Qiaomei is an ordinary girl from Jinzhen Lane. She has been skillful since she was a child, especially at the girl's red color. No one of the clothes she makes is beautiful. Jinzhen Lane is a place where skillful hands gather. Many families make a living by tailoring, and Qiaomei is no exception. Because she has good skills and her business is more prosperous than other families, even the big households in the city often use some high-quality silk for Qiaomei to sew.

Qiaomei has no one else at home, only one younger brother named Badi. The siblings depend on each other for their own lives. Although life is hard, they can still maintain food and clothing. However, since the Red Eyebrow Army entered Guanzhong and was about to fight, people in the city fled one after another, not many people came to work. When the army entered the city, they robbed everywhere, and everyone was in danger. Every family was closed. Thank God, if they could not be robbed by the soldiers, who would dare to open the door to do business?

After some days, the alley was deserted all day long, and people were stuck at home, hoping that the bandits would leave Zheng County quickly so that they could continue their lives. Many people did not have much food in their homes and were almost out of food, so they had to take the risk of going out to find food.

The starling is really young, and Qiaomei is a young and tender girl. When the rioters are in power, it is really not suitable to show up. Therefore, the two of them stay at home and eat in vain. Fortunately, the siblings don’t have much appetite and rely on half a jar of rice to survive until now.

On this day, Qiaomei scraped the broken rice from the bottom of the jar and cooked the porridge that was so thin that the pot was full of water. But this was the last little rice in the family. From today on, Qiaomei's family has officially lost food.

She looked at her young brother and felt very anxious. Could it be that the siblings and siblings had no way to survive? Qiaomei thought about it and there was no other way. If she wanted to not starve to death, she had to risk going out and find some opportunities outside.

I heard that the porridge is being served in Shenjing Lane, and I don’t know whether it is true or not. Why don’t you go there to see it?

Qiaomei was about to go out when suddenly there was a noise outside, and the sound of knocking on the door and scolding sounded everywhere. She opened the door and looked out, and saw countless people rushing into the alley and calling the door from door to door.

Qiaomei was so scared that she closed the door with a "bang", tied it tightly with the door bolt, turned around and hugged the frightened starling. The two of them were crowded in the corner of the house, and they didn't dare to move.

Half a month ago, a group of soldiers rushed here, robbed the ground, and left without finding anything valuable. After that, the alley was still stable. It can be said that it was because of the poverty here that they barely escaped the war. But today's appearance is completely different. Those people were like a family who refused to let go and insisted on breaking in.

Neither brother dared to say anything. The room was terrible. Qiaomei was jumping in her heart, hoping that they would not come in. In the silence, the door of the room was suddenly knocked, as if there was a thunderclap in Pingkong, which scared the two of them to tremble together.

The starling was about to speak, but Qiaomei covered her mouth. She let the outside knock sound, and the two inside the house didn't say anything. Finally, the person outside the door lost patience and knocked open the wooden door hard, and fell in.

The man got up in a mess and cursed, "Do you have to break the door? Is it because you have many doors in your house? You really don't want to eat a toast and get a penalty for wine!"

Qiaomei had the courage from somewhere, so she stood up suddenly, pointed at him and scolded: "How could you robber come in casually? Get out for me!"

Her angry little face turned red, and the sunlight outside came in and shone on her face, as if it was on fire, dazzlingly bright, adding a terrifying momentum to her out of thin air.

The person who broke in was stunned for a moment, but his voice became much softer when he spoke again, "That... I came here and just wanted to ask me, can you have a tailor at home? That... If you don't open the door, I can't, so I have to bump into it... This door can still be repaired, so why don't I repair it for you?"

Qiaomei was stunned for a moment. This was the first time she saw such a cowardly robber. She broke into the door with great momentum. Could it be to find a tailor?

Neither of them spoke, just stared at me so big. Qiaomei thought she was dazzled for a moment, but she felt that the man's childish face suddenly had a little red color.

He suddenly bowed his hand awkwardly and said, "In the lower Zhaixing, he is the current personal guard of His Majesty.... He came here to look for the tailor. I wonder if the girl can do it, or not?"

He spoke pretensely, his appearance was inappropriate and he became more and more clumsy.

Qiaomei didn't understand the guards of His Majesty. She just felt that these people didn't look like good people, maybe they were the thieves. She hesitated for a moment and said, "No, I don't have a tailor, you go!"

Zhai Xing twisted his clothes with his hands, glanced at Qiaomei, and said stutteringly: "I have food to eat... I tailor my clothes and eat it, and I'm doing it."

Qiaomei's eyes lit up immediately. After some robbery, the food is now extremely expensive and she has nowhere to buy it even if she has money. She was worried about how to get the food, but now the food is delivered to her door, which is much better than giving her wages.

In order to survive, I could not take this risk.

"My brother is going to go too, he wants to help me." Qiaomei pointed at her younger brother and said, "She would never leave her younger brother alone at home. Without her, her younger brother would definitely starve to death.

"Okay! Don't forget to bring your cutting tools!" Zhai Xing agreed happily.

When Qiaomei and his brother went out, many people had gathered outside. Almost all the women in the alley were out. Some of them were still tied with their hands and cried loudly. The young guards held weapons and sandwiched the women in the middle, as if they were escorting prisoners, and escorted them all the way to a large yard.

The road was very popular, and there were many people watching, but no one dared to care. Everyone was watching silently and talking to each other in a low voice. Qiaomei concluded that these people were bandits who occupied Zheng County, and she felt more and more nervous. These people... What if they were ill-behaved, what if the women were just casual?

The guard Zhai Xing kept talking to her, but his clumsiness gave Qiao Mei a sense of security. In her impression, the bandits were extremely vicious, but Zhai Xing looked very simple.

Although Qiaomei didn't pay much attention to Zhai Xing, her starlings couldn't think of so much. He was chattering all the way and was already familiar with Zhai Xing.

"You said, is there really His Majesty in the palace? Is there really food to eat?" The starling asked Zhai Xing with his big eyes blinking.

"Of course, Your Majesty is very generous and will definitely make you fill your stomach." Zhai Xing was very patient with his starlings, he was not arrogant when talking to the child, and he was fluent in his mouth, so he did not face the clumsiness of Qiaomei at all.

"Ha! I've never seen the emperor yet!" The starling was filled with excitement that could not be concealed, "Oh, are you going to kowtow?"

"What you want is your Majesty is the biggest official in the world, and everyone will bow to him. Your Majesty is very good. You are doing a good job, maybe he will give you a great official."

"My sister has the best work and she is skillful. Let Your Majesty give her an official!"

Zhai Xing looked at Qiaomei secretly and said, "Okay, I'm just saying something, Your Majesty is my brother..."

After chatting all the way to the palace, the starling shouted, "Isn't this Mr. He's family?"

This house is very famous in Zheng County. It is the home of He Taigong, the richest man in the county. It covers a huge area and has high walls and barriers. Everyone in the county knows it, but no one has ever come in. He Taigong fled long before the Red Eyebrow Army came, and his property was naturally confiscated.

Everyone was driven into the gate like chickens. After walking through several doors, they saw a large yard with three large copper pots steaming. A scent of rice was smelling from a distance. The starling jumped up and shouted, "Sister, it's rice rice! It smells so good!"

Qiaomei's heart sank. If something goes wrong, there will be a demon. These days, rice is expensive. Just doing work can give you delicious rice rice. I'm afraid there is something wrong?

Everyone was excited by the smell of the rice, and even the women tied up stopped crying and struggling. The soldiers shouted at everyone, lined up three long lines, and some people shouted to start eating, and handed them to the women's hands one by one, steaming pottery bowls full of rice.

The fragrant rice rice with salty bean paste made the women's appetites. They all buried their heads and snatched the rice in big mouthfuls. When the people tied up saw it, they were so anxious that they shouted. A guard smiled and shouted, "Don't you want to come? Don't you eat even if you have food? Where have your ambitions gone?"

They came up slowly and deliberately untied the ropes for them slowly, and said sarcastic words, "Okay, no one is forcing you, you can go home!"

But when the women took off their ties, they rushed towards rice like wild leopards, picked up the pottery bowl, and drank a big mouthful. They were so scalded that they opened their mouths and pissed, but they couldn't bear to spit out anything they said.

The starling ate three bowls in a row before slapping her belly and letting out a few breaths, "It's so delicious. If I could eat rice every day, I would rather work here for the rest of my life."

"Nonsense!" Qiaomei scolded, "I don't have the ambition and I will sell myself for a bowl of rice!"

Her worries did not ease, but she couldn't help but feel at ease.

Until they were taken to a large hall, the little emperor in red took out a piece of linen cloth with paintings and asked, "Will you cut this thing?"

Qiaomei then believed that they were really asked to make clothes.
Chapter completed!