Promise that the skirt she was wearing today was made by Chuntang overnight, which made her eyes turn red. [No pop-up novel website]
The lotus-colored short jacket is embroidered with small white pear blossoms, and blue butterflies are also embroidered in some places, which is very vivid and seems real. The willow-green six-panel skirt is embroidered with slender willow branches, and it feels like the breeze is supporting the willows when you move around.
Inconspicuous clothes become elegant, natural and vivid due to Chun Tang's ingenious thinking and exquisite embroidery skills.
More than once, Mrs. Zhang disliked Xu Nuo for wearing bright clothes, and more than once asked her to change into a plain undershirt. Xu Nuo changed her clothes one by one, but today, she wouldn't change!
"Grandma, my grandson's skirt is not bright in color." Xu Nuo stood up and curtsied, his voice was low, but his back was straight.
Mrs. Lu also stood up and opened her thin lips: "Mother, Liu Niang's clothes suit the occasion. My daughter-in-law thinks there is no need to change."
Mrs. Zhang turned her head, ignoring the two of them, and stroked the lines on the tea cup with her ring-covered fingers.
The dinner was very awkward and silent. Mrs. Zhong came out to smooth things over: "It's getting late today. If Liu Niang goes to change clothes, I'm afraid she won't be able to make it in time."
Xu Nuo still maintained the posture of saluting. For more than a month, she kept looking at Mrs. Zhang's face, asking herself whether she had done anything wrong with the etiquette, but Ms. Zhang always looked down upon her. In addition to Zhang's own prejudice against her, Xu Qian must also have contributed.
Mrs. Zhang snorted, turned her head back, and glanced at everyone in the room: "If it's too late, it's too late. If you don't go, if she does what she did last year, she will lose the Xu family's face if she goes." The Xu family attended the Wang family. The flower-viewing banquet was always grand, and many people went together, because the Wang family was also a tea merchant, similar in size to the Xu family. Over the years, the Xu family had always been the first in Qingming tea fighting, and the Wang family was second. Only then did the Zhang family like to participate in the Wang family. Flower viewing feast to show off.
Mr. Xu coughed several times, and the maid behind him hurriedly brought water. He took a sip before saying, "Don't mention the past. I think Liu Niang's clothes are good. If she goes to the Wang family, she will show favor to our Xu family." . Liu Niang, please get up." After saying this, she went out with her hands behind her back, no longer paying attention to what was going on in the house.
"That's not necessarily the case. A clothes made by a servant can show no face. It's better to change it." Mrs. Zhang didn't speak until Mrs. Xu's back was completely invisible.
Xu Nuo frowned slightly, Zhang actually knew the origin of this undershirt, which showed how much she "cares" about herself.
She adjusted her breathing and covered up the anger on her face. When she raised her head, there was already a faint smile on her face: "Grandma said, where did the clothes made by the slave girl end up on the table?"
Mrs. Zhang smiled, satisfied that Xu Nuo bowed her head and admitted her mistake: "Of course, wearing clothes made by a lowly person means lowering one's status. You are a child of the Xu family, don't you understand these principles?"
"Grandma taught me, and my grandson has remembered it. Looking at the short jacket of the fourth sister, it is very exquisite. There is no such pattern in the jackets made in the house. I don't know which embroiderer embroidered it. My grandson also wants to I want one." Xu Nuo nodded, agreeing with Zhang's statement, and then added something vaguely.
Xu Qian gritted her teeth after hearing this, and met Xu Nuo's gaze, and Xu Nuo responded with a chuckle.
Everyone in the room focused their attention on Xu Qian. Her light pink short jacket was embroidered with hundreds of flowers, and every flower seemed to be real. With such excellent embroidery skills, everyone knew that it was done by Aunt Du.
Although Aunt Du is not a maid, her status is not higher than that of a maid.
Her natal family is a wealthy family in Suzhou, but in the Xu family, she is just an ordinary concubine in Zhang's eyes, and she is also a despicable person in Zhang's mouth.
When Mrs. Zhang realized that she had been tricked by the promise, her face suddenly turned dark, but she couldn't lose her face and said angrily: "Are you saying that Aunt Du made Siniang's clothes? Although Aunt Du is also a servant, she has been learning since she was a child. As for embroidery skills, the top embroiderers in Suzhou today are only at the same level as her."
Xu Nuo still greeted her with a smile, and there was no trace of anger at all: "Grandma said that as long as the embroidery skills are good, the clothes made by my aunt will not be unacceptable, and the same is true for the maid."
The words of the promise seemed to be respectful, but Ms. Zhang felt it was extremely harsh. The hand on the table was clenched at some point. Xu Qian beside her lowered her head and her shoulders were shaking slightly. She felt even more distressed when she saw it.
She really wanted to stop Xu Nuo from attending the flower banquet, but if she used the excuse that the skirt was bright and embroidered by servants, Xu Qian had to stay because her standard of running a house was to treat everyone equally. How could her favorite granddaughter not be able to go to the flower banquet because of an uncultured Liu Niang who grew up outside? With lightning flashing in her mind, Mrs. Zhang slowly said, "Come closer, and I'll take a look at your clothes. "
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and understood that this was the promise made by Mrs. Zhang.
Xu Nuo walked over without changing her expression. Mrs. Zhang frowned and looked at it for a long time. She nodded and said, "I just saw that the color of this skirt was too bright from a distance. Now when I look closer, I realize that it is very delicate. The embroidery of this servant girl is very delicate." Your skills are indeed good, and in a few years you will be able to compete with Aunt Du, and you will be rewarded." The implication is that she promises that she doesn't need to change her clothes, and this one is up to standard.
Everyone in the Xu family knows that Mrs. Zhang has clear eyes and can still embroider some personal items when she is over fifty. Now she can't even see the style of her skirt clearly. It's really ridiculous.
Xu Nuo couldn't stand Mrs. Zhang's pretentiousness, so she deliberately asked: "Does my grandson still need to change clothes?" She couldn't bear it anymore.
In such a scene, Xu Nuo didn't go down the steps given by Zhang and didn't give her face?
You must know that what Zhang cares about most is face, otherwise he would not have appreciated Chuntang just now.
Whether it was Ding, Lu or Xu Qian, they were all shocked by this sentence. If Zhang was unhappy, she could have promised to contradict her elders and let her stay in the house.
"Let me tell you, you can say ten sentences, how did you learn the rules! Madam Lu, do you teach her like this on weekdays?" Mrs. Zhang banged her hand on the table, took a deep breath and said: " I went to Wang's house today. Keep an eye on her so I don't lose anyone! It's getting late, so get ready to leave." Mrs. Zhang was really angry at Xu Nuo, but if she punished Xu Qian, Xu Qian would also suffer. This is indeed a helpless move.
Lu was so frightened by Xu Nuo's words that she hurriedly stopped Xu Nuo from talking when Zhang lost her temper.
Xu Nuo secretly regretted that Twenty-one Mother and Hu Ling were not here, otherwise they would have smiled and praised her for her good work. She was not angry with Mrs. Zhang for no reason, because she remembered what her grandfather said before he left, and she also remembered that Mrs. Zhang liked to talk about the so-called justice when dealing with things, so she concluded that even if Mrs. Zhang was angry today, she would not stop her from going to the Wang family. .
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