Chapter 296 - 187 Heavyweight Guest_1
Qian Yixiu once again felt a surge of secret delight. This time, it was her stepmother who had suggested sending her own works to the North, which would give her the perfect excuse to go on a trip. Having been in Daqian for so many years, including her time as a ghost, which amounted to nearly a decade, the furthest she had been was Xizhou Mansion, not even setting foot beyond Ji’an Province.
Next year, once everything at Jinxiu Embroidery Workshop was settled, she would be able to broaden her horizons in Capital City.
Unaware of the little schemes in Qian Yixiu’s mind, Cheng Yue smiled contently upon hearing her daughter’s agreement to her request. In her view, as long as the embroidery made it to the North, Brother Jiang there would surely get to see it.
The mother and daughter had their midday meal in a side room on the first floor: a simple spread consisting of steamed fish, velvety mushrooms, oily eggplant cakes, plus a soup of winter melon hooked with gold—it was an ordinary set of three dishes and a soup.
But as she sat at the carved table beneath the red window, with the occasional chirping of birds from the corridor, facing her beautiful and elegantly eating stepmother, Qian Yixiu felt as if she was dreaming. It felt as if she had not crossed into the poor third wife’s side of the Qian family in the countryside, but rather entered an aristocratic household.
Suddenly, she heard the voice of Bai Zhu at the door, "Miss Manting and Miss Duoduo have arrived."
Dressed in red clothes and pants, little friend Duoduo thundered in, disrupting the original artistic mood.
She said in a loud voice, "Sister Embroidery, don’t you like Duoduo anymore? Ting Gu and I have come to visit your home, and you haven’t come out to play with us."
Just as she finished speaking, she was startled by the furnishings in the room, exclaiming, "Oh, how beautiful, and there are stairs..."