Qixi saw two embroiderers half-kneeling with their backs to her, taking Ji Ling's measurements, so she blocked everyone's view with her body and gently pushed aside the fabric.
It turned out that there were two other purses placed underneath. Because they were buried deep in the fabric, they didn't notice it just now. Qixi stretched out her hand to pull away the laces and took a breath.
I saw that my purse was full of silver ingots. Each silver ingot was not big, only about ten taels of silver, but there were many ingots. After a rough count, it was about three hundred taels, which added up to almost seventeen.
Eight pounds.
Qixi suddenly realized: No wonder the little eunuch who was carrying the cloth box was struggling so hard. It turned out that he was not carrying cloth, but money!
Obviously, these silver ingots are not the permanent monthly silver. You must know that the permanent silver in a year is only fifty taels.
Qixi loosened her purse and covered it with cloth as before. She waited until the two embroiderers left with the pattern before she quietly told Ji Ling.
As a personal palace maid, Chang Zai has always been responsible for money matters. She has this responsibility to report this matter clearly to her master.
Ji Ling was also surprised when she heard this: "What? Three hundred taels? They carried the wrong box, right?" Her first reaction was that Su Peisheng made a mistake. Maybe the box given to other empresses was confused with her own.
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The second reaction was: There must be a ghost here! Su Peisheng didn't need to flatter her, even if he did, he wouldn't use this method.
For a moment, Ji Ling secretly thought about many plots in his mind that were framed by Gong Dou.
But when she saw the two purses, she smiled. They were bright yellow in color, and the straps were dotted with beads. Not everyone could use such purses, and not just anyone could let Su Peisheng carry them.
"It's the emperor's wish." She smiled and said to Qixi.
Qixi saw her Chang Zai smiling happily, with a heartfelt and joyful expression. She suddenly realized: This is the pocket money given to Chang Zai by the emperor!
Ji Ling took out the silver ingot and looked at the candlelight.
The silver ingot is still very new, emitting a snow-white light, with no patina due to use. There is an inscription on it, which is engraved with the time, place, purpose, fineness of the silver ingot, and the name of the official who supervised it.
There are also honeycomb-like protrusions under the ingot, forming a beautiful and smooth curve.
Ji Ling stared at the words "Yongzheng First Year" for a while, then carefully poured out the silver, put it in a coarse cloth package, and handed it to Qixi to lock up, but she kept the two purses.
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A few days later, Su Peisheng's little eunuch brought new clothes. Now that Ji Ling had money, she no longer had to calculate her life as before. She recognized the little eunuch's name as Xiao Chenzi, so she ordered Qixi to buy some clothes.
Handed out the red envelope.
She didn't dare to give red envelopes to Su Peisheng, but it didn't matter if she was Su Peisheng's apprentice.
Although Xiao Chenzi is young, he is very prudent in his work. At this time, he declined, and Ji Ling said a few more procedural words. The two sides went back and forth for several rounds, and Xiao Chenzi put away the red envelope with a smile.
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The number of Ji Ling Bao was neither too big nor too small. Seeing how Xiao Chenzi stuffed the red envelope into his sleeve cage skillfully, she knew: This boy must have received a lot of benefits from the empresses of the palaces!
Xiao Chenzi put down his clothes, said a few auspicious words, and asked for a cup of tea before leaving. Qixi and Bixue opened the new clothes one by one, spread them out on the bed, and saw that the room was full of life.
Light.
"It's so beautiful!" Qixi sighed sincerely, then she turned to Ji Ling and said impatiently: "Chang Zai, I'm here to serve you, come and try it!".
I made a total of eight pieces of flag clothes. Except for one which is darker in color for formal occasions, the other seven are cherry pink, sky blue, light yellow, snow cyan, etc. They are all light and soft spring clothes, each made of velvet.
Brocade, Zhang satin, floral satin and soft tobacco are used to decorate the outer layer and cuffs. The reason why Ji Ling can recognize these materials is thanks to the two Suzhou embroiderers that day. They explained various fabrics in detail.
s difference.
For example, Ji Ling had an impression of the soft smoke in it: it was mentioned in Dream of Red Mansions that it was an extremely thin smoke used to paper windows or make curtains.
But she didn't expect that the flag costumes of women in the Qing Dynasty could also be decorated with this.
After the embroiderer left, Qixi opened the closet, folded the pieces of flag clothing and put them in, and then pushed them in. Ji Ling looked at the old pieces of flag clothing whose colors could no longer be seen and were still in the cupboard.
Then he said to Qixi: "Pack up those old clothes and put them in the warehouse, so as not to take up space."
Qixi responded and put away the old flag clothes. Even so, after putting in the new clothes, the wardrobe still seemed a bit crowded.
The problems of eating, clothing, jewelry, and silver were basically solved one by one. Ji Ling was in a good mood and said: "Let's go for a walk!" Qixiren still bent down and buried himself in the closet, and agreed dully.
With a cry, he finally packed up, locked the closet door, and then said: "It's windy today, Chang will wait a moment while I get you a cloak."
The two of them walked out for a while. Ji Ling thought it was too eye-catching to bring so many people, so she didn't let Bixue, Xiao Fenzi and Xiao Dazi follow. She and Qixi walked out of Jingyang Palace. As soon as they went out, although the clear sky was in front of them,
But after all, it was still early spring, and as expected, a cold wind came. Ji Ling shrank her neck and shivered. Qixi rushed forward, covered her tightly with her cloak, and then said with a worried look: "Chang Zai, let's
You'd better go back, it won't take long for you to recover!".
Ji Ling glanced at her and said, "I'm almost suffocated. All winter long, apart from paying respects to the queen, tell me, where else have we been?"
You must know that although the Forbidden City looks majestic and has many palaces, due to Feng Shui reasons, emperors of the past dynasties believed that bedrooms should be small so that they can hide the wind and gather energy. Therefore, they have always followed this tradition, even though Ji Ling has now moved to the east courtyard.
The palace is much larger, but the bedroom is still relatively small.
Qixi was speechless. Ji Ling saw the worry on her face, so he patted her hand comfortingly and said, "I'll just walk around Jingyang Palace twice and then go back."
Ji Ling saw that everything was quiet at this time, and the long street was deserted. He could only hear the sound of servants sweeping with brooms in the distance. Looking around the Forbidden City, he could only see two colors: yellow and red. Yellow is
There are layers of glazed tile roofs and red palace walls. Only when you look up can you see the blue sky.
Qixi suddenly said "Yeah", pointed to the sky and said: "Always be there for you to see!".
Ji Ling looked up and saw that there were two kites flying in the sky. The wind was light and the clouds were light today, and the sun was bright. The kites were flying very high with the help of the wind.
Ji Ling squinted his eyes, blocked the dazzling light with his hands, and looked through his fingers for a while before he saw that one was in the shape of an eagle, and the other was in the shape of a butterfly with a long tail.