Chapter 522 - 272: Entering the Palace_3
After everyone had chatted for a while, Qian Yixiu had the tributes brought forward. As the clothes were unfurled, everyone was stunned. Even though these were the most fashionable women of the Great Qian Kingdom, none had ever seen such beautifully unique crane and auspicious cloud patterns.
"So beautiful, the cranes seem as if they are about to fly off the fabric," exclaimed Consort Min in amazement.
Everyone marvelled, saying they had never seen such lifelike and beautiful crane garments.
The Empress Dowager had reading glasses brought to her and looked over the embroidery time and time again, touching the cranes on the fabric and asking, "Did Yueyue embroider this with her own hands?"
Yueyue nodded and said, "Mmm, Yueyue embroidered every day, her eyes even hurt from it. Yixiu says that Yueyue has enjoyed the blessings of the Emperor’s Maternal Grandmother and must show filial respect to the Emperor’s Maternal Grandmother. Wishing the Emperor’s Maternal Grandmother a thousand years of crane-like longevity, fortunes vast as the sea and sky."
This was the flattery that Qian Yixiu had drilled into Yueyue many times at home, and not bad, she had memorized it all.
Empress Dowager Fu was both elated and tearful, nodding her head and saying, "Good child, good child. Yueyue, Yixiu, you are all good children."
Mingming and Jingjing, now more familiar, were no longer scared. Hearing the words of the Empress Dowager, they couldn’t help but say, "And Ming Wa, and Jingjing too."
Zhu Sujin also jokingly added, "And the great-grandchildren, and the great-grandchildren too."