Dressed like a loser and went to raise a baby

Chapter 4 Working hard to make money
At noon, the old concubine brought her rice and asked Leng Luoyue and Caiwei to cook it and feed it to the kittens.

They didn't dare to let the old concubine know that the kitten had already been fed, so they thanked the old concubine profusely.The old lady's bowl of rice was for the kitten, so Leng Luoyue did not receive any love or points.

The bowl of rice was eventually shared between Leng Luoyue and Caiwei. Caiwei was not willing to eat it, so Leng Luoyue pretended to be angry before she ate it.

Because she ate hard and black steamed buns in the morning, Leng Luoyue felt that the rice was particularly sweet.

Caiwei started to make embroidery. The tailor shop where the old lady sold embroidery said that many children were born in the imperial city in the past few months. It was also hot today and they all liked to wear jackets.He gave them the fabric directly and asked them to embroider and make robes at the same time.

Leng Luoyue was still in confinement and could not go to the ground. When the kitten fell asleep, she put it on the bed and hugged it when it woke up. In short, it was "boring".

In this hot summer, you can't take a bath, wash your hair, or go to the ground. Leng Luoyue can smell the stench on her body.

She said many times that she wanted to take a bath and wash her hair, and said that it has been scientifically proven that it is okay to take a bath and wash her hair during the confinement period as long as she does not catch a cold. However, Caiwei ruthlessly refused. She just boiled hot water and simply I gave her a scrub.

Caiwei was sitting by the bed embroidering a robe. Seeing that Leng Luoyue was bored, she talked to her, "The material of this cloth is good, and the remaining pieces of cloth can be pieced together to make a robe for the little prince! All slaves want it." Okay, let's embroider a unicorn, it looks good and has a good meaning." The clothes and pockets of the little prince were adapted from her and the empress's clothes.When they were thrown into the cold palace, the palace officials did not allow them to tidy up, and they did not bring many clothes in.

It's boring to embroider a unicorn. Leng Luoyue frowned and asked Caiwei: "What year is this?"

Caiwei just thought that she was living a confused life in the cold palace and said, "This is the year of Chen."

"Chen Nian!" Chen Nian is the Year of the Dragon. Is Xiaomao'er's zodiac sign good? He is still a dragon. If he doesn't become the prince, who will be the prince? "Embroider a dragon for the kitten!"

Caiwei's expression changed and she whispered: "Only the emperor's clothes can be embroidered with dragons." If others wear clothes or crowns with dragons, it is tantamount to treason.

Leng Luoyue rolled her eyes and said: "My little kitten is a dragon, so it is only natural to embroider a dragon on your pocket. Moreover, we don't embroider such a serious dragon, we embroider a cute version."

"What is the cute version?" Caiwei asked curiously.

"Bring a pen and paper."

There was no paper and pen in their room, but the old lady had some, so Caiwei went to borrow paper, pen and ink.Caiwei moved Xiao Ji to the bed, and Leng Luoyue took a brush and first drew a cute version of a little dragon on the paper.She learned Chinese painting from her grandpa when she was young, so she is quite comfortable with painting with a brush.

Caiwei looked at the cute little dragon with big round eyes and praised: "Wow...it's so cute. Your Majesty's painting is so good."

Leng Luoyue was a little proud of Caiwei's praise, so she simply drew cute versions of the twelve zodiac animals.Because the rice paper was big enough, she painted it all on one piece of paper.

Caiwei held the rice paper and looked at the twelve zodiac signs on it. She liked it very much. If there were such zodiac pictures embroidered on the pockets and clothes, the embroidered fish and birds would have much more meaning than embroidered grass.

"I'll show it to the old concubine and see if I can embroider these on my pocket." Caiwei put away the pen and ink and gave it back to the old concubine, letting her take a look at the pattern.

The old lady saw it and thought it was very good. Except for the dragon, other cute pictures of the Chinese zodiac could be embroidered on the pocket.

Caiwei happily brought back the drawings, dismantled one-third of the embroidered flowers and birds, and began to embroider the zodiac.Not only did Caiwei make embroidery, but she also had to take care of the kitten. In order to exchange the embroidery for silver as soon as possible, she often secretly lit a lamp and embroidered in her room until midnight, and heard the kitten crying at night. , and immediately ran over to feed her and change her diaper.

In just five or six days, she made more than 20 pockets.

After the old lady handed the robe to the guard, she waited nervously.The next day the guard came and handed the silver from the sale to the old lady.

The shopkeeper liked these cute zodiac pockets so much that he added twenty coins to each one.Originally one was forty coins, but after adding twenty coins, one was sixty coins. Caiwei made 24 coins, which was one tael of silver and 440 coins.

The guard had to collect his hard-earned money to sell it for them. Every time the old lady asked him to buy something, he was given two hundred cash, so Caiwei also gave him two hundred cash.

The owner of the shop gave Caiwei a lot of fabric and asked her to continue embroidering such a cute zodiac jacket.

After getting the money, the first thing Caiwei thought of was to improve the food for the empress. Who knew she would ask when the food was delivered in the dining room.If you want to eat a bowl of braised pork, you have to spend one or two silver dollars to buy it.If you want to eat white flour buns, rice, and better-tasting dishes every meal, then you have to give the kitchen ten taels of silver a month.

The old concubine has a lot of jewelry, and the embroidery she makes is all large and her embroidery work is exquisite, and she sells it for a lot of silver, so she gives the kitchen ten taels of silver every month. Meats and vegetables are purchased separately.

Caiwei thought it was too expensive. One tael of silver could buy a lot of meat outside the palace.

She came back to discuss it with Leng Luoyue. Leng Luoyue not only thought it was expensive, but also felt it was a scam.Although there is no kitchen in their yard, there is a stove. They can set up a stove in the yard, buy a pot, and ask the guards to buy vegetables and rice and bring them to the palace to cook themselves. It costs less than the kitchen, and they can still eat. good.

Leng Luoyue told Caiwei this way, and Caiwei thought it was feasible, so she went to find the guard and asked him to help buy some meat, vegetables, rice, a small iron pot, and a small casserole when he went to work tomorrow. Seasonings, chopsticks and bowls.

The guard said that there were too many things and he needed more money, so Caiwei gave him a tael of silver to buy these things, and the rest was all his.The guard agreed wholeheartedly and bought everything Caiwei asked for the next day.

So the corridor became Caiwei's kitchen. For the first meal, Caiwei cooked rice in a casserole, cooked braised pork, and made a vegetable soup.

"My dear wife, you eat first," Caiwei put the bowl of rice on the small table on the bed, "I'll give the old lady a bowl of meat." The old lady helped them a lot, and now they can eat meat. Well, naturally I wanted to give the old concubine a bowl.

"Okay," Leng Luoyue nodded, picked up a piece of braised pork and put it into her mouth. Feeling the soft and glutinous braised pork melting in her mouth, she narrowed her eyes happily.

Caiwei took the meat to the old concubine's courtyard next door. The old concubine liked to be quiet, so she lived alone in a small courtyard.The courtyard in front has better lighting, and people are competing to live in it. Three or four people live in one courtyard.

However, there were not many people in this cold palace, only about twenty in total.

The courtyard door was ajar. Caiwei knocked on the door and called out: "Old concubine."

After a while, a voice came from the yard: "Come in!"

(End of this chapter)