Lin Qiu Shan thought that the King of Yue summoned him because he had a daughter and grandson.
Unexpectedly, he heard His Highness ask him: "I heard that your ancestors were gold and silver craftsmen. Do you know how to make jewelry? People in the nearby mausoleums come to you to make jewelry when they are getting married or when their children are born?"
Lin Qiu Shan was stunned and hurriedly replied: "The grass-roots people have learned some of the craftsmanship from their ancestors and usually take on some odd jobs, but the grass-roots people have not slackened off their errands at the cemetery..."
Zhao Guangyuan smiled: "Don't be afraid, I am not asking you to ask for guilt. There is no need to kneel down to speak, just sit down."
"Thank you, Your Highness." Lin Qiushan sat down in fear.
Zhao Guangyuan glanced at the other party and said warmly: "I have seen your craftsmanship, and it is no worse than what is sold in the gold and silver shops in the capital. Your thinking is also more skillful than the craftsmen in the palace craftsmanship bureau."
"Your Highness is so proud of you. The ordinary people are trapped in their vision, and their craftsmanship is rough, and they cannot compare with the palace craftsmen."
"Don't belittle yourself. Xia'er really likes the jewelry you make..."
Xia'er? Lin Qiu Shan was startled. He suddenly looked up at Zhao Guangyuan and saw that the other person was also looking towards him. He hurriedly lowered his head again. I couldn't help but mutter, why did Your Highness call his daughter like this?
Zhao Guangyuan did not explain, but only handed him a few drawings, "The above are the styles and sizes of jewelry I drew. Can you see if you can make them?"
The King of Yue wants to buy jewelry from him?
Lin Qiushan was shocked and confused. Although the King of Yue was demoted to guard the mausoleum, it would be inconvenient for him to find the palace craftsman to take charge, but it is not difficult to have someone send him to the capital or the city. Why should he find him?
"The common people are not good at their craftsmanship, and I might miss His Highness's work." Lin Qiushan did not dare to take it, so he wanted to return the drawings in his hand.
Zhao Guangyuan stretched out his hand to block it, "I made this for Xia'er. It's best for you to make it."
Lin Qiu Shan stared at the exquisite drawings in his hand, becoming more and more suspicious. Was the Xia'er his Highness mentioned his daughter?
Your Highness and Xi'er are already so familiar? No matter how familiar they are, it's probably inappropriate to address an unmarried man and woman like this. And does His Highness know the relationship between his family, Xia'er and Changzhi?
Lin Qiu Shan hesitated. This was a family secret. He had told Chang Zhi. Even though His Highness was Chang Zhi's husband, Chang Zhi had a sense of propriety and would not tell outsiders about such a confidential matter in the family.
Zhao Guangyuan saw him frowning and hesitating, looking like he was hesitating to speak, so he couldn't tell what he was thinking.
After thinking about it, I decided to let him know some information.
"Xia'er and I have registered our marriage over there, and Xia'er is already my wife. And Changzhi is my biological son. You know this, I know it, heaven and earth know it, and I don't want any third person to know about it. "
Lin Qiushan's heart was filled with turmoil. What did His Highness just say?
Xia'er and him have become husband and wife over there? His Highness and his daughter? couple? What else did His Highness say that he was his biological son?
Lin Qiushan looked at Zhao Guangyuan with wide eyes, his face full of disbelief.
He couldn't have heard wrong.
Regardless of what he was thinking, Zhao Guangyuan said to himself: "Xia'er and I have no elders to take care of us over there. What is drawn on this drawing is my betrothal gift to Xia'er. It is perfect for you to make it."
Then he handed him a box and said, "You can use the gold, silver, pearls and emeralds here as you see fit. You must make them according to the drawings I drew. If there is anything wrong, report it to me at any time."
The betrothal gift he gave to Xia'er and the materials were naturally made by him. When it was left to Lin Qiushan to produce, he knew that he would do his best to make it for his daughter. Xia'er will be safe and smooth with these jewelry filled with love and blessings.
Lin Qiushan had recovered from the shock, "Your Highness..."
"You don't need to ask, and you don't need to reveal it. This matter is of great importance. Just know it yourself. It will be the same as before. You also know my situation. Stay away from me. Don't get too close. For you and me Everything is fine. And if the Lin family is in peace, Xia'er will feel at ease."
"Yes. The grass-roots people took note of it."
Lin Qiu Shan responded and looked up at Zhao Guangyuan. Although His Highness the King of Yue was demoted to guard the mausoleum and was in a bad situation, he was still a prince and grandson, so he became his son-in-law?
No, no, no, you can't think like that. Lin Qiushan hurriedly shook away the messy thoughts in his mind. Your Highness is still Your Highness.
Zhao Guangyuan glanced at him and then said: "You take your time and don't rush to do the work. Don't worry about Xia'er and Changzhi, they are living a good life. When I can see them, I will understand Tell them the news to you."
Well? Your Highness means that he can no longer see his daughter and grandson.
"We'll see you there." Zhao Guangyuan said again.
Lin Qiushan understood. It turns out that His Highness can't see them anymore. No wonder it has been more than a month and there is no news about their mother and son.
"Yes. Cao Min has recorded it. Your Highness, don't worry. No third party will know what your Highness and Cao Min said today."
Zhao Guangyuan nodded and asked Cao Cuo to send him out.
Lin Qiu Shan put the box in his sleeve, lowered his head and walked home with his hands in hand. His mind was still thinking about what His Highness had just said to him, and he was in a daze all the way.
Someone said hello to him on the road, but he didn't even hear them.
"Is Lin Qiushan going to see the King of Yue again? I don't know what good things he got with his bulging arms." The villager said with jealousy on his face.
"I heard that his family would send whatever new vegetables they got to the palace every day, and they would be in a hurry to flatter them and treat them like grandsons." He said with contempt and envy at the same time.
The mother-in-law of the village chief of Changling Village also heard about the Lin family's gossip in the village, and couldn't help but blow the rumors on her men.
"I heard that the Lin family has been in and out of the palace every day these days and has received a lot of good things."
Chang Shan didn't take it seriously, "The Lin family got new vegetables like eggplants and sent them to the King of Yue. Didn't our family also get a lot of them? Who in our family won't agree to eat them? You eat other people's good things and fall behind your back Talk."
Mrs. Zhou glared at her man, feeling that this man was stubborn and did not understand her thoughts.
"Everyone in the village says that the Lin family is rushing to be the grandson of the King of Yue."
"Don't talk nonsense. We are all servants of the royal family. Now the King of Yue is in charge of us. When we get good things, we will naturally leave a share for the King of Yue. Those people are jealous that the Lin family has gotten good things and will also send them to the King of Yue. Who doesn't let them? ”
Seeing the man scolding her, Zhou had no choice but to give up.
Rolling his eyes, he added: "My brother from my mother's side said that life at home is difficult. This year's taxes have been higher, and he has to work two more months of corvee work than in previous years. He also heard that there will be a military conscription next year, and he is afraid of being conscripted. Let me ask you if you can turn his house into a mausoleum?"
Chang Shan frowned after hearing this.
Zhou's younger brother was a glutton and a lazy cook. Of the dozen acres of good land left by his father-in-law, he was left with only three to five acres. There was not enough for the family of seven or eight to fill their stomachs, so they often reached out to them.
Zhou thought that he had only one younger brother left, and helped him from time to time. He also turned a blind eye.
"What's wrong with being a citizen? Others can't get it if they want to, but it's better for him to push it out." Chang Shan frowned when talking about this brother-in-law.
"There are so many people in the family. If you work hard, how can you not fill your stomach? In the past few years, God has provided food for you. The weather has been good and the fields have harvested a lot of food. How can you not survive in the city during the off-season? Already?"
Still a mausoleum! Being a Linghu means that you don't have to pay various taxes, do corvee labor, and don't have to worry about being drafted into the army. But Linghu is working as a slave for others!
He has never even been out of Tianshou County in his life.
"Tell him to stop thinking about things and take care of the work in the fields. The children are grown up and they will not be short of food if they have hands and feet. Don't think about what is available and what is not available all day long. Besides, there is nothing now. I heard that there are homeless people in any Ling village, but now there is no shortage of people."
Mrs. Zhou curled her lips dissatisfiedly after hearing this.
Every time she asked a man to help turn her brother's family into a mausoleum, he would push back. It's not good to be a mausoleum householder. Why don't people with his surname Chang find a way to change his registration for seven or eight generations?
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She just has a younger brother. Her parents are gone, so only her younger brother and his family can move around, and let her younger brother and his family stay with them. What's wrong with having someone to take care of her?
The next day, Mrs. Zhou returned to her parents' home and told her younger brother Zhou Wangcai this. He became unhappy and said that his brother-in-law looked down on him and refused to help him.
Zhou couldn't listen to her brother talking bad about her man, so she explained: "Your brother-in-law said that there is no shortage of people in Lingcun now, and there are no people who are extinct."
Each emperor's cemetery in Tianshou Mountain is allocated fifty households according to the regulations. Without the decree of the imperial court, one day is the household of the tomb and the household will be the household of the tomb for generations. If there is a shortage of households or there is a shortage of supplies for other reasons, nearby households can be deployed to supplement the supplies.
There is no shortage of people in Changling Village now.
But Zhou Wangcai couldn't hear it. I just felt that his brother-in-law was unwilling to help. If there is no shortage of people, if you find any reason and vacate one of the households, wouldn't there be a shortage?
He now sees that his sister's family enjoys delicious food and drinks, has no worries about food and clothing, and owns whatever grains they grow in the fields. Not to mention their salary, they have food and clothing, and generous rewards from time to time. They have nothing to worry about. This year, he He was dragged away to build the city wall, and the wind blew on the mountain for three months, and he was wrinkled by the wind.
He also wants to be a mausoleum! If there are no opportunities, create opportunities.
After learning about his brother's thoughts, Zhou set his sights on the Lin family. The Lin family had moved from somewhere else before, so they could move him out for any reason.
After observing for a few days, she found that the Lin family was exactly as the villagers said. They had burned some good stuff, and the smell was so delicious that it made people salivate. Obviously the family got something good.
Looking at the children of the Lin family, they are all round and have fleshy faces. It seems that they are well fed.
Looking at the women in the Lin family, even Geng looks several years younger. Standing next to her is like being separated by a generation.
I also heard that Lin Qiushan often visited the palace, won the favor of the King of Yue, and often received generous rewards from the King of Yue. How could Lin Qiushan surpass her husband, the village chief, and win the favor of the King of Yue!
Zhou's eyes were red with jealousy.
Some rumors also spread to the town.
Lin Jing'an's father-in-law, Li Youcai, opened a grocery store in the town. People from all over the nearby villages came to the town, and most of them bought things from his store. In addition, Li Youcai's daughter married Lin Jing'an from the Linghu family, and many people in Lingcun would go to his shop to buy things.
This allowed Li Youcai to hear a lot of news about the Lin family.
As the Winter Solstice Festival approached, Li Youcai thought that this would be the last big festival of the year. Many dignitaries would come to pay homage to the imperial mausoleum. Li Youcai, who was bent on clinging to the powerful, naturally refused to let go of this opportunity, so he urged Lin Jing'an to take his wife with him. The son returned to Changling Village.
In the Lin family in Changling Village, Lin Qiushan was complacent with the orders of the King of Yue. Except when he was on duty, he would never leave the house and would stay at home making jewelry.
Thinking that this was a gift from the King of Yue to his daughter, or a betrothal gift, Lin Qiushan paid special attention to it.
He didn't protect his daughter back then and allowed her to be buried alive. He owed it to her. Now these are made for his daughter. He hates having to eat and sleep to make jewelry for his daughter.
The drawings given by His Highness are also so beautiful. He has been making jewelry for so many years, and even though his ancestors have passed down many drawings, none of them are as good as the drawings given by the King of Yue.
This set of head and face jewelry was the most beautiful he had ever seen. Especially the two pairs of rings painted by the King of Yue are even more beautiful in decoration.
The two rings are exactly the same except for the size. Lin Qiushan's heart stirred, and the King of Yue must really like his daughter. It’s great that the King of Yue is still Changzhi’s biological father.
But how could the King of Yue be Changzhi's biological father? What happened that year?
Lin Qiushan would still think about these things while working, but the King of Yue wouldn't ask, so he didn't ask, and he didn't tell anyone. The old woman didn’t say anything. This is a serious matter, don't bring trouble to your family.
It is enough for him to know that his daughter and grandson are doing well.
The family felt most sorry for Xi'er back then, and now His Highness is entrusting him to make these jewelry. He will definitely use his best skills to make the best jewelry.
Lin Qiu Shan paid no attention to what was going on outside the window, but outside, Lin Jing'an brought his wife and children back and was greeting the whole family.
Geng and others had known that their family would come back before the big festival, so there were not many surprises. On the contrary, Mrs. Li was secretly amazed at the changes in her husband's family.
She has always been proud of her children. She spent a lot of money to let Lan Zhen learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting from a female teacher in the town. Lan Zhen did not live up to her expectations and looked like a noble girl, while He Ze He is also the only one among all the grandsons of the Lin family who has entered school.
But now it seems that Qiuhua and Dongxue no longer look like petty country girls. Even Heshun, Hexi and Hele, who have only grown up to work in the cemetery, all look like scholars. What on earth is going on? What's going on?
Now these children are no longer skinny and lonely. Is the family really as favored by the nobles as outsiders say? Eat good food every day?
"Where's dad?"
"It's in the back room." Mrs. Geng greeted her second son and his family, "The house has been cleaned for you, and the quilts and bedding have been dried. The weather has been good these past few days, and it hasn't rained." She said and glanced at her second granddaughter.
This granddaughter was raised delicately by her daughter-in-law and in-laws. If it rained, she would find it muddy inside and outside the house, and would rather eat, drink, or poop in bed than get off the ground.
Geng secretly sighed. Although she wanted to say a few words, her son and daughter-in-law were there, and she would only annoy people if she said more. He invited his two grandchildren into the house and brought them food.
Mrs. Li smiled and said, "You go ahead and leave us alone. Let's go see Dad."
Lin Qiu Shan has a workshop at home. Everyone knows that he usually does odd jobs in the house. Mrs. Li pulled Lin Jing'an in and was blinded by the gold, silver, jewelry and jade on the table.
Have you ever had that kind of situation? After get off work, it’s already dark, you look for a house, you look at one house after another, and then you go home. It’s already midnight, and there’s no one on the road...
Cry ~
