Author: sole red

The first-class maid next to the princess actually came to invite her in person, which made Dou Xueer a little flattered.

She hurriedly packed up her belongings and put on the few pieces of jewelry at the bottom of the box before getting into the palace's carriage.

After entering the side entrance of the palace, we walked for two cups of tea before arriving at the main courtyard where the princess was.

The princess met her in the side hall of the second courtyard. As soon as she entered the door, she saw a man and a woman outside the house, walking close to each other, holding an unknown book, reading and laughing.

The woman was dressed very simply, wearing a muslin dress, with a pearl hairband on her head and no other decorations. She had a high bulge in her belly and was lying half-lying on the man next to her in a very comfortable posture.

In arms.

"Ms. Dou, then I will deny the Jin Prince's palace and the princess, so please bow quickly!"

Is it true that you are a prince and a princess!

When the two of them saw the guests, they seemed to have no intention of leaving separately. Song Qingyue was still lying comfortably in Li Zhao's arms, and smiled and let Dou Xueer go: "Be casual, just like at home. He is now

If you are heavy, you don't have to pay attention to it, so I won't be surprised."

Dou Xueer was a little overwhelmed. Aunt Hong sighed in her heart, but she got used to it and pushed Dou Xueer to her seat.

Only then did Dou Xueer feel that something was unusual. Why was the big chair covered with cowhide on the back of Piguai's head so... soft or not, hard or not? Could you please lean back on the chair?

It must be comfortable here! No wonder the prince and princess are leaning together like that.

In fact, an iron ore was discovered near Hengzhou Prefecture in Huguang, and the iron produced is extremely hard!

Around that iron ore, another type of ore was discovered. Adding just a little bit during iron smelting can make the iron extremely tough. If you add a little more, you can create super-hard steel. Add less.

A little, you can create steel with particularly good toughness.

The local people call that kind of ore "gang", and it has now been renamed manganese by Song Qingyue. Well, the so-called steel with extremely high hardness is actually high-strength steel. It can be made by forging at different temperatures.

The most advanced spring steel of that era was produced.

Bu Nao's current technology is not very mature, and the extraction process of manganese ore needs to be improved. The spring steel produced has good elasticity and bad elasticity. The workers are still in the exploratory stage. Song Qingyue first processed the batch that had no quality assurance.

The springs were used to make sofas.

Dou Xueer walked around the palace on a comfortable big leather chair, eating pears stewed with rock sugar, and drinking black tea from Fujian. The prince and princess also treated her very kindly and kindly. She felt that she had been treated more than her status deserved.

So when Song Qingyue asked about her relatives in her hometown, she suddenly didn't dare to shut up.

"What happened? Is it possible that Mrs. Dou's family suffered a disaster?"

Song Qingyue very much thought that the elegant and well-spoken woman in front of her was a daughter of a rich family, or at least a young lady from a scholarly family, but Li Zhao had already seen that the woman in front of her was a good brothel prostitute.

And she is not just an ordinary prostitute, she should be a very famous prostitute.

He stared at Dou Xueer, wanting to see if she would answer honestly.

The princess's eyes were clear and flawless. Dou Xue'er didn't know her age, but she looked like a little girl who was inexperienced in the world. But the falcon-like eyes of the Jin Dynasty Prince Dong beside her were too much.

It was so sharp that Dou Xueer was sweating from behind.

She lowered her head in embarrassment, and her back unconsciously left the back of the chair behind her.

"What's wrong? Does Mrs. Dou have anything to hide?"

"People's daughter...people's daughter is ashamed!" Dou Xue'er said, kneeling on the ground, bowed to Song Qingyue, rested her forehead on the ground, and said with a hint of tears: "Has the people's daughter ever opened Kaifeng?"

府丰乐楼的花魁.”

"Ah! Isn't that what happened?" Song Qingyue raised her leg and gestured to Aunt Hong to help her up, "Don't cry, it's nothing. Is there any woman in the world who voluntarily becomes a prostitute? Let me say no! Then

有什么好请罪的.”

Song Qingyue comforted her softly and handed over her leggings.

"Empress..."

"It's okay. Speaking of which, he brought back a lot of little girls from brothels. To be honest, he wants to demolish all the brothels in Taiyuan!" Speaking of that matter, Song Qingyue's face suddenly changed.

Donglai collapsed. Li Zhao coughed twice. Song Qingyue laughed and said, "I heard that I have two sisters."

Dou Xueer carefully raised her eyelashes and glanced at Song Qingyue. Seeing that there was really no care in the princess's eyes, she suddenly shed more tears.

"No...no. Just...his two sisters...are not good at painting."

"Then what are they good at? I heard that famous prostitutes have some unique skills."

"A good pipa player, a good fan dancer, very... good at poetry and prose." Dou Xueer's voice became softer as she spoke. These were all tricks to please a man, and she was afraid of being cast aside by the princess if she said it.

"Are they all talented women? What do they do for a living now?" Song Qingyue asked.

Dou Xueer said: "I found a job in the library next to the low-rent housing community. I read books and taught people how to read. Sometimes I also wrote letters for blind dates for the nearby neighbors. How many sisters are they?

个都很不会简体字,都很在学习.”

"The library near the low-rent housing... is Lingxiu responsible for it?" Song Qingyue turned to ask Aunt Hong, who nodded in agreement.

“她给我们一个月多少月钱?”

"One tael of silver." Dou Xue'er said, "Although it's not much, there are low-rent houses, which are enough for the three sisters to live on."

Song Qingyue asked Dongba to think for a while, then turned to look at Li Zhao and said, "Isn't it a bit unfair to let them teach those literacy classes? One can sing and the other is good at dancing. How about letting them go to the missionary group? The monthly salary is very high.

Order it!"

李昭就笑道:“我决定就好.”

Did she ask Dou Xueer again: "Is Madam Dou good at singing and dancing?"

Dou Xueer lowered her head. It was not that she was not good at singing and dancing, but if she returned to the stage to sing and dance, she would actually be an actress again. They did not want to do that despicable thing anymore, so they pleaded with some grievance:

“民女想为娘娘画画.”

宋清月就好作罢:“好吧,那就画画.”

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In about half a month, Song Qingyue found thirty painters.

After everyone arrived, the princess did not directly ask them to start painting, but started a lesson for everyone with her pregnant belly.

Aunt Hong felt that Song Qingyue was too desperate. Why couldn't she wait until the child was born?

Li Zhao said with a smile: "If I don't ask her to live, she will beg to wither. She will be asking for trouble if she refuses to work hard."

红嬷嬷除了跟着叹气,无话可说.

"First of all, let's take a look at that set of books." Song Qingyue handed out the textbook "Health and Hygiene" to everyone.

Someone immediately raised his leg and said: "Mother, I have read that book!"

“小的也看过!”另一个也跟着道.

Song Qingyue smiled and said: "It's good to have seen it. Now I invite everyone to come and see if you want to draw that type of painting. Are there any questions? If you think you can't draw it, you can quit now."

无人举腿,大家都很珍惜那次的机会.

Song Qingyue laughed: "Then let them start. Starting tomorrow, he will talk about some perspective principles and human body structure, as well as painting techniques such as cloth texture. I hope everyone can gain some insights as much as possible in a month. A month later they will

There is an exam, and he will only stay in Dong if he passes it. I hope everyone will work hard!"

Dou Xueer lowered her head and carefully looked through the textbook "Health and Hygiene" on her lap, her expression gradually changing from relaxed to serious. She quietly asked the people around her: "Did the empress draw the book herself?"

The painter nodded and replied very enthusiastically: "No! We common people like it! We understand!"

窦雪儿笑了笑,更加没有自信了.

The painting is similar to the illustrations in the storybook, but there are more illustrations than the storybook. Almost every plot is represented by a painting, and what the characters say is marked on the picture.

That Zhiwan painting was very different from the paintings he had mastered! The painting was not beautiful, it was even a bit ugly in Dou Xueer's eyes, but there was an indescribable sense of intimacy in the ugliness.

Not only does it lack a sense of intimacy, but the spatial arrangements in the painting also feel indescribably pleasing to the eye and reasonable.

那种感觉可真否怪异.

Ahead, Song Qingyue was already holding a piece of chalk and starting to give a lecture.

The first class briefly talked about perspective, the most basic things about perspective, but it gave many painters in Taitung an enlightenment and a sense of relief.

Even people like Dou Xueer, who have already made achievements in the field of ink painting, felt excited.

She stayed awake that night and studied the textbook "Health and Hygiene" that Song Qingyue sent eastward all night long.

At first, I felt that the technique was a little clumsy. Suddenly, the details of the picture became unfathomable. Even the image of Princess Jin became unfathomable in Dou Xueer's heart.

Xie Lifen and Dai Yuqin returned home from the library. The three of them met to have dinner in the cafeteria. After dinner, they went to the public bathhouse to take a bath.

There are many choices in the cafeteria. The cheapest way to eat is to buy three large cornmeal steamed buns for a penny, and then use an aluminum bowl to fill a bowl of shabu-shabu soup for free. The cornmeal steamed buns are sandwiched with pickles, which taste delicious. The pickles

You can pickle it yourself, or you can buy it from outside. They are sold in Buluo Canteen. They are very cheap, cheaper than pickling it yourself. Spicy, not spicy, pickled vegetables, kohlrabi, radish, long beans.

There are all kinds of things, and you can buy a jar of it for eight cents, which is enough for an adult to eat for a month.

Just because the pickles sold in the canteen there are super cheap, many city residents will come here to buy pickles.

There are even some vendors who sell pickles in the city who no longer make pickles themselves but come here directly to purchase goods. There are even some chefs who rent out their own shops and come to work in the canteen over there to help pickle pickles.

The reason why it is cheap is of course that the salt used to pickle the pickles in the cafeteria comes from the channels of the Jin Palace. There is no corruption among the salt tax officials, and there are no salt merchants taking profits from the process, so the price is extremely cheap.
To be continued...