My mother is the best embroiderer in the capital.
She once said that she would embroider my wedding dress in person and watch me get married in style.
However, a month before my wedding, she died.
The princess who came to the neighboring country to make peace broke her fingers, cut off her hands, and bled to death.
In addition to the princess, there was also my fiancé who was in love with each other.
I got divorced and spent three years giving the princess a big gift.
Three years later, Concubine Zhen threw a whip on the maid who was waiting: Waste, is it going to kill this palace with such a big hand! 」
The maid didn't dare to dodge, so she only paused and slowed down the strength of her hand to press Concubine Zhen's leg.
Everyone knows the reason why Concubine Zhen has been in a bad mood recently, and everyone lowered their heads, silent, just afraid that it would affect themselves.
The birthday festival is coming, but the birthday gift to the emperor has not been settled.
She is a princess and a princess, and the whip of the maternal clan is beyond her reach, unlike other concubines who can support each other in the harem.
But it has always been arrogant, pampered and proud.
How could he fall into disadvantage at a time like Wanshou and give others the opportunity to take away the emperor's favor?
For a while, everyone in the palace was silent, just afraid that it would affect them.
At this moment, I slowly walked from the corner to Concubine Zhen, kowtowed deeply, and said calmly: "Niangniang, the slave maid has an embroidery to share the worries of Niangniang." 」
The palace maid in charge was about to scold, but Concubine Zhen said lazily: Present it to the palace to see. 」
I unfolded the embroidery slowly.
This is a picture of the exquisite rivers and mountains, surrounded by mountains, peaks and peaks, clouds and mist, rivers meandering, vast, showing the magnificence of mountains and rivers.
I saw Concubine Zhen's eyes lit up, and explained without humility or arrogance: Niang Niang can flip the embroidery over, the name of this embroidery is called "Sun and Moon Qiankun", and the front depicts the mountains, rivers, sun and moon, and the waves are magnificent. On the other hand, it is the image of the people living and working in peace and contentment. 」
Concubine Zhen nodded as if she was quite satisfied with the embroidery, and raised her eyes to look at me: Are you ** on an errand? Where did this embroidery come from? You, a palace maid, are so good at embroidery, why did you enter the palace? 」
I knelt down and stepped forward, bowed my head respectfully and said: Back to Niangniang's words, this "Sun and Moon Qiankun" was embroidered by the slave maid herself, and the slave maid embroidered it for three years.
I originally wanted to use this to make a name for myself to get a good marriage, but I never thought that my mother died of illness and had to keep filial piety. 」
Niangniang is the emperor's hearty person, the slave is willing to dedicate the embroidery to the mother, only ask the mother to let the slave and the maid serve around, and wait for the end of the slave and maid's filial piety, and give the slave and maid a good family. 」
This technique was recorded in a booklet that the slave and maid saw casually when she was young, and she figured out this double-sided embroidery on the booklet when she had nothing to do. 」
Concubine Zhen was quite satisfied with my explanation, and asked the little eunuch to help me up and ask, "What's your name?" 」
Back to the mother's words, slave Yunjin. 」
She smiled and patted my hand and said, "As long as you are loyal to this palace, this palace will definitely promise you a good future." However, your Yunjin cloud character collided with the name of the milk when he was in the boudoir of the palace, and you will be called Xiaocao in the future. 」
Today's events are not allowed to be spread, if there are rumors, this palace will tear up her dog's mouth. Concubine Zhen smiled and said sharply, but her eyes kept staring at me.
I hung my head, pretending to be at the mercy of Concubine Zhen, and blessed my body like everyone else, slaves and slaves obeyed the order. 」
As expected, on the Halloween Festival, the emperor was happy, and the queen mother, who had always been strict, also praised Concubine Zhen's embroidery.
Concubine Zhen was immediately named a precious concubine and assisted the queen in the six palaces.
For a time, one person was under ten thousand people, and there was no one in the limelight.
Shortly after the festival of longevity, a major event occurred in the palace.
The precious concubine executed many palace people by extremely cruel means.
The reason for this is that when I was tidying up the warehouse, I found that a lot of jewelry was missing. After careful verification, it became clear that there were many people in the palace whose hands and feet were not clean.
In order to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, the concubine ordered all the palace people who committed the crime to cut off their tongues, cut off their eyes, smoke their deafness, and then cut off their limbs in public.
and ordered all the palace people to observe the punishment when they were free, so as to set an example.
However, the precious concubine gave me all the jewelry she found.
For a while, rumors were rife in the palace. Some people say that I framed me, and others say that I deliberately betrayed my companions. In short, I was the target of public criticism all at once.
Only I know that they just see what they shouldn't.
My father died when I was ten years old, and he couldn't get famous, so he could only be a teacher in the village school, depressed, and left me and my mother to depend on each other.
At that time, my mother's embroidery skills were not yet famous in the capital, and I was not the material for studying, but the death of my father was a great blow to me, and I was not used to leaving the school, and I was always crying to go to the school to find my father.
In order for me to continue to stay in the school to read and write, my mother lit the lamp and did embroidery all night.
But I never thought that after my father passed away, my situation in the school became more and more difficult.
In the past, when my father was a teacher, he was always very strict with everyone, and if he couldn't memorize the book, he would definitely have to be punished.
The children who were disciplined by my father held a grudge, stole my homework, stepped on my desk and chair, and laughed at me for being a fatherless child.
Only Ah Heng would come to comfort me, he would take me to find the hidden homework, give me sweet pastries, and patiently teach me to do arithmetic problems like a book of heaven.
Heng is an orphan who lives alone in a mud house in the easternmost part of the village, and when I was a child, I used to go to play with Ah Heng, we made swings together, watched the ants carry sugar together, and kneading clay figures together.
My father and mother felt that he was lonely, so I always asked me to call him to come to the house for dinner.
Later, thanks to my father, we were able to go to the village school. It can be said that Ah Heng is half of my child.
When he was twelve years old, his mother's craftsmanship gradually spread, and many dignitaries in the capital loved his mother's embroidery. My mother and I left the village and moved to the outskirts of Beijing, and we completely lost contact with Ah Heng.
I gradually became sensible, no longer immersed in grief because of my father's departure, and in order not to make my mother sad, I chose to bury everything deep in my heart.
On weekdays, we learned the craft of embroidery with my mother, did needlework, and we saved money to open a small embroidery shop in the capital. My mother and I thought it would be such a dull and beautiful day after day.
Until the age of seventeen, my mother was ordered to enter the palace to embroider wedding dresses for princesses from neighboring countries.
I still can't forget that early that morning, my mother said to me with a smile: This time, I am working for the nobles in the palace, and I am afraid that I will not be able to return home for a while. 」
Don't worry, after this errand, the silver taels of the embroidery shop will be complete. 」
When my mother comes back, I will take a break from work for a while, my mother wants to embroider a wedding dress for you by herself, and watch you get married in a beautiful way, Ah Heng is a good child, and my nannan will be able to support each other with him, and grow old together. 」
Yes, I met Ah Heng again, three months ago in the Shizi Mansion.
Because of the excellent embroidery, there are often nobles who entrust their mothers to do embroidery work, when I gave the princess a cloak, I met the imperial doctor Ah Heng who came to ask the nobles for peace pulse.
It turned out that after my mother and I left the village, Ah Heng accidentally rescued an old gentleman who went up the mountain to collect medicine when he went up the mountain to chop wood.
Ah Heng is also angry, from coming to the capital alone, unfamiliar with life, to now, step by step, he has become the doctor of the Tai Hospital.
The prince's mansion hurriedly narrated, and I was unsettled, happy and sad.
Happily, I finally reunited with Ah Heng.
In fact, later, I also quietly went back to inquire, but the village said that Ah Heng had already moved out of the village and disappeared. I thought I would never cross paths with Ah Heng again in my life.
Sadly, Ah Heng is now a doctor, how can I be a little embroidery girl who can climb high.
I never thought that a few days after I reunited with Ah Heng, he came to my house with wine, meat, Jingguoer, etc., proposed to my mother, and promised: Death and life are broad, talk to Zicheng, hold the hand of Zi, and grow old with Zi.
My mother seemed to see my thoughts and solemnly agreed to this marriage.
I smiled brightly and looked forward to happiness and reunion in the future.
A month later, I would never have imagined that this moment of decision would make me regret it for the rest of my life.
After my mother entered the palace, we lost contact, and I occasionally asked Ah Heng to help me ask how my mother was doing in the palace, but all I got was a few words.
Concubine Zhen was originally the youngest daughter of the emperor of a neighboring country, and Wu had a cold climate and lack of resources, and its national strength was far less powerful than that of Great Zhou.
When the first emperor was in power, he sent several princes to come to the Great Zhou to serve as protons, and the five princes of Wu were even more friends with the current saints because they grew up in the Great Zhou.
At that time, the saint was just an unfavored prince, and it was rumored that the two cherished each other, but they also achieved a good story.
Concubine Zhen is the sister of the five princes, in order to show the good of the two countries forever, after the emperor succeeded to the throne, Wu sent this little princess and relatives.
The little princess was recommended by someone and announced that my mother would enter the palace to embroider a wedding dress for her.
The emperor was very fond of this little princess, not only let her live in the palace before she was canonized, but also granted her the privilege of freely entering and leaving the imperial study.
Even, at the canonization ceremony, she was exempted from kneeling and bowing to the queen three times and nine times.
Zhen'er is a princess of a country, and she came to make peace with the intention of peace between the two countries, so why be polite? The queen is generous, this etiquette will be exempted. 」
My mother Xu looked at the little princess who was about to get married and thought of me, and she felt sorry for the little princess who was married far away, and the elders were not around, and this wedding dress was embroidered very carefully.
Finally, under the rush of work day and night, it was quickly completed.
After the princess tried on the wedding dress, she smiled and praised my mother's embroidery skills: My aunt is very good, this wedding dress is really exquisite. 」
It's just that this dress is beautiful, but it is a little unworthy of this princess. 」
I heard that my aunt's double-sided embroidery skills are unique in the world, and the mandarin ducks on the front of this wedding dress are vivid, but the back is slightly monotonous. 」
Princess Ben thinks that embroidering another phoenix is just right, what does my aunt think? 」
Although it was a question, the princess's tone was unmistakably cold.
The mother immediately turned white in fright, knelt down and kowtowed: "Princess, the use of the phoenix pattern by others violates the ancestral system, please think twice!" 」
When the princess heard her mother's words, she was immediately annoyed, and glanced at her mother in disgust, and her tone was solemn: Slut, this princess is not as good as the queen? 」
If it weren't for this palace, where would she get her life to be a queen? 」
Since you don't want to, this palace won't force you. 」
Just this hand....Someone, break her finger for the princess. 」
The mother's ten fingers were broken one by one in this way.
The princess looked at my mother in pain as if she was in pleasure, and stepped on my mother's broken finger again.
Phew, slut, what kind of thing are you, you dare to say that this palace is not worthy of a phoenix. 」
I was tired of playing, so I ordered someone to cut off my mother's hands, and when my mother's blood was drained little by little, people were thrown into a mass grave outside the city.
Bad luck thing, it's really dirty in the hands of this palace. 」
My mother died. Those nobles who had entrusted their mothers to do embroidery work heard about it, and most of them also scolded their mothers for not knowing life or death, and they dared to collide with the emperor's heart.
After Halloween, I became a confidant by the side of the precious concubine.
But because of the previous theft, everyone in the palace was very hostile to me.
Especially the big palace maid Shui Tao next to the precious concubine.
On the day of my performance, Shui Tao happened to go out of the palace to select a congratulatory gift for the precious concubine to the emperor.
I heard that I originally selected a jade Ruyi in the Treasure Pavilion, and I was thinking about coming back to invite merit, but I didn't expect to be the first to be climbed.
Coupled with the tragic death of her former companion on an errand, she still held a grudge against me even though she knew it had nothing to do with me.
I didn't say anything, and endured everything in silence.
On this day, when the emperor came to visit the concubine, he hung a sachet on his waist, which was very exquisite.
Since the emperor had never worn these before, I couldn't help but look at them twice in surprise when I saw this.
The precious concubine also noticed the difference between the emperor, and said to the emperor with a little jealousy: Your Majesty, your sachet is very good-looking, can you reward it to the concubine? 」
The emperor was stunned, picked up the sachet and asked, "Isn't this sachet sent to me by my concubine?" 」
The precious concubine was also in a trance for a while, and muttered: But the concubine has never sent such a sachet to the emperor. 」
The emperor raised his head and looked around. Pointing to a palace maid, she said, "She sent it to me, saying that it was at your will." 」
Shui Tao was pointed at by the emperor, and immediately panicked, and hurriedly knelt down and said: The slave and maid are just acting on orders, and this sachet is indeed handed over to the emperor by the slave and maid ordered by the mother. 」
The precious concubine was also annoyed, and scolded angrily: When did this palace let you send such a sachet, it is obvious that you, a little, want to seduce the emperor and deceive your subordinates in the name of this palace. 」
Shui Tao kowtowed heavily and shouted Your Majesty, Niangniang, the slave and maid don't have it, it's Xiaocao, it's the sachet that Xiaocao gave me, saying that Niangniang wants to give it to the emperor, let the slave and maid run. Please the emperor Mingjian, please Niangniang Mingjian. 」
Hearing Shui Tao confess my name, I stood up unhurriedly, picked up the sachet and said: Emperor Qi, Qi Niangniang, the slave has never given Sister Shui Tao such a sachet. 」
Moreover, although the slave maid's embroidery skills are not good, she can also see that this sachet is from the hand of Sister Shui Tao. 」
I turned out the things embroidered by the peach and compared: Embroidery can't deceive people, this embroidery, this stitch is exactly the same as Sister Peach's habits on weekdays. 」
After that, I poured out the incense powder inside, turned the sachet over and said: Your Majesty, please see, the back of this is crooked, and there is even a thread that has not been collected. On the Wanshou Festival, the emperor also knew that the skill of Niangniang's double-sided embroidery was a unique in the world, how could he send such a thing to the emperor, this sachet was definitely not from the hands of Niangniang, and the emperor was asked to see. 」
Hey? What is it? I wondered.
Before I could see it clearly, the precious concubine snatched the sachet and threw it on Shui Tao's face. Slut, you still said that you didn't seduce the emperor! 」
I settled down and found that the back of the sachet was embroidered with a small peach character.
The emperor waved his hand impatiently, Since he is a person in the palace of the concubine, let the concubine dispose of it herself. 」
Someone came, scratched the face of this slut, chopped off his tongue, and sold it to Chunyue Building. Remind Chunyuelou's mother to treat her well, so that this little can see the sky and think about seducing others. The precious concubine hated and hated.
After making such a fuss, the emperor was not interested, and when he was about to leave, I stopped the emperor, Your Majesty, please stay. 」
I took out the embroidered sachet from the concubine's bedroom and said: This is the sachet embroidered by the mother herself. 」
Compared with the previous peach, although it is the same pattern of mandarin ducks playing in the water, the pair in front of them is exquisite, lifelike, and full of aura.
The emperor picked up one of them, sniffed it deeply, and exclaimed: The craftsmanship of the concubine is really ingenious. Even the scent in this sachet smells so good. 」
The precious concubine was stunned for a moment, and I hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the soothing incense recipe here was concocted after the mother asked the imperial doctor to reimprove it. 」
There is a medicine in the incense recipe, which needs to be used as a medicine guide by the dew on the lotus leaf every morning. For this dew, the mother has not slept properly for several days. 」
The emperor had a trace of emotion in his eyes, took the concubine's hand, and stroked it gently: "Ai Concubine, let the subordinates do these things, why do you need to do it yourself?" 」
The concubine also came back to her senses, looked at the emperor gently and movingly, and said softly: The emperor is worried about the country and the people on weekdays, and he thinks too much, and the concubines are worried that the emperor will damage the dragon body because of state affairs. I finally found this incense recipe, and I had to do it myself. 」
The emperor picked up the sachet, tied it around the waist of the precious concubine himself, stroked her face and said softly: This sachet is a piece of friendship with the concubine, and I will never let you down. But don't work so hard in the future, don't make me feel distressed. 」
With that, he tied another one to himself.
The precious concubine looked at the emperor affectionately, delicate and gentle.
I silently withdrew.
Spring shines all over the imperial capital overnight, and the king's love is like a pearl.
After a beautiful night, I waited for the concubine to wash.
I didn't want to comb a white hair when I combed the concubine's hair, and although I quickly hid it, I was still seen by the sharp-eyed concubine.
Xiaocao, you said this palace.