gu Yingxia said: "Actually, the money is not a lot, so forget it."

"With me, Ms. Pei, here, this matter cannot be easily settled."

After finishing speaking, Ms. Pei began to assign people to salvage the money that fell into the water.

"The two of you take your hoes and let the water go, and the three of you, go into the water and touch it."

Ah Qing felt that it was too motivating to mobilize the crowd: "Otherwise, let's forget it."

The female officials and nuns are so active in their work, and the money they get out later may not be enough to pay the reward.

"Both of you, please go back to the house to rest first, and when the money comes up, I will send it to you immediately."

Gu Yingxia said, "Thank you."

Afterwards, she went back to her room to rest, and Ah Qing smeared herself with medicinal wine.

Gu Yingxia began to expose her scars again: "I fell so badly, my elbows are purple, and the palms of my hands are also torn. It must be very painful. You have obvious injuries. It bites people the most when you apply medicinal wine, tsk tsk."

"Look, I'm crying again, I'm crying again, I'll say this medicinal wine bites people."

Officer Pei heard the crying sound from the room, and hurriedly told her: "Hurry up and look under the leaves, and look in the crevices of the trees."

"My eyes are crying like walnuts, and I'm out of breath. I must have lost a lot of money."

A quarter of an hour later, the women pulled out three pieces of loose silver from the ditch, and one of the women with a hoe replied, "That's all I found in the ditch."

Ms. Pei didn't believe it at all: "It can't be that there are so few, there must be more, if you look for it more, the bird's nest on the tree will also be searched."

Seven or eight women rushed into the woods to search, and searched again and again, even lifting up the stones under the broken bricks, and finally found a bundle from a crack in a tree.

Lady Pei found clean well water, rinsed the silver picked up in the ditch, and returned it to Ah Qing together with the baggage.

Ah Qing donated the silver to Mrs. Pei, and Mrs. Pei left satisfied. Mrs. Pei took the bulk of the reward, and gave the rest to other people who were able to do it.

Everyone left happily.

Ah Qing stared at the burden in a daze.

"What's the matter, after being teased by my second sister, you became angry from embarrassment, do you want to pack up and run away?"

Ah Qing carried the bag and put it on the table, then opened it for Gu Yingxia to see: "Miss, do you think I, a maid, can save such a generous amount of travel expenses?"

The bundle was opened, revealing three black lacquered stones, and there were three letters inside, as well as some silver pearl hairpins and earrings.

Gu Yingxia picked up the stone and weighed it in her hand, then found a knife and gently scraped the stone, the black ash on the stone was scraped off to reveal a golden corner.

"This...is this gold?"

Ah Qing nodded.

The two found this burden by accident, wanted to open the letter to have a look but didn't have the courage, so they ran to find Gu Yinwei.

At this time, it was already dark, and Gu Yinwei had just taken off his shoes and socks to go to bed, when the knock on the door became louder and louder.

Chu Chu helped with embroidery during the day, but now she was so tired that she fell asleep.

Lian Tao held up a red candle, stretched out his hand to block the wind brought by walking, and rushed to open the door.

Gu Yingxia ran fast, the candle in Tandao's hand went out in an instant, the surroundings were dark, and Tandao's face also turned black.

Gu Yingxia hated Gu Qingrong and Mrs. Gu, and Biantao had served Gu Qingrong before, so Biantao mistakenly believed that Gu Yingxia was hostile to her.

Ah Qing lifted the lantern to illuminate the way for Chu Chu.

"I'm sorry to put out your candle. Our third lady has something important to do with the second lady, so I ran away in a hurry."

Lian Tao said in relief: "It's okay, you can sleep with me in the side room, I guess the two young ladies don't need to be around right now."

The maids all went to rest, but the two masters talked by candlelight at night.

"Second sister, let me tell you something new. Don't tell others. Ah Qing bought the money bag you gave me today, and found the money when I went out."

"Finding money is a good thing, but you are so worried that you can't sleep."

"It's good to just find the money, but this time I not only found the money, but also the letter."

"Letter? What letter?"

"There are three letters in total, all of which are here, and I haven't opened them."

"You want to read the letter too?"

"Take it apart."

"I won't open it. Second sister, you can open it. If the person who hid the letter once swore and promised that the person who opened the letter would not end well, I'm afraid of retribution."

"You think I'm not afraid?"

"Hey, the second sister is a fairy, and fairies are not afraid of retribution."

"Third sister, I thank you very much."

Gu Yinwei took out the envelope and baked it on the candle, the beeswax on the envelope became soft, she lifted it lightly, and the envelope was opened, revealing a piece of yellowed letter paper inside.

"Nettle paper, this is paper from 30 years ago."

Gu Yingxia held her chin: "The paper from 30 years ago, could it be that these letters have been hidden in the tree hole for 30 years?"

Gu Yinwei unfolded the letter, and the letter was filled with densely packed small characters.

Xuanhua 15 years, March 27, sunny.

The monthly money was issued today, and I sent two, two or three money.

I ate leek-flavored dumplings for lunch, and my aunt in charge thought I was smelly, so she asked me to deliver food to Su Xiunv temporarily.

People said that Su Xiunv had suddenly contracted leprosy, and the imperial doctor from the palace also said that Su Xiunv would recover in summer.

This letter ends here abruptly,

Gu Yinwei opened the second envelope.

Xuanhua 15 years, September 27th, rain.

The monthly money was issued today, and I sent two, two, and four money.

There were fewer and fewer people in the yard, and I had nothing to do. The west wall fell down, and the new aunt in charge asked me to stand under the west wall to remind passers-by not to fall.

Xuanhua 17th year, December 27th, snow.

I send out monthly money today, and I send out the most.

In a while I may be leaving.

Each letter recorded the time and date, and the last letter had the fewest words. After reading the letter, the two sisters remained silent for a long time.

　Ask for a ticket, ask for a monthly ticket, recommend a ticket
　　
　
(End of this chapter)