The Crown Prince in the Jade Pendant

Chu Jinyao sat in the room with the window half open, listening to the gossips of the maids and women under the corridor.

"Are you serious?"

"Naturally take it seriously, now that these news have been spread all over. Everyone in the street knows that the prince's surprise soldier has come from heaven and chased Tatar three thousand miles. If it hadn't been for the sudden heavy snowfall and blocked the marching route, the prince would surely be able to fight Tatar Annihilated!"

"Wow!" The female family members covered their mouths and exclaimed, Chu Jinyao sewed a stitch and secretly shook her head funny.

Obviously yesterday's version, the prince took advantage of the snowy night to attack and led the troops to chase it out for a thousand miles. Now it is a long drive of three thousand miles, and it has to return because of the heavy snow.

The Tatar is the heart disease of the big swallows. The Tatars are a race on horseback. The boys in the tribe can walk and ride horses, drink water and drink. Over the years, they often relied on the scimitar to infringe on the border. When the army pursued it, it withdrew. Under the harassment back and forth, the frontier army could not defend against it, and the people could not bear it.

The general who guarded the frontier, for various reasons, always refused to risk attacking the Tatars. After all, defense is easier than offense. As long as there is nothing wrong with the city, they are the ministers of merit. If the attack on Tatar loses, this is a big mistake.

Therefore, for so many years, the Yan Dynasty has never won a battle against Tatar, and has always passively defended. But this time, the Tatars relied on the horse fat in the autumn to attack the border brazenly in an attempt to reproduce the victory thirteen years ago. However, this time, their gazes were not limited to those belongings in Shanxi, but the Tatars’ eyes were on the capital.

If they can break through the border defenses of Datong, it will only take a few days to reach Beijing. Maybe they will be able to reproduce the glory of ruling the Han family in the past!

The Tatar Khan heard from nowhere that the prince was also at the border. This can be said to be a godsend. In the eyes of the Tatars, this prince must be a greedy person who is afraid of death. Once the beacon is closed, he must be the fastest one. Tatar Khan believed with confidence that they might be able to capture two emperors alive during their trip.

It's a pity that the Tatar Khan misjudged the person. After the flames of war ignited, the prince did not evacuate first, as everyone imagined. Instead, he robbed three thousand elite soldiers and left with his own people. The head of the Datong General Soldier was bald. He looked at the cabinet's snow-flavored call, and he went out of the city to meet the Tatars in cooperation with the prince. Because of the prince's presence, the morale of the frontier generals was greatly boosted, and the heroic killing of the enemy exploded the suffocation of decades.

In this way, the court’s army fought and advanced, and attacked wherever it was lost. It even struggled to withstand the Tartar offensive. Finally, relying on supplies and geographical advantages, it slowly counterattacked and counterattacked into the land of Tartar. The last battle report from the mainland was the heavy snow outside the pass. The horse was half-length and unable to move forward. Therefore, the prince retired to the city to recuperate.

Chu Jinyao was in Taiyuan and didn't know what was going on in the capital, but she knew that the entire Taiyuan city had already boiled with the prince's battle report. It’s been too long since we had such an inspiring victory.

Today, even the maidservants in the deep house are excitedly discussing this victory.

Chu Jinyao sews another stitch and finally sews the sleeve. She put the sleeve and the forehead together, planning to wait for the shopkeeper Wei to come, and let him take these to sister Su Hui.

Chu Jinyao sent the news in August, followed by the rumors of tatar crimes. The current situation is turbulent and the people are in panic. No one dared to move rashly, and Su Hui did not dare to cast herself in the net and went north to Taiyuan. Later, news of the prince’s participation in the war spread all over the country, and the battle situation was gradually stalemate. The court’s backup troops, money and food were shipped to the border without money, and the people gradually got a sense of relief. They no longer sleep in the middle of the night and hold their packages. Abandon the city and flee. Su Hui’s husband, Zhang Tuhu, knocked on the side door of the Changxing Hou’s Mansion during this time, and he was taken by the treasurer Wei Xiao, and he spoke with Chu Jinyao.

Now, taking advantage of the good business at the end of the year, Zhang Tuhu has taken Su Hui to Taiyuan to work in Yunzhi Embroidery Village. Chu Jinyao said that Su Hui is skillful and capable, and this really doesn't contain any moisture. Although Su Hui is up and down, she has always been a knife-mouthed tofu-hearted person, and she is also very quick in doing things. Not long after she went to Xiuzhuang, she adapted to the rhythm there, and was not at all ambiguous when she was busy. These things Chu Jinyao sewed were used to keep Su Hui from the cold.

In fact, Su Hui doesn’t need Chu Jinyao to help. Her brother-in-law Zhang Butcher will continue to be her old business. The family is not a problem at all, maybe they can save some oil and water, not to mention that Su Hui is now working in the embroidery village. Chu Jinyao is not easy to understand, so she pays Su Hui one and two and a half wages. After the Chinese New Year, she and her sister discuss making spring clothes, so that she can give Su Hui a mention of wages and make her sister's life better. Feeling better now.

Su Hui and his wife make about five taels of silver a month, which is considered a very good income, but in the eyes of Chu Jinyao, fifty taels of silver are still nothing. If Chu Jinyao didn't have the bonus of Yunzhi Embroidery Village, she would only have two taels of silver a month, four sets of clothes per season, I am afraid that she would not be as good as Su Hui's and his wife.

Fortunately, Chu Jinyao now has a family background, and the fabric will not be short after ten years of use, not to mention that the shopkeeper Wei will send one thousand to two thousand cents every month, and will also send her some fashionable fabrics by the way. , Shopkeeper Qi also often walked around. As a result, Chu Jinyao received more fabrics than he used every month, and gradually those boxes couldn't fit, so he could only pile up other wooden boxes.

She has more and more private houses, and she no longer feels wronged with things she usually uses. The Yunjin once cherished in every possible way is now no more than a piece of ordinary fabric in her eyes. If she is not afraid to attract attention, she changes all her clothes to Yunjin. Affordable.

However, Chu Jinyao didn't dare to make such publicity. In general, apart from the clothes distributed in the mansion, he did not make many new clothes. On the contrary, the old lady couldn't see it and often cut her clothes.

Chu Jinyao put the sleeves and ear protectors together and turned a somewhat stiff wrist. Kikyo just saw this scene when she entered the door, and she quickly stepped forward and said, "Is the girl running out of hands? I'll knock on the girl."

"No need." Chu Jinyao said, "I can do my own activities."

Kikyo should be, holding the sewing basket in his arms, and was about to go out, suddenly found that the window behind Chu Jinyao was open. She frowned, pointed to the window and asked, "Who opened this? The girl is sitting here doing needlework, and the window is open. What can I do if the girl catches a cold?"

"I drove it. I thought it was too stuffy to burn charcoal in the house, so I opened the window by myself. Somehow it was ventilated."

Kikyo stepped forward and closed the window. When she closed the window, she found that the woman in the corridor was still chatting on the railing. She couldn't help cursing: "The girl is here. You talk endlessly, and you are not afraid to quarrel with the girl!"

When the servant women heard that, the girl was sitting behind this window and immediately stood up to apologize. Chu Jinyao said to Kikyo: "I have been frightened and frightened for a winter, let them relax for a while, and there is nothing to say."

"They are used to being lazy, and they have no good words when they are free. They don't want to think about the prince's victory. What does it have to do with them? Now they are talking about the prince. After a while, I may not decide who the arrangement will be."

Chu Jinyao laughed, and the palace maternal came in and heard this sentence, and repeatedly praised: "This is the truth! Who is the prince, how can we let us talk long and short, even if we say more, it is disrespectful to the royal family."

Chu Jinyao was stunned: "Is it so serious?"

The palace mother said with a solemn face: "This is natural."

Chu Jinyao had no choice but to suppress this topic. In the past, Qi Ze always spoke ill of the prince in front of her. Over time, even Chu Jinyao became familiar with the prince, as if this was a person within reach, not an unattainable prince. However, she did not expect that, in the eyes of others, the dignified prince would be an offense even if he said it from his mouth.

In fact, this also shows that the prince’s reputation among the people is growing, far from what it used to be.

To put it in a bad way, it is the current sage, I am afraid it can't match it.

After all, although the reputation of the saint is great, it is not a good reputation.

Chu Jinyao was sincerely happy for the prince, although she didn't know how happy she was. Maybe, because she saw the right person? When the war began, she blindly trusted the crown prince, and it turns out that she did not believe in the wrong person.

The prince deserves the title of prince, and he also deserves the aspirations of the people.

The maternal grandma said: "Girl, the new year is getting closer, and you should take care of your big clothes this year. Girl, what do you think?"

"I will do what I arrange at home."

The palace mother was taken aback, and said, "Okay."

In fact, with Chu Jinyao's current private house, she just pulled a piece of fabric out of the box in the West Wing, and she was able to win over all the sisters, leading the way, but she didn't, and kept the same expenses as the sisters in the same house. The maternal palace looked very emotional. She was able to restrain herself in this way at the age when she loved to compare and love the most, which shows that Chu Jinyao is cautious and steady. However, there are still some regrets besides the emotion. Chu Jinyao stood there, like a hundred flowers in full bloom, the flowers are deep, these gorgeous gold woven brocade, makeup and satin, they may not look good on her. However, Chu Jinyao did not pass through once due to his identity.

The palace mother couldn't tell why it was a pity, but she felt that the beauty was covered in dust, and the five girls should not be restricted in any way, and should stand higher.

Not surprisingly, the palace maternal thought of the Huailing Palace, she implicitly persuaded: "Girl, if you think the charcoal burning in the house is boring, you might as well go to the old lady’s place. There is a warm house in the old lady’s house. It's warmer than charcoal, and there is no smoke."

Chu Jinyao didn’t know that the maternal grandmother did not want to drink. The last time they went to the palace of Huailing County as a guest, the news of the Tatar invasion followed. The two families panicked, and there was still thinking about other things. . Now that the battle is set, we can continue to discuss things that have been put on hold in the fall.

For example, the accompanying reading of the county lord.

Chu Jinyao didn't want to be a student at Shizi from the bottom of her heart, but her opposition could not change anything except to mess up her situation. Over time, Chu Jinyao stopped mentioning it, but she was not enthusiastic about her actions. That's it.

The palace maid didn’t understand why the fifth girl was always cold and enthusiastic about choosing a partner, and if others didn’t mention it, she wouldn’t go, as if she was passively resisting...the palace maid shook her head and put aside these unreasonable thoughts , Bitterly persuaded: "Girl, you are already fourteen, you should plan for yourself."

Why didn't she know? She returned to Changxing Hou Mansion at the end of the first month, and in the blink of an eye, another year's end had arrived. After the New Year, she will be fourteen years old.

Chu Jinyao finally stood up and said, "Well, I'll go to my grandmother to have a look."

The palace mother was overjoyed, and quickly responded with a smile: "Okay, the old slave will get a cloak for the girl."

Chu Jinyao put on a white fur cloak, and her neckline and cuffs were decorated with fine fluff. She wore a short pink jacket with a pair of **** inside, and a blue horse-faced skirt underneath. The skirt of the skirt was embroidered with a large group of precious flowers. Chu Jinyao's gloves were in the rabbit fur sleeves, and only a pink pipa sleeve could be seen. People in the courtyard of Mrs. Chu saw Chu Jinyao and quickly opened the curtains: "Old Madam, the five girls are here!"

Chu Jinyao was served by Linglong and took off his cloak, took off his sleeves, and dispersed the frosty air on his body. Chu Jinyao walked slowly towards the inner room: "Grandma."

Mrs. Chu had heard the report a long time ago. She was wearing a gray fur coat and was sitting in the warm pavilion listening to the amusement of the maids. When she heard the sound, she turned her head and saw a tall girl standing under the Bogu frame.

Chu Jinyao is taller than an ordinary lady. She also likes to wear short jackets and long skirts. The top coat is about her waist. Underneath is a blue horse-faced skirt. The pleats are deep and dense, and they are slightly puffed. The whole person is extraordinarily slender and taller. The beauty is like a cloud with black hair and white skin, standing here quietly, as if spring back to the earth.

Just standing there, Chu Jinyao didn't need to do anything, and it made people feel that spring was here, really blooming, and the sun was deep.

After the old lady looked at it, she gently raised her hand, Chu Jinyao understood, and immediately stepped forward, took the hand of Mrs. Chu, and sat down next to Mrs. Chu.

Sitting closer like this, I feel that Chu Jinyao's eyebrows are beautiful and thrilling, like a fine brushwork, smooth lines, can't tell which part of her eyes is bad, which is good, but the beauty is naturally natural, and never tire of it. . Mrs. Chu calmly looked up, then calmly retracted her gaze. Her granddaughter is good in everything. The only thing that is not satisfactory is that she is not close to the family, especially her grandmother.

But this is not a big problem. Whether Chu Jinyao is born like this or has other grudges, she cannot change the fact that her surname is Chu. As long as she is a girl from the Chu family, she will marry from the Changxing Hou Mansion in the future, that's enough.

Mrs. Chu said: "Five girls, in a few days, the princess will host a banquet in the palace and invite the young ladies in the city to enjoy the snow and plums."

Chu Jinyao was surprised for a moment: "It's going to be the twelfth lunar month, and the Chinese New Year will be in half a month. Have a banquet at this juncture?"

"The princess mansion is very rich and expensive. It spends money like running water. These expenses are very easy. As long as the public has money, it is the same as the banquet on the 30th day."

"I mean, it's the New Year. The princess doesn't have to buy new year goods, do things like ancestor worship?"

Old Madam Chu laughed loudly. After the laugh, she pointedly said to Chu Jinyao: "People are the princess, as long as they say a word casually, some of them are the maid-in-law who is doing her life for the princess. She is the mistress, but in fact, Marrying into the palace was a blessing in the past. This kind of thing that has been fixed in previous years can still make the serious princess worry about it?"

Chu Jinyao was silent for a while, and finally said, "Grandma, what do you think?"

"I have a gold-woven satin, although we wear it a little bit more, but going to the palace as a guest is not too outrageous." Mrs. Chu said, "You are a handy man, even the embroiderer in the palace. It’s not better than you, take this satin back and plan for yourself. When you go to a banquet, you must not be underestimated."

Mrs. Chu's words almost made it clear.

The news that Mrs. Chu gave Chu Jinyao a piece of woven gold makeup and damask soon spread in the mansion.

Makeup satin is a high-end material in cloud brocade, and it is expensive, not to mention gold thread is added when weaving. The cost of this one is hard to imagine. Chu Jinmiao sat in the room, listening to the maid reporting the news of her return.

Chu Jinmiao couldn't help thinking, what was the situation in Fuzhong at this time last year? Yes, there was no Chu Jinyao at that time. There was only her second lady in the mansion. She was the first to choose the rewards from the elders and the contributions from the shops outside. Chu Jinmiao didn't let go, no one dared to take the lead.

But after the new year, her nightmare began. Mrs. Chu's makeup damask should have belonged to her, as long as there was no Chu Jinyao.

Chu Jinmiao finally waved his hand and told the maid to shut up angrily. This spring, she even laughed at Chu Jinyao as a frog from the bottom of a well from a poor family. She has never seen anything in the world, and she can get a silky touch with her fingers. But now, Chu Jinyao already has several sets of brocade clothes, and nowadays, she can also afford to wear it.

As for Chu Jinmiao, although there is a secret subsidy from the Zhao family, how does the Zhao family have a lot of capital compared to the old lady, the brocade and gold hairpin that are worth a lot of money, and the reward is rewarded. But Chu Jinmiao couldn't change his extravagant style, and he never lowered his pomp to let others look down on him, so that he could only get out, and gradually Chu Jinmiao was already struggling a little.

Only then did Chu Jinmiao discover that it turned out that the resources in the mansion were tilted and the old lady rewarded him. What did these actually mean? In the past, these all went into Chu Jinxian's private library. Although Chu Jinmiao was jealous, he did not dare to say anything, even though it was the eldest sister in the family. But now, why should this person be replaced by Chu Jinyao?

Chu Jinmiao watched Chu Jinyao become more gorgeous day by day, and her gestures were all infected with the wealth and calmness of the nobles. The family's rejection of Chu Jinyao gradually disappeared. In the end, she became a favorite of oral sex, the five girls. .

Chu Jinmiao could not accept these changes. In her opinion, Chu Jinyao should be stretched and restless. She wanted to be part of the family but she couldn’t help it. She used to say that she didn’t care about Chu Jinyao. It was because Chu Jinyao was still a poor girl. Everyone in the family was like a poor girl. Towards Chu Jinmiao, once the balance swayed, Chu Jinmiao was the first person to panic.

This feeling, as if seeing one's own things, returned to Chu Jinyao.

As if cutting the meat with a slow knife, Chu Jinmiao was about to be driven mad. She thought of the royal banquet a few days later, and desperate madness gradually appeared in her eyes.

No matter how rich and noble the Changxing Hou Mansion is and how generous the old lady is to Chu Jinyao, how can he compare to the Royal Mansion and even the East Palace?

In another slightly gloomy room, the maid picked up the charcoal fire and covered it with a charcoal net, she couldn't help complaining: "Girl, you only have four clothes from the house all winter, and your wife can't give you subsidies. In order not to lose face, we had to switch to last year’s winter clothes. But the fifth girl didn’t wear any heavy clothes this month! Just like that, the old lady still rewarded the fifth girl with makeup, which is makeup. ! No lady in the world wants a fancy dress. The old lady is so eccentric that the servants are not convinced."

Six girls listened and smiled and said, "What's the use if you are not convinced? The old lady is not my real grandmother, so how can I expect her to take care of me?"

"But, did the girl recognize it like that?" The little maid muttered, still refusing to accept herself. "That's true for the wife. All the money in the room was moved to the young master. She only cares about the young master's studies, regardless of whether the girl is living or not. You are about to discuss marriage with the girl. Now, there are few big clothes that can hold the scene, how can it be done?"

"Are you fate?" Six girls smiled, "No, never."

Chu Jinyao took Linglong back to the house. She went into the house and grilled the charcoal fire, so Linglong called in the other maids. It's dark early in winter, so you have to cut your clothes as soon as it is bright.

Lilac took to the sewing basket, and Bellflower helped Chu Jinyao cut the fabric. The maids whispered: "Girl, this is the makeup and satin? A royal tribute that is hard to buy on the market?"

Grandma Sun glanced at a distance from the people, and sighed: "Such a good satin is only used to make clothes. This kind of big guest clothes can't be worn again. It's too wasteful and can be worn on the body. Don't be afraid of breaking the blessing."

As soon as Kikyo heard this, he turned his head and stared, and squeezed the grandmother grandson out with one shoulder: "You can stop a little bit. On a good day, take care of your mouth!"

Grandma Sun was hit by a maid, and she fell backward in anger. She glared at Kikyo with wide-eyed eyes, and Kikyo looked back unwillingly.

At this time, Linglong said: "Mrs. Gong, you can have some free time, I have some work to ask you."

Hearing the name of the grandmother, grandmother only converged a little. She looked at Kikyo's triumphant smiling face, took a sip, turned and slammed the curtain and went out.

In the room, the maidservants gathered around Chu Jinyao, still chatting with each other.

Chu Jinyao had no time to reply, but Ding Xiang could not help but shook her head as she watched Chu Jinyao busy.

She felt that this piece of fabric was a bit old, far inferior to the girl's own.

Because Dingxiang didn't talk much, he slowly gained Chu Jinyao's trust this year. Even when he went to the West Wing to play with the boxes sent by Father Tang, Chu Jinyao was willing to carry the cloves. Ding Xiang had seen Chu Jinyao's real private house, and his vision opened up. When he looked at the material given by Mrs. Chu, he always felt old-fashioned and the tricks were not fresh enough.

In fact, Chu Jinyao felt the same way. Mrs. Chu found this from her dowry or inventory. Because it is precious, I don’t know how many years it has been preserved, but after all, the satin is a piece of fabric. It is hidden in this way, although the value is preserved, but in this way, the pattern will inevitably become outdated . This is how the old lady miscalculated Chu Jinyao’s fortune. She may not even dare to think about it. In Chu Jinyao’s private house, there are quite a few large boxes of fabrics, including whole brocades, satin and woven fabrics. Things like gold satin.

With your own comparison of things, it is inevitable that there will be a difference between the superior and the inferior. But this was rewarded by the old lady, and many people have seen it along the way. In any case, Chu Jinyao had to wear it out and walk around to give everyone an explanation. Similarly, because of the old lady's gift of cloth, Chu Jinyao felt that she was clumsy and wise, and her wealth was not revealed. Before she had her own territory, she should not take it out to arouse people's suspicion. Therefore, her several boxes of makeup and satin can only be kept locked.

The old lady's collection is inevitably tacky in color, bright red, and the pattern is also tangled flowers. Chu Jinyao cut this material into six pieces and made six horse-faced skirts. Because the color was too gorgeous, Chu Jinyao couldn't make it out wearing a bright red, so she had to pull out the white and purple at the beginning. Wen Yunjin, cut out a short jacket.

When Chu Jinyao saw this white purple cloud brocade, Qin Yi was still with her. She remembered that it was because she hooked the Yunjin silk, came back to shed tears, and caused Qin Yi to scare her intolerably. She still remembered that she liked this material so much, she made a horse-faced skirt with great effort, and she also used silk and satin to pinch tassels on the folds. However, now things are different, Qin Yi is missing, and Chu Jinyao is not in the mood to make clothes happily.

She didn't want to be too pushy when she was at the banquet in the Huailing Prince's Mansion. It was the right reason to come back peacefully.

On the twenty-first day, Chu Jinyao wore a short jacket with a white background and a purple moire collar, a red dress with tangled branches and a flowery horse face, and a silver-grey raw-edged cloak, and slowly boarded the carriage. When going out today, as usual, only the Zhao family and the Yan family, according to the sequence of teeth, Chu Jinyao and Liu Girl in the same car.

Six girls held the hand stove and looked at Chu Jinyao indifferently.

Chu Jinyao's skirt is extraordinarily wide, and the folds of the skirt fall to the ground, like a blooming camellia. Chu Jinyao sits on her knees, her hands folded on her knees, and the steps on her head follow. The carriage shook lightly, but there was no other movement besides it. The jacket skirt was originally generous, and it became more dignified when worn on Chu Jinyao.

It's the twelfth lunar month of winter. Even if a charcoal fire is burned in the carriage, it is not an easy job to drive for a long time, so neither Chu Jinyao nor Liu Girl took off their cloaks and fur collars. Chu Jinyao's jaw was slightly lowered, and she looked down at the ground, not knowing what she was thinking. The exquisite snow-white lower jaw just touched the fluffy fluff. Against the background, her lower jaw was exquisite like a handicraft, almost like ice sculptures and snow.

Suddenly, there was a slight blasting sound in the charcoal basin in the corner, and Miss Six woke up from her thoughts, only to find that she was staring at Chu Jinyao for a long time.

This is really a pleasing beauty. As a woman, the sixth girl feels very comfortable looking at Chu Jinyao, let alone a man with only his lower body.

The charcoal fire made a faint noise, and the green smoke curled up in the carriage. The sixth girl slightly possessed her body, and her quiet voice sounded with light smoke: "Fifth Sister, for the sake of our previous alliance, I would like to give you one last word of advice, be careful of the fourth sister."

Chu Jinyao blinked, and quickly returned to his senses, her clear eyes moved towards the sixth girl in doubt. Seeing this, the six girls smiled slightly and said: "You should also know what kind of occasion it is today. This snow feast will be attended by almost half of Taiyuan's official ladies, and there are many people with faces. On these occasions, If something goes wrong, it's all over."