neighbors with the king

Chapter 160 Orders Like Clouds (1)
And beside them stood a few servants who performed gravel yesterday.

What happened yesterday was very intimidating. Although the villagers were dissatisfied after hearing Su Zhongyi's explanation, when they saw the half-smiling eyes of the servants around him, all dissatisfaction flew away.

They involuntarily backed away. "We're just asking, we definitely don't want to make trouble."

This is also from the heart, now they just want to curry favor with the Su family, they have no intention of offending the Su family at all.

Only Zhao Taohua didn't understand why, and still stood there shouting, "It's not fair, I don't accept it."

"If you violate the current dynasty's calendar, it's not a trivial matter even sitting down, and if it's serious, you have to punish the nine clans. The Su family's method is also based on the Daqing calendar. If you are dissatisfied with the Su family, are you also dissatisfied with the emperor?" Li Yuanchu came out, His face was covered with a layer of ice.

Eyes full of hostility, body full of murderous aura, Zhao Taohua, a weak woman, has never seen such a posture, and the discussion is obviously about the Su family, so why does it involve the emperor?Her feet gave way and she fell to the ground.

All the villagers looked at her sympathetically, but none of them dared to intercede.

"My lord, it's just a small problem, and she didn't mean that." Su Zhongyi couldn't bear it. After all, they were all from the same village, and he didn't want to make an enemy for the Su family.

Li Yuanchu looked at Su Zhongyi and nodded, "For the sake of the Su family pleading for you, this king will not argue with you, get out!"

His original intention was to give the Su family a prestige, but he didn't mean to kill someone.

After achieving his goal, he naturally gave Su Zhongyi face.

Zhao Taohua narrowly escaped death, even crawled and fled, and no longer had the intention to continue entanglement.

Through this incident, the villagers could see clearly that King Lin really came to support the Su family.

In the room of the embroidery factory, Su Qingqing watched the embroiders who came for the assessment. Although they were acquaintances, some of them were not very familiar with her.When Hui Niang stood beside them, these women were not too nervous, but as long as Su Qingqing passed by.

For some reason, they were so frightened that the hand holding the needle trembled.

Su Qingqing smiled as if she didn't see it, and walked slowly through the crowd, taking a look at everyone's stitches.

When she saw the old lady surnamed Fang who came last, she stopped suddenly.

There is no background pattern, the old lady embroidered a few butterflies based on her feeling, and now she is busy embroidering a flower.

Almost every woman in the village can embroider butterflies, but the old lady embroiders differently from everyone else. Those butterflies dance lightly, with a calm demeanor, and you can almost see the hairs on them clearly. What is even more rare is this The front and back of the embroidery are exactly the same.

Double-sided embroidery!Su Qingqing's eyes narrowed!
"You have been admitted." Su Qingqing said to Fang Shi lightly, "Can you follow me to the office to talk?"

Fang put down the embroidery in her hand, raised her head and glanced at her, then nodded and stood up.

"Qingqing?" Hui Niang came over and saw the semi-finished embroidery work in her hand, she was surprised and speechless.

"Mother, I'll leave this to you." She took the old lady away.

"Please sit down." Su Qingqing pointed to the chair and said politely to the old lady, "Can I tell your story?"

It doesn't make sense that such a talented person lives in a small village and lives in such a difficult way.

"I am the only descendant of double-sided embroidery from the Fang family in Jiangnan. Have you heard of the Fang family in Jiangnan?" The old lady looked at Su Qingqing fixedly.

Su Qingqing shook her head honestly, "I don't know."

The old lady's eyes darkened when she heard this, no one in Daqing knew about the Fang family, which was at the peak back then.But with his escape, the glory of the Fang family also disappeared.

"I fell from a tree and got soul-lostness, and it's normal for a small village like ours not to know the Fang family." Su Qingqing told her that she couldn't bear to see the deep sense of loss on her face.

"That's right." The old lady raised her head, and the sadness on her face disappeared.

"Back then, the Fang family embroidered a piece of embroidery, which was a sky-high price." She said, licking her withered lips.

"As a result, the Fang family has become the leading wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River. But as the saying goes, a big tree attracts the wind, and the Fang family has more money, so they will naturally be envied by others."

She paused here, but Su Qingqing didn't ask any further questions, but just sat quietly waiting for her to finish telling the story.

"The Fang family has been passed down for several generations. In my generation, I am the only one. People outside rumored that the Fang family was going to die. My parents were furious and wanted to find me a son-in-law. Keep going. After thousands of choices, he chose a young guy in the shop. But I didn't like this guy, because I liked the carpenter next door." Speaking of the little carpenter, Fang's face showed a happy expression .

"He is Grandpa Lu." Su Qingqing said with certainty.

"Yes, but it's not allowed to take care of each other privately. My parents were furious and wanted to break my husband's leg. So we made an appointment to elope, trying to escape the rumors, and then went back. At that time, my parents will definitely forgive me." Me." Fang burst into tears, probably thinking of the love of the elders.

"However, what we never expected was that shortly after we eloped, something happened at home, which actually separated me from my parents." At this point, Fang almost choked up and couldn't continue speaking.

"Father never thought that the person he chose would be the youngest son of the governor of Jiangnan. It turned out that the governor wanted to keep the money from the Fang family's double-faced embroidery. He planned to let the youngest son come over to seduce me. After marrying me, They coaxed their embroidery skills, but they didn't expect that something would go wrong, so they just made excuses, sent their parents to prison, and confiscated everything from the Fang family." Fang said more and more. Excited.

"They threatened parents to hand over their embroidery skills, but in order not to implicate us, both parents hanged themselves in the prison." In the last sentence, Fang almost broke down in tears.

"So, you fled to Qingxi Village and lived in seclusion." Su Qingqing asked.

"That's right, decades have passed, and the governor was also beheaded by the emperor because of corruption and bribery. Because all disasters were caused by embroidery skills, I didn't plan to use them anymore, but..." Speaking of this , she blushed.

"Are you worried about the house?" Su Qingqing finished her unfinished question.

"Yes, my husband and I are both old, and we don't have any children, so we should make a way for ourselves." Fang replied melancholy.

"Don't worry, I will protect you when you arrive at our Su's house. Even if you can't move in the end, I will let someone take care of you." Su Qingqing promised.

"Okay, so I can rest assured." Fang's pale face relaxed a little.

(End of this chapter)