Chapter 4 Reward
The prince’s reward came so timely!
After sending away the servant who came to deliver the rewards, Ji Qing looked at the rewards.
Two silver hairpins, two pairs of pearl flowers, and two rolls of thick cloth, one light blue and one emerald green.
Hemerocallis quietly observed her master's expression and praised loudly: "Master, look at this color, it's so pretty! It suits you so well."
"Hydrangea is good at sewing. Ask her to make two new clothes for you. With the remaining cloth, we can make some matching handkerchiefs, purses, and hair ornaments."
Ji Yunqing laughed: "I was just talking at that time, I didn't think of using rags as hair ornaments."
"Yes, yes, that's what the master said."
Daylily nodded in agreement.
God!
She could swear that her master didn't say that before.
Why did she follow such a poor master?
Daylily thought about the difficulties at home and felt worried.
If she had known earlier, she would have thought of ways to serve in another new master's yard, but unfortunately it was too late to say anything now.
To put it another way, even if she wanted to go to another master, she didn't have the ability to do so!
As they were talking, the princess's reward arrived.
The reward given by the princess was similar, except that the pearl flowers were replaced with silver bracelets, and there were still two rolls of cloth.
"Great! Now the master can tailor a lot of clothes!"
Although Hemerocallis had some thoughts in her mind, she was still very considerate of her master, and excitedly counted on her fingers: "Master, two pieces of cloth plus two pieces, um, one, two, three, four, four sets of clothes!"
Ji Yunqing was even more excited than her, and looked at Xiuqiu, who was good at sewing, with high hopes: "You can make fewer handkerchiefs and purses.
Hydrangea, can you use the remaining scraps to make a new dress? I don’t mind wearing contrasting colors.”
Having never heard of such a statement before, Hydrangea felt a little uneasy and felt that the pressure on herself was too great.
"Master, Master, I have never done this before! I am afraid that the fabric is not enough."
Ji Yunqing thought for a while, "Then let's save up some larger pieces of cloth first, and wait for the prince or princess to give us more rewards. Where there is a will, there is a way. As long as we have the will, we can always make it happen!"
But, can you really wear this out?
"At worst I can just wear it in our yard. I think it will look good."
Ji Yunqing swore that he had no image burden at all. After all, the clothes were free and it saved money!
She thought everything was going well, but after the two groups of people who delivered the rewards returned, their reactions were indeed completely different.
After the little Tuanzi who had delivered the reward to the front yard returned, he looked at his godfather, Shi Yan, the prince's long-time attendant, and seemed to be hesitant to speak, with indescribable complexities on his face.
Shi Yan kicked him hard, "If you have something to fart, do it now."
"Godfather," Little Dumpling quickly got up, rubbed his butt and came close to his godfather, "My son just went to give Master Ji a reward, guess what I heard?"
Shi Yan was about to start again, but Xiaotuanzi quickly explained: "When my son went there, the master inside was talking about using scraps of rags from torn clothes to make head flowers.
This master is too..." A little poor, right?
She looks even poorer than Concubine Lou in the mansion.
"That's it!"
Shi Yan thought for a moment, then patted his godson's head, "Why are you hiding here instead of working?"
"Oh! Godfather, I'll go right away and get to work."
Backyard and main yard
"Ai Ye, why did you take so long?"
Ai Ye bowed respectfully, lowered her head and replied in a gentle voice: "My princess, I heard from the master of Shouzhuyuan that he wanted to piece the scraps of cloth into clothes. I was stunned for a moment."
what?
The princess was stunned for a moment, then she laughed, "It seems that this person is not worth worrying about."
He exposed his weaknesses as soon as he arrived. He had no money, but instead of hiding it, he spread the information easily. It was really stupid.
"That's right," Ai Ye continued hurriedly, "I have seen Concubine Ji, and I find that she is indeed a simple and cunning person."
No cunning!
That's good.
The princess smiled with satisfaction.
Other courtyards that were well-informed had also heard the news to varying degrees, and felt much more relieved.
Especially in another courtyard, the local governor's concubine's daughter, who was carried in on the same day as Ji Yunqing, finally felt much more relieved at this moment.
"Oh, what a poor thing."
How shameless of you to snatch the prince from her?
"How poor! Even a servant can't make clothes out of scraps of cloth!"
The little maidservant, with a sarcastic look on her face, massaged her mistress' shoulders while scolding her.
"I don't know what kind of seductive tricks she used to lure the prince away."
Only after hearing that she was satisfied did Concubine Zhao stop him: "Bixue, stop talking. The prince can go wherever he wants."
"Yes, ma'am."
Bixue quickly agreed.
She is the young lady's personal maid who grew up with her, and she came into the mansion with her this time.
Originally, concubines were not allowed to bring maids with them, but the master of the family was worried, so he specially informed the prince, and this time he allowed her and Bihe to stay.
"Miss, the prince will definitely come to your place tonight. When the prince sees you, he will naturally know what is good."
Concubine Zhao was naturally pleased to hear this. She nodded slightly and said, "Of course."
When she thought of the prince, she was full of anticipation.
The prince will definitely come to her tonight. No, after tonight, the prince will come to her often.
In Shouzhuo Courtyard, Ji Yunqing finally knew the name of his courtyard.
She felt secretly delighted, well, none of you know how painful it is to not even know your own house number.
The day passed quickly, and soon, Daylily and Hongxing went to the kitchen to bring dinner.
A small bowl of rice, two vegetarian dishes, one meat dish, a soup, and a plate of small steamed buns, that's all for dinner.
When Ji Yunqing saw that the rice was actually white rice, his expectations were dashed for a moment.
It was said that ancient nobles all ate green glutinous rice!
Soon, she comforted herself again.
Who the hell is she to dare to covet such a high-end thing?
However, the food in this palace was much better than what the original owner had at home. At least there were no rotten vegetable leaves, and the food was cooked quite delicately. Ji Yunqing was very satisfied with the meal.
After eating, she walked around in circles in the yard.
Seeing this, Hemerocallis took the initiative to suggest: "Master, you can go for a walk in the small garden nearby."
"No, no, no," Ji Yunqing refused firmly: "I'll just walk around the yard."
Garden!
These are usually places where accidents happen frequently. What is she doing there?
After walking around for a few times, Ji Yunqing returned to her room: "Xuancao, I'm going to rest. Early to bed and early to rise makes you healthy." She will start paying her respects tomorrow.
Several maids became anxious and looked at the sky, "Master, it's not too late now, don't you want to wait for the prince?" Perhaps the prince will come over tonight!
Ji Yunqing waved his hand and yawned: "No need to wait, the prince will definitely go to another courtyard today."
Although I know that this is very likely to be the case, but what if, what if the prince thinks that his master has performed well and comes again tonight!
The maids were extremely anxious.