Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 1061 Five Brocade Boxes
The child was sleeping soundly on time. After returning to her room to wash up and change into her nightgown, Zhou Banxia's gaze fell on the dressing table.

There are five brocade boxes on the dressing table: two long and narrow ones at the bottom, two flat rectangular ones in the middle, and a round one on top.

"You will be alright, the flowers will smell sweet, and even now, I still love you deeply. I will be alright too, I know he suffered so much..."

Gu Wenxuan hummed a song with lyrics he had revised himself as he came out of the bathroom, his eyes searching for his wife: Hmm? Why are you standing still, striking a pose?

"La la la, he will suffer bitterly, the flowers will be fragrant..." Upon closer inspection, he craned his neck in confusion, "Is there a secret in the design of the box?"

"No, no, the box is perfectly fine~" Zhou Banxia tilted her head and smiled, "I just wanted to wait for you to come so we could open the box together. Shall we open the round one first?"

"Of course!" Gu Wenxuan placed the handkerchief he was holding on the dressing table. "Were you wondering why there wasn't a square box?"

"You understand me so well!" Zhou Banxia gave him a thumbs-up and handed him a small round box in the other hand. "You're lucky, you can open it."

Gu Wenxuan raised an eyebrow, amused, and looked down at the small brocade box in his hand. It was not big, only about the size of a four-inch cake, and it was very light.

Open it and take a look.

"Ropa?"

"It should be a handkerchief."

"You take over." Although the silk inside the box had been folded in half and then in half again, the embroidered patterns were still visible, so Gu Wenxuan decisively let his wife take over.

Zhou Banxia reached into the box and touched the neatly folded object. "It's heavy satin silk, the finest Yun brocade, a tribute item, and the most commonly used material in court embroidery."

Gu Wenxuan believed he had a good learning ability, but asking him to learn to identify different kinds of silks, brocades, furs, and fabrics was too difficult.

In his younger sister's words, when he was learning from the female teacher, even just the fur was divided into large fur, medium fur, coarse fur, and short fur, which made his eyes dizzy.

Fortunately, his wife didn't test him on what kind of material it was; the key point was "tribute item, most commonly used in court embroidery." This is something you don't need to understand too much!

"I understand. This, like the box, isn't something ordinary people use. Look at this circle in the corner; isn't it made of gold?"

"This is called a ring. The remaining three corners can pass through this ring, which is simply called a 'heart-piercing knot'. Look, it's a handkerchief, yes, it's definitely a handkerchief."

As she spoke, Zhou Banxia controlled her strength and squeezed the ring. "It's gold, not brass. It's definitely gold, but not very pure gold."

"That's right! I don't even need to touch it; how could I possibly miss whether it's gold or bronze? Look again and see if you can find the mark that was embroidered."

I'm not an expert on this; you're the real professional. And what's this embroidery? I can understand the poem, but what's with the green and yellow embroidery?

Zhou Banxia was trying to find where the embroiderer's mark was hidden when she heard Gu Wenxuan ask a question. She then subconsciously looked for the "green with yellow" mark he mentioned.

"It should be orchid."

"No, it doesn't look like it. Look, isn't this a small yellow flower, or a small yellow flower with a round head?"

Zhou Banxia's gaze faltered. It wasn't that she was careless; it was just that the person who embroidered this handkerchief wasn't very skilled, and the gold ring on one corner symbolized "sworn brotherhood."

"'Where can I find the forget-me-not, to plant it behind the house?' The forget-me-not is a legendary grass that can make people forget their worries; it is the daylily, which looks very similar to the daylily."

This green and yellow embroidered design is the forget-me-not. Forget-me-not, forget-me-not, better to be carefree. No need for any markings, I know who embroidered this handkerchief.

Gu Wenxuan's heart skipped a beat, "Your master?"

“Hmm, if I’m not mistaken—” Zhou Banxia gently stroked the “green with yellow” on the handkerchief with her fingers. “This is a handkerchief that my master embroidered when she was young and had just started learning needlework.”

My cousin once told me something, she said jokingly, that her mother-in-law said not just anyone could become sworn brothers with my master.

The current Princess is not like that, nor is her mother-in-law, Princess Yongning, nor is the Old Madam Gao. The one who swore brotherhood with my master is long gone.

At the time, I didn't think much of it. Now that I think about it, my cousin-in-law had already hinted to me that her mother-in-law, Princess Yongning, had this handkerchief that she had somehow obtained.

It's possible that this handkerchief, along with the contents of the remaining four boxes, was brought over by Senior Brother Qian when he took office, but I was already far along in my pregnancy at that time.

Afterwards, I spent two postpartum periods in confinement, and Brother Qian kept the belongings safe until today, when I've been out of confinement for some time and you're on leave at home studying. Only then did he feel at ease handing over my master's relics to me.

Very reasonable!

Gu Wenxuan nodded in agreement, "I'm not afraid you'll get upset over this. The deceased is gone, and the living must go on. If we want her to leave in peace, we can remember her, but we shouldn't keep bringing up painful memories."

People are destined to meet again in the next life. Now, all you can do is live a peaceful and prosperous life, as she has hoped, and wait to meet her again in the next.

Sigh, I hope it's as you say. I just don't know if I'm still me, if there's still a Xiao Banxia, ​​if Xiao Banxia went ahead to follow Master, or if Xiao Banxia is the first seventeen years of my life...

"Are you even listening to me? Why are you frowning again?" Gu Wenxuan reached out and smoothed her brow. "Are you thinking about something again? I'm amazed at you. You don't even know what time it is, and you still have time to daydream."

After you finish looking at this box, there are four more boxes left. Don't you want to see what's in the remaining four boxes, which you have to return, all without any warning from Senior Brother Qian?

"This handkerchief, he wants you to return it? You must be joking. Whoever asked him to return it, I said it doesn't need to be returned. Even if his wife wants to go back, let her find my teacher."

Can this be done?
“An elder must act like an elder. Who would show your master a piece of embroidery, especially since you don’t have any of your master’s early embroidery, and then take it back?”

I'm just kidding you. If she dares to ask for it back, just pretend you didn't hear me. If that doesn't work, you can always back out, right? Who told her to call herself an aunt? Is being an aunt so easy? As her niece, you can totally back out.

"The squeaky wheel gets the grease. If an elder truly cares for you like their own niece, they won't mind if you act like a brat. In fact, they'll be happier if you don't distance yourself from them and are even affectionate."

That seems to be the truth!

"Perfect timing. We can also use this opportunity to test how much tolerance the other party has for you. After all, our current assumption is that these things were handed over by Senior Brother Qian on behalf of his mother. Whether that's true or not remains to be verified."

Just like this handkerchief, since Sister-in-law Qian said that her mother-in-law said not just anyone can become sworn brothers with your master, and the handkerchief used for the sworn brotherhood ceremony is long gone, then it shouldn't have been given to Brother Qian's mother by your master, right?"